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    The Boston Brahmins or Boston elite are members of Boston's traditional upper class. They are often associated with a cultivated New England or Mid-Atlantic...
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  • segment of the 1986 documentary film American Tongues, in which two Boston Brahmin academics talk about their accents while sitting in the Boston Athenæum...
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  • A cultivated New England accent, sometimes known as a "Boston Brahmin accent" within Boston, was once associated with members of wealthy New England...
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  • found in the Fallout video game series Boston Brahmin, a term often used to refer to the oldest families in Boston in Massachusetts, USA Brahm (disambiguation)...
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    Cabot family (category People from Boston)
    The Cabot family is one of the Boston Brahmin families, also known as the "first families of Boston". The Boston Brahmin Cabot family descended from John...
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    Numbers of the most wealthy and affluent American families, such as Boston Brahmin, First Families of Virginia, Old Philadelphians, Tidewater, and Lowcountry...
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    strongest bulwarks of Brahmin power was Harvard University. Statistics underscore the close relationship between Harvard and Boston's upper strata. C. Holloran...
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  • among the families who make up the "Boston Brahmins", also known as the "first families of Boston". The Boston Brahmin Lodge family are closely related with...
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    long-held cultural beliefs. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to...
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    centuries. Based in eastern Massachusetts, they formed part of the Boston Brahmin community. The family traces to Henry Adams of Barton St David, Somerset...
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    Numbers of the most wealthy and affluent American families, such as Boston Brahmin, Old Philadelphians, Tidewater, and Lowcountry gentry or old money,...
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    Knickerbocker, was a byword for a New York patrician, comparable to a "Boston Brahmin". The Knickerbocker Club was founded in 1871 by members of the Union...
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  • Power to the people Ruling party Status quo The Man The powers that be Boston Brahmins First Families of Virginia “The Establishment”, The New Fontana Dictionary...
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    Lowell family (category Boston Brahmins)
    one of the Boston Brahmin families of New England, known for both intellectual and commercial achievements. The family had emigrated to Boston from England...
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  • Otis family (category People from Greater Boston)
    The Otis family is a Boston Brahmin family from Massachusetts best known for its involvement in early American politics. The family was originally landowning...
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    Massachusetts. Founded in 1901 to educate the children of wealthy Boston Brahmin families, Middlesex introduced a national scholarship program in 1935...
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    where she owned a shop. Cabot claims to be related to the prominent Boston Brahmin Cabot family. Laurie Cabot was born Mercedes Elizabeth Kiersey. She...
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    The Thayer family is an American Boston Brahmin family. They are descended from early settlers and brothers Thomas Thayer (1596–1665) and Richard Thayer...
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    the 17th century. The family is one of several known collectively as Boston Brahmins. Johann Caspar Richter was a Saxon landowner and shipper-trader originally...
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    "Knickerbocker" became a byword for a New York patrician, comparable to a "Boston Brahmin". The "New York Knickerbockers" were an amateur social and athletic...
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  • Dana family (category Boston Brahmins)
    The Dana family is a Boston Brahmin family that arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts from England during the later end of the Puritan migration to New England...
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    Somerset Club (category Beacon Hill, Boston)
    Boston, Massachusetts that opened to members in 1852, but had origins in related associations dating back to 1826. It is a center of Boston Brahmin families...
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    politics and society became dominated by a financial elite known as the Boston Brahmins. This entrenched power base squared off against the political challenge...
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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (category People from Beacon Hill, Boston)
    occasions at Harvard. Holmes also popularized several terms, including "Boston Brahmin" and anesthesia. He was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who...
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    Saltonstall family (category Boston Brahmins)
    The Saltonstall family is a Boston Brahmin family from the U.S. state of Massachusetts, notable for having had a family member attend Harvard University...
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    recollection of the sinking. He was born into the Thayer family, a wealthy Boston Brahmin family. He was the son of John Borland Thayer II, a director and a second...
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    woman Supreme Court justice is her husband, a 'quintessential Boston Brahmin'". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved August 24, 2022. "The Ancestry of Ketanji Brown...
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  • Kane is the wealthy and powerful, Ivy League-educated heir to an old Boston Brahmin family, while Abel Rosnovski (originally named Władek Koskiewicz) is...
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    Robert Lowell (category Writers from Boston)
    1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His family...
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  • family is one of the components of the Boston Brahmins—a wealthy extended American family long prominent in Boston, Massachusetts. The family's fortune...
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