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Ezekiel Polk (December 7, 1747 – August 31, 1824) was American soldier, pioneer and the paternal grandfather of President James Knox Polk.
Impulsive, avaricious, and grandiloquent, this farmer, Indian fighter, speculator, politician, filibusterer, Revolutionary soldier, and pioneer on six frontiers, was a unique embodiment of much of the spirit of the Old West in the early days of the republic.
Colonel Ezekiel Polk: Pioneer and Patriarch. Charles Grier Sellers, Jr.* H _ _ ISTORY knows Colonel Ezekiel Polk only dimly, as grand- father of a President. Yet the diverse careers of this obscure but. remarkable man may tell us something that biographies of. great cannot about many of the average characteristics of his generation.
18 de fev. de 2023 · Genealogy for Lt. Colonel Ezekiel Polk (1747 - 1824) family tree on Geni, with over 245 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- Carlisle, Pennsylvania
- December 7, 1747
- Pennsylvania
- August 31, 1824
Ezekiel Polk (December 7, 1747 – August 31, 1824) was American soldier, pioneer and the paternal grandfather of President James Knox Polk.
Ezekiel Polk, one of the older brothers of Colonel Thomas Polk, was the first clerk of the county court of Lincoln, after its separation from Mecklenburg in 1768; a Magistrate of Mecklenburg county at a later period; and was a man of considerable wealth and influence, owning much of the valuable lands around “Morrow’s Turnout,” now the ...
Pioneer and Patriarch. History knows Colonel Ezekiel Polk (December 7, 1747 – August 31, 1824), only dimly, as a grandfather of a President, James K. Polk. Yet the different careers of a...
