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Sunday, July 31, 2011
1919 issue of Our Mission Work, Maine Children's Home Society
Our Mission Work, Devoted to the Interests of the Maine Children's Home Society. "Whoso shall receive one such little child in My name receiveth Me"
Volume XX, No. 8, Augusta, Maine. Price Per Year, 50 Cents, November, 1919.
Many names inside. If you feel that one or more of your relatives might have worked with or contributed to this charity, check the listing below. Some people are outside the State of Maine, but likely have a relationship to Maine.
Scans of the other pages follow the listing of names.
People involved in the organization:
Superintendent, W. C. Hawes, Augusta, Maine
State Board of Managers:
George E. Gay; Joseph E. Briggs; Mrs. C. S. Fogg; Dr. W. S. Thompson; Mrs. Mabel G. Bailey; Mrs. A. E. Drummond; Miss Nellie Moore; A. W. Fowles; George L. Crosman; H. E. Coolidge; Alton C. Wheeler; Walter M. Sanborn; Herbert L. Emery; George E. Macomber; Arthur A. Heald; Rev. W. J. Layton; Rev. A. Francis Walch; Rev. E. S. Philbrook; Rev. Victor O. Anderson; Rev. William R. Wood; Rev. C. D. Boothby; Mrs. Lillian I. Swift; Alfred W. Hawkes
Officers of the Board:
Pres/ George E. Gay; 1st Vice Pres., George E. Macomber; 2nd Vice Pres., Dr. W. S. Thompson; Secy., Caroline S. Fogg; Treas., Joseph E. Briggs; Auditor, Mrs. Amie E. Drummond
Counsellor:
Walter M. Sanborn
Executive Committee:
J. E. Briggs; Walter M. Sanborn; Miss Nelie Moore
Trustees:
Dr. W. S. Thompson; George E. Macomber; Joseph E. Briggs
State Superintendent:
W. C. Hawes, Augusta, Maine
District Superintendents:
Miss Gertrude E. Frye, Augusta, Maine
Miss M. Elizabeth Arnts, Augusta, Maine
Miss Grace R. Chapman, Augusta, Maine
Miss S. Louise Rounds, South Paris, Maine
Auburn: A. W. Fowles; Ira W. Fitz
Augusta: Guy P. Gannett (Special Case); Dr. L. D. Bristol; Irving B. Packard; Mrs. W. T. Allen; S. N. Tobey; Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Waite; Mrs. O. R. Wellman; C. H. Ames; Mrs. F. R. Carter; Mrs. A. M. Chadwick; Miss Etta Bagley; Dr. F. E. Rowe; Mrs. Abbie M. Paulsen; A. H. Higgins
Baring: Edward Chase; C. G. Chase; W. L. Chase; H. H. Waters; Mrs. Elizabeth McGlauflin; Mrs. Sarah Redman; Mrs. Mary Phinney; Mrs. Thaxter Downs
Bernard: Mrs. W. Watson
Blue Hill: Mrs. Sadie L. Snowman
Boothbay Harbor: Mrs. W. S. Pierce
Boston, Massachusetts: Mrs. George S. Silsbee; Cornelius P. Hatch
Bowdoinham: W. H. Gould
Brookline, Massachusetts: Mrs. Susan B. Bartlett
Brooklyn, New York: Miss Julia Latimer
Brookton: A. K. P. Dakin; L. O. Dudley; Mrs. Carrie A. Gibson; Mrs. Winghart
