Lemuel Tukey (August 6, 1766 – July 22, 1835) was an American businessman from

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, United States. The city's

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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 1823, Tukey was registered as a

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and a mountfort.

Personal life

Tukey was born in 1766, to John and Abigail (

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Sweetsir) Tukey, one of their fourteen children, all born in Falmouth,

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(today's

). William, one of his brothers, helped construct

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.''The History of Portland, from 1632 to 1864'', William Willis (1865), p. 847 He married, first, Sarah Snow, then her sister, Eunice. Tukey had at least one child, a daughter, Jane (c. 1808 – 1869). She named one of her children after her father. Lemuel Tukey Jr. (1839–1865) died, aged 26, shortly after fighting in—and being taken captive during—the

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.''A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families'', David Webster Hoyt (1871), p. 197

Death

Tukey died in 1835, aged 68.

References

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