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From: (Marcia Payne)
Subject: [MAWORCES] BRIGHAM Family Part 6
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:16:28 -0600 (CST)

(VI) Cornelia BRIGHAM, daughter of Capt. Charles BRIGHAM (V) was born in
Grafton, Mass. on Nov. 17, 1823. She mrried Calvin TAFT, who was born in
Roxbury, Mass., now Boston, on Jan. 29, 1813, he is the son of Adolphus
TAFT of Northbridge, and descendant of Robert TAFT of Mendon.
He married (1st) to Susan WADSWORTH, daughter of Jonathan and Tabitha
(WARREN) WADSWORTH of Farnumville, Grafton, Mass. He married (2nd) to
Eliza TAFT, daughter of Zadok and Abigail ( BENNETT) TAFT of Uxbridge,
Mass. He married (3rd) to Cornelia BRIGHAM. She survives him, residing
at her home at 8 Trowbridge Rd., Worcester.

(VII) William Tufts BRIGHAM, son of William BRIGHAM (VI) was born May
24, 1841. He was fitted for college at the Boston Latin School and
graduated from Harvard University in 1862 with the degree of Master of
Arts. He made a special study of Botany, and in 1864-65 explored the
Hawaiian Islands in company with Horace MANN, and discovered many new
plants.
He was a professor of Natural Science at Oahu College, resigning in
Oct. 1865, to continue explorations in China and India. He returned to
Mass., and in Sept. 1867 was admitted to the Bar. In 1868-69 he was an
instructor in Botany at Harvard. He served 6 years on the Boston School
Board, introducing septemic instruction in drawing in the public
schools, and was the Chairman of the first committee on drawing of that
board. He also introduced in the Boston Schools the SARGENT method of
Anthropometry, now in general use in colleges.
He removed to Honolulu in 1888 to take charge of the museum of
Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History, founded there by C.R. BISHOP,
and he is at present the director of that institution. He is a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the California Academy of
Sciences, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. William Tufts
BRIGHAM never married.

END of PART 6

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