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Louisa May <I>Goddard</I> Whitney

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Louisa May Goddard Whitney

Birth
Manchester, Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
Death
13 May 1882 (aged 62)
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Married John Howe Jr on 9 March 1842 in Brookline, MA.

In the 1850 census, she is living with John in Brookline with Annie, age 8, Ellen Howe, age 30, and Josiah Whitney, age 30.

Louisa has two marriages to Josiah Whitney registered. Her first registered marriage to Josiah Whitney occurred on 4 July 1854 in Muscatine County, Iowa. Her second registered marriage to Josiah Whitney occurred on 26 May 1871 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is listed as Louisa Goddard Howe and it is her second marriage.

In the 1855 census, she is listed as Louisa Whitney; she and Josiah are living in the Jabez French household in Northampton. Annie is not listed with them; she remained with her father and his second wife.

Wrote "The Burning of the Convent: a Narrative of the Destruction of the Ursuline School on Mount Benedict, Charlestown, by One of the Pupils" (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1877), and "Peasy's Childhood: an Autobiography" (1878).
Married John Howe Jr on 9 March 1842 in Brookline, MA.

In the 1850 census, she is living with John in Brookline with Annie, age 8, Ellen Howe, age 30, and Josiah Whitney, age 30.

Louisa has two marriages to Josiah Whitney registered. Her first registered marriage to Josiah Whitney occurred on 4 July 1854 in Muscatine County, Iowa. Her second registered marriage to Josiah Whitney occurred on 26 May 1871 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is listed as Louisa Goddard Howe and it is her second marriage.

In the 1855 census, she is listed as Louisa Whitney; she and Josiah are living in the Jabez French household in Northampton. Annie is not listed with them; she remained with her father and his second wife.

Wrote "The Burning of the Convent: a Narrative of the Destruction of the Ursuline School on Mount Benedict, Charlestown, by One of the Pupils" (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1877), and "Peasy's Childhood: an Autobiography" (1878).

Inscription

Louisa/Daughter of/Samuel and M M Goddard/Wife of/Josiah Dwight Whitney/England Dec 1819/Cambridge May 1882
Eleanor Goddard/Daughter of/J D and Louisa Whitney/Wife of/Thomas Allen/Northampton Nov 1856/Ecoven France May 1882
"They were lovely and pleasant in their lives/and in their deaths they were not divided"



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