Árbol genealógico de los Blair (3)

John Blythe Dobson es un experto en genealogía y tiene en su web un interesante artículo, con el árbol genealógico incluido sobre la relación familiar entre Montgomery Clift y su abuela Jean Margaret (Kennedy) Mitchelson, que era de Canadá. La relación le viene a Monty a través de su abuelo materno Woodbury Blair y el nexo que une a ambas personas es la familia Quick a partir del matrimonio enre el holandés Theunis Thomasz. Quick y Belitje Jacobs van Vleckensteyn quienes vivieron en torno a 1670 (siglo XVII).

Recojo aquí la información porque yo también soy una apasionada de la genealogía.

Montgomery Clift

his cousinship with
Jean Margaret (Kennedy) Mitchelson
through the Quick family

Montgomery Clift Montgomery Blair (1813-1883), great-grandfather of Montgomery Clift Although Montgomery Clift was primarily of New England ancestry, through the Wendell family he was also descended from the Quick family of New York City, whence he was a 9th cousin once removed of my grandmother, Jean Margaret (Kennedy) Mitchelson. The distinguished Quincy-Wendell clan were also ancestors of Dorothy Quincy, wife of John Hancock, of Louisa May Alcott, the novelist, and of Barrett Wendell, the literary critic. On the somewhat humbler Kranckheyt side of the table, interesting descendants include the brothers Mark and Carl Van Doren, literary critics, and Walter Cronkhite, the television journalist. The founder of the Quicks probably had not settled on this surname when he came from Naarden in the Netherlands to New York, as it never appears in the earliest records in which he is mentioned. He appears to have been of quite humble social status, and is often called simply called “Theunis the mason” (Theunis de metselaer) instead of by his patronymic (Thomasz.). This has caused confusion in the literature with at least one other Theunis who happened to be a mason.

  Theunis Thomasz. Quick = Belitje Jacobs van Vleckensteyn
     (living 1670)     |         (living 1673)
   of New York City    |
         ______________|_________________
         |                              |
Wyntje Theunisse                Hillegond Theunisse
 (1628-1681+)                      (1640-1707)
= Herck Syboutszen               = Jacob Theuniszen
(ancestor of the                  de Key (d. 1691)
Kranckheyt family)                of New York City
      |                                 |
Catryntje Hercks                 The Hon. (Captain)
= Ryck Abrahamse                Teunis Jacobs De Key
  van Lent                        (1659-1702/05)
 of Newtown                      of New York City
      |                        = Helena van Brugh
      |                                 |
 Abraham Lent                    Catharina De Key
 (1674-1749)                      (1681-1722/35)
of Tarrytown, N.Y.                = Abraham Wendell
= Anna Catharina                     (1678-1734)
    Meyer                         of Boston, Mass.
      |                                 |
  Isaac Lent                     Elizabeth Wendell
 (1707-1771)                       (1704-1769)
 of Fishkill,                  = Edmund Quincy (IV)
Dutchess Co., N.Y.                  (1703-1788)
= Sara Luyster                 of Boston, merchant,
  (1714-1767)                   grad. Harvard 1722
       |                                |
 Catharina Lent                 Dr. Jacob Quincy
(say 1743-1767+)                  (1734?-1773)
= Francis Harris           of Boston, grad. Harvard 1753,
   (1740-1816),           Surgeon to Col. Joseph Dwight’s
 of Sandy Cove,              regiment at Crown Point
Digby Tp., Annapolis            = Elizabeth Williams
(now Digby) Co., N.S.                     |
       |                                 |
Catherine Harris              Elizabeth Wendell Quincy
  (1767-1846)                       (1763-1853) 
= John Comfort                 = The Hon. Asa G. Clapp
(ca. 1755-1830)                     (1762-1848)
of Clinton Tp.,                 of Portland, Maine,
  Lincoln Co.,         Deleg. to the Constitutional Convention
 Upper Canada            of 1819; Rep. in State Legislature;
       |                        said to have been the
       |                       wealthiest man in Maine
       |                                 |
Francis Comfort               Elizabeth Williams Clapp
  (1800-1880)                        (1796-1873)
 of Beamsville,           = (Judge) The Hon. Levi Woodbury
Clinton Tp., Lincoln Co.              (1789-1851)
= Jemima Wilcox              of Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
  (1801-1876)                 governor, state senator,
        |                      secretary of the navy,
        |                    secretary of the treasury,
        |             Assoc. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
        |                                 |
 Margaret Comfort          Mary Elizabeth ("Minna") Woodbury     
  (1833-1916)                        (1821-1887)
= John Kennedy (IV)           = The Hon. Montgomery Blair
   (1832-1897),                      (1813-1883)
  of St. Anns,                  of St. Louis, Missouri
 Gainsborough Tp.,           Postmaster-General of the U.S.,
   Lincoln Co.                   lawyer, abolitionist
        |                                 |
  John Kennedy (V)                 Woodbury Blair
   (1862-1939)                       (1852-1933)
of Melita, Manitoba,            1st Postmaster-General
     Canada                      of Lincoln, Nebraska
= Susanna Samantha             ~ Maria Latham Anderson
   Helena Young                    (ca. 1856-     )
   (1882-1937)                            /
        |                                 \
        |                          (illegitimate)
Jean Margaret Kennedy              Ethel Anderson Fogg
   (1917-2000)                (adopted by Fogg family)
 = Richard Harry                     (1888-1972?)
 Mitchelson, Jr.               = William Brooks Clift
   (1914-1998),                      (1886-1964)
of Winnipeg, Manitoba                      |
   (my natural                            |
  grandparents)                           |
                                          |
                               (Edward) Montgomery Clift
                                     (1920-1966)
                                     film actor

