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     Mary Stebbins married Capt. Ebenezer Parsons, son of Joseph Parsons Jr. and Elizabeth Strong.

     Benjamin Parsons was the son of Capt. Ebenezer Parsons and Mary Stebbins. Benjamin Parsons married Rebecca Sheldon, daughter of Benjamin Sheldon and Mary Strong.

     Rebecca Sheldon was the daughter of Benjamin Sheldon and Mary Strong. Rebecca Sheldon married Benjamin Parsons, son of Capt. Ebenezer Parsons and Mary Stebbins.

     Justin Parsons was the son of Benjamin Parsons and Rebecca Sheldon. Justin Parsons married Electa Frary, daughter of Nathan Frary and Elizabeth Barnard.

     Lucretia Parsons was the daughter of Justin Parsons and Electa Frary. Lucretia Parsons married Daniel Oliver Morton.

     Daniel Oliver Morton married Lucretia Parsons, daughter of Justin Parsons and Electa Frary.

     22nd vice president of the United States (1889-93), born in Shoreham, Vermont. He engaged in business in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Boston before settling in New York City in 1854. In 1863 he founded the investment banking house of Levi P. Morton & Company, later named Morton, Bliss & Company. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1879-81) and was the U.S. minister to France (1881-85). In 1888 he was elected vice president, running on the Republican ticket with Benjamin Harrison. From 1895 to 1897 Morton was governor of New York. In 1899 he organized the Morton Trust Company, which later merged with the Guaranty Trust Company.

"Morton, Levi Parsons," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Levi Parsons Morton was born in 1824 at Shoreham, VT. He was the son of Daniel Oliver Morton and Lucretia Parsons. Levi Parsons Morton died in 1920.

     Stephen Hopkins was born circa 1634. He was the son of John Hopkins and Jane (?) Stephen Hopkins married Dorcas Bronson, daughter of John Bronson, before 1657. Stephen Hopkins died in October 1689.

     Dorcas Bronson was the daughter of John Bronson. Dorcas Bronson married Stephen Hopkins, son of John Hopkins and Jane (?), before 1657. Dorcas Bronson died on 13 May 1697.

     Timothy Hopkins was the son of Stephen Hopkins and Hannah Strong. Goodwin in Genealogical Notes shows that Timothy is the son of John Hopkins and Hannah. Timothy Hopkins married Mary Judd.

     Mary Judd married Timothy Hopkins, son of Stephen Hopkins and Hannah Strong.

     Mark Hopkins was the son of Timothy Hopkins and Mary Judd. Mark Hopkins married Electa Sargeant.

     Electa Sargeant married Mark Hopkins, son of Timothy Hopkins and Mary Judd.

     Sewall Hopkins was the son of Mark Hopkins and Electa Sargeant. Sewall Hopkins married Prudence Hart, daughter of Thomas Hart Jr. and Mary Hungerford.

     Thomas Hart was the son of Hawkins Hart and Sarah Royce. Thomas Hart married Hannah Coe.

     Hannah Coe married Thomas Hart, son of Hawkins Hart and Sarah Royce.

     Thomas Hart Jr. was the son of Thomas Hart and Hannah Coe. Thomas Hart Jr. married Mary Hungerford.

     Mary Hungerford married Thomas Hart Jr., son of Thomas Hart and Hannah Coe.

     Prudence Hart was the daughter of Thomas Hart Jr. and Mary Hungerford. Prudence Hart married Sewall Hopkins, son of Mark Hopkins and Electa Sargeant.

     Anne Elizabeth Hopkins was the daughter of Sewall Hopkins and Prudence Hart. Anne Elizabeth Hopkins married Asahel Clark Kendrick.

     Asahel Clark Kendrick married Anne Elizabeth Hopkins, daughter of Sewall Hopkins and Prudence Hart.

     Anne Elizabeth Kendrick was the daughter of Asahel Clark Kendrick and Anne Elizabeth Hopkins. Anne Elizabeth Kendrick married Wayland Richardson Benedict.

     Wayland Richardson Benedict married Anne Elizabeth Kendrick, daughter of Asahel Clark Kendrick and Anne Elizabeth Hopkins.

     Stanley Rossiter Benedict was the son of Wayland Richardson Benedict and Anne Elizabeth Kendrick. Stanley Rossiter Benedict married Ruth Fulton.

