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_Langdon BOWIE _|
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| _Samuel Grandin WURTS _
| _William WURTS _____|
| | |_Rebecca HOOPER _______
|_Harriet WURTS _|
| _______________________
|_Lucy Mary JOHNSON _|
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_Francis D. CANFIELD _|
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|--Edmond CANFIELD
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| _George WURTS ___
| _John Jacob WURTS ___|
| | |_Abigail PETTIT _
|_Eliza Ann WURTS _____|
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|_Ann Barbara NORRIS _|
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_William S. HEPP ___________|
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|--Mary Ann HEPP
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| _Buckner Ashby WALLINGFORD _
| _Nicholas Longworth WALLINGFORD _|
| | |_Annie Rives LONGWORTH _____
|_Kay Longworth WALLINGFORD _|
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|_Mary Ann RICHARDS ______________|
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_Acie or Asa KIMBLE _|
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|--Melford KIMBLE
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| _William Lindsey SAVAGE _|
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|_Pearlie SAVAGE _____|
| _Samuel Grandin WURTS _
|_Isabell (Belle) WURTS __|
|_Matilda CARTWRIGHT ___
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|--Dorothy Barrett WILLIAMS
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_John WURTS ____
_Samuel Grandin WURTS _|
| |_Sarah GRANDIN _
_George WURTS ____|
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| |_Rebecca HOOPER _______|
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|--Alice WURTS
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|_Mary Ann PETERS _|
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_William Hogencamp WURTS _
_John Halsey WURTS _|
| |_Jean HALSEY _____________
_William Whitney WURTS _|
| | __________________________
| |_La_Vonne WHITNEY __|
| |__________________________
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|--Anne Whitney WURTS
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| __________________________
| ____________________|
| | |__________________________
|_Carol LEGOS ___________|
| __________________________
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_John WURTS ____
_George WURTS ___|
| |_Sarah GRANDIN _
_George WURTS ___|
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| |_Abigail PETTIT _|
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|--Augustus Sykes WURTS
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|_Harriet THORPE _|
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_Johannes Conrad WIRZ _
_George WURTS _____|
| |_Anna GOETSCHI ________
_Jacob WURTS _____|
| | _______________________
| |_Esther HASBROUCK _|
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|--Cornelius WURTS
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|_Maria HOORNBECK _|
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!Other source has md. Margaret LeFevre on 5 Oct 1842.
_George WURTS _____
_Mauritius WURTS _|
| |_Esther HASBROUCK _
_Jansen WURTS _|
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| |_Maria JANSEN ____|
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|--Gilbert WURTS
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|_Sarah CRAIG __|
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!Given name, birth abt., from Dale Wurts.
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_Johannes Conrad WIRZ _|
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_John WURTS ____|
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| |_Anna GOETSCHI ________|
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|--John (1st) WURTS
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|_Sarah GRANDIN _|
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_Theodore Frelinghuysen WURTS _
_Edward Vanuxem WURTS ___|
| |_Anna VANUXEM _________________
_Edward Vanuxem WURTS _|
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| |_Elizabeth White ROBINS _|
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|--Kathleen WURTS
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|_Kathlin ANSBOROUGH ___|
| _______________________________
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_Samuel Grandin WURTS _
_Samuel Grandin WURTS _|
| |_Rebecca HOOPER _______
_William WURTS __|
| | _______________________
| |_Matilda CARTWRIGHT ___|
| |_______________________
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|--Matilda WURTS
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|_Matilda EICHER _|
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!Burial place: Young Cemetery, Wurtland, Greenup Co., KY.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. LDS-IGI Film: 8334002 4.
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_Johannes Conrad WIRZ _|
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_John WURTS ____|
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| |_Anna GOETSCHI ________|
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|_Sarah GRANDIN _|
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!A founder of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and Railroad Companies. Transportation of anthracite coal was the main business of the D & H Canal Co.
!The Wurts brothers, Maurice, William, John and Charles, were pioneers in the mining, introduction and marketing of anthracite coal, and originators of the plans and projects out of which inevitably grew the Delaware and Hudson Canal and Railroad Companies of which they were founders, and caused to be built in England, and delivered to HONESDALE, Pa., the "Stourbridge Lion," the first steam locomotive to be operated in the Western Hemisphere, its trial trip taking place 8 August 1829.
Here is what the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1959, Vol. 17, p. 281, 282 has to say about the early locomotives:
"The early canal, quarry and coal mining engineers in the United States favoured the building of railroads as the result of their investigations in England at about the time that public opinion was being influenced in that direction there. About 1800 the people of the U.S. began to realize the need of highway and other intercommuniation as a means for developing the extensive unsettled districts of the country. The difficulty of constructing artificial waterways, the slowness of canal boats and the freezing of transportation channels for a considerable part of each year gave impetus to the movement. In 1828 John B. Jervis, chief engineer of the Delaware and Hudson Canal company, convinced of the feasibility of rail motive power, presented a plan to the management, with the result that Horatio Allen, assistant engineer, was sent to England to study railroad opperation and to contract for rails and locomotives. Jervis planned to bring the anthracite coal of the Susquehanna valley, by rail, into the valleys of the Delaware and the Hudson rivers, and on to the ocean.
Allen in 1828 contracted for four locomotives. The locomotive "America," furnished by Robert Stephenson and company, arrived in New York city on Jan. 15, 1829. It was transported up the Hudson river and through the canal from Rondout and cleared Eddyville on July 16, 1829. There its record is lost and, so far as is known, it was never opperated in the U.S. The other three locomotives, built by Foster, Rastrick and company of Stourbridge, Eng., were the "Stourbridge Lion," "Delaware," and "Hudson." The "Stourbridge Lion" reached New York on May 13th, 1829. It was transportd up the Hudson to Rondout, and by canal to Honesdale, Pa. It was set up and made a trial trip on Aug. 8, 1829, this being the first operation of a locomotive in the western hemisphere. The second and third locomotives from Foster, Rastrick and company arrived in New York on Aug. 9 and Sept. 17, 1829, respectively."
I have heard that the "Stourbridge Lion" is displayed in the Smithsonian Institute, although I am not certain whether it is the original, a reconstruction, or a replica.
_John WURTS ____
_Samuel Grandin WURTS _|
| |_Sarah GRANDIN _
_Samuel Grandin WURTS _|
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| |_Rebecca HOOPER _______|
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|--William WURTS
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|_Matilda CARTWRIGHT ___|
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!AKA William Wurts, b.<1849>
!William Wurts, Jr., b. 13 Aug 1845, Wurtland, Greenup Co., KY, d. 1 Mar 1938,
Greenup, Greenup Co., KY, buried at Worthington Cemetery, Greenup, KY, married
2 Jun 1870 to Matilda Eicher at Wurtland, Greenup Co., KY. [from James E. B.
Kimble.] Children: George, Jennie E., Matilda, Samuel Grandin IV, William,
Maurice, Bertha, and Charles Peters (children are listed with dates, places,
marriage dates and spouses.
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Census- 1880 Greenup Co., Ky. - Fulton
Wurts, Wm - 26
Matilda - 25
Jennie - 7 Ky.
George - 9 "
Matilda - 6 Ohio
Samuel - 4 Ky.
William - 2 "
Matilda - 55 Pa.
Mother
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Census- 1900 Greenup Co., Ky. - Greenup
Wurts, William - Oct. 1846
Matildy - Nov. 1845
Bertha - May. 1883
Maurice - Dec. 1844
Charley - July 1885
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