Edith Wendell

Mrs. Berrett Wendell

Edith Greenough

Born in Massachusetts, USA on 2 Aug 1859 to William Whitwell Greenough and Catherine Scollay Curtis. Edith married Barrett Wendell and had 4 children. She passed away on Oct 1938.

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On May 31, 1880, 358 Marlborough was purchased from George Wheatland, Sr., by Jacob Wendell of New York City. The next day, on June 1, 1880, he transferred the property to his son, Barrett Wendell, who was married that day to Edith Greenough.

Barrett Wendell was an assistant professor and, from 1898, full professor of English at Harvard. He was a noted lecturer and author of several books, including the Life of Cotton Mather.

The Wendells raised their four children at 386 Marlborough: Barrett Wendell, Jr., Mary Barrett Wendell, William Greenough Wendell, and Edith Wendell.

In the late 1890s or early 1900s, the Wendells remodeled 358 Marlborough to add an additional story. It is shown as a three story house on the 1898 Bromley map, but as a four story house on the 1902 map.

Mary Wendell married in September of 1902 to Geoffrey Manlius Wheelock, and they lived with the Wendells at 358 Marlborough until about 1904, when they moved to Shanghai, China, where he was a ship broker.

During the 1904-1905 winter season, the Wendells were living elsewhere and 358 Marlborough was the home of Frederick Harris Warner and his wife, Eleanor (Skinner) Warner. They previously had lived at 28 Bellevue in Dorchester, and by the 1905-1906 season had moved to 92 Bay State Road.

By the 1905-1906 winter season, the Wendells were living at 358 Marlborough again.

Barrett Wendell Jr., married in June of 1910 to Barbara Higginson. He was an investment banker They lived with his parents at 358 Marlborough during the 1910-1911 winter season, but moved soon thereafter to 265 Clarendon.

Edith Wendell married in January of 1913 to Charles Devens Osborne. After their marriage, they lived in Auburn, New York, where he was a newspaper editor.

In mid-1913, Barrett and Edith Wendell were joined at 358 Marlborough by their son, William Greenough Wendell, a trust company executive, who previously had lived in New York City. He married in July of 1915 to Ruth Appleton. After their marriage, they lived at 18 Charles River Square.

Barrett Wendell died in February of 1921. Edith Wendell continued to live at 358 Marlborough until her death in October of 1938. She also maintained a home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

358 Marlborough was shown as vacant in the 1939 City Directory.

On March 8, 1939, 358 Marlborough was purchased from Edith Wendell’s estate by real estate dealer Henry J. O’Meara.

https://backbayhouses.org/258-marlborough-2/ I.S 1/10/2018