The Genealogy of Governor Curtin

Andrew Gregg Curtin was born 22 April 1817. He married Katharine Irvine Wilson (1821 – 1903). Katherine was born to William Irvine Wilson (1793 – 1883) and Mary Potter (1798 – 1861). They had seven children: Mary, Myron, Katherine, Bessie, Jane, Martha, and William.

Mary Wilson Curtin (March 1846 – 1927) married a physician George Fairlamb Harris (March 1843 – 1911) in 1871

Catherine Curtin Harris (1871-1936) married a bank cashier named John McCoy Shugart (1870 - 1924) in 1899

Infant son (1900 - 1900)
George Harris Shugart (b. 1 February 1903 – 23 June 1963) married Helen Cruse on 2 January 1937.

George Harris Shugart, Jr. (b. 4 January 1940 – 7 April 2013) married Elizabeth Russell on 12 December 1980.

Allison Elizabeth Shugart (9 May 1983 – 9 May 1983)
Ame Laurine Shugart (9 May 1983 – 10 May 1983)

Mary McCoy Shugart (b. 31 May 1907)

Adeline (b. circa 1878)

Jane Gregg Curtin (b. 17 January 1847 d. 11 November 1893) married William H. Sage, the son of Cornell University benefactor Henry W. Sage

Katharine Curtin Sage (b. 3 July 1871) married Ernest Ingersoll White on 22 October 1895

Jane Sage White (b. circa 1897)
Marayan Strong White (b. circa 1898)
Katharine Curtin White

Henry W. Sage (b. circa 1872)
Andrew C. Sage (b. circa 1874)
De Witt L. Sage (b. circa 1875)

Martha Irvine Curtin (b. circa 1849)
Myron Stanley Curtin (1854 – 1857)
William Wilson Curtin (b. circa 1851)
Katherine “Kate” Irvine Wilson Curtin (May 1861 – 1930) married Moses Dewitt Burnett (1854 – 1920) in 1888

Katherine Munro Burnet (1889 – 1973)
Margaret Barber Burnet (February 1890 – 1977)
An Infant (1892 – 1892)

Bessie Elliott Curtin (1865 – 1866)

Sources:

1850

Census

1860 US Census

1870 US Census – surname as “Cartin”

1880

Census

1900 US Census

1910 US Census

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