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Jane, Sch. 20 tons. Built for Samuel Morrill in 1851.
A. Blanchard, Sch. 255 tons.
Wanderer, Sch. 116 tons.
Ozark, Sch. Built by N. H. Hall in 1852.
Castilian, Sch. Built by Nahum Hall for G. W. Brown,
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N. H. Hall and others in 1852. N. H. Means, Capt. Owned by E. S. Means in 1888.
Rambler, Sch. 165 tons. Built by N. H. Hall for Geo. N. Black in 1852. Harvey Lord, Captain.
Judge Hathaway, Brig. 230 tons. Built by Mr. Suminsby for J. W. and T. D. Jones in 1852.
Andrew Peters, Sch. 260 tons. Built by N. H. Hall for Andrew Peters and D. MacFarland in 1852.
Manhattan, Barkentine. 25 tons. Built by N. H. Hall for Wm. H. Black in 1853. Amariah MacFarland, Capt.
Lotus, Sch. 130 tons. Built by George Jamierson for Ebenezer and George Clark, and others, in 1853. George Clark, Capt.
Formosa, Bark. 350 tons. Built by John Suminsby for J. W. and T. D. Jones in 1853. Capt. Ryder.
Freedonia, Brig. 258 tons. Built by N. H. Hall for D. P. Jordan and others in 1854. J. H. Lord, Capt.
P. M. Tinker, Sch. 276 tons. Built for Cornelius Milliken and John Hall in 1854. P. M. Tinker, Capt.
Edward, Sch. 119 tons. Built for Albert Smith and S. B. Osgood in 1854. Capt. Smith.
Dunkirk, Brig. 239 tons. Built by N. C. Means for Andrew Peters and James Griffin in 1854. Capt. Griffin.
Vivid Light, Sch. 45 tons. Built by John Suminsby for Blanchard and Sherman, Boston, and J. W. and T. D. Jones of Ellsworth in 1854. Lorenzo Blanchard, Capt.
Octavia, Brig. Built by N. C. Means in 1854. Ran ashore in 1857. Total loss.
Mary C. Haskell, Brig. 286 tons. Built by N. H. Hall for John Black, Jr., in 1855. Cornelius Tinker, Capt. Iris, Sch. 200 tons. Built by Wm. Hunnewell for D. P. Jordan and W. H. Austin in 1855. Capt. Austin.
Waltham, Sch. 185 tons. Built by George Jamierson for Hale and Eaton, and George Clark in 1855. Capt. Clark.
Horizon, Ship. 1800 tons. Built by Isaac Elwell for Seth Tisdale in 1855. Captain from Chelsea.
D. Lester, Sch. 160 tons. Built by Isaac Cork, Jr., for Messrs. Cork and J. W. Wood & Company in 1856. Reuben Ryder, Captain.
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Velma, Sch. 175 tons. Built by E. J. Hodgkins for G. C. Beckwith, Lovejoy and Zenus Treworgy in 1856. Capt. Tre- worgy.
Hesperian, Sch. 600 tons. Built by John Suminsby for J. W. T. Jones in 1856.
Mary Elizabeth, Sch. 74 tons. Built for John Murch and T. D. Jones in 1851. Capt. Murch.
Quindaro, Sch. 234 tons. Built and owned by G. C. Beck- with in 1857.
BRIG MARY C. HALE
Nellie, Sch. 10 tons. Built by B. G. C. Beckwith for Chas. Woodard in 1857.
Ortotan, Brig. 346 tons. Built and owned by D. P. Jordan in 1857. Chas. Lord, Capt.
Ella Florence, Sch. 171 tons. Built by John Suminsby for G. K. Griffin in 1859.
Minneola, Sch. 64 tons. Built for D. P. Jordan and T. B. Smith in 1860. Capt. Smith.
Express, Sch. 27 tons. Built for S. K. Whitney and I. Blaisdell in 1861.
Fair Wind, Sch. 83 tons. Built by I. M. Grant for D. P. Jordan in 1861. Addison Maddocks, Capt.
