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Samuel Gray Ward

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Samuel Gray Ward

Birth
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, USA
Death
17 Nov 1907 (aged 90)
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Burial
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 235 on Walnut Ave
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The courtship of Anna Barker and Samuel Ward has been immortalized by the author Eleanor M Tilton in her article titled "The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Grey Ward", published in the journal Studies in the American Renaissance in 1987.

Anna and Samuel had at least three children: Anna Barker Ward who married Joseph Thoron, Lydia Gray Ward who married Richard Von Hoffman, Thomas Wren Ward who married Sophia Read Howard, and Elizabeth Barker Ward who married Ernst Augustus Shoenberg.

Samuel was one of the founders of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1869, and served as its first treasurer.

There is a famous bronze bas-relief image of Samuel Gray Ward by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is not currently on display.

Samuel was buried on November 20, 1907.

The courtship of Anna Barker and Samuel Ward has been immortalized by the author Eleanor M Tilton in her article titled "The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Grey Ward", published in the journal Studies in the American Renaissance in 1987.

Anna and Samuel had at least three children: Anna Barker Ward who married Joseph Thoron, Lydia Gray Ward who married Richard Von Hoffman, Thomas Wren Ward who married Sophia Read Howard, and Elizabeth Barker Ward who married Ernst Augustus Shoenberg.

Samuel was one of the founders of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1869, and served as its first treasurer.

There is a famous bronze bas-relief image of Samuel Gray Ward by Augustus Saint-Gaudens in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that is not currently on display.

Samuel was buried on November 20, 1907.



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