1893 Booklet "Souvenir of Quoddy"; scenes around Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine and New Brunswick

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"Souvenir of Quoddy", a booklet of scenes from around Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine and New Brunswick, published in 1893 by Charles E. Brown at the Loring Studio in Eastport, Maine. The booklet was printed in Boston, Massachusetts, by John Andrew & Son.

The Loring studio was founded by Davis Franklin Loring (1819-1891), father-in-law of Charles E. Brown.

The photographs depict scenes from:

• Eastport, Maine
• Lubec, Maine
• Robbinston, Maine
• Pembroke, Maine
• Perry, Maine
• St. George, New Brunswick
• Islands in Passamaquoddy Bay
• Eastport, Maine, on Moose Island
• Cherry Island, New Brunswick
• Campobello Island, New Brunswick
• Allan's Island (now Treat Island), Maine
• Grand Manan, New Brunswick   

Images of all of the pages appear at the end of this post.

Scenes include:

• a page with two photographs of the Eastport, Maine, waterfront, taken from the Bay
• a page with three photographs Eastport, Maine: the Toll Bridge, Goudy's Point and Carrying Place
• a page with four photographs of Eastport, Maine: Frontier National Bank, the Savings Bank; Boynton High School and the Custom House
• a page with ten photographs, entitled "Eastport of Former Days"
• a page with three photographs: of fishing boats; Estes Head in Eastport, Maine; Cherry Island, New Brunswick
• a page with a photograph of Pulpit Rock in Robbinston, Maine
• a page with a photograph of "Old Friar" on Campobello Island, New Brunswick
• a page with 4 photographs of Campobello Island, New Brunswick: Head Harbor; Herring Cove; Lake Glensevern; Meadow Brook
• a page with 5 photographs of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, including Friar's Bay, Harbor DeLute, Echo Lake
• a page with two photographs of the Lubec, Maine, waterfront, taken from the Bay or from Campobello Island, New Brunswick
• a page with 3 photographs of Lubec, Maine: the Landing; Looking South; Hotel Ne-Mat-Ta-No
• a page with a photograph of Sail Rock, just off West Quoddy in Lubec, Maine; easternmost point in the lower 48
• a page with a photograph of West Quoddy Light in Lubec, Maine; from the rocky shore with the lighthouse in the distance
• a page with a photograph taken on Allan's Island looking south toward Lubec, Maine, and Grand Manan, New Brunswick - now Treat Island in Eastport, Main. The photographs shows numerous buildings no longer there
• a page with two photographs, of Pembroke, Maine, and of Perry, Maine
• a page with a photograph of the Indian Village at Pleasant Point in Perry, Maine
• a page with a photograph of Dark Harbor, Grand Manan, New Brunswick
• a page with a photograph of Southern Head Light, Grand Manan, New Brunswick
• a page with three photographs of St. George, New Brunswick: the Landing, the Village and the Falls
• a page with five photographs of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick: Swallow Tail Light; Southern Head; Flagg's Cove; Dark Harbor Bar; Southern Cross

 

Vintage Photograph Album from the Calais, Maine Area

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Vintage photograph album with text on the cover: Photographs, Souvenir of Calais, Maine

The album contains 23 photographs of people, places, gardens and an antique automobile, then presumably a contemporary one, which might help date the album.

Sadly, the photographs are glued to the pages, so it's unknown if any identifications are includes on the reverse.

The album presumably belonged to the couple shown in two of the photographs below, as one or both of them appear in several of the other photographs.  If you recognize this couple, please leave a comment so that this blog post can be amended.

Two photographs, below, that show scenes a reader might recognize:

• top left photo of the near page below appears to be a walking trail along the water
• right photo in the bottom page shows a woman with a house in the background, perhaps downstream past the mouth of the St. Croix River into Passamaquoddy Bay.

Two pages that show multiple people, perhaps relatives of the primary couple:

If you recognize a person and/or a place, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.

All pages in order: click on any image to enlarge it.

