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The Political Graveyard: Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family of New York
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family of New York</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.</p> <p>This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.</p> <p>These groupings — even the <i>names</i> of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.</p> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Aaron Burr (1756-1836)</b> — also known as <b>Aaron Edwards</b> — of New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/02-06.html">February 6, 1756</a>. Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1784-85, 1797-99, 1800-01 (New York County 1784-85, 1797-99, Orange County 1800-01); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/attygn.html">New York state attorney general</a>, 1789-91; appointed 1789; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from New York</a>, 1791-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1801-05; Killed <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#111.82.60">Alexander Hamilton</a> in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a>, July 11, 1804; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/sedition.html">treason</a> in 1807; found not guilty. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Slaveowner. Died, after several <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">strokes</a>, at the Winants or Port Richmond <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">Hotel</a>, Port Richmond, Staten Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/RI-died.html">Richmond County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/09-14.html">September 14, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ME-buried.html#cms01396">Princeton Cemetery</a>, Princeton, N.J. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Aaron Burr (1716-1757) and Esther (Edwards) Burr; brother of Sarah Burr (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reesor-reeve.html#869.86.24">Tapping Reeve</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/07-02.html">July 2, 1782</a>, to Theodosia (Bartow) Prevost (first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bartos-bason.html#276.22.55">Francis Stebbins Bartow</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/">1833</a> to Eliza (Bowen) Jumel; father of Theodosia Burr (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#089.37.58">Joseph Alston</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards7.html#335.52.14">Pierpont Edwards</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willauer-william.html#215.97.61">Thomas Willett</a>; ancestor of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#082.09.25">Karla Ballard</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards4.html#127.62.71">Henry Waggaman Edwards</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#567.11.01">Anson Foster Keeler</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#252.96.48">Charles Taylor Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#249.92.18">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#627.30.05">Lampson Parker Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#228.47.40">John Sherman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#492.07.22">Evert Harris Kittell</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#266.79.92">Chauncey Mitchell Depew</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#781.68.07">Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#912.29.83">Stillman Stephen Light</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodward.html#807.46.34">Blanche M. Woodward</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bandel-bankhead.html#612.92.69">Alfred Walstein Bangs</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keathley-keena.html#153.32.70">John Clarence Keeler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#992.70.06">Louis Ezekiel Stoddard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purcell.html#228.61.46">John Cecil Purcell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirksey-kittleman.html#494.45.40">Arthur Callen Kittell Jr.</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#048.03.47">Benjamin Tallmadge</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#594.74.07">Frederick Augustus Tallmadge</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#235.05.44">Eli Thacher Hoyt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#082.28.77">George Smith Catlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/appleton.html#847.27.33">John Appleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beardmore-beattie.html#532.12.12">Howkin Bulkley Beardslee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/root.html#087.15.51">Joseph Pomeroy Root</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hooker.html#900.95.54">Edward Williams Hooker</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronson.html#437.89.78">Greene Carrier Bronson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#043.83.53">Abijah Catlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/osborne.html#747.56.87">David Munson Osborne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingham-irelan.html#753.59.22">George Landon Ingraham</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sigerson-silon.html#790.53.24">Dwight Arthur Silliman</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miley-millender.html#392.11.71">Charles Dunsmore Millard</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#929.47.54">Noah Phelps</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#788.84.18">Hezekiah Case</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams7.html#433.52.89">Parmenio Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#743.86.80">Elisha Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tuttle.html#282.14.92">Ambrose Tuttle</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/howlett-hubard.html#375.04.02">Jesse Hoyt</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#002.57.43">Abiel Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jamieson-jarstad.html#700.40.71">Henry Fisk Janes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#177.15.53">Jairus Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/russell5.html#124.41.70">John Leslie Russell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George Washington Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#904.82.30">Almon Case</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Cross-reference:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dayan-deamer.html#956.87.91">Jonathan Dayton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#037.21.71">John Smith</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tatem-tayloe.html#075.92.34">John Tayler</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornellus-corry.html#928.79.37">Walter D. Corrigan, Sr.</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mead.html#097.74.95">Cowles Mead</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin6.html#139.11.24">Luther Martin</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#141.38.10">William P. Van Ness</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/swanton-swede.html#708.91.80">Samuel Swartwout</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#991.28.86">William Wirt</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith8.html#431.41.53">Theophilus W. Smith</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001133">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402077">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron Burr">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/184/000022118">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/151">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Books about Aaron Burr:</i> Milton Lomask, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374100160/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374100160&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Aaron Burr: The Years from Princeton to Vice President, 1756-1805</a> — Milton Lomask, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374100179/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374100179&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Aaron Burr: The Conspiracy and Years of Exile, 1805-1836</a> — Joseph Wheelan, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786714379/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0786714379&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Jefferson's Vendetta : The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary</a> — Buckner F. Melton Jr., <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/047139209X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=047139209X&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Aaron Burr : Conspiracy to Treason</a> — Thomas Fleming, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465017371/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465017371&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America</a> — Arnold A. Rogow, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809016214/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0809016214&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr</a> — H. W. Brands, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307743268/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307743268&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr</a> — David O. Stewart, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439157189/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1439157189&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America</a> — Donald Barr Chidsey, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006BRMLS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006BRMLS&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The great conspiracy: Aaron Burr and his strange doings in the West</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Fiction about Aaron Burr:</i> Gore Vidal, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345339215/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0345339215&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Burr</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Israel Washburn (1784-1876)</b> — of Massachusetts. Born in Raynham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/11-18.html">November 18, 1784</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/sthse.html">Massachusetts state house of representatives</a>, 1815-16, 1818-19. Died in Livermore, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/AN-died.html">Androscoggin County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/09-01.html">September 1, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 288 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Abiah (King) Washburn and Israel Washburn (1755-1841); brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#081.76.93">Reuel Washburn</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/03-26.html">March 26, 1812</a>, to Martha Benjamin; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#578.05.21">Israel Washburn Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#844.25.24">Elihu Benjamin Washburne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#070.60.86">Cadwallader Colden Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#634.80.77">Charles Ames Washburn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#029.10.17">William Drew Washburn</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#882.62.17">Charles Fox Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#333.33.49">Hempstead Washburne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#223.37.09">Robert Charles Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#310.00.75">William Drew Washburn Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#885.61.88">Stanley Washburn</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#984.54.28">Dwight May Sabin</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#912.29.83">Stillman Stephen Light</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumner.html#134.74.24">Charles Sumner</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#349.39.92">John Randolph Wilder</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0049.html">Washburn family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Reuel Washburn (1793-1878)</b> — of Maine. Born in Raynham, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/05-21.html">May 21, 1793</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/stsen.html">Maine state senate</a>, 1827-28; probate judge in Maine, 1857-59. Died in Livermore, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/AN-died.html">Androscoggin County</a>, Maine, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/03-04.html">March 4, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 287 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#131.55.29">Israel Washburn</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#578.05.21">Israel Washburn Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#844.25.24">Elihu Benjamin Washburne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#070.60.86">Cadwallader Colden Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#634.80.77">Charles Ames Washburn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#029.10.17">William Drew Washburn</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#882.62.17">Charles Fox Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#333.33.49">Hempstead Washburne</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#223.37.09">Robert Charles Washburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#310.00.75">William Drew Washburn Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#885.61.88">Stanley Washburn</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/saal-sacket.html#984.54.28">Dwight May Sabin</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#912.29.83">Stillman Stephen Light</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumner.html#134.74.24">Charles Sumner</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcoxon-wiles.html#349.39.92">John Randolph Wilder</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0049.html">Washburn family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Ezra Cornell (1807-1874)</b> — of Ithaca, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-lived.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y. Born in Westchester Landing, Westchester County (now part of Bronx, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/BX-born.html">Bronx County</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/01-11.html">January 11, 1807</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Tompkins County, 1862-63; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 24th District, 1864-67; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/univfound.html">founder</a> of Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y., 1865. Died in Ithaca, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-died.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/12-09.html">December 9, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 332 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-buried.html#cms05422">Sage Chapel</a>, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-buried.html#cms08010">Arts Quad</a>, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Elijah Cornell and Eunice (Barnard) Cornell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/03-19.html">March 19, 1831</a>, to Mary Ann Wood; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#332.44.23">Alonzo Barton Cornell</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richner-rider.html#942.50.86">Carlos Wood Riddick</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#498.83.82">Florence Riddick Boys</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#652.15.91">Ezekiel Cornell</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#145.61.01">Gerothman W. Cornell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#483.85.30">Francis Russell Edward Cornell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#912.29.83">Stillman Stephen Light</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purcell.html#228.61.46">John Cecil Purcell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#782.09.41">Thurber Cornell</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrows.html#071.54.51">Daniel Burrows</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ransome-rattliff.html#341.62.05">Jared Lewis Rathbone</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baldwin.html#417.79.91">Simeon Baldwin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrows.html#382.35.25">Lorenzo Burrows</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ransome-rattliff.html#097.53.67">Henry Reed Rathbone</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ransome-rattliff.html#761.19.63">Jared Lawrence Rathbone</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0089.html">Cornell family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/456/000135051">NNDB dossier</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/332/44.23.jpg" width=70 height=103 border=0 alt="Alonzo B. Cornell"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Alonzo Barton Cornell (1832-1904)</b> — also known as <b>Alonzo B. Cornell</b> — of Ithaca, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-lived.