Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-03-21
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means of knowing; he only remembers
them as they were nearly seventy years
ago. They are still standing.
The first Douglass found recorded as a
resident of the town was John, said to
have been born Dec. %, 1779, probably in
that part of Sedgwick now Brooksyille.
Ne married Mary Door, June 2, 1872. She
was horn May IA, 1893. Their children
were:
Achsah Ann, born Aug. II, 1913.
o John, born April 26, 1915.
q David, born May II, 1916.
d. Barius, born Oct. 8, 1918.
Il. Robert, born Feb. 2, 1921.
6. Sarah, born Feb. q, 1925.
7. Mary, born April 6, 1929.
Then follows Isaac Douglass, born June
II. 1854, who, it is recorded, married an
other Mary Door, June II, 1913. She was
horn Feb. s, 1889. They had seven children,
as follows:
/. sabrina, born Oct. q, 1914; died Sept.
IS. 1929.
2. Mary, born Aug. 80, 1916.
2. Sukey Horton, born Oct. 26, 1918.
4. Nathan leHhey, ooru Jan. d 4oAoj
died June 10, 1921.
8, Joseph Parker, born March %, 1922.
6. Seth, born April 6, 1925; died June
TO- 1925.
7. Seth Hewins, born June, 1926.
Just where these two families had their
habitation the writer has no means of
knowing for certainty, but he presumes
it was at the places or near them where
James and Sylvanus lived in later years.
Just what relation they were to the latter
the writer can only- venture the sugges-
ton that they were uncles, as it is evident
they were not parents.
Sylvanus Douglass is recorded as having
been born Jan. 5, 1907, and to have mar
ried Susan Limeburner, of Brooksville,
Nov 3, 1881. She was born Jan. "a, 1910.
Her death is not recorded, but Mr.. Doug
lass died Sept. IS, 1880, aged seventy three.
They had two children, as follows:
/. Ellen Maria, born Sept. 10, 1885; died
June 16, 1853.
2. Soloman Thornton Colt, born April
6, 1912; married Mira Gray.
James Limeburner Douglass, supposed
brother of Sylvanus, was born Oct. 10,
1911; married, first, Exemy Thompson
Blodgett, Nov. 81, 1893. She was born Dec
"a, 1910. They had four children, as fol-
lows:
/. Caroline, born Jan. 80, 1885.
2. James William, born March 26, 1887.
8. Otis, born Jan Is, 1913.
4. Mary Abby, born March 10, 1913.
The mother of these children died June
s. 1862, and Mr.. Douglass married Else R.
Harding, widow with one child, Laura
A. Harding, born April is, 1851. Mr..
Douglass died Dec. 10, 1856.
THE MINING CRAZE.
Sylvanus and James L. Douglass were
Industrious farmers, known to the people
of the town as well as to the writer. Their
farms and lands contiguous thereto con-
tanned the neted Blue Hill and other cop
per mines, where hundreds Of thousands
OF dollars were expended and lost in the
endeavor to work those mines successfully
between the years 1870 and 1890.
The landowners who sold their hold
ings realized a handsome sum thereon,
but all who put money into the mining
enterprises expecting to realize hand
some return were sadly disappointed and
lost their Investments. One who knew
that locality before the mining craze,
were he now to return to it, would wit
ness a scene OF desolation that would
make him heartsick.
The waste of money in this locality has
been prodigious, and without benefit to
the town except in small way incident
ally. Could the same amount have been
given to the academy and to the churches
as endowments, it would have resulted
in benefits, not only to this generation,
but to those who shall come after it.
The activity and energy displayed in
those enterprises caused a village to spring
up in that locality, while the abandon
ment left it desolate and deserted and the
landscape denuded of trees and foliage,
sad to look upon. The fame of the Blue
Hill copper mines was at one time wide
spread, and the town was spoken of as
being the richest in Hancock county.
Alasl what dream! and how many
awoke from it to find that their hard
earned savings of lifetime had vanished
while they dreamed and erected castles in
the air that tumbled to the ground when
the light Of sober sense shone upon them
and were shattered in pieces that could not
be gathered up! Like the apples of Sodom,
That investment seemed golden and in
wiling, but at touch and taste the glitter
turned to ashes.
BENJAMIN CIOUGH
Upon the north side of the main road
near to the intersection with it of the
road branching to ''the Kingdom, in the
douglass neighborhood, stood the house of
Benjamin Clough, in the boyhood of the
writer. His fathers name was Benjamin,
Dorm Aug. 15, 1855, married Relief Wyman,
March II, 17SS. She was born Sept. 16,
II6l, and died March rs, 1919. The date
Torture by Savages.