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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Edith Cunningham
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Edith Cunningham

Milton, Massachusetts, 1873 - 1961
Biographyhttp://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2011035678/ I.S. 3/19/2019

Edith (Forbes) Perkins was born in Milton, Mass., in 1843, the daughter of Robert Bennet and Rose Greene (Smith) Forbes. She married in 1864 Charles Elliott Perkins (1840-1907). Edith (Forbes) Perkins died in the Santa Barbara earthquake of 1925. Among her children were Edith Forbes Perkins (variously known as "Plummy" or "Bunny," 1873-1961), who married Edward Cunningham (d. 1917) in 1892. Their son Edward Cunningham was born in 1893. He graduated from Harvard College in 1916. After a number of different professional positions, he became a partner in the trust management firm J.M. Forbes and Co.
http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0330 I.S. 3/19/2019
Person TypeIndividual
Last Updated8/7/24