Alice Greenough

ID #204, (1872-)
     Alice Greenough was born on 24 March 1872, in Quincy, MA.1,2 Father: William, born in Cambridge. Mother: Alice M Patterson. Father was a merchant.3,4 She was educated at Brearley School in New York City, NY.5 She was educated at Les Ruches in Fontainebleau, France.5 She married Edward Mitchell Townsend, son of Edward Mitchell Townsend and Belinda Rockwell, on Wednesday, 20 April 1892 in Grace Church, New York City, NY.6,3,1,5,7 She was written up in the 1914-1915 edition of Women's Who's Who In America. She was the recording secretary of the Colonial Dames of the State of NY. She was against women's suffrage. She was a member of the Huguenot Society, The Zoological Society, and the Oyster Bay Village Improvement Association. The clubs she belonged to were the Colony Club of New York, the Chilton Club of Boston and the Colonial Dames of Washington.5 23 August 1929 from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of 23 August 1929:

Oyster Bay Social Notes,
Oyster Bay, L. I., Aug. 23—Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Townsend and Greenough Townsend will sail on the Minnewaska tomorrow for Scotland. They will go to Ardblair Castle, near Perth, to join Mrs. Greenough Townsend and her son and parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Maxtone Graham. Mr. and Mrs. Greenough Townsend will return in September and Mr and Mrs. E. M. Townsend will return later.8

Census

1900Oyster Bay, Long Island, NYAlice Greenough and Edward Mitchell Townsend appeared on the 1900 Federal Census of Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY, enumerated 1900, Enumerated with 3 servants, one of which was a governess. Place identified as 'from Oyster Bay Cove to Oyster Bay.1
1930East Main St, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NYAlice Greenough and Edward Mitchell Townsend appeared on the 1930 Federal Census of Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY, at East Main St, enumerated 1930, Value of home $100,000. Enumerated with 5 servants. Edward is listed as a commision merchant in the wholesale textile industry.3

Family

Edward Mitchell Townsend b. 29 Sep 1861, d. a 1930
Children

Sources of Information

  1. Auguste P Montant household, 1900 US Census, Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY, enumeration district 723, page 6B, roll T623_1079, National Archives micropublication; digital image Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
  2. Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910, Internet database, www.newenglandancestors.org, Search Greenough, viewed July 2007.
  3. Edward M Townsend household, 1930 US Census, Oyster Bay, Nassau County, NY, enumeration district 201, page 1A, image 806.0, roll 1462, National Archives micropublication; digital image Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
  4. Massachusetts Vital Records 1841-1910, Internet database, www.newenglandancestors.org, Search Greenough.
  5. John William Leonard, Women's Who's Who of America, The American Commonwealth Company: New York, 1914-1915, digitized by Google Books www.books.google.com (searched Edward Mitchell Townsend), Google Books p 821.
  6. Family data.
  7. New York Family Bible Records 1581-1917, online database, digitized by ancestry.com, . Original publication: Genealogical Records; Manuscript Entries of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Taken from Family Bibles 1581-1917, Holy Bible of Daniel Townsend (1798-1960). Www.ancestry.com , updated Jan 2011, viewed Feb 2011.
  8. Robert Maxtone-Graham, e-mail message to Linda Sargent Reinfeld, received 31 Mar 2009.

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Dates using 'say' are educated guesses by me.
If I don't know a female last name she will be identified with a 'Mrs' and her husband's name.
MALE or FEMALE means I don't know the first name.

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