Barker, Fuller and Wright F...Barker, Fuller and Wright Family Papers, 1818-1950
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Abstract
Family from Bath, ME
Papers of the Wright, Fuller, and Barker families of Bath, ME. Includes published books and pamphlets owned by the families, as well as correspondence, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to family members. The majority of the items in this collection relate to Dr. Byron Fuller Barker (1872-1932), of Bath. Also includes materials related to Samuel C. Barker (1838-1874), Dr. Andrew J. Fuller (1822-1897), Julia A. Fuller (1842-1921), Eliza B. Marble (1846-1926), Henry C. Wright (1878-1950), and Mildred Todd (Barker) Wright (1880-1975).
Administrative/Biographical History
Dr. Andrew J. Fuller was born on 15 September 1822, in Paris, Maine. He married Harriet Marston (1819-1888), and in 1847 came to Bath from Searsmont to establish a medical practice. He continued his work as a physician from that time until his death in January of 1897. The Fullers had three children, Hannah (1844-1845), Byron (1846-1862) who died of typhoid fever, and Julia A. (1842-1921).
Samuel C. Barker was born in 1838, the son of Captain Samuel Barker (1810-1897) and Caroline Heath Barker. He was the only one of three children to survive to maturity. At the time of his death in 1874 he was employed at the Alma Steam Mill Company in Bath. Samuel C. Barker married Julia A. Fuller in December of 1871. They had one son, Byron Fuller Barker, who was born in Bath on 19 November 1872.
Byron Fuller Barker graduated from Bowdoin College in 1893 and completed his medical training at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in 1896. He returned to Bath, where he established a medical practice, which he continued for thirty-six years until his death on 29 April 1932 from severe appendicitis,
Byron Fuller Barker married Mildred Todd, the daughter of Orville and Carrie Todd of Bath, on 14 December 1910. Mildred Todd Barker, born in 1880, was a nurse and later a trustee of Bath Memorial Hospital and of the Old Ladies Home in Bath, and also a supporter of the Patten Free Library. Her mother divorced her father and later married Marshall M. Card.
In 1937 Mildred Todd Barker married Henry C. Wright (1878-1950), a naval architect and draftsman who served as president of the Patten Free Library Association and of the Bath Memorial Hospital, and was elected a member of the Maine House of Representatives. Mildred Todd Barker Wright died in August of 1975.
Eliza Blinn was born in Dresden, Maine, on 16 September 1846 and married Henry Coker Marble (1845-1901). They had one daughter, Minnie, about 1868. Eliza B. Marble died in Bath on 19 March 1926. The Marble family had no apparent connection to the Fuller or Barker families.
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This collection consists of both books and loose documents owned by or relating to members of the Barker, Fuller, and Wright families. Boxes 1 and 2 contain published and unpublished bound material, including schoolbooks owned by Byron Barker and Samuel Barker (Box 1, folders 4 and 5), medical journals (Box 1, folders 1, 2, and 3), and journals and autograph books of female members of the family (Box 1, folders 9 and 10).
Loose documents in this collection include mostly newspaper clippings relating to family members, as well as some correspondence. Many of these are in the envelopes in which family members placed them. Box 3, folder 1, contains several bookmarks done in cross-stitch on perforated paper and mounted on ribbons. Box 3, folder 4 includes a wallet which belonged to Henry C. Wright. A photograph of Samuel Barker is included in Box 3, folder 1; a photograph of Byron Barker as a child is included in Box 3, folder 2.