Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916)

Name:

Durgin, Martha E. (1833-1916)

Title:

Member, Baptist Church
Philanthropist

Other Names:

Travers, Martha Elizabeth

Born:

01/15/1833

Birthplace:

Gardner, MA

Died:

08/19/1916

Death Location:

Concord, NH

Residence:

Gardner, MA 1833-1854
Concord, NH 1854-1916

Nationality:

American

Father:

Travers, George Martin (1809-1900)

Mother:

Learned, Martha (1811-1891)

Relations:

Siblings:
Travers, Mary Frances (1842-; b. MA; m. Horace F. Parker of Gardner, MA; one child, Mary Eliza Parker, who became a college professor)

Spouse:

William B. Durgin (1833-1905), September 26, 1854, Boston

Children:

George Francis, born April 25, 1858, Concord; died May 26, 1905, Concord; began working with his father at the age of 20, and became partner; outdoorsman; married Blanche Harriet Bellow, Boston; 1 child.
Mary Susan, born August 1, 1864, Concord; died January 24, 1895; m. Richard Henry Rice of Rockland ME, 1887; res. MA and RI; children; buried in Concord, NH

Notes:

COLLECTION: Important collector of souvenir & commemorative ceramics; she probably began collecting in the late 1880s or early 1890s.

Ezra S. Stearns, Editor. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, Volume II. (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), 759-761.

"The Martha Durgin Collection of Historic China at The New Hampshire Historical Society," Historical New Hampshire, 7(April 1951)1, 1-19.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

"Marriages," Christian Watchman, Boston, Massachusetts, September 28, 1854.

"William B. Durgin Dead," The Boston Herald, Boston, Massahusetts, May 8, 1905.

"Death Notice," Concord Evening Monitor, Concord, New Hampshire, August 21, 1916.