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George Henry Bissell

Father of the American Oil Industry

Isaac Bissell

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• • Father of George Henry Bissell — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Bissell 
  • Mother:
  • Amelia Leavitt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Mar 1779 
  • Birth Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Oct 1834 
  • Death Location:
  • Hartford, Windsor, Vermont 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, Grafton, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Wemple
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Nov 1801 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lyme, New London, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  George Henry Bissell (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Isaac Bissell

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Marriage record for Isaac Bissel and Nancy Wemple.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A122789, gives Isaac's wedding date as 20 OCT 1801 in Onondaga Hollow, NY.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 12/07/2019).
  • ⁴ Dwight, Benjamin W., The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass., Vol. 1, New York: John F. Trow and Sons (1874), 412-414, gives Isaac's wedding date as 20 OCT 1801 in Onondaga Hollow, NY.
  • ⁵ Effingham de Forest, Louis, ed., Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, New York: Printed by order of the Society (1923), 25.