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Edwards-Davenport-Thompson-Hooker family of Connecticut

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  Pierpont Edwards (1750-1826) — of Connecticut. Born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., April 8, 1750. Lawyer; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1787-88; delegate to Connecticut convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1789-90; U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, 1789; U.S. District Judge for Connecticut, 1806; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1818. Member, Freemasons. Died in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn., April 5, 1826 (age 75 years, 362 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Jonathan Edwards and Sarah (Pierpont) Edwards; married to Frances Ogden; father of Henry Waggaman Edwards; uncle of Aaron Burr and Theodore Dwight; second great-grandson of Thomas Willett; first cousin once removed of John Davenport and James Davenport; first cousin twice removed of Theodore Davenport; first cousin four times removed of Evert Harris Kittell; first cousin six times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; second cousin once removed of Benjamin Tallmadge; second cousin twice removed of Charles Robert Sherman and Frederick Augustus Tallmadge; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Joseph Pomeroy Root and Edward Williams Hooker; second cousin four times removed of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, George Landon Ingraham, Charles Dunsmore Millard and Blanche M. Woodward; second cousin five times removed of Charles H. Chittenden, Bradford R. Lansing, Daniel Phoenix Ingraham and Louis Ezekiel Stoddard; third cousin once removed of Noah Phelps and Hezekiah Case; third cousin twice removed of Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Jairus Case, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case; third cousin thrice removed of Amos Pettibone, Walter Booth, Norman A. Phelps, Oliver Dwight Filley, William Warner Hoppin, John Smith Phelps, Asahel Pierson Case, Hiram Bidwell Case, Leslie Wead Russell, Charles Hazen Russell, John Clarence Keeler and Lovel Davis Parmelee; fourth cousin once removed of William Greene.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Houghton family of Corning, New York; Beakes-Greene-Witter family; Upham family (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Davenport (1752-1830) — of Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., January 16, 1752. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1776; postmaster at Stamford, Conn., 1787-92; U.S. Representative from Connecticut, 1799-1817 (at-large 1799-1805, 2nd District 1805-07, at-large 1807-09, 3rd District 1809-11, at-large 1811-17). Died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., November 28, 1830 (age 78 years, 316 days). Interment at Northfield Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Abraham Davenport (1715-1789) and Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport; brother of James Davenport; married to Mary Sylvester Welles; father of Theodore Davenport; first cousin of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; first cousin once removed of Pierpont Edwards, Abraham Davenport (1767-1837) and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Thaddeus Betts; first cousin thrice removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root; first cousin five times removed of Alfred Collins Lockwood and Randolph Appleton Kidder; second cousin of Aaron Burr, Theodore Dwight, Abel Huntington and Henry Waggaman Edwards; second cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Huntington and Roger Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles; second cousin five times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Aaron Kitchell, Joshua Coit, Samuel H. Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer Huntington, Zina Hyde Jr., Charles Robert Sherman, Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Joseph Lyman Huntington, Peter Buell Porter Jr., Elisha Mills Huntington and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin twice removed of William Woodbridge, Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, John Hall Brockway, Henry Titus Backus, Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, Edward Green Bradford, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Sherman, Robert Coit Jr., Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington, Thomas Worcester Hyde, Alonzo Mark Leffingwell, Abial Lathrop, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925) and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Alexander Hamilton Waterman, Matthew Griswold, George Douglas Perkins, Elias Mulford Condit, Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, Edward Green Bradford II, Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., William Barret Ridgely, Charles Edward Hyde, Clement Phineas Kellogg, Herman Arod Gager, William Brainard Coit, John Sedgwick Hyde, Edward Warden Hyde, John Leffingwell Randolph, George Leffingwell Reed and Blanche M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Charles Phelps Huntington, Jairus Case, John Arnold Rockwell, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case.
