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...ancestor, Citizen Genet, married Cornelia Tappan Clinton, daughter of George Clinton, first Governor of New York State. George was Governor 1777-95, while De Witt was Governor much later. For a while, De Witt served as secretary to his Uncle George...
TIME, Aug 11, states that Citizen Genēt married a daughter of Governor De Witt Clinton. The girl Citizen Genet married was probably a daughter of Governor George Clinton, De Witt's uncle...
FREDERICK C. PYNE (Great-Great-Grandson of De Witt Clinton) Birmingham, Mich...
...revolutionary France in 1793 that Citizen Genêt, fearing death by guillotine, asked Washington if he could stay on in the U.S. as Private Citizen Genêt. Washington's response: O.K. So Genet retired quietly to New York State, there wed the daughter of Governor De Witt Clinton, let the Revolution go by as he lived out his life with a big smile...
Columbia's Allan Nevins, 68, De Witt Clinton Professor of American History and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. A stumpy, explosively energetic man who impatiently brushes away his age and anything else that interferes with his 6:30 a.m.-to-11:15 p.m. workday, he has written some 25 volumes, edited a dozen others. Historian Nevins was an editorial writer on the New York World and other papers until 1931, joined Columbia's staff as a full professor that year. but never found time...