Eliot Family Asticon Foreside 2/26/2016 Eliot family (America) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eliot family (America) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the British noble family of St Germans, Cornwall, see Earl of St Germans The Eliot family is the American branch of one of several British families to hold this surname. This branch is based in Boston but originated in East Coker, Yeovil, Somerset. It is one of the Boston Brahmins, a bourgeois family, [1] whose ancestors had become wealthy and held sway over the American education system. All are the descendants of two men named Andrew Eliot, father and son, who emigrated from East Coker to Beverly, Massachusetts between 1668 and 1670. The elder Andrew (1627-March 1, 1703/04) served the town and colony in a number of positions and in 1692 was chosen as a juror in the Salem witch trials. His son Andrew (1651-September 12, 1688) married Mercy Shattuck in 1680 in Beverly and died by drowning after falling off a ship. The ranks include several college presidents, one Nobel prize winner, and presidents of American professional associations. Charles W. Eliot transformed Harvard from a college to a research institution, a model which many American universities have followed. William Greenleaf Eliot was a co-founder of Washington University in St. Louis and Thomas H. Eliot was chancellor of that institution from 1962-71. The poet T. S. Eliot moved to England and his ashes were interred in East Coker, England. He wanted to be laid to rest in the original birthplace of his first American ancestor and other Eliot ancestors. Another branch of the American Eliot family descend from Rev. John Eliot of Roxbury, Massachusetts, known as the "Apostle to the Indians." His son, John Eliot, Jr., was the first pastor of the First Church of Christ in Newton. In turn, John Eliot Jr.'s son, Joseph Eliot, became a pastor in Guilford, Connecticut, and later fathered Jared Eliot, another pastor as well as agricultural writer. Andrew Eliot's Descendants Well-known descendants of Andrew Eliot include: Andrew Eliot, prominent Boston Congregational minister Charles Eliot, landscape architect and son of Charles William Eliot, uncle of Thomas H. Eliot Charles Eliot Norton, American scholar and man of letters. He was first cousin to Charles William Eliot. Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University, son of Samuel Atkins Eliot Rev. Christopher Rhodes Eliot, Unitarian minister and author, son of William Greenleaf Eliot. Edward Cranch Eliot President of the American Bar Association Frederick May Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association from 1937-1958, son of Christopher Rhodes Eliot. Henry Ware Eliot, businessman and President of the Academy of Science, St. Louis, son of William Greenleaf Eliot. John Eliot, co-founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society with Jeremy Belknap, the first such Historical Society of its kind, and son of Andrew Eliot. Martha May Eliot, a pediatrician and expert in public health; she served as director of the Children's Bureau's Division of Child and Maternal Health in the 1920s and 1930s, and is credited with drafting language on women and children in the Social Security Act. Martha May Eliot lived a quiet but public life as a lesbian with her lifelong domestic partner, Ethel Collins Dunham. She was a daughter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_family_(Americal 1/3 2/26/2016 Eliot family (America) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia of Christopher Rhodes Eliot. Samuel Eliot (banker), Boston banker and merchant Samuel Atkins Eliot, politician who served in the United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts House of Representatives, Massachusetts Senate and was also mayor of Boston and treasurer of Harvard University. Son of Samuel Eliot and father of Charles William Eliot. Samuel Atkins Eliot II, President of the American Unitarian Association from 1900-1927, son of Charles William Eliot Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr., American novelist, son of Samuel Atkins Eliot II Samuel Eliot, historian, educator, trustee of Massachusetts General Hospital, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Massachusetts Historical Society. He was the cousin of Charles Eliot Norton. Samuel Eliot Morison, historian, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve. He was the grandson of Samuel Eliot. Thomas Dawes Eliot, U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Brother of William Greenleaf Eliot. Thomas H. Eliot, Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, U.S. Congressman, son of Samuel Atkins Eliot II Rev. Thomas Lamb Eliot, Regent and Trustee of Reed College. Son of William Greenleaf Eliot. Thomas Stearns Eliot (better known as T. S. Eliot), Nobel prize winner, poet, playwright, literary critic and publisher. Son of Henry Ware Eliot. Theodore Lyman Eliot I, president of San Francisco Art Institute, grandson of Charles William Eliot, brother of Thomas H. Eliot and Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr, father of Theodore Lyman Eliot II. His brother-in-law was Albert Bigelow, the peace activist. Theodore Lyman Eliot II (United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, 1973-1978), nephew of Thomas H. Eliot and Samuel Atkins Eliot Jr, great-grandson of Charles William Eliot, great-great grandson of Samuel Atkins Eliot. Charles Eliot, the landscape architect, was his great-uncle. William Greenleaf Eliot, co-founder and third chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis Edward Samuel Ritchie, American inventor and physicist, great-grandson of Andrew Eliot, the Boston minister References The Family of William Greenleaf Eliot and Abby Adams Eliot of St. Louis, Missouri: 1811-1931 by Henry Ware Eliot, Jr. (c. 1931) The Family of William Greenleaf Eliot and Abby Adams Eliot, as Chronicled by their Descendants, to 1988 by Henry Eliot Scott (1988) Asticou Foreside, genealogy written by Charles W. Eliot II, 1981 The Genealogy of the Somerset branch of the American Eliot Family (http://www.his.com/~feliot/) Cynthia Grant Tucker, No Silent Witness: The Eliot Parsonage Women and their Unitarian World, Oxford University Press, 2010, 344 pp. A Sketch of the Eliot Family by Walter Graeme Eliot, Press of Livingston Middleditch, New York, 1887 Online at the Library of Congress (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2008/20080819001as/20080819001as.pdf) Citations 1. T.S. Eliot: the modernist in history, (New York, 1991) By Ronald Bush, page 72 2. I14: Edward Cranch ELIOT (3 JUL 1858 - 2 APR 1928) (http://www.his.com/~feliot/D0003/I14.html) Retrieved from"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eliot_family_(America)&oldid=655217003" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_family_(America) 2/3 2/26/2016 Eliot family (America) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Categories: American families of English ancestry | Eliot family (America) This page was last modified on 6 April 2015, at 17:43. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_family_(America 3/3 ELIOTS and ASTICOU FORESIDE [SAE. Residence] Northeast Harbor NOTES by Charles W. Eliot 2nd ing. is Source: Patrick Chasse, Garland Form, Mount Desent ME 12/15/04. 66 67 Asticou Hill N Eliot Mountain A.C.Savage Edwin Abbott J.LoGardiner Savage J.S.CurTis Eliot 75 73 74 69 70 Northeast Harbor Unian Church Marina Library. smar. The NEH Village a 4 WheelwHight Ellot PROPERTIES Astigou Foreside 2 Clipton Sketch Map Dock (Roberts Point) C.W.E. 1981 1 1000 2000 Eliot Great 3 Mackaye. Sarages Smith) Corning or Point a Paint Cadillac Harbor Pierces Bear Hco Sargent Head island Eliots and Asticou Foreside Northeast Harbor, Maine Notes By Charles W. Eliot 2nd, Sept. 17, 1981 One hundred years ago "Wise was the choice which led our sires to kindle here their household fires", - for "More dear as years on years advance We prize the old inheritance". The Coastal waters around Mt. Desert Island were familiar to Charles William Eliot and his sons--Charles and Samuel Atkins Eliot from summer cruises in the yacht "Sunshine" and camping at Calf Island- at the head of Frenchman's Bay, 1870- 1870 1878. In the summer of 1880, while the senior Eliots were in 1880 Europe, Charles Eliot, H'82, organized the Champlain Society 1878. and, with the Sunshine and family camping equipment, estab- lished the Society's camp on the Smallage property at the out- let of Hadlock Brook on Somes Sound. (Re "Champlain Society--see Appendix A) Charles Eliot wrote to his father in September 1880 ad- 1880 vising him to look for property east of Northeast Harbor where he would find "beautiful views of the sea and hills, good anchorage, fine rocks and beach, and no flats." His father followed his son's advice, and before the end of the year ac- quired one of the original "grant lots", #70, west of Savages Point with some 1000 feet of beach and cliff frontage on Cadillac Harbor and extending one mile inland to the top of Asticou Hill - (now Eliot Mountain). [Sketch Map of "Properties--Asticou Foreside"] The First House - "THE ANCESTRAL" In the winter, spring and early summer of 1881. The House - known in the family as "The Ancestral" was constructed from plans by Architect Robert S. Peabody - (brother of Ellen Derby Peabody Eliot, 1835-1869). Water was piped from a spring up the "Wood Road" - now trail to Eliot Mountain. The family moved into the new House on September 17, 1881 - 1 In 1881 Visitors Record "House - Sunshine (later "Mid- Cliff" and now known as "Blueberry Ledge" or "Blueberry Cliff"). THE ANCESTRAL 1884 Eliots and Asticou Foreside Northeast Harbor, Maine Notes By Charles W. Eliot 2nd, Sept. 17, 1981 One hundred years ago "Wise was the choice which led our sires to kindle here their household fires", - for "More dear as years on years advance We prize the old inheritance". The Coastal waters around Mt. Desert Island were familiar to Charles William Eliot and his sons--Charles and Samuel Atkins Eliot from summer cruises in the yacht "Sunshine" and camping at Calf Island--at the head of Frenchman's Bay, 1870- 1878. In the summer of 1880, while the senior Eliots were in Europe, Charles Eliot, H'82, organized the Champlain Society and, with the Sunshine and family camping equipment, estab- lished the Society's camp on the Smallage property at the out- let of Hadlock Brook on Somes Sound. (Re "Champlain Society-- see Appendix A) Charles Eliot wrote to. his father in September 1880 ad- vising him to look for property east of Northeast Harbor where he would find "beautiful views of the sea and hills, good anchorage, fine rocks and beach, and no flats." His father followed his son's advice, and before the end of the year ac- quired one of the original "grant lots", #70, west of Savages Point with some 1000 feet of beach and cliff frontage on Cadillac Harbor and extending one mile inland to the top of Asticou Hill - (now Eliot Mountain). [Sketch Map of 'Properties--Asticous Foreside"] The First House - "THE ANCESTRAL" In the winter, spring and early summer of 1881. The House - known in the family as "The Ancestral" was constructed from plans by Architect Robert S. Peabody - (brother of Ellen Derby Peabody Eliot, 1835-1869). Water was piped from a spring up the "Wood Road" - now trail to Eliot Mountain. The family moved into the new House on September 17, 1881 - 1 In 1881 Visitors Record "House - Sunshine (later "Mid- Cliff" and now known as "Blueberry Ledge" or "Blueberry Cliff"), ANCESTRAL From Harbor 1864 VIEW SOUTH 1885 from Ancestral Siesta Somes ? 66 71 64 C.I How 650 69 70 73 74 75 e What Lo Etha 180 D u steamboat who Clifton Dack Wheelwristed Eliot B theme who is J.C.S 3 Elist 1887 MAP J.T.G Colby (at Coffee and Pot) Stuart 6 Those three properties are: 1. The field and Pebble Beach south of the road and between Savages Point (Ingalls Property) and "the Ancestral". This parcel is now owned by Carola E. Goriansky. 2. The full 1000 foot width of the "Grant lot # 73 east of the original Eliot lot #70 for one quarter of its depth north of the road, and including the lower portion of Little Harbor Brook and what was known as "The Ladd Place" (a cellar hole & small field). I have (so far) been unable to find when or to whom he sold it. I remember seeing a map that had "A.C. Gilman" on part of this area opposite the old tennis court. Now Charles Eliot Pierce owns the portion east of Harbor Brook which he bought from Hills Realty - a "holding company" for David Rockefeller in 1969. 3. A third property shown as "Eliot" on the 1887 Map is on the waterfront between Harbor Brook and Pierce's Head (Mackaye-Smith) I've always thought of it as the "Stillmans - (E. P. Stillman 1900) confirmed by the Assessor's Record of its present ownership by Penelope Stillman Paine and her daughter Elizabeth Paine. (Penelope Stillman married Walter Paine, who adopted Elizabeth - Penelope's daughter by a previous marriage. ) At some unknown date a Fourth property came to Pres. Eliot under an "exchange" 3 with Joseph Curtis - owner of Grant Lot 69 west of the Eliot's original lot 70. This was "a strip of land on the westerly side of Asticou Hill - approximately 150 feet wide and running up the hill to the westerly boundary of the Hopkinson Estate. It is almost exactly opposite the Wheelwright's barn and adjoins the Frost land on the north." (from letter of W. Rodman Peabody to DWE heirs - Oct. 2, 1926) With the agree- ment of all the CWE heirs, this 1.66 acre strip was sold to Mrs. Mary H. Frost for $1000.00 in June 1927. The story of the "Original Lot 70" unfolds in later pages. Now back to "the Ancestral". 3 Possibly - unlikely - in exchange for a portion of Lot 70 opposite Thuya Lodge - 150x450 - shown on 1946 Simpson Survey. 7 ABD Visitors Record The Visitors Record - "Grace H. Eliot. House Sunshine - Northeast Harbor Maine - 17 Sept. '81" - lists dates of arri- vals, dinners, events, and departures from 1881 through 1916. 4 With only two or three exceptions the "Ancestral" was occupied by the family5. from between June 28 and July 6 until September 20 or 30. Records of arrivals include: "1888 - 4 July - Arrived with four servants & two horses - Margaret, Marie, Annie & Herman - Wright and Left." 1889 "2 July Arrived with four new servants, and two horses, Dick being already here. Ellen Kelly - Cook, Margaret McInnes - 2nd, Joanna Kirby - 3rd and Richard Dykeman - factotum. And horses - Wright and Left. 1891 "31 June - CWE, G.H.E., Joanna, Katy & (new) Nelly & Susie (Jo's little sister) & Myles, with Tom and the new mare, arrived. 1904 "5 July - Dan, Joanna, Mary and Barbara arrived & 10 three horses - Joe, Jack and Bessie on the 'J. T. Morse'. 1908 27 June - Three horses - Belle, Beau and Don. 1914 "20 June - Arrived by 'Morse' CWE, GHE, Joanna, Julia, Ada Riley and Martin Nissen. Dick and Dolly" and 1916 "July 3 - CWE, GHE, Joanna Kirby, Julia Connor, Mary McKenzie, Martin Nissen arrived by 'Morse' with Tim & Pat (horses) & Peter (canary)". Besides the "immediate" family of CWE, GHE, and the two college-age sons - Charles Eliot H'82 and Samuel A. Eliot H'84, the Visitors Book records the comings, goings, dining, and sailing of other relatives - particularly on 1. G.H.E.'s Hopkinson side - her brother, John Prentiss Hopkinson with 4 1886 Europe (house rented to Wheelwrights), 1903 & 1908, 1911 World Trip. 5 For "Family" see Appendix B. In the early years the horses - and family servants, and visitors came by the Bangor Boat from Boston to Rockland, and thence by the Mt. Desert (until 1904) or J. T. Morse. Train passengers to Mt. Desert Ferry came around the Island by the Sapho, Norumbega, Moosehead or Rangeley. See Appendix F and C- "I Remember Mt. Desert". 