Bridget Portler

Bridget married John Goodale on 21 Sep 1588 in Downham, Norfolk, England. John (son of Thomas Goodale and Em) was born before 7 Jul 1566; was christened on 7 Jul 1566 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; died between 25 Jun 1625 and 24 Sep 1625 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; was buried on 7 Jul 1625 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He arrived in 1638 at Newbury. He was a planter and, apparently, a skilled hunter. He never held important office, but he left an estate of about 250 pounds, a substantial sum in that time and place.

Richard married Dorothy about 1615. Dorothy died on 27 Jan 1665 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married William Allen in 1639. William was born about 1613; died on 18 Jun 1686 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Henry Wheeler before 13 Apr 1659. Henry (son of John Wheeler and Agnes Yeomans) was born before 8 Feb 1635; was christened on 8 Feb 1635 in St. Edmund's, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died before 1696. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Cornet Peter Ayer on 1 Nov 1659 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Peter (son of John Ayer and Hannah) was born about 1632; died on 2 Jan 1699 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1651 and 1652, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: 1652
• Alternate death: 3 Sep 1723, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

He was a blacksmith by trade.

Benjamin married Hopestill Leonard on 13 Nov 1695 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Hopestill (daughter of Rice Leonard) was born on 15 May 1671 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 21 Feb 1754 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Grizzell Squire. Grizzell (daughter of Philip Squire and Rachel Ruggles) was born on 14 May 1668 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ruth married John Denison in 1684 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. John (son of John Denison and Priscilla) was born about 1650; died on 12 Aug 1725 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Sarah May on 6 Oct 1720 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Elisha May and Elizabeth Walker) was born before 21 Oct 1699; was christened on 21 Oct 1699 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 5 Dec 1763. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 9 Dec 1707, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

David married Hannah Paddleford after 19 Feb 1731. Hannah was born in of Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 18 Jun 1751 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 10 Mar 1698
• Alternate death: 27 Nov 1774

Philip married Martha Salisbury on 25 Mar 1720 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts. Martha (daughter of William Salisbury and Anna Cole) was born in 1698; died on 14 Aug 1745 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; was buried in Burial Place Hill, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ruth Denison and her husband Joseph Kingsbury were second cousins, both being great-grandchildren of John and Hannah Ayer.

Ruth married Lt. Joseph Kingsbury on 5 Feb 1706 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of Deacon Joseph Kingsbury and Love Ayer) was born on 22 Jun 1682 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 1 Dec 1757 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Elisha May and Elizabeth Walker.

Hezekiah married Elizabeth May on 21 Oct 1763 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin May and Susanna Clark) was born on 1 Dec 1741 in Attleborough, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 5 Mar 1777 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Norwich City Cemetery, Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 21 Mar 1740, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Zachariah married Anne Crawford on 3 Jan 1778. Anne (daughter of Joseph Crawford and Susannah Bernon) was born on 25 Jun 1757; died on 3 Sep 1808. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 17 Jan 1723, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts

Notes:

"Rev. Aaron Wheeler served as a private in Lt. John Deyers' company.; Col. Thos. Carpenter's regiment in Rhode Island on the alarm of Dec 8 1776. Enlisted Dec 8 1776, discharged Dec 24 1776. Marched from Rehoboth to Bristol, also served as a private in Capt. Sylvanus Martin's company., Col. William's regiment. Enlisted Sept 27 1777, served one month at Tiverton, R.I." [Find a Grave page for Aaron Wheeler, citation details below.]

Aaron married Hopestill Daggett on 9 Dec 1742 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Hopestill (daughter of John Daggett and Hopestill Wood) was born on 9 Jan 1725 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jan 1798; was buried in Stevens Corner Cemetery, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Talitha married Zacheus Waldo on 3 Feb 1747 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. Zacheus (son of Edward Waldo and Thankful Dimmock) was born on 19 Jul 1725 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut; died on 10 Sep 1810 in Scotland, Windham, Connecticut; was buried in Old Scotland Cemetery North, Scotland, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1818

Hezekiah married Elizabeth "Polly" Lathrop on 9 Oct 1791. Elizabeth (daughter of Zachariah Lathrop and Mehitable Cleveland) was born on 24 Mar 1772 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 7 May 1851. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Wikipedia:

Zachariah Allen (September 15, 1795 – March 17, 1882) was an American textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader from Providence, Rhode Island. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and at Brown University where he graduated in 1813.

