| Amos Perkins Lord was born in 1868, 5th child of the 11 born to Ruth and Isaiah Lord in the town of Brooksville, several miles from the more familiar Castine, near the head of Penobscot Bay. As a young man, Isaiah was master of the schooner Day Spring, but opted for a life ashore as a merchant clerk, eventually owning the small general store which he operated for many years in West Brooksville. |
Ruth and Isaiah Lord from a newspaper clipping describing their 50th wedding anniversary celebration in 1906. |
| As part of a brief history of the Brooksville Lords in the book "Traditions and Records of Brooksville Maine", The Rev. Wilmont Lord traces the family line back to "Robert Lord, an English emigrant, from Sudbury, Parish of St. Gregory, County of Suffolk, England" who came to New England in 1635. Jeramiah Lord, forth generation from Robert, originally from Ipswich Massachusettes, wound his way to Castine Maine via the Isle of Shoals in the early 1800s. There was Capt. John, son of Jerimiah, then John, son of Capt. John, and then Isaiah and his kin. Five of Isaiahs' six brothers followed a life at sea, all part of a maritime culture in the last half of the 19th century that gave Maine a wide reputation for it's masters and crew under sail. |
Here is Isaiahs store with two boys sitting together
next to a dog on the deck. Perhaps it was Amos and his brother Wilmont.
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