Bar Mills Magazine League
This is a formidable group of ladies on the Usher Mills Road in Bar Mills before 1913. They subscribed to magazines as a group, passed them around and discussed interesting articles. There was a similar group in West Buxton.
Rebecca Usher (1821-1912), sitting front left in black, is the only one we can positively identify. She was a Civil War volunteer nurse who later ran her father Ellis Usher’s considerable estate. Like the suffrage early leadership, she did not live long enough to vote.
Here are the people in the photograph from the list on back. They are all from Bar Mills village. Please let us know if you can identify them. Mrs. Ambrose (Laura born 1869?) Weeks, Miss Fannie Dyer, Mrs. William Dyer, Miss Ripley, Mrs. Milliken, Mrs. Coffin, Mrs. Ada McKenney, Miss Rebecca Usher, Miss Bradish and Mrs. Charles McKenney.
Rebecca Usher (1821-1912), sitting front left in black, is the only one we can positively identify. She was a Civil War volunteer nurse who later ran her father Ellis Usher’s considerable estate. Like the suffrage early leadership, she did not live long enough to vote.
Here are the people in the photograph from the list on back. They are all from Bar Mills village. Please let us know if you can identify them. Mrs. Ambrose (Laura born 1869?) Weeks, Miss Fannie Dyer, Mrs. William Dyer, Miss Ripley, Mrs. Milliken, Mrs. Coffin, Mrs. Ada McKenney, Miss Rebecca Usher, Miss Bradish and Mrs. Charles McKenney.