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Annie Endicott Nourse
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Annie Endicott Nourse

1875 - 1922
BiographyBy the 1888-1889 winter season, 429 Marlborough was the home of Elizabeth Sumner (Lewis) Nourse, the wife of Thorndike Nourse, and their daughter, Annie Endicott Nourse. Elizabeth Nourse’s brother, George Lewis et al, trustees, are shown as the owners of 429 Marlborough on the 1888, 1898, 1908, and 1917 Bromley maps.

The Nourses previously had lived in Detroit, where Thorndike Nourse was a book binder, printer, and publisher. It appears that Thorndike and Elizabeth Nourse opted to live apart, she in Boston and he in Europe, where she visited frequently. He died in Quimper, France, in July of 1904.

During the 1899-1900 winter season, when Elizabeth and Annie Nourse were again traveling in Europe, 429 Marlborough was the home of William Branford Shubrick Clymer and his wife, Katherine McCall (Livingston) Clymer. An architect by training, he had been an instructor in English at Harvard and then became a writer on literary subjects. By the 1900-1901 winter season they were living at 30 Chestnut.

And during the 1904-1905 winter season, when Elizabeth and Annie Nourse probably were once again in Europe (following Thorndike Nourse’s death in July of 1904), 429 Marlborough was the home of retired railroad and iron mining developer Joseph Lincoln Colby and his wife, Mary C. (Little) Colby. Their usual home was in Newton Centre.

Elizabeth Nourse died in January of 1916. Annie Endicott Thorndike continued to live at 429 Marlborough until about 1942, when she moved to an apartment at 282 Beacon. John Heard et al, trustees, are shown as the owners of 429 Marlborough on the 1928 and 1938 Bromley maps.
https://backbayhouses.org/429-marlborough/ I.S. 1/2/2018

Miss Annie Endicott Nourse 7192 Born in Michigan Descendant of Josiah Batchelder Jr of Massachusetts Daughter of Thorndike Nourse and Elizabeth Sumner Lewis his wife Granddaughter of John Frederick Nourse and Annie Thorndike Rand his wife Gr granddaughter of Stephen Nourse and Martha Washington Prince his wife Gr gr granddaughter of Joseph Prince and Joanna Batchelder his wife Gr gr gr granddaughter of Josiah Batchelder Jr and Hannah Dodge his wife Josiah Batchelder Jr from 1775 79 represented Beverly in the Provincial Congress serving on important committees.
Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the American ..., Volume 8
By Daughters of the American Revolution
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Annie Endicott Nourse (1875 - 1922)
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/annie-endicott-nourse_111388221 I.S. 1/2/2018

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