Luere Babson Deasy

 A leader in his community and founder of community institutions, Luere B. Deasy served in the Maine State Senate and was at one point Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court. He was the first attorney to establish a law practice in Bar Harbor, in 1884. In 1887 he joined with Fred C. Lynam, George H. Grant, and Andrew Wiswell to found Bar Harbor Banking and Trust.

His great grandson, Bill Horner, summarized in his biography of Deasy the important contributions he made to Mount Desert Island: 

Who was Luere Babson Deasy?  A son of coastal Maine, a common man, a husband and father, a skilled lawyer even without a liberal arts education, a leader in his community and founder of community institutions, a representative of his people in the state capital, an ascendant to the highest judicial appointment in his native state, and the essential bridge between sophisticated summer cottagers and the islanders whose cooperation eventually conserved Acadia, Deasy was without question among the most important residents of Mt. Desert Island for more than half a century.  He was, as well, the calm and eloquent public voice of the place he chose, loved, and passed on, much improved, to posterity.

“Deasy: A Maine Man,”  Bill Horner, MD.

Chebacco: The Magazine of Mt. Desert Island Historical Society, Vol. XI 2010, P.8