Ancestry of
Thomas Edison

Inventor

John Edison

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• • Great-grandfather of Thomas Edison — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1724 
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  • ABT 1825 
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  • Bayham, Elgin, Ontario, Canada 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Ogden
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Oct 1765 
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  • Child:

  Samuel Ogden Edison (Ahnentafel No:4 )

  • Notes: 

  • There is some doubt as to whether John Edison came to America from Holland where the Edison family may have escaped to avoid religious prosecution in England, or whether John's family may have already been in America for several generations before he was born.

• Sources for John Edison

  • ¹ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 25, New York: James T. White and Company (1936), 1.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 37.
  • ³ Thomas A. Edison Papers Project, Edison, Miller, and Affiliated Families: Thomas Alva Edison and His Family Tree, 151-152, 160.
  • ⁴ 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), 123.
  • ⁵ Wilson, Isaiah W., A Geography and History of the County of Digby, Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS: Holloway Bros. (1900), 347.