Deacon Edward Collins

Notes:

He and his family emigrated from England to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1638.

Deacon married Martha Baylie on 20 Nov 1628 in Framlingham, Suffolk, England. Martha (daughter of Francis Baylie) was born about 1609; died on 22 Mar 1700 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: Bef 1673

Sibyl married Rev. John Whiting about 1654 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John (son of Maj. William Whiting and Susanna) was born about 1634 in England; died on 8 Sep 1689 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Graduated from Harvard in 1660; ordained pastor of the church at Middletown, Connecticut 4 Nov 1668. Of him, Cotton Mather wrote (in Magnalia Christi Americana), “There were more wounds given, by his death, to the Colony of Connecticut in our New England, than the body of Caesar received when he fell wounded in the senate house.”

Nathaniel married Mary Whiting on 3 Aug 1664 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Maj. William Whiting and Susanna) was born before 1643 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 25 Oct 1709 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1665

Abigail married Rev. Samuel Russell about 1685. Samuel (son of Rev. John Russell and Rebecca Newberry) was born on 4 Nov 1660; died on 25 Jun 1731 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 22 Apr 1670, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

First minister of Windham, Connecticut.

Samuel married Elizabeth Adams on 14 Sep 1696 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev. William Adams and Alice Bradford) was born on 23 Feb 1681 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 21 Dec 1766 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He graduated from Harvard in 1697 and was ordained the first pastor of the First Separatist Church (Church of Christ) in Enfield on 3 June 1699 where he served until 1724. He was town clerk in 1729–35.

Nathaniel married Alice Adams on 7 Jan 1701 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Alice (daughter of Rev. William Adams and Alice Bradford) was born on 3 Apr 1682 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 19 Feb 1735 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: May 1705

Ithiel married Jerusha Harrison on 23 Jan 1728. Jerusha (daughter of John Harrison and Rebecca Truesdale) was born in 1706 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 2 Jun 1786 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sarah Trowbridge. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Trowbridge and Mary Winston) was born on 26 Nov 1686; died on 23 Jan 1761; was buried in Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 23 Feb 1778, Windham, Windham, Connecticut
• Alternate death: 23 Sep 1778, Windham, Windham, Connecticut

Ann married Joseph Fitch on 29 Dec 1721 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of Rev. James Fitch and Priscilla Mason) was born in Nov 1681 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut; died on 9 May 1741 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His was a colonel in the provincial army, and distinguished himself at the siege of Louisbourg and at the battle of Lake George.

William married Anna Raymond on 5 Mar 1724 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of Joshua Raymond and Mercy Sands) was born in 1701 in New London, New London, Connecticut; died on 26 Nov 1773 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 10 Sep 1778

Ann married Ephraim Terry on 13 Sep 1723 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Ephraim (son of Samuel Terry and Martha Boardman) was born on 24 Oct 1701 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 14 Oct 1783 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alice married Nathaniel Parsons on 15 Jan 1736 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Nathaniel (son of Philip Parsons and Anna) was born on 15 Mar 1710 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died after 27 Mar 1781. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 17 Aug 1799

Submit married Rev. Noah Wetmore on 9 Jul 1761. Noah (son of Samuel Wetmore and Hannah Hubbard) was born on 16 Apr 1730 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 9 Mar 1796 in Brookhaven, Long Island, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married James Barker in Oct 1737 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. James (son of Jonathan Barker and Mary Wardell) was born on 11 Jan 1709 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 6 Jan 1788; was buried in Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Anna married Shem Burbank on 29 Dec 1761 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. Shem (son of Abraham Burbank and Mehitable Dwight) was born on 21 May 1736 in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 31 Jan 1800 in Granville, Hampden, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 8 Apr 1730

Notes:

He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. John Bulkeley of Colchester. He was evidently also a talented and largely self-taught musician, and over time constructed musicial instruments for his family, including a parlor organ and a dulcimer. The Puritan authorities of Hartford rebuked him more than once for these indulgences, which was probably one of the reasons he and his family eventually removed to Great Barrington and joined the Episcopal church there.