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Rupicola, Sch. 49 tons. Built by M. H. Woodman in 1861. Falto, Sch. 92 tons. Built by John Suminsby in 1861.
Gazette, 11 tons. Built by Isaac Cook in 1862.
James Tilden, Sch. 106 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1862. Flora A. Sawyer, Sch. 93 tons. Built by G. A. Jamierson in 1863. Owned in 1888 by T. D. Freety, Bangor.
Georgia, 60 tons. Built for Samuel Alley in 1864.
Collector Jones, Sch. 77 tons. Built by G. A. Jamierson in 1864.
Myronus, Sch. 382 tons. Built for D. P. Jordan and J. M. Higgins in 1865.
Emily, Sch. 77 tons. Built by I. M. Grant for Allen Holt, Grant and others in 1865.
Ella Hay, Sch. 144 tons. Built by John Suminsby in 1865. Sea Foam, built in 1865 for Capt. Geo. Griffin.
Coriantes, Sch. 382 tons. Built by John Suminsby for S. & C. Lord, D. P. Jordan, and others in 1866.
Mary Augusta, Sch. 150 tons. Built in 1867. Owned by Allen Holt, 1888.
Mary Holt, Sch. 193 tons. Built by I. M. Grant for Allen Holt, Grant, and others, in 1867.
Bonny Ivers, built in 1868. Wesley Holt, Captain.
Louisa Wilson, Sch. 129 tons. Built in 1869 for D. H. Eppes.
Kate Grant, Sch. 132 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1869.
A. K. Woodard, Sch. 94 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1869. Owned by I. Blaisdell in 1888.
J. M. Kennedy, Sch. 94 tons. Built by I. M. Grant for H. M. and B. Hall in 1869.
Lavolta, Sch. 160 tons. Built in 1870 for Owned by J. M. Higgins in 1888.
Wesley Abbott, Sch. 131 tons. Built in 1870 for D. P. Jordan and J. M. Whittaker. Owned by J. M. Higgins, 1888. Georgietta, Sch. 134 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1870. A. K. Woodward, Capt.
Storm Petrel, Sch. 129 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1870.
Attavelia, Sch. 125 tons. Built by E. J. Hodgkins in 1870. Owned by Mr. Hodgkins and others. Henry S. Joy, Capt.
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Chas. Upton, Sch. 89 tons. Built for H. M. and B. Hall by I. M. Grant.
Annie Harper, Sch. 134 tons. Built for H. M. & B. Hall by I. M. Grant in 1870.
Maid of the Mist. Built in 1870. Capt. Charles Smith.
Little Round Top, Tug. 23 tons. Built in 1871. Owned by H. M. Hall and others in 1875. Later by W. Haynes & Whitney Co.
William H. Archer, Sch. 90 tons. Built for H. M. & B. Hall in 1871.
D. S. Lawrence, Sch. 66 tons. Built for H. M. & B. Hall in 1871.
Adam Bowlby, Sch. 108 tons. Built for H. M. & B. Hall in 1872. Owned by J. A. Bowden in 1888.
H. N. Cushman, Sch. 34 tons. Built in 1872. Owned by H. W. Cushman and others.
Julia Edna, Sch. 25 tons. Built in 1873. Owned in Bucksport in 1888.
Nellie Grant, Sch. 112 tons. Built by Abram Lord in 1873. Owned by Whitcomb, Haynes and Whitney.
Leonora, Sch. 109 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1873. Owned by R. C. Bonsey.
Frank A. Magen, Sch. 124 tons. Built in 1873 for H. M. and B. Hall. Owned in 1888 by E. P. Reed, Plymouth, Mass.
Anna S. Murch, Sch. 108 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1873. Owned in 1888 by John Davis.
Dexter Clark, Sch. 134 tons. Built in 1873 for H. M. and B. Hall. Owned in 1888 by H. E. Wellman, Providence, R. I. Mary Lord, Sch. 347 tons. Built in 1873. Owned in 1888 by Chas. Smith.
Mary C. Hale, Sch. 539 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1875.
City of Ellsworth, Sch. 82 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1875.
