Saturday, April 28, 2018

Cabinet Photograph & CDV, Presumably of the Bennett Family of the Keeseville, New York, Area; Possibly Family of J. D. Bennett


Photograph that appears to be of parents and two children or grandparents and two children, plus the Carte de Visite of a young woman who bears a family resemblance.  The photographs were was taken by the Keeseville, New York studio of G. F. Marvin.

Note:  See another post with a photograph that has the name J. D. Bennett on the reverse, whether identifying the man or stipulating to whom the photograph was to be given, I don't know.  That photograph was taken by a Plattsburgh, New York studio; they appear to be relatives, if not the same man at different stages of life.

As you can see below, the name J. D. Bennett appears on the reverse; whether this is the family of J. D. Bennett or if J. D. was the person to whom the photograph was to be given, I don't know.  Some online sources mention that Jefferson D. Bennett, son of Garrett Bennett and Orpha (Jeffers) Bennett, did not marry or have children. 

This man may have been Jeffers D. Bennett, son of Jefferson's brother Hialmer Bennett and wife Lucy Ann Gilman.  If Jeffers D. Bennett, he was the husband of Mary Eliza Parsons, with whom he had at least three children.  If they are the couple who appear in this photograph, perhaps it was taken before the third child was born.


The young woman in the Carte de Visite bears a family resemblance to the people in the photograph.



If you can clear up the mystery of who J. D. Bennett was, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Cabinet Photo of J. D. Bennett; Plattsburgh, New York studio; & CDV of Bertha B. Bennett & Ornamn L. Bennett of Worcester, Massachusetts


A cabinet photograph of an older man with the name J. D. Bennett on the reverse and a Carte de Visite of two young children identified as Bertha B. Bennett and Ornamn L. Bennett.   Whether J. D. Bennett is the man in the photograph or the man intended to receive the photograph, I don't know.

The cabinet photograph was taken by the Woodward studio of Plattsburgh, New York, and the Carte de Visite by Charles D. Holmes of the Boston Gallery of 405 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Note:  See another post that features a photograph of parents and two children or grandparents and two children that also has the name J. D. Bennett written on the reverse.  Whether J. D. is the man in the photograph or the man to whom the photograph was to be given, I don't know.  This photograph was taken at Keeseville, New York, not far from Plattsburgh, where the photograph above was taken, and the man is at a younger stage of life.


The children's parents were Effie Eva (Washburn) Bennett, a Worcester, Massachusetts, native, and Silas W. Bennett, son of Garrett Bennett and Orpha (Jeffers) Bennett of upstate New York.  Silas had an older brother Jefferson D. Bennett and a nephew Jeffers D. Bennett, son of Hialmer Bennett and Lucy Ann (Gilman) Bennett.  Silas also had a brother Justice, but I don't know his middle name and he went by "Jack", which is almost as easy to write as "J. D.".

Although most records show Silas W. Bennett as the son of Garrett Bennett and Orpha (Jeffers) Bennett, intriguingly, Silas' Massachusetts marriage record gives his parents as J. D. Bennett and Orphie.  Perhaps Jefferson D. Bennett had assumed the role of head of the family, upon the 1863 murder of his father Garrett.   Or maybe Garrett's name was actually Jarrett?

Hopefully a reader can shed some light on this mystery.

Bertha and Lewis Ornamn don't look particularly happy to be immortalized.


The reverse gives their birth dates, but I believe the year for Ornamn was off by three years, as I found a birth record for Lewis Ornamn Bennett for 1 January 1874.


From brief online research, hopefully correct - corrections and additions requested:

Bertha B. Bennett was born in September 1872 at Oxford, Massachusetts, and Ornamn L. Bennett, or Lewis Ornamn Bennett, on 1 January 1874 at Worcester, Massachusetts.  They were the children of Silas W. Bennett and Effie Eva (Washburn) Bennett.

Sadly Effie died, on 28 June 1874, just a few months after Lewis Ornamn's birth.  By 1880, the children were boarding in the Davison household at Spencer, Massachusetts.  Hopefully they saw their father as his work permitted.  Silas married again about 1880, to Frances Davison - perhaps related to the family boarding his children - but I believe they divorced at some point before the 1900 Census.

Bertha B. Bennett married Guy Horace Bateman, son of William and Abbie Bateman, on 27 August 1890 at West Springfield, Massachusetts.  Bertha died in 1936 and Guy in 1945.  They're buried in the Corbin Cemetery at Dudley, Massachusetts.

