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     Catherine Charlotte de Gramont was born in 1639.¹ She married Prince Louis Grimaldi, son of Prince Hercule Grimaldi and Aurelia Spinola, in 1660.¹ Catherine Charlotte de Gramont died in 1670.¹

     Samuel Hayden Ellsworth was born on 7 April 1834 at East Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Abner Moseley Ellsworth and Lucy W. Stoughton.¹ Samuel Hayden Ellsworth died on 31 July 1856 at age 22; unmarried.¹

     Marie de Lorraine d'Armagnac was born in 1674.¹ She married Prince Antoine Grimaldi, son of Prince Louis Grimaldi and Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, in 1688.¹ Marie de Lorraine d'Armagnac died in 1724.¹

     Leonard Walter Jerome was born on 3 November 1817 at Pompey, Onondaga Co., NY.¹ He was the son of Isaac Jerome and Aurora Murray.¹ Leonard Walter Jerome married Clarissa Hall on 5 April 1849 at Palmyra, Wayne Co, NY.¹ Leonard Walter Jerome died on 3 March 1891 at Brighton, England, at age 73.¹

Leonard Jerome was the son of Aurora Murray and Isaac Jerome. Isaac was a distant descendant of Timothy Jerome, a French Huguenot immigrant who arrived in the New York Colony in 1717. Jerome was born on a farm in upstate Pompey, New York. He studied law, graduated from Union College, and set up a practice in Rochester, New York. He later moved to New York City, where he became a stock speculator and promoter.
Jerome was a flamboyant and successful stock speculator. He made and lost several fortunes, and was known as "The King of Wall Street". He held interests in several railroad companies. He was a patron of the arts, and was the founder of Manhattan's Academy of Music.
He was never majority shareholder in the New York Times newspaper, though this is sometimes erroneously claimed.
During the New York Draft Riots, he defended the New York Times office building with a Gatling Gun[1]
The Jerome mansion, on the corner of Madison Avenue and 26th Street, had a full theatre and lovely view of Madison Square Park. It was later sold and housed a series of private clubs. The mansion was torn down in 1967.
Jerome was an avid sportsman. He enjoyed yachting with his friend, William K. Vanderbilt. They shared a special passion for thoroughbred horse racing and helped found the American Jockey Club.
In 1866, Jerome bought the estate and mansion of James Bathgate near Old Fordham Village in what was then rural Westchester County, but is now The Bronx. Jerome and financier August Belmont, Sr. built Jerome Park Racetrack on the Bathgate land; the first Belmont Stakes was held there in 1867. The racetrack was acquired and demolished by the city in 1894, to make way for Jerome Park Reservoir.
The Bathgate mansion served as a summer home for the Jerome family. In the early 1900's, the mansion was razed and replaced by the Kingsbridge Armory
Jerome became a resident of Brooklyn. He, Vanderbilt, and other investors founded the Coney Island Jockey Club which in 1884 built the Sheepshead Bay Race Track.
In Palmyra, New York, on 5 April 1849, he married Clara Hall (1825-1895) with whom he had four daughters. One daughter, Camille, died at age eight. The other three (Jennie, Clara, and Leonie) became known, in some quarters, as 'the Good, the Witty and the Beautiful'.
Leonard Jerome was rumored to be the father of the American opera singer Minnie Hauk.[2] He also had an affair in the 1860s with Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, then separated from her husband. Mrs. Ronalds later lived in London, where she remained a friend of Jerome's daughter Jennie.[3]
Leonard Jerome's wealth afforded his daughters the opportunity to spend much time in Europe where they associated with the aristocratic elite of the day. All three married British husbands.
Jennie Jerome married Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1895), younger son of the Duke of Marlborough, and was mother to Winston Churchill and another son.
Clarita Jerome, known as Clara, married Moreton Frewen (1853-1924), fifth son of Thomas Frewen MP, a charming spendthrift who ran up huge debts trying to operate a ranch in Wyoming, and through gambling, sports, and women. They had two daughters.
Leonie Jerome married Sir John Leslie (1857-1944), an Irish Baronet, whose family estates covered 70,000 acres. They had four sons.
Leonard Jerome died at the age of 73 in Brighton, England. He is buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

