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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Louisa C. Thoron
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Louisa C. Thoron

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1874 - 1975
BiographyLouisa C. (Hooper) Thoron
Louisa "Looly" or "Loulie" Chapin Hooper (1874-1975) was the second of five daughters of Edward William Hooper (1839-1901) (Marian Hooper's brother) and Fanny (Chapin) Hooper (1844-1881). A niece of Marian and Henry Adams, she was close to them and corresponded frequently with her uncle. On 2 October 1915, she married Ward Thoron (1867-1938), a Washington, D.C. lawyer, and later the treasurer of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company. (It was Ward Thoron's second marriage; he married Ellen Warder in 1893, but they divorced in 1911.) He corresponded regularly with Henry Adams and also undertook assignments and research for him.
http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0055 I.S. 1/9/2018
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Last Updated8/7/24