1873, 1874 and 1876 Diaries of Ida Isadore Reynolds (1860-1946) of Acton, Maine; Future Wife of John Jotham Shapleigh (1856-1923)

1873 Diary

Overview of the 1873, 1874 and 1876 diaries of Ida Isadore Reynolds (1860-1946) of Acton, Maine.

Ida was the daughter of Jonathan Prescott Reynolds (1920-1899) and Rachel E. (Tupper) Reynolds (1833-1923), natives of Maine and Nova Scotia respectively.  Ida would marry John Jotham Shapleigh in 1881.

1873 Diary

The Reynolds surname had variants of Runnels, Runnells and Runnals, as noted in A Genealogy of Runnels and Reynolds Families in America: With Records and Brief Memorials of the Earliest Ancestors, so Far as Known, by Moses Thurston Runnels, published in 1873.

This post and future ones featuring entries from Ida's diaries, are subject to change, with credit, as new information comes in.  If you have corrections to the transcriptions in any of the future posts and/or information to share on people mentioned, please leave a comment or contact me directly.  I'd also like to add Ida's other diaries, if they can be found.

This post contains:

• an overview of the diaries, including information on Ida and her family
• an alphabetical list of the surnames in the diaries
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• an alphabetical list of the people mentioned in the diaries, with any information found
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• links to images/transcriptions/descriptions of each month of entries
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Ida was presumably named for Ida Isadore Decker (1851-1854), daughter of Nathaniel Curtis Decker (1828-1888), a native of Boothbay, Maine, and Joanna Farnham (Reynolds) Decker (1825-1909), who was a sister to Jonathan Prescott Reynolds (1820-1899).  Diarist Ida lived for a time with the Deckers while she attended school in Boston; she must have been very special to them.

By the time of these diaries, only one of Ida's grandparents still lived, Ann (Worster or Worcester) Reynolds (1793-1884), widow of Rev. Paul Runnels (1790-1842).  "Grandmother" appears many times in the diaries.  She may have lived with her youngest child, Jacob Pickering Reynolds (1838-1914), as they usually came on visits together.  Jacob had an older brother of the same name, who died young - Jacob Pickering Reynolds (1833-1837).

Also living in the Reynolds household at times were Ida's older brother Edward Everett Reynolds (1855-1945) and a Sam/Sammy/Samuel, who I believe was Ida's maternal cousin, Samuel Muir Francis (1858-1928), son of Dr. Daniel Francis (1810-1867) and Christie Ann (Tupper) Francis (-1893) of Nova Scotia.

Samuel Muir Francis' siblings, Hannah Francis (abt 1854-1923), also known as Annie, and Edward Francis (1850-1931) stopped by from time to time. Ida kept up a correspondence with Hannah, also known as Annie, whose address appears in the 1873 diary as Hannah Francis, c/o of a real estate agency at the corner of Randall and North Main Streets in Providence, Rhode Island.  Hannah/Annie Francis would marry James Alexander Buchanan (1850-1906).

1873 Diary

The Reynolds farm was located along the southern border of Acton, Maine, and may have extended into Lebanon, Maine, to the south.  As you can see from the image above, the family got their mail through the North Lebanon Post Office.

Note below the J. P. Reynolds residence along the southern border of Acton in this 1872 map of Acton, Maine, held by the Digital Maine Repository, and an enlargement of the area of the Reynolds farm.

As you would expect, many of the people living near the Jonathan Prescott Reynolds residence figure prominently in the diaries.  Ida mentioned every caller to her home, as well as the places she visited.  In fact, the volume of visiting, by the Reynolds family and by visitors to the Reynolds home, even in winter and to and from remote farms over bad roads, is mind boggling.

Many times people would drop in unannounced, be fed and invited to stay the night.  Neighbors also pitched in to help one another with chores and in times of adversity. Ida's parents looked out for their elderly neighbors, such as Andrew Hilton (1810-1873) in his decline and death and, thereafter, his widow Eliza Ann (Paul) Hilton (1816-1891).

 1874 Diary

1874 Diary

Ida loved attending schools of any kind, including scholastic, "Spelling" and "Singing", but schools were not always available to her.  In order to find them, she sometimes boarded at adjacent Milton Mills, New Hampshire, with her maternal aunt Lucy Jane (Tupper) Sawyer (1837-1880) and husband Rev. Seth Sawyer (1808-1892) or in Boston, Massachusetts, with her Aunt and Uncle Decker, mentioned above, and their son Walter Curtis Decker (1855-1900).

