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Eleanor Randolph Wilson

The New Netherland Ancestors of

ELEANOR RANDOLPH WILSON,

the second wife of

WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO



- for William Gibbs McAdoo

Cabinet Official (Secretary of the Treasury), Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Senator




       __THOMAS WOODROW WILSON9
      |
ELEANOR RANDOLPH WILSON
the second wife of WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO
      |
      |          __Isaac Stockton Keith Axson9
      |         |
      |     __Samuel Edward Axson9
      |    |    |
      |    |    |               __Isaac Fitz Randolph1
      |    |    |              |
      |    |    |          __James Fitz Randolph1,9
      |    |    |         |    |
      |    |    |         |    |     __James Seabrook1
      |    |    |         |    |    |
      |    |    |         |    |__Rebecca Seabrook1
      |    |    |         |         |
      |    |    |         |         |          __James Grover1,4
      |    |    |         |         |         |
      |    |    |         |         |     __Joseph Grover1,4,5
      |    |    |         |         |    |    |
      |    |    |         |         |    |    |__Rebecca Jaspers1,4
      |    |    |         |         |    |
      |    |    |         |         |__Rebecca Grover1,4
      |    |    |         |              |
      |    |    |         |              |     __William Lawrence1,4,5
      |    |    |         |              |    |
      |    |    |         |              |__Hannah Lawrence1,4,5
      |    |    |         |                   |
      |    |    |         |                   |__(__)1,5
      |    |    |         |
      |    |    |     __Isaac Fitz Randolph9
      |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |    |          __Hugh Coward1
      |    |    |    |    |         |
      |    |    |    |    |     __John Coward1,2
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |          __John Throckmorton1,4
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |         |
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |     __John Throckmorton1
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |__Rebecca (__)4
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |    |    |    |__Patience Throckmorton1
      |    |    |    |    |    |         |
      |    |    |    |    |    |         |     __Richard Stout1
      |    |    |    |    |    |         |    |
      |    |    |    |    |    |         |__Alice Stout1
      |    |    |    |    |    |              |
      |    |    |    |    |    |              |__Penelope Van Princis1
      |    |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |    |__Deliverance Coward1,9
      |    |    |    |         |
      |    |    |    |         |          __Nathaniel Britton1,2,6
      |    |    |    |         |         |
      |    |    |    |         |     __Nathaniel Britton1,6
      |    |    |    |         |    |    |
      |    |    |    |         |    |    |     __Nicholas Stillwell1,2,3,6
      |    |    |    |         |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |         |    |    |__Anne Stillwell1,2,6
      |    |    |    |         |    |         |
      |    |    |    |         |    |         |__Ann (__)3
      |    |    |    |         |    |
      |    |    |    |         |__Alice Britton1,2
      |    |    |    |              |
      |    |    |    |              |__Elizabeth Gerritszen2,7
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Rebecca Longstreet Fitz Randolph9
      |    |         |
      |    |         |__Eleanor Hunter9
      |    |
      |__Ellen Louise Axson9
	   |
	   |__Margaret Jane Hoyt9



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Biography of WILLIAM GIBBS McADOO

 
McADOO, William Gibbs, a Senator from California; born on a farm near Marietta, Cobb County, GA, 31 October 1863; attended the rural schools and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; appointed deputy clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern Division, Eastern District of Tennessee 1882; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Chattanooga, TN.; moved to New York City in 1892 and continued the practice of law; developed the system of rapid-transit tunnels under the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey and from 1902 to 1913 was president of the company which constructed and operated them; vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1912; Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson 1913-1918; during the First World War served as director general of railways, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Farm Loan Board, and the War Finance Corporation; resumed the practice of law in New York City in 1919; moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in 1922 and continued to practice law; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1920 and 1924; author; member of the Democratic National Committee 1932-1940; elected in 1932 as a Democrat to the United States Senate from California and served from 4 March 1933, to 8 November 1938, when he resigned; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1938; chairman, Committee on Patents (Seventy-third through Seventy-fifth Congresses); returned to Los Angeles, Calif., and served as chairman of the board of directors of a steamship line; died while on a visit in Washington, D.C., 1 February 1941; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, VA.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Mayes, Edward, Genealogy of the Family of Longstreet with its related
       families : of Van Liewen, Lanen Van Pelt, Van Laer, Verplanck, Wooley,
       Potter, Tucker, Fritz-Randalph, De Langton, Blossom, Dennis, Moore,
       Seabrook, Grover, Lawrence, Stilwell, Van Dyck, Coward, Throckmorton,
       Stout, Van Printz, Briton, Parke, Elmsley, Hawkins, and others.  Rutland:
       Tuttle Antiquarian Books, Inc., (copyright uncertain).  Note:  this book
       contains errors.  The pedigree of Jannetje Adriaens through the Van Laer,
       Verplanck, and Vigné is untrue.
   2.  Stillwell, John E., History of Captain Jeremiah Stillwell, Anne Stillwell
       Britton, Alice Stillwell Holmes, Mary Stillwell Mott, Daniel Stillwell,
       John Stillwell, Children of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell and Appendix
       of Allied Families.  New York:  Privately Published, 1931.  43-55.
   3.  Stillwell, John E., The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell,
       Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America with some Notices of the
       Family in the Kingdom of Great Britain..  New York:  privately
       published, 1930.  35-90.
   4.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  653.
   5.  Ibid., p. 913.
   6.  Ibid., p. 191.
   7.  Stillwell (op. cit.) believes that the parents of Elizabeth
       Gerritszen are Cornelis Gerritszen and (__).  Riker (op. cit.), in his
       discussion of the Britton family, speculates that they may be Gerrit
       Gerritszen and Annetje Hermanse.  However, he does not list Elizabeth
       as a child of Gerrit and Annetje when he address that family (p. 612).
   8.  Coggeshall, C.P., "Material Towards a Genealogy of the Coggeshall
       Family," The Rhode Island Historical Magazine, 5 (1884):  173-190.
   9.  Roberts, Gary Boyd, Ancestors of the American Presidents, First
       Authoritative Edition.  Santa Clarita:  Carl Boyer, 3rd, 1995. 225-228.

 

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