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Fanny Lithgow Prince

Boston, about 1855 - 1945

BiographyBy the 1894-1895 winter season, 458 Beacon was the home of Dr. Morton Henry Prince and his wife, Fanny Lithgow (Payson) Prince. In 1894, they had lived at 71 Marlborough. Fanny L. Prince is shown as the owner of 458 Beacon on the 1895, 1898, and 1908 Bromley maps, and Morton Prince is shown as the owner on the 1912, 1917, and 1928 maps. The Princes also maintained a home in Nahant.

Morton Prince was a psychologist specializing in neurology, psychotherapy, and abnormal psychology.

Morton Prince died in August of 1929. Fanny Prince continued to live at 458 Beacon until about 1934 (noting in the 1934 and 1935 Blue Books that she would be spending the winter at the Hotel Puritan at 390 Commonwealth).
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PRINCE Morton MD b Boston Dec 21 1854 s Frederick Octavus and Helen Susan Henry Prince AB Harvard 1875 MD 1879 LL D Tufts Coll Mass 1910 m Fannie Lithgow Payson of Salem Mass Feb 14 1885 children Claire Morton Mrs Roger Wolcott Martin Peabody Engaged in practice of medicine in Boston since 1880 phys for nervous diseases Boston City Hosp 1885 prof nervous diseases 1902 12 prof emeritus 1912 Tufts Coll Med Sch Editor Jour Abnormal Psychology 1906 Chmn of Com of 100 for amending the Boston Charter 1909 chmn Boston Charter Assn Mem Am Neurol Assn Assn Am Physicians Am Psycho Pathological Assn Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology Soc Med Sciences Mass Med Soc Boston Med Library Boston Soc for Med Improvement Pub Franchise League Boston Chamber of Commerce Clubs Somerset Tennis and Racquet Country Nahant New Riding Tavern Eastern Yacht Corinthian Yacht Boston Yacht Author Nature of Mind and Human Automatism 1885 Dissociation of a Personality 1906 The Unconscious 1913 also numerous monographs on med psychol and philos subjects Collaborator Nervous Diseases by American Authors Am System of Practical Medicine Internat System of Electro Therapeutics Recreations yachting following the hounds Address 458 Beacon St Boston
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A Worldcat record (here: https://www.worldcat.org/title/fanny-lithgow-payson-prince-photograph-ca-1855/oclc/51173840 accessed 2/25/19) exists with the description "Sixth-plate daguerreotype in leather case of Fanny Lithgow Payson (later Prince) at nine months of age, with an unidentified woman. She married the physician and psychologist Morton Prince in 1885. The photograph was taken circa 1855 by an unknown photographer." This would indicate that she was born about 1855. See her will here: http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/354/354mass588.html M Phelps 2/25/19

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