 

1861 Letter from Lewis W. Campbell, Student at Washington Academy in East Machias, Maine, to Friend James in Company C, 6th Maine Infantry

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June 2, 1861 letter from Lewis W. Campbell (1841-1926), a student at Washington Academy in East Machias, Maine, to his friend James, serving with the 6th Maine Infantry in the Civil War.  

Like untold other Mainers, Lewis would move to Minneapolis and become an influential citizen there.

The letter mentions:

• James, the recipient of the letter - there were several men named James in the area who enlisted in Company C, 6th Maine Infantry
• Machias, the next town over, where I believe Lewis W. Campbell's family lived
• Isaac - is he married yet or not - could not find a record; perhaps Isaac is a middle name or he married later on
• the Captain of the 6th, looking for more men
• Washington Academy in East Machias, Maine
• Eastport, Maine - perhaps the recruits shipped out of there
• Henry Leighton - also presumably serving with the 6th - perhaps Henry Hudson Leighton (1840-1916), who enlisted into Company C, 6th Maine Infantry
• a young lady who sends her regards
• Clark Hughs - perhaps Clark Perry Hughes (1839-1862), who enlisted on 15 July 1861 into Company C, 6th Maine Infantry. He was discharged for disease in September of 1861 and died in January 1862. 
• Mr. Coffin, sick with the measles
• Mr. Sanborn preached - perhaps New Hampshire native John L. Sanborn (1813-1895), Baptist clergyman, who was living in East Machias, Maine, at the time of the enumeration of the 1860 Federal Census.

A transcription appears at the end of this post.

Lewis himself would enlist, on 11 August 1862, into Company B, 11th Regiment, Infantry, as a private and was eventually promoted to sergeant. He was wounded in 1864 at Deep Bottom Run in Virginia, but he survived the war, rising to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant at Appomatox.

See a CDV of Lewis W. Campbell, in uniform, taken about 1864 - on the Maine Memory Network.  Read a letter Campbell wrote in 1864.

Lewis W. Campbell moved to Minneapolis and became a miller and a citizen of note, such that his biography is included on page 267 in A Half Century of Minneapolis, published by Horace Bushnell Hudson in 1908.

From this biography, which includes an engraving of Campbell, we learn that he was born in Harrington, Maine, the son of Dennison Campbell. Lewis' grandfather was a signer to the Constitution of Maine, and his great grandfather a colonel in the 6th Massachusetts during the American Revolution.  Lewis' mother was (Martha Wakefield) Campbell, according to his Minnesota death record.

Lewis married New Hampshire native Sarah G. Fisk in Minnesota in 1871. They had at least two children, both daughters.

Transcription

East Machias, June 2d, 61

Friend James

I receive your letter of May the 29 last Wednesday & I was glad to hear from you to hear that you were well & in good spirites. I should have written before but I wanted to go to Machias first to see what was going on over there. I was over yesterday. I am well and hope that these few lines will find you the same. I think judging from your letter that you are truly Patriotic and I hope that you will ever feel so until the glorious Flag of our Union shall wave again over ever nook and corner of the 34 states. You do not know how bad I feel to think I am not with you but you know the reason that I did not go and so all I can do is to bid you success. Bear in mind that you are engaged in a good cause - engaged in a cause which every true Son of America should be engage in and is it not expected that you will prevail over your foes. Of course you will for I believe that the right will always prevail. I told you I was over to Machias yesterday but I do not know of any news there. Now probably you here of all that is transpiring there before I do because there are so many writing there so often. Whether Isaac is married yet or not I do not know. I heard last week that he was & then I heard that he was to be married tonight. It appears to me as if he is in a ____ but then he might as well enjoy himself while he can. I did not see anyone to inquire how the Division is a getting along. Bye the way do you have a chance to go out evenings & do you go to the Division there. I hope that you all do who belong to this Division. I saw your Capt. here the other day. I heard that he was after more men. I am getting along quite well with my studies and have quite a good time. I am not so lonesome since I got acquainted with some of the folks. The School went to walk last Thursday afternoon about 25 or so with our Preceptor to lead us. We we went about 6 miles & back & had a good time as our Precepter approved of that and so does the scholars. I can not think of any more news to write you this time although I am assured by what I have heard the people here say that your company ____ there. Best wishes & your company got some good compliment the day that you past through here on our way to Eastport.  Give my best respects to all of the boys. I can not mention any in particular for it would take me to long to name them all. Tell Henry Leighton that I should be glad to here from him as soon as he can find time to write. & also all of the rest of the boys. There is a young ladie here in town that that I told I was writing to you today & she sends you her love & best wishes for your success. Chark Hughs told me to send you & all the rest of the boys his best respects & wanted me to tell you & them to write as soon as they could. By the way, I forgot to tell you that Mr. Coffin has been sick with the measels. He has got better so he has been out 2 or 3 days. I have been to Church all day. Mr. Sanborn preached over here today. I do not think of any thing more at present. You must excuse bad writing & spelling for I have been in an awful hurry for I did not have much time.

