Boston Brahmin
As Boston Brahmins ( " Boston Brahmins " ), the most distinguished families of Boston are called. They carry out their lineage back to the Puritan founders of the Massachusetts colony and form a kind of aristocracy of New England. A few families like the Emersons managed by financial success and strategic marriages to rise to the First Families of Boston.
The term Brahmin denotes the highest caste in the Indian caste system. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. transferred it in 1860 in an article in the Atlantic Monthly on the New England " upper ten thousand ".
The Brahmins of Boston are characterized today by a pronounced carry dialect, more reminiscent of the British than American English. Your eloquence stirred also by their upbringing; visit the traditional Harvard University. Even the least as elitist Yale University against them was long considered second-rate. They married in the past centuries preference among themselves, so many distinguished Boston can be described as equal members of several clans.
As actual Brahmins of Boston the following families are members, led here with some of her outstanding offspring:
- Adams Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
- John Adams (1735-1826) & Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
- John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
- Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807-1886)
- Henry Adams (1838-1918)
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915)
- Charles Francis Adams III (1866-1954)
- Godfrey Lowell Cabot (1861-1962)
- Thomas Dudley Cabot
- Rufus Choate (1799-1859)
- Caleb Cushing (1800-1879)
- Thomas Cushing (1725-1788)
- William Cushing (1732-1810)
- Albert Cushing Read
- Richard Cushing (1895-1970)
- Arent Schuyler Crowninshield
- Jacob Crowninshield (1770-1808)
- Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772-1851)
- William Crowninshield Endicott (1826-1900)
- Frederic Crowninshield
- Columbus Delano (1809-1896)
- Jane Delano
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
- Paul Delano
- Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)
- Charles Eliot (1859-1897)
- William Greenleaf Eliot (1811-1887)
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- William Crowninshield Endicott (1826-1900)
- John Murray Forbes
- John Forbes Kerry ( b. 1943 )
- Abiel Holmes
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
- Charles Jackson (1797-1876)
- Lydia Jackson ( wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson )
- Jonathan Jackson
- Patrick Tracy Jackson
- Abbott Lawrence
- Amos Lawrence
- Amos Adams Lawrence (1814-1886)
- Samuel Lawrence
- William Lawrence
- Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924)
- Francis Cabot Lowell
- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943)
- Percival Lowell (1855-1916)
- Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
- Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894)
- Endicott Peabody (1920-1997)
- George Peabody (1795-1869)
- George Foster Peabody (1852-1938)
- Nathaniel Peabody
- Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979)
- John Winthrop (1588-1649)
- Robert Charles Winthrop (1809-1894)
- Thomas L. Winthrop
- Wait Winthrop