Who's Who at Mountain View
Barbara F. Dyer
Barbara F. Dyer has lived all her life, so far, in Camden and is the official town historian.
Recent Posts by Barbara F. Dyer
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The Tyler Family
By Barbara F. Dyer - May 19Because of valuable information and extensive research shared with me by Edwin Tyler, I am able to write about an early and important family, some ...
Yorkie the Clown
By Barbara F. Dyer - Apr 20Erskine C. York was one of Camden’s most colorful characters for many years, into the 1980s. As children in the late 1930s, we first knew him as ...
The Hardy Family
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 18We are all familiar with history telling us about James Richards, “Camden’s first settler”, who sailed into Camden harbor on May 8, 1769 with his ...
No bodies, just background
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 04People are saying that all things today are much worse than ever before, but good things have happened. You just have to look a little harder to ...
Brewster and his shirt factory
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jan 01Joseph Almond Brewster was born on Nov. 17, 1870, the son of Joseph and Priscilla Pottle Brewster. He grew up on a farm in Belmont, but when his ...
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The Popular 'Peanut' Alley
By Barbara F. Dyer - Dec 15Leroy “Peanut” Alley was born in Camden, Dec. 23, 1908, an early Christmas present to Leroy and Ethel Bracy Alley. He not only was born here, but ...
Who's Who at Mountain View: Theresa Butler Parker
By Barbara F. Dyer - Nov 20Theresa Butler Parker was born in Camden on Jan. 23, 1868, the daughter of Moses L. and Mary Cleveland Parker. She lived in the Parker homestead ...
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Extraordinary first engineer
By Barbara F. Dyer - Oct 23Two luxury yachts, both named Lyndonia, graced Camden Harbor in the 1920s and 1930s and their chief engineer was Albert Bradley Bennett. They were ...
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Death of a captain
By Barbara F. Dyer - Oct 08World War II was on and Henry Bickford had become personnel manager at Camden Shipbuilding and Marine Railways Co., Inc. He was keeping order of ...
Henry Dunbar Storey
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 26The following poem was written about Henry Dunbar Storey on June 24, 1927, by one of Camden’s favorite authors, Gilbert Patten. Mr. Patten ...
Captain Ezra Curtis
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 15This is a story of a captain and his boat. He wasn’t just any captain, because during past centuries in Maine if you were not a farmer, you were a ...
The good doctors Bisbee
By Barbara F. Dyer - Aug 14Deplura H. Bisbee, one of Camden’s well known business man in the 1800s, died in 1893 and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery. He was greatly ...
The Jennie French Potter is found
By Barbara F. Dyer - Aug 06Another piece of Camden’s history has come to life recently, when the wreckage of the five-master schooner, built by the Holly M. Bean Yard, was ...
Another doctor
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jul 18In Section 2, on Lot 60 at Mountain View Cemetery we have a well-beloved physician and distinguished citizen of Camden, whom none of us remember ...
Rufus Coombs Ames
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jun 19In a paper of the past, I was attracted to a story that would not happen today. It was about a letter addressed to “Any old man by the name of ...
Bucklin the Tailor, and family
By Barbara F. Dyer - May 19In the good old days, when I graduated from Camden High, jobs were scarce. I took the first one I could find, that was working in the Rexall Drug ...
Supreme sacrifice
By Barbara F. Dyer - May 01They called it “The Great One.” Many people refer to it as World War I, but only a few today remember it personally because the military conflict ...
Barnes of long ago
By Barbara F. Dyer - Apr 16Most of you have heard of the Barnestown Road, located off the Hosmer Pond Road, above the Snow Bowl. It was named for Benjamin Barnes II. Mr. ...
'Tige'
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 19One of the best-known and best-loved mail carriers in Camden was Lloyd “Tige” Richardson. He was not what we call a Camden native because he was ...
Past postal people
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 07Before 1794, Camden had little mail or newspapers, and those were brought by schooners. A man named Russell was hired by individuals to go from ...
A knight in Camden
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 08In 1853, when “The Harbor” and “Goose River” were both Camden, the gentleman chosen to oversee the building of the road from Camden Village to ...
Italian families of Camden, Part II
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jan 24I enjoy writing these columns, and I am learning a great deal. After columns are published, I get calls from people who share information that I ...
A new year, a new country
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jan 08There were several Italian families who left Italy and/or Sicily to come to Camden and their children were schoolmates of mine. Their fathers were ...
