Family
His first wife was Constance de Clyver Edson, a classical violinist and teacher; they divorced in 1927. They had three sons, Charles III (1912–2002), who was an astronomer, John (1914–2010), an educator, and Pete (b. 1919), a folk singer. His second wife was the composer and musician Ruth Seeger (née Ruth Porter Crawford); by her, he had four children Mike Seeger (1933–2009), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), and another two daughters, Barbara and Penny Seeger. His grandson, Anthony Seeger (b. 1945), is a renowned anthropologist and distinguished professor of ethnomusicology at the University of California Los Angeles, and his wife Judith Seeger is a senior tutor in the New Program and former assistant dean at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
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