Catherine Sedgwick Robb

Jeanette S. A. Rice (Sergeant) reveals the origin of Catherine Robb (Newbury)'s name in her 1883 memoir "Tales That Have the Rime of Age." Jeanette wrote:

"Miss Catharine Sedgwick, a cousin of our father’s [Dr. Erastus Sergeant Jr.] was very fond of her [Mary Ann Newbury (Sergeant)] and would invite her for long visits, taking her into her own room and bed, and when she would go her rounds among the poor she was always assisting, would take the little girl with her, thereby giving her lessons in practical benevolence. Miss Sedgwick was at this time keeping house for her brother Charles, in the old “Sedgwick Mansion” in Stockbridge. She was a noble, refined, cultured woman and your mother was very fond of her, naming your sister Kate [Catherine Robb (Newbury)] for her."

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"...of words but what practical good was accomplished is not visible to the naked eye. Mrs CatherineRobb died in Jackson Michigan on the 3d. She was formerly Miss Kitty Newberry of Dubuque and her remains were ... brought to that city for interment. Her husband Patrick Robb Esq was editor of the... and was one of the most promising men in Iowa. He died about seven years ago."

Source: The Waterloo Courier - Waterloo, Iowa - June 9 1875
Downloaded April 24, 2013, as machine scanned test (why the text is garbled and fragmentary), from Newspaper Archive WOW

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