 1876 Diary

Ida's activities included

• commenting on the weather
• visiting and receiving visitors
• collecting and boiling down maple sap
• berrying and harvesting tree fruit
• performing household, garden and farm chores
• putting the finishing touches to piecework vests brought to her and her mother by an agent
• playing the piano and singing, at home, during extended visits to her Aunt and Uncle Sawyer at Milton Mills, New Hampshire, and at gatherings, formal and informal.
• attending school or looking for a school to attend
• working in the summer of 1876 at the Wesleys' Inn on Martha's Vineyard [presumably the same family that built the famous Wesley House in 1879]
• teaching a term of school at Sanford, Maine, in the fall of 1876, at the tender age of 16

1876 Diary

Ida noted many deaths in her Maine and New Hampshire neighborhoods.  In one case, I discovered that online sources record Benjamin Drew (1784-1874) of Acton, Maine, as having died on January 17, 1874; the diary makes clear that Benjamin died on June 17, 1874; a discrepancy easy to understand.

A small sample of people who appear many times in the diary, in addition to those already mentioned:

• Gorham Parks Boston (1839-1910) and wife Sabina Emily (Runnels) Boston (1841-1914)
• the Cowell family of Lebanon, Maine, including Emma's friend and fellow teacher, Emma Jane Cowell (1859-1941), future wife of Fred P. Jones
• The Fox family of Maine and New Hampshire; including information about a fire at the Milton, New Hampshire store of Asa Augustus Fox (1837-1913) in March of 1876; insured for $4000 
• the Goodwin family of Acton, Maine
• "Aunt Martha" - Martha Ann (Reynolds) Hersom (1817-1879, widow of Lucius Hersom (1809-1867) and future wife of John Hanson; Martha was the older sister of Ida's father Jonathan Prescott Reynolds (1820-1899)
• Joel G. Hersom (1840-1900) and wife Emily Jane (Prescott) Hersom (1843-1901) and daughter Cora Theodocia Hersom 
• Andrew Hilton (1810-1873), who was apparently on the decline for much of 1873, and his wife Eliza Ann (Paul) Hilton (1816-1891), as well as their sons John Paul Hilton (1836-1895); Charles Albert Hilton(1858-1894); and Luther Drew Hilton (1858-1894) also appear in the diary many times.
• Charles Albert Hilton (1856-1937), son of Andrew Hilton (1810-1873) and Eliza Ann (Paul) Hilton (1816-1891) and future husband of Sadie Noyes Prescott (1857-1879)
• Ida's friend Georgia A. Hilton (1864-1926), daughter of Andrew F. Hilton (1836-1894) and Emeline A. (Hersom) Hilton (1838-1884), "Emma" 
• Luther Drew Hilton (1858-1894), son of Andrew Hilton (1810-1873) and Eliza Ann (Paul) Hilton (1816-1891) and future husband of Clara Georgietta Prescott (1860-1926)
• Ida's close friends, sisters Mary Isabelle Prescott (1854-1932), "Belle"; Sadie Noyes Prescott (1857-1879), future wife of Charles Albert Hilton (1856-1937); and Clara Georgietta Prescott (1860-1921), future wife of Luther Drew Hilton (1858-1894); daughters of George Washington Prescott (1815-1886) and Eliza G. (Brackett) Prescott (1817-1898)
• George Lockwood Prescott (1845-1883), "Lock", son of George Washington Prescott (1815-1886) and Eliza G. (Brackett) Prescott (1817-1898 and husband of Isabelle G. (Churchill) Prescott (1845-1923), "Belle"
• Enoch Piper Sherman (1836-1922), husband of 1) Jane (Guptill) Sherman (1832-1861), deceased before the era of the diaries; 2) Mary (Ricker) Sherman (1837-1889); 3) Clara A. (Sanborn) Sherman, whom he would marry after the era of the diaries
• George A. Sherman (1860-), son of Enoch Piper Sherman (1836-1922) and his first wife Jane (Guptill) Sherman (1832-1861); George would marry Abbie F. Richardson in 1884 at Boston, Massachusetts
• Ida's close friend Harriet Eldora Sherman (1859-1937), "Hattie", daughter of Thomas Sherman (1823-1893) and Abigail Elizabeth (Fox) Sherman (1822-1877), "Abbie"; Hattie would marry George Walter Chamberlain (1859-1942) in 1887.
• Hubbard Stevens (1805-1882) and wife Harriet C. (Brackett) Stevens (1808-1883), parents of Jacob Brackett Stevens (1850-1917), husband of Charlotte M. (Shapleigh) Stevens (1851-1917), also much mentioned.