     Princess Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi was born in 1697.¹ She was the daughter of Prince Antoine Grimaldi and Marie de Lorraine d'Armagnac.¹ Princess Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi married Duke Jacques Goyon de Matignon in 1715.¹ Princess Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi died in 1731.¹

     John Ellsworth was born on 7 January 1842 at East Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Abner Moseley Ellsworth and Lucy W. Stoughton.¹

     Catherine Brignole-Sale was born in 1737.¹ She married Prince Honore Grimaldi, son of Duke Jacques Goyon de Matignon and Princess Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi, in 1757.¹ Catherine Brignole-Sale and Prince Honore Grimaldi were separated in 1770.¹ Catherine Brignole-Sale died in 1818.¹

     Francis Edward McKinney Jr. was born on 3 November 1938 at Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN.^1,2 He was the son of Francis Edward McKinney Sr. and Margaret Kathleen Warner. Francis Edward McKinney Jr. was also known as Frank Edward McKinney Jr. He died on 11 September 1992 at Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN, at age 53.^3,4 He was buried at Calvary Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN.²

Frank was a backstroke swimmer from the United States. He was later a bank executive.

The son of Frank E. McKinney, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a former owner of the NL's Pittsburgh Pirates, McKinney was the youngest member of a USA team that set a world record in the 4x100m medley relay at the 1955 Pan American Games. The sixteen-year-old high school student also won a gold medal in the 100m backstroke.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he did the most to introduce modern backstroke techniques. Following Yoshi Oyakawa as premier U.S. backstroker, McKinney was the pioneer of the modern bent-arm backstrokers, even as Oyakawa had been the last of the straight-arm school. McKinney was the leader of a remarkable group of teenagers who won the U.S. Nationals for the Indianapolis Athletic Club alongside Mike Troy, Bill Barton, Bill Cass and Allan Sommers. Later they all swam under another famous coach, Doc Counsilman.

McKinney captured a bronze medal in the 200m backstroke at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, and then entered Indiana University.

In the 1960 Summer Olympics, he won the Silver in the 100 Metre backstroke and was part of the Gold medal 4 x 100 Medley relay team.

McKinney retired from competition after graduating from Indiana in 1961. McKinney spent two years stationed at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., as a first lieutenant with U.S. Army intelligence.

After his military stint was done, he worked for the First National Bank of Chicago for several years. Later he joined American Fletcher National Bank, where he eventually succeeded his father as chairman.

From 1978 to 1982 he served as special assistant for Senator Richard G. Lugar and Senator Dan Quayle.

He was the president of Bank One of Indiana (previously American Fletcher National Bank), headquartered in Indianapolis when he died, aged 53, in a mid-air collision between two aircraft in 1992. McKinney was traveling to Columbus, Ohio with 3 other civic leaders, who were also killed along with the pilots of both aircraft.

Frank was an avid collector of vintage cars including a 1957 Chevy pickup and a 1941 Cadillac that had belonged to his father, and several other collectable Cadillacs.

Survivors: wife Marianne Williams McKinney; sons Frank E. III and Robert W. McKinney; daughters Martie, Marlen, Madeline, and Heather C. McKinney; stepson James Ullyot; stepdaughter Kathryn Ullyot; sisters Claire M. Clark and Kathleen M. Stasey.

     Duchesse Louise d'Aumont was born in 1759.¹ She married Prince Honore Grimaldi, son of Prince Honore Grimaldi and Catherine Brignole-Sale, in 1777.¹ Duchesse Louise d'Aumont and Prince Honore Grimaldi were divorced in 1793. Duchesse Louise d'Aumont died in 1826.¹

     Moses Coe was born on 18 August 1750 at Morristown, NJ.¹ He was the son of Benjamin Coe and Rachel Prudden.² Moses Coe married Sarah Howell on 26 March 1778 at Washington Co., PA.¹ Moses Coe died on 27 March 1813 at Washington Co., PA, at age 62.¹

     Caroline Gibert was born in 1793.¹ She married Prince Florestan Grimaldi, son of Prince Honore Grimaldi and Duchesse Louise d'Aumont, in 1816.¹ Caroline Gibert died in 1879.¹

     Mary A. (?) was born in 1817. She married Selden W. Moore, son of Selden Moore and Philura Holcombe.

