Marian Hooper Adams


Marian Clover Hooper Adams was an American socialite, active society hostess and arbiter of Washington, D.C., and an accomplished amateur photographer.

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the third and youngest child of Robert William Hooper and Ellen H. Sturgis . Her siblings were Ellen Sturgis Nella Hooper , who married professor Ephraim Whitman Gurney and Edward William Ned Hooper . The Hooper family was wealthy and prominent. Clovers birthplace and childhood home in Boston, was at 114 Beacon Street, Beacon Hill. When she was five years old, her mother, a Transcendentalist poet, died and she became very close to her physician father. She was privately educated at a girls school in Cambridge, which was run by Elizabeth and Louis Agassiz.

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