Description:
Ivory knitting needle owned by Leila Atkinson Washburn du Mont (1884-1968) of Greenfield, Massachusetts. This single needle would have been one of a pair used to hand knit items such as stockings or mittens. The ivory could have been carved in America, or possibly made in China for export to Western markets like the United States. Leila was the daughter of William N. (b.1851) and Jennie Eldridge (Daniels) (b.1853?) of Greenfield, and the granddaughter of William Barrett Washburn, Govenor of Massachusetts between 1872 and 1874. On May 19, 1910, Leila married Horatio L. Dumont (b.1886) also of Greenfield. The needle may have belonged to Leila's maternal grandmother Ann Atkinson Daniels (1825-1918) of Orange, Massachusetts (born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and died in Brewster, Massachusetts). Ann was the daughter of John A. Prince and Elizabeth Harding Prince. Ann, who followed the Quaker faith, married William Yocum Daniels in 1848. According to her descendants, Ann made a fishing vest for Grover Cleveland, a friend of her son-in-law Rowland Nickerson.
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