Mr. Sumner was born about 1531 in Bicester,Oxon,,England.
He had the following children:
M i Roger Sumner was born in 1576. He died on 3 Dec 1608.
Marcus Brian was born in Merton, England. He died in 1620. He married Joane Franklin on 10 Jan 1610/1611 in Merton, England.
Joane Franklin [Parents].Joane married Marcus Brian on 10 Jan 1610/1611 in Merton, England.
Other marriages:Sumner, Roger
Richard Franklin was born in 1524 in Bicester,Oxfordshire,England. He married Katherine Denryte on 30 Nov 1549 in Bicester,Oxford,Eng.
Katherine Denryte was born about 1528 in Bicester,Oxfordshire,England. She married Richard Franklin on 30 Nov 1549 in Bicester,Oxford,Eng.
They had the following children:
F i Joane Franklin.
William Simpson SLOAN [Parents] was born on 11 Nov 1887 in New York, NY. He died in Jun 1961 in Pomfret, CT. He married Mary Bishop about 1940.
Other marriages:De Kay, Janet
Verdery, Eleanor
Mary Bishop.Mary married William Simpson SLOAN about 1940.
Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte [Parents] was born on 26 Feb 1878 in Paris, France. He died in 1945 in New York, N.Y.. He married Blanche Pierce on 8 Apr 1914 in City Hall, New York City.
He was the great grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, who came to America around1806. This was before he was made king of Westphalia. At Baltimore he wasmarried to Elizabeth Patterson by the archbishop there. Emperor Napoleonws opposed to this marriage because the bride was not of royal blood, andhe caused it to be annuled by his Council of State. But the marriage waslegally performed in the USA and so it remained legal. Napoleon took afurther step and appealed directly to the Pope for an annulment, but thiswas denied. Bonaparte's mother was American and his great grandfather wasDaniel Webster. He graduated from Harvard in 1899.
Quoted from a letter by Chester Burger, undated.
Blanche Pierce [Parents] was born about 1875 in Massachusetts. She died in 1950 in New York, N.Y.. She married Jerome Napoleon Charles Bonaparte on 8 Apr 1914 in City Hall, New York City.
Other marriages:Strebeigh, Harold
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (1878-1945), m. in 1914 Blanche Pierce
Strebeigh, d. of Edward and Emily Pierce of Newtonville, MA andformer wife of Harold Strebeigh of Hewlitt, NY: no issue.
Edward H. Pierce was born in Newton, MA. He married Emily W. Hill.
Emily W. Hill [Parents] was born in 1842 in Rochester. She married Edward H. Pierce.
They had the following children:
F i Blanche Pierce was born about 1875. She died in 1950. F ii Harriet Pierce.
Daniel Strebeigh [Parents] was born on 23 Nov 1796 in York, PA. He died on 7 Dec 1877 in Williamsport, PA. He was buried in 1877 in Washington Blvd. Cemetery. He married Mary McElrath in 1811/1819 in Williamsport.
DANIEL STREBEIGH was a native of York county, Pennsylvania, and a son ofJacob Strebeigh, a native of Prussia, who came to America with theMoravians and settled in York county. He came to Lycoming county,Pennsylvania, when a boy, was bound out to learn the blacksmith tradewith George Duitch, of Williamsport, and served an apprenticeship ofseven years, afterwards following that trade for twenty-three years inWilliamsport. In connection with Col. Thomas W. Lloyd, he contracted tobuild sections seventy-two and seventy-four of the North Branch canal,after the completion of which he purchased what is now known as theWoodward farm. He followed farming in connection with merchandizing inWilliamsport for a number of years, and then traded the farm property forthe farm now occupied by his son, Thomas J. Strebeigh, where he resideduntil his death, December 4, 1877. He served as county commissioner ofLycoming county for one term, and. was in his younger days a Democrat,but subsequently became identified with the Republican party. For severalyears he was a trustee of the Pine Street Methodist Episcopal church ofWilliamsport; he was a member of Ivy Lodge, A. F. and A. M., and LycomingChapter. He married Mary McElrath, who died in August, 1872. To thisunion were born nine children: Mary, who married Hopewell Clark; Martha,who married George Bennett; Elizabeth, who married Joseph Lyndall;Robert, deceased, who was connected with the New York Tribune for manyyears; Elvira, deceased; Sarah, deceased; Thomas J.; Barbara, who marriedWilliam Vanderbilt, and Lydia.Source: History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Edited by JohnMeginess, 1892
Daniel was a county commissioner for 1 term and became trustee of thePine Street Methodist Episcopal church in 1825. He was also active in thereconstruction of that church in the mid 1840's (see below). Hisinterest in politics started as that of a democrat who changed torepublican later. According to F. H. McElrath, Daniel built two sectionsof the Lycoming canal and used the profits to buy a farm in Williamsport.
