"This was probably taken in December, 1885. Standing, from left to right, are Miss Gertrude Webb, Charles F. Gilman, Miss Blanche Bixby; seated. Miss Elizabeth Webb, Mrs. Olive Wing Emerson, Miss Alice Bray. The misses Webb are both at present residents of Skowhegan. Mr. Gilman owns two drug stores in Massachusetts, one of which is in Wakefield. Miss Bixby went to California and is still a resident of that state. Miss Wing, later Mrs. Eben G. Emerson, is a resident of Portland. Miss Bray died many years ago.

~ Roland T. Patten, Custodian of Historical Views, 1929"