Louise Ayer Hatheway
Louise Ayer Hatheway (1876-1955)
Louise Raynor Ayer was born in 1876 to Cornelia Wheaton and
In 1915 Hatheway founded Drumlin Farm as a country retreat when she bought up several smaller farms and constructed a tunnel under Route 117 to connect her house, Gordon Hall, with the farmlands.[4] Donald Gordon died in 1923.
In 1925 Louise Gordon then married Conrad Perkins Hatheway, and he died in 1937. Louise Hatheway died in 1955[5] and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hatheway bequeathed her estate to the Massachusetts Audubon Society which became the Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary in 1956.[6] Gordon Hall currently serves as the Massachusetts Audubon Society Headquarters.
References
- ^ "Hatheway, Louise Ayer Gordon 1876-1955" http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2002081332/
- ^ Matt McDonald, "For Drumlin Farm, 50 Year of education" Boston Globe, May 1, 2005, http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/05/01/for_drumlin_farm_50_years_of_education/
- ^ Crawford Gordon obituary, Published in Boston Globe on Apr. 23, 2014. https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=crawford-gordon&pid=170762770&fhid=28864
- ^ Galluzzo at 41.
- ^ The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, 18 Apr 1955, Mon, Page 21 accessible on newspapers.com
- ^ John J. Galluzzo, Mass Audubon, Arcadia Publishing, 2005 p. 41