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My Confederate Great Great Uncle in a Divided State
0 The Flag of Maryland The Flag of the Maryland Confederate Units The Flag of the Maryland Union Units While raking up the leaves on my family tree, I came across my great great uncle by marriage,...
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Eric Gugler, Architect
Eric Gugler Eric Gugler was the husband of Anne Elizabeth Tonetti, my wife’s cousin. He was born March 13, 1889, in Milwaukee, the son of Julius Gugler and Bertha Rose Bremer. According to Camoupedia...
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Anne Elizabeth Tonetti, Actress
Mary Trimble Lawrence Tonetti with Lydia, Anne, and Joseph 1906 Anne (also Ann and Annette) Elizabeth Tonetti was born on March 15, 1903 at 136 East 40th St in New York, the daughter of Mary Trimble...
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Mary Trimble Lawrence, Sculptress
Mary Trimble Lawrence Tonetti Mary Trimble Lawrence, my wife’s third cousin three times removed, was born in December 1869 in New York, the daughter of Henry Effingham Lawrence and Lydia Greene...
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The Many Loves of Ann Marie Saportas
Frederick Francis and Regina Matilda at the 1938 Horse Show Ball My wife’s great uncle, Frederick Francis Alexandre (1894-1968) married Regina Mathilde Saportas (1898-1957), and therefore my wife is...
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The Much-Married Elizabeth Lanier Fenno and the Jackass
Whenever one’s marital affairs occupy a full newspaper page, it is a bad sign. Elizabeth Lanier Fenno (1916-1969) in 1936 married my wife’s first cousin, one removed, Samuel Adams Clark, Jr....
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Henry Effingham Lawrence, Dry Goods Merchant
Henry Effingham Lawrence Henry Effingham Lawrence was born 1829, the son of Joseph Lawrence (one of the first presidents of the U.S. Trust Co. and president of the New York State Bank) and Rosetta...
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Captain James Lawrence, Hero or….
James Lawrence by Gilbert Stewart U.S. Naval Academy Museum Captain James Lawrence, the source of the navy’s motto Don’t give up the ship! is probably the most famous of my wife’s relatives. He is...
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Augustine Hicks Lawrence and the Buttonwood Tree
Augustine Hicks Lawrence Augustine Hicks Lawrence (1769-1828), the son of Augustine Lawrence (1719-1794) and of Joanna Annajte van Zandt (1729-1809). He is my wife’s fifth cousin, five times removed....
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James Lawrence Breese, Jr., Inventor
Jim Breese James Lawrence Breese, Jr., (1884-1959) my wife’s eighth cousin twice removed, was the son of James Lawrence Breese and Francis Tileston Potter. He was Princeton ’09. He married Marjorie...
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James Lawrence Breese, Bon Vivant
James Lawrence Breese James Lawrence Breese (1851-1934) was the son of Josiah Salisbury Breese and Augusta Eloise Lawrence. He was the brother of the two Breese sisters who married into the British...
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Anne Parsons Breese, Lady Alistair Innes Ker
Anne Parsons Breese (1889-1959) was the daughter of William Lawrence Breese and Mar Louise parsons. And therefore the eighth cousin, twice removed of my wife. Anne moved to England when her widowed...
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Eloise Breese, Countess of Ancaster
Eloise Lawrence Breese Among the far twigs of the family tree is Eloise Lawrence Breese (1890-1953), my wife’s eighth cousin twice removed. After her father, William Lawrence Breese (1854-1888) died,...
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Eloise Lawrence Breese, Bachelorette
There were two Eloise Breeses, an aunt and a niece, and they were conflated both by the newspapers and by researches on the internet. I think I have disentangled them. Eloise Lawrence Breese...
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Mary Bowne Lawrence
Mary Bowne Lawrence (left) and Anna Louise Lawrence (right) Mary Bowne Lawrence (1830-1898), the second cousin four times removed of my wife, married Henry Augustine Bogert (1827-1905). Mary was...
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Our Troubled Relations, the Churchills
The young Winston My wife is related by marriage to Winston Churchill (first cousin once removed of the wife of the great-grandfather of my wife), through Jennny Jerome. Jeanette Jerome (1854 – 1921)...
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William G. van Orsdel (1844-1864), the brother of Josiah and the son of Ralph Lashiel van Orsdel and Margaret Fitz Randolph (of the Randolphs of Virginia) was my wife’s first cousin, four time removed....
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Josiah Alexander van Orsdel, Judge and Strict Constructionist
Josiah Alexander van Orsdel Josiah Alexander van Orsdel (1860-1937), was, like my wife, descended from Cornelius van Orsdel, a Dutchman who as a child came to Virginia shortly after 1760. Cornelius...
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Dr. Markoe and the Terrorists of the Early Twentieth Century
William Jay Schieffelin Jr. married Annette Markoe (1897-1997). She was the daughter of Dr. James Wright Markoe, the personal physician and friend of J. P. Morgan. Morgan and Markoe were both members...
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