Photo #122210
Last Name: Libby
First Name: Lucy
Middle Name:
Subject's City: Portland
Subject's State: ME
Subject's County: Cumberland
Subject's Country:
Date: 1851-1900
Photographer: Smith
Photographer's City: Portland
Photographer's State: ME
Nee:
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Comments: Lucy Libby (Nee: ) | Portland ME | 1851-1900 | Comments: The photo identifying information includes:
• The photographer is H.M. Smith, Portland, ME.
• Handwritten on the back it says, “Mrs. Lucy Libby, Portland, Maine.
Why I believe this to be the individual.
• The 1890 Portland City directory lists two “Mrs. Lucy E. Libbys”.
o One’s home is on Congress, beyond Broad, Stroudwater.
o The other lived at a boarding house at 104 Oak.
o However, it does not list H.M. Smith as a photographer.
• The 1900 Portland City Directory lists Howard M. Smith, Photographer. It also lists the two Lucy E Libbys.
o Lucy E., widow of Amos, h. 1532 Congress
o Lucy E., widow of Edmund P., h. 17½ Forest av.
• The 1900 US Census lists
o Lucy E Libby living at 1532 Congress with her brother-in-law, Lewis Skillin. His wife is Hattie. Lucy is 63 years old.
o Lucy E Libby living at 17½ Green Street. She is 66 years old, widowed; living with her is her 46-year-old son, Augustus.
o Lucy A Libby, wife of Samuel Libby, living at 5 Prospect Street. She is 66 years old.
o Another Lucy E Libby, age 22 is boarding at 108 Federal. She is married and her apparent husband is Walter H Libby.
• Other findings:
o Find a Grave lists, Lucy Ellen (Trickey) Libby (1936-1917), whose husband was Corp Amos Libby (183401861) and whose sister was Harriet “Hattie” Trickey Skillin.
o US Marriage records indicate that Lucy E Winslow married Edmund P Libby on 3 July 1853.
o Lucy Ann Hunnewell married Samuel Libby on 21 November 1860. The couple lived at 5 Prospect Street in Portland during 1900. Both she and Samuel died in 1902. Both are buried in Scarborough, Maine.
I believe this photo is of either Lucy (Trickey) Libby or Lucy (Winslow) Libby taken sometime about 1900, although it is possible it is a photo of Lucy (Hunnewell) Libby.
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Everyone Listed In This Photo:
Lucy Libby
