Person:Avery Shumway (1)

Avery Shumway

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m. 13 Aug 1813

Facts and Events

Name	Avery Shumway
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	22 Oct 1814	LeRoy, Genesee, New York, United States
Death^[1]	13 Jun 1859	California, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 208 Avery Shumway, in Shumway, Asahel Adams. Genealogy of the Shumway family in the United States of America. (New York: T.A. Wright, 1909)
p.61.

208 AVERY SHUMWAY⁷ (Amos⁶, Levi⁵, Levi⁴, Oliver³, Peter², Peter¹), Avery, b. Oct. 22, 1814, d. June 13, 1859; followed the sea from his twentieth year on, first in whale-fishing, later as man-of-war's man; was Captain of foretop on battleship Cumberland during the Mexican War; died in a California hospital.