     Antoinette (?) was born in 1828.¹ She married Prince Charles Grimaldi, son of Prince Florestan Grimaldi and Caroline Gibert, in 1846.¹ Antoinette (?) died in 1864.¹

     Agostino Fregoso was the son of Lodovico Fregoso and Ginevra Gattilusio.¹ Agostino Fregoso died in 1487.¹

     Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton was born in 1850.¹ She married Prince Albert Grimaldi, son of Prince Charles Grimaldi and Antoinette (?), in 1869.¹ Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton and Prince Albert Grimaldi were divorced in 1880.¹ Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton died in 1922.¹

     John Wilkinson was born in 1711 at Wrightstown, Bucks Co., PA. He was the son of John Wilkinson. John Wilkinson married Mary Lacey on 21 March 1740. John Wilkinson married Hannah Hughes in 1770. John Wilkinson died on 31 May 1782.

He had five children by his first wife and four by his second.

Samuel T. Wilkinson, a descendant of John, resident of Wrightstown, says, "My grandfather though a Quaker, was prominent Whig and Justice of the Peace, and took an active part in the revolutionary war, and the minutes of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting show that he was dealt with a number of times for taking too active a part in the war."

It will be remembered the Quakers denied all human authority, and regarded the power of the magistrate as delegated tyranny. Their members therefore were not to participate in building up, or sustaining any government. They preached purity of life, charity in its broadest sense, and denied the right of any man to control the opinions of others. To hold an office was a grave offence sic not to be passed by with impunity. "Hireling ministers," and "persecuting magistrates" were denounced particularly and personally. When Mary Fisher and Ann Austin arrived in Boston 1656, they were cast into prison for inveighing against magistrates and ministers, and the year following the legislature of that colony passed stringent laws punishing all who embraced their doctrines with fines, imprisonments, stripes, banishment and death. The federal commissioners recommended the enactment of this law by a small majority of one only. Soon the prisons were filled, and the old Elm tree on Boston common bore strange fruit, the bodies of suspended Quakers! The bloody law was not abolished till 1661. They had good reasons for denouncing magistrates.

     Ghislaine Dommanget was born in 1900.¹ She married Prince Louis Grimaldi, son of Prince Albert Grimaldi and Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton, in 1946.¹ Ghislaine Dommanget died in 1991.¹

     Marcantonio Landi married Costanza Fregoso, daughter of Agostino Fregoso and Gentile di Montefeltro.¹

     Princess Charlotte Louvet was born in 1898.¹ She was the daughter of Prince Louis Grimaldi and Marie Juliette Louvet.¹ As of 1919, Princess Charlotte Louvet was legitimated by ordinance of Prince Albert and given the name Duchesse de Valentinois Charlotte Grimaldi. She married Count Pierre de Polignac in 1920.¹ Princess Charlotte Louvet died in 1977.¹

Charlotte was Louis' illegitimate daughter born while he was serving in the French Army in Algeria.

     Count Pierre de Polignac was born in 1895.¹ As of 1920, Count Pierre de Polignac was given the name Prince Grimaldi.¹ He married Princess Charlotte Louvet, daughter of Prince Louis Grimaldi and Marie Juliette Louvet, in 1920.¹ Count Pierre de Polignac died in 1964.¹

     Grace Patricia Kelly was born in 1929.¹ She married Prince Ranier Grimaldi, son of Count Pierre de Polignac and Princess Charlotte Louvet, on 18 April 1956 at Monaco.¹ Grace Patricia Kelly died in 1982.¹

     Giles Hawkins Tomlinson was born on 22 September 1809 at Washington, Litchfield Co., CT.¹ He married Eunice Ayers Ensign, daughter of Oren Ensign and Nancy Pepoon, on 29 June 1842.¹ Giles Hawkins Tomlinson married Electa French Hemenway on 29 April 1856.¹ Giles Hawkins Tomlinson died on 23 July 1906 at Williams Center, OH, at age 96.¹

     Charlene Whittstock was born on 25 January 1978 at Bulawayo, Rhodesia. She married Prince Albert Grimaldi, son of Prince Ranier Grimaldi and Grace Patricia Kelly, on 1 July 2011.

