"The house south of William Mason's was built in 1905 by John Wilson of Bass Harbor and his son Leon. Mrs. Venia Hodgkins bought it of the heirs of the Wilson family. It was purchased in 1937 by Chester Clement, Jr." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 145.
