Ancestry of
Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

Eliza Jane Clark

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• • Mother of Henry Clay Folger — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Lewis Mills Clark 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Hannah Meeks   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1836 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Dec 1889 
  • Death Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Burial Date:
  • 20 Dec 1889 
  • Burial Location:
  • Sing Sing, Ossining, Westchester, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Clay Folger
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 May 1856 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Manhattan, New York, New York 
  • Child:

  Henry Clay Folger Jr. (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Eliza Jane Clark

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Kings County, 1850, Brooklyn Ward 11, Image 261 of 298.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 482, Record for husband Henry Clay Folger.
  • ³ New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938, Marriage record for Henry C Folger and Eliza J Clark.
  • ⁴ New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for Eliza J Folger.
  • ⁵ New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999, Probate records for mother Mary H. Clark.
  • ⁶ Folger Shakespeare Library, "Henry Clay Folger", (accessed 09/09/2011).
  • ⁷ Grant, Stephen H., Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger, Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press (2014), 4-5.
  • ⁸ Grover, Harriet M., Highlights of the Folger Family with a Brief Genealogy, Berkeley, California: Unknown (1939), 52.
  • ⁹ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, (accessed 10/28/2018).
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 18.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 447.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Henry Clay Folger", (accessed 09/09/2011).