     Frederick Ellsworth was born on 8 November 1798 at East Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Abner Mosely Ellsworth and Elsie Thompson.¹

     Nellie Alchin was born circa 1858 at IL.¹ She was the daughter of Robert Burns Alchin and Catherine Anginette Holcombe.¹

     Hugh Thompson Ellsworth was born on 18 March 1844 at East Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Abner Moseley Ellsworth and Lucy W. Stoughton.¹

     Edith Alchin was born circa 1863 at IL.¹ She was the daughter of Robert Burns Alchin and Catherine Anginette Holcombe.¹

     Lemuel Stoughton Ellsworth was born on 9 January 1840 at East Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.¹ He was the son of Abner Moseley Ellsworth and Lucy W. Stoughton.¹

     Cornelia Holcombe was born circa 1844 at MA.¹ She was the daughter of Chandler Holcombe and Juliett Moore.¹ Cornelia Holcombe married Alexander Turner on 27 October 1869.

Cornelia, enumerated as "Delorna" was enumerated in the 1880 Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., IA, federal census. She was a dressmaker, age 35. Also in the household was son Monroe 9, mother Juliette Holcomb 60, and 3 Alchin children, Nellie 22, Robert 18, and Edith 16.

     John Brigham was born on 9 March 1644/45 at Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA.¹ He was the son of Thomas Brigham and Mercy (?)¹ John Brigham married Sarah Davis by 1667.¹ John Brigham died on 16 September 1728 at Sudbury, Middlesex Co., MA, at age 83.¹

     Ellen T. (?) was born in November 1832. She married Stebbins Holcombe, son of Hermaz Holcombe II and Emily Latham. Ellen T. (?) died on 8 November 1910 at Westfield, Hampden Co., MA.

From the Courant 9 November 1910:

Mrs. Ellen T. Holcomb, widow of Stebbins B. Holcomb of No. 228 Zion street, this city, died in Westfield, Mass. at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning, aged 78 years.

The funeral survices will be held at the Elm Grove Chapel Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock.

     Edson E. Moore was born in November 1844 at OH.^1,2 He was the son of Selden W. Moore and Mary A. (?)¹ Edson E. Moore married Isabell E. (?) circa 1870.¹

Edson was enumerated in the 1910 Coffins Grove, Delaware Co., IA, federal census. He was a farmer, age 66. The only child in the household was Maude 29.

     Elizabeth (?) was born in September 1858 at CT.¹ She married Edward B. Holcombe, son of Stebbins Holcombe and Ellen T. (?).¹

     Lodovico Fregoso married Ginevra Gattilusio, daughter of Lord Palamede Gattilusio.¹ Lodovico Fregoso died in 1490.¹

     Annie L. Holcombe was born in August 1881 at MA.¹ She was the daughter of Edward B. Holcombe and Elizabeth (?)¹

     Harold A. Hayes was born circa 1906 at CT.¹ He was the son of George Condit Hayes and Anna May (?)¹

     Carrie (?) married Merton Holcombe, son of Stebbins Holcombe and Ellen T. (?).

     Georgianna (?) was also known as Gerogia Ann (?)¹ She was born circa 1846 at CT.¹ She married Lorain L. Phelps.¹

     Selden Moore was born in 1794 at Southwick, Hampden Co., MA. He was the son of Shadrack Moore and Lovice Nott. Selden Moore married Philura Holcombe, daughter of Joshua P. Holcombe and Sarah Smith.

     Maria Case was born on 22 May 1823. She was the daughter of Philetus Case and Lucinda Reed.¹ Maria Case married Clement Holcombe, son of Harlow Holcombe and Anna Clements, in 1866. Maria Case died on 23 December 1911 at Granville, Hampden Co., MA, at age 88.

From the Courant 4 January 1912:

Mrs. Maria C. Holcomb died at her home in Granville, Mass., December 23, of dropsy and heart trouble. She was born in North Canton (now called West Simsbury), May 22, 1823, the daughter of Philetus and Lucinda Reed Case. the home of thelate Alonzon Latimer was the Case family home, where they brought up their family of nine sons and daughters. Jarvis P. Case died in Arkport, N.Y., Seymour N., a lawyer, died in Hartford; Morgan Case died in Avon; none of them living to a great age. One daughter died young. The other five lived long lives. Two were over 90, one 83, one 85, and Mrs. Holcomb, thelast one to pass away, was 88 years and 7 months when she died.

