Elihu Yale (captain)
Captain Elihu Yale (1747 – 1806) was an
Biography
Elihu Yale of Wallingford was born in 1747, to Theophilus Yale and Azubah Wolf, members of the
He served as Sergeant in Col. Thaddeus
Initially a
Manufacturer Ashbil Griswold would also acquire land in the Northern part of Meriden, Connecticut from Ira Yale to start his pewter and block tin business.[16][17] Ira Yale's third cousins were Union Army major general William Tecumseh Sherman, Judge Charles Taylor Sherman, United States Senator and United States Secretary of State John Sherman, Warden Thomas Mott Osborne, and United States Attorney General T. McKeen Chidsey.[18] Capt. Yale's brother was also a blacksmith. The brothers were the uncles of Eliza Yale, grandmother of philanthropist Laura A. Wood who married the son of Connecticut Lieutenant Governor Julius Catlin, and of fur merchant James Murray Yale, who had his name given to Yaletown in Downtown Vancouver.[1]
They were also the granduncles of Boston sailmaker Rufus M. Yale.[1] Another of Capt. Yale's brother, Nathaniel Yale, became the great-grandfather of Judge George Edwin Lawrence, partner of Lt. Col. and Congressman Charles Herbert Joyce.[19][1] He was the father of Vermont state attorney Robert A. Lawrence, who married the granddaughter of Senator Augustus P. Hunton.[20][21][1]
Personal life
Capt. Elihu Yale married on November 24, 1774, to Lucretia Stanley, daughter of Capt. Abraham Stanley, and descendant of Capt. John Stanley of the Stanley-Whitman House.[13][2] He died on May 12, 1806, on a Sunday, after having attended the church.[1] His wife died on April 30, 1813. They had 7 children together.[1]
- Lois Yale (1776-1814), wife of Western Reserve University. Their daughter, Lois Yale Kirtland, married to Dr. Eli Mygatt, son of the President of the City Bank of Cleveland, and their granddaughter became the mother-in-law of Pennsylvania politician Ira Franklin Mansfield, owner of coal mines, board director of the First National Bank of Rochester, and president of Beaver College.[22]
- Lucretia Yale (1778-1800), married County Surveyor and Deputy Sheriff Moses Sperry Beach, and became the mother of newspaper entrepreneur Moses Yale Beach, who, at one point, owned the largest newspaper in America.[23][11][3] The William street, Meadow Street and Orchard Street, in Wallingford, are named after Moses Yale Beach's estate. His son, abolitionist Moses S. Beach, would sell his paper the New York Sun to a friend of Karl Marx named Charles Anderson Dana, Assistant Secretary of War of Abraham Lincoln, and stayed a stockholder.[24][25][26][27]
- Ira Yale (1783-1864), became
Capt. Yale's cousin, Rev. Thomas Yale, became the first of the Yales to graduate from
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Rodney Horace Yale (1908). "Yale Genealogy and History of Wales. The British Kings and Princes. Life of Owen Glyndwr. Biographies of Governor Elihu Yale". Archive.org. Milburn and Scott company. pp. 126–142–143–144–169–238-240-365.
- ^ a b c d The Yale Family: Or the Descsendants of David Yale, Storer & Stone Printers, Harvard College Library, New Haven, 1850, p. 57-58
- ^ a b c Moses Yale Beach (1855-05-22). "The Wealth and Biography of the Wealthy Citizens of the City of New York". Sun office. p. 4.
- ^ Connecticut Revolutionary War Military Lists, 1775-83, Name Elihu Yale, Rank Serg., Page 194.
- ^ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution, Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Volume, 205
- ^ a b Rolls and Lists of Connecticut Men in the Revolution, 1775-1783, Connecticut Historical Society, Volume VIII, Hartford, 1901, p. 194
- ^ The Life and Legacy of Jonathan Wadsworth (1729-1777), Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Erick Wadsworth, July 17, 2004
- ^ The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 32, page 19, by Miss Mary L. Mansfield, DAR ID Number: 31047
- ^ History of Cheshire, Connecticut from 1694 to 1840, Joseph Perkins Beach, Lady Fenwick, Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1912, p. 281
- ^ Hallowed Ground: How Forgotten Battles Shaped America, Douglas Smock, Page Publishing, Saint-Mihiel, Myitkynia, 2023
- ^ a b Record-Journal, 17 Aug 1916, Thu ·Page 4
- ^ a b c Yale, Elihu, Connecticut, Captain, Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogy Research, Accessed January 24, 2024
- ^ a b The Stanley families of America, Israel P. Warren, B. Thurston & Co., Portland, Maine, 1887, p. 76-77
- ^ Pewter Encased Yixing Teapots of the Early 19th Century,, Christopher Blair Myers, The Pewter Collectors' Club of America, The Bulletin, Winter 2007, Volume 13, No. 8, p. 39
- ^ a b New England Manufacturers and Manufactories, Volume 2, J. D. Van Slyck, Van Slyck & Co., Boston, 1879, p. 441
- ^ Ashbil Griswold, Pewterer, George Holmes Edwards, Pewter Collectors Club of America, Vol. 2,, No. 5, June 12, 1948, p. 89
- ^ Record-Journal, 28 Oct 1940, Mon ·Page 1
- ^ Yale, Ira (1783-1864) — of Wallingford, Index to Politicians, The Political Graveyard, Database of American History, 2024
- ^ Middlebury Register and Addison county Journal, Fri, Apr 15, 1921 ·Page 1
- ^ Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography, edited by Prentiss Cutler Dodge, 1912, p. 232-323
- ^ The Burlington Free Press, Burlington, Vermont, Mon, Mar 11, 1912, Page 1
- ^ Ira Franklin Mansfield, Archives Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 2024
- ^ Joseph P. Beach Papers, A Guide to the collection at the Connecticut Historical Society, 1764-1924
- ^ You know who was into Karl Marx? No, not AOC. Abraham Lincoln, The Washington Post, Gillian Brockell, July 27, 2019
- ^ Landmarks Preservation Comnission, October 7, 1986, p. 13
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). 1911. pp. 791–792. .
- ^ The Story of the Sun, New York, 1833-1918, Frank M. O'Brien, George H. Doran Co, New York, 1918, Chapter VIII : The Sun During the Civil War
- ^ The Journal, 07 May 1895, Tue ·Page 7
- ^ February Meeting, 1916, Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Transactions, 1915-1916, John Wilson and Son, Vol. 18, University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.,
- JSTOR 23344756– via JSTOR.
- ^ Elihu Yale, Governor, Collector and Benefactor, Hiram Bingham, 1937, p. 128-129-142-143-144
- ^ Bingham, Hiram (1937). "Elihu Yale : governor, collector and benefactor". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society: 144.