Cabinet Photograph of John Parkman; by Dexter, Maine studio

Cabinet photograph of an older man identified on reverse as John Parkman, the grandfather of Hugh.

Researching online, I found a lot of information on a John D. Parkman of Palmyra, Maine, which is fairly close to Dexter, Maine.  He was born 10 March 1820, in Maine, the son of John and Lydia (Pratt) Parkman.  He married Dolly Berry and had two sons, Alvin and Elmer.  I wasn't able, however, to find a son Hugh for either of them.

I also found a reference to a John W. Parkman in Charleston, Maine, which is very close to Dexter, Maine.  But it was an Agricultural Census entry, with no family information,  and it's possible that this John Parkman did not actually live in Charleston. I haven't yet found another reference for him.

If you have any information on the further identity of the John Parkman in the photograph, grandfather of Hugh, please leave a comment in the comments box or contact me directly.

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April 4, 1944 Group Photo of Co. 115 at US Naval Training Station, Sampson, New York

U.S. Naval Training Station, Sampson, New York.  April 4, 1944, group photo of Company 115.

I'll do my best to transcribe the names I can decipher.  It appears that many of the men signed their names themselves.

1.  ? Stewart, Madison, Maine
2.  John J. White (?), Boston, Massachusetts
3.  Fred E. Morrison, ?
4.  Tom Murray, Malden, Massachusetts
5.  Earl F. Westbrook, Ellenville, New York
6.  Leon D. Humiston Cox, South Portland, Maine
7.  Roland Senecal, Marlboro, Massachusetts
8.  Everett O. Johnson, Malden, Massachusetts
9.  Maurette L. Brwn, Auburn, Maine
10.  ?
11.  Otis Bryan Benner, Jr., Waldoboro, Maine
12.  Walter LeBlanc, Madison, Maine
13.  ?
14.  William McGuinness, Quincy, Massachusetts
15.  ?
16.  Hector Dumond, St. Agatha, Maine "Frenchy"
17.  ? Robert Clark, Maine
18.  ? Lavertu, Sanford, Maine
19. ?
20.  Gene Soprano, Waltham, Massachusetts
21.  Tomy Perrault, Beacon, New York
22.  George E. Pinkham, Maine
23.  Raymond LaFlamme, Biddeford, Maine
24.  Edward L. Van Kluck, ?, New York
24.  ?
26.  ? P. Diedof, Rosedale, New York
27.  Orren Pinkham, Milbridge, Maine
28.  John McManus, Chicago, Illinois
29.  John J. Murphy, South Portland, Maine
30.  Roy Spence, Ellenville, New York
31.
32.
33.
34.  Charles L. Faria, Fall River, Massachusetts
35.
36. William E. McDonough Marlboro, Massachusetts
37.  Bill Hickey, Chicago, Illinois
38.  Robert Coffin, Everett, Massachusetts
39.  Teddy Salvucci, West ?, New York
40.  Little Slozzo, Marlboro, Massachusetts, Good luck, Keith
        William R. Corntot, Ellenville, New York
41.  Raymond Casey, ? Maine
42.  Gerry Elliott, Houlton, Maine
43.
44.
45.  Harold F Gibbs, Cohoes, New York
46.  L. H. Bilodeau, Waltham, Massachusetts
47.  George Hill, Calais, Maine
48.
49.  Raymond Winslow, Baring, Maine
50.
51.  Elmer Breau, Auburn, Maine
52.  Henry Yarmitt, Bloomington, New York
53.  George Hall, Marlboro, Massachusetts
54.  Francis McIver, Waltham, Massachusetts
55.  Herbert Riley, Calais, Maine
56.  Gilbert Woodman, Bath, Maine
57.  Charles Dedecko, Marlboro, Massachusetts
58.
59.  William ?, "Podunk"
60.  Wilfred Laney, Skowhegan, Maine
61.  Roger Hunt, Island Falls, Maine
62.  O. K. McDaniel, Weldon, Illinois
63.  Donald Wilhelm, Napanoch, New York
64.  Wesley Cowan ?, Arlington, Massachusetts
65.  John Dean, Abington, Massachusetts
66.  Perley Corkum, Livermore Falls, Maine
67.  William Kuensler, Chicago, Illinois
68.  Robert Dumont, Lawrence, Massachusetts
69.  Warner Farwell, Springvale, Maine
70.
71.  Carleton Kelder, Rosendale, New York
72.
73.  Alexander Carozza, Malden, Massachusetts
74.  Donald E. Lewis, Portland, Maine
75.
76.  Zygmand ?, Detroit, Michigan
77.  Edward Bucklin, Northeast Harbor, Maine
78.  Chester Lewis, Framingham, Massachusetts
79.  Philip Merritt, Fort Fairfield, Maine
80.
81.
82.  Linwood Bowman, Maine
83.  Norman J. Breen, Cohoes, New York
84   Donald MacKenzie, Marlboro, Massachusetts
85.
86.  George Oster*, Kerhonkson, New York
87.  Donald L. Rich, Long Island
88.  Reuben Lake, Ellenville, New York
89.  Robert York, Brownfield, Maine
90.  Donald McCarthy, Somerville, Massachusetts
91.
92.  ? L. Chaput, Marlboro, Massachusetts
93.  Paul E. Asselin, Lewiston, Maine
94.
95.
96.
97.  Leonard Stillman, Greenfield Park, New York
98.  Peter Killis, Marlboro, Massachusetts
99.  Alexander Percy, Cass, Beacon, New York
100.  Charles P. ?
Obscured numbers after 100: ? Newton, Gardiner, Maine; Malcolm Bagley, Southwest Harbor, Maine; Robert E. ?, Rumford, Maine; Henry J. ?, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Gilbert Ouellette Portland, Maine; Ernest Metcalf, Portland, Maine
106.  Robert Emerson, South Portland, Maine
109.  Bob Clifford, Vestal, New York