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y.; New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Ithaca, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-born.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/01-22.html">January 22, 1832</a>. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/NY.html">1868</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/NY.html">1880</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of New York</a>, 1868; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/NY.html">New York Republican state chair</a>, 1870-74, 1875-77, 1878-79; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from New York County 11th District, 1873; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New York State Assembly</a>, 1873; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1880-83. Died in Ithaca, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-died.html">Tompkins County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/10-15.html">October 15, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 267 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/TO-buried.html#cms05422">Sage Chapel</a>, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#054.67.62">Ezra Cornell</a> and Mary Ann (Wood) Cornell; father of Charles Ezra Cornell (son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bosa-bouckaert.html#052.90.06">Charles C. Bouck</a>); first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/richner-rider.html#942.50.86">Carlos Wood Riddick</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boyles-bradburn.html#498.83.82">Florence Riddick Boys</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#652.15.91">Ezekiel Cornell</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrows.html#071.54.51">Daniel Burrows</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ransome-rattliff.html#341.62.05">Jared Lewis Rathbone</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#145.61.01">Gerothman W. Cornell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#483.85.30">Francis Russell Edward Cornell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#912.29.83">Stillman Stephen Light</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0087.html">Durfee-Wanton family</a> of Newport, Rhode Island; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0089.html">Cornell family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0054.html">King-Hazard family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0384.html">Hatfield-Cornell-Woolsey family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/alonzo-barton-cornell/">National Governors Association biography</a></span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Image source:</i> New York Red Book 1896</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Stillman Stephen Light (1858-1933)</b> — also known as <b>Stillman Light</b> — of Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn. Born in Jefferson Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/WE-born.html">Westchester County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/11-13.html">November 13, 1858</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/plumbing-heating.html">Plumber</a>; Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/sthse.html">Connecticut state house of representatives</a> from Danbury, 1914. Died, in Danbury <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Danbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-died.html">Fairfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/03-11.html">March 11, 1933</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 118 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/FA-buried.html#cms01014">Wooster Cemetery</a>, Danbury, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of John B. Light and Orpha Jane (Pinckney) Light; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/purcell.html#228.61.46">John Cecil Purcell</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#054.67.62">Ezra Cornell</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#131.55.29">Israel Washburn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/warrick-washers.html#081.76.93">Reuel Washburn</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#332.44.23">Alonzo Barton Cornell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schenk-schissler.html#524.82.69">Frederick C. Schilplin</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0089.html">Cornell family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0560.html">Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/32824940">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Frederick Schilplin (1868-1949)</b> — also known as <b>Fred Schilplin</b> — of St. Cloud, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-lived.html">Stearns County</a>, Minn. Born in St. Cloud, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-born.html">Stearns County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/05-27.html">May 27, 1868</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper publisher</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/MN.html">1916</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/saintcloud.html#2">St. Cloud, Minn.</a>, 1918-19 (acting, 1918). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html">Swiss</a> ancestry. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1949/04-28.html">April 28, 1949</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 336 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/06-14.html">June 14, 1899</a>, to Maude Comfort Colgrove; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schenk-schissler.html#524.82.69">Frederick C. Schilplin</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0560.html">Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Cecil Purcell (1885-1938)</b> — also known as <b>John C. Purcell</b> — of Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y.; Sackets Harbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y. Born in Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/01-28.html">January 28, 1885</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 32nd District, 1932; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NY.html">New York Democratic State Committee</a>, 1936. Died in Watertown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/08-27.html">August 27, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 211 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Lezon Henry Purcell and Cecelia (Neary) Purcell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/">1920</a> to Elizabeth Fitch Hathway; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#912.29.83">Stillman Stephen Light</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cornell.html#054.67.62">Ezra Cornell</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0089.html">Cornell family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0560.html">Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Frederick C. Schilplin (c.1901-1974)</b> — also known as <b>Fred C. Schilplin</b> — of St. Cloud, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-lived.html">Stearns County</a>, Minn. Born about 1901. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/MN.html">1944</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>). Died in St. Cloud, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-died.html">Stearns County</a>, Minn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1974/09-06.html">September 6, 1974</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">about 73 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ST-buried.html#cms02671">North Star Cemetery</a>, St. Cloud, Minn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schenk-schissler.html#885.09.66">Frederick Schilplin</a> and Maude (Colgrove) Schilplin; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/liggett-linblad.html#912.29.83">Stillman Stephen Light</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0049.html">Washburn family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0089.html">Cornell family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0560.html">Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9588757529416233"; /* TPG general sideline */ google_ad_slot = "2646840196"; google_ad_width = 160; google_ad_height = 600; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9588757529416233"; /* TPG general bottomline */ google_ad_slot = "1170106998"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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