The Blair House

La famila materna de Montgomery Clift eran los Blair, acaudalada familia que tuvo entre sus miembros varios políticos del gabinete del presidente Abraham Lincoln y generales que lucharon en la Guerra de Secesión.

Actualmente, el edificio que acoge a los invitados de la Casa Blanca se llama The Blair House.

Welcome to the Blair House

En el inicio de la web, recogen esta frase de Montgomery Blair (bisabuelo del actor, ver post):

"The house is magnificent in appareance and everybody agrees that it is now the finest and most complete of any inthe city"

* Blair family:

Francis Preston Blair y su esposa Eliza Violet Gist

The Blair family was politically active and powerfully connected from the moment they arrived in Washington, D.C. Francis Preston Blair was a journalist from Frankfort, Kentucky, and his editorials in support of the fledgling administration of President Andrew Jackson attracted the president's attention. Jackson invited Blair to move to Washington and become editor of the pro-administration newspaper the Globe. In 1830 the Blair family (Francis Preston Blair, his wife Eliza and their three children) moved to the nation's capital, and in 1837 they took up residence in the home that became known as the Blair House.In his role as the editor of the Globe, Francis Preston Blair held a great deal of political power. He was also the most influential member of the informal group of advisors known as President Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet." When Martin Van Buren succeeded Andrew Jackson as president, Francis Preston Blair remained an important advisor and confidant to the new president.With the election of President James Polk, however, Francis Preston Blair was forced out as the publisher of the Globe. He sold the paper at a profit and moved for several years to another home in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1845 until 1852 Blair House was leased, with tenants including Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft and Secretary of the Interior Thomas Ewing.The Blairs took occupancy again in 1852, and in 1854 Francis Preston Blair's eldest son, Montgomery, returned from practicing law in Missouri and moved into the home. He served as Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln, who also counted Francis Preston Blair as a trusted friend and informal advisor.In 1859 Francis Preston Blair built 1653 Pennsylvania Avenue for his daughter Elizabeth Blair Lee and her husband, Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee. This home, known as Lee House, is today an integral part of the Blair House complex.


* Blair House:


