When Mary Elizabeth Kilby was born on 12 June 1843, in Dennysville, Washington, Maine, United States, her father, Benjamin Kilby, was 42 and her mother, Mary Hoit Stoddard, was 19. She married Edward L Philbrook on 27 September 1863, in Dennysville, Washington, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Machias, Washington, Maine, United States in 1870. She died on 3 January 1898, in Dennysville, Washington, Maine, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Dennysville, Washington, Maine, United States.
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"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."
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English: habitational name from Kilby in Leicestershire. The placename derives from Old English cild ‘child’ (genitive plural cilda) + Old Norse bȳ ‘farmstead, village’, with change of initial Ch- to K- due to Scandinavian influence. There may have been some confusion with Kelby .
History: Christopher Kilby (1705–71), merchant and government contractor of the colonial era, was born in Boston, MA, as was his father, John. According to family tradition, his grandfather John was born in 1632 in Hertfordshire, England.
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