Emily Sibley Watson's family

Hobart Ford Atkinson (1825-1908)

Emily Sibley Watson's brother-in-law, husband of her deceased sister Zilpha Louise Sibley, and father to her nieces Elisabeth Storer Atkinson Smith and Marie Louise Atkinson Willard.  Hobart Ford Atkinson was a Rochester banker, and one of the executors of Hiram Sibley's estate. He remarried in 1875 and lived in "Woodside," across the street from the Hiram Sibley residence at 220 East Avenue.

Image from George C. Bragdon's Notable Men of Rochester and vicinity, XIX and XX centuries, Rochester, N. Y. : Central Printing and Engraving Co. 1902, p. 53