Mass., was erected by him in memory of Mrs. Susan Ridley Butler.
Three children were born, all at Stockbridge and all died young
(Butler):
1. Charles Sedgwick, b. September 16, 1856; d. June 12,
1866.
2. Henrietta Sedgwick, b. March 19, 1859; d. June 4, 1859.
3. Robert Sedgwick, b. October 15, 1861; d. April 3, 1866.
B48,5.
Henrietta Ellery Sedgwick, 5th chilf of Robert (48) and Elizabeth
Dana (Ellery) Sedgwick, was born at Newport, R.I., October 18,
1829. She married her cousin, Henry Dwight Sedgwick II. See his
record (B47,4).
B48,6.
Katherine Maria Sedgwick, original spelling "Catharine," for her
distinguished relative, the pioneer American novelist; believed to
have been changed to Katherine after her removal to Germany; was
born October 7, 1831, in New York City, died in September 1884,
in Lagenschwalbach, Germany, and was buried there. She married,
1st, Joseph Valerio of Genoa, Italy. After his death she married, 2d,
November 22, 1871, William T. Washburn. She had one daughter
by the latter marriage who, after the death of her mother, lived in the
home of her uncle, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, of New York City and
Stockbridge, Mass. This daughter was:
1. Nathalie D'Oremieulx Washburn, who took the name of
Nathalie Sedgwick, b. February 4, 1873. (B48,61)
B48,61.
Nathalie D'Oremieulx Washburn, who took the name of Nathalie
Sedgwick, only child of Katherine Maria (Sedgwick) Washburn and
William T. Washburn, was born February 4, 1873, in New York
City. At the age of ten, upon the death of her mother, she returned to
Sedgwick House in Stockbridge and in 1895 married there at the
age of twenty a 23-year old lawyer named Bainbridge Colby, who
had been earning $12 a week but who became Secretary of State in
the cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson. He was born December
22, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo., son of John Peck Colby and Frances
(Bainbridge) Colby. He was a graduate of Columbia University and
the New York Law School. He brought about large reforms in the
insurance companies, was a member
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