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Edith Seabury Allen, 1882
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.