CDV and Tintype Photograph Album, Maine and New Hampshire; Surnames: Johnson, Kilgore, Moses Whitcomb, Works

Small photograph album with Cartes de Visite and Tintypes from Maine and New Hampshire, with specific mention of Augusta, Maine; Farmington, Maine, Mercer, Maine; and Colebrook, New Hampshire.

This item is held at the Taconnett Falls Genealogy Library in Winslow, Maine, a repository containing many one-of-a-kind items found nowhere else, including the personal research of researchers of the genealogy of families in Maine, New England, the Maritimes, Quebec and beyond.

Surnames in the album include:

• Johnson of Farmington, Maine
• Kilgore of Augusta, Maine
• Moses of Farmington, Maine, and Colebrook, New Hampshire
• Whitcomb of Mercer, Maine
• Works of Augusta, Maine

All of the pages in the album appear at the end of this post.

People identified:

• Mrs. Dr. Johnson of Farmington, Maine - perhaps one of the wives of Dr. Ebenezer Swift Johnson
• Albert Kilgore of Augusta, Maine - Albert S. Kilgore, buried in Farmington, Maine
• Herman Kilgore - Herman G. Kilgore, son of Albert Kilgore and Martha A. (Kendall) Kilgore
• Minnie Kilgore of Augusta, Maine - Minnie May Kilgore, daughter of Albert Kilgore and Martha A. (Kendall) Kilgore; would marry John Henry Wight
• Wife of Dr. J. F. Moses of Farmington, Maine - Melissa C. (Whitcomb) Moses, perhaps photographed after Dr. Moses' death in 1869
• Willard Moses of Colebrook, New Hampshire
• Mrs. Willard Moses of Colebrook, New Hampshire
• Virgil Whitcomb of Mercer, Maine
• Asaph Works of Augusta, Maine
• Mary Works, wife of Asaph Works, of Augusta, Maine

Two unidentified men are in uniform, presumably photographed during their Civil War service, with one photograph from a New Orleans studio and the other from a Natchez, Mississippi studio.

                                                                                              

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Images of all of the photographs: Click on an image to enlarge it.  Images include the original page containing the photograph, the photograph itself, and, if applicable, the reverse of the photograph

Label of former owner, Ruth P. Fuss of Illinois

CDV of Politician Stephen A. Douglas

Wife of Dr. J. F. Moses; by the Merrill & Crosby studio of Farmington, Maine.  She was Melissa (Whitcomb) Moses, wife of Dr. John F. Moses - or perhaps someone else

Minnie May Kilgore of Augusta, Maine

Virgil Whitcomb of Mercer, Maine

Albert S. Kilgore, then of Augusta, Maine

Willard Moses of Colebrook, New Hampshire

Mrs. Willard Moses of Colebrook, New Hampshire

Mary Works, wife of Asaph Works, of Augusta, Maine

Asaph Works of Augusta, Maine

Mrs. Dr. Johnson of Farmington, Maine - perhaps one of the wives of Dr. Ebenezer Swift Johnson

Perhaps Herman G. Kilgore, son of Albert Kilgore & Martha A. (Kendall) Kilgore