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Willis Leonard MacComb

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Willis Leonard MacComb

Birth
North Chelmsford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
5 Jan 1970 (aged 71)
Pittston, Kennebec County, Maine, USA
Burial
Alna, Lincoln County, Maine, USA Add to Map
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Son of Joseph & Mary Jane (Davidson) McComb

He attended Northeastern College in Boston and graduated form MIT with a degree in metallurgical engineering.
During the Depression he moved to Maine and was the principal of Bridge Academy in Dresden.

In 1901 he married Edna Agnes Bailey and they lived on Blinn Hill in Pittstown, Maine.
They took up blueberry farming and raised acres and acres of low bush blueberries.

Years later their daughter, Millie, raised hybrid chrysanthemums on the same land.

All of his family spelled their last name McComb, but Willis legally changed his to MacComb in his adult life.


Son of Joseph & Mary Jane (Davidson) McComb

He attended Northeastern College in Boston and graduated form MIT with a degree in metallurgical engineering.
During the Depression he moved to Maine and was the principal of Bridge Academy in Dresden.

In 1901 he married Edna Agnes Bailey and they lived on Blinn Hill in Pittstown, Maine.
They took up blueberry farming and raised acres and acres of low bush blueberries.

Years later their daughter, Millie, raised hybrid chrysanthemums on the same land.

All of his family spelled their last name McComb, but Willis legally changed his to MacComb in his adult life.




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