Born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Graves Cary
and Mary Anne Cushing (Perkins) Cary
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
— married
25 Apr 1850 in Boston, Massachusetts
[children unknown]
Died
at age 84
in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts, United States
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| Created 25 Sep 2016
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Biography
Elizabeth (Cary) Agassiz is Notable.
She was a Scientist. The wife of naturalist Louis Agassiz, she helped to organize and manage the Thayer Expedition to Brazil in 1865, and the Hassler Expedition to the Strait of Magellan in 1871. She co-wrote "A First Lesson in Natural History," "Seaside Studies in Natural History," and "A Journey in Brazil". She served as President of Radcliffe College from 1882 to 1899.
Elizabeth Cabot Cary was born December 5, 1822 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States. She was a daughter of Thomas Graves Cary Mary Ann Cushing Perkins.[1]
She married Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz in 1850 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States .[2]
Elizabeth died June 27, 1907 in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts, United States.[1] She was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.[3]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, Elizabeth Carey Agassiz, 27 Jun 1907; citing Arlington,,Massachusetts, 495, State Archives, Boston.
- ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Elizabeth Cary in entry for Louis Ayassiz, 1850; citing Marriage, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
- ↑ Find A Grave" memorial page for Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (5 Dec 1822–27 Jun 1907), Find A Grave Memorial no. 6652152, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZC8-7RG : 18 February 2021), Elizabeth Agassiz in entry for Louis Agassiz, 1860.
"United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD3Z-ZLQ : 29 May 2021), Elizabeth Agassis in entry for Louis Agassis, 1870.
Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, Vol. 1, ed. John F. Ohles, 1978, Westport CT/London, Greenwood Press...JR 1/2018
- Paton, L. Allen. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz: a biography. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1919). https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003459332
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