Photo Friday – Dana, Hinkley, Kinney, & Quimby

Linwood Dyer Collection – Part 045
Hinkley Family Photographs (2024.13.43)
East Orange, New Jersey, Westbrook, Maine
By Don Taylor

This photo album is from the Linwood D Dyer Photo Collection and is in very rough condition. Because the vast majority of the 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, and Westbrook, 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]

Frances Elizabeth Prindle (Hinkley) Quimby, 1908,  
Eleanor Tisdale (Hinkley) Kinney, 1908, &
Amherst St., East Orange – 1908

Frances Elizabeth Prindle (Hinkley) Quimby, 1885

Page 30 of the Hinkley Family Photo Album includes three photos. They are labeled:

1. Frances
2. Frances – Eleanor – 1908
3. Amherst St. East Orange – 1908

Amherst St., East Orange, NJ, 1908

What I learned while researching this photo:

• Pages 28 & 29 of the Hinkley Photo Album included several photos of Frances Elizabeth Prindle (Hinkley) Quimby. This is another photo of her.
• Frances’s sister, Eleanor Tisdale Hinkley (1871-1943), is the person with her in the photo.
• The 1910 US Census lists Frances Elizabeth Prindle (Hinkley) Quimby living at 52 Amherst, East Orange, New Jersey, with her husband, Frank Lees Quimby, and her 1-year-old son, Frank Lees Quimby, Jr.

I added these three photos to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.

Frank Lees Quimby, Jr., 1909

Frank Lee Quimby, Jr., 1909.

Page 31 of the Hinkley Family Photo Album includes a photo labeled:

1. Frank Jr. 1909

What I learned while researching this photo:

Frances married Frank Lees Quimby in 1903. She had a son, Frank Lees Quinby, Jr., about 1908. This is a photo of Frank Jr. when he was about one year old.

I added the photo of Frank Lees Quimby, Jr., to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry. The other two pictures are only available here.

Florence Hinkley, 1895 & 1901
723 Main St., Westbrook, ME, 1909

Florence Hinkley, 1895.

Page 32 of the Hinkley Family Photo Album includes three photos labeled:

1. Florence Hinkley – 1895
2. (Apparently Florence) – 1901
3. (House) 1909 – Westbrook

What I learned while researching this photo:

723 Main Street, Westbrook, ME 1909.

• Florence H Hinkley married Philip Dana on 21 Nov 1908.
• The 1910 US Census indicates that the Dana family lived at 723 Maine Steet in Westbrook. Today, Google Maps shows the same house at 723 Main Street, which is today a State Farm Insurance Agent’s office.

I added one photo of Florence to her Family Search ID Memories (KZWF-52J) and included all three pictures in my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.

Philip Dana, Jr., 1909 & 1912.
Florence (Hinkley) Dana, 1912.

Philip Edward Hinkley, 1882.

Page 33 of the Hinkley Family Photo Album includes one photo labeled
Philip Dana, Jr., 1909.” And two photos labeled “Philip Dana – Jan 31, 1912.”

Florence and child (Philip), Dana, 1912.

What I learned while researching this photo:

• Philip Dana, Jr., was born on 25 August 1909

I added these photos to my Linwood Dyer Collection family tree at Ancestry.

Hinkley Children, c. 1890
Philip Edward Hinkley, 1882 & c. 1891.

Four Hinkley Children

Page 34 includes one photo, which is unlabeled. However, it appears to be of three Hinkley children, Philip, Florence, Helen, and one other. I am unsure if the oldest girl in the photo is Frances, Eleanor, or even Margaret.

Philip Edward Hinkley, c. 1891.

Page 35 includes a photo of Philip dated 1882 and another photo of him as a boy without a date, probably when he was about 10, so I estimate it about 1891.

I only present the group photo here, but I added the two pictures of Philip Edward Hinkley to 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, or Flickr have higher quality than those linked 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.