c1925 Photograph of the Eastport, Maine, City Council

c1925 photograph of the City Council of Eastport, Maine. The reverse contains identifications of the men, in the handwriting of Councilor Karl Wilfred Jewers (1896-1977).

The photograph was taken by the Milliken studio of Eastport, Maine.

If you have a correction to the information below, please leave a comment.

• N. Firth - presumably Edward C. Firth - perhaps Edward C. Firth (1862-1936), who served as Mayor in 1919 and 1924 and 1925
• K. Jewers - Karl Wilfrid Jewers (1896-1977)
• Lon Bogrette - presumably Alonzo P. Bogrett (1867-1938)
• Chick Hamilton - presumably Charles Joseph Hamilton (1880-1966)
• George Norton - presumably George Winterton Norton (1856-1937)
• Clint Whalen - perhaps Thomas Clinton Whalen (1874-unk) - perhaps the Thomas Whalen who died in California in 1940.
• Ralph Colwell - presumably Ralph Thurber Colwell (1896-1954)
• Roy Burr or Ray Burr - perhaps Roy Alfred Burr (1874-1969)
• L. White or Z. White - perhaps Louis A. White (1882-1950)

1907 Photograph of the Grand Jury Panel of Washington County, Maine

Reprinted, with permission, from the Heirlooms Reunited blog

1907 photograph, measuring 5" by 7", of the members of the Grand Jury of Washington County, Maine, taken in front of the Calais Court House.

The names of the men appear on an accompanying paper, image below, but only as a list, not matching names to faces.

If you recognize any of these men from your family photographs or research, please leave a comment, in the hope that the men can eventually be identified by face.

Grand Jury for Washington County, Impanelled October Term, 1906.

In alphabetical order:

• George Pearson Bogue (1879-1950), East Machias
• Scott Philson Bradish (1873-1952), Clerk, Eastport
• Earl Leopold Bridges (1871-1907), Pembroke - died that year *
• Jotham Sewell Buzzell (1845-1926), Cherryfield
• George Evander Carle (1861-1939), Princeton
• Clement B. Donworth (1848-1937), County Attorney
• George B. Gray (1867-1913), Robbinston
• Samuel W. Hill (1858-1934), Machias
• Elisha T. Holbrook (1833-1911), Foreman, Vanceboro
• John Lincoln Norton (1855-1929), Jonesport
• Elden Noyes Palmer (1874-1964), Machiasport
• Walter Dyer Ramsdell (1869-1951), Harrington
• Lester Charles Selwood (1878-1941), Perry
• Edmund Burke Sheahan (1845-1919), Dennysville
• Nathaniel Allen Smith, Jr. (1878-1942), Edmunds
• George Albert Stanwood (1856-1932), Steuben
• John F. Tracy (1872-1946), Addison
• Robert Bunten Tyler (1846-1912), Calais
• Frederick Wallace [middle name Almar or Elmer] (1867-), Talmadge
• Frank Whalen, Lubec - perhaps Frank W. Whalen (1870-1943)

*  This photograph was taken in front of the Court House at Calais, Wednesday, April 24, A.D. 1907.  Juror Bogue does not appear in the picture, he having been unable to attend Court at the April Term on account of sickness.

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