Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-03-07
THE STEPHEN HOLT HOUSE

ctenhen Holt was the NTH son OF Jeoeolah
Holt born May 10, 17ss, and died May is,
1880. of consumption. He married Edy,
ao,gbter of Robert and Ruth (Woodl
Darker. Nov. %, 1919. She was born Mar.
. 1885; died at Thomaston, Me. They had
two children:
I, Charlotte Augusta, born April 10,
1891. married Ephraim Barrett OF Thorn
aston Oct. 1, 1872, and removed to her
husbands home.
Sarah Thorndike, born Aug. IS,
1922; died Nov. Is, 1881.
After the removal of Mrs. Holt and
daughter, the house was occupied by
d;aerent parties, but finally became the
property OF MILFORD Grindle, the present
owner and occupant.
THE ROBERT p. EVER HOUSE
opoosite the last named, was built by Mr..
Ever about 1910, and occupied by him
until he left the town. 1t has since been
owned and occupied by various persons,
lint IS now the property OF John M. Snow.
He was house carpenter, and built the
.Jobn Cheever house at the Falls in 1884 or
1875. He married, Sept. 8, 1899, Nancy
Fisher. daughter OF Joseph w. and Sally
fGrindle) Johnson. She was born May 4,
1918. They had children as follows:
/. Sarah Elizabeth, born Sept. 16, 1889.
Q. Mary Porter. born Aug. IL, 1912.
3. Lewis Cass, born Sept. 20, 1916.
f. Harriet Ada, born June 13, 1919.
3. franklin Pierce, born Dec. %, 1851.
Returning to Main street, north side,
.one finds building on the corner Of
Union street built since the boyhood of
the writer, owned and occupied by various
persons, the lower part occupied as store,
but of no particular moment from an his
toric point OF view.
THE ANDREW wITHAM HOUSE
next east OF the above on the corner of
Main and Mill streets, has history
worthy OF recital. Jus. when it was built
is difficult to determine, but it was prob
ably carly in 1900, by Mr.. Whitman. He
was born in Bradford, Mass, Nov. IL,
1888; came to Blue Hill young man mar
ried, first, Mehitable Kimball, May g.,
1870. She was born Jan. "a, ITO; died
Aug. s, 1890. There were four children by
that marriage as follows:
l. Charlotte Kimball, born Sept. 4,
1890; married Capt. Robert Means.
2. John Gibson, born Sept is, 1874;
died at Port au Prince, May 1912.
8. Mehitable, born Aug. %, 1898; mar
ried Capt. Stephen Norton.
4. Harriet. born May A, 1900; died Feb.
s, 1901.
Mr.. Witham married second, Molly
Parker, Oct. 20, 1901; daughter of Col.
Nathan and Molly Wood Parker, born
May 30, ITO; died July 10, 1880, leaving
two children.
8. Ira, born July 10, 1902; married Bet
sey Hinckley; he died Is
8. Otis, born July 8, 1904; died at sea
Jan. u, 1928.
Mr.. Witham married third, Mrs. Ann
Chadwick, April II, 1881; she died July 2,
1885.
Andrew Witham represented the town
in the legislature Of 1881, was a senator
from Hancock county, a merchant, a ship
owner and an influential citizen. His pew
in the old meeting house was No. /.
His one story brick store stood short
distance east OF his house, as the writer
well remembers, and was built early in
the last century. 1t long ago gave place
to one of wood on the same site. He sold,
among other things, the old style square
sheets Of bakers molasses gingerbread,
of which boys were fond, and would not
likely forget where it could be bought.
Squire Witham," as he was called by
the towns people, was kindly man to
the boys and young people with whom he
came in contact, which was reciprocated
by them. He died in 1851, aged eighty
three years, respected and lamented by
large circle of relatives and friends.
His house was occupied after his death
by his son-in-law, Capt. Stephen Norton,
until his decease in 1878, and then by Mr..
Smith, the shoe dealer, and wife, and now
owned by Mrs. Smith.
Between the Whitman store and the mill
stream, there were no buildings in the
youth of the writer, but in later years
several were built, and occupied by III. b.
Darling, j. A. Gould, B. Morrill,, John
stevens, esq, and others, though of little
historical significance.
On the opposite side of the street stood
The old academy, removed from its origi-
nal site in 1888, and changed over into
store, and occupied by Capt William Hop
kins, with other buildings in that row
destroyed by fire many years ago. The
most important in that row day are the
partridge and the j. II. Hinckley stores.
THE MILLS BELOW THE BRIDGE,
Quilt in the early settlement OF this part
oi the town, though changed and rebuilt
rom time to time, still stand. Above the
bridge the writer remembers the Matthew
nay edge tool shop, the Curtis furniture
factory, the Daniel Osgood grist mill, the
threshing mill, the Stevens carding and