8 his wife - Mary Elizabeth (Bessie) Watson, and their children Leslie, Frances (Eliot), Charles Hopkinson, and Christina (Baker), as well as Watsons and Goodwins; and on 2. CWE's side - his first wife's Peabody family - Robert S., Francis G., and Anna P. Bellows - and their spouses and children, as well as Footes, Storers, Nortons, Guilds, Lymans, and Bullards on the Eliot side. As the years went by and the sons and daughters of the (ID first generation married and had children - and; in turn, grandchildren - the references to relatives in the Visitors Book expanded enormously - with four daughters of Charles Eliot & Mary Yale Pitkin Eliot, and four sons and three daughters of Samuel A. Eliot and Frances Hopkinson Eliot, as well again with Hopkinsons, Bakers, Peabody's, Footes, etc. curs of Friends of Charles and Sam are, of course, noted in the early years of the Visitors Record - including "Spelly". Henry M. Spelman, William H. Baldwin, Roland Thaxter, and Thomas Mott Osborne - as 1885. "Aug. 25. Miss Agnes Devens and Mr. T. M. Osborne" - and the Osbornes, almost every year thereafter, with their growing family - David, Charles, Lithgow, and Robert. The Visitors Record is particularly notable for the great number of College Presidents and Professors who came to dine or spend a few days; including Pres. Arthur C. Gilman of Johns Hopkins, Pres. C. K. Adams of Cornell, Pres. Wm. F. Slocum of Colorado College, Pres. B. J. Wheeler, Pres. Seth Low of Columbia, Pres. Carter of Williams, Pres. Hadley of Yale, Pres. Wm. D. Hyde of Bowdoin, Pres. Wright of Dartmouth, Pres. Harry Garfield and, of course Pres. A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard. Among the Professor's names are those from Harvard of Goodwin, Gurney, Peabody, Hill, Dunbar, Byerly, Ames, Palmer, Toy, Briggs, Smythe, Lanman, Hart, Hurlburt, (James, Moore, Merriman, Sedgewick, Etc.; and from other colleges - W. Z. Ripley, W. A. Nielson, Venable and Chaplin. Ambassador and Lady Bryce were frequent visitors, and visits are recorded of "the Bishop of Albany (William C. (Doane), Mrs. Doane and Monsignor Doane", Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Law Olmsted and J. C. Olmsted, Bishop Mackaye Smith, Nelson Robinson (donor of the C. E. Professorship) Gov. & Mrs. G. W. Crane, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Arthur A. Shurtleff ("one wheel") Norman Hapgood, Jerome Greene, (Sec. Harvard GBD Corporation), (George B. Dorr (re Nat. Park, etc.), Dr. H. P. Wolcott, Jacob Schiff, Sir William Mather, Judge Fessenden, etc. The Ancestral and CWE's study were the scene of actions for not only Harvard - (with Jerome Greene, Professors and Donors, etc. ) but also for the organization of the Hancock 9 B County Trustees of Public Reservations and, with George G Dorr, for acquisition of properties, their administration, and GBD for the Sieur de Monts National Monument, and Lafayette National Park. The Union Church of Northeast Harbor was or- ganized in 1886 under CWE's leadership6 and many of the visi- ting preachers stayed at the Ancestral. The House was also the scene of many family occasions and celebrations - including announcements of engagements - (Leslie Hopkinson to Godfrey Cabot 1888, Devens-Osborne 1885, Christina Hopkinson to George P. Baker 1893, "Elizth and Mr. Cushman McGiffert" 1916, Frances Eliot to Frank Fremont-Smith 1919); and, of course, Birthdays - of SAE, FEFS, etc. There were lots of "singing parties" - with GHE's beautiful voice and SAE's background in the Harvard Glee Club. One celebration which the participants will never forget was on August 24, 1912 - SAE's 50th Birthday - notable for the "Olympic Games" in the afternoon and the drama "The Romance of Rose" in the evening. The Olympics climaxed in a race by the elders along the Avenue to the house - with Grandfather - CWE (age 78) behind Uncle Charlie Watson (also 78) until ten feet short of the finish line - where Uncle Charlie stopped to let Grandfather win. (I remember the evening Drama for my part - age 12 - on my knees before Ellen) . The Visitors Record contains numerous references to Boats, Sailing, and Picnics - as for instance "1885 Sept. 2 the boys off on Siesta with Henry Spelman", "1893 - Sept. 25 - Siesta Sold" 1908 - SAE & CWE2nd cruise around Island in Opechee, 1909 Motorboat "Puffin"; and the "Blue Book" of family photo- graphs includes pictures - 1890 - Siesta, 1897 Hearty and Lola, 1900 Snooze, 1901 Kenero, Etc. (Cf. Appendix D). Of course the photographs show members of the family on these boats and on picnics to Bakers Island, Beach Cliff, etc. - organized by Grandfather. 7 Remembrances of sailing and the Hearty are especially vivid for Elisabeth and myself - because in 1913? Grandfather had the mast and sails of the Hearty reduced so that the sloop could be handled by two youngsters - age 15 and 13. When we wanted to go sailing - we reported at Grandfather's study in the Ancestral on the way to the Float - and off we went with his consent. We preferred the times of a brewing 6 The Church was dedicated in July 1889 and called "St. Charles'-in-the-Woods" by the "natives" - in contrast with Bishop Doane's "St. Mary's by the Sea" ; cf. "Not a Common House". 7 See Appendix E. "PatriarchalPicnics" by Frances H. Eliot - Atlantic Monthly. nor 'easter and a reefed sail. Once, in a puffy northwest wind, we intended to sail around Greenings Island and misjudged the Hearty's headway as we approached the island (opposite the NEH Steamboat Wharf). It was time to "come about" but she didn't respond to "hard-a-lee" - - nor on a second try - SO we ran aground. Fortunately, it was not high tide, so Orrin, in the Puffin, pulled her off without damage. We learned a lesson about tacking in a puffy nor'wester, and Grandfather continued to give his permission to our sailing the Hearty. ?When was the engine installed on the Hearty? My other special "sailing" remembrance is the three day cruise around Mt. Desert Island with Father - SAE. , in the Opechee, in August 1908. Nothing went wrong - but a great adventure for an eight-year old boy. With all these visitors, celebrations, picnics and acti- vities going on under Grandfather's direction, he also took over from Grandmother each summer the "housekeeping" of the Ancestral - (to "relieve her for a few months"). 1881 1882 64, moved into the house July 4? Reached the house - Aurut Mary T 8 Mary - Charles Guild, &- Clara Parsons for 3 week Henry & it'ary Foote came. 15. Left 16. Letter Willen Builard came 21, 2 left. 24th Taken lick 2711 Mother Filentie came. aug George Ledlie I % Chapman - Frank fer hims Tept.1 Mother left for Belpest it Orrins House In 1883 a house was built - in the Pebble Beach Field Lot (1) above) - close to the road and east property line for Orrin Donnell - seaman and caretaker. Plans, Elevations and numerous receipted bills for construction have been pre- served by the present owner - Carola Eliot Goriansky. One of those bills covers payments to carpenters, plumbers, etc. with day-rates ranging from the highest - "Milliken 12 days at 2.75 = 33. thru "H. Savage 4 days at 2.00 = 8. and "Clement 13.6 1.65 = 22.34 to "W. Smallage 6 days at .75 = 4.50 The house overlooked a field above Pebble Beach to the south, and another field across the road to the northeast. Unlike the summer residence - The Ancestral - "Orrin's House" was built for "year-round" occupancy. [Photo from East showing Orrin Donnell House] Orrin Donnell worked with the Eliots at the Calf Island Camp near his family's place on upper Frenchman's Bay and was 'in charge" of the "Sunshine", "Siesta", "Hearty", and "Puffin", etc. over the years until his death in May 1947. He married Laura Gilley (of the Bakers Island Gilleys) and they had three? children - Orrin, Jr., Harold, and Harvard b & d 1894. After the death of Pres. Eliot in 1926, as a step in the long process of settling his estate, the heirs agreed in 1931 that Orrin should be assured occupancy of that house during his lifetime. He died in May 1947 and that same year the house and lot went to Carola in another step in settling the CWE Estate. About 1904 a Tennis Court occupied the field west of Orrin's House - near the road - where the Goriansky's Visitors' House is now located. It was also in 1883 that the Boat House and Pier were con- structed directly below "the Ancestral" at the west end of Pebble Beach and "The Barn" - [Photo Float, Pier and Boat House from Beach] with Stable, Carriage House and Coachman's Quarters close to the road just west of the east driveway - (present 1981 en- trance) to the main house. In 1981 the Stone Pier is no more - replaced by Piles. The Boat House is used by Pierces, Bells and Goriansky's and is in serious disrepair, - according to Mrs. Alsop who intends to have it repaired because zoning does not allow replacement. "The Barn" is also gone. 12 In October 1884 Charles Eliot - then working for F. L. Olmsted (who had visited the Eliots the previous summer) layed out a longer driveway (from the present Coffee Pot FL.O Entrance) to the "Ancestral" - (site of 1912 "Olympic Games" Races). VISIT Maintenance of this driveway was one of the problems encountered in settlement of the Charles W. Eliot Estate - in efforts to locate the boundary between the lots associated with the "Coffee Pot" and "the Ancestral". Since the road ran over property assigned to the Coffee Pot it was abandoned and is now overgrown. Orrina ORRIN'S HOUSE. - 1884 - from East of Harbor Brook Float, Pier and Boathouse 1884 13 Hopkinson - "Overcliff" In November 1883, Charles W. Eliot sold to his brother- contact in-law - John Prentiss Hopkinson land on the west edge of his Bob "Grant Lot #70" with some 360 feet of ocean and County Road frontages, and a 250' wide strip north of the road for some Pyle 1265 feet up Asticou Hill 8 (The property is shown on the 1884 Map at the N.E.H. Library labelled "J. Hopkins" ; T.H.E. 's search for the Title in 1972 found that the deed was not re- Earth t corded until 1919 - when the P.H. Estate was settled). The following year the house known as "Overcliff", 9 and a barn with living quarters were constructed on the south side of the County Road (now Peabody Drive). The Hopkinson family were well acquainted with the area from frequent visits, meals and "occasions" at the "Ancestral" (as recorded in the Visitors Record). They had rented a cot- tage at North East Harbor for the summer of 1882 (when S.A.E. - age 20 - drove Frances H. age 11 - to Bar Harbor - p. 26 "SAE - Pilot of a Liberal Faith") The family then consisted of the parents - "Grandpa" - John Prentiss Hopkinson 1838-1910 and "Grandma" - Mary Elizabeth Watson Hopkinson 18 -19 and four children - Leslie - 18 -19 , Charles S. 18 -19 (m. Elinor Curtis) , Frances Stone 1872-1954 (m. Samuel A. Eliot) and Christina 18 -19 (m. George P. Baker). They and in turn their off- spring all enjoyed boating, hiking and the beauty of the "Blessed Isle". The House is appropriately called 'Overcliff" because it is right over the cliff - with a long open piazza overlooking the ocean. I have not been able to find who designed it but, of course, well remember the big living room on the southwest corner. Water apparently came from a well in the garden be- tween the main house and the road - (until the Seal Harbor Water Co. laid the surface pipes from Jordan Pond) The Barn was built right on the road near the west property line. About 1893 a "Studio" for Artist Charles S. Hopkinson was built on the north side of the County Road just east of the Hopkinson Road, and in 1896 J.P.H. gave his daughter Frances H. Eliot property west of Hopkinson Road for "the Cottage" which the Eliots built there the following winter and spring. (See 8 The jog in the east boundary line north of the road pro- vided space for "Hopkinson Road" - in the only location allowing access to house sites on the upper ledges. 9 No definite date or architect known. "FHE Estate" below). Presumably, J.P.H. built the first section of Hopkinson Road for access to that house-site. The Studio and land east of Hopkinson Road was sold? TO SAE to be added to the "FHE Estate" (see below) in 19 What happened to the Hopkinson Property south of the County Road in later years? I have only a few "notes". Grandpa (John P. Hopkinson) died in 1910 and Grandma (Mary Elizabeth W. Hopkinson) in (April?) 1919. The house and barn were rented for several summers between those dates to among others - Joseph Hoffman, Bauer, (pianist) and in 1916 Barnes (w. daughter Lilace). After Grandma's death the property was sold to Harry R. Baltz who, in turn, sold it to the present owner - Peter Buchanan Bell. "Overcliff" from West - 1981 15 1 J.P.H to F.H.E 1896 (orig. Ladd Place) 2 Bought by SAE from J.P,H. or 3 To FHE from M.W.H. Estate-1919 C.W.S.To Presion Johns Hopkins of Bought from CWE Estate-1927 A.C.Gilman Rochefeller 4887.0 5-7°-32'W Jay Alsop ASTICOU TERRACES TRUST Wood Road 2007 Pine S.B. at Look-out 01 707 G.S. Pierce 875' 4 SECURITY 18 (610) 390 (396) (239) FHE scale ESTATE 2 Dab. 1"=200 12.049ac. Baltz CAVE-Sept.71 1 PSP head with more 3 Sept'81 2003.8 1B 920+ (340) 1111 105 N-70-00E SB SB (113.8) (1006.9) CurTis Eliot To Frost 1927 Langhorne ? The "F.H.E. Estate" The property now administered by the Trustees for the Frances H. Eliot Estate consists of four parcels of land - (See Attached Sketch Map) with the "Big House", Garage, Cabin, "Studio", and "Study", and "The Avenue" (Hopkinson Road). The present 12.049 acres were acquired: - 1. 1896 Original Lot by gift of John P. Hopkinson (as noted above) ; 2. 19 Studio Lot bought from John P. Hopkinson by SA. i 3. 1919 Remainder of original 1883 "Hopkinson Lot" - north of the County Road to FHE by Will of Mary Elizabeth Watson Hopkinson - including 60 foot strip west of the 1896 Lot and ledges north of the "Big House"; and 4. 1927 Six acres east of 1883 "Hopkinson Lot" with 165' frontage on County Road and 875' deep - (almost to "Look-out") by purchase from CWE Estate - ($1500.) The Buildings on this "F.H.E. Estate" are: a. The Studio - about 1893, near the County Road and east of the Hopkinson Road, was originally a large shed - 20x30 with the north wall all glass. The fireplace and chimney, and the rooms north of the Living Room were added by the Eliots after the property was bought by SAE in 191? (New kitchen in 1955) b. The Big House (To distinguish it from the Studio and Cabins) - sometimes referred to as "Hilltop Cottage" or "Eliot Cottage" - was built in 1896-97 under a contract (on the wall by the stairs) costing $5675.00. (Two carpenters lived in the house while doing by hand the woodwork of mantels, stair rail and ballusters, etc) The original house had ten rooms and one bathroom and a lavatory. The second story overhung the first story Piazza across the south side of the building and over the north Porch, and open piazza ran along the east and west sides. A wood- shed was constructed at or about the same time. Changes over the years included conversion of the 2nd floor N.E. Room and the 2nd floor Porch of the N.W. Room into Bathrooms, addition of a bathtub in :7 the "back hall" next to the Lavatory, and a one story addition out to the shed to provide three 'maids rooms" (one demolished with the shed about 197 ) In 1912 the "Outdoor Dining Room" replaced 10 the "green spot" at the southwest corner of the House - with the sleeping porch above. (Wonderful on a clear starry night - but a rush for cover when the thunder rolled). Other changes were the wide rail on the south porch and the progressive change of the original pantry into the kitchen, after the Outdoor Dining Room was constructed. The present Garage was built in 197 Utilities for the Big House in the early years were limited to Water and Sewer: Water by the surface lines of the Seal Harbor Water Co. (or was there a well in the Bower?) and a sewer pipe down the hill over the ledges, across the County Road and Hopkinson land, to the ocean. Lights were candles and kerosene lamps until electricity came by a pole line along the lot's western boundary in 1924 (Tom). I have no date for the Telephone installation, but we still have the mega- phone which summoned us from play (or SAE from his "Study") for meals or occasions. [Photos of Former and Present Views of and from House] The views from the Big House - like those of the Ancestral originally included: - To the north - "The Lookout" and Pemetic and Green Mountains - (re-opened in the winter of 1920 by a "crew" of Ted and Charles and their friends who shivered and tried to sleep in the Living Room & Old Dining Room, and got fed by Laura at Orrins) Today, after sixty more years of tree growth, you can't see beyond the driveway turnaround from the north porch (and just the top of Cadillac is visible from the window on the stairs to the third story) To the east we used to look out over Pierces Head (Mackaye-Smith) Bracy's Cove, Seal Harbor and Bunkers Ledge to Little Cranberry and Baker's Island, but that too is now blocked by trees. To the south, the former sweeping views of Cadillac Harbor, from Bear Island and Suttons - past the Western way to Corning's Point and Greenings Island are reduced to just the Western Way - and even that is fast dis- appearing. 