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Maria Theodora (Theodora) Sedgwick

1851–1916

American. Daughter of Sara Ashburner (d. 1856) and the American legal theorist Theodore Sedgwick (d. 1859). Grew up in New York and with her aunts in Massachusetts. Sister of William Erasmus Darwin’s wife, Sara.

Sources

Massachusetts, town and vital records, 1620–1988 (Ancestry.com, accessed 17 August 2016)

Turner 1999, p. 172

Bibliography

Turner, James. 1999. The liberal education of Charles Eliot Norton. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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