sentences:  Ferris was born at "The Homestead" in Throggs Neck, a neighborhood in the Bronx in New York City.His father, Edward Ferris, was long an Inspector of Flour in New York and one of the founders of the Tammany Society who made a large fortune, which he left to his children, including Charles and his brother, Floyd T. Ferris, a physician.His mother was Elizabeth Goadsby (d. 1825), daughter of Sir Thomas Goadsby of England.