This appears to be a memorial autograph album for Clara Woodman Whittier (1865-1880), "Callie", who died December 21, 1880. All dated inscriptions are from the day of her death or after, even as late as 1886.It appears that Callie's family and her classmates at Foxcroft Academy in Foxcroft, Maine, were determined to keep her memory alive.
In 1922, Foxcroft would merge with its neighbor, Dover, across the Piscataquis River, to form Dover-Foxcroft, Maine.
Was it Callie herself or someone else who inscribed her name on the first end paper?
The album measures approximately 7-1/4" by 4" and contains the sentiments of 56 of Callie's relatives, friends, classmates and schoolmates. An alphabetical list of the inscribers appears at the end of this post.
Surnames in the Album
Clara Woodman Whittier, "Callie", was born about 1865, the daughter of Ira P. Whittier and his second wife Lucretia P. (Haskell) Whittier of Foxcroft, Maine. Callie died of "consumption", presumably tuberculosis, at Lawrence, Massachusetts, perhaps at the home of her older half-brother Lorenzo D. Whittier (1845-1913).
Lorenzo and his wife Annie E. (Harvey) Whittier inscribed pages in her memorial album, Annie on the day of Callie's death and Lorenzo a few months later.
Callie's paternal aunt by marriage, Hannah Folsom (Fogg) Whittier (1820-1895), wife of Callie's uncle Daniel Barker Whittier, inscribed a page on October 12, 1881.
If you have information on any of the people mentioned here, please leave a comment for the benefit of other family researchers.
Inscribers in the Album
- Frank Beland of Foxcroft, Maine. Frank Eugene Beland (1863-1927)
- Nellie S. Beland of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 3, 1881. Elinor Sarah Beland (1855-1932); would marry William Alonzo Pfundtner
- Elmer R. Blethen of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on September 11, 1881. Elmer Ruric Blethen (1859-1918)
- Marcia A. Blethen of Foxcroft, Maine. Presumably Marcia Ann (Dunham) Blethen (1830-1907); wife of William Melvin Blethen
- Etta M. Brown; shared the page with 3 others, who were all in the French Class at Foxcroft Academy, Class of 1880. Martha Etta Brown (1864-1928); would marry William H. Garrett
- Mary A. Brown; shared the page with 3 others, who were all in the French Class at Foxcroft Academy, Class of 1880. Mary Augusta Brown (1864-1928); would marry William O. Webber
- Edward B. Buck of Foxcroft, Maine. Edward Burham Buck (1865-1934)
- Sarah A. Buck; inscribed at Foxcroft, Maine, on October 4, 1881. Presumably teacher Sarah Ann Buck (1830-1903); the next month she married Asa Davis
- Margie A. Bullard of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 3, 1881. Margie A. Bullard (1866-1887); would marry Thomas W. Newman
- Myrtie L. Chase of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on September 28, 1881. Myrtie Lena Chase (1863-1915)
- Sumner J. Chase of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 5, 1881. Sumner J. Chase (1864-1921)
- Sarah F. Clark of Lewiston, Maine; inscribed on December 26, 1880 "In Memoriam". Presumably Sarah F. Clark (abt 1856-1950); would marry Samuel Warren Mendum
- F. D. Dearth; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Freeman Daniel Dearth, Jr. (1861-1934)
- Leonard Dearth; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Presumably Leonard Dearth (1858-1909); became a physician in Piscataquis County and in California, where he went to find relief from his rheumatism.
- Miss Nellie A. Dow of East Dover, Maine; inscribed on October 16, 1881. Perhaps Ellen Alice Dow (1857-1943), "Nellie"; would marry Lewis Ira Blood
- Lora M. Dyer; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Lora Mae Dyer (1862-1936); would marry Dr. Elmer Delmont Merrill
- Carrie E. Emerson; inscribed at Lawrence, Massachusetts 3 mo 11 d /81
- Anna M. Genthner; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Possibly Anna M. Genthner (1860-1926); would marry Col. Edward Josiah Mayo, who also inscribed a page
- Annie L. Genthner of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 11, 1881. Possibly Annie Loretta (Whittier) Genthner (1851-1932), mother of inscriber Ellen Eudora Genthner, "Nellie".
- Nellie E. Genthner of Foxcroft, Maine. Possibly Ellen Eudora Genthner (1869-1963); would marry Harvey R. Williams
- Jennie Gilman of Foxcroft, Maine. Possibly Jennie M. Gilman or Eugenia Florence Gilman, who married David Preston Ayars
- Lilla M. Harlow of Owatoma, Minnesota; Class of 1881 at Foxcroft Academy;, with names of 12 students over two pages.
- Dora S. Harvey; inscribed at Lawrence, Massachusetts, on December 21, 1880, the day that album owner Callie died. Presumably Dora S.Harvey (1861-1953); would marry Waldo Harvey Sanborn
- Albert Haskell (1833-1894), Callie's maternal uncle; shared a page inscribed at Bangor, Maine, on November 13, 1881, with his wife Cordelia S. (French) Haskell (1838-1910), "Delia", and their daughter Henrietta H. Haskell (1855-1929), "Etta"
- Cordelia S. (French) Haskell (1838-1910), "Delia"; shared a page inscribed at Bangor, Maine, on November 13, 1881, with her husband Albert Haskell (1933-1894) and their daughter Henrietta J. Haskell (1855-1929), "Etta"
- Henrietta J. Haskell (1855-1929), "Etta", Callie's cousin, shared a page inscribed at Bangor, Maine, on November 13, 1881 with her parents Albert Haskell (1833-1894) and Cordelia S. (French) Haskell (1838-1910), "Delia"
- Irving R. Holmes of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 24, 1881. Irving R. Holmes (1862-1946)
- Lizzie Hughes; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Possibly Elizabeth Ellen Hughes (1859-1923); would marry Benjamin Lewis Batchelder
- ? Jennison, inscribed in 1881; possibly G. H. Jennison; if so, perhaps Dr. George Henry Jennison (1862-1922) of Foxcroft, Maine
- Mattie E. Jennison; shared the page with 3 others, who were all in the French Class at Foxcroft Academy, Class of 1880. Martha Ellen Jennison (1866-1954)
- Annie M. Jordan; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Perhaps Annie Marie Jordan (1862-1929); would marry Sumner Chase Hunter
- Mary C. Lowell; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Presumably Mary Chandler Lowell (1863-1949), one of the first women to earn degrees of doctor of medicine, bachelor of law and doctor of jurisprudence.
