Ancestry of
Henry Wells

Co-Founder of American Express and Wells Fargo and Co.

Shipley Wells

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• • Father of Henry Wells — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Ashbel Wells 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Kellogg   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Nov 1777 
  • Birth Location:
  • West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
  • 18 Jan 1778 
  • Christening Location:
  • West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 21 Apr 1832 
  • Death Location:
  • Port Byron, Cayuga, New York 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Oak Glen Cemetery, Aurora, Cayuga, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Dolly Randall
  • Marriage Date:
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  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Ashbel Shipley Wells

  Henry Wells (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for Shipley Wells

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Baptism record for Shiply Welles.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 10/25/2020).
  • ³ Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, Death record for spouse Dolly Randall Wells.
  • ⁴ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Births W to 1871, p. 6194, Birth record for son Shipley Ashbel Wells.
  • ⁵ Hall, Henry, ed., America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography, Vol. 2, New York: The New York Tribune (1896), 846.
  • ⁶ Hayden, Chauncey H., et. al, The History of Jericho, Vermont, Jericho, Vermont: Free Press Printing Company, Printers (1916), 227.
  • ⁷ Hopkins, Timothy, The Kelloggs in the Old World and the New, Vol. 1, San Francisco, California: Sunset Press and Photo Engraving Co. (1903), 124.
  • ⁸ Welles, Albert, History of the Welles Family in England and Normandy: With the Derivation From Their Progenitors of . . ., New York: Albert Welles (1876), 184.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Henry Wells", (accessed 12/07/2015).