The original Blair House was built in 1824. We describe it as the original Blair House because it is the Pennsylvania Avenue home into which Francis Preston Blair and his family moved in 1837. What is today known as Blair House is in fact the combination of that original home and three other handsome townhouses. While they appear from the outside to be independent of one another, the four homes are connected internally.Together, the complex is larger than the White House, with 119 rooms and total area of 70,000 square feet. There are 14 guest bedrooms, eight staff bedrooms, 35 bathrooms, four dining rooms, kitchen facilities, laundry and dry cleaning facilities, an exercise room, a flower shop, and a fully equipped hair salon. Blair House strives to be comfortable, discreet and secure, and to provide any service that a visiting dignitary might require.Political significanceBlair House was a politically significant location almost from the moment the Blair family took up residence. In his role as the publisher of the Globe newspaper, Blair lived a highly political life, and a number of presidents—including Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and Abraham Lincoln—found his advice, counsel and insight very valuable.Today, Blair House remains politically important, but in a different way. Since 1942, it has served the nation as a guest house for heads of state visiting the White House. In this role it plays a crucial part in American foreign policy. An invitation to visit the United States and stay at Blair House is an extraordinary honor for a foreign head of state, and the staff at Blair House works tirelessly to ensure that the visit is gracious, comfortable, and conveys the honor to which any head of state—a president, a prime minister, or a reigning monarch—is entitled. In fact, during a foreign leader's stay at Blair House, the flag of that leader's nation flies over Blair House, and Blair House serves as a de facto diplomatic mission of that nation.This courtesy helps to make a visit—whether a ceremonial appearance or a matter of truly global significance—a comfortable experience for our nation's official guests. In the context of American foreign affairs, the comfort of a stay at Blair House can actually be a matter of national importance!


Almost since the day it was built, Blair House has been a part of American and world history. The events discussed on this website are remarkably varied, and include matters of national and international importance. While these events are very different, they share significant connections to the history of this home, and the people who have lived and worked here.Use the navigation to the left to explore different historical events related to Blair House


Like those in any home, the rooms of Blair House have long served both formal and informal roles. They combine warmth, comfort, privacy and security; for more than 180 years these spaces have provided residents and visitors with agreeable surroundings for decisions large and small. Many rooms in the home have in fact become closely associated with historic events and historic personalities.The furnishings, objects and artwork in these rooms are in many cases as significant as the rooms themselves. When the United States Government purchased Blair House in 1942, the acquisition included a significant portion of the furnishings and artwork used in the house. This original collection has been supplemented through private donations to and acquisitions by the private non-profit Blair House Restoration Fund. Donations are also received through the State Department’s Office of Fine Arts.The navigation at left includes listings of specific rooms in Blair House as well as select objects and artwork from the collection—including furnishings, paintings, documents and more.

* Francis Preston Blair Sr. (tatarabuelo)
* Montgomery Blair (bisabuelo)

Antepasados rama materna: árbol genealógico

Francis Preston Blair = Eliza Violet Gist Levi Woodbury (1789-1851)

(1791-1876) (1794-1877) .
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Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) = (2ª) Mary Woodbury
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Woodbury Blair (1852-1933) & Maria Anderson
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Ethel "Sunny" Foog = Wlliam Brooks Clift

Montgomery Blair

Esta es la biografía que ecoge la wikipedia sobre el ilustre abuelo materno de Montgomery Clift:

Montgomery Blair (May 10, 1813 – July 27, 1883), the son of Francis Preston Blair, elder brother of Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and cousin of B. Gratz Brown, was a politician and lawyer from Maryland. He was a loyal member of the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Blair was hot-tempered, and in 1864 he launched an all-out attack against Republican liberals.

Blair was born in Franklin County, Kentucky. His father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., was, as editor of the Washington Globe, a prominent figure in the Democratic Party during the Jacksonian era. Blair graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1835, but after a year's service in the Seminole War, he left the Army, studied law, and began practice at St Louis, Missouri. After serving as United States district attorney (1839–43) and as judge of the court of common pleas (1834–1849), he moved to Maryland in 1852 and devoted himself to law practice principally in the United States Supreme Court. He was United States Solicitor in the Court of Claims (1855–58) and was associated with George T. Curtis as counsel for the plaintiff in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857.

