Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway: Difference between revisions

| birth_date = 25 April{{birth date|1805|4|25}}

| death_date = 16{{death Junedate and age|1876|6|16|1805|4|25}}

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| children = Three daughters and one son

'''Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway''' (April 25, 1805 -– June 16, 1876) was an American self-made merchant from [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]].

He was born in [[Salem, Massachusetts]], the eldest son of Dr. Samuel Hemenway (1778-1823) and Sarah Upton (1787-1865) of [[New England]] decentdescent.<ref name="Eustis1955">{{cite book|author=Frederic A. Eustis|title=Augustus Hemenway, 1805-18761805–1876: builder of the United States trade with the west coast of South America|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=22EaAAAAMAAJ|accessdateaccess-date=3 January 2013|pages=3-3–|date=1 January 1955|publisher=Peabody Museum|isbn=9780875770161}}</ref> His siblings included George Washington (1807-1830), Samuel Charles (b. 1809-1867), William (b. 1811-1874), and Charles (b. 1818-1893).<ref name="Lawrence1904" /> At the age of 13, he started working in Boston as a clerk in Robinson & Parkers’ [[dry goods]] store. Though hisHis baptismal name was Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway, in honor of [[Edward Augustus Holyoke]], the eminent physician with whom his father studied,. as As a young man, however, Hemenway shortened his name to Augustus Hemenway., Hepossibly a reflection of his estrangement of many years from his father, who died when Augustus was a18.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Augustus Hemenway: Builder of the United States Trade with the West Coast of South America|last=Eustis|first=Frederic|publisher=Peabody Museum|year=1955|location=Salem, Massachusetts|pages=3}}</ref> He graduategraduated from [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite namebook | url="BrowmanWilliams2002"https://books.google.com/books?id=BhIBBAAAQBAJ&q=%22Edward+Augustus+Holyoke+Hemenway%22+harvard&pg=PA282 |title = The Liberty Ships of World War II: A Record of the 2,710 Vessels and Their Builders, Operators and Namesakes, with a History of the Jeremiah O'Brien|isbn = 9780786479450|last1 = Williams|first1 = Greg H.|date = 2014-06-27}}</ref>

At the age of 13, he started working in Boston as a clerk in Robinson & Parkers’ [[dry goods]] store. He went to work as a supercargo for [[Benjamin Bangs]], a wealthy shipowner and merchant in Boston, and for a few years was his agent and partner in [[South America]]nAmerican trade. Hemenway became owner of extensive silver mines in [[Valparaíso]], and lived there for eight years.<ref name="JamesJames1971" /> He owned a township in [[Washington County, Maine]], where pine was cut on his own land, sawed into lumber at his own sawmill in [[Machias, Maine |Machias]], and carried to [[Cuba]], where he owned a sugar plantation, or to [[Valparaíso]] on his own ships, which returned to Boston with copper and nitrate of soda.<ref name="Morison1921BrowmanWilliams2002">{{cite book|lastauthor1=MorisonDavid L Browman|firstauthor2=SamuelStephen EliotWilliams|title=TheNew maritimePerspectives historyon the Origins of Massachusetts,Americanist 1783-1860Archaeology|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=c6YZAAAAYAAJniYaFKcLCs8C&pg=PA271PA235|accessdateaccess-date=183 January 2013|editiondate=Public19 domain|year=1921February 2002|publisher=HoughtonUniversity Mifflinof CompanyAlabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-1128-5|pages=271–235–}}</ref><ref name="BrowmanWilliams2002Morison1921">{{cite book|author1last=David L BrowmanMorison|author2first=StephenSamuel WilliamsEliot|title=NewThe Perspectivesmaritime on the Originshistory of AmericanistMassachusetts, Archaeology1783–1860|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=niYaFKcLCs8Cc6YZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA235PA271|accessdateaccess-date=318 January 2013|dateedition=19Public February 2002domain|year=1921|publisher=UniversityHoughton ofMifflin Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-1128-5Company|pages=235–271–}}</ref> He spearheaded the commercial enterprise of the US with the west coast of South America. When he went to [[ChiliChile]], he established his own business by 1838. He established many large silver mines, reaping huge profits. He was extremely hard working and ensured that all details of his business were personally attended to by him, including the loading of ships. This overwork resulted in a nervous breakdown in 1860;<ref name="Hemingway1988">{{cite book|author=Patricia Shedd Hemingway|title=The Hemingways: past & present and allied families|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=RH8ZAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=3 January 2013|year=1988|page=182|publisher=Gateway Press}}</ref> he spent 14 years in a [[Connecticut]] [[sanatorium]] recuperating.<ref name="JamesJames1971">{{cite book|last1=James|first1=Edward T.|last2=James|first2=Janet Wilson|last3=Boyer|first3=Paul S.|coauthors=Radcliffe College|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=rVLOhGt1BX0C&pg=RA1-PA180|accessdate=22 January 2013|year=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-62734-5|pages=180–}}</ref>

On 2 June 1840, he wed [[Mary Tileston Hemenway]] (1820-18941820–1894), daughter of Thomas Tileston, one of the wealthiest merchant/mariners of [[New York City]]. Their daughters were Charlotte Augusta (b. 1841, d. 1865), Alice (d. in infancy), Edith Hemenway Eustis (1851-1904), and Amy Hemenway (1848-1911) who was married to [[Louis Cabot]]. Their son, [[Augustus Hemenway|Augustus]] Jr. (1853-1931), graduated from Harvard University in 1875, and was married to [[Harriet Hemenway|Harriet Lawrence]], one of the founders of the Audubon Society. [[Edward Clarke Cabot]], Louis' brother, designed a summer home for Hemenway at [[Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts|Manchester-by-the-Sea]].<ref name="Morgan2011">{{cite book|last=Morgan|first=William|title=Monadnock Summer: The Architectural Legacy of Dublin, New Hampshire|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=6iLGCgONjmoC&pg=PA59|accessdateaccess-date=19 January 2013|date=30 August 2011|publisher=David R. Godine Publisher|isbn=978-1-56792-422-0|pages=59–}}</ref> Hemenway died in 1876, while on a trip to [[Cuba]].<ref name="BrowmanWilliams2002"/><ref name="Lawrence1904">{{cite book|last=Lawrence|first=Robert Means|title=The descendants of Major Samuel Lawrence of Groton, Massachusetts: with some mention of allied families|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=osY6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA227|accessdateaccess-date=18 January 2013|edition=Public domain|year=1904|publisher=Printed at the Riverside press|pages=227–|isbn=9780608318417}}</ref><ref name="BrowmanWilliams2002"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monicap/fam02317.htm|title=An Ancestry community|accessdateaccess-date=19 January 2013|publisher= Genealogy.rootsweb}}</ref> He was a philanthropist and his wife continued this tradition after his death with large contributions to American archeology.<ref name="BrowmanWilliams2002"/>

[[Category:19th-century American merchants]]

[[Category:PeopleBusinesspeople from Boston, Massachusetts]]