Maj. Daniel Ely

Notes:

Daniel Ely (1693-1776) = Ruth Welles (1697-1731)
Wells Ely (~1729-~1804) = Rebecca Selden
Amy Ely (1777-1876) = Theodore Gridley (1758-1826)
Elizabeth Ely Gridley (1826-1921) = George Selden Butler (1820-1907)
Amy Gridley Butler (1848-1916) = George Manney Ayer (1840-1914)
Adele Augusta Ayer (1867-1938) = Levi Addison Gardner (1861-1916)
Dorothy Ayer Gardner (1892-1967) = Leslie Lynch King (1882-1941)
Leslie Lynch King, Jr. (1913-2006) --

whose name was changed to Gerald Rudolph Ford when his mother divorced his father and married Gerald Rudolf (yes, Rudolf, not Rudolph) Ford. 38th President of the United States.

Family/Spouse: Mary Ann Champlin. Mary (daughter of Christopher Champlin) was born in 1692; died on 29 Jun 1725; was buried in Ely Cemetery, Lyme, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Benjamin Lee on 25 Mar 1736. Benjamin (son of John Lee and Elizabeth Smith) was born on 4 Sep 1712 in Lyme, New London, Connecticut; died in Apr 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Joseph Chester on 22 Sep 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"He is said to have been the first Washington County (R.I.) physician. Previous to his time the ministers were the physicians. He died of yellow fever, contracted while visiting a patient on a vessel from a southern port. His tombstone recounts that 'He was a physician of eminence, a universal philanthropist, and a friend to the distressed. His death is greatly lamented by all who knew him.' Buried at first in Westerly, R.I., his remains were removed in 1856 to Grove street cemetery, New Haven, Conn." [Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, citation details below.]

Daniel married Lydia Ann Eliot on 4 Feb 1784 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Lydia (daughter of John Eliot and Lydia Atwater) was born on 22 Jun 1760; died on 17 Sep 1836. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Prudee Tracy on 10 Sep 1811. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her monumental inscription ends: "Though dead, yet shall she live."

Nancy married John Bassett in Oct 1809. John (son of Benjamin Bassett and Molly Hinman) was born on 22 Sep 1779 in of Derby, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 16 Aug 1858. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

A pioneer of evidence-based genealogical research, he spent the last two decades of his life in England researching the English ancestry of various American families. In 1869 he was one of the founders of the Harleian Society. In 1877, Columbia University granted him an honorary LL.D in recognition of his genealogical work. Oxford University followed with another honorary degree in 1881. His literary executor was George Edward Cokayne, Norroy King of Arms, founder of the Complete Peerage.

His connection to the maintainers of this database is that, under the sponsorship of Chicago mayor and sometime congressman John Wentworth,* he performed the primary research establishing with reasonable certainty the medieval ancestry of the New England immigrant William Wentworth (1616-1697), one of TNH's "gateway ancestors."

His other connection, mostly demonstrating that all of human history is a gigantic tangled knot, is that his first published literary work was a volume of poetry entitled Greenwood Cemetery and Other Poems (1843), the title poem of which is absolutely about Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, whose bounds stand half a block from where this database's maintainers lived from 2004 to 2018.

I stand upon Mount WASHINGTON, and gaze
Enraptured on the view within my sight:
The city's spires--its broad and noble bay--
Lie, like a vivid panorama, spread
By master hands in lines of glowing life:--
Turning, the restless ocean meets my eye
And faintly, when the southern breeze is full
I hear thy roar, far sounding Rockaway!


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* In an entirely gratuitous Mormon connection, before entering electoral politics this John Wentworth was a journalist, and in that capacity he wrote to Mormon founder and prophet Joseph Smith with several inquiries about Mormonism. Smith's answer, known in church history as the "Wentworth Letter," is now considered one of the foundational documents of LDS belief.

Jane married Rev. Charles Wells Clapp on 16 Aug 1849. Charles (son of Russell Clapp and Louisa Strong) was born on 22 Jan 1817 in Southampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 12 Aug 1884; was buried in Godfrey Cemetery, Godfrey, Madison, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Berkeley, Alameda, California
• Alternate birth: Abt 1857
• Alternate death: 7 Feb 1919, Alameda, Alameda, California
• Alternate death: 9 Feb 1919

Notes:

Ph.D, Yale, 1886.

"Clapp arrived at Berkeley when it was a small school of some 400 students. By his efforts the department began the first major graduate program on the West Coast, but Greek was also widely taught throughout the state high schools as well. A genial and robust figure until ill health befell him at the age of fifty, his teaching was generally at the graduate level and centered around Pindar and Plato and his, many articles covered a range of subjects. He was a founder of the Philological Association of the Pacific States and served as president for two terms. At the time of his death he was at work on an edition of Pindar that was to be the summary of his life's work on that author." [Rutgers Database of Classical Scholars]

Edward married Mary Mattoon Wolcott on 22 Dec 1886 in Morgan, Illinois. Mary (daughter of Elizur Wolcott and Martha Lyman Dwight) was born on 14 May 1863 in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois; died on 22 Aug 1949 in Alameda, Alameda, California; was buried in Diamond Grove Cemetery, Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Oct 1890, Illinois

Miriam married Maj. Richard Stewart Dyer-Bennet on 17 Feb 1912 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, and was divorced in 1955. Richard (son of Frederick Stewart Hotham Dyer and Adelaide Annie Taylor) was born on 6 Oct 1886 in The Lyons, Enville, Staffordshire, England; was christened in Enville, Staffordshire, England; died in 1983. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Britannica.com (accessed 11 Sep 2020):

Richard Dyer-Bennet, (born October 6, 1913, Leicester, Leicestershire, England—died December 14, 1991, Monterey, Massachusetts, U.S.), British-born American tenor and guitarist who helped to revive the popularity of folk music through his concert performances, recordings, compositions, and teaching.

Though born in England, Dyer-Bennet grew up in Canada and California and attended the University of California at Berkeley (1932–35), where he studied English and music. (He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1935.) After visiting Swedish folklorist Sven Scholander in 1935, Dyer-Bennet adopted Scholander’s trinity of song interpretation—poetry, melody, and lute accompaniment. In 1944, though, he switched to the Spanish guitar and gave the first of what would become annual solo concerts at New York City’s Town Hall; the impresario Sol Hurok signed him for national and foreign tours for many years. He gained a cult following with his approximately 800 songs (including about 100 of his own composition) that ranged through British and French ballads, European medieval songs, Swedish shepherd tunes, and American cowboy songs. Curiously, though identified as a folk singer, he preferred the label minstrel or troubadour.

Dyer-Bennet stopped giving concerts after a stroke in 1972 limited use of his left hand. From 1970 to 1983 he taught at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Notes:

One of DDB's six proven "gateway ancestors." DDB is unique in this database in that one of his gateway ancestors is a parent.

John married Mary Abby Randall on 14 Jun 1951 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Mary (daughter of George Burdett Randall and Hester Worth) was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Los Angeles, California; died on 31 Aug 2012 in Northfield, Rice, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Heir apparent to the Swinnerton-Dyer baronetcy, most recently held by Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, who died 26 Dec 2018.

Family/Spouse: Lydia Drew Nickerson. Lydia (daughter of Ronald Whitman Nickerson and Lorna Mae Nickerson) was born on 24 May 1962 in New Castle, Lawrence, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Pamela Collins Dean on 30 Dec 1982 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Pamela was born on 18 Jan 1953 in Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]