Clifford N. Carver papers

Collection

Identifier: Coll. 289

Staff Only

Scope and Content note

Correspondence and genealogical data containing lists of vessels built in the Carver, Merrithew and McGilvery yards of Searsport, Maine, as well as lists of Searsport captains and their vessels.

Dates

Creation: ca. 1930

Creator

Carver, Clifford N. (Clifford Nickels), 1890-1965 (Person)

Access

Unrestricted

Copyright

Access to collections at Maine Historical Society is not an authorization to publish. Rights and reproduction requests may be submitted in writing to the MHS Image Services Coordinator or Research & Administrative Librarian, subject to format.

Biographical note

Clifford Nickels Carver (1890-1965) compiled this information for the book Carver Family of New England: Robert Carver of Marshfield and his descendants (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle Pub., 1935).

Carver was born in Searsport, Maine, and was an American diplomat, as well as being a businessman in New York. He was active in the shipping industry, and involved with the two American whaling firms active in the 1930s.