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Ralph was a baker. In 1917 (when he registered for the World War I Draft), he was an employee of the W.A. Crockett Bakery in Dover, New Hampshire. Over time, he bought into the business, which became the Crockett and Hussey Bakery.
Ralph and Carolyn had no children.

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Elliott worked as a cutter in a shoe shop in Berwick (1920). In 1930, they lived in Sanford, where he worked as a weaver in a mill there.

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Clarence enlisted in the U.S. Army on 29 January 1942 at Manchester, New Hampshire.

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Francis joined the U.S. Army at Portland on 16 March 1943 and served during World War II.

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Edwin was in the lumber business in Maine and New Hampshire. In 1920, he was a lumber merchant in Effingham, New Hampshire. By 1930, he'd become manager of a dowel mill in Ossipee.

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After her brief marriage to Morton Garland, Florence married his uncle, Daniel Garland.

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Daniel was a meat-cutter (butcher) in Parsonsfield, Maine.

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For several years, Gerald was a firefighter with the Boston Fire Department. Before 1930, they moved to Everett, where he worked as a janitor.

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Wesley was the office manager for a machine company in Boston.

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James was a machinist, working in the automobile factories in Detroit. He had immigrated from Canada in 1891 and became a naturalized citizen.

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For several years, Arthur worked as a tool maker for an auto manufacturer in Detroit. By 1930, they had moved to Prudenville, Roscommon County, where he ran a garage.

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When he registered for the World War I Darft in 1917, Arthur was employed as bookkeeper and paymaster at Limerick Mills.

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Bernice's parents, Fred and Dora Townsend, operated a dry goods store in Limerick. Bernice worked for them and, by 1930, became the store's manager.

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Arthur attended Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts, and later studied and taught at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as other art schools in Boston.
In the 1940's and 1950's, he was an influential art Director at Ford Motor Company. From 1946-1961 he served as the Executive Editor and Art Director of the Ford Times magazine, and was Art Director of other Ford publications including the Lincoln-Mercury Times, Ford Truck Times, New England Journeys and annual Ford cookbooks and almanacs. During his 15 years at Ford, he commissioned thousands of articles on America and Americana by well-known writers such as William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and William Saroyan, among others.
Arthur purchased for Ford over 7000 works by regional artists, publishing and mentoring a number of important painters including, among others, Charles Harper, John Holmgren and Paul Sample. He was the founder of the Ford Times Collection of American Art, which was displayed at art exhibitions throughout the world.
He was also a freelance artist, designing and illustrating a number of books.
Arthur was President of the Art Directors' Club of Detroit in 1951-52. In 1953, he was named Art Director of the Year by the National Society of Art Directors, of which he served as President from 1959-1963. In 1959, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Colby College in Waterville, Maine.
In 1961, he retired from Ford and moved back to his ancestral farm in Parsonsfield, Maine.
Throughout his life, he was a staunch and outspoken conservationist. In 1965, he became the first Executive Director of the York County (Maine) Planning Commission.
(From Arthur's Obituary, published in the "Canton Observer," Plymouth, Michigan, 20 November 2005.)