See also
Husband:
Thomas Bulfinch (1728-1802)
Wife:
Susan Apthorp (1734-1815)
Children:
Marriage:
13 Sep 1759
Boston, Massachusetts
Name:
Thomas Bulfinch
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
Birth:
25 Jun 1728
Boston, Massachusetts
Death:
26 Feb 1802 (age 73)
Boston, Massachusetts
Name:
Susan Apthorp
Sex:
Female
Father:
Charles Apthorp (1698-1758)
Mother:
Grizzel Eastwick (1709-1796)
Note:
Papers, 1802-1837, of Susan Apthorp Bulfinch and family.
Abstract: The collection includes a tribute "written by Mrs. E. Coolidge on the death of her mother (Mrs. Susan Apthorp Bulfinch) Feb. 19th, 1815," two paper-bound volumes consisting of the letters of Susan Bulfinch as dictated to her youngest daughter Elizabeth (1803-10 ; 1811-14) plus entries from 1815 recording Elizabeth Coolidge's thoughts on her mother's death. The letters reveal much about the domestic affairs of the Bulfinch family, life in Boston at the beginning of the 19th century, and the work of the architect Charles Bulfinch. The letters also give insight into the character of Mrs. Bulfinch, her intelligence, humor, and interest in national and international news. A third paper-bound volume contains plans of a New York bank building and copies of two letters from 1837 by Charles Bulfinch. A fourth volume contains a ms. eulogy delivered on the occasion of the death of Thomas Bulfinch, Feb. 26, 1802, presumably by James Freeman, rector of King's Chapel, Boston.
OCLC Ref. 8030371
http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-1802-1837-of-susan-apthorp-bulfinch-and-family/oclc/008030371
Birth:
8 Oct 1734
Boston, Massachusetts
Death:
15 Feb 1815 (age 80)
Boston, Massachusetts
Name:
Thomas Bulfinch
Sex:
Male
Birth:
1760
Boston, Massachusetts
Baptism:
9 Jul 1760 (age 0)
Boston, Massachusetts
Name:
Charles Bulfinch
Sex:
Male
Spouse:
Hannah Apthorp (1767-1841)
Children:
Susan Apthorp Bulfinch (1790-1829)
Charles Bulfinch (1791-1792)
Charles Bulfinch (1794-1862)
Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867)
George Storer Bulfinch (1800-1853)
Francis Vaughan Bulfinch (1803-1884)
John Apthorp Bulfinch (1806-1836)
Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (1809-1870)
Note (shared):
Charles Bulfinch (August 8, 1763 to April 15, 1844) was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession.
Bulfinch split his career between his native Boston and Washington, D.C., where he served as Commissioner of Public Building and built the intermediate United States Capitol rotunda and dome. His works are notable for their simplicity, balance, and good taste, and as the origin of a distinctive Federal style of classical domes, columns, and ornament that dominated early 19th-century American architecture.
Bulfinch was born in Boston to Thomas Bulfinch, a prominent physician, and his wife, Susan Apthorp. He was educated at Boston Latin School and Harvard University, from which he graduated with an AB in 1781 and Master's degree in 1784. He then made a grand tour of Europe from 1785-1787, where he was influenced by the classical architecture in Italy and the neoclassical buildings of Sir Christopher Wren, Robert Adam, William Chambers and others in the United Kingdom.
Upon his return to the United States in 1787, he became a promoter of the ship Columbia's voyage around the world under command of Captain Robert Gray (1755–1806). It was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe. In 1788 he married Hannah Apthorp, his first cousin. Their sons include Thomas Bulfinch (1796–1867), author of Bulfinch's Mythology, and Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (1809–1870), Unitarian clergyman and author.
In the summer of 1817, Bulfinch's roles as selectman, designer and public official coincided during a visit by President James Monroe. A few months later (1818) Monroe appointed Bulfinch the successor to Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820) as Architect of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. (The Capitol Building had been partially burned by the British in 1814.) As Commissioner of Public Building, Bulfinch completed the Capitol's wings and central portion, designed the western approach and portico, and constructed the Capitol's original low wooden dome to his own design (replaced by the present cast-iron dome in the mid-1850s). In 1829 Bulfinch completed the construction of the Capitol, 36 years after its cornerstone was laid. He returned to Boston in 1830, where he died on April 15, 1844, aged 80, and was buried in King's Chapel Burial Ground in Boston. His tomb was later moved to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bulfinch
Birth:
8 Aug 1763
Boston, Massachusetts
Death:
15 Apr 1844 (age 80)
Boston, Massachusetts
Name:
Sukey Bulfinch
Sex:
Female
Note:
[Charles's] companion and playmate must have been his sister Susan, or "Sukey," a bright and lovely girl, three years younger than himself, whose early death on her fifteenth birthday left her parents broken-hearted, and made a deep impression on the family history. Some of her childish toys were sacredly cherished, and handed down to later generations : a mourning ring marked "Sukey Bulfinch" still exists, and her portrait, a pastel painting, shows us her smiling, pretty face with its bright hazel eyes and soft waves of brown hair.
