19564. Melville Davis Thompson
Melville Thompson was a sailor according to the 1880 Federal Census for Deer Isle and listed as a yachtsman in Deer Isle town records of March 1906. He is listed as a sea captain at age 58 in 1912 by Deer Isle town records and at age 66 a house painter.
Marriage Notes for Melville Davis Thompson and Judith L. Dow
MARRIAGE: The marriage date in the town records is 1875, but that is most likely an error.
19565. Charles Augustus Thompson
The 1900 US Federal Census for Deer Isle lists his occupation as steamboating.
Winslow Allston Gray was a seaman.
Everett Stanley Haskell was a sea captain.
Helen Dean Haskell was a school teacher at the time of her marriage to William Patten.
William H. Patten was the superintendent of schools in Deer Isle at the time of his marriage to Helen Haskell.
Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 10, No. 3, September 2001On September 5, 1986, Hazel (Haskell) Losseff, 91, died at the Veterans' Home, Yountville, California. She was born at Deer Isle, August 15, 1895, to Everett and Henrietta Haskell, and was the widow of Dr. Richard Losseff, killed in World War I in 1917. Mrs. Losseff was an Army nurse during World War I, serving near the front in France. She was a public health nurse in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 22 years.
Survivors included two nieces and one nephew, all of California, and many great-nieces and nephews.
Internment at Mt. Adams Cemetery, Deer Isle, Maine.
Dr. Richard Losseff was a surgeon. He was killed in an air raid in Italy in WW1.
John L. Goss owned a granite quarry, the John L. Goss Quarry Company on Crotch Island. Quarrying on Crotch Island began about 1870 and continued until the end of World War II. It was reopened in 1965 to take out stone for the John F. Kennedy Memorial at Arlington Cemetery. It is now operated on a limited basis by The New England Stone Company largely for the manufacture of decorative items.
19589. George Herbert Spofford
George Herbert Spofford was a master mariner.