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Item	Title	Type	Subject	Place	Address	Description
3471	Lunt - Grace Louise (Lunt) Clement (1890-1987)	Reference	People				Lunt - Grace Louise (Lunt) Clement (1890-1987) Item: 3471 Type: Reference Subject: People
3473	Chester Eben Clement House	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Southwest Harbor	17 Forest Avenue		Chester Eben Clement House Item: 3473 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Address: 17 Forest Avenue
3476	Phillip Moore House on Gotts Island	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Tremont, Great Gott Island	Entrance from Town Road and from Head Road		Phillip Moore House on Gotts Island Item: 3476 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Tremont, Great Gott Island State: ME Address: Entrance from Town Road and from Head Road
12765	Moore - Esther (Moore) Trask (1909-2002)	Reference	People				Moore - Esther (Moore) Trask (1909-2002) Item: 12765 Type: Reference Subject: People
12766	Joyce - Lovina E. (Joyce) Moore aka Vina (1878-1956)	Reference	People				Joyce - Lovina E. (Joyce) Moore aka Vina (1878-1956) Item: 12766 Type: Reference Subject: People
12767	Moore - Philip Moore (1871-1937)	Reference	People			Philip Moore (1871-1937) was born on June 30, 1871 at Gotts Island, Maine to Enoch Newman Moore and Laura A. (Gross) Moore. Philip married Lovina Ethel Joyce (1879-1956) on December 24, 1897 at Swans Island, Maine. Lovina Ethel Joyce was born on June 2, 1878 to Edwin Manson Joyce and Mary Ann (Hinckley) Joyce on Swans Island. Philip Moore died in 1937 and Lovina Ethel (Joyce) Moore died on January 29, 1956 in Ellsworth, Maine. "Philip Moore lobstered, fished a weir, and ran a small store in an ell of the Moore house. He was also the postmaster for Gott's Island and turned his hand to whatever other work came his way. Lovina Moore was a hard-working woman who took care of her children, ran the house, kept chickens and a cow, and planted a big garden. She also took in a few boarders and fed summer people who vacationed elsewhere on the island but came to the Moore house for their meals. "She was a strong woman," Esther Trask, one of Ruth's younger sisters, comments. Trask feels that Lovina Moore was the model for the strong, resourceful, and emotionally resilient women characters that abound in Ruth Moore's books." - “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley, The University of Maine site, 1996, accessed online 03/27/08; http://dll.umaine.edu/welcome/wom/rmarticle.htm	Moore - Philip Moore (1871-1937) Item: 12767 Type: Reference Subject: People Description: Philip Moore (1871-1937) was born on June 30, 1871 at Gotts Island, Maine to Enoch Newman Moore and Laura A. (Gross) Moore. Philip married Lovina Ethel Joyce (1879-1956) on December 24, 1897 at Swans Island, Maine. Lovina Ethel Joyce was born on June 2, 1878 to Edwin Manson Joyce and Mary Ann (Hinckley) Joyce on Swans Island. Philip Moore died in 1937 and Lovina Ethel (Joyce) Moore died on January 29, 1956 in Ellsworth, Maine. "Philip Moore lobstered, fished a weir, and ran a small store in an ell of the Moore house. He was also the postmaster for Gott's Island and turned his hand to whatever other work came his way. Lovina Moore was a hard-working woman who took care of her children, ran the house, kept chickens and a cow, and planted a big garden. She also took in a few boarders and fed summer people who vacationed elsewhere on the island but came to the Moore house for their meals. "She was a strong woman," Esther Trask, one of Ruth's younger sisters, comments. Trask feels that Lovina Moore was the model for the strong, resourceful, and emotionally resilient women characters that abound in Ruth Moore's books." - “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley, The University of Maine site, 1996, accessed online 03/27/08; http://dll.umaine.edu/welcome/wom/rmarticle.htm [show more]
