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Elise De Pourtales (Bachmann)
Birth: 1829
Death: unknown
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Marianne Elise (Bachman) Pourtales was the wife of Louis Francois de Pourtales, a Swiss naturalist and scientist who studied with Louis Agassiz whom he accompanied to the United States. Here, he served with the U.S. Coast Survey beginning in 1848 and then eventually rose to a position within the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. He published several important works on aquatic species, including Deep Sea Corals (1871). According to the 1870 US Federal Census, Elise and Francois had at least two daughters. Frances "Fanny" Seward references Molly and Ellen visiting Mrs. Pourtales in her 1866 diary while in Washington, DC.
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Marianne Elise (Bachman) Pourtales was the wife of Louis Francois de Pourtales, a Swiss naturalist and scientist who studied with Louis Agassiz whom he accompanied to the United States. Here, he served with the U.S. Coast Survey beginning in 1848 and then eventually rose to a position within the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. He published several important works on aquatic species, including Deep Sea Corals (1871). According to the 1870 US Federal Census, Elise and Francois had at least two daughters. Frances "Fanny" Seward references Molly and Ellen visiting Mrs. Pourtales in her 1866 diary while in Washington, DC.