  Political families: Conger family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Lockwood-Lanning family of New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Aaron Burr (1756-1836) — also known as Aaron Edwards — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Newark, Essex County, N.J., February 6, 1756. Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1784-85, 1797-99, 1800-01 (New York County 1784-85, 1797-99, Orange County 1800-01); New York state attorney general, 1789-91; appointed 1789; U.S. Senator from New York, 1791-97; Vice President of the United States, 1801-05; Killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, July 11, 1804; tried for treason in 1807; found not guilty. Presbyterian. Slaveowner. Died, after several strokes, at the Winants or Port Richmond Hotel, Port Richmond, Staten Island, Richmond County, N.Y., September 14, 1836 (age 80 years, 221 days). Interment at Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, N.J.
  Relatives: Son of Aaron Burr (1716-1757) and Esther (Edwards) Burr; brother of Sarah Burr (who married Tapping Reeve); married, July 2, 1782, to Theodosia (Bartow) Prevost (first cousin twice removed of Francis Stebbins Bartow); married 1833 to Eliza (Bowen) Jumel; father of Theodosia Burr (who married Joseph Alston); nephew of Pierpont Edwards; third great-grandson of Thomas Willett; ancestor of Karla Ballard; first cousin of Theodore Dwight and Henry Waggaman Edwards; first cousin four times removed of Anson Foster Keeler; second cousin of John Davenport and James Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore Davenport; second cousin twice removed of Charles Robert Sherman; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Taylor Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman and Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, Stillman Stephen Light and Blanche M. Woodward; second cousin five times removed of Alfred Walstein Bangs, John Clarence Keeler, Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, John Cecil Purcell and Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin Tallmadge; third cousin once removed of Frederick Augustus Tallmadge; third cousin twice removed of Eli Thacher Hoyt, George Smith Catlin, John Appleton, Howkin Bulkley Beardslee, Joseph Pomeroy Root and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Greene Carrier Bronson, Abijah Catlin, David Munson Osborne, George Landon Ingraham, Dwight Arthur Silliman and Charles Dunsmore Millard; fourth cousin of Noah Phelps and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Elisha Phelps, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Henry Fisk Janes, Jairus Case, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Jonathan Dayton — Nathaniel Pendleton — John Smith — John Tayler — Walter D. Corrigan, Sr. — Cowles Mead — Luther Martin — William P. Van Ness — Samuel Swartwout — William Wirt — Theophilus W. Smith
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Aaron Burr: Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805 — Milton Lomask, Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836 — Joseph Wheelan, Jefferson's Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary — Buckner F. Melton Jr., Aaron Burr : Conspiracy to Treason — Thomas Fleming, Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America — Arnold A. Rogow, A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr — H. W. Brands, The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr — David O. Stewart, American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America — Donald Barr Chidsey, The great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the West
  Fiction about Aaron Burr: Gore Vidal, Burr
  James Davenport (1758-1797) — of Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., October 12, 1758. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1785; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1790-96; common pleas court judge in Connecticut, 1792; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1796-97; died in office 1797. Died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., August 3, 1797 (age 38 years, 295 days). Interment at Northfield Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Abraham Davenport (1715-1789) and Elizabeth (Huntington) Davenport; brother of John Davenport; married, May 7, 1777, to Abigail Fitch; married, November 6, 1790, to Mehitable Coggeshall; uncle of Theodore Davenport; first cousin of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; first cousin once removed of Pierpont Edwards, Abraham Davenport (1767-1837) and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Thaddeus Betts; first cousin thrice removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root; first cousin five times removed of Alfred Collins Lockwood and Randolph Appleton Kidder; second cousin of Aaron Burr, Theodore Dwight, Abel Huntington and Henry Waggaman Edwards; second cousin once removed of Samuel Huntington; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Huntington and Roger Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin four times removed of John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles; second cousin five times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Aaron Kitchell, Joshua Coit, Samuel H. Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849) and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin once removed of Ebenezer Huntington, Zina Hyde Jr., Charles Robert Sherman, Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Joseph Lyman Huntington, Peter Buell Porter Jr., Elisha Mills Huntington and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin twice removed of William Woodbridge, Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, John Hall Brockway, Henry Titus Backus, Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, Edward Green Bradford, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Sherman, Robert Coit Jr., Collins Dwight Huntington, George Milo Huntington, Thomas Worcester Hyde, Alonzo Mark Leffingwell, Abial Lathrop, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925) and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Alexander Hamilton Waterman, Matthew Griswold, George Douglas Perkins, Elias Mulford Condit, Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, Edward Green Bradford II, Frederick Dent Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr., William Barret Ridgely, Charles Edward Hyde, Clement Phineas Kellogg, Herman Arod Gager, William Brainard Coit, John Sedgwick Hyde, Edward Warden Hyde, John Leffingwell Randolph, George Leffingwell Reed and Blanche M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Charles Phelps Huntington, Jairus Case, John Arnold Rockwell, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case.
