Place of Origin

United States ➔ Massachusetts

Date of Composition

1834

Description

The author of this cookbook was born Sarah Gool Putnam in 1810. She married Francis Boardman Crowninshield (1809-1877) in 1832 and bore seven children: Mary, Sarah, Benjamin Williams, Alice, Louisa, Francis, and Emily. She died in 1880.  Her cookbook is dated 1834 by the library.

Francis Boardman graduated from Harvard University in 1829. He was admitted to the Middlesex Bar in 1832, and became a partner of Rufus Choate. He was Speaker of the House of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1848 and 1849. During the Civil War, he purchased arms in London on behalf of Union army companies from Ohio and Massachusetts. He served as president of the Old Colony Railroad, and was president of the Boston, Lowell, and Nashua Railroad from 1855 until his death in 1877.