Brookline Historical Society
Photo Collection

Alice Gardiner Hovey, 1886
1879 - ; parents: Edward Clarence Hovey and Lucy Almira Cobb; married, 1910, Ernest Jacoby; lived on Walnut St.near Cypress;

Younger sister of Mary who also appears in this album.
Mary Cobb Hovey, 1886
1877 - ; married, 1902, Matthew Luce; parents: Edward Clarence Hovey and Lucy Almira Cobb; lived on Walnut St. near Cypress;

Older sister of Alice who also appears in this album. Her husband was a wool merchant in his father’s firm, Luce & Manning, in Boston and they lived in the Back Bay.
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Mary Crane and Katherine Putnam Peabody
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1879 - ; parents: Edward Clarence Hovey and Lucy Almira Cobb; married, 1910, Ernest Jacoby; lived on Walnut St. near Irving;
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1873 - 1959; parents: John Prentiss Hopkinson and Mary Elizabeth Bessie Watson ; married, 1893, George Pierce Baker (Harvard College, 1887); lived in Cambridge, MA

She graduated from Radcliffe in 1893; was an acting dean and trustee there; was a lecturer, historian and genealogist who authored several books. She also lived in New Haven where her husband, a renowned drama teacher and critic who had been a member of the famous 47 Club in Cambridge, was a professor and creator of the Drama Department at Yale.
Katherine Robinson Briggs, 1886
1877 – 1968; never married; parents: Henry Payson Briggs, Katherine Elizabeth Briggs; lived at 10 Allerton St.

She lived most of her life in her childhood home at 10 Allerton St. (torn down after WWII to make more room for 14 Allerton St.). In 1896, she authored Brookline in the Civil War, published by the Historical Society. She worked the Girl Scouts national organization.
Marion Clark Cutler, 1886
1874 - ; never married; parents: William Sewall Cutler, Helen Augusta Clark; lived on 20 Chestnut St., Walnut St.

A direct descendant of Nathan Hale, she lived her entire life in Brookline (in the 1800s at 20 Chestnut St. with her mother’s parents, the Clarks; in 1910, 310 Walnut St.; in 1920, 272 Walnut St.; in 1930, 75 Sargent Rd.). In 1931, she was president of the Brookline Garden Club.
Irving Kent Hall, 1885
1882 - 1952; married, 1910, Helen Macy; parents: Joseph Thomas Hall, Myra Garrison;

The Hall family lived at 99 High St. circa 1883-1889. The parents, Joseph Thomas Hall and Myra Isabelle Garrison had previously been living in Baltimore. The fact that the last known records for Joseph Hall are from 1880 and that son, Irving Kent was born in September 1881 would indicate that the elder Hall died in early 1881. The widowed Myra Garrison Hall then left Baltimore and moved to Jay Candler's 99 High St. home. She subsequently moved to Cambridge starting in 1892. In 1900, Irving was living with her there as he attended Harvard. He married Helen Macy in 1910 and was employed as a tea merchant in a New York firm run by his wife's father.
Fred Garrison Hall, 1886
1879 – 1946; married, 1909, Evelyn Orville Ames; parents: Joseph Thomas Hall, Myra Garrison;

The Hall family lived at 99 High St. circa 1883-1889. The parents, Joseph Thomas Hall and Myra Isabelle Garrison had previously been living in Baltimore. The fact that the last known records for Joseph Hall are from 1880 and that Frederick’s younger brother, Irving Kent was born in September 1881 would indicate that the elder Hall died in early 1881. Fred Garrison Hall married Evelyn Orville Ames in 1909 after graduating from Harvard. He was trained as an architect but became an etcher whose works are in museums around the world. His first wife, Evelyn, died in December of 1940. He continued to live in their home at 260 Beacon St., Boston, then married Ariel Perry and moved to 360 Beacon St., Boston.
Anna Gratz Clay, 1886 [photo may have been mislabeled]
Born in 1883, her parents were Thomas Hart Clay Jr. and Annie Gratz. The family lived at 94 Upland Rd. (Walley Ave. at the time), which is still standing, from approximately 1887 to 1892. She married Green Gibson.

