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     George Bonner married Edith Walbridge, daughter of Francis Eugene Walbridge and Edith Hazen.¹

     George Sewell Bonner was born on 2 August 1862 in New York. He was the son of John Bonner and Mary Georgina Sewell.¹ George Sewell Bonner married Agnes Margaret Barclay Foord, daughter of John Foord, on 23 February 1892 in Christ's Episcopal Church, New Brighton, Staten Island.² George Sewell Bonner died on 3 October 1902 in the Roosevelt Hospital

George Sewell Bonner, forty two years old, of 71 Park Avenue, counsel for the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland, died in Roosevelt Hospital yesterday morning from a broken back, sustained by falling twenty feet from a chestnut tree at his Summer residence in Ulster County eight days ago. He leaves a widow, who was Miss Agnes M. B. Foord, and two young daughters.
Mr. Bonner was shaking down chestnuts for these children at the time of the accident. He was brought to the hospital on Wednesday, and remained unconscious most of the time. He was a member of the Bar Association, and served on its Committee on Admissions. He was a brother of John Bonner and of Mrs. Albert Barnes Boardman of this city, and was one of the old Staten Island Bonner family. The New York Times, 4 October 1902.³

Memorial of George Sewell Bonner
George Sewell Bonner was born on Staten Island, New York, August 2, 1862. He studied law at the Columbia College Law School, and in or about 1884 he was admitted to practice in the State of New York. He became a member of the Association of the Bar in 1890. During his course at the law school, and afterwards, he worked in the real estate apartment of the firm of Stewart and Boardman, composed of William A. W. Stewart and Albert B. Boardman. After the dissolution of that firm, he continued for a time with Mr Stewart, and afterwards was in the office of Edward W. Sheldon. In or about the year 1899, he entered the office of Tracy, Boardman & Platt, and some months later was made the attorney in New York of the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland. He died October 4, 1902, in consequence of the injuries received from a fall. His mournful and premature end, before he had obtained middle life, drew the general attention and sympathy of the members of the Bar of the city. A widow and two daughters survive him. The record of Mr Bonner's life is that of a hard-working and quietly successful lawyer, who won held the regard of all that knew him. He had not reached the maturity of his powers when he was stricken down. His steady growth in force and experience had given promise of great attainment in our common profession if life had been spared him. New York Bar Association Year Book, 1902, p. 99.

     George Thomas Bonner was born on 12 April 1837 in Quebec, Canada.⁴ He was the son of John Bonner and Sarah Noyes.³ George Thomas Bonner married Isabel Grace Sewell, daughter of Sheriff William Smith Sewell and Mary Isabella Smith, on 25 November 1869 in All Saints Chapel of the Cathedral, Quebec, Canada, The service was conducted by the Rev. E.W. Sewell, assisted by the Rev. G.V. Houseman.^5,2 George Thomas Bonner and Isabel Grace Sewell appear on the census of 1880 at Castleton, Richmond (Staten Island), New York, he is listed as a broker. They have two live-in servants.⁶ George Thomas Bonner and Mabel Bonner appear on the census of 1920.⁷ George Thomas Bonner died in 1924.⁸

     Geraldine Bonner. Novelist.² She was born circa 1864 in Staten Island, New York.^3,4 She was the daughter of John Bonner and Mary Georgina Sewell.¹ Geraldine Bonner died on 17 June 1930 in 137 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York.³

     Gertrude G. Bonner was born in March 1855 in New York.¹ She was the daughter of John Bonner and Mary Georgina Sewell.² Gertrude G. Bonner married Albert Barnes Boardman before 31 December 1877.³ Gertrude G. Bonner died in 1912.

