1915 Boynton High School Commencement Issue - Eastport, Maine

Reprinted, with permission, from the blog Heirlooms Reunited

Mold-damaged copy of the Boynton High School Commencement Issue of 1915, Eastport, Maine.  Images of all pages, including the advertising pages, and a satellite map of Eastport, Maine on Moose Island in Passamaquoddy Bay are below.

Teachers:  Moholland, Patten, Mitchell and Grindle

Graduates:

Lewis Gerald Atwood

Frances Atwood

Samuel Arthur Baker

Alice Kathryn Bishop

Agnes Mabelle Butterfield

Laura Josephine Carlan

Muriel Bernica Cleland

Helen Jane Cleland

Victoria Marguerite DeCorey

Stafford John Dore

Charles Burrows Emery

Etta M. Farris

Elsie Lucille Fitzgerald

Harriet M. Flaherty

Fletcher Garnett

Howard Bruce Gregory

Francis Whitney Harrington

Frances Lorena Malloch

Geneva A. Trafton

Ronald B. Wadsworth

William M. Ward

Oscar Livermore Whalen

O. L. Whalen, Editor-inChief

A. K. Bishop, Asst Editor-in-Chief

L. H. Carlan, Business Manager

V. M. DeCorey, Asst Business Manager

F. W. Harrington, Athletic

E. M. Farris, School

R. B. Wadsworth, Alumni

G. A. Trafton, Exchange

Teachers

College Prep:

A. K. Bishop - Alice Kathryn Bishop

A. M. Butterfield - Agnes Maybelle Butterfield

S. J. Dore - Stafford John Dore

E. M. Farris - Etta M. Farris

English:

F. J. Atwood - Frances Atwood

G. Atwood - Lewis Gerald Atwood

S. A. Baker - Samuel Arthur Baker

M. B. Cleland - Muriel Bernica Cleland

C. B. Emery - Charles Burrows Emery

E. L. Fitzgerald - Elsie Lucille Fitzgerald

F. W. Harrington - Frances Whitney Harrington

G. A. Trafton - Geneva A. Trafton

R. B. Wadsworth - Ronald B. Wadsworth

William Ward - William M. Ward

O. L. Whalen - Oscar Livermore Whalen

Business:

L. J. Carlan - Laura Josephine Carlan

H. J. Cleland - Helen Jane Cleland

V. M. DeCorcy - Victoria Marguerite DeCorey

H. M. Flaherty - Harriet M. Flaherty

F. Garnett - Fletcher Garnett

H. B. Gregory - Howard Bruce Gregory

F. L. Malloch - Frances Lorena Malloch

Valedictorians

1875 - John Ellery Tuttle

1879 - Fred W. Deering

1880 - William F. Brown

1881 - Seward B. Livermore

1882 - Ida Bishop

1883 and 1884 - Mabel Camplin

1885 - George A. Lincoln

1886 - Wary Wood

1887, 1888, 1880 - No Graduation

1890 - Alice Isabel Morton

1891 - Harriet F. Holmes

1892 - Edith A. Irving

1893 - William R. Bibber

1894 - Lisle M. Irving

1895 - Jessie M. Nutt

1896 - Stella B. Damon

1897 - Florence Farris

1898 - No record

1899 - Nellie Louise Denison

1900 - no record

1901 - No Valedictory given

1902 - Mary L. Corbett

1903 - Florence Buxton

1904 - Mary Corthell

1905 - Katherine F. Leighton

1906 - Bessie M. Huckins

1907 - Frances Leeman

1908 - Florence Emery

1909 - Annie C. Barrett

1910: No Valedictory - James Lewis, Welcome Speech

1911: Josephine Emery

1912: Margaret M. Ives

1913: Kristine Kirwin

1914: Louise Bucknam

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1851 Certification that Seaman Isaac N. Sprague of Pembroke, Maine, is an American Citizen

Document inscribed on March 6 1851 by Daniel Kilby, Customs Collector of the District of Passamaquoddy, where he certifies that Isaac N. Sprague, an American Seaman and a native of Pembroke, Maine, about the age of 16, is a Citizen of the United States.

Isaac was about 5'6", with a light complexion, flaxen hair and blue eyes.

From brief online research, hopefully correct - corrections and/or additions gratefully requested in the comments:

Isaac N. Sprague 

Isaac N. Sprague may have been Isaac Noble Sprague (1834-1880), born 22 September 1834 at Pembroke, Maine, son of William and Tamar (Clark) Sprague.  

In light of the certificate above, it's tempting to think that Isaac might have crewed on one of the many vessels carrying hopeful miners from the East to the goldfields of California.  And, like many other seamen, at some point took stock of the situation and decided to try his own luck at finding gold rather than return East as part of the crew.

Isaac appears in the California Great Register of 1867, where he's listed as a miner in Rose's Bar Township. In the 1870 Census Isaac, shown as Isaac M., was living in Santa Cruz, California, adjacent to brothers Levi Woodward Sprague (abt 1841-1908), Cyrus Elwood Sprague (1849-1914) and Benjamin Franklin Sprague (1851-1913).  

On June 27, 1871 in Calaveras County, California, Isaac married Mrs. Hannah Burnham; the marriage, apparently, didn't last.

In the 1880 Census of San Jose, California, Isaac was enumerated in brother Levi's household and was engaged in farming. He died in San Luis Obispo, California, later that year, on November 22, 1880.

  

Daniel Kilby (1791-1860) 

According to a mention in Eastport and Passamaquoddy: A Collection of Historical and Biographical Sketches, compiled by Daniel Kilby's son William Henry Kilby (1820-1898) and published by E. E. Shead in 1888:

Daniel Kilby was born May 21, 1791 at Perry, Maine, the son of William and Mary (Wilder) Kilby.  Daniel served in the militia during the War of 1812.  He and a friend went from the mainland to nearly Moose Island on the fateful day when a British fleet arrived and captured Fort Sullivan, the town and the island.  After being searched, Daniel and his friend, and others, were let go.

After the war, Kilby became a shipowner and merchant.  In 1818 he married Joanna Hobart (abt 1800-1848), daughter of Isaac Hobart and Joanna (Hersey) Hobart.  

In 1849, President Zachary Taylor appointed Daniel Kilby to the post of customs collector for the District of Passamaquoddy. He served until the administration of President Franklin Pierce in 1853.  Daniel, who died on January 3, 1860,  and Joanna, who predeceased him in 1848, are buried in Hillside Cemetery at Eastport, Maine, with at least one of their children, Isaac Hobart Kilby.

From Eastport and Passamaquoddy: A Collection of Historical and Biographical Sketches:

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CDV of Helen Hinkley Leonard and Mildred G. Leonard of Deer Island, New Brunswick, and Worcester, Massachusetts

Reprinted, with permission, from the Heirlooms Reunited blog.

CDV taken at the Loring studio in Eastport, Maine, of siblings Mildred G. Leonard (1877-1892) and Helen Hinkley Leonard (1885-), "Nellie", who lived a short sail across Passamaquoddy Bay from Eastport, Maine, in the village of Fairhaven on Deer Island in New Brunswick.

They were the children of Henry H. Leonard and Ella or Ellen J. (Sullivan) Leonard, who moved their family to Worcester, Massachusetts, in the early 1890s.  

Sadly, Mildred died at the age of 5 in Worcester, Massachusetts.  Nellie married Charles Lemoyne Burleigh in 1914.

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