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    executive editor of the Washington Post from 1968 to 1991, Bradlee became a national figure during the presidency of Richard Nixon, when he challenged the federal government over the right to publish t...
  • Bvt. Colonel Benjamin W. Crowninshield (USA) (1837 - 1892)
    . Col. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1837–1892) was a member of the Boston Brahmin Crowninshield family.LifeHe was born in Boston March 12, 1837. His father was Francis Boardman Crowninshield (1809–...
  • Francis "Frank" Crowninshield (1872 - 1947)
    Welch Crowninshield (June 24, 1872 – December 28, 1947), better known as Frank or Crownie (informal), was an American journalist and art and theatre critic best known for developing and editing the mag...
  • Helen Suzette Fairbanks (1841 - 1921)
    Frederic Crowninshield (1845-1918) m. 1867, Helen Suzette Fairbanks Helen Suzette Crowninshield (1868-1941) m. Carl August de Gersdorff (1865-1944) Edward Augusts Crowninshield (1870-) Francis Welch Cr...

This page is about the famous mercantile family of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.

The fowling is a list of some of the descendants of Dr. Johann Casper Richter von Kronenshceldt who was born on 22 Jun 1661 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany and died on 19 Dec 1711 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. In 1680 he arrived in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. He married on 5 Dec 1694 he in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA to Elizabeth Allen. She was born on 17 Aug 1672 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA and died in 1711 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA.

  • Capt. John Crowninshield (1696 - 1761)
  • Capt. Clifford Crowninshield (1699 - 1776)
  • Elizabeth Crowninshield (1704 - ?)
  • Anstiss Crowninshield (1727 - ?)
  • Mary Crowninshield (1706 - 1706)
  • Capt. Richard Crowninshield (1708 - 1744)
  • Elizabeth Crowninshield (1727 - 1799)
  • Capt. John Crowninshield, Jr. (1728 - 1766)
  • Sarah Crowninshield (1730 - 1774)
  • Jacob Crowninshield (1732 - 1815)
  • Capt. George Crowninshield (1734 - 1815), Founder of the shipping firm George Crowninshield % Sons
  • Capt. George Crowninshied, Jr. (1766 - 1817), commissioned and funded the building of the first yacht in America
  • Hon. Capt. Jacob Crowninshield (1770 - 1808), representative, brought the first elephant to America from Calcutta
  • Hon. Capt. Benjamin Williams Crowninshield (1772 - 1851), 5th U.S Secretary of the Navy
  • Richard Crowninshield (1774 - 1844)
  • Edward Crowninshield (1776 - 1793)
  • Mary Crowninshield (1778 - 1835)
  • Sarah Crowninshield (? - ?)
  • Elizabeth Boardman Crowninshield (1804 - 1893)
  • Mary Crowninshield (1806 - 1829)
  • Hon. Capt. Francis Boardman Crowninshield (1809 - 1857), Speaker of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts
  • George Casper Crowninshield (1812 - 1857)
  • Lucia Crowninshield (1812 - 1812)
  • Anstis Williams Crowninshield (1815 - ?)
  • Maj. Edward Augustus Crowninshield (1817 - 1859)
  • Lucy Ann Casper Crowninshield (1818 - ?)
  • Mary Crowninshield (1833 - 1834)
  • Sarah Crowninshield (1834 - 1840)
  • Brvt. Col. Benjamin William Crowninshield (1837 - 1892), aide de camp to Gen. Philip Sheridan (1831 - 1888)
  • Alice Crowninshield (1839 - 1926)
  • Louisa Crowninshield (1842 - 1926)
  • Francis Crowninshield (1845 - 1847)
  • Frederic Crowninshield (1845 - 1918), Director of the American Academy in Rome
  • Emily Crowninshield (1847 - 1879)
  • Bowdoin Bradlee Crowninshield (1867 - 1948)
  • Lt. Francis Boardman Crowninshield (1869 - 1950), fought with Troop K of Roosevelt's Rough Riders