     John Bonner was born on 16 June 1828 in Quebec, Canada.^2,3 He was the son of John Bonner and Sarah Noyes. John Bonner was baptised on 10 July 1828 at Quebec.² He married Mary Georgina Sewell, daughter of Sheriff William Smith Sewell and Mary Isabella Smith, on 25 May 1854 in Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Quebec, they also appear to have marriedin New York City on 29 May 1854.^4,5 John Bonner appears on the census of 1870 at Middletown, New York, as a broker.⁶ He appears on the census of 1880 at Kansas City, Missouri, where John Bonner's occupation is listed as "keeping home."⁷ He died on 6 May 1899 in San Francisco, California, at the age of 70.⁸

News comes from San Francisco that John Bonner, a newspaper writer, and a little more than a score of years ago a successful and conspicuous banker in Wall Street, died last Friday of Bright’s disease in his seventy-first year. He had been practically confined to his home in San Francisco for several months. His daughter, Miss Geraldine Bonner, a magazine writer and novelist of ability, was with him when he died.
A sensation was caused in Wall Street Dec. 31. 1877, by the announcement from the rostrum of the Stock Exchange that the brokerage firm of John Bonner & Clo. had failed, and the subsequent information that there was a deficiency of $400,000, and that Bonner had absconded. On the same day the Bankers and Brokers Association, at 16 Broad Street, of which John Bonner was the President and largest stockholder, suspended. Bonner’s financial dealings had been so extensive that his collapse caused a great deal of anxiety, and eventually much loss to various persons. As the head of two important financial concerns 1n Wall Street, he controlled enormous sums of money, and at times was a very heavy lender. Jay Gould had had large transactions with the firm of John Bonner & Co., and was generally regarded in Wall Street as being the heaviest loser by the failure. Charles J. Osborn & Co. and William Belden & Co. were Jay Gould's brokers, and they had made large loans with John Bonner & Co. on railroad securities. Immediately after Bonner’s failure became known Osborn’s counsel secured a writ of attachment in a suit for $2,000, and property in the hands of Russell Sage and others was attached. Bonner, so far as could be discovered, left no assets behind him. He borrowed $25,000 in cash on the day before he disappeared. His wife and four children were left at his residence, on Todt Hill, S.I., where the family had lived for thirteen years. The two oldest sons were away from home, one studying in Paris and the other in the West Point Academy, to which he was appointed through the efforts of William M. Evarts and Charles Nordhof.
Mr. Bonner’s eldest daughter, Gertrude, who was then not quite twenty-one years old, married Albert B. Boardman, now of the law firm of Tracy, Boardman & Platt. On the evening following John Bonner’s failure and disappearance Mr. Boardman said of his father-in-law, in conversation with newspaper men: "For a long time past I have been aware that Mr. Bonner was very much worried about his business. He often said he wished he was out of Wall Street, and that he wished he had never gone into it. I never suspected, however, that he was in failing circumstances or that he was anything else than a rich man. When I heard last night that he was going to fail I was completely dumfounded. I am certain that if he has been guilty of anything improper or discreditable he was led into it by the general practice of brokers. In other words, he did no more than the generality of Wall Street men are accustomed to do."
John Bonner was a native of Quebec, Canada, and was born 111 June, 1828. Upon attaining his majority he went to Europe where he remained several years studying and perfecting himself in Continental languages. While sojourning m France he was an occasional contributor to the Parisian press. He returned to Canada when about twenty-five years of age and soon afterward took up his residence in New York. He engaged in literary work successfully and was appointed editor of Harpers Weekly. He continued to write for other publications, however, and found time to write a history of Greece, a history of Rome, and a child's history of the United States. In 1861 George Hudson retired from the post of financial editor of The New York Herald. and Mr. Bonner succeeded him. After four years of newspaper work he resigned the financial editorship and started the brokerage firm of John Bonner & Co. About the same time he became a member of the Stock Exchange. Success attended John Bonner’s business ventures, and within a short time he began to live the life of a man of means. He bought his place at Todt Hill, near Garretsons. S.I., which at one time was believed to be worth $50,000. He joined the Union League Club and the New York Yacht Club, and was a liberal patron of music, literature, and the arts. Socially he became popular. He married the sister of his partner, Arthur L. Sewell, whose wife was a daughter of Lester Wallack. The firm of John Bonner & Co. built up a large business and a first-class credit. Mr. Bonner obtained control of $750,000 of the stock of the old Bankers and Brokers’ Association, and made himself President. Having entire control of the business, he, it was subsequently ascertained, appropriated the stock of the association to the uses of his own business, hypothecating it, and pocketing the proceeds. When it was found on the morning of Monday, Dec. 31, 1877, that John Bonner had secretly departed for Canada, Mr. Sewell went to his counsel, Blatchford, Seward, Griswold & Da Costa, and told them that his partner had absconded with all the assets of the firm. He threw the blame upon the absent partner, and claimed to be innocent and ignorant of everything. He said that he had been made destitute, but preferred facing consequences to seeking immunity in flight. On the advice of his lawyers, he made an assignment to Burr W. Griswold. Investigation showed that Bonner had been a heavy loser in stock and gold transactions; it also disclosed that he had rehypothecated about $2,000,000 of securities pledged to him for loans. Nearly all of the stock brokerage houses in Wall Street were involved.
Mr. Bonner remained in Canada for several months. Next he was heard of in Kansas City and other places in the West, and after a while he resumed newspaper work in this country, finally settling in California. The New York Times, 7 May 1899.⁸

