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Robert Webster Day

Robert Webster Day

Male 1854 -

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  • Name Robert Webster Day 
    Born 9 Oct 1854  Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Education A.B. (Yale, 1875)  [2
    Person ID I23064  Day Family Tree
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2004 

    Father Daniel Jones Day, Esq.,   b. 15 Jul 1806, Washington, Litchfield County, CT Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Nov 1883, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Mother Emily Elizabeth (Ellsworth) Jones,   b. 8 Nov 1827, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jul 1869, Summit, Union County, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 41 years) 
    Married 30 Oct 1850  Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Family ID F8742  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Helen Leonard West,   b. 9 Sep 1856, Flushing, Queens County, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 15 May 1878  [2, 4
    Children 
     1. Emily Webster Day,   b. 21 Feb 1879
     2. Rodney West Day,   b. 10 Jul 1883
    Family ID F73548  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
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  • Notes 
    • Robert Webster Day was from Buffalo, NY. Secretary, Ellicott
      Square Co. Born, Bridgeport, Conn., Oct. 9, 1854. Degree of A.B.
      from Yale University. Member of Society of Colonial Wars, Society
      of Mayflower Descendants and Buffalo Historical Society. Son of
      Daniel Jones Day and Emily Ellsworth Jones; grandson of Noble Day
      and Elizabeth Jones, and of Henry Jones and Eliza Steele Webster;
      great-grandson of Daniel Jones and Olive Tinker, and of Noah
      Webster, Jr., and Rebecca Greenleaf; gt.2-grandson of Amasa Jones
      and Hope Lord, of Noah Webster and Mercy Steele, and of William
      Greenleaf and Mary Brown; gt.3-grandson of Daniel Jones and Mary
      Worthington, of Daniel Webster and Miriam Cook, and of Daniel
      Greenleaf and Elizabeth Gookin; gt.4-grandson of Josiah Jones and
      Abigail Barnes, of Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, 2d, and Elizabeth
      Gerish, and of John Webster and Sarah Mygatt; gt.5-grandson of
      Capt. Josiah Jones and Lydia Treadway, of Capt. Stephen Greenleaf,
      1st, and Elizabeth Coffin, and of Robert Webster and Susannah
      Treat; gt.6-grandson of Lewis Jones, who came from Englad to Boston
      with his son about 1665, of Capt. Edmund Greenleaf, who came to
      Massachusetts from England in 1635, and Sarah Dole, and of John
      Webster, who came from England to Massachusetts, and was one of the
      founders of Hartford. The Day genealogy runs back through a line
      of college presidents, statesmen, and soldiers to Robert Day, who
      came from England to Boston in 1635. (Source: Roll of Members,
      p. 135)

  • Sources 
    1. [S148] Roll of Members., 134 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S582] Family of the Rev. Jeremiah Day of New Preston, The.

    3. [S27] Family of Thomas Noble of Westfield, Mass., by Lucius M. Boltwood, 1878, 106 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S103] Ancestry.com.