On September 12, 1898, at Worcester, Massachusetts, Ornamn Lewis Bennett, or Lewis Ornamn Bennett, married second wife Mary Ann Coen, daughter of John and Ann (Kelly) Coen.  I haven't found an earlier marriage record for Ornamn.  He died in 1942 at Worcester, Massachusetts.

Sources
FamilySearch.org - birth, marriage and death records
U.S. Federal Censuses
FindaGrave.com

If you have more information on the Bennett and Washburn families, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Friday, April 27, 2018

The Maine Journal of Education, Volume 4, No, 2, February, 1870


The Maine Journal of Education, Volume 4, No. 2, issue of February 1870; published by Brown Thurston, of 111 Exchange Street, Portland, Maine.

The entire volume has been digitized by Google Books here, but I'll feature pages that mention Maine educators.  Also, the digitized version does not include the pages of advertising at the beginning and end, several of which pertain to Maine schools, as shown below.



Monthly editors:
  • A. P. Stone of Portland, Maine
  • C. B. Stetson of Lewiston, Maine
  • J. S. Sewall of Brunswick, Maine
  • G. T. Fletcher of Castine, Maine
  • A. J. Blethen of Farmington, Maine
  • J. B. Webb of Gorham, Maine
  • C. C. Rounds of Farmington, Maine
  • J. P. Gross of Brunswick, Maine
  • Galen Allen of Bath, Maine
  • J. S. Barrell of Lewiston, Maine
  • Thomas Tash of Lewiston, Maine
  • Warren Johnson of Augusta, Maine

Among the articles, one deals with "Teaching the Geography of Maine", written by A. P. S., who may have been A. P. Stone of Portland, Maine.

The page below mentions Dr. N. T. True of Bethel, Maine.


The page below mentions:
  •  A. H. Abbott, Supervisor of Franklin County'
  • Supervisor Abbott of Knox County
  • Webb of Cumberland County
  • Plummer of Penobscot County


The page below mentions:
  • Corthell, Supervisor or Washington County
  • Sleeper of Supervisor of Aroostook County
  • Glidden, Supervisor of Lincoln County
  • Stetson, Supervisor of Androscoggin County


The page below mentions:
  • Dr. True, Supervisor of Oxford County
  • G. W. Hathaway, Supervisor of Somerset County
  • W. T. Sleeper, Supervisor of Aroostook County


The page below mentions:
  • N. A. Luce, Supervisor of Waldo County
  • Dr. True, Supervisor of Oxford County
  • Mr. Abbott, Supervisor of Franklin County
  • Mr. Hathaway, Supervisor of Somerset County
  • Mr. Corthell, Supervisor of Washington County


The page below mentions:
  • Mr. Abbott of Franklin County
  • Mr. Knowlton of Piscataquis County
  • Mr. Webb of Cumberland County


The page below mentions:
  • Mr. Maybry, Supervisor of York County
  • Mr. Stetson of Androscoggin County
  • D. S. Glidden, Supervisor of Lincoln County


The page below mentions:
  • Mr. Glidden, Supervisor of Lincoln County
  • Mr. Webb, Supervisor of Cumberland County
  • G. M. Hicks, Supervisor of Knox County
  • A. H. Abbott, Supervisor of Franklin County


The page below mentions the start of the school year for the Eastern School at Castine, set for March 9.  This was the normal school known as Eastern State Normal School.

If you have information on any of the people mentioned above, including full names of anyone listed with initials, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

See a map of the counties in Maine here.

Program of Spring Meeting of North Cumberland Local Union of Christian Endeavor, held at Gray Congregational Church on Friday, June 19, 1914


Program for the Spring Meeting of the North Cumberland Local Union of Christian Endeavor, held at Gray Congregational Church in the afternoon and evening of Friday, June 19, 1914.