     John Bonner was born on 9 August 1792 in Monkwearmouth, Durham.³ He was the son of John Bonner and Eleanor Tindall.² John Bonner married Sarah Noyes, daughter of Charles Noyes and Mary (Unknown), on 30 August 1827 in Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral, Quebec, the ceremony being performed by R.R. Burrage.^3,4 John Bonner died on 21 April 1869 in Staten Island, New York, at the age of 76.⁵ He was buried in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island.⁵

     John Bonner was born in 1741.¹ He was the son of Thomas Bonner.² John Bonner married Eleanor Tindall on 26 August 1779 in St. John's, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland.³ John Bonner made a will on 22 February 1810.⁴ He died on 16 June 1811 in Monkwearmouth Shore, Durham.⁴ He was buried on 18 June 1811 in St. Peter's Church, Monkwearmouth, Durham.⁴

     John Ellingwood Bonner was born on 14 March 1857 in Staten Island, New York.³ He was the son of John Bonner and Mary Georgina Sewell.² He prepared for Harvard College under W. W. Newell, '59, and was admitted in October, 1875. He left college in 1877. According to the Class Report of 1879 (Number I), he went abroad for about a year and then went West.³ John Ellingwood Bonner was living in June 1898 at the time of his mother's death.⁴ He died on 11 January 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 67 and buried in Oakwoods.⁵

     Mabel Bonner was born on 30 November 1871 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York.² She was the daughter of George Thomas Bonner and Isabel Grace Sewell.¹ Mabel Bonner married Rev. Alexis W. Stein on 14 January 1903 in St. George's Church, Stuyvesant Square, New York.³ Mabel Bonner and Rev. Alexis W. Stein appear on the census of 1910 at Colorado Springs, Colorado.⁴ Mabel Bonner and George Thomas Bonner appear on the census of 1920.⁵ Mabel Bonner was living at 1060 Fifth Avenue, New York City, in 1939.⁶

     Mary Bonner was born on 18 April 1831.¹ She was the daughter of John Bonner and Sarah Noyes.¹ Mary Bonner died on 27 December 1835 in Quebec at the age of 4.¹

     Mary Isabel Bonner was born on 15 October 1877 in Staten Island, New York.¹ She was the daughter of George Thomas Bonner and Isabel Grace Sewell.² Mary Isabel Bonner married Benoni Lockwood on 7 May 1898 in New York City.¹ Mary Isabel Bonner and Benoni Lockwood were divorced on 5 September 1908.³ Mary Isabel Bonner was living on 4 July 1925 when she returned to New York from Southampton.

