2/17/2020 Forbes family - Wikipedia Forbes family The Forbes family is a wealthy extended American family long prominent in Forbes Boston, Massachusetts. The family's fortune originates from trading( opium Current United States and tea between North America and China in the 19th century plus other investments in the same period. The name descends from Scottish immigrants region and can be traced back to Sir John de Forbes in Scotland in the 12th century. Place of Aberdeenshire, Family members include businessman John Murray Forbes (1813 -1898) origin Scotland, United part of the first generation who accumulated wealth, and politician John Kingdom Forbes Kerry (born 1943). Members John Murray Forbes, John Kerry, Brice Lalonde Contents Connected Kerry, Cabot, Griswold families Family origins Estate(s) Les Essarts, Accumulation of wealth Naushon Island Trade with China Railroad investment Family assets Nots: See lady Howe- Family members Noted as businessmen The gentle Americans (1965), Noted as politicians and activists Other family members Pp. 175f. Sources References External links Family origins The first member of the Forbes family to live in the United States was Rev. John Forbes (1740 - 1783). He was a clergyman who arrived to the colonies in 1763. The Reverend's first post on the North American continent was in British East Florida, where he became the first Anglican clergyman licensed to officiate during the English period of 1763 - 1783. [1] The Forbes family has a link to the Dudley-Winthrop family directly from Thomas Dudley (1576 - 1653), father of Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), the first English-language female poet from America. John Forbes left Florida for Boston in 1769 and married Dorothy Murray on February 2, 1769 in Milton, Massachusetts, where their first son James Grant Forbes was born. John Forbes has two other sons by the name of John Murray Forbes and Ralph Bennet Forbes. [2] Accumulation of wealth Trade with China The Boston trading firm Perkins & Co. sent many young men of their extended family to participate in their business activities abroad. Ralph Forbes being married to Margaret Perkins, their children were encouraged in the business. Following the death overseas of his older brother, Thomas Tunno Forbes, the Perkinses encouraged John Murray Forbes to travel to China, too. There John was mentored by the Chinese merchant Houqua who treated him like a son and therefore entrusted Opiums ships at Lintin (Nei Lingding very significant sums of capital to invest on his behalf in the US after he Island, Chinese: Nei Lingding left China (see below). Dao, 'Inner Lingding Island') in 1824, by William John Huggins. 2/17/2020 Forbes family - Wikipedia Perkins & Co., like many other Boston trading firms in the early 19th century, sent ships to China to get tea for sale in America (although some was ultimately re-exported to Britain and Europe). To pay for the tea, they exported to China large quantities of silver and also furs, manufactured goods, cloth, wood, opium and any other items that they thought the Chinese market would absorb. Active trading houses, particularly those from Boston, usually kept representatives resident in Hong Kong whose main role was to look for and secure quality tea for export at good prices. This was John Murray Forbes' main job during the two years he spent in China (Gibson 2001; Malloy 1998). John Murray Forbes' brother, Robert Bennet Forbes, was more intimately involved in the importing side of the business and, at least by their own writings, had a more direct role than did John in the opium trade. (Kerr 1996; Hughes 1899). Until recently, the Museum of the American China Trade in Milton, Mass., on Boston's South Shore, was curated by a Forbes great-grandson, Dr. H. A. Crosby Forbes, an expert on Chinese porcelain. [3] The museum, which was housed in Portrait of Howqua, by George Robert Bennet Forbes' 1833 Greek Revival style house, was a monument to the Chinnery, 1830. China merchants and the great wealth in Boston that both drove and resulted from the China trade. The China trade museum was merged with the Peabody Essex Museum in 1984 leaving the house in the management of the Forbes House Charitable Trust which operates it now as the Captain Forbes House Museum. Neither John nor Robert spent more than a relatively short time in China - John was there for two years. Upon his return to Boston, John continued interest in the China trade for a few more years, serving as a business/investment manager for voyages undertaken by Robert and others. Fairly soon, however, he recognized that the China trade was becoming increasingly difficult to pursue profitably and that railroads offered a new and much more lucrative opportunity. Railroad investment Due to the close bond relationship and trust he still maintained in Boston with Howqua, he was given $200,000 of Howqua capital to invest in US business opportunities, to invest on behalf of his Chinese mentor in the US (Ujifusa 2018 Chapter 3). Deploying this capital in the US, John Murray Forbes made a considerable fortune from investments in railroads from the 1840s onwards. Some of the population growth of Chicago and Midwestern Plains states in the middle to late 19th century was due to John Murray Forbes' railroad projects in Michigan and Chicago. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, from Chicago west to the Mississippi, was built by John Murray Forbes who had a reputation for sound financial management amongst the railroad tycoons of the day (Larson 2001). Family assets Some Forbes family members remain generally influential in local or national politics. In the 1840s, John Murray Forbes bought Naushon Island. which is one of the Elizabeth Islands northwest of Martha's Vineyard and southwest of Cape Cod, and within the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts. Forbes and his descendants have used the property as a summer retreat since then. The property is presently owned by a Forbes family corporation, the Naushon Trust, Inc. Family members Noted as businessmen Colonel James Grant Forbes (1769 - 1826), engaged in the West India trade in Port-au-Prince (Haiti), served as an army officer during the War of 1812, went as envoy in 1821 to receive the relinquishment of the Floridas from the Spanish authority in Cuba, Governor of East Florida. [4] Grandson of John Forbes, John Murray Forbes (1813 - 1898), born in France, John Murray Forbes was the to later invested in railroads and large 2/17/2020 Forbes family - Wikipedia Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839 - 1908), poppy botanist, wrote a book on Chinese plants, opium trader in the China trade. William Hathaway Forbes (1840 - 1897), son of John Murray Forbes, businessman. Investor in, and later president of, the Bell Telephone Company. Francis Murray Forbes (1874 - 1961), American businessman, son of Francis Blackwell Forbes and wife Isabel Clark. Co-founder of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes. James Grant Forbes II (1879 - 1955), American lawyer, banker and businessman, son of Francis Blackwell Forbes and wife Isabel Clark. Was born in Shanghai, China, where the Forbes amassed a fortune from the opium trade and merchant banking after the Opium Wars. The grandfather of Brice Lalonde and John Forbes Kerry. Another grandson of John Forbes Robert Bennet Forbes (1804 - 1889): Partner of Russell & Company, and later associated with Yale University development and endowment. Noted as politicians and activists Many Forbes family members are influential in local or national politics in France, the US and the Philippines John Forbes Kerry (1943 -), former United States Secretary of State, former United States Senator and Democratic party candidate in the 2004 United States presidential election. Kerry has not worked in the private sector for Forbes family business interests and has spent his career in public service. William Cameron Forbes (1870 - 1959) used his wealth to become Governor General of the Philippines and ambassador to Japan. Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) served as the Director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University from 1909 to 1944. Under his leadership, the art collection was vastly expanded, and a new building was constructed in 1927. The Museum Course, run by EWF and Paul J. Sachs revolutionized museology in the United States. Brice Lalonde, an environmental activist who is John Forbes Kerry's first cousin and friend. Lalonde is a French Green party politician who was a candidate in the 1981 French presidential election and the mayor of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer near the Forbes family estate in France from 1995 to 2008. He was a high-profile member of the UN and its Special Adviser on Sustainable Development. James Colt (1932 - 2008), a descendant of John Murray Forbes, part-owner of Naushon Island, the Forbes family estate off Falmouth, an attorney specializing in trusts and estates, served as a Massachusetts state representative, a trustee for 30 years, serving as managing trustee for seven. [5] Ruth Forbes Young (1903 - 1998), founder of the International Peace Academy with purpose of studying UN peacekeeping and developing peacekeeping doctrine, she was married to the inventor and helicopter pioneer Arthur Middleton Young. Other family members The first members of the family to live in the United States was John Forbes, clergyman, son of Archibald Forbes, although the family retained its connections with Europe and John Murray Forbes was born in France. John Murray Forbes, (1807 - 1885), m. to Anne Howell, (d. 1849) Brice Lalonde, a French politician, who ran for President of France as the Green Party candidate in 1981. Rosemary Forbes Kerry, (b. Paris, October 27, 1913 - d. November 14, 2002), m. to Richard Kerry. Elliot Forbes (1917 - 2006), conductor and musicologist) John Forbes Kerry, (December 11, 1943 - an American diplomat and politician, the 68th United States Secretary of State, m. to Teresa Heinz. John Murray Forbes, (b. Bordeaux, France 1813 - d. 1898 Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.), an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and abolitionist, m. to Sarah Swain Hathaway, (1813 - 1900). John Malcolm Forbes, (1847 - 1904), American businessman and sportsman. Michael R. Paine (b. New York City, June 25, 1928), m. to Ruth Hyde Paine, Oswald family benefactors in whose garage family friend Lee Harvey Oswald stored his rifle and in whose home Marina Oswald lived. William Cameron Forbes, (1870 - 1959), investment banker and diplomat, served as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1908 to 1913. China Forbes, (1970 - ), singer and songwriter, best known as lead singer of Pink Martini. Maya Forbes, (b. July 23, 1968) is an American screenwriter and television producer, sister of China Forbes. Ed Droste (b. 1978), singer and musician, lead singer of Grizzly Bear, grandson of Elliot Forbes. 