Talk:Paul Roebling

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography
	This article is supported by WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers (assessed as Low-importance).

Initial Entry

I was surprised to find that Paul Roebling did not have a Wikipedia entry given his career. I'm still learning more about his life but encourage others to add to the article.

Bryan MacKinnon (talk) 11:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have made a change to the page - the phrase "direct descendant" is incorrect, and had been changed to "descendant," as there is no such thing as an "Indirect descendant" (an oxymoron). One is either a descendant of a person or one is not. I have been a genealogical researcher for nearly 40 years, have been published in one of the scholarly genealogical journals (Mayflower Descendant), and write a column for The Mayflower Quarterly Magazine, published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (of which I am a member).

I was very pleased to see the citation of the Sullivan Ballou letter. Roebling's masterful reading of that letter is a major part of the emotional impact of that scene. Dale H. Cook (talk) 13:27, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]