Ancestry of
Thomas Edison

Inventor

Samuel Ogden Edison

View famous kin of Samuel Ogden Edison

• • Grandfather of Thomas Edison — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • John Edison 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Ogden   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Mar 1767 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newark, Essex, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Mar 1865 
  • Death Location:
  • Vienna, Bayham, Twsp., Elgin, Ontario 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pioneer Edison Cemetery, Vienna, Bayham Twsp., Elgin, Ontario, Canada 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Simpson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Nov 1792 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 
  • Although Samuel's headstone states that he died at the age of 103, it has seen been discovered that he actually died at the age of 98.

• Additional marriages for Samuel Ogden Edison

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Yokum
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Sep 1825

• Sources for Samuel Ogden Edison

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, JAN 1934, Vol. 88, pp. 72-73.
  • ² The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 25, New York: James T. White and Company (1936), 1.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ⁴ Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, Edison, Miller, and Affiliated Families: Thomas Alva Edison and His Family Tree, 160, 163.
  • ⁵ 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), 228.
  • ⁶ Wilson, Isaiah W., A Geography and History of the County of Digby, Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS: Holloway Bros. (1900), 347.