Eleanor Wright

• Reference: Barber Full Text: https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbarbe00barb see also https://archive.org/details/genealogyofbarbe00barb/page/n3/mode/2up... Genealogy of the Barber Family-The Descendants of Robert Barber of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. By Edwin AtLee Barber, A.M. Philadelphia, Press of Wm. F. Fell & Co. 1890 p. 23

Genealogy

FIRST BRANCH.

(3) II. 1. ELEANOR BARBER, eldest dr. of Robert and Hannah Tidmarsh Barber, was b. at Chester, Pa., 11th mo. 1st, 1718 ; m., in April, 1734, JOHN WRIGHT, JR., b. Mar. 18th, 1710, in Manchester, England, son of John Wright and Patience Gibson. He d. Oct., 1759, at Wright's Ferry, York Co., Pa. She d._ . p 23

Issue (Wright) :

(5) III. 1. JAMES, b. June 30th, 1735; d. in infancy.

(6) III. 2. PATIENCE, b. Mar. 24th, 1737; m. GENERAL JAMES EWING, an officer in the Revolutionary Army, who d. about 1806. She d. in 1794, at Nottingham.

Issue (Ewing) :

(s) IV. 1. ELEANOR, m. JOHN MIFFLIN, of Cecil Co., Md.

Issue (Mifflin) :

• (10) V. 1. JAMES EWING, b. May 25th, 1791 ; m., July 4th, 1839, SUSAN ELEANOR HOUSTON, dr. of James Houston. He d. April 1st, 1842. She d. . (See 117, 118.)

Issue (Mifflin) :

• (12) VI. 1. Eleanor Ewing, b. May 20th, 1840 ; m.. May 27th, 1857, George W. Mifflin. She d. June 7th, 1860.

Issue (Mifflin):

• (14) VII. 1. James Warner, b. Oct. 11th, 1859; • d. Aug. 18th, 1862.
• (15) VI. 2. James Ewing, b. Oct. 22d, 1841 ; m., June 28th, 1866, Annie Wright, b. Nov. 1st, 1844, dr. of John Lowdon Wright (see 1212, 1213).

Issue (Mifflin) :

• (17) VII. 1. James Ewing, b. April 19th, 1867.
• (18) VII. 2. John Lowdon Wright, b. Dec. 25th, 1870.
• (19) VII. 3. Howard E., b. Sept. 27th, 1874; d. June 9th, 1875.

(Wright)

(20) III. 3. JAMES, b. Sept. 21st, 1739 ; d. , unm.

(21) III. 4. ROBERT, b. in 1741 ; d. May 1767, unm.

(22) III. 5. JOHN, b. Sept. 12th, 1744 ; m. .

Issue (Wright) :

(24) IV. 1. ELEANOR , b. ; d. Feb. 1752.

(25) III. 6. SUSANNA, b. Nov. 18th, 1747 ; d. in infancy.

(26) III. 7. SUSANNA, b. Aug. 24th, 1752 ; m., May 6th, 1773, DrR JOHN HOUSTON, b. in 1743 ; grad. at Edinburg College, Scotland, 1766; studied medicine with Dr. Shippen, of Philadelphia ; served in the Revolutionary war,as surgeon, for seven years ; appointed by Governor Mifflin one of the Justices for Hempfield township, Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1790. She d. Aug. 9th, 1829. He d. June 5th, 1809.

Issue (Houston) :

(28) IV. 1. PATIENCE , b. Oct. 31st, 1774 ; d. Aug. 4th, 1782.

(29) IV. 2. JOHN WRIGHT , b. Dec. 27th, 1775. He was a physician and d. Mar. 4ih, 1797, soon after graduating.

(30) IV. 3. MARTHA ,b.Sept. 29th, 1777; m. JOSEPH MIFFLIN+. She d. Feb. 12th, 1819. He d.___ .

Issue (Mifflin) :

• (32) V. 1. JOHN HOUSTON, b. Feb. 7th, 1807 ; m. ELIZABETH A. BETHEL HEISE, who d. May 9th, 1855. He d. Feb. 13th, 1888.

Issue (Mifflin):

• (34) VI. 1. Bethel, b. Mar. 14th, 1845 ; d. Dec. 12th, 1850.
• (35) VI. 2. Lloyd, b. Sept. 15th, 1746 ; unm.
• (36) VI. 3. Martha Elizabeth, b. July 21st, 1848 ; d. July 29th, 1849.
• (37) VI. 4. Houston, b. Sept. 29th, 1850 ; unm.
• (38) VI. 5. James DeVeaux,b. Mar. 8th, 1852; unm.
• (39) VI. 6. Mary Bethel, b. Dec. 26th, 1853 ; d. Feb. 24th, 1881, unm.
• (40) VI. 7. Charles West, b. May 6th, 1885; m. Jennie C. Cameron. She d. , without

issue.

