Richardson, Perry Warrington

"P.W. Richardson was born in 1840 to Moses and Priscilla (Richards) Richardson and was a grandson of Thomas Richardson one of the first white settlers in Bass Harbor. P.W. initially taught school in Tremont and surrounding towns, then became a seafarer and then a lighthouse keeper before opening the [P.W. Richardson store in McKinley, now Bass Harbor] in 1879. He added a wholesale fish business a few years later. Mr. Richardson was active in many community positions and played a lead role in building the Tremont Congregational Church at the head of the harbor. In the 1916 edition of Who’s Who in New England (Who's who in New England, Volume 2. A Biographical dictionary of leading living men and women in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. 1st edition 1909, 2nd edition 1916. Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis. Chicago: A.N. Marquis & Company, Publishers) he was listed as a merchant, engaged in mercantile trade since 1879; mem[sic.]. P.W. Richardson & Son, wholesale fish and retail grocers; pres. Tremont Savings bank, McKinley Fish and Freezer Co. Odd Fellow" ( Davisson, Muriel Trask. "History of the Bass Harbor Country Store Museum" at Rootsweb [ https://sites.rootsweb.com/~mectremo/museumhistory.html : accessed 14 July 2025]. Muriel Trask Davisson acknowledges previous articles by Laurie Schreiber and W. Stanley Reed.).

Perry Warrington Richardson (1839-1918) was an early President (1915) of the McKinley Fish & Freezer Company.