Brownville Junction: Mrs. J. H. Adair; Mrs. J. Humphreys, R. R. Johnson; Mrs. Kenneth McLeod; R. R. McClain & Son; Mrs. Walter McKenzie; Mrs. Everett W. Shaw; Mrs. T. Grimshaw; Mrs. P. M. Jones; Mrs. Frank Foley; Dr. D. L. Harden; Mrs. Wallace Tufts; Mrs. John Higgins; C. S. Davis; Mrs. A. E. McDougall; Charles L. Kinney; Mrs. L. A. Ryder; Mrs. C. A. Wood; C. E. Trafton; C. W. Basford; Mrs. A. A. Barker; A. Mersereau; Mrs. A. Mersereau; Mrs. H. L. Everett; Mrs. J. M. Harris; Mrs. H. . Wansink; Mrs. Byron Chase; Mrs. John Williams; Mrs. H. E. Rogers; Mrs. James Chapter; Mrs. Marion Farnham; Mrs. J. A. Ross; Mrs. G. E. Little; Mrs. Thomas Coburn; Mrs. Harry A. Graves; Mrs. W. C. Stickney; Mrs. J. A. Tye; Mrs. W. D. McKenzie; Mrs. J. K. McLeod; Mrs. James Beaton; Mrs. W. E. Browne; Mrs. M. L. Berry; Mrs. M. Reilly; Mrs. F. McCann; George P. Dickinson; Mrs. W. R. Howard; Mrs. Ellis A. Wilson; Mrs. B. S. Hodgman; Sara Prescott; Mrs. A. J. Lay; G. S. Allen; Mrs. Richard Jones; Mrs. J. H. Greenway; Mrs. P. F. Thombs; Louis Perri; Mrs. R A. Dubay; Mrs. C. H. Stiles; Mrs. H. Miller; Mrs. P. S. Grosvenor; Mrs. J. H. Elliott; Mrs. J. H. Greaney; Mrs. F. N. Haskell; Mrs. A. E. Griggs; Mrs. A. O. Wolff; Mrs. M. G. Tufts; Mrs. H. V. Harshaw; Mrs. D. E. Washburn; G. A. E. Howard
Brunswick: Mrs. W. H. Davis
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: J. Henry Longmaid
Camden: Mrs. Mertie B. Crowley; Mrs. W. C. Howe
Castine: Dorothy T. Blake; Mrs. A. L. K. Volkman; William D. Hall; Ida J. Crawford; Mrs. Alfred Cope; Mrs. D. W. Rollins; Lucy P. Gray; A. F. Richardson; Mrs. A. F. Richardson; Hattie A. Wiggin; Beth M. Jellison [She may be the Maribeth Maria "Beth" Jellison whose graduation photo is featured here.]; Nellie F. Harvey; Mrs. E. E. Philbrook; Mrs. Fred Connor; Beatrice and Carrie Spurling; Mrs. Ardell Morgrage; Mrs. W. A. Ricker; Mary D. Devereux; Mrs. E. P. Johnson; Kate S. Russell; Ethel S. Noyes; W. A. Walker; Mrs. L. W. Coombs; Bessie S. Clark; Mrs. Edna C. Harquail; Mary B. Bills; Mrs. Myra A. Ferguson; C. E. McCluskey
Columbia Falls: C. F. Wilson; R. M. Allen; Mrs. Seth H. Allen; Mrs. J. P. Crandon; Bernice E. Allen [See Bernice's autograph book from the 1880s]; Mrs. W. E. Bailey; Mabel E. Hollis; Mrs. Frank H. Tabbutt; Maude Bucknam; F. G. Kirkpatrick; E. P. Donald
Damariscotta: Mrs. D. M. Jacobs
Dark Harbor: Mrs. D. H. Smith; Mrs. Clarence Nevells; Mrs. W. O. Hall; Mrs. C. R. Pendleton; Mrs. Mary G. McLeod; Mrs. W. E. Hatch; Mrs. Malcolm McLeod; Mrs. A. P. Gilkey; Mrs. F. W. Hatch; Mrs. F. A Lee; Mrs. L. F. Pendleton; Mrs. A. P. Hatch; Mrs. J. W. Pendleton; Mrs. Louise Ames; Mrs. John Fairfield; Mrs. E. D. Hatch; Emily Pendleton;
East Blue Hill: Mrs. Fannie A. Long; Mrs. Laura E. Sheofe
East Milton, Massachusetts: Mrs. W. L. Rowell
Friendship: Mrs. Albion Wotton; Mrs. Ethel Davis; Mrs. G. S. Winchenpaw; O. C. Cook; M. E. Stanley;
Hallowell: Effie M. Morse, R.N.
