Jessie Richmond (Tarbox) Beals (1870 - 1942)

Born 23 Dec 1870 in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Alfred Tennyson Beals — married 2 Sep 1897 in Massachusetts

Died 30 May 1942 at age 71 in New York City, New York, United States

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Biography

Jessie (Tarbox) Beals is Notable.

Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer.

Beals was born Jessie Richmond Tarbox on December 23, 1870, in Hamilton, Ontario, the youngest child of John Nathaniel Tarbox and Marie Antoinette Bassett. John Tarbox was a sewing machine manufacturer, and his partnership with the largest sewing machine company in Canada made the Tarbox family wealthy. When Beals was seven, her father lost all of his savings in a bad investment and began drinking heavily. He left home at the insistence of Beals's mother, who then embroidered and sold some of the family's belongings to keep the family income going.

In 1897, Beals married Alfred Tennyson Beals, an Amherst graduate and factory machinist. While Beals' career flourished, her marriage became troubled. In 1911, Beals gave birth to a daughter, Nanette Tarbox Beals, most likely from another relationship. Beals finally left her husband in 1917.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Jessie Tarbox Beals

• "Ontario Births and Baptisms, 1779-1899", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FM3D-2H5 : 13 February 2020), Jessie Richmond Tarbox, 1870.

• "Canada Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVFV-XY3 : 20 May 2019), Jessie Tarbox in household of John Tarbox, Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada; from "1881 Canadian Census." Database with images. Ancestry. (www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing John Tarbox, citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHJ3-S86 : 24 January 2020), Jessie R Tarbox in entry for Alfred T Beals, 1897.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9RX-7MY : accessed 9 May 2020), Jessie R Beals in household of Alfred Beals, Greenfield town (east part), Franklin, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 481, sheet 17A, family 416, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,648.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M5Z6-8PJ : accessed 9 May 2020), Jessie Beal in household of Alfred Beal, Manhattan Ward 18, New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) E...

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJBS-P2S : accessed 9 May 2020), Jessie P Beals, Manhattan Assembly District 10, New York, New York, United States; citing ED 720, sheet 12A, line 48, family 314, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1203; FHL microfilm 1,821,203.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJ1-SWC : accessed 9 May 2020), Jessie T Beals, Los Angeles (Districts 0001-0250), Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 52, sheet 12A, line 13, family 218, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 133; FHL microfilm 2,339,868.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 May 2020), memorial page for Jessie Richmond Tarbox Beals (23 Dec 1870–31 May 1942), Find A Grave: Memorial #86645387, citing Village Hill Cemetery, Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Kevin Avery (contributor 47024642) .

• "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WRR-32N : 11 February 2018), Jessie Tarbox Beals, 30 May 1942; citing Death, Manhattan, New York, New York, United States, New York Municipal Archiv...

• Photographs of Jessie Beals