Afternoon Session, 2:30 o'clock
  • Praise and Devotional Service - Rev. R. J. Davis, Yarmouth, Maine - presumably Rev. Reuben J. Davis
  • Address of Welcome - Miss Olive Brown, President of the Gray Christian Endeavor Society
  • Response - Rev. F. A. Snow, President of the Local Union - Rev. Fred Albertis Snow of Freeport, Maine
  • Reports of Societies
  • Election of Delegates to the Summer School
  • Discussion: The Efficiency Campaign for the Local Union; What it can do for the individual societies - Miss Priscilla B. Merrill, Gray, Maine
  • Our Young People Co-operating - Mr. Harry W. Rowe, State Christian Endeavor Field Secretary
  • Address: Power for Service - Rev. William F. Slade, Gray, Maine
  • Offering
  • Supper served by the entertaining Society
Evening Service, 7:00 o'clock
  • Praise and Devotional Service - Rev. W. F. Slade, Gray, Maine - Rev. William F. Slade
  • Offering
  • Address: The Ideal Christian Endeavor - Rev. George Stair, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Portland, Maine
  • Presentation of Banner - the Society sending the largest delegation in proportion to their membership will receive the banner, holding it until the next meeting.
  • Mizpah Service - Rev. Edward B. Foster, New Gloucester, Maine
  • Entertainment over night will be given all who desire to stay overnight - Miss Mabel Douglass, Gray, Maine; chairman of the entertainment committee


Directory, North Cumberland Local Union of Christian Endeavor
Meetings twice Yearly: Spring Meeting in May or June; Fall Meeting in October or November

Officers of the Local Union
  • President, Rev. F. A. Snow of Freeport, Maine - Rev. Fred Albertis Snow (1861-1931)
  • Vice President, Mr. T. A. Field of Brunswick, Maine - perhaps the Brunswick, Maine, jeweler Thomas A. Field
  • Secretary and Treasurer - Mrs. L. M. Pennell of Freeport, Maine - perhaps Mrs. Leida Merry (Stetson) Pennell, wife of William M. Pennell
Executive Committee
  • Mr. Snow
  • Mr. Field
  • Mr. Pennell
  • Miss Brown
  • Miss Gray
  • Miss Shorey
Societies constituting the Union
  • Brunswick - Baptist
  • Brunswick - Free Baptist
  • Freeport - Congregational
  • Freeport - Baptist
  • Gray - Congregational
  • Harpswell Center - Congregational
  • North Harpswell - Congregational
  • New Gloucester - Congregational
  • Topsham - Free Baptist
  • Topsham - Baptist
  • Walnut Hill - Congregational
  • Yarmouth - Congregational
  • Yarmouthville - Baptist

If you have information to share on any of the people mentioned above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

1907 Program for the 125th Anniversary of the Free Baptist Churches of New Gloucester, Maine, & Gray, Maine (1782-1907)


Program of the commemoration of the 125th anniversary (1782-1907) of the New Gloucester, Maine, and Gray, Maine, Free Baptist Churches, held on June 30-July 1, 1907.

At time time of this commemoration, the churches' pastor was Rev. James W. Williams, whose name appears at the bottom of the cover page.


Sunday, June 30

10:30 a.m.  At the Gray Church
     Historical address by the pastor, Rev. James W. Williams

2:30 p.m. at New Gloucester Church
     Addresses by
  • Rev. F. E. Freeze of South Gorham, Maine - presumably Forrest Edward Freeze, a native of Lagrange, Maine, and graduate of  Bates College
  • Rev. C. W. Rogers of New Gloucester, Maine - Alma, New Brunswick, native Charles Wellington Rogers
  • B. C. Jordon, Esq., of Alfred, Maine - lumberman Benjamin Clark Jordan, brother of speaker Prof. Lyman Granville Jordan [note the different spelling]
  • Prof. L. G. Jordon of Lewiston, Maine - Lyman Granville Jordan, chemistry professor at Bates College and brother of speaker Benjamin C. Jordan [note the different spelling]

7:00 p.m.  At the Gray Church
     Addresses by
  • Rev. F. E. Freeze of South Gorham, Maine
  • Rev. H. L. McCann of Gray, Maine - Herbert L. McCann, a native of Rollingdam, New  Brunswick
  • Rev. Eleanor B. Forbes of Gray, Maine - graduated in Class of 1878 at Hebron Academy, the  first graduating class
  • B. C. Jordon, Esq., of Alfred, Maine
  • Prof. L. G. Jordon of Lewiston, Maine

Monday, July 1
     Field Day at the "Elder Ephraim Stinchfield Homestead", on the Penney Road, New Gloucester

10:00 a.m.  Outing and social gathering descendants of Elder Stinchfield, congregations of the churches, and interested friends

12:00 m.  Picnic dinners

2:00 p.m.  Addresses reminiscent of Elder Stinchfield and his work


Sunday, June 30

Leading Historical Events
  • July 1, 1782, the "Gray and New Gloucester General Provision Antipedo-Baptist Church" organized, as result of labors of Benjamin Randall.  Elder Nathan Merrill, first minister.
  • November 8, 1792, Ephraim Stinchfield baptized by Randall.
  • February 17, 1803.  Church reorganized under leadership of Elder Stinchfield.
  • July 1, 1824.  Another reorganization.  Attempted division into two churches defeated.
  • January 1844.  Church finally divided.
  • May 1856.  "Union Meeting House" (so called) purchased by the Gray society.

