Personal Life
William H. Prescott and Susan Amory Prescott (c. 1799 – 1859) had four children; the first, Catherine Prescott (23 September 1824 – 1 February 1829) died of a childhood illness. William Gardiner Prescott (27 January 1826 – 15 August 1895) attended Harvard from 1841 to 1844 and worked as a lawyer in Boston. He married Josephine Augusta Peabody on 6 November 1851, and inherited Headquarters House. William Gardiner's daughter Catherine Elizabeth Prescott married a Hebert Timmins on 22 February 1887. Elizabeth (27 July 1828 – 24 May 1864) married James Lawrence, a distant cousin. The youngest was William Amory (25 January 1830 – 13 March 1867).
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