The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . —and after having filled numerous town reputation as a historian was not confined to MarthasVineyard. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell found him a perfectmine of information. His mother was Polly Luce of Tisbury,his father Isaiah D. Pease, forty years sheriff of the county. At the age of 19 Mr. Pease took charge of the town school,leaving that to represent the town in the Massachusetts Houseof Representatives, t
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . —and after having filled numerous town reputation as a historian was not confined to MarthasVineyard. Prof. Alexander Graham Bell found him a perfectmine of information. His mother was Polly Luce of Tisbury,his father Isaiah D. Pease, forty years sheriff of the county. At the age of 19 Mr. Pease took charge of the town school,leaving that to represent the town in the Massachusetts Houseof Representatives, then learned the art of surveying from hisuncle, Jeremiah Pease, and followed that business. WasRegister of the Probate Court, a Justice of the Peace, clerk of EDGARTOWN. S3 the courts of the county. At the time of the drafts, in 1863,Mr. Pease was one of the three men who had charge of thedrawing of names in New Bedford. He was a Grant presi-dential elector, was Commissioner for the Indians at Gay Head,and surveyed their lands; was Postmaster of Edgartown,Auditor of Town Accounts, and with it all found time to be thehistorian, antiquarian and genealogist of the They christened my brother of old— And a saintly name lie hears—They gave liim his place to liohl At the head of the beltry stairs,Where tlie minster-towers stand And the breeding kestrels cryWould I change with my brother a league inland > (Shoal! Ware shoal!) Not I! Kipling. 54 MARTHAS VINEYARD. EDGARTOWN TO OAK BLUFFS. IN THE DIRECTION OF WEST TISBURY. And now we will move afield. As we come to the burial ground on the one hand and thelittle park wherein stands the monument to the Civil Wai^heroes on the other, we find a guide board pointing two ways:West Tisbury and Oak Bluffs, or Cottage City, as the old boardstill reads, and as we shall travel by way of Oak Bluffs, it willbe necessary to digress for a few moments along the older roadtoward the west. The writer has a very distinct lecollection of t
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