Who were the Founding Founders?
Below you will find a list of the Founding Funders. However, we at the Roberson Project wanted to highlight their diverse backgrounds. Here are ten examples of notable “Founding Funders.”
*This list is ordered through Fairbanks’s assigned subscriber number. If there is a number missing the “funder” has not yet been identified.
1 John Armfield (1797-1871)
2 Thomas Davis Warren (1817-1878)
3 Isaac Croom Jr. (1795-1863)
4 Meredith Calhoun (1805-1869)
5 Robert Cambell Cummings (1820-1892)
6 Mrs. Pauline Pickett (1816-1899)
7 Mrs. Harriet L. Vaughn (1800-1861)
8 James Potter (1793-1862)
9 Hugh Lyle (1787-1870)
10 Robert Habersham (1784-1870)
11 Benjamin F. Griffin (1809-1887)
12 Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen (1816-1863)
13 Wade Hampton III (1816-1902)
14 William Aiken Jr. (1806-1887)
15 John Shelby (1785-1859)
16 James Johnston Alston (1803-1866)
17 William Newton Mercer (1792-1874)
18 Mrs. Henrietta Ames (1820-1876)
19 Anthony Wayne Van Leer (1783-1864)
20 George Washington Hargraves (1810-1894)
21 Unidentified
22 Jacob Henry Walburg Jr. (1793-1872)
23 William Silliman (1778-1868)
24 Franklin Hardesty Sr. (1806-1874)
25 John G. McNiel (1832-1899)
26 Francis Brinley Fogg Sr. (1795-1880)
27 George Shall Yerger (1801-1860)
28 William Yerger (1816-1872)
29 David Hunt (1779-1861)
30 Steven Etienne Winter Jr. (1794-?)
31 George William Matthews (1807-1880)
32 Mary Ann Gray Smith (1793-1877)
33 Thomas Cooper Whitesides (1809-1885)
34 John Meredith Bass (1804-1878)
35 Maunsel White (1783-1863)
36 George Seth Guion (1806-1861)
37 Charles Teed Pollard (1805-1888)
38 Andrew Jackson Polk (1824-1867)
39 Sarah Childress Polk (1803-1891)
40 William L. Brown (1784-1864)
41 Richard Peters (1810-1889)
42 John Arthur Taylor (1812-1879)
43 William Grimball Baynard (1792-1861)
44 John Periander Walworth (1799-1883)
45 John Perkins Jr. (1819-1885)
46 Andrew Low II (1812-1886)
47 Henry Davis Weed (1803-1875)
48 Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798-1875)