Clio Chilcott, Sch. 88 tons. Built in 1875. Owned by Myrick Avery and others in 1888.
Julia, Sch. 758 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1877.
Shetland, B. 611 tons. Built in 1878. Owned by D. S. Emery, Boston, 1888.
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Ralph K. Grant, Sch. 45 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1878. R. K. Grant.
William F. Green, Sch. 254 tons. Built in 1879. Owned by William F. Green, Boston, 1888. Formerly the schooner John T. Taylor.
Acadia, 12 tons. Built in 1881. (Steam.)
Transit, 18 tons. Built in 1881. Owned at Mt. Desert Ferry, Me., 1888.
Lewis King, Sch. 142 tons. Built in 1883.
Nellie Woodbury, Sch. 138 tons. Built by Abram Lord in 1883 for F. L. Hodgkins. This was the last vessel built in Lord's shipyards.
F. D. Hodgkins, Sch. 195 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1883. Owned by F. D. Hodgkins in 1888. R. C. Bonsey, Captain.
Glyde, Sch. 15 tons. Built in 1886.
Hector, Sch. 5 tons. Built in 1887.
Ripple, Sch. 7 tons. Built in 1887.
Harry W. Haynes, Sch. 295 tons. Built by I. M. Grant in 1890 for Whitcomb, Haynes and others. R. C. Bonsey, Captain. Alexis I. Dupont, 41 tons. Built by Ellsworth Foundry and Machine Works in 1919.
City of Chelsea. Joshua Grindal, three-masted Sch. Built by Abram Lord. Lost out on Pacific Coast.
John C. Reed. Anna S. Hall.
Clarion, Brig. 200 tons. Built by Joseph Tinker for Samuel Dutton in 1834.
SHIPS OWNED AT ELLSWORTH IN 1888 BUT BUILT ELSEWHERE
David Faust, 206 tons. Built at Philadelphia in 1865. Principal owner, Isaiah Blaisdell.
Frank Maria, 94 tons. Built at Orland in 1861. James F. Davis, owner.
Franconia, 12 tons. Built at Surry in 1862. Owned by James Lord.
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Jed Frye, 139 tons. Built at Perry, Maine, in 1867. Owned by J. P. Langley.
Toduskia, 102 tons. Built at Freeport, Maine, in 1851. Owned by James Davis.
Victory, 106 tons. Built at Friendship, Maine, in 1854. Owned by Isaiah Blaisdell.
Otronto, 99 tons. Built at Surry, Maine, in 1839. Owned by O. Lockhart.
New Zealand, 108 tons. Built at Tremont, Maine, in 1853. Owned by James K. Kelley.
Light of the East, 129 tons. Built at Tremont, Maine, in 1869. Owned by I. Blaisdell.
Forest City, 112 tons. Built at Sullivan, Maine, in 1870. Owned by James Davis.
Fred C. Holden, 135 tons. Built at Tremont, Maine, in 1873. Owned by J. N. Wilson.
W. H. Card, 118 tons. Built at Franklin, Maine, in 1874. Owned by F. E. Crabtree.
Clifford, 262 tons. Built at Lamoine, Maine, in 1875. Owned by F. E. Crabtree.
Edith B. Coombs, 108 tons. Built at Machias, Maine, in 1878. Owned by F. D. Hodgkins.
E. T. Campbell, 243 tons. Built at Cardigan, P. E. I., in 1877. Owned by H. B. Mason.
Adelle Pray, 33 tons. Built at Eden, Maine, in 1872.
Advance, 12 tons. Built at Pekin, Maine, 1878.
Agnes Mabel, 27 tons. Built at Eden, Maine, in 1871. Agricola, 64 tons. Built at Biddeford, Maine, in 1836. Allendale, 47 tons. Built at Dartmouth, Mass., in 1850. Betsey, 20 tons. Built at Charleston, Maine, in 1840.
Billow, 29 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1838. Bloomer, 48 tons. Built at Eden, Maine, in 1855.