Younger sister of Miriam who is also featured in this album. A descendant of generations of prominent Kentucky families and a direct descendant of Henry Clay, former Speaker of the House and Senator from Kentucky. Her family spent a few years living in Brookline on Walley Ave. (now called Upland Ave.) when her father was the Boston editor of The Youth's Companion, published by Edward Stanwood, father of this album's creator.
Miriam Gratz Clay, 1886
1873 - 1949; Her parents were Thomas Hart Clay Jr. and Annie Gratz. The family lived at 94 Upland Rd. (Walley Ave. at the time), which is still standing, from approximately 1887 to 1892. In 1905, she married Dr. William Cogswell.

Miriam is the older sister of Annie who is also featured in the tintype album of Ethel Stanwood. The sisters were descendants of generations of prominent Kentucky families and a direct descendant of Henry Clay, former Speaker of the House and Senator from Kentucky. Their father was the Boston editor of The Youth's Companion, published by Edward Stanwood, father of the photo album's creator.
Margaret Whitman, 1886
1873 - 1939; married Richard Darwin Ware; parents: James A Whitman, Mary Josephine Porter; lived on Gardner Rd., corner of Tappan

Her husband was a lawyer in Boston and an author and librettist.
Anna Elizabeth Storrs, 1886
1873 - 1923; parents: Leonard Kip Storrs, rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Alice Kingsbury; married, 1905, Lt. Col. Edward Parker Bedwell (Royal Navy); lived at 120 Aspinwall Ave.

Traveled to England in 1899; Presumably met her future husband there; married in Brookline, died in England
Anna Elizabeth Storrs, 1886
1873 - 1923; parents: Leonard Kip Storrs, rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Alice Kingsbury; married, 1905, Lt. Col. Edward Parker Bedwell (Royal Navy); lived at 120 Aspinwall Ave.

Traveled to England in 1899; Presumably met her future husband there; married in Brookline, died in England
Anna Elizabeth Storrs, 1886
1873 - 1923; parents: Leonard Kip Storrs, rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Alice Kingsbury; married, 1905, Lt. Col. Edward Parker Bedwell (Royal Navy); lived at 120 Aspinwall Ave.

Traveled to England in 1899; Presumably met her future husband there; married in Brookline, died in England
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1873 - 1923; parents: Leonard Kip Storrs, rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Alice Kingsbury; married, 1905, Lt. Col. Edward Parker Bedwell (Royal Navy); lived at 120 Aspinwall Ave.

Traveled to England in 1899; Presumably met her future husband there; married in Brookline, died in England
Thomas and Bridget (Tonra) Cannon
Thomas Cannon (1867-1940) and Bridget (Tonra) Cannon (1869-1942) both emigrated from Ireland. They married in 1892 and were listed at 1 Walter Ave. in “The Farm” neighborhood by 1900. By 1918 they had moved to “The Point” neighborhood finally settling in at 90 Highland Rd. where they lived with Cannon and Tonra extended-family members. They raised seven surviving children in Brookline.

Thomas Cannon worked for a number of years as a gardener for a private estate. This has been reported as the “Webster’s estate” but it is not yet identified. There was a “Webster’s estate” with an on-site gardener’s cottage in Chestnut Hill but that does not appear to be a likely match
[Source: University of Massachusetts Boston]
Dr. Tappan Eustis Francis, 1863
1823 - 1909; Tappan Francis was a physician in Brookline for some 50 years. He graduated from Harvard College in 1844 and Harvard Medical School in 1847. He lived on Davis Ave. and, in 1878, built a home at 35 Davis Ave. that is now on the National Register of Historic Places. He was one of the signatories on the Charter of the Brookline Historical Society. He is buried in the Walnut St. Cemetery.
Dr. Tappan Eustis Francis with children, Nellie and Nat, 1861
Helen (Nellie) and Nat are the two oldest children. She died shortly after this photo was taken.
Helen (Nellie) Francis with younger brother, Nat
Nellie died shortly after this photo was taken, at age 5, of "malignant sore throat" Nathaniel (1859 - 1921) became a lawyer.
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