Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"He next set up a partnership with his brother-in-law, Dr. Benjamin Jones Porter, and opened a store, which was conducted by Dr. Porter."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Andrew Anderson

"And if you had older brother and sisters then you wore their clothes down the line down the line down the line."

Blue Hill, Maine - John Edward Horton, Civil War Soldier

"… emerges through the letters he sent to his brother Josiah and his father, John. He also sent money to his family and anxiously awaited return mail…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 1 of 3

"She was preceded by a brother Ezekiel, nine years her senior. Soon after her birth her father contracted consumption (tuberculosis) and passed away."

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"Younger brother Henry Wingate Stevens served as his chief draughtsman for forty-six years. Son John Howard Stevens became his partner in 1904, and…"

Architecture & Landscape database - Maine Architectural Renderings

"… Church in Rumford of 1904 and the Hannaford Brothers Warehouse of 1919-20 in Portland. On rare occasions Stevens turned to professional…"

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

"Savage’s older brother and noted architect, Fred L. Savage. John C. & Emily’s four sons and one daughter may have found some escape and respite from…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"… of his wife, Jacob moved to New York and his brother, Samuel P Abbott took over Little Blue, and opened it as a school for boys in 1844."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… it, burned empty houses and killed both Alger brothers. Scarborough, a town of three settlements of over one hundred houses and 1,000 cattle, had…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - For The Love Of Paper - Page 1 of 4

"Within only a few years, Hugh and his brother, the “Chisholm Brothers”, had contracts to provide exclusive distribution rights of newspapers, tourist…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould

"… and butcher business along side his father and brothers, Charles, John, and Walter. His father passed away in May of 1872 when Arthur was only 15."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"In 1883 the Quint brothers maintained a hotel on the corner called the Dirigo House. This building was made of brick and burned in 1891."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Businesses and Cottage Industries

"In Dark Harbor, Williams Brothers operated a large grocery store featuring fancy goods, (ie: caviar, goose liver, specially packed canned foods from…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… of “Captain” Charles Eliot, his younger brother Samuel A. Eliot, Marshall P. Slade, George B. Dunbar, William H. Dunbar, Henry M."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"Raymond Strout of Bar Harbor. Ritz Brothers at the Criterion Theatre, Bar Harbor, ca. 1932Northeast Harbor Library The Criterion Theatre…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"… residents began to shop at the Durkee, Williams Brothers, and Pendleton & Coffin stores. Worship services were offered at the Second Baptist Church…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"George Pepper, unlike his brother Joseph, did not die in the Civil War. He returned to Bath and died from disease."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Church Block

"With his brother, William Moses, they both became wealthy business men who financed: the Bank Block, The Lincoln Block, and the Columbian Block, in…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"He had two brothers, a sister, and was the third of four children. His family was very poor and his father died when he was young."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"… Your future? Our future as a town?" Ira and his brothers were the first people to settle on what we now call Fish Hill."

Lincoln, Maine - Steamboats

"William Moor and his brother Daniel Moor Jr. navigated the first steamboat. Also, the first steamboat came to Lincoln on May 27, 1847 and continued…"

Lincoln, Maine - Benjamin Chesley

"Almost all of his brothers ran away from home and were never heard from again until after they got married. The only one that didn’t run was Benjamin."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 1 of 2

"… Burnham.(2) Burnham had bought the old Leavitt Brothers Clam Plant, and he and family members occupied the front part that had been a barbershop."