Talk:Du Pont family

William du Pont (1855-1928) vs William Kemble du Pont (1874-1907)

Dear fellow editors,
I am leaving the present message out of courtesy to other editors interested in this article on the du Pont family.
Yesterday, I started drafting an article on the William du Pont shown (in red) in the family tree section of the present article, where he is shown as the son of Lammot du Pont I (whose own article mentions a son named "William Kemble du Pont (1874–1907)"), and the father of William du Pont, Jr. and Marion duPont Scott.

However, there appears to be some confusion in some of the online sources:

• in "www.geni.com", William Kemble du Pont (1874-1907) is listed as the:

Son of Lammot du Pont I and Mary du Pont

Husband of Ethel Fleet Hallock and Annie Zinn du Pont
Father of Paulina Dean; Wilhelmina Haedrick Ross; Marion duPont Scott and William du Pont, Jr.
Brother of Isabella d'Andelot du Pont; Louisa d'Andelot Copeland; Pierre S. du Pont; Sophie Madeleine du Pont; Henry Belin du Pont and 5 others

• in "www.pennock.ws", the same William Kemble du Pont (1874-1907) is listed as the:

husband of Ethel Fleet HALLOCK and the father of:

Samuel Hallock DU PONT (10 NOV 1901-3 OCT 1974);

Paulina DU PONT (18 AUG 1903-30 MAR 1964); and Wilhelmina Haedrick DU PONT (17 JUL 1906-25 JUN 2000).

• in "findingaids.hagley.org", the first paragraph mentions William du Pont (1855-1928) as the youngest son of General Henry du Pont (1812-1889) and Louisa Gerhard du Pont (1816-1900) and, in the second paragraph, he is defined as the husband of Annie Rogers Zinn, with whom he fathered William du Pont, Jr. and Marion duPont Scott:

William du Pont, the youngest son of General Henry du Pont (1812-1889) and Louisa Gerhard du Pont (1816-1900), was born on August 21, 1855, near Wilmington, Delaware. His father was the third president of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. From 1869 to 1872, William attended the Lake Mohegan boarding school in New York State, and in 1872, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, he left MIT at the beginning of the 1873 spring semester due to medical problems with his eye.

In 1878, William du Pont married his cousin May Lammot du Pont (1854-1927), the daughter of Victor du Pont (1828-1888) and Alice Hounsfield du Pont (1833-1904.) The couple divorced in 1892 in South Dakota. William du Pont spent six month in that state in order to have residency for the divorce. In June 1892, William du Pont married Annie Rogers Zinn, the daughter of the locomotive maker Theodore Rogers (d. November 18, 1871) and Mary Andrews Rogers (d. March 11, 1918). Annie was the divorced wife of George Zinn of New Castle, Delaware. William and Annie, alienated by the du Pont family and Wilmington society, left the United States and settled in Europe for ten years. At first, they spent a few months in Paris and then moved to England where they lived in several rented mansions: Arborfield Hall, Reading (1892-1894); Yewhurst, East Grinstead, Sussex (1895); Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey (1895-1897); and Binfield Park, Bracknell (1897-1901). Their daughter Marion was born on May 3, 1894, in Wilmington during their visit home, and their son William Jr. was born on February 11, 1896 in England. They also supported Annie's son from her first marriage, George Zinn (d. July 7, 1929) and his family.

I will continue to draft an article on William du Pont on the basis of this third and most comprehensive of all online sources. However, if other editor(s) have access to a comprehensive and unimpeachable hardcopy of the du Pont family tree, then I would be very grateful for some assistance, please. Thank you very much in advance.

My conclusions, as this early stage, are that, if "findingaids.hagley.org" is correct about William du Pont (1855-1928), then:

1. the family tree in the present article is incorrect about William du Pont;
2. "www.geni.com" is incorrect about William Kemble du Pont (1874-1907);
3. "www.pennock.ws" might be correct about William Kemble du Pont (1874-1907)

With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^{(talk)(guestbook)} 19:10, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

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I tried to add T. Coleman du Pont to the family tree, but I am unfamiliar with the formatting. Can someone fix this issue?

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non notable entries

I have removed a number of non-notable entries (in this series of edits [1]) that do not seem to be required for the stated purpose of the list: an alphabetical listing of selected notable members of the family. It is followed by a listing of their families in order of descent. The listing is intended only to illustrate the relationships among the notable members of the family and is not a complete genealogy. The only family groupings and lines of descent shown are those necessary to illustrate relationships for notable members of the family. Meters (talk) 03:04, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

This is admittedly kind of silly, but should watsky be added to a list of notable family members, as he is a descendant of this family on his mother's side and has written about his ties to the family? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.201.243.111 (talk) 13:52, 10 June 2021 (UTC)

Uh, are we ignoring their connections with the Nazis?

Or did I just miss it? Did I miss the part where it is explained that the DuPont family were members of the American Nazi Party? That they helped finance Nazism? That they helped the Nazis in their genocidal efforts? That they were seditious individuals? 73.44.128.12 (talk) 19:14, 12 January 2022 (UTC)