Mary Lee Ware | |
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Born | January 7, 1858 |
Died | January 9, 1937 41 Brimmer Street, Boston, Massachusetts | (aged 79)
Resting place | Mount Auburn Cemetery |
Occupation | Farmer, philanthropist |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Radcliffe College |
Relatives | Elizabeth Cabot Lee (Mother), Charles Eliot Ware (Father), Francis Parkman (First Cousin)[1] |
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Mary Lee Ware, (Jan. 7, 1858 – Jan. 9, 1937)[2][non-primary source needed][3] daughter of Elizabeth Cabot (Lee) Ware and Charles Eliot Ware, was born to a wealthy Bostonian family and, with her mother, was the principal sponsor of the Harvard Museum of Natural History's famous Glass Flowers (formally The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants).[4] She was an avid student of botany, particularly of the work of George Lincoln Goodale; a close friend and sponsor of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, creators of the Glass Flowers; and a leading philanthropist and farmer of Rindge, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts.