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Josephine Rodman

The New Netherland Ancestors of

JOSEPHINE RODMAN,

the wife of GEORGE WASHINGTON GOETHALS



- for George Washington Goethals

Engineer, Governor





			   __Samuel Rodman5,8
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		      __Thomas Rodman4,8
		     |    |
		     |    |          __Thomas Willett6,7
		     |    |         |
		     |    |     __Thomas Willett5,8,9
		     |    |    |    |
		     |    |    |    |     __Thomas Cornell6
		     |    |    |    |    |
		     |    |    |    |__Sarah Cornell6
		     |    |    |         |
		     |    |    |         |__Rebecca (__)6
		     |    |    |
		     |    |__Mary Willett5,8
		     |         |
		     |         |     __Elbert Elbertszen Stoothoff
		     |         |    |
		     |         |__Heiltie Stoothoff8,9
		     |              |
		     |              |     __Cornelis Lambertszen Cool9
		     |              |    |
		     |              |__Aeltje Cornelise Cool8,9
		     |                   |
		     |                   |__(__)9
		     |
		 __Samuel Rodman3
		|    |
		|    |     __Abraham Borden4
		|    |    |
		|    |__Mary Borden4
		|         |
		|         |__Elizabeth Wanton4
		|
	    __Samuel Rodman, Jr.2
	   |    |
	   |    |     __William Rotch3
	   |    |    |
	   |    |__Elizabeth Rotch3
	   |         |
	   |         |__Elizabeth Barney3
	   |
       __Thomas Rotch Rodman1
      |    |
      |    |__Hannah Haydock Prior2
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JOSEPHINE RODMAN1
the wife of GEORGE WASHINGTON GOETHALS
      |
      |     __John Miles1
      |    |
      |__Anne Miles1
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	   |__(__)1



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Biography of GEORGE WASHINGTON GOETHALS

 
George Washington Goethals, 1858-1928, United States army engineer, born Brooklyn, NY, graduated West Point, 1880. After serving on various inland water projects, he was appointed chief engineer of the Panama Canal when John F. Stevens resigned (1907). Goethals found the difficulty of the work increased by the climate, yellow fever, labor troubles, unexpected complications in building the locks, and crumbling substrata in the Culebra Cut. By taking intense personal interest in the men and expressing satisfaction in their individual achievements, he created an atmosphere of cooperation and completed the project ahead of schedule. He was governor of the Panama Canal Zone (1914-16). In World War I he was briefly (1917) general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, then (January-April 1918) head of the Bureau of Purchase and Supplies, and finally assistant chief of staff in charge of supplies.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Jones, Charles Henry, Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620-1886.
       Philadelphia:  Allen, Lane & Scott, 1886.  123.
   2.  Ibid., p. 70-71.
   3.  Ibid., p. 39-41.
   4.  Ibid., p. 27-28.
   5.  Ibid., p. 18.
   6.  Cornell, Rev. John, M.A., Genealogy of the Cornell Family.  New York:
       T.A. Wright, 1902.  17-24.
   7.  Willett, Albert James, Jr., The Willett Families of North America,
       Volume I.  Easley:  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.  75-86.
   8.  Ibid., p. 81-88.
   9.  Ledley, Wilson V., "The Stoothoff Family on Long Island, and in New
       Jersey," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, 43 (1968): 97-109; 44
       (1969):  30-37.

 

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