Ancestry of
Luther N. Day

(1879–1965)

William Rufus Day

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• • Father of Luther N. Day — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Luther Day 
  • Mother:
  • Emily Swift Spalding   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Apr 1849 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ravenna, Portage, Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Jul 1923 
  • Death Location:
  • Mackinac Island, Mackinac, Michigan 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Stark, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Elizabeth Schaefer
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1875 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Luther N. Day (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • 36th United States Secretary of State

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice

• Sources for William Rufus Day

  • ¹ Federal Census, OH, Stark County, 1900, Canton Ward 1, E.D. 92, Sheet 3B, Image 6 of 31.
  • ² Federal Census, OH, Stark County, 1880, Canton, E.D. 138, p. 5, Image 5 of 37.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/25/2016).
  • ⁴ History of Portage County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County, Its Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools . . ., Chicago: Warner, Beers and Co. (1885), 820.
  • ⁵ Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016, Marriage record for son Luther Day and Ida McKinley Barber.
  • ⁶ The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 28 SEP 1965, p. 21, "Book Sale Features William Day Collection".
  • ⁷ The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 08 FEB 1965, pp. 1, 4, Obituary for son Luther Day.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 74.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "William R. Day", (accessed 07/25/2016).