     American anthropologist, born in New York City, and educated at Vassar College and Columbia University. She joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1923 and served as a professor after 1930. Her most important fieldwork was done on trips that she made to the reservations of various Native American groups between 1922 and 1939. From 1943 to 1946 she was granted an extended leave from Columbia in order to serve with the Bureau of Overseas Intelligence of the Office of War Information. A recognized authority on the ethnology of Native Americans, Benedict also earned a wide and popular reputation through her work as a cultural anthropologist. Her works include Patterns of Culture (1934), Zuñi Mythology (2 vol., 1935), Race: Science and Politics (1940), and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (1946).

"Benedict, Ruth Fulton," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Ruth Fulton married Stanley Rossiter Benedict, son of Wayland Richardson Benedict and Anne Elizabeth Kendrick. Ruth Fulton was born in 1887 at New York City, NY. She died in 1948.

     Elizabeth Fowler was born on 11 October 1728. She was the daughter of Josiah Fowler and Hannah Baldwin. Elizabeth Fowler married Benjamin Matlby. Elizabeth Fowler died on 31 December 1810 at age 82.

     Benjamin Matlby married Elizabeth Fowler, daughter of Josiah Fowler and Hannah Baldwin.

     Sarah Matlby married James Linsley. Sarah Matlby was the daughter of Benjamin Matlby and Elizabeth Fowler.

     James Linsley married Sarah Matlby, daughter of Benjamin Matlby and Elizabeth Fowler.

     James Harvey Linsley was the son of James Linsley and Sarah Matlby. James Harvey Linsley married Sophia Brainerd.

     Sophia Brainerd married James Harvey Linsley, son of James Linsley and Sarah Matlby.

     Sophia Emilia Lyon Linsley was the daughter of James Harvey Linsley and Sophia Brainerd. Sophia Emilia Lyon Linsley married Sylvanus Dryden Phelps, son of Israel Phelps, on 26 August 1847.²

     Sylvanus Dryden Phelps was born on 15 May 1816 at Suffield, Hartford Co., CT.³ He was the son of Israel Phelps.⁴ Sylvanus Dryden Phelps married Sophia Emilia Lyon Linsley, daughter of James Harvey Linsley and Sophia Brainerd, on 26 August 1847.³ Sylvanus Dryden Phelps died on 23 November 1895 at age 79.³

Sylvanus Dryden Phelps, D. D., son of Israel and Mercy (Stevens) Phelps, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, may 15, 1816. He attended the Connecticut Literary Institution at Suffield, where he graduated in 1840, and Brown University, where he graduated in 1844, and the Yale Divinity School, where he graduated in 1847. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Madison (now Colgate) University, in 1854. He was ordained minister at the First Baptist Church of New Haven, January 21, 1846, after a year's ministry there. He was pastor of this church from 1844 to 1874, when he went to Providence as pastor of the Jefferson Street Baptist Church, of which he was minister from 1874 to 1876. From May, 1876, to June 1884, he resided in Hartford, Connecticut, and was editor and proprietor of the Christian Secretary, until January, 1888.

From 1884 until his death, which occurred November 23, 1895, from Bright's disease, he lived in New Haven. He attended nearly every session of the National Baptist Anniversaries for fifty-four years, and every anniversary of the Connecticut Baptist Convention from 1844 to the time of his death. In 1859 he visited Europe and other foreign countries, and again in 1872 and in 1881.

Dr. Phelps was trustee for many years of the Connecticut Literary Institution, and was also trustee of Brown University from 1879. He was the author of many books, among them Eloquence of Nature, and other Poems, 1842; Sunlight and Heartlight, or Fidelity, and other Poems, 1856; The Holy Land, with Glimpses of Europe and Egypt, 1862; The Poet's Song, poems for the Heart and the Home, 1866; Sermons preached in the Four Quarters of the Globe, 1886; Special Sermons (preserved pamphlets bound), 1886; Songs for all Seasons, 1891. His best known hymn is, "Saviour, thy dying love Thou gavest me."

He married, August 26, 1847, Sophia Emelia, daughter of the Rev. James Harvey Linsley (Yale, 1817), and granddaughter of colonel William Lyon, who, as one of the Second Company Governor's Foot Guards, marched from New Haven for Cambridge in the Lexington alarm.

Dr. Phelps had five children, of whom three survive, one of whom, Dryden William Phelps, pastor of the First Baptist Church, at Groton, is a member of this society, and was the first chaplain of the General David Humphreys Branch of New Haven.

