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

Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metropo ...

. The city's

Tukey's Bridge Tukey's Bridge is a bridge connecting the neighborhoods of Munjoy Hill and East Deering in Portland, Maine. It is part of Interstate 295, U.S. Route 1, and State Route 26. History Several bridges by the same name have existed connecting the a ...

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 on August 6, 1766, to John and Abigail ( née Sweetsir) Tukey, one of their fourteen children, all born in Portland, Maine. William, one of his brothers, helped construct Portland Head Light.''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 Battle of the Wilderness.''A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and Hight Families'', David Webster Hoyt (1871), p. 197

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