Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America : embracing the ...

106 Olmsted Family Genealogy
2334, Emily Adele; b. June 26, 1850; d. Jan. 29, 1852. 2335, Emily Adele
+ . 2336, Frances; b. June 20, 1854; d. Sept. 10, 1854. 2337, Frank
Miller +. 2338, Hattie Eugenia +. 2339, Isabelle; b. Oct. 16,
1859; m. May 25, 1884, Jeremiah Smith; b. Nov. 17, 1854; son of Hiram
and Margaret (Conners) Smith. 2340, Herbert Monroe +.
(1128) EMILY MARY GOODWIN, b. Aug. 1, 1817; d. July 14, 1895; m.
