DuBois family

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This collection documents the DuBois, Ogden, and McIlvaine families. Below are brief biographies of the prominent contributors to this collection.

Sarah Platt Ogden DuBois (1782-1836) was the fifth child of Sarah Platt and Robert Ogden (1746-1826), a lawyer who worked in New Jersey and New York, and served as quartermaster during the Revolutionary War. She had four siblings: Robert (1775-1857), Mary (1778-1852), Elizabeth, and Jeremiah. In 1803, Sarah married a prominent merchant and philanthropist named Cornelius DuBois (1771-1846). They had five children: Mary Elizabeth (b. 1805), Henry Augustus (1808-1884), Cornelius (1810-1882), Sarah Platt (1813-1897), and George Washington (1822-1910).

Robert Ogden (1775-1857), Sarah's brother, was born in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and practiced law in Charleston and New Orleans. In 1803, he married Eliza Spaight Nash, daughter of Abner Nash, governor of North Carolina.

Cornelius DuBois, Jr. (1810-1882), was born in New York City and graduated from Colombia in 1828. He studied law but worked for Cornelius DuBois and Company, a mercantile firm owned by his father. He married Mary Ann Delafield DuBois (1813-1888) in 1832, and they had 10 children.

George Washington DuBois (1821-1910), youngest son of Cornelius DuBois (1771-1846), attended Princeton and graduated from New York University in 1843. He attended the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Gambier, Ohio, and in 1846 became a deacon. In 1847, he was ordained a priest of the Episcopal Church, and later that year traveled extensively, ministering to parishes in Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York. During the Civil War, DuBois served as chaplain to the 11th Ohio Infantry Regiment. DuBois married Maria “Mamy” Coxe McIlvaine; they had eight children, including daughter Mary Cornelia DuBois (1864-1920). In 1885, Reverend DuBois built a small chapel named Felsenheim in Keene, New York.

Charles Pettit McIlvaine (1799-1883) was born in Burlington, New Jersey, to Joseph McIlvaine, senator from New Jersey, and Maria Reed. He graduated from Princeton in 1816 and attended Princeton Theological Seminary a year later. The Episcopal Church ordained him deacon in 1820. That same year he moved to Washington D.C. to minister at Christ Church in Georgetown, and from 1822 to 1824, he served as chaplain to the United States Senate. McIlvaine was ordained a priest in Baltimore in 1824, and accepted an appointment as professor of ethics and as chaplain at West Point, where he taught many prominent future Civil War officers. Following a pastorate in Brooklyn (1827-1831), he was appointed the second bishop of Ohio, president of Kenyon College, and head of the theological seminary at Gambier. McIlvaine married Emily Coxe (1801-1877) in 1822; they had four children, including daughter Mamy, who married George W. DuBois. McIlvaine died in Florence, Italy, in 1873.

Frederick Nash Ogden (1807-1838) was born in Hillsboro, North Carolina. He studied medicine at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and after graduation, set up a practice in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He married Carmelite Lopez in 1831. They had two children, Alice E. Ogden and Confederate General Frederick Nash Ogden, Jr.

From the guide to the DuBois-Ogden-McIlvaine family papers, 1786-1983, 1801-1877, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)

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creatorOf DuBois-Ogden-McIlvaine family papers 1786-1983 1801-1877 DuBois-Ogden-McIlvaine family papers William L. Clements Library
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associatedWith Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 person
associatedWith Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 person
associatedWith Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 person
associatedWith Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 person
associatedWith Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 person
associatedWith DuBois, Cornelius, 1771-1846 person
associatedWith DuBois, George Washington, 1822-1910 person
associatedWith DuBois, Sarah Platt Ogden, 1782-1836 person
associatedWith Episcopal Church. Diocese of Ohio. corporateBody
associatedWith Episcopal Theological Seminary. corporateBody
associatedWith Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 person
associatedWith Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893 person
associatedWith Kenyon College. corporateBody
associatedWith Longfellow, Henry W. (Henry Wadsworth), 1895-1986 person
associatedWith McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885 person
associatedWith McIlvaine, Charles Pettit, 1799-1872 person
associatedWith McIlvaine family family
associatedWith McLean, John, 1785-1861 person
associatedWith Ogden family family
associatedWith Ogden, Frederick Nash, 1807-1838 person
associatedWith Ogden, Robert, 1746-1826 person
associatedWith Ogden, Robert, 1775-1857 person
associatedWith Polk, Leonidas, 1806-1864 person
associatedWith Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 person
associatedWith Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869 person
associatedWith United States. Army corporateBody
associatedWith United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 11th, 1862-1865 corporateBody
associatedWith United States Military Academy. corporateBody
associatedWith Victoria (Ship) corporateBody
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Elizabethtown (N.J.)
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Gambia (Ohio)
Philadelphia (Pa.)
East Hampton (N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
Crosswicks Creek (N.J.)
Episcopal Church
Saratoga Springs (N.Y.)
United States
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