Hampden: A. W. Braitwaite; Mrs. Frank Whitmore; Mrs. A. W. Emery; Rev. T. P. Humphrey;
Jonesport: D. A. Wheeler
Lisbon Center: James Armstrong
Lisbon Falls: Hon. H. E. Coolidge
Mapleton: Marion Delano
Mars Hill: Mrs. Frank Jones
Maysville: Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Giberson; Charles E. Hussey; Mrs. L. A. Ramsdell; H. W. Kitchen; F. T. Keirstead; Mrs. M. B. Hayford; Mrs. W. R. Christie; Mrs. W. B. Long; Mrs. Ida Smith; C. Hayford; H. W. Keirstead; Fred L. Urquhart; Agnes I. Londo, R.N.; Mrs. Leland H. Clark; Mrs. A. . McPherson; Mrs. Emery Pyle; Mrs. Jane Keirstead; Mrs. L. A. Ramsdell
Monmouth: Fred E. Ames
Mount Desert Ferry: Mrs. Laura A. Colby [No doubt related to some of the Colby family members who signed pages in the autograph book of Ora Spratt Jordan]
New York City: Mrs. T. W. Lamont
Alfred: William Anthony
North Islesboro: Mrs. E. L. Nash; Mrs. Elmer Pendleton; Mrs. Arthur Crosby
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Miss F. F. Caldwell
Pittsfield - E. E. Moon
Princeton: C. F. Eaton; I. F. Furbish; Mrs. C. A. Rolfe; Mrs. H. G. Robinson; C. E. Johnson; H. R. DePue; Mrs. F. A. Bates; Mrs. S. Jennie Smith; Jason Greenlaw; Mrs. Bessie Belmore; Mrs. J. C. Horsman; Mrs. James Swan; C. G. Elsmore; Mrs. W. E. Dodge; Morrison & Horsman; Mrs. Ruth Yates; Mrs. Charles Mercier; Mrs. Richard Lawler; Mrs. Guy Swan; Mrs. W. F. James; Miss Nellie M. Mercier; George B. McKechnie
Pripet: Mrs. Roy E. Webster; Mrs. M. R. Trim; M Veazie; Mrs. H. M. Coombs; Mrs. E. S. Preble
South Eliot: Mrs. Clara Beal
South Thomaston: Joshua Thorndike; Mrs. George Green; J. A. Lester; Mrs. Cleveland Sleeper; Mrs. U. G. Calderwood; Mrs. Samuel Holwood; Mrs. W. S. Clark; Mrs. A. V. Bradbury; Mrs. I. N. Morgan; Mrs. Rebecca Morgan
Sunset: R. W. Knowlton
Topsfield: Mrs. P. G Getchell; Mrs. P. T. Pineo; Mrs. F. L. Houghton
Vinalhaven: F. Hermann
Waldoboro: Mrs. Fannie Wyman
Waltham, Massachusetts: Manda L. Carter
Waverly, New York: Miss Caroline Tuthill
Winthrop: E. A. Bailey, Wadsworth and Woodman; J. H. McIlroy; Mrs. W. J. Laughlin; Mrs. S. V. Winslow; Wilson Schwartz; Mrs. L. H. Millspaugh; George F. Wilson; Mrs. Fred Q. Williams; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cummings; Dr. Taggart; Mrs. A. B. Adams; N. L. Hannaford; E. S. Norcross; L. E. Jones; Mrs. W. H. Davis; Mrs. . P. Whitney; G. V. Goding; Jennette Bailey; Miss Lillian Jones; Mrs. S. A. Hayward; Rev. Robert J. Keenan; E. P. Libby; Mrs. F. H. Badger; Mrs. E. D. Kimball; J. A. Foster; Mrs. Cora Parkman; Mrs. Lydia Moody; Dr. G. W. Bates; H. C. Miller; H. E. Foster; Miss H. A. Woodward; F. H. Horne; Mrs. E. W. Wentworth; Mrs. L. T. Carleton; Mrs. G. C. Parker; George W. Garland; D. H. Maxim Estate; Mrs. N. R. Caron; Mrs. Clara F. Stanton
