About Lemuel Tukey
Lived 1766 – 1835 (aged 68). Lemuel Tukey was a businessperson.
Lemuel Tukey (August 6, 1766 – July 22, 1835) was an American businessman from Portland, Maine, United States. The city's Tukey's Bridge is named for him. He ran a tavern on the Portland end of a previous version of the bridge, which was completed in 1796, and objected to the city's decision to end the collection of tolls, so he collected them anyway until he was forced to stop in the early 1830s.
In the Portland Directory of 1823, Tukey is listed as a distiller with a residence on Mountfort Street.
Personal life Tukey was born in 1766, to John and Abigail (née Sweetsir) Tukey, one of their fourteen children, all born in Falmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay (today's Portland, Maine). William, one of his brothers, helped construct Portland Head Light.
He married, first, Sarah Snow, then her sister, Eunice.
Death Tukey died in 1835, aged 68.
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American businessman
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Lemuel Tukey was born on 6 August 1766 in Portland, Maine.
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Lemuel Tukey died on 22 July 1835.
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