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Hallowell family

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The Hallowell family is an American family from Philadelphia and Boston, notable for their activism in the abolitionist movement and for their philanthropy to various universities and civil rights organizations.[1][2][3] The Hallowell family is frequently associated with Boston Brahmins.[4][5]

Notable members

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John Singleton Copley, Benjamin Hallowell, Jr. 1764
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Gilbert Stuart, Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1825, Museum of Fine Arts

17th century

  • Benjamin Hallowell (1699–1773): A Boston merchant and one of the Kennebec Proprietors, holders of land originally granted to the Plymouth Company by the British monarchy in the 1620s. One of the largest owners in the Plymouth Company, Hallowell owned 50,000-acres at Hallowell, Maine. Benjamin's grandson, Robert Hallowell, took the name of Gardiner on receiving the bulk of his grandfather's (Dr. Sylvester Gardiner's) large landed estate on the Kennebec.[6][7]
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Robert Edge Pine, Portrait of Sarah Hallowell Vaughan, oil on canvas, 1760. British Embassy, Washington DC.

18th century

19th century

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Memorial to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment

20th century

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