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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

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Elizabeth Cabot Cary (5 December 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts - 27 June 1907 in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts) was an American educator, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College.

In 1850 she married Louis Agassiz, whom she accompanied to Brazil (1865-1866 and on the Hassler expedition in 1871-1872.

Her publications include A First Lesson in Natural History (1859); Life of Louis Agassiz; and Seaside Studies in Natural History (1865), in which she was assisted by her step-son, Alexander Emanuel Agassiz.

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. The entry about Louis Agassiz explains the origin of the gravestone. Note that her gravestone refers to her as "Elizabeth Cary Agassiz".

Sources

American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 174-175.

External links

Encyclopædia Britannica entry
Works by Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz at Project Gutenberg

This biographical information was gathered from the Elizabeth_Cabot_Cary_Agassiz page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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