Box 1

Letter signed by James and Mary Jordan. Fragile and fragmented.

Includes newspaper clippings (Rufus Deering obituary, Ocean Park cottage belonging to Rufus Deering to be torn down, Plummer farm which belonged to Roger Deering sold), silhouette, Ella Deering notebook (1876), copy of Rufus Deering plan on Forest Avenue (with list of family members, including Orr family), flax in envelope (with note on it by Emily Deering Jordan – flax raised on a farm in the Eastman family), Portland Price-Current Letter Sheet (1861).

Includes tintypes. Names include Ella Deering Orr, Harriet Deering, Dora Orr Warren, Sara Sawyer Deering (Rufus Deering’s mother), Philip Eastman Orr, Philip Warren, Lewis Jordan Orr, Deborah Eastman Deering, Rufus Deering, and Rufus Deering family photograph (including Rufus, wife Deborah, and children Emily, Clara, Hattie, Charlie, Henry, as well as Hannah York). Places include Italy, Old Orchard Beach, Maine (fishing trip).

Special advertising section of the Maine Sunday Telegram, 2004 March 28.

Includes tintype(?). Ella Deering and Washington Jordan Orr family. Ella (1854-135) and Washington Orr (1854-1935) had five children: Phillip Eastman Orr (1880-1963), Frederick Orr (1882-1882), Dora Deering Orr Warren (1885-1968), Lewis Jordan Orr (1886-1834), and Clement Webb Orr (1889-1981). Other names include Isaac Orr (father of Washington Jordan Orr), Harriet Deering, Rhoda Orr, Eunice Orr, and Nellie Orr Ross. Places include Old Orchard Beach.

Newspaper clippings (obituary for Washington Jordan Orr), card from Frances Weddell of Limerick, Maine, and Florida to Mr. and Mrs. Clemet Orr regarding "Aunt Emily’s diary" (see Folder 2), wedding invitation (Dora Deering and Philip Lyon Warren, 1909).

Includes receipt, documents (including Massachusetts militia document), shipping agreement. Names also include Anhelaus Steele, James Thurlo, Luther Fitch, Job Thomes, David Trickey, Zebulon Trickey, Levi Tate, Joseph Valentine, Mark Haskell, George Warren. There are documents regarding "United Society." Places include Portland/Falmouth, Gorham, Stroudwater, Westbrook. These items were scanned (see thumb drive).

Includes tintype. Places include 142 Pine Street (Portland), Rangeley Lakes. Names include Philip Lyon Warren, George L. Warren, Jennie Lind Duncan Warren, Annie Duncan, Helen Warren, Catharine Brown Palmer Warren, Dora Orr Warren.

Newspaper clippings (including obituaries and wedding announcement), journal (1837 journal of George Warren, a senator, of a trip to Washington DC and Philadelphia during which he meets Henry Clay), correspondence, family Bible record. Names include Philip L. Warren, Dora Orr Warren, George Warren, Catharine Palmer Warren, William Warren, and Philip Eastman Orr.

Includes Charles Boothby (nephew of Rufus Deering), Ann Deering, Hannah Deering, Rufus Deering, Deborah Eastman, Mrs. M. A. Moore, Phebe. Includes a document (1907) regarding the gift of the Deering family Bible to the Free Baptist Church of Limerick (signed by Henry E. Eastman, church clerk).