Isabella Tod (1778-1848)

She purchased ten acres at Jamaica, Long Island, where she brought up two surviving sons after the death of her husband in 1814. She was the sister of George Tod, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. When she died in 1848, not including her real estate, she left a personal fortune of $30,000. She was the grandmother and namesake of the well-known Patron of the Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner, and her portrait by Thomas Sully hangs in the Gardner Museum in Boston.