Emma Mills Pike Salisbury Massachusetts

Emma Mills married Alexander Pike on June 30 1913. She was the daughter of Samuel Mills and Emma Dalton. Alexander was the son of Charles Pike and Helen Eaton. 
The same year Emma is voted in as first "Selectwoman" she saves her husband Alexander Pike from a mad bull!

1934 Eighth Grade Class of Jacob F Spaulding School Salisbury Massachusetts

Thanks to Donna Bartlett of Salisbury, Massachusetts and Bartlett Farm for sharing

1951 building bridge across Merrimack River by Chain Bridge & Salisbury Point

Stearns Family Photo Collection “Building new bridge across Merrimack R by Chain Bridge & Salisbury point  Nov 11, 1951.  Salisbury Pt in distance”

Meek Oven Company Salisbury Massachusetts Gas Oven

George Meek immigrated to America in 1888 from Edinburgh, Scotland. He lived in Salisbury, Massachusetts. He was son of George B Meek and Jane Wilson. He married Pauline ________.
According to “Newburyport, MA The Gateway to the Merrimack Valley” published in 1927 George worked in New York before he opened his company. He left Salisbury for a few years and assumed the role of controller for Crandell-Godfrerf Factory manufacturers of bakers and confectioners supplies.
While working in New York Meek brainstormed his invention for a large gas oven which he perfected and patented on June 14, 1910. A year later he did the same in Canada on July 25, 1911.
When the ovens hit the market Reel Stove Co. was a huge success! Meek’s reputation well he was known to have the hottest cookers around the globe!
Ad in the “Gas Age, Volume 39,” in 1917 the Meek Oven Co. of Newburyport, Mass., 33 Water Street announced the present company was dissolved and a new company formed under the name of the Meek Oven Manufacturing Co.  “the same line of business under the personal supervision of George B. Meek, who will give all business his careful and prompt attention.”
Meek is listed in a 1920 business directory working with G E Porter.
Salisbury MA record dated May 23 1895 death listed for George Meek father of stillborn son.
In a 1920 census Salisbury, MA listed George B Meek age 64 household is son George, JR married and age 29. A Pauline Meek age 51 born in New York and her parents born in Germany. A Lillian F Meek age 3 born in New Hampshire. Source American Ancestors
A George B Meek, JR listed machinist married Eva Durant of Haverhill, Massachusetts daughter of Milo Durant and Emma Stearns. Rev Silas L Morse of Haverhill preformed the ceremony on November 12 1914.  Emma was listed as 15 years old and George was 24. Source American Ancestors
Pine Hill Cemetary Hollis, NH  Milo Alonzo Durant (1868-1945) son of George W Durant and Georgianna/Annie F Lund and wife Emma Ann Stearns (1868-1935) daughter of William H Stearns and Lydia Woods.  Milo and Emma married on April 8 1892. From Find A Grave referenced New Hampshire Vital Index Records 1637-1947

       
From L to R Milo and children Florence, Forrest, Eva Photos from Genealogy Family Search
Forrest Leroy Durant son of Milo and Emma married on August 18 1945 age 36 married Gertrude Parker age 20 daughter of Louis A. Parker and Nellie J. Woods of Pepperell, MA From Annual Report of the Town of Greenfield, New Hampshire 1945

Information on files Trade catalogs from Meek Oven Co
Any information on this family would be appreciated Thanks!

1940 Salisbury Massachusetts Street Name Changes and Photos of the 1953 Interstate 95 Construction

If anyone has maps with old street names or photos to share please contact me! Thanks 

Photos construction near Interstate 95 from the Bartlett Farm Family Photo Collection.

Many homes were demolished or moved when the interstate went in. The Eastman Stearns Family home moved from 315 Elm Street and is now located behind Bartlett's Farm Stand.  Click Link to Read More Stearns Family Project
The John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge was built in 1951 connecting Newburyport and Amesbury over the Merrimack River.
This is a 1940 Boston Herald clip announcing the name changes in Salisbury.

1985 Town Report Amesbury, Massachusetts   
Nostalgia photos: Highway construction The Sun Chronicle 
History of Salisbury, Massachusetts Rebecca Beatrice Brooks