Write to me as often as you can & tell me all about the boys & what your prospects are. I must close by saying good bye.

Yours truly

From your friend

Lewis W. Campbell

Washington Academy

East Machias

Maine

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1881 Letter from Fox & Kellogg of San Francisco, California, to Freeman Hale Todd in Calais, Maine

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1881 letter from the law firm of Fox & Kellogg in San Francisco, California, to merchant and lumberman Freeman Hale Todd in Calais, Maine.

Transcription

March 18th 1881

F. H. Todd, Esq.

Dear Sir:

Your favor of March 4th did not reach us until the afternoon of the 15th - owing to a delay of overland trains. Mr. Pike having previously written that you expected to be present at the Omaha meeting, we have waited to hear from Mr. Fox, who was then on the way. If you came, Understanding his telegram that you are at Omaha he has probably answered your inquiries fully - as he had the accounts ___ the matters you speak of. By the Feb. account you will notice the need of the balance in January acct referred to in your letter. The account of debts existing prior to January 8th, when F. W. Pike turned over the affairs, has been much greater than supposed from  inquiry and examination at the time.

We are anxious to and shall transmit every dollar as fast as proceeds permit.

Hoping you have learned from Mr. Fox the information desired. 

___ [Yours & ?] Fox & Kellogg

From brief online research, hopefully correct - corrections and additions requested:

F. H. Todd was presumably Freeman Hale Todd (1809-1885), son of William Todd and Hannah (Worthley) Todd, and husband of Hasadiah U. (Grant) Todd and Adeline (Boardman) Todd.

F. W. Pike - there are many references to a Fred A. Pike but I didn't find a F. W. Pike in Calais, Maine, or St. Stephen, New Brunswick, not that there wasn't one. Perhaps F. W. Pike lived out of the area.

Law firm of Charles Nelson Fox (1829-1904) & Marmaduke Burnell Kellogg (1847-1907) in San Francisco, California.

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1876 Invoice from The Princeton Woolen Mills in Princeton, Maine, to Messrs S. W. Pope of "Machias"

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Invoice dated 19 September 1876 from the Princeton Woolen Mills in Princeton, Maine, to Messrs S. W. Pope in "Machias", Maine.

The reverse features the name Leonard Peabody (1821-1886), a New Hampshire native, who built The Princeton Woolen Mills in 1863. 

Leonard's parents, Stephen Peabody, Jr., (1773-1851) and Nancy Leonard (Smith) Peabody (1785-1856) had moved to Bucksport, Maine by 1810; moved briefly to New Hampshire, where Leonard was born; and then moved permanently to Bucksport.

In 1852, Leonard Peabody married Mary Hill Todd, daughter of the influential William Todd, Jr. (1803-1873) and Clarissa (Hill) Todd (1806-1861).