According to Robert "Robin" Strebeigh's letter to Julian Sloan March 3,2002, "The Strebeighs were form early on well off, Daniel inheritingeventually the family forge on their Lycoming County, Pennsylvania farm.It was one of the largest forges, perhaps the largest, in the country.Forges, before the Industrial Revolution, were the "factories" of theirday. And Daniel's was the principal source of the Strebeigh fortune.After the war of 1812, in which the British demonstrated thevulnerability of our coastal north-south highways, it was decided moresecure routes were needed. That concern, and the Manifest DestinyDoctrine, calling for expansion to the west, led to the greatcanal-building era. And it was the Strebeigh forge that created most ofthe fittings for the canals' locks.
Strebeighs are buried in the Washington Boulevard Cemetery, Lot #212, inWilliamsport, as follows:
Daniel Strebeigh: born 1796; died Dec. 7, 1877
Mary McElrath Strebeigh: born Oct. 21, 1794; died Aug. 18, 1872
Lydia Strebeigh: born June 4, 1838; died Jan 21, 1917
Thomas J. Strebeigh: born 1832; died 1898
Julia M. Strebeigh: born: April 8, 1839; died Oct. 14, 1911
Kate Strebeigh: born Oct. 1857; died Feb. 1860
Robert Strebeigh: born Feb. 10, 1863; died June 13, 1907
Thomas Strebeigh: born 1863; died 1928
Laura Strebeigh: born May 24, 1868; died Feb. 15, 1918
Agnes Strebeigh: born June 23, 1875; died Feb. 18, 1915
Donald Strebeigh: born 1881; died Dec. 19, 1975
Gertrude L. Strebeigh: born 1893; died 1918 (Lot#196)Source: Lycoming County Cemeteries, Vol V
Next to the Lycoming Presbyterian church in age, comes the Pine StreetMethodist Episcopal church. Methodism was introduced here in 1791. In thepioneer cabin of Amariah Sutton, which stood near the present barn ofHon. R. J. C. Walker, West Fourth street, the first society in thecounty was formed in the autumn of 1791. May 6th of this year the circuitof Northumberland was formed and Richard Parriott and Lewis Browningappointed preachers in charge.
The subsequent meeting did not take place until October 27, 1825, when "amajority of the trustees agreed to appoint two more trustees. DanielStrebeigh and John Smith were appointed." The meeting adjourned to meetNovember 3d at the office of J. Tallman. From the minutes it appears thatJeremiah Tallman, Alexander Smith, George Roberts, William Wilson, HenryLenhart, Daniel Strebeigh, and John Smith composed the board of trustees.The next meeting recorded is under date of July 30, 1827, when, JohnSmith having declined to serve, Joseph S. Williams was appointed in hisplace. Nothing more appears to have been done, until October 20, 1828,when a meeting was held and Charles Low and John Laverty were appointedadditional "trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal church in Williamsport. " The board now consisted of JeremiahTallman, H. Lenhart, Daniel Strebeigh, Joseph S. Williams, WilliamWilson, and the two names just added.The building project still languished. The next meeting was held, August29,. 1832, when Laverty and Lenhart resigned. Little more was done. Inthe mean time a small brick church seems to have been built, for at ameeting held. January 6, 1836, Rev. James Sanks was elected president andJasper Bennett secretary, when John Smith and James Elliott were electednew trustees to fill up the
board; and it was unanimously voted "that a parsonage house be built onthe back part of the lot on which the Methodist meeting house stands inthe borough of Williamsport; provided that the old Lycoming meeting houseshall be, given to aid in such building, and that a sufficientsubscription to defray the balance of the expense be obtained." At thismeeting William Wilson, Daniel Strebeigh, and James Elliott wereappointed a committee to "wait on the trustees of the old Lycomingmeeting house for the purpose of obtaining their consent that theirbuilding should go to aid in the erection of a parsonage house inWilliamsport." At a subsequent meeting the committee reported that theyhad obtained the unanimous consent of the trustees that "the old churchshould go to aid in building the parsonage in Williamsport."In. course of years the quaint little one-story brick church became toosmall and the question of building a larger one was started. It appearsfrom the minutes that Apollos Woodward offered a lot, in 1842, on whichto build a now church, but the trustees declined his proposition. Sometime in January, 1843, the lot on which the original church was erectedwas conveyed by Pompey and Elizabeth
Friday to John Smith,, Daniel Strebeigh, George Slate, and Joseph S.Williams, trustees, in consideration: of $550, and the following year theold brick church was taken down and the present one erected. Since thattime it has been enlarged and greatly improved, and a brick parsonageadjoining it on the north, added. In 1843 a charter incorporating thechurch was obtained by George Slate and
John Smith, who were appointed a committee for that purpose.Source: Lycoming County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project, 2001
Mary McElrath [Parents] was born on 21 Oct 1794 in Williamsport, PA. She died on 18 Aug 1872 in Williamsport, PA. She was buried in 1872 in Washington Blvd. Cemetery. She married Daniel Strebeigh in 1811/1819 in Williamsport.
