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LEMUEL HIGBEE
leather
manufactu~er
1858
387 Essex St
Salem,
Mass ..
�House a.t 387 Essex Sti-•eets
Salem, Hass.
T'ne house at 387 Bssex Street was built in 1858 for Lern.uel
Higbee (181h-94) of Salem. In 1856 Higbee had bought the basic
house-lot from Joseph Hodges; and in the spring of 1857 he exchanged land ·with his neighbors, giving the lot its present
bounds. Lemuel's property assessment for 1857 was only $16.60
as compared to the 1858 assessment of $44.40, so it is a good bet
that (since he djd not buy any new 18.nd between 1857 & 1858, &
since this lot was ·his only real estate) the present house was
built so:-;1etine in 18,58. By 1861 it is described in a deed as
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a wooden dwelling house 11 --and so it ren:ains.
1 Nov 1856: Joseph Hodges for $2,000 sells Lemuel Higbee
a lot bounded north57' 7" on .C:ssex Street; east S4' on Burrill;
south 63 1 on sd Hodges to a pt 65' north of Chestnut Jtreet;
west 64 1 on land late of Henry King, dec'd, back to Essex Street.
(So. Essex Deeds 542:23)
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14 lfar 1857: Henry F King for $1 quits claim to Lemuel
Higbee, a small triangular piece of land. (551 :99)
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14 Ear 1857: Lemuel F (&wife Hary B) Higbee for $1 sells
to Henry F King a small triangular piece of land. (548:140}
9 Ap 1857: Josiah S (& wife Elizabeth S) Burrill for $1 sells
Lemuel Higbee a tr>iangular strip of land. (551 :98)
9 Ap 1 857: Lemuel F & Hary B Higbee for $1 sell Josiah S
Burrill a triancular piece of land. (550:221)
10 l-lay 1861 : Lemuel Higbee of salem, for $5, 000 sells to
Benjamin G Boardman of Boston the 3alern house & lot, with a
$1700 mortgage to Joseph Hodges thereon. (624:164}
6 July .1863: Benj. G Boardman, Boston merchant, for fP5,000
sells back to Lemuel Higbee of Salem, the above house & lot, with
the same mortgage. (653:293)
1 3 1-:ay 1895: Edward F Higbee & Lizzie A Rill ( ux Wm. A. } of
Sa.lam, for $8,ooo sell the house & land to Cynthia E Lovell, Salem
widow. ( 1445: 137)
6 l·fay 1924: Henry H Batchelder, executor of Cynthia E (Lovell)
Balcomb' s will, sells premises to Ruth Follett Bean. (2587 :549)
5 Oct 1941: Ruth F Bean (ux Harold C) sells the premises to
Ed·ward J & wife Eva J Belanger. ( 3289: 263)
9 Hay 1945: Mr & Mrs Belanger sell the premises to Katherine
C Kilroy of Salem (3402:415)
29 Oct 194-.5: Hiss Kilroy sells the premises to Richard J &
wife Ruth H Doyle of Peabody.(3428:430)
18 June 1971 : Dr & =·lrs Doyle sell to Stephen D Hayes, its
occupant, the 387 Essex St estate, bounded
north 60' on ~ssex Street
east 93.5.1 on noH or late Burrill
south 60 1 on now or late Curwen & Webb
west 62.75 1 on now or late King.
(5775:674)
Robert Booth
1 3 1-iay 1976
�'·
Lemuel Higbee, 1814-94
Lemuel Higbee, for ·whorn this house w&.s built, was engaged 1n
the manufacture of leather--Salem 1 s leadins industry during the
Victorian era. The eldest son ( b. 1.5 Dec 1814) o:f Ler:1ue1*& Elizabeth
(Francis) Higbee, he was born & always lived in Salem. A:fter graduating from the private Hacker School here, he started in as a
currier to le~rn the lea~her manufacturing business, and at the age
of 23 married ifary ;1 Briggs.
For about 20 years they raised their faJuily at 70 Boston Street,
but in 18.56 Higbee, having tanned his way to wealth, bou;ht a houselot on fashionable Essex Street, in 18.57 exchmged land ·with neighbors
to improve the lot, and in 1858 erected this house. One of the first
dwellings of its type in Salem, the spacious hip-roofed Victorian
structure was something of a monument to Lemuel Higbee 1 s worldly
success.
He opened an office in Boston, & during the Civil ':la:r manufactured great quantities of shoes; but, like :many other tanners &
manufc.cturers of his generation, he stayed in business too long, &
lost much of his fortune. Retiring from business in his 70s, he
continued to live in this house, risin0 every morning at 6 to tend
the furnace, & generally staying very alert & active to the day of
his death, 19 Hay 1894, aged 79 years.
Lemuel Higbee left a son Edward F Higbee & a daughter Liz.zie.
A (Higbee) Hill (wife of Will A Hill), as well as a brother Charles.
He was buried at Harmony Grove cemetery in Salem.
(The information above was gleaned from the Salem _:.:vening ~
obituary, ·19 J.fay 1894; the Salem Vital necords; the Salem Directory;
and the So. ~ssex County deeds & Probate Becords.)
·U· Lemuel Higbee Sr. was a Salem sea cautain. For more
information about the Higbees, see Edward Higby: & His Descendants,
published at Erie, Pa. in 1927, a copy of which is in the Essex
Institute Library.
Ro be rt Booth, 28 Maf 1976
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Essex Street
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Title
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387 Essex Street, Salem, Massachusetts 01970
Subject
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House history
Description
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Built for Lemuel Higbee, leather manufacturer, in 1858.
Creator
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Historic Salem, Inc.
Source
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Historic Salem, Inc. house histories
Publisher
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Historic Salem, Inc.; Salem Historical Society
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Built 1858; researched 1976
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Researched by Robert Booth
Language
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English
1858
387 Essex Street
Lemuel Higbee
Salem MA