Lee Academy - Crescent Yearbook (Lee, ME)

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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 '

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THE CRESCENT exeiil times ind his home Coming, xx is xlxx 15s 1 big ex ent At one time he tound one of his ielatives laxxn in need of moxxing he boiroxked sex the ind did the iob himself He de I1 hted in sxxzpping stories of his xouthiul escapades xxlth his box hood p 1 s ei 1 long illness Chules Cobb died It his Altadena home the txxentx second du of November in 10 fl Miny tiibutes came from cix ie VVest is xxell as the Eist Foitx fixe ielxtix es ind friends xxeie nzmed is beneiieiuies and thiougbh tiusts he pioxidcd foi fouiteen institutions The II ishington Chlldien s home Lhe I C A I41rtP1es in Church the f hildien s Oi o pedi Hospital md the Silx IUOII A1 mx ill oiSe1ttlc the I os Amee la s O1 thopedic Foundation the Y M C A Y W C A and the Salx ation Army of Pasadena Lee Academx the Town of I ee foi the benefit of the needy ac eording, to the iudgment of selectmen of I ee the Fnst United Baptist Church of Lee and the town of Lincoln School Distiict He assisted in building, Mat tinlvxcook Academy of Lincoln and lee Aeademx of Lee Maine By di 1LC,tCOI1l.11blltl0HS he built The Masonic lodge ind made it possible for W H toiieal museum at Lee The key to this great phil inthio pists unusual xision and charactei might easilx lie in his rigidly infoiced elud honest initiatixe to ereatc xxc xlth ind intelligent distiibution of Ili t xx ealth to benefit the less fortu n ite Joxce Cobb 46 26 I ' 'z ' as, 2 '. - ' f ' ' , . . . ., 'zu 2 'z fs z ' ' . ' . I . I, ,, 1' ' Y x I 'A 1 4 ' ,S 7 - Sf . y 7 7 ' if C, ' ' Z1 I 1 ' ' - 'gf I ' K- vi ' A .' A, 'A' ' J 1, ' as ' I 'Lf 7 ' 1 4 . v y' ' 1 r 3 1 ' - ' ' k 1 7 2 ls. . ' ' ' ' f - Aft ' 2 ' us, I z ' as H. 2 2 ' ' 1 ' ' I ' 2 'Aw A . 3 JJ If y , . ' . '- 1? V-L, x 2 . 2 ' 1 A I e -' ' S ' 4 f S ' fraternal, and religious leaders of the Averill to realize his dream of an his- 'az sz ' a 2 as f' 'z '- ' 1 'zu ' f ' ' 'I 1. X wi ' ' ' x Y. N. C. A., Y. YV. ., s ' sby- 'iz , z ' 'f ' I0l'.2 1 ' ' , x ' ' 'I 'th - I zz ' ' , I ' , - 1 'Q .' ' - 1 2 Q 'z ' '- z .H A ' az xg I .' fl ES '- j I '