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Name |
Cram, Robert |
Born |
20 Apr 1904 |
Birthplace |
Maine General Hospital, Portland, Maine |
Father |
Linwood Cram |
Mother |
Gertrude Targett |
Education |
Portland High School, Portland, ME, graduated 1923 Attended a one-room schoolhouse on the Tuttle Road, Cumberland, ME |
Spouse |
Almira Dora Libby |
Children |
Elizabeth Cram Almira "Myra" Libby Cram Willson |
Occupation |
Self-taught horticulturist. Master gardener and landscaper; spent six months at a landscape training school in New York. During the 1920s and 1930s he operated his own landscaping business, putting in many of the lawns and planting many of the hedges for clients in the Greater Portland area. Worked on Liberty ships during World War II in South Portland, Maine, 1941-1945. He would still work as a landscaper in the early part of the day, then worked the second shift, 3pm to 11pm, at the shipyard. After the war, worked in the Saco Lowell mill. Led the grounds staff for Miss Margaret Payson's large estate on Meinikoe Point, Falmouth, Maine, on a part-time basis. |
Notes |
He drew many of the plans for the Liberty ships at the shipyard in South Portland, Maine Buried at Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard Cemetery, Falmouth, Maine |
Deceased |
19 Jan 2007 |
Deceased where |
Yarmouth, Maine |