In the spring of 1866 she married Clement Holcomb of Granville, a widower with two children, Mary and Arthur. These have both died. Mr. Holcomb died about Easter, near his birthday, in 1893. The next yer Mrs Holcomb took a tripto Chicago to the World's Fair, with a niece. She was a great reader, her Bible being the first book of the day. Years ago, hearing Rev. Timothy Cooley say that he endeavored to turn over a leaf of his Bible every day, she began it, though ever a reader of the book and until the day of her death, had not failed to read a chapter, often two orthree, that she might turnover the leaf, until the last week of her life, when she failed to do so on two days.

"The Connecticut Courant" was her valued home paper, and she was a ong-time subscriber. The "Christian Advocate" and "Guardian" she had also taken for years. She was a life member of the American Bible Society, a worthy member of the Congregational Church in Granville, and after Mr. Holcomb's deth, as she grew older, attended the Methodist and Baptist churches, mearer her home, in the morning attending one, in the afternoon the other. She was a generout helper in all the churches, and to any worthy object for which money might be solicited. She would never willingly remain away from church. The Sunday school lessons she enjoyed, and for the last three months she had belonged to the home department, and learned the lesson each week.

Though careful and prudent in money matters, she gave freely and cheerfully to any worthy person or any in trouble. She was a quiet, unpretentiouis woman, but a noble one, and her life will be greatly missed in the little communith she had lived so will for more than forty-five years.

Her funeral ws held at the Methodist Episcopal Church, Tuesday, December 26, at 1 o'clock, Rev. W. H. Adams officiating, assisted by the local pastors, Rev. Mr. Patt of the Baptist Church reading a fitting poem.

The quartet from the Baptist Church sang very sweetly two selections, "Nearer My God to Thee" and "Asleep in Jesus."

The bearers were grandnephews. She leaves no children, but a large number of nephews, nieces and grandnephews and nieces. Her burial was in Southeast cemetery.

     Lewis Morris married Elizabeth Almy, daughter of Christopher Almy and Elizabeth Cornell.¹

     Annie (?) was born in August 1850.¹ She married Joseph Lane Barber, son of Judge Heman Humphrey Barber and Frances Elizabeth Merrill, circa 1870.¹

     Selden W. Moore was born circa 1820.¹ He was the son of Selden Moore and Philura Holcombe.¹ Selden W. Moore married Mary A. (?)

Selden W. and Mary were enumerated in the 1850 Andover, Ashtabula Co., OH, federal census. He was a peddler age 29, Mary was 32. Children in the household were Edson E. 6., Chastien J. 5, Frances L. 3, Willis D. 1, and Chancey Wilcox 14.

S. W. and Mary A. were enumerated in the 1860 Scott, Ogle Co., IL, federal census. He was a farmer 38, she was 38. Children in the household were Edson 16, Christinna 14, Willis 9, and Horace 5.

Selden and Mary were enumerated in the 1870, Coffins Grove, Delaware Co., Iowa federal census. He was a farmer, age 50, she was 51. Children in the household were Edson E. 26, and Willis D. 21.

Selden and Mary were again enumerated in the 1880, Coffins Grove federal census. He was a farmer age 60, she was 62. There were no children in the household. Edson was enumerated in the next household.

     Electa Holcombe was born circa 1802 at CT.¹ She was the daughter of CT Holcombe.¹ Electa Holcombe married Stephen Elmer.

Electa was enumerated in the 1850 Bloomfield, Hartford Co., CT, federal census. She was 47. Children in the household were Elisha 24, Harman 23, Charlotte 16, and Stephen 14.

     Willis Moore was born circa 1850.¹ He was the son of Selden W. Moore and Mary A. (?)¹

     Mary B. Bigelow married Elisha Shepard Elmer, son of Stephen Elmer and Electa Holcombe, in 1852. Mary B. Bigelow died say 1900.

     Edward B. Holcombe was born in September 1856 at CT.¹ He was the son of Stebbins Holcombe and Ellen T. (?)¹ Edward B. Holcombe married Elizabeth (?)¹