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BIOGRAPHY.
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FREDRIKA Bremer was born in Tuorla Manor-house,
near Abo, in Finland, on the 17th of August, 1801. Her
father, the Bruks-patron, or Iron-master, Carl Fredric
Bremer, was descended from an ancient German noble
family, which settled in Sweden in the reign of King Gus-
tavus Adolphus the Great; her mother was Brigitta Char-
lotta Hollstrom. Fredrika’s paternal grandfather, Jacob
Bremer, had removed from Sweden to Finland, in which
latter country he had, by commercial enterprises, iron-
works, and factories prudently managed, succeeded in ac-
cumulating considerable wealth, while giving bread to sev-
eral hundred industrious people, who had him to thank for
their prosperity and comfort. Out of his rich store he
gave liberally to the poor and needy, and at his death he
was therefore generally regretted in Finland. He was
twice married. In his first marriage with a young Lady
Pipping, he had eleven children, of which only five sur-
vived him — three sons and two daughters. One of these
daughters married the Governor of the county of Wasa,
Krabbe; and the other, Baron Hisingér, a counselor of
the Royal Court of Justice in Abo. In his second wedlock
with the young and handsome daughter of the Assessor of
the Royal Court of Justice, Mr. Salonius, he had two chil-
dren, Carl Fredric and Agatha. The latter was married
at the age of sixteen to an old gentleman, Mr. Carleson,
one of the court chamberlains; and when, at the age of
twenty-one, she became a widow, and free to follow the
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