Our great, great aunt.
Sister to Daniel Powers Whiting, our great, great, grandfather.
Mary's first husband, Daniel Wadsworth Whiting, was a graduate of Yale, a lawyer, editor, poet and her first cousin.
Left a widow at the age of twenty-six, she followed in his footsteps, supporting herself by publishing the Microcosm, a family magazine. A frequent contributor to the newspapers, she, early in the Civil War, started an editorial storm by advanced abolitionist views. Through the Lippincotts, she published a biography of Rev Thomas Brainerd, and to his memory erected an impressive monument in the Old Pine Street churchyard.
As the wife of the distinguished clergyman, Thomas Brainerd, Mary possessed hosts of friends. Whenever she revisited the Quaker City, she would make a round through it's business center, gate-crashing executive doors, and always welcome.
The watercolor on ivory portrait of Mary was done in New Haven, CT by Anson Dickinson on 8/12/1831.
Mary lived to eighty-three, retaining all her faculties in a remarkable degree.
Thomas and Mary Whiting Brainerd, had four children:
Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - September 27, 1837
Mary Whiting Brainerd - February 24, 1839
Emma Gertrude Brainerd - January 3, 1841
Charles Brainerd - January 21, 1844
From the book:
Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - Montreal / 1948
Sister to Daniel Powers Whiting, our great, great, grandfather.
Mary's first husband, Daniel Wadsworth Whiting, was a graduate of Yale, a lawyer, editor, poet and her first cousin.
Left a widow at the age of twenty-six, she followed in his footsteps, supporting herself by publishing the Microcosm, a family magazine. A frequent contributor to the newspapers, she, early in the Civil War, started an editorial storm by advanced abolitionist views. Through the Lippincotts, she published a biography of Rev Thomas Brainerd, and to his memory erected an impressive monument in the Old Pine Street churchyard.
As the wife of the distinguished clergyman, Thomas Brainerd, Mary possessed hosts of friends. Whenever she revisited the Quaker City, she would make a round through it's business center, gate-crashing executive doors, and always welcome.
The watercolor on ivory portrait of Mary was done in New Haven, CT by Anson Dickinson on 8/12/1831.
Mary lived to eighty-three, retaining all her faculties in a remarkable degree.
Thomas and Mary Whiting Brainerd, had four children:
Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - September 27, 1837
Mary Whiting Brainerd - February 24, 1839
Emma Gertrude Brainerd - January 3, 1841
Charles Brainerd - January 21, 1844
From the book:
Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - Montreal / 1948
Our great, great aunt.
Sister to Daniel Powers Whiting, our great, great, grandfather.
Mary's first husband, Daniel Wadsworth Whiting, was a graduate of Yale, a lawyer, editor, poet and her first cousin.
Left a widow at the age of twenty-six, she followed in his footsteps, supporting herself by publishing the Microcosm, a family magazine. A frequent contributor to the newspapers, she, early in the Civil War, started an editorial storm by advanced abolitionist views. Through the Lippincotts, she published a biography of Rev Thomas Brainerd, and to his memory erected an impressive monument in the Old Pine Street churchyard.
As the wife of the distinguished clergyman, Thomas Brainerd, Mary possessed hosts of friends. Whenever she revisited the Quaker City, she would make a round through it's business center, gate-crashing executive doors, and always welcome.
The watercolor on ivory portrait of Mary was done in New Haven, CT by Anson Dickinson on 8/12/1831.
Mary lived to eighty-three, retaining all her faculties in a remarkable degree.
Thomas and Mary Whiting Brainerd, had four children:
Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - September 27, 1837
Mary Whiting Brainerd - February 24, 1839
Emma Gertrude Brainerd - January 3, 1841
Charles Brainerd - January 21, 1844
From the book:
Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - Montreal / 1948
Sister to Daniel Powers Whiting, our great, great, grandfather.
Mary's first husband, Daniel Wadsworth Whiting, was a graduate of Yale, a lawyer, editor, poet and her first cousin.
Left a widow at the age of twenty-six, she followed in his footsteps, supporting herself by publishing the Microcosm, a family magazine. A frequent contributor to the newspapers, she, early in the Civil War, started an editorial storm by advanced abolitionist views. Through the Lippincotts, she published a biography of Rev Thomas Brainerd, and to his memory erected an impressive monument in the Old Pine Street churchyard.
As the wife of the distinguished clergyman, Thomas Brainerd, Mary possessed hosts of friends. Whenever she revisited the Quaker City, she would make a round through it's business center, gate-crashing executive doors, and always welcome.
The watercolor on ivory portrait of Mary was done in New Haven, CT by Anson Dickinson on 8/12/1831.
Mary lived to eighty-three, retaining all her faculties in a remarkable degree.
Thomas and Mary Whiting Brainerd, had four children:
Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - September 27, 1837
Mary Whiting Brainerd - February 24, 1839
Emma Gertrude Brainerd - January 3, 1841
Charles Brainerd - January 21, 1844
From the book:
Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd - Montreal / 1948
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