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"Longfellow was descended from English colonists who settled in New England in the early 1600s. 

 They included Mayflower Pilgrims Richard Warren, William Brewster, and John and Priscilla Alden 

 through their daughter 

 Elizabeth Pabodie,  

the first child born in Plymouth Colony. " 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow

 

"Elizabeth Pabodie was born Elizabeth Alden in 1623, the firstborn child of the Plymouth Colony settlers Priscilla Mullins and John Alden, who were both passengers on the Mayflower in 1620.

She married William Pabodie (Peabody),  

a leader of Duxbury, Massachusetts, on December 26, 1644. All 13 of their children were born in that settlement before Elisabeth eventually moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island, in the 1680s. She died on May 31, 1717" 

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"Elizabeth Pabodie's first child was a daughter, Lydia; next came a son named William after his father.

In 1683 Lydia married Daniel Grinnell Jr; they also had 13 children together.

William the younger and his wife Judith had a daughter Rebecca Peabody, who married the Reverend Joseph Fish. Their daughter Mary Fish 

married Gold Selleck Silliman (1732–1790), and they were the parents of Benjamin Silliman, 

 the first person to distill petroleum, 

 and grandparents of Benjamin Silliman, Jr. The Sillimans started the Chemistry Department at Yale, a forerunner of the Sheffield Scientific School. " 

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"Benjamin Silliman  

(August 8, 1779 – November 24, 1864) was an American chemist and science educator. 

He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to use the process of fractional distillation in America. 

 He was a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States." 

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"Returning to New Haven, he studied its geology. His chemical analysis of a meteorite that fell in 1807 near Weston, Connecticut, was the first published scientific account of an American meteorite. " 

'Silliman was an early supporter of coeducation in the Ivy League.  

Although Yale would not admit women as students until over 100 years later, he allowed young women into his lecture classes.  

His efforts convinced Frederick Barnard, later president of Columbia College, that women ought to be admitted as students. "The elder Silliman, during the entire period of his distinguished career as a Professor of Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy in Yale College, was accustomed every year to admit to his lecture-courses classes of young women from the schools of New Haven. " 

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"Silliman had been the first person to use the process of fractional distillation, and, in 1854 his son Benjamin Silliman Jr became the first person to fractionate petroleum by distillation. In 1864 Silliman noted oil seeps in the Ojai, California, area. In 1866, this led to the start of oil exploration and development in the Ojai Basin." 

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"Ojai sits on the traditional territory of the Chumash, a Native American people who inhabited the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what are Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south and the Channel Islands. " 

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"The original town of Watervliet was the "mother of towns" in Albany County, having once been all the land outside of the city of Albany within the county" 

"Leland Stanford was born in 1824 in what was then Watervliet, New York (now the Town of Colonie). He was one of eight children of Josiah and Elizabeth Phillips Stanford. "   

"Amasa Leland Stanford (March 9, 1824 – June 21, 1893) was an American attorney, industrialist, philanthropist, and Republican Party politician from California.  

He served as the 8th governor of California from 1862 to 1863 and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1885 until his death in 1893. He and his wife Jane founded Stanford University, named after their late son." 

"Stanford was a successful merchant and wholesaler who migrated to California during the Gold Rush and built a business empire. He was an influential executive of the Central Pacific Railroad and later the Southern Pacific railroads from 1861 to 1890, giving him tremendous power in the Western United States and leaving a lasting impact on California. 

 He also played a significant role as a shareholder and executive in the early history of Pacific Life and Wells Fargo. He was the first Republican governor of California. Stanford is widely considered a robber baron.'