Philip Blair - from Uriah Platt Smith - April 19, 1830

Nathan Brownell & Erastus Judson   - from Robert & Catherine Blair and Russell M & Nancy Little - August 24, 1859

Joseph Milliman - from Erastus & Huldah B Judson and Daniel & Betsey Rice - March 31, 1866

Albert J. Griffen   - from Joseph Milliman - December 21, 1867

Hezekiah K Wood & Emily C Wood   - from Ahira J Griffen - January 1, 1868

Joseph Milliman - from Hezekiah K Wood & Emily C Wood - February 8, 1868

Lewis S Hoyt & Elias G Hoyt   - from Joseph Milliman - August 25, 1869

History of our Museum

1830 to 1869

1901-1928

The Cambridge Museum, sponsored and maintained by the Cambridge Historical Society, was established in 1929. Our Victorian Second Empire style house was built in 1869 by John Smith, an officer of the Cambridge Valley Bank.

1869 to 1874

John E Smith  - from Lewis S Hoyt & Elias G Hoyt - September 4, 1869

We believe it was he who built the house. He was an officer of the Cambridge Valley Bank

1874 to 1887

Roxie S Wildman  - from John E Smith - March 10, 1874

Roxie Wildman's, daughter, Mary, was the wife of Rev Jacob Gardner, minister of the Baptist Church. There was no Baptist parsonage at that time so Rev and Mrs Gardner lived with her mother. When Roxie Wildman died, she left the property to her daughter, Mary Gardner.

1887 to 1901 (continued)

William McKie inherited wealth but was also a good farm manager. He sold virgin timber off the farm.

He married Minerva Buck of Arlington, VT. They had one child, Katherine M McKie, born in 1854.

In 1881 he retired at the age of 54 and became acti ve in village affairs. At the itme he purchased the house, he was president of the Union School District and the Cambridge Water Works, which was being constructed at the time. He was the first to install running water in a village house.

Minerva passed away in 1899 and William in 1901.

1887 to 1901

William McKie  - from Mary Gardner - April 30, 1887.

William McKie was born in 1827 the son of John and Catherine Whiteside McKie. In 1864 he became the sole owner of the family farm located back of Two Top Mountain in Ash Grove.

Kate McKie  - from her father -1901

Kate was educated at Cambridge Academy, Temple Groce School in Saratoga Springs, and Emma Willard School in Troy. She never married.

She was a lady of dignity and distinction as well as good business ability. Possessed of considerabel wealth, she lived in late Victorian elegance in her Broad Street home.

She was a member of St Luke's Episcopal Church, a charter member of the Ondawa-Cambridge DAR Chapter, active in the Red Cross in World War I, a director of the mary McClellan Hospital, and founder of its Women's Auxiliary.

Kate lived in the house until her death on May 2, 1928.