1877 - 1961

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• Birth	27 Jun 1877	Concord Twp., Jefferson Co., Wisconsin
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Dec 1961	Waukesha, Waukesha Co., Wisconsin
  Buried	2 Jan 1962	LaBelle Cem., Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin
  Person ID	I106826	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	28 Apr 2005 00:00:00
  Father	William Flavel POE, b. 28 Sep 1855, Concord Twp., Jefferson Co., Wisconsin
  Mother	Caroline Bertha BOGLE, b. 18 Sep 1850, Kohlberg, Pulmer, Pommern, Prussia
  Family ID	F45227	Group Sheet
  Family	Elizabeth May HUMPHREY, b. 6 Sep 1882, Ixonia (Jefferson) Wisconsin
  Married	5 Oct 1904	Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin
  Children	1. Lenore POE
  Family ID	F45235	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Sources: POE17B,106,116 116 1904 05 Oct Forest R. Poe married Elizabeth May Humphrey, daughter of Ellis G. Humphrey, at Oconomowoc, Waukesha Co., WI, 05 October 1904. Oconomowoc Free Press 08 October 1904. 106 1954 Forest Poe donated the first group of Poe Papers to the Wisconsin State Historical Society Library archives. Wisconsin Magazine of History # ,p192 LCW Tradition has Polly Poe saving these letters, etc., and passing them on to her daughter, Mrs. Cindrilla (Poe) Webb, who then passed them on to her son, Isaac Poe Webb. Isaac, not really knowing what to do with them and knowing that his cousin, Forest Poe, was interested in family history went on to give them to Forest. Forest, of course, knew enough to give them to the library so many persons could learn from and enjoy them. 17B 1962 Jan Obituary, Forest Poe. It contained this information: He attended high school in Oconomowoc. He was a photographer from 1904 - 1927. (He owned a studio.) He joined the Milwaukee Public Museum staff in 1927 and retired from there in 1947. Forest was responsible for much of the flora in the museum's displays. He and Elizabeth moved to Oconomowoc in 1949. He was a taxidermist and a curator(?) on the Oconomowoc City Council 1954 - 1958. The two moved back to Milwaukee. Forest was an accomplished artist and had 42 oil and water color paintings in the Oconomowoc Public Library in 1955. Ref#106, his daughter, Lenore (Poe) Grow has some also. Took the photo of the painting of the first Adam Poe. Photo probably taken in the 1930s as the painting was in the possession of Daisy Pratt Poe, whose home burned in the 1940s. Apparently the original oil painting burned then too. Good thing Forest took a photo of it! The photo he took was given to Lawrence Webb in the 1980s. She also gave Lawrence old photos of David and Mary Need (Nead) and their son David Jackson Poe.