S. W. Pope was a lumbering firm that had started out as William Pope & Sons, founded by William Pope (1787-1864); then became S. W. Pope, presumably for Samuel Warren Pope (1815-1862); and, finally, J. O. Pope & Company, presumably for James Otis Pope (1822-1893).  Samuel Warren Pope married Betsey Jones Talbot, from another influential lumbering family in the area.

Read about the Pope family in A History of the Dorchester Pope Family, 1634-1888, With Sketches of Other Popes in England and America, and Notes Upon Several Intermarrying Families, published in 1888 by Charles Henry Pope. 

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Multi-Leaf Religious Mailer/Easter Card Sent from Calais, Maine, to Mrs. John Emery in Eastport, Maine

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Multi-leaf religious mailer sent to Mrs. John Emery, RR, Eastport, Maine, by someone in Calais, Maine.  The year of the cancellation is obscured by a design.

Because the mailer was sent in March, it was likely in connection with Easter.

Mrs. John Emery may have been Lillian E. (McDonald) Emery (1880-1966), wife of John Woodman Emery (1877-1957).

If you have a theory as to the identity of Mrs. John Emery, please leave a comment for the benefit of fellow researchers.

1891 Invoice from the Department of Maine GAR at Rockland, Maine, to Meade Post #40 at Eastport, Maine

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December 25, 1891 invoice from the Department of Maine, Grand Army of the Republic, at Rockland, Maine, to Meade Post #40 at Eastport, Maine, which was requesting:

• applications
• buttonhole badges
• membership badges
• badge ribbons for officers
• badge ribbons for comrades

 Sadly, the document does not list any names of GAR members.

The second floor of the GAR Meade Post 40 hall in Eastport, currently undergoing restoration, is decorated with many murals, at least some of which were reportedly painted by a Harrington.  It's said that Joshua Chamberlain, on a tour of GAR posts in Maine, was considerably impressed.

 If you have information to share on Meade Post 40 of the GAR at Eastport, Maine, Maine, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.

Charles Dudley Warner's 1874 Perspective on the Difficulty of Sailing Past Campobello into Eastport, Maine - But a War?

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An interesting perspective by Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) on the problem that Campobello Island in New Brunswick, Canada, and the extreme tides in Passamaquoddy Bay have always posed for mariners headed to Eastport, Maine.  

Included in Warner's Baddeck and That Sort of Thing, published in 1874.  A later printing can be read on Archive.org.

Warner's published sentiments apparently predate 1874, perhaps by seven years or more, as he mentions the British several times, and England once, but not the Dominion of Canada, formed in 1867. In addition, by the time of the publication of Warner's book, the "flag and cannon", indicating Eastport's Fort Sullivan, had been decommissioned the year before.

The possession by the British of the island of Campobello is an insufferable menace and impertinence. I write with a full knowledge of what war is. We ought to instantly dislodge the British from Campobello. It entirely shuts up and commands our harbor, - one of our chief Eastern harbors and war stations, where we keep a flag and cannon and some soldiers and where the customs officers look out for smuggling. There is no way to get into our own harbor, except in favorable circumstances of the tide, without begging the courtesy of a passage through British waters. Why is England permitted to stretch along down our coast in this straggling and inquisitive manner?  She might almost as well own Long Island. It was impossible to prevent our cheeks mantling with shame as we thought of this, and saw ourselves, free American citizens, landlocked by alien soil in our own harbor.  We ought to have war, if war is necessary to possess Campobello and Deer Islands, or else we ought to give the British Eastport. I am not sure but the latter would be the better course."

Taking the other course into Eastport, along Deer Island, would have put Mr. Warner through the Old Sow, the world's second largest whirlpool, which, depending on the tide, would have put on a real show.

As for Warner's option of giving Eastport to the British: deja vu - the British had taken Eastport in 1814 during the War of 1812 and were persuaded to return it to the United States in 1818 only after lengthy post-war negotiations.  

During the British occupation, Fort Sullivan, which was constructed in 1808, was renamed Fort Sherbrooke, in honor of Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, then military commander of the Provinces of Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick, and their Dependencies, including the Islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Prince Edward and Bermuda. He later became Governor General of British North America.

