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Louise Ayer Hatheway (1876-1955) was a
Louise Ayer Hatheway (1876-1955) was a philanthropist
Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...
, heiress and "genteel farmer" who founded Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary
Drumlin Farm is a 291 acre farm and wildlife sanctuary which is also the site of the headquarters of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. It is located at 208 South Great Road ( Route 117) in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
Drumlin Farm is a working farm w ...
in Lincoln, Massachusetts
Lincoln is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The population was 7,014 according to the 2020 United States Census, including residents of Hanscom Air Force Base that live within town limits. The town, located in the MetroWest region o ...
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Louise Raynor Ayer was born in 1876 to Cornelia Wheaton and Frederick Ayer
Frederick Ayer (December 8, 1822 – March 14, 1918) was an American businessman and the younger brother of patent medicine tycoon Dr. James Cook Ayer.
Early life
Ayer was born on December 8, 1822 in Ledyard, Connecticut and was the son of ...
, a founder of the American Woolen Company
The American Woolen Company is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of men’s and women’s worsted and woolen fabrics. Based in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, the company operates from the 160-year-old Warren Mills, which it acquired from Lo ...
. Her brother-in-law was General George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France ...
. In 1900 Louise Raynor Ayer married attorney Donald Gordon. The Gordons had two children; daughter Jean Gordon
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allegedly had an affair with General Patton and committed suicide shortly after Patton's death, and son Crawford "Crow" Gordon, father of current Governor of Wyoming Mark Gordon, died in 2014.
In 1915 Hatheway founded Drumlin Farm as a country retreat when she bought up several smaller farms and constructed a tunnel under Route 117 to connect her house, Gordon Hall, with the farmlands. Donald Gordon died in 1923.
In 1925 Louise Gordon then married Conrad Perkins Hatheway, and he died in 1937. Louise Hatheway died in 1955 and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery, rural, or garden, cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Middl ...
in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Hatheway bequeathed her estate to the Massachusetts Audubon Society
The Massachusetts Audubon Society, commonly known as Mass Audubon, founded in 1896 by Harriet Hemenway and Minna B. Hall and headquartered in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "protecting the nature of Massachusetts ...
which became the Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in 1956.John J. Galluzzo, ''Mass Audubon,'' Arcadia Publishing, 2005 p. 41 Gordon Hall currently serves as the Massachusetts Audubon Society Headquarters.References
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