Brookline Historical Society
Photo Collection

Mary Appleton Ware, 1886
1877 - 1968; parents: Charles Pickard Ware and Elizabeth Lawrence Appleton; married: Malcolm Cunningham Ware (same last name); lived at 195 Walnut St.

Mary’s family lived at 195 Walnut St. in the 1880s, one of a string of houses built and owned by Edward Philbrick. Her brother, Henry, also appears in this album. Her father, Charles Ware was a music transcriber and educator and an abolitionist who worked with freedmen in Port Royal, part of the areas of South Carolina controlled by the Union Army. He later contributed to the publication of Slave Songs of the United States.
Henry Ware, 1886
1871 - 1956; parents: Charles Pickard Ware and Elizabeth Lawrence Appleton; married: 1898, Louisa Fuller Wilson; lived at 195 Walnut St.

Henry’s family lived at 195 Walnut St. in the 1880s, one of a string of houses built and owned by Edward Philbrick. Henry graduated from Harvard College in 1893; graduated from Harvard Law School, married, 1898, Louisa Fuller Wilson; and joined the law firm of Storey and Thorndike. His sister, Mary, is also featured in this album. His father, Charles Ware was a music transcriber and educator and an abolitionist who worked with freedmen in Port Royal, part of the areas of South Carolina controlled by the Union Army. He later contributed to the publication of Slave Songs of the United States.
Cora Codman, 1886
1874 - ; parents: James Macmaster Codman and Henrietta Gray Sargent; married, 1894, William Ely; lived on Warren;
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1874 - ; parents: James Macmaster Codman and Henrietta Gray Sargent; married, 1894, William Ely; lived on Warren;
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1877 - 1968; parents: Charles Pickard Ware and Elizabeth Lawrence Appleton; married: Malcolm Cunningham Ware (same last name, Harvard College, 1907 ); lived on Walnut St.

Her brother, Henry, also appears in this album.
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1873 - 1942; parents: Charles Drew, Mary Bradford; lived at Gorham Ave.; married, 1902, Dr. Charles Borden;
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1871 - 1956; Harvard College, 1893; parents: Thacher Loring and Margaret Fuller Channing; lived at 92 High St.; married 1895, Charlotte Blake Cochrane;

is the sibling of Alice and Majorie who are also featured in this album; direct descendant of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; his great-grandfather was the fourth dean of Harvard Medical School.
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1876- 1939; married Marion Evans; parents: Edward Stanwood and Eliza Maxwell Topliff; lived at 76 High St.

Younger brother of Ethel and cousin of Maud who also appear in this album. He graduated from Bowdoin College, the alma mater of his father, and Harvard Law School. Worked in Boston.
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1871 - 1956; Harvard College, 1893; parents: Charles Pickard Ware and Elizabeth Lawrence Appleton; married: 1898, Louisa Fuller Wilson; lived on Walnut St.

Graduated from Harvard Law School and joined the firm of Storey and Thorndike. His sister, Mary, is also featured in this album.
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1874 - 1914; parents: Stephen Dexter Bennett and Helen Frances Howe; lived at 305 Walnut St, near Cypress;
Lindsley Loring, 1886
1871 - 1956; Harvard College, 1893; parents: Thacher Loring and Margaret Fuller Channing; lived at 92 High St.; married 1895, Charlotte Blake Cochrane;

is the sibling of Alice and Majorie who are also featured in this album; direct descendant of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; his great-grandfather was the fourth dean of Harvard Medical School.
Alice Loring, 1886
1874 – 1934; married, 1897, William Lothrop Edwards; parents: Thatcher Loring and Margaret Fuller Channing; liveat 92 High St.

Alice is the sibling of Lindsley and Majorie who are also featured in this album; a direct descendant of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; and her great-grandfather was the fourth dean of Harvard Medical School. She lived with her physician husband in various locations in Boston’s Back Bay. By 1923 they were living at 15 Hereford where they lived until January 1934, the month in which they both died.
Marjorie Channing Loring, 1886
1877 - 1959; never married; parents: Thacher Loring and Margaret Fuller Channing; lived at 92 High St

is the sibling of Lindsley and Alice who are also featured in this album; direct descendant of William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; her great-grandfather was the fourth dean of Harvard Medical School.
Elizabeth ("Elise") Dexter Bennett, 1886
1874 - 1914; parents: Stephen Dexter Bennett and Helen Frances Howe; lived at 305 Walnut St, near Cypress;
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1873 - 1963; parents: Arthur Mills and Jennie May Barrett; married, 1901, Philip Yardley De Normandie ( Harvard College, 1891) ; lived at 24 Irving St. near Walnut;
Eliza ('Elsie') Barrett Mills, 1886
1873 - 1963; parents: Arthur Mills and Jennie May Barrett; married, 1901, Philip Yardley De Normandie ; lived at 22 Irving St. near Walnut;
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Ethel Stanwood (1873 - 1954); married, 1897, Charles Knowles Bolton; parents: Edward Stanwood and Eliza Maxwell Topliff; lived on High St.

Ethel Stanwood created the two albums of 1886 tintypes in which are presented this photo of her as well as those of her, brother, Edward, and cousin, Maud. Graduated from Wellesley College, 1894. She was a Registrar for the Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames, authored books and articles about local history, and was an amateur artist. Her husband is the author of Brookline, The History of a Favored Town and other books, graduated from Harvard in 1890, was Librarian of the Brookline Public Library from 1893-1898, and spent the remainder of his career as Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum.
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1879 - 1920; married, 1904, Malcolm Donald; parents: Moorfield Storey and Anna Gertrude Cutts; lived at 44 Edge Hill Road, in a house that still stands.

Her sister, Elizabeth, is also featured in this album. Her husband graduated from Harvard Law School in 1902 and practiced in Boston, they lived in Milton with their two children.
Katherine Storey, 1886
1879 - 1920; married, 1904, Malcolm Donald; parents: Moorfield Storey and Anna Gertrude Cutts; lived at 44 Edge Hill Road, in a house that still stands.

The family house at 44 Edgehill Road was designed by Robert Peabody, a well-known architect who had been her father’s college roommate and lived next door. Moorfield Storey was a president of the American Bar Association and the president for most of its existence of the Anti-Imperialist League, an organization founded to oppose the annexation of the Philippines as a colony and to support free trade and the gold standard. Its members included Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Samuel Gompers, and John Dewey, among many notables. Later, Storey became the first president of the NAACP, a role he served in from 1910 until his death in 1929. Katherine’s husband graduated from Harvard Law School in 1902 and practiced in Boston, they lived in Milton with their two children.
Edward Stanwood, 1886
1876- 1939; married Marion Evans; parents: Edward Stanwood and Eliza Maxwell Topliff; lived at 76 High St.

Younger brother of Ethel and cousin of Maud who also appear in this album. He graduated from Bowdoin College, the alma mater of his father, and Harvard Law School. Worked in Boston.
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