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Susan Greene Dexter
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Susan Greene Dexter

Boston, 1840 - 1924, Boston
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BiographyOn November 15, 1866, 9 Marlborough was purchased from Ralph C. Johnson by Franklin Gordon Dexter. He and his wife, Susan Greene (Amory) Dexter, made it their home. Susan Dexter’s parents, Charles and Martha (Greene) Amory, lived with them. The Dexters previously had lived at 172 Beacon. They also maintained a home in Beverly.

F. Gordon Dexter was a shipping merchant and another early investor in the Union Pacific Railroad. Charles Amory was treasurer of a textile mill.

In 1872, the Dexters moved to 55 Beacon, which had been the home of historian William Hickling Prescott, F. Gordon Dexter’s maternal uncle, and his wife Susannah (Amory) Prescott, Susan (Amory) Dexter’s paternal aunt. Charles and Martha Amory moved to 198 Beacon. F. Gordon Dexter continued to own 9 Marlborough and lease it to others.
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