Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-28
rur ANDREW A. AND ABRAHAM FISK

,,ere shoemakers, il the writer's memory
is correct.
Andrew and Abraham Fisk were broth
ava Init where and when they We're
borp or whence they came to this town
there is no date in possession OF the
writer. or when their houses were built,
oItboueh they were standing in the earli-
oct recollections OF the writer. Andrew
F;st married March II, 1897, Almira,
daughter of Freeman and Thankful
Hardin; she was born Nov. Is, 1902.
Their children were:
/ George Washington, born Sept Z,
1927: resided in Ellsworth.
. Andrew Jackson, born Nov. IL, 1928 !;
resided in Boston.
3. Benjamin Franklin, born Jan. 80,
1880.
4. Frederick Lorenzo, born March 10,
1888
4 James Madison, born Sept. "a, 1884.
6. Rodney, born Sept. 8, 1895.
7. Helen Adelpha, born Nov. Is, 1888;
died Oct. 10, 1899.
& Almira Rebeeca, born April 10, 1910;
died Aug. %, 1s41.
9, Mary Jane, born Oct. 10, 1912.
TO- John Freeman, born May 10, 1877.
Mr.. Fisk married Sarah e. Milliken for
a second wife, by whom he had
H. Abby Frances, born April 1859.
12 Abraham Allen, born April 10, 1851 !;
died Sept. q, 1865.
49, son, born Jan. 16, 1870.
IA. A child, born May 1872.
Mr.. Fisk, father OF this family, died in
1882.
Abraham Fisk married Sarah f. John
son, OF Hampden, Sept. ID, 1884, which
may indicate that he came from that town
to Blue Hill. By that marriage there were
four children born to them ON the follow
ing dates: Dec. 81, 1885; Feb. rs, 1899;
Dec II, 1910, and May "a, 1916, but no
names for them are entered in the town
Fisk died, or when they left the town
there is no record.
JEREMIAH r. HOLT PLACE.
The next house and place to the Fisks'
is the jeremiah T. Holt house and place,
for many years a tavern named "Trav-
oilers Home, with swinging sign sus-
pended from post in front, and for many
years the only tavern or hotel in the
village.
jeremiah Thorndike Holt was the
second son of Jedediah Holt, and grand
son OF Nicholas, who came to the town
from Andover in May 1855, settled at the
Falls, and was the first keeper of public
house in the infant settlement. Jeremiah
Thorndike Holt was born May II, 1881 /;
married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph
and Hannah Bailey Osgood, Nov. "a, 1905
She was born Nov. 8, 1883, and died Feb. A.
1883 He died in April, 1882. The chill
dren of that marriage were:
/. jeremiah, born Dec. 81, 1910; died
Nov. l, 1916.
2. Julia Ann, born April 2, 1872; mar
ried Samuel S. Smith; died July %, 1883
3. Frederic Alex, born Feb. 20, 1914,
died Nov. 6, 1914.
A. jeremiah Thorndike, born May s,
1877; married Lovinia Darling.
5. Frederic Alex, born Feb II, 1921 !;
married Elizabeth Ellis; died in Boston,
6, Thomas Jefferson Napoleon, born
Nov. /, 1877; married Clarissa E. Peters.
After the death Of the head OF this
family, his willow carried on travellers
Home' until the marriage OF her young
est son, Thomas Jefferson Napoleon, to
Clarissa f. Peters on Aug. 6, 1851. He
brought his bride to the home to live, and
the house as a tavern ceased. Napoleon,
as he was known by the people of the
town, attended the school at the academy
with the writer, and also Miss Peters, who
later became has wife. In August, 1901,
they celebrated their golden wedding an
niversary, when the writer had the pleas
ure OF sending them his congratulations
IN verse through the mail. Within two
years OF that date ne passed on to the
other life beyond the river.
lie was painter by trade, and pleas
ant friend, as boy and man, to meet and
Know as the writer knew him. His widow
but has spent the last two winters in Bos-
ton with her only living child, daughter.
She had three children by her marriage:
l Alice Annette, born Nov. Z, 1854.
Z Clara Peters, born April 2, 1857; died
May 10, 1882
j. Maud NJ, born April II, 1866; died
Dec. II, 1880.
The house, built more than seventy-five
years ago, still stands in good repair, as a
landmark in the village, and seems good
Tor as many years more as it has already
Stood
In that house DIR. Fulton had his home
ana office for many years, to it he brought
ms bride when he was married to Miss
ABBY M. Redman, of Brooksville, Jan. 10,
1913. He sleeps with his fathers" but
she Is alive, well and youthful, beyond
what would be expected of one of her
years.
THE BRICK BLOCK
next to the last described place has been
a llrF