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Description
Members of the Skowhegan Wheel Club on Elm Street, in front of the old Parlin homestead.
From left are Fred C. Dow, slighly in front of him, G. E. Durrell, later Postmaster of Skowhegan; Grace E. Wentworth, and Durrell's wife. The machine they have is a tandem of English make, owned by Herbert Wentworth, Miss Wentworth's brother.
Next is Gertrude Goodwin, who later married Blaine E. Owen of Augusta, and after his death married Edward Mayo of Dover-Foxcroft; then Lizzie Williams, Mrs. Dyer, Eolia Snow Bray, Miss Holmes of Northeast Harbor, who worked at Patten drug store on Water Street and became a registered pharmacist; John W. Steward (behind her).
The man with the helmet is Roland T. Patten, a druggist on Water Street; then George Nash, Thomas Farrand, Marshall C. Viles, George Williams, Ben S. Steward, John W. Steward, Norace Bickford, James Lumsden, Ned Lambert, Charles F. Ward, G. Ernest Avore, Nay Varney, and two unidentified persons.
Many of the club members were merchants or worked in Skowhegan businesses.
About This Item
- Title: Skowhegan Wheel Club, 1894
- Creation Date: 1894
- Subject Date: 1894
- Location: Skowhegan, Somerset County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 19.5 cm x 24 cm
- Local Code: 46.008.3
- Collection: Henry A. Wyman Collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Bicycles & tricycles--Maine
- Bicyclists--Maine--Skowhegan
- Skowhegan Wheel Club (Skowhegan, Me.)--Photographs
- Bicycles and bicycling--United States--Maine--Skowhegan
- Parlin family--Homes and haunts--Maine--Skowhegan
- Cycling
- Clubs--Maine--Skowhegan
People
- Avore, G Ernest
- Bickford, Norace
- Bray, Eolia Snow
- Cummings, Willard H
- Dow, Fred C
- Durrell, G E
- Durrell, Grace E
- Dyer, Lizzie
- Farrand, Thomas
- Goodwin, Forrest E
- Goodwin, Gertrude
- Greenway, Thomas E
- Holmes, Eoila Snow
- Lambert, Ned
- Lumsden, James
- Mayo, Edward
- Nash, George
- Owen, Blaine E
- Owen, Gertrude
- Patten,
- Patten, Roland T
- Sampson, George E
- Smiley, D F
- Steward, Ben S
- Steward, John W
- Varney, Nay
- Viles, Marshall C
- Ward, Charles F
- Wentworth, Grace E
- Wentworth, Miss
- Williams, George
- Williams, Lizzie
Other Keywords
- American Woolen Company
- attorney
- Augusta
- Ben S. Steward
- bicycle
- Bikes
- Blaine E. Owen
- California
- Charles F. Ward
- clotheir
- clothier
- confectioner
- Congress
- D. F. Smiley
- Dover-Foxcroft
- druggist
- Edward Mayo
- Elm Street
- elm tree
- English
- Eolia Snow Bray,
- Eolia Snow Holmes
- Faculty
- farmer
- Forrest E. Goodwin
- Fred C. Dow
- G. E. Durrell
- G. Ernest Avore
- George E. Sampson
- George Nash
- Gertrude Goodwin,
- Gertrude Owen
- Grace E. Durrell
- Grace E. Wentworth
- grist mill
- Herbert Wentworth
- island
- John W. Steward
- Lansing,
- Lizzie Dyer
- Marshall C. Viles
- Marston Worsted Mills
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Michigan State College
- Northeast Harbor
- Parlin
- Patten drug store
- pharmacist
- plumbing
- Postmaster
- printing
- publishing
- races
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- Representative
- Roland T. Patten
- Skowhegan Jersey Creamery
- Skowhegan Wheel ClubParlin family
- tandem
- Thomas E. Greenway
- Thomas Farrand
- Town Clerk
- Water Street
- Waterville
- wheel
- Willard H. Cummings
For more information about this item, contact:
Skowhegan History House66 Elm Street, PO Box 832, Skowhegan, ME 04976
(207) 474-6632
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