Monday, February 10, 2020

A Connection to Yale University


    Elihu Yale was a prominent merchant and trader in the second half of the 17th century. He was
born in Boston in 1649 to David and Ursula Yale. When he was just three years old the Yale family returned to England where he was educated and served the East India Company eventually becoming the first president of the company's post in Chennai (then called Madras), India.
    Elihu became very wealthy and influential during his time as president. In 1718, a founder of the Collegiate School of Connecticut contacted Yale and asked for donation towards a new building. Yale sent 417 books, a variety of goods and a portrait of King George I. The bales of goods were sold and the money was put toward a new building. In a show of gratitude, the building was named Yale. Eventually the college was renamed in his honor.
     In his later years, Yale split his time between his home in London and his family's ancestral home of Plas Grono in Wrexham in the north of Wales.
    Elihu Yale was my first cousin 13x's removed.


Thomas Yale and Anne Lloyd

Thomas II (1616-1683) m. Rebecca Gibbards                 David (1613-1690) m. Ursula  
Thomas Yale  (1679-1750) m.  Mary Benham                 Elihu Yale  (1649-1721)   
Benjamin Yale (1714-1781) m. Ruth Ives                                                                          
Job Yale (1738-1799) m. Elizabeth Hendrick                                   
Ozias Yale (1766-1853) m. Hannah Hotchkiss          
Isabella Yale (1792-1871) m. Ransom Woodruff
Hannah Woodruff (1811-1881) m. Milo Caldwell
Adaline Caldwell (1834-?) m. Noah Wirt
Esther Jane Wirt (1856-?)  m. Newell Birkett Spees
Beulah Mae Spees (1882-1945) m.  W.F. Smith
Oda Zelle Smith (1908-1975) m. Clovis Spearman
My grandfather                            




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