Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz was an American educator, and the cofounder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was a contributing author to many scientific published works with her husband, Louis Agassiz.

Elizabeth Cary was born in 1822 into a Boston Brahmin family of New England ancestry. She was born on December 5, 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts at the house of her grandfather, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, on Pearl Street. She was born to Mary Ann Cushing Perkins Cary and Thomas Graves Cary . The Cary and Perkins families were from England, and came to Massachusetts during the seventeenth century. Elizabeth Cary was the second of five daughters and seven children and was referred to as Lizzie by her immediate family and close friends. Because of her fragile health, she was tutored at home in Temple Place, Boston, which included the study of languages, drawing, music, and reading. She additionally received informal history lessons from Elizabeth Peabody.

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