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Lucy Adeline Briggs Cole Rawson Peckinpah Smallman
Lucy Adeline Briggs (25 August 1840 – 12 October 1920) was an American watercolor botanical artist and botanical collector. Life Born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, Lucy married her first husband, James Cole, in 1860, who died due to drowning in the Mokelumne River in 1862. Lucy subsequently married her second husband a year later, Julius Addison Rawson, in San Francisco. Rawson then died, along with Lucy's only child, in 1877. She then re-married in 1886, to Thaddeus Edgar Peckinpah. They lived near the Napa Valley, where Peckinpah had purchased 91 acres of land. Later, she married James Knight Smallman in 1912. In the botanical literature, she is often referred to simply as Mrs. Peckinpah, or Mrs. L.A. Rawson Peckinpah. Art According to the ''History of Solano and Napa Counties, California'', published 1912, "as a close student of nature [Lucy] has made a deep study of botany.... Her painted collection of California wild flowers numbers over three hundred." Lucy also taugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middleboro, Massachusetts
Middleborough (frequently written as Middleboro) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 24,245 at the 2020 census. History The town was first settled by Europeans in 1661 as Nemasket, later changed to Middlebury, and officially incorporated as Middleborough in 1669. The name Nemasket came from a Native American settlement along the small river that now bears the same name. ''Nemasket'' may have meant "place of fish", due to the large amount of herring that migrate up the river each spring. There are no contemporary records that indicate the name Middlebury was taken from a place in England. The names Middlebury and Middleborough were actually derived from the city of Middelburg, Zeeland, the westernmost province of the Netherlands. Middelburg was an international intellectual center and economic powerhouse. The English religious dissenters known as the Brownists developed their governing institutions in Middelburg before emigrating on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