William married Anna Mason in 1759. Anna (daughter of Jeremiah Mason and Mary Clark) was born on 4 Mar 1738; died on 13 Nov 1821. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Mary Kellogg on 21 Apr 1748 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of Capt. Samuel Kellogg and Rachel Ashley) was born on 24 Oct 1730 in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; died on 11 Feb 1801; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edward married Mehitabel Pease on 25 Aug 1768 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Mehitabel (daughter of Ezekiel Pease and Hannah Chandler) was born on 23 Sep 1745 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 May 1767

Notes:

He came to New York city in about 1808, to become superintendent of a hospital. An obituary quoted in The Wetmore Family of America says merely "the New York hospital, in which charge he remained thirty years, or more."

Noah married Winifred Smith on 14 Feb 1792 in Long Swamp, Huntington, Suffolk, Long Island, New York. Winifred (daughter of Joel Smith) died on 11 Apr 1815 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sibyl married Ebenezer Linsley on 17 Dec 1760 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Ebenezer (son of Ebenezer Linsley and Sarah Wilford) was born on 18 Jul 1736 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 8 Nov 1822 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; was buried in Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucretia married Rev. Samuel Camp on 28 Oct 1778. Rev. (son of Deacon Hezekiah Camp and Lydia Clark) was born in Dec 1744 in Canaan, Lichtfield, Connecticut; died on 10 Mar 1813 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut; was buried in Ridegbury Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married John Kirtland on 10 Apr 1788. John (son of Constant Kirtland and Rachel Brockett) was born on 20 Dec 1759 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 19 May 1843 in Granville, Washington, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Lawyer, member of the New York state legislature; later a district attorney. He was one of the first settlers of Chenango Point, New York, later called Binghamton.

Mason married Mary Ogden Edwards on 26 Apr 1800. Mary (daughter of Timothy Edwards and Rhoda Ogden) was born on 11 Oct 1780 in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Massachusetts; died on 23 Jan 1873; was buried in Spring Forest Cemetery, Binghamton, Broome, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Solomon married Hannah Pease on 31 Aug 1788 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Hannah (daughter of Hezekiah Pease and Hannah Meacham) was born on 26 Nov 1770 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 5 Mar 1808. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1774

Alice married Jonathan Button on 29 Aug 1793 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. Jonathan (son of Jonathan Button and Naomi Munsell) was born about 1775; died on 23 Apr 1840 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Sarah Brinckerhoff on 24 Oct 1821. Sarah (daughter of Derick Brinckerhoff and Catrine Hoffman) was born about 1800; died on 18 Jan 1829. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebenezer married Betsy Russell on 18 Oct 1789 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Betsy (daughter of Capt. Samuel Russell and Elisabeth) was born on 9 Feb 1765 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 21 Dec 1846 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; was buried in Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Abigail married Jacob Hemingway on 23 Dec 1784 in Congregational Society, East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. Jacob (son of Abraham Hemingway and Mercy Tuttle) was born in Mar 1764; was christened on 14 Dec 1764 in Congregational Society, East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

familysearch.org has a birth record stating that Sarah Camp was born 15 Jan 1782, daughter of "Rev. Samuel and Hannah." This is linked, not to a contemporary record, but to a typed index card marked "Ridgefield, Vital Records, Vol. 1, Page 30."

This record of Sarah Camp's birthdate and of her parentage cannot be correct, for the following reasons:

First, Sarah Camp's gravestone says that she died 9 Aug 1818, aged 36 years. This would place her birth in 1782.

Second, the only wife of the Rev. Samuel Camp named Hannah was Hannah Garnsey, who died in 1777.

Third, Samuel Camp's wife who was alive in early 1782 was his second wife, Lucretia Barker.

Fourth, a transcription of Ridgebury church records on familysearch.org, taken from dunhamwilcox.net, says that Lucretia, second wife of Rev. Samuel Camp, died on 2 Feb 1782, and that Sarah, daughter of Rev. Samuel Camp, was baptized 3 Feb 1782 (by the Rev. William Wetmore of Bethel).

