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Henry Winthrop Sargent

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On January 10, 1839, Sargent married Caroline Olmsted (1819–1887), daughter of Maria (née Wyckoff) and Francis Olmsted of New York. There were three children of this marriage, two of whom predeceased their father, including:
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in the United States, this book and its supplement exerted a great influence on popular taste. Sargent's influence may also be seen more directly in the horticultural interests of his kinsmen, Hunnewell and
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was a visitor to "Wodenethe", named for the Saxon for "sylvan promontory". While "Wodenethe" was their primary residence, the Sargents also kept a house at 5 Marlborough Street in Boston.
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Portraits of Epes and Ann Sargent, children of William Sargent, 2nd, and their descendants in the Sargent-Murray-Gilman house, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1921
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Thayer, William Roscoe; Castle, William Richards; Howe, Mark Antony De Wolfe; Pier, Arthur Stanwood; Voto, Bernard Augustine De; Morrison, Theodore (1917).
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Sargent studied law in the Boston office of Samuel Hubbard but never practiced. He next became a partner in the banking house of Gracie & Sargent in
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In 1841, Sargent retired and moved to "Wodenethe", an estate of about 20 acres (81,000 m) on a plateau overlooking the
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Sargent's most important literary contribution is his supplement to the sixth (1859) and subsequent editions of Downing's
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Sargent died on November 11, 1882, and was buried at Saint Lukes Church Cemetery in
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and Mary (née Turner) Sargent (1744–1813). He was the nephew of author
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Winthrop Henry Sargent (1840–1916), who married Aimée Rotch (1852–1918)
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In 1847–49, Sargent travelled with his family in Europe and the
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trees. He was an early friend of the great landscape gardener,
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening"
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A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
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Boston, Massachusetts
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New York
Boston Latin School
Harvard College
Horticulturist
Henry Sargent
Daniel Sargent
Lucius M. Sargent
Daniel Sargent Sr.
horticulturist
Boston
Henry Sargent
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Daniel Sargent Sr.
Lucius Manlius Sargent
Daniel Sargent
American Revolutionary War
Paul Dudley Sargent
Boston Latin School
Harvard College

New York City
Hudson River
Beacon
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Andrew Jackson Downing
William Cullen Bryant
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