Christy is daughter of Webster Bray Todd; Todd was a prep
school boy (Choate Rosemary Hall) whose family was in the
construction business. Todd built Rockefeller Center &
was a bigshot in the Republican Party.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Todd_Whitman
His wife was Eleanor Prentice Schley. Her father Reeve Schley
was the VP of Chase Bank, which became the
Rockefeller-controlled Chase-Manhattan, which became
JPMorgan-Chase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Bank
Reeve's uncle Grant Schley, also a financier, married the
sister of George Fisher Baker.
Baker was co-founder of the First National Bank of New York,
which merged with the Astor/Stillman Rockefeller-dominated
National City Bank in 1955 to become First National City Bank,
then Citicorp. More on his extensive connections here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6012999
Christy's great-grandfather William SP Prentice. He was a
member of the prestigious Prentice family, & named after
the fur merchant Wm. Satterlee Packer, his father's business
partner:
http://www.packer.edu/page.cfm?p=575
WSP Prentice's first cousin WP Prentice was the father of
Philena Prentice, whose daughter Florence Lincoln married
William A Rockefeller (2), the grandson of both Standard Oil
co-founder William Rockefeller & City Bank head James
Stillman.
Sartell Prentice (1767)
| |
John Prentice EP Prentice (1797)
(1803) |
| WP Prentice (1834)
WSP Prentice |
| Philena Prentice +
Kate D. Lincoln
Prentice + |
Schley Lincoln + Rockefeller
|
Schley + Todd
|
Little Christy
Philena Prentice had married FW Lincoln II, this guy's son:
http://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/mayor/frederick-walker-lincoln-jr.htm
http://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/mayor/frederick-lincoln-jr.htm
The Lincolns = descendants of Paul Revere:
Paul Revere
|
Deborah + Lincoln
|
Lincoln + Knight
|
Lincoln + Lincoln
|
Lincoln + Philena Prentice
| |
Lincoln + Lincoln +
Rockefeller Rockefeller
Another first cousin, Sartell, was the father of Ezra Parmalee
Prentice, who married Alta Rockefeller, John D Rockefeller's
daughter.
Sartell Prentice (1767)
| |
John Prentice EP Prentice (1797)
(1803) |
| Sartell Prentice (1837)
WSP Prentice |
| EP Prentice +
Kate D. Alta Rockefeller
Prentice +
Schley
|
Schley + Todd
WSP Prentice's brother John Prentice was the father of John
Hill Prentice, who married the banking/sugar heiress Kate
Sheldon Harrison. Her mother, Kate deforest Sheldon, was the
sister of William Satterlee Packer Prentice's wife Ella --
also a banking & sugar heiress.
John Prentice
(1803) |
| |
WSP Prentice John (1835)
| |
Kate D. John H. Prentice
Prentice(1885) + Harrison
+ Schley |
| Kate Deforest Prentice
Schley (1903) + Benjamin Brewster
+ Todd Jennings
|
Little Christy
Wm C. Sheldon + Deforest
| |
Kate D. Sheldon Ella C Sheldon
+ John H Prentice + WSP Prentice
| |
Kate deforest Prentice Kate deforest
(1903) + Jennings Prentice (1885)
+ Schley
John & Kate's daughter Kate deforest Prentice married
Benjamin Brewster Jennings, co-founder of Standard Oil of New
Jersey, grandson of Oliver Burr Jennings, original Standard
Oil investor, whose wife Esther Goodsell was the sister of
Almira Goodsell, wife of Standard Oil cofounder William
Rockefeller.
This connection is the source of the name "Brewster
Jennings Associates" of modern-day fame:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Jennings_&_Associates
The Philadelphia sugar & banking families are linked to
the Dulles & DuPont families, but that's another episode.