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Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980


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        • found: His Lorenzo Dow, 1928.
        • found: Charles Coleman Sellers collection website, Apr. 28, 2009:(Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980) was a noted historian of early America, best known for his numerous works on the life and artistic production of the family of his own great-grandfather, Charles Willson Peale) - http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/s/sellerscc.htm
        • found: American Philosophical Society website, February 16, 2022:(George Escol Sellers, 1808-1899; son of Coleman Sellers (1781-1834) (worked for the N. & D. Sellers firm and moved the family business to land outside of Philadelphia (near present-day 69th Street) and expanded into the locomotive business and is known for several improvements to the design of locomotives, including the pivoted forward truck and wooden frames in the running gears) and Sophonsiba Peale Sellers (daughter of artist Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)); brother of Coleman Sellers (1827-1907); George Escol Sellers worked with his father to develop the improvements in locomotives; created a hill-climbing locomotive for the Isthmus of Panama in 1847; in 1854 Escol established "Sellers' Landing," an industrial center on the Ohio River; in 1864 he invented a new process for paper making, using grass and reed rendered to pulp and forced by steam against a baffle plate; many of his plans ended in frustration and tragedy; his wife and all but one of his children died while living at Seller's Landing, and this remote location made it difficult for his manufacturing ventures to be successful; during these hard years, Charles Dudley Warner first heard of Escol's name and applied it to The Gilded Age, the novel he wrote with Mark Twain and the association with the name of the shady character from the book was source of further frustration for Escol; in later years, Escol moved to Tennessee and devoted significant time to family genealogy and history; after his death in 1899 his paper making process enjoyed resurgence due to paper scarcity and brought him posthumous fame; a few of his papers are in the Peale-Sellers Family Collection, 1686-1963; Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827, APS 1786) produced more than one thousand paintings, including hundreds of portraits of leading Americans during the colonial and early national periods and was married three times, to Rachel Brewster (1744-1790), Elizabeth de Peyster (1765-1804), and Hannah More (1755-1821); three of Charles Willson Peale's sons became artists: Raphaelle Peale (1774-1825), Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), and Rubens Peale (1784-1865); a fourth son, Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885, APS 1833), was a naturalist (who made drawings on the exploring expeditions he accompanied) and pioneer in photography, and another son, Benjamin Franklin Peale (1795-1870), became a naturalist and paleontologist; Charles Willson Peale's (1741-1827) daughter Sophonisba Angusciola was married to Coleman Sellers (1781-1834), an inventor and manufacturer of machinery, including locomotives; two of their sons, George Escol Sellers (1808-1899) and Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), were inventors and engineers; Coleman Sellers (1827-1907, APS 1872), served as director of the construction of the hydro-electric power development at Niagara Falls and was married to Cornelia Wells Sellers (1831-1909); one of Coleman's and Cornelia's grandsons was Charles Coleman Sellers (1903-1980, APS 1979), a librarian and historian and the author of several studies of the Peale family, including a Charles Willson Peale biography; has correspondence from Samuel Sellers on July 26, 2015) - https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/search/dc.subject%3A%22Sellers%2C%5C%20George%5C%20Escol%22 - https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.P31-ead.xml
        • found: Sellers family. Business records, 1774-1834(John Sellers (1728-1804); father of Nathan Sellers (born September 15, 1751; died Aug. 14, 1830) and David Sellers (born April 1, 1757; died December 2, 1813) who were partners in the firm of N. & D. Sellers which manufactured wire in Philadelphia and Upper Darby, Pennsylvania); Coleman Sellers (born November 27, 1781; died May 7, 1834; son of Nathan Sellers (1751-1830)) carried on the business in own name after 1828; Samuel Sellers (born September 16, 1780; died June 1, 1850; son of David Sellers (1757-1813)) was a partner in N. & D. Sellers wire manufacturers (1813-1828) and in 1837 moved to the Forks of the Brandywine, Chester County, Pennsylvania)

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        • [Son of Sellers, Coleman, 1827-1907 (n 89103813)]
        • [Grandson of Sellers, Coleman, 1781-1834 (nr 93001776)]
        • [Grandson of Peale, Sophonisba Angusciola, 1786-1859 (nr 98016441)]
        • [Nephew of Sellers, George Escol (no 90000437)]
        • [Great-nephew of Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870 (nr 93014560)]
        • [Great-nephew of Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825 (n 88014634)]
        • [Great-nephew of Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860 (n 85813460)]
        • [Great-nephew of Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865 (nr 95030542)]
        • [Great-nephew of Peale, Titian Ramsay, 1799-1885 (n 85369245)]
        • [Great-grandson of Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 (n 80025860)]
        • [Great-grandson of Sellers, Coleman, 1781-1834 (nr 93001776)]
        • [Great-great grandson of Sellers, Nathan, 1751-1830 (nr 93001783)]
        • [Great-great uncle of Sellers, David, 1757-1813 (nr 93001778)]
        • [Distant cousin of Sellers, Samuel, 1780-1850]
        • [Distant cousin of Peale, Rosalba Carriera, 1799-1874 (nr 98016440)]
        • [Distant cousin of Peale, Sarah Miriam, 1800-1885 (n 85240570)]
        • [Distant cousin of Peale, Anna Claypoole, 1791-1878 (nr 98016393)]

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        • 1980-12-31: new
        • 2022-02-17: revised

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