Harrington, Gwyneth Browne, 1894-1978

Gwyneth Browne was born in Boston on February 1, 1894. Her father was the head of the New York Life Insurance Company in New England and eastern Canada. She had two brothers, Alan and Gordon. Gordon Browne went to live in Morocco after he graduated from Harvard in 1923. He worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and continued to live abroad. Gwyneth visited him at various times in Pakistan, Borneo and Morocco.

At the age of 21, Gwyneth married Eugene Harrington; they had two children, Josephine and Alan. In 1932, she divorced and went on a trip to Haiti with a friend. She collected some artifacts on the island of La Gonâve in Haiti which she donated to the Peabody Museum at Harvard in 1934.

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