2/17/2020 Forbes family - Wikipedia Sources Life and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, ed. by Sarah Forbes Hughes, Two Volumes, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899. An American Railroad Builder: John Murray Forbes, by Henry Pearson, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1911. Forbes: Telephone Pioneer, by Arthur Pier, 1953. The Bingham Genealogy Project, by Doug Bingham, ttps://web.archive.org/web/20050427081147/http://www.pa.uky.edu/-shapere/dkbingham/d0007/g0000017.htm 2003 Boston Men on the Northwest Coast: The American Fur Trade, 1788-1844, by Mary Malloy, University of Alaska Press, 1998. Bonds of Enterprise: John Murray Forbes and Western Development in America's Railway Age, John Lauritz Larson, lowa City: University of lowa Press, 2001. Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast, 1785-1841, by James R. Gibson, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Letters from China: The Canton-Boston Correspondence of Robert Bennet Forbes, 1838 - 1840, ed. by Phyllis Forbes Kerr, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1996. Barons of the Sea: Race to Build the Fastest Clipper Ship; Simon & Schuster; First Edition (July 17, 2018). References 1. "Forbes Family. Forbes Family Business Records, 1658-1968: A Finding Aid" (http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasi s/deliver/~bak00124). oasis.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-07-06. 2. "Forbes Family Papers, 1732-1931" (http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0269). www.masshist.org. Retrieved 2017-07-06. 3. In 1992 H. A. Crosby Forbes donated his family's papers, beginning with those of Henry Ashton and Mary (Leavitt) Crosby, to the Massachusetts Historical Society.[ (http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=t a0105) 4. James Murray (1901). Letters of James Murray, loyalist (https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032743977#page/ n335/mode/2up). Retrieved 20 May 2014. 5. Marquard, Bryan (June 12, 2008). "James D. Colt, 75, lawyer and former state representative" (http://www.bos ton.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2008/06/12/james_d_colt_75_lawyer_and_former_state_representativ e/?page=full). The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 23, 2013. External links Website of the Captain Forbes House Museum in Milton, MA (http://www.forbeshousemuseum.org/) Forbes Family Business Records (http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HBS.Baker.EAD:bak00124)at Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School James Murray Forbes Papers(http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0157) at Massachusetts Historical Society (http://www.masshist.org) (Boston, MA) Mary Bowditch Forbes Papers(http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0324) at Massachusetts Historical Society (http://www.masshist.org) (Boston, MA) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forbes_family&oldid=931358555' This page was last edited on 18 December 2019, at 12:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. 10/31/2017 John Murray Forbes Wikipedia WIKIPEDIA John Murray Forbes John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 - October 12, 1898) was John Murray Forbes an American railroad magnate, merchant, philanthropist and Born abolitionist. He was president of both the Michigan Central railroad February 23, 1813 Bordeaux, France and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s. He kept doing business with Russell & Company. [1] Died October 12, 1898 (aged 85) Milton, Massachusetts, U.S. Contents Cause of pneumonia death 1 Early life Residence 2 Career Milton, Massachusetts, U.S. 3 Philanthropy Naushon Island, 4 Personal life Dukes County, 5 Death and legacy Massachusetts, U.S. 6 References Education Phillips Academy 7 External links Round Hill School Occupation Railroad magnate, Early life merchant, financier Spouse(s) Sarah Hathaway Forbes was born on February 23, 1813, in Bordeaux, France. [1] His Children William Hathaway father, Ralph Bennett Forbes, was a member of the Forbes family, Forbes descended from Scottish immigrants who attempted unsuccessfully to John Malcolm Forbes start a trade from Bordeaux. [1] His mother, Margaret Perkins, was the sister of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, founder of a Boston Brahmin Parent(s) Ralph Bennett Forbes family merchant dynasty involved in the China trade. His parents Margaret Perkins moved back to the Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House in Milton, Relatives John Murray Forbes Massachusetts in 1814. His paternal uncle was John Murray Forbes (paternal uncle) (1771-1831), lawyer and diplomat. His cousin was Francis Blackwell Thomas Handasyd Forbes, both grandchildren of James Grant Forbes I. His brother was Perkins (maternal uncle) Robert Bennet Forbes (1804-1889), sea captain and China merchant. Robert Bennet Forbes (brother) Forbes attended school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Francis Blackwell Massachusetts, then at Round Hill School in Northampton, Forbes (cousin) Massachusetts, from 1823 to 1828. Career Forbes was one of three brothers sent by their uncle to Canton, China, and achieved some financial success during a short time spent trading in Canton. However, unlike his brother Robert Bennet Forbes, who devoted himself the China trade, Forbes returned to Boston and became an early railroad investor and landowner. As president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, he helped with the growth of the American Middle West. Forbes founded J.M. Forbes & Co., an investment firm in Boston in 1838. [1] He supplied money and weapons to New Englanders to fight slavery in Kansas and in 1859 entertained John Brown. In 1860, he was an elector for Abraham Lincoln. He served as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln. [2] Staunchly pro-Union, he is given credit for founding the New England Loyal Publication Society in early 1863 (Smith 1948). [Historical Note: In 1863, John Murray Forbes, served as a 'confidential agent' of Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Wells, in Paris, France. Source: Office of Naval Records and Library, Record Group 45, indicating a 'gift of personal papers'. Citation: "The Union", A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War, 1986, edited by K.W. Munden and H. P. Beers, 452.] After the Civil War, Forbes was elected as a 3rd Class (honorary) Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Forbes was a delegate to the Republican conventions of 1876, 1880 and 1884, he eventually became displeased with the Republican party and worked successfully to get Democrat Grover Cleveland elected President. Philanthropy Forbes's many philanthropic activities included the re-establishment of Milton Academy, a preparatory school south of Boston, Massachusetts in 1884. Personal life Forbes married Sarah Hathaway. They had two sons, William Hathaway Forbes and John Malcolm Forbes, and two daughters, Mrs Russell and Mrs Harrison. [2] They resided in Milton, Massachusetts, and summered on Naushon Island in Dukes County, Massachusetts. [2] Death and legacy Forbes died of pneumonia on October 12, 1898 in Milton, Massachusetts. [2] Edward Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's son, published Forbes' biography in the September 1899 issue of "Atlantic" magazine. The Emerson and Forbes families were close. John Murray's son, William Hathaway Forbes, married Ralph's daughter, Edith Emerson. In Letters and Social Aims, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of Forbes: "Never was such force, good meaning, good sense, good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior, such modesty and persistent preference for others. Wherever he moved he was the benefactor How little this man suspects, with his sympathy for men and his respect for lettered and scientific people, that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself," and "I think this is a good country that can bear such a creature as he." His cousin Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839-1908) is the great-grandfather of 2004 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry. His eldest son, William Hathaway Forbes (1840-1897) became the first president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and father of William Cameron Forbes. Another of his sons was John Malcolm Forbes, the yachtsman and horseman. His great-great-great- great-grandson is Jonathan Meath, a renowned Emmy award-winning television producer. [3] The small community of Forbes, Missouri, is named for him. [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Forbes 2/3 10/31/2017 John Murray Forbes Wikipedia References 1. "History of J.M. Forbes & Co." (http://www.jmforbes.com/history/). J.M. Forbes & Co. Retrieved October 17, 2015. 2. "John Murray Forbes Is Dead. Wealthy New Englander Passes Away At Milton, Mass." (https://www.newspa pers.com/image/34196407/?terms=%22John%2BMurray%2BForbes%22).C Chicago Inter Ocean. Chicago, Illinois. October 13, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved October 12, 2015 - via Newspapers.com. 3. "Mary Stewart Hewitt" (https://web.archive.org/web/20100221041515/http://www.ledgertranscript.com/article mary-stewart-hewitt). Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. Jan 10, 2010. Archived from the original (http://www.led gertranscript.com/article/mary-stewart-hewitt) on 2010-02-21. Retrieved 2010-11-14. "She is survived by her husband, Peter M. Hewitt; two daughters, Margaret F. Meath of Lorton, Va., and Sarah M. Tibbetts of Scituate, Mass.; two sons, James S. Huntington-Meath of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Jonathan G. Meath of Cambridge, Mass." 4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named (https://books.google. com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA174#v=onepage&q&f=false) The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 174. Life and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, ed. by Sarah Forbes Hughes, Two Volumes, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899. An American Railroad Builder: John Murray Forbes, by Henry Pearson, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1911. Forbes: Telephone Pioneer, by Arthur Pier, 1953. Smith, George Winston. "Broadsides for Freedom: Civil War Propaganda in New England." The New England Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Sep., 1948), pp. 291-312. White, John H. Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History. 154: 9-15. ISSN 0090-7847 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0090-7847). OCLC 1785797 (https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1 785797). External links Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography: John Murray Forbes (http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/ johnforbes.html) Old Plank Road Trail history and development (http://oprt.org/history-4.htm). Retrieved October 2, 2013. Retrieved from"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Murray_Forbes&oldid=807240997" This page was last edited on 26 October 2017, at 19:48. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. 11/30/2016 Edward W. Forbes (1873-1969) - Dumbarton Oaks Edward W. Forbes (1873-1969) from Pede. thisle for Lueb Cambra etter spides q.u 4 AMOUNT Edward Waldo Forbes was born on Naushon Island, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1873. He attended Milton Academy and Harvard University, where he studied art history and graduated in 1895, the year the Fogg Museum was founded at Harvard. Forbes joined the board of trustees at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1903, a position he held for sixty years. In 1904, he joined the visiting committee of the Fogg Museum and set about urging Harvard's wealthy alumni to donate money and art to the Fogg In 1909, he was appointed director of the Fogg Museum and was instrumental in the construction of a new building to house the enlarged collections in 1927. In 1915, Forbes invited Paul J. Sachs to become assistant director of the Fogg; he became associate director in 1923. The two formed a powerful professional partnership of fundraising, collecting, and educating both in art history and in museum studies. Forbes was appointed Martin A. Ryerson Professor in the Fine Arts at Harvard University in 1935. He retired from Harvard and the Fogg in 1944 and died at Belmont, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1969. Agnes Mongan, John Coolidge, José Luis Sert, George Leslie Stout, and Elizabeth H. Jones, Edward Waldo Forbes: Yankee Visionary (Cambridge, Mass.: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1971). Share Dumbarton Oaks Site Map Web Accessibility Contact Us Research Library and Collection Visit Us Staff Directory Employment 1703 32nd Street, NW Rights and Log in Newsletter Washington, DC 20007 Reproductions Webmail Service Desk ©2016 Dumbarton Oaks. Washington DC: NF 19/28 "The Fellows from the Fogg": Modernism, Homosexuality, and Art-World Authority Author(s): PETER STONELEY Source: The New England Quarterly, Vol. 84, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 473-495 Published by: The New England Quarterly, Inc. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23054679 Accessed: 05-10-2020 15:23 UTC REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23054679?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents You may need to log in to JSTOR to access the linked references. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms The New England Quarterly, Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The New England Quarterly JSTOR This content downloaded from 137.49.125.110 on Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:23:00 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms W.M.Whitehrll. Edward Waldo Forbes 1873-1969 When Charles William Eliot, the longest-lived of the 1870 founders of the Museum of Fine Arts, died in 1926, he had been a Trustee for fifty-six years. Yet Edward Forbes, who died on 11 March 1969 in his ninety-sixth year, outdistanced President Eliot by a decade, for he had served this Museum for nearly sixty-six years; longer than Queen Victoria reigned. When elected on 28 April 1903 to fill the vacancy cre- ated by the death of General Charles Greely Loring, who had directed the Museum for its first quarter century, Edward Forbes was at the time the youngest man ever to become a trustee. He was still in his twenties, having been a member of the Har- vard class of 1895. One could wish that all choices of young men were as inspired and fruitful as this one. To have chosen him at that age indicates remarkable pre- science on somebody's part, for Edward Forbes was always a quiet and diffident man, a bit awkward and untidy. In later life he looked startlingly like his grandfather Ralph Waldo Emerson. Indeed in 1955 when the Club of Odd Volumes visited Emerson's house in Concord, a new member, recently settled in Boston, who was alone in a room, was struck dumb when Edward Forbes quietly slipped through some portieres. He was convinced that he had seen Emerson's ghost! Although Edward Forbes phys- ically resembled that high-minded and transcendental grandparent, he inherited a deal of common sense and administrative ability, as well as property, from his other grandfather, John Murray Forbes, China Trade merchant and developer of western railroads. In the choice of grandfathers, Edward Forbes and his brothers made the best of both New England worlds. Yet when he was in his twenties, it must have taken per- ception to see this, for he was the exact opposite of today's angry youths, who noisily claim a monopoly of wisdom and mistrust the senility that is supposed to descend on thirtieth birthdays. For five years after graduation, as his health had been precar- ious, he had traveled in Europe and America, studying in turn French, German, and Italian. When elected to the Museum board he had completed two years at New College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. But during his travels he had become impressed with the beauty of Italian art and determined to do what he could to bring some original examples of it to America. In the autumn of 1895 the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University opened. Its building had been designed by Richard Morris Hunt to provide a lecture hall and to house casts, photographs, and a small collection of Oriental curios given by the Fogg family. No one anticipated at the time that the University would acquire orig- 93 Boston Museum Bulletin 67(1969); 93-96 This content downloaded from 137.49.124.119 on Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:09:34 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms mfa BOSTON Edward Waldo Forbes 1873-1969 Author(s): Walter Muir Whitehill Source: Boston Museum Bulletin, Vol. 67, No. 348 (1969), pp. 93-96 Published by: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4171509 Accessed: 03-08-2018 14:09 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Boston Museum Bulletin JSTOR This content downloaded from 137.49.124.119 on Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:09:34 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 94 the Edward Museum Waldo by Forbes, shown with a Hellenistic marble head of Polyphemus, 150 B.C., presented to his friends on the anniversary of his sixtieth year as Trustee, May ca. 16, 1963. This content downloaded All use from subject 137.49.124.119 to https://about.jstor.org/terms on Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:09:34 UTC inal works of art. Nevertheless Greek marbles and Italian paintings began to appear there as loans in 1899. By the summer of 1905 there were fifteen Italian primitives in the gallery. The hand of Edward Forbes was unobtrusively bringing this about. In 1909 he was appointed Director of the Fogg Art Museum and lecturer on Fine Arts; settling in Charles Eliot Norton's house, Shady Hill, where he lived for three years before building his own house at Gerry's Landing. In 1915 he persuaded Paul Joseph Sachs to abandon banking in New York to become Assistant Director. The building was remodeled and enlarged in 1912-13, but in a decade it was hopelessly outgrown. So a second and vastly larger Fogg Museum on Quincy Street, now in its turn outgrown, was opened in June 1927. Almost everything that entered the Fogg Museum before the joint consulship of Forbes and Sachs ended in 1944 was the gift of these two men or of their old or new friends. When Edward Forbes became Di- rector it cost $5,420 a year to operate the Fogg; when he retired thirty-five years later it cost forty times as much. This is an over-simplified way of suggesting what had been added in collections, curators, and services to the University during these thirty-five years. Apart from increasing collections and administering the museum, Edward Forbes had a very personal hand in the development of a research depart- ment, investigating materials and methods of constructing and preserving works of art. Included in that department was a section containing probably the largest and finest collection of x-ray shadowgraphs of paintings in the world. Although his primary loyalty for thirty-five years was necessarily to his own insti- tution at Harvard, Edward Forbes took an active and useful part at the Museum of Fine Arts: From 1906 to 1914 he was Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Classical Department. When our own collections were being moved from Copley Square to Huntington Avenue in the summer of 1909, he provided space at the Fogg to exhibit thirty-eight sculptures and paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts so that visitors to Boston might not be deprived of seeing some of these masterpieces. From 1948 he was a member of the Visiting Committee of the Egyptian Department, ap- pearing regularly at its meetings until well past ninety. Over the years he gave the Museum works of art as diverse as a Greek bronze mirror with relief of the Caly- donian Boar Hunt, marble heads of a Greek goddess and of Augustus, a New King- dom limestone relief of a Nile god, a medieval Italian marble grave relief of an abbess, a Dutch seventeenth century portrait of a man by Werner van Valchert, a study for a portrait of George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Indo-Persian and Tibetan miniatures, Chinese and Tibetan scroll paintings, and Tibetan jewelry. His approach to the arts was as catholic and as all-embracing as that of his fellow-trustee and Harvard colleague, Dr. Denman Waldo Ross. His interest, presence, and activity con- tinued almost unchanged