Alphabetical list of Surnames in the Diaries - the numbers represent different people with that surname, not how many times that surname appears in the diaries

? [47]	Farnham	Nason
Abbott	Fellows	Nolen
Adams	Fernald	Noyes
Allen [2]	Fisk	Noyes
Allnutt	Foss	Noyes
Angle ?	Fox [7]	Odell
Applebee	Francis [3]	Parker
Armitage	Frost	Paul
Barrows [2]	Garvin	Pendleton ?
Bedell	Gaskell	Penny or Penney [3]
Bennett [2]	Gilpatric	Penniman
Berry	Goodwin [6]	Pentlergast?
Bickford	Grammon	Perkins
Boothe	Grant	Pike
Boston [2]	Guptill	Pike [3]
Brackett [2]	Hamilton	Place [2]
Brown [3]	Hanscom [b] [4]	Plummer [5]
Buck	Hanson [2]	Pray
Bugbee	Harding	Prescott [21]
Butler [2]	Hargraves	Prescott ? [2]
Buzzell	Haven	Read
Calder	Hayes	Reed [4]
Caller	Hayes	Reynolds [10]
Carlisle	Hays or Hayes	Richardson
Carroll	Hersom [10]	Ricker [8]
Carter	Higgins	Roberts or Robberds
Chadbourne [6]	Hill [2]	Roberts
Chase	Hilton [20]	Rollins
Chesley	Hilton ? [2]	Runnells
Clapp	Hodgdon ? [2]	Sanborn [2]
Clough	Horn	Sawyer [3]
Collins	Horton [2]	Scruton
Cook [16]	Hubbard [4]	Shapleigh [2]
Copp	James [3]	Sherman [13]
Cottle	Jenness	Smith [2]
Cowell [8]	Jones [9]	Stacey
Crawford	Jordan	Stevens [5]
Crowley	Joyce	[2]
Dagin	Keniston	Tibbetts [4]
Davis	Kenney	Tompson/Thompson
Decker [6]	Knox	Toothaker
Demeritt	Leach	Ufford
Dempster	Leighton	Varney
Dillon [2]	Libby	Wallingford ?
Downing	Lord [5]	Weeks
Downs	Lovering [5]	Weeks or Wilks
Downs	Lowd	Wentworth [10]
Downs	Lynch	Wesley
Downs	Martin	Whitcomb ?
Downs [es] [5]	Martin	Whitehouse
Drew [6]	McClellan ?	Wilks or Weeks
Eaton	McCobb	Winchell [3]
Edgerly	McLean	Wood
Evans	Merrill	Woodsum
Fall	Montsie	Yeaton [2]
	Moore [6]	Young [3]
	Moore ?
	Morrison
	Moss
	Moulton
	Mudgett [3]
	Mugridge [3]

Alphabetical list of people mentioned in the three diaries - Please send notifications of corrections, clarifications or additional information.

Posts about monthly entries, in chronological order, with images, transcriptions, description of people mentioned - links provided as the posts are completed

1873
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October    November    December/Memoranda

1874
January    February    March    April    May    June    July    August    September
October    November    December/Memoranda
1876
January    February    March    April    May    June    July    August    September
October    November    December/Memoranda

