Ancestry of
Gerald Ford

38th U.S. President

John Varnum Ayer

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Gerald Ford — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 28 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Ayer 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Chase   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Jan 1812 
  • Birth Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1877 
  • Death Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elida Vanderburgh Manney
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  • Child:

  George Manney Ayer (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Sources for John Varnum Ayer

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Births, Vol. 1, p. 18, Birth record for John Chase.
  • ² New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for son George M Ayer.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1977, Vol. 53, pp. 56-57.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 717.
  • ⁵ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2003, Vol. 36, p. 392.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 609.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 157, 443, 453, 447, 494, 510, 532, 538.