User:West Virginian/Benjamin Franklin Washington
Benjamin Franklin Washington | |
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| Born | Benjamin Franklin Washington April 7, 1820 |
| Died | January 22, 1872 (aged 51) San Francisco, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States of America |
| Occupation(s) | American newspaper editor and Forty-niner |
| Spouse | Georgianna Hite Ransom (1845-1872, his death) |
| Parent(s) | John Thornton Augustine Washington (father) Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger (mother) |
| Relatives | Lawrence Berry Washington (brother) Robert Rutherford (great-grandfather) Samuel Washington (great-grandfather) George Washington (great-granduncle) |
Benjamin Franklin Washington (April 7, 1820 – January 22, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and Forty-niner and a member of the Washington family.
Early life and family[edit]
Benjamin Franklin Washington was born on April 7, 1820 at "Cedar Lawn" plantation near Charles Town in Jefferson County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia) and was the fifth child of John Thornton Augustine Washington and his wife Elizabeth Conrad Bedinger Washington.[1][2][3]
Through his father, Washington was a grandson of Thornton Augustine Washington, a great-grandson of Samuel Washington, and a great-grandnephew of first President of the United States George Washington.[1][2] Through his mother, he was a great-grandson of Robert Rutherford, a United States House Representative from Virginia, and a nephew of Henry Bedinger III, also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later served as Chargé d'Affaires and Minister to Denmark for President Franklin Pierce.[1][4] Washington was raised in a large family at Cedar Lawn, where he had four brothers and eight sisters:[1][5][6]
- Lawrence Berry Washington (1811–1856)
- Daniel Bedinger Washington (born 1814)
- Virginia Thornton Washington (1816–1838)
- Sally Eleanor Washington (1818–1858)
- Georgiana Augusta Washington Smith (born 1822)
- Mary Elizabeth Washington Asbury (born 1824)
- John Thornton Augustine Washington (1826–1894)
- Mildred Berry Washington (September 3–12, 1827)
- Mildred Berry Washington Bedinger (1829–1871)
- George Washington (born 1830)
- Susan Ellsworth Washington Bedinger (born 1833)
- Henrietta Gray Washington (1835–1838)
Because of the large number of siblings in his family, Washington's inheritance from his father in 1841 was not sizable, and he and his brothers pursued a number of business opportunities to build their personal wealth.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Welles 1879, pp. 208–209.
- ^ a b Kunitz, Haycraft & Hadden 1933, p. 51.
- ^ Bacon 1908, p. 755.
- ^ McGee 1973, p. 3.
- ^ Cooper County, Missouri Genealogical Web (GenWeb) Project 2012, p. 1.
- ^ Harrison 2005, pp. 1943–1945.
- ^ Wallace 1951, p. 110.
Bibliography[edit]
- Bacon, E. L. (May 1908). "If Washington Had Been Crowned". The Scrap Book. Frank A. Munsey Company.
- Bushong, Millard Kessler (1972). A History of Jefferson County, West Virginia. Boyce, Virginia: Carr Publishing Company, Inc.
- Cooper County, Missouri Genealogical Web (GenWeb) Project (2012). "John Thornton Augustine Washington Family Bible Transcription" (PDF). Cooper County, Missouri Genealogical Web (GenWeb) Project.
- Gardner, Charles Kitchell (1853). A Dictionary of All Officers: Who Have Been Commissioned, or Have Been Appointed and Served, in the Army of the United States, Since the Inauguration of Their First President in 1789, to the First January, 1853... G. P. Putnam and Company.
- Harrison, Bruce (2005). The Family Forest Descendants of Lady Joan Beaufort. Millisecond Publishing Company, Inc.
- Kunitz, Stanley; Haycraft, Howard; Hadden, Wilbur Crane (1933). Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to Living Authors. The H. W. Wilson Company.
- Mahon, John K.; Danysh, Romana (1972). Infantry, Part I: Regular Army. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
- McGee, Ted (April 1973). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination Form: Cedar Lawn (PDF). United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
- Oates, Stephen B. (1984). To Purge this Land with Blood: A Biography of John Brown. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9780870234583.
- Smolenyak, Megan (September 2008). "King Me!". Ancestry Magazine.
- Wallace, Robert (February 1951). "If Washington Had Become King: A Carpenter or an Engineer Might Now Rule the U.S." Life.
- Washington, Lawrence Berry (1853). A Tale to be Told Some Fifty Years Hence. Baltimore, Maryland: John Murphy & Company. OCLC 25793684.
- Wayland, John W. (1998). The Washingtons and Their Homes. Genealogical Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8063-4775-2.
- Welles, Albert (1879). The Pedigree and History of the Washington Family: Derived from Odin, the Founder of Scandinavia, B.C. 70, Involving a Period of Eighteen Centuries, and Including Fifty-five Generations, Down to General George Washington, First President of the United States. Society Library.
- West Virginia Department of Archives and History (1911). Biennial Report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia, Volume 3. West Virginia Department of Archives and History.
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