Ancestry of
Thomas Edison

Inventor

Thomas Alva Edison

View famous kin of Thomas Alva Edison

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Nancy Matthews Elliott   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Feb 1847 
  • Birth Location:
  • Milan, Erie, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Oct 1931 
  • Death Location:
  • West Orange, Essex, New Jersey 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, Essex, New Jersey 

• Marriages for Thomas Alva Edison

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Stilwell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1871

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  • Spouse:
  • Mina Miller
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 Feb 1886
  • Marriage Location:
  • Akron, Summit, Ohio

• Sources for Thomas Alva Edison

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/06/2012).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, JAN 1934, Vol. 88, pp. 72-73.
  • ³ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 25, New York: James T. White and Company (1936), 1-3.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ⁵ Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, Edison, Miller, and Affiliated Families: Thomas Alva Edison and His Family Tree, pp. 151-181, (accessed 02/01/2015).
  • ⁶ Wheeler, William Ogden, The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and their English Ancestry: John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his . . ., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1907), 344.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Thomas Edison", (02/06/2012).