Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
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Husband: Stephen Longfellow, IV
pedigree location: not in direct lineage
born: 23 Mar 1776 place: Gorham, Cumberland Co. ME
marr: 01 Jan 1804 place: Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA.
died: 23 Aug 1849 place: Portland, Cumberland Co. ME
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Father: Stephen Longfellow, III - Family Group
Mother: Patience Young
notes: rank of Colonel (acc. to Rene Singleton)
graduated from Harvard College in 1798 and was admitted to the Cumberland Bar in 1801.
He was one of the most successful and respected lawyers of his generation
in Portland Like his father-in-law, Peleg Wadsworth, Stephen Longfellow was
elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving one term, (1823-25) He
was also a delegate to the Hartford Convention of 1814-15, called to consider
whether New England should withdraw from the Union in opposition to the War
of 1812.
sources: William V. Hopkins, Jr., Title: Field-Stuntz Tree RootsWeb jud
"Who Were the Longfellows?" http://www.mainehistory.org/house_longfellows.shtml
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Wife: Zilpah Wadsworth
born: 6 Jan 1778 place: Duxbury, Plymouth Co. MA
died: 12 Mar 1851 place: Portland, Cumberland Co. ME
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Father: Peleg (Brig. Gen.) Wadsworth, Jr - Family Group
Mother: Elizabeth Bartlett
notes: christened on 26 Apr 1779 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. (sometimes listed as Zilpha)
sources: William V. Hopkins, Jr.
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CHILDREN
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#1 Stephen Longfellow, V
born: 1805 place: Portland, Cumberland Co., ME
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died: 1850 place:
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spouse: Marianne Preble
notes: attended Bowdoin College and studied law. He was admitted to the bar
in 1829, practicing in partnership with his father.
sources: "Who Were the Longfellows?" http://www.mainehistory.org/house_longfellows.shtml
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#2 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
born: 27 Feb 1807 place: Portland, Cumberland Co., ME
marr: 14 Sep 1831 place:
marr2: 13 Jul 1843 place: Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA
died: 24 Mar 1882 place:
buried: place: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.
spouse: Marry Storer Potter
spouse2: Frances Elizabeth Appleton (born on 6 Oct 1817 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA.)
notes: American poet, who was instrumental in reestablishing a public audience
for poetry in the United States. He was born in Portland, Maine (then in
Massachusetts). In late 1835, during a trip to Europe, Longfellow's wife,
Mary Storer Potter, died in the Netherlands. In 1843 he married Fanny
Appleton. Longfellow was devastated in 1861 when his second wife was
burned to death in a household accident. He commemorated her shortly
before his own death with the sonnet "The Cross of Snow" (1879).
Longfellow received wide public recognition with his initial volume of
verse, Voices of the Night (1839). His subsequent poetic works include
Ballads (1841), which includes the poems "The Wreck of the Hesperus,""The
Village Blacksmith," "The Skeleton in Armor," and "Excelsior"; and three
notable long narrative poems on American themes: Evangeline (1847), The
Song of Hiawatha (1855), and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858).
Longfellow's other works include Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863),
containing the well-known poem "Paul Revere's Ride." In 1884 a bust of
Longfellow was placed in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in
London; he was the first American to be thus honored.
LL.D, D.C.L.
Was a descendant of John and Priscilla Alden.
He graduated with Hawthorne at Bowdoin college in 1825.
sources: William V. Hopkins, Jr., Title: Field-Stuntz Tree RootsWeb jud
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#3 Elizabeth Longfellow
born: 1808 place:
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died: 1829 place:
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spouse:
sources: "Who Were the Longfellows?" http://www.mainehistory.org/house_longfellows.shtml
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#4 Anne Longfellow
born: 1810 place:
marr: 1832 place:
died: 1901 place:
buried: place:
spouse: George Washington Pierce (died 1835)
sources: "Who Were the Longfellows?" http://www.mainehistory.org/house_longfellows.shtml
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#5 Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow
born: 1814 place:
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died: 1901 place:
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notes: a civil engineer, he was employed on extensive coastal surveys by
the U.S. government and lived in Portland most of his life. Alexander
was the father of architect Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow Jr., who
designed the Maine Historical Society Library building, and of Mary King
Longfellow, an accomplished Portland artist.
sources: "Who Were the Longfellows?" http://www.mainehistory.org/house_longfellows.shtml
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#6 Mary Longfellow
born: 1816 place:
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died: 1902 place:
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spouse: James Greenleaf
sources: William V. Hopkins, Jr., Rev William Thompson Tree RootsWeb :1720481
"Who Were the Longfellows?" http://www.mainehistory.org/house_longfellows.shtml
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#7 Ellen Longfellow
born: 1818 place:
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died: 1834 place:
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sources: "Who Were the Longfellows?" http://www.mainehistory.org/house_longfellows.shtml
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#8 Samuel Longfellow
born: 1819 place:
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died: 1892 place:
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notes: a Unitarian minister (the family's denomination)
sources: "Who Were the Longfellows?" http://www.mainehistory.org/house_longfellows.shtml
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