An old copy of the " Boston Gazette" for November 12, 1781, has been carefully kept. It contains the great news of the surrender of Lord CornwaJlis, and, besides this and of nearer significance, there is a touching notice of the death of the young girl, " Miss Sukey."
The Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch, 1896, pages 36-7.
Birth:
6 Nov 1766
Boston, Massachusetts
Death:
6 Nov 1781 (age 15)
Boston, Massachusetts
Name:
Anna Bulfinch
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Birth:
3 Apr 1773
Boston, Massachusetts
Name:
Elizabeth Bulfinch
Sex:
Female
Spouse:
Children:
Birth:
29 Jan 1777
Boston, Massachusetts
Death:
17 Jan 1837 (age 59)
Papers, 1802-1837, of Susan Apthorp Bulfinch and family.
Abstract: The collection includes a tribute "written by Mrs. E. Coolidge on the death of her mother (Mrs. Susan Apthorp Bulfinch) Feb. 19th, 1815," two paper-bound volumes consisting of the letters of Susan Bulfinch as dictated to her youngest daughter Elizabeth (1803-10 ; 1811-14) plus entries from 1815 recording Elizabeth Coolidge's thoughts on her mother's death. The letters reveal much about the domestic affairs of the Bulfinch family, life in Boston at the beginning of the 19th century, and the work of the architect Charles Bulfinch. The letters also give insight into the character of Mrs. Bulfinch, her intelligence, humor, and interest in national and international news. A third paper-bound volume contains plans of a New York bank building and copies of two letters from 1837 by Charles Bulfinch. A fourth volume contains a ms. eulogy delivered on the occasion of the death of Thomas Bulfinch, Feb. 26, 1802, presumably by James Freeman, rector of King's Chapel, Boston.
OCLC Ref. 8030371
http://www.worldcat.org/title/papers-1802-1837-of-susan-apthorp-bulfinch-and-family/oclc/008030371
Charles Bulfinch (August 8, 1763 to April 15, 1844) was an early American architect, and has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession.
Bulfinch split his career between his native Boston and Washington, D.C., where he served as Commissioner of Public Building and built the intermediate United States Capitol rotunda and dome. His works are notable for their simplicity, balance, and good taste, and as the origin of a distinctive Federal style of classical domes, columns, and ornament that dominated early 19th-century American architecture.
Bulfinch was born in Boston to Thomas Bulfinch, a prominent physician, and his wife, Susan Apthorp. He was educated at Boston Latin School and Harvard University, from which he graduated with an AB in 1781 and Master's degree in 1784. He then made a grand tour of Europe from 1785-1787, where he was influenced by the classical architecture in Italy and the neoclassical buildings of Sir Christopher Wren, Robert Adam, William Chambers and others in the United Kingdom.
Upon his return to the United States in 1787, he became a promoter of the ship Columbia's voyage around the world under command of Captain Robert Gray (1755–1806). It was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe. In 1788 he married Hannah Apthorp, his first cousin. Their sons include Thomas Bulfinch (1796–1867), author of Bulfinch's Mythology, and Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch (1809–1870), Unitarian clergyman and author.
In the summer of 1817, Bulfinch's roles as selectman, designer and public official coincided during a visit by President James Monroe. A few months later (1818) Monroe appointed Bulfinch the successor to Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764–1820) as Architect of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. (The Capitol Building had been partially burned by the British in 1814.) As Commissioner of Public Building, Bulfinch completed the Capitol's wings and central portion, designed the western approach and portico, and constructed the Capitol's original low wooden dome to his own design (replaced by the present cast-iron dome in the mid-1850s). In 1829 Bulfinch completed the construction of the Capitol, 36 years after its cornerstone was laid. He returned to Boston in 1830, where he died on April 15, 1844, aged 80, and was buried in King's Chapel Burial Ground in Boston. His tomb was later moved to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bulfinch
[Charles's] companion and playmate must have been his sister Susan, or "Sukey," a bright and lovely girl, three years younger than himself, whose early death on her fifteenth birthday left her parents broken-hearted, and made a deep impression on the family history. Some of her childish toys were sacredly cherished, and handed down to later generations : a mourning ring marked "Sukey Bulfinch" still exists, and her portrait, a pastel painting, shows us her smiling, pretty face with its bright hazel eyes and soft waves of brown hair.
An old copy of the " Boston Gazette" for November 12, 1781, has been carefully kept. It contains the great news of the surrender of Lord CornwaJlis, and, besides this and of nearer significance, there is a touching notice of the death of the young girl, " Miss Sukey."
The Life and Letters of Charles Bulfinch, 1896, pages 36-7.