Charles Pickering Bowditch
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Charles Pickering Bowditch was an American financier, archaeologist, cryptographer and linguistics scholar who specialized in Mayan epigraphy. He served as president of the American Academy of Arts an
Charles Pickering Bowditch
Dixwell School
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Dixwell's Private Latin School, also known as the Dixwell School and later renamed Hopkinson School and Legate's Private Classical School, was a college-preparatory school in Boston, Massachusetts, Un
Charles Pickering Bowditch
…and physiologist Henry Pickering Bowditch, his brother, son of Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch and Lucy Orme Nichols. He prepared for college at the Dixwell School, where he graduated at the top of his class. He received his undergraduate degree in 1863 and his master's in 1866, both from Harvard University. In…
Bas-relief of school founder Epes Sargent Dixwell, date unknown
Epes Dixwell ran Boston Latin School, the nation's oldest public school, from 1836 to 1851. During his tenure, BLS moved into a new facility on Bedford Street.
Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was one of the Dixwell School's first students and its most eminent alumnus. He later married E.S. Dixwell's daughter.
Harvard University president Charles William Eliot and his family were closely associated with the school. E.S. Dixwell was Eliot's old teacher, and Eliot sent his son to the school.