A minister, perhaps controversial
By Barbara F. Dyer - Dec 25Rev. Horace I. Holt was born in Hubbardstown, Mass., on Aug. 30, 1869. He was the son of Oscar and Lucy Underwood Holt. He was called to be the ...
A man of unusual work ethics
By Barbara F. Dyer - Dec 13C. Wilkes Babb was hired in March of 1886 by the Knox Woolen Company, with no prior knowledge of a woolen mill, when he was 23 years of age. After ...
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A Camden doctor, but a better teacher
By Barbara F. Dyer - Nov 28Jacob Patch, M.D, was born in Groton, Mass., and graduated from Dartmouth College. He arrived in Camden about 1800. On Nov. 12, 1806, he married ...
A decade of Dyers in Maine
By Barbara F. Dyer - Nov 15“Well, Joshua, what’s wrong with ya? Probably, jest ‘nother hard day of fishing.” Yep, Jane, too many of those dang days.” “Makin’ a livin’ ...
William Schwartz: architect and builder
By Barbara F. Dyer - Oct 31William E. Schwartz was born in 1858 in Waldoboro and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Section 4, Lot 204. Buried on the same lot are ...
Davey Crockett, King of the Camden Frontier
By Barbara F. Dyer - Oct 16David Crockett, Sr., was a personable businessman, who kept his eye on Camden's business district and the town. He was born in Rockland on Aug. ...
The Howe Brothers: Fascinating farmers who wasted nothing
By Barbara F. Dyer - Oct 01Two of the most interesting men that Camden has known in the past are Oscar and Walter Howe.That family had a very early beginning in Camden. ...
Wilder W. Perry, a man of interest
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 18On Dec. 6, 1934, the Camden Herald headline read, “Death Claimed Three Well Known Camden Citizens During the Week: Wilder W. Perry, Sophus Hansen ...
Tilson Gould and Family
By Barbara F. Dyer - Sep 04Tilson Gould came to Camden at an early age from Pembroke, Mass., where he had been born in 1777. He married Betsey Stinson, from Camden, when he ...
Camden’s longtime photographer
By Barbara F. Dyer - Aug 18Jay Potter was born in Brighton on May 9, 1872, the son of C.H. and Clara Goodwin Potter. At the time of his retirement from business, he was the ...
Major Gen. George Ulmer Sr.
By Barbara F. Dyer - Aug 04Perched on a hill at 3 Cobbtown Road in Ducktrap is the attractive home of classic Colonial architecture style owned by Mr. and Mrs. Walter ...
Camden's first call to arms
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jul 28We are all familiar with the Revolutionary War. We here in Camden, Maine, celebrated Independence Day, but little is known or appreciated of the ...
Independence Day
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jun 30The Fourth of July means fireworks and a celebration. But it really is a celebration of our independence from England. The early settlers of ...
The Russell family, Part II
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jun 16This week's article about the Russell family is a continuation of a two-part article, the first of which was printed on June 2. At the community ...
The Russell family
By Barbara F. Dyer - Jun 02The Russell family is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Section 6, Lot 32. They lived at 5 High St., in a two-story, framed building with a ...
Let us observe Decoration Day
By Barbara F. Dyer - May 19Perhaps you remember from history, General John Alexander Logan ordered a holiday on May 30, 1868, so people would decorate the graves of the ...
The prominent Norwood family
By Barbara F. Dyer - May 05Capt. William Norwood was born in 1769 and was a native of Mt. Desert, but he followed the sea from North Haven. It was on that land that he met ...
Who's Who at Mountain View: Poor old Ada Mills
By Barbara . Dyer - Apr 22"Ada Mills a Recluse Is Victim"“Ghastly Tragedy Brings Strange End to Lonely Life”The above headlines in the Bangor Daily News on Monday, July 13, ...
Hail to the chief
By Barbara F. Dyer - Apr 07As far as can be determined, the first fire company in Camden Village was organized in 1847, and known as the “Hydrant Fire Company #1." That went ...
A lifetime of community service
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 24One of the most civic minded, community oriented businessmen, George H. Thomas, spent his entire life in Camden. He was born in this town Sept. 1, ...
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Camden's Southern belle
By Barbara F. Dyer - Mar 10David P. Ordway was born in 1844 and by 1881 he had established a business in Belmont, Maine. In 1902 he moved it to Tannery Lane in Camden, known ...
Business leader Harold S. Corthell
By Barbara F. Dyer - Feb 28Harold S. Corthell was born to be a salesman, and was one of the best store owners Camden ever had. He was also an instigator who could get things ...
