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词条 Daniel Sargent Sr.
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Personal life

     Descendants 

  4. References

{{Infobox person
| name = Daniel Sargent Sr.
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1730|3|18|mf=y}}
| birth_place = Gloucester, Massachusetts
| death_date = {{death date and age|1806|2|18|1730|3|18|mf=y}}
| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts
| occupation = Merchant
| parents = Epes Sargent
Ester McCarty
| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Turner
|1763|1806|reason=his death}}
| children = 7, including Daniel, Henry, Lucius
| relations = Paul Dudley Sargent (brother)
John Sargent (brother)
}}Daniel Sargent Sr. (March 18, 1730 – February 18, 1806) was an American merchant in Gloucester, Massachusetts and then Boston.[1]

Early life

Sargent was born on March 18, 1730 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He was the son of Col. Epes Sargent (1690–1762) and Ester McCarty, daughter of Florence McCarty.[2] His brothers's were Revolutionary war hero Paul Dudley Sargent (1745–1828) and John Sargent (1750–1824).[3]

Through his other brother Winthrop Sargent (1727–1793), he was the uncle of Judith Sargent Murray (1751–1820), the poet and advocate for women's rights, and Winthrop Sargent (1753–1820), Governor of Mississippi Territory.[3] His father was one of the largest landholders in Gloucester and had is portrait painted in 1760 by John Singleton Copley two years before his death in 1762.[4]

Career

He was a very successful merchant who was referred to as the "merchant prince".[5] He was engaged in the fishing business and foreign trade, moving to Newburyport, Massachusetts and then to Boston, where he had his offices at 25 and then 40 Long Wharf and owned Sargent's Wharf, Boston, MA.[6]

Personal life

In 1763, he married Mary Turner (1744–1813), the daughter of John Turner III of the House of the Seven Gables.[7] Daniel's wife Mary was extremely close to his niece Judith Sargent Murray and many of their correspondence were kept by Judith and now at the Sargent House Museum.[8] John Singleton Copley portrait of Mary Turner Sargent is at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.[9] Together, they had one daughter, who died young, and six sons:[3]

  • Daniel Sargent (1764–1842), a politician who was close friends with John Quincy Adams.[10]
  • Ignatius Sargent (1765–1821)
  • John Turner Sargent (1769–1813)
  • Henry Sargent (1770–1845), a painter
  • Mary Osborne Sargent, (1780–1781), who died in infancy.
  • Winthrop Sargent (1783–1808)
  • Lucius Manlius Sargent (1786–1867), the temperance advocate.

Sargent died on February 18, 1806 at his home in Boston, at the corner of Essex and Lincoln Streets.[5]

Descendants

Through his second son Ignatius, he was the great-grandfather of Harvard botanist Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927).[5] He was also the four-times-great grandfather of John Turner Sargent, CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Farrell|first1=Betty|title=Elite Families: Class and Power in Nineteenth-Century Boston|date=1993|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=9780791415931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WOuGvTXpsLgC&printsec=frontcover|accessdate=23 August 2017|language=en}}
2. ^Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent. Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants. Boston,
3. ^{{cite book|last1=Sargent|first1=Emma Worcester|title=Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants|date=1923|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AxJCnQEACAAJ|accessdate=23 August 2017|language=en}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Epes Sargent|url=https://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg60b/gg60b-45881.html|website=www.nga.gov|publisher=National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC|accessdate=23 August 2017}}
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Sargent|first1=Winthrop|title=Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent|date=1920|publisher=Printed for Private Collection|location=Philadelphia|url=https://archive.org/details/colonelpauldudle01sarg|accessdate=23 August 2017|language=en}}
6. ^{{cite book|title=The New England Historical and Genealogical Register|date=1871|publisher=New England Historic Genealogical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=raOjT40seHsC&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210|accessdate=23 August 2017|language=en}}
7. ^http://salemwomenshistory.com/The_Gables.html
8. ^{{cite web|title=Mary Turner Sargent|url=http://www.salemwomenshistory.com/Mary_Turner_Sargent.html|website=salemwomenshistory.com|accessdate=23 August 2017}}
9. ^Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
10. ^{{cite book|last1=Nagel|first1=Paul C.|title=John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life|date=1999|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=9780674479401|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rKdN8t3Y9kkC&printsec=frontcover|accessdate=23 August 2017|language=en}}
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5 : 1730 births|1806 deaths|People from Gloucester, Massachusetts|People from Boston|American merchants

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