Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Calvin Ryder

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • David Rider 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet Thacher   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Mar 1814 
  • Birth Location:
  • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Nov 1881 
  • Death Location:
  • West Orange, Essex, New Jersey 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Rebecca N. Elliott
  • Marriage Date:
  • 14 Oct 1838 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brooklyn, Kings, New York 
  • Child:

  Delia Stout Ryder (Ahnentafel No:9 )

• Sources for Calvin Ryder

  • ¹ Boston Traveler (Boston, Massachusetts), 19 OCT 1838, p. 3, Marriage announcement for Calvin Ryder and Rebecca N Elliott.
  • ² Federal Census, NJ, Essex County, 1880, West Orange, E.D. 113, p. 24, Image 24 of 68.
  • ³ Federal Census, NJ, Essex County, 1870, West Orange, p. 50, Image 50 of 54.
  • ⁴ Federal Census, NY, Kings County, 1860, Brooklyn Ward 4 Dist 2, p. 80, Image 80 of 174 .
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Yarmouth, Vol. 1, p. 366, Birth record for Calvin Rider.
  • ⁶ New Jersey, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971, Death record for Calvin Ryder.
  • ⁷ Rider, Fremont, Preliminary Materials for a Genealogy of the Rider (Ryder) Families in the United States, Middletown, Connecticut: The Godfrey Memorial Library (1959), Vol. 1, Image 261 of 554.

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