Ancestry of
William Howard Taft

27th U.S. President

Alphonso Taft

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• • Father of William Howard Taft — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Peter Rawson Taft 
  • Mother:
  • Sylvia Howard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Nov 1810 
  • Birth Location:
  • Townshend, Windham, Vermont 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 May 1891 
  • Death Location:
  • San Diego, San Diego Co., California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Louisa Maria Torrey
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Dec 1853 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  William Howard Taft (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • U.S. Secretary of War and Attorney General

• Additional marriages for Alphonso Taft

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  • Spouse:
  • Fanny Phelps
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1841

• Sources for Alphonso Taft

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2013, Vol. 14.4, p. 52.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/24/2012).
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 209.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National No. 77831, Membership application for Lloyd B Taft.
  • ⁵ Child, Christopher C., "Coolidge Connections", Vita Brevis, https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/coolidge-connections/, (accessed 06/23/2023).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 89.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 168, 563.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 318.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 429, 433, 444, 459, 462-463, 481, 486, 489-490, 583.
  • ¹⁰ Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 1175-1177.
  • ¹¹ Wikipedia, "Alphonso Taft", (accessed 09/24/2012).