A Classification of American Wealth : History and genealogy of the wealthy families of America

A Classification of American Wealth
History and genealogy of the wealthy families of America - Sponsors

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  Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen ( 1816-1863 )
  John Edward (Charles) (O'Sullivan) Addicks (III) ( 1841-1919 )
  Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich ( 1841-1915 )
  Russell Alexander Alger ( 1836-1907 )
  Oliver Ames ( 1779-1863 )
  Oakes Ames ( 1804-1873 )
  Oliver Ames (jr) ( 1807-1877 )
  Oakes Angier Ames ( 1829-1899 )
  'Governor' Oliver Ames ( 1831-1895 )
  Frederick Lothrop Ames ( 1835-1893 )
  Thomas Amory ( 1682-1728 )
  Nathan Appleton ( 1779-1861 )
  John Dustin Archbold ( 1848-1916 )
  Philip Danforth Armour ( 1832-1901 )
  Jonathan Ogden Armour ( 1863-1927 )
  John Jacob Astor ( 1763-1848 )
  William Backhouse Astor ( 1792-1875 )
  John Jacob Astor III ( 1822-1890 )
  William (Backhouse) Astor (jr) ( 1830-1892 )
  Henry Astor ( 1830-1918 )
  William Waldorf Astor ( 1848-1919 )
  John Jacob Astor IV ( 1864-1912 )
  William Axtell ( 1720-1795 )
  John Judson Bagley ( 1832-1881 )
  George Fisher Baker ( 1840-1931 )
  Nicholas Bayard ( 1644-1707 )
  Wilhelmus Hendrickse Beekman ( 1623-1707 )
  Hendrick Beekman ( 1652-1716 )
  Dr Gerardus Beekman ( 1653-1723 )
  August Belmont ( 1816-1890 )
  Perry Belmont ( 1851-1940 )
  August Belmont jr ( 1853-1924 )
  Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont ( 1858-1908 )
  Nicholas Biddle ( 1786-1844 )
  Heber Reginald Bishop ( 1840-1902 )
  James Blair (jr) ( 1800-1897 )
  John Insley Blair ( 1802-1899 )
  DeWitt Clinton Blair ( 1833-1914 )
  Clinton Ledyard Blair ( 1867-1949 )
  James Armstrong Blair ( b.1870 )
  John Insley Blair II ( 1876-1939 )
  James Boorman ( 1783-1866 )
  Jabez Abel Bostwick ( 1830-1892 )
  Samuel Bradhurst (III) ( 1749-1814 )
  Anthony Nicholas Brady ( 1843-1913 )
  Carter Braxton ( 1736-1797 )
  Walter Owen Briggs ( 1877-1952 )
  'Captain' James Brown ( 1698-1739 )
  Nicholas Brown ( 1729-1791 )
  Alexander Brown ( 1764-1834 )
  Nicholas Brown (jr) ( 1769-1841 )
  'Sir' William Brown ( 1784-1864 )
  George Brown ( 1787-1859 )
  John A(lexander) Brown ( 1788-1872 )
  James Brown ( 1791-1877 )
  John Carter Brown ( 1797-1874 )
  John Brown ( 1811-1893 )
  Edmund A. Brush ( 1803-1877 )
  Alfred Erskine Brush ( b.1850 )
  Christian Henry Buhl ( 1810-1894 )
  Isaac Townsend Burden ( 1838-1913 )
  John Burnside ( 1810-1881 )
  Cornelius Scranton Bushnell ( 1828-1896 )
  John Butterfield ( 1801-1869 )
  William Byrd ( 1652-1704 )
  William Byrd II ( 1674-1744 )
  Francis Cabot ( d.1786 )
  John Cabot ( 1669-1742 )
  Joseph Cabot ( 1720-1767 )
  John Cabot ( 1744-1821 )
  Andrew Cabot ( 1750-1791 )
  George Cabot ( 1751-1823 )
  William Cabot ( 1752-1828 )
  Samuel Cabot jr ( 1784-1863 )
  Dr Samuel Cabot III ( 1815-1885 )
  Johnson Newlon Camden ( 1828-1908 )
  Andrew Carnegie ( 1835-1919 )
  Thomas Morrison Carnegie ( 1843-1886 )
