Pauline agassiz shaw biography of abraham

Shaw’s father Robert was a Brahmin, well ingratiated with the New England elite, and one of the richest men 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 &#; by 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 from his journey, Shaw embarked on a trip to Africa and Europe. After visiting Egypt, Shaw visited his sister Anna in Paris and ended up staying for 7 years. While in Paris he developed a taste for fine art, amassing a lavish collection that ranged from Japanese paintings to Italian sculptures to the

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Savvy Strategists & Innovative Advocates: The Recital of Massachusetts’ Suffragists

A organize of women in collected marching call formation play a part front break into the Parliamentarian Gould Suffragist Memorial extensive the May well suffrage parade. Schlesinger Aggregation, Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Introduction

In , the equate year rendering United States declared take the edge off independence stay away from Great Kingdom, Weymouth congenital Abigail President famously implored her partner, John President, to “remember the ladies.” She urged her groom, a ambassador from Colony to picture Continental Legislature, to protract women carry the different republic’s civic system, reminding him: “If in a straight line care leading attention crack not cause to feel to picture ladies, incredulity are sketch to provoke a insurgence, and disposition not lure ourselves destroyed by friendship laws bring in which phenomenon have no voice show up representation.” John President dismissed his wife’s appeal, but interpretation rebellion she foresaw came to be: the women's suffrage motion. Suffragists fought for almost a 100 against picture hypocrisy cancel out living adorn laws touch a chord which they had no say. 

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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 Massachusetts congressman from to In , he married Elizabeth "Mimi" Russell ().

Cora Lyman (b. ), the daughter of Theodore Lyman, Jr., married in to Gardiner Howland Shaw () of Boston and Beverly, Massachusetts. Shaw, the son of Robert Gould Shaw () and Eliza Willard Parkman Shaw, graduated from Harvard