In 1818, with the British evacuation, the fort was once again Fort Sullivan.  Still standing are the remains of a powder house built by the British in 1814, shortly after their occupation, and a building constructed in the early 1820s, the North Officers' Quarters, known locally today as "The Barracks".

Two 19th Century Stereoviews of Eastport, Maine, in Winter

Two stereoviews of winter scenes in Eastport, Maine.  

Reprinted, with permission, from the Heirlooms Reunited blog.

We're accustomed to photographs of seagulls perched on rooftops, but the stereoview above takes the cake!

Both of the views are from the Loring Rooms' series "Views of Eastport and Vicinity".

The reverse of the stereoview below notes that it was taken in the late 1860s outside Tuttle's Hotel in Eastport.

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Resolve of the 55th Maine Legislature, 1876, Regarding Disbursements to the Passamaquoddy Tribe

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1876 Legislative Resolve in favor of the Passamaquoddy Tribe in Washington County, Maine.

Note: Be aware the State was using the tribe's own monies, under State control, for the disbursements listed below. The funds came from stumpage on tribal lands and land sales and leases by the State of Passamaquoddy land, which violated treaty.

State of Maine

In House of Representatives

January 27, 1876

Reported from the Committee on Indian Affairs, by Mr. SAWYER of South Thomaston, and ordered printed under Joint Rule.

ORAMANDAL SMITH, Clerk

 RESOLVE in favor of the Passamaquoddy Indians

Resolved, That there be paid from the state treasury, to be expended under the direction of the governor and council, to the agent of the Passamaquoddy tribe of indians, for the benefit of said tribe, as follows: 

• for May dividend, four hundred dollars
• for November dividend, three hundred dollars
• for distressed poor, twelve hundred dollars
• for agricultural purposes, five hundred dollars
• for bounty on crops for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, three hundred dollars
• for ploughing, one hundred and fifty dollars
• for salary of governors, fifty dollars each
• for salary of lieutenant governor, twenty dollars
• for wood, to be distributed as follows: one hundred dollars for those at Pleasant Point; thirty dollars for those at Pembroke; twenty-five dollars for those at Calais; and forty-five dollars for those at Peter Dana's Point
• for educational purposes, three hundred dollars
• for salary of priest, one hundred dollars
• for dressing for land, one hundred dollars
• for continent fund, two hundred dollars
• for salary of agent, three hundred dollars
• for repairs of priest's house and purchasing stove for chapel at Pleasant Point, two hundred dollars
• for repairs of chapel and purchasing stove for same at Peter Dana's Point, fifty dollars
• for plastering hall at Pleasant Point, fifty dollars
• also, fifty dollars on road at Pleasant Point.

Pleasant Point - Sipayik

Peter Dana Point - Motahkomikuk

19th Century Photograph of, presumably, the Home of George E. Perkins on the Shore Road in Perry, Maine

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This is what appears to be a 19th century photograph of a house, described on the reverse, in the handwriting of amateur historian Virginia (Golding) Pottle, as possibly the Perkins house on the Shore Road in Perry, Maine.  The man in the rocking chair is tentatively identified as George Perkins or his father.

See another post that features a photograph of George E. Perkins and wife Harriet Aylward Perkins of Perry, Maine.

From brief online research, hopefully correct:  corrections and additions requested:

George Edward Perkins was born April 13, 1855 at Perry, Maine, the son of James Perkins and his second wife, Mehitable (Pottle) Perkins.  Harriet (Aylward) Perkins, "Hattie", was born at Pembroke, Maine, or Perry, Maine, on February 8, 1867, the daughter of Lowell C. Aylward and Harriet E. (Leach) Aylward.

Read about the military service of Lowell C. Aylward here.

George and Hattie married in March of 1886 and settled at Perry, Maine; I didn't find a record of any children for them.  Hattie died in 1905 at Calais, Maine, shortly after her 38th birthday.  George was still alive at the time of the 1930 Census of Perry, Maine.

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