EDUADAMS #101 The Education of Henry Adams

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2044 . looking back, seemed to lie wholly in State Street. CHAPTER I.I BOSTON (1848-1854) P.E.T.E.R CHARDON BROOKS, the other grandfather, died January 1, 1849, bequeathing what was supposed to be the largest estate in Boston, about two million dollars, to his seven surviving children: four sons -- Edward, Peter Chardon, Gorham, and Sydney; three daughters -- Charlotte, married to Edward Everett; Ann, married to Nathaniel Frothingham, minister of the First Church; and Abigail Brown, born April 25, 1808, married September 3, 1829, to Charles Francis Adams, hardly a year older than herself. Their first child, born in 1830, was a daughter,