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Large Photograph of Harry Cordier, who played in a band on an Atlantic Ocean liner

Large photograph of a young man identified on reverse as Harry Cordier, who perhaps had this photograph taken when he was a member of the band on an Ocean liner in the Atlantic, perhaps the Leviathan.  As you can see from the identification below, he was somehow related to a Viola.

Researching online, I found a two different Harold Cordiers in the Scranton, Pennsylania area.  One of them  had an older sister named Viola and parents Jacob and Elizabeth Cordier.   This Harold Cordier was born about 1904.

I found another Harold Cordier, born about the same year, with parents Charles Jr. and May in the 1910 Census; no sister Viola, but she could have been born after the enumeration.

Or our Harry could have been neither of these.

If Harry played in a band on the Leviathan, it was probably during the 1920s and 1930s when the ship was made over into an ocean liner from its previous usage as US troop carrier during the war.

If you have any information on the further identification of the Harry Cordier in the photograph, please leave a comment in the comments box or contact directly.

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1913 Obituary of Florello Lorenzo Knapp, Minister, born New York 1868

Obituary of Rev. Florello Lorenzo Knapp, who was born abt 1868 in Oneida County, New York, the son of Lorenzo Burge Knapp and his wife Melinda (Livingston) Knapp, both of New York.  His paternal grandparents were Obediah Mead Knapp and his wife Juliana (Burge) Knapp, of New York and Connecticut respectively.  His maternal grandparents were William and Lucy (Chatterton) Livingston.

Note: The information on Melinda Livingston's parents was provided by a reader who is researching this family.  See the comment, which contains more information, below.

Florello Lorenzo Knapp married Mary Payette in 1889 in Dolgeville, New York.  I haven't yet determined her parents or if Payette was her maiden name.  Florello Lorenzo Knapp died 25 September 1913 in Dolgeville, New York.

Transcription:

REV F. L. KNAPP DEAD


Former Oswego Clergyman Died in Little Falls Hospital
People of all denominations in this city will regret to learn of the death of the Rev. Florello L. Knapp, formerly pastor of the Trinity Methodist church, which occurred in Little Falls late Thursday evening.  Mr. Knapp left here last spring to take pastorate in Dolgeville.   Mr. Knapp was taken ill early in the week with appendicitis and an immediate operation was deemed necessary.  He rallied well from the operation and his speedy recovery seemed assured when he took a sudden turn for the worse and died within a few hours.


Mr. Knapp was forty-six years old and was born in Oneida County.  Entering the Methodist ministry in 1887 at South Canton he since that time has had charges at Chasm Falls, Waddington, East Hamilton, St. Johnsville, Carthage, Camden, Oswego and Dolgeville in the order named.


He is survived by his wife, one son, Burge of Washington, D.C., and two daughters, Mrs. Pearl Anderson of Washington and Miss Ruth Knapp of Dolgeville.


In several places online, I found references to his marriage and death at Dodgeville, Wisconsin.  However, I believe these references are in error and that the correct place is Dolgeville, New York.   I don't know which newspaper this obituary was in, but it was obviously a paper located somewhere in Oneida County, New York.

The obituary was pasted onto a page with a few other clippings.  One was a column on "Don'ts for Wives", by Reverend W. W. Bustard, Rockefeller's pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland.  Another, very much obscured and damaged, had what appears to be a listing of ship disasters, name of vessel, whether the cause was collision, fire, foundering, run on pier, etc., date of disaster and the number of deaths.  In the case of the [Danish ocean liner SS] Norge, the death toll appears to be 750, but the death toll listed on a reference online is 635 - horrendous enough.

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Photo of Carrie May (Holt) Ring and husband Walter Glenwood Ring, Cambridge, Maine + 1914 Dexter HS invite

 Wonderful photo of  Walter Glenwood Ring and his wife Carrie May (Holt) Ring out for a drive.

The photograph above came with:

• photograph of three children
• negative of one child
• invitation to Carrie May Holt's 1914 high school commencement at Dexter High School, Dexter, Maine, extended to Mr. Harold Sawyer and lady.  The "lady" was presumably Carrie's older sister Martha Louise Holt, who married Harold on September 2, 1914.  

Reverse of the photo above with the identification:

Photo of three children, sadly unidentified, in what appears to be a schoolyard:  Note: a reader has identified the boy at left as Donald Leigh Sawyer, son of Harold Leigh Sawyer and Martha Louise (Holt) Sawyer, who was Carrie's older sister.

The negative and the envelope in which it was stored:

Notice that the envelope is addressed to Sister Carrie.  But I don't know if that meant the negative was an image of Sister Carrie or if Carrie's brother or sister addressed the envelope to her, with the negative of another child inside.

Carrie May (Holt) Ring had two brothers and a sister:

• Vernal Elton Holt
• Daniel Packard Holt
• Martha Louise Holt, mother of Donald Leigh Sawyer, one of the children in a photograph above.

Invitation to Carrie's 1914 Commencement at Dexter High School, Dexter, Maine:

Carrie's card and the envelope carrying the invitation, which was addressed to Mr Harold Sawyer and lady, who, as noted above, was Carrie's older sister Martha Louise Holt, who would marry Harold Leigh Sawyer on September 2, 1914 at Dexter, Maine.

Carrie May Holt was born April 26, 1894 in Maine, the daughter of Henry Lincoln Holt and his wife Eunice Thompson (Packard) Holt of Sangerville and Cambridge, Maine, respectively.  Carrie graduated from high school in 1914.

On March 18, 1916 at Cambridge, Maine, Carrie married Walter Glenwood Ring, who was born October 26, 1892 in Cambridge, Maine, the son of Walter Hiram Ring and his wife Alice May (Mitchell) Ring, both of Cambridge, Maine.  Carrie and Walter had at least one child, daughter Maxine, who married Lewis Everett Carr.

Harold Leigh Sawyer was born July 2, 1892 at Cambridge, Maine, son of Samuel and Nancy Ann (Watson) Sawyer.  Martha Louise (Holt) Sawyer was born September 24, 1889.

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1893 Letter from Simpson Clapp in New York to John K. Ames Esq, Machias, Maine

March 2, 1893 letter from Simpson, Clapp & Co, Ship Brokers and Commission Merchants, No. 12 Old Slip, New York, New York, to John K. Ames, Esquire, of Machias, Maine, painting a dim picture of the current market for laths.

Transcription:

Cable Address: "Mayhew" New York                            Simpson, Clapp & Co.
Wholesale Dealers in Spruce and Pine Lumber                Ship Brokers and Commission Merchants
                                                                                                                    No. 12 Old Slip
                                                                                            New York      March 2nd, 1893


John K. Ames Esq.
    Machias, Me.,


Dear Sir:


Yours of February 2th received.  We have had such a long siege of very bad weather that building operations are still almost at a standstill.  Our market is quiet and quotations on laths are almost nominal.  Quote St. John, not quick, at about $2.50; think roundwood, if here now, would bring about $2.30.


The dealers seem to speak very encouragingly for the Spring outlook, but so little has been done all winter that almost all of the yards will probably open the season with pretty fair stocks.  Quote timber - narrow stuff $15 to $16, wide $16.50 to $17.50.


                                        Yours Respy.,
                                Simpson, Clapp & Co.


From online research, hopefully correct:

John Keller Ames was born 7 November 1831 in East Machias, Maine, the son of Albert and Mary Gardner (Keller) Ames.  His paternal grandparents were Isaac and Abigail (Clark) Ames.  His maternal grandparents were John and Susan (Phinney) Keller.  Keller is a variation of the surname Kalloch, Kelloch, Kelleck, etc.

John Keller Ames, as can be deduced from the letter above, was involved in the lumber industry and was a respected citizen who was president of the Machias Water Company and a state senator.  He married Sarah Albee (Sanborn) Ames and they raised a family of six children.

I found an interesting website dealing with the genealogy of Kalloch Family with information and photographs of people and headstones, including John Keller Ames and his family.

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Group Photo of 12 People, Possibly Lunt Family, Newburyport, Massachusetts

Large photograph of a dozen people dressed in their best Sunday outing attire.  The photograph has a stamp on reverse that indicates it was taken by C. W. Dow, 35 High Street, Newburyport, Massachusetts.   There's also a handwritten name: Sam Lunt.   Researching online, I found generations of men named Samuel Lunt in the Newburyport, Massachusetts area.

If you recognize any of these people from family albums or from researching the Newburyport, Massachusetts area, please leave a comment in the comments box or contact me directly.

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