{"id":80933,"date":"2021-10-20T13:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=80933"},"modified":"2021-10-20T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T17:08:16","slug":"mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-vi.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part VI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Introduction<\/em><\/strong><em>: In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series profiling descendants of the Mayflower settlers, focusing on the White, Enegren and Olds families. Melissa is a genealogist who has a blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestoryarchives.com\/\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AnceStory Archives<\/a>, and a Facebook group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/HistoryGenNEFamilies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England Family Genealogy and History<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today I continue with my <em>Mayflower<\/em> \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d descendants series. Washington Mayflower Society members were featured in a <em>Seattle Daily Times<\/em> article in 1922 as they celebrated their cherished holiday Forefather\u2019s Day to commemorate the landing at Plymouth in 1620. State historian Ada Caldwell White (1880-1959) descends from Francis Cooke. Her four-year-old son Henry Middleton White Jr. was pictured in the newsclip.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80937\" style=\"width: 349px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A127D718D1E33F961%40GB3NEWS-129DCDDA229DA471%402423413-1287FB793794B658%4065-1287FB793794B658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-henry-white-photo.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Henry White, Seattle Daily Times newspaper article 24 December 1922\" width=\"349\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-henry-white-photo.jpg 349w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-henry-white-photo-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, Washington), 24 December 1922, page 66<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I found other <em>Mayflower<\/em> passengers in her line \u2013 John Alden and Priscilla Mullins \u2013 through her grandfather Thomas Baxter Caldwell\u2019s marriage to Mary Ann Ames. This makes her ninth in descent from John Alden and tenth in descent from William Mullins. Here is the genealogy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ada Baxter Caldwell Ada married 1st Henry M. White (married 2nd Lewis Larkin Berens)<\/li>\n<li>Emma Isoline Whittier and Thomas Ellis Caldwell<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Baxter Caldwell and Mary Ann Ames<\/li>\n<li>William Ames and Polly Ager<\/li>\n<li>Israel Alger and Rachel Howard<\/li>\n<li>George Howard and Abigail Copeland<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Copeland and Bette Snell<\/li>\n<li>William Copeland and Mary (nee Bass) Spear, widow of Ebenezer Spear<\/li>\n<li>John Bass and Ruth Alden<\/li>\n<li>John Alden and Priscilla Mullins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An obituary for Ada\u2019s 4th great grandfather Jonathan Copeland, published in the <em>Pennsylvania Mercury and Universal Advertiser <\/em>on 30 September 1790, notes his many descendants and the astonishing increase of generations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80941\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80941\" style=\"width: 639px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A10CEB9649DDDCC38%40GB3NEWS-10E0D1E8BAFCFB90%402375117-10E0D1E92F4EB3D8%403-10E0D1EA4D1522E8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80941\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pennsylvania-mercury-and-universal-advertiser-newspaper-0930-1790-jonathan-copeland.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Jonathan Copeland, Pennsylvania Mercury and Universal Advertiser newspaper article 30 September 1790\" width=\"639\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pennsylvania-mercury-and-universal-advertiser-newspaper-0930-1790-jonathan-copeland.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/pennsylvania-mercury-and-universal-advertiser-newspaper-0930-1790-jonathan-copeland-300x88.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pennsylvania Mercury and Universal Advertiser (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 30 September 1790, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In that <em>Seattle Daily Times<\/em> article, Nina Olds Enegren \u2013 a descendant of Governor Bradford, John and Priscilla Alden, and William Mullins \u2013 was quoted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80943\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80943\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A127D718D1E33F961%40GB3NEWS-129DCDDA229DA471%402423413-1287FB793794B658%4065-1287FB793794B658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80943\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-nina-enegren.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Nina Enegren, Seattle Daily Times newspaper article 24 December 1922\" width=\"695\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-nina-enegren.jpg 695w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-nina-enegren-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, Washington), 24 December 1922, page 66<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nina was born to Gamaliel Whitney Olds and Hannah Leffingwell Tracy. She married Robert Enegren, who emigrated from Sweden. Nina\u2019s grandchildren also appear in that article \u2013 Katherine, William, and Robert Garland \u2013 born to Cecile Leffingwell Enegren and William Delwie Garland. Katherine is dressed in quaint long skirts, white cap, fichu, and apron of the Pilgrim style as the demure Priscilla Alden herself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80945\" style=\"width: 459px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A127D718D1E33F961%40GB3NEWS-129DCDDA229DA471%402423413-1287FB793794B658%4065-1287FB793794B658\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-garland-children.jpg\" alt=\"An article about the Garland children, Seattle Daily Times newspaper article 24 December 1922\" width=\"459\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-garland-children.jpg 459w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-1224-1922-garland-children-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, Washington), 24 December 1922, page 66<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the Christmas holiday distractions, the Garland children took the day to be thankful for those ancestors of theirs who made such nice things possible \u2013 or rather who in 1620 laid the foundation for the happy homes of the children in 1922.