Brave, 107 tons. Built at Hancock, Maine, in 1872. Cape Ann, 40 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1847. Capt. John, 86 tons. Built at Eden, Maine, in 1849. Caressa, 51 tons. Built at Seaville, Maine, in 1846. Cow Belle, 33 tons. Built at Eden, Maine, in 1869. Caroline C., 85 tons. Built at Tremont, Maine, in 1854. Catherine, 78 tons. Built at Belfast, Maine, in 1833.
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Champion, 93 tons. Built at Belfast, Maine, in 1831. Clarissa Ferson, 37 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1844. Convoy, 41 tons. Built at Gloucester, Mass., in 1832. Copy, 62 tons. Built at Brookhaven, New York, in 1835. Delaware, 80 tons. Built at Richmond, Virginia, in 1844. Dexalto, 67 tons. Built at Eden, Maine, in 1849.
Dolphin, 7 tons. Built at Milbridge, Maine, in 1881.
Eagle, 59 tons. Built at N. Kingston, R. I., in 1829.
Eastern Queen, 64 tons. Built at Eden, Maine, in 1871. Egret, 25 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1835. Express, 88 tons. Built at Hampden, Maine, in 1842.
Fanny, 25 tons. Built at Salisbury, Mass., in 1885.
Faustina, 13 tons. Built at Bristol, Maine, in 1853. Francis Coffin, 93 tons. Built at Surry, Maine, in 1865.
Franklin Pierce, 51 tons. Built at Gloucester, Mass., in 1852.
Freeman, 20 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1841.
Grace, 58 tons. Built at Trenton, Maine, in 1851.
Grace E. Stevens (formerly schooner Henry), 83 tons. Built at Brookhaven, New York, in 1853.
Golden Eagle, 13 tons.
Grampus, 59 tons. Built at Hancock, Maine, in 1864.
Grape, 35 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1857.
Harriet, 14 tons.
Harvest Home, 74 tons. Built at Lamoine, Maine, in 1870.
Henrietta, 33 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1831.
Henry Clay, 78 tons. Built at Warren, Maine, in 1831.
Henry S. Woodruff, 209 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1886.
Highland Queen, 54 tons. Built at Boothbay, Maine, in 1861.
Hussar, 31 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1829.
Ianthe, 46 tons. Built at Gloucester, Mass., in 1844.
Industry, 25 tons. Built at N. Yarmouth, Maine, in 1835. Irving Leslie, 94 tons. Built at Lamoine, Maine, in 1877.
John S. Foreman, 41 tons. Built at Sussex, Delaware, in 1838.
Kate L. Pray, 56 tons. Built at Eden, Maine, in 1886.
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F. D. Remick (formerly schooner Telegraph), 61 tons. Built at Wallingford, Conn., in 1829.
Laura and Eliza, 29 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1823. Laurel, 37 tons. Built at Richmond, Virginia, in 1873. Leader, 12 tons.
Lexington, 47 tons. Built at Gloucester, Mass., in 1836.
Liaison, 26 tons. Built at Penobscot, Maine, in 1871. Lizzie Lee, 87 tons. Built at Trenton, Maine, in 1868.
Lizzie May, 41 tons. Built at Gouldsborough, Maine, in 1885.
Lizzie and Annie, 39 tons. Built at Gouldsborough, Maine, in 1884.
Maggie May, 8 tons. Built at Boothbay, Maine, in 1880.
Marcellus, 92 tons. Built at Bucksport, Maine, in 1837. Margaret, 6 tons. Built at Kennebunk, Maine, in 1876. Margaret A. Jones, 23 tons. Built at Boston in 1866.
Mariel, 80 tons. Built at Franklin, Maine, in 1854.
Mary A. Dow, 13 tons. Built at Tremont, Maine, in 18 -.
Mary F. Cushman, 81 tons. Built at Mount Desert, Maine, in 1872.
May Queen, 67 tons. Built at Orland, Maine, in 1858.
Mechanic, 56 tons. Built at Haverhill, Mass., in 1879.
Monmery, 24 tons. Built at Swampscott, Mass., in 1829. Montana, 6 tons.
