Lucius Elliot Marple and his wife, Martha Thayer Marple moved to Seattle from Massachusetts in 1904. They raised five children, Elliot, Warren, Catharine, Richard and Marcia. Lucius Marple was born the first sibling on July 25, 1868 in Boston, Massachusetts to William Warren Marple and Susan Tracy Marple. He attended Harvard University twice, finally graduating in 1899. He worked as an electrical engineer, journalist, street railway manager, and school teacher before meeting Martha. Martha Folsom Thayer Marple was born the middle of three sisters on March 31, 1870 in Winchester, Massachusetts to Samuel Hillard Folsom and Catharine Abbot Cram. She attended Smith College, graduating in 1892. She was a teacher when she met Lucius around 1902. Lucius built many of their houses and furniture. They lived in at least ten different residences from 1904-1921, including in West Seattle, on a farm in Pleasant Valley, in Interbay, on Magnolia Bluff, in Queen Anne, Brighton Beach, and Merrimount.
Warren Marple was born May 17, 1905 in Seattle. He attended University of Washington and Harvard for undergraduate studies, and Northwestern University for graduate studies in public utility economics. He worked as an instructor in economics at the University of Buffalo, for the Illinois Commerce Commission, and Bonneville Power Administration in Portland Oregon. He married Lorna Johnson in 1931, they had one daughter and two grandchildren. Warren died in 1992.
Elliot Marple was born February 12, 1908 in Seattle. He attended University of Washington and Harvard University and became a business journalist. In 1949 he began his own business newsletter, Marple's Business Roundup. The newsletter's name changed to Marple's Business Newsletter in 1974. He married Dorotha E. Lyman in 1934, they had two children and six grandchildren. Elliot died in 2001.
Catharine Marple was born May 14, 1909 in Seattle. She attended University of Washington and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston Massachusetts as a sculptress. She participated in an exhibition at Seattle Art Museum, opened a kindergarten, and help many leadership roles in women's' organizations. She married Carl E. E. Webber and had three children and twelve grandchildren. She died in 1983.
Richard Marple was born October 16, 1910 in Seattle. He attended Pomona College and University of Washington. He worked for Gwin, White & Price marketing apples, and became the secretary of the heads of foreign sales. He served as second lieutenant in the Army Quartermaster Corps Reserve. He married Marjorie Turner in 1938 and had one child and one grandchild.
Marcia Tracy Weston Marple was born September 3, 1912 in Seattle. She graduated University of Washington in 1935, and attended Radcliffe, Harvard, and Mills College for graduate studies. She was an exchange student for a year on scholarship at Kobe College in Japan researching Japanese Art. She served in the Women's Army Corps as a recruiting officer, and saw duty in London and Paris. She was involved with Seattle Art Museum, Wichita Art Museum, Asian Decorative Arts Museum, Atheneum Music and Art Library, and Fairfax Commission on the Arts. She married Eyvinn H. Schoenberg in 1944, had two children, and three grandchildren.
Photographs include members of the Billings, Tracy, Elliot, Folsom, and Marple families. The Marple family group includes multiple generations, focusing on Lucius Elliot Marple, his wife Martha Thayer Marple, and their five children, Elliot, Warren, Catharine, Richard, and Marcia. Also includes a series of photographs by Imogen Cunningham.
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Processed by: Sara Cordes, 2017.
Accessioned as PH2002-051.
Marple Family Papers (Collection 5174)
S.F. Sterlin, Woodstock, VT (photographer)
Henry Cushing, Woodstock, VT (photographer)
Webster, Oshkosh, WI (photographer)
O.C. Knox, Springfield, Massachusetts (photographer)
Item 6 is an enlarged and uncropped version.
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Marshall, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Crayon photograph. Enlarged and uncropped version of item 5 enlarged from item 5.
J.B. Heywood (photographer)
From attached material: Oren Tracy, grandfather of L.E. Marple. Tracy was born in upper Vermont +- 1800; he died at Greenfield, Mass +- 1855-1865.
From attached material: L.E. Marple says (1962) this is his grandfather Oren Tracy + his wife Marcia Orenda Tracy (Oren Tracy died at Greenfield, Mass in mid 1800s).
Probably made at the same time as item 8
Silhouette photographers were also called profilists.
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B. K. Cummings, Fitchburg, Massachusetts (photographer)
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Miller & Rowell, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
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Bussell, Quincy, Massachusetts (photographer)
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Miller & Rowell, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Daguerreotype does not have brass mat in glass.
From attached material: L.E. Marple (1962) says maybe this is his mother (Susan Tracy M.) (left) + her sister Marcia Tracy Elliot.
From attached material: L.E. Marple thinks (1962) this is his mother (left) Susan Tracy Marple + her sister Marcia Tracy Elliot (right) mother of George Elliot (he died 1927 or 1928).
H. G. Smith, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Marshall, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Marshall & Co., Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
H. G. Smith, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Partridge Studios, Massachusetts, between 1887 and 1914? (photographer)
Horner, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
John A. Whipple, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Wentworth & Sons, Sharon Springs, NY (photographer)
Emily Stokes, Pelham Studios, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Martha Thayer Folsom married Lucius Elliot Marple and had five children, Elliot, Warren, Catherine, Richard, and Marcia.
A. N. Hardy, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Whipple, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
H. G. Smith, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Daguerreotype was taken out of brass mat and is loose in case.