  Political families: Conger family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Lockwood-Lanning family of New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Theodore Dwight (1764-1846) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn.; Albany, Albany County, N.Y.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., December 15, 1764. Lawyer; newspaper editor; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 6th District, 1806-07; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1809-15. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 12, 1846 (age 81 years, 179 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Timothy Dwight and Mary (Edwards) Dwight; married to Abigail Alsop; nephew of Pierpont Edwards; third great-grandson of Thomas Willett; first cousin of Aaron Burr and Henry Waggaman Edwards; second cousin of John Davenport and James Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore Davenport; second cousin thrice removed of Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin five times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin Tallmadge and Greene Carrier Bronson; third cousin once removed of Charles Robert Sherman, Frederick Augustus Tallmadge and Elisha Hunt Allen; third cousin twice removed of Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Joseph Pomeroy Root, William Chapman Williston, William Fessenden Allen, Frederick Hobbes Allen and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, Maurice Lauchlin Wright, George Landon Ingraham, George Williston Nash, Charles Dunsmore Millard, Franklin Clark Pomeroy and Blanche M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Noah Phelps and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Morris Woodruff, Elisha Phelps, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Silas Wright Jr., Jairus Case, John Leslie Russell, James Samuel Wadsworth, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Smith Thompson (1768-1843) — of Dutchess County, N.Y. Born in Dutchess County, N.Y., January 17, 1768. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly from Dutchess County, 1800-01; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1801; Justice of New York Supreme Court, 1802-18; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1819-23; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1823-43; died in office 1843; candidate for Governor of New York, 1828. Presbyterian. Died in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., December 18, 1843 (age 75 years, 335 days). Interment at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Ezra Thompson and Rachel (Smith) Thompson; married, April 30, 1795, to Sarah Livingston; married 1836 to Elizabeth Davenport Livingston; father of Gilbert Livingston Thompson; uncle of Jacob Livingston Sutherland; great-grandfather of Guy Vernor Henry; second cousin of Enos Thompson Throop, George Bliss Throop and Israel Thompson Hatch; second cousin once removed of Israel Dodd Condit; second cousin thrice removed of Mary Mather Hooker; third cousin twice removed of Jacob Clark Pike; third cousin thrice removed of Sumner Tucker Pike, Doris Pike, Moses Bernard Pike and Frank Avery Pike; fourth cousin once removed of Alvah Nash.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Thompson-Sutherland family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Jedediah Sabin (1774-1861) — of Killingly, Windham County, Conn. Born in Pomfret, Windham County, Conn., October 26, 1774. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Killingly, 1827. Died in Killingly, Windham County, Conn., December 22, 1861 (age 87 years, 57 days). Interment at Day Cemetery, Killingly, Conn.