Montezuma, 78 tons. Built at Tremont, Maine, in 1849. Mount Vernon, 46 tons. Built at Salisbury, Mass., in 1848. Myra Sears, 36 tons, built at Essex, Mass., 1849.
Nature, 15 tons.
Nauseag, 28 tons. Built at Woolwich, Maine, in 1847. Nellie Coleman, 152 tons. Built at Lamoine, Maine, in 1883. Olive Branch, 87 tons. Built at Franklin, Maine, in 1848. Ophir, 92 tons. Built at Sullivan, Maine, in 1861.
Oranaska, 48 tons. Built at Hingham, Mass., in 1846. Otronto, 99 tons. Built at Surry, Maine, in 1839.
Pearl, 25 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1844.
Python, 89 tons. Built at Bluehill in 1855.
Rainbow, 25 tons. Built at Machias, Me., in 1878.
Red Rover, 78 tons. Built at Kingston, Mass., in 1838.
Revenue, 33 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1837.
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Ripple, 24 tons. Built at Bath, Me., in 1867.
Samuel Lewis, 82 tons. Built at Bluehill, Me., in 1845.
Sarah, 43 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1844.
Sarah A. Blaisdell (formerly Sarah Sargent), 108 tons. Built at Columbia, Me., in 1840.
Savoy, 66 tons. Built at Trenton, Me., in 1850.
Scuita, 31 tons. Built at Trenton, Me., in 1850.
Sand, 27 tons. Built at Eden, Me., in 1880.
Sea Flower, 34 tons. Built at Phippsburg, Me., in 1850.
Seaside, 6 tons. Built at Brooksville, Me., in 1878.
Brig Myronus, on Beach at Indian Point.
Sharpshooter, 20 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1834. Spartan, 22 tons. Built at Wiscasset, Me., in 1868. Sunbeam, 26 tons. Built at Phippsburg, Me., in 1868. Susan, 15 tons. Susan Frances, 46 tons. Built in Wells, Me., in 1841. Tamerlane, 39 tons. Built at Arrowsic, Maine, in 1846. Tamson, 27 tons. Built at Camden, Maine, in 1868. Vandalia, 87 tons. Built at Sullivan, Maine, in 1856. Walter M. Young, 86 tons. Built at Lamoine, Me., in 1876. Waterloo, 77 tons. Built at Surry, Me., in 1873. White Foam, 57 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1859.
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William Franklin, 58 tons. Built at Salisbury, Mass., in 1836.
William F. Washington, 41 tons. Built at Somerset Co., Md., in 1846.
Wm. G. Sadie, 44 tons. Built at Staten Island, N. Y., in 1842.
Woodcock, 42 tons. Built at Essex, Mass., in 1832.
Wreath, 92 tons. Built at Columbia, Maine, in 1866.
Mary Jane Lee, 121 tons. Built at Hancock, Maine, for Patrick Mullen and others in 1874.
Garnet-13 tons (steam). Built at Bath, Me., in 1866.
Trenton, 163 tons. Built by E. J. Hodgkins and others at Eden, Maine, for Wm. Thompson and others, in 1852.
Henrietta Whitney, formerly the E. and I. Oakley. Rebuilt at I. M. Grant's yards for Whitcomb and Haynes. Three-masted schooner. Destroyed by fire at Eastport in the summer of 1924.
SCHOOLS
The first schools or, I might say, the first teachings at Ells- worth, were at the settlers' houses in the winter, keeping for two or three weeks at one house and then going to another. The lessons were primary, principally reading. As paper was very scarce, birch bark was used for writing and the first arith- metic lessons.
Some of the pupils came six miles to attend the schools, a few of them coming on snowshoes, carrying their luncheons.
The roads then were not much better than spotted lines, traveled in summer on horseback.
In after years we find some of these children of the first settlers, without the advantages of getting even a common school education, dependent on themselves at the age of four- teen or fifteen years, becoming men of note not only in business but in legislative and official life, holding positions of honor and trust. They made the most of the little opportunity they had, working by day and studying by night and developing a capac- ity for public life.