10 Where the marriage of Rosamond to William G. Rice took place - June 29, 1920. 19 To the west there was until the early '20s a view over the ledges (and sand pile) to Western Mountain - (Mansell and Bernard), but that was over the neigh- bor's (Wheelwright) property which was sold Wheelwright to Barnes in 1921 when a house was built in the view. a. The Cabin was built north of the driveway turnaround in 1927 with an outdoor shower ("in the fog" - Frank F. S. 1934) on the north wall and an out- house further up the trail. and finally b. The Study - another cabin for SAE's work (or escape) on the Ledge east of the "Avenue" after that land was bought from the CWE Estate in 1927. Over the past 85 years, members of the Family have occupied "the Big House" in all but four or five summers. My memory identifies: 1907 at Pocasset, Mass. 1910 Family at Wainwright's in Chocorua, N.H. 1915 Family at Walpole, N.H. - opposite Bellows-Robinson 1918 Family at Morrisville, Vt. (I was in Italy and 1921 (I was on Glee Club Trip to Europe) (July 21 - Sam & Fan 7 wks Europe) and what other years? And rented to whom? As with the Ancestral and Overcliff, , "The FHE Estate" has been the scene of memorable family events and celebrations - notably the birth of Frances on September 2, 1901, - and annual birthday parties ever since with "special" occasions for her 75th and 80th (recorded in the Guest Book). Father's Birthday on August 24 also was celebrated an- S.A.E. nually, and especially his 50th in 1912 - Olympic Games & Drama (cf. above) 67th in 1929 - Photo on Porch Rail; 70th in 1932 - All seven children, two in-laws, ten grands; 75th in 1937 - Family Dinner, and evening fire on beach; 80th in 1942 - Huge party of family, relatives, neighbors, etc., ; and 85th in 1947 - "Bakers l'd and Everything" - "All Wight". The Parents' Golden (1939) and Diamond (1949) Wedding Anniversaries were celebrated at Mt. Desert Island with all Seven children, in-laws and "grands" (and a great record of photos) 21 The Guest book for the "teens" notes visits by lots of friends of Ros, Lib, and Fran including: 1916 "Arthur C. McGiffert Jr., Allen Clark, Norman Taylor, John Paulding Brown" 1917 Mary Atkinson, Ruth Taylor, Elizabeth Jeanette Palache, Rob't Williamson and Frank Fremont-Smith, Jr." 1919 Frank Fremont-Smith, Jr. for announcement of engage- ment to Fran on her birthday, and William Gorham Rice, Jr. 1920 June 29 - Ros & Bill's Wedding "out on the rocks" - with 40 guests, inc. - Wm Z. Ripley, Dorothea Fremont-Smith, Anna Hamlin, Rosalind Parker, Betty Potter, James G. King, Jr. + + and in later years - 1936 - "Lois Spinster and Tom - Bachelor" before the item of 1938 "Torka and Lincoln" - signalled the interests of another generation. Activities Sixty or seventy years ago the families activities at Mt. Desert ranged among blueberrying on the ledges, through mountain climbing or the Moose Trail to Jordan Pond, picnics (cf. "Patriarchal Picnics" by FHE - attached) , sailing, swimming off the float and to Bear Island, (when was Harbor Club opened?) horseback riding (Mr. Vignoles), and Mother FHE's Painting (Cousin Milly Greenough's "Orgy of Art" - 1938) continued by Fran and me. We all attended the Union Church Services on Sundays - where "Memorials" are in good shape (1981) for CWE & GHE (1927) and for SAE & FHE (1955). 22 The "Coffee Pot" In 1916-17, a fourth house on the original Eliot Lot # 70 was constructed on the ocean bluff between the Ancestral and the Hopkinson house. It is "The Coffee Pot" - named from the source of the money to pay for it, - the sale of a Silver Coffee Pot given to President Eliot by Charles R. crane) 11 The house (which is even closer to the cliff than "Overcliff") was designed by Roger Pierce and intended for use by the Charles Eliot Family - Mary Yale Pitkin Eliot and the four daughters - Ruth - Mrs. Roger Pierce, Grace - Mrs. William Dudley, Ellen - Mrs. Richard Paine, and Carola- Mrs. Lev. Goriansky and their progeny. The road to the "Coffee Pot" left the County Road at the same point as the 1884 road to the Ancestral. The house was occupied in June 1917 according to the Guest book at the Coffee Pot. Over the years some of the changes in the struc- ture have included 1) a 4-5 foot extension of the Dining Room, 2) the "Playroom" on the first floor west, and 3) changes in the Hall and addition of Powder Room - all designed by Lev. Goriansky. I have been told by C. Eliot Pierce that in April 1923 there was an "agreement" for Aunt Mary (Mrs. Charles Eliot) to have the Coffee Pot, but that Grandfather's Will left it to her four daughters. (deed Oct. 19, 1927 by Administrators S.A. Eliot andW. R. Peabody) On January 2, 1931 the daughters deeded it to their Mother, who, on her death in May, 1947, left it to Ruth Eliot Pierce. It is now owned by Ruth's descendants. The lot includes 230 feet of shorefront (under the 1927 Agreement of the CWE heirs) and is subject of a foot-right of way to the float for the FHE Estate and the Bells. Rentals - 6 summers in mid 30s to Morris of Penna. Mr. Crane also gave CWE - "Crane's Car" as Grandfather always referred to the automobile 19 -1926 - see James "CWE" Vol II p. 320. 23 Phillips Asticou Moind Mitchell NEIGHBORS (Asticou Inno Eliot M'tn B Lat 74 Lot 75 Lot 73 c Lot 69 Lot70 Terraces Thuy a Barr Lodge Hill 24 N Cropot rust Marte Eyre H Pearody Russell N Smith Russell Back Eliot of Grath zokuefeller, Boyer 09 R Clifton Hall Mrller Bracys Kaiser Dock M. Crofoot Bell Pierce C.E.Pierce Cove H'b'r Club Alsop") Kneedler J.D.Prence 1000 Goridnsky Santas Hecksher ft. Ford Ingalls Pen Poule Durkins Formally Rochefeller Savases Point Mackeye -Smith E.Poine Pierces Head of from Corected Records Town Assessor by C.W.I Sept. 1981 Asticou Neighbors Neighbors of the Eliots have included: A. West of the Original Lot 70: 1. Joseph S. Curtis - Landscape Gardener - who bought Lot 69 in 1881. I remember his living in a house on the harbor side of the County Road - now owned by Virginia Shattuck and Francis and Grigsby Peabody. Mr. Curtis built and summered at Thuya Lodge and Garden. He left what he had not sold to others to the Asticou Terraces Trust. 2. Arthur C. Wheelwright, and later his daughter Mary Wheelwright, who rented the Ancestral in 1886 - the same year they bought "Roberts Point" at the mouth of Northeast Harbor and the hillside east of the County Road adjoining what later became the FHE Estate. The Wheelwrights Pier was on the Harbor side of the Point, but the Schooner "Hesper" was moored within sight from our piazza. 3. Francis G. Peabody - Uncle Frank. Harvard Professor and Unitarian Minister (Cambridge First Parish), with Aunt Cora and Cousins Rodman, Gertrude and Dr. Francis. Their house - "Runnymeade" - (now Harte-Thompson) is on the Harbor with a Study on the north point over Cow Cove and a pier below the main house. The Opeechee was moored just off the pier. 4. Dr. Richard M. Harte - son, Richard - (m. Webster), and daughters: Katherine (m. Putnam) & Helen (m. Thompson), - who bought and built on a lot up "the Curtis Road" - east of the County Road - now Lawrence Mallinckrodt. 5. Samuel Eliot Morrison - Harvard Professor and Historian - bought part of the Wheelwright property on the harbor - now owned by his daughter Emily M Beck - "Good Hope". Others who came into possession of the Wheelwright lands were or are - a) on the harbor side of the County Road: 6. Thomas S. Hall - Professor - Washington Univ. "Landfall" 7. Dr. Michael Crofoot at Robert Point - "Crowsnest" 8. Jeffries, - now Gerald Miller - next to the Hopkinson-Bell Barn. 25 9. Mrs. Francis Boyer - between the Millers and Dr. Crofoot. "Beau Geste". and b) east of the County Road 10. The property immediately west of the "FHE Estate, I have been told was sold by Mary Wheelwright (without informing the Eliots) to Lilace Barnes who built a house on the Eliot's western view. Other owners I associate with that parcel are - in succession - Mary H. Frost (1926-27 cf "Fourth Property" in "The Ancestral" above), George T. Langhorne (19 ) and now Joan B. and Norman Smith. North of the former Wheelwright-now Smith Property- and east of the County are two other properties formerly part of the Curtis Lot 69 and now owned by 11. Russell - between the Smiths and the Curtis Road; 12. David Crofoot - between the Curtis Road and County Road south of the Harte-Mallinckrodt Parcel - with a house I associate with Mr. Curtis. Further Northwest there was and still is the Asticou Inn Built '83, Burned & Rebuilt '89, and run by the Savages. It was the Post Office - with noon and eve- ning mail arrivals. Beyond the Inn at the northeast corner of Peabody Drive and the Brown Mountain Road - Robert Moore had his house and farm. He delivered milk and vegetables at the FHE House and fascinated the youngsters with his stuttering talk. And across Northeast Harbor was NEH Village with the Post Office, Bank, Stores, Union Church, etc. - and Friends - including Gilmans, B. C. Gardiners, Lincoln Cromwells, etc. East of the Original Lot 70 Neighbors have included 13. Mrs. Mary S. Ingalls on Savages Point - just east of Orrins house (Goriansky) 14. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Nelson and David Rockefeller ) who bought the "Eyrie" on Barr Hill in 1910 from Prof. Samuel F. Clarke, and then acquired a very large area between Barr Hill and the Eliot Lot, south of the National Park, including Long Pond, the Ridge south of Mitchell Hill (where Carriage Road), the valley of Little Harbor Brook, and the east slope of Asticou Hill. Earlier owners of these properties included Lot 73 - A. C. Savage, Lot 74 Edwin Abbott, Lot 75 James T. Gardiner (as shown on Colby-Stuart 1887 Map) 26 Road frontage, east of Harbor Brook in 1969 - (see "Ancestral" above) Lot 2. 16. The Stillmans - now Mrs. Penelope Stillman Paine and daughter Elizabeth (See "Ancestral" above re Lot 3) 17. Bishop Mackaye-Smith with a big house on "Pierce's Head" - which got its name from 18. F. Pierce, N. Pierce (on Colby-Stuart Map) and Mrs. J. D. Pierce, the present owner of the "Yellow House" close to the north side of the County Road. Seal Harbor And South East - Bear Island where 19. Prof. William H. Dunbar bought the north part of the Island (all but the Lighthouse lot) in 1886. Dunbars still "summer" on Bear Island in 1981. When Dunbars were not there the house was rented to the Charles Eliots or Footes, etc. Suttons I'd - Lanman, Paine, Wheelwright to Harvard. 1981 Property Disposals Grandmother Eliot (GHE) died July 18, 1924 and Grandfather (CWE) on August 22, 1926. It took thirty years to settle Grandfather's Estate. From incomplete files, talks with sib- lings and cousins, and my own memories here are some of the problems encountered and how they were ultimately resolved. Upon reading of Grandfather's Will, Aunt Mary Eliot and Ruth E. Pierce objected to Samuel A. Eliot as Executor, - so, upon application to a Court (Sept. 7, 1926) he and Cousin W. Rodman Peabody were appointed "Administrators of the Charles W. Eliot Estate". In 1927, what was later referred to as a "General Settle- ment" was agreed upon "assigning 190 feet of the shorefront to the Coffee Pot Lot which was left to the four Charles Eliot Daughters by CWE's Will (cf. "The Coffee Pot" above re 1930 to M.Y.E. and 1947 to Ruth E. Pierce), 100 feet to the "Ancestral" Lot, and the Beach lot to remain in the Estate for Orrin's use and care; 2) for sale of 6 acres east of the "FHE Estate" to S.A.E. for $1500 (parcel 4 in account of "FHE Estate" above) and 3) for sale of a 117 foot strip between the west boundary of the FHE Estate and the County Road opposite the Wheelwright Barn for $1000. (cf. - "Fourth property" on account of "First House - Ancestral" above). For several years after Grandfather's death the Ancestral was rented to Dr. Fritz B. Talbot - 19 -19 to ?, in 1937 to Doughaday and ? ANP In 1928, at my urging 11 SAE proposed the gift to the National Park of the land north of the County Road to the top of Asticou Hill. The Charles Eliots did not agree, - pointing out that Rockefeller had bought Barr Hill and Ford-Ox Hill (above Seal Harbor) and that some other millionaire would someday pay handsomely for Asticou Hill. The proposed gift to the Park was rejected again in 1932, and in 1940 J. D. Rockefeller, Jr. offered $5625 for 77 acres which was also rejected. Offers by Charles Savage to buy this same place "for park purposes" in 1946 and 1950 were also refused by the Charles Eliots. 1947 was a year of decisions - following the deaths of Aunt Mary Yale Eliot and Orrin Donnell (5/14). That was when 11 had been working with George Dorr in Washington on the GBD legislation to establish Lafayette National Park, and that summer wrote my report - "The Future of Mt. Desert Island" for the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Society. 25 1) Ruth E. Pierce inherited the Coffee Pot and Lot, 2) Carola E. Goriansky got Orrin's House and Lot, and 3) The Ancestral was sold to Joseph Biddle (who occu- 1947 pied it for only two seasons before he was killed in an airplane accident) His heirs rented the house to Thomas Gates in 1954 and to? others before the property was sold to Mrs. Jay in 19 Mrs. Jay's daughter - Susan Mary Jay inherited the Ancestral when she was married to William Patten - her first husband. She later married Joseph Alsop (and was living in the Ancestral this past 1981 summer). These 1947 actions left only two "assets" in the "Estate of Charles W. Eliot - 1) The 77 acres of the original Grant CWEL Lot north of the County Road, and 2) Rights to Royalties from the Collier Company on sales of the Five Foot Shelf - The Harvard Classics. I have not found any evidence of proposals to "dispose" of those assets between 1948 and the death of my father Samuel A. Eliot in 1950. I do not know when Cousin Rodman Peabody died, but when I came back from California after my mother's death (April 1954), there were no "adminis- trators" of the CWE Estate". On February 1st 1955 all the then living heirs of Grand- Cuer father joined in an Application for the appointment of myself, and Paul Sargent as Administrators, and in March we were duly appointed. I immediately re-opened negotiations with Charles Savage of the Asticou Terraces Trust (Curtis Estate) and with Mr. Rockefeller concerning the disposition of the 77 acre tract of land. In May, Charles Savage reported Mr. Rockefeller's offer of $5000. to the Asticou for purchase of the Eliot land - "for park purposes only". A letter went out to the heirs on May 31st describing the problem and this proposal - with a place for initials of those authorizing action. Everyone signed and the land was sold to the Asticou Terraces Trust in December 1955 for $6000. - all contributed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 12 The problems with the P. F. Collier Co. over the Five-Foot Shelf took much longer to settle - but were finally resolved. In 1957, after the U.S. Board of Geographic Names changed the name of Asticou Hill to Eliot Mountain (without consulting our family), I wrote the following letter to family and friends: - 12 In my talks with Mr. Rockefeller he told me that it was his intention to turn over to either the Park or Asticou Terraces Trust the portion of Grant Lots 73 and 74 including the east side of Asticou Hill and Little Harbor Brook - but did not do so. Now owned by David Rockefeller. 