If you have information to share on any of the people mentioned above, or on the Stinchfield family and homestead, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Calling Card of Rosa C. Rechkemmer; Possibly of Fairbank, Iowa


Calling card of Rosa C. Rechkemmer; nothing on reverse.

The card presumably dates from the late 19th century.  Researching online, I several possibilities for Rosa Rechkemmer, or variant spellings.

The most intriguing possibility I found is Rose Christine Rechkemmer, who was born in 1859 in Iowa, daughter of John Rechkemmer and Johanna (Hoenig - spelled various ways) Rechkemmer of Fairbank, Iowa.  Rechkemmer is also spelled several ways throughout records, including Rechekemmer, Rechkerner and Bechkemmer.

This Rose married Otho Fayette Leonard in 1896.  They farmed in Iowa and had at least one child, daughter Lura.  Rose died in 1920 and Otho in 1944.  They're buried in the Fairbank Cemetery at Fairbank, Iowa.

Sources
U.S. Federal Censuses
Iowa State Census 1885
Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934
FindaGrave.com

If you have another possibility for the identity of Rosa C. Rechkemmer, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Just in case, this card belonged to Rosa C. (Rechkemmer) Leonard: a map of Fairbank, Iowa and its cemetery

Thursday, April 26, 2018

1912 Graduation Program of Denmark High School at Denmark, Maine


Graduation Exercises for the Class of 1912 at Denmark High School, held at the I.O.O.F. Hall on Thursday Evening, June 13, 1912.


Motto:  Nihil Sine Labore
Class Colors: Pine-Tree Green and White

Order of Exercises
  • Music
  • Prayer
  • Music
  • Salutatory Essay - "The Conservation of our Forests - Philip Hacker Cobb.   [He went on to Bowdoin College and Harvard College, where he received a doctorate in philosophy.  At the time of his death in 1938, he was on the faculty of the Governor Dummer Academy at South Byfield, Massachusetts.]
  • Music
  • History
  • Essay - "Woman's Place in the Business World" - Alice Frances Freeman   [She married Herman Leroy Hartford Sr. in 1914.]
  • Music
  • Prophecy
  • Essay - "The Federation of the World" - Roland Hacker Cobb - went on to serve in the Maine State Senate
  • Music
  • Essay - "Causes of the High Cost of Living"  [possibly the Valedictory by Benjamin Byron Hartford - see the image]
  • Valedictory - Benjamin Byron Hartford   [who possibly delivered the essay "Causes of the High Cost of Living - see the image]
  • Music
  • Conferring of Diplomas
  • Music


Class Officers
  • President: Benjamin Byron Hartford
  • Secretary: Philip Hacker Cobb
  • Treasurer: Alice Frances Freeman
  • Business Manager: Roland Hacker Cobb

Principal - William H. Clifford

Superintendent - Mrs. Catherine Jewett - Catherine A. (Lyford) Jewett, who would marry William Wallace Berry in 1916, after the death of her first husband, Frank C. Jewett, in 1913.
Committee
  • William Allen
  • Elwood L. Pendexter
  • Edward A. Thomas

If you have information to share on any of the people mentioned above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

1904 Graduation Program of Standish High School, Standish, Maine


1904 graduation program of Standish High School at Standish, Maine.


The graduation exercises were held at the Congregational Church at Standish, Maine, on Friday, June 17, 1904 at 1:30 p.m.

Class motto: "Launched but not anchored".


