Moses Brown Ives

Moses Brown Ives (July 21, 1794 – August 7, 1857) was a businessman and philanthropist from Providence, Rhode Island who was partner in Brown & Ives and was President of Providence Bank. He also served as a trustee of Brown University, and was treasurer of Butler Hospital.

Moses Brown Ives
Born(1794-07-21)July 21, 1794
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
DiedAugust 7, 1857(1857-08-07) (aged 63)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Alma materBrown University
OccupationMerchant, banker
Spouse(s)
Annie Allen Dorr
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(m. 1833; his death 1857)​
Children2
Parent(s)Thomas Poynton Ives
Hope Brown Ives
RelativesNicholas Brown III (cousin)
John Carter Brown II (cousin)
Nicholas Brown (grandfather)
Nicholas Brown Jr. (uncle)

Early life

Moses Brown Ives was born in Providence, Rhode Island on July 21, 1794 and named after Moses Brown, the co-founder of Brown University. He was the eldest son of Thomas Poynton Ives (1769–1835) and Hope (née Brown) Ives (1773–1855). Among his siblings was older sister Charlotte Rhoda Ives, who married Professor William Giles Goddard (parents of Robert Hale Ives Goddard); and Robert Hale Ives Jr., who married Harriet Bowen Amory.[1]

His paternal grandparents were Sarah (née Bray) Ives and Captain Robert Hale Ives, a master-mariner who was one of the original eighteen members of the Salem Marine Society.[1] His maternal grandparents were Nicholas Brown Sr. and his first wife, Rhoda (née Jenckes) Brown.[2] His maternal uncle was Nicholas Brown Jr. and among his first cousins was Nicholas Brown III and John Carter Brown II.[1]

Ives graduated from Brown University in 1812 and then attended Litchfield Law School before traveling abroad in Europe.

Career

He followed his father and became a partner in Brown & Ives in 1832,[3] president of Providence Bank, and trustee of Brown University. In addition, he served as treasurer of Butler Hospital.[4]

Personal life

In 1833, Ives was married to Annie Allen Dorr (1810–1884). Annie, the daughter of Sullivan Dorr, a prosperous manufacturer and co-owner of Bernon Mill Village, was the sister of Thomas Wilson Dorr, the extralegal Governor of Rhode Island.[1] Together, they were the parents of two children:[5]

  • Thomas Poynton Ives (1834–1865), a Captain during the U.S. Civil War[6] who married Elizabeth Cabot Motley, daughter of U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom John Lothrop Motley. After his death, his widow, who inherited his fortune,[7] remarried to British statesman Sir William Harcourt and became the mother of MP Robert Harcourt.[8]
  • Hope Brown Ives (1839–1909), who married Henry Grinnell Russell, one of the wealthiest men in Rhode Island.[9]

His desk-and-bookcase was made in Providence, Rhode Island at the end of the 18th Century. It was made in the Chippendale Style; mahogany is its primary wood.[10]

Ives died on August 7, 1857 and was buried in Providence's North Burial Ground. Upon his death, he created a bequest which was used to provide some of the early funding for the creation of Rhode Island Hospital in 1863.[11]

References
  1. Cutter, William Richard (1914). New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company. p. 1838. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. The Narragansett Historical Register: A Magazine Devoted to the Antiquities, Genealogy and Historical Matter Illustrating the History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ... Narragansett Historical Publishing Company. 1887. p. 69. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  3. Francis Wayland, A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life and Character of Moses Brown Ives, (1857) https://books.google.com/books?id=Ql5AAAAAYAAJ
  4. Barnard, Henry (1858). The American Journal of Education. F.C. Brownell. p. 311. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  5. Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ... Biographical Soceity. p. 533. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  6. Bartlett, John Russell (1867). Memoirs of Rhode Island Officers who Were Engaged in the Service of Their Country During the Great Rebellion of the South: Illustrated with Thirty-four Portraits. S.S. Rider & brother. p. 283. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  7. Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 135, No. 2, 1991). American Philosophical Society. June 1991. p. 174. ISBN 9781422370254. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  8. Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for ...: Including All the Titled Classes. S. Low, Marston & Company. 1908. p. 490. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  9. Emery, William Morrell (1919). The Howland Heirs: Being the Story of a Family and a Fortune and the Inheritance of a Trust Established for Mrs. Hetty H. R. Green. E. Anthony and Sons, Incorporated. p. 254. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  10. "Desk and bookcase, RIF504". The Rhode Island Furniture Archive at the Yale University Art Gallery. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  11. https://www.rhodeislandhospital.org/our-history-0
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