Linwood Dyer Collection – Part 040
Hinkley Family Photographs (2024.13.43)
Gorham, Portland, & Standish, Maine; New York
By Don Taylor
This photo album is from the Linwood D Dyer Photo Collection and is in very rough condition. Because most images are glued in place, I cannot access the photo backs. My initial look suggests this photo album highlights the Hinkley family. The collection includes hundreds of images, documents, and genealogies of people who lived in Portland, Scarborough, South Portland, and Cape Elizabeth, Maine. My goal is to reunite the images with family members who may have never seen the pictures before. The Scarborough Historical Society holds the originals in the Linwood Dyer Photo Collection.[i]
Rufus Henry Hinkley (1830-1900).
The second photo in the album is labeled “Rufus H Hinkley” with a comment below of “1830-1900.” (I’ll get to the first photo below.)
What I learned while researching this photo:
- FamilySearch has a profile M63J-84P for Rufus Henry Hinkley, born on 12 October 1830 in Gorham, Maine, and died on 5 March 1900.
- Rufus’ parents were Stephen Hinkley, Jr. (1799-1867) and Sophronia Shedd (1805-1890). He was the oldest of seven children.
- Mary Cass Hinkley (1833-1903)
- Susan S. Hinkley (1835-1911)
- Stephen Hinkley III (1838-1898)
- William H. Hinkley (1840-1842)
- Charles K. Hinkley (1843-1924)
- John Adams Hinkley (1848-1915)
- Rufus married Frances Elizabeth Prindle on 5 May 1867 in Portland, Maine. They had ten children.
- Helen Hartwell Hinkley (1855-___)
- Marion Hinkley (1868-1935)
- Alice Hinkley (1869-1953)
- Margaret Prindle Hinkley (1871-1940)
- Eleanor Tisdale Hinkley (1871-1943)
- Rufus Henry Hinkley, Jr. (1873-___)
- Frances Elizabeth Prindle Hinkley (1879-1972)
- Florence Hinkley (1879-1972)
- Philip Edward Hinkley (1881-___)
- Helen Hartwell Hinkley (1885-___)
- Rufus’ parents were Stephen Hinkley, Jr. (1799-1867) and Sophronia Shedd (1805-1890). He was the oldest of seven children.
I added this photo to Rufus Henry Hinkley’s memories on FamilySearch and my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.
The fourth page includes six photos labeled Rufus Henry Hinkley and Rufus H. Hinkley (1830-1900) and is clearly of the same man as the second page. I added these two photos to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry. The additional pictures on this page are on my Flicker Photostream.
Frances Elizabeth (Prindle) Hinkley (1843-1908).
The fifth and sixth pages of the album are identified as “Frances E Hinkley” and include six photos of the same woman. One image has a small “1907” on the bottom. Frances was 64 years old and must be the woman on the right of the photo. The woman on the left is unidentified.
What I learned while researching this photo:
- · Frances was the wife of Rufus Henry Hinkley and was born Frances Elizabeth Prindle.
- · FamilySearch has profile M63J-8HN for Frances Elizabeth Prindle Hinkley. She was born on 15 August 1843 in New York. She died on 25 December 1908 and was buried in Portland, Maine.
I added two photos of her to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry. I also included both pages from the album in my Flickr Photostream.
Eunice (Welch) Prindle (1810-1895).
(1810-1895).
The third page of the album consists of six photos. Four are of a woman, and two are of a man. Two of the woman’s photos are large (4 x 2.75″), and two are thumbnails (1 x 1.25″). The woman is identified as the “Mother of James Edward Prindle – Eunice W. – 1895.”
What I learned while researching this photo:
- As I noted above, Rufus Henry Hinkley married Frances Elizabeth Prindle. Her parents were James L. and Eunice (Welch) Prindle.
- FamilySearch has a profile LV6Y-FYM for Eunice Welch Prindle. She was born on 26 March 1810 in New York and died on 3 October 1895 in Cumberland County, Maine.
- Eunice married James L. Prindle, and they had four children:
- James Edward Prindle (1829-1903)
- Edgar I Prindle (1831-___)
- E. L. Prindle (1833-___)
- Frances Elizabeth Prindle (1843-1908)
- Eunice’s husband, James, died in 1851. She moved from New York to Portland, Maine, between 1855 and 1860.
- Eunice’s parents were Elisha Welch (1772-1859) and Sarah Station (1771-1843)
- Eunice married James L. Prindle, and they had four children:
I added the two larger photos to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry and to her FamilySearch profile. The two thumbnail photos are available on my Flickr Photostream.
Stephen Hinkley, (1799-1867)
The first photo in this album is unlabeled. However, the same image appears on page three in a smaller form. That page identifies the person as Stephen and gives a death date as 1867. Rufus Henry Hinkley’s father was Stephen Hinkley, Jr. (1799-1867).
Stephen was born on 5 May 1799 in Standish, Maine, and died on 19 April 1867 in Gorham, Maine. I am confident this photo is of him.
I added this photo to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry and to his FamilySearch profile L29B-GQQ. Another (thumbnail) photo of Stephen is available on my Flickr Photostream.
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 Flickr have higher quality than uploaded here. Feel free to use these photos in your genealogical activities. Please cite “Photo Courtesy: Scarborough Historical Society.”
Endnotes
[i] Scarborough Historical Society Accession number: 2024.13.43.
