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Boston Brahmins, also called the First Families of Boston, are the blue-blooded class of New Englanders who claim hereditary and cultural descent from the Anglo-Saxon Protestants who founded the city of Boston, Massachusetts and settled New England. They are part of the historic core of the East Coast establishment, along with the wealthy families of New York City and Philadelphia. Blue Blood is the seminal magazine of counterculture erotica launched by Amelia G in 1992. ...
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The Anglo-Saxons refers collectively to the groups of Germanic tribes who achieved dominance in southern Britain from the mid-5th century, forming the basis for the modern English nation. ...
Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ...
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The Establishment is a pejorative slang term to refer to the traditional and usually conservative ruling class elite and the structures of society which they control. ...
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The term Brahmin comes from the Indian caste system, of which the Brahmins are the highest caste. The assertion that they are "Brahmin" is not just a claim of high social class, but also of cultural, intellectual, and spiritual leadership; these roles were performed by the namesake caste that exists in India. The American phrase was likely coined by writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., as part of a January 1860 article in the Atlantic Monthly called "The Professor's Story." This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ...
The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ...
The nature of the Brahmins is summarized in the doggerel "Boston Toast" by John Collins Bossidy. Doggerel describes verse considered of little literary value. ...
- "And this is good old Boston,
- The home of the bean and the cod,
- Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots,
- And the Cabots talk only to God."[1]
Today, Brahmin families often refer to themselves as Yankees. Members of these families are generally known for being financially conservative, socially liberal, and well educated. These families often have deeply established traditions in the Episcopalian or Unitarian faiths. According to Yankee magazine, many Brahmin families intermarried and were perceived as marked by their distinctive elocution, the Boston Brahmin accent. The Lowell family was founded in America by Percival Lowle (1571–1664); his grown sons John (1595–1647) and Richard (1602–82); and his daughter, Joanna Oliver (1609–77), when their families sailed from England to the newly established settlement of Newburyport on the north shore of the Merrimack...
The Cabot family was one of the Boston Brahmins, also called the First Families of Boston. ...
The term Yankee has a variety of meanings. ...
The word Episcopal is derived from the Greek επισκοπος epískopos, which literally means overseer; the word however is used in religious terms to mean bishop. ...
Historic Unitarianism believed in the oneness of God as opposed to traditional Christian belief in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). ...
The Boston Brahmin accent is a New England accent associated with the Boston Brahmin upper social class. ...
Brahmin families Many of the Brahmin families trace their ancestry back to the original founders of Boston while others bought their way into society during the nineteenth century with their profits from commerce and trade or by marrying into established Brahmin families like the Emersons and Winthrops. Some prominent families are listed here.
The Adamses Adams family For the macabre group of characters created by Charles Addams and featured in cartoons, television, and movies, see The Addams Family. ...
Samuel Adams (September 27, 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American Patriot and organizer of the Boston Tea Party. ...
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was the first (1789–1797) Vice President of the United States, and the second President of the United States, whose term lasted from 1797 to 1801. ...
Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of the second President of the United States, and is seen as the second First Lady of the United States, though that term was not coined until after her death. ...
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American lawyer, diplomat, politician, and President of the United States(March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829). ...
Charles Francis Adams (August 18, 1807, Boston - November 21, 1886, Boston), the son of John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams, was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. ...
Charles Francis Adams, Jr. ...
Charles Francis Adams III (2 August 1866 _ 1954) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under Herbert Hoover and well-known as a yachtsman. ...
Charles Francis Adams IV (born 1910 deceased 1999) was a U.S. electronics industrialist. ...
John Quincy Adams (1833 - 1894) was an American lawyer and politician, the grandson of president John Quincy Adams and the son of Charles Francis Adams. ...
Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 - March 27, 1918) was a U.S. historian, journalist and novelist. ...
Brooks Adams (1848 - 1927) was a U.S. historian and political scientist. ...
The Cabots Cabot family The Cabot family was one of the Boston Brahmins, also called the First Families of Boston. ...
Descendant by marriage: Godfrey Lowell Cabot (February 26, 1861 - November 2, 1962), was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the son of Samuel Cabot, a physician, and Hannah Lowell Jackson. ...
Thomas Dudley Cabot (May 1, 1897 - June 8, 1995) was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Godfrey Lowell Cabot and Maria Buckminster (Moors) Cabot. ...
Francis Cabot Lowell Francis Cabot Lowell (April 7, 1775 - April 10, 1817) was the American business man for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, United States is named. ...
Landscape at Hancock, New Hampshire by Lilla Cabot Perry Lilla Cabot Perry, (January 13, 1848 – February 28, 1933), was one of the first American artists to embrace impressionism during the late 19th century. ...
Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924), was a Republican statesman and noted historian. ...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ...
The Choates Choate family Rufus Choate Rufus Choate (October 1, 1799–July 13, 1859), American lawyer and orator, was born at Ipswich, Massachusetts, the descendant of a family which settled in Massachusetts in 1667. ...
The Cushings Cushing family Descendant by marriage: Caleb Cushing (January 17, 1800–January 2, 1879) was an American statesman and diplomat who served as a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce. ...