Maine Photographs & Photograph Albums

Maine Photographs and Photograph Albums

• Photograph Album of Floyd E. Dole (1917-2008) of Bangor, Maine; 19 Photographs of Military Life, Mountains, Farm
• Early to Mid 1900s Photograph Album, reportedly from the Bath, Maine, area; only Surname mentioned is White
• Five Cabinet Photographs of Gouldsboro, Maine, area: Young; Tracy; Sargent; Hamilton; Perry; Dorr
• Photograph of Dr. David Wellington Bunker (1852 or 1853-1924); Tremont, Maine; Bar Harbor, Maine; Bangor, Maine; Blue Hill, Maine
• 1921 Photograph of Two Maine Central Institite, Pittsfield, Maine, Baseball Players: Clifford Vining Chisholm and Clyde Wentworth Emery
• Photograph of Harry Weldon Osgood of Pittsfield, Ellsworth, and Bangor, Maine; 1894 Graduate of Colby College at Waterville, Maine; 1898 Boston University School of Medicine
• c 1930-40 Group Photograph, possibly showing employees at a Woolen Mill at Hartland, Maine or Fairfield, Maine
• Snapshot of Captain Murray A. Coker in uniform; presumably of Fairfield, Maine
• c1914-1930s Photograph Album of the Family of Malcom Vartan Malcom of Boston, Massachusetts, and their Saltwater Farm "Malward" on Sawyer Island at Boothbay, Maine
• 1930/40s Photo Album Presumably Owned by Family of George Rex Young and wife Virginia H. (White) Young of Washburn, Maine

Heirlooms Reunited: 1921 Photograph of Two Maine Central Institite ...

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Nov 24, 2018 ... 1921 photograph of two baseball players at Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield, Maine. They were Clifford Vining Chisholm (1903-1993) and ...

Old Photograph of the Anne Nickerson Farm at Brighton, Maine, plus ...

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Aug 28, 2018 ... Faded photograph of "Aunt Anne Nickerson's home up in Brighton, Me." Brighton is a town in Somerset County, Maine. I believe Anne was ...

Heirlooms Reunited: Photograph of "Grampy Huff" by Pittsfield ...

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Sep 7, 2018 ... Photograph of an elderly man identified on the reverse as "Grampy Huff"; the photograph was taken by the Howe studio of Pittsfield, Maine.

Five Cabinet Photographs of Gouldsboro, Maine, area

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Dec 11, 2018 ... Four cabinet photographs of related people of Hancock County, Maine, mostly from the Gouldsboro, Maine, area, plus one photograph of a ...

c1940 Photograph of a Camp, possibly with an Orrington, Maine ...

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Sep 12, 2018 ... Photograph of a camp identified on the reverse as the camp of Wilbur Clark, "Bud ", and wife Mary E. Clark, "Lib". The camp may have been in ...

Heirlooms Reunited: Photograph of Dr. David Wellington Bunker ...

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Dec 11, 2018 ... Photograph of Dr. David Wellington Bunker (1852 or 1853-1924); Tremont, Maine; Bar Harbor, Maine; Bangor, Maine; Blue Hill, Maine.

Heirlooms Reunited: 1886 Graduation Photograph of Alice A ...

www.heirloomsreunited.com/.../1886-graduation-photograph-of-alice.html

Jan 15, 2013 ... 1886 Graduation Photograph of Alice A. Perkins of Orono, Maine; by Bangor, Maine studio. Note: Be sure to scroll down to the comments, ...

Heirlooms Reunited: 1903 Graduation Photograph of Gertrude Mae ...

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Oct 20, 2016 ... 1903 Graduation Photograph of Gertrude Mae Johnson of Bucksport, Maine; from Eastern State Normal School at Castine, Maine.

Photograph of Winnie Spencer of Springfield, Maine

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Oct 20, 2016 ... The matted photograph, taken by the Butterfield studio of Springfield, Maine, measures approximately 6-1/2" by 4-1/4". The photograph itself ...

Heirlooms Reunited: Photograph of Harry of Biddeford, Maine ...

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Nov 22, 2016 ... Photograph of a well dressed man, identified on the reverse as, possibly, Harry L. Curran of Biddeford, Maine. The photograph was taken at the ...

Four Invoices from the 1880s and 1890s to Allyn Kellogg Talcott & Phineas Talcott of Rockville, Connecticut

Four invoices from the 1880s and 1890s directed to the firm owned by brothers Allyn Kellogg Talcott and Phineas Talcott of Rockville, a village in the town of Vernon, Connecticut.

Allyn Kellogg Talcott (1839-1916) and Phineas Talcott (1845-1940) were the sons of Allyn Talcott (1800-1863) and Martha Goodrich (Robbins) Talcott (1808-1896).

