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:

  • 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 )
  • Charles Jackson (1797-1876)
  • Lydia Jackson ( wife of Ralph Waldo Emerson )
  • Jonathan Jackson
  • Patrick Tracy Jackson
Franklin D. Roosevelt Charles Eliot (landscape architect) Charles Jackson (Rhode Island) Elizabeth Peabody
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