Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway: Difference between revisions

He was born in [[Salem, Massachusetts]], the eldest son of Dr. Samuel Hemenway (1778-1823) and Sarah Upton (1787-1865) of [[New England]] descent.<ref name="Eustis1955">{{cite book|author=Frederic A. Eustis|title=Augustus Hemenway, 1805–1876: builder of the United States trade with the west coast of South America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22EaAAAAMAAJ|access-date=3 January 2013|pages=3–|date=1 January 1955|publisher=Peabody Museum|isbn=9780875770161}}</ref> His siblings included George Washington (1807-1830), Samuel Charles (1809-1867), William (1811-1874), and Charles (1818-1893).<ref name="Lawrence1904" /> His baptismal name was Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway, in honor of [[Edward Augustus Holyoke]], the eminent physician with whom his father studied. As a young man, however, Hemenway shortened his name to Augustus Hemenway, possibly a reflection of his estrangement of many years from his father, who died when Augustus was 18.<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 graduated from [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{Cite book | url=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>

On 2 June 1840, he wed [[Mary Tileston Hemenway]] (1820–1894), 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=https://books.google.com/books?id=6iLGCgONjmoC&pg=PA59|access-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="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=https://books.google.com/books?id=osY6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA227|access-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|access-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"/>

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