Quite obviously, Lucretia (Barker) Camp, second wife of the Rev. Samuel Camp, died of complications from the birth of Sarah Camp, because she, not someone named "Hannah", was the mother of Sarah Camp.

Sarah married Samuel Smith Baldwin on 10 May 1796 in Ridgebury, Fairfield, Connecticut. Samuel (son of Samuel Baldwin and Hannah Northrup) was born on 5 Jul 1777 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 12 Jul 1822 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio; was buried in Harvard Grove Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married Joseph Myer on 29 Jan 1815. Joseph (son of Joseph Myer and Abigail Harter) was born on 27 Jan 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 25 Apr 1801, Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Mary married Col. John Tilden Doubleday on 19 Sep 1819. John (son of Ammi Doubleday and Lois Tilden) was born on 17 Aug 1795 in New Lebanon, Columbia, New York; died on 25 Jun 1857 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York; was buried on 27 Jun 1857 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She and her husband were third cousins, both of them great-grandchildren of the Rev. Nathaniel Collins (1677-1768) and Alice Adams (1682-1735). Alice Adams was in turn a great-granddaughter of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford (1590-1657).

Elizabeth married Jonathan Button on 8 Apr 1823. Jonathan (son of Jonathan Button and Alice Parsons) was born on 22 Jun 1800 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1888. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 22 Jun 1799, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut
• Alternate death: Aft 1880

Notes:

He was a harness-maker.

He and his wife were third cousins, both of them great-grandchildren of the Rev. Nathaniel Collins (1677-1768) and Alice Adams (1682-1735). Alice Adams was in turn a great-granddaughter of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford (1590-1657).

Jonathan married Elizabeth Terry on 8 Apr 1823. Elizabeth (daughter of Solomon Terry and Hannah Pease) was born on 28 Feb 1802 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died on 4 Dec 1864. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married Caroline E. Bixby on 4 Sep 1855 in Hoboken, Hudson, New Jersey. Caroline (daughter of Ira Bixby and Caroline Mather) was born in 1833 in Deposit, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Anson Tyler on 10 Jul 1811 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. Anson (son of Philemon Tyler and Lucy) was born on 6 Dec 1788 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 30 Aug 1800

Lucretia married Reuben Irving Henry on 29 Apr 1828 in Portage County, Ohio. Reuben (son of James Miller Henry and Sarah Cochran) was born on 13 Jun 1800; died on 11 Aug 1862; was buried in Aurora Cemetery, Aurora, Portage, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Rev. Austen Hazen Wright on 13 Jun 1844 in Seir, Persia. Austen (son of David Wright and Elizabeth Hazen) was born on 11 Nov 1811 in Hartford, Windsor, Vermont; was christened in Mar 1818 in Center Church, Hartford, Windsor, Vermont; died on 4 Jan 1865 in Urumiah, Persia; was buried in American Mission Graveyard, on Mt. Seir, near Urmiah, West Azerbaijan province, Iran. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 5 Mar 1900, New York, New York

William married Ellen Maria Dickinson on 1 Oct 1850. Ellen (daughter of Horace Dickinson and Mercy Amelia Bigelow) was born on 31 Dec 1830 in Montréal, Québec; died on 14 Dec 1907 in New York, New York; was buried on 16 Dec 1907 in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1833
• Alternate birth: May 1834, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Notes:

Her Find a Grave page gives her death date as 23 May 1918, but the grave itself clearly says 23 Jul 1918, which accords with other existing records.

Harriet married William Marks in Oct 1855. William (son of James Marks and Saphronia Griswold) was born about 1833; died on 28 Oct 1913 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1863
• Alternate birth: 10 Feb 1863

Notes:

Her birth and death dates are clearly visible on her tombstone at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, next to the grave of her second husband, James Wright Markoe.

