Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors. She inherited her aunt Mary Ann Carroll’s notes for a planned history of the town. Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958. She combined her notes from the Times with those from Mary Ann and a good deal of scholarship to produce a very complete history of the town, full of opinion, local mythology and history. She was an astute observer and made a laudable effort to distinguish mythology from history. She left the town she loved its most valuable gift. Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C. Thornton) was originally published by Merrill & Webber Company in 1938. It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010.
Description: Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors. She inherited her aunt Mary Ann Carroll’s notes for a planned history of the town. Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958. She combined her notes from the Times with those from Mary Ann and a good deal of scholarship to produce a very complete history of the town, full of opinion, local mythology and history. She was an astute observer and made a laudable effort to distinguish mythology from history. She left the town she loved its most valuable gift. Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C. Thornton) was originally published by Merrill & Webber Company in 1938. It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010. [show more]
Left to Right: Nina Bunker Stanley (1919-2009) - later Mrs. Melvin M. Turner Emma Beatrice (Bunker) Stanley Emma Rebecca Stanley (1926-1978) - later Mrs. Arlington H. Bickford Malcolm Wayne Stanley (1917-1982) Augusta Mae Stanley (1924-2006) - later Mrs. Frederick A. Joyce Enoch Arno Stanley Hazel Esther Stanley (1920-2006) - later Mrs. Paul Jackson and Mrs. Philmore M. Peterson
Description: Left to Right: Nina Bunker Stanley (1919-2009) - later Mrs. Melvin M. Turner Emma Beatrice (Bunker) Stanley Emma Rebecca Stanley (1926-1978) - later Mrs. Arlington H. Bickford Malcolm Wayne Stanley (1917-1982) Augusta Mae Stanley (1924-2006) - later Mrs. Frederick A. Joyce Enoch Arno Stanley Hazel Esther Stanley (1920-2006) - later Mrs. Paul Jackson and Mrs. Philmore M. Peterson
Left to Right: Philip Tracy Carroll (1904-1966) Unknown - possibly Harold or Stanley Walden Unknown - possibly Harold or Stanley Walden Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) Eugene Shubal Thurston Sr. (1881-1961) Lawrence Dana "Doc" Phillips (1903-1971) This photograph was taken at Spencer Bay.
Description: Left to Right: Philip Tracy Carroll (1904-1966) Unknown - possibly Harold or Stanley Walden Unknown - possibly Harold or Stanley Walden Lester Leighton Wass (1905-1987) Eugene Shubal Thurston Sr. (1881-1961) Lawrence Dana "Doc" Phillips (1903-1971) This photograph was taken at Spencer Bay.
Left - Philip Tracy Carroll (1904-1966) Right - Lawrence Dana "Doc" Phillips (1903-1971) This photograph may have been taken in Spencer Bay with Mt. Kineo in background.
Description: Left - Philip Tracy Carroll (1904-1966) Right - Lawrence Dana "Doc" Phillips (1903-1971) This photograph may have been taken in Spencer Bay with Mt. Kineo in background.
"Archibald and Mira Dix were great-grandchildren of William Dix Jr. (1776-1814) who was in Tremont when he died in 1814. Archibald L. Dix (1867-after 1940) was born in January 1867 to master mariner John P. Dix and Harriet E. Verrill in Tremont, Maine. Capt. and Mrs. Dix settled in Philadelphia some time between 1870 and 1880. Archibald attended the University of Pennsylvania and became a doctor, graduating from there in 1893. He apparently had some notable success in treating Lupus. Archibald’s sister, Mira Verrill Dix (1870-1934) was born on May 18, 1870. She became a teacher. Archibald and Mira lived together in Philadelphia, with various members of their family, for the rest of their lives. While neither married they were frequently mentioned in the social pages of newspapers as attendants in weddings of their family. On November 18, 1897 Archibald was best man at the wedding of his first cousin, Frederick C. Holden, when Frederick married Maud Wilson in Brooklyn, New York. Frederick C. Holden’s mother, Hannah Augusta Verrill, was a sister of Archibald’s mother, Harriet E. Verrill. Their sister, May E. Dix (1873-), married John Lucas on November 19, 1902 with Myra, “Miss Verrill Dix,” as maid of honor and Archibald serving as an usher. After May’s husband, John Lucas died, she lived with the family in Philadelphia from at least 1920 to 1930. Mira, who sometimes went by the name of Verrill Dix, and her sister, May (Dix) Lucas rented the Miller Cottage in Bar Harbor in 1924. Mira Verrill Dix died c. December 29, 1934 and was buried on January 3, 1935 at the Westminster Cemetery in Marion, Pennsylvania where her father was buried. Her brother, Archibald, signed the papers. Archibald L. Dix died some time after 1940."
Description: "Archibald and Mira Dix were great-grandchildren of William Dix Jr. (1776-1814) who was in Tremont when he died in 1814. Archibald L. Dix (1867-after 1940) was born in January 1867 to master mariner John P. Dix and Harriet E. Verrill in Tremont, Maine. Capt. and Mrs. Dix settled in Philadelphia some time between 1870 and 1880. Archibald attended the University of Pennsylvania and became a doctor, graduating from there in 1893. He apparently had some notable success in treating Lupus. Archibald’s sister, Mira Verrill Dix (1870-1934) was born on May 18, 1870. She became a teacher. Archibald and Mira lived together in Philadelphia, with various members of their family, for the rest of their lives. While neither married they were frequently mentioned in the social pages of newspapers as attendants in weddings of their family. On November 18, 1897 Archibald was best man at the wedding of his first cousin, Frederick C. Holden, when Frederick married Maud Wilson in Brooklyn, New York. Frederick C. Holden’s mother, Hannah Augusta Verrill, was a sister of Archibald’s mother, Harriet E. Verrill. Their sister, May E. Dix (1873-), married John Lucas on November 19, 1902 with Myra, “Miss Verrill Dix,” as maid of honor and Archibald serving as an usher. After May’s husband, John Lucas died, she lived with the family in Philadelphia from at least 1920 to 1930. Mira, who sometimes went by the name of Verrill Dix, and her sister, May (Dix) Lucas rented the Miller Cottage in Bar Harbor in 1924. Mira Verrill Dix died c. December 29, 1934 and was buried on January 3, 1935 at the Westminster Cemetery in Marion, Pennsylvania where her father was buried. Her brother, Archibald, signed the papers. Archibald L. Dix died some time after 1940." [show more]