Acadia National Park
Bar Harbor Times
December 26, 1928
Dry Mountain
Stephen Higgins the second, or Captain Stephen Higgins, was a sailor in every sense of the word, and in his day was commander of many large clipper ships which were than sailing the world over.
Captain Stephen Higgins died on Dry or Flying Squadron Mountain September 4, 1862. I will remember the occasion, and the exciting time there was in finding him up there in those lonely woods and darkness, as the search had reached into the early twilight. Home from one of his long voyages, he, accompanied by a little eight year old girl relative, went up this mountain berry picking, when suddenly Captain Steve lay down in a shady grove and expired. The little girl quickly scrambled down the mountain and spread the news.
Captain Stephen Higgins, or Stephen Higgins the second, was a brother of Captain Royal G. Higgins, and their parents were Captain Isreal and Polly Higgins, and their grave, although Capt. Israel was lost at sea, was the first one to be placed in the old Village Cemetery on Mount Desert Street.
NOTE - Dry Mountain today is known as Dorr Mountain.
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