Name/Title
Mochaware | C.1830 | Eastport, MaineDescription
Circa: 1830
Old Accession Number: 2270
( ) From Eastport Sentinel, March 29, 1882, p.2, c.5-6:
Some old Eastport Houses,
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AND THEIR OCCUPANTS.— A FAMILIAR RETROSPECT.
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PAPER NO. 2
In the fine modern looking residence of Edward C. Pike on the same side above Elm street it would be difficult to recognize the outgrowth of one of these old hipped roof houses, but this one was built in that style in 1824 by Charles Peavey. In my earliest memory it wis the home of Levi Ingols, a prominent dry goods dealer, and held of the well known firm, Ingols, & Chace and Ingols & Eustis. They kept in the brick store on Water street under the old Commercial Coffee House, and Edward H. Burgin and William P. Bucknam were boys learning the business behind the counter. Afterwards the house was occupied by Edward Ilsley, at one time in the hardware business, and the first Cashier of the Frontier Bank. Mr. & Mrs. Ilsley are still living at an advanced age in Wisconsin, and their sons have achieved marked success as business men. I well remember when immediately after one of the weddings which I attended at the Hayden house, this house was opened as the home of George W. McLellan. He had a natural turn for politics, represented the town in the State Legislature, as he afterwards did Cambridge in the General Court of Massachusetts, was Sheriff of Washington County, Deputy Collector of the Port of Boston and finally Assistant Post Master General of the United States. Among later occupants of the house were Charles H. Hayden of the family first named in this article, who was the second Cashier fo the Frontier Bank, and John W. Bass a merchant of large business when ship building was at its height in Eastern Maine.
QUODDY