<\/p>\n<p>Nina\u2019s other daughter Mrs. Helen Enegren Garrison, wife of Alfred Selman Garrison, is also mentioned. I found a beautiful photo in the <em>Seattle Daily Times<\/em> of Helen on her wedding day (23 June 1922) with her sister Cecile.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80947\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A127D718D1E33F961%40GB3NEWS-128C5F36C38AF513%402423238-1287FB5BF169F6FC%4043-1287FB5BF169F6FC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-0702-1922-helen-enegren.jpg\" alt=\"An article about Helen Enegren, Seattle Daily Times newspaper article 2 July 1922\" width=\"453\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-0702-1922-helen-enegren.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/seattle-daily-times-newspaper-0702-1922-helen-enegren-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seattle Daily Times (Seattle, Washington), 2 July 1922, page 44<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All the Olds women were also members of the Daughters of the American Revolution under patriots Benjamin Olds, Perley Howe, and Daniel Leffingwell.<\/p>\n<p>Nina was the principal of the Bradford Hall School for girls, a day and home preparatory school in Seattle whose goal was to foster habits of thoroughness and self-reliance before high school and advanced work. The annual cost for Bradford Hall was about $450 \u2013 almost $13,000 today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80949\" style=\"width: 589px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/photo-1020-2021-bradford-hall-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/photo-1020-2021-bradford-hall-school.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Bradford Hall School for Girls, Seattle, Washington. Courtesy of Nina Enegren\u2019s granddaughter, Sandra Taylor.\" width=\"589\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/photo-1020-2021-bradford-hall-school.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/photo-1020-2021-bradford-hall-school-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Bradford Hall School for Girls, Seattle, Washington. Courtesy of Nina Enegren\u2019s granddaughter, Sandra Taylor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nina\u2019s interest in cultivating social progress shows up in an announcement in the <em>Minneapolis Journal<\/em> from 1897. Nina was heading a committee to organize a social science club for the purpose of bettering social conditions, inspired by the lectures of Professor Charles Zeublin, known for his urban activism and celebrating the city\u2019s diversity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80951\" style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A11343198E7EDF450%40GB3NEWS-116E845619A16AA8%402414053-116E84568671E700%401-116E84598FB20548\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/minneapolis-journal-newspaper-0508-1897-sociology-club.jpg\" alt=\"An article about a social science club, Minneapolis Journal newspaper article 8 May 1897\" width=\"517\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/minneapolis-journal-newspaper-0508-1897-sociology-club.jpg 517w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/minneapolis-journal-newspaper-0508-1897-sociology-club-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, Minnesota), 8 May 1897, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stay tuned for Washington Mayflower Society member Mrs. Annette Fitch Nelson \u2013 her story full of color and scandal is up next!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note:<\/em><\/strong> Just as an online collection of newspapers, such as GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;s_referrer=social&amp;s_siteloc=blog&amp;s_trackval=SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;kbid=69919&amp;pq=1&amp;prebuy=no&amp;intver=&amp;CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, helped tell the stories of the White, Enegren and Olds families, they can tell you stories about your ancestors that can\u2019t be found anywhere else. Come look today and see what you can discover!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Additional Note<\/em><\/strong> on the header image: Nina Olds Enegren. Courtesy of her granddaughter Sandra Taylor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-i.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-ii.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-iii.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part III<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-iv.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part IV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/mayflower-descendants-whos-who-part-v.html\">Mayflower Descendants: Who\u2019s Who, Part V<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, Melissa Berry continues her series profiling descendants of the Mayflower settlers, focusing on the White, Enegren and Olds families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":80957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[58029,12,18761,58031],"class_list":["post-80933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-ada-caldwell-white","tag-genealogy","tag-mayflower-and-pilgrims","tag-nina-olds-enegren"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/photo-1020-2021-featured-graphic-nina-enegren.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80955,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80933\/revisions\/80955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}