• (42) V. 2. DEBORAH ANN, b. Oct. 5th, 1808 ; d. Jan. 4th, 1834, unm.
• (43) V. 3. JAMES HOUSTON, b. Aug. 19th, 1810; d. at Edenton, Ga., unm.
• (44) V. 4. JOSEPH, b. July 7th, 1812; m. JULIA DUNCAN STUART. He d. Jan. 1885.

Issue (Mifflin) : •

• (46) VI. 1. Lloyd, b. ; d. .
• (47) VI. 2. John H., b. ; d. .
• (48) VI. 3. James A., b. ; d. .
• (49) VI. 4. Deborah Ann, b.___
• (50) VI. 5. James A., b. ; d. .
• (51) VI. 6. Martha J., b. .
• (52) VI. 7. Alexander Stewart, b. ; ni.
• (51) VI. 8. 'Hannah H., b. .
• (55) VI. 9. Anna E., b. ; m. .
• (57) VI. 10. Joseph, b. .
• (58) VI. 11. Julia D., b. .
• (59) VI. 12. William S., b. ; d. .
• (60) VI. 13. Hacker, b. ; d. .
• (61) VI. 14. Arthur, b. ; d. .
• (62) V. 5. MARTHA, b. in 1815 : d. in 1815.

(Houston)

(63) IV. 4 JAMES, b. May 24th, 1779; m. ANNA RHODA WRIGHT, b. Aug. 27th, 1783, dr. of John Wright, 3d, and Amelia Davies. He died Aug. 7th, 1809. She died .___

Issue (Houston) :

• (65) V. 1. JOHN WRIGHT, b. Aug. 12th, 1807 ; m., Sept. 26th, 1833, MARY BLOOMFIELD MARTIN. He d. May 24th, 1869.

Issue (Houston) :

• (67) VI. 1. Annie Rhoda, b. June 22d, 1835; m., May 27th, 1856, Gen. Lewis Merrill, U. S. Army, now of Philadelphia. She died Nov. 21st, 1882.

Issue (Merrill) :

• (69) VII. 1. Sallie Lewis, b. March 11th, 1858.
• (70) VII. 2. John Houston, b. Oct. 31st, 1859.
• (71) VII. 3. Mary, b. May 31st, 1862; m., June 22d, 1880, Lieut. Hugh Lenox Scott, U. S. Army.

Issue (Scott) :

• (73) VIIL 1. David Hunter, b.Nov. 6th, 1881.
• (74) VIII. 2. Anna Merrill, b. March 13th, 1884.
• (75) VIII. 3. Lewis Merrill, b, Oct. 28th, 1885.
• (76) VIII. 4. Mary Blanchard,b. July 3d, 1887.

(Houston)

• (77) VI. 2. George Martin, b. Dec. 16th, 1836; m., Sept. 27th, 1866. Now of Harrisonville, Mo.

Issue (Houston) :

• (79) VII. 1. John Harvey, b. Sept. 11th, 1867.
• (80) VII. 2. William Martin, b. Nov. 30th, 1868.
• (81) VII. 3. Charles W., b. Oct. 1st, 1870.
• (82) VII. 4. Anna Merrill, b. Nov. loth, 1872.
• (83) VII. 5. Nellie Bloomfield, b. Jan. 16th, 1875.
• (84) VII. 6. Henry Howard, b. April 16th, 1877.
• (85) VII. 7. Chellie Armour, b. Jan. 21st, 1879.
• (86) VII. 8. Jessie Hale, b. Oct. 19th, 1881.
• (87) VII. 9. Lulu May, b. Jan. 23d, 1884.
• (88) VL 3. Eliza Brown, b. Feb. 6th, 1839; m., Oct. 25th, 1866, Capt. Charles N. Warner, U. S. Army.

Issue (Warner) :

• (90) VII. 1. Charles Nelson, b. Mar. 4th, 1868 ; d. Nov. 5th, 1869.
• (91) VIL 2. William Houston, b. Nov. 10th, 1869.
• (92) VII. 3. Nelson Charles, b. Sept. 6th, 1871.
• (93) VII. 4. Mary Bloomfield, b. April 17th, 1874.
• (94) VIL 5. Eliza Sarah, b. Jan. 15th, 1876.
• (95) VIL 6. Susan Eleanor, b. Sept. 14th, 1879.

(Houston)

• (96) VI. 4. Susan Eleanor, b. Feb. 1st, 1841 ; unm.
• (97) VI. 5. Emily Wright (twin), b. Feb. 1st, 1841 ; m. Colonel Richard H. Alexander, U. S. A.