until 1966 when, in his ninety-third year, he became a Trustee Emeritus. No one who ever knew Edward Waldo Forbes is likely to forget him, for he was a man of generosity, hope, and quaint imaginings. For example, he once asked three male friends to dinner and afterward requested them to sing three parts of a quartet into a tape recorder, SO that when alone on a stormy night he might raise his spirits 95 This content downloaded from 137.49.124.119 on Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:09:34 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms inal works of art. Nevertheless Greek marbles and Italian paintings began to appear there as loans in 1899. By the summer of 1905 there were fifteen Italian primitives in the gallery. The hand of Edward Forbes was unobtrusively bringing this about. In 1909 he was appointed Director of the Fogg Art Museum and lecturer on Fine Arts; settling in Charles Eliot Norton's house, Shady Hill, where he lived for three years before building his own house at Gerry's Landing. In 1915 he persuaded Paul Joseph Sachs to abandon banking in New York to become Assistant Director. The building was remodeled and enlarged in 1912-13, but in a decade it was hopelessly outgrown. So a second and vastly larger Fogg Museum on Quincy Street, now in its turn outgrown, was opened in June 1927. Almost everything that entered the Fogg Museum before the joint consulship of Forbes and Sachs ended in 1944 was the gift of these two men or of their old or new friends. When Edward Forbes became Di- rector it cost $5,420 a year to operate the Fogg; when he retired thirty-five years later it cost forty times as much. This is an over-simplified way of suggesting what had been added in collections, curators, and services to the University during these thirty-five years. Apart from increasing collections and administering the museum, Edward Forbes had a very personal hand in the development of a research depart- ment, investigating materials and methods of constructing and preserving works of art. Included in that department was a section containing probably the largest and finest collection of x-ray shadowgraphs of paintings in the world. Although his primary loyalty for thirty-five years was necessarily to his own insti- tution at Harvard, Edward Forbes took an active and useful part at the Museum of Fine Arts: From 1906 to 1914 he was Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Classical Department. When our own collections were being moved from Copley Square to Huntington Avenue in the summer of 1909, he provided space at the Fogg to exhibit thirty-eight sculptures and paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts so that visitors to Boston might not be deprived of seeing some of these masterpieces. From 1948 he was a member of the Visiting Committee of the Egyptian Department, ap- pearing regularly at its meetings until well past ninety. Over the years he gave the Museum works of art as diverse as a Greek bronze mirror with relief of the Caly- donian Boar Hunt, marble heads of a Greek goddess and of Augustus, a New King- dom limestone relief of a Nile god, a medieval Italian marble grave relief of an abbess, a Dutch seventeenth century portrait of a man by Werner van Valchert, a study for a portrait of George IV by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Indo-Persian and Tibetan miniatures, Chinese and Tibetan scroll paintings, and Tibetan jewelry. His approach to the arts was as catholic and as all-embracing as that of his fellow-trustee and Harvard colleague, Dr. Denman Waldo Ross. His interest, presence, and activity con- tinued almost unchanged until 1966 when, in his ninety-third year, he became a Trustee Emeritus. No one who ever knew Edward Waldo Forbes is likely to forget him, for he was a man of generosity, hope, and quaint imaginings. For example, he once asked three male friends to dinner and afterward requested them to sing three parts of a quartet into a tape recorder, so that when alone on a stormy night he might raise his spirits 95 This content downloaded from 137.49.124.119 on Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:09:34 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms by playing the tape and singing the fourth part himself. A paella Valenciana, eaten in a friend's house in Spain after crossing the Atlantic under sail, sent him to buy a large quantity of saffron from a neighboring colmado against future painting. A cus- tard, whose ingredients suggested those of tempera prompted the experiment of painting in that unusual medium, just as the beauty of a quohog shell once set him to try making a Byzantine mosaic from its pieces. He saw off an artist-student bound for Rome, and gave him as farewell presents, an excellent pocket magnifying glass and a bottle of Cascara pills. In his Harvard class report of 1920 Edward Forbes wrote: "My chief regret is that I did not start to draw and paint when I was very young. I floundered into the study of art at the age of thirty. If I have wasted time by starting late on my life work, I have gained that same amount of time in travel, and experience in other occupa- tions. It is idle to talk of the things I should like to do and to be-poet, musician, and artist. I am glad that my work carries me into the neighbourhood of these sanctuaries." Notwithstanding whimsical notions and poetical aspirations, Edward Forbes could on occasion be as foresightedly practical as his grandfather Forbes. Professor John Coolidge, who succeeded him as Director of the Fogg, once remarked that Edward Forbes was a man of few ideas, all of them excellent. Some of them had the sim- plicity of genius, such as his action in 1902-03 in acquiring and holding land between the Harvard Yard and the Charles River that he knew the University would need, even though the Corporation of President Eliot's time had not realized it Thus when Harvard official thinking under A. Lawrence Lowell caught up with one of Edward Forbes's more inspired flights, the land for building freshman dormitories and resi- dential houses was waiting, at the book value of earlier years Only a few years ago President Pusey's Corporation placed a tablet in the arcade of Holyoke Center ac- knowledging Edward Forbes's prescience in saving the land for Harvard. One summer evening some years ago when Edward Forbes was only in his eighties, he addressed in the Fogg lecture hall a group of foreign scholars, many of whom were from behind the Iron Curtain, brought there by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In his usual offhand and hesitant manner, he modestly described the origins and history of the Fogg Art Museum as if he had been simply an inno- cent bystander. Some of his hearers, who were struck by the beauty of his expres- sion and the quietness of his manner, were amazed afterward when Academy mem- bers explained how completely the institution had been the creation of the man they had just heard. In this hour Edward Forbes unconsciously caused a few of his audi- ence to question the Marxian stereotype of American Capitalism, for "he wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked" with them. Walter Muir Whitehill 96 This content downloaded from 137.49.124.119 on Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:09:34 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 11/30/2016 Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 Alternative names Dates: Authority Source: WorldCat, nwda, LC birth 1873 Nationality: United States death 1969-03-11 Language: English Gender: Biographical notes: Relation of Alexander Forbes (1882-1965). From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1959. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 176629718 Forbes graduated from Harvard in 1895. From the description of Notes in Zoology 1, 1893. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073959 From the description of Notes and midyear thesis in Philosophy 9, 1894-1895. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074017 From the description of Notes for Greek B lectures by M.H. Morgan, 1891-1892. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073805 From the description of Notes in Economic 1, 1893-1894. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073914 From the description of Notes in History 2 lectures by S. M. Macvane, 1891-1892. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073807 From the description of Weekly papers and lecture notes in History 13, 1894-1895. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074016 From the description of Notes in History 12, 1893-1894. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073949 From the description of Notes on lectures in Philosophy 1a, 1893-1894. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073958 From the description of Themes in English A, 1891-1892. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073794 From the description of Notes and themes in English 9, 1893-1894. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073933 From the description of Notes and themes in English 7 and English B, 1892-1893. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073848 From the description of Notes in Botany 1, 1894. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77073898 Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969) was director of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, an accomplished artist, and a world traveler. He was born into a prominent family (his parents being William Hathaway Forbes and Edith Emerson Forbes, his maternal grandfather being Ralph Waldo Emerson) in 1873 on the family-owned Naushon Island in Massachusetts. In 1907, Forbes married Margaret Laighton, a notable watercolorist and gardener; they had five children. Forbes relationship with Harvard and the arts began when he earned his Harvard A.B. 1895. He continued his studies at Oxford University, and returned to Massachusetts to form the Charles River Association, an organization dedicated to preserving Harvard's landscape. He became a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1903 and served in that capacity for 63 years. He acquired art, particularly Italian paintings; his gifts and loans to the Fogg Art Museum contributed significantly to the museum's eventual rise to worldwide prominence. In 1909, Forbes became Director of the Fogg Art Museum. During his 35 years there, he and his assistant director, Paul Sachs, oversaw the impressive growth of the Museum's collections, staff, property, and reputation. Forbes also served as a lecturer in Fine Arts at Harvard from 1909 to 1935. He was named the Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer in Fine Arts. From 1945 to 1957, Forbes was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers. From the description of Papers of Edward Waldo Forbes, 1856-1971 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973037 Edward Waldo Forbes was born July 16, 1873 on Naushon Island, southwest of Cape Cod. He was the son of William Hathaway Forbes, founder and first president of the American Bell Telephone Company, and Edith Emerson Forbes, daughter of poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Forbes studied at Milton Academy before entering Harvard University, where he received an A.B. in 1895. During his studies at Harvard, Forbes' interest in the fine arts was encouraged by professor Charles Eliot Norton. He traveled in Europe in the years following his graduation, studying English literature at Oxford University from 1900 to 1902. Forbes continued to cultivate his interest art, and he became a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1903 and of the Fogg Museum in 1904. In 1907, he married Margaret Laighton, an accomplished gardener and watercolorist. They were married until her death in 1966 and raised five children at Gerry's Landing, the Forbes' Cambridge home. In 1907, Forbes taught his first course, on Florentine painting, at Harvard. He became lecturer in Fine Arts in 1909, the year he became Director of the Fogg Museum. Forbes continued to teach throughout his years as Director and was named Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer in Fine Arts in 1935. He retired from the museum in 1944. The technical study of works of art was one of Forbes' most passionate interests. He founded the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies (now named the Straus Center for Conservation) in 1928; it was the first fine arts conservation treatment, research and training facility in the United States. Forbes received many awards and distinctions throughout his career, and he was named the first honorary fellow of the Institute of Conservation in 1958. Edward Forbes died in Belmont, Massachusetts on March 11, 1969. From the description of Papers, 1867-2005. (Harvard University Art Museum). WorldCat record id: 422897333 Edward Waldo Forbes was born July 16, 1873 on Naushon Island, southwest of Cape Cod. He was the son of William Hathaway Forbes, founder and first president of the American Bell Telephone Company, and Edith Emerson Forbes, daughter of poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. Forbes studied at Milton Academy before entering Harvard University, where he received an A.B. in 1895. During his studies at Harvard, Forbes' interest in the fine arts was encouraged by Professor Charles Eliot Norton. In 1898, Forbes traveled to Europe and began an earnest study of art and art history, with a focus on Italian primitive paintings. During these travels he also began to acquire early Italian paintings. Forbes studied English Literature at Oxford University from 1900 to 1902. Upon his return to Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1902, Forbes formed the Harvard Riverside Associates, a group that purchased land between Harvard Yard and the Charles River which would later become part of Harvard's campus. Forbes continued to cultivate his interest in art and became a trustee of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1903 and of the Fogg Museum in 1904. He also taught at the Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts for one term in 1904, but was obliged to leave the position due to poor health. In 1907, he married Margaret Laighton, an accomplished gardener and watercolorist. They were married until her death in 1966 and raised five children at Gerry's Landing, the Forbes' Cambridge home. In 1907 Forbes taught his first course, on Florentine painting, at Harvard. He became Lecturer in Fine Arts in 1909, the year he became Director of the Fogg Museum. Forbes continued to teach throughout his years as Director and was named Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer in Fine Arts in 1935. He was most well-known for his "Egg and Plaster" course, entitled Methods and Processes of Italian Painting, in which students learned about artists' materials and techniques by painting frescoes and using egg yolks to bind tempera to panels. Forbes assumed the directorship of the Fogg Museum in 1909, when its first director, Charles Herbert Moore, retired. At that time, the museum's annual income was minimal, its collections limited, and its architectural spaces not conducive to display and study. Forbes described the collections as being installed, "in galleries where you could not see, adjacent to a lecture hall in which you could not hear." He immediately began efforts to improve the physical spaces of the museum, to garner financial support for its operation and endowment, and to build and strengthen its collections. Forbes was tremendously successful in these endeavors; by the time he retired from the directorship in 1944 the Fogg collection had become extensive and world-renowned, the museum was in a new building (opened in 1927) vastly more suited to its purposes, and the museum's financial situation was decidedly more stable. 11/30/2016 Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 Throughout his life, Forbes was an avid outdoorsman; he loved to sail, hike, ride and swim, and he was active in the yearly sheeping on Forbes family properties at Nashawena and Naushon Islands in Massachusetts. He was an enthusiastic painter, teased for lugging excessive equipment on even the smallest painting outing, and also loved music and singing. Forbes' kindness, hospitality and generosity were legendary. Edward Forbes died in Belmont, Massachusetts on March 11, 1969. From the guide to the Papers, 1867-2005, (Harvard Art Museum Archives, Harvard University) Biographical notes are generated from the bibliographic and archival source records supplied by data contributors (/datacontrib.html). 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If you have questions about requesting materials from offsite storage, please contact the reference desk at 617- 646-0532 or reference@masshist.org (mailto:reference@masshist.org) There are restrictions on the use of this collection. Users must sign an agreement stating that they understand these restrictions before they will be given access to the collection. COLLECTION SUMMARY CREATOR: Forbes, Edith Emerson, 1841-1929 TITLE: Edith Emerson Forbes and William Hathaway Forbes papers and additions DATES: 1827-1969 BULK DATES: 1827-1953 PHYSICAL 32 record cartons and 10 document boxes (stored offsite) and 2 volumes (stored onsite) DESCRIPTION: CALL NUMBER: OFFSITE STORAGE CALL NUMBER: Ms. N-2306 (Edith E. Forbes notebook and Waldo E. Forbes letterbook) REPOSITORY: Massachusetts Historical Society , 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215 library@masshist.org (mailto:library@masshist.org) ABSTRACT This collection consists of the family papers of Edith (Emerson) and William Hathaway Forbes, who married in 1865. The collection contains Emerson family correspondence, Forbes family papers (including correspondence, financial papers, special collections, diaries and other volumes, and miscellaneous papers), 11/30/2016 Edith Emerson Forbes and William Hathaway Forbes Papers and Additions, 1827-1969 The children of William Emerson and Susan Woodward (Haven) Emerson were: William Emerson (1835- 1864), who married Sarah Hopper Gibbons in 1863; John Haven Emerson (b. 1840), who married Susan Tompkins in 1868; and Charles Emerson (b. 1841), who married Theresia Keveschi ("Tercsi") in 1871. The children of John Haven Emerson and Susan Tompkins Emerson were Ruth Emerson (b. 1870), William Emerson (b. 1873), Haven Emerson (b. 1874), and the triplets Helena Titus Emerson, Elizabeth Hoar Emerson, and Julia Titus Emerson (b. 1877). The children of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Lidian (Jackson) Emerson were: Waldo Emerson (1836-1842), Ellen Tucker Emerson (1839-1909), Edith Emerson (1841-1929), and Edward Waldo Emerson (1844-1930). Ellen Tucker Emerson did not marry and lived in Concord throughout her life. She was devoted to family, community, and religion, and helped her father in various ways as a companion and assistant. Edward Waldo Emerson attended Harvard College from 1861 to 1866. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1874, he became a doctor and practiced medicine in Concord until 1882. He married Annie Shepard Keyes (1847-1928) in 1874. After Ralph Waldo Emerson's death in 1882, Edward turned to painting, writing, and editing his father's works. Edward Waldo Emerson and Annie Shepard (Keyes) Emerson had seven children, four of whom survived: Ellen Tucker Emerson (1880-1921), who married Charles Davenport in 1920; Florence Emerson (b. 1882); William Forbes Emerson (b. 1884); and Raymond Emerson (1886-1977), who lived in Concord, married Amelia Forbes in 1913, and became a civil engineer and later an investment manager. On 3 Oct. 1865, Edith Emerson married William Hathaway Forbes, the son of John Murray Forbes and Sarah Swain (Hathaway) Forbes. See under Forbes family biographical information. Forbes Family John Murray Forbes (1813-1898) married Sarah Swain Hathaway (1813-1900) in 1834. Their children were: Ellen Randolph Forbes (1838-1860), Alice Hathaway Forbes (1838-1917), William Hathaway Forbes (184Q- 1897), Mary Hathaway Forbes (1844-1916), John Malcolm Forbes (1847-1904), and Sarah Forbes (1853- 1917). Alice H. Forbes married Edward Montague Cary (1828-1888) in 1875 and had no children. Mary H. Forbes married Henry Sturgis Russell (1838-1905) in 1863 and had six children. Sarah Forbes married William Hastings Hughes (1833-1909) in 1887 and had two children. J. Malcolm Forbes married Sarah Coffin Jones (1852-1891) in 1873 and had seven children, including Ellen Forbes (1886-1954), who married her first cousin Waldo Emerson Forbes. After the death of Sarah C. (Jones) Forbes, J. Malcolm Forbes married Rose Dabney (1864-1947) in 1892 and had three children with her. William Hathaway Forbes entered Harvard in 1857, but was expelled in 1860, and then was employed at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, 1860-1861. He served in the First Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry as second lieutenant and first lieutenant, Dec. 1861-Jan. 1863, and in the Second Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel, 14 Jan. 1863-15 May 1865. He was a Union