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  1. Joseph Coolidge (1798–1879), who married Thomas Jefferson 's granddaughter Ellen Wayles Randolph, was a partner of several trading companies, working most of his career overseas in the opium, silk, porcelain, and tea trades.

  2. Joseph Coolidge. Joseph Coolidge (1798-1879) was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge. [1] He graduated from Harvard College in 1817, embarked on a grand tour of Europe, and returned to America early in 1824.

  3. On May 27, 1825, in the parlor at Monticello, Ellen married Joseph Coolidge, the son of a prosperous Massachusetts merchant, whom she had met when Coolidge visited Virginia in 1824. [5]

  4. In this letter to Boston merchant Joseph Coolidge, dated April 12, 1825, Thomas Jefferson describes the arrival of the academic community at the University of Virginia, as well as the kind of bell he wants to be made for the University.

  5. Jan 28, 2021 · In this letter to her husband, Joseph Coolidge, dated October 24, 1858, Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge denies the possibility that her grandfather, Thomas Jefferson, could have fathered children by the slave Sally Hemings.

  6. Jul 6, 2017 · Eventually he bequeathed the traveling desk to his granddaughter and her new husband, Eleanora and Joseph Coolidge when they were married in 1825.

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  8. Th: Jefferson gives this Writing desk to Joseph Coolidge jun r as a Memorial of affection. it was made from a drawing of his own, by Ben Randall, cabinet maker of Philadelphia, with whom he first lodged on his arrival in that city in May 1776. and is the identical one on which he wrote the Declaration of Independance, Politics, as well as ...

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