Dr. Phelps was descended on his mother's side from Joseph Loomis, of Braintree, Massachusetts, and was of the eighth generation of the Phelps family in America, being a lineal descendant of William Phelps, one of the pillars of the First Church at Windsor, Connecticut, and a member of the first Connecticut Legislature.

Dr. Phelps was admitted to this society, October 21, 1890, as a grandson of Judah Phelps, who served as a private soldier from Simsbury, in the 2d Connecticut regiment, about Boston, in the spring of 1775.⁵

     William Lyon Phelps was born in 1865. He was the son of Sylvanus Dryden Phelps and Sophia Emilia Lyon Linsley. William Lyon Phelps died in 1943.

     Daniel Brewer Jr. was born in 1624 at England. He was the son of Daniel Brewer and Joanna (?) Daniel Brewer Jr. died in September 1708.

     Came to Boston in the ship Lion, Sept 16, 1632 and settled in roxbury, MA, where he was made freeman in 1634.

     Catherine Brewer was the daughter of Rev. Daniel Brewer and Catharine Chauncey. Catherine Brewer married William Pynchon.

     William Pynchon married Catherine Brewer, daughter of Rev. Daniel Brewer and Catharine Chauncey.

     William Pynchon Jr. was the son of William Pynchon and Catherine Brewer. William Pynchon Jr. married Catherine Sewall.

     Catherine Sewall married William Pynchon Jr., son of William Pynchon and Catherine Brewer.

     Sarah Pynchon was the daughter of William Pynchon Jr. and Catherine Sewall. Sarah Pynchon married Thomas Fitch Oliver.

     Thomas Fitch Oliver married Sarah Pynchon, daughter of William Pynchon Jr. and Catherine Sewall.

     Mary Lynde Oliver was the daughter of Thomas Fitch Oliver and Sarah Pynchon. Mary Lynde Oliver married Joseph Story.

     American jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was responsible for the idea that the decisions reached by the Court have supremacy over the highest court of any individual state.

Story was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. He began to practice law in Salem in 1801 and served in the Massachusetts state legislature during 1805-7. He became a leader of the Jeffersonian Republican Party and in 1808-9 was a member of the U.S. Congress. Reelected to the Massachusetts legislature in 1810, he was speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1811.

At 32, Story was nominated by President James Madison to be associate justice of the Supreme Court, a position he held until his death. In 1829 he became professor of law at Harvard University and helped to establish the reputation of Harvard Law School. On the bench, Story worked closely with Chief Justice John Marshall. He did much to bring order out of the chaos of admiralty law and equity law. Of his many works the most valuable are Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (3 vol., 1833), The Conflict of Laws (1834), and Equity Jurisprudence (2 vol., 1835-36). In 1900 Story was elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.

"Story, Joseph," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 98 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1997 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Joseph Story was born in 1779 at Marblehead, Essex Co., MA. He married Mary Lynde Oliver, daughter of Thomas Fitch Oliver and Sarah Pynchon. Joseph Story died in 1845.

     John Edward Reagan was born on 13 July 1883 at Fulton, Whiteside Co., IL.¹ He married Nellie Clyde Wilson on 8 November 1904 at St. Emanuel's Catholic Church, Fulton, Whiteside Co., IL.¹ John Edward Reagan died on 18 May 1941 at Hollywood, Los Angeles Co., CA, at age 57.¹

John E. and Nellie C. were enumerated in the 1910 Tampico, Whiteside Co., IL, federal census, page 7B, living on Main Street. He was a clelrk in a general store, age 26, she was 26. The only child in the household was Neil J. 1.


John E. and Nellie were enumerated in the 1920 Tampico, Whiteside Co., IL, federal census, page 2B. He was 36, she was 36. Children in the household were John N. 11, and Ronald W. 9.


John E. and Nellie were enumerated in the 1930 Dixon, Lee Co., IL, federal census. He was a salesman in a shoe co., age 46; she was a salesclerk in a ready-to-wear store. Children in the household were Neil 20, and Ronald 18.

     Nellie Clyde Wilson was born on 24 July 1883 at Fulton, Whiteside Co., IL.¹ She married John Edward Reagan on 8 November 1904 at St. Emanuel's Catholic Church, Fulton, Whiteside Co., IL.¹ Nellie Clyde Wilson died on 25 July 1962 at Santa Monica, CA, at age 79.¹

     Susanna Strong was the daughter of Thomas Strong and Susanna Thompson. Susanna Strong married William Shelton.