The house on the right with the peaked roof is the Edwin Leon Higgins House at 39 Clark Point Road, Tax Map 6 – Lot 105, built in 1884, Fred Sidney Mayo purchased the property at 45 Clark Point Road from George Harmon (1875-1942) in 1914 for $75. On it Mayo built the carpentry shop shown in the photograph.
Description: The house on the right with the peaked roof is the Edwin Leon Higgins House at 39 Clark Point Road, Tax Map 6 – Lot 105, built in 1884, Fred Sidney Mayo purchased the property at 45 Clark Point Road from George Harmon (1875-1942) in 1914 for $75. On it Mayo built the carpentry shop shown in the photograph.
Left to Right: Anne B. (Foster) Benson - co-owner William Benson - son of David and Anne Benson Eleanor Hancock - wife of a Coast Guardsman. She worked for the Bensons.
Description: Left to Right: Anne B. (Foster) Benson - co-owner William Benson - son of David and Anne Benson Eleanor Hancock - wife of a Coast Guardsman. She worked for the Bensons.
Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building.
Description: Written on the back of the photograph: "Old Horse J. Sargent" One of the trees on the front lawn of the library and the library wall can just be seen over the back of the horse. The building visible beyond the library property is the Freeman J. Lurvey building.
"Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning an acre of land in the recent fund-raising effort of the library and the Harbor House. The 20-year old business administration student at University of Maine at Orono says he plans to hang onto the land, which was donated by Conley Worcester of Southwest Harbor. Margo Stanley, at left, holds the copy of Thornton’s History of Somesville and Southwest Harbor that was won by the Southwest Harbor branch of the First 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.
Description: "Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning an acre of land in the recent fund-raising effort of the library and the Harbor House. The 20-year old business administration student at University of Maine at Orono says he plans to hang onto the land, which was donated by Conley Worcester of Southwest Harbor. Margo Stanley, at left, holds the copy of Thornton’s History of Somesville and Southwest Harbor that was won by the Southwest Harbor branch of the First 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. [show more]
Back Row - Standing Left to Right: Mr. Jones Everett Wass (1881-1956) Leslie Victor Stanley (1905-1995) Harold Linwood Trundy (1905-) Francis Carroll Young (1903-1984) Mr. Faulkingham - Coach Middle Row - Sitting Left to Right: Ferdinand Moore Dolliver (1905-1984) Kenneth V. Watson (1905-1994) Charles Bradley Carroll (1902-1983) - Captain Clifford F. Robbins (1904-1978) Joseph W. Trask (1904-1988) Front Row - Sitting Left to Right: Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986)
Description: Back Row - Standing Left to Right: Mr. Jones Everett Wass (1881-1956) Leslie Victor Stanley (1905-1995) Harold Linwood Trundy (1905-) Francis Carroll Young (1903-1984) Mr. Faulkingham - Coach Middle Row - Sitting Left to Right: Ferdinand Moore Dolliver (1905-1984) Kenneth V. Watson (1905-1994) Charles Bradley Carroll (1902-1983) - Captain Clifford F. Robbins (1904-1978) Joseph W. Trask (1904-1988) Front Row - Sitting Left to Right: Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) [show more]
Back Row - Left to Right: Richard Thornton Carroll (1908-1993) Charles Orville Trask (1908-1961) Eric Olaf Berg (1901-1968) - Coach Lester Martin Clark (1908-1977) Front Row - Seated Left to Right: Kenneth Thomas Lord (1908-1968) Sheldon Edwin Spurling (1907-2003) Ronald G. Billings (1906-1981) Henry Kenneth Robbins (1906-1938) Oliver Warren Robinson (1906-1962) - probably
Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Richard Thornton Carroll (1908-1993) Charles Orville Trask (1908-1961) Eric Olaf Berg (1901-1968) - Coach Lester Martin Clark (1908-1977) Front Row - Seated Left to Right: Kenneth Thomas Lord (1908-1968) Sheldon Edwin Spurling (1907-2003) Ronald G. Billings (1906-1981) Henry Kenneth Robbins (1906-1938) Oliver Warren Robinson (1906-1962) - probably
The teacher appears to be the same teacher as shown in SWHPL 11903 – with Freeman Grammar School 1926 students. She may have been either Feodora Woodworth or Doris Motz both of whom taught in the "common school" in 1925-1926 and 1926-1927. Doris Motz's husband, Ralph Motz, also taught at the Freeman Grammar School.
Description: The teacher appears to be the same teacher as shown in SWHPL 11903 – with Freeman Grammar School 1926 students. She may have been either Feodora Woodworth or Doris Motz both of whom taught in the "common school" in 1925-1926 and 1926-1927. Doris Motz's husband, Ralph Motz, also taught at the Freeman Grammar School.
Irene R. Gilley (1911-1940) was a great-great-great-granddaughter of William Gilley (1746-1839).According to historian Ralph Warren Stanley, Irene’s funeral at the Methodist Church on Wesley Avenue in Southwest Harbor was well attended. The church, built in 1888, apparently needed repair. The floor dropped 6” during service. That day may have been the last day the church was used. – 05/28/2014
Description: Irene R. Gilley (1911-1940) was a great-great-great-granddaughter of William Gilley (1746-1839).According to historian Ralph Warren Stanley, Irene’s funeral at the Methodist Church on Wesley Avenue in Southwest Harbor was well attended. The church, built in 1888, apparently needed repair. The floor dropped 6” during service. That day may have been the last day the church was used. – 05/28/2014
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 the people and places in the town of her birth. 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 Times for many years and was an active library volunteer. She was also an enthusiastic photographer who documented the activities of her large family. She made photograph albums for many family members, many of whom have shared her photographs with the Southwest Harbor Public Library. Archivists credit all of the photographs in her albums to her as she took or planned most of them. Those not taken by her were photographed by unnamed family members.
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 the people and places in the town of her birth. 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 Times for many years and was an active library volunteer. She was also an enthusiastic photographer who documented the activities of her large family. She made photograph albums for many family members, many of whom have shared her photographs with the Southwest Harbor Public Library. Archivists credit all of the photographs in her albums to her as she took or planned most of them. Those not taken by her were photographed by unnamed family members. [show more]