  Relatives: Married 1800 to Eunice Carder; married, November 7, 1821, to Henrietta Carder; uncle of Henry Sabin; grandfather of Dwight May Sabin; second cousin four times removed of Austin Eugene Lathrop; third cousin once removed of Alvah Sabin; third cousin twice removed of Martin Olds; third cousin thrice removed of Chauncey Brewer Sabin, Augustus Sabin Chase, Marden Sabin and Joseph Spalding; fourth cousin of Chauncey Fitch Cleveland; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills, Daniel Webster, Caleb Blodgett, Franklin Pierce, Albert Bliss, William Dean Kellogg, John Appleton, Stafford Canning Cleveland and Edward Williams Hooker.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Henry Waggaman Edwards (1779-1847) — also known as Henry W. Edwards — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., October, 1779. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1819-23; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1823-27; member of Connecticut state senate at-large, 1828-29; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from New Haven, 1830; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1830; Governor of Connecticut, 1833-34, 1835-38. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., July 22, 1847 (age 67 years, 0 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Frances (Ogden) Edwards and Pierpont Edwards; married to Lydia Miller; third great-grandson of Thomas Willett; first cousin of Aaron Burr and Theodore Dwight; second cousin of John Davenport and James Davenport; second cousin once removed of Theodore Davenport; second cousin thrice removed of Evert Harris Kittell; second cousin five times removed of Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.; third cousin of Benjamin Tallmadge; third cousin once removed of Charles Robert Sherman, Frederick Augustus Tallmadge and Simeon Harrison; third cousin twice removed of Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Joseph Pomeroy Root and Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin thrice removed of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, George Landon Ingraham, Simeon Harrison Rollinson, Charles Dunsmore Millard and Blanche M. Woodward; fourth cousin of Noah Phelps, John Condit and Hezekiah Case; fourth cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, Silas Condit, Elisha Phelps, Ambrose Tuttle, Jesse Hoyt, Abiel Case, Stephen Whitaker Fullerton, Jairus Case, John Leslie Russell, George Washington Wolcott, William Dean Kellogg and Almon Case.
  Political families: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders family of New Hampshire; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Robert Sherman (1788-1829) — of New Lancaster (now Lancaster), Fairfield County, Ohio. Born in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn., September 17, 1788. Lawyer; justice of Ohio state supreme court, 1823-29; died in office 1829. Died in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, June 24, 1829 (age 40 years, 280 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Lancaster, Ohio.
  Relatives: Son of Taylor Sherman and Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman; married, May 8, 1810, to Mary Hoyt; father of Charles Taylor Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman and John Sherman; grandfather of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson Appleton Miles); fifth great-grandson of Thomas Welles; second cousin once removed of Phineas Taylor Barnum; second cousin twice removed of Pierpont Edwards, Aaron Burr, Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche M. Woodward; second cousin thrice removed of Louis Ezekiel Stoddard; third cousin once removed of John Davenport, James Davenport, Theodore Dwight, Henry Waggaman Edwards, Philo Fairchild Barnum and Andrew Gould Chatfield; third cousin twice removed of Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich and Chauncey Mitchell Depew; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Huntington; fourth cousin of Theodore Davenport and David Lowrey Seymour; fourth cousin once removed of Gershom Birdsey, Morris Woodruff, Benjamin Hard, Gideon Hard, James Samuel Wadsworth, Alfred Peck Edgerton, John Appleton, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, Joseph Pomeroy Root, Bushrod Ebenezer Hoppin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin and Edward Williams Hooker.
  Political families: Otis family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Jacob Livingston Sutherland (1788-1845) — also known as Jacob Sutherland — of North Blenheim, Schoharie County, N.Y. Born in Bangall, Dutchess County, N.Y., June 4, 1788. Lawyer; U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, 1819-23; delegate to New York state constitutional convention, 1821; elected New York state senate 3rd District 1822, but never took office; Justice of New York Supreme Court, 1822-35; candidate for Presidential Elector for New York. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., May 12, 1845 (age 56 years, 342 days). Interment at Washington Street Cemetery, Geneva, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Solomon D. Sutherland and Tamma (Thompson) Sutherland; married, September 18, 1811, to Frances Lansing (daughter of John Ten Eyck Lansing Jr.); nephew of Smith Thompson; first cousin of Matthias Burnett Tallmadge, James Tallmadge Jr. and Gilbert Livingston Thompson; first cousin twice removed of Guy Vernor Henry; second cousin once removed of Enos Thompson Throop, George Bliss Throop and Israel Thompson Hatch; third cousin of Israel Dodd Condit; third cousin twice removed of Mary Mather Hooker; fourth cousin once removed of Jacob Clark Pike.
