c1903 photograph of a young man identified on the reverse as Daniel C. Carey, or Daniel O. Carey, taken by the Gerrity studio of Bangor, Maine.
The photograph was found with a collection of similar photographs taken by the Gerrity and Chalmers studios of Bangor. Most of the men pictured were students in the engineering department at the University of Maine.
I haven't yet found a reference to a Daniel C. Carey attending the University of Maine, while perusing the University of Maine Prism online. If I had found him, his home town would have been mentioned.
Searching online brings a Daniel Charles Carey, born at Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1883. He was in the Class of 1903 at Boston College. Perhaps this Daniel was a transfer from the University of Maine?
There's a Charles O. Carey of the right age living in Massachusetts.
There are also several people named Daniel Carey of a plausible age in Maine.
Perhaps a reader will solve the mystery of the identity of the Daniel C. Carey or Daniel O. Carey. Judging from the men in the other photographs, Daniel may have gone on to an engineering career.
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c1904 photograph of a young man identified on the reverse as Arthur Edward Davenport of Brimfield, Massachusetts.
The photograph was taken by the Chalmers studio of Bangor, Maine, and is the same image that was used for Davenport's photo in the University of Maine Prism.
Fogler Library at the University of Maine has put its Prism yearbooks online, so it was easy to compare the two images.
The handwriting on the reverse is very faint against a dark background. I've lightened the background a bit, but it's still hard to read.
From online research, hopefully correct: [corrections welcome]
Arthur Edward Davenport was born 21 April 1882 at Brimfield, Massachusetts, son of Edward H. and Sarah Eliza (Groves) Davenport.
His paternal grandparents were John and Hannah (Hall) Davenport. His maternal grandparents were Levins and Martha C. (Draper) Groves.
Arthur graduated from the University of Maine in 1904 with a degree in electrical engineering.
He and Fred Victor Fifield wrote a 38-page book entitled Resistance of Ground Return in 1904.
On 25 December 1906 at Brimfield, Massachusetts, Arthur Edward Davenport married Alma May Thompson, daughter of George W. and Estella Tryphena (Abbott) Thompson, both Maine natives. Alma was born 8 March 1882 at Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Arthur, Alma and three children are listed in the 1915 New York Census. They were living in New York City, in Richmond County. Arthur was working as an inspector.
They were living in Brooklyn, New York when Arthur filled out a World War I Draft Enlistment Card in 1918.
After that I haven't found a record of Arthur. The children were recorded in the 1920 Census of Brimfield, Massachusetts living with Emma and George Plimpton. Emma was Arthur's older sister. Their mother was still alive but perhaps unable to care for them. Without their mother in the household, Arthur, assuming he was still alive, perhaps felt they would be better off with their aunt.
I found their mother Alma May (Thompson) Davenport in the 1930 and 1940 Census of Brattleboro, Vermont, where she was listed as a patient. The 1940 Census indicated gave the name of the institution as the Brattleboro Retreat. Alma died in 1951.
It would seem that Arthur was still living, as in both the 1930 and 1940 Census, Alma was listed as married.
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c1904 photograph of Karl Byron Porter of Old Town, Maine, taken while he was a student at the University of Maine, by the Chalmers studio of Bangor, Maine.
From online research, hopefully correct: [corrections welcome]
Karl Byron Porter was born 13 December 1882 at Corinna, Maine, son of Dr. Charles B. and Georgia Rust (Pulsifer) Porter, who were born at Newport, Maine, and Ellsworth, Maine, respectively. About 1889 Dr. Charles B. Porter moved his practice and family to Old Town, Maine.
Karl's paternal grandparents were Dr. Byron and Almira B. (Adams) Porter. His maternal grandparents were Dr. Moses Rust Pulsifer and his second wife Mary Letitia (Berry) Pulsifer.
Karl may have been on a path to a career in medicine himself, as he graduated from the University of Maine in 1904 with a degree in biology.
In the 1910 Census of Old Town, Maine, he was living with his parents, with no occupation listed.
On 19 October 1910 at Old Town, Maine, Karl married Rose Persis Bowman, daughter of Lewis and Rose (Richardson) Bowman. The couple had a daughter born about 1912.
In the 1920 Census of Old Town, Maine, Rose was living at Old Town with her mother, her sister Lois, and her daughter. She was listed as was married, but Karl wasn't enumerated in the household. He may have been the Byron Porter, "single", working as a fireman at a hardware factory in New Britain, Connecticut, at shown in the 1920 Census.
Rose was listed as divorced in the 1930 Census of Old Town, Maine. In the 1940 Census of Old Town, Maine, when she was living in the household of her daughter and son-in-law, she was listed as widowed. That Census was enumerated in May.
In the 1940 Census of Bangor, enumerated a month earlier in April, Karl Byron Porter was shown as an inmate at the Bangor State Mental Hospital and was described as divorced.
Whether Karl had died in the month between the two enumerations, to account for the listing of Rose as widowed, I don't know. However, there was a Byron Porter who died in 1963 at Bangor, Maine, of about the right age.
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c1904 Photograph of a young man identified on the reverse as Ralph H. Pearson of Guilford, Maine.
The photograph was found with a collection of photographs of students from the University of Maine, several of whom graduated in 1904 from the engineering department. The photograph was taken by the Chalmers studio of Bangor, Maine.
The image of the reverse, shown below, has been enhanced a bit for legibility of the handwriting.
