Sister of artist Cecilia Beaux. Daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, her mother died after giving birth to Cecilia. So saddened by his wife's death, her father returned to his native France for most of the next sixteen years. Due to this Aimee was raised by her grandmother, and she was homeschooled until her teens when she was sent to the Misses Lymans' School of Philadelphia. Aimee was a quiet and caring person. She married Henry Sturgis Drinker on December 2, 1879 and had six children: Henry Jr., Cecil, James, Aimee, Philip (inventor of the iron lung), and historian Catherine Drinker Bowen. Her husband rose to become assistant to the president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and Etta took on the hectic job of managing the house of her children's complicated lives. In 1905 her husband became president of the railroad and the family moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the position and spent the next fifteen years there. Etta was committed to the singular ideal of selfless care for others- such as her children and her sister's artistic career- without regard for her own desires or ambitions.
Sister of artist Cecilia Beaux. Daughter of French silk manufacturer Jean Adolphe Beaux and teacher Cecilia Kent Leavitt, her mother died after giving birth to Cecilia. So saddened by his wife's death, her father returned to his native France for most of the next sixteen years. Due to this Aimee was raised by her grandmother, and she was homeschooled until her teens when she was sent to the Misses Lymans' School of Philadelphia. Aimee was a quiet and caring person. She married Henry Sturgis Drinker on December 2, 1879 and had six children: Henry Jr., Cecil, James, Aimee, Philip (inventor of the iron lung), and historian Catherine Drinker Bowen. Her husband rose to become assistant to the president of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and Etta took on the hectic job of managing the house of her children's complicated lives. In 1905 her husband became president of the railroad and the family moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the position and spent the next fifteen years there. Etta was committed to the singular ideal of selfless care for others- such as her children and her sister's artistic career- without regard for her own desires or ambitions.
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