Editing George Armstrong Custer (section)

==Family and ancestry==
Custer's paternal ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, came to the North American English colonies around 1693 from the [[Rhineland]] in Germany, probably among thousands of [[German Palatines|Palatines]] whose passage was arranged by the English government to gain settlers in New York and Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Wert, Jeffry D.|title=Custer: The Controversial Life of George Armstrong Custer|year=1996|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=978-0-684-81043-0|url=https://archive.org/details/custercontrovers0000wert}}, p. 15.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author=Connell, Evan S.|title=Son Of The Morning Star|location=San Francisco, California|publisher=North Point Press|year=1984|isbn=978-0-86547-160-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/sonofmorningstar0000conn}}, p. 352.</ref>

Custer's maternal ancestors were of English and Ulster Scots descent, having ancestries from England and Northern Ireland.<ref>[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/1850_census_Custer.jpg Custer] in the [[1850 US census]], North Township, Harrison County, [[Ohio]].</ref>{{fv|date=April 2025}}

According to family letters, Custer was named after George Armstrong, a minister, in his devout mother's hope that her son might join the clergy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Merington |first=Margurite |title=The Custer Story: The Life and Intimate Letters of George A. Custer and His Wife Elizabeth|year=1987|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location=Lincoln|isbn=978-0-8032-8138-7}}</ref>