49 Walter O. Wynn (1833-1861)
50 Emily Sparks Austin Woolfolk (1816-1884)
51 Ebenezer Eaton Kitteredge (1799-1867)
52 William Whitmell Hill Pugh (1811-1906)
53 John Laurence Manning (1816-1889)
54 James Henry Hammond (1807-1866)
55 Joshua John Ward (1827-1867)
56 Christopher Gustavus Memminger (1803-1888)
57 Samuel Rodgers Walker (1822-1881)
58 Edward Padelford (1801-1870)
59 James Lockhart Coleman (1830-1897)
60 Duncan Stewart Cage (1829-1885)
61 Edward Sparrow (1810-1882)
62 Robert White Williams (1802-1864)
63 James Cathcart Johnston (1782-1865)
64 Frederick Daniel Conrad (1795-1865)
65 Charles Duncan Stewart (1815-1885)
66 Sarah Webb Coles Taylor (1800-1887)
67 Harry Thompson Hays (1820-1876)
68 Josiah Collins (1808-1863)
69 Edward Barnwell Heyward (1826-1871)
70 John Routh (1795-1867)
71 Thomas Overton Moore (1804-1876)
72 Ann Eliza Sprigg Routh (1814-1884)
73 Ralph S. Smith (1806-1883)
74 William B. Johnson (1782-1862)
75 Unidentified
76 Isaac H. Hilliard (1811-1868)
77 Joshua Bosley Bond (1795-?)
78 Plowden C. J. Weston (1820-1864)
79 George W. Mordecai (1801-1871)
80 Unidentified
81 Unidentified
82 Stephen Duncan (1787-1867)
83 Levin Rothrock Marshall (1800-1870)
84 Unidentified
85 Thomas Kirkman III (1800-1864)
86 Unidentified
87 Robert Campbell Brinkley (1816-1867)
88 Gideon Johnson Pillow Jr. (1806-1878)
89 George Washington Polk (1817-1892)
90 Daniel Turnbull (1796-1861)
91 William S. Pettigrew (1818-1900)
92 Adlai Osborne Harris (1793–1876)
93 Joshua Baker (1799-1885)
94 William A. Bisland (1826-1889)
95 John “Bright” Rucker Bisland (1829-1910)
96 John McDowell Pelton (1825-1873)
97 John L. Jones (1822-?)
98 Isaac Scott (1810-1867)
99 William Nichol (1800-1878)
100 Unidentified
101 Unidentified
102 Unidentified
103 Thomas Pollock Devereux (1793-1869)
104 John Fanning Burgwyn (1783-1864)
105 Thomas Pollock Burgwyn (1814-1868)
106 Unidentified
107 Mrs. Sarah Turnbull Stirling (1789-1875)
108 Henry Johnson (1783-1864)
109 John H. Randolph (1813-1883)
110 Paul Carrington Cameron (1808-1891)
111 John Sidell (1793-1871)
112 Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-1884)
113 Unidentified
114 Edmond Jean Forstall (1794-1873)
116 Thomas M. Lee (1802-1881)
117 George Peabody (1795-1897)
118 Allen Jones Polk (1824-1897)
119 Thomas Spraggins Galloway Sr. (1809-1879)
120 Minor Kenner (1808-1862)
121 Oliver Jones Morgan (1784-1860)
122 Benjamin Frank Hudson (1810-1872)
123 John Jefferson Miller (1811-1887)
124 Henry Watkins Allen (1820-1866)
125 Ethan Allen (1796-1879)
126 James Hamilton Couper (1794-1866)
127 Richard Ellis Butler (1819-1908)
128 Pierce Mease Butler (1810-1867)
129 Simmons Jones Baker Jr. (1805-1887)
130 Asa Wilder Daniels (1829-1923)
131 Jerimiah Brown (1800-1868)
132 Allen Thomas Bowie (1814-1872)
133 Thomas Jefferson Buffington (1821-1903)
134 Philip Lansdale Cox (1815-1892)
135 Aaron Porter Cleveland (1809-1885)
136 Alexander William Ellerbee (1816-1865)
137 Thomas Burge Taylor (1814-1883)
138 Josiah Chambers (1820-1917)
139 John Archibald Campbell (1811-1889)
140 Martha Morse Marsh Cade (1816-1897)
141 Henry Kendall Carter (1805-1880)
142 Samuel Worthington Dorsey (1811-1875)
143 James Webb Smith Donnell (1820-1877)
145 Thomas Hutchins Ellis (1829-1902)
146 John Kingsbury Elgee (1812-1864)
147 Alexander King Farrar (1814-1878)
148 Charles Goodrich (1813-1889)
149 Adam Giffin (1808-1881)
150 William Cummins Stout (1823-1886)
151 William McLean Goodrich (1807-1881)
152 George Mason Graham (1807-1891)
153 Robert Geddes (1805-1871)
154 James Dick Hill (1831-1885)
155 James J. Hanna (1809-1867)
157 George Washington Jones (1817-1889)
158 Duncan Farrar Kenner (1813-1887)
159 William Thomas Leacock (1797-1884)
160 John Little Lobdell (1791-1867)
161 Richard Lloyd (1800-?)
162 Hervey B. Hale
163 Ambrose Lanfear (1786-1869)
164 William Thompson Martin (1823-1910)
165 Richard McCall (1818-1869)
167 Henry Marshall (1805-1864)
168 Henry McCall (1788-1859)
169 Edward McGehee (1786-1880)
170 Richard Nugent (1813-1878)
171 Haller Nutt (1819-1864)
172 Henry Vining Ogden Sr. (1822-1910)
173 William Hawkins Polk (1815-1862)
177 Robert Francis Withers Allston (1801-1864)
178 James Louis Petigru (1789-1863)
179 Charles Isaac Polk (1832-1889)
180 Mary Ann Henry Polk (1829-1891)
182 Jason Habersham Elliott (1819-1877)
183 John Julius Pringle (1824-1901)
185 Horatio Spriggs Routh (1832-1876)
186 Daniel Heyward (1810-1888)
187 John Knox Routh (1829-1871)
188 Matthew Bacon Sellars (1800-1880)
191 Charles B. Swasey (1822-?)
192 Henry Massingberd Tucker (1832-1904)
193 John R. Thompson (1813-1912)
194 John Singer Wallace (1831-1906)
195 Richard Augustine Wilkins (1815-1878)
196 Joseph Marshall Williams (1820-1901)
197 John Nicholas Williams (1797-1861)
198 William J. Minor (1808-1869)
200 Francis Webb (1813-1885)
201 Thomas Ruffin (1787-1870)
202 Leroy Hammond Anderson (1814-1863)
203 George Rainsford Fairbanks (1820-1906)
204 Nathan Bryan Whitfield (1799-1868)
205 William Henry Chase (1798-1870)
206 Samuel Goode Jones (1815-1886)
207 Seaborn Jones Jr. (1788-1864)
208 John Basil Lamar (1812-1862)
210 Jacob Upsher Payne (1803-1900)
211 John Pendleton King (1799-1888)
212 Richard Randolph Cuyler (1796-1865)
213 William Henry Cuyler (1794-1869)
216 Alexander Ratcliffe Bell Sr. (1816 -1885)
217 Paul Tucker Sayre (1822-1863)
218 Thomas Welsh (1808-?)
219 William Knox (1800-1869)
220 Cornelius Byron Robinson (1829-1866)
221 Thomas Alexander Morris (1821-1909)
222 Henry Porter Lee (1800-1876)
223 John Dennis Phelan (1809-1879)
224 Benjamin Blake Minor (1818-1905)
227 William Wylie Farley (1826-1894)
228 Thomas Willis Farley (1815-1873)
230 James H. Caldwell (1793-1863)
231 Maunsel White (1783-1863)
232 Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1803-1890)
233 George Goldthwaite (1809-1879)
234 Joseph Marshall Williams (1820-1901)
235 Thomas Bagby (1811-1882)
237 George E. French (1816-1873)
238 David McKendree Key (1824-1900)
242 Thomas S. Shephard (1841-?)
243 Alfred Scott James (1831-1874)
244 Richard Augustus Colclough (1825-1865)
245 Thomas Glascock Barrett (1838-1906)
246 Edward Carrington Elmore (1827-1873)
247 Elmore Joseph Fitzpatrick (1828-1884)
248 William Henry Taylor (1801-1879)
250 James H. Caldwell (1793-1863)
252 William W. Pugh (1805-1886)
254 William Ruffin Barrow (1801-1862)
255 Henry Workman Conner (1797-1861)
256 Wilhemus Bogart (1785-1869)
257 Joseph Biddle Wilkinson (1817-1902)
258 Frederick Gottliev Rodewald (1810-1860)
259 James Taylor Rucks (1791-1862)
260 William Flint (1814-1859)
261 Joseph Gerald Branch (1817-1867)
262 Benjamin Thorne Ballard (1787-1869)
263 Mary A. T. Newell (1807-1905)
264 Mary Elizabeth Harrison Wright (1817-1904)
265 Randall Lee Gibson (1832-1892)
266 Ida Ann Barnes Slocomb (1830-1910)
267 Cuthbert Harrison Slocomb (1831-1873)
268 Charles. W. Allen (1811-1891)
269 Augusta Slocomb-Urquhart (1831-1919)
270 Josiah Chambers (1820-1917)
271 Thomas Gale (1793-1883)
272 Henry Barretto Foley (1827-1898)
274 William Drew Winter (1820-1871)
275 William Walker (1822-1870)
276 James Norfleet Brown (1806-1859)
277 James R. Devall (1826-1888)
278 Sarah H. Black (1801-1876)
279 Aldert Smedes (1810-1877)
280 James Watkins Cook Jr. (1823-1864)
281 William Blount Robertson II (1813-1884)
282 Eleanor MacMahon Lynch (1796-1877)
283 Albert Gallatin McGehee (1812-1888)
284 Samuel Blackburn Marks (1820-1888)
285 Samuel B. Matthews (1798-1883)
286 John Seibels (1816-1865)
287 Frank Strother Lyon (1800-1882)
288 William H. Avery (1800-1868)
289 Elisha Woolsey Peck (1799-1888)
290 William Page Molett (1789-1865)
291 Joseph Hart Marks (1819-1907)
292 Edward Armistead Semple (1818-1877)
293 Edward Courtenay Bullock (1822-1861)
294 Joseph Gerald Branch (1817-1867)
295 Emily Sparks Woolfolk (1816-1884)