Allen became a textile manufacturer and in 1822 constructed a woolen mill in which he incorporated innovative fire-safety features and his own mechanical improvements. He also built the first hot-air furnace system for the heating of homes. In 1833 he patented his best-known device, the automatic cut-off valve for steam engines.

He founded the Manufacturers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1835, the forerunner of the present day insurance company FM Global.

Allen was also a prolific writer of scientific texts and wrote numerous books and articles during his lifetime. [...]

His older brother Philip Allen served Rhode Island as governor [1851-1853) and later as a United States senator (1853-1859).

Zachariah married Eliza Harriet Arnold on 1 May 1817. Eliza (daughter of Welcome Arnold and Patience Greene) was born on 5 Oct 1796 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 30 Aug 1873. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Benjamin Wheeler, progenitor of the branch of the family now under consideration, was a native of Massachusetts, his birth occurring February 7, 1764. In early manhood, in 1800, accompanied by his wife and children, he removed to New York state, settling on the farm now owned by his grandson, Simeon R. Wheeler, in East Bloomfield, Ontario county, and he also erected the first grist mill in South Bloomfield. He was active and public-spirited, served in the Revolutionary war, and in all ways performed his part faithfully and conscientiously. He married, July 28, 1782, Celia Buffington, born in Massachusetts, August 26, 1762, who bore him six sons and four daughters. Benjamin Wheeler died February 6, 1836." [A History of Ontario County, New York, and Its People, citation details below.]

His tombstone describes him as "PVT, Continental Line, Rev War".

"Benjamin Wheeler applied 1 September 1832 for a Revolutionary War pension and included in his application the family Bible record sheets which listed the names of his ten children with birth dates. Eight of these have been verified in the vital records of Rehoboth and Dighton, Massachusetts; the last two are unrecorded elsewhere. His pension was granted and later his widow, Celia, drew her allotment. He deposed that in the spring of 1777, age 13, he entered the service of his country as a substitute for his brother, Simeon. His first assignment was as a waiter in Capt. Simeon Cole's Co. of Rehoboth. Re-enlisting nine times, with terms of duty ranging from three to five months, he had attained the rank of fourth sergeant by the spring of 1781. His experiences included hospital service at New Windsor, Connecticut and Yorktown, Virginia; he was with the army at Yorktown and saw the capture of General Cornwallis (19 Oct. 1781); he saw General George Washington at Providence, West Point, and Yorktown. Mr. Elihu Morse and James Gladding, both of the town of Bristol, N. Y. attested to the truth of these statements." [Harriette M. Wheeler, citation details below, citing Compiled Military Service Record, Revolution, Benjamin Wheeler, National Archives, Washington, D.C. and claim #W 15484.]

Benjamin married Celia Buffington on 28 Jul 1782 in Hornbine Church, about six miles from Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Celia was born on 25 Aug 1762; died on 6 Mar 1843 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York; was buried in Wheeler Cemetery, East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a selectman in 1815 and a delegate from Windham to the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1818. He served several terms as a soldier in the Revolution.

