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Arthur Ashton came to the Georgetown, and Bath, Maine areas to build glass bottom boats and started a small school to teach glass bottom boat building. These boats where shipped to Florida for the tourist trade.
Other notes which are probibly boat business locations are Bay Pt. (no State), Marr Town , (No State), Harmons Harbor (No State), Georgetown, Maine and Phippsburg, Maine. The no name state could be New Hampshire since his family came from that area.
I have pictures of my grandfather at these buildings but they don't show the boats.
other notes are that the Bath Library( Patten Free Library) has some information on families of that area and have early people directories and a genealogy and history room that is run by the historical society in Bath.
Arthur's Obituary from the Bath Daily Times, Bath, Maine ( Now the Times Record ) reads:
Arthur Stocker Ashton, 58, died Sunday morning at Memorial Hospital
A resident of 40 Granite Street, he had lived in this city for the past 12 years.
Born Oct. 5, 1900 at Kingston, N.H. he was the son of Edward G. and Myra Senter Ashton: Prior to coming to Bath he had lived in Maplewood and in New Hampshire.
Mr. Ashton was a carpenter by trade.
Surviving are his widow, Kathleen Reed Ashton; two daughters, Roxanne Ashton, Bath, Helen Ashton, New Hampshire, six sons, Carl, Kingston, N.H., Edward, Arthur, Jr., Cleveland, O, Charles and Mark, all of Bath; his mother Mrs. Myra Fowler, West Newfield; two sisters, Mrs. John Simes, Kingston, N.H., Mrs. Clifford Moore, Newburyport, Massachusetts one brother Maurice , Hartford, Conn.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., wednesday at Curtis funeral home. Burial will be in Oak Grove.
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Arthur Ashton came to the Georgetown, and Bath, Maine areas to build glass bottom boats and started a small school to teach glass bottom boat building. These boats where shipped to Florida for the tourist trade.
Other notes which are probibly boat business locations are Bay Pt. (no State), Marr Town , (No State), Harmons Harbor (No State), Georgetown, Maine and Phippsburg, Maine. The no name state could be New Hampshire since his family came from that area.
I have pictures of my grandfather at these buildings but they don't show the boats.
other notes are that the Bath Library( Patten Free Library) has some information on families of that area and have early people directories and a genealogy and history room that is run by the historical society in Bath.
Arthur's Obituary from the Bath Daily Times, Bath, Maine ( Now the Times Record ) reads:
Arthur Stocker Ashton, 58, died Sunday morning at Memorial Hospital
A resident of 40 Granite Street, he had lived in this city for the past 12 years.
Born Oct. 5, 1900 at Kingston, N.H. he was the son of Edward G. and Myra Senter Ashton: Prior to coming to Bath he had lived in Maplewood and in New Hampshire.
Mr. Ashton was a carpenter by trade.
Surviving are his widow, Kathleen Reed Ashton; two daughters, Roxanne Ashton, Bath, Helen Ashton, New Hampshire, six sons, Carl, Kingston, N.H., Edward, Arthur, Jr., Cleveland, O, Charles and Mark, all of Bath; his mother Mrs. Myra Fowler, West Newfield; two sisters, Mrs. John Simes, Kingston, N.H., Mrs. Clifford Moore, Newburyport, Mass, one brother Maurice , Hartford, Conn.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., wednesday at Curtis funeral home. Burial will be in Oak Grove.