Ancestry of
Ezra Pound

Expatriate American Poet and Critic

Thaddeus Coleman Pound

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• • Grandfather of Ezra Pound — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Elijah Pound 
  • Mother:
  • Judith Coleman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Dec 1832 
  • Birth Location:
  • Elk Township, Warren, Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Nov 1914 
  • Death Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
  • 23 Nov 1914 
  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Hill Cemetery, Chippewa Falls, Chippewa, Wisconsin 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Susan Angevine Loomis
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Oct 1855 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rochester, Monroe, New York 
  • Child:

  Homer Loomis Pound (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • 10th Lt. Gov. of Wisconsin

    Thaddeus Pound's tombstone gives they year of his birth as 1833, however, the book The American Roots of Ezra Pound states that Thaddeus was born in “1832 (often incorrectly given as 1833.”

• Sources for Thaddeus Coleman Pound

  • ¹ Federal Census, WI, Walworth County, 1850, East Troy, Image 6 of 32.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/17/2020).
  • ³ Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998, Death record for Thaddeus Pound.
  • ⁴ Oxford Dicitonary of National Biography, "Ezra Loomis Pound", (accessed 10/17/2020).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 176.
  • ⁶ Shotwell, Ambrose M., Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Prosperity, Lansing, Michigan: Robert Smith and Co., Printers and Binders (1895), 9.
  • ⁷ Wikipedia, "Thaddeus C. Pound", (accessed 10/17/2020).
  • ⁸ Wilhelm, James J., The American Roots of Ezra Pound, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (1985).