Ancestry of
Bob Taft

67th Governor of Ohio

Louisa Maria Torrey

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Bob Taft — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 17 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Davenport Torrey 
  • Mother:
  • Susan Holman Waters   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 Sep 1827 
  • Birth Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Dec 1907 
  • Death Location:
  • Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Alphonso Taft
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Dec 1853 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  William Howard Taft (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 

  • Louisa Torrey's given name is also seen as Louise.

• Sources for Louisa Maria Torrey

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2013, Vol. 14.4, p. 52.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/24/2012).
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, p. 209.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #77831, Membership application for Lloyd Bower Taft.
  • ⁵ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National No. 77831, Membership application for Lloyd B Taft.
  • ⁶ Child, Christopher C., "Coolidge Connections", Vita Brevis, https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2023/02/coolidge-connections/, (accessed 06/23/2023).
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 89.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 168, 563.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 318.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 429, 433, 444, 459, 462-463, 481, 486, 489-490, 583.
  • ¹¹ Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 1175-1177.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Louise Taft", (accessed 09/24/2012).