Elizabeth Cabot Winthrop

Mrs. Robert Charles Winthrop, second cousin of JLG, Jr.

Robert C. Winthrop was born on 12 May 1809 in Boston to Thomas Lindall and Elizabeth Bowdoin Temple Winthrop. After graduating from Harvard College, he studied law under Daniel Webster and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. He served in the Massachusetts General Court from 1835-1840, the last two years as Speaker of the House. On 12 March 1832, Winthrop married Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard, with whom he had three children. After Elizabeth's death in 1842, he married Adele Granger Thayer. Winthrop served as a member of the Whig party in the United States House of Representatives from 1840-1850 and in the Senate from 1850-1851. In his later years, Winthrop devoted himself to historical, literary, and philanthropic pursuits. He served as President of the Massachusetts Historical Society for thirty years from 1855 to 1885 during which time he wrote a biography of his ancestor, John Winthrop. Robert C. Winthrop died on 16 November 1894 and is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Elizabeth Cabot Blanchard Winthrop

BIRTH 27 May 1809 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA

DEATH 14 Jun 1842

BURIAL Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

MEMORIAL ID 64357061

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