History of Blue Hill, (Hancock County) Maine United States of America

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Rufus George Frederick Candage, marine surveyor, was born in Blue Hill, Me., July 28, 1826; son of Samuel Roundy and Phoebe Ware (Parker) Candage. He was educated at the public schools and academy of his native town, and at the age of eighteen went to sea. In 1850 he became master of the brig Equator, and later commanded the ships Jamestown of New York and the Electric Spark and the National Eagle of Boston, making voyages to the principal ports of Europe, Asia, Australia, and North and South America. He abandoned the sea in 1867, and settled in Brookline, Mass. He was appointed marine surveyor by the American shipmasters' association, and also for the Boston board of underwriters in 1867, and in 1882 became surveyor for Bureau Veritas of Paris, France. In 1861 he was elected a member of the Shipmasters' association of New York; in 1867, a member of the Boston marine society; and in 1891, of the New York marine society. In 1871 he was made a trustee of the Brookline public library; in 1876, a member of the New England historic genealogical society; in 1885, of the Bostoninn society; in 1891, of Bunker Hill monument association; and in 1894, a corresponding member of the Maine historical society. He is the author of Boston Harbor (1881); Settlement and Progress of the Town of Blue Hill, Maine (1886); Early Settlers in Blue Hill, and Their Families (edited by him, 1889); An Account of the Cavendish, Candish, or Candage Family (1889), and a Memoir of Rev. Jonathan Fisher (1889).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

George Albert Clough, architect, was born in Bluehill, Maine, May 27, 1843; son of Asa and Louisa (Ray) Clough. His father and his maternal grandfather were noted mechanics; the father was a successful shipbuilder, having constructed eighty-three ships during his lifetime; and the grandfather, Matthew Ray, was a manufacturer of edge tools. George received his early education at Bluehill academy and for four years was engaged in working out the sweeps from the ship models in his father's shipyards, when the decline of shipping interests occurred in 1860 and he was obliged to seek employment elsewhere. He studied architecture with Snell & Gregerson, Boston, Mass., 1863-69, and in 1869 opened an office on his own account. In 1873 he was elected city architect of Boston, being the first to hold that position. He organized the department, and during his ten years' term of office many notable buildings were erected by the city from his plans. Prominent among these were the English high and Latin schools (1877), in which he introduced the German system of constructing the building around an open court; and the Prince school, completed in 1881, applying the same principle of plan to small buildings. He designed the Marcella Street home; the pumping station building and all the buildings connected with the Sudbury river water supply; the Lyman school for boys, Boston, Mass.; the Bridgewater state workhouse; the Westboro and Northampton insane asylums; the Durfee memorial building, Fall River, Mass.; the Bridge academy, Dresden, Maine; Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass.; and the Suffolk county courthouse at Boston, Mass., besides many buildings of importance outside the state. In 1876 he was married to Amelia M., daughter of Lyman Hinckly of Thetford, Vt.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor