Almy family.

Family collection centers on Helen Jackson (Cabot) Almy (1856-1938), a prominent Boston area woman who was daughter of a physician and wife of a judge, Charles Almy (1851-1934); on her parents, Samuel Cabot (1815-1885) and Hannah Lowell (Jackson) Cabot (1820-1879); and on her six children: Mary (1883-1967), a Boston architect; Helen Jackson (1884-1976), a medical social worker; Anna Cabot (1886- ); Charles (1888-1954); Elizabeth (1892-1984), a psychotherapist; and Samuel Cabot (1895- ).

The fifth of six children of Charles Almy and Helen Jackson (Cabot) Almy, Elizabeth (Almy) Cobb Hall was born on August 28, 1892, in Prides Crossing, Massachusetts. In 1915 she married Stanley Cobb, a neuropsychiatrist who in 1934 founded the psychiatric service at Massachusetts General Hospital. During the 1930s she became interested in child psychiatry and from 1943 until 1955 worked as a psychotherapist at the James Jackson Putnam Children's Center in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Following Stanley Cobb's death in 1967, she married Francis Cooley Hall, a specialist in arthritis and related diseases; he died in 1973. She died in March 1984.