Elizabeth Davis Bancroft [née Bliss]

(1803 c.-1886)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bancroft, Elizabeth Davis, 1803-1886 LBT ID: ElBancr1886 VIAF ID: 38382710 LOC ID: n85809459	B/BAP: 1803 DIED: 1886-03-15
SOURCES: Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Life and Letters of George Bancroft (1908) 2:306; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
The second wife of American historian George Bancroft; she was a widow with children when they married in 1838.
REFERENCES TO Elizabeth Davis Bancroft [née Bliss]: Charles Summer to Samuel Rogers, 5 October 1846 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 George Bancroft to Samuel Rogers, 15 May 1850 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VI. 1845-46. Chapter VII. 1847-50.