Figure 1.--Here we see a 4-year Sammuel Stacy Whidden boy wearing a kilt suit. We might have gussed he was 3 uears old, but "Sammie 4 years old" is written on the back. We suspect he just turned 4 years. The skirt has no kilt features except box pleats. He was known as Sammie. He wears a vested kilt suit done in a flat colred material, although we do not know the actual color. Notice the large Eton collar and medium sized floppy bow. The Eton collar of course was a detachable collar, but the wrist cuffs suggest he was wearing a white shirt waist. We see plain wrist cuffs. The mount style suggests the portrait was taken in the 1890s. As Sammie was born in 1889, we believe the portrai was taken in 1893. The studio looks to be E.O Nickerson in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Whidden family has a long association with Portsmouth. Sammie was born in Portsmouth. Sometime before 1650, Samuel, James and John Whidden came from Portsmouth England to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. There is some evidence that their father, Ichabod (1621-62) also came to Portsmouth. Sammie parents seem to have been the son of Horace D. Whidden (1852) and Mary Hare. They married in 1886. Horace died in 1894 at only 42 years of age. This is about the time that this portrait was taken, perhaps a little later.

Here we see a 4-year Sammuel Stacy Whidden boy wearing a kilt suit. We might have gussed he was 3 uears old, but "Sammie 4 years old" is written on the back. We suspect he just turned 4 years. The skirt has no kilt features except box pleats. He was known as Sammie. He wears a vested kilt suit done in a flat colred material, although we do not know the actual color. Notice the large Eton collar and medium sized floppy bow. The Eton collar of course was a detachable collar, but the wrist cuffs suggest he was wearing a white shirt waist. We see plain wrist cuffs. The mount style suggests the portrait was taken in the 1890s. As Sammie was born in 1889, we believe the portrai was taken in 1893. The studio looks to be E.O Nickerson in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Whidden family has a long association with Portsmouth. Sammie was born in Portsmouth. Sometime before 1650, Samuel, James and John Whidden came from Portsmouth England to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. There is some evidence that their father, Ichabod (1621-62) also came to Portsmouth. Sammie parents seem to have been the son of Horace D. Whidden (1852) and Mary Hare. They married in 1886. Horace died in 1894 at only 42 years of age. This is about the time that this portrait was taken, perhaps a little later. We know that Sammie registred for the draft in World War I (1917). We do not know if he served.

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