The Maine Years
1883- 1895
Jewett Bubar's early years were spent in rural Maine
- near the Canadian border with New Brunswick. So close, in fact,
that much of the Bubar family had ties in both countries. Jewett's
father had reportedly come from St. Johns, New Brunswick.
The family may not have had a clear identification
with the United States until, in the early years of the 19th century,
a treaty had to finally settle the disputed north-south boundary
near Linneus.
Before Jewett's birth (as Walter Jewett Bubar),
his father - Frederick Hammond Bubar - had served as the Baptist
minister in Mars Hill - another border town, several miles north
of Linneus. When Frederick passed away in 1895, Jewett's mother
decided to go to California,
where her sister, Jane, had also just died, leaving her husband,
John Joy, and his son, another 11-year-old, Paul Joy.
It was decided that Joan would raise not only this
nephew, but take her own three youngest sons with her as well.
At that point, the Bubar matriarch left Maine for good, leaving
at least five of her grown children in Aroostook County.
