1865 - ; married, 1904, Benjamin Stuart Murphy; parents: John Dalling Parker and Charlotte Howard Sargent; lived on Walnut St.

Both parents died at an early age. Her father returned as a captain from fighting in the Civil War, married in late 1864, and was living with his wife’s family in Boston by 1865. There is evidence that Ruth’s parents may have moved to Tarrytown, NY where her mother died in 1869, at the age of 29, when Ruth was 3. As of the 1870 census Ruth was living in West Roxbury with some of her mother’s siblings, including a younger sister, Alice Wentworth Sargent. In 1871, her father married Alice. He died in 1878 in Mattapoisett MA when Ruth was 12.

1861 - 1909; never married; parents: Charles Whitney and Sarah Kimball Bradley; born in Lowell, lived in Boston.

Her father was a wealthy merchant in the lumber business who built the luxurious Hotel Vendome at the corner of Dartmouth and Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Kate lived there for a number of years. She died of typhoid at the age of 47.

She was born in Brookline in 1869 to parents Francis Edward Bacon, a cotton broker, and Louisa Crowninshield. The family lived on a large Clyde St. estate that is the current location of The Country Club. The estate appears to have remained in the family for some time while Boston became their official residence along with a summer residence in Mattapoisett.

In 1891, Alice married William Sturgis Hooper Lothrop. Her portrait was painted at the time by well-known artist Frank Weston Benson and it currently hangs in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Her husband was a businessman involved in the sugar trade and he died suddenly of appendicitis in 1905 while in Puerto Rico.

1861 - 1940; never married; parents: Robert Smith Littell, Harriet Anne Moody; lived at 36 Alton Place

The Littell family has longstanding roots in America and hosts a number of interesting stories. Lucy’s grandfather, Eliakim Littell, founded Littell’s Living Age, a publication lasting nearly 100 years that reprinted highlights from American and British newspapers. Lucy’s father, Robert Littell, took over the reins after his death with his sister, Susan Littell, assisting as editor. He and his family lived for many years at 36 Alton Place, near Coolidge Corner. By 1895 there remained the Littell sisters, Lucy, Alice, and Harriet, along with Susan Littell who had joined the household to care for the children after the early death of their mother, in 1873. After their father died in 1896, the house was purchased by Harry Freeman who tore down the house, created a cross street in its place, named Littell Rd., and built a development of houses.

Lucy’s brother, Philip, graduated from Harvard, married, and was a newspaper columnist for The Milwaukee Sentinel, which was owned by the family of one of his classmates. He later became a writer and editor for the New Republic and was a regular visitor to the "House of Truth", a mansion in Washingotn, DC that served as living quarters and a gathering place for intellectuals of the day like Walter Lippman and Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was also an essayist, dramatist, and a member of the Cornish Art Colony in Plainfield, New Hampshire where some descendants continue to live.

Lucy’s sister, Alice, who was injured in this deadly 1893 train crash, was a physician who interned at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1895. Alice had made the acquaintance of her future husband, an artist named Arthur Murray Cobb, though exactly when and where is still not known. He was part of a group of wealthy ex-pat artists who gathered in Monet’s village of Giverny, France where he married Mariquita Gill, also an artist from Boston. They both, like Lucia Fairchild in this album, had paintings exhibited in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. By 1895, Cobb was divorced from Gill. Cobb and Alice Littell married in London in 1898 and became part of a group of American ex-pats in Florence. They lived in the famous Casa Guidi, which had been the house of Elizabeth Barrett Browning until her death, and they were featured in various international newspapers of the day. Their son, Humphrey, was a screenwriter and novelist who authored the novel Paths of Glory which was made into the famous movie by Stanley Kubrick.

Note that the inscription in the album appears as "Laura Letelle" or "Ketelle". There is no evidence that these are valid names. We believe that the album creator, Mary Williams, only remembered that this girl's first name started with "L" and that her last named sounded like Letelle. Other photographs support our belief that this is Lucy Littell.

ref. Platt-Littell web site

1868 - ; probably unmarried; parents: Henry Rogers Dalton and Elizabeth Lowell Dutton Russell; at birth lived at 18 Brimmer St. on Beacon Hill, lived in Lincoln in 1900, later lived at 181 Beacon St., Boston

Henry Dalton was a wealthy insurance broker and had been a captain in the Civil War. After the war he returned to Boston and married Elizabeth Lowell Dutton Russell in 1865. She died in 1869. They had two children, Elizabeth was the second. In 1872 he married Florence Chapman and moved to 288 Marlborough, Boston. Their first child was Alice who is also featured in this album. In 1908 he purchased 181 Beacon St., Boston, steps from his brother’s house at 189, and Elizabeth lived there.

