Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-01-03

.aomplete anu AS correct as possible.
THE DANIEL cLoUaH HOUSE AND PLACE
,,on the east side OF the highway and
nearly opposite the Slower place is the next
:, order to be described. Daniel Clough
,rss the first child Of Asa and Abigail
Packer Cough born April IL, 1870; mar
riea Polly, eldest daughter OF DIR. Nathan
and Mary (Carleton) Tenney, Mey "a,
1918. She was born April 3, 1877; died Dec.
& 1855; he died April 2, 1867, aged seventy
seven wears. He was a sea captain in his
Younger years and commanded among
other vessels the three masted schooner
magnolia" built at Bluehili in 1888, the
second vessel of that rig known. In after
life he gave attention to the management
ot his farm The house he lived in was
buiIt by him about the time Of his mar
rage. say about 1s2O, and is still
standing. in good repair, and occupied by
his Youngest son, Charles Carroll Clough
and family, who also own the farm OF his
grandfather, Asa Clough. The children
OF Capt. Daniel and Polly tTenney)
Clough were:
i. Caroline, born Nov. 30, 1878; married
Capt. William Walker, half brother Of the
writer, June 81, 1885.
Q. Mary Tenney, born Nov. /, 1920;
married George w. Brown Jan. II, 1910
and died at Ellsworth in 1852.
g. David Daniel, born Feb. %, 1925; re-
moved to Portland where he was twice
married, his two wives dying, leaving no
children; he died few years ago.
L. Augustine Washington, born Oct. 9,
1881; vas captain in the War OF the Re-
beIlion; married. at Portland in 1865; had
two daughters; he and wife died few
years since at Everett, Mass.
Charles Carroll, born July Z, 1887; mar
ricd Emeline 8. daughter OF johnson Wood,
May "a, 1859; they had three children
born to them, viz: Harriet Gertrude, Feb.
Is, 1851; Bessie Carroll, Sept. 2, iS72;
Dasey Lou, Dec. q, 1878.
The house and family OF Capt. Daniel
Clough were familiar to the writer in boy
hood, for beside a marriage relation, David
Daniel was near his age, his schooimate
playmate and intimate friend, which
threw them much into each others COM
pany and formed a lasting friendship
which only death was able to sever.
Capt. 0ough played the fiageolet, which
was source of pleasure to the boys who
had an ear or fancy for music. The halls,
rooms and chambers OF that house carry
the writer back to the years OF his child
hood, and with the eye OF memory he
3D. sees the occupants as they were then, and
with the ear OF imagination he hears their
voices in conversation and the sound of
the hautboy mingling their musical notes
OF gladness.
THE NEWTON SLOWER HOUSE AND PLACE,
little farther along, and upon the other
side OF the highway, is the next to claim
attention. II was built by Newton Slower,
the son OF jeremiah, sr., about 1881, and
was originally piastered upon the outside
instead OF being clspboarded, but finding
in after years that plaster did not stand
the climate well, it was clspboarded over.
Newton Stoyer's wife was daughter of
Deputy Dodge, Of Sedgwick, whom he
married in 1881. They resided in this
house ten or more years, and then removed
to Sedgwick village, where Mr.. Slower
continued to reside until his death at an
advanced age.
In this house his first child, Alrnira
Emily, was born March II, 1882. Whether
they had other children or not the record
is silent, and the writer does not know.
Mr.. Slower was member OF the Baptist
church, as were all the Stover's of that
family, and essentially religious man.
He was the writer's teacher in the Sunday
school held in the schoolhouse at the Tide
Mills, and the writer can testify to his
earnestness and zeal in that work. The
tones OF his voice, the expression OF his
face and the earnestness with which he
applied the scripture lessons in his teach
ings, rise up in the mind of the writer, as
proof OF what he aimed to do for his class.
Capt. Jerry Jones is remembered by
the. writer as the next occupant OF the
house after Mr.. Slower moved with his
family TO Sedgwick. Capt. Jones was
sea-faring man, born in BrooksvilIe, mar
ried daughter OF Thomas Lymburner
and came to Blue Hill to reside that his
wife might be near to her sister, Mrs.
John Clough, when he was away at sea.
Capt. Jones lived here q number OF years, |
Just how many the writer cannot say.
After him others occupied the house, and
IN 1853 Mrs. Caroline Walker and her two
children, when the writer spent few
weeks there with her.
The house is still standing and occupied,
but by whom the writer does not know,
as 1t is the old residents and houses OF the
'tewn that he is engaged in describing.
THE CAPT. EZRA DODGE PLACE,
opposite the last described, now claims
attention. Capt. Dodge was the son OF
Jonah Dodge, OF Sedgwick, and brother