Who was an American lawyer with a family of Scots-Irish ancestry of the Methodist faith from the patrilineal lineage?
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Getty family The Getty family of the United States identify with George Franklin Getty and his son Jean Paul Getty as their patriarchs. In the 20th century they were heavily involved in the petroleum industry. The Getty family is of Scots-Irish ancestry of the Methodist faith from the patrilineal lineage, their ancestors having migrated to North America from Cullavmor, in what is now County Londonderry. Several members of the Getty family have lived in England, including Sir Paul Getty who took British citizenship. The Getty family is distantly related to Samuel Gettys, founder of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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George Getty George Franklin Getty (October 17, 1855 – May 31, 1930) was an American lawyer, father of industrialist J. Paul Getty and patriarch of the Getty family.
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James Cunningham Bishop James Cunningham Bishop (1870 - 1932), a son of New York capitalist Heber Reginald Bishop, was a banker who married Abigail Adams Hancock (1870-?) in 1891 and had five children. They divorced in 1913 in what was an early high profile divorce. Bishop's attorney was Henry Waters Taft, brother of ex-president William Howard Taft.
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John Wingate Thornton John Wingate Thornton (August 12, 1818–June 6, 1878) was a United States lawyer, historian, antiquarian, book collector and author.
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L. Frank Baum Baum was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 into a devout Methodist family. He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. "Lyman" was the name of his father's brother, but he always disliked it and preferred his middle name "Frank".
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Horatio Spafford Horatio Gates Spafford (October 20, 1828, Troy, New York – October 16, 1888, Jerusalem) was a prominent American lawyer and Presbyterian church elder. He is best known for penning the Christian hymn "It Is Well With My Soul", following a family tragedy in which his four daughters died aboard the S.S. Ville du Havre on a transatlantic voyage.
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Thomas Mellon Thomas Alexander Mellon (February 3, 1813 – February 3, 1908) was a Scotch-Irish American, entrepreneur, lawyer, and judge, best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh.
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Stephen P. Nash Stephen Payne Nash (August 26, 1821 – June 4, 1898) was a lawyer in New York City and an expert in church law.
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Rex E. Lee Rex Edwin Lee (February 27, 1935 – March 11, 1996) was an American lawyer, law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General during the Reagan administration. He argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Lee was an alumnus and the tenth president of Brigham Young University (BYU). Lee was a first cousin of Mo Udall and Stewart Udall.
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George P. Monaghan George Patrick Monaghan (June 10, 1901 – September 6, 1986) was an American lawyer.
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John T. Clancy John Thomas Clancy (April 11, 1903 – May 14, 1985), also known by his nickname Pat Clancy, was a lawyer, Democratic politician and surrogate judge from Queens, New York City.
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Samuel F. Phillips Samuel Field Phillips (February 18, 1824 – November 18, 1903) was a civil rights pioneer, lawyer, politician, and the second U.S. Solicitor General (1872–1885). He took part in the landmark civil rights case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
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Barbara Heck Barbara Heck (born Ballingrane, County Limerick, Ireland, 1734; died Augusta, Ontario, 17 August 1804) was an early American Methodist, known as the “mother of American Methodism.”
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Erskine Mayo Ross Erskine Mayo Ross (June 30, 1845 – December 10, 1928) was an American attorney and jurist from California. He served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in from 1895 until 1928, having assumed senior status in 1925. A native of Virginia, previously he was a judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and the Supreme Court of California. He is also one of the three founding fathers of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
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Bowman Foster Stockwell Bowman Foster Stockwell (17 September 1899 – 5 June 1961) was a bishop of The Methodist Church of the United States, elected in 1960.
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Dexter Russell Wright Dexter Russell Wright (June 27, 1821 – July 23, 1886) was an American lawyer and politician.
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Clarence M. York Clarence Melville York (November 1868 – June 20, 1906) was an American attorney who, in the 1890s, was one of the first law clerks to the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Christopher Nixon Cox Christopher Nixon Cox (born March 14, 1979) is an American lawyer based in New York. He is the son of Tricia Nixon Cox and Edward F. Cox and grandson of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States and Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States.
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Philip Brodie, Lord Brodie Philip Hope Brodie, Lord Brodie, is a Scottish lawyer and one of the Senators of the College of Justice, a Judge of Scotland's Supreme Courts.
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Stephen Dodd Law Stephen Dodd Law (June 25, 1820 – October 22, 1886) was an American lawyer and author.
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Marshall Davis Ewell Marshall Davis Ewell (August 18, 1844 – 1928) was an American lawyer.
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Robert Bogardus Robert Bogardus (May 22, 1771 "Possession House", St. John's Park, New York City - September 12, 1841 New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York, a lineal descendent of Dominie Everardus Bogardus.