Harriet Webb Athearn was the older daughter of James F. Athearn and Lydia Ramsdell Starbuck. Her grandparents were Capt. Levi Starbuck—master of the whaling ship Harlequin—and Elizabeth Ramsdell, and James Athearn (Sr.)—cashier and, later, president of the Nantucket Pacific Bank—and Lydia Cary. Her family moved to Boston following the Great Fire of 1846 on Nantucket, where she died at age 18 of dropsy (edema).
She was named after her aunt, Harriet Athearn Webb, wife of Dr. Thomas Hopkins Webb, a physician, naturalist, historian, publisher, and founding officer of MIT. Dr. Webb was the son of Thomas Smith Webb, whose contributions to Masonic ritual were greatly influential throughout the English-speaking world.
Originally interred in Tomb 78 of Boston's Central Burying Ground, she was transferred October 4, 1890 to the Cambridge Cemetery by her sister, Susan, to rest beside the newly-buried body of their mother. Sadly, sister Susan joined them in death the following spring.
She was named after her aunt, Harriet Athearn Webb, wife of Dr. Thomas Hopkins Webb, a physician, naturalist, historian, publisher, and founding officer of MIT. Dr. Webb was the son of Thomas Smith Webb, whose contributions to Masonic ritual were greatly influential throughout the English-speaking world.
Originally interred in Tomb 78 of Boston's Central Burying Ground, she was transferred October 4, 1890 to the Cambridge Cemetery by her sister, Susan, to rest beside the newly-buried body of their mother. Sadly, sister Susan joined them in death the following spring.
Harriet Webb Athearn was the older daughter of James F. Athearn and Lydia Ramsdell Starbuck. Her grandparents were Capt. Levi Starbuck—master of the whaling ship Harlequin—and Elizabeth Ramsdell, and James Athearn (Sr.)—cashier and, later, president of the Nantucket Pacific Bank—and Lydia Cary. Her family moved to Boston following the Great Fire of 1846 on Nantucket, where she died at age 18 of dropsy (edema).
She was named after her aunt, Harriet Athearn Webb, wife of Dr. Thomas Hopkins Webb, a physician, naturalist, historian, publisher, and founding officer of MIT. Dr. Webb was the son of Thomas Smith Webb, whose contributions to Masonic ritual were greatly influential throughout the English-speaking world.
Originally interred in Tomb 78 of Boston's Central Burying Ground, she was transferred October 4, 1890 to the Cambridge Cemetery by her sister, Susan, to rest beside the newly-buried body of their mother. Sadly, sister Susan joined them in death the following spring.
She was named after her aunt, Harriet Athearn Webb, wife of Dr. Thomas Hopkins Webb, a physician, naturalist, historian, publisher, and founding officer of MIT. Dr. Webb was the son of Thomas Smith Webb, whose contributions to Masonic ritual were greatly influential throughout the English-speaking world.
Originally interred in Tomb 78 of Boston's Central Burying Ground, she was transferred October 4, 1890 to the Cambridge Cemetery by her sister, Susan, to rest beside the newly-buried body of their mother. Sadly, sister Susan joined them in death the following spring.
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