Issue (Alexander) :

• (99) VII. 1. Edmund Brooke, b. April 26th, 1869.
• (100) VII. 2. John Houston, b. Sept. 1st, 1871.
• (101) VII. 3. Richard Henry, b. Dec. 20th, 1873.
• (102) VII. 4. Mary Bloomfield, b. Aug. 2d, 1875 ; d. June 10th, 1879.
• (103) VII. 5. Elizabeth Craig, b. Aug. 29th, 1878.

(Houston)

• (104) VI. 6. Sarah Wright, b. March 27th, 1845; unm.
• (105) VI. 7. Mary Bloomfield,b. Jan. 10th, 1845; m., Sept. 8th, 1869, Ivanhoe Stees Hube.

Issue (Huber) :

• (107) VII. 1. Levi Houston, b. Jan. 20th, 1871.
• (108) VII. 2. John Houston, b. Feb. 2d, 1873.
• (109) VII. 3. Margaret Elizabeth, b. Dec. 17th, 1875.
• (110) VII. 4. Mary Bloomfield, b. Feb. 10th, 1878.
• (111) VII. 5. Gertrude Stees, b. July 29th, 1885.

(Houston)

• (112) VI. 8. William Augusta, b. Sept. 1st, 1850 ; unm.
• (113) VI. 9. James (twin), b. Sept. 1st, 1850 ; d. in infancy.
• (114) VI. 10. Rachel Vincent, b. ; unm.
• (115) VI. 11. Eleanor Wright, b. Aug. 10th, 1853; m. Carl Speghtman.

(Houston)

• (in) V. 2. SUSAN ELEANOR, b. ; m., July 4th, 1839, JAMES EWING MIFFLIN, b. May 25th, 1791, son of John Mifflin. He d. April 1st, 1842. She d. . (See 10, 11.)

Issue (Mifflin) :

• (119) VI. 1. Eleanor Ewing, b. May 20th, 1840: m., May 27th, 1857, George W. Mifflin. She d. June 7th, 1860.

Issue (Mlifflin) :

• (121) VII. 1. James Warner, b. Oct. 11th, 1859; d. Aug. 18th, 1862.
• (122) VI. 2. James Ewing, b. Oct. 22d, 1*841 ; m., June 28th, 1866, Annie Wright, b. Nov. 1st, 1844, dr. of John Lowdon Wright (see 15, 16; also 1212, 1213).

Issue (Mifflin)

:

• (124) VII. 1. James Ewing, b. April 19th, 1867.
• (125) VII. 2. John Lowdon Wright, b. Dec. 25th, 1870.
• (126) VII. 3. Howard E., b. Sept. 27th, 1874 ; d. June 9th, 1875.

(Houston)

(127) IV. 5. ELEANOR WRIGHT , b. Feb. 3d, 1781 ; d. Aug. 27th, 1867, unm.

(128) IV. 6. ANN SUSAN , b. Dec. 24th, 1782 ; d. Jan. 16th, 1863, unm.

(129) IV. 7. WILLIAM FREDERICK , b. Jan. 5th, 1787; m. (1st) AMY HUNTER McCORKLE, who d. March 27th, 1819. He m. (2d) SARAH WHITEHILL, about 1834. She d. about 1836. He d. Feb. 2d, 1838.

Issue, by 1st marriage (Houston) :

• (232) V. 1. CHRISTIANA M.,b. May 16th, 1812; m., Sept. 10th, 1838, REV. JAMES L. SCOTT She d. at sea, April 16th, 1848, on their way home from India as missionaries.

Issue (Scott) :

• (134) VI. 1. Amy Jane, b. June 16th, 1839; d , unm.
• (135) VI. 2. Edward Houston, b. Sept. 24th, 1845; d. Mar. 28th, 1871, unm.
• (136) VI. 3. Anna Eleanor, b. ; now a missionary at Woodstock, India ; unm.

(Houston)

• (137) V. 2. JOHN FREDERICK, b. Mar. 9th, 1814; m.. May 17th, 1836, CATHARINE JONES FISHER, b. Mar. 26th, 1814, dr. of George and Ann Shippen Fisher. He d. April 18th, 1876. She d. Nov. 19th, 1876.

Issue (Houston) :

• (139) VI. 1. Georgiana Fisher, b. 1837 ; d. Sept., 1889.
• (140) VI. 2. William Frederick, b. 1838.
• (141) VI. 3. Amy Eleanor, b. July 27th, 1842 ; d. Nov. 30th, 1876, unm.
• (142) VI. 4. Henry Edward, b. 1854.

(143) IV. 8. ROBERT WRIGHT, b. Sept. 20th, 1788; m. SARAH A. JONES, b. Dec, 1809. He d. Jan. 24th, 1855. She d. Dec. 27th, 1836.

