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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Alice Howe James
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Alice Howe James

American, 1849 - 1922
Biographywife of William James, married in 1878 - sister-in-law to Henry James
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/exhibits/james/marriage_family.cfm I.S. 12/20/2017
Alice howe gibbens was born on 5 February 1849 in a beautifully proportioned Federalist Greek Revival home on King Oak Hill in Weymouth, Massachusetts. She was the first of Eliza Webb Gibbens and Dr. Daniel Lewis Gibbens’s three daughters. Her mother came from a long, respectable line of Weymouth Whites and Webbs, her father from a Boston Irish Protestant family.
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