Individual Details

Wilmerton, John. Letter, 12 January 1846. Apparently an employee on a New Orleans to Cincinnati packet line, John wrote a letter from Cincinnati, Ohio, to a friend, Charles Stokes, of Rancocus, Burlington County, New Jersey, mentioning a trip on the steamer Duke of Orleans, the severe winter in New Orleans, the bustling activity at the Cincinnati wharves, and passenger accommodations on steamboats operating on the Mississippi River. (Archival material, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.

Birth

1816

Burlington, New Jersey, USA

Father	Fenimore WILMERTON (1784 - 1823)
Mother	Permila VAN KIRK (1797 - 1865)
Sibling	Richard Fenimore WILMERTON (1812 - 1891)
Sibling	Griffith WILMERTON (1817 - 1837)
Sibling	Rachel WILMERTON (1819 - 1850)
Sibling	Judge William Wallace "The Squire" WILMERTON (1822 - 1908)