Aitken, William B., Distinguished families in America descended from Wilhelmus Beekman and Jan Thomasse Van Dyke.

(New York and London :  The Knickerbocker Press,  1912.)

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daughter of Edward S. Willing of Philadelphia.
Children:

1.    William Vincent Astor, bom November 15,
1891.

2.    Ava Alice Muriel Astor.

Col.   Astor   married   on   September   9,   1911,
Madeleine T. Force.

(b)    Emily Astor, married James J. Van Alen and
had children:

1.    Mary Van Alen.

2.    Sarah Van Alen.

3.    Lawrence Van Alen.

(c)    Helen    Astor,    married   James    Roosevelt-
Roosevelt; children:

1.    Helen Roosevelt.

2.    James Roosevelt.

(d)    Charlotte Augusta Astor,  married October
20, 1879, J. Coleman Drayton; children:

1.    Caroline Drayton.

2.    Henry C. Drayton.

3.    William B. A. Drayton.

4.    Alida L. Drayton.

(e)    Caroline   S.   Astor,   married  November   18,
1884, Marshall Orme Wilson; children:

1.    M. Orme Wilson, married Alice Borland.

2.    Richard T. Wilson, married Marion S. Mason,
(vi)    Henry Astor,  married Malvina Dinehart.
(vii)    Sarah Astor, died young.

X. Hon. Edward Livingston, bom at Clermont, N. Y.,
May 26, 1764, died May 23, 1836. He resided at
No. I Broadway, overlooking the Battery, New York
City. He was a member of Congress in 1794; a
fellow-member with him was Andrew Jackson from
Tennessee. He was Mayor of New York in 1801.
He was a member of Congress from Louisiana in
1823 and U. S. Senator from Louisiana and prepared
its Penal Code. When General Jackson became
President of the United vStates, he became his Secre-
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