Ancestry of
Kyra Sedgwick

TV and Movie Actress

Robert Bowne Minturn Jr.

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Kyra Sedgwick — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Robert Bowne Minturn 
  • Mother:
  • Anna Mary Wendell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Feb 1836 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Dec 1889 
  • Death Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Shaw
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Oct 1862 
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  • Child:

  Sarah May Minturn (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  • Notes: 

  • Robert Bowne Minturn Jr. was an American shipping magnate. He was also the Vice President of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The town of Minturn, Colorado, is named for him.

• Sources for Robert Bowne Minturn Jr.

  • ¹ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, (2002), Page 99129, Cemetery record for daughter Sarah Minturn Sedgwick.
  • ² Federal Census, NY, Richmond County, 1880, Staten Island, E.D. 299, p. 8, Image 8 of 45.
  • ³ Federal Census, NY, Richmond County, 1870, Castleton, p. 226, Image 228 of 241.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/22/2013).
  • ⁵ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, Application for Robert B. Minturn.
  • ⁶ Breck, Samuel, Genealogy of the Breck Family Descended from Edward of Dorchester and His Brothers in America, Omaha: Rees Printing Company (1889), 35.
  • ⁷ Hampton, Vernon B., Staten Island's Claim to Fame: The Garden Spot of New York Harbor, Staten Island, New York: Richmond Borough Publishing and Printing Company (1925), 166.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 328.
  • ⁹ Sturgis, Francis Shaw, The Descendants of Nath'l Russell Sturgis: With a Brief Introductory Sketch of His Ancestors in England and . . ., Boston: Printed by G. H. Ellis (1925), 5.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Robert Bowne Minturn, Jr.", _Jr., (accessed 09/18/2014).

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