- E. J. Mayo of Foxcroft Academy, Foxcroft, Maine, Class of 1882. Col. Edward Josiah Mayo (1864-1935); his home would become Mayo Regional Hospital. His wife Anna M. (Genthner) also inscribed a page.
- Carrie M. Merrill of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed in 1881. Caroline Maud Merrill (1866-1927), "Carrie"; would marry Charles Oscar Holway
- D. H. Meserve of Lawrence, Massachusetts; inscribed on March 9, 1881. Perhaps Daniel H. Meserve (1836-1920), husband of inscriber Martha Ellen (Bradbury) Meserve and father of inscriber Mosher B. Meserve
- Mosher B. Meserve of Lawrence, Massachusetts; inscribed on March 10, 1881. Mosher B. Meserve (1870-1927), son of inscribers Daniel H. Meserve and Martha Ellen (Bradbury) Meserve
- Mrs. M. E. Meserve of Lawrence, Massachusetts; inscribed on March 10, 1881. Presumably Martha Emily (Bradbury) Meserve (1841-1909), wife of inscriber Daniel H. Meserve and mother of inscriber Mosher B. Meserve
- M. C. Montague; inscribed at Lawrence on January 12, 1881. She was Martha Peaslee (Cogswell) Montague (1857-1890) of Lawrence, Massachusetts; her husband Rev. Richard Montague inscribed the left facing page.
- Richard Montague; inscribed at or from Lawrence on February 10, 1881. Rev. Richard Montague (1853-1895) of Lawrence, Massachusetts; his wife Martha Peaslee (Cogswell) Montague inscribed the right facing page.
- Elmer H. Nickerson; Class of 1881 at Foxcroft Academy; 12 names on two pages. Elmer Horace Nickerson (1859-1923)
- Mrs. Fred H. Pitman of Lawrence, Massachusetts; inscribed on December 21, no year written, but presumably on December 21, 1880, the day that album owner Callie died.
- H. G. Pratt of Foxcroft, Maine. Presumably Herbert G. Pratt (1861-1911)
- Stella M. Pratt of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 31, 1881. Presumably Stella M. Pratt (1854-1932); would marry Frank Henry Carlton
- Mrs. Arra E. Sampson of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on September 28, 1881. She was Arra E. (Chase) Sampson (1851-1882), whose husband, Edwin Prescott Sampson inscribed the right facing page. Arra died less than a year after leaving her inscription.
- E. P. Sampson of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed at Foxcroft Academy on September 29, 1881. He was Edwin Prescott Sampson (1849-1930), either then an instructor or headmaster at Foxcroft Academy. His wife, Arra E. (Chase) Sampson, inscribed the left facing page.
- C. C. Tilley; inscribed at Foxcroft, Maine, on February 25, 1886. Presumably Rev. Charles Coffin Tilley (1850-1922), whose wife Lydia Smith (Rathbone) Tilley inscribed the right facing page. More information
- Lydia S. Tilley; inscribed at Foxcroft, Maine, on February 26, 1886. Presumably Lydia Smith (Rathbone) Tilley (1850-1931), whose husband Charles Coffin Tilley inscribed the left facing page.
- Sadie E. Torrey; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Sarah or Sadie E. Torrey (1861-1922); would marry Fred E. Rogers
- James M. Watson; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Perhaps James Maurice Watson (1860-1914)
- Annie; Callie's sister; inscribed at Lawrence, Massachusetts, on December 21, no year written, but presumably December 21, 1880, the day that Callie died. Presumably Annie E. (Harvey) Whittier, wife of Callie's half brother Lorenzo D. Whittier.
- Callie W. Whittier of Foxcroft, Maine; album owner. Presumably Clara Woodman Whittier (1865-1880). She may not have written her name herself, as it appears that all of the dated inscriptions in the album were from the day or her death or after. This may have been an "in memoriam" album.
- H. F. Whittier of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 12, 1881. "Your aunt". She was Hannah Folsom (Fogg) Whittier (1820-1895), wife of Daniel Barker Whittier, who was a brother to Callie's father Ira Whittier.
- Lelia J. Whittier of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 12, 1881. Lelia J. Whittier (1858-1941), Callie's cousin; would marry Lewis A. Wilson
- Lorenzo D. Whittier of Lawrence, Massachusetts; inscribed on March 6, 1881, a few months after album owner Callie's death. Lorenzo D. Whittier (1845-1913), Callie's older half brother
- Nellie M. Whittredge of Foxcroft, Maine; inscribed on October 16, 1881. Nellie M. Whittredge (1864-1938); would marry William B. Brown
- Lena M. Williams of Foxcroft, Maine; Class of '82, presumably at Foxcroft Academy. Lena M. Williams (1863-1939); would marry Elmer E. Brintnell
- Hattie R. Wyman; Class of 1881, Foxcroft Academy, with names of 12 students over two pages. Harriet R. Wyman (1859-1934)
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