12768	Mullins - Lillian E. (Mullins) Mayo (1889-1979)	Reference	People			Lillian E. Mullins (1889-1979) was born on February 4, 1889 to John R. Mullins and Margaret Mullins at St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Lillian married Fred Sidney Mayo (1877-1949), son of Dudley Luther Mayo and Sarah Elizabeth (Kimball) Mayo, on June 13, 1917 in Maine. Lillian and Fred were the parents of author and historian, Eleanor Ruth Mayo (1920-1981). The Mayos lived at 8 Wesley Avenue, Southwest Harbor. Lillian died on January 1, 1979 at Southwest Harbor.	Mullins - Lillian E. (Mullins) Mayo (1889-1979) Item: 12768 Type: Reference Subject: People Description: Lillian E. Mullins (1889-1979) was born on February 4, 1889 to John R. Mullins and Margaret Mullins at St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Lillian married Fred Sidney Mayo (1877-1949), son of Dudley Luther Mayo and Sarah Elizabeth (Kimball) Mayo, on June 13, 1917 in Maine. Lillian and Fred were the parents of author and historian, Eleanor Ruth Mayo (1920-1981). The Mayos lived at 8 Wesley Avenue, Southwest Harbor. Lillian died on January 1, 1979 at Southwest Harbor. [show more]
12769	Mayo - Emma (Mayo) Casey (1880-1960)	Reference	People			Emma Mayo Casey was born on April 25, 1880 to Edward Dolliver Mayo and Sarah Elizabeth Mayo. She married John Andrew Casey. Emma was the first cousin of Lillian's husband, Fred Sidney Mayo.	Mayo - Emma (Mayo) Casey (1880-1960) Item: 12769 Type: Reference Subject: People Description: Emma Mayo Casey was born on April 25, 1880 to Edward Dolliver Mayo and Sarah Elizabeth Mayo. She married John Andrew Casey. Emma was the first cousin of Lillian's husband, Fred Sidney Mayo.
3477	Gott - Erastus Littlefield Gott (1843-1922)	Reference	People				Gott - Erastus Littlefield Gott (1843-1922) Item: 3477 Type: Reference Subject: People State: ME
3478	Peterson - Peter Warren Peterson (1949-2010) aka Pete	Reference	People				Peterson - Peter Warren Peterson (1949-2010) aka Pete Item: 3478 Type: Reference Subject: People
3479	Bass Harbor Boat Shop	Reference	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business	Tremont, Bernard	25 Columbia Avenue		Bass Harbor Boat Shop Item: 3479 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Place: Tremont, Bernard State: ME Address: 25 Columbia Avenue
3480	Blueberry - Lobster Style Cabin Launch My Shepard - Lobster Style Cabin Launch Carry All II - Lobster Style Cabin Launch Billie XXX - Lobster Style Cabin Launch	Reference	Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat				Blueberry - Lobster Style Cabin Launch My Shepard - Lobster Style Cabin Launch Carry All II - Lobster Style Cabin Launch Billie XXX - Lobster Style Cabin Launch Item: 3480 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
3481	Rich - Robert Farnsworth Rich (1915-1981) aka Bobby	Reference	People	Tremont, Bernard		Father of Karen E. Rich	Rich - Robert Farnsworth Rich (1915-1981) aka Bobby Item: 3481 Type: Reference Subject: People Place: Tremont, Bernard State: ME Description: Father of Karen E. Rich
3482	Benj. F. Jones - Miniature Tugboat	Reference	Vessels, Boat				Benj. F. Jones - Miniature Tugboat Item: 3482 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Boat State: ME
3483	Hamabe - Francis Emeritz Hamabe (1917-2002)	Reference	People				Hamabe - Francis Emeritz Hamabe (1917-2002) Item: 3483 Type: Reference Subject: People
3484	Paine - Walter Cabot Paine II (1923-)	Reference	People				Paine - Walter Cabot Paine II (1923-) Item: 3484 Type: Reference Subject: People
3487	Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library	Southwest Harbor	338 Main Street	Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988)	Southwest Harbor Public Library Item: 3487 Type: Reference Subject: Organizations, Civic, Public Library Structures, Civic, Library Place: Southwest Harbor State: ME Address: 338 Main Street Description: Nell Thornton famously said, in her book, The Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor, “The Southwest Harbor Public Library had its beginning [as the Tremont Public Library] in 1884 when Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs gathered a number of discarded books from the hotels, mostly paper covered volumes, and placed them on a shelf in one corner of Dr. R. J. Lemont's drug store…” The library was, as were many small libraries on the coast of Maine, started by “people from away,” in other words, summer people. This small library, however, was quickly adopted by native Southwest Harborians, and has grown, in the almost one and a half centuries since its founding, to be one of Maine’s very few five-star libraries, according to the Library Journal Index of Public Library Service. Thornton, Nellie C., Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine (Merrill & Webber Company, 1938, The Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1988) [show more]
