Ancestry of
Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

Samuel Brown Folger

View famous kin of Samuel Brown Folger

• • Grandfather of Henry Clay Folger — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • George Folger Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Slocum   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 or 25 NOV 1795 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jan 1864 
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • New North Cemetery, Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy F. Hiller
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Apr 1816 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Henry Clay Folger (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  James Athearn "J. A." Folger

• Sources for Samuel Brown Folger

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Nantucket County, 1850, Nantucket, Image 13 of 202.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/05/2014).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket Births, Vol. 1, p. 503.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 482, Record for son Henry Clay Folger.
  • ⁵ Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1925), Nantucket Marriages, Vol. 3, p. 468.
  • ⁶ Grover, Harriet M., Highlights of the Folger Family with a Brief Genealogy, Berkeley, California: Unknown (1939), 52.
  • ⁷ Nantucket Historical Association, Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association, Waltham, Massachusetts: Waltham Publishing Company (1907), 136.
  • ⁸ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, (accessed 10/28/2018).
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 18.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 447.
  • ¹¹ Slocum, Charles Elihu, A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America, Syracuse, New York: Published by the Author (1882), 116.
  • ¹² Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 628.
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "J. A. Folger", (accessed 09/09/2011).