Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz portrait
Portrait of Agassiz, 1852
Gravestone of Louis and Elizabeth Agassiz
Thomas Handasyd Perkins
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Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins, also known as T. H. Perkins, was an American merchant, slave trader, smuggler and philanthropist from a wealthy Boston Brahmin family. Starting with bequests from his
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
…Elizabeth Cabot Cary was born on December 5, 1822, into a Boston Brahmin family of New England ancestry. She was born at the house of her grandfather, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, on Pearl Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Mary Ann Cushing Perkins Cary and Thomas Graves Cary (who had graduated from Harvard…
Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, 1805
The Gloucester sea serpent of 1817