1868 - ; married, 1896, Gardner Perry; peorge Pell Bangs and Elizabeth Simpkins; lived at 94 Mt. Vernon St., Beacon Hill

1868 - 1903; probably never married; parents: Charles John Whitmore and Sarah Olcott Murdoch Blake; lived at 320 Beacon St., Boston; died early of typhoid fever

1869 - 1953; married, Oct 2, 1890, Dennis Miller Bunker; married, 1893, Charles Adams Platt; parents: Alpheus Holmes Hardy and Mary Caroline Sumner; lived on Walnut St. by Cypress St.

Her father was a merchant involved in the India trade via a business he took over from his father. In 1889, at a reception, Eleanor met Dennis Miller Bunker, a rising star and ultimately major figure in American painting. They married in October, 1890 and moved to New York City where he would be teaching. During a Christmas visit to her family back in Boston that year he got meningitis and died. He painted a portrait of Eleanor that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1893, she married Charles Platt, a close friend of her husband whose wife had also died. Platt was an artist, landscape designer, and architect. Among his works were the gardens at the Larz and Isabel Anderson estate and the Brandegee estate, both in Brookline, and the Freer Gallery of Art building in Washington.

A friend of the Platts, the muralist Henry O. Walker, used Eleanor as the model for the mural "Wisdom of the Law" in the appellate court building in Madison Square in New York (1898-99). In 1968, her son Geoffrey, as the first chairman of the New York City Landmark Preservation Commission, was in the courthouse facing a challenge to the preservation law when he looked around (reported the New York Times) "to find a very familiar face staring at him from the courtroom wall. He said ‘My God, there was mother, and I knew everything would be all right.’ " In 2000, the courthouse building was restored by the architectural firm Platt Byard Dovell White led by Geoffrey’s nephew, Eleanor’s grandson, Charles Platt.

Eleanor Hardy was a friend and high school class mate of Lucy Littell, who also appears in Mamie Williams’ album. Eleanor's son married the daughter of Lucy's brother, Phillip

1871 – 1952; married, 1899, Charles Augustus Van Rensselaer; parents: Desmond FitzGerald, Elizabeth Parker Clarke; lived at 410 Washington St. by Cypress

Her sister, Harriot, is also featured in this album. She moved to Manhattan after her wedding. Her father, Desmond FitzGerald, was a well-known hydraulic engineer who became Superintendent of the Metropolitan Water Works and worked at the pumping station in Chestnut Hill. He was a noted art collector and, in 1913, built a private museum next to his house for his collection of works by artists like Monet, Renoir, and Degas. The building is now the Church of Christ.

1872 - ; married 1897, Robert Jones Clark; parents: Desmond FitzGerald, Elizabeth Parker Clarke; lived at 410 Washington St. by Cypress

Her sister, Caroline, is also featured in this album. Her marriage was reported in the New York Times. The ceremony was held in St. Paul’s Church and was performed by Rev. Leonard K. Storrs. The couple later lived in Dedham. Her father, Desmond FitzGerald, was a well-known hydraulic engineer who became Superintendent of the Metropolitan Water Works and worked at the pumping station in Chestnut Hill. He was a noted art collector and, in 1913, built a private museum next to his house for his collection of works by artists like Monet, Renoir, and Degas. The building is now the Church of Christ. She moved to Manhattan after her wedding.

1869 - 1954; married, 1895, George Saltonstall Mumford; parents: George Cabot Lee, Caroline Watts Haskell; lived on Essex Rd. in Chestnut Hill, Newton

Her next-door neighbors and cousins were the Saltonstalls. Richard Saltonstall was the Harvard classmate of future president Teddy Roosevelt's. Her older sister, Alice Hathaway Lee, was introduced to Roosevelt when she was 17 and he 19. After what was described as a tumultuous courtship, they were married on October 27, 1880 - Roosevelt's 22nd birthday - in the First Parish Church in Brookline. Alice Roosevelt died a little over three years later, on February 14, 1884 from Bright's Disease and complications from childbirth. Roosevelt was devastated and was said to rarely speak about Alice thereafter.