20 25 Reservoir Street Cambridge 38, Mass. August 5, 1957 Dear The Charles William Eliot Memorial Association, which contributed the bust at Eliot House and the tablets on the Eliot Bridge, had a small balance which has been turned over to me for use towards a bronze marker on Eliot Mountain (Asticou Hill). The cost of the bronze and for setting it in a ledge, on Asticou Hill exceeds the amount available by an estimated thirty-five dollars. In addition, money or services are needed to restore more of the wide view from the site of the marker. There is a fine view of the Western Way from the spot where I think the marker should be set - but there used to be an even finer sweep from east of Baker's Island around to Western Mountain before trees grew to obstruct it. Mr. Charles Savage, as Trustee of Asticou Terraces, has charge of the site and will take 'care of the tree cutting and maintenance of the view - it can be done now or this autumn and winter if some help is forthcoming. Don' t you want to have a part in this? Send me a check or volunteer your services as a chopper to Mr. Savage. Sincerely, Charles W. Eliot, 2nd. LOT MOUNTAIN SE WILLIAM LEOT 30 Sources Visitors Records - GHE House Sunshine 1881-1916 GHE 1917-1921 Big House - Red 1916-43, Blue 1947. Photographs Mounted - identified by SAE Blue Book 1890-1900 Red Book 1901-1903 Six & Books of Children and Grandchildren "Charles Eliot - Landscape Architect" - "Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot" - by John M. Richardson 1941 & 1944 "Not a Common House" - by Gunmar Hanson 1981 re Doanes and 100th Anniversary of St. Mary's by the Sea "Mt. Desert - A History" by George E. Street, SAE Editor 1905, 2nd Edit. 1926 "Samuel Atkins Eliot - Pilot of a Liberal Faith" by A.C. McGiffert, Jr., 1976. "Charles W. Eliot" Vols I & II by Henry James 1939 Vol II p. 175 Photo of Ancestral from southwest "Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Island" by Dr. W. B. Lapham 72 pp. 1888 - re Sunshine Cottage "Patriarchal Picnics" by Frances H. Eliot - 19 Atlantic Monthly "I Remember Mt. Desert" by Frances H. Eliot- 19 May 1951 Lincoln-Mercury Times. "Down Memory lane" by Emily Phillips Reynolds NEH Library Robert Pyle, Librarian Maine History Collection, Maps 1807, 1848, 1884, 1887 &, Photos (Champlain Soc.), Town of Mt. Desert - Bordeau. Assessor since 1947 Assessor's Maps and Owner Lists: Files - Letters, Records, etc. SAE 1926-50 re CWE & CWE Estate CWE2nd 1955-1972 re CWE & CWE Estate Talks with Tom, Lois, Fran, Lib, Cush C. E. Pierce Sn & Jr., Susan Mary Alsop, Carola Goriansky + +. 31 Appendix A Champlain Society 1880-81 Somes Sound - Smalledge at outlet of Hadlock Brook Charles Eliot '82 Director Orrin A. Donnell - seaman DeWindt '81 Geologist Photo at Samuel A. Eliot '84 Meterologist Goriansky's Prof. William M. Davis - Consultant Edward L. Rand '81 Botanist Charles W. Townsend '81 Ornithologist John L. Wakefield '80 Botanist William Bryant - Steward "Hunters" - 1880 - Champlain Soc. Slack George F. Dunbar Samuel A. Eliot Photo in "Champlain Society" Ernest Lovering record given to NEH Library William H. Dunbar by Charles Dunbar 2 More Photos at Coffee Pot Record in "Charles Eliot - Landscape Architect" pp. 25-28 ( & p. 32 re 1882) and in "Flora of Mt. Desert" - Intro. Rand & Redfield Records and Proposed History by Theodore L. Eliot 32 Jamual R Out manylymen Mary m Chas t. fuild Chaun W'm Ellen Peabody Elizabeth Stephen Dellard Kate m Stever Francesm Henry W. Toote 1cousin Onne leaver C.E. guid Katherine Charlis Henry Trumy Samuel Hopkinson a. Day Ellen Treadore or Eriot or Hany W troTe FrancisE, Mery Dorother Patkin m Frothergham and Stephon Unit John ? Cleanor Cope & cornishavic Roger merrim nott. learn harry Rath grace wan Carola m ml H.Wilder agues arthur Celeb Elyzabeth "Thanks' Royer 2Dan 5H Roga Puree Dudley Rich Prine friendly m n 3 Dorothea Massha Abner Rebecca Hope James 7 Stevens Brody Clark stephen makay adopted 34 I Wilder Judy Mary Francis2 nathan Calet Relat Heather Badaww2 Daird When Relut m wildler clark Clark Foots Twins James Daird m Danuel m Thmothy Brody CISTehman.,In Mackey Helen Klanchuk Merrimans Roger Danlel Frances Dorothea Helen Prudence W m Fuedrucka Warna 1) m Wisland 194-16 VA m a) Ethan a Sims Mason fernald Roger Joan Ethan AJr Dorothea nathanial Francis Corina Clist 7, Robert H. adopted m m m D, Mac Arthur Ruth Bustin Evan "Richer Stephan Merriman Peter S. Morgan Heather Elzzabeth Referca Hannah Hardy Beingamun SAMUEL A. ELIOTS Samuel Atkins Eliot m Frances Stone Hopk inson 1862 - 1950 1871-1954 Sam vel Atkins Eliot m Ether Augusta Cook 3/14/93 - 4/15/900-5/26/72 1) Frances Torka m Lincoln O'Brien a. Lincoln Tr b. Susan m John Poet H John Patrick 2 Torka Sue 1937-1973 3 4 C. Eliot OBrien m Redra Twins Cody and 2 Rhianon. 2) alexander Eliot m. 'Anne a. May Jane Window 3) Patience Anne m Willard Crompton addlesson Winslow a. Carrie m george Elliott b. Joseph chancy d Catherine attins e. Samuel Willard Rooamond Eriot m William Garham Rice In 1995-1969 1920 10 197 1) andrew Eliot Rice m Peggy Goodwin a b William Pre kwood 2) +3) Twins Peter. d1945 and Pamela m Chris Rendeiro 4) William Prynn d 1932. a.Beth b. Richard. 5) Timothy Eliot Rice m Susan levy a Ethan whitney b. Jessica m c. Jason, d. Matihene Raron Elisabeth Eliot m. Arthur Cushman mcgiffert Jr 1897 1917 1987- 1) David viot mosiffect m Sylvra Wilder 2 Evid alama Hatchurson b. Carola 2) Michael m Elizabeth Eastman 2 Semevieve White Michel 3) Ellen m William Henley Brokaw a Detorah Run Jackson b. Rotert Cushman Brokaw c. Elisabeth d William Honley Jr & Elema Maria Charles William Eliot 2nd m Regina Phelps Dodge 1899 - 1903-1979 1) Charles W. Eliot III me.Johanna Garfield a Jennifer b. Rigail Ind c.Retecca d. Stephanie 2) Carolyn m Peter Carroll - a Terrence b. Brian c.Philip I dHolly Jenny f. Jason g Katy. - "John Brill Ruckdeschel 3) John m Sytria HewiTTa. JohnCooper 1980) b.Mary Askley clatherine Benit. 4) Lawrence Gray Eliotm Charlotte Teichroew a David Stuart b. Peter Teichnoeut 26 pa39 CHARLES ELIOTS Charles Eliot m. Mery Yale Pitkin 1860-1897 .1947 1. Ruth YY Roger Pierce 3) Ellen m David Cheerver Sn a. David II m b. Ruth m Drake Nathan C. 2 Mathew c Roger Pierce 1) Charles Eliot Perce m Dora Readway Mason a. Charles E.Jr m Bartara Hanson D Shiela 2 Charles E II b Joan m D. Uranock 1 Christopher Ge Edith m Tom Murphy ' Oron Leila d.Bren m Cynthia 2) Roger Perce J's m Rosamond Satura z Eleen mc Claurin a. Roger " b. Mary Sature 4) Danuel Pierce m Mary Harding a.Sarah b, Daniel In C, Mathew Vassar d Samuel STillman 2. Grace m William Dudley 3. Ellen m Richard.Peine 1) Walter Cabot m 2) a b c d 2) Sheela 3) Sylvia m John Constable a b c 4) Richard C.Js m Penelope Stillman (momillan) a.Elizabeth 5) Charles W. Eliot Paine m a b 4. Carola m Lev Vladamir Goriansky 11 Michael m Jan Lelaurin a b 2) Alexander 37 ELLOTS Samuel Atkins Eliot m. Mary Lyman 1798-1862 1802 - 1875 Mary Lyman m Charles Eid guild i) Eteanor 2) Katherine 4) Robert. d 5) Henry Eliot- d 3) Charles Eriot Guild m Amme Frothingham a. Henry m 1 Henry Elizabeth Lyman m STephen Bullard 1) Mary m Frances H Day Rochester,England) 2) Ellen 3) Throdore 4) John 5) Eliot hances Anne m Foote 1) Henry Wilder foote m Eleanor Cope a H.Weeder m Marsha Stevens b.Genes m abner Brody c. Arthur m d. Calet m Hope Stophans e Elizarethm James Makay. Rebecca Clark 2) Dorothea m Roger B. Merriman a Roger m Fredereker Warnen b.Daniel CDorothea.m Ethan Sims a Frances-d a Helen Penelopem Mason Fernald 3) Frances m Louis Cornish Catherine m Storer CharlesWilliam 1834-1926 Eliot 1858 m L Ellen Derby Reatody, Grace Mellon Hopkinson 18 1869 1846-1924 of Robert d 2) Francis -d 3) Charles Eliot m. Mary Yate Pitkin 1859 1897 1788 -1947 a Realth m Roger Pauce b. grace m William Dudley C. Ellen m Ruchard C.Paine d. Carola m Lev Arriansky 4) Samuel Gutums Eliot m Frances Stone Hopkinson 1862-1950 augusta 1871-1954 a. Samuel a Jr m the Cook b. Rosamond m William G Rice a Is d. CharlesW2 & frances m Frank Fremont-Smith f. Theodore Lyman m Martha Bigelow g. Thomas Hopkinsonm Lois Jameson. 33 PEABODY Rev. Ephriam Peabody m Mary Jane Derby 3/22/1807-11/26/1856 8/5/32 1/30/1807-2/3/1892 Ellen Derby Peatody m Chavles William Eliot 1) Charles Elot m Mary Yale Pettin 2) Samuel Cattums Eliot m Frances Hone Hopkunson See ELIOTS Pnna Heidekoper Peatody m Henry Whitney Bellows 1814-1882 1) Rotertul Architect-Bellow: and Aldrich 2) Ellen P. m ".Samuel Rotinoon 2. Thorndike Endicott a.hummm W.Town b.Thomas Robin son Y Eluzabeth Wilcox, C.Katherine 3) Henry W,Su rokert Swain Peatody m! anne Putnam 2 Helen hee 1) Katherine m W. Rodman Peatody a getruded b. anne m Fuderick E Donaldson = allen and Swan c Katherine me Henry H Benester = Kodman, UlenHedge and Henry d. Cora YR Rotect Emlere = genze,Rotest KaTe and Nicholas 2) Mary Derly 1881-1931 m Harry Scott 1910 3) Rotert Ephriam Peatody m I Elizabeth Wildes 2 Charlotte Allen a.Robert EI dage5 4) Ellen d. hancis Greenwood Peatody m. Cora Weed 1) William Rodman Peatody m Kate Peatody as above 2) gertrude 3) Frances Weld Peatody m Virginia who m2 george Shattuck a. Francis b.grisoly 35 HOPKINSON Thomas m Corinna Prentiss- 9/27/1804-11/17/1856 1836 Francis Custis Hopkinson of H'60 Civil War Casualty. 1836-1863 John Prentiss Hopkins on m Mary lizabeth Watson 10/18/1340 9910 1843 -1919 1) Leslie 2) Charles Hopkinson m Elinor Curtis attarrist m alfred Rive OHasuto Jane b. Mary m John Gibbon JA 2. Lovell Thompson Mary 2 John 3 Plice 4 Margery C. Isatella m James Attabsted Ollinor Charles 01 isabella d Elinor m James Henderson Barr @ Masgeret Donglas of Join m William A. Shurcliff 0 authur a. 2 Charlestic 3) Frances Stone m Samuel a Eliot See Eliots 4) Christina m George Pierce Baker a. John itophenison Baker m to b. Edwin Ostorn Baker m Euring 2 B 3 A c. Myles Pierce Baker m Mac Bumer @faith 2 Edith a George Pierce Baker Jr m Sarah Bremar2 Alex a Uhle Ogenge P. 2 3 Ellen Christina 5/18/1848- m. Hersey B. Goodwin B to Amelia (Milly) m Rotert, Greenough a Marym Hayd Meamb Ellen minich Stereac Barbaram d. Seolie m Susan 2 Protect 2. goodwin m loatel geer 3, Grace m John Bertram Read a John BJs b Eleanor c Richard m Sarah Anabusky 4. Frances. m Reginald Johnson a Christine bReginald To c.Nancy d. Eric e.Lydia Grace Mellon Hopkins on m. Charles W. Cliot 8/16/1846 - 7/18/1924 see ELIOTS 36 SAMUEL A. ELIOTS Continued Samuel Atkins Eliot m Frances Stone Hopkinson 5. 1862 - 1950 1871-1954 Frances 1901 m Frank tremont-Smith Jr 1) Paul Fremont-Smith m Margery Stafford Marion Rutro miller a Paul In DHeather 2 Thomas C. Nancy E. m.Rotert Lincoln D Benjamin b. Christopher 2 Plexandra d. Detorah m Rotest Carroll -0 David e. Frances Hopkenson m Jia Li-jon 2) Kenneth Fremont Smith m'Janet Smith a Steven b.Daniel m Lee Bowess c.Darrd 2 Bartara Wright d Kenneth Jr 3) Ehot fremont-Smith m Lida Schwartz a. Andrew 9. Theorotore Lyman Elot m Martha Bigelow 1) Joan m 'John Washington 2 Ewall O'Bryan 3 John Sappington a. Christina 2) Theodore Lyman E. Jr in Patricia Peters a.SarahWinelow lb. Mary Carol b. Theodore LIII c.Wendy d. Peter Bigelow Eliot 3) Gwladys Begelow m' John Elexander Stevens Eugene Scott a Alexander b. Walter Eliot c. Eric (d) and d. Nancy Downing 4) Mary Williams m 'Rotert 7. Winne a. Lise 2 Henrik Hagerup b. Clarke Thompson (Tom) 7. Thomas Hopkinson Erior m Lois Jameson 1907 1936 1) Samuel Eliot 1Y m Mary Kathrun 2) Nancy freeman m Ru chard C. weett a. Eliot b. Edward Andrew 39 Appendix C Steamboats "Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot" by John M. Ricardson, 1941 & 44 Bar Harbor Lire - Boston - Rockland - Egg'n Reach or Thorofare. S. WHbr - Bar Hbr 1. Lewiston 1868 - landings at S.W., Bar & on to Machias (later "Orion") 2. City of Richmond - 18 - see "I Remember Mt. Desert" by F.H.E. 3. Mt. Desert 1879 - 162x27 - from Tillson's Wharf - Rockland. 4. J. T. Morse 1904 - 214x31 - sunk by "Belfast" 1910. Collision Pemiquid 1915 1931 last season - later "Yankee" - NY vic. Bangor Line - Boston - Rockland & Bangor 1. Katahdin 1863-94 2. Penobscot 1882 3. City of Bangor 1894-1927 - 277'-16 knots Alternate nights leaving Boston 4. City of Rockland 1901-1923 5:00 P.M. Rockland 5. Camden 1907- 320.5 later "Comet" Boston-Rockland 1st Steel & Bangor record 150 a.m. 6. Belfast 1909 later "Arrow" Providence & N.Y. Maine Central - "Bar Harbor Ferry" - Bar, Seal, N.E. & S.W. Harbors 1. Sapho - 1886-1916? later "Pawtucket" 2. Frank Jones 1892-1905 later "Fenimore" 1915 Hudson River 3. Norumbega -1934 Wreck on Clark Pt. Burned in Quincy 4. Moosehead 1911-1941 WWI & II "Mayflower" - lost 1941 5. Rangeley 1913 later "Chauncey M. Depew" - Hudson River Wreck of S.S. Portland - Nov. 26, 1898 41 Appendix D Boats Eliot Hopkinson Peabody 1871 - Jessie 1872-84 Sunshine 43 1/2' Sloop 1884-94 Siesta 1894-96 Hope 1897 - Lola 1897-1936 Hearty 1900 - Snooze 1887- LongBoat 1901 - Kenero 19 Opechee (1908 Cruise) 1909-27 Puffin Goriansky Pierce A road leading to the summit of the highest peak offers an eagle's view of Mount Desert Island with Bar Harbor below and Frenchman Bay beyond. I Remember Mount Desert by Frances H. Eliot photographs by Lawrence Lowry O FF the coast of Maine lies a wonderful island from the sea; woods and trails and streams for fish- which was discovered by Samuel de Cham- ing; a rugged coast, with coves and bays, beaches plain in 1604, named by him l'Isle des Monts D'eserts and headlands, fine harbors and safe sailing for the and named by some of us, who have spent seventy fleet of racers manned by the young people. All is summers on it, "The Blessed Isle" or "God's surrounded by a sparkling ocean. There are automobile roads following the coast, It seems to combine everything. It has a range of and one road, a marvelous piece of engineering, a dozen mountains, some of them rising abruptly goes to the summit of Cadillac Mountain, our high- 1 45 2. est hill. Near the foot of this mountain lies a charm- dows, or tramping overhead. Just outside Rockland, ing pond, or lake, with a "Tea House" near its in the usually gray and foggy morning, the steamer shores. It is a popular place with mountain climbers, would slow down and stop, until it "picked up" the horseback riders, walkers, and automobilists. Whistling Buoy off Monhegan. T can hear that One now goes to Mount Desert Island by any slosh of water on the steamer's sides, now, seventy modern mode of travel, but in the old days it was years later. We reached Rockland at four a.m., remote and inaccessible and was approached almost where there was a great pounding on our stateroom entirely by sea. My family started going there in 1881. doors, for this was where we changed boats. We took the train to Portland, Maine, where we In those early years the only breakfast was boarded a sidewheeler-either the Lewiston or the served on the Rockland wharf so, after we had City of Richmond; they were old steamers with few dressed and got into warm union suits for the conveniences. They plowed through the rather rough change to a colder climate, we had our breakfast. waters to Southwest Harbor, the carliest settlement Of the food I can remember little, but I do recall on Mount Desert Island, arriving at noon with hearing my father say that "the coffee may have most of us gray and silent from seasickness. been made from a photograph of peanut shells" There a sailboat, its large bottom filled with After leaving Rockland we wound among the stones for ballast, waited for us. On the stones our islands, coming so close to some that one could have many and large trunks were piled up, and we all jumped ashore. The wise old captain, just shearing clambered in and set sail for a sloping beach at the the reefs and shallows, knew his way around. I mouth of Northeast Harbor, where we disembarked remember his friendliness in allowing us children and climbed into a waiting buckboard. Our lug- up in the pilot house. He was a taciturn man, as so gage followed on a "jigger," a long, low horse- many "followers of the sea" are, but once he did drawn platform, and we proceeded about a quarter answer a passenger who showed amazement at his of a mile over a dusty country road to our destina- skillful dodging of dangerous rcefs. tion, the small white house belonging to Everett The passenger had asked, "Do you know where Kimball, a fisherman. all the reefs are?" By 1884 steamers not only ran direct from Boston "Nope," was the reply. to Bangor, but connected at Rockland in the early "Well," continued the questioner, "you must morning with a smaller steamer which carried us know where all the bucys are?" through thoroughfares and near islands to the har- "Nope," again came the answer, to which he bors-Southwest, Northeast, Seal, and Bar on Des- added, after a moment's silence, "I know where ert. It was not the Desert we know now; it was a they ain't." far-away island, reached with difficulty, and it was Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard, traveled an exciting adventure for me and my sisters and on these boats each summer, and was once told by brother. We packed our large trunks and drove a member of the crew, "We fellows got talking who through steaming streets in a large hack to Foster's was the cleverest man we carried on this here 'bot' Wharf in Boston where we boarded the steamer and we voted it was you, Mr. President only we for Rockland. don't see why you ain't rich." "I never had the Some of the hardier ones in the family had picnic time," was the reply, which I am sure left them just supper on deck, but very soon the boat was out of as puzzled as before. the harbor and beginning to pitch and roll, so we Life was very simple in those days. The vaca- went to bed in our bunks to sleep fitfully, what with tioners were largely professional people, having passengers laughing and talking outside of our win- long enough vacations to make it possible to go so far from their winter homes. We counted many college presidents and professors in Northeast Har- Monhegan Harbor and town on Monhegan Island. bor. Harvard, Yale, Cornell, California, Johns Hopkins were all represented, and there grew a saying, "You have to have money but no brains in Bar Harbor; brains but no moncy in Northeast Harbor, while in Southwest Harbor you don't have to have either." It is still possible to live simply even though Rockefellers and Atwater Kents may be neighbors. Once when a son of mine was sailing toy boats with the Rockefeller children, he asked Johnny Rocke- feller why his father didn't get him a real boat and was answered scornfully, "What do you think are, Vanderbilts?" 