Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ROBT. I. CARTER On March 2, 1891, he married Mary Elizabeth,daughter of George T. Peckham, of Orange county,New York ; they have no children. UNIVERSITIES JND THEIR SONS AMORY, Arthur Harvard in Boston, Mass., 1841; fitted for College at Private School; graduated Harvard, 1862;clerk in a Boston office, 1862-63 ? employed in mercan-tile house of Upham, Tucker & Co., New York, 1863-66;admit
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . ROBT. I. CARTER On March 2, 1891, he married Mary Elizabeth,daughter of George T. Peckham, of Orange county,New York ; they have no children. UNIVERSITIES JND THEIR SONS AMORY, Arthur Harvard in Boston, Mass., 1841; fitted for College at Private School; graduated Harvard, 1862;clerk in a Boston office, 1862-63 ? employed in mercan-tile house of Upham, Tucker & Co., New York, 1863-66;admitted partner, 1866; removed to Boston, 1877; nowsenior member of Amory, Browne & Co. ARTHUR AMORV, Merchant, was born inBoston, Massachusetts, February 6, 1841,the son of James Sulhvan and Mary Copley (Greene)Amory. On his fathers side he traces his ancestryto Thomas Amory who came to this country in i 720. ARTHUR AMORY and settled in Charleston, South Carolina, where hemarried Rebecca Holmes in 1721. His motherwas a daughter of Gardiner Greene, one of the mostfamous of the old merchants of Boston, who mar-ried a daughter of Copley the painter, a sister ofBaron Lyndhurst, Lord Chancellor of Amory was fitted for College at the cele-brated school for boys kept by Dr. Epes Dixwell inBoston, and entered Harvard at seventeen years ofage, graduating in 1862. While an undergraduatehe went as passenger with a scientific expeditionsent out to Greenland under the auspices of theNatural History Society of Williams College. Aftergraduation he was engaged for a year as clerk in aBoston office, and in 1863 went to New York to enter the em])loy of the old Boston mercantile houseof Upham, Tucker & Company, to which he wasadmitted as a partner in 1866. He reinained inNew York until 1877, when he removed to Bostonand entered the main office of the concern. In1S96 the firm name was chang
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