20th Anniversary of the Southwest Harbor Town Band at Dr. R.J. Lemont's Drug Store

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20th Anniversary of the Southwest Harbor Town Band at Dr. R.J. Lemont's Drug Store

The building was Dr. Lemont's office and store on the south side of Clark Point Road leaving Main Street. The building, then Cuz's Café, burned on January 30, 1955. It is the site of the Red Sky Restaurant in 2008.

The Southwest Harbor band was formed in 1892. This 1912 photograph shows these members:

Front Row - left to right:

Ralph Judson Robinson (1870-1923)
Everton Livingston Gott (1875-1954) - brother of Clyde Smith Gott
Frank L. Gilley (1880-1920)
Henry Loren Gray (1881-1947)
Simeon J. Marshall (1874-1962)
Earl Gott (1889-1950)
Franze Earl "Wimpy" Walls (1890-1964)
Edwin "Ed" George Lord (1878-1955)

Note: The name of one person in the front row is missing. Archivists hope a viewer may know who it is and where he is standing.

Middle - left to right:

H. Chase Bickford (1887-1960)
Fred A. Walls (1888-1949)
James Crockett (1864-1941)
Artemus Jean Haines Richardson (1893-1958)
Edward Harold Bennett (1890-1965) - later a band leader, as was his son, Charlie Bennett (1922-1984) (not in photograph)
Saunders Ward Newman (1852-1949)
Fred Sydney Mayo (1877-1949) - behind drum

Back Row - left to right:

Clyde Smith Gott (1893-) - brother of Everton Livingston Gott
Clifton Robie Foss (1890-1937)
Raymond C. Whitmore (1889-1971)

Standing on the porch - left to right:

The girl to the left of Dr. Lemont, leaning on the rail, is Elsie Phillips - later Mrs. Roscoe C. Marshall (1905-1988)
Dr. Robert James Lemont (1842-1926)
Elizabeth Lawler (1903-1975)
Bertha Robinson - later Mrs. Chester Warren Stanley (1901-1968)

14 Clark Point Road

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USA

1912