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Dr. Mease was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, and a founding member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. In 1814 he helped found the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; among the original 139 charter shareholders, Dr. Mease held share number 7, and served as the Athenaeum’s first vice-president.

In 1800, Dr. Mease married Sarah Butler, the daughter of South Carolina Senator Pierce Butler. They had two sons who later changed their last names from Mease to Butler as a prerequisite for inheriting their grandfather Senator Butler’s vast fortune. One of the sons, Pierce Butler, married the renowned English stage actress Fanny Kemble.

Dr. James Mease died in Philadelphia in 1846.
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The bust was deposited at the Athenaeum in November of 1814 with several other plaster castings by the sculptor. When moving out of the American Philosophical Society (where the Athenaeum had been renting rooms) and into their own new building in 1847, the Athenaeum for some reason left the bust of Minerva behind. It was finally returned to the Athenaeum in 1961.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]>
Correction - appears to be Sarah Josepha Hale to Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson.]]>
Correction - possibly Sarah Josepha Hale to Mrs. C. A. Hopkinson
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Edit : Likely 1863, as it mentions sympathy regarding her daughter]]> http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html.]]> ]]> ]]>