3485	Simmons - Grace Marian Simmons (1877-1953)	Reference	People				Simmons - Grace Marian Simmons (1877-1953) Item: 3485 Type: Reference Subject: People
3488	Rand - Edward Sprague Rand III (1834-1897)	Reference	People				Rand - Edward Sprague Rand III (1834-1897) Item: 3488 Type: Reference Subject: People
3489	Kelley - James Templeton Kelley (1855-1929)	Reference	People				Kelley - James Templeton Kelley (1855-1929) Item: 3489 Type: Reference Subject: People
3490	Jane Augusta Jennie (Lathrop) Rand House	Reference	Structures, Dwellings, House	Boston MA area, Cambridge	49 Kirkland Street		Jane Augusta Jennie (Lathrop) Rand House Item: 3490 Type: Reference Subject: Structures, Dwellings, House Place: Boston MA area, Cambridge State: MA Address: 49 Kirkland Street
3491	Lathrop - Jane Augusta (Lathrop) Rand (1837-1918)	Reference	People			Jane Augusta “Jennie” Lathrop, mother of photographer Henry Lathrop Rand, was born to Rev. John Pierce (1796-1843) and Marie Margaretta (Long) Lathrop on November 18, 1837 in (Boston?) Massachusetts. J Jennie married Edward Sprague Rand III, son of Edward Sprague and Elizabeth Arnold Rand, on November 23, 1855 or 1858. They separated or were divorced c. 1877. Jennie built her new house at 49 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1886.	Lathrop - Jane Augusta (Lathrop) Rand (1837-1918) Item: 3491 Type: Reference Subject: People Description: Jane Augusta “Jennie” Lathrop, mother of photographer Henry Lathrop Rand, was born to Rev. John Pierce (1796-1843) and Marie Margaretta (Long) Lathrop on November 18, 1837 in (Boston?) Massachusetts. J Jennie married Edward Sprague Rand III, son of Edward Sprague and Elizabeth Arnold Rand, on November 23, 1855 or 1858. They separated or were divorced c. 1877. Jennie built her new house at 49 Kirkland Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1886. [show more]
3493	Nancy B - Mackerel Seiner	Reference	Vessels, Boat			Nancy B. was a 45' wood Mackerel Seiner built by Southwest Boat Corporation in 1945.	Nancy B - Mackerel Seiner Item: 3493 Type: Reference Subject: Vessels, Boat Description: Nancy B. was a 45' wood Mackerel Seiner built by Southwest Boat Corporation in 1945.
3495	Henry R. Hinckley Company Manset Boat Yard Hinckely Company Hinckley Yachts	Reference	Businesses, Boatbuilding Business	Southwest Harbor, Manset	130 Shore Road	The Hinckley Company started in 1928 as the Manset Boatyard in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Henry R. Hinckley’s focus was on servicing the local lobster boats as well as the yachts of summer residents on Mt. Desert Island. Today Hinckley builds boats at its production facilities in Trenton, Maine, but the original Manset yard is at the heart of the Hinckley legend. Today it ranks as a world class service facility.	Henry R. Hinckley Company Manset Boat Yard Hinckely Company Hinckley Yachts Item: 3495 Type: Reference Subject: Businesses, Boatbuilding Business Place: Southwest Harbor, Manset State: ME Address: 130 Shore Road Description: The Hinckley Company started in 1928 as the Manset Boatyard in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Henry R. Hinckley’s focus was on servicing the local lobster boats as well as the yachts of summer residents on Mt. Desert Island. Today Hinckley builds boats at its production facilities in Trenton, Maine, but the original Manset yard is at the heart of the Hinckley legend. Today it ranks as a world class service facility.
3496	Sieur de Monts Spring	Reference	Places, Spring	Acadia National Park	Sieur de Monts Spring		Sieur de Monts Spring Item: 3496 Type: Reference Subject: Places, Spring Place: Acadia National Park State: ME Address: Sieur de Monts Spring

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