Program
  • March
  • Invocation by Rev. G. K. Goodwin - Rev. George Kittredge Goodwin (1868-1943)
  • Salutatory - The Value of Friends - Lilla Gertrude Hinkley
  • Essay - Great Governments of Today - Mattie Lillian Buzzell
  • Class History - Frank Earle Sawyer
  • "Director's Choice" - March - Mandolin Quartette
  • Class Essay - The Development of the Drama - Bessie Mae Higgins [see her graduation photograph here.]
  • Essay - Why - Nora Ella Hooper
  • Class Prophecy - Myra Pearle Dow
  • Oration - Great Men of America - Alonzo Elmer Burnham
  • Mandolin Solo - Mr. Winslow
  • Essay - Value of World's Expositions - Vera Ethelyn Dow
  • Presentation of Gifts - Mattie Lillian Buzzell and Nora Ella Hooper
  • Valedictory - The Panama Canal - Walter Everett Marean
  • Class Ode
  • Address - Hon. B. F. Chadbourne - presumably lawyer and civil engineer Benjamin F. Chadbourne (1849-1911)
  • Conferring of Diplomas - Rev. G. K. Goodwin, Chairman, School Board
  • Alice, Where Art Thou? - Mandolin Quartette
  • Benediction

Written at bottom: Alumni Association, Meeting and Banquet


Class Ode - Vera Ethelyn Dow

If you have information on any of the people mentioned above, particularly the full name of the Mr. Winslow who have the mandolin solo, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

1908 Dance Card for First Grand Prom of Assembly - Britomart at Terpsichorean Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts


Dance card for the First Grand Prom of Assembly - Britomart at Terpsichorean Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, held on Friday evening, October 16, 1908.  The Terpsichorean Hall was, and perhaps still is, located at 311 Main Street.

Names are entered in pencil on one of the Order of Dances pages and on the back page, which lists the Floor Manager, the Assistant Floor Manager, six Aids and three Patronesses.


The names mentioned in the Order of Dances:
  • "Jecques" - possibly Jacques, and possibly Ruth Jacques or relative
  • Ruth Jacques
  • G. Youngs 
  • C. E. Woods 
  • V. E. Macomber 


Floor Manager - Frederick K. Popp
Assistant Floor Manager - Thelma B. Jacks

Aids
Jacob Shulinski
Helen M. Healy
Robert W. Leslie
Miriam M. Cain
Walter J. Kelley
Maude A. Ames

Patronesses
Mrs. Meyers
Charlotte H. Leslie
Mrs. Davis Barker

If you have information on any of the people listed above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

CDVs of Parents & Children; by the Seth Wardner studio of Bloomingdale, New York


Set of 5 Cartes de Visite of what appears to a father, mother and up to 3 children.  All photographs were taken by the Seth Wardner studio of Bloomingdale, New York.  The presumed father is shown above.

The photographs were found in an album that I found, sadly, had been filled randomly by the antique mall booth owner, but there was an obvious relationship between some of the photographs inside.  It's possible that these photographs have a relationship to the Bennett or Lobdell families.


Presumed Mother:


CDVs of one, two or three children:  - since they're all depicted sitting in the same chair, it's possible they are three separate children, whose photographs were taken at the same time as those of their parents.




If you recognize any of these people from your family photographs and/or research, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

1934-1936 Photograph Album of the Family of Seymour Howard Stone & Amy (Wentworth) Stone of West Roxbury, Massachusetts & New Harbor, Maine


Photograph album kept from 1934 to 1936 by a member or members of the family of Seymour H. Stone and writer Amy (Wentworth) Stone of West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and their cottage "Grey Wings" at New Harbor, Maine.

Assuming that the album was maintained by one of their daughters, either Gertrude (Stone) Wilberding or Jean Stone, then "Mother" would have been "Amy (Wentworth) Stone, and "Daddy" would have been Seymour H. Stone.

I haven't yet determined who "Granny" was, as it seems that both of the girls' grandmothers had passed before the era of the album.  Perhaps Granny was a step grandmother or the term was an honorific.  Hopefully a reader can clear up the mystery.

Because I'm not sure on copyright issues for the photographs, I'm not showing them here but will provide a listing of the people in the photographs; see the end of this post.

The album, which measures approximately 8-1/4" by 5-1/2" by 2", contains photographs from:
  • Locust Lawn, Danvers, Massachusetts - the estate where Amy (Wentworth) Stone was raised
  • 12 Emmonsdale Road,West Roxbury, Massachusetts - the Stone residence
  • 281 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts - residence of Edmund J. Wilberding and Gertrude (Stone) Wilberding and daughter Ann.
  • Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire
  • The cottage "Grey Wings" at New Harbor, Maine - summer cottage of the Stone family
  • Back Cove, New Harbor, Maine
  • Pemaquid Beach in Maine
  • Hinsdale, Massachusetts
  • Other places in the New England area

Surnames in the Album - many of people identified by first name only or by first name and last initial may be the same people whose names were given in full.