Winthrop Center: Mrs. Hannah J. Bailey; Mrs. C. I. Bailey; Mrs. A. W. Bachelder; Mrs. F. A. Gilman; Mrs. E. A. Schwartz
Woodland [I checked a couple of the following people to see whether they lived in the "Woodland", actually Baileyville, in Washington County or in the town of Woodland in Aroostook County - these folks are from Baileyville in Washington County.]: Mrs. Harry P. Townsend; Mrs. Emery Taylor; Mrs. Harry S. Brown; Arnold Brown; Mrs. Harold Hill; Dr. B. P. Cook; Mrs. P. W. Davis; Mrs. A. B. Jenkins; Mrs. P. Talbot; W. H. Stewart; Mrs. T. J. Wahl; James H. Finley; Mrs. William Cox, Jr.; Mrs. J. W. McClure; A. L. Sylvester; B. A. Babcock; E. C. Hamilton; C. B. Chapman; Mrs. B. Pomeroy; N. Barker
Wytopitlock: George S. Inch; LaForest R. Bennett; G. Weatherbee; . H. Crowell; Mrs. N. C. Hillman; Mrs. F. F. McLaughlin; L. W. Dyer; H. A. Prouty; I. M. Wortman; Florence McKay; Mrs. D. E. Huff; S. W. Dyer; Fred Bubar; Frank Weir; H. E. McKay; J. A. McKinnon; James Crawford; Olyn Patchell; J. C. Patchell; Mrs. Greta Murphy; Mrs. J. A. McKinnon; Mrs. W. F. Reed; Mrs. Joseph Rosebud
Names of people who donated for October:
Mrs. Martha Bucknam; Mrs. George H. Eaton; Mrs. P. B. Day; Mrs. E. S. Small; C. B. Chapman; Mrs. Jennie Kneeland; Mrs. Robie Brown; Mrs. C. W. Grendell; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Kitchen; Mrs. John Horsman; Mrs. Amos Lay; Mrs. M. Spalding; Mrs. Maurice Snow; Mrs. A. W. Fowles; Dr. and Mrs. Biley; Mrs. Eliza Tibbetts; Mrs. Reginald Clement; Mrs. D. M. Jacobs; Mrs. E. D. Kimball; Mrs. Margie O'Neil; Mrs. E. S. Preble; Mrs. Fred M. Robins; Mr. Stinniford
Augusta: Dr. George A. Coombs, medical services for the month; Dr. S. J. Beach, examination of two children; Dr. E. J. Roberts, extracting and filling teeth for 2 children; Mrs. G. R. Goodridge, shoes, coat, skirt and dress; Mrs. W. B. Stebbins, 2 children's coats; Mrs. Chester A. Messer, sweater, caps, mittens and shoes; Joseph Wight, new suit for one of our boys
Brownville Junction: Mrs. J. M. Harris, 2 caps, scarf, 2 union suits; A. J. Lay, 4 caps
East Winthrop: Mrs. M. E. Kilbreth, 1 girl's coat
Garland: Mrs. D. H. Robinson, 3 prs hand-knit mittens
Maysville: Mrs. H. W. Kitchen, 1 pr shoes
Mexico: Mrs. John Foley, 2 prs mittens, cap
Sargentville: Mrs. W. H. Simmons, 3 little dresses
Sidney: Mrs. Elizabeth Frye, knitting 2 prs mittens
Southwest Harbor: Mrs. E. S. Thurston, 3 small puffs
Wilton: Mrs. L. F. Adams, nice coat and cap, 1 shirt
Winthrop: Mrs. R. L. Wellman, 2 hats, 2 caps, hair ribbons; Mrs. H. B. Maxfield, 1 pr shoes; Mrs. Cora Parkman, underwear, 2 waists, 1 skirt
Wytopitlock: Mrs. Clarence Inch, clothing
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