Annette married William Boerum Wetmore on 12 Apr 1882 in Grace Church, New York, New York, and was divorced in Apr 1892. William (son of Samuel Wetmore and Sarah Taylor Boerum) was born on 7 Dec 1849; died on 24 Mar 1919. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Annette married Dr. James Wright Markoe on 22 Nov 1894. James was born on 19 Jul 1862 in New York, New York; died on 18 Apr 1920 in New York, New York; was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Harriet married Allen Hemingway in 1843. Allen (son of Lucretia Hemingway) was born on 2 Jul 1808 in Plymouth, Lichtfield, Connecticut; died on 29 Nov 1886 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; was buried in Union Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Many online sources, including findagrave.com and famouskin.com, give him as a son of Jacob Street Hemingway (1791-1863) and his wife Lucretia Smith (1785-1875). But Jacob Street Hemingway, a son of Jacob Hemingway (1764-1838) and Abigail Linsley (1767-1835), married Polly Hinman in Connecticut in May 1815, and she lived to 28 Mar 1885. And yet:

The 1850 census of Plymouth, Lichtfield, Connecticut lists Allen Hemingway, 42 years old, merchant, in the same household as his wife Harriet, 31, and a woman explicitly identified as his mother, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut 65 years old.

The 1860 census lists, in the same household, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut, 75.

The 1870 census lists, in the same household, Lucretia Smith, born in Connecticut, 85.

Meanwhile, the will of the aforementioned Jacob Hemingway, 1837, mentions his daughter Lucretia and his grandson Allen Himingway. According to the Wikitree page for Jacob Hemingway, other related probate documents identify daughter Lucretia as Lucretia Smith.

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Lucretia Smith, who lived as an elderly woman for at least twenty years in the household of Allen Hemingway, was the Lucretia Hemingway recorded as born in Plymouth, Connecticut on 1 May 1785 to the aforementioned Jacob Hemingway and Abigail Linsley, that she married a man named Smith, and that for whatever reason, Allen Hemingway, for whom we have no birth record, adopted his mother's surname instead that of his Smith father. The dates line up perfectly, as does the 1837 will of Jacob Hemingway.

Allen married Harriet Louisa Tyler in 1843. Harriet (daughter of Anson Tyler and Harriet Linsley) was born on 10 Aug 1819 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut; died on 16 Feb 1895 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; was buried in Union Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Brig. Gen. Charles Turner on 20 Oct 1853. Brig. (son of Rev. Charles Avery Turner and Mary Bailey) was born on 2 Mar 1825 in Hampden County, Massachusetts; died on 13 Jul 1880 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois; was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her birthplace, also spelled Orumiyeh, now generally called Urmia, is now in West Azerbaijan, the northernmost and westernmost province of modern Iran.

From Britannica.com (accessed 16 Sep 2020):

Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell, née Lucy Myers Wright…archaeologist who, though self-taught, became an internationally recognized authority on ancient Greek and Roman sculpture.

Lucy Wright was the daughter of a missionary to the Nestorian Christians in Persia. In 1860 she was taken to the United States, and a short time later she entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College), South Hadley, Massachusetts, leaving in 1864 to rejoin her father in Persia. On his death the next year she returned to the United States. She married Samuel S. Mitchell in 1867, and they traveled together as missionaries to Syria. Her husband’s health failed soon afterward, however, and they left Syria; the rest of Lucy Mitchell’s life was spent mainly in Europe. By that time she had acquired a vernacular knowledge of Syriac and Arabic, as well as French, German, and Italian, and for a time she devoted herself to philological studies. Her dictionary of modern Syriac was never published, and the manuscript was ultimately obtained by the University of Cambridge.

In 1873 Mitchell turned her attention to ancient art. While living in Rome (1876–78) she gave parlour lectures on Greek and Roman sculpture. A number of museums and libraries granted her scholar’s privileges, and many leading archaeologists of Europe assisted her in her studies. In 1883 she published A History of Ancient Sculpture and a companion volume of plates, Selections from Ancient Sculpture. These works were well received by critics and fellow scholars, and in 1884 she became only the second woman to be elected to the Imperial German Archaeological Institute. From 1884 to 1886 she studied in Berlin for a major work on Greek pottery and vase painting. Mitchell fell ill, however, and died before completing her studies.

Lucy married Samuel S. Mitchell in 1867. Samuel was born in of Morristown, Morris, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

His birthplace, also spelled Orumiyeh, now generally called Urmia, is now in West Azerbaijan, the northernmost and westernmost province of modern Iran.