From online research, hopefully correct: [corrections welcome]
Ralph Howard Pearson was born 24 August 1882 at Guilford, Maine, the son of David and Harriet "Hattie" W. (Bennett) Pearson, who were born at Hadfield, England, and, I think, Guilford, Maine, respectively. David Pearson was a trader and grocer who came to the United States when he was in his late teens.
Ralph's paternal grandparents were Joseph and Mary (Warburton) Pearson. His maternal grandparents were Benjamin and Rachel H. (Webber) Bennett. Rachel died when Hattie was about two. Hattie's father then married Louisa J. Nickerson, daughter of George and Susan Jane (Savage) Nickerson.
Ralph Howard Pearson graduated from the University of Maine in 1904 with a degree in electrical engineering. By 1910 he was working in Minneapolis, Minnesota in an electrical shop. By 1920 he was in Dallas, Texas, working as an electrical engineer at Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.
I found a reference online where Ralph died in 1940 at Guilford, Maine, but I can't find an official record of that.
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c1904 photograph of a young man identified on reverse as Ralph W. E. Kingsbury of South Brewer, Maine.
The photograph was taken by the Chalmers studio of Bangor, Maine, and is possibly Ralph's graduation photograph from the University of Maine, where he received a degree in electrical engineering in 1904.
The image of the reverse of the photograph below has been altered to show contrast between the background and Ralph's name.
From online research, hopefully correct: [corrections welcome]
Ralph Waldo Emerson Kingsbury was born about February 1882 in Maine, the son of Waldo H. and Anna T. (Gowen) Kingsbury. His paternal grandparents were Daniel Stafford Kingsbury and Mary G. (Penney) Kingsbury of Brewer, Maine. His maternal grandparents were Samuel and Maria Jemima (Jencks) Gowen of Bradford, Maine.
On 2 September 1908 at Westchester, New York, Ralph married Anna May Skinner, daughter of Alva(h) Greenleaf Skinner and Julia Frances (Bates) Skinner. Anna had graduated from Vassar College in 1907.
The 1910 Census found Ralph and Anna living at Brewer, Maine, with their newborn daughter Helen and Anna's widowed father Alva. Ralph was working as an electrical engineer.
Ralph and Anna had a son born about 1911.
A note in a 1913 Vassar College publication, as shown below, indicates that Ralph and Anna and family had recently moved to Pasadena, California. I wonder if Ralph was attracted to Pasadena to study or teach at the Throop Institute of Technology, now known as the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech.
Although I haven't yet found an official death record, a couple sources online indicate that Ralph Waldo Emerson Kingsbury died in 1914.
Anna stayed in California with her two children and pursued a career in education, as shown in city directories of the era. By the time of the 1920 Census, her father Alva was living in her household. He may have gone west with them in 1913 or he may have joined his daughter when she became a widow.
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c1900 photograph of a young man identified on reverse as John I. Frederick. The photograph was purchased with a collection of early 1900s photographs of University of Maine students, most taken around 1904.
Whether or not John attended the University of Maine, I haven't so far determined from a cursory look through issues of the Prism of likely years, but I suspect he did.
The actual reverse of the photograph, as shown below, is darker, but I altered it to make the signature stand out.
From online research, hopefully correct:
John I. Frederick was born about March 1878 at Winterport, Maine, son of Luther W. and Addie (Newcomb) Frederick, who were born at Winterport, Maine, and abutting Frankfort, Maine, respectively.
John's paternal grandparents were Isaiah and Emeline Frederick. I don't have information on Addie's parents; Newcomb was her birth surname given on John's marriage record.
On 3 September 1902 at Winterport, Maine, John I. Frederick married Ellen M. Littlefield, daughter of Walter Scott Littlefield and Ada Estelle (Moody) Littlefield.
By 1905 John was listed in a publication as a principal at Winterport, Maine. By 1910, as shown in the Census of Winterport, he and Ellen were farming potatoes.
They may be the John and Ellen who were living at Somerville, Massachusetts at the time of the 1920 Census. Ellen died in 1921.
I haven't yet found information on John I. Frederick from this point.
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Photograph of Wilber Fiske Jackman and signed by him on 14 February 1912. The photograph was taken by the Taney studio of Bangor, Maine.
From online research, hopefully correct: [corrections welcome]
Wilber Fiske Jackman was born about February 1861 in Michigan, son of Jeremiah F. and Sarah Hollis (Howes) Jackman.
I found conflicting information online for the parents' birthplaces. Jeremiah F. Jackman may have been born in England or New York. Sarah Hollis (Howes) Jackman may have been born at Ashfield, Massachusetts, or New York. I'm leaning toward the first of each possibility.
Dr. Wilber Fiske Jackman was a professor at the University of Maine at Orono from 1895 to 1913. He was the first to lead the Pharmacy Department. After leaving the University of Maine, he taught in the College of Pharmacy at the University of West Virginia at Morgantown.
I found a marriage record that shows Dr. Jackman married Annie E. Peters on 29 January 1896 at Detroit, Michigan. Annie and their four children are listed with him in the 1900 and 1910 Census of Orono, Maine.
He may have been married before as I found newspaper clipping online noting a marriage on 9 January 1888 at Ann Arbor, Michigan, of Wilber F. Jackman and Sarah Donnelly. Family Search shows birth records for twin daughters of a Wilbur F. Jackman and Sarah Jackman.
I believe that Dr. Jackman died in 1918.
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