Abner Doubleday (1819 - 1893)

Born 26 Jun 1819 in Ballston Spa, Saratoga, New York, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Hewitt) Doubleday — married 27 Jan 1852 in District of Columbia, United States

Died 26 Jan 1893 at age 73 in Mendham, Mendham Township, Morris, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Abner Doubleday is Notable.

Major General Abner Doubleday served in the United States Civil War.
Side: USA
Regiment(s): New York 2nd Regiment Heavy Artillery

Family Members
Parents
Ulysses Doubleday (US Congressman, b. 15-Dec-1792, d. 10-Mar-1866)
Hester Donnelly Doubleday (b. 30-Aug-1788, m. 10-Oct-1814, d. 14-Nov-1859)
Siblings
Thomas Donnelly Doubleday (bookstore owner, b. 18-Feb-1816, d. 9-Mar-1864)
Ulysses Doubleday, Jr. (stock broker, b. 31-Aug-1824, d. 11-Feb-1893)
Wife
Mary Hewitt Doubleday (b. circa 1823, m. 1852, d. 13-Mar-1907, no children)

Mistakenly considered the inventor of baseball, Major General Abner Doubleday is thought to be the man who fired the first shot in the US Civil War. He was in command of the Union forces at Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina that fateful morning on April 12, 1861.

Abner is the son of Ulysses F. Doubleday and Hester Donnelly. His father, a publisher, had fought in the war of 1812 and represented Auburn, New York for four years in the United States Congress. His grandfather, Abner Doubleday, had fought in the American Revolutionary War. Given the family's military legacy, Abner enrolled at the United States Military Academy in 1838 and graduated in 1842. He had a long military career which led to his promotion to Major General and heavy involvement in the Mexican-American War, Seminole Wars, American Civil War and the American Indian Wars.

excerpt from Wikipedia: One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time. Doubleday never claimed to have invented baseball. Neither his letters nor his diaries nor his New York Times obituary ever mentions the game.

Sources

• http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/abner-doubleday

• http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/doubledy.htm

• Wikipedia:Abner_Doubleday

• http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/A-gauntlet-not-a-glove-1333148.php

• http://www.nndb.com/people/443/000022377/

• https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDYX-XBN

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4830/abner-doubleday

• Kristopher D. White and Chris Mackowski, Stay and Fight it Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield (El Dorado Hills, CA: Savas Beatie, 2023), xix.

• 1850 United States Federal Census.

• 1890 United States Federal Census.

• District of Columbia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1810-1953.

Photo:

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017660622/