46 Northeast Harbor itself was wild and wooded, a wonderful shelter from the storms. I can remember when it was so closely packed with fishing vessels that one could walk across their decks almost to the opposite shore, and many a time I rowed up the har- bor and with my oar prodded the seals sunning on the rocks, to see and hear them splashing into the water. The native people of this island are proud, inde- pendent and honest. In the older generation, the speech was Elizabethan English, such as is still heard in the Kentucky mountains. One man who worked for my father, upon being asked how he had disposed of a dead cat, replied, "I hove her into the deep." Also there was the answer of the farmer, whose wife was expecting a baby, to the eager question asked him each morning when he Somes Sound, a sheltered sea at Mount Desert. left the milk. After many "Nopes," one day he answered "Yep." "Boy or girl?" he was asked, to for many years, and its great roomy hall was nick- which, after scratching his head, he replied, "Wall, named "the Fish Pond," supposedly a place for the I ain't saying it ain't a gal!" Not long ago when I was driving my car on a lonely road I stopped to maidens of that era to "catch" a beau. Shabby shops lined the main street and after visiting them buy water lilies from a very small barefoot boy, who and lunching at one of the hotels, we clambered answered my query as to the name of the pond aboard our buckboard and at the end of two or from which he had got his flowers with, "It goes by three hours' driving, walking, and singing we the cognomen of Lily." reached our little village once more. Quaint ways are still evident even in these money- President Eliot was the first summer resident to making times. Only last summer my daughter and build his house. That was in 1881. Bishop Doanc of I were seeking a tea house only to be told when we Albany was next, in 1882. On Sundays Bishop Doanc found one "they had given up serving tea-so many held services-first in his house and later in the small people asked for it that they couldn't keep it in stock." wooden chapel he built, called "St. Mary's-by-the- Sea." But those of us who were not Episcopalians The climate in the old days was colder than it is now. We wore flannel suits all summer and I went to the services held in the tiny schoolhouse. Itinerant preachers, usually Baptists, held forth, and remember wearing mittens when we went sailing. I used to go just to hear the stout solemn deacons on Indeed, I recollect very clearly that one day when I was out sailing it snowed! The statement was the platform shout "Amen" with surprising sudden- doubted by my hearers, until I found it verified in ness when they approved of the preacher's senti- ments. Later on, a stone church was built which we the spring of 1948 in the Boston Globe in an article telling of "The cold summer of 1881 when it called "The Union Church," although the Episco- palians dubbed it "Saint Charles-in-the-Wood" as snowed in Maine!' against their "St. Mary's-by-the-Sea," the former Our summers were spent climbing the bare rocky being the result of the initiative of President Eliot. mountains, berrying, and going out on the water. Our captain, a piratical-looking old "salt," wore I think a description of Bishop Doane deserves a gold hoops in his ears and had "the meanest back separate page, for he walked straight out of Trol- in Maine." Distances were great, and roads steep and rocky. Once or twice a summer we would hire The Nelson Rockefeller house, built like a ship. a buckboard to take us on the long drive to Bar Harbor, the metropolis of the island, over such steep hills that we really walked most of the way- up the perpendicular hills to save our horses and down the hills to save our necks. Driving over the great shelf of pebbles at Long Pond was always exciting. We had to get out of the buckboard and walk there, too, to prevent the wheels from sinking up to their hubs. Bar Harbor in the carly days consisted chiefly of vast caravansaries, called hotels-large wooden affairs. "Rodick's" was the largest hotel in Maine 47 4 lope- - a strange anomaly for a New England village Bear Island Light stands at the to grasp. He was rather a stout figure, with promi- entrance to Northeast Harbor. nent features and sandy-colored hair forming a fringe around his bald head. He wore a large- spruce was selected for a midsummer tree, to which brimmed, flat-topped, black felt hat; black frock all the children were invited. It stood high up on a coat, and on his waistcoat rested a large-linked gold rocky mound laden with gifts. Bishop Doane in all chain holding a gold cross. He wore gaiters from his regalia (and a most picturesque sight he was) his knees down, ruffles at his wrist, and a very stood beside the tree with his dainty little grand- large ring on his forefinger. It was certainly a new daughter beside him. Below the two were gathered type to be among the very puritan Yankees. He the "tenants"-pardon me! I mean the other always carried a gold-topped cane and was accom- children-who, as their names were called, came panied by his large mastiff dog. forward and upward to receive a present. It was all I often wondered what had attracted him to such we could do not to "bob a curtsey" or "pull a a far-away village. Was it missionary zeal to profess forelock" his Episcopal belief? Was it a real love of nature's Living was pretty primitive in those days. There beauty and simplicity of living? Probably both. He was no doctor nearer than ten miles and no drug never forgot he was a bishop, which was an annoy- store. A butcher who served also as dentist drove his ing trait to some, such as my father, who resented cart to the different harbors twice a week, with the pat on his shoulder and resented being addressed various joints of animals swaying from hooks in the as "dear child." But he won his way into enough of back of his cart, along with a large pair of forceps the plain people's hearts with his kindness, so that with which to extract painful teeth of his patrons, he did build a small wooden chapel and converted when necessary some of the native people to Episcopalianism. Many boats plied between the harbors and our On Sundays, after the Union Church had been life was spent largely on the sea. We learned to built, we all used to pile into the long boat which swim even in that cold water, as well as how to. had been built for President Eliot at Friendship, row, sail, and manage a boat. It was the simple life Maine. It had oar locks for three pairs of oars and personified. So-called civilization has caught up held a large company, sometimes as many as with us, but the hills and pastures are still good for eighteen people. In that way, like an expedition, berrying, the mountain trails still becken, he we would proceed across the harbor and then have streams and ocean are still ready for the fishermen. a half-mile walk through dense woods to the little and boats are to be had in which to explore church-an expedition reminding one of the pic- fascinating coast and many enchanting islands that tures we see of Swedes and Norwegians doing the lie about. same. I know of no place that offers such interest and In regard to the long boat, there hangs a tale. beauty-the possibilities for a simple life, or a gay After we had had this boat for two years, Bishop one, a place where "evil communications do not Doane asked President Eliot where he had had it corrupt good manners," a place of friendliness and made and was told, "at Friendship, Maine." The neighborliness. next summer there appeared on the waters an exact replica, except for a flag flying from its stern with large letters on it spelling "The Only." To say we Footnole were astonished is putting it mildly indeed! The bishop's little granddaughter asked her I N the summer of 1901 a small group of summer residents on grandfather why he didn't have a Christmas tree Mount Desert Island formed a corporation known as "The in summer, so the idea was considered and a large Trustees of Public Reservations" in order to preserve the natural beauties of the island for generations yet to come. It received many gifts of mountain tops and beaches and by 1913 had acquired about 6,000 acres of land. The trustees offered the land as a gift to the government for a federal park. On February 19, 1919, President Wilson signed an Act of Congress by which the National Monument became "Lafayette National Park." later changed 10 "Acadia National Park" - gift 10 the people forever. Camping sites are provided; forest rangers take care of the fire question; and thousands of tourists come each summer to enjoy the island's beauty. Bar Harbor, well-known to readers of society columns, but only a part of Moun! Desert. 4 48 FRANCES HOPKINSON ELIOT was born and educated in Cambridge and there she has spent many of her happiest years. The daughter-in-law of President Eliot and the wife of a distinguished clergyman, who was for many years minister of the Arlington Street Unitarian Church, she has known with some familiarity the great and near great. the absent-minded, and the originals who gire to Cambridge a luster peculiarly its own. PATRIARCHAL PICNICS by FRANCES H. ELIOT (1991-1954) S WE get into the eighties, how many times we come a sheet of paper on which was written just A say "I remember" - an all-engrossing OC- who should drive, who should sail, who should cupation. How vividly the past stands out in walk, and the chosen picnic spot. It did not occur every detail and what a halo surrounds it all. to any of us that we might have preferences. Any- Happy memories are the delight of the aged. One way, we never dreamed of expressing them. has to impart these remembrances to the second At the appointed hour, the cavalcade started, and third generation with caution and a sharp eye to climbing aboard carriages or boats, or trudging by see when the expression on the listener's face be- foot, laden with wraps, a large tin can holding fresh comes one of faint tolerance, and stop. But there are water, and baskets of such Spartan food as cold incidents and occasions that are now SO obsolete baked beans, cold fish, cold sandwiches - for the they should be recorded, and among these are the thermos bottle had not yet been invented. No picnics my family enjoyed. alcohol, no cigarettes, no matches even, for all fires Off the coast of Maine lies a beautiful island dis- were taboo. The grandparents often had dis- covered by Samuel de Champlain in 1604 and by tinguished guests visiting them and they came President Eliot of Harvard in 1870. Champlain along too, of course. (I doubt if they had any gave it the name "L'Isle des Monts Déserts"; we choice.) Also, sometimes, came the cook and maids, called it "God's Country." Here, in one of the a very democratic party, ranging from Lord Bryce, numerous harbors, called Northeast Harbor, Mr. a quite frequent visitor, 10 Julia, the cook; and in Eliot built the first summer house and made it his age, from seventy to four. summer home for more than fifty years. His hos- Many a mountain picnic was ours, driving to the pitality knew no bounds and there soon gathered a foot of one of these and then plodding up the steep band of college presidents and professors whose long hills, the boys of the party bearing the burden of vacations made it possible for them to spend the baskets, cans, and wraps. If Ambassador Bryce three months' holidays on this almost inaccessible happened to be one of the party, he was soon Sur- island. Harvard, Yale, Cornell, California, and rounded by the young people, for a more charming Johns Hopkins were all represented and there grew raconteur never lived. His knowledge of botany, a saying: "You have to have money but no brains birds, geology, geography, had no limits and he in Bar Harbor, brains but no money in Northeast knew how to impart it. Sometimes it would be Harbor, while in Southwest Harbor you do not have Professor Palmer or Dr. Walcott or Professor Ware to have either." (known to the children as Billy-Bobby) or Professor As I remember the long summer days of my Dunbar, the only person I ever knew who called youth and middle age, when it was still the fashion President Eliot "Charlie." I remember also the to have all one's children enjoying the long vacation Reverend Lyman Abbott, tall, angular, and with a with their parents, I recall the picnics we used to long, flowing board, and Edward Everett Hale, the have when three generations drove, climbed, sailed, great preacher and author of "The Man Without a and sang together. President Eliot was the prime Country," with his leonine head and voice to match. mover, the organizer, the enthusiast. There were giants in those days. A lovely, sunshiny morning would see him tip- Some of Mrs. Eliot's women guests might be locing on our piazza before breakfast, saying, "Illow along 100: Mrs. William James who conversed about an excursion?" Then out of his pocket would rather than talked, or Miss Hoppin, one of Rad- 55 43 56 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY cliffe's most popular dormitory heads, who was once To bc sure, the cautious and taciturn Yankees introduced to a visiting Englishman as "the mis- were sometimes very chary as to their answers tress of Bertram Hall." He was surprised by such as expressed by one farmer who, seeing a portrait Gallic frankness of speech in staid old Cambridge! that was being painted of President Eliot, said, Our sailing pienics to the many beautiful islands "Just like him - only it cairn't ask questions" were full of song led by Mrs. Eliot's and my hus- but they knew he had their interests at heart. band's beautiful voices. Everyone sang - ballads, What interests me in retrospect is the pleasure sea songs, and the topical songs of that time. By and satisfaction the younger generation got out of President Eliot's wish, "Three cheers for Harvard it. They would not have considered those excur- and down with Yale," was changed to and sions complete without their grandparents and one for Yale"! parents. Could as much be said for the young and There were rules and regulations that had to be old people of today? Or was it the Golden Age we observed, and WOC to the boy or girl who tried to lived in, with security and the ability to enjoy the pass an elder on a narrow mountain trail. I can see simple joys of life? Great beauty for the eyes, often the line of marchers, led by an crect figure in a sun high conversation for the mind, merry songs, and helmet, the ladies following, holding up ankle- much laughter. length skirts, wearing shirtwaists with high boned The general public thinks of President Eliot as collars, large hats draped in veils, and even gloves. awesome and unapproachable. His children and No bobbed bare heads, no shorts, no socks. No grandchildren did not find him SO. If a somewhat indeed! A climb in those early days was one of bumptious youngster of seventeen wished to con- dogged determination, decorum, and sweat. Once vert him to socialism (it would be communism to- on the mountaintop, the elders would nap, the day) he would listen with grave attention and tol- young people would pick blueberries, and everyone erance, never with a disapproving attitude, for he enjoyed the beauty all around, plus a satisfactory had great respect for the human mind. If he saw a sense of accomplishment. child disappointed by some decision of his, he was Once, I remember, when picnicking on Flying quick to do anything in his power to atone for it, Mountain, a small hill with open pastures down to no matter how trivial it would seem to be. He was the sca, the elders staged a race. At seventy, Presi- a man of action rather than words, and with per- dent Eliot sprinted down the hill followed by a haps a deeper knowledge of the then new science of bevy of stout, well-corseted ladies holding up their psychology than he was credited with. I remember skirts, with veils flying as they dashed to the bot- on a sailing picnic when heavy squalls hit the boat, tom, while the young, as audience, egged them on full of women and children who began to look pan- with cheers and shouts of laughter. This, however, icky, he handed over the tiller to his son and, with was a rare occasion, for being decorous was the the remark "This is a good time to take a nap," order of the day. disappeared down the hatch to the small cabin President Eliot was a finc horseman and drove below. Could anything be more reassuring! He a spirited span with skill and elegance. To drive was unique in his straight thinking, and upright in with him through the countryside meant many figure also. To see him sitting on a rock, erect as a stops by the way to gather information as to the ramrod, cating sandwiches and "conversing," was mode of life - the diet, the crops, the lobsters, the a common and refreshing sight. number of children, and the hopes and fears of the And so, with gratitude and happiness, "I re- farmer and sailor. member." 