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Thompson-Sutherland family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Theodore Davenport (1792-1884) — of Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., January 16, 1792. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Stamford, 1825. Died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., September 9, 1884 (age 92 years, 237 days). Interment at Northfield Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of John Davenport and Mary Sylvester (Welles) Davenport; married, May 9, 1833, to Harriet Grant Chesebrough; father of Helen Matilda Davenport (who married Samuel Fessenden); nephew of James Davenport; grandson of Abraham Davenport (1715-1789); first cousin once removed of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; first cousin twice removed of Pierpont Edwards; second cousin of Abraham Davenport (1767-1837) and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; second cousin once removed of Aaron Burr, Theodore Dwight, Abel Huntington, Henry Waggaman Edwards and Thaddeus Betts; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Huntington and Joseph Pomeroy Root; second cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Alfred Collins Lockwood and Randolph Appleton Kidder; third cousin of William Alfred Buckingham; third cousin once removed of Aaron Kitchell, Joshua Coit, Samuel H. Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Samuel Clesson Allen, Peter Buell Porter, John Adams Taintor, Henry G. Taintor and Roger Wolcott; third cousin twice removed of Ezekiel Cornell, Evert Harris Kittell and Henry Vance Clymer; third cousin thrice removed of John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles; fourth cousin of Ebenezer Huntington, Zina Hyde Jr., Charles Robert Sherman, Greene Carrier Bronson, Nathaniel Huntington, James Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Joseph Lyman Huntington, Elisha Hunt Allen, Peter Buell Porter Jr., Elisha Mills Huntington, Gouverneur Morris and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan Brace, Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich, Hezekiah Case, James Kilbourne, William Woodbridge, Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, John Hall Brockway, Henry Titus Backus, Charles Taylor Sherman, John Appleton, Edward Green Bradford, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman, Ulysses Simpson Grant, John Sherman, Robert Coit Jr., Collins Dwight Huntington, William Fessenden Allen, George Milo Huntington, Selah Merrill, Thomas Worcester Hyde, Alonzo Mark Leffingwell, Abial Lathrop, Rodolph A. Woolsey, Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Frederick Hobbes Allen and Edward Williams Hooker.
  Political families: Conger family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Lockwood-Lanning family of New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Gilbert Livingston Thompson (1796-1874) — also known as Gilbert L. Thompson — Born in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, N.Y., June 20, 1796. U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Cuba, 1821; Mexico, 1844. Died July 4, 1874 (age 78 years, 14 days). Interment at St. John's Cemetery, Ellicott City, Md.