  Charles Carroll (III) of Carrolton ( 1737-1832 )
  John Carter I of "Corotoman" ( 1613-1669 )
  Robert "King" Carter ( 1663-1732 )
  'Councillor' Robert Carter III ( 1728-1804 )
  Thomas Clyde ( b.1812 )
  William Pancoast Clyde ( 1839-1923 )
  George Clymer ( 1739-1813 )
  Lucy (Coleman) Carnegie ( 1845-1916 )
  Samuel Colt ( 1814-1862 )
  Elizabeth Hart (Jarvis) Colt ( 1826-1905 )
  Samuel Caldwell Colt ( b.1842 )
  Caldwell Hart Colt ( 1858-1894 )
  Edmund Cogswell Converse ( 1849-1921 )
  Jay Cooke ( 1821-1905 )
  Henry A Coster ( d.1821 )
  John G. Coster ( d.1846 )
  Edwin Bryant Crocker ( 1818-1875 )
  Charles Crocker ( 1822-1888 )
  William Bedloe Crosby ( 1786-1865 )
  John Schuyler Crosby ( 1839-1914 )
  George Crowninshield ( 1734-1815 )
  George Crowninshield jr ( 1766-1817 )
  Jacob Crowninshield ( 1770-1808 )
  Benjamin Williams Crowninshield ( 1772-1851 )
  John Cruger ( 1678-1744 )
  Michael Cudahy ( 1841-1910 )
  John Cudahy ( 1843-1915 )
  Patrick Cudahy jr ( 1849-1919 )
  Edward Aloysius Cudahy ( 1860-1941 )
  William Cutting ( 1773-1820 )
  Francis Brockholst Cutting ( 1804-1870 )
  Fulton Cutting ( 1814-1875 )
  William Bayard Cutting ( 1850-1912 )
  Robert Fulton Cutting ( 1852-1934 )
  Joseph Emory Davis ( 1784-1870 )
  Stephen (Etienne) De Lancey ( 1663-1741 )
  Johannes De Peyster ( 1600-1685 )
  Abraham De Peyster ( 1658-1728 )
  Richard Derby ( 1712-1783 )
  Elias Hasket Derby ( 1739-1799 )
  Elias Haskett Derby jr ( 1766-1826 )
  Elias Haskett Derby III ( 1803-1880 )
  Sidney Dillon ( 1812-1892 )
  William Earl Dodge ( 1805-1883 )
  William Earl Dodge jr ( 1832-1903 )
  Anson Greene Phelps Dodge ( 1834-1918 )
  David Stuart Dodge ( 1836-1921 )
  Charles Cleveland Dodge ( 1841-1910 )
  Norman White Dodge ( 1846-1907 )
  Thomas Dolan ( 1834-1914 )
  Daniel Drew ( 1797-1879 )
  Francis Martin Drexel ( 1792-1863 )
  Francis Anthony Drexel ( 1824-1885 )
  Anthony Joseph Drexel ( 1826-1893 )
  Joseph William Drexel ( 1833-1888 )
  Eleuthere Irenee Du Pont de Nemours ( 1771-1834 )
  Alfred Victor Du Pont ( 1798-1856 )
  Henry Du Pont ( 1812-1889 )
  Alexis Irenee Du Pont ( 1816-1857 )
  Lammot Du Pont ( 1831-1884 )
  Eugene Du Pont ( 1840-1902 )
  Pierre Samuel Du Pont (II) ( 1870-1954 )
  Washington Duke ( 1820-1905 )
  James Buchanan Duke ( 1857-1925 )
  Dr Stephen Duncan ( 1787-1867 )
  Thomas Clark Durant ( 1820-1885 )
  William West Durant ( 1856-1934 )
  William Edenborn ( 1848-1926 )
  William Lukens Elkins ( 1832-1903 )
  Philip English ( 1651-1736 )
  Harris Charles Fahnestock ( 1835-1914 )
  Theresa Alice "Tessie" (Fair) Oelrichs ( )
  James Graham Fair ( 1831-1894 )
  James Graham Fair jr ( 1865-1892 )
  Charles Lewis Fair ( 1867-1902 )
  William George Fargo ( 1818-1881 )
  Dexter Mason Ferry ( 1833-1907 )
  Marion Graves "Mamie" (Anthon) Fish ( d.1915 )
  Stuyvesant Fish ( 1851-1923 )
  Frederick John Fisher ( 1878-1941 )
  Charles Thomas Fisher ( 1880-1963 )
  Lawrence Peter Fisher ( 1881-1961 )
  William Fitzhugh I ( 1650-1701 )
  Henry Morrison Flagler ( 1830-1913 )
  James Clair Flood ( 1826-1889 )
