Lee Academy - Crescent Yearbook (Lee, ME)

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THE CRESCENT Kxndlv Llght H1s favorlte dlshes xxere stew ed ch1cken w1th dumpllngs and strawberry shortcake cooked by Mrs Pottle Mr Murphy lox ed to play Jokes h1s oxxn speclal tx pe of harmless but a musxng l1ttle tucks The last years of h1s l1fe he spent much t1me 1n the home of the Pottles xx hele he was a belox ed and xx elcome x1s1tor Th1s 18 one anec dote xx hlch tmused me M1 Pottle IS 1IlCl1llC-Bd to xvhlstle hum and slng VII' Murphy used to hlre h1m not to w h1stle xx 1th a penny or occasxonally prefaced by qulte a lengthy dlcker After one x 1s1t dur1ng xx h1ch Mr Pottle had made qu1te a b1t from refra1n1ng to xxhlstle llrll Murphx gleefully 1n formed hlm that he had purlolned the pr1ce of h1s prolonged S1l9HC6 from Mr Pottle s oxxn bureau H1s unexpected drv humor xx 1s known by all of h1s fllends Often when Lee had no preacher M1 Murphv would f1ll the pulp1t He llked to pre rch about the vessel of lxfe startmg from port and then return mg He was a forceful and thought compelhng publ1c speaker H1s readxng hobby was hlstory es pec1ally French hlstory and the C1V1l W ar He wrote a lecture on the l1fe of Napoleon and he often gave It ln d1f ferent towns He was very much mterested IH horses Whlle ln Lee he buxlt a barn and he kept a good dI'1V1I'lg horse He nexer felt an affectlon for cars and declared he nexer d1d learn to back an d.Llt0IY1Ob1l6 If anythmg went wrong w1th a car all durmg the years he droxe he stepped from behmd the wheel and left the car where It stood although he would appeal for help from the ne xrest telephone He loved to pl rv 1, lmes especlally card games Mr Murphy d1ed1n Llncoln Ma1ne December 7 1932 H1s body was cre mated and the ashes were strewn 1n Boston Harbor by Mr Pottle and Mr lVIcDonald Through h1s wxll he furmshed sex eral funds for Lee Academy and Wll hams Lollege Durmg hls llfetlme Mr Vlurphy lent monex to many boys who showed promlse but had 1nsuff1c1ent funds for further schoohng He was a person who kept h1s own counsel so the full extent of h1s char1t1es can only be guessed but we know they xvere many Mr Murphy stlll llves x1x1dly ln the mmds of h1s manx frlends Kathryn Stevens 46 . . ,, . . . . . . K , K K. . S . K , v 4 v y 7: . ' . . .. . . .. , . , . . A - v- l v. w 1 v . All n' I l y K . , K K. K. . , . K K. , 2 K. K .K , . 1 . K. .1 D ' .w 4 1- I . . , , . . , , sz ' va ' , 1 . 7 . 1 c C . 7 .Ky Y. 1 , IK1. ki fa nw, kv .4 6 Lv a l11Ck9l. Thls trade was sometlmes such as 63, pxtch and plnochle. . H . ,, Y . . . . V I u , 7 . . , . . . . . V K . , . . ' 1 . , ' - . y K . K . K K . .K K K . . K K- 7 . v 4 ' 1 s v ' ,- . . . , . V 'gg . ' .1 f . . , . 1 ,, l 3 . v 1 W .1 ' . . 4 l T I 1 . 1 1 I l I 1 .N C nn n A n , A Ll 7' ' L ' N , , 1 11 v . , .. , .K K . K K . K K . . K. 7. . vc va 1 . ,

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THE CRESCENT CHARLES H COBB 1876 The telephone was lnvented md shown for the flrst tlme at the Centennxal Exposltlon IH Phlladelphla General Custer had made h1s last stand the Greenback Party made 1ts flrst nomlnatlon for Pres1dent and four boys from Malne arrlved 1n Seattle after a four weeks tr1p on frelght tralns One of these boys was destlned to TISS followlng a well known pat tern of the Amerlcan success story from poverty and obscurlty to wealth and emp1rebu1ld1ng ln the great Northwest through h1s own mgenuxty four years before on a farm 1n Lln coln Malne Know known as Cobb Hallj when a son was born to Leonard and Mary Ehzabeth QDunne1J Cobb E xrly IH llfe the boy learned the value of a dollar and how to work At the age of 16 he was a contractor gettlng out logs and tannlng bark near h1S home After thelr arr1val 1n Seattle Mr Cobb and another boy pooled the1r resources conslstlng of a few penmes and post tge stamps whlch Charles mother hmd gnen h1m to send letters home and had 1ust enough for a mea ger breakfast The two boys who were expert scythemen traveled 75 m1les up 1nto the country which IS now Snohomlsh W rshxngton to harxest hay Contractlng to buy the farm they batched there for three years The former ow ners then took lt back and released them from thelr obllga tlons That fall Mr Cobb obtalned a 1ob as crulser and later bought t1m ber for the Port Blakely Mllllng and Logg1ng Companv In 1899 he marrled Carrle Bell Turner a talented muslclan of Colfax Cahfornla whose father had salled horn IH the gold rush of 49 Thelr on ly ch1ld was an adopted son They settled 1n Seattle and Mr Cobb formed a partnershlp Wlth three other men under the name of the Port Susan Logglng Company From th1s tlme on he prospered and became one of the leaders 1n the de x elopment of Seattle watchmg It grow from a pOplll3.t1OI1 of 2 500 to one of 400 000 In 191o Mr and Mrs Cobb bought the L 18 Floles Ranch ln Alt idena as a xx 1nter home and he contlnued to llxe there after he1 death 1n 1934 He came back to Y1Slt his old home and frlends 25 J 1 9 M-5' ' x , . xi . . . . . . Y . , 2 1 . V X . 1 , - , as 73 , . s , Y V, . . . I . A Aa , Q ' , , - V - A . . Y K 9 , N . Y . , . W' . ' 1 9 and labor. This story began twenty- from Penobscot County around the . . . , . , . , . K ' K n 5 9 ' 2 . . , , . . . , L u Y , . . . 7 ' 7 , . A n, n 5, A Y 1 x'. kv 2 f L1 1 nw V ' L' ZS - K 4 ' 2 :L 1 1 I . K ' l '