Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1906-02-28


and other instruments upon which he
played, as he heard them more than sixty
years ago. To the residents and visitors
in later years the block will be remem-
| bered as the "Pendleton House,, kept as
hotel.
THE JOSEPH osGooD HOUSE
ana place were the next to the south of
the last described. 1t was an old-fash-
| Toned, two-story, square-roofed house,
minus paint, as early as the writer can re-
member, built by Joseph Osgood about
1900, and occupied by him and family I'M
til he was old and past his labor, when he
was cared for by his nephew, the late
John Stevens, esq.
Mr.. Osgood was born at Andover, Mass,
Oct. 6, 1850; married Hannah Bailey,
March 81, 1885. She was born Dec 10,
1895; died July 10, 1929. He died March
| 10, 1854, in his ninety fourth year. He
came to Blue Hill shortly after his mar
rage, and there resided up to the time of
| his death.
He was a brickmaker and mason by
| trade. He used to say that he could build
brick chimney beginning at the top just
as well as beginning at the base, il he
| could only get tine first brick to stay in its
place. The chimney in the tide mill,
| owned by the writer's father, fell down,
leaving the top sticking in the roof. Mr..
0sgood was sent for to rebuild it, and
came, when the writer and his brothers
said to him: "Now, Mr.. Osgood, you told
US in the past that if you could make the
| first bricks stick you could build Chin
ney at the top and work downwards. Here
is chance for you to try it,"
"Ah, boys!" said he, ''the bricks must
all be new to do that, for you can't make
new brick stick to an old one." And in
that way he cleared himself of an awk-
ward dilemma in the eyes of the boys.
He was a kindly man, with a cheerful
story for the young people, who were very
| fond OF him.
THE TOWN LANDING
in front of the Osgood house is where, by
vote of the town, Spofford & Robinson es-
| tablished potash works. The vote of the
| town Oct. 4, 1870, concerning the same,
was as follows:
"Voted, That Messrs. Spofford & Rob-
inson shall have the privilege of the land
| wherein their potash works stand, and
such quantity of land adjoining said
works as the selectmen and said Spofford
& Robinson shall agree upon for twenty
years, with the proviso that the Inhabi-
tants OF the Town shall not incumber TO
| the disadvantage of their business nor
shall they incumber any part of said Town
| landing to the disadvantage of the Inhab-
! itants OF said Town"
Upon that landing many seagoing ves-
| sells were built in the past, and upon it
yearly were piled ready for shipment to
! western ports in the summer season, hun
dreds and thousands of cords of wood
| hemlock bark and other products OF farm
and forest. In the writer's boyhood it was
not uncommon to see from six to dozen
| sail of coasting vessels there loading or
awaiting turn to load.
| THE THOMAS CoGGINs HOUSE
next south of the landing and adjoining
the Joseph Osgood place, was two-story
| structure, with brick ends. 1t was built
about 1881, by Capt. Thomas Coggins, who
| with his family occupied it until he sold
to Joseph Hinckley. Capt. Coggins died
| in 1858, and his wife March 81, 1850.
Capt. Coggins probably came from Surry
to Bluehill, and there married Dec. 80,
1929, Lydia Faulkner (Stevens) Parker,
| widow of Simeon Parker and daughter OF
| Theodore and Dorcas Stevens, born May
| %, 1913. She had three children by her
| first husband: Simeon, Simeon and Maria,
all dying in infancy. Simeon Parker,
her first husband, died Feb. IA, 1926, and
she married Capt. Coggins as above stated.
Capt. Coggins commanded several Blue
hill vessels, and was considered capable
and enterprising shipmaster of his time.
The writer in boyhood knew him by
report, but had no special acquaintance
with him. He was one of the many who
made the town noted, sixty or seventy
years ago, for the number, skill and repu-
tatIon of its seanlen and master mariners.
chapter upon the lives, characters and
achievements of Blue Hill shipmasters
| would prove instructive and interesting.
The next owner and occupant OF the
place was Dea. Joseph Hinckley and fam
| lily, until his death in 1884, aged eighty
! seven years. He was the fourth child OF
Nehemiah and Edith Wood Hinckley,
born July 8, 179S; married first Ruby Kim
| ball, Aug. %, 1922. She died Nov. s,
1896; and he married, second, ElvIna
Stevens, Nov. 1S, 1887. The children OF
Mr.. Hinckley were:
By first wife:
1. Ruby Ann, born Nov. 81, 1922; mar
ried Capt. John Kimball Norton.
2. Joseph Thomas, born Sept. q, 1924;
married, Anna d. Colburn.
8. Edward, born Aug. 10, 1926; married
Margaret Jarvis.
A. John Lemuel, born July s, 1928;
removed to California.
5. Almira Rebecca, born Sept. 10, 1880;
married Dudley Scammons, of Franklin.