15948. Charles Almond Drinkwalter
New Albany Weekly Tribune
December 17, 1907Madison - Ind, Dec. 14 - The investigation set on foot here as to the marriage relations of C. A. Drinkwalter, investigated by his Omaha wife, has resulted in the finding of five women to whom he is married, and it is believed there is yet one in Kansas, Illinois and Florida.
The following have been located:
Mrs. C. A. Drinkwater, Madison, Ind.,
Mrs. C. A. Drinkwater, Omaha Neb.,
Mrs. C. A. Drinkwater, Colburn Can.,
Mrs. C. A. Drinkwater, Kingston Can.,
Mrs. C. A. Drinkwater, Milbrook Can.There are other startling disclosures in Drinkwalter's career. He defrauded his mother--in-law in this city out of $400, stole a horse and buggy to escape from his Nebraska wife, carried away the Milbrrok (Can.) wife's watch, revolver and other valuables and has served terms in Canadian prisons for forgery and bigamy. His Nebraska and Canadian wives say they will come here to prosecute him, but his wife in this city refuses to take any action in this matter. Officers are on the lookout for him, as he is expected here shortly and will be arrested immediately.
Suicide on March 9, 1876.
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Captain McGilvery was elected president of the Penobscot Bay and River Railroad Co. in November, 1874 upon the death of N.G. Hichborn, the first president. He and his brother Henry McGilvery owned shipyards in Belfast, Searsport, and Brewer, Maine.The Belfast "Republican Journal of October 10, 1874 reported: Searsport - Captain McGilvery is to try the experiment of building a ship at Bucksville, SC. Some of the men have already gone forward, 60 workmen in all, and will come from different places along the Penobscot. The work to be under the direction of master-builder Elisha Dunbar of Searsport." This vessel was christened the HENRIETTA, built for Captain J.C. Nichols and named for his second wife. It was built almost entirely of hard pine and therefore heavier than most, drawing so much water it was for a time "touch and go" getting it to open water. She became known as one of the fastest vessels plying the trade routes between the U.S. and the Orient. The HENRIETTA was destroyed, 1894, by a typhoon off Kyobe, Japan.
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The home of William McGilvery and Harriet Hichborn is on the north side of Route 1 in Searsport at approximately 134 Main Street. In 1989 (?) the Wm. McGilvery house belonged to Sue Omness.
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The McGilvery tartan dress made of taffetta was given to the Penobscot Marine Museum by Harriet King Wasserman of 2455 Tanglewood, Decatur, GA. She is the three greats granddaughter of William McGilvery and Harriet Hichborn.
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PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUMWe have visited the Penobscot Marine Museum several times and have been members for years. Emerson took notes from a visit there saying that the museum was founded in 1936 by local businessmen related to old families who saw Searsport's heritage being sold and dispersed.
The Stephen Phillips Memorial Library at the PMM has a genealogical collection compiled by Priscilla A. Jones of Belfast. They have records on more than 1,000 families. Mrs. Jones started with Mayflower Descendants in 1961-69, then used Belfast's Republican Journal (newspaper) from 1829-1880.Searsport was a great port. In the 1870's one of 10 deep-water sailing ship captains in the U.S. merchant marine were from Searsport, out of a population of about 2,000.
Lincoln Colcord was the historic link to sea captains, and Samuel Eliot Morrison and others came to him, but he's not well known now because he didn't fund the museum.
Museum Publications include Captain Daniel Smith Goodell and Goodly Ships on Painted Seas
Elizabeth Nickels wrote to Elizabeth Albertine Buck Norwood in October, 1930 giving her a copy of a certificate: This certifies that Mrs. Harriet H. McGilvery is a member of the Pilgrim Society, instituted at Plymouth, Mass. A.D. 1820 in grateful remembrance of the First Settlers of New England who landed at that Place Dec. 21, 1620. Faustina's book refers to a Mrs. Desiah Hichborn, widow, who was one of the nine members of the First Baptist Church in Prospect.
She died on her honeymoon in Swinnemunde, Prussia on board the ship H. H. Wright.
Elizabeth Norwood Dickson had an oil portrait of her in her wedding dress which her son, Bill Dickson, donated to the Penobscot Marine Museum. It is displayed with a photograph of Harriets mother and sisters in their living room at the McGilvery house in Searsport, ME.
John was a ship captain who sailed from Searsport (Waldo County) Maine according to the book Searsport Sea Captains by Colonel Frederick Frasier Black (1960) p. 124. According to that source, he sailed on the following vessels: the brig Marshall Dutch (1849-1853), the bark Fanny Buck (1853-1855), the ship Premier I (1860-1865), the ship Oneida (1866-1870), the ship Republic (1871-1874), the ship Premier II (1875-1879; lost off Dunkirk); the ship Wachusett (1880-1883), the ship Rembrandt (1884-1886), and the ship Pharos (1887-1888).