prisoner at Charleston and Columbia, S.C., 6 July-Dec. 1864, and was discharged from the Second Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry on 15 May 1865. He entered his father's firm of J. M. Forbes & Co. in July 1865 and married Edith Emerson on October 3 of that year. In 1871, he received the degree of A.B. from Harvard and built his summer house on Naushon Island (Buzzard's Bay, Mass.). In March 1879, William Hathaway Forbes was named president of the American Bell Telephone Company. For more information, see Arthur S. Pier, Forbes: Telephone Pioneer (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1953). On 3 Oct. 1865, William Hathaway Forbes married Edith Emerson (1841-1929), the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Their children were: Ralph Emerson Forbes (1866-1937), Edith Forbes (1867-1926, "Violet"), William Cameron Forbes (1870-1959, "Cam"), John Murray Forbes (1871-1888, "Don"), Edward Waldo Forbes (1873-1969), Waldo Emerson Forbes (1879-1917), Ellen Randolph Forbes (1880-1881, "Rosebud"), and Alexander Forbes (1882-1965). Ralph Emerson Forbes married Elise Cabot (1869-1959) in 1901. Their children were: William Hathaway Forbes (b. 1902), Ruth Forbes (b. 1903), Margaret Forbes (b. 1905, "Marnie"), David Cabot Forbes (b. 1908), and Pauline Forbes (b. 1911). Edith Forbes married Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871-1942) in 1903. Their children were: Edith 11/30/2016 Edith Emerson Forbes and William Hathaway Forbes Papers and Additions, 1827-1969 Emerson, Benjamin Kendall. The Ipswich Emersons A.D. 1636-1900. Boston: David Clapp & Son, 1900. Genealogical Index of the John Murray Forbes Family 1740-1988, a typescript photocopied genealogy in the collections of the MHS. Pier, Arthur S. Forbes: Telephone Pioneer. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1953. Concord Free Public Library, guides to various collections. COLLECTION DESCRIPTION This collection is composed of the family papers of Edith (Emerson) Forbes, the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and her husband William Hathaway Forbes, the son of John Murray Forbes, of Milton, Mass. The collection contains Emerson family correspondence, 1827-1939, and includes letters of the wife and descendants of William Emerson (1769-1811). The main body of the collection consists of Forbes family correspondence and miscellaneous papers, papers concerning Naushon Island, household financial papers, Forbes family diaries and other volumes, private business correspondence of William Hathaway Forbes, and family papers and correspondence of Ellen (Forbes) Forbes and Waldo Emerson Forbes. Much of the correspondence is that of Edith (Emerson) Forbes with numerous family members--her children and her sister Ellen Tucker Emerson, in particular--and with many friends and acquaintances over the years, to 1927. There are also a number of diaries kept by Edith from 1861 to 1924, and they include detailed travel journals for voyages around the world in 1906-1907 and 1910-1911, when she traveled to the Philippines to visit her son William Cameron Forbes. The additions (1827-1969) include family correspondence and papers of the Emerson family of Concord, Mass., including a series of letters written by Edith Davidson to Ellen Tucker Emerson, as well as family correspondence and miscellaneous papers of the Forbes family of Milton, Mass., mainly John Murray Forbes and Sarah Swain (Hathaway) Forbes and their descendants. This series includes Civil War correspondence of William H. Forbes of the 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry with friends and family members, and several files of material concerning his expulsion from Harvard and trial for assault in 1860. Other series consist of separate business and personal papers of William H. Forbes, including some papers relating to his work with American Bell Telephone Co.; correspondence and papers of Ellen (Forbes) Forbes and Waldo E. Forbes; correspondence files for the J. Malcolm Forbes family and the Mary (Forbes) Russell family; bound volumes of papers related to Forbes family members, including a 1909 diary of Edith (Forbes) Webster, a poetry volume of William H. Forbes, and funeral books and an address book of Edith (Emerson) Forbes; and a letterbook (1909-1915) of Waldo E. Forbes. There is also one carton of transcribed correspondence of Edward Waldo Forbes with friends and family members. The location of the originals is unknown. RELATED MATERIALS The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) holds the following collections related to the Edith Emerson and William Hathaway Forbes papers and additions: Elise Cabot Forbes papers, 1875-1960. OFFSITE STORAGE. Finding aid available at: http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0107 (http://www.masshist.org/collection- guides/view/fa0107) Ralph E. and Elise C. Forbes personal financial records, 1896-1952. OFFSITE STORAGE. Finding aid available at: http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0109 (http://www.masshist.org/collection- guides/view/fa0109) W. Cameron Forbes journals [typescript], 1904-1946. Ms. N-1231. John Murray Forbes papers. OFFSITE STORAGE. Ms. N-500 (XT volumes only). Finding aid available at: http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0228(http://www.masshist.org/collection- FULL CATALOG - Full View of Record Page 1 of 2 Harvard University HOLLIS CATALOG Search Results List My Account/Renew Expanded Search Previous Searches Comments/Requests TAS Start Over Command Search Display Options ? Help Full Catalog Find Articles Journal Titles Digital Resources Reserves Full View of Record : FULL CATALOG Print/Save/Send Add to List I View List Last Browse Back to Results List Choose format: Full view I Short view MARC Record 7 out of 15 Previous Record Next Record Author : Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959. Title : Additional papers, 1904-1931. Note: Ally of G.BDORR in Locations/Orders : Availability Harvard Yard Expansion Project See file. Location : Houghton I MS Am 1192-1192.13 Holdings Availability Finding aids : Electronic finding aid availablehttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01100 Unpublished printed finding aid available in the Houghton Accessions Records, 1950-1951, 1952-1953, under *50M-50F-62F, *52M-234. Description : 64 V. and 3 boxes (14.8 linear ft.) Description : Arranged chronologically. History notes : Forbes was an American businessman and government executive. He served as governor-general of the Philippines, 1909-1913, and ambassador to Japan, 1930-1932. Summary : Includes 63 volumes of journals concerning Forbes" administration of the Philippines, 1904-1911, and scrapbooks with copies of outgoing correspondence, speeches, and memorabilia about political, economic, and other matters in the Philippines, 1904-1931; copies of Forbes' reports, including photographs, on the Philippines and Haiti, 1921 and 1930; U.S. Philippine Commission railway records; and printed maps of the Philippines. Also includes an index to the first 5 volumes of the journals. Provenance : At least one location has provenance information. Click on the holdings link(s) for specific information. Cite as : William Cameron Forbes Papers (MS Am 1192-1192.13). Houghton Library, Harvard University. Notes : There is related W. Cameron Forbes material in Manuscripts and Archives, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Subject : Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959. Subject : United States. Philippine Commission, 1900-1916. Subject : Railroads -- Philippines. Note 2 : Seo George Santayana Subject : Haiti -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Philippines -- Governors. Persons and Places, 3rd.edu Philippines -- Economic conditions. Philippines -- Politics and government. Pp 346f. Form/Genre : Diaries. Maps. Memorabilia. Photographs. 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Encaustic, materials and methods, 1949 Book 5 Forbes, Edward The beginnings of the art department and of the Fogg Museum of Art 1941 Book Waldo, 1873-1969. at Harvard; 6 Forbes, Edward The appreciation of art. 1941 Book Waldo, 1873-1969. 7 Forbes, Edward Appreciation of Art. 1941 Book Waldo, 1873-1969. 8 Inter-Museum Plans to evacuate collections in case of bombing during World War 1941 Mixed Committee (Boston Two, 1941. and Cambridge, Mass.) 9 Harvard University. Harvard portraits; a catalogue of portrait paintings at Harvard 1936 Book university, 10 Forbes, Edward Expedition Records, 1927-1938. 1927 Mixed Waldo, 1873-1969. 11 Bliss, Robert Harvard University Archives accession 13250 1925 Mixed Woods, 1875-1962. 12 Forbes, Edward Recent gifts to the Fogg art museum and what they signify, 1917 Book Waldo, 1873-1969. 13 Notes on manuscripts of Ralph Waldo Emerson poems, 1916 and 1916 Ms undated. 14 Warner, Correspondence, 1906-1946. 1906 Ms http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/ENRJYUUJRDXRNVQEKAUJFKD64L4R1F9VH7XVV7HTU..9/9/2007 HOLLIS FULL CATALOG - List of Records Page 2 of 2 Langdon, 1881- 1955. 15 Forbes, Edward Notes and midyear thesis in Philosophy 9, 1894-1895. 1894 Mixed Waldo, 1873-1969. 16 Forbes, Edward Weekly papers and lecture notes in History 13, 1894-1895. 1894 Mixed Waldo, 1873-1969. 17 Forbes, Edward Themes in English 12, 1894-1895. 1894 Book Waldo, 1873-1969. 18 Forbes, Edward Notes in Botany 1, 1894. 1894 Mixed Waldo, 1873-1969. 19 Forbes, Edward Notes in Economic 1, 1893-1894. 1893 Mixed Waldo, 1873-1969. 20 Forbes, Edward Notes in Zoology 1, 1893. 