Evening star., 1936-02-02
Capital Sidelights
By Will p. Kennedy.

Representative George Holden Tink-
ham, the bewhiskered Boston Back Bay
member who is serving his tWenty-s second
consecutive year in the Housewife is
usually found fighting what seems to be
a lost cause for principles heartened
by the belief that he is "the first citi-
zen" of this country. That is based on
the fact that his forbears on both the
paternal and maternal side arrived in
America before the progenitors of any
other man whose name has place in
American history. He had several an
cestors on the Mayflower-that fact has
been often boasted. But Mr.. Tinkham
has just received report on an intensive
study to see how his direct line to the
earliest Colonists compares with such
notables as George Washington, John
Adams, Thomas jefferson. James Madi-
son, Benjamin Franklin, John Marshall
and Andrew Jackson.
In the direct male line Mr.. Tinkham
has descended from Peter Brown, who
arrived on the Mayf1ower in 1620-just
$50 years before Mr.. Tinkham was born
in Boston-and who died in 1888 His
daughter, Mary Brown, married Ephraim
Tinkham at Plymouth, October q, 1647.
She was born in Plymouth in 1627-just
seven years after her Pilgrim father
waded ashore from the Mayflower On
the maternal side he traces back to
Richard Holden born in England in 1909,
who came to WatertoWn, Mass, in 1884,
on the ship Francis. 1t is from this
progenitor that the Representative gets
his middle name Holden"
The research experts in the Library
of Congress have supplied Mr.. Tinkham
with summary on the arrival of great
American families which is Of general
interest
John Washington, grandfather of
George, settled in Virginia about 1857
and became planter at Bridges Greek,
on the Potomac in Westmoreland County
The mother of George Washington was
Mary Ball, whose ancestor, William Ball
emigrated from England about the year
1850.
John Adams, second President of the
United States, was of the fourth genera
ton from Henry Adams, of yeoman stock,
copyholder of the manor of Barton st.
David. Somerset County, England. He
married Edith, daughter of Henry
Squire of Charlton Mackrell, Somerset
County, and for three generations after
he came tn Mount WollaSton (Braintree),
Mass, about 1886, his descendants re-
manned in that town-a line of ''virtuous.
independent New England farmers" The
mother of John Adams was Susanna
Boylston, whose ancestor, Thomas Boyls-
ton, came from England to Watertown,
Mass. in 1886.
Whether or not the first Jefferson in
America came from Wales, as the family
tradition held, Thomas jefferson was
living in Henrico County, Va, in 1877.
and married Mary Branch. The mother
of Thomas Jefferson was Jane Randolph,
and the mother of John Marshall was
Mary Randolph (Keith). The ancestor
of Jane Randolph and Mary Randolph
Keith was William Randolph of Turkey
Island" who came to Virginia from
WarWickshire, England, about 1878. His
descendants included Thomas jefferson,
Thomas Marshall and Robert E. Lee.
The paternal line of James Madison
can be safely traced no farther back
than to John Madison, ship carpenter
of Gloucester County, who received con-
siderable grants of Virginia land in 1853
and succeeding years and who died prior
to April 16, 1888. This is one generation
farther back than James Madison him
self traced his lineage. The mother OF
James Madison was Eleanor Rose. or ss
he himself seems to have always called
her, Nelly" Conway. Her ancestor was
Edwin Conway of Worcestershire. Eng
land who came to Virginia in 1910.
The father of Benjamin Franklin,
Josiah, came to New England about 1882.
moving from Banbury to Boston in 1885
He emigrated from Ecton Northampton
shire, England, where the parish records
of his Protestant ancestors run back to
1855. The mother of Benjamin Frank
lin was Abiah Folger, daughter of Peter
Folger who emigrated to Massachusetts
about 1885.
John Marshall, grandfather of Chies
Justice Marshall, was a native of Wales
and emigrated to America about the
year 1870.
Andrew Jacksons father. for whom
he was named; his mother, Elizabeth
and two brothers had
migrated from the neighborhood of
in the North of Ireland,
n 1865