Clara Waldo Sullivan

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]

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]

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."