I. SAMUEL EMORY, planter (1756) + JANE COOKE
"Samuel and Jane Cook Davis...established Rosemont Plantation."
Other family plantations: "Briars Plantation (Adams Co., MS), Hurricane Plantation (Warren Co., MS), Brierfield Plantation (Warren Co., MS)"
http://www.sankofagen.com/Rosemont+Plantation.Their children included:
*Jefferson Davis, Confederate President, who married President Zach Taylor's daughter (first cousin of James Madison, 3rd cousin of Robert E Lee).
*Mary Ellen Davis (1806)
II. LUCINDA DAVIS (1822) + HAZLETON FARISH
Jefferson Davis's niece, Mary E Davis's child Lucinda, married planter & lawyer Hazlewood M Farish: "one of the leading and distinguished attorneys of Mississippi".
Hazlewood & Mary's son was William Stamps Farish(1). He attended the U. of Mississippi, then entered the Confederate army: Captain under Gen. Stephen D Lee.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_D._LeePost-Civil War, he first "commenced planting," then entered U of Virginia & became a successful lawyer. His child with Kate Power was William Stamps Farish(2).
III. WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH(2) (1881) + LIBBIE RANDON RICE
WS Farish 1881 also went to U-Miss & got a law degree, but went to Texas after 3 months of practice to inspect the area for "an uncle in England."
He arrived in Beaumont TX just in time for the Spindletop oil strike, & through this connection, eventually became a president of Standard Oil & key figure in the Texas oil nexus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish_IIFarish married Libbie Randon Rice, grandniece of William Marsh Rice & Baker-Botts founder WB Botts & sister of Ella Botts Rice Hughes.
WILLIAM MARSH RICE (1816)
Millionaire, murder victim & founder of Rice University:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Marsh_RiceHis brother's son married Martha Botts, daughter of Baker-Botts founder. Their children married into the Howard Hughes, Farish, & Neuhaus families.
JAMES ADDISON BAKER (1821)
Great-grandfather to James Baker III's (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Baker_IIIHe figured prominently in the Rice murder case as partner in Rice's legal firm, Gray & Botts, later Baker-Botts, which Baker III currently heads.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Addison_Baker_the_elderhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_BottsAdelaide Lovett, daughter of the first President of Rice University, EO Lovett (U of Virginia & U of Leipzig), married a son of Captain James A Baker, Walter Brown "W" Baker, banker.
He was named for the founder of Baker-Botts.
Adelaide's brother Henry was a Baker-Botts partner along with the present James A Baker III's father.
All of them Rice U. trustees.
Robert Scott Lovett, a relation, first worked for Baker-Botts, then left to work for EH Harriman's Union Pacific interests, eventually UP President.
His son Robert was a close friend of Prescott Bush, & Truman Admin official.
WALTER BROWNE BOTTS (1835)
Confederate Colonel, the "Botts" in Gray-Botts & Baker-Botts, grand-master Mason of Texas.
Peter Gray, the "Gray" in Gray-Botts, was, his relative.
His daughter Martha Botts married William Marsh Rice's son David. Their daughter Libbie married Wm. S. Farish(2), & their daughter Ella Botts Rice was Howard Hughes' first wife.
HOWARD HUGHES Sr.
Howard Hughes' father was also one of the folks around Spindletop, partner WB Sharp, founded Hughes Tool (legal affairs handled by Baker-Botts).
Son Howard attended Rice U (fifedom of Botts, Bakers, Farishes & Rices), married Ella Botts Rice 1925, divorced 1929.
His fortune was eventually inherited by the Lummis family scion Frederick Rice Lummis (Fred's mother, Charlotte, was sister of David Rice & another grandchild of millionaire William Marsh Rice, & Fred himself married Annette Gano, Howard Hughes' aunt.
IV. WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH(3/JR)(d. 1943) + MARY WOOD
WS Farish's son WS, also a Standard Oil exec, married the daughter of Gen. Robert E. Wood, "America First" founder & Montgomery Ward & Sears executive. WS Jr. died in a plane accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish,_Jr.Mary Wood Farish, after her husband's death, married his cousin Hugo Victor Neuhaus, son of Libbie Randon Rice's sister Kate Rice Neuhaus.
IV. MARTHA BOTTS FARISH + EDWARD H GERRY (1877)
William, Jr's sister Martha married Edward Harriman Gerry, son of EH Harriman's daughter Cornelia & Robert Livingston Gerry.
Gerry himself was a scion of the Livingston patroons: his mother Louise had inherited significant patroon acreage from her father, Robert J. Livingston (1811), desc. r. Livingston (1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patroonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_LivingstonOn the other side, his father "Commodore" Elbridge Thomas Gerry was a lawyer, founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/15705Here's one of his brothers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_G._GerryThe Commodore's parents were Thomas Russell Gerry, US Navy & VP of US, & Hannah Green Goelet, daughter of the millionaire financier Peter P. Goelet, huge NYC landowner & Dir, Bank of NY. Goelet's wife Almy Buchanan was daughter of Thomas, "one of the richest NY merchants" of his day.
Finally, TRG's father was the merchant, shipper, Declaration of Independence signer & James Madison VP Elbridge Gerry (1744).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbridge_GerryV. WILLIAM S FARISH(4) (1939) + SARAH SHARP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish_IIIWSF wife Sarah was the daughter of Bayard Sharp, close friend of GHW Bush:
http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/national-news/2002/August/11/Owner-and-breeder-Bayard-Sharp-dies-at-89.aspxGW Bush donor:
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/bayard-sharp.asp?cycle=02Bayard, son of Hugh Rodney Sharp & Isabelle Mathieu DuPont, sister of Irenee & Pierre, granddaughter of Eleuthere:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_Pont_familyThrough the Sharp/Dupont connection, the Farish family owns, among other things, this Florida property:
http://www.the-gasparilla-inn.com/about.phpVI. WILLIAM STAMPS FARISH(5) (1963) + KELLY (?):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stamps_Farish_IVKelly Farish is the stepdaughter of Ogden Mills ("Dinny") Phipps. Here's his ancestry:
Ruth Livingston (patroon family) + DO Mills (founder of Bank of California, now BoA)
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Grace Livingston Mills + Henry Carnegie Phipps (son of Carnegie's partner Henry Phipps)
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Ogden Phipps + Stokes Bostwick (son of original Standard Oil partner Jabez Bostwick)
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"Dinny"!
Dinny's son weds:
http://nytimesweddings.blogspot.com/2004/11/philthy-lucre.htmlThe Farishes have seven children.
VII. FURTHERMORE:
Another society wedding:
Von Furstenberg-Reynolds-Vincent de la Maisoneuve + William Farish Gerry (son of EH Gerry), partner Brown Brothers Harriman & Gerry Brothers.
"http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=940DE0DD113EF93BA2575AC0A96E948260"
Yet another:
Diane von Furstenberg (nee Halfin) married this Fiat heir:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_von_FurstenbergHis mother was an Agnelli (Fiat heir).
His stepmother was Cecilie Amelia Blaffer - descendant of yet another one of the Spindletop/Standard Oil boys, Robert Lee Blaffer: Tulane graduate, son of a "well-established New Orleans businessman" who'd come to Texas to buy coal for the Southern Pacific RR.
He & WS Farish (1881) became partners in 1904.
http://www.birddogging.info/pdf/BLAFFER_Family_Tree.pdfhttp://books.google.com/books?id=_K4aMjz2VL8C&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=robert+lee+blaffer&source=web&ots=DK5kLvwT3c&sig=xtDlACfTZQWmLNljty-QINKOF2c&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result