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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.

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Unpublished Manuscript
Book or Monograph Title: 
Biographical Memoir of Louis Francois de Pourtales
Author(s) or Editor(s): 
Alexander Agassiz
Year: 
1881
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http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/de-pourtales-louis-francois.pdf
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Ancestry.com
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Ancestry.com
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Citation Notes: 
Source Citation Year: 1870; Census Place: Washington Ward 1, Washington, District of Columbia; Roll: M593_123; Page: 5B Description Township: Washington Ward 1 Source Information Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data:1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
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