From Wikipedia:

He earned his Bachelors (1873) and Masters (1876) at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. After junior appointments (first in Ohio and then at Dartmouth) in 1886 he joined Johns Hopkins as a professor of classical philology. In 1887, he became a professor of Greek at Harvard, where, from 1895 to 1908, he was also Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Some of Wright's most notable works are A History of All Nations from the Earliest Times (1905), a 24–volume history of the world; the translations Masterpieces of Greek Literature (1902); and The Origin of Plato's Cave (1906). He was active in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philological Association, and similar organizations. From 1889 to 1906 he co-edited the Classical Review (later Classical Quarterly) and from 1897 to 1906 he was chief editor of the American Journal of Archaeology.

In 1893 Wright met the Indian Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda, who greatly influenced him. Wright described Vivekananda as "more learned than all our learned professors put together."

John married Mary Tappan on 2 Apr 1879 in Gambier, Knox, Ohio. Mary (daughter of Eli Todd Tappan and Lydia Lucretia McDowell) was born on 14 Dec 1851 in Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio; died on 25 Aug 1916 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Founder of the Doubleday publishing firm. Called "Effendi" by his friend Rudyard Kipling, a pun on his initials.

Frank married Neltje Blanchan De Graff on 9 Jun 1886 in Plainfield, Somerset, New Jersey. Neltje (daughter of Liverius De Graff and Alice Fair) was born on 23 Oct 1865 in Chicago, Illinois; died on 21 Feb 1918 in Canton, China. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1910 census calls him a traveling salesman in tea and coffee.

If the records are accurate, he died one day short of his 90th birthday.

Family/Spouse: Mabel Rogers. Mabel was born on 20 Sep 1872 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 11 Aug 1931 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts; was buried on 14 Aug 1931 in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1885

Dagmar married Charles Sprague Sargent on 9 May 1912 in Grace Church, New York, New York. Charles (son of Charles Sprague Sargent and Mary Allen Robeson) was born on 7 Mar 1880 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts; died on 13 Feb 1959 in New York City; was buried in Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1851, Connecticut

Family/Spouse: Alexander Smith. Alexander (son of Alexander Smith) was born on 26 Mar 1846 in New York; died on 7 Jan 1937 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois; was buried in Union Ridge Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Frederick Leonard on 21 Feb 1882 in Tazewell County, Illinois. Frederick (son of Isaac Eugene Leonard, Mayor of Pekin, Illinois and Louisa Mount) was born in 1856 in Illinois; died on 27 Oct 1924 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Author of Islandia, a quasi-utopian novel published eleven years after his death, which has remained almost uninterruptedly in print.

Austin married Margaret Garrad Stone on 14 Nov 1912 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Margaret (daughter of William Eben Stone and Katherine Maria Fay) was born on 19 Jul 1886 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 1 Sep 1937 in London, England; was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ellen George McCarter. Ellen (daughter of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter and Madeleine G. Barker) was born on 9 May 1898; died on 2 Apr 1978 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was, at least at the time of her marriage, a stenographer.

Alice married Edward H. Slocum after 12 Sep 1932 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. Edward (son of William Lewis Slocum and Mabel Sophia Pearce) was born on 31 Mar 1907 in Connecticut; died on 28 Feb 1984 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; was buried in Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [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]

Allen married Mary Imogene Schaub in 1890. Mary (daughter of Ferdinand Michael Schaub and Agnes M. Smiley) was born on 15 Mar 1868 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois; died on 7 Oct 1940 in Richwoods, Peoria, Illinois; was buried on 12 Oct 1940 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louise married Herman Wenger Danforth on 18 Oct 1905 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois. Herman (son of Henry Rupert Danforth, Mayor of Washington, Illinois and Mary Elizabeth Wenger) was born on 15 Jun 1872 in Danforth, Iroquois, Illinois; died on 8 Aug 1949 in Danforth, Iroquois, Illinois; was buried in Glendale Cemetery, Washington, Tazewell, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

As a San Francisco newspaper columnist, she coined the word "mondegreen."