Thomas Cushing (1725-1788) was an American lawyer and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. ...
William Cushing (March 1, 1732–September 13, 1810) was an early associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, from its inception to his death. ...
Albert Cushing Read (29 March 1887 - 10 October 1967) was a United States aviator and Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. ...
The Crowninshields Crowninshield family The Crowninshields are an American family prominent in seafaring and in political and military leadership as well as the literary world. ...
Descendant by marriage: Jacob Crowninshield (March 31, 1770–April 15, 1808) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and appointee to the position of U.S. Secretary of the Navy but never served. ...
Arent Schuyler Crowninshield (March 14, 1843 _ 1908) was an admiral of the United States Navy. ...
Navy collection image of Crowninshield Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (December 27, 1772–February 3, 1851) served as the fifth United States Secretary of the Navy between 1815 and 1818, during the administrations of Presidents James Madison and James Monroe. ...
William Crowninshield Endicott (November 19, 1826 - May 6, 1900) was an American politician. ...
The Delanos Delano family The Delano family in America was founded by Philippe Delano (de la Noye), a 19-year-old Huguenot Pilgrim who arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts on November 11, 1621 on the ship Fortune. ...
Descendant by marriage: Columbus Delano, born June 4, 1809 Shoreham, Vermont, United States – died October 23, 1896 in Mount Vernon, Ohio, was a lawyer and a statesman, and a member of the prominent Delano family. ...
Jane Arminda Delano, born March 12, 1862 in Montour Falls, New York, United States – died April 15, 1919 in Savenay, Loire-Atlantique, France, was a nurse and founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service. ...
Captain Paul Delano (15 June 1775-1842), born in Bristol, Massachusetts, was a sea captain and a member of the prominent American Delano family. ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882–April 12, 1945), 32nd President of the United States, the longest-serving holder of the office and the only man to be elected President more than twice, was one of the central figures of 20th century history. ...
The Eliots Eliot family Descendant by marriage: Prof. ...
Charles Eliot (1959-1897), noted American landscape architect. ...
The brothers Charles Benjamin Norton, Frank Henry Norton, and Charles Eliot Norton, between 1853-1855. ...
The Emersons Emerson family Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was a famous American author, poet, and philosopher. ...
The second wife of American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. ...
The Endicotts Endicott family William Crowninshield Endicott (November 19, 1826 - May 6, 1900) was an American politician. ...
The Forbeses Forbes family This article is about the Forbes family related to US Senator John Kerry. ...
Descendant by marriage: John Murray Forbes John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 - October 12, 1898), one of three brothers sent by their uncle to Canton, amassed a fortune in the opium trade and China trade during the Opium Wars. ...
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ...
The Holmeses Holmes family Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ...
The Jacksons Jackson family - Edward Jackson (1708–1757) & Dorothy Quincy Jackson
- Greling Jackson
- Lydia Jackson
Descendant by marriage: Jonathan Jackson (June 4, 1743– March 5, 1810) was an American merchant from Newburyport, Massachusetts. ...
Patrick Tracy Jackson(14 Aug. ...
The second wife of American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. ...
John Lowell, Jr. ...
Augustus Lowell was President of Boott Cotton Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1897 and the father of Abbott Lawrence Lowell. ...
Percival observing Mars from the Lowell Observatory. ...
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, portrait by John Singer Sargent U.S. educator, historian, and President of Harvard University (1909–33), Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856–January 6, 1943) was born to Augustus Lowell and his wife Katherine Bigelow Lowell at the families 10 acre estate in Brookline, MA. The Lowell...
Born Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in Brookline, MA in the late 19th century to parents Augustus Lowell of the privileged Lowell family of Boston. ...
Amy Lowell Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. ...
Guy Lowell (August 6, 1870-February 4, 1927) was an American architect and landscape architect. ...
The Lawrences Lawrence family Descendant by marriage: Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856–1943) Samuel Lawrence was an American revolutionary from rural Massachusetts. ...
Merchant, born in Groton, Massachusetts, 22 April, 1786; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 31 December, 1852. ...
Amos Adams Lawrence was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1814, the son of famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence. ...
Abbott Lawrence (December 16, 1792–August 18, 1855) was a prominent American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. ...
William Lawrence (1850-1941) was an American Episcopalian bishop of Massachusetts, a position which he assumed in 1893. ...
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, portrait by John Singer Sargent U.S. educator, historian, and President of Harvard University (1909–33), Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856–January 6, 1943) was born to Augustus Lowell and his wife Katherine Bigelow Lowell at the families 10 acre estate in Brookline, MA. The Lowell...
The Lodges - Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924)
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985)
Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Cabot Lodge (May 12, 1850 – November 9, 1924), was a Republican statesman and noted historian. ...
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ...
The Lowells Lowell family The Lowell family was founded in America by Percival Lowle (1571–1664); his grown sons John (1595–1647) and Richard (1602–82); and his daughter, Joanna Oliver (1609–77), when their families sailed from England to the newly established settlement of Newburyport on the north shore of the Merrimack...
