Diary of Adeline Faxon, Brookline MA, Page 53
Sarah Rich
Sarah Rich with her six-year old daughter, Fanny. The Rich family lived at 9 Linden St. in a house that was moved up Linden St. from its original location on the corner with Harvard St. It is still standing. From the Brookline Preservation Commission report:
Isaac Rich bought a large lot at the corner of Linden and Harvard Streets and built this house sometime between 1844 and 1855. Rich, who was born in Wellfleet in 1801, became involved in the shipping business with Edward Snow and owned a packet line which ran to New Orleans. He also established Isaac Rich & Co., dealers in cured, salted, and pickled fish at #35 Commercial St. The firm, in which Rich was a partner with a relative, Thomas A. Rich, who lived at 38 Babcock St., Edward S. Jane, and William H. West, prospered and exported dried fish to the West Indies and Europe. Rich became one of the wealthiest men of his time and left the greater part of his fortune to Boston University (then known as Boston Theological Seminary) of which he was one of the incorporators and a trustee from 1869 until his death. He bought 29 acres of Aspinwall land on the hill of that name and gave it to B. U., which eventually developed the land and sold off house lots. University Road is named for B. U.
Esther Deming
Esther Deming (1795-1879) was the older sister of Adeline's mother. She and her family lived in Brighton with the Deming's widowed mother, Meritable Fuller Dana.
