Ancestry of
William Rufus Day
36th U.S. Secretary of State
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- 1st Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 1
- Father:
- Luther Day
- Mother:
- Emily Swift Spalding
- Birth Date:
- 17 Apr 1849
- Birth Location:
- Ravenna, Portage, Ohio
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 9 Jul 1923
- Death Location:
- Mackinac Island, Mackinac, Michigan
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- West Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Stark, Ohio
- Notes:
36th United States Secretary of State
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
William Rufus Day
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Marriages for William Rufus Day
- Spouse:
- Mary Elizabeth Schaefer
- Marriage Date:
- ABT 1875
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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).