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This document details the interconnected family histories and significant events surrounding Pete Seeger, Charles Seeger, and their extensive network of cousins. It begins by linking the first fatal car accident in the Western Hemisphere in New York City on September 13, 1899, which killed Henry Hale Bliss, to the first recorded fatal car accident in the world in Parsonstown, Ireland on August 31, 1869, which killed Lady Mary King Ward. Both accidents involved passengers who were cousins of Pete Seeger, and the victims were also related to him.

The text then delves into a “celebrated murder by clam chowder” (dubbed “The Great Chowder Murder”) of Evalina Livingston Davis Bliss, the former wife of Henry Hale Bliss. The main perpetrators were also cousins of Pete Seeger. A significant portion of the document traces the extensive Edson family tree, highlighting figures like Dr. David Orr Edson (involved in the New York City accident) and Dr. Cyrus Edson (former New York City Health Commissioner known for quarantining and socialist theories). Cyrus Edson’s wife, Virginia Churchill Page, connects to prominent families in Turkey.

The narrative emphasizes the wealth and influence of families like the Astors, Vanderbilts, Goulds, and Wards. It discusses the technological advancements and business dealings of various relatives, including pioneers in electricity like Thomas Edison, William J. Hammer, and George Harrison Bliss. The Parsons family, notable for scientists like Sir William Parsons (builder of the Leviathan telescope) and Sir Charles Algernon Parsons (inventor of the steam turbine), is also featured.

The document explores the financial empires built by families such as the Prime, Ward, King, Sands banking firm, Baring Brothers, Rothschilds, Drexel Morgan, and Peabody. It highlights their involvement in financing American expansion, the Erie Canal, and the New York City subway system. The Sands family’s origins and their connection to Sands Point, Long Island are detailed, alongside the Guggenheim family’s estates.

Further connections are made through prominent figures like Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Ward III, and George Washington. The text also touches upon the Livingston family, their involvement in the Chowder Murder, and their financial support of Robert Fulton’s steamboat. The Murat family, with ties to Napoleon Bonaparte, and Sarah Bernhardt, for whom Elie Edson worked as a press agent, are also mentioned.

The document probes the symbolism and possible hidden meanings in names and songs, connecting the DuPonts and Colts to the munitions industry and suggesting that names like “Lind/Lynd,” “Lincoln,” and “London” might be linked to wealth generated from warfare. The song “Shake Them ‘Simmons Down” is presented as a potential family inside joke referencing their amassed wealth. The influence of the Warburg banking family and their connection to Felix Warburg and Pete Seeger’s mother is noted.

Finally, the text discusses the Knickerbocker Group of writers, including Robert Charles Sands, and Charles Seeger’s pseudonym Carl Sands. It explores the Woesselhopft Water Cure in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Pete Seeger’s ancestors were involved, and its connections to figures like Goethe, Carl Linnaeus, Emily Dickinson, and Louisa May Alcott. The importance of electricity and its inventors like Thomas Edison is revisited through Tracy Robinson Edson’s role in financing Edison’s companies. The document concludes by examining Pete Seeger’s own financial success and his complex relationship with wealth, contrasting it with his principles.

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