Peter Nourse, the first settled minister at Ellsworth, built a house on the Surry road, formerly owned by Daniel Treworgy, and used it for a school-house for many years.
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A military school was kept at a large farm about four miles above the center of the town at a place called "The Crags," on the Bangor road, now owned and occupied by Mr. Lowly Moore. The principal was Charles Jarvis Whiting. Scholars came from all parts of the State. Among those who attended the school were Major General Joshua L. Chamberlain, afterwards Governor of Maine, General Blunt of the Union Army of the lower Mississippi, and other noted men.
The old Townhouse on Townhouse Hill, State Street, was used for a school-house until about 1834, when a school-house was completed on the corner of State and Sterling streets, where the Orin Burnham store now stands. The first teacher for the winter term was Caleb Burbank, afterwards a noted lawyer, who held a number of public offices and was well known throughout the State.
The next teacher was Judge Parker Tuck, who also became a lawyer and Judge of the Probate Court of Hancock County for several years. The next teacher was Elder Allen Barrows, a Baptist minister. Other teachers in the winter terms were N. Howe, S. Waterhouse, Chas. D. Herbert, F. A. Young, Hiram Bartlett and Josiah Pulsifer.
The old school-house at the corner of School and Church streets was built in 1846, the upper school-room for the older pupils, the lower for the primary. David Wooster was the first teacher. At the commencement of the school, during the first week, in the forenoon, the second floor, which was sup- ported by three iron rods in the middle of the room, gave way, the floor going down one or two feet in the center. The beams, being framed in with large tenons keyed and pinned, held the weight of the floor and seventy or eighty children from going down on the primary school below, the lower floor. The chil- dren on the upper floor rushed out immediately. It was a nar- row escape from a terrible disaster. This building, afterwards used by the Free Baptists as a meeting-house, is now Ander- son's Inn.
Among other teachers of the winter terms were A. Logan, Calvin Macomber, S. Ames, J. H. Butterfield and A. Osgood.
The first teachers on the west side in the winter terms were
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T. B. Morgan, George Hopkins, Calvin Macomber and Elder Barrows.
Teachers in the Morrison District from 1825 were Asa Hus- sey, Luther Lord, John D. Richards, John L. Jordan, Benjamin Buck, Josiah Higgins and L. D. Jordan.
On the Surry Road the first teachers were E. P. Crabtree, Judge Tuck and Calvin Macomber.
The first school-house at the Falls was built in 1847. Some of the first teachers were Richard Hastings, Richard Perkins and Luther Lord.
Some of the teachers at the Branch Pond district were: P. Parker, Richard Perkins, Eugene Stratton and Augustus Perkins.
The above account is taken from the papers of Henry L. Moor, and does not include any teachers after 1850.
The following advertisement copied from the Ellsworth American February 13, 1851, shows that there were also pri- vate schools at Ellsworth at that time.
PRIVATE SCHOOL
"J. B. Osgood will commence a school in this place on Mon- day, February 23d.
"Particular attention to the common branches of the English language.
"Terms-$3.00 per quarter or 30c per week.
"Parents wishing to send children are requested to call at the Post Office."
There were also singing schools at an early date as the advertisement below, copied from the Ellsworth Herald of February 4, 1852, established.
"SINGING SCHOOL
J. H. ILSLEY
Will commence a singing school on Wednesday evening, Feb. 4, 1852, at Lord's Hall. Particular attention will be given to the rudiments, offering a favorable opportunity to those wish- ing to commence with the rules.
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"Cards of admission $1.00, to be had at Col. Nourse's Book- store, of B. S. Osgood, S. S. Lord and the subscriber.
J. H. ILSLEY."
A Parochial School was established in High Street in the spring of 1853, and continued there until it was burned Oct. 14, 1854.
