Ancestry of
Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

Edith Townsend

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• • Great-grandmother of Porter Goss — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 11 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Orlando Townsend 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth H. Hunt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Oct 1850 
  • Birth Location:
  • Armonk, Westchester, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 May 1911 
  • Death Location:
  • Yonkers, Westchester, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Henry Nicoll Wayne
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1872 
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  • Child:

  Edith Donaldson Wayne (Ahnentafel No:5 )

• Sources for Edith Townsend

  • ¹ Federal Census, NY, Westchester County, 1900, North Castle, E.D. 100, Sheet 7A, Image 13 of 40.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/12/2025).
  • ³ Hartford Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), 10 MAY 1933, p. 4, Obituary for daughter Edith (Wayne) Goss.
  • ⁴ Townsend, Margaret, Townsend-Townshend, 1066-1909: The History, Genealogy and Alliances of the English and American House of Townsend, New York: Broadway Publishing Company (1909), 102.
  • ⁵ Woodhull, Mary Gould and Francis Bowes Stevens, Woodhull Genealogy: The Woodhull Family in England and America, Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Co., 99.