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| Southwest Harbor man gave up family business to become "Whittling" artist Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor man gave up family business to become "Whittling" artist Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Article published in the Bar Harbor Times (date unknown) about Wendell Gilley and his bird carvings... | |
| Scott Allen Worcester Winning the Southwest Harbor Public Library Auction Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Scott Allen Worcester Winning the Southwest Harbor Public Library Auction Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ..."Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning...National Bank of Bar Harbor...The second prize, a free, round-trip on Bar Harbor Airlines was won by Vaughn Marshall of Machias...The raffle raised $9,400 to be divided between the Harbor House and the library." – The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983, Sec. 1, p. 13... |
| The Southwest Harbor Public Library Children's Reading Club Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Southwest Harbor Public Library Children's Reading Club Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...On the steps of the Library in Southwest Harbor. The photograph is by W.H...Ballard and was originally published in The Bar Harbor Times Oct. 1, 1942...The caption under it read as follows: "LAST STORY HOUR AT SOUTHWEST " - Seventy children who have been attending the weekly story hour at the Southwest Harbor... |
| The Southwest Harbor Public Library - Round Table Meeting Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Southwest Harbor Public Library - Round Table Meeting Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Robie Milton Norwood, Jr. (1872-1951) 15 - 16 - Edith Evans – Librarian, Jessup Library, Bar Harbor 17 - Fernald – Louise Lawton (Fernald) Goulding...." - Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 22, 1947, page 10 - Mrs. Seth Thornton, Corr., Southwest Harbor, Telephone 66...Evans, of Bar Harbor, Mrs. Cynthia Stanley, Manset; Edith V. Vaughan, Frances W. Weeks, Gertrude F. Durham, Belfast: Charlotte Norwood, Bernard, Mrs...Miss Shaw pronounced the occasion one of the most successful held in small communities." - Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 29, 1947, page 1... |
| Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton and Seth Sprague Thornton Leaving Southwest Harbor for Houlton Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton and Seth Sprague Thornton Leaving Southwest Harbor for Houlton Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Nell and Seth Thornton are shown leaving Southwest Harbor for their home in Houlton, Maine in a beautiful 1910 Model T Ford automobile...The Model T may belong to Seth or the other man who may possibly be driving them to Bar Harbor or Ellsworth to board the train for Houlton...If the Ford belonged to the Thorntons the trip from Southwest Harbor to Houlton would have taken them at least 11 hours by automobile in 1912...The Carroll family celebrated the Fourth of July every year with a picnic at their old family home, The Mountain House, on Carroll hill in Southwest Harbor... |
| Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Carroll - Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton (1871-1958) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Nellie is remembered with love and gratitude by generations of Southwest Harbor and Mount Desert Island residents, genealogists and historians from here...and "from away" for her 1938 book, popularly known as, "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor," a complete and detailed record of the history of...Besides writing the definitive history of Southwest Harbor and its inhabitants she was wrote the social notes for the town that appeared in the Bar Harbor...She made photograph albums for many family members, many of whom have shared her photographs with the Southwest Harbor Public Library... File Attachment: Carroll_-_Nellie_Rebecca_[Carroll]_Thornton_[1871-1958].pdf …Besides writing the definitive history of Southwest Harbor and its inhabitants she was wrote the social notes for the town that appeared in the Bar Harbor …Nellie Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton died on February 3, 1958 in Bar Harbor, Maine. …Obituary Bar Harbor Times Thursday, February 6, 1958 Prominent SWH Woman Succumbs At Age 86 Mrs. Nellie C. Thornton, 86, author of a Mt. …She was Southwest Harbor news correspondent for the Bar Harbor Times for many years. | ||
| White - Leslie Frank White Sr. (1891-1967) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  White - Leslie Frank White Sr. (1891-1967) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...(Ash) Richardson, on July 20, 1914 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. They were the parents of six children, among them, Leslie Frank White Jr. (1921-2010)...Leslie married second Margaret Brewer (1894-1983), daughter of Everett Kimball Brewer and Nellie Josephine (Leland) Brewer, on May 22, 1953 in Bar Harbor...Leslie Frank White Sr. died on May 14, 1967 in Southwest Harbor, Maine. “Les” White built the original Harbor View Motel... | ||
| Walls - Franze Earl Walls (1890-1964) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Walls - Franze Earl Walls (1890-1964) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...(Lurvey) Walls in Tremont (Southwest Harbor), Maine. Franze married Rena M. Donnell (1891-1985), daughter of Henry A. Donnell and Lillian B...Franze Earl Walls died on December 13, 1964 in Southwest Harbor, Maine... File Attachment: Walls_-_Franz_Earl_Walls.pdf …The nearest stores were in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth. It was illegal but it was pretty Earle Leonard Boomer (1904-1957) Edna Milligan, Mrs. …Wimpy was so shook up he decided to go to Bar Harbor to the liquor store to get something to calm his nerves. …It was probably a good thing that he didn t get to Bar Harbor because that evening he would have been drunk. …Harmon Block, 339 Main Street, Map 6 Lot 93, Southwest Harbor. | ||
| Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...mentor to all who share these interests, has been recognized by the government of the United States, the State of Maine and the citizens of Southwest Harbor... File Attachment: Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021).pdf …Stanley Chester Warren Stanley (1900-1971) Mother: Robinson Bertha Emily (Robinson) Stanley (1901-1968) Birth Date: February 9, 1929 Born at: Bar …Preble (1910-1991) Wedding Date: September 22, 1956 Wedding Place: Southwest Harbor Congregational Church, Southwest Harbor, Maine Occupation: Boatbuilder …ME - SWH Main Street 376 Home: William Doane Stanley House ME - SWH Clark Point Road 102-104 Death Date: December 7, 2021 Death Place: Bar …Stanley was born February 9, 1929, in Bar Harbor, on Maine's Mt. Desert Island. | ||
