Katherine Reynolds

Notes:

Sometimes called Eunice. That her surname was Reynolds is a consistent Starbuck family tradition, but there exists no hard proof.

Family/Spouse: Edward Starbuck. Edward died on 4 Feb 1691 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorcas married William Gayer before 1673 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. William died on 23 Sep 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joseph Austin. Joseph died in 1663. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 6 Oct 1719, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Nathaniel married Mary Coffin before 30 Mar 1663. Mary (daughter of Tristram Coffin, Governor of Nantucket and Dionis Stevens) was born on 20 Feb 1645 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 13 Nov 1717 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; was buried in Friends Burying Ground, Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorcas married Jethro Starbuck on 6 Dec 1694. Jethro (son of Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin) was born on 14 Dec 1671; died on 12 Aug 1770 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 5 Sep 1711, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Deborah married John Coffin in 1668. John (son of Tristram Coffin, Governor of Nantucket and Dionis Stevens) was born on 30 Aug 1647 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 5 Sep 1711 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; was buried in Old North Cemetery, Grove Lane, Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was the first child of European descent born on Nantucket.

Family/Spouse: James Gardner. James (son of Richard Gardner and Sarah Shattuck) was born on 19 May 1664 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 1 Aug 1723. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jethro married Dorcas Gayer on 6 Dec 1694. Dorcas (daughter of William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck) died on 11 Dec 1747. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 15 Sep 1704, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Lydia married Benjamin Barney on 31 Mar 1722. Benjamin (son of Jonathan Barney and Sarah Griffin) was born in of Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 14 Apr 1783. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Macy. Thomas (son of John Macy and Deborah Gardner) was born about 1687 in Nantucket, New York; died on 16 Mar 1759 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He and his wife were second cousins, being both great-grandchildren of Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens.

Jonathan married Patience Bunker on 16 Aug 1723. Patience (daughter of Jonathan Bunker and Elizabeth Coffin) was born in 1706; died after Aug 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Rotch on 31 Oct 1754 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. William (son of Joseph Rotch and Love Macy) was born on 4 Dec 1734 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 14 May 1828 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Love married Joseph Rotch on 21 Feb 1734 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Joseph (son of William Rotch and Hannah Potter) was born on 6 Mar 1705 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 24 Nov 1784 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Samuel Long in 1717. Samuel was born in of Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Said to have received to Barrington, Nova Scotia, in 1762.

Simeon married Sarah Long on 22 Nov 1750 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman, along with her younger sister Mary, who never married, were the impetus to so many of the Rotches and Rodmans leaving the Society of Friends, most of them because of what happened to these two women. [...] Samuel Rodman, after the vote that revoked Elizabeth's and Mary's position as Elders, was so incensed by what had taken place that he 'tendered a resignation of his right of membership to the Mo[nthly] Meeting. He declined entering into the reasons which had led to this step, which must be well known to most who were present -- he said it was not a hasty one, but taken after mature deliberation, [and] he should only request a copy of the minute made on this subject.'" [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

Elizabeth married Samuel Rodman on 1 Jun 1780 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Thomas Rodman and Mary Borden) was born on 11 Nov 1753 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 24 Dec 1835 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was an early whale-oil entrepeneur. He and his sons' whaling businesses continued well into the 1800s.

William married Elizabeth Barney on 31 Oct 1754 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Barney and Lydia Starbuck) was born on 23 Mar 1735 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died on 14 May 1824 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Simeon Gardner on 22 Nov 1750 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Simeon (son of Jonathan Gardner and Patience Bunker) was born on 14 Sep 1728 in Nantucket, Massachusetts; died in Jan 1817 in Cheboque Harbor, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jonathan Covell. Jonathan (son of Timothy Covell and Thankful Wheldon) died on 18 Feb 1812 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Both Anna and her husband Andrew were disowned from the New Bedford Monthly Meeting for 'absenting' themselves from meetings. Andrew was disowned 27th 10 mo. 1825. Anna was subsequently disowned 24th 5 mo. 1827." [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

Anna married Andrew Robeson on 2 Jun 1810 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. Andrew (son of Peter Robeson and Martha Livezey) was born on 18 Aug 1787 in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died on 8 Dec 1862 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman, along with her younger sister Mary, who never married, were the impetus to so many of the Rotches and Rodmans leaving the Society of Friends, most of them because of what happened to these two women. [...] Samuel Rodman, after the vote that revoked Elizabeth's and Mary's position as Elders, was so incensed by what had taken place that he 'tendered a resignation of his right of membership to the Mo[nthly] Meeting. He declined entering into the reasons which had led to this step, which must be well known to most who were present -- he said it was not a hasty one, but taken after mature deliberation, [and] he should only request a copy of the minute made on this subject.'" [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

Elizabeth married Samuel Rodman on 1 Jun 1780 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Thomas Rodman and Mary Borden) was born on 11 Nov 1753 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 24 Dec 1835 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jonathan Covell. Jonathan (son of Timothy Covell and Thankful Wheldon) died on 18 Feb 1812 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deborah married Reuben Smith on 24 Jan 1815. Reuben (son of James Smith and Sarah Wilson) was born on 15 Dec 1792; died on 14 Sep 1869 in Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, but did not practice. He was active in the management of his father's Fall River factory.