  Robert Bennet Forbes ( 1804-1889 )
  John Murray Forbes ( 1813-1898 )
  Benjamin Franklin ( 1706-1790 )
  Henry Clay Frick ( 1849-1919 )
  John Lowell Gardner ( 1804-1884 )
  Robert Garrett ( 1783-1857 )
  John Work Garrett ( 1820-1884 )
  Robert Garrett II ( 1847-1896 )
  Thomas Harrison Garrett ( 1849-1888 )
  John Warne Gates ( 1855-1911 )
  Elbridge Gerry ( 1744-1814 )
  Stephen Girard ( 1750-1831 )
  William Goddard ( 1825-1907 )
  Thomas Poynton Ives Goddard ( 1827-1893 )
  Robert Hale Ives Goddard ( 1837-1916 )
  Robert Ratsey Goelet ( d.1820 )
  Peter Goelet ( 1727-1811 )
  Peter P. Goelet ( 1764-1828 )
  Peter Goelet III ( 1800-1879 )
  Robert Goelet II ( 1809-1879 )
  Robert Goelet III ( 1841-1899 )
  Ogden Goelet ( 1846-1897 )
  Robert Walton Goelet ( 1880-1941 )
  Robert Goelet (IV) ( 1880-1966 )
  Jay Gould ( 1836-1892 )
  George Jay Gould ( 1864-1923 )
  Edwin Gould ( 1866-1933 )
  Helen Miller (Gould) Shepard ( 1868-1938 )
  Frank Jay Gould ( 1877-1956 )
  Ulysses Simpson Grant ( 1822-1885 )
  William Gray ( 1750-1825 )
  Horace Gray ( 1800-1873 )
  John Cleve Green ( 1800-1875 )
  Nathaniel Lynde Griswold ( 1773-1846 )
  George Griswold ( 1777-1859 )
  John Noble Alsop Griswold ( 1822-1909 )
  Frank Gray Griswold ( 1854-1937 )
  George Henry Hammond ( 1838-1886 )
  John Hancock ( 1736-1793 )
  Marcus Alonzo Hanna ( 1837-1904 )
  Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness ( 1818-1888 )
  Daniel Morrison Harkness ( 1822-1896 )
  Anna Maria (Richardson) Harkness ( 1827-1926 )
  Lamon Vanderburgh Harkness ( 1850-1915 )
  Charles William Harkness ( 1860-1916 )
  Edward Stephen Harkness ( 1874-1940 )
  Benjamin Harrison V ( 1726-1791 )
  Henry Philemon Haven ( 1815-1876 )
  George Hearst ( 1820-1891 )
  Frank Joseph Hecker ( 1846-1927 )
  Robert "King" Hooper Esq. ( 1709-1790 )
  Herbert Clark Hoover ( 1874-1964 )
  Mark Hopkins ( 1813-1878 )
  George Howland ( 1781-1852 )
  Gardiner Greene Howland ( 1787-1851 )
  Samuel Shaw Howland ( 1790-1853 )
  Goold Hoyt ( 1769-1842 )
  Collis Potter Huntington ( 1821-1900 )
  Robert Hale Ives ( 1798-1875 )
  Daniel James ( 1801-1876 )
  Daniel Willys James ( 1832-1907 )
  Arthur Curtiss James ( 1867-1941 )
  Thomas Jefferson ( 1743-1826 )
  Oliver Burr Jennings ( 1825-1893 )
  Lyndon Baines Johnson ( 1908-1973 )
  James Frederick Joy ( 1810-1896 )
  Otto Hermann Kahn ( 1867-1934 )
  Edward Kanter ( b.1824 )
  Henry Keep ( 1818-1869 )
  William Henry Kemble ( 1828-1891 )
  John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( 1917-1963 )
  Norman Wolfred William Kittson ( 1814-1888 )
  Abraham Kuhn ( 1819-1892 )
  Amos Lawrence ( 1786-1852 )
  Abbott Lawrence ( 1792-1855 )
  Richard Lee ( 1618-1664 )
  Richard Lee jr ( 1647-1714 )
  Thomas Lee of "Stratford" ( 1690-1750 )
  Philip Ludwell Lee ( 1727-1775 )
  Henry Lee II ( 1729-1787 )
  Richard Henry Lee ( 1732-1794 )
  Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734-1797 )
  William Lee ( 1739-1795 )
  Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III ( 1756-1818 )
  Henry "Black Horse Harry" Lee IV ( 1787-1837 )
