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Mary Elizabeth Channing (1820–1847)
Mary Elizabeth Higginson (1847–1877)

1820/1–77

American. Daughter of Walter Channing, dean of Harvard Medical School; married her second cousin, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, in 1847.

Sources

1870 United States Federal Census (Newport Ward 2, Newport, Rhode Island (M593_1472/448A/181))

ANB s.v. Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Harrington 1905, p. 512.

Bibliography

ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.

Harrington, Thomas Francis. 1905. The Harvard medical school, a history, narrative and documentary. 1782–1905. New York and Chicago: Lewis publishing company.

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