Parents:
James A. Folger (1835 - 1889)
Eleanor Laughran Folger (1837 - 1906)
Founders of the Folger Coffee Company in San Francisco, Calif.
Coffee Merchant died of cancer
In about 1904 James Folger built a large estate in Woodside, California. Part of that estate including the large elaborate stable is open to the public as a part of Wunderlich Park. See Photo.
Children:
James Athearn Folger b: 5 Oct 1900
Peter Folger b: 26 Dec 1905
His ancestral great grandmother, Mary Morrill Folger (1620-1703) is mentioned by name in Chapter 24 of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". Melville mentions that she was the grandmother of Benjamin Franklin when justifying the morality of whaling as a profession on Nantucket Island.
The DAR chapter on Nantucket Island is named after her daughter Abiah Folger (1667-1752) who was the mother Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Mary Morrill Folger is my ninth great grandmother and Benjamin Franklin is my first cousin.
Bio by Michael Ratliff Lutz
Parents:
James A. Folger (1835 - 1889)
Eleanor Laughran Folger (1837 - 1906)
Founders of the Folger Coffee Company in San Francisco, Calif.
Coffee Merchant died of cancer
In about 1904 James Folger built a large estate in Woodside, California. Part of that estate including the large elaborate stable is open to the public as a part of Wunderlich Park. See Photo.
Children:
James Athearn Folger b: 5 Oct 1900
Peter Folger b: 26 Dec 1905
His ancestral great grandmother, Mary Morrill Folger (1620-1703) is mentioned by name in Chapter 24 of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". Melville mentions that she was the grandmother of Benjamin Franklin when justifying the morality of whaling as a profession on Nantucket Island.
The DAR chapter on Nantucket Island is named after her daughter Abiah Folger (1667-1752) who was the mother Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Mary Morrill Folger is my ninth great grandmother and Benjamin Franklin is my first cousin.
Bio by Michael Ratliff Lutz
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