Alice Howe James

wife 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.