Zacheus married Esther Stevens on 12 Apr 1781 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut. Esther (daughter of Moses Stevens and Esther Lovett) was born on 30 Jun 1758 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 22 Aug 1825 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eliza married Rev. Robert Temple on 25 Mar 1819 in Ovid, Seneca, New York. Robert (son of Alexander Temple and Mariche Flansburgh) was born on 13 May 1796 in Galway, Saratoga, New York; died on 24 May 1888 in Springboro, Crawford, Pennsylvania; was buried in Rundell Cemetery, Spring Township, Crawford, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Andrew Robeson on 2 Mar 1843 in Islesboro, Maine. Andrew (son of Andrew Robeson and Anna Rodman) was born on 14 Oct 1817 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jul 1874 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Benjamin D., son of Benjamin and Celia (Buffington) Wheeler, was born in Massachusetts, April 10, 1789, died September 30, 1818. He removed from his native state to New York state, settling in East Bloomfield, where he was a prominent citizen, advancing the interests of the community in which he resided. He married Deborah Reed, and they were the parents of five children, two sons and three daughters, Hannah R., Deborah, Celia B., Benjamin T., and Simeon R." [A History of Ontario County, New York, and Its People, citation details below.]

Albert Gallatin Wheeler's Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America gives Benjamin Daggett Wheeler as a son of Barnard Wheeler and Anna Goff. This is clearly a mistake:

* Benjamin Daggett Wheeler's tombstone clearly reads "son of Benjamin and Celia Wheeler."

* The mother of the Benjamin Wheeler who married Celia Buffington was named Hopestill Daggett.

* The first son named in the will, made 23 Jul 1832, of the Benjamin Wheeler who married Celia Buffington, is "Benjamin D."

Benjamin married Deborah Reed about 1809 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York. Deborah was born about 1791 in Massachusetts; died on 2 Jun 1860 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York; was buried in Wheeler Cemetery, East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a noted American portrait painter. Although none of the sources below mention it, it would appear that he and his second wife Deliverance were Swedenborgians.

From Wikipedia (accessed 5 July 2022):

Waldo was born on April 6, 1783 in Windham, Connecticut, the son of Esther (née Stevens) and Zacheus Waldo. At the age of sixteen, he moved to Hartford to begin his formal art training under the tutelage of Joseph Steward, a prominent local artist.

Four years later, he set up shop as a portraitist in Hartford, later relocating to Litchfield, Connecticut. While in Hartford, he had made the acquaintance of congressman John Rutledge, Jr., who was impressed with his work and, in 1803, invited him to come to Charleston, South Carolina. From 1803 to 1805, Waldo earned a sizable income from his commissions and decided that he would use the money to study art in London. He studied under Benjamin West in London.

He arrived in London in 1806 with letters of introduction to Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. While studying with them, he also studied drawing at the Royal Academy and exhibited a portrait there in 1808.

Between his artistic activities, he met and married Elizabeth Wood of Liverpool in 1808. Together they had five children that survived infancy. Elizabeth died in 1825 and the following year, on 9 May 1826, he married Deliverance Mapes and had seven more children.

In 1809, he returned to the United States and established a portrait studio in New York City.

Three years later William Jewett (d. 24 March 1874), a young coach painter from New London, Connecticut who wanted to be a fine artist, approached Waldo and asked to be taken in as an apprentice. Waldo agreed and allowed him to live with his family during his time of study. In 1818, they entered into a formal partnership which lasted until 1854, when Jewett retired. As a team, it is generally believed that Waldo painted the head and hands of their subjects, while Jewett filled in the clothing and draperies.

In addition to his painting, Waldo served as a director of the American Academy of the Fine Arts from 1817 until its dissolution in 1841. He was also a founding member of the National Academy of Design.

From the web page of the Worcester Art Museum:

Waldo's studio was popular in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, and he painted many merchants, public officials, and fellow artists. His prominent sitters include General Andrew Jackson (1817, three versions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., and Historic New Orleans). Although he is known as a portraitist, Waldo also experimented with landscape, as he indicated in an 1819 letter to fellow painter Thomas Sully: "I have just returned from an excursion up the North River where Jewett and I have been making sketches and painting Landscapes for five weeks past."

Waldo was active in the most prestigious fine arts institutions of his day. In 1817, he was elected one of the directors of the American Academy of Fine Arts in New York. He continued in that office until the Academy was dissolved in 1840. He also exhibited portraits and copies after Old Master paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1826 he was among the founding members of the National Academy of Design, the New York institution that replaced the former American Academy in function and prestige. In 1846, Waldo became an associate member of the National Academy. Waldo died in 1861 and National Academy president Daniel Huntington organized a small memorial exhibition in his honor.

