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  • Name: James ESPY
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 9 May 1786 in Westmoreland Co, Pennsylvania b
  • Death: 24 Jan 1860 d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • James ESPY Birth: 1727 in Ireland

Family:
Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Egle, William Henry, Pennsylvania Genealogies, chiefly Scotch-Irish and German, 2nd edition, Harrisburg, 1896. Available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924028856900. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p[0-9-]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p216],
place:
[Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p216],
father:
[Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p216]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p217]
Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret POLLARD
names:
[Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p217]
Research Notes:
graduated at age 21 from Transylvania University, Lexington [Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p216]

in charge of classical anatomy dept at Cumberland Md [Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p216]

studied law, went to Bedford, PA, and admitted to bar there [Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p216]

practiced law for four years at Xenia, Ohio [Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p216]

1817: joined classical dept of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia [Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p216]

c1840: appointed corresponding member of Smithsonian Institution [Ref: Egle PA-genealogies p217]



Pedigree of James ESPY
          /-----George ESPY
 /-----James ESPY
|         \-----Jean TAYLOR
James ESPY



Descendants of James ESPY
1. James ESPY m. Margaret POLLARD
m. Margaret POLLARD