| Byron Bide Lewis Robinson and Walter Hill Walking to Greening Island on the Ice Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Byron Bide Lewis Robinson and Walter Hill Walking to Greening Island on the Ice Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...." - The Bar Harbor Times, January 29, 1981, p. 5... | |
| Clark - Henry Higgins Clark (1811-1897) aka Deacon Clark Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Clark - Henry Higgins Clark (1811-1897) aka Deacon Clark Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...For a fascinating description of Deacon Clark and the Island House, written by a man who knew him as a child, see “Recollections of Southwest Harbor, Maine...In 1871 in Southwest Harbor, Maine, he filled these functions: Insurance Agent, Steamboat Agent, Herring Dealer, Proprietor of the Island House Hotel,... File Attachment: Clark – Henry Higgins Clark (1811-1897) - T.pdf …Clark of Southwest Harbor used to tell often that in 1836 he walked from Southwest Harbor to Castine, a distance of more than forty miles, to buy his wedding …He started teaching school in Bar Harbor at the age of 17 where his job entailed not only imparting knowledge but janitorial services as well, some of …While he was still teaching school in Bar Harbor he joined the Baptist Church, and he remained an active Christian throughout his life. …Clark: Active Nineteenth Century Entrepreneur At SWH by LaRue Spiker, The Bar Harbor Times Thursday, February 4, 1965 | ||
| The Carroll Family Goodbye to Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton at Steamboat Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Carroll Family Goodbye to Nell Rebecca (Carroll) Thornton at Steamboat Wharf Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Seth Sprague Thornton, is leaving Southwest Harbor at Steamboat Wharf for her home in Houlton, Maine...Nell would have travelled by steamship from SWH by way of Bar Harbor to meet the Maine Central Railroad at Hancock Point... |
| Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...She also talks about taking the "Bar Harbor Express," a train from Washington D.C. up to a ferry which would complete the journey to Bar Harbor...The Guthries were always just summer people, but felt that they belonged in Southwest Harbor and were very complimentary of the people they met in town... | |
| Interview of Ruth Grindle Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Ruth Grindle Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Esther Rodick interviews Ruth Grindle who talks about her life in Southwest Harbor...Neither of her parents were originally from the area, but her father moved to Bar Harbor to work in a jewelry story before moving to Southwest Harbor to...Finally, she tells of how she finagled her way into meeting FDR when he visited Southwest Harbor... | |
| Interview of Athol Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Athol Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Before World War One, he worked in the Post Office in Bar Harbor and saw the switch from horses to automobiles...After World War One, he worked in the customs office in Southwest Harbor for twelve years...Athol talks about walking out to "the small island in the middle of the harbor" for picnics, and having to be careful of the tide... | |
| Interview of Andrew Herrick Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Andrew Herrick Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The first Herrick to stay was Isaac who ran a tide mill in Southwest Harbor. Andrew grew up in the house that Isaac built...Andrew drove a truck for a gas company, living in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth but was forced to stop that work in 1952 following a shoulder injury...He has many stories from his time in Southwest Harbor; the first car in the town, Beech Mountain priginally being called Herrick Mountain, finding bootleg...stories about Billy Tot, a man who worked as a cabin boy for Captain Norwood and eventually lived a primitive life on the edges of society near Southwest Harbor... | |
| Fuller - George Ripley Fuller (1857-1937) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fuller - George Ripley Fuller (1857-1937) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Fuller - George Ripley Fuller (1857-1937).pdf …Fuller and Alvah Rich joined at Bar Harbor to make the necessary number for the formation of the new lodge." - Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor …Fuller Dies at Southwest Harbor Southwest Harbor, June 28 George R. …Fuller, one of the oldest members of the Hancock county bar, died at his home here this morning in the eightieth year of his age. Mr. …He taught school, read law in the office of Locke & Locke in Portland, and was admitted to the Hancock county bar in 1887. | ||
| Clark - Seth Higgins Clark (1816-1896) Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Clark - Seth Higgins Clark (1816-1896) Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Clark – Seth Higgins Clark (1816-1896).pdf …Seth Higgins Clark (1816-1896) Father: Nathan Clark II (1780-1848) Mother: Mercy Higgins (1787-1868) Birth Date: 1816 Born at: Tremont, (Southwest Harbor …Clark (1817-1899) Spouse Parents: Benjamin Ward Jr. (1792-1866) and Margaret Dolliver (1798-1879) Wedding Date: January 22, 1839 Wedding Place: Eden (Bar …Harbor), Maine Occupation: 1880 Census - Seth Higgins Clark , 61, a "Boat Agent," lived in Tremont, Maine. …Cemetery: Clark Family Burying Ground, Southwest Harbor, Maine Vessels: Author: Charlotte R. | ||
| Mayo - Simeon Holden Mayo (1867-1933) aka Sim Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mayo - Simeon Holden Mayo (1867-1933) aka Sim Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Mayo – Simeon Holden Mayo (1867-1933).pdf …Jacob Schoppy Mayo (1818-1912) Mother Dolliver - Sarah Newman (Dolliver) Mayo (1827-1898) Birth Date July 27, 1867 Born at Tremont (Southwest Harbor …Carroll s Cash Market Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Sim Mayo s Wharf S.H. Mayo Dealer in Motor Boats S.H. …Mount Height Cemetery, Southwest Harbor, Maine Sim Mayo had multiple careers some of them all at once. …Bar Harbor Times, December 2, 1925, p. 2. | ||
| Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson Bee and Children - Albert Wilson Bee and Charles Everett Bee Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wilson Bee and Children - Albert Wilson Bee and Charles Everett Bee Southwest Harbor Public Library |