Samuel married Deliverance Mapes on 8 May 1826 in John Street Methodist Church, New York, New York. Deliverance (daughter of James Mapes) was born on 6 Dec 1797; died on 4 May 1865 in New York, New York; was buried on 7 May 1865 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Fred William Holcomb on 20 Nov 1838. Fred (son of Asa Holcomb and Lucinda Miller) was born on 24 Jul 1815 in Pennsylvania; died on 22 Sep 1861. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Charles Sprague Sargent on 26 Nov 1873. Charles (son of Ignatius Sargent and Henrietta Gray) was born on 24 Apr 1841 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 22 Mar 1927 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 17 Nov 1809, New York

Hannah married Richmond Simmons in 1827. Richmond (son of Richmond Simmons and Eleanor Sears) was born on 11 Jun 1806 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York; died on 11 Feb 1862 in East Bloomfield, Ontario, New York; was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Bristol Center, Ontario, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Clara married Charles Sullivan on 9 Sep 1851 in New York, New York. Charles (son of Charles Sullivan and Isabella Wells) was born on 22 Sep 1823 in New York, New York; died on 10 Feb 1902 in Yonkers, Westchester, New York; was buried on 13 Feb 1902 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"His name appears in the New York directories from 1860 to '87; as a merchant in Maiden Lane until 1879, and after that at 141 Grand St. He was a manufacturer and dealer in military goods." [Genealogy of the Waldo Family, citation details below]

Howard married Isabel Hoe on 8 Jun 1859 in New York, New York. Isabel (daughter of James Clark Hoe and Temperance Mulford Miller) was born on 4 Apr 1838 in New York, New York; died on 3 Jan 1894 in New York, New York; was buried on 7 Jan 1894 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 24 Aug 1857

Notes:

Flora Adela, according to the 1945 application for Sons of the American Revolution membership by her grandson Fritz Leiber, Jr. Flora Adeline, according to other sources. Her gravestone says simply "Flora A. Bronson".

Flora married Walter Allen Bronson on 15 Dec 1877 in Odell, Livingston, Illinois. Walter (son of Allen Bronson and Tryphena Hudson) was born on 22 Jun 1847 in Clinton, Clinton, New York; died on 7 Jun 1918 in Odell, Livingston, Illinois; was buried on 8 Jun 1918 in South Side Cemetery, Pontiac, Livingston, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The New York Times, 16 Feb 1959, page 29:

Charles S. Sargent of 960 Park Avenue, a partner in Hornblower & Weeks, stockbrokers at 40 Wall Street, died Friday in Doctors Hospital, after a short illness. His age was 78.

Mr. Sargent, who graduated from Harvard in 1902, had been associated with Kidder, Peabody & Co.

He was a director of the American Express Company, the American Machine and Metals Company, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc., the Associated Dry Goods Corporation, the Metropolitan Fire Reassurance Company, and the National Aviation Corporation.

Born in Brookline, Mass., he was the son of Charles Sprague Sargent, Professor of Arboriculture at Harvard and Director of Arnold Arboretum, and Mary Robeson Sargent.

Mr. Sargent was a Mason. His clubs included the Harvard of New York, the Knickerbocker, Links and Ejwanok Country of Manchester, Vt.

Survivors include his widow, Dagmar; three sons, Charles S., Jr., Winthrop, and John T.; a daughter, Mrs. H. M. Havemeyer, and a sister, Mrs. N. B. Potter.

Charles married Dagmar Wetmore on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Dagmar (daughter of William Boerum Wetmore and Annette Wetmore) was born on 24 Jan 1888; died in Nov 1984 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Caroline married David Freeman Crandall on 9 Nov 1845 in Bloomfield, Ontario, New York. David (son of John Crandall and Phebe Freeman) was born on 15 May 1827 in Ontario County, New York; died on 20 Jun 1873 in Howell, Livingston, Michigan; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Howell, Livingston, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Clara Waldo Sullivan and her husband Howard Lovett Waldo were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Samuel Lovett Waldo and Deliverance Mapes.