     Maud Bonner was born on 27 November 1870 in New York City.² She was the daughter of George Thomas Bonner and Isabel Grace Sewell.¹ Maud Bonner married Francis Higginson Cabot, son of Francis Cabot and Mary Louisa Higginson, on 5 April 1893 in Christ Church, Clifton, New York.^3,4 Maud Bonner died on 18 March 1955 in New York at the age of 84 funeral at St. George's Church Chapel, 207 E. 16th Street, New York, N.Y. 21 Mar 1955.¹

     Sarah Eleanor Bonner was born on 4 May 1834.¹ She was the daughter of John Bonner and Sarah Noyes.¹ Sarah Eleanor Bonner died on 19 December 1835 in Quebec at the age of 1.¹

     Sydney Noyes Bonner was born on 19 June 1859 in Staten Island, New York.³ He was the son of John Bonner and Mary Georgina Sewell.² Sydney Noyes Bonner married Maud Alice Barnett, daughter of John Barnett and Sarah Covel Stevens, on 26 March 1883 in Grace Church, Kansas City, Missouri.⁴ Sydney Noyes Bonner and Maud Alice Barnett appear on the census of 1920 at Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.⁵ Sydney Noyes Bonner died on 31 January 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 65.¹ He was buried on 3 February 1925 in Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago.³

     Thomas Bonner was born circa 1720.¹

     Winifred Penelope Bonner was the daughter of George Thomas Bonner and Isabel Grace Sewell.¹ Winifred Penelope Bonner died before 1900.²

     James T. Bonney was born in 1875.¹ He married Annie Sewall Strout, daughter of Albert L. Strout and Maria Fisher Sewall, in 1898.¹

     Hannah Booker married Joseph Lombard.

      Of Breinton, Herefordshire.¹

     Mary Booth was the daughter of Charles Booth.¹ Mary Booth married Charles Pye, son of Col. Edward Pye and Anne Sewall, circa 1715 in France.¹

     Mary Booth married Samuel Griswold Goodrich.¹

     Margaret Boradaile was the daughter of John Boradell.² Margaret Boradaile was is also recorded as Boradel.³ She married firstly Rev. Thomas Shepard, son of William Shepard and (unknown) Bland, on 8 September 1647.^4,5 Margaret Boradaile married secondly Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, son of Matthew Mitchell and Susan Butterfield, on 19 November 1650.^4,2

      Of Cork, Ireland.¹

     Marguerite Borda*** married Leonard de Bigeardel, son of Bouchat de Bigeardel and François Boulhat.

     Janet Borthwick married Sir Adam Hepburn.

     Janet Borthwick was the daughter of Sir William Borthwick.¹ Janet Borthwick married Sir Adam Hepburn of Hailes, son of Sir Patrick de Hepburn younger of Hailes and (unknown) Vaux.¹

     Sir William Borthwick was born circa 1350.¹ He died in 1429.¹

     Alicia Grace Bosanquet's birth was registered in the quarter ending December 1881 in the Weymouth, Dorset registration district.^1,2 She was the daughter of Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet GCMG., GCVO., KCB and Mary Butt.¹ Alicia's death was registered in the quarter ending September 1943 in the Surrey registration district.²

     Beatrice Mary Bosanquet's birth was registered in the quarter ending December 1881 in the Weymouth, Dorset registration district.^1,2 She was the daughter of Admiral Sir Day Hort Bosanquet GCMG., GCVO., KCB and Mary Butt.¹ Beatrice Mary Bosanquet married Vice Admiral Raymond Fitzmaurice K.B.E., D.S.O., son of John Gerald Fitzmaurice, on 23 October 1919 in St. Peter's, Henfield, Sussex.³ Beatrice Mary Bosanquet died on 1 September 1957 in Emsworth, Hampshire, at the age of 75.⁴