Moses Brown Ives (July 21, 1794 – August 7, 1857) was a businessman and philanthropist from Providence, Rhode Island who was partner in Brown & Ives and was President of Providence Bank. He also served as a trustee of

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

, and was treasurer of Butler Hospital.

Early life

Moses Brown Ives was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 21, 1794, and named after Moses Brown, the co-founder of Brown University. He was the eldest son of

Thomas Poynton Ives Thomas Poynton Ives (April 9, 1769 – April 30, 1835) was an American merchant and banker from Rhode Island. Early life Ives was born on April 9, 1769 in Beverly in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in what was then British America, and was baptiz ...

(1769–1835) and Hope (

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Brown) Ives (1773–1855). Among his siblings was older sister Charlotte Rhoda Ives, who married Professor William Giles Goddard (parents of

Robert Hale Ives Goddard Robert Hale Ives Goddard (September 21, 1837 – April 22, 1916) was a prominent banker, industrialist, U.S. Army officer, state senator and philanthropist. Early life He was born in Providence, Rhode Island on September 21, 1837. He was a son ...

); and Robert Hale Ives Jr., who married Harriet Bowen Amory. His paternal grandparents were Sarah (née Bray) Ives and Captain Robert Hale Ives, a master-mariner who was one of the original eighteen members of the

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. His maternal grandparents were

Nicholas Brown Sr. Nicholas Brown Sr. (July 26, 1729 – May 29, 1791) was a Providence, Rhode Island slave-trader, merchant, civic leader and co-signer of the charter of the College of Rhode Island in 1763. In 1771, Nicholas Brown Sr. was instrumental in convinci ...

and his first wife, Rhoda (née Jenckes) Brown. His maternal uncle was

Nicholas Brown Jr. Nicholas Brown Jr. (April 4, 1769 – September 27, 1841) was an American businessman and philanthropist from Providence, Rhode Island, who was the namesake of Brown University. Early life Nicholas Brown Jr. was the son of Rhoda Jenckes (1741– ...

and among his first cousins was

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and

John Carter Brown II John Carter Brown II (1797 – June 11, 1874) was a book collector whose library formed the basis of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Early life John Carter Brown II was born in 1797, the youngest of three surviving children bo ...

. Ives graduated from Brown University in 1812 and then attended

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before traveling abroad in Europe.

Career

He followed his father and became a partner in

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in 1832, president of Providence Bank, and trustee of

. In addition, he served as treasurer of Butler Hospital.

Personal life

In 1833, Ives was married to Annie Allen Dorr (1810–1884). Annie, the daughter of Sullivan Dorr, a prosperous manufacturer and co-owner of

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, was the sister of

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, the extralegal Governor of Rhode Island. Together, they were the parents of two children: * Thomas Poynton Ives (1834–1865), a Captain during the

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who married Elizabeth Cabot Motley, daughter of U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom John Lothrop Motley. After his death, his widow, who inherited his fortune, remarried to British statesman

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and became the mother of MP

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. * Hope Brown Ives (1839–1909), who married Henry Grinnell Russell, one of the wealthiest men in Rhode Island. His desk-and-bookcase was made in Providence, Rhode Island at the end of the 18th Century. It was made in the Chippendale Style; mahogany is its primary wood. Ives died on August 7, 1857, and was buried in Providence's

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. Upon his death, he created a bequest which was used to provide some of the early funding for the creation of

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in 1863.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ives, Moses Brown 1794 births 1857 deaths Philanthropists from Rhode Island American bankers People from Providence, Rhode Island Litchfield Law School alumni Brown University alumni Burials at North Burying Ground (Providence) 19th-century American philanthropists 19th-century American businesspeople