Rebecca Poor Farnham Damon

Calvin Damon and Rebecca Poor Farnham were married in 1832. Rebecca was the sister of Edwin Farnham, Calvin Damon’s former partner in the country store. A native of North Andover, she retained an attachment to the town all her life, and briefly moved back when she was widowed and left with many young children to care for. But within a year she returned to Concord and in 1857 purchased the David Loring house at 168 Main Street (now owned by Concord Academy). Moving her family from Factory Village to the center of Concord, she raised her four sons and three daughters in a home that was considered one of the social centers of Concord. There she lived until her death in 1882 in a house that Ruth Wheeler described as “the show-place of the village.”

This silhouette of Calvin and Rebecca Damon (a 2004 gift to the library by Damon descendants) may have been a wedding portrait.