​THAXTER, Celia, poet, b. in Portsmouth, N. H., 29 June, 1836. Her father, Thomas B. Laighton, took her when she was a child to the Isles of Shoals, where she has spent most of her life at Appledore. She married there Levi Lincoln Thaxter, of Watertown, Mass., in 1851. She has published “Among the Isles of Shoals” (Boston, 1873); “Poems” (1871); “Driftweed” (1878); “Poems for Children” (1884); and “The Cruise of the Mystery, and other Poems” (1886). Among the finest of her single poems are “Courage,” “Kittery Church-Yard,” “The Spaniards' Graves,” “The Watch of Boon Island,” and “The Sandpiper.”