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The house as
it looked when it was built
around 1874. |
Looking West
down Main Street from the top of the Yarmouth Academy. Late
1870's. |
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Original Owners |
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Original
owner George Hutchinson Guest with his wife Mary Ellen and
children Florence, Alfred and Hugh. |
Born on July 14,
1849 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. George died in Yarmouth on
January 18, 1923 at the age of 73. He was buried in Mountain
Cemetery in Yarmouth. He was at one time a merchant, High
Sheriff of Yarmouth, a bookkeeper and a shipowner.
On November 11,
1874, when George was 25, he married Mary Ellen (Nellie) Lovitt,
daughter of Captain John Walker Lovitt & Anne Jenkins, in
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Mary Ellen died in Yarmouth on March 15,
1915. She was 65.
They had the
following children:
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Florence Lovitt
(1876-1932
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Alfred Rankin
(1878-1932)
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Mary Lovitt
(1879-1945)
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Hugh Burton -
(1881-1914)
George Guest's
father, Robert Guest, had been a merchant in St. John's,
Newfoundland, but left there in 1827 to seek his fortune in
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, where he soon became involved in the
town's shipping industry.
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George, born there
in 1849, and educated at the Yarmouth Academy, was also involved
in shipping, as a ship owner and in the marine insurance
business. As well, he had good political connections, not only
by marriage but through his mother's family, who had been in
Yarmouth since the town's earliest days.
Guest's maternal
great grandfather, Norman Utley, had represented Yarmouth in the
Provincial Legislature from 1800 - 1806. When the position of
High Sheriff became vacant in 1887, George Guest's family
connections added weight to the influence already exerted by his
brother-in-law, John Lovitt, next door".
(From "Atlantic
Hearth", p.154) |
Eric
Spinney
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Eric H. Spinney was property
owner from 1927-1954. Another prominent businessman, he was the head
of E.K Spinney's hardware store in Yarmouth, and later a member of the NS
Legislature.
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The
History of the Dr. Websters |
Dr. John Alexander Webster & Family
(David Webster
is boy on far left) |
Dr. Isaac Webster
was born in 1776 in Manfield, Conn., USA and came to Cornwallis, N.S. to
practice medicine in 1791.
His son, Frederick Augustis, was born in Kentville in 1807. He attended
Edinburgh University, graduated in 1832 and set up practice in Yarmouth in
1833. Frederick Webster being the second generation doctor.
There were six in total, the 5th generation being John Alexander Webster
who was born in Yarmouth in 1914. He graduated DAL in 1938 and moved into
this home in 1954, setting up his practice in the basement where it stayed
until he retired in 1992.
His youngest son, David McGowen Webster was born in 1958, graduated from
Dalhousie University in 1990. He is still practicing in the basement
today. There has been a Dr. Webster in the Town of Yarmouth for
approximately 170 years. |
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Owners of Guest-Lovitt
House |
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John W. Lovitt |
March 4, 1861 -
January 1, 1876 |
Merchant |
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George H. & Mary
Ellen Guest |
January 1, 1876 -
January 18, 1923 |
High Sheriff |
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Alfred R. Guest |
January 18, 1923 -
December 8, 1924 |
Department
Postmaster |
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Elizabeth Hazen |
December 8, 1924 -
January 15, 1925 |
A married woman |
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Andrew Kirk |
January 15, 1925 -
December 1, 1927 |
Carpenter |
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Eric H. Spinney |
December 1, 1927 -
June 1, 1954 |
Manager |
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J. Alexander
Webster |
June 1, 1954 -
April 28, 1993 |
Physician |
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Andre
Haines/Gregory Watters |
April 1993 -
October 1997 |
Artist & Musician |
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Craig & Susan
Paisly |
October 1997 -
September 1999 |
CBC News |
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Twyla & Bruce
Rogers |
September 1999 -
Present |
Bed & Breakfast
Operators |
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