1873 - 1950; married, 1897, William Howard White; parents: Henry Fuller Dana, Mary Heath Howe; lived on Warren St. by Clyde St.

Katherine was the last of four children and was born 10 years after the previous child. Her father died when she was one year old and is buried in the Walnut St. Cemetery. The family lived with her maternal grandmother on a large estate on Warren St. by Clyde St. Her husband was a VP of Brookline Savings Bank and a member of the Brookline school committee. Her son, Robert, was a famed pioneering psychologist who taught for years at Harvard. Her older sisters, Grace and Mary are also featured in our tintype collection.

1859 - 1926; never married; parents: Henry Fuller Dana, Mary Heath Howe; lived on Warren St. by Clyde St.

Her father died when she was nine years old and is buried in the Walnut St. Cemetery. The family lived with her maternal grandmother on a large estate on Warren St. by Clyde St. Her younger sisters, Katherine and Mary are also featured in our tintype collection.

1869 – 1941. He was a son of prominent Brookline citizens Moses Williams and Martha C. Finnley. They lived on the southeast corner of Warren St. (then a part of Walnut St.) and Boylston St. He was a lawyer and married Anne Henrietta Nancy Whiteside in 1905.

1870 – 1964. She was a daughter of prominent Brookline citizens Moses Williams and Martha C. Finnley. They lived on the southeast corner of Warren St. (then a part of Walnut St.) and Boylston St.

She was interested in women’s education, was an active supporter of Simmons College for many decades, and never married.

1872 - 1945; never married; parents: Moses Williams and Martha C. Finnley; lived on the southeast corner of Warren St. (then a part of Walnut St.) and Boylston St.

He was a surgeon who moved to Beacon St. in Boston. Siblings Hugh, Moses Jr., Constance, and Mary all appear in this album and are direct descendants of Edward Devotion.

1877 - ; married, 1905, Joseph Warrn ; parents: Moses Williams and Martha C. Fininley; lived on the southeast corner of Warren St. (then a part of Walnut St.) and Boylston St.

She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1901 and attended the Boston Art School for two years thereafter. She was an author of short stories and had two novels published: in 1917, The Phoenix ("The story of a Boston girl’s life and love affairs set against a brilliant backdrop of American society") and, in 1920, Pearls astray: a romantic episode of the last democracy. Her husband became a law professor at Harvard. Siblings Hugh, Moses Jr., Constance, and Mary all appear in this album and are direct descendants of Edward Devotion.

1868 - 1964; married, 1924, William Haynes-Smith; parents: John Hubbard Sturgis and Frances Ann Codman; lived on Boylston by the reservoir, later moved to Summit Ave.

Born in England. Her father was a prominent architect whose firm Sturgis and Brigham designed the original building of the Museum of Fine Arts in Copley Square and many other Massachusetts buildings. In 1924, Maud, as she was known, married William Haynes-Smith in Manchester-by-the-Sea where her family had a home. Haynes-Smith was born in 1871 in British Guiana where his father was a colonial official. Haynes-Smith was the long-time partner of the writer Howard Sturgis, the younger brother of Maud’s father. The two men lived together until Sturgis' death in 1920 at an estate called Queen’s Acre near London where they "frequently and happily entertained a wide circle of friends, among them [Henry] James and Edith Wharton, " according to the New York Review of Books. Maud and her husband were both in their 50s when they married. They made frequent and often lengthy visits to Boston from their estate in England. Maud moved back to Boston permanently after the death of her husband in 1937. She died at the age of 95 in 1964. Her funeral was held in the Church of the Advent in Beacon Hill, designed by her father.

1867 – 1943; married, 1895 John Prentiss (1861 - ). married, 1901, Humphrey Turner Nichols (1875 - 1948); parents: Samuel Seabury Allen and Hannah Doane Wells; had lived at 126 Monmouth St. but had moved to Boston by 1882.

Her father was in the marine insurance business. married, 1895 John Prentiss (1861-1897); married, 1901, Humphrey Turner Nichols (1875 - 1948); Her first husband, an attorney, died of pneumonia in 1897. Her second husband was a writer for the New York Commercial Advertiser and later a publicist for a textile waterproofing company. Early in their marriage they spent two years in Europe where their two children were born. They later lived briefly in New York and then in Boston with a summer home in York, Maine.