Ancestry of
Thomas Edison

Inventor

Samuel Ogden Edison Jr.

View famous kin of Samuel Ogden Edison

• • Father of Thomas Edison — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Ogden Edison 
  • Mother:
  • Nancy Simpson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Aug 1804 
  • Birth Location:
  • Digby, Digby Co., Nova Scotia, Canada 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Feb 1896 
  • Death Location:
  • Norwalk, Huron, Ohio 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Lakeside Cemetery, Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Matthews Elliott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Sep 1828 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Vienna, Bayham, Twsp., Elgin, Ontario 
  • Child:

  Thomas Alva Edison (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Additional marriages for Samuel Ogden Edison Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Sharlow

• Sources for Samuel Ogden Edison Jr.

  • 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.
  • 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, 151, 163.
  • 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), 343.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Thomas Edison", (accessed 02/06/2012).
  • ⁸ Wilson, Isaiah W., A Geography and History of the County of Digby, Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS: Holloway Bros. (1900), 347.