The brothers' paternal grandparents were Deacon Phineas Talcott and Hannah (Kellogg) Talcott. The brother's maternal grandparents were Elisha Robbins and Sarah (Goodrich) Robbins.

Allyn Kellogg Talcott married Hannah Kingsbury, but I couldn't find a record of a marriage for Phineas.

Interestingly, the Talcott family papers are held at the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.

Allyn and Phineas operated a general merchandise store at 16 East Main Street.

The companies sending the invoices were:

• W. K. Butler & Co. of Hartford, Connecticut - October 13, 1884
• Foster & Company of Hartford, Connecticut - May 29, 1885
• E. A. Buck & Company of Palmer, Massachusetts - May 4, 1893
• Downing, Taylor & Company of Springfield, Massachusetts - April 13, 1897

If you have corrections and/or additional information on any of the people or firms mentioned above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Stereoview of Baby Maverick Hildreth Whitney of Hampden, Maine

Stereoview of a baby identified on the reverse as Maverick Hildreth Whitney. Her age is given but is very faint. Research shows that he was born in Hampden, Maine, possibly in Hampden Highlands.

Note: This blog post has been amended, thanks to welcome corrections from a descendant.

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

Maverick Hildreth Whitney was born in the Hampden Highlands section of Hampden, Maine, on November 30, 1915, the daughter of Harry George Whitney and Gladys Emily (Clark) Whitney.  In 1939 Maverick married Waverley Merle Alexander, son of Myron F. Alexander and Alda Sylvia (Colson) Alexander.

Maverick and Waverley lived in various towns in Penobscot County, Maine, including Hampden, Bangor and Brewer.  They had two daughters.

Waverley died in 1998 in Brewer, Maine; Maverick had predeceased him in 1997.  They're buried in Locust Grove Cemetery at Hampden, Maine, according to this website detailing the Whitney genealogy.

If you have corrections and/or additions to the information above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.  Before commenting publicly, please be thoughtful of people who may be living or recently deceased.

Five Cabinet Photographs of Gouldsboro, Maine, area: Young; Tracy; Sargent; Hamilton; Perry; Dorr

Four cabinet photographs of related people of Hancock County, Maine, mostly from the Gouldsboro, Maine, area, plus one photograph of a young boy who might be related.  Gouldsboro is sometimes seen as Gouldsborough.

The photograph above, by the Herrick studio, shows three sisters, daughters of Dennis M. Young and Maggie M. (Spurling) Young of Gouldsboro, Maine. 

Geneva Prudence Young (1894-1978)
Grace Mary Young (1896-1991) 
Annie Beth Young (1896-1989)

Though the identification, shown at left, gives the order as Grace, Geneva and Annie, it seems from their ages that Geneva was at left and Annie in the middle.  Grace was born in February 1896 and Annie in December of that year.



Another photograph shows a younger Geneva Young.

Geneva Prudence Young would marry Morris Young in 1913; they would raise their family in Hancock County, Maine.  Geneva and Morris, and at least one of their children, are buried in the Corea Cemetery at Corea, Maine.

Grace Mary Young married Allan Rufus Fickett in 1919; they lived in Hancock County for a while before moving to Connecticut, where their son was born.  All three are buried in the Evergreen Cemetery at Milbridge, Maine.

Annie Beth Young married twice: 1) Elvin Tracy Young, who died in 1921; and 2) Vernon Chester Moore, who died in 1955.  Annie had three children with her first husband and at least one with her second.

I don't know where Elvin Tracy Young and Annie Beth (Young) Young Moore are buried.  Vernon Chester Moore is buried in the West Bay Cemetery in Gouldsboro, Maine, with his first wife Carolyn A. Perry (1897-1924).

Interestingly, another of the photographs in the collection is of a young girl identified as Miss Carolin Perry of Gouldsboro, Maine.  She is, presumably, the Carolyn A. Perry who grew up to marry Vernon Chester Moore, as noted above.

Carolyn was born in 1897, the daughter of George H. Perry and Elizabeth A. Spurling, who was a sister to Maggie M. (Spurling) Young, mother of the three young sisters in first photograph shown.

Carolyn and Vernon Chester Moore raised several children in Gouldsboro, Maine. Carolyn died in 1924. As noted above, she's buried with Vernon in the West Bay Cemetery at Gouldsboro, Maine.