Descendant by marriage: John Lowell ( June 17, 1743– May 6, 1802) was an American lawyer and jurist from Boston, Massachusetts. ...
Charles Russell Lowell (2 January 1835-20 October 1864), American soldier, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
James Russell Lowell circa 1855. ...
Francis Cabot Lowell Francis Cabot Lowell (April 7, 1775 - April 10, 1817) was the American business man for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, United States is named. ...
John Lowell, Jr. ...
Augustus Lowell was President of Boott Cotton Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1897 and the father of Abbott Lawrence Lowell. ...
Percival observing Mars from the Lowell Observatory. ...
Abbott Lawrence Lowell, portrait by John Singer Sargent U.S. educator, historian, and President of Harvard University (1909–33), Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856–January 6, 1943) was born to Augustus Lowell and his wife Katherine Bigelow Lowell at the families 10 acre estate in Brookline, MA. The Lowell...
Born Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in Brookline, MA in the late 19th century to parents Augustus Lowell of the privileged Lowell family of Boston. ...
Amy Lowell Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. ...
Guy Lowell (August 6, 1870-February 4, 1927) was an American architect and landscape architect. ...
John Amory Lowell (1798–1881) was an American philanthropist and businessman from Boston. ...
Godfrey Lowell Cabot (February 26, 1861 - November 2, 1962), was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, the son of Samuel Cabot, a physician, and Hannah Lowell Jackson. ...
The Peabodys Peabody family Nathaniel Peabody (1774-1855) was a U.S. physician from Boston, Massachusetts. ...
George Peabody (February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Institute. ...
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, (May 16, 1804-January 3, 1894) educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. ...
Endicott Peabody (1857-20 January 1944) was the American Episcopal priest who founded the Groton School for Boys in 1884. ...
Endicott Peabody (February 15, 1920–December 1, 1997) was a Governor of Massachusetts Peabody was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, served in the United States Navy during World War II, and received a BA and a law degree from Harvard University. ...
The Phillipses Phillips family The founder of Phillips Andover Academy, his uncle was Dr. John Phillips who founded Phillips Exeter Academy. ...
The top prep schools in the US both bear his name: Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Andover Academy, the former founded by him in 1781 and the latter founded by his nephew Samuel Phillips Jr. ...
The Putnams Putnam family Born Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in Brookline, MA in the late 19th century to parents Augustus Lowell of the privileged Lowell family of Boston. ...
The Quincys Quincy family - Edmund Quincy (settled in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633)
- Josiah Quincy I (1709–1784)
- Josiah Quincy II (1744–1775)
- Colonel John Quincy
Decent by marriage: Josiah Quincy III (February 4, 1772 - July 1, 1864) was a U.S. educator and political figure. ...
Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of the second President of the United States, and is seen as the second First Lady of the United States, though that term was not coined until after her death. ...
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American lawyer, diplomat, politician, and President of the United States(March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829). ...
The Saltonstalls Saltonstall family The Saltonstall family is a Boston Brahmin family from the U.S. state of Massachusetts, notable for having had a family member attend Harvard University from every generation since Nathaniel Saltonstall—later one of the more principled judges at the Salem Witch Trials—graduated in 1659. ...
Leverett A. Saltonstall (September 1, 1892 – June 17, 1979) was an American politician who served as Governor of Massachusetts (1939 - 1945) and as a United States Senator (1945 - 1967). ...
The Winthrops Winthrop family The Dudley-Winthrop Family is a U.S. political family. ...
John Winthrop was the name of several prominent figures in colonial New England. ...
The Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for the institution that founded it) was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, centered around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. ...
John Winthrop (February 12, 1606-April 5, 1676), generally known as John Winthrop the Younger, was governor of Connecticut. ...
This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Robert Charles Winthrop Robert Charles Winthrop (May 12, 1809–November 16, 1894) was an American statesman who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. ...
John Winthrop (December 19, 1714 – May 3, 1779) (not to be confused with his great-great-great-grandfather John Winthrop, founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony) was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. ...
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This article is about the neighborhood of Back Bay. ...
2nd Harrison Gray Otis House, 85 Mount Vernon Street. ...
Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...
The Ivy League consists of eight private institutions of higher education located in the northeastern United States. ...
John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy The Kennedy family is a prominent family in American politics and government descending from the marriage of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. ...
During its history the United States has seen many families who have repeatedly produced notable politicians from their ranks, and these historic U.S. political families have had a significant impact on politics in the United States. ...
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor (September 22, 1830–October 30, 1908) preferred to be known simply as Mrs. ...
Samuel Ward McAllister (1827-1895) was the self-appointed arbiter of New York society in the 1880s. ...
The Social Register was, at one time, a book detailing just who was a member of polite society in a given city. ...
References - ^ Andrews, Robert (ed.) (1996). Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10218-6.
External links - "The Brahmin Caste of New England," by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1860, reproduced in Slate.com
- Slate.com: "What's a Boston Brahmin?"
- Cornell University Making of America: "The Professor's Story: Chapter I--The Brahmin Caste of New England", Atlantic Monthly, Jan 1860, p. 91
- Let's Go Boston - Boston Brahmins, a history
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