? [22]LLeonardSSands
BBarronMMcKeanSouthworth
BonnerNNicholsStiles [2]
DDuncan [2]OOlsenStiles ?
Duncan ?PPerkinsStone [4]
GGardner [2]RRichardsonStone ?
GoughRutledgeTTewksbury
HHughesTulpa
JJonesWWebber
Wilberding

Named vessels pictured in the album: the Steamer Overseer, which took visitors to and from the Isles of Shoals; and three sailboats, all perhaps from the Midcoast Maine area: Lucille, Dorothy and Flicker.

Read more about Amy (Wentworth) Stone at DigitalMaine.com, which features a number of letters regarding her children's books and gives a bit of information about her parents, husband, daughters and life's work.  I especially love the poignant response by the Maine State Library to Seymour H. Stone after he reported his wife's death.

Amy (Wentworth) Stone was born January 25, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Philip Henry Wentworth and Harriet Lucetta (Daniell) Wentworth.  Amy grew up on the Locust Lawn estate at Danvers, Massachusetts.  Several photographs show the estate and a picnic there held by members of the Stone family and the family of Dr. John Holyoke Nichols, who lived in the house after the Wentworths.

On April 25, 1901 at Boston, Massachusetts, Amy married Virginia native Seymour Howard Stone, who would become deputy commissioner of corrections for Massachusetts. Seymour was the son of Rev. George Whitefield Stone and Catherine Cushing (Graupner) Stone.   Read more about Seymour Howard Stone, especially during his adventurous young adult life, from the description of an archive of his letters held by Hesburgh Libraries at Notre Dame University.

Amy and Seymour lived at West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and raised two daughters.  Amy died in 1938 and is buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, with her parents and sister.

Seymour, who married again in 1942, died in 1959 at Wellesley, Massachusetts.  His second wife, Maybell, completed an application for a military headstone for Seymour, based on his service in the summer of 1898, presumably in the Spanish-American War.  The application gave his burial site as Mount Hope Cemetery at Mattapan, Massachusetts.

