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The farm was owned (built/inherited) by Caleb Swan Coffin, where he and his wife, Mary (Burbank) Coffin raised their children Sarah Jane, Esther and three other girls, along with Caleb's nephew, Stephen Coffin.
Sarah Jane (1845-1926) married Alvah Hanson Hill (1849-1891) in about 1870. When Alvah died, he left Sarah with four young children to care for, and that is probably when she moved back into her childhood home with her children, including Archie and twins, Daisy and Mamie. Also living there was Stephen Coffin, her cousin, who had grown up in the house after the death of his own parents.
Sarah Jane's sister, Esther, married Charles Garcelon, son of Maine Governor Alonzo Garcelon. (Charles probably first met Esther on a visit to North Lovell from Lewiston to visit his friend, Stephen Coffin. Charles and Stephen had fought alongside each other in I Company, 16th Maine Regiment, in the Civil War).
After the Civil War, Charles became General Manager of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago, where he lived with Esther and their sons. After they were married and had moved away, Charles and Esther and their family frequently visited and summered at the farm. During this period, when Esther's family in North Lovell was having financial difficulties, Charles and Esther purchased the 140-acre Coffin Farm on November 24, 1890. The farm, at that time, extended from the site of the existing farmhouse northward on the Old Country road and westerly to Kezar Lake, and included about 1500 feet of lake frontage.
Charles also paid to have the farmhouse renovated and upgraded, and gave life tenancy to Sarah and her children, which lasted for another 34 years, until Daisy (Hill) Fogg, Esther's niece, died at the farmhouse on September 4, 1979.
When Charles retired from Pullman Company in 1906, he and Esther built a house on the lake frontage portion of the farm. This home is presently known locally as the "Garcelon Mansion."
The farm and surrounding acreage, by then known as the "Daisy Fogg Farm," was sold by the Garcelon family sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. At that point, the buildings were in dilapidated condition. Some of the out-buildings and barns have been razed, while the original farmhouse, now the "Daisy Mountain Inn," has been modernized and restored to its present condition.
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Twins Mamie (1887-1968) and Daisy (1887-1979) Hill