Family of Charles Bulfinch and Hannah Apthorp
Husband: Charles Bulfinch
Wife: Hannah Apthorp
| Name: |
Susan Apthorp Bulfinch |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Spouse: |
David Aiken Hall (1795-1870) |
| Birth |
1790 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Death |
22 May 1829 (age 38-39) |
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| Name: |
Charles Bulfinch |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
1791 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Death |
6 Oct 1792 (age 0-1) |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Name: |
Charles Bulfinch |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
1794 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Death |
21 Jan 1862 (age 67-68) |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Name: |
Thomas Bulfinch |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
15 Jul 1796 |
Newton, Massachusetts |
| Death |
27 May 1867 (age 70) |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Name: |
George Storer Bulfinch |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
22 Jan 1800 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Death |
7 Oct 1853 (age 53) |
Boston, Massachusetts |
| Name: |
Francis Vaughan Bulfinch |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse: |
Mary Withrow (1814-1854) |
| Birth |
23 May 1803 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Death |
26 Sep 1884 (age 81) |
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| Name: |
John Apthorp Bulfinch |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
26 Mar 1806 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Death |
1836 (age 29-30) |
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| Name: |
Stephen Greenleaf Bulfinch |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse 1: |
Maria Howard (c. 1815-1838) |
| Spouse 2: |
Caroline Phelps (1814- ) |
| Birth |
18 Jun 1809 |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Census |
1865 (age 55-56) |
Clergyman, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Death |
12 Oct 1870 (age 61) |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Note on Husband: Charles Bulfinch - shared note
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
