Ancestry of
Christopher Reeve

Movie Actor

Samuel Preston Carpenter

View famous kin of Samuel Preston Carpenter

• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Christopher Reeve — 6th Generation
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  • 34 
  • Father:
  • William Carpenter 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Redman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jan 1812 
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Aug 1897 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah H. Acton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Nov 1837 
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  • Child:

  Sarah Wyatt Carpenter (Ahnentafel No:17 )

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Sheppard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 Dec 1854

• Sources for Samuel Preston Carpenter

  • ¹ Carpenter, Edward and Gen. Louis Henry Carpenter, Samuel Carpenter and His Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. (1912), 61, 78-79.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#77 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: An Assortment of Famous Actors", (accessed 10/02/2014).

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