The first high school was private and was organized Nov. 27, 1833, with the following board of Trustees: Joseph Otis, President; Henry Little, Treasurer; J. M. Hale, Secretary ; Andrew Peters and Charles Jarvis. The majority of the resi- dents at that time lived on the west side of the river, so the school was established there either in the same building or on the site of the present grammar school. In 1847 there were as many high school pupils on the east side of the river as there were on the west, and the residents on the east side thought, that they should have a high school on their side of the river. The school-house at the corner of School and Church streets had been completed the year before and presented a very desira- ble place for such a school. The ground floor was used for the primary grades and as a grammar school and the second floor as the high school. About five years later the west side high school was joined with that on the east side. The school con- tinued from time to time here until 1870, when it was reorgan- ized and made a public school and moved to the new town hall (Hancock Hall). The first term commenced Sept. 19, with George L. Farnham, a Colby graduate, as principal. The school was carried on there until 1887, when the old County Buildings were taken over and renovated to serve as a school, and were used as such until 1923. At that time the new build- ing in State Street had been completed.
Over fifty years after Ellsworth became a town, the increas- ing population demanded more schools. Accordingly, the select- men appointed a committee to divide the town into school dis- tricts. Prior to the division, the public schools were super- vised by a superintending school committee of five members which had absolute authority in all school matters. When the districts were created this method was discontinued and a gen- eral superintendent appointed over all the districts, and a school agent appointed for each district. Later the school agent was
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discontinued, and in its place a district committee, usually of three members, was appointed for each district.
The districts were made as follows :
I. Green Lake. IX. Head of Pond.
II. Brimmer's Bridge. X. Dollardtown.
XI. West Ellsworth.
III. State Street, School Street, Pine Street, XII. Happytown. Water Street. XIII. Fullerton District.
IV. Morrison District.
XIV. Beechland.
V. Surry Road.
XV. Bridge Hill.
VI. Hill Side (Infant
Street). XVI. Boggy Brook.
VII. North Ellsworth.
XVII. Falls.
VIII. Nicolin.
XVIII. Shore Road.
This system was abolished and the school board of three members was organized to serve with the superintendent. Apropos, this is the present system.
CHURCH HISTORY
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
The first Congregational Church in Ellsworth was organized with thirteen members in 1812. The first pastor, Rev. Peter Nourse, came to this town in 1803, and was ordained pastor of the church Sept. 9, 1812. He preached each Sunday, and during the week taught a private school in a little school-house which he had constructed for himself. He closed his long pastorate Nov. 11, 1835. He died at Phippsburg, March 25, 1840.
For six years the church seems to have worshiped in Col. Pond's store. Work on the first church began July 24, 1818, and was dedicated Jan. 12, 1819. The present church was dedi- cated December 29, 1847.
The Rev. Sewall Tenney, D.D., who succeeded Mr. Nourse as pastor of the church, was born in Bradford, Mass., in 1801.
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He graduated from Dartmouth in 1827, and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1831. He was installed pastor at Ellsworth, Nov. 11, 1835. In 1861, Bowdoin College conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity upon him. Dr. Tenney re- signed his pastorate in 1873, but his parishion- ers did not permit him to leave them until Aug. 15, 1877. Dr. Tenney resided in Ellsworth during a period of more than fifty-four years, in which he officiated at 850 wed- dings and at more than 1700 funerals.
Rev. Charles J. H. Ropes, a graduate of Yale, succeeded Dr. Ten- ney, as pastor, Aug. 15, 1877, and remained until Sept. 6, 1881, when he went to Bangor to be- Rev. Sewall Tenney, D.D. come professor of New Testament Literature at the Theological Seminary, a position which he still retains.
Rev. Charles W. Huntington was the next pastor of the church. He remained several years and was succeeded by Rev. C. F. W. Hubbard, who was ordained pastor, Dec. 29, 1886. Mr. Hubbard remained as pastor for some time, but was, in turn, succeeded by Rev. David L. Yale, who remained until 1899, when he removed to the Central Church in Bath. He was succeeded directly by Rev. J. M. Adams, who remained until July, 1906, when he tendered his resignation.
Rev. Rubert B. Mathews assumed the pastorate, Dec. 11, 1906, and was installed June 12, 1907. Mr. Mathews was graduated at the Bangor Theological Seminary in 1893, was pastor of the Church in Skowhegan 1893-1894, and of that at
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