Ancestry of
John Batterson Stetson

Inventor of the Cowboy Hat

John Batterson Stetson

View famous kin of John Batterson Stetson

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Stetson Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Batterson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 May 1830 
  • Birth Location:
  • East Orange, Essex, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 18 Feb 1906 
  • Death Location:
  • Deland, Volusia, Florida 
  • Burial Date:
  • 21 Feb 1906 
  • Burial Location:
  • West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery, Pennsylvania 
  • Notes: 

  • Inventor of the Cowboy hat

• Marriages for John Batterson Stetson

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  • Spouse:
  • Nancy Haines
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 May 1850
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westfield, Union, New Jersey

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  • Spouse:
  • Harriet Harkness
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Feb 1867
  • Marriage Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Elizabeth Schindler
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jan 1884
  • Marriage Location:
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania

• Sources for John Batterson Stetson

  • ¹ Florida Deaths, 1877-1939, Death record for John B. Stetson.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/16/2014).
  • ³ Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915, Marriage record for son John Batterson Stetson and Ruby Florence Carlisle.
  • ⁴ Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Death Certificates, 1803-1915, Burial record for John B. Stetson.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 2011, Vol. 60, pp. 67-70.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 111.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 382.
  • ⁸ Stetson, "Timeline", (accessed 06/16/2014).
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "John Batterson Stetson", (accessed 06/16/2014).