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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 US Census
1860 US Census
1870 US Census – surname as “Cartin”
1880 US Census
1900 US Census
1910 US Census

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