Ancestry of
Walt Whitman

American Poet

Nehemiah Whitman

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• • Great-grandfather of Walt Whitman — 4th Generation
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  • Father:
  • Joseph Whitman 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Ketcham   
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  • ABT 1718 
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  • Phoebe "Sarah" White
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  Jesse Whitman (Ahnentafel No:4 )

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  • It is not known which of the six sons of Joseph Whitman is the father of Nehemiah Whitman. All that is known is that Nehemiah was a grandson of Joseph Whitman and Sarah Ketcham.

• Sources for Nehemiah Whitman

  • ¹ LeMaster, J. R. and Donald D. Kummings, ed., The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman, New York: Published by Routledge (1998), 807.
  • ² Perry, Bliss, Walt Whitman, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1906), 3-4.