Issue (Houston) :

• (145) V. 1. MARY ROBINSON, b. Sept., 1832 ; d. Jan. 17th, 1835.
• (146) V. 2. SUSAN WRIGHT, m. REV> ROBERT GAMBLE.

Issue (Gamble) :

• (148) VI. 1. Robert Houston.
• (149) VI. 2. Alexander Dill, b. Dec. 4th, 1863 ; d. Aug. 13th, 1865.

(150) IV. 9. SAMUEL NELSON , b. at Wright's Ferry, York Co., Pa., Nov. 25th, 1791 ; was educated at Burlington College, N. J. ; studied med. in Philadelphia; was a member of Capt. Henry Shippen's Company of Horse, in the War of 3812. He m., Mar. 13th, 1817, SUSAN STRICKLER, b. Jan. 25th, 1797, dr. of Col. Jacob Strickler. He d. Nov. 14th, 1878. She d. July 31st, 1864.

Issue (Houston) :

• (152) V. 1. JOHN JAMES, b. April 2d, 1818 ; m., in April, 1857, ANNA H. BLAKISTON. He died in Sept., 1869.
• (154) V. 2. HENRY HOWARD, b. Oct. 3d, 1820 ; m., April 9th, 1856, SALLIE SHERRERD BONNELL, of Philadelphia. In 1847 he entered the Philadelphia office of D. Leech & Co., the leading canal and railroad transporters of Pennsylvania. Here he displayed such executive ability that he attracted the attention of Col. William C. Patterson, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and in ]850 he was selected to organize the freight business for this road, and until 1865 he labored unremittingly in this broader field, the results of his efforts being still apparent. Since then he has been engaged in special transportation enterprises, and is now interested in several local and transcontinental lines, and is part owner in more than twenty ocean steamers, including the great steamers— the " City of Paris " and the " City of New York." He is a director in the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad, the Inman and International Steamship Companies, the Erie and Western Transportation Company, and a number of other organizations of a similar nature. He is also a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and of Washington and Lee University, Va. He is an active member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and resides in Germantown, Phila.

Issue (Houston) :

• (156) VI. 1. Cornelia Bonnell, b. in 1857 ; d. in 1857.
• (157) VI. 2. Henry Howard, born Oct. 5th, 1859 ; grad. University of Pennsylvania in 1878 ; d. in Rome, Italy, May 13th, 1880.
• (158) VL 3. Sallie Bonnell, m., Nov. 17th, 1884, Charles W. Henry, of Germantown, Phila.

Issue (Henry) :

• (160) VIL 1. T. Charlton, b. Mar. 25th, 1887.

(Houston)

• (161) VL 4. Eleanor Anna, b. May 5th, 1863; d. Jan. 22d, 1875.
• (162) VL 5. Samuel Frederic, m., Nov. 9th, 1886, Edith Atlee Corlies dr. of the late Samuel Fisher Corlies, of Philadelphia.

Issue (Houston) :

• (164) VII. 1. Edith Corlies, b. Nov. 12th, 1888.
• (165) VI. 6. Gertrude.
• (166) V. 3. EMILY STRICKLER, b. April 15th, 1823; d. July 6th, 1826.
• (167) V. 4. ELEANOR WRIGHT, b. May 6th, 1826; d. Nov. 20th, 1880, unm.
• (168) V. 5. Martha Mifflin, b. July 5th, 1832; m., Jan. 10th, 1853, Stephen Greene, now of Philadelphia.

Issue (Greene) :

• (170) VI. 1. William Houston, b. Dec. 30th, 1853.
• (171) VI. 2. Susan Strickler, b. Jan. 11th, 1856; m., Oct. 20th, 1880, Charles T. Evans. •

Issue (Evans) :

• (173) VII. 1. Martha Houston, b. Oct. 15th, 1881.
• (174) VII, 2. John James Houston, b. Dec. 11th, 1883.
• (175) VII. 3. Annie Greene, b. Aug, 19th, 1885 ; d. Mar. 12th, 1886.
• (176) VII. 4. Sarah Fifield, b. Feb. 22d, 1888.

(Greene)

• (177) VI. 3. Eleanor Houston, b. July 20th, 1858 ; d. Sept. 17th, 1859.
• (178) VI. 4. Sallie Houston, b. July 8th, 1860.
• (179) VI. 5. Annie Mary, b. June 3d, 1863.
• (180) VI. 6. Mabel Martha, b. Dec. 4th, 1870.
• (181) VI. 7. Cornelia Bonnell, b. Dec. 28th, 1873.

(Wright)

(182) III. 8. JAMES, b. in 1759 ; d. Jan. 22d, 1767.

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