Desk

Object number00.49.46

Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum

DescriptionDesk - slant top. Carved top "E+S"" with ink well. This piece is likely 1915.26, donated by Edward Stetson, used by his father Thomas D. Stetson.

Thomas D. Stetson was born in Medford, Massachusetts, June 15, 1830, son of Rev. Caleb Stetson. He graduated at Harvard in 1849, and studied law at the Dane Law School, and at New Bedford. He was admitted to the bar in 1854. He then joined the law office of Williams & Warren, whose style was changed to Warren & Eliot, and in 1854 to Eliot & Pitman, then Eliot, Pitman & Stetson, and Eliot & Stetson; and, in 1870,
Stetson & Greene. Mr. Stetson was married to Caroline Dawes Eliot, daughter of Hon. Thomas Dawes Eliot, in 1856.

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