He was disowned by the Quakers in 1840, over a decade after his parents were.

Andrew married Mary Arnold Allen on 2 Mar 1843 in Islesboro, Maine. Mary (daughter of Zachariah Allen and Eliza Harriet Arnold) was born on 9 Sep 1819 in of Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 25 Jul 1903 in Islesboro, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Both Anna and her husband Andrew were disowned from the New Bedford Monthly Meeting for 'absenting' themselves from meetings. Andrew was disowned 27th 10 mo. 1825. Anna was subsequently disowned 24th 5 mo. 1827." [Rhonda R. McClure, citation details below]

Anna married Andrew Robeson on 2 Jun 1810 in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. Andrew (son of Peter Robeson and Martha Livezey) was born on 18 Aug 1787 in Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died on 8 Dec 1862 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Deborah married Reuben Smith on 24 Jan 1815. Reuben (son of James Smith and Sarah Wilson) was born on 15 Dec 1792; died on 14 Sep 1869 in Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mathilda married Ephraim Clifford Nickerson on 3 Jan 1855. Ephraim (son of Judah Nickerson and Elizabeth Smith) was born on 26 Jun 1832 in Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died on 14 Sep 1915 in Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [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]

Notes:

He graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, but did not practice. He was active in the management of his father's Fall River factory.

He was disowned by the Quakers in 1840, over a decade after his parents were.

Andrew married Mary Arnold Allen on 2 Mar 1843 in Islesboro, Maine. Mary (daughter of Zachariah Allen and Eliza Harriet Arnold) was born on 9 Sep 1819 in of Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 25 Jul 1903 in Islesboro, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mathilda married Ephraim Clifford Nickerson on 3 Jan 1855. Ephraim (son of Judah Nickerson and Elizabeth Smith) was born on 26 Jun 1832 in Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia; died on 14 Sep 1915 in Clark's Harbour, Cape Sable Island, Shelburne, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arrived in the US from Clark's Harbour, Nova Scotia, in Feb 1924, proceeding to Medford, Massachusetts. Said to have died Oct 1953 in Somerville.

Alfred married Ella Seretha McComiskey in 1903 in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Ella (daughter of James McComiskey and Christiana Wilson) was born in 1869 in Nova Scotia; died on 9 Jan 1947 in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [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]

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]

Notes:

Arrived in the US from Clark's Harbour, Nova Scotia, in Feb 1924, proceeding to Medford, Massachusetts. Said to have died Oct 1953 in Somerville.

Alfred married Ella Seretha McComiskey in 1903 in Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Ella (daughter of James McComiskey and Christiana Wilson) was born in 1869 in Nova Scotia; died on 9 Jan 1947 in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated from Nova Scotia to Boston around 1926, taking up residence in Somerville. Returned to Nova Scotia before 1951.

Bernard married Edith Estelle Drew in 1937 in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Edith (daughter of Benjamin Edwin Drew and Laura Adele Currier) was born on 22 Mar 1911 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 12 Sep 2008 in Washington, Washington, Iowa. [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]

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]

Notes:

Emigrated from Nova Scotia to Boston around 1926, taking up residence in Somerville. Returned to Nova Scotia before 1951.

Bernard married Edith Estelle Drew in 1937 in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Edith (daughter of Benjamin Edwin Drew and Laura Adele Currier) was born on 22 Mar 1911 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 12 Sep 2008 in Washington, Washington, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Barbara. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lorna Mae Nickerson and Ronald Whitman Nickerson were fourth cousins, both of them great-great-great-grandchildren of John Nickerson of Nova Scotia (1772-1880) and Dorothy James "Dolly" Burke of Ireland and Nova Scotia (1770-1867).

Lorna married Ronald Whitman Nickerson about 1960 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, and was divorced about 1982. Ronald (son of Whitman Blades Nickerson and Nellie May Acker) was born on 24 Feb 1937 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 8 May 2010 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa. [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]

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]

Family/Spouse: Barbara. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jo. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lorna Mae Nickerson and Ronald Whitman Nickerson were fourth cousins, both of them great-great-great-grandchildren of John Nickerson of Nova Scotia (1772-1880) and Dorothy James "Dolly" Burke of Ireland and Nova Scotia (1770-1867).

Lorna married Ronald Whitman Nickerson about 1960 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, and was divorced about 1982. Ronald (son of Whitman Blades Nickerson and Nellie May Acker) was born on 24 Feb 1937 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; died on 8 May 2010 in Cedar Rapids, Linn, Iowa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: David Dyer-Bennet. David (son of John Dyer-Bennet and Mary Abby Randall) was born in 1954. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Nigel Kent Ray about May 1984 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, and was divorced on 16 Apr 1987 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Nigel was born about 1962. [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]

Family/Spouse: David Dyer-Bennet. David (son of John Dyer-Bennet and Mary Abby Randall) was born in 1954. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lydia married Nigel Kent Ray about May 1984 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, and was divorced on 16 Apr 1987 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Nigel was born about 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]