Thomas Cornell - Personal Life

Personal Life

Thomas Cornell was married to Catherine Ann Woodmancie (1822-1898) on February 27, 1840. They had four children, Mary Augusta Cornell (1842-?), married Samuel Decker Coykendall who Cornell partnered with in many business ventures; Peter Gedney Cornell (1846) died in infancy; Hiram Schoonmaker Cornell (1849) died in infancy; Cornelia Lucy Cornell (1854-1902), married Robert Bayard Carpenter.

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