Sedgwick family
The Sedgwick family is a predominantly American family originating in England. Members of the family and their descendants have been influential in politics, law, business, and the arts. The earlier known member of the Sedgwick family to have gone to the New World from England was Robert Sedgwick of Yorkshire, England who arrived in 1636 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as part of the Great Migration. Sedgwick, Maine was named in his honor. Sedgwick Pie is the family's cemetery located in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts in rural Western Massachusetts.Family tree
Ancestors
- Major General Robert Sedgwick
- * William Sedgwick
- ** Samuel Sedgwick, Cpt.
- *** Benjamin Sedgwick, Deacon
Main line
- Theodore Sedgwick, an American attorney, politician and jurist
- * Theodore Sedgwick Jr. married to Susan Anne Ridley Sedgwick
- * Benjamin Sedgwick
- ** John Sedgwick, Union Army general
- * Henry Dwight Sedgwick I
- ** Henry Dwight Sedgwick II
- *** Ellery Sedgwick magazine editor
- **** Ellery Sedgwick, Jr.
- ***** Theodore "Tod" Sedgwick, diplomat and publisher
- **** Henry Dwight Sedgwick III, lawyer and author
- ***** Francis Minturn Sedgwick
- ****** Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick, model who worked with Andy Warhol
- ***** Robert Minturn Sedgwick
- ****** Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, married to Helen Stern and Patricia Rosenwald Sedgwick
- ******* Kyra Minturn Sedgwick actress, producer, and director. Married to Kevin Bacon
- ******** Sosie Bacon, actress
- ******* Holly Sedgwick
- ******** Justin Nozuka
- ******** George Nozuka
- ******** Philip Nozuka
- *******Robert Sedgwick actor
- ***** Henry Dwight Sedgwick IV
- *Catharine Maria Sedgwick novelist
Connected people
- William Ellery
- Elizabeth Freeman, slave freed by Theodore Sedgwick
- Edith Minturn Stokes, sister-in-law of Henry Dwight Sedgwick III
- Dwight family
- Henry deForest, maternal grandfather of Edie Sedgwick
- Ephraim Williams
- Eero Saarinen
- Edmund Bacon
