Ancestry of
Lee de Forest

Pioneer of Radio and Talking Pictures

Lee de Forest

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Henry Swift de Forest 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Margaret Robbins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Aug 1873 
  • Birth Location:
  • Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa 
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  • Death Date:
  • 30 Jun 1961 
  • Death Location:
  • Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California 
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  • Notes: 

  • "Father of Radio Broadcasting

    Radio engineer and inventor

• Marriages for Lee de Forest

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  • Spouse:
  • Lucile Sheardown
  • Marriage Date:
  • Feb 1906

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  • Spouse:
  • Nora Stanton Blatch
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Feb 1908

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Mayo White
  • Marriage Date:
  • Dec 1912

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  • Spouse:
  • Marie Mosquini
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Oct 1930

• Sources for Lee de Forest

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 387, 570.
  • ² Wikipedia, "Lee de Forest", (accessed 10/12/2021).