Jeannie Whittemore Sumner

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Jeannie Whittemore Sumner (Elliott)

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Death: June 03, 1917 (77)
Place of Burial: Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Henry Hill Elliott, Sr. and Elmira Elliott
Wife of Prof. William Graham Sumner
Mother of Eliot Sumner and Graham Sumner
Sister of (USA), Frederick Betts Elliott and Henry Hill Elliott, Jr.

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About Jeannie Whittemore Sumner

The daughter of Elmira Whittemore and Henry Hill Elliott, Jeannie married William Graham Sumner on April 17, 1871 when he was rector of the Church of the Redeemer in Morristown, New Jersey. A year later they moved to New Haven when he became a professor in the political and social science department at Yale, a position he held until 1909, a year before his death. They had two sons, Eliot, born in 1873 and Graham, born in 1877.

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Jeannie Whittemore Sumner's Timeline

1840
February 29, 1840
1873
October 18, 1873
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
1876
October 25, 1876
1917
June 3, 1917
Age 77
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Alderbrook Cemetery, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States