1893-1895 diary of a school aged person near Blue Hill, Maine, if not in Blue Hill, then a surrounding town, perhaps Penobscot, Maine.
Sample pages:
The diary mentions the diarist's school days, teachers, friends, entertainment doings, weather, several deaths and a marriage.
1893
Wilma Bowden, teacher
Ed Harriman got hurt Sep 30, 1893; is all right
Dosia [perhaps Theodosia Robinson Leach ( 1766-1963), who would marry Charles Wecott Gray; see below*
John Gray
Husking bee at George’s
Georgia, teacher in November 1893
Richard, Fred
Fred H., Fred S., Ed H.
Father home from Boston on Nov 22, 1893
Diarist’s birthday on December 18
1894
Alton Perkins sick, Jan 1, 1894
Lou or Lon Cox, teacher, May 1894
Ida & Guy hung May baskets
Pertie
Lynwood
*Dosie and Charlie married June 5, 1894
Allie - a male
Fred Soper
Nora
Henry (spelled Henery)
Lucy Quin - Quinn
Effie died 4 years ago today, Sept 19, 1894
Hat and Abbie & George went to Blue Hill Fair
Aunt Ruth
Offie
George Bowden
Will Dunham to speak [perhaps a speaker from outside the area]
Nora and I
Herman
Eugene Marks
George Leach
Ned and Foss
Hat is home to N. ? , maybe North Haven
1895
Lou [or Lon] is keeping school, staring April 29Emma C? was at school
Horse trot at Mountain Park
Mrs. Blodgett
Georgia, teacher, starting Sept 2 - got home from the island [Deer Isle ?]
Chester ? is going to school
Frank Herrick and Herman Gray boarding at our house
Ross Patten is home
Herman has gone to Bar Harbor
Mr. Milliken is at the Bay
Ned
Herman
Sydney Gray
Mother was sick
Ned & Hat
Abbie
Perk went away today
Ned sent deer hunting
Dick came home with the team
Ed, Dick & Ned went to the Bay
Lyn got into the muck hole
Ned and Mr. Herrick went deer hunting
Ned’s sloop sunk
Ida
Abbie went to the Cove
Leon wrote to Herman - presumably Leon Lanson Leach (1885-1950)
Sadie B. is going to have a baby
If you have a theory as to the diarist's identity, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.
Clues:
Both parents were still alive in 1895, and the father occasionally went to Boston. I was told that the diarist was Lottie Leach of Penobscot, Maine, but her father, Francis Connor Leach, died in 1888.
1893
Wilma Bowden, teacher
Ed Harriman got hurt Sep 30, 1893; is all right
Dosia [perhaps Theodosia Robinson Leach ( 1766-1963), who would marry Charles Wecott Gray; see below*
John Gray
Husking bee at George’s
Georgia, teacher in November 1893
Richard, Fred
Fred H., Fred S., Ed H.
Father home from Boston on Nov 22, 1893
Diarist’s birthday on December 18
1894
Alton Perkins sick, Jan 1, 1894
Lou or Lon Cox, teacher, May 1894
Ida & Guy hung May baskets
Pertie
Lynwood
*Dosie and Charlie married June 5, 1894
Allie - a male
Fred Soper
Nora
Henry (spelled Henery)
Lucy Quin - Quinn
Effie died 4 years ago today, Sept 19, 1894
Hat and Abbie & George went to Blue Hill Fair
Aunt Ruth
Offie
George Bowden
Will Dunham to speak [perhaps a speaker from outside the area]
Nora and I
Herman
Eugene Marks
George Leach
Ned and Foss
Hat is home to N. ? , maybe North Haven
1895
Lou [or Lon] is keeping school, staring April 29Emma C? was at school
Horse trot at Mountain Park
Mrs. Blodgett
Georgia, teacher, starting Sept 2 - got home from the island [Deer Isle ?]
Chester ? is going to school
Frank Herrick and Herman Gray boarding at our house
Ross Patten is home
Herman has gone to Bar Harbor
Mr. Milliken is at the Bay
Ned
Herman
Sydney Gray
Mother was sick
Ned & Hat
Abbie
Perk went away today
Ned sent deer hunting
Dick came home with the team
Ed, Dick & Ned went to the Bay
Lyn got into the muck hole
Ned and Mr. Herrick went deer hunting
Ned’s sloop sunk
Ida
Abbie went to the Cove
Leon wrote to Herman - presumably Leon Lanson Leach (1885-1950)
Sadie B. is going to have a baby
If you have a theory as to the diarist's identity, please leave a comment for the benefit of other researchers.
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