1893 Mixed Waldo, 1873-1969. Previous Page Next Page Select All I Deselect All Print/Save/Send Create Subset Add to List View List Last Browse Modify Search SEARCH: FULL CATALOG Search type: Search for: Keywords anywhere Title beginning with Title keywords Search Clear Author (last name first) Author keywords Scroll down for more choices New: Download LibX search tool About the HOLLIS Catalog E-RESEARCH (ARTICLES) CITATION LINKER RESEARCH GUIDES OTHER CATALOGS LIBRARY INFO HARVARD LIBRARIES HARVARD HOME Copyright C 2006 President and Fellows of Harvard College http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/ENRJYUUJRDXRNVQEKAUJFKD64L4R1F9VH7XVV7HTU. 9/9/2007 IN MEMORIAM ALLYN BAILEY FORBES NOVEMBER 2, 1897-JANUARY 21, 1947 I N the untimely death of ALLYN BAILEY FORBES, its Director for the past seven years, the Massachusetts Historical Society has lost an able executive, a discriminating scholar, and a good friend. Mr. Forbes was born at Taunton and was graduated from Amherst College in 1919. He taught at Deerfield Academy for five years and then, after obtaining his degree as Master of Arts at Harvard in 1927, was a Tutor in History there for three years. He first served this Society as Acting Editor in 1931-1932, when he saw Proceedings, LXIV, and House Journals, XIII, through the press. Appointed Librarian in September, 1934, upon the resignation of Julius Herbert Tuttle, he at once be- gan that revision and extension of our catalogue of books, pam- phlets, and manuscripts which is still under way. He was un- tiring at making acquisitions, both old and new, available to students. In January, 1940, when he became the first Director of the Society, an office which combined the exacting duties of both Librarian and Editor, he immediately undertook the reorgani- zation of the staff. Thereafter, during his all too brief tenure, he edited no fewer than eleven volumes of the publications: Proceedings, LXV-LXVII (1940-1945); Winthrop Papers, III-V (1943-1947): House Journals, XVII-XXI (1940-1946); and assisted in the publication of a twelfth: Collections, LXXIX: Voyages of the "Columbia" (1941)-all this besides issuing seventy-six numbers of the second series of Photostat Americana (1939- 1942). Meanwhile, as Editor of the Colonial Society of Massachu- setts (1931-1946), Mr. Forbes prepared, or supervised the pub- 401 NEQ 20 (1947) This content downloaded from 137.49.125.110 on Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:21:47 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 402 THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY lication of, eight volumes of Transactions and Collections. Moreover, as a member of the Board of the NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY (1933-1947), he not only shared the burden of reading contributions, but compiled "A Bibliography of New England" for that magazine for eighteen years (1930-1947). To his loyal association with his colleagues and his devotion to his friends, Mr. Forbes added countless deeds of generosity and kindness, of which those who knew him best were often the last to learn. HAROLD MILTON ELLIS AUGUST 2, 1885-MAY 18, 1947 S TUDENTS of American culture suffered a grievous loss in the death of HAROLD MILTON ELLIS, a member of the Board of the NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY since 1932, and its Managing Editor for seven years (1938-1944). Since 1919, Mr. Ellis was Professor of English at the University of Maine, where he served with distinction as Chairman of his Department (1919- 1946), Director of the Summer School (1925-1930), and as a scholarly teacher of American letters. Mr. Ellis was born in Belfast, Maine, and was graduated from the University of his native state in 1907. A year later he proceeded to the degree of Master of Arts at Maine, and after further study at Harvard where he obtained the M.A. in 1909, he taught at Muhlenberg College (1909-1911). Returning to Cambridge to take his doctorate in 1913, Mr. Ellis completed a pioneer study of the life of Joseph Dennie, the first doctoral dissertation upon a subject in American literature to be ac- cepted by the Graduate Faculty at Harvard. Before returning to his own Alma Mater, Mr. Ellis taught at the University of Texas (1913-1917), and at Trinity College, Durham, North Carolina (1917-1919). At Maine he dedicated himself to a study of American literature at a time when that subject was greatly neglected. His teaching bore fruit in the highly competent monographs published as the University of This content downloaded from 137.49.125.110 on Wed, 18 Nov 2020 15:21:47 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Proceeding the 8 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY [April, of two Worcester social organizations-the St. Wulstan Society and the Worcester Fire Society. In 1943 he came on to the 150th Anniversary Dinner of the latter Society, at which time he was fourth in seniority of membership. He was elected to the American Antiquarian Society in 1918, although he had shown much interest in the Society before that time and had presented many gifts to the Library. He had gathered one of the most complete collec- tions of early Worcester views. These hung in his office in the Institution for Savings, but upon his departure for Boston, he presented the collection to this Society. Long an admirer of the financial genius of Alexander Hamilton, he formed during his life a notable collection of Hamilton- iana, including many editions of The Federalist, broadsides and autograph letters. This collection he presented to the Society in 1941. Mr. Aiken married, November 25, 1896, Elizabeth Peck Hopkins, daughter of William Swinton Bennett Hopkins of Worcester, and had a son, William Appleton Aiken. Mrs. Aiken died March 20, 1942, and he married, September 21, 1944, Anna Lee Colvin Hopkins, the widow of Erastus Hopkins. From Yale University he received the honorary degree of A.M. in 1918. C. S. B. ALLYN BAILEY FORBES Allyn Bailey Forbes, director of the Massachusetts His- torical Society, was born at Taunton on November 2, 1897, a son of Harrie Wilson and Bertha (Wilbur) Forbes. He was educated at Taunton High School, St. George's School, and Amherst College, where he received his B.A. in 1919. After five years of teaching at Deerfield Academy he entered the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where he 1947.] OBITUARIES 9 took his M.A. in 1927. Choosing as the subject of his doctoral dissertation the life of Henry Newman, he went to England and did a considerable amount of research in the archives of the Church. Finding that Newman was not a man of major importance, and becoming interested in other things, he abandoned Newman and the pursuit of the doctorate after several years of work. From 1928 to 1931 Forbes was a tutor at Harvard, but because of his shyness he was never particularly effective as a teacher. He found his niche in 1931 when he succeeded our associate, Albert Matthews, as editor of the publica- tions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Few men would have dared try to follow in the footsteps of so great a scholar, but Forbes maintained the standards of his pre- decessor and brought out eight volumes in the next sixteen years. For eighteen years he compiled the "Bibliography of New England" for the New England Quarterly, of which he became a member of the editorial board in 1933. A year later he became librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society; and in 1940, director. He turned out to be an excellent librarian, and he brought the great chaotic collec- tion which he had inherited into some degree of order. One of his major services was the expansion of the catalogue- of manuscripts of the Society. At the same time he was editing eleven volumes of the publications of the Society, including three extremely difficult volumes of Winthrop Papers. It was in connection with the proposed publication by the Colonial Society of the Increase Mather manuscripts belonging to the American Antiquarian Society that Forbes first came into contact with us. He was elected to membership in April, 1935, and became a faithful member. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Club of Odd Volumes. IO AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY [April, On June 15, 1938, Forbes married Mrs. Lois Whitney Perry of St. Cloud, Minnesota. They made their home at Cambridge where he became active in Christ Church. In spite of his ample personal means, he labored at his edito- rial tasks until it could well be said that he worked himself to death. As if with a premonition of the coming stroke, he resigned the editorship of the Colonial Society in 1946, and had wound up most of his other work when he died suddenly on January 21, 1947. He is survived by Mrs. Forbes and her three children, by a brother, William, of Taunton, and by a sister, Mrs. Mahlon W. Hill, of Wellesley. C. K. S. ROGERS CLARK BALLARD THRUSTON The passing of Mr. Thruston breaks a link between the present and the founding days of Kentucky. He was a member of a family which had played a major part in the founding of the state, which was proud of that part, and which steeped little Rogers in the traditions of the first generation there. He was born in Louisville on November 6, 1858, a son of Andrew Jackson and Frances Ann (Thrus- ton) Ballard, and named for his great-grandmother's brother. In 1884 he legally added his mother's name to his own with the thought of perpetuating the patronymic of an old Kentucky family. Rogers Thruston was educated in the public schools of Louisville, the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven, Williston Seminary at Easthampton, and Yale. He entered the Sheffield Scientific School in 1876, but after a year, left to go west. He returned to New Haven in the fall of 1878 and was graduated in 188o. He was doing graduate work at Yale in 1881, when he was moved to try his luck in the mines of New Mexico. He reached Louisville where his MHS William Hathaway Forbes Papers, 1855-1894 : Offsite Storage Inventory Page 1 of 6 THE MASSACHUSETTS About MHS Library Online In Print Education Events HISTORICAL SOCIETY Library: Finding Aids Search all Finding Aids List of Finding Aids Related Pages: ABIGAIL (online C Search within this finding aid: Search William Hathaway Forbes Papers Table of Contents Collection Summary 1855-1894 Biographical Timeline Sources Acquisition Information Offsite Storage Inventory Restrictions on Access Restrictions on Use The William Hathaway Forbes papers are stored offsite and must be Detailed Description of the requested at least one business day in advance. Contact the Library at Collection library@masshist.org or (617) 536-1608 to request materials. Please discuss Preferred Citation your request with the reading room staff before requesting cartons by barcode. Access Terms Users must sign an agreement regarding procedures of use, available from the reference librarian, for access to this collection. Collection Summary Creator: Forbes, William Hathaway, Abstract: 1840-1897. This collection consists of the personal Title: William Hathaway Forbes and professional letters sent and received papers by telephone pioneer, William Hathaway Forbes, as well as household bills. Dates: 1855-1894 Physical 3 cartons (stored offsite). Description: Call OFFSITE STORAGE Number: Repository: Massachusetts Historical Society 1154 Boylston Street http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0110 10/6/2004 MHS | William Hathaway Forbes Papers, 1855-1894 : Offsite Storage Inventory Page 2 of 6 Boston, MA 02215 library@masshist.org Table of Contents Biographical Timeline Date Event 1 Nov. 1840 William Hathaway Forbes born, in Milton, Mass, one of six children of John Murray and Sarah Hathaway Forbes. 