Marion Howard Brazier

Marion Howard Brazier (pen name, Marion Howard; September 6, 1850 – January 15, 1935) was an American journalist, editor, author, and clubwoman of Boston. She was the author of: Perpetrations, a Book of Humor, and Cheer, Philosophy and Comfort. Brazier served as society editor of The Boston Post, 1890–98; edited and published the Patriotic Review, 1898–1900; and society editor, The Boston Journal, 1903–11. She was a member of sixteen organizations and founder of six, including the Professional Women's Club and the Bunker Hill and Paul Jones Chapters Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), Ex-Regents (L. A. R.) and Boston Parliamentary Law Clubs. She was also a member of Authors' Society, Drama League, Charity Club, Cremation Society, Boston Common Society, Boston Political Club, and the Woman's Charity Club. Early life and education Marion Howard Brazier was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, September 6, 1850. She was the daughter William Henry and Sarah Jane (Sargent) Brazier. William Henry Brazier was a veteran of the Civil War and member of the Grand Army of the Republic. According to family tradition Mr. Brazier was descended from Sir Henry Brazier, who lived many years ago in Lincolnshire, England. The maiden name of Miss Brazier's mother was Sarah Jane Sargent. She was daughter of David Sargent (the fourth of that name in direct line) and his wife, Elizabeth I. Fille-brown, and was a descendant in the ninth generation of William Sargent, of Malden, Massachusetts, who came from Northampton, England, in 1638. William is said to have been son of Roger and grandson of Hugh Sargent, of Northamptonshire, England. Two of Brazier's ancestors on the maternal side—namely, David Sargent and Abraham Rand—were soldiers of the American Revolution, the last named serving three years in the army. His mother, Anne Devens, wife of Thomas Rand, was "probably daughter of Philip Devens" and nearly related to the family to which Judge Devens belonged. She was graduated from the Bunker Hill Grammar School at the close of the Civil War. This completed her schooling, but not her education, which has come through her contact with the world, her ambition leading her to associate with her superiors in intellect, to keep up to date, and never to look back.