  Relatives: Son of Smith Thompson and Sarah (Livingston) Thompson; married, June 17, 1818, to Arietta Minthorne (Tompkins) Tompkins (daughter of Daniel D. Tompkins and Hannah Tompkins); married, February 23, 1839, to Mary Ann Tolley Worthington Dorsey (daughter of Thomas Beale Dorsey); grandfather of Guy Vernor Henry; great-grandnephew of Robert Gilbert Livingston; second great-grandson of Gilbert Livingston; second great-grandnephew of John Livingston and Robert Livingston (1688-1775); third great-grandson of Robert Livingston the Elder; third great-grandnephew of Pieter Schuyler (1657-1724) and Johannes Schuyler (1668-1747); first cousin of Jacob Livingston Sutherland; first cousin twice removed of Philip Van Cortlandt and Pierre Van Cortlandt Jr.; first cousin thrice removed of Robert Livingston (1708-1790), Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Philip Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1718-1775) and William Livingston; first cousin four times removed of Robert Livingston the Younger and Johannes Schuyler (1697-1746); first cousin five times removed of David Davidse Schuyler and Myndert Davidtse Schuyler; second cousin once removed of Enos Thompson Throop, George Bliss Throop, Hamilton Fish (1808-1893) and Israel Thompson Hatch; second cousin twice removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1737-1794), Walter Livingston, Philip Peter Livingston, Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813), Henry Brockholst Livingston and Edward Livingston (1764-1836); second cousin thrice removed of Stephanus Bayard, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Philip John Schuyler, Philip P. Schuyler and Stephen John Schuyler; third cousin of Israel Dodd Condit, Nicholas Fish and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1849-1936); third cousin once removed of Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Henry Walter Livingston, Peter Augustus Jay, Rensselaer Westerlo, Edward Philip Livingston, William Alexander Duer, John Duer, William Jay, Charles Ludlow Livingston (1800-1873), Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1888-1991); third cousin twice removed of Nicholas Bayard, Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, Robert Van Rensselaer, Pieter Schuyler (1746-1792), James Livingston, Peter Samuel Schuyler, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, James Parker, Mary Mather Hooker, Montgomery Schuyler Jr. and Hamilton Fish Jr. (1926-1996); third cousin thrice removed of Hamilton Fish (born 1951) and Alexa Fish Ward; fourth cousin of Philip Schuyler, Peter Robert Livingston (1789-1859), Edward Livingston (1796-1840), William Duer, Henry Bell Van Rensselaer, Denning Duer, Henry Brockholst Ledyard, John Jay II and John Jacob Astor III; fourth cousin once removed of Peter Robert Livingston (1766-1847), Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer, Maturin Livingston, James Alexander Hamilton, George Washington Schuyler, John Cortlandt Parker, Philip N. Schuyler, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, William Waldorf Astor, John Kean, Jacob Clark Pike, Hamilton Fish Kean and Charles Ludlow Livingston (born 1870).
  Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (1799-1887) — also known as Chauncey F. Cleveland — of Hampton, Windham County, Conn. Born in Canterbury, Windham County, Conn., February 16, 1799. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Hampton, 1826-29, 1832, 1835-36, 1838; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1835-36, 1863; Governor of Connecticut, 1842-44; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1849-53; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1856 (Convention Vice-President; speaker), 1860. Died in Hampton, Windham County, Conn., June 6, 1887 (age 88 years, 110 days). Interment at South Cemetery, Hampton, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Silas Cleveland and Lois (Sharpe) Cleveland; married, December 13, 1821, to Diantha Hovey (first cousin once removed of Alfred Avery Burnham (1819-1879)); married, January 22, 1869, to Helen Cornelia Litchfield; father of Delia Diantha Cleveland (who married Alfred Avery Burnham (1819-1879)); first cousin once removed of Henry Sabin; second cousin once removed of Ira Chandler Backus and William Dean Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Robert Treat Paine; third cousin once removed of Ephraim Safford, Isaiah Kidder, Joshua Perkins, Edward Green Bradford, Stafford Canning Cleveland, Bailey Frye Adams, Orestes Cleveland, Lee Randall Sanborn and Nelson Appleton Miles; third cousin twice removed of Lyman Kidder, Ezra Kidder, David Kidder, Augustus Sabin Chase, Marden Sabin, Joseph Spalding, Edward Green Bradford II and James L. Sanborn; third cousin thrice removed of Irving Hall Chase, Walter Keene Linscott, Edward Green Bradford Jr., Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard, Sidney Smythe Linscott and Grover Fredrick Cleveland; fourth cousin of Jonathan Usher, Jedediah Sabin, Caleb Blodgett, John Larkin Payson, Charles Stetson, James Safford, Luther Kidder and Isaiah Stetson; fourth cousin once removed of Elijah Hunt Mills, Alvan Kidder, Francis Kidder, Ira Kidder, Arba Kidder, Joseph Souther Kidder, Pascal Paoli Kidder, John Appleton, Jefferson Parish Kidder, John Palmer Usher, William Henry Barnum, Francis Landon Cleveland, Delos Abiel Blodgett, Charles Payson, Isaac Newton Blodgett, Robert Crawford Safford, Abner Coburn Cleveland, Robert Cleveland Usher, Isaiah Kidder Stetson and Edward Williams Hooker.
