My Descending from Gov. - D. A. Sharpe

Register Report for William Bradford
Generation 7
Pearl's death was reported to the law firm of Hinman, Howard & Kattell of
Binghamton, New York in a letter dated September 12, 1962 from Alberta
Kellie, regarding the Willis Sharp Kilmer estate that law firm was managing.
58. Henry Seth Sharpe-7 (Sarah Lavenna-6, Lansing-5, Bradford-4, Mary-3, Mary-2, William-1)
[42] was born on 26 Aug 1874 in Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio[43]. He died on 20 Mar
1951 in Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas[45, 43].
Notes for Henry Seth Sharpe:
General Notes:
His birth record at the Portage County Courthouse in Ravenna reports his name as Henry
Seth Sharp. Harry is the English diminutive for Henry, which apparently he used
throughout his life, and by which he named one of his two sons, and by which a grand son
is named. In all references to his name in Texas, Harry has been the operative name
used, including on legal documents. Harry is my paternal grandfather.
His Portage County birth record is a secondary source document. At some point in history,
the courthouse had a fire in which many original records were destroyed, included John's.
Later, county staff people assembled a birth record from other records in the county and
nearby cities to represent best efforts at reconstructing a birth file.
Harry apparently was named after his uncle, Henry Sharp, his father's brother. Seemingly,
of the four children in the family of John Elsefer and Elizabeth Sharp, only these two
brothers moved to Ohio, John Elsefer Sharp II and Henry Sharp.
The year that Harry was born, 1874, was the year that national leaders US President
Herbert Hoover and English Prime Minister Sir WinstonChurchill were born. Sir Winston is
the eleventh cousin, once removed, to U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, my half
eighth cousin. Our ancestor in common is our seventh great grandmother, Alice Carpenter
Southworth Bradford. FDR descends from her first husband, Edward Southworth, and my
line descends through her second husband, Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford.
Verdi's "Requiem" was composed in 1874 in Milan, Italy, as was Brahms' "Hungarian
Dances" composed.And the first zoo in America was established in
Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
Source: "The Timetables of History" 3rd Revised Edition, BernardGrun, Simon & Schuster,
New York 1991, pages 434-435
Harry was born the same year as Thomas J. Watson, Sr., (2/17/1874 - 6/19/1956), the
American industrialist who built IBM (International Business Machines, Inc.). It is of interest
that on Mr. Watson's 122nd birthday, World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM
super computer ''Deep Blue,'' winning a six-game match in Philadelphia. It took a long time
to get the best of Mr. Watson's company! But, do not despair. Two years later, Deep Blue
came back to beat Mr. Kasparov! Of course, I like this story, as IBM was my employer
in1957-58 and in 1962-69.
Sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson
http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/watch/html/c.10.html
http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/home/html/b.html
Harry was born the same year as was John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1/29/1874- 5/11/1960), the
American philanthropist, who is the third great grand nephew of Johann Philip Rockefeller
and Catherina Sharp, Harry's second great grand aunt and uncle.
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