Deering, Orr, and Warren family collection
Scope and Content note
Correspondence, diary, photographs (including tintypes), documents, newspaper clippings.
Flash drive with transcriptions available (contains photographs, letters, documents, some of which are in this collection but more are added). This flash drive is in the source file. Also in the source file is donor correspondence with MHS and her family, which summarizes the family history, with bibliographical sources.
Dates
- Creation: 1812 - 2004
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
Rufus Deering (1818-1896) was the founder of Rufus Deering Lumber in Portland, Maine. He married Deborah Eastman, daughter of Ezra and Mercy Philpot Eastman of Limerick on May 18, 1843. They had six sons and four daughters, including Emily Deering Jordan (1844-1925) and Ella Deering Orr (1854-1943). Ella's daughter Dora Deering Orr (1885-1968) married Philip Lyon Warren Sr. (1884-1964), son of Jennie Lind Duncan and George L. Warren Jr. Their children were Helen Warren, Philip Lyon Warren, Duncan Orr Warren, John F. Warren.
Rufus Deering was involved in the Maine Free Baptist Association (as treasurer).
The Eastmans lived in Limerick, the Warrens lived in Westbrook, the Orrs lived in Harpswell, and the Deerings lived in Portland and along the coast.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Gift of Rebecca Warren, October 12, 2021 (acc. no. 2021.120), the great, great, great granddaughter of Rufus and Deborah Deering. (Rebecca's mother, Helen Davidson Warren, was the daughter-in-law of Dora Orr Warren, who was the daughter of Ella Deering Orr, daughter of Deborah Eastman Deering.)
Processing note
Many of the documents and letters had numbers on them, "HO...," which were on sticky notes -- these were removed and notations made on archival paper folded around the letters.
Source
- Warren, Rebecca (Donor, Person)
Subject
- Deering, Deborah C. Eastman, 1819-1885 (Person)
- Deering, Rufus Seavey, 1818-1896 (Person)
- Rufus Deering Lumber Company (Organization)
- Maine Free Baptist Association (Organization)
- Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911) (Organization)
- Massachusetts. Militia (Organization)
- Free Baptist Church (Limerick, Me.) (Organization)
- Jordan, Emily Deering, 1844-1925 (Person)
- Orr, Ella Deering, 1854-1943 (Person)
- Warren, Dora Deering Orr, 1885-1968 (Person)
- Warren, Philip Lyon, 1884-1964 (Person)
- Eastman, Mercy Philpot, 1796-1875 (Person)
- Eastman, Ezra, 1789-1879 (Person)
- Deering family (Family)
- Orr family (Family)
- Warren family (Family)
- Eastman family (Family)
- Jordan family (Family)
- Page family (Family)
- Warren, George (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Deering, Orr, and Warren family collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nancy Noble, MHS Archivist, January 2022
- Date
- February 27, 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Historical Society Repository