Family/Spouse: Howard Lovett Waldo. Howard (son of Howard Waldo and Isabel Hoe) was born on 19 Feb 1860 in New York, New York; died on 19 Apr 1914 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 20 Apr 1914, New York, New York

Notes:

He was vice-president of the Badische Company, color and chemical importers.

Howard Lovett Waldo and his wife Clara Waldo Sullivan were first cousins, both being grandchildren of Samuel Lovett Waldo and Deliverance Mapes.

Family/Spouse: Clara Waldo Sullivan. Clara (daughter of Charles Sullivan and Clara Waldo) died on 16 Aug 1920 in Castleton Park, New Brighton, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 26 May 1888

Ida married Fritz Reuter Leiber, Sr. on 9 Mar 1910 in Santa Barbara County, California. Fritz was born on 31 Jan 1882 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; died on 14 Oct 1949 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Los Angeles, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"John Sargent, Former Doubleday President, Dies at 87." The New York Times, 8 Feb 2012:

John T. Sargent, who as president and later chairman of Doubleday & Company oversaw its expansion from a modest-size family-controlled book publisher to an industry giant with interests extending into broadcasting and baseball, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

The death was confirmed by his son, John T. Sargent Jr., the chief executive of Macmillan, the publishing company.

Mr. Sargent, who was already working for Doubleday when he married Neltje Doubleday, granddaughter of the company's founder, Frank Nelson Doubleday, in 1953, was named president and chief executive in 1961. At the time, the company was largely a trade book publisher; it also ran a book club, a New York bookstore and a modest printing concern.

Over the next 17 years, in partnership with Nelson Doubleday Jr., grandson of the founder, Mr. Sargent worked to expand all of those enterprises, largely succeeding in spite of a divorce in 1965 and an insurrection by a minority of the company's shareholders, led by his former wife, who wanted it to go public.

By 1979, the year after he left the presidency and was made chairman, Doubleday was publishing 700 books annually. The company had bought a textbook subsidiary and the Dell Publishing Company, which included Dell paperbacks. It was operating more than a dozen book clubs, including the mammoth Literary Guild; more than two dozen Doubleday bookshops across the country; and four book printing and binding companies.

In addition, Mr. Sargent led the company's expansion into radio and television broadcasting and film production. As chairman, he was involved in the company's purchase of the New York Mets in 1980.

The Doubleday company eschewed publicity and the prying of journalists. "The Sphinx Called Doubleday" was the headline on a 1979 article about the company in The New York Times, which described its publishing ethos this way: "There is no class of book that is considered a 'Doubleday book,' nor is there any book that would automatically be judged unsuitable for the Doubleday imprint. Generally speaking, the house frowns on books loaded with sex, it would be unlikely to publish an anti-Kennedy book since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is an editor there, and it doesn't exhaust itself trying to lasso serious literature."

The company may have been known for its secretive ways, but Mr. Sargent was visible among the New York elite, both during business hours and after. A strapping man, dapper and sociable, he was a voracious reader, an erudite speaker and, at one time, a poetry editor who worked with Theodore Roethke, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, who became a friend and, according to family lore, spent more than one night sleeping in the Sargent bathtub after an evening of imbibing.

He dined with his famous authors — who included Daphne du Maurier, Peter Benchley, Alex Haley, Leon Uris and Stephen King — and other notable friends; attended A-list parties with socialites like Brooke Astor; frequented the opera; hobnobbed with movie stars. He was a friend and frequent escort of Mrs. Onassis, and hired her as an editor at Doubleday.

"The guy liked dressing up in a tux and going out," his son said. "The publishing world was his world, and the social aspect was part of it. It all folded together."

