P. T. Barnum |
PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM, whose eventful life was closed at his
home in Bridgeport, Conn., on April 7, 1891, was a lineal
descendant in the sixth generation from Thomas Barnum who was
one of the first eight settlers of the town of Danbury, Conn.,
they purchasing the land from the Indians in 1684, and making
their residence there in the spring of 1685
Ephriam Barnum (2), grandson of Thomas
(2), born in 1733, married, in 1753, Keziah Covell, by
whom he had ten children. He married (second) in 1776,
Mrs. Rachel Starr Beebe, daughter of Jonathan and Rachel
(Taylor) Starr and widow of Jonathan Beebe, of
Danbury. They had five children, among them being Philo,
born in 1778, married Polly Fairchild, of Newtown
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Source: Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield
Co., Connecticut, Publ. Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co. - 1899 - Page 1 |