They had the following children:
F i Sarah Strebeigh. F ii Mary Strebeigh was born about 1820. F iii Martha Strebeigh was born about 1822. M iv Robert McElrath Strebeigh was born in 1826. He died in 1890. M v Thomas J. Strebeigh was born in 1832. He died in 1898. F vi Barbara Strebeigh was born in 1835. F vii Elizabeth Strebeigh was born in 1835. F viii Elvira Strebeigh was born in 1838. F ix Lydia Strebeigh was born on 4 Jun 1838. She died on 21 Jan 1917. She was buried in 1917 in Washington Blvd. Cemetery, Williamsport.
Abner Chichester [Parents] was born on 18 Nov 1791 in West Hills, Huntington, Suffolk Co., Long Island. He died on 23 Sep 1862 in West Hills, Huntington, Suffolk Co., Long Island. He was buried in Sep 1862 in Peace and Plenty, West Hills, NY. He married Agnes M Conklin on 18 Aug 1824 in Jamaica, Queens, NY.
Other marriages:Sammis, Iantha
The children of Abner and Iantha were all born in Huntington.
Abner and his second wife, Agnes, were married by Rev. Jacob Schoonmaker.Their children were born in West Hills, Huntington, NY.
Abner was a dry goods merchant in the 7th Ward, New York City.
Ref; Old Merchants of New York, by Barrett, 1885 Vol II; ChichesterFamily Bible, Huntington Historical Society; Index to land records,Queens, NY, NY; State Library, Albany, NY; Rev. William Schenck Records,Huntington First Church; Cemetery Tombstones at Peace and Plenty, andTombstones at Northport, NY. CHB pp. 59 & 60.
Agnes M Conklin [Parents] was born on 9 Mar 1795 in Jamaica, Queens Co., NY. She died on 30 May 1870 in New York, NY. She married Abner Chichester on 18 Aug 1824 in Jamaica, Queens, NY.
They had the following children:
F i Juliet Chichester was born in Huntington , L.I., NY. F ii Mary Chichester was born on 1 Mar 1831. F iii Isaac L. Chichester was born on 6 Mar 1826. She died on 2 Mar 1841. F iv Agnes M. Chichester was born on 25 Jun 1828. She died in 1908. F v Louise Chichester was born in 1837. She died in 1839.
Franklin Haven North [Parents] was born on 10 Mar 1857. He married Adabel Strebeigh on 14 Jun 1893.
Mr. North was a miner. He resided at 1020 Park Ave., NY in 1919. Duringthe Spanish-American war he served in the 1st United States Cavary (RoughRiders) under Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Previously he had served fiveyears in Squadron A, New York Cavalry, and when mustered out was asergeant in the first troop. Author of "The Awakening of Noahville", theNew York Publishing Co.
from: the family book, "John North of Farmington, Conn."
Adabel Strebeigh [Parents].Adabel married Franklin Haven North on 14 Jun 1893.
They had the following children:
M i Alfred North was born in 1895. Alfred graduated in 1919 in Harvard University.
Nathanial Fisher.Nathanial married Mary A. Woodruff.
Mary A. Woodruff.Mary married Nathanial Fisher.
They had the following children:
F i Carrie Fisher. M ii Nathanial Fisher. F iii Annie Alling Fisher was born after 1845.