Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

Mahlon Pitney

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• • Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Henry Cooper Pitney 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Louisa Halsted   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Feb 1858 
  • Birth Location:
  • Morristown, Morris, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Dec 1924 
  • Death Location:
  • Washington, D.C. 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Evergreen Cemetery, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Florence Theodora Shelton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Nov 1891 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Beatrice Louise Pitney (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

• Sources for Mahlon Pitney

  • ¹ Federal Census, DC, 1920, Washington D.C., E.D. 64, Sheet 14A, Image 26 of 34.
  • ² Federal Census, NJ, Morris County, 1910, Morristown Ward 4, E.D. 32, Sheet 3B, Image 6 of 21.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/05/2014).
  • ⁴ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 15, New York: James T. White and Company (1916), 61-62.
  • ⁵ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 10 JUN 1921, Passport application for daughter Beatrice L. Pitney.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Mahlon Pitney", (accessed 09/05/2014).

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