Peter E. Vose, son of Peter T. of Robbinston, came to Dennysville in the mid 1840's at the age of 25, at the request of John Kilby, to teach school. After initially boarding with the Kilby family, he first lived in the house at the end of The Lane. About 1848, he bought the house of George W. Wilder across from John Kilby on Harrison Avenue, to which, in 1859, he added the large, two-story, main house at a cost of $3,000. He married John Kilby's daughter Lydia, with whom he raised four children, Mary, John, Ida and Lydia C. Peter E. Vose became the proprietor of his father-in-law's store on Store Hill, was a Deacon of the Congregational Church, and kept a diary of daily events in and around the village from 1850 until a few week before his death in 1899. The final words written on the last page, by his son John, were also inscribed on his stone at the top of the hill in the town cemetery: "An honored life, a quiet end, and heaven to crown it all."