| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1872/03/00 | James Arnold | Benefactor | Led by George Emerson, the trustees of Arnold's will give $100,000 to Harvard to establish a place for the study of woody plants: trees, shrubs and vines. Arnold had bequeathed the funds for the study and research in either agriculture or horticulture. | |||
| 1872/05/00 | Charles Sprague Sargent | Work | In 1872, Harvard University establishes the Arnold Arboretum on the former farm of Benjamin Bussey. Bussey had willed his land to Harvard University. Shortly thereafter they appoint Charles Sargent as its first director. | |||
| 1874/06/00 | Frederick Law Olmsted Sr | Landscape Architect | Not realizing the difficulties involved in establishing an arboretum, Sargent writes to Frederick Olmsted that the City of Boston might provide the needed money. For the rest of their careers, Olmsted and Sargent will remain frequent collaborators. | |||
| 1874/06/00 | Charles Sprague Sargent | Work | Not realizing the difficulties involved in establishing an arboretum, Sargent writes to Frederick Olmsted that the City of Boston might provide the needed money. For the rest of their careers, Olmsted and Sargent will remain frequent collaborators. | |||
| 1878/00/00 | Frederick Law Olmsted surveys and designs the Arnold Arboretum, construction began in the 1880s. | |||||
| 1882/12/30 | Harvard and Boston agree that the arboretum would be open to the public as a park where the city would own the land and lease it to Harvard for a dollar and install Olmsted's walkways and drives. Harvard would create and maintain the collection of plants. | |||||
| 1883/01/00 | Charles Sprague Sargent | Work | After more than nine years as Director, an agreement with the City of Boston frees Charles Sargent to proceed with the Arnold Arboretum. | |||
| 1905/00/00 | Charles Sprague Sargent | Supervisor | From 1905 to 1926, Thomas Harbison travels throughout the American South and Southwest as a plant collector for the Arnold Arboretum under the direction of Charles Sargent. | |||
| 1905/00/00 | Thomas G Harbison | Work | From 1905 to 1926, Thomas Harbison travels throughout the American South and Southwest as a plant collector for the Arnold Arboretum under the direction of Charles Sargent. | |||
| 1922/00/00 | Thomas G Harbison | Researcher | Thomas G Harbison work is critical to Dr Sargent's production of the second edition of his landmark Manual of the Trees of North America published in 1922. | |||
| 1922/00/00 | Charles Sprague Sargent | Author | Thomas G Harbison work is critical to Dr Sargent's production of the second edition of his landmark Manual of the Trees of North America published in 1922. |
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