44 DANIEL PIERCE Obituary - Boston, MA Boston.com Page 1 of 2 FLIGHTS FROM PHILADELPHIA Great Rates are Still Available from United. Book Now Obituaries DANIEL PIERCE 1934-2014 YOUR SEARCH HIST( Obituary Condolences RESOURCES Records for PIERCE in MA PIERCE Pages (100+) Pierce, Daniel Former chair of Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Inc., See More > died peacefully on July 4th, 2014 in Maine. 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Clark, Inc., died peacefully on July 4th, 2014 in Maine. Born in Boston on March 18, 1934, Mr. Pierce was the son of Roger and Ruth Eliot Pierce; maternal grandson of landscape architect Charles Eliot, and maternal great-grandson of Harvard President Charles William Eliot. His paternal grandfather, Samuel Stillman Pierce, founded the renowned S.S. Pierce Company. Mr. Pierce graduated from Milton Academy in 1952 and from Harvard College in 1956, and remained involved with each throughout his life. He joined Scudder, Stevens & Clark in 1956, where he remained until retiring as chair; a shrewd financial counselor, he was particularly supportive of education and conservation in keeping with his family legacy. He was a major supporter of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and WGBH, and served Brigham & Women's Hospital, the New England Aquarium, the Trustees of Reservations, College of the Atlantic, and American Memorial Hospital in Reims, France. In retirement Mr. Pierce and his wife Polly (May Parker Harding) were active grandparents and travelers. Mr. Pierce conversed as easily with world leaders as he did with friends, finding great X pleasure in each and learning from all. In addition to his wife, Mr. Pierce is survived by his daughter, Sara W. Pierce; his sons, Daniel Pierce, Jr. and his wife, Barbara (Hallas), Matthew V. Pierce and his wife, Karen (Day), Samuel Pierce and his wife, Teresa (Schmitt), and eleven beloved grandchildren. A memorial service will take place at 1:30 PM on September 5th at The Memorial Church of Harvard University In lieu of flowers donations in DANIEL PIERCE Obituary - Boston, MA I Boston Globe Mr. Pierce's memory may be offered to the Trustees of Reservations, 572 Essex Street, Beverly, MA 01915. Published in The Boston Globe on Aug. 4, 2014 Read Less | Print | Listen to Obituary REMEMBER Share memories or express condolences below. View Al "Dear Polly / am so sorry to read Add a memory or this news and send you my deepest condolence to the guest sympathy. You and Dan are in my thoughts and with " book - ADD MESSAGE View Guest Book ADD PHOTOS ADD VIDEOS AD X SHARE THIS PAGE Inform family & friends of DANIEL's passing. Share Email ( Back to today's Obituaries 9/6/2010 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Epp essay on Rev. Samuel A. Eliot & C. Eliot Scrapbook From : Ronald Epp Tue, Sep 06, 2016 04:16 PM Subject Epp essay on Rev. Samuel A. Eliot & C. Eliot Scrapbook 1 attachment To : Alex goriansky Dear Alec, I wish to thank you once again for your hospitality over the last two weeks. As you saw, I was especially moved by the five scrapbooks that you had brought to your home from Boston. As you recall, the scrapbook of news clippings in your possession contains scores of content from the mid-1880's. Would you take a closer look at this document and determine the date range? I'd very much appreciate this information in order to unravel the following. I ask because the Eliot Scrapbook at the ARC in Sharon contains clippings no earlier than 1890 and cover a span to the time of his death. Thus, we have two clipping scrapbooks with no apparent overlap. We may also have a lapse in time between the final entry in the scrapbook in your possession and the ARC scrapbook; could there be a third scrapbook to account for this lapse? In 2007 when I discovered the first Eliot scrapbook I had no reason to presume earlier versions. Now you have provided a second puzzle piece and I have speculated about a missing third piece. Before serious analysis of the ARC scrapbook is completed it is necessary to address these chronology matters, undertake a similar analysis of the content of the scrapbook in your possession, compare the results of each, and resolve the issue of a possible third scrapbook to account for the missing years. I appreciate your confidence in bringing me into this inquiry. On this 125th anniversary of The Trustees, the possibility of piecing together a full account of the evolution of the organization could not be more timely. I hope that we can make some steady progress to that end. Finally, I've not copied Alison on this matter because I thought that decision is best left in your hands. Please share this with whomever you wish. I have also attached a draft of the article I wrote six months ago--that you expressed interest in-- about Reverend Samuel A. Eliot, forthcoming in the second edition of the history of the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations My best to you and Steve. Most Appreciatively, Ronald H. Epp Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net HCTPR_2nd_ed_223.docx 29 KB https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=387529&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/1 256 THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE: COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONS Education and Leadership 257 Figure 14-1 The Eliot Dynasty Figure 14-2 The Lowell Dynasty Andrew Eliot, 1683-1749; cordwainer of Beverly, Rev. John Lowell, A.B. 1721 subsequently merchant of Boston Judge John Lowell, 1743-1802; A.B. 1760, LL.D. 1792 Fellow 1784-1802 Andrew Eliot, 1718-78; Samuel Eliot, 1713-45; A.B. 1737, Fellow 1765-78, Boston bookseller John Lowell, 1769-1840 Francis Cabot Lowell Rev. Charles Lowell Secretary Board of A.B. 1786, LL.D. 1814 1775-1817; A.B. 1793 1782-1861; A.B. Overseers 1758-78 Fellow 1810-1822 1800, S.T.D. 1823 Overseer 1823-1827 Overseer 1806-51 Fellow 1818 Andrew Eliot, 1743-1805; Joba Eliot, Samuel Eliot, 1739-1820; A.B. 1762, Librarian, 1754-1813; merchant, founder of Eliot John Amory Lowell John Lowell Francis Cabot Lowell Tutor, and Fellow 1763-74, A.B. 1772, Professorship of Greek 1798-1881; A.B. 1815 1799-1836 1803-1874; A.B 1821 minister of Fairfield. Fellow 1804-13 LL.D. 1851, Fellow Class of 1817 1837-1877 Founder of the James Russell Lowell Lowell Institute 1819-1891; A.B. William Havard Eliot, Samuel Atkins Eliot, Catharine, Anna, m. Geo. 1838; LL.D. 1884 1795-1831; A.B. 1815 1798-1862; A.B. 1817. m. Andrews Ticknor, A.B. Professor 1855-86, Treasurer Norton, A.B. 1814, Smith Overseer 1887-91 1842-53 1804, Tutor, Professor Librarian, 1817-35 and Dexter Professor Judge John Lowell Augustus Lowell George Gardner Lowell 1811-30 1824-1897; A.B. 1830-1900 1830-1885; A.B. 1850 1843, Overseer A.B. 1850 1875-1886 Samuel Eliot, 1821-98; Charles William Elliot, Charles Eliot Norton, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Judge Francis Cabot Lowell A.B. 1839, Overseer 1834-1926; A.B. 1853, 1827-1908; A.B. 1846, b. 1856; A.B. 1877 1855-1911; A.B. 1876 1866-72, President Tutor and Asst. Prof. Lecturer and LL.D. 1880, LL.D. 1934 Overseer 1886-1895 of Trinity College, 1854-63, President Professor 1874-98, Lecturer and Professor Fellow 1895-1911 Hartford 1869-1909, Overseer Overseer 1899-1908 1897-1909. President 1868-69, 1910-16 1909-1933 Source: Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 (Cambridge: Harvard University Source: Samuel Eliot Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963), p. 225. Press, 1963), p. 159. was even longer than that of the Eliots. When A. Lawrence Lowell resigned from the presidency in 1933, his family had been connected with the college for THE COLLEGE AT HARVARD, over two centuries, as Figure 14-2 shows. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AT PENN Nepotism combined with the very high value placed on achievement and leadership proved to be good for Harvard, where membership in the board of A significant difference between Penn and Harvard lies in their attitudes overseers has brought the highest social prestige within the city's upper class for toward the importance of an undergraduate education in the classics and the over 300 years. Indeed, all the families in the Boston sample have been con- liberal arts. The college, even during Eliot's efforts to emphasize the graduate nected with Harvard in one way or another-as students, faculty members, schools, has always been the heart of Harvard. At Penn, undergraduate educa- overseers, or presidents. At Penn, students, teachers, and administrators gener- tion was more or less neglected until after the Second World War. In the early ally have not been intimately related either to Philadelphia's upper class or to days the medical school overshadowed the college and in later years, as we shall the city and state leadership as a whole. see, the liberal arts gradually took second place to the more practical subjects 10/9/15 Eleat family Contacts: Y. 2011 alex Goriansly. northear L Hal bor hibig Doxor. Beth Rendeirs. taffe 6.Granlaglete of SAE 70A. Panula Christian Redeerd. G.6.ofSAE 70A Polly al Dan Prorce FOR /NET Dreva Pausi 70A Lonie & Tad Lincaln 70A Michaellegffect 704 Benjanin Pierce 70th Vostar Peerce JUA Patrentize FOR Charles A. leese man III Z mr. someonel A Elest NEA NEH Holly Ruckdeschel FOA Roving of Mark Stevens FOA - Douglas u Compton Jr. NEH Dr. Bettina Dudley NEH Eastm Perhady NEP Roderect H. Cushman NEH Stephen H. Cushman NET Michal E. gorcansky NEA Malealin E, Peanoty NER Mrs. - John D. Peahad NEA Rodname Word (M+) NEH Charles Purca (u+us. . NEH 10/21/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size Re: Caroline Harvey to Ronald Epp From : Caroline Harvey Fri, Oct 21, 2016 04:31 AM Subject : Re: Caroline Harvey to Ronald Epp To Ronald Epp Goodmorning, Ron! Great to hear back from you, and thank you for your quick and thoughtful response. I found the letters between Charles Eliot and Jermone D. Greene to be the most interesting and they were accessed through The Rockefeller Foundation's digital library. Here is the link to the page which contains all of the letters that I read through. http://rockefeller100.org/solr- search/results/?solrq=eliot&submit_search=Search All of your suggestions sound like good places to start and I greatly appreciate the advice! My previous research has always concerned English literature and so my approach has been much different in the past. I'm actually from Binghamton New York, Tarrytown would be a nice day trip while I'm home for the holidays. I look forward to reading your draft, and will look into getting a copy of your book! It is amazing that we share this interest in Medical Humanities as well! Ancient medicine sparked much of my early research, and I was almost set on being a classicist. I'm intrigued by the Epicureans and especially Lucretius's On the Nature of Things and how their materialist philosophy shaped views on the body and health. I then fell in love with early modern/modern medicine after discovering a first English edition of Hahnemann's The Chronic Diseases at a book shop in New York. This lead to investigations into alternative medicine within the texts of the Bronte sisters, and Edgar Allan Poe. After getting more involved with medicine in the humanities I began to feel very passionately about modern issues in the field. There are so many ways to get involved, but I think that I'd like to take the route that you have, continue academia, and teach. My absolute dream would be to teach humanities to medical students. Your career is fascinating to me, and I hope to learn more about it through future correspondence! I must get to my long day of reading, thank you again for the advice and direction that you have provided me with! -Caroline On 19 October 2016 at 17:52, Ronald Epp wrote: Hi Caroline, First off, please call me Ron. I was delighted to receive your email this morning and will of course provide helpful relevant information about the issues you raised. Before I start pulling information from my files, are you able to share with me the online references you have located relative to Eliot's role to keep (during his tenure 1914-1917) his fellow board members unbiased? I can then compare these with what I have in my collection. I also have copies of the card index system used at the Rockefeller Archive Center (Tarrytown NY) to organize the correspondence with Rockefeller family members--I will look for relevant Eliot letters therein. On a more general note, have you thought of contacting the RAC? I've been working for more than a decade with Asst. Director Michele H. Beckerman and can provide an introduction (you might profit from looking online at their "Rockefeller Philanthropy: A Selected Guide," reissued in 2011). The primary source material on both CWE and JDR Jr. is most impressive. Though some finding aids are available online, visits to their archives in Tarrytown and Cambridge are still necessary. Before you undertake this it would be helpful to create a list of the principle questions that are driving your inquiry (as you've begun in your email to me). Do you have a copy of my Creating Acadia National Park? I've attached a rough draft of the paper I gave at the Jesup Memorial Library to which you refer. On a more personal note, I am pleased to hear of your interest in medical history and the humanities. My dissertation involved inquiries into ancient Greek medicine which was continued when I taught medical ethics to undergrads and graduate students. Even in my "retirement," I'm involved with the medical humanities program here at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. More to follow Best Wishes, Ron Epp From: "Caroline Harvey" To: eppster2@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 4:26:13 AM Dr. Epp, https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=394007&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/2 