The Blairs, like many other nationalist Democrats, but unusually for politicians from the border states, had abandoned the Democratic Party in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and had been among the founding leaders of the new Republican Party. In 1860 Montgomery Blair took an active part in the presidential campaign in behalf of Abraham Lincoln. After his election, Lincoln invited Blair to be part of his cabinet as Postmaster-General. Lincoln expected Blair, who advocated taking a firm stance with the southern states, to help balance more conciliatory members of his cabinet.[1] Blair served as Postmaster-General from 1861 until September 1864, when Lincoln accepted an earlier offer by Blair to resign. Lincoln's action may have been a response to the hostility of the Radical Republican faction, who stipulated that Blair's retirement should follow the withdrawal of John C. Frémont's name as a candidate for the presidential nomination in that year. Regarding Lincoln's action, Blair told his wife that the president had acted "from the best motives" and that "it is for the best all around." After he left the cabinet, Blair still campaigned for Lincoln's re-election and Lincoln and the Blair family retained close ties.[2]

Under Blair's administration, such reforms and improvements as the establishment of free city delivery, the adoption of a money order system, and the use of railway mail cars were instituted — the last having been suggested by George B. Armstrong (d. 1871), of Chicago, who from 1869 until his death was general superintendent of the United States railway mail service.
Differing from the Republican Party on the Reconstruction policy, Blair gave his adherence to the Democratic Party after the Civil War, along with his brother, who was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1868.

His manor in present-day Silver Spring, Maryland was named Falkland. It was burned by Confederate troops during their thrust towards Washington, D.C. He died at Silver Spring. Montgomery Blair's wife was Mary Woodbury, a daughter of Levi Woodbury. Together, they were the great-grandparents of actor Montgomery Clift.

Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Para ver la información en castellano y fotos del personaje, ver este post.

La historia familiar de Sunny, la madre de Monty

La madre de Sunny era Maria Anderson, de Virginia, hija del coronel Robert Anderson, jefe de la Union en el fuerte Sumter, cuya heroica defensa señaló el comienzo d ela Guerra de secesiópn.

Anderson ontrajo matrimonio a edad avanzada con Elizabeth Cough, que pertenecía a los Clark de la frontera noroccidental. Elizabeth p Eliza era imperativa e irritante con violento accesos de ira pero adorada por su marido con quien tuvo 3 hojas: Sophuie, Erba u Maria. esta úiltima, la preferida del padre a quien apodaba Bobbie por su propio nombre.

Cuando falleció en 1880, su esposa se neghó a permitir qyue suis hijas salieran de su caa de Washington diciéndoles culemente "De todos modos seréis unas solteronas"

En 1886 Maria pud aasistir a bauiles y recepcionesd contando ya 30 años. En algún moemnto conoció a Woodbury Blair, gallardo soltyerón hijo de Montgoemry Blais, fical de dredv Scott y también director general de Correos del gabinete de Lincoln. Pese a la desaporbación materna maria pudo verse con Woody. pero la madre desaporbó tal noviazho por el odio que sentía . Estaba furiosa con el padre de Woody porque consideraba qie podía haber convencico

árbol genealógico

En esta web, tienes la oportunidad de rastrear en los ancestros de celebridades.

Aquí se encuentra el ÁRBOL GENEALÓGICO de los CLIFT y los BLAIR-ANDERSON.

En este enlace acaba el último antepasado; conocerlo es asombroso. La verdad es que la labor de documentación es encomiable y ese afán de los norteamericanos por conservar con orgullo su historia es meritorio.

Di con ella gracias a C.

Montgomery Blair, bisabuelo materno de Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Blair (1813-1883), otro antepasado ilustre. Como curiosidad, era también gemelo y es al que se parece Monty en sus rasgos morenos y de cejas pobladas.

Destacado abogado y político fue miembro del gabinete del presidente Lincoln durante la Guerra de Secesión y ocupó como cargo el 20th United States Postmaster General. Además de la Wikipedia, para saber más de él, ved los enlaces de ésa página.

En las imágenes aparece tras su cargo de Postmaster y tras la Guerra de Secesión.

La pintura hace referencia a la Proclamación de la Emancipación: Lincoln met with his Cabinet for the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation draft on July 22, 1862. L-R: Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Caleb B. Smith, William H. Seward, Montgomery Blair and Edward Bates.

Se conserva bastante información sobre su labor en el gabinete Lincoln: ver cartas de la web Mr. Lincoln & Friends. Ver otras cartas.

Como podemos ver en su biografía, su hermano fue Francis Preston Blair, Jr. (político y genera en la Guerra de Secesión), ambos hijos de Francis Preston Blair, Sr. , periodista y fundador del Globe.

Este es un sello conmemorativo suyo y el lugar donde está enterrado (en Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, DC.)

En su honor, ua escuela lleva su nombre: Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.