If you have insights to share on any of the people mentioned below, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Alphabetical listing of the people shown in the album
  • Uncle Oscar at 95 years; two photographs taken in 1934 presumably on the way to or from the Isles of Shoals
  • Ellen D.; in multiple 1934 photographs with Ruth S.; Corinne Tulpa; Ann R.; and Anne H.;
  • Ann R.; in multiple 1934 photographs with Ruth S.; Corinne Tulpa; Ellen D.; and Anne H.
  • Anne H.; in multiple 1934 photographs with Ruth S.; Corinna Tulpa; Ellen D.; and Ann R.
  • Aunt May - appears in multiple 1934 photographs
  • Tansy, the cat - appears in multiple 1934 photographs
  • Ruth; photographed in 1934 at "Pompadour"
  • Billy S.
  • David H.
  • Roger; in a 1934 photograph of a picnic on Muscongus Bay in Maine with Mr. D; Nancy; and Ellen
  • Donald; 1934 photograph when Donald was a young child, presumably at a picnic on Muscongus Bay in Maine
  • Helen S.at the Isles of Shoals; 1935
  • Bradford, a young boy; 1935
  • Lucy; in a 1935 photograph with Ann R. and Ruth
  • May; photographed in 1935 at the Stone family cottage, "Grey Wings", at New Harbor, Maine
  • Hugh; photographed in 1935 on the "Lucille" with John Bonner; Lucy; and Jean Stone
  • Cousin Helen, 1935; possibly at New Harbor, Maine
  • Syd; in a group photograph entitled Snow Train to Hinsdale, Massachusetts, February 16, 1936"
  • Betsy; in a group photograph entitled "Snow Train to Hinsdale, Massachusetts, February 16, 1936"
  • Christine; in a 1936 group photograph taken by Nancy Gardner
  • Nancy; in a 1936 photograph taken by Nancy Gardner (unless Nancy took the photograph of herself)
  • Granny; shown in 1936 photographs at 12 Emmonsdale Road, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, with baby Ann Wilberding.
  • Kathleen Barron; in a 1935 group photograph "On the Wharf"
  • John Bonner; photographed on the "Lucille" in 1935 with Lucy; Hugh; and Jean Stone
  • Mr. D., possibly Mr. Duncan; 1934 photograph of a picnic on Muscongus Bay in Maine, with Roger, Nancy and Ellen
  • Mrs. Duncan; 1934 photograph of a picnic on Muscongus Bay in Maine; with Nancy and Ellen
  • Nancy Duncan; who appears in multiple individual and group photographs in 1934
  • Gene Gardner; in a photograph with Mr. Stiles and Hugh
  • Nancy Gardner - who appears in multiple individual and group photographs; with Nancy Duncan; 
  • Connie Gough - in a photograph with Christine McKean
  • Jean Hughes; in a group photograph entitled "Snow Train to Hinsdale, Massachusetts, February 16, 1936"
  • Virginia Jones; in a 1934 photograph with Esther Rutledge; Evelyn Olsen; Rhoda Sands; and Frances Tewksbury; presumably at or on the way to or from the Isles of Shoals
  • Mrs. Leonard, 1935; possibly at New Harbor, Maine
  • Christine McKean - in a photograph with Connie Gough
  • Nichols Family - "The Nichols Stone Picnic" - referring to the family of Dr. John Holyoke Nichols, who lived at Locust Lawn at Danvers, Massachusetts.  Amy (Wentworth) Stone had grown up at Locust Lawn.
  • Evelyn Olsen; in a 1934 photograph with Esther Rutledge; Rhoda Sand; Frances Tewksbury; and Virginia Jones; presumably at or on the way to or from the Isles of Shoals
  • Rev. Palfrey Perkins (1883-1976), photographed in 1934 on a wharf near the steamer Overseer on way to or from Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire. Minister of King's Chapel of Boston, Massachusetts from 1833 to 1953. 
  • Ann Richardson; perhaps the Ann R. in other photographs.  Photographed in 1935 at New Harbor, Maine
  • Esther Rutledge; in a 1934 photograph with Evelyn Olsen; Rhoda Sands; Frances Tewksbury; and Virginia Jones; presumably at or on the way to or from the Isles of Shoals
  • Rhoda Sands; in a 1934 photograph with Esther Rutledge, Evelyn Olsen, Frances Tewksbury; and Virginia Jones; presumably at or on the way to or from the Isles of Shoals
  • Win Southworth; photographed in 1934 while participating in a "Costume Baseball Game"
  • Dave Stiles, 1935; presumably at New Harbor, Maine
  • Ruth Stiles - a page of photographs taken by her
  • Ruth S.; possibly Ruth Stiles; in multiple individual and group 1934 photographs with Corinne Tulpa; Ellen D.; Ann R.; and Anne H.
  • Stone family - "The Nichols Stone Picnic" - referring to the family of Seymour H. Stone and Amy (Wentworth) Stone.  Amy had grown up at Locust Lawn, an estate at Danvers, Massachusetts
  • Mother - appears in multiple individual and group 1934 photographs.  Presumably Amy (Wentworth) Stone 
  • Gertrude Stone; many photographs in 1935 and 1936, before and after her marriage to Edmund J. Wilberding and birth of daughter Ann.  She was the daughter of Seymour H. Stone and Amy (Wentworth) Stone.
  • Daddy, shoveling snow; 1935.  Presumably Seymour H. Stone
  • J. S. - presumably Jean Stone, younger daughter of Seymour H. Stone and Amy (Wentworth) Stone.  She appears in multiple individual and group photographs.
  • Frances Tewsbury, presumably Frances Tewksbury; in a 1934 photograph with Esther Rutledge; Evelyn Olsen; Rhoda Sands; and Virginia Jones; presumably at or on the way to or from the Isles of Shoals
  • Corinne T. [Corinne Tulpa]; in who appears in individual and multiple 1934 photographs with Ruth S.; Ellen D.; Ann R.; and Anne H.
  • Frank Webber, purser, on "Sightseer", which was a steamer between the mainland and the Isles of Shoals; 1934 photograph
  • Edmund J. Wilberding; photographs from 1935 and 1936, before and after his marriage to Gertrude Stone and birth of their daughter Ann Wilberding.

Friday, April 20, 2018

Memorial Card for Daniel Kirby, Who Died January 5, 1901; Presumably Daniel Rogers Kirby of Bellmont, New York


Memorial card of Daniel Kirby, who died on January 5, 1901 at the age of 68.  Nothing on reverse.

Daniel was presumably the Bellmont, New York resident Daniel Rogers Kirby, who died on that date.  He was born about 1832, perhaps July 8, 1832 at Beekmantown, New York, the son of Charles Kirby and Philena (Wilbur) Kirby.  On December 10, 1857,  Mary Turner Racey, or Bracy.