10/21/2016 XFINITY Connect My name is Caroline Harvey, and I'm currently a post graduate student at the University of York in England studying Medical History and Humanities. In May I graduated from the University of Maine in Orono, and prepared to spend my last summer in Maine back on MDI working for Ocean Properties. I'm contacting you because In my course we recently focused on the Rockefeller foundation and their involvement with tropical and public health. I was taken aback by the negative tone and often accusatory statements produced by many scholars who wrote about the foundation. The question of intention arouse in both the essays that I read and the seminar that I attended. The only thing that I had previously known about the Rockefeller's was their role in helping create the place that I love most, Acadia National Park. Therefore, my reaction to this negativity was less than accepting. I soon became eager to use the Rockefeller's other philanthropic projects (such as involvement with the national parks) as an argument against those who claimed the foundation acted with economic interests only and disregarded human suffering both in the southern U.S. and abroad. In trying to prove these good intentions, I began reading more about the place that I miss very much. I recognized some names that we had spoken of in my seminar and realized that Charles Eliot was the first to propose a national park on the island, and later became involved with Rockefeller's foundation. In the letters that I read online, it seems as though Eliot played an important role in helping to make sure the committee on the foundation was unbiased in their philanthropic efforts. To make what could be a very long email short, I came across an article posted by the Jesup Memorial Library about your research concerning the relationship between Rockefeller, Eliot, and Dorr. Unfortunately, I didn't have an interest in this subject at the time of the talk, or else I would've been able to make it to your event. Would it be possible for you to share some of your research that you presented with me? Any information that you possess would be very helpful. it's been fairly difficult to find much of anything online about the detailed history of Acadia. Hoping to hear back from you soon, Thank you -Caroline Harvey https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=394007&tz=America/New_York&xim= 2/2 7/1/2017 XFINITY Connect Fwd_RE_Roger Pierce on CWE_s Far East Journey Printout Ronald Epp 7/1/2017 7:08 PM Fwd: RE: Roger Pierce on CWE's Far East Journey To Alex goriansky Good Day Alex, I hope you and Steve have been well since we last saw one another. The email below from Polly Pierce mentions you and I thought you would appreciate the larger context that prompted me to write her. It is nearly a year since last August 16th when the three of us exchanged impressions of the Charles Eliot unpublished logbooks. What a treat for me! This July I will be on MDI for the July 12 Friends of Acadia annual meeting where I'm being honored with an award; and then again July 23-28. I wonder if you will be at the Coffeepot given its centennial. If you are there on those dates, perhaps I could take you two to lunch at the Asticou Inn. By the way, if you are in Boston in earl;y October, I will be giving a new Dorr talk at the Arnold Arboretum focused on Dorr's youth on the shores of Jamaica Pond. Time not yet arranged. All the Best, Ron Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. 532 Sassafras Dr. Lebanon, PA 17042 717-272-0801 eppster2@comcast.net Original Message From: Polly Pierce To: Ronald Epp Date: July 1, 2017 at 3:31 PM Subject: RE: Roger Pierce on CWE's Far East Journey Dear Mr. Epp, How wonderful that you, too, can see how beautifully synchronized the actions and the talents of the 3 founders of Arcadia National Park were. As you so acutely observe, each gentleman had different and coinciding talents to bring to bear on the park issue and each was, no doubt, indispensable. I had never thought about the very real danger to the enterprise existing with President Eliot's illness which in those days was very grave! (Of course, without that illness there might have been no romance between grand-daughter and secretary and no letters to be kept!!) How intertwined our lives become! (I often think about that with relation to my own life and what 'might have been'!) Alex Goriansky is one of our more interesting and amusing cousins. Our family has used his talents as a silverware expert often. He it was that traced the origins and the history of 'The Coffeepot' which was sold by Eliot (or perhaps his Grand-daughter) to raise enough money to build their wonderful summer retreat in Northeast Harbor for, first - Roger and Ruth Eliot Pierce, and now, their descendants. George Howe Colt writes about a similar home on Cape Cod in 'The Big House'. This year the house named 'Coffeepot' celebrates its 100th year! with a cast of seemingly hundreds of family members descending from that 'round the world' trip!! I wonder if current day families will ever have such interesting stories to tell!! In any case, I am glad you reached out and Thank You so much for enlightening me, at least, about the third member of the trio that made Arcadia National Park possible. Sincerely, Polly Pierce 7/1/2017 XFINITY Connect Roger Pierce on CWE_s Far East Journey Printout Polly Pierce 7/1/2017 3:32 PM RE: Roger Pierce on CWE's Far East Journey To Ronald Epp Dear Mr. Epp, How wonderful that you, too, can see how beautifully synchronized the actions and the talents of the 3 founders of Arcadia National Park were. As you so acutely observe, each gentleman had different and coinciding talents to bring to bear on the park issue and each was, no doubt, indispensable. I had never thought about the very real danger to the enterprise existing with President Eliot's illness which in those days was very grave! (Of course, without that illness there might have been no romance between grand- daughter and secretary and no letters to be kept!!) How intertwined our lives become! (I often think about that with relation to my own life and what 'might have been'!) Alex Goriansky is one of our more interesting and amusing cousins. Our family has used his talents as a silverware expert often. He it was that traced the origins and the history of 'The Coffeepot' which was sold by Eliot (or perhaps his Grand-daughter) to raise enough money to build their wonderful summer retreat in Northeast Harbor for, first - Roger and Ruth Eliot Pierce, and now, their descendants. George Howe Colt writes about a similar home on Cape Cod in 'The Big House'. This year the house named 'Coffeepot' celebrates its 100th year! with a cast of seemingly hundreds of family members descending from that 'round the world' trip!! I wonder if current day families will ever have such interesting stories to tell!! In any case, I am glad you reached out and Thank You so much for enlightening me, at least, about the third member of the trio that made Arcadia National Park possible. Sincerely, Polly Pierce From: Ronald Epp [eppster2@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 4:04 PM To: trillium6@comcast.net Cc: Lisa Horsch Clark Subject: Roger Pierce on CWE's Far East Journey Dear Mrs. Pierce: Lisa Horsch Clark provided me with contact information in recent weeks after we discussed the Eliot research I have been engaged in that led up to my 1916 FOA publication: Creating Acadia National Park: The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr. Only after reading Love to All and Eight Hands Around did I begin to appreciate a noticeable silence in the historical record. That is, the frequent correspondence between president Eliot and Mr. Dorr that went silent for nearly a year during Eliot's travels. Dorr was very busy at this time with land title searches for the many thousands of acres that had recently been gifted to the Trustees. And after Eliot's return there was a challenge in Augusta to the legitimacy of the Trustees that sent Dorr off to Washington to secure federal protection. While none of this activity is hinted in Love to All, what is lacking from my book is an awareness that the entire park-building enterprise could quite easily have failed due to the threat to Eliot's survival in the aftermath of his appendicitis. Nowhere does Dorr mention this news which surely was covered in the world press. As a result of Roger's letters I have reconsidered anew certain events in the years leading up to 1916. In recent years I have had recurring conversations with Alec Goriansky, Paul Fremont-Smith, and Larry Eliot regarding Charles Eliot papers that are retained by family members. Should you know of any other family members who might be in possession of such treasures, I would be most appreciative if these could be brought to my attention, thereby enlarging my research into your fascinating family history. Polly, if my book would interest you, please let Lisa know. Most cordially, S.E. Mortgon. Three Centure of Haward.1636 1936 Caming HUP, 1936. EXPANSION AND REFORM 225 ate of recent years, the Reverend Edward Everett (A.B. 1811); and the offer was coupled with a vote of the Cor- poration, the wisdom of which was then unprecedented, and even nowadays would be unusual, that he might study abroad two years on the full salary of $1200 before assuming his active duties. Everett was inaugurated pro- fessor in the new chapel of University Hall on April 12, 1815, the day after his twenty-first birthday; four days later he sailed for England, in company with George Ticknor, a young Dartmouth M.A. admitted ad eundem at Harvard the previous Commencement. As soon as the Hundred Days were over, the two young scholars pro- ceeded to the University of Göttingen. There they were 1 The 'Eliot Dynasty':- Andrew Eliot, 1683-1749; cordwainer of Beverly, subsequently merchant of Boston Andrew Eliot, 1718-78; Samuel Eliot, 1713-45; A.B. 1737, Fellow 1765- Boston bookseller 78, Secretary Board of Overseers 1758-78 Andrew Eliot, 1743-1805; John Eliot, Samuel Eliot, 1739-1820; A.B. 1762, Librarian, 1754-1813; merchant, founder of Eliot Tutor, and Fellow 1763- A.B. 1772, Professorship of Greek 74, minister of Fairfield. Fellow 1804-13 William Havard Eliot, Samuel Atkins Eliot, Catharine, Anna, m. Geo. 1795-1831; A.B.1815 1798-1862; A.B. 1817, m. Andrews Ticknor, A.M. Treasurer Norton, A.B. 1814, Smith 1842-53 1804, Tutor, Professor Librarian, 1817-35 and Dexter Professor 1811-30 Samuel Eliot, 1821-98; Charles William Eliot, Charles Eliot Norton, A.B. 1839, Overseer 1834-1926; A.B. 1853, 1827-1908; A.B. 1846, Tutor and Asst. Prof. Lecturer and 1866-72, President of Trinity College, 1854-63, President Professor 1874-98, Hartford 1869-1909, Overseer Overseer 1899-1908 1868-69, 1910-16 Verizon Yahoo! Mail - eppster2@verizon.net - Page 1 of 2 Verizon Yahoo! Mail Verizon Central Yahoo! Search: Web Search Welcome, eppster2@verizon Mail Home All-New Mail Tutorials Help R verizon [Sign Out, Member Center MAIL Classic Mail Contacts Calendar Notepad Mail For Mobile - Options Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Folders [Add Edit] Previous I Next I Back to Messages Inbox (5) Delete Reply Forward Spam Move Draft This message is not flagged. [ Flag Message - Mark as Unread Printable View Sent Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:20:12 -0500 (EST) Bulk (1) [Empty] From: Rendeiro2@aol.com Add Mobile Alert Trash [Empty] Subject: Re: M. McGiffert & The Eliot Family My Folders [Hide] To: eppster2@verizon.net Eliz messages (2) CC: mcgiff@widomaker.com Horseshoe Pond Member Information Dear Ron, Ron Archives (26) I apologize for the tardy response. I have been out of town and am just now getting caught up on those mountains of emails that accumulate. Search Shortcuts I am sorry to say that I have never come across any reminiscences of Acadia My Photos written by S.A. Eliot. I will provide you with the mailing addresses of two of his My Attachments children so you may contact them directly. I don't have email for either of them. Have you checked the Northeast Harbor library? Now that they're into their new digs, they have a dedicated room to archives that have long been dispersed, so perhaps the head librarian Robert Pyle would have heard of the document you seek. Also, Acadia Magazine has published, over the years, various reminiscences of the early days of the park and wonder if they may have some documentation that would be of interest to you. Addresses: Alexander Eliot Patience Crompton 105 Paloma Court Box A1 see Venice, CA. 90291 Chesterfield, MA. 01012 4/26/08 Best wishes with your search and good luck with the completion of your book. Warmly, Beth Rendeiro In a message dated 2/16/08 11:09:38 AM, eppster2@verizon.net writes: Dear Ms. Depaul, http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=9090_10201635_69475_1795_186. 2/26/2008 Verizon Yahoo! Mail - eppster2@verizon.net - Page 2 of 2 Mike McGiffert suggested that I contact his cousin Beth regarding a Samuel A. Eliot Jr. document referred to by Charles W. Eliot that may e relevant to the biography that I am completing of a close personal friend of Dr. Eliot, George Bucknam Dorr (1853-1944), the conservationist who founded Acadia National Park--inspired by the vision of Charles Eliot. Please open the attachment for background information. I'd appreciate any suggestions that come to mind. Cordially, Ronald H. Epp Ph.D. Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos- duffy/2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) Delete Reply Forward Spam Move Previous I Next Back to Messages Save Message Text I Full Headers Check Mail Compose Search Mail Search the Web Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. I Copyright/IP Policy I Terms of Service I Send Feedback Help NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site. To learn more about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy. verizon http://us.f842.