The term "Boston Brahmins" refers to a class of wealthy, educated, elite members of Boston society in the nineteenth century. Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling ...

Boston's immigrant population, mostly Irish, chafed against staid Boston Brahmin culture. It was true that increased immigration had brought an increase in disease and crime, but there were ...

house rules or no house rules), the rich Boston Brahmin, great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson and heiress to a big New England shipping fortune, has been going great guns ever since.

The Welds are one of the quintessential Boston Brahmin families. Once, during Weld’s gubernatorial years, then-Massachusetts Senate president William Bulger quipped that Weld’s ancestors had ...