page_title: Charles Sprague Sargent
section_title: Marriage and family
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Sprague Sargent / Marriage and family
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Charles Sprague Sargent
context_page_description: Charles Sprague Sargent was an American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published several works of botany. The standard botanical author abbreviation Sarg. is applied to plants he identified.
context_section_description: On November 26, 1873, Sargent married Mary Allen Robeson (1853–1919). They had two sons and three daughters, one of whom married the architect Guy Lowell. Their son Charles S. Sargent went to New York, where he became a partner in a securities firm.
caption: Portrait of Charles Sprague Sargent
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