Isabel Weld Perkins

**Isabel Anderson** (29 ga Maris, 1876 - 3 ga Nuwamba, 1948), née Isabel Weld Perkins, ta kasance magajin Boston, marubuciya, kuma mai karɓar bakuncin al'umma wacce ta bar gado ga jama'a wanda ya haɗa da wurin shakatawa da gidajen tarihi guda biyu.

## Rayuwa

### Rayuwa ta farko
An haife ta a titin Marlborough na 284 a Back Bay na Boston,  Isabel Weld Perkins ta fito ne, a gefen mahaifiyarta Anna Weld Perkins, daga dangin masu arziki na 'yan kasuwa na Boston waɗanda suka gano tarihin su zuwa Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mahaifin Isabel shi ne Commodore George H. Perkins na Contoocook, New Hampshire, wanda shine kwamandan USS Cayuga a lokacin Yaƙin basasar Amurka . Mahaifin commodore, Alkalin Hamilton Eliot Perkins, wani attajiri ne kuma lauya wanda ya gina ma'adanai a Contoocook kuma na ɗan gajeren lokaci ya gudanar da kamfanin jigilar kayayyaki a Boston wanda ke jigilar jiragen ruwa tsakanin Amurka da Afirka ta Yamma.

A shekara ta 1881, lokacin da Isabel ke da shekaru biyar kawai, ta gaji kusan dala miliyan 3 daga kakanta William Fletcher Weld, kodayake wannan adadin daga baya ya karu zuwa kusan dala miliyan 5 bayan an gwada dukiyar Weld. Fiye da ƙarni guda, an ɗauka cewa ta gaji dala miliyan 17 daga kakanta, kodayake an tabbatar da wannan adadin ba daidai ba ne. Rahoton kuskure na farko na adadin dala miliyan 17 ya bayyana lokacin da *Boston Globe* ta gudanar da labarin shafi na gaba game da auren Isabel da Larz Anderson a cikin 1897. Tarihin tarihi, duk da haka, ya nuna dala miliyan 17 a zahiri shine darajar karshe na dukiyar William Fletcher Weld II dala miliyan 20, bayan an cire wasu gado da harajin dukiya, inda aka bar ragowar dala miliyan 17 da aka raba daidai tsakanin Isabel da Grandfather Weld da sauran jikoki uku, William Fletch Weld II, Charles Goddard Weld da Mary Bryant Weld.

Isabel Perkins ta fara tafiya tun tana ƙarama. Ta yi bazara tun tana yarinya a gidajen Weld a Newport kuma ta yi hunturu tare da iyayenta a Boston. Lokacin bazara da faduwa ta yi amfani da ita a gidan Perkin a New Hampshire. A lokacin da take da shekaru goma sha tara, Isabel ta dauki tafiya ta shekara guda zuwa Turai tare da mai kula da ita Maud Howe Elliot . A Roma ne Isabel ta sadu da mijinta na gaba Larz Anderson kuma ta yi aure bayan shekaru biyu.

### Aure ga Larz Anderson

Larz da Isabel sun yi aure a Cocin Arlington Street a Boston a ranar 10 ga Yuni, 1897.  Daga nan ne Andersons suka fara rayuwa ta alatu tare da hidimar jama'a da kasada. Sun yi tafiya sosai, suna yin tafiye-tafiye hudu a duniya da kuma ko'ina cikin Turai da Asiya. Anderson ya rike mukamai da yawa na diflomasiyya, ciki har da ɗan gajeren lokaci a matsayin Jakadan Amurka a Japan.

Wani marubuci na Boston Globe ya taƙaita Isabel da aurenta ta hanyar cewa:... waɗannan Andersons? Sun kasance masu arziki, an haife su da kuɗi kuma sun saba da gata - amma mutane ne masu ban sha'awa waɗanda suka bar mana wani abu. Isabel ta yi abin da mata masu arziki suka yi a lokacin - ta "ya fito," ta yi bazara a Newport, "ta fito" a New Hampshire, ta yi hunturu a Boston, ta yi biki sosai. A shekara ta 1896, debutante ta tafi Turai, wata budurwa kyakkyawa da ke da dukiya mai yawa. Ta sadu da Larz; ya yi farin ciki; sun yi aure. Ya yi aikin diflomasiyya; ta rubuta littattafai da wasan kwaikwayo. Sun raba lokacin su tsakanin Washington, DC, da Brookline.