John Turner Sargent was born on June 26, 1924, and spent his early years in Cedarhurst, on Long Island. (No one in the family knows where, exactly, he was born, his son said, and his birth certificate has not yet been found.) His grandfather was the well-known botanist Charles Sprague Sargent; his father, Charles Jr., worked in finance. He went to St. Mark's School in Massachusetts and spent a year at Harvard before joining the Navy. Prevented from fighting overseas because of a punctured eardrum, he spent the war years "loading bombers in Florida," his son said.

After his discharge he worked briefly for Time magazine and then began at Doubleday, writing book jacket copy, in the late 1940s. Over the next several years he read manuscripts, sold syndication and subsidiary rights, worked as an advertising manager and editor and was business manager of several publishing divisions. As president of the company, he succeeded Douglas Black, who had succeeded Nelson Doubleday Sr.

Mr. Sargent met Ms. Doubleday, a painter who now lives in Wyoming, when he was 28 and she was 18. After their divorce she waged a long battle, enlisting some other shareholders, to get the company to sell shares to the public, but her mother, her brother and her former husband all lined up against her and the effort failed. The company was finally sold to the German conglomerate Bertelsmann in 1986.

A longtime colleague of Mr. Sargent, Samuel S. Vaughan, who served the company as editor in chief and publisher, died on Jan. 30.

In addition to John Jr., Mr. Sargent's survivors include a daughter, Ellen; six grandchildren; his wife, the former Betty Nichols Kelly, whom he married in 1985; and two stepchildren, Elizabeth Lee Kelly and James Hamilton Kelly.

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John Turner Sargent Sr. and Neltje Doubleday are 8th cousins, both being 7XG-grandchildren of the Rev. John Ward (1606-1693) and his wife Alice (1612-1680).

John married Neltje Doubleday on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. Neltje (daughter of Nelson Doubleday and Ellen George McCarter) was born in 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Annette married Elisha Freeman Allen on 26 Dec 1869 in Howell, Livingston, Michigan. Elisha (son of Henry Freeman Allen and Angeline) was born on 14 Mar 1844 in Schuyler County, New York; died on 22 Jul 1918 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Howell, Livingston, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was president and editor of the McClure Newspaper Syndicate from 1928 to his death in 1943. In this capacity, in the late 1930s he published some of the earliest work by his nephew, Theodore Sturgeon.

From Continuation of Waldo Genealogy 1900-1943 (citation details below):

He was a crusader for truth in advertising. As advertising and business manager of Good Housekeeping magazine from 1905 to 1914, he established and developed the Good Housekeeping Institute which approved and licensed manufacturers whose advertisements the magazine published.

He became secretary and associate general manager of the New York Tribune in 1914.

He procured contracts for a series of syndicated articles by Calvin Coolidge after he left the White House, for which the ex-president received over $200,000.

He was born in New York City and attended Friends Academy at Locust Valley, N.Y., and Hawkins Collegiate Institute at New Brighton, S.I.

During World War I he served as captain of infantry with the American Expeditionary Forces.

He was at one time advertising counsel for John Wanamaker's department store.

Family/Spouse: Adelaide Price. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a dealer in pigments and dry colors.

Edward married Christine Hamilton Dicker on 18 Jul 1915 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Christine (daughter of Rev. Assheton George Hamilton Dicker and Helen Alice Hunter Dunn) was born on 30 Mar 1897 in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; died on 9 Jul 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fritz married Jonquil Parditt-Coutts Stephens on 18 Jan 1936. Jonquil was born on 1 Jul 1908 in London, England; died in 1969. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Fritz married Margo Skinner in 1992. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

CEO of Macmillan Publishers.

His philanthropic activities include longtime service on the board of directors of Graham Windham, more recently called simply Graham, a nonprofit foster care agency providing services to needy children and families in the New York metropolitan area. Founded in 1806, Graham, the oldest non-sectarian childcare agency in the United States, was originally the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of New York, co-founded by Eliza Hamilton after her husband Alexander Hamilton, himself an orphan, was killed in the famous duel with Aaron Burr — a grandson of John Sargent's 6X-grandfather the Rev. Jonathan Edwards. Thus Aaron Burr's first cousin six times removed has served for years on the board of Eliza Hamilton's orphanage.

