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Darwin Correspondence Project

Catherine Eliot Norton

1793–1879

Daughter of Samuel Eliot, a wealthy Boston businessman, and his wife Catherine Atkins. Married Andrews Norton in 1821. Mother of Charles Eliot Norton.

Sources

ANB s.v. Norton, Andrews and Norton, Charles Eliot

North America, family histories, 1500–2000 History of the Dudley Family with genealogical tables, pedigrees, &c: 1 (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 October 2022)

J. Turner 1999

United States Federal Census 1860 (Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 1/66) (Ancestry.com, accessed 18 June 2020)

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.

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

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