Ancestry of
Lewis Henry Morgan

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Lewis Henry Morgan

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Jedediah Morgan 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet Steele   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Nov 1818 
  • Birth Location:
  • Aurora, Cayuga, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Dec 1881 
  • Death Location:
  • Rochester, Monroe, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe, New York 
  • Notes: 

  • American Anthropologist and Social Theorist

    aka “Father of American Anthropology”

• Marriages for Lewis Henry Morgan

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Elizabeth Steele
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Aug 1851

• Sources for Lewis Henry Morgan

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/14/2015).
  • ² Morgan, Nathaniel H., Morgan Genealogy: A History of James Morgan, of New London, Conn., and His Descendants; From 1607 to 1869, Hartford: Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard (1869), 119, 177-179.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 540.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 50.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Lewis H. Morgan", (accessed 05/14/2015).