Charles Sprague Sargent

1841 - 1927  (85 years)

• Name	Charles Sprague Sargent  [1]
  Birth	24 Apr 1841	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	22 Mar 1927	Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [6, 8]
  Person ID	I5146	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2018

  
  

  Father	Ignatius Sargent,   b. 20 Jan 1800, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts d. 18 Aug 1884, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Henrietta Gray,   b. 1 Oct 1811   d. 3 Apr 1891, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	7 May 1835	Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 5, 9]
  Family ID	F2863	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Allen Robeson,   b. 14 Jun 1853, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island d. 15 Aug 1919, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	26 Nov 1873  [2, 6, 10, 11, 12]
  Children	+ 1. Charles Sprague Sargent,   b. 7 Mar 1880, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 13 Feb 1959, New York City (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F2593	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Jul 2018

  
  

• Notes

  American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany, and he was a friend of John Muir. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified.

  
  

• Sources

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