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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 62

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] "So many, so good as of Douglas blood have been. Of one sirnaine, in one Kingrick, never yet were seen.M Mrs. Frederic Shonnard's mother is Julia Gabriella Ogden, a daughter of Samuel Gouverneur Ogden. who was the great shipping merchant of New York in the early part of this century, and who, on her mother's side, is a great-granddaughter of Francis Lewis, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and granddaughter of Morgan Lewis, the Governor of I New York in 1804, and is related to the Ludlow, Livingston and Van Cortlandt families of this State. The children of this marriage have been six in ii.— 17. I number, of whom two have died, viz.: Frederic and I Eugenie, the latter an infant. Frederic lived only ' six years, but in that short life, such was the manli-i ness, intelligence and sweetness of his character, that he had strongly endeared himself to many in nowise related to him. The four living children are Horatio Seymour, Kennedy, Ludlow and Eugenia Frederica.