  Robert Lenox ( 1760-1839 )
  James Lenox ( 1800-1880 )
  Francis Lewis ( 1713-1802 )
  Robert Livingston "1st Lord of the Manor" ( 1654-1728 )
  Robert Livingston "the Nephew" ( 1663-1725 )
  Philip Livingston "2nd Lord of the Manor" ( 1686-1749 )
  Robert Livingston of Clermont ( 1688-1775 )
  Robert Livingston "3rd Lord of the Manor" ( 1708-1790 )
  Peter Van Brugh Livingston ( 1710-1792 )
  Philip Livingston jr ( 1716-1778 )
  Robert Robert Livingston ( 1718-1775 )
  William Livingston ( 1723-1790 )
  Peter Robert Livingston ( 1737-1794 )
  Walter Livingston ( 1740-1797 )
  Robert Cambridge Livingston ( 1742-1794 )
  Janet (Livingston) Montgomery ( 1743-1828 )
  Robert Robert Livingston jr ( 1746-1813 )
  Edward Livingston ( 1764-1836 )
  Johnston Livingston ( 1817-1911 )
  Crawford Livingston (jr) ( 1848-1925 )
  Charles Lockhart ( b.1818 )
  LeGrand Lockwood ( 1820-1872 )
  Solomon Loeb ( 1828-1903 )
  Nicholas Longworth ( 1782-1863 )
  George Lorillard ( )
  Pierre Lorillard ( 1742-1776 )
  Peter Lorillard ( 1763-1843 )
  Jacob Lorillard ( 1774-1839 )
  Peter Lorillard (jr) ( 1796-1867 )
  Pierre Lorillard ( 1833-1901 )
  John Lowell Esq ( 1743-1802 )
  John Lowell jr ( 1769-1840 )
  Francis Cabot Lowell ( 1775-1817 )
  John William Mackay ( 1831-1902 )
  Marie Louise Antoinette (Hungerford) Bryant Mackay ( 1843-1928 )
  John William Mackay jr ( 1870-1895 )
  Clarence Hungerford Mackay ( 1874-1938 )
  Henry Simpson McComb ( 1825-1881 )
  Hugh McCulloch ( 1808-1895 )
  James McMillan ( 1838-1902 )
  Darius Ogden Mills ( 1825-1910 )
  Ogden Mills ( 1856-1929 )
  Gladys (Mills) Phipps ( 1883-1970 )
  Ogden Livingston Mills ( 1884-1937 )
  John Lendrum Mitchell ( 1842-1904 )
  William Henry Moore ( 1848-1923 )
  Oliver J. Morgan ( 1784-1860 )
  Junius Spencer Morgan ( 1813-1890 )
  John Pierpont Morgan ( 1837-1913 )
  Lewis Morris ( 1671-1746 )
  Lewis Morris II ( 1698-1762 )
  Robert Hunter Morris ( 1700-1764 )
  Lewis Morris III ( 1726-1798 )
  Robert Morris ( 1734-1806 )
  Gouverneur Morris ( 1752-1816 )
  Gouverneur Morris jr ( 1813-1888 )
  Thomas Nelson jr ( 1738-1789 )
  John Stoughton Newberry ( 1826-1887 )
  Truman Handy Newberry ( 1864-1945 )
  Dr Haller Nutt ( 1816-1864 )
  William Shoney O'Brien ( 1825-1878 )
  Henry William Oliver (jr) ( 1840-1904 )
  Henry B. Payne ( 1810-1896 )
  Oliver Hazard Payne ( 1839-1917 )
  Joseph Peabody ( 1757-1844 )
  George Peabody ( 1795-1869 )
  Francis Peabody ( 1801-1867 )
  George Peabody ( 1803-1892 )
  Catherine Elizabeth (Peabody) Gardner ( 1808-1883 )
  James Perkins (jr) ( 1761-1822 )
  Thomas Handasyd Perkins ( 1764-1854 )
  James Phelan ( 1824-1892 )
  James Duval Phelan ( 1861-1930 )
  Anson Greene Phelps ( 1781-1853 )
  Anson Greene Phelps jr ( 1818-1858 )
  Frederick Philipse ( 1626-1702 )
  Adolphus Philipse ( 1678-1750 )
  Frederick Philipse II ( 1698-1751 )
  Frederick Philipse III ( 1720-1786 )
  Henry Phipps (jr) ( 1839-1930 )
  Lawrence Cowle Phipps ( 1862-1958 )
  John Thomas Pirie ( 1827-1913 )
  Charles Pratt ( 1830-1891 )
  Horace H. Rackham ( 1858-1933 )