  Political families: DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Israel Dodd Condit (1802-1897) — also known as Israel D. Condit — of Millburn, Essex County, N.J. Born in Orange, Essex County, N.J., July 9, 1802. Hat manufacturer; member of New Jersey state house of assembly from Essex County, 1867. Episcopalian. Died in Millburn, Essex County, N.J., January 29, 1897 (age 94 years, 204 days). Interment at St. Stephens Episcopal Cemetery, Millburn, N.J.
  Relatives: Son of John Condit (1766-1803) and Mary (Dodd) Condit; married to Caroline Eaglesfield; first cousin twice removed of Silas Condict; second cousin once removed of John Condit (1755-1834), Smith Thompson and Lewis Condict; third cousin of Silas Condit, Jacob Livingston Sutherland, Gilbert Livingston Thompson and Alfred Henry Condict; third cousin once removed of Augustus William Cutler, Albert Pierson Condit, Amzi Condit, Elias Mulford Condit, George Ezra DeCamp and Fillmore Condit; third cousin twice removed of Guy Vernor Henry and Mary Mather Hooker; fourth cousin of Simeon Harrison; fourth cousin once removed of Jacob Clark Pike.
  Political families: Pike family of Lubec, Maine; Condit family of Orange, New Jersey; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Thompson-Sutherland family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  George Smith Catlin (1808-1851) — also known as George S. Catlin — of Windham, Windham County, Conn. Born in Harwinton, Litchfield County, Conn., August 24, 1808. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Windham, 1831, 1846; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1843-45; candidate for Governor of Connecticut, 1848; member of Connecticut state senate 13th District, 1850; county judge in Connecticut, 1850-51. Died in Windham, Windham County, Conn., December 26, 1851 (age 43 years, 124 days). Interment at Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Lewis Catlin and Candace Rebecca (Catlin) Catlin; married, June 12, 1834, to Mary Megee Tingsley; first cousin once removed of Abijah Catlin; first cousin twice removed of Aaron Kellogg; second cousin once removed of Benjamin Trumbull and Elisha Phelps; second cousin twice removed of Stephen Wright Kellogg; second cousin thrice removed of Clement Phineas Kellogg, Theron Ephron Catlin and Orlo Erland Wadhams; second cousin five times removed of Seth Chase Taft; third cousin of Greene Carrier Bronson, John Russell Kellogg, Norman A. Phelps, Francis William Kellogg, Lyman Trumbull and John Smith Phelps; third cousin once removed of Jason Kellogg, Gaylord Griswold, Charles Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus Cook Merrill, Timothy Merrill, Lancelot Phelps, Daniel Fiske Kellogg, Charles Jenkins Hayden, Bushrod Ebenezer Hoppin, Arthur Tappan Kellogg, Selah Merrill, Edwin Carpenter Pinney and William Walter Phelps; third cousin twice removed of Noah Phelps, Oliver Ellsworth, Aaron Burr, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Peter Buell Porter, William Lucius Case, Edward Russell Kellogg, Sheffield Phelps, Carl Trumbull Hayden and Claude Carpenter Pinney; third cousin thrice removed of Harold B. Pinney, Phelps Phelps and Leonard Leach Case; fourth cousin of Luther Walter Badger, Silas Dewey Kellogg, Chester Ashley, Daniel Kellogg (1791-1875), Alvan Kellogg, Alvah Nash, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, Albert Gallatin Kellogg, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, Farrand Fassett Merrill, James Phelps and Charles Kellogg (1839-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Abel Merrill, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, William Wolcott Ellsworth, Jesse Hoyt, Abijah Blodget, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Edmund Holcomb, Peter Buell Porter Jr., Calvin Tilden Hulburd, Orlando Kellogg, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, William Dean Kellogg, George Bradley Kellogg, Peter Augustus Porter, William Pitt Kellogg, Daniel Kellogg (1835-1918), Judson B. Phelps, Erskine Mason Phelps, Edward Williams Hooker and Benjamin Baker Merrill.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  John Appleton (1815-1864) — of Portland, Cumberland County, Maine. Born in Beverly, Essex County, Mass., February 11, 1815. Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper editor; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Bolivia, 1848-49; U.S. Representative from Maine 2nd District, 1851-53; U.S. Minister to Russia, 1860-61. Died in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, August 22, 1864 (age 49 years, 193 days). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Maine.
