Portrait, Princeton, MA - Beaman & Boylston Family - John Alden Beaman & Nicholas Ward Boylston, Jr., c1899

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Title

Portrait, Princeton, MA - Beaman & Boylston Family - John Alden Beaman & Nicholas Ward Boylston, Jr., c1899

Subject

Beaman, John Alden; Beaman, Phineas Alden; Beaman family; Boylston, Ward Nicholas, Jr.; Boylston, Ward Nicholas; Boylston family; Gill, Moses

Description

Offspring of two prominent Princeton families are pictured. On the left is John Alden Beaman (b. 1897-11-01) son of Henry Clayton Beaman, a Harvard College graduate, class of 1885, and Jennie Hoover (Bartlett) Beaman. He is the grandson of Phineas Alden Beaman and Harriet (Thompson) Beaman. Phineas once owned the entire property containing Wachusett Mountain and developed many hotels in town. He also served a term in the Massachusetts state legislature. On the right is Ward Nicholas Boylston, Jr., son of Ward Nicholas Boylston who built Boylston Villa on the estate of his relative, Governor Moses Gill, on Worcester Road, Princeton, Massachusetts in 1819 (the Boylstons lived in the Gill Mansion until 1918).

Publisher

Date

c1899

Relation

Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org housed in the Princeton Public Library, http:/www.princetonpubliclibrary.org, Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts

Format

image/jpg

Language

en-US

Type

image

Identifier

PHS-PEOPLE-001

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Citation

“Portrait, Princeton, MA - Beaman & Boylston Family - John Alden Beaman & Nicholas Ward Boylston, Jr., c1899,” Digital Commonwealth , accessed May 21, 2013, http://digitalcommonwealth.org/items/show/1061.

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