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Cyrus Abda (C. A.) Dolph (September 27, 1840 - June 22, 1914) was a businessman in Portland, Oregon, United States. He was a promoter and counselor of various financial and railway enterprises of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He was born September 27, 1840, on a farm near Havana, Chemung, now Schuyler County, New York. He was called Abda in honor of one of his forefathers, Abda Dolph, who was born in Bolton, Massachusetts, in 1740, and served with distinction in the Revolutionary war, as did his brother Charles.〔 == Ancestry == The ancestry of the family can be traced back to the 17th century. Family history records that Balthazar De Wolf, who was born about 1620, resided for some years in Wethersfield, Connecticut, and in 1664 became a resident of Lyme, that state. He was married in 1645 and unto him and his wife, Alice, there were born six children, the eldest of whom was Edward De Wolf, who was born in 1646 and died in 1712, after having been a lifelong resident of Lyme. Unto Edward De Wolf and his wife, Rebecca, there were born four sons: Simon, in 1671; Charles, in 1673; Benjamin, in 1675; and Edward, Jr.〔 The line of descent is traced through the second son, Charles, who for many years resided in Middletown, Connecticut, where he died in 1731, his wife, Prudence, surviving him for ten years. Their son Joseph De Wolf, born in 1717, lost his life in the battle of Louisberg in 1757 while serving with the colonial army in the French and Indian war. Joseph De Wolf wedded Tabitha Johnson and their son Abda was also a soldier of the French and Indian war and, as previously stated, was numbered among the Revolutionary heroes, serving with Colonel Whiting's regiment of New York troops from Albany county.〔 During the French and Indian war, he changed the orthography of the name from the French to the English form, adopting the present spelling of Dolph. He wedded Mary Coleman, a daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth Coleman, of New Haven, Connecticut. Their son Joseph was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, June 6, 1767, followed teaching and surveying and died December 21, 1827. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Norton, was born in 1772 and died in 1839. Her parents were Joseph and Martha Norton, the latter a daughter of Jabez and Elizabeth (Allen) Norton. Both Joseph and Martha Norton were descended from Nicholas Norton, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, (1636–60). During much of his life he made his home at Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard. It is said that of the thirteen hundred and fifty-six inhabitants of that place in 1790 one hundred and seventy-four of these were Nortons. The progenitor of the family, Nicholas Norton, had a son Benjamin, whose son Nicholas married Martha Daggett, and their son, Jabez Norton, was the father of Mrs. Elizabeth (Norton) Dolph. Little is known concerning the first Nicholas, except that he was born in 1610 and died in 1690, after having for years made his home at Weymouth and then at Edgartown.〔 Mention has been made of one of the Norton descendants, who married a member of the Daggett family. This family traced its lineage to John Daggett, of Weymouth, who died in 1642. By the marriage of John Daggett to Bathsheba Pratt, there was a son Thomas, who married Hannah Mayhew, and their son Joshua, married Hannah Norton, a daughter of Isaac and Ruth Norton. Joshua and Hannah Daggett had a daughter Martha, previously mentioned as the wife of Nicholas Norton.〔 Through the wife of Thomas Daggett the family is brought into relationship with the Mayhew family of colonial fame. The founder of this family in America, Thomas Mayhew, was born in England in March 1592. In 1641 he obtained a grant of Martha's Vineyard and the neighboring island and the next year settled at Edgartown, whose inhabitants were then Indians. With him came a few Englishmen and they in turn were joined by others from their native land. However, the population still consisted almost wholly of Indians.〔 During King Philip's War, when the savages became hostile and killed the white settlers all over New England, such was the influence of Thomas Mayhew over the red men of his island that they remained quiet and peaceful, though they might easily have killed the few white men had they so desired. After a long and honorable service as governor of the island, Thomas Mayhew died in March 1682. His son Thomas was a missionary to the Indians and so greatly beloved by them that even many years after he perished at sea in a shipwreck he was seldom named by them without tears. Other members of the family also became prominent, especially Experience (born 1637, died 1758), Zachariah (1717–1806) and Jonathan (1720–1766), the last named distinguished as a theologian and patriot.〔 The genealogy is traced from Joseph and Elizabeth (Norton) Dolph to their son, Chester V. Dolph, who was born at Whitehall, New York, on Lake Champlain, February 14, 1812, and died November 3, 1869. His wife was Elizabeth V. Steele (born 1813, died 1884), whose parents were William Steele (1785–1868) and Rachel Vanderbilt (1795–1883). William Steele was a son of John B. and Grace Seville (Brown) Steele. Rachel Vanderbilt was a daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth (Rodman) Vanderbilt, her father being a member of one of the most noted pioneer families of Staten island, New York.〔 The four sons in the family of Chester V. Dolph were: Joseph N. Dolph, who later represented Oregon in the United States Senate; Cyrus A.; William V., who lived on the old homestead in New York; and John Mather, an educator at Port Jervis, New York.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cyrus A. Dolph」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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