Descendants of George Fenner

James Lewis Fenner

 

[b 22 Jan. 1879 near Linesville, PA; d 19 Nov. 1971 at Long Island, NY] James Lewis Fenner attended Universal Chiropractic College in 1912, Carver Chiropractic College in 1923, and became a founding member of the New York State Chiropractic Society. The stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression robbed him of any financial prosperity he had amassed before then. He was also very fond of the arts. James m 1st Grace Montana Coleman [b 1 Apr. 1878 at Duke Center, PA; d 5 Jan. 1959 at Hornell, NY] on 13 Oct. 1916 at Hornell, NY. Grace was the daughter of Joel Wakeman Coleman and Melvinia Bloss, who both died at Alfred, NY. On 11 June 1927, James m 2nd Zella Belle Groff [b 4 Jan. 1891 at Canal, OH; d 30 May 1977 at Brooklyn, NY], daughter of John and Isabelle L. Groff.

Child by Grace Montana Coleman:

  1. Theodore Lincoln [b 13 Feb. 1919 at Hornell, NY; d 3 Jan. 2000] m Rosalie Fahey.

Children by Zella Groff:

  1. James Lewis [b 27 June 1928] m Osna Goldstein.

  2. Richard Curtis [b 7 Feb. 1934] married twice.


Lineage:
George | Seth | Morgan | James | James

1. Jim Fenner, Fenner-Broughton Family History, pp. 125–128.
2. Emails from Richard Arthur Fenner, 16 July 2004, 28 July 2009.
3. James’s memorial at FindaGrave.com, no. 30654628