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Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family of New York

Note: This is just one of 1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

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  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
  Israel Washburn (1784-1876) — of Massachusetts. Born in Raynham, Bristol County, Mass., November 18, 1784. Member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1815-16, 1818-19. Died in Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, September 1, 1876 (age 91 years, 288 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Abiah (King) Washburn and Israel Washburn (1755-1841); brother of Reuel Washburn; married, March 26, 1812, to Martha Benjamin; father of Israel Washburn Jr., Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Charles Ames Washburn and William Drew Washburn; grandfather of Charles Fox Washburn, Hempstead Washburne, Robert Charles Washburn, William Drew Washburn Jr. and Stanley Washburn; third cousin twice removed of Dwight May Sabin; third cousin thrice removed of Stillman Stephen Light; fourth cousin of Charles Sumner; fourth cousin once removed of John Randolph Wilder.
  Political families: Washburn family of Massachusetts; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Reuel Washburn (1793-1878) — of Maine. Born in Raynham, Bristol County, Mass., May 21, 1793. Member of Maine state senate, 1827-28; probate judge in Maine, 1857-59. Died in Livermore, Androscoggin County, Maine, March 4, 1878 (age 84 years, 287 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Brother of Israel Washburn; uncle of Israel Washburn Jr., Elihu Benjamin Washburne, Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Charles Ames Washburn and William Drew Washburn; granduncle of Charles Fox Washburn, Hempstead Washburne, Robert Charles Washburn, William Drew Washburn Jr. and Stanley Washburn; third cousin twice removed of Dwight May Sabin; third cousin thrice removed of Stillman Stephen Light; fourth cousin of Charles Sumner; fourth cousin once removed of John Randolph Wilder.
  Political families: Washburn family of Massachusetts; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Ezra Cornell (1807-1874) — of Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y. Born in Westchester Landing, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, Bronx County), N.Y., January 11, 1807. Member of New York state assembly from Tompkins County, 1862-63; member of New York state senate 24th District, 1864-67; founder of Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., 1865. Died in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., December 9, 1874 (age 67 years, 332 days). Entombed at Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; statue at Arts Quad, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Elijah Cornell and Eunice (Barnard) Cornell; married, March 19, 1831, to Mary Ann Wood; father of Alonzo Barton Cornell; granduncle of Carlos Wood Riddick and Florence Riddick Boys; first cousin twice removed of Ezekiel Cornell; third cousin twice removed of Gerothman W. Cornell, Francis Russell Edward Cornell and Stillman Stephen Light; third cousin thrice removed of John Cecil Purcell and Thurber Cornell; fourth cousin of Daniel Burrows and Jared Lewis Rathbone; fourth cousin once removed of Simeon Baldwin, Lorenzo Burrows, Henry Reed Rathbone and Jared Lawrence Rathbone.
  Political family: Cornell family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also NNDB dossier
Alonzo B. Cornell Alonzo Barton Cornell (1832-1904) — also known as Alonzo B. Cornell — of Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., January 22, 1832. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1868, 1880; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1868; New York Republican state chair, 1870-74, 1875-77, 1878-79; member of New York state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1873; Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1873; Governor of New York, 1880-83. Died in Ithaca, Tompkins County, N.Y., October 15, 1904 (age 72 years, 267 days). Entombed at Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Ezra Cornell and Mary Ann (Wood) Cornell; father of Charles Ezra Cornell (son-in-law of Charles C. Bouck); first cousin once removed of Carlos Wood Riddick and Florence Riddick Boys; first cousin thrice removed of Ezekiel Cornell; fourth cousin once removed of Daniel Burrows, Jared Lewis Rathbone, Gerothman W. Cornell, Francis Russell Edward Cornell and Stillman Stephen Light.
  Political families: Durfee-Wanton family of Newport, Rhode Island; Cornell family of New York; King-Hazard family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Hatfield-Cornell-Woolsey family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography
  Image source: New York Red Book 1896
  Stillman Stephen Light (1858-1933) — also known as Stillman Light — of Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Jefferson Valley, Westchester County, N.Y., November 13, 1858. Plumber; Prohibition candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Danbury, 1914. Died, in Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., March 11, 1933 (age 74 years, 118 days). Interment at Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of John B. Light and Orpha Jane (Pinckney) Light; first cousin once removed of John Cecil Purcell; second cousin four times removed of Aaron Burr; third cousin twice removed of Ezra Cornell; third cousin thrice removed of Israel Washburn and Reuel Washburn; fourth cousin once removed of Alonzo Barton Cornell and Frederick C. Schilplin.
  Political families: Cornell family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Frederick Schilplin (1868-1949) — also known as Fred Schilplin — of St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn. Born in St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn., May 27, 1868. Democrat. Newspaper publisher; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1916; postmaster at St. Cloud, Minn., 1918-19 (acting, 1918). Swiss ancestry. Died in New York, April 28, 1949 (age 80 years, 336 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married, June 14, 1899, to Maude Comfort Colgrove; father of Frederick C. Schilplin.
  Political family: Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  John Cecil Purcell (1885-1938) — also known as John C. Purcell — of Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y.; Sackets Harbor, Jefferson County, N.Y. Born in Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., January 28, 1885. Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 32nd District, 1932; member of New York Democratic State Committee, 1936. Died in Watertown, Jefferson County, N.Y., August 27, 1938 (age 53 years, 211 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Lezon Henry Purcell and Cecelia (Neary) Purcell; married 1920 to Elizabeth Fitch Hathway; first cousin once removed of Stillman Stephen Light; second cousin five times removed of Aaron Burr; third cousin thrice removed of Ezra Cornell.
  Political families: Cornell family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Frederick C. Schilplin (c.1901-1974) — also known as Fred C. Schilplin — of St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn. Born about 1901. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1944 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business). Died in St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn., September 6, 1974 (age about 73 years). Interment at North Star Cemetery, St. Cloud, Minn.
  Relatives: Son of Frederick Schilplin and Maude (Colgrove) Schilplin; fourth cousin once removed of Stillman Stephen Light.
  Political families: Washburn family of Massachusetts; Cornell family of New York; Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
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