Frederick Ayer
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While visiting the Divine Egypt exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, the author reflects on Beatrice Ayer’s transformation during her family’s trip to Egypt in the early 1900s. Inspired by adventure and Egyptology, she carried home a mummified toe and a fascination for diverse cultures, while also witnessing the peculiar dynamics at Theodore M. Davis’s Newport…
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Frederick Ayer, a man of remarkable vigor and resilience, led a life of hard work and discipline. From his humble beginnings as a farmhand to becoming a successful businessman, his legacy lives on through the lives he touched, including that of General Patton.
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The North Shore is a great place to visit, and what’s more fun than visiting the places one has read (or written) about?
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A gentle knock on the hotel room door awoke Second Lieutenant and Mrs. Patton, who had been married for less than twenty-four hours. In walked Ellen Banning Ayer, the bride’s mother, carrying a rose, followed by the bride’s brothers and sisters carrying the breakfast tray. The seven Ayer siblings—the first four from the union of
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It was said that men who came face-to-face with the Tiffany Chapel at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (a.k.a. the World’s Columbian Exposition) doffed their hats in reverence. Whether the chapel’s mosaic columns and stained glass windows had that effect on Frederick Ayer is unknown, but his wife Ellie–a famed horticulturalist in the Boston area–undoubtedly
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Thirty miles from Boston, in the Pride’s Crossing section of Beverly, stood the Ayer family’s majestic country home. Avalon was a magical place along the rocky Massachusetts’ North Shore George Patton described as “almost more beautiful than it is possible to imagine.” Completed in 1906 in a mere eight months, Avalon was named after the
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Frederick Ayer — born on December 8, 1822, in Ledyard, Connecticut — was a man of character, honesty and hard work. He possessed a “quick vision and keen judgement,” but the one characteristic which defined him above all else was his firm belief in progress. His “extraordinary youthfulness of mind” allowed him to discuss “all
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