Linwood Dyer Collection – Part 029
Isabel Dyer Skillin Album
Photo Friday
By Don Taylor
These photos are from the Isabel Dyer Skillin photo album, courtesy of the Scarborough Historical Society, Linwood Dyer Genealogical Collection, and include people from the South Portland High School — 1899.
Everett Leslie Richardson, c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Everett Richardson.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- My search of Ancestry family trees suggested this is Everett Lesley Richardson. He was born on 19 May 1881 to Edwin F. & Sarah Elizabeth (Chadbourne) Richardson. He married Mary Ellen O’Neill on 24 December 1912 in Boston and died in Manhattan, NY, on 21 August 1965
I added this photo of Everett to his FamilySearch profile, LK4B-P7Z, and my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Rachel Saunders (later Smith), c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Rachel Saunders.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- The 1900 Census suggests this may be “Hachael Saunders,” daughter of Joshua and Mary J Saunders.
- My search of Ancestry family trees then suggested this is Rachel V Saunders. She was born on 25 December 1881 in New Brunswick, Canada, to Joshua and Mary J. (Brown) Saunders. She married Stephen Winchester Smith on 7 October 1903 and died in Rye, New Hampshire, on 7 January 1959.
I added this photo of Rachel to her FamilySearch profile, L5NG-N8T, and my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Ralph Leighton, c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Ralph Leighton.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- My search of Ancestry family trees suggested this is Ralph Wendall Leighton. He was born on 29 December 1881 in Portland, Maine, to Wendall and Hannah “Anna” Annie Maria (Holdsworth) Leighton. He married Edith Maude Stewart in Middletown, CT, on 18 June 1907 and died in South Portland, Maine on 10 September 1941.
I added this photo of Ralph to his FamilySearch profile, KHTK-JGB, and my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Harold Haggett, c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Harold Haggett.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- My search of Ancestry family trees suggested this is Harold Bigelow Haggett. He was born on 8 April 1882 in Baldwin, Maine, to William Bigelow and Mary Elizabeth (Guptill) Haggett. The family appears in the 1900 US Census as living in South Portland, Maine. He married Grace May Kane in South Portland on 25 June 1904 and died in Laconia, NH, on 1 January 1959.
I added this photo of Harold to his FamilySearch profile, LJLV-BCC, and my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Sarah “Sadie” Goodwin, c. 1899.
Handwritten on a slip of paper with the photo is “Sadie Goodwin.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- My search of Ancestry family trees suggested this is Sarah “Sadie” C Goodwin. She was born in April 1883 in Maine to George E and Norrissa A Goodwin. It does not appear she married. It is also unclear when she passed. One researcher suggests she died in 1920, and another suggests she died in 1929.
I added this photo of Sadie to her FamilySearch profile, L2G2-T8R, and my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
Conclusion
I would love to hear your reaction if any of these photos are of your family member. Especially if this photo is of a loved one for whom you hadn’t seen this photograph before.
Due to software limitations, the images uploaded to Ancestry and FamilySearch have a higher resolution than those here. Feel free to use these photos in your genealogical activities. Please cite “Photo Courtesy: Don Taylor Genealogy.”
