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He was born on November 26, 1810 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the first child of Hannah (Welles) and Henry Sargent.
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He was born on November 26, 1810 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the first child of Hannah (Welles) and Henry Sargent.
Educated at the Boston Latin School and at Harvard College, where he was graduated in the class of 1830 with a creditable record, he first studied law in the office of Samuel Hubbard in Boston.
He became a partner in the banking house of Gracie and Sargent, New York agents of his uncle, Samuel Welles, a Paris banker.
In 1841 Sargent retired and removed to "Wodenethe, " an estate of about twenty acres on a plateau overlooking the Hudson just above Fishkill Landing (now Beacon), N. Y. , which soon became famous for its distant views and its vistas cut through the native forest to the Hudson and the mountains, and for its extensive plantation of coniferous trees. In planning it, the owner was without doubt assisted and inspired by his friend and neighbor, Andrew Jackson Downing, the foremost American landscape gardener of the day.
In 1847-49 he travelled with his family in Europe and the Levant, primarily to gather plants and to study the design of parks and country places. As a result he later published a comprehensive garden guide entitled Skeleton Tours (1870), which included the British Isles, the Scandinavian peninsula, Russia, Poland, and Spain.
He was a frequent contributor to horticultural papers, especially to the Horticulturist. His most important literary contribution is his supplement to subsequent editions of Downing's A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841). In this he gave an account of the newer deciduous and evergreen plants and told in considerable detail of the development of his own "Wodenethe", a brief account of trees and shrubs. In a period which marks the beginning of the professional practice of landscape architecture in America, this book and its supplement exerted a great influence on popular taste.
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On Jan. 10, 1839, he married Caroline Olmsted, daughter of Maria (Wyckoff) and Francis Olmsted of New York, who survived him. There were three children of this marriage, two of whom predeceased their father.