"Sylvia Wright, a Writer and Harpers Ex-Editor," in The New York Times, 13 May 1981:

Sylvia Wright, a freelance writer who frequently and humorously commented in national magazines on trends in modern living, died of cancer Saturday at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 64 years old.

Miss Wright was also a former editor of Harpers Bazaar. A collection of her magazine articles, ''Get Away From Me With Those Christmas Gifts,'' was published by McGraw-Hill in 1957. She was also the author of a novel, ''A Shark Infested Rice Pudding.''

After her graduation from Bryn Mawr College, Miss Wright edited and prepared for publication ''Islandia,'' a Utopian novel about an imaginary country written by her father, the late Austin Tappen [sic] Wright, who was a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. The novel, which has been a steady seller, was published in 1942, reissued in 1958. It is currently published by Arno Press Inc. and the New American Library.

At her death, Miss Wright was writing a biography of her great-aunt, Melusina Fay Peirce, an early feminist and first wife of the American physicist, mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.

Miss Wright is survived by her husband, Paul J. Mitarachi; a son, John; a sister, Phyllis King of Manhattan; and two brothers, Benjamin and William Wright.

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Phyllis Wright and Lowell King were seventh cousins once removed, her being a 6XG-granddaughter of the Rev. James Fitch (1622-1702) and Priscilla Mason (1641-1714), and he being a 7XG-grandson of the same couple.

Phyllis married Lowell King on 27 Sep 1941 in New York, New York. Lowell (son of Clarence Baker King and Alice Darracott Seabrook) was born on 2 May 1920 in New Canaan, Farfield, Connecticut; died on 27 Aug 1969 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In recent decades, she changed her name, by court order, to simply "Neltje." In 2016 her autobiography North of Crazy was published by St. Martin's Press. A profile of her can be found here, and her Wikipedia page is here.

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

Neltje married John Turner Sargent, Sr. on 16 May 1953 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, and was divorced in Sep 1965. John (son of Charles Sprague Sargent and Dagmar Wetmore) was born on 26 Jun 1924; died on 5 Feb 2012 in New York, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas Doherty. Thomas (son of Thomas Aquinas Doherty and Elizabeth Story) was born on 23 Apr 1935 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

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She was a poet and painter of note, generally under the name "Gene Derwood."

Edwin Honig, "Gene Derwood's Poems--An Observance." (Poetry 89:43, October 1956):

AT HER DEATH IN 1954 Gene Derwood left a manuscript of thirty-eight poems and more than 150 paintings. The poems have been brought out in a volume (The Poems of Gene Derwood, with a memoir by Joseph Bennett, New York, Clarke & Way, Inc., 1955) introduced by Joseph Bennett. Her paintings are generally little known except perhaps for the striking impressionistic portrait of Dylan Thomas in a red shirt and a humming bird for a necktie which was re produced in a recent number of New World Writing. Although Gene Derwood will be remembered for her poems, her paintings have something of the same intensity, though not the deep assurance, of her poetry. Several of these, as well as the work sheets of her poems, are now in the possession of the Harvard libraries.

Her work is arresting for its solid vigor, its generally acute discomfort, and its fierce resistance to anything like easy assimilation. Yet she is far from being an obscure or hermetic poet; her vivid, strongly eclectic work is wrung by a tough joy and a mantic, heavily charged, almost nightmarish urgency. Technically, she is not an "original" poet. Her meters and strophes are largely conventional and, I think, rather deliberately so, since part of her expressive strength certainly derives from a tradition (apparently English rather than American) which is markedly religious, metaphysical, idiosyncratic, inward regarding, apocalyptic and lyrical by turns. It is variously in line with the idioms and aims of such poets as Herbert, Blake and Hopkins; in its authority-despite-its-unevenness, the poetry also recalls Hardy, Owen, Barker and Crane. If she is unlike some of these in being inventive rather than original, she is like them all in being an undeniably genuine poet. The source of each poem is in its matter (not manner) in its occasion, in its facing up to and its bare handling of a human mystery which cannot ever wholly reveal itself.