He is also the author, under the anagrammatic pen name "S. T. Garne," of two children's books, One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book (1992) and By a Blazing Blue Sea (1999).

John married Constance Lane Murray on 21 Sep 1985. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elbert married Marion Van Wort on 2 Jul 1892 in Howell, Livingston, Michigan. Marion (daughter of George Seward Van Wort and Hattie C. Crowell) was born on 11 Jan 1873 in Mount Morris, Genesee, Michigan; died on 17 Nov 1948 in Williamston, Ingham, Michigan; was buried in Summit Cemetery, Williamston, Ingham, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was born in New York City, as stated in both Continuation of Waldo Genealogy and the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (citation details below), but neither source mentions specifically that he was born on Staten Island. That borough appears occasionally in his fiction, notably the story "Shottle Bop."

Continuation of Waldo Genealogy (citation details below) calls him "Theodore Hamilton Sturgeon", but he was born Edward Hamilton Waldo. His name was legally changed to Edward Hamilton Sturgeon at age 11, after his mother's divorce and 1929 remarriage to William Dicky "Argyll" Sturgeon, an event unmentioned in Continuation of Waldo Genealogy. [Source: Adoption record of Edward H. Waldo, now renamed Edward H. Sturgeon, reproduced in the 2013 Open Road Integrated Media e-book edition of Sturgeon's More Than Human.]

Sturgeon wrote years later about how his first name subsequently changed from Edward to Theodore: "I was confirmed a year [after the adoption proceedings] as Theodore rather than Edward because my mother told me I didn't like to chance being called Eddy. Hindsight again: I was my father's namesake (he was always Ned, never Ted) and she wanted the crumbs swept out. (Years later when I was having therapy with Milton Kline he asked me with shocking abruptness, 'What ever happened to Edward Waldo?' It was weird. My guts contracted.) Anyway, as far as self-indentification is concerned, I was always Ted or Teddy or, to my mother, Thuddy, no matter what the legal handles were." This is from the posthumously-published chapbook Argyll: A Memoir (Pullman, Washington: The Sturgeon Project, 1993), which consists of a pair of essays in which Sturgeon grapples with his fraught relationship with his stepfather, who by modern standards was obviously a classic abuser.

Seventh cousin twice removed to Robert A. Heinlein, via John Hutchins (1604-1685) and his wife Frances (d. 1694).

Eighth cousin once removed to Fritz Leiber, via William Allen (1615-1686) and Ann Goodale (1618-1678).

Ninth cousin once removed to Damon Knight, through Thomas French (1584-1639) and Susan Riddlesdale (1584-1658); also, the same degree, through Henry Adams (1583-1646) and Edith Squire (1587-1673).

Also through Thomas French and Susan Riddlesdale, ninth cousin three times removed to John M. Ford.

Also through Henry Adams and Edith Squire, third cousin six times removed to President John Adams; fourth cousin five times removed to President John Quincy Adams; and sixth cousin four times removed to historian Henry Adams.

Through shared ancestors William Hunter (1807-1878) and Jane Curling, Theodore Sturgeon was also a second cousin once removed to Elizabeth "Lisba" Curling Hunter (1915-1971), who married Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Thailand (1908-1963), grandson of King Rama V (1853-1910) of Siam. And a third cousin to their daughter Narisa Chakrabongse (1956- ), writer, publisher, and environmental activist. And a third cousin once removed to Narisa Chakranbongse's son Hugo Chakrabongse Levy (1981- ), Thai-American actor, singer, rapper, and songwriter, who performs under the stage names "Hugo" and "Chulachak Chakranbongse."