The information above comes from an online source referencing a Family Bible owned by Charles Kirby and then in the possession of relative John Dodge Miles.

I'm not sure if Daniel and Mary had any children of their own, but they had an adopted son John Burton Kirby, who was born about 1860.  Mary died in 1905.  They're buried in the Brainardsville Cemetery at Brainardsville, New York, along with a Burton Kirby, who may have been John Burton Kirby.

If you have information to add on Daniel Rogers Kirby or his wife Mary or John Burton Kirby, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Memorial Card for Clarissa (Bull) Otis (1828-1908) of New York, Illinois and Kansas


Memorial card of Clarissa (Bull) Otis, wife of Leander Vanness Otis.  Nothing on reverse.

Clarissa was born April 2, 1828 in New York and died March 6, 1908 in Kansas.  Before moving to Decatur County, Kansas, the Otis family had lived for a while at Raritan, Illinois. 

Leander Vanness Otis died not long after his wife, on November 19, 1908.  They're buried in the Shibboleth Cemetery at Dresden, Kansas, along with some of their children.

I found Clarissa's maiden name in a listing of Decatur County, Kansas, marriage records, one of which  was for the marriage of one of her daughters, whose name was shown as "Unreadable", but was presumably  Mary Ida Otis, who married Joshua A. Amlin.  Note:  The record shows Joshua's surname as Aurlin, but his stone and other records show Amlin.

If you have more information on Clarissa (Bull) Otis or Leander Vanness Otis, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Thursday, April 19, 2018

19th Century Photograph Album, Possibly Related to the Beane, Hovey, Moody, Preble & Varney Families of Kennebec County, Maine


Photograph album, approximately 11-1/2" by 9" by 2-1/4", with 30 cabinet photographs that might be related to the Beane, Hovey, Moody, Preble and Varney families of Maine, particularly in Kennebec County and surrounding areas.

The album has a note on an end paper indicating that it came from the Varney estate at Windsor, Maine.


Only two photographs have an identification or partial identification.

The identified photograph is that of 3 year old Sadie Eva Moody, who was presumably Sarah Eva Moody, daughter of William H. Moody and Sarah Eva (Hovey) Moody and future wife of Emery Oliver Beane.



The other image with a partial identification appears to have the name Preble on it.  It's an image of a young man presumably named "Frank", taken by the Wilcox studio of Chicago, Illinois, and directed to "Aunt", possibly "Aunt Preble".  There's also what appears to be the name "H. R. Preble".



If these names are familiar to you from your research, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Most of the photographs were taken by studios in Maine, with another three at Boston, Massachusetts, and one at Chicago, Illinois.

Augusta, Maine
  • Ayer studio at the corner of Bridge and Water Streets, Augusta, Maine - 2
  • F. H. Burgess studio at the corner of Bridge & Water Streets, Augusta, Maine - 2
  • Will Dunton studio at 166 Water Street, Augusta, Maine
  • Haskell's studio, at East Side, Augusta, Maine
  • Hendee studio, opposite the Old Post Office at Augusta, Maine
  • Shorey & Merrill studio at Augusta, Maine
Brunswick, Maine
  • Reed & Preble studio at Brunswick, Maine - 3
    Caribou, Maine
    • Davis studio, with branches at Caribou, Maine, and Presque Isle, Maine
    Gardiner, Maine
    • Cochrane's studio at Gardiner, Maine
    • A. W. Kimball studio at 191 Water Street, Gardiner, Maine
    • McIntosh studio at the corner of Bridge & Water Streets, Gardiner, Maine - 2
    • Variel studio at Gardiner, Maine - 7
    Portland, Maine
    • Charles W. Hearn studio at Portland, Maine
    • Lamson studio, opposite the Falmouth Hotel at Portland, Maine
    Presque Isle, Maine
    • Davis studio, with branches at Presque Isle, Maine, and Caribou, Maine
    Chicago, Illinois
    • Wilcox studio at 75 Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois
    Boston, Massachusetts
    • Dunshee studio at 22 Winter Street, Boston, Massachusetts - 2
    • Katz studio at 7 Tremont Row, Boston, Massachusetts

    I'm including a few photographs of some of the adults in hopes that a reader will recognize the people from family collections and research.












    Again, if you have any insights on this photograph album, please leave a comment or contact me directly.