It is, in fact, a curiously true book since the effect of all the poems is greater than any particular poem, momentarily rising above the rest, can itself proudly urge, and greater than the gradually engaged reader himself is likely to understand in urging one poem's superiority to the rest. The true-bookness is the impact of all the poems together in which one is aware of the spirit which, once awakened, creates a body and so becomes more than a performance in the words and shapes that one enjoys in different poems. The whole book achieves something that reaches beyond the poems, like the force of prayer which becomes the prayer's fulfillment, a constant benediction. Reading through it, one is peculiarly sensitive to the risks taken and seemingly succumbed to, but then suddenly transcended, awakening, discovering an unperceived life like a dark nebula suddenly defined against the light. One recognizes the life that, having passed into the poems, surpassed its moulds, its forms. And yet one wonders how it came to be a life formed so close to our noses, but strangely different from anything we know. So familiar because it signifies and seals the times we live in. So different from what we merely know because it needed to be imagined first; it needed a poet to risk utterly failing to make it before it could be conceived, visioned, and discovered in forms as factual and as self-demanding as our own bodies. It is therefore also a true book because the poems are not all equal, because there are gross falterings, strained diction, unwieldy puns that scrape against beautifully shaped utterances. The truth is in the making which one is thus allowed to witness; the expense entailed in making mistakes was necessary to the creation of the spirit's body which lives so firmly in all the poems.

Such poems remind us that poetry is nothing if not a profession, in the old sense a profession of faith, of true saying and truth-making. It is not a profession in the sense of the selling of poems or the launching of the maker on a career of serving up balms and certitudes in exchange for social status or literary rank. Gene Derwood's poems are free from any taint of professionalism; they sell nothing, not even their own frequently accusatory cries. They demand life in exchange for the life they create. They demand the reader's faith that life exists precisely where it is most devalued, fragmented and abjured. The example of her work suggests that there is a poetry which by being so intensely and sharply formed, so weighted in its mazed integrity, is of such a different order of utterance from the poetry of most professionals as to constitute a different species. In writing too few rather than too many poems, and in writing under no obligation other than that of the poem's urgency, many of her lines go deep as a diamond drill through rock, A dark hard beauty emerges, and a failure, frequently, that resembles success but is better than success.

Fastened and fasting in the bed-rock man
The assainted, snuffed-down halo strives to rise.
.....
Mountains of dove-tailed pebbles and words wordened.
The newest prism is moulded from the last.
.....
The moon still shines beside the daytime star,
The waters weave, rain cools, dunes move, grain grows,
Soft words bring soft replies, muscles expand.
(N. B., Symmetrians)

Beautiful always the littoral line,
Jointure of ocean and earth where globe winds lean
Over the lace whence Venus rose, the sands
From which little-less-than-gods flung history's sail,
Round wave, round shell, and myth-bound lands.
(The Innocent)

The body housed, the body's firm pale bole
Clothed, the body's self a blank abiding.
.....
Walking or languid through the night or day,
Something familiar for a hiding wall
We carry, as a glove or stare or play
Of lips and brows. That's just a stall
That balks no frankness of the essence,
The too lightning truth of what we are
No man can hide the presence or the absence,
We've come too quickly and too far.
(Shelter)

Agnes married Oscar D. Kaplan on 23 Sep 1922 in New York, New York, New York. Oscar (son of Mouzya Kaplan and Chana Rapaport) was born on 29 Dec 1900 in Stara (Staraya) Syniava, Kmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine; died on 10 Oct 1964 in New York, New York, New York; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Hastings-On-Hudson, Westchester, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lieutenant (JG), US Naval Reserve, WWII.

His ashes were scattered at sea by the US Navy.

Herman married Ruth Marie Gelpi in Nov 1944 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana. Ruth (daughter of Dr. Maurice Joseph Gelpi and Ruth Marie de Grange) was born on 10 Jan 1926 in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana; died on 16 Dec 2000 in Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Tappan married Beth Ann Meacham on 13 Oct 1978 in New York City. Beth (daughter of Richard Allen Meacham and Marion Ann Gaunder) was born on 14 Nov 1951 in Newark, Licking, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: (Private). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]