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John Bromfield, Jr. (11 April 1779 – 9 December 1849) was a Boston merchant and benefactor of the Boston Athenæum. == Biography == John Bromfield, Jr., was the second son and fourth child of John Bromfield, Sr., and Ann Roberts. He was home schooled by his mother until the age of 12 when he entered Drummer Academy in Byfield, Massachusetts. In August, 1782, the Bromfield family moved to Boston and rented the small house across the burying ground from King's Chapel.〔Ann B. Tracy, ''Reminiscences of John Bromfield.'' Salem:The Gazette Office, 1852. Ann Tracy was John Bromfield's sister.〕 The house had previously been the home of Rev. Henry Caner, the minister of King's Chapel but at time it was owned by a family friend from Newburyport, Judge John Lowell. From 1809 to 1822 the house would be the home of the Boston Athenæum. Chaim Rosenberg writes:
After two short trips to Europe, in 1809 Bromfield headed to Canton as supercargo aboard the ship Atahualpa. In the subsequent years he served as the foreign agent for William Sturgis, Henry Lee, Daniel Bacon, and Augustine Heard among other Boston merchants trading with China. By the time he was 34 he had accumulated his own fortune and he moved to Boston. Bromfield never married. Quincy quotes him as saying “No woman who has a grain of discretion would consent to bind herself to such a nervous old bachelor as I am, and a woman without discretion would be --- not to my taste.”〔John Quincy, ''Memoir of John Bromfield.'' Cambridge:Metcalf and Company, 1850.〕 When Bromfield died in 1849 the value of his estate exceeded $200,000 much of which his will directed to be distributed to public institutions in Boston as follows:〔 John Bromfield, Jr., is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in his native town, Newburyport. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Bromfield, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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