Another person who fits into the extended family is a woman identified as Aunt Vine Sargent.

Aunt Vine was Lovina (Tracy) Young Sargent (1851-1923), wife of 1) William Haskell Young (1843-1924) and 2) Charles M. Sargent (1857-1938) and daughter of Lindsey Tracy and Belinda (Tucker) Tracy.  Lovina had several children with her first husband, William Haskell Young.

The identification shown on the reverse was apparently written after 1903, the year Vine married her second husband, Charles M. Sargent.

Vine and Charles are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery at Winter Harbor, Maine, along with other relatives, including Charles' first wife Violette, who died in 1895.  I'm not sure where William Haskell Young is buried.






Another relative shown is "Aunt Maud Hamilton".  She was Maud E. (Tracy) Hamilton (1877-1970), daughter of Lindsey Tracy and Eliza (Stevens) Tracy and a half-sister to "Aunt Vine Sargent".

Maud married twice

1) James Henry Hamilton (1877-1940) in 1889, with whom she had a child

2) Aaron Judson Cate (1873-1945) in 1943.


Maud died in 1970 is buried in the Prospect Harbor Cemetery at Prospect Harbor, Gouldsboro, Maine.







The final photograph may have no relationship to the others, other than that it was found with them.  It shows a young boy with a name on the reverse that appears to be Elma Dorr or Elvira Dorr, perhaps signifying the boy's mother or a person for whom the photograph was intended.  There were people with the surname Dorr, or variants of it, in Hancock County, Maine.

Sadly, there's no studio imprint to give a clue as to locale.












If you have corrections and/or additions to the information above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Photograph of Dr. David Wellington Bunker (1852 or 1853-1924); Tremont, Maine; Bar Harbor, Maine; Bangor, Maine; Blue Hill, Maine

Photograph of a man identified on the reverse as "Dr. Bunker"; by the studio of H. L. Bradley at Bar Harbor, Maine.

Dr. Bunker was likely Dr. David Wellington Bunker (1852 or 1853-1924) of Trenton and Bar Harbor, Maine, son of John Edward Bunker and Mary Anna (Alley) Bunker.

The photograph was presumably taken before 1910, by which time Dr. Bunker had moved his practice to Bangor, Maine.

Dr. Bunker completed his medical training in 1882 at New York University Medical College.  In 1886 he married Ida Augusta Peters (1864-1919), daughter of Augustus C. Peters and Abby Maria (Osgood) Peters of Blue Hill, Maine.

A Maine death record for Ida Augusta (Peters) Bunker shows that she died at Bangor, Maine, on October 27, 1919.

Dr. Bunker died in April 1924; a record shows that his body was first placed in the tomb at Mount Hope Cemetery at Bangor, Maine, and then removed to Blue Hill.  Perhaps Dr. Bunker is buried in the Seaside Cemetery, where his wife's parents are buried.

Sources
U.S. Federal Census
Directory of Deceased American Physicians (1804-1929)

If you have corrections and/or additions to the information above, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Photograph of Norman MacKenzie, Husband of Laura (Stubbert) MacKenzie; by a Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Studio

Photograph of a young man identified on the reverse as "Norman MacKenzie, Laura Stubbert's husband". 

The photograph was taken by the Spencer studio of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.  The photograph itself is about 3-1/2" by 5", set on a mat measuring 9" by 7".

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

Norman MacKenzie and wife Laura Hazelton (Stubbert) MacKenzie were both born about 1868.  They married at Sydney, Nova Scotia, on June 25, 1895.  Laura was the daughter of Mathew Stubbert and Amelia Ann (Hull) Stubbert. 

According to the marriage record of their son George Franklin MacKenzie, who married Annie Hilda MacKinnon in 1926, Norman MacKenzie was born at "St Anns, Vict. Co., Cape Breton".

I found a Find a Grave memorial for a Norman John MacKenzie who died in 1946 and is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, but I don't know if this is the Norman MacKenzie pictured, as there were at least two men with the name Norman MacKenzie in the area.

If you recognize the Norman MacKenzie in the photograph, from your family photographs or research, and can provide more details, please leave a comment or contact me directly.

Sources
Censuses of Canada
FamilySearch.org
FindaGrave.com