From attached material: Daguerreotype Sarah (Sadie) Fau. Catharine Folson + S. Hilliard Folsom died in Winchester Mass. Marme's handwriting.
F. Gutekunst, Philadelphia, PA (photographer)
From attached material: L.E. Marple says (1962) this is his grandfather, David Marple, who lived on Penna.
From attached material: Col. W.W. Marple (father of L.E. Marple) Seated in Civil War uniform; cap; Color in cheeks- 6 prominent buttons down front of coat in oval 2 3/4 x 3 1/4 - [in ½ of closing frame].
From attached material: Susan Maria Tracy Marple- mother of L.E. Marple she died in 1911 at Wollaston, Mass.
Glines, The Ideal Studio, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
A. C. Partridge, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Warren G. Foley, Boston, Massachusetts (photographer)
Herstein, Nashville, TN (photographer)
Jacobs Photo Shops, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Photo also appears on page 66 of
Seattle's Big Snow where 21.5 inches of snow fell on Feb. 2, 1916, which still stands as Seattle's official largest one-day snow total. The blizzard dropped a total of 38 inches of snow in two days.
Written on verso: Brighton Beach, Seattle.
Written on verso: Boston, Mass. 1920.
Written on verso: Mills College.
Notman Studio (photographer)
Accompanying information describes negatives as group shots on a Mt. Hood climb, and Silas Marple negatives, 1905.
Accompanying information describes series as various members of the Marple family, most the Lucius and Martha Marple family including children and grandparents with Col. W.W. Marple.
Written on accompanying information: pg. 48 [of
Written on accompanying information: Easter Sunday, 1915, pg. 60 [of
Written on accompanying information: The first house, north end of Capitol Hill, Seattle, 1905, pg. 31 [of
Written on accompanying information: pg. 36.
Possibly left-right Catharine, Marcia, Elliot, Richard
Written on accompanying information: Father was ready to tackle house-building again. He would design and build a simple house on the slope of Queen Anne Hill facing downtown Seattle. The address: 417 Ward Street. Meantime he would move the family into tents on a 2 ½ acre tract on Magnolia Bluff, the so-called camp (3923 West Barrett St.), pg. 35 [of
Written on accompanying information: pg. 53 [of
Written on accompanying information: With the sale of Marple Point the family packed and moved to a tumbledown farm in Pleasant Valley on Magnolia Bluff, Seattle. Peasant Valley was a gentle swale lying roughly between the present 32nd and 35th Avenues West, pg. 33 [of
From attached material: Tintype- Elizabeth Abbot Crain sister of C.A. Folsom died in Winchester 1879. A teacher of English Beacon St. school Boston.
Elizabeth Abbot Crain is the sister of Catherine Abbot (Crain) Folsom, wife of Samuel Hilliard Folsom and mother of Martha Thayer Folsom (Marple).
Written on verso: "Rosita" Aug. 1934. (Sears Yacht? What fun!).
Written on verso: MTM- [illeg.] 1903- photo of a photo- taken by L.E.M..
Written on verso: Grandmother, Mother, and little Catharine, 3 months. July 1909.
Written on accompanying information: The three Catharines-- Grandmother (Catharine Abbot Folsom), her daughter Catharine Jameson, and CAF's granddaughter Catharine Thayer Marple (born 5/14/09).
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Written on verso: Ward St. Seattle. Aug 1909. Catharine Abbot Folsom, Catharine Elizabeth Folsom (Jameson), Catharine Thayer Marple.
Written on accompanying information: The three Catharines-- Grandmother (Catharine Abbot Folsom), her daughter Catharine Jameson, and CAF's granddaughter Catharine Thayer Marple (born 5/14/09).
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Have info sheet and copy negative but there was not a print that accompanied them.
Photo also appears on page 43 of
Written on verso: Elliot Marple 1 ½ years old and his mother. July 1909.
Written on accompanying information: Mother and child. Martha Folsom Marple and son Elliot standing in old Marple crib.
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Written on verso: 417 Ward St. Seattle. In dress made in London, England by Marcia Tracy Elliot for Lucius Elliot Marple- her nephew.
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Written on verso: Ward Street, Seattle.
Written on accompanying information: Grandmother (Catharine Abbot Folsom) and two grandsons, Warren (left) and Elliot (right).
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Written on verso: Ward Street, Seattle.
Written on accompanying information: Grandmother (Catharine Abbot Folsom) reading to grandsons Warren Marple (left) and Elliot Marple (right).
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Written on accompanying information: Marple home at Brighton Beach, Seattle.
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Photo also appears on page 48 of
Written on accompanying information: Marple family gathering at Christmas time. Lucius E. Marple with violin in hand; his father William Warren Marple in wing collar. Children left to right: Warren, Elliot, Dick, Catharine. Martha Marple between the two men. Possibly Imogen in front/back row.
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Item 131 pasted on back.
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Item 130 pasted on other side.
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Written on verso: William Warren Marple aged 78 years Marcia Tracy Marple aged 2 years. Brighton Beach, Wash.
Written on accompanying information: Marple home in Brighton Beach, Seattle.
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Photo taken at Rose Villa, Portland, OR, where she lived until her death in 1967.
Imogen Cunningham, Seattle, WA (photographer)
Empty album with cover that originally held photos by Imogen Cunningham. Pages have her signature on them, but most photos were removed before the collection was received. Contains one photo of Catharine Marple.