  Relatives: Son of John White Appleton and Sophia (Williams) Appleton; married 1840 to Susan Lovering Dodge; nephew of James Appleton and Nathan Dane Appleton; first cousin once removed of Nathan Appleton, William Appleton, Elijah Livermore Hamlin and Hannibal Hamlin; first cousin thrice removed of Randolph Appleton Kidder; second cousin of John Appleton (1804-1891), Jane Pierce, Charles Hamlin and Hannibal Emery Hamlin; second cousin once removed of Isaiah Kidder Stetson; second cousin twice removed of Arthur Taggard Appleton and Clarence Cutting Stetson; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont Edwards, Leverett Saltonstall and Richard Saltonstall; second cousin four times removed of William Lawrence Saltonstall; third cousin of Edward Williams Hooker; third cousin twice removed of John Davenport, Aaron Burr, James Davenport, Theodore Dwight and Henry Waggaman Edwards; fourth cousin of Thomas Passmore Treadwell; fourth cousin once removed of John Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas Appleton, Leonard White, Jedediah Sabin, Charles Robert Sherman, Theodore Davenport, Chauncey Fitch Cleveland, Robert Odiorne Treadwell and George Pickering Bemis.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sprague family of Providence, Rhode Island; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts; Beakes-Greene-Witter family; Shippen-Middleton family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Mary Mather Hooker (1864-1939) — also known as Mary M. Hooker; Mary Mather Turner — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pa., February 26, 1864. Republican. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Hartford, 1921-22, 1925-26; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut. Female. Member, Colonial Dames; Daughters of the American Revolution; Order of the Eastern Star. First woman to serve in the Connecticut legislature. Died, in Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., May 13, 1939 (age 75 years, 76 days). Entombed at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Daughter of Charles Peaslee Turner and Julia Francis (Mather) Turner; married, November 12, 1889, to Edward Williams Hooker; second cousin thrice removed of Smith Thompson; third cousin twice removed of Jacob Livingston Sutherland, Gilbert Livingston Thompson and Israel Dodd Condit.
  Political families: Pike family of Lubec, Maine; Condit family of Orange, New Jersey; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Edwards-Davenport-Thompson-Hooker family of Connecticut; DeCamp-Hinchman family of New Jersey; Thompson-Sutherland family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Edward Williams Hooker (1865-1915) — also known as Edward W. Hooker — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., October 19, 1865. Republican. Manufacturer; fire insurance business; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Hartford, 1907-08; mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1908-10; defeated, 1910; member of Connecticut state senate 2nd District, 1911-14. Died in Groton, New London County, Conn., September 3, 1915 (age 49 years, 319 days). Entombed at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Bryan Edward Hooker and Martha Huntington (Williams) Hooker; married, November 12, 1889, to Mary Mather Hooker; second cousin thrice removed of Pierpont Edwards; third cousin of John Appleton; third cousin twice removed of John Davenport, Aaron Burr, James Davenport, Theodore Dwight and Henry Waggaman Edwards; fourth cousin once removed of Jedediah Sabin, Charles Robert Sherman, Theodore Davenport, Chauncey Fitch Cleveland and George Smith Catlin.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Condit family of Orange, New Jersey; DuPont family of Wilmington, Delaware; Edwards-Davenport-Thompson-Hooker family of Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
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