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?MsgId=9090_10201635_69475_1795_186...2 2/26/2008 10/16/2015 Billionaire Mitchell Kales sues neighbors to block beach access - Mount Desert Islander Billionaire Mitchell Rales' summer home along the shore in Northeast Harbor. He has filed a lawsuit seeking to block his neighbors' use of the beach and pier. FILE PHOTO (Printed fromurl=http://www.mdislander.com/featured/mitchell-rales-sues-neighbors-to-block-beach-access Billionaire Mitchell Rales sues neighbors to block beach access October 15, 2015 by Dick Broom on News, News-Featured P in MOUNT DESERT - Billionaire Mitchell Rales has filed a lawsuit seeking to bar descendants of Charles Eliot, one of the founders of Acadia National Park, and other neighboring property owners from using the beach and wharf on his property in Northeast Harbor. The suit was filed Sept. 8 in Hancock County Superior Court on behalf of Peabody Land LLC, the legal owner of Rales' multimillion-dollar residential compound at 137 Peabody Drive. http://www.mdislander.com/featured/mitchell-rales-sues-neighbors-to-block-beach-access 1/5 10/16/2015 Billionaire Mitchell Rales sues neighbors to block beach access - Mount Desert Islander Related Posts Rales is asking the court to declare that some of the defendants have no right to access the beach by crossing a corner of his property and that none of the defendants have a right to use the beach or wharf "for any private purposes" including "holding parties, igniting fireworks, sunbathing, gathering, picnicking or storing boats." Three of the defendants - Alexander, Peter and Paul Goriansky - who own a summer residence at 153 Peabody Drive, are descendants of Eliot. Eliot, who was president of Harvard University, was a leader of the efforts in the early 1900s to acquire and preserve land on Mount Desert Island for "free Chickens may be public use." Those efforts led to the creation of what became Acadia coming home to National Park. roost Between 1881 and 1919, Eliot bought several properties along Peabody Drive, including waterfront lots now owned by Rales and others. Among the seven defendants in Rales' suit is Elizabeth Rendeiro, a trustee of the Frances H. Eliot Trust, which owns and maintains the large summer home that Charles Eliot built in 1897 across Peabody Drive from what is now the Rales property. Eliot sold two Peabody Drive properties and a MDI shows love of portion of a third in 1883. Rockefeller land, and The deed provided for its owner an easement along a footpath to the beach that crossed a corner of what is now the Rales property. The easement was for "boating purposes" and was for The original summer "cottage" of Harvard President Charles the use of "the Eliot, one of the founders of Acadia National Park, was sold in occupants of one 2007 for $5.5 million and later torn down by current owner private house and no Mitchell Rales to facilitate construction of $15.5 million summer MDI man on second more to be built by home. Appalachian Trail FILE PHOTO [Eliot], his heirs and hike, 38 years later assigns on the shore Eliot descendants have enjoyed the use of the path, pier and beach for more than 100 years. Rales claims in his suit that John Anthony, owner of the seasonal 123 Peabody Drive, or The Wynnestay LLP, which owns 125 Peabody - but not both - has the right to access the Rales beach for boating purposes, but does not have a right to access the wharf. Anthony, whose primary residence is in Little Rock, Ark., said Wednesday that he has dropped his claim to an easement on the Rales property. He said he had asked Bar Harbor attorney Nat Fenton to research the history of the property, including the deed that permitted access from only one of two http://www.mdislander.com/featured/mitchell-rales-sues-neighbors-to-block-beach-access 2/5 10/16/2015 Billionaire Mitchell Rales sues neighbors to block beach access - Mount Desert Islander lots. "He found that we had a very dubious claim to any easement, so we have released any claim," Anthony said. Asked if that means he is no longer a party to the suit, he said, "I guess that would depend on the court, but I would think not." Some of the property that Eliot owned was divided following his death in 1926. A 1927 deed provided an easement for the owners of two properties - the Goriansky property and the 131 Peabody property now owned by Coffeepot Realty LLC - across the 137 Peabody Drive property "for foot passage only to and from the wharf or landing place In 1947, Frances H. Eliot, sold the 137 Peabody property, but reserved an easement "by footpath only to and from said wharf or landing place" for herself and her heirs and assigns. Based on the provisions of the various deeds, Rales maintains that, while some of the defendants have the right to access his beach, none have the right to actually use it for anything except boating. Rales implies in the suit that he filed it because some of his neighbors and their guests have used his beach and wharf for parties. "These wrongful parties have included loud music, fireworks, crowds, nighttime activities, alcohol and other offensive acts and disturbances," the suit alleges. "Defendants, their guests, tenants and invitees have been wrongfully sunbathing, gathering, picnicking, using the wharf, storing boats and engaging in other inappropriate activities." Rales also contends that the defendants "have completely failed to honor and respect privacy and private property" and that "despite discussion and repeated notice, [they] have failed and/or refused to cease their wrongful conduct." Rales did not respond personally to the Islander's request for comment on the lawsuit. He directed Trenton attorney Michael Ross, who is not involved in that suit but has done other legal work for Rales, to respond. "My understanding is that the lawsuit was filed because it seemed to be the best option that's available to Peabody Land, as well as its neighbors, so they can better understand exactly what rights and responsibilities they have to one another by virtue of the easements that were established in 1883, 1927 and 1947," Ross said Tuesday. None of the defendants in the suit could be reached for comment. Rales bought the 4.6-acre Peabody Drive property from the estate of Susan Mary Alsop in 2007 for $5.5 million. He razed both the house, which was the original Eliot summer home, and the wharf. In addition to asking the court to restrict his neighbors' access to and use of his property, Rales wants them to reimburse him for an unspecified portion of the cost of building the new wharf. "Prior to 2007, the wharf was in such a state of utter disrepair that it was dangerous to use, unstable and in risk of collapse," according to the suit, which puts the cost of building the new wharf at "more than $500,000." http://www.mdislander.com/featured/mitchell-rales-sues-neighbors-to-block-beach-access 3/5 10/16/2015 Billionaire Mitchell Rales sues neighbors to block beach access - Mount Desert Islander The suit cites the 1947 deed as stating that those who enjoy the right of way across the 137 Peabody property "shall be subject to the obligation to pay a proportionate share of the cost of maintenance of the wharf or landing place " Accompanying Rales' suit was a request that the defendants submit a number of documents and other materials including "all photographs which depict any portion of any of the parties' properties," any correspondence related in any way to "the beach barbecue party held at the 'Goriansky Beach' on Sunday, August 16, 2015" and all material such as invitation lists and receipts that relate to "any parties or celebrations, from 2007 to date, which occurred on any portion of the beach or wharf on the Peabody Property." Also requested is anything that identifies the people who have "walked on, crossed or used the Peabody Property" since 2007 and all correspondence, guest books or rental agreements that identify anyone who has rented any portion of the defendants' property or stayed overnight on their property since 2007. According to "Forbes" magazine, Mitchell Rales has a net worth of $3.5 billion. That ties him with 10 other people for 171st place on the magazine's 2015 list of the 400 richest Americans. His Peabody Drive compound is assessed for tax purposes at $15.6 million. His primary residence is in Potomac, Md. Bio Latest Posts Dick Broom Reporter at Mount Desert Islander Dick Broom covers the towns of Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor, Mount Desert Island High School and the school system board and superintendent's office. He enjoys hiking with his golden retriever and finding new places for her to swim. dbroom@mdislander.com LOAD COMMENTS SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES Maine Coast Abbe Museum Emerson Energy Memorial Hospital 26 Mount Desert Street Fuels 50 Union Street Bar Harbor, ME 04609 234 Main Street http://www.mdislander.com/featured/mitchell-rales-sues-neighbors-to-block-beach-access 4/5 9/13/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Re: G.L. Stebbins From : Anne Funderburk Tue, Sep 13, 2016 08:32 AM Subject Re: G.L. Stebbins To Ronald Epp Cc: Anne Funderburk Dear Ron, Thanks so much for your great letter about the Eliot scrap books. I don't know Alec personally, as I do his cousin, Sam A. Eliot (Santa Claus). So glad you were able to have a good session with him. Paul F-S may have trouble with putting words together and staying on topic, but he undoubtedly has kept his financial know-how. He has done good work on this for SHVIS. Hugs, Anne From: Ronald Epp Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 6:13 PM To: Funderburk, Anne Subject: Re: G.L. Stebbins Anne, Thank you for the extensive commentary. I wish we had been able to spend more time together but what time we had was very well spent. Your comment about Paul Fremont-Smith suffering a stroke very helpful to me since I had difficulty trying to figure out some of what he said on the two occasions when we lunched at the Asticou Inn. I pressed him for information about his past and he talked about his education, Harvard years, and the Eliot family disinterest in money until he came along and showed them how investments could be in the "dot.com" sector could be very rewarding. He's directing funds to the MDIHS to support initiatives surrounding the Champlain Society & Catherine Schmidt but suggested that I put together a proposal for his evaluation and funding consideration--which I will do. Have any ideas relative to Seal Harbor? His cousin, Alexander Yale Goriansky is not--like PF-S--a Samuel A. Eliot descendant, but finds his ancestry in the line created by Sam's brother, the landscape architect Charles Eliot. He invited me to his summer home at 153 Peabody Drive on two occasions, this following his earlier help in getting me permission to use the Eliot photo that appears in my Dorr biography. He has in his possession five scrapbooks of Charles Eliot, not seen by the public because they still are held privately by Eliot family members. In my estimate, they add significantly to our understanding of the conservation philosophy of the founder of the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations, and I've contacted archivists there to bring this to their attention (with Alec's permission, of course). My goal is to motivate these aging family members to inventory these private collections and consider whether a gift to an organization or institution is appropriate, suggesting to them ways to craft a gift document that ensures that these original documents will be properly preserved, transcribed, scanned, and digitized for public access in the timely manner. I have confidence that Alec (1937- ), the son of Carola Eliot (daughter of Charles Eliot and Mary Yale Pitkin), will move this process along. Hope this is helpful. My address to the Maine Historical Society will in Portland at their HQ on 26 October at noon. Hugs, Ron https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=388648&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/3 9/13/2016 XFINITY Connect From: "Anne Funderburk" To: "Ronald Epp" Cc: "Anne Funderburk" Sent: Monday, September 12, 2016 9:53:49 / Subject: Re: G.L. Stebbins Dear Ron, Thanks so much for your nifty letter and the info on GLS & JDR,Jr. correspondence. We're so happy that you have a fruitful and enjoyable visit here. Good luck with Paul F-S & memory; he's a stroke survivor. I don't know Alec G. but wish you luck. The VIS won a split decision on the giant wedding on the Green next August: NO amplified music!!! But there will be 150 guests and a 1000 sq. ft. tent, alas. When we were kids my Mum used to take us to Crane's beach in Ipswich; later we went to concerts at "Castle Hill", the Crane mansion. What good times we had! Thanks for the memory! Sounds like you're going to be having a complete medical overhaul! Best of good luck with it. The day after Dr. Williamson said I don't need a new shoulder, the left shoulder started acting up. Life is what happens while you're making other plans. Carpenter has finalized HP bathroom plans, showed us what needs to be moved in the cellar so they can get to the plumbing & wiring, fixed the back guest room door so it stays shut, and screwed down the plate on the floor under the garage door. Cats are on their 3rd day outdoors unchaperoned! They were so excited they went out w/o breakfast and Homer went tearing around in our neighbor's back yard, almost doing mid-air somersaults! He finally came in for breakfast, but Cobey is still out yonder, unfed. We hope that the outdoors will help with the toilet training. Where & when will your address to the Maine Historical Society be? Hugs and love from us both, Anne & Lance From: Ronald Epp Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 7:49 PM To: Funderburk, Anne Subject: G.L. Stebbins Hi Anne & Lance, I returned home over Labor Day weekend after a five week absence. I want to thank you for your hospitality once again. But more so, for including me in your plans for the library fair on the village green, the invite to the yacht club, and the opportunity to speak to the SHVIS. My friends, Bill and Shelly Nelson, were far more impressed by the lively interchange between the society members than they were by my efforts. Quite right they were! I went to see David Donvan in his ranger role on the "Missing Mansion" tour of Oldfarm and I also visited twice the homes of Paul Fremont-Smith and Alec Goriansky, trying to impress upon them the importance of inventorying their private family archives that stretched back to Charles W. Eliot. And in the case of Alec, I think I discovered another missing Charles Eliot scrapbook that predated the one I uncovered in 2007 in Ipswich at the Crane Estate--an exciting addition to the evolution of the Massachusetts Trustees of Reservations. My time spent in Blue Hill exceeded my expectations. I thoroughly explored the eight towns that make up the peninsula as well as Deer isle which Elizabeth and I had not visited. I walked quite a few of the local preserves and sanctuaries but I was most affected by the lovely interaction of roadways, bay waters, and coves where the light danced upon the waters. I'm putting in the US mail several letters that should be new to you between GLS and JDR Jr. covering a variety of themes. Hope you find them interesting. https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=388648&tz=America/New_York&xim= 2/3 11/14/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size Re: essay From: Ronald Epp Mon, Nov 14, 2016 09:55 AM Subject Re: essay To : Sam Eliot Hi Sam, I'm sorry to have reminded you of your disappointment with North Atlantic Books. My apologies. Have you also considered Islandport Press, Tilsbury Press, and North Country Press? Is Carrie Crompton the same person (or related to?) Harvard's Cate Crompton? She and I shared some email nearly a decade ago about the Dorrs but lost touch with one another. I'd be delighted if you would put me in touch with whomever is the family historian. Best to you and yours for the holidays ahead. Ronald Epp From: "Sam Eliot" To: "Ronald Epp" Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 8:46:15 AM Subject: Re: essay Nice to hear from you. I have a cousin, Carrie Crompton, who has taken on the job of family historian. With your permission I will be glad to send her your email and the gist of your inquiry. North Atlantic Books/Richard Grossinger was going to publish our book, yes. I was sending material to the Berkeley office and looking forward to publication in 2017 when I received an email from Richard saying he had changed his mind. He thought publishing the book would be, in his words, "bad karma." I will leave it at that. You can probably imagine the depth of my disappointment, both for the change of heart and the moral cowardice displayed by using email rather than a phone call or -- as he was here on MDI -- a face-to-face conversation. I did not respond to his email. The book is 90+ percent complete. We hoped to finish it in 2016 and I believe we will succeed. The search for a publisher continues. Best, Sam E. On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Ronald Epp wrote: Dear Sam, I recall our Seal harbor Village Green discussion in July and your desire to find a publisher for your MDI research findings. Are you familiar with North Atlantic Books? If not, check out their web site. Though their mission to publish "eclectic. relationships between mind, body, spirit, and nature" appears far removed from your inquiries, this interest in nature resulted most recently in the Braun and Braun Guide to the Geology of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park (2016). Of course you surely know that earlier they published Newlin's Lakes and Ponds of MDI. Pardon my intrusion if you have already gone down this road. I've been working on the galleys of the second edition of the Trustees "Historical Sketch," and as I review the listing of the 129 properties they acquired by the time your grandfather wrote his essay, I wonder how many of the properties were quietly brought to Dorr's attention by Dr. Eliot and his son. Do you happen to know whether there are any Reverend Eliot papers held by family members? I've had success with this line of inquiry with Alec G. and Paul Fremont-Smith, but would like reassurance that all surviving SAE documents are in institutional archives. All the Best, Ronald Epp https://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=397609&tz=America/New_York&xim=1 1/2 11/14/2016 XFINITY Connect From: "Sam Eliot" To: "Ronald Epp"