Adelia Duane Pell
Adelia Duane Pell was a daughter of James Duane and Mary Livingston and the wife of New York merchant Alfred Sands Pell. Family records name sons Robert Livingston, James Duane, John Augustus, George Washington and Richard Montgomery Pell. She survived Alfred, who died in 1831, and reportedly died in 1860. Her birth remains disputed between 1765 and 1782. The later Adelia Duane Pell who married John Busteed Ireland was her granddaughter.
EARLY LIFE
Adelia Duane was a daughter of James Duane and Mary Livingston Duane. The reviewed accounts disagree on her birth year, although they place her in the eighteenth century. No reliable account of her childhood or education was found, and a precise early-life chronology has not been established.
Adelia Duane married Alfred Sands Pell and appears in Duane and Pell family histories. No reliable evidence of a separate occupation, professional career, or public office was found in the reviewed material. Her father’s public service and her husband’s activities cannot be treated as her own career.
CAREER
DEATH
Adelia Duane Pell died in 1860. Adelia Duane Pell was a daughter of James Duane and Mary Livingston and the wife of New York merchant Alfred Sands Pell. Family records name sons Robert Livingston, James Duane, John Augustus, George Washington and Richard Montgomery Pell. She survived Alfred, who died in 1831, and reportedly died in 1860. Her birth remains disputed between 1765 and 1782. The later Adelia Duane Pell who married John Busteed Ireland was her granddaughter. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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