Marian (Lincoln) Perry (1862-1938)

She was a prominent Suffragist who worked closely alongside her good friend Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont. She was a major donor to the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman’s Party. She was a descendant of Edward Winslow, Governor of Plymouth Colony, and a great-granddaughter of Major John Marston, one of the members of the Boston Tea Party, and through a collateral connection she became the owner of the original Punch Bowl made by Paul Revere for the Sons of Liberty. She married her first husband in 1884 and they had two sons before they divorced in 1896. She married her second husband in 1901, by whom she had one further son. From 1901, she lived at John Brown House in Providence, R.I., and summered at Bleak House in Newport built by R.R. Winans. She died at her New York home, 755 Park Avenue.