Mount Desert Island Hospital building, 10 Wayman Lane, Bar Harbor (downtown), Bar Harbor, Hancock County, ME

Butler, Edwin Farnham

E. Farnham Butler was the son of Arthur Pierce and Lydia Raguet Butler (Farnham), formerly of Southwest Harbor. Butler grew up in Morristown, New Jersy, where his father was headmaster of Morristown Boys’ School. He spent summers on …

Mount Desert Island Hospital

"On September 3rd 1897, during a meeting at the Marlborough Hotel in Bar Harbor, members of the Village Improvement Society conclude, “some form of hospital is both expedient and even now necessary.” A committee composed of local citizens …