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Isidore Braggiotti

Paris, 1864 - 1934, Los Angeles

BiographyOn May 5, 1865, 208 Beacon was purchased from Harvey Jewell by Christopher Champlin Chadwick and Thomas Handasyde Perkins, trustees under a marriage settlement trust for the benefit of Martha Ellery (Chadwick) Braggiotti, wife of Francis (Francois) Braggiotti. They had married in November of 1863. Christopher Chadwick was Martha Braggiotti’s brother, and Thomas H. Perkins was her brother-in-law, the husband of Elizabeth Jones (Chadwick) Perkins.

After their marriage, Francis and Martha Braggiotti had lived in Paris, where their son, Isidore Braggiotti, was born in November of 1864.

By 1866, Francis and Martha Braggiotti had made 208 Beacon their home. He was an importer of fruit and later a banker and stockbroker.

The Braggiottis’ two younger children were born at 208 Beacon: Mary Elizabeth Braggiotti in January of 1866, who died in January of 1867, and Francois (Francis) Braggiotti in December of 1868.

On February 24, 1872, the rear area of the second floor of the house was damaged by a fire caused by a defective furnace.

In the mid- and late-1870s the Braggiottis were living elsewhere, probably in France, and leased 208 Beacon to others.

from https://backbayhouses.org/208-beacon/; accessed 2/6/24 NW

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