Pauline agassiz shaw biography of abraham
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COLLECTION GUIDES
Collection Summary
Abstract
This collection consists of papers of the Lyman family, primarily Theodore Lyman, Jr. () and Theodore Lyman III (), including correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, account books, printed material, and other papers.
Biographical Sketches
Theodore Lyman, Jr. () was an author, philanthropist, and mayor of Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of Theodore Lyman (), a Boston merchant engaged in the northwest fur and China trades, and the grandson of Isaac Lyman (), a Congregational pastor at York, Maine, for 60 years.
Theodore Lyman III (), the son of Theodore Lyman, Jr., graduated from Harvard in , worked as a zoologist with Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School, and served as trustee of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Between and , he lived in Europe, gathering material for the museum's collection and doing further scientific work. He also served as aide-de-camp to Union General George Gordon Meade from to and as a Mass
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Quincy Adams Shaw
Shaw’s father Robert was a Brahmin, well ingratiated with the New England elite, and one of the richest dock in Boston by way of his lucrative maritime trade and real estate investments that blossomed as the city recovered from the American Revolution. He would name his son Quincy Adams after his good friend John Quincy Adams, who was elected as the 6th President of the United States a month after Shaw’s birth in
Shaw followed the tradition of many of his prominent family members &#; and most of the Brahmin class &#; bygd attending Harvard University. After graduating in , Shaw embarked on a two-month journey with his cousin and famed American historian Francis Parkman Jr. Their trip was immortalized in in Parkman’s popular memoir The Oregon Trail which was dedicated to Shaw. The two New Englanders spent the summer traveling miles westward to Fort Laramie in Wyoming alongside a former British Navy captain and a French Canadian pelt hunter.
Soon after returning f
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When Pauline Agassiz was born on 8 February , in Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, her father, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, was 33 and her mother, Emma Cecilia Friederika Braun, was She married Quincy Adams Shaw Sr on 30 November , in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in She died on 10 February , in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.