### Aiki a matsayin marubuci
Isabel ta rubuta littattafai da yawa; wadanda suka shafi iyalinta musamman sune wadanda suka fi sha'awar masana tarihi. Ta kuma rubuta litattafan tafiye-tafiye da yawa, kundin shayari, da labarun yara da yawa.

Littafinta a karkashin tutar Black horse: Annals of the Weld family da wasu rassanta sun bayyana daular sufuri da kakanta William Gordon Weld ya fara kuma ya ba da cikakken bayani game da zuriyarsa har zuwa lokacin rubuce-rubuce.

Ta kuma shirya takardun jarumin Yaƙin basasar Amurka kuma ta buga su a matsayin The letters and journals of Janar Nicholas Longworth Anderson; Harvard, yakin basasa, Washington, 1854-1892.

Daga cikin sauran ayyukanta akwai Circling Africa, On the Move, The Spell of Japan, The Spel of Belgium, The Spall of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines, Topsy Turvy da Gold Star, Yacht in Mediterranean Seas da Zigzagging the South Seas. Yawancin takardun nata yanzu suna cikin tarin da aka adana a Gidan Tarihin Motar Larz Anderson. Sauran ana adana su a New England Historic Genealogical Society .

### Hidima a Yaƙin Duniya na I
A lokacin yakin duniya na, Isabel ta yi aiki ga kungiyar Red Cross na Amurka a matsayin mai sa kai na Gundumar Columbia Refreshment Corps . Ta kasance jagora na ayyukan Red Cross na Washington da aikin agaji na Belgium, sannan ta kwashe watanni takwas a 1917 da 1918 tana kula da marasa lafiya da wadanda suka ji rauni a Faransa da Belgium. Isabel ta koma Washington don samun Amurkawa da ke fama da annobar mura kuma ta ba da kanta don taimakawa wadanda ke cikin bukata. Gudummawar da ta bayar a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya ta haifar da samun lambar yabo ta Red Cross ta Amurka, Croix de Guerre ta Faransa tare da tauraron tagulla, da kuma lambar yabo ta Elisabeth ta Belgium . 

### Manor na Perkins
Baya ga gadonta na Weld daga dangin mahaifiyarta, Isabel ta gaji wani babban gida a New Hampshire daga mahaifinta mai suna commodore. Larz da Isabel sun kwashe lokaci mai yawa a nan har ma ta buɗe ƙofofin wannan gidan sarauta ga jama'a don 'yan bazara. Wannan babban gidan an kira shi Larz Anderson estate a wannan lokacin amma tun daga lokacin an raba shi zuwa gidaje takwas kuma an sake saninsa da Perkins Manor . 

Kamar mijinta, Isabel ta kasance mai aiki a cikin al'ummomin kishin kasa da na gado ciki har da Daughters of the American Revolution da The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America .

A shekara ta 1930, ta sami digiri na Doctor of Laws daga Jami'ar Boston . 

### Mutuwa
Isabel ta mutu a shekara ta 1948. An binne tokarta a cikin Kabarin Anderson a cikin St. Mary Chapel na Washington National Cathedral tare da mijinta Larz Anderson .

Isabel Anderson ta kuma gina gada a fadin Charles River da ke haɗa Boston da Cambridge, Massachusetts. Larz Anderson ne ya gudanar da aikin don girmama mahaifinsa, Nicholas Longworth Anderson, Harvard Class na 1858. Ginin yana tsaye kusa da Weld Boathouse, wani wuri mai daraja wanda kawunta, George Walker Weld ya biya.

### Gidauniyar Weld

Isabel ta sayi kadada 64 (mita murabba'i 260,000) a Brookline, Massachusetts, daga dan uwanta na farko. Ga wannan dukiya, wanda ya kasance a cikin iyalin Isabel na tsararraki, Andersons sun kara da babban gida mai dakuna ashirin da biyar wanda suka yi amfani da shi don bazara da bukukuwan Kirsimeti. Gidan, wanda ke kallon sararin samaniya na Boston, an sake gyara shi don yayi kama da Lulworth Castle, gidan kakanninmu da ke da alaƙa da Welds. Sun ba da sunan wurin "Weld" don girmama kakan Isabel. Isabel ta ba da wannan dukiya ga garin Brookline kuma yanzu Larz Anderson Park ne.[1]

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