Caroline Plummer

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Caroline Plummer

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Birthplace: Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: May 15, 1854 (74)
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Dr. Joshua Plummer and Olive Plummer

Occupation: Philanthropist
Managed by: Katherine C. Leach
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About Caroline Plummer

Philanthropist. Daughter of Dr. Joshua and Olive Lyman Plummer. She endowed the Plummer Hall at the Salem Atheneum, and through a bequest established the Plummer Farm School of Reform, now the Plummer Home for Boys in Salem. She also endowed the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals (Preacher to the University) at Harvard University in the name of her brother, Ernestus. She was a close friend of Nathaniel Bowditch as well as several learned men of her day.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19152322/caroline-plummer

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Caroline Plummer's Timeline

1780
January 13, 1780
Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
1854
May 15, 1854
Age 74
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States