Sybilla Miriam Peale Summers
(1797–1856)
BIRTH
1797
PLACE
NAME
Sybilla Miriam Peale
DEATH
1856
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Charles Willson Peale
(1741-1827)
MOTHER
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale
(1765-1804)
SISTER
Eleanor Peale
(1770–1773)
SISTER
Margaret Bordley Peale
(1772-1772)
BROTHER
Raphaelle Peale
(1774-1825)
SISTER
Angelica Kauffmann Peale Robinson
(1775-1853)
BROTHER
Rembrandt Peale
(1778-1860)
BROTHER
Rubens Peale
(1784-1865)
SISTER
Sophonisba Angusciola Peale Sellers
(1786-1859)
BROTHER
Charles Linnaeus Peale
(1794-1832)
BROTHER
Franklin Peale
(1795-1870)
BROTHER
Titian Ramsay Peale
(1799-1885)
SISTER
Elizabeth DePeyster Peale Patterson
(1802–1857)
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RELIGIOUS VIEWS
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Sybilla Miriam Peale Summers (born 1797) was a daughter of artist Charles Willson Peale and Elizabeth DePeyster. She married Andrew Summers in 1815 and was the mother of Philadelphia architect George Summers. Her letter to her brother Linnaeus in January 1815 discusses the British defeat at New Orleans. She also owned her father’s last self-portrait, later acquired by the New-York Historical Society. Archives give her death as 1856, while that museum gives 1861.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Sybilla Miriam Peale Summers’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Sybilla Miriam Peale Summers is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sybilla Miriam Peale Summers died in 1856. Sybilla Miriam Peale Summers was a daughter of artist Charles Willson Peale and Elizabeth DePeyster. She married Andrew Summers in 1815 and was the mother of Philadelphia architect George Summers. Her letter to her brother Linnaeus in January 1815 discusses the British defeat at New Orleans. She also owned her father’s last self-portrait, later acquired by the New-York Historical Society. Archives give her death as 1856, while that museum gives 1861. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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