1866, at Ashfield, Mass. She was much in France unofficially during
the First World War. She was later given the order of Queen
Elizabeth of Belgium for raising money for the Belgian rank and file.
She belongs to the Colonial Dames of Massachusetts. She has
resided many years at 18 Chestnut Street, Boston.
B44,124.
Rupert Norton, 4th child of Susan Ridley (Sedgwick) Norton
(B44,12) and Charles Eliot Norton, was born July 21, 1867, at
Ashfield, Mass. He prepared for college at the Browne & Nichols
School in Cambridge. From 1888 for more than a year he studied in
Germany. On his return he entered the Harvard Medical School. His
Harvard degrees were: A.B., 1888; M.D., 1893. He married at
Baltimore in June, 1893, Cecelia Hendrikson of that city. He
became at short intervals resident house officer at the Boston
Children's Hospital, and later held the same post at Johns Hopkins
Hospital, Baltimore. He spent a time practicing medicine in
Washington, D.C., and went to Paris as assistant medical director
for France of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
City. In 1906 he became assistant superintendent of the Johns
Hopkins Hospital. He died June 19, 1914, at Baltimore. His widow
resides at 1029 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, Md.
B44,125.
Margaret Norton, 5th child of Susan Ridley (Sedgwick) Norton
(B44,12) and Charles Eliot Norton, was born January 15, 1870, at
Florence, Italy, and studied at Radcliffe College in 1891, 1892 and
1893. She belonged to several clubs in Cambridge and to the
Boston Women's Club. She adopted two girls, Harriet B. Royce
and Helen R. Parker who have married. She lived in Cambridge and
died there February 17, 1947.
B44,126.
Richard Norton, 6th and youngest child of Susan Ridley (Sedgwick)
Norton and Charles Eliot Norton, was born February 9, 1872, at
Dresden, Germany. He graduated, A.B., at Harvard in 1872,
completing the four-year course in three years and spent the next
three years abroad studying architecture in Athens and Munich. He
married June 16, 1896, at Cambridge, Mass., Edith, oldest daughter
of Professor John Williams White of Harvard. In 1897 he was
appointed assistant director of the American School of Classical
Studies at Rome and was made director in 1899. He held this post
until 1907, going to Central
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