Ancestry of
Archibald MacLeish

American Poet and Playwright

Andrew MacLeish

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• • Father of Archibald MacLeish — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Archibald MacLeish 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes Lindsay   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jun 1838 
  • Birth Location:
  • Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jan 1928 
  • Death Location:
  • Glencoe, Cook, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  • Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Hillard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1888 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Archibald MacLeish (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 

  • Co-Founder of Carson Pirie Scott & Co. retail operations

• Additional marriages for Andrew MacLeish

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  • Spouse:
  • Lillias Young
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1858
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pope County, Illinois

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  • Spouse:
  • Marie Louise Little
  • Marriage Date:
  • 9 Mar 1881
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois

• Sources for Andrew MacLeish

  • ¹ 1851 Scotland Census, Lanarkshire, Glasgow St. George, E.D. 19, p. 24.
  • ² Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 09 OCT 1973, p. 28, Obituary for son Bruce MacLeish.
  • ³ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 15 JAN 1928, p. 12, Obituary for Andrew MacLeish.
  • ⁴ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 21 DEC 1947, p. 38, Obituary for spouse Martha Hillard MacLeish.
  • ⁵ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 01 JAN 1954, p. 68, "Carson's History: Thru Its Builder's Eyes".
  • ⁶ Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Marriages Index, 1871-1920, Marriage record for Andrew McLeish and Marie Louise Little.
  • ⁷ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1880, Chicago, E.D. 123, p. 59, Image 59 of 61.
  • ⁸ Federal Census, IL, Cook County, 1860, Chicago Ward 7, p. 88, Image 89 of 457.
  • ⁹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ¹⁰ Illinois, U.S., Marriage Index, 1860-1920, Marriage record for Andrew McLeish and Lilly Young.
  • ¹¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 322.
  • ¹² The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 13, New York: James T. White and Company (1906), 288-289.
  • ¹³ U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, 02 JUL 1921, Application for spouse Martha H MacLeish.
  • ¹⁴ Marquis, Albert Nelson, ed., The Book of Chicagoans: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men of the City of Chicago, Chicago: A.N. Marquis and Company (1911), 449.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 178.
  • ¹⁶ Wikipedia, "Andrew MacLeish", (accessed 11/28/2018).