Finally, through their common ancestors Andrew Hunter Dunn, 5th Anglican Bishop of Quebec, and his wife Alice Hunter, Theodore Sturgeon was a first cousin once removed to Joan Hunter Dunn, the inspiration for John Betjeman's much-anthologized 1941 poem "A Subaltern's Love-song."

Notes:

Also spelled Roselia, Rosalie, Rosella, Rosslie, etc.

We do not know her exact date or place of birth. The record of her 1924 marriage to John Q. Myers says that she was born in in Howell, Michigan and that she was 19, implying a birth year around 1905. The record of her 1945 marriage to John B. Squier says that she was born in Lansing, Michigan and that she was 39, implying a birth year around 1906. Both marriage records confirm that she was a daughter of Elbert Freeman Allen and Marion Van Wort, and the 1910 and 1920 census records of that couple list a daughter of the appropriate age named Rosalia or Roselia. Elbert Freeman Allen was born in Howell in 1873 and married Marion Van Wort there in 1892. Finally, Rose M. Squier's 9 Apr 1985 obituary in the Battle Creek Enquirer, says that she was born in Lansing and gives her age at death as 79, implying a birth year of 1905. This obituary correctly identifies its subject as the mother of "Barbara Fitzgerald of Dayton" and, while it makes no mention of her first husband, it also correctly says "Her husband, John B. Squier, died in 1963."

She is a subject of extreme confusion in various user-submitted trees on ancestry.com and listings on Find a Grave. Her second husband was not John McGowen Squires (1903-1972), a son of Albert E. Squires and Ruth May McGowen. Nor was he Walter R. Squires (1892-1973), a son of William Rosecrans Squires and Laura Belle Myers. Walter R. Squires did marry, on 14 Feb 1931 in Mason, Ingham County, Michigan, a woman named Rose M., but she was Miss Rose M. Erbe, 25 years old, born in Mantador, North Dakota, a daughter of Albert Erbe. Walter R. Squires died in Lansing on 9 Feb 1973 and, acccording to his 11 Feb 1973 obituary in the Lansing State Journal, was survived by his wife Rose. Walter and Rose are interred together at Resurrection Cemetery in Wyoming, Kent County, Michigan, under a plaque that gives his birth and death dates as 26 Nov 1892 and 9 Feb 1973, and hers as 20 May 1905 and 11 Mar 2005. She is beyond any possible doubt not the Rosalia M. (Allen) (Myers) Squier who was a daughter of Elbert Freeman Allen and Marion Von Wort and the mother of Barbara Ann (Myers) Fitzgerald.

Out of the dozens of user-submitted ancestry.com trees in which she appears, several of the less obviously confused give our Rosalia's birth as 8 Oct 1905 in Howell. None of them give a source for this precise date or place, but a birth in October 1905 is exactly consonant with the ages given in both of her marriage records, and with the age (79) given in the Battle Creek Enquirer's report of her death on 4 Apr 1985. Further, her father was born in Howell, her parents were married in Howell, and Howell is the birthplace given on the earlier of her two marriage records, all of which facts suggest that Howell, rather than Lansing, was her actual place of birth. But failing a truly stunning coincidence, she was not born there on 20 May 1905, because we know this to have been the birthdate of Rose M. Erbe, wife of Walter M. Squires.

Rosalia married John Q. Myers on 12 Dec 1924 in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, and was divorced on 11 Sep 1944 in Calhoun County, Michigan. John (son of John Walter Myers and Electa Frances Eisenlohr) was born on 6 Feb 1895 in Carson City, Montcalm, Michigan; died on 6 Nov 1965 in Marengo Township, Calhoun, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rosalia married John B. Squier on 2 Jul 1945 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan. John (son of Charles Albert Squier and Julia Elizabeth Hickman) was born about 1903; died in 1963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barbara married Daniel Squier Fitzgerald on 14 Feb 1947 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan. Daniel (son of Waldo Everett Fitzgerald and Dorothy M. Squier) was born on 23 May 1923 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; died on 27 Aug 2011 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan; was buried in Fort Custer National Cemetery, Augusta, Kalamazoo, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]