Ancestry of
Ezra Cornell

Co-Founder of Cornell University,
Founder of Western Union

Ezra Cornell

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Elijah Cornell Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Eunice Barnard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Jan 1807 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westchester Landing, Westchester Co., New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Dec 1874 
  • Death Location:
  • Ithaca, Tomkins, New York 
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  • Notes: 

  • Founder of Western Union and co-founder of Cornell University

• Marriages for Ezra Cornell

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Ann Wood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Mar 1831
  • Marriage Location:
  • Dryden, Tompkins, New York

• Sources for Ezra Cornell

  • ¹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1905, Vol. 36, p. 66.
  • ² Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R.I., New York: Press of T.A. Wright (1902), 80, 107-109.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Ezra Cornell", (accessed 08/29/2015).