From collection Jonathan Fisher House Collection
Waukesha Water Bottle
Corinnis Waukesha Water half-gallon bottle. Probably 1920s. The Rev. Jonathan Fisher's grandson, Otil Ward Hinckley, founded the Hinckley & Schmidt Bottling Company in 1888, and made a small fortune delivering bottled water. In the summer he returned to Blue Hill for many years, along with his mother and aunt. They occupied Orchard Lodge, which later became the parsonage of the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill. Later they built a prairie-style summer home on Parker Point. This is now in the National Register of Historic Places. Eventually Otis' daughter Ethelwynne inherited his fortune, and she put up the funds to buy the Jonathan Fisher House and to create the core of the endowment of the Jonathan Fisher Memorial. She canvassed her cousins and other relatives, involving many Fisher descendants in the effort. Ethelwynne Hinckley and Roland Howard (who accomplished much of the intellectual work) are credited with saving the Fisher homestead and creating the institution which memorializes Reverend Jonathan Fisher and his accomplishments.
