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Champion Salmon
Male 1796 - 1841

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  • Birth  22 Jul 1796  Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  18 AUG 2009 17:51:37 GMT-5 
    Died  30 Jan 1841  Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Buried  Highland Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID  I3464  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Father  Champion Salmon,   b. 1758, Franklin, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Sep 1839, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Crane Mary,   b. Abt 1761,   d. 16 Apr 1839, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  28 Jan 1781  Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F1370  Group Sheet
     
    Family 1  Loomis Lydia W.,   b. 20 Jan 1797, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Sep 1832, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  15 Feb 1818  Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Children 
     1. Champion Lucy Tilden,   b. 01 Dec 1818, Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Champion Amos Loomis,   b. 01 Oct 1820, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Oct 1885, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Champion Mary Clark,   b. 20 Mar 1823, Providence, Rhode Island Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Champion Henry Eugene,   b. 21 May 1825, Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Champion Laura Maria,   b. 11 May 1828, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 04 Sep 1829
     6. Champion Laura Aiken,   b. 28 Jul 1830, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F1432  Group Sheet
     
    Family 2  Weed Emily,   d. 16 Oct 1852, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  02 Jun 1833  Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Children 
     1. Champion Sabine Lydia,   b. 10 Mar 1836, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1870, Washington City, District Of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Champion Emily Maria,   b. 25 Sep 1838, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Champion Salmon F.,   b. 22 Jan 1841, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID  F1433  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • 289. Salmon Champion (Salmon, John, Thomas, Thomas, Henry), born 22 July 1796, in Lebanon, Conn.; died 30 January 1841, in Ypsilanti, Mich.; married, 1st, in Lebanon, 15 February 1818, Lydia William Loomis, daughter of Capt. Amos and Lydia (Tilden) Loomis, born 20 June 1797, in East Haddam, Conn.; died 7 September 1832, in Ypsilanti. He married, 2nd, in Ypsilanti, 2 June 1833, Emily Weed, daughter of John and Dorothy (Phelps) Weed, of Hinesburgh, Vt., who died 16 October 1852, in Ypsilanti.

      Salmon Champion early settled in Pomfret, Conn., where he resided until October, 1827, when he removed with his father to Ypsilanti, Mich., whither his eldest brother followed them in a few years. Heat once became a prominent as a businessman, and active in the building up and improving the then humble little village. His libertality is shown by the fact that he built the first church in Ypsilanti, and provided the light and fuel to maintain it until the congregation could bear the expense. Mr. Champion was a delegate from Michigan to Congress when the Territory was admitted into the Union. He lies buried in the family lot in Highland Cemetery in Ypsilanti.

      Children by the 1st marriage:
      i. Lucy Tilden, b. 1 Dec. 1818, in Coventry, Conn.; m. Joseph C. Allen, M.D.
      ii. Amos Loomis, b. 1 Oct. 1820, in Lebanon; was a farmer for many years in the real estate business in Boston, Mass., and Zanesville, I., and d. 26 Oct. 1885, in Pittsburgh, Pa.; unmarried.
      iii. Mary Clark, b. 20 Mar. 1823, in Providence, R.I.; m. Hon. Edwin C. Allen.
      iv. Henry Eugene, b. 21 May 1825, in Pomfret, Conn.; m. Maria Fairchild.
      v. Laura Maria, b. 11 May 1828, in Ypsilanti, Mich.; d. 4 Sept. 1829.
      vi. Laura Aiken, b. 28 July, 1830, in Ypsilanti; m. Jacob Sheldon Curtis, of Chicago, Ill.

      Children by the 2d marriage:
      vii Sabine Lydia, b. 10 Mar. 1836, in Ypsilanti; m. 14 Apr. 1859, Gurdon Perkins, and d. 1870, in Washington, D.C. He d. 1872, in New York City. They had no children.
      viii. Emily Maria, b. 25 Sept. 1838, in Ypsilanti; m. Joseph Barton.
      ix. Salmon F., b. 22 Jan. 1841, in Ypsilanti; m. Etta Barton.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S199] The Champion genealogy : a history of the descendants of Henry Champion of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut, together with some account of other families of the same name V.1, 243 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S199] The Champion genealogy : a history of the descendants of Henry Champion of Saybrook and Lyme, Connecticut, together with some account of other families of the same name V.1, 247 (Reliability: 3).

  

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