Alan Arthur was the Paternal Grandfather of Chester Alan Arthur the 21st President of the United States.
Alan Arthur was born around 1776 in The Draen, Near Ballymena, Antrim, Ireland. He was the son of Gavin Arthur and Jane Campbell. [1]
Alan married married Eliza MacHerg Macharg/McHarg/McHerg
Millennium File
Name: Alan Arthur
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1776
Birth Place: "The Draen", Ballymena, Ireland
Father: Gavin Arthur
Mother: Jane Campbell
Spouse: Eliza Macharg
Children: William (Rev) Arthur
Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting. Description: The Millennium File contains more than 880,000 linked family records, with lineages from throughout the world, including colonial America, the British Isles, Switzerland, and Germany.
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Presidential Families of the United States of America. First ed. Arco Company, 1975
Arthur, Elijah A., Historical Sketch of the Gregory, Johnson, Vance and Steen Families: Also the Arthur Family, Princeton, Indiana?: (1937), Page 16.
Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 508.
Reeves, Thomas C., Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1975), 4.
Acknowledgments
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