Oscar Laighton of Portsmouth, N. H..


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The Poets of Maine
A Collection of Specimen Poems from over Four Hundred Verse-Makers of the Pine Tree State.
with Biographical Sketches
Compiled by George Bancroft Griffith
Portland, Maine
Elwell, Pickard & Company
Transcript Job Print; Edward Small, Binder.
Copyright by Elwell, Pickard & Co.
1888
page 586

Oscar Laighton.
Oscar Laighton, born about 1837, has lived all his life thus far at the Isle of Shoals, 
having been brought up with his sister, Mrs. Celia Thaxter, the distinguished authoress, 
elsewhere represented in this volume, at White Island, where their father kept a lighthouse.  
He was sixteen years old before he visited the mainland.  For many years he and his brother 
Cedric, have kept the famous Appledore House, on Appledore Island, and are also proprietors 
of other summer hotels in the vicinity.  Ther are cousins of the late Albert Laighton, of 
Portsmouth, N. H., whose poems are beautiful and finished productions, widely known and 
much admired.  A poetic vein runs through all of this family, Albert's brother, Benjamin, who 
died in his native city in 1873, having been a metrical writer of more than ordinary ability.