1857 Entered Harvard College Class of 1861. 1860 Expelled from Harvard for trying to change Bibles in Harvard Chapel and hitting the watchman over the head. 1860-1861 Employed at the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Dec. 1861-Jan. 1863 Civil War service in First Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment. Jan.-20 June 1863 Service in Second Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment 6 July-Dec. 1864 Union prisoner at Charleston and Columbia, S.C. 15 May 1865 Discharged from the Second Massachusetts Cavalry. July 1865 Entered his father's firm of J.M. Forbes & Co. 3 Oct. 1865 Married Edith Emerson, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The couple had six sons and two daughters. 1871 Received the degree of A.B. as a member of the Harvard College Class of 1861. Built house on Naushon Island, Buzzards Bay. 1873 House built in Milton, Mass. Apr. 1877 First telephone line connecting William Hathaway Forbes' machine shop with his house laid. February 1878 New England Telephone Company began leasing telephones in the New England area. March 1879 Bell Telephone Company and the New England Telephone Company http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0110 10/6/2004 MHS | William Hathaway Forbes Papers, 1855-1894 : Offsite Storage Inventory Page 3 of 6 combined to form the American Bell Telephone Company. William Hathaway Forbes is named president. 1881 William Hathaway Forbes formed the Game Club. 1884 Appointed a member of the National Committee of Independents, and President of the Board of Trustees of Milton Academy. 8 July 1887 Retired from the presidency of the American Bell Company, remaining a member of its Executive Committee. January 1890 With(Charles P. Bowditch organized the Boston Expedition of Exploitation and Determination of Honduras. 11 Oct. 1897 Died at his summer residence of Naushon. Table of Contents Sources Pier, Arthur S., Forbes: Telephone Pioneer. (New York: 1953). Table of Contents Acquisition Information Deposited by the J.M. Forbes Family Archives Committee, 1995. Ownership will devolve upon the Massachusetts Historical Society on January 1, 2050. Table of Contents Restrictions on Access The William Hathaway Forbes papers are stored offsite and must be requested at least one business day in advance. Contact the Library at library@masshist.org or (617) 536- 1608 to request materials. Please discuss your request with the reading room staff before requesting cartons by barcode. Users must sign an agreement regarding procedures of use, available from the reference librarian, for access to this collection. http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0110 10/6/2004 3/9/2016 John Murray Forbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Murray Forbes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Murray Forbes (February 23, 1813 - October 12, 1898) was an American railroad magnate, merchant, John Murray Forbes philanthropist and abolitionist. He was president of both Born February 23, 1813 the Michigan Central railroad and the Chicago, Bordeaux, France Burlington and Quincy Railroad in the 1850s. Died October 12, 1898 (aged 85) Milton, Massachusetts, U.S. Contents Cause of pneumonia death Residence Milton, Massachusetts, U.S. 1 Early life Naushon Island, Dukes County, Massachusetts, U.S. 2 Career Education Phillips Academy 3 Philanthropy Round Hill School Occupation Railroad magnate, merchant, financier 4 Personal life Spouse(s) Sarah Hathaway 5 Death and legacy Children William Hathaway Forbes John Malcolm Forbes 6 References Parent(s) Ralph Bennett Forbes 7 External links Margaret Perkins Relatives John Murray Forbes (paternal uncle) Thomas Handasyd Perkins (maternal Early life uncle) Robert Bennet Forbes (brother) Forbes was born on February 23, 1813 in Bordeaux, Francis Blackwell Forbes (cousin) France. [1] His father Ralph Bennett Forbes, was a member of the Forbes family who attempted unsuccessfully to start a trade from Bordeaux. [1] His mother, Margaret Perkins, was the sister of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, founder of a Boston Brahmin family merchant dynasty involved in the China trade. His parents moved back to the Captain Robert Bennet Forbes House in Milton, Massachusetts in 1814. His paternal uncle was John Murray Forbes (1771-1831), lawyer and diplomat. His cousin was Francis Blackwell Forbes, both grandchildren of James Grant Forbes I. His brother was Robert Bennet Forbes (1804-1889), sea captain and China merchant. Forbes attended school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, then at Round Hill School in Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1823 to 1828. Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Forbes 1/4 3/9/2016 John Murray Forbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Forbes was one of three brothers sent by their uncle to Canton, China, and achieved some financial success during a short time spent trading in Canton. However, unlike his brother Robert Bennet Forbes who devoted himself to the China trade, Forbes returned to Boston and became an early railroad investor and landowner. As with Jay Gould and E. H. Harriman, Forbes was an important figure in the building of America's railroad system. From March 28, 1846 through 1855, he was president of Michigan Central Railroad, and he was a director and president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, he helped with the growth of the American Middle West. Forbes founded J.M. Forbes & Co., an investment firm in Boston in 1838. [1] He supplied money and weapons to New Englanders to fight slavery in Kansas and in 1859 entertained John Brown. In 1860, he was an elector for Abraham Lincoln. He served as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln. [2] Staunchly pro-Union, he is given credit for founding the New England Loyal Publication Society in early 1863 (Smith 1948). [Historical Note: In 1863, John Murray Forbes, served as a 'confidential agent' of Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Wells, in Paris, France. Source: Office of Naval Records and Library, Record Group 45, indicating a 'gift of personal papers'. Citation: "The Union", A Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War, 1986, edited by K.W. Munden and H. P. Beers, 452.] After the Civil War, Forbes was elected as a 3rd Class (honorary) Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Forbes was a delegate to the Republican conventions of 1876, 1880 and 1884, he eventually became displeased with the Republican party and worked successfully to get Democrat Grover Cleveland elected President. Philanthropy Forbes's many philanthropic activities included the re-establishment of Milton Academy, a preparatory school south of Boston, Massachusetts in 1884. Personal life Forbes married Sarah Hathaway. They had two sons, William Hathaway Forbes and John Malcolm Forbes, and two daughters, Mrs Russell and Mrs Harrison. [2] They resided in Milton, Massachusetts, and summered on Naushon Island in Dukes County, Massachusetts. [2] Death and legacy Forbes died of pneumonia on October 12, 1898 in Milton, Massachusetts. [2] Edward Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's son, published Forbes biography in the September 1899 issue of "Atlantic" magazine. The Emerson and Forbes families were close. John Murray's son, William Hathaway Forbes, married Ralph's daughter, Edith Emerson. In Letters and Social Aims, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote of Forbes: "Never was such force, good meaning, good sense, good action, combined with such domestic lovely behavior, such modesty and persistent preference for others. Wherever he moved he https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Forbes 2/4 3/9/2016 John Murray Forbes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia was the benefactor. How little this man suspects, with his sympathy for men and his respect for lettered and scientific people, that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself," and "I think this is a good country that can bear such a creature as he." His cousin Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839- 1908) is the great-grandfather of 2004 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry. His eldest son, William Hathaway Forbes (1840-1897) became the first president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and father of William Cameron Forbes. Another of his sons was John Malcolm Forbes, the yachtsman and horseman. His great great great great grandson is Jonathan Meath, a renowned Emmy award-winning television producer. [3] The small community of Forbes, Missouri, is named for him. [4] References 1. "History of J.M. Forbes & Co.". J.M. Forbes & Co. Retrieved October 17, 2015. 2. "John Murray Forbes Is Dead. Wealthy New Englander Passes Away At Milton, Mass.". Chicago Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois). October 13, 1898. p. 5. Retrieved October 12, 2015 - via Newspapers.com. a 3. "Mary Stewart Hewitt". Monadnock Ledger-Transcript. Jan 10, 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-14. "She is survived by her husband, Peter M. Hewitt; two daughters, Margaret F. Meath of Lorton, Va., and Sarah M. Tibbetts of Scituate, Mass.; two sons, James S. Huntington-Meath of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Jonathan G. Meath of Cambridge, Mass." 4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 174. Life and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, ed. by Sarah Forbes Hughes, Two Volumes, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899. An American Railroad Builder: John Murray Forbes, by Henry Pearson, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1911. Forbes: Telephone Pioneer, by Arthur Pier, 1953. Smith, George Winston. "Broadsides for Freedom: Civil War Propaganda in New England." The New England Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Sep., 1948), pp. 291-312. White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: 9- 15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797. External links Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography: John Murray Forbes (http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/johnforbes.html) Old Plank Road Trail history and development (http://oprt.org/history-4.htm). Retrieved October 2, 2013. 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