Description: Letter from The Council to parishioners of The Mount Desert Larger Parish. Explains that for the 1st time in history of the Larger Parish they are facing a budget deficit of more than one thousand dollars. Says that historically the majority of money has come from “Summer People” but now it is time for residents to do more and to give “sacrificially”. On the back of the letter is the budget for 1952 ($17,968.30)
Description: Records of Somesville Union Church. Includes names of pastors from 1930-1954; deacons from 1932-1962; other officers; delegates; baptisms from 1931-1961; members received from 1876-1959; members removed from 1926-1959; news clippings about weddings in church (inside envelope); marriages from 1947-1954; Sunday School statistics; original by-laws (1914) and amendment (1930) suspending the Somesville Congregational Church and including it in the Somesville Meeting House Society. Also: notes about services, annual meetings, donors. [show more]
Description: Segments of articles relating to history of Mt. Desert Island. Titles:Southwest Harbor From Shore Road in Manset Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.5
Description: Eight articles on various topics clipped from the Mount Desert Herald in the 1880's. Titles and dates include: The Norsemen Maine and its Development. 11/23/1882 The Ice Age. 10/19/???? A Dream. 11/6/1885 Intelligence Among Animals. 10/18/1883 Bridging the Chasm. 9/28/1888 Boarding Around: Trials of a Down East School-Teacher. 5/17/???? Church Law in Maine. 1886
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1961
Description: Three typewritten pages of Bicentennial Notes pertaining to 1) German ship Kronprinzessin Cecilie in Bar Harbor, 2)Otter Cliff Radio Station, 3) Jordan Pond House, and 4)churches of Bar Harbor.
Description: small four page booklet with constitution and by-laws printed in 1947blue map of Mount Desert Island and blue text on coverincludes handwritten notes in ink
Description: The Mount Desert Larger Parish Historic and Descriptive Manual of the First Seven Years of the Organization, 1925-1932. Covering the communities of Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Town Hill and Salisbury Cove.
Description: Historic and Descriptive Manual of the First Seven Years of the Organization: The Mount Desert Larger Parish 1925 -1932 the communities: Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Town Hill, Salisbury Cove
Description: Service of Ordination to Christian Ministry and Installation to Service in the Mount Desert larger Parish, U.C.C. of Joanne E. Stoughton, William Bigelow, Rosemary Denman, Marvin Ellison, Kenneth Ferguson, Donald Gow, Chrisina Hamor,Wesley Haynes, Charles Heslam, Susan Ingham, Keta Jones, Olive Lockhart, Lydia Lyman, Charles Pugh, Ansley Throckmorton
Description: These Hundred Years History of the Hancock Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers 1825 -1925 Compiled by George S. BrookesIncludes the history of Congregational Churches on Mount Desert Island Two Copies
Description: 1. Pages 6-15 of address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt on July 14, 1940 in Somesville; memoranda and notes to same. 2. Names of 23 people who met on July 2, 1840 to form Congregational Church. 3. Names of people who desired a Union Meeting House and who bought pews for $5.00 each [1852]. 4. Lists of signers of Supply Fund, 1906, 1907, 5. Invitation to attend ecclesiastical council on June 11, 1908 to examine Mr. Elias Ambrose Jenkins to be pastor of the Somerville [sic] Congregational Church. 6. List of people taken into membership Oct. 17, 1909. 7. Typewritten notes from records of Congregational Church, Somesville, Jan. 6 1885, noting gift of communion service from Mr. Nehemiah Kittredge of Bangor. 8. Typewritten notes on history and legends of Congregational Church, Southwest Harbor, Maine, taken from Nell Thornton's "Traditions and Dates of Southwest Harbor." 9. Booklet with photos about Congregational Church in SW Harbor, n.d. 10. A Record of the Congregational Parish or Religious Society in Mount Desert organized July 2nd, 1840 [original booklet, Somesville] [show more]
Description: 1953 Somesville Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Miriam J. Higgins, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, John G. Manter, George B. MacDonald, John N0ss, Appleton Lawrence+-, John B.Whiteman
Description: 1940 Somesville Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, Samuel Eliot, Arthur Wilson, John N0ss, Perry Smith , John Whiteman
Description: Transcription of Eleanor Mayo's Interview with Lillian Rich Reed (1889-1973). The interview took place on January 16, 1967. Lillian Rich Reed was the daughter of John M. and Charlotte Kelley Rich, the sister of Emily Rich Trask, and the mother of Emma Reed Richards.
Description: Letter asking for gifts and pledges to the Somesville Parish House Fund from the Finance committee and John G. Minter, minister . Robert W. Patterson, Sr. had drawn plans for the structure.
Description: 1940 Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, Samuel Eliot, Arthur Wilson, John N0ss, Perry Smith , John Whiteman
Description: “Ladies Perfumed Calendar 1890, Compliments of E.W. Hoyt & Co., Proprietors of Hoyt’s German Cologne and Rubifoam, Lowell, Mass.” is printed on one side with a picture of flowers and floating calendar pages. On the back is an advertisement for “Hoyt’s German Cologne” and “Rubifoam” for the teeth, “For Sale by Fernald Bros., Mt. Desert Maine.” Previusly archived as object id 016.FIC.001.16.g
Description: Continuation from Dr. Leavitt Since 1940 --60 Years have passed! History continuting from the Sermon / historical address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C. by Gail Reiber
Description: Manual of the Somesville Congregational Church at Mount Desert, Maine. 16 pages. Prepared, printed and presented to the Somesville Congregational Church by, George Edward Kinney, Pastor, 1899-1904. Includes Articles of Faith, Roll of Members, an account of Pastoral Service, and Gifts to the Church.
Description: "For Use in Prayer and Praise Meetings, Evangelistic Services, Sunday Schools, Young People's Societies and All Other Departments of Church Work" Indian Point Sunday School Hymn Book, circa 1914, with responsive scripture readings. Cream colored with red fabric binding. Includes title, topical and tune indexes.
Description: Summer 1952 Worship Schedule includes names of celebrants and dates of services. Includes the one Hundredth Anniversary of the erection of the meeting house and the back includes the mission statement, council and parish staff