At the age of twenty-one Mapes married a Long Island lady, Sophia Furman, two years his junior, daughter of the Judge Garret Furman, of Maspeth, Long Island.
They had at least four children:
Mary Mapes Dodge, born Mary Elizabeth Mapes (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905), an American children's writer and editor
Sophy Mapes Tolles, an artist
Catherine T. Bunnell
Charles Victor Mapes (July 4, 1836 – January 23, 1916), an agriculture scientist and engineer, the originator of the "Mapes Complete Manure", and a member of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture and the American Chemical Society.
For many years since 1877 he was vice-president and general manager of "The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Company", a stock company established in New York in 1877.
At the age of twenty-one Mapes married a Long Island lady, Sophia Furman, two years his junior, daughter of the Judge Garret Furman, of Maspeth, Long Island. They had at least four children:
Mary Mapes Dodge, born Mary Elizabeth Mapes (January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905), an American children's writer and editor
Sophy Mapes Tolles, an artist
Catherine T. Bunnell
Charles Victor Mapes (July 4, 1836 – January 23, 1916), an agriculture scientist and engineer, the originator of the "Mapes Complete Manure", and a member of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture and the American Chemical Society. For many years since 1877 he was vice-president and general manager of "The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Company", a stock company established in New York in 1877.
James Mapes