Alice Goodsell Dunn was born in October 1874 and lived in Lynn, Massachusetts, with her father Lewis D. Dunn, a superintendent at a dry goods store, and her mother, Anna L. Dunn. Alice Goodsell Dunn married Frederick Bassett Abbott, an 1893 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on September 12, 1900. They had five children.
"1900 United States Federal Census." Ancestry.com Library Edition. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004. http://search.ancestrylibrary.com (accessed September 10, 2012). Lewis, Alonzo, and James R. Newhall. History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant. Lynn: The Nichols Press, 1897. http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoflynness02lewi/historyoflynness02lewi_djvu.txt (accessed September 10, 2012). MIT Alumni Association. Technology Review, Volume 3. Boston: Association of Class Secretaries of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://books.google.com/books?id=RwZC_lG2Mh8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s (accessed September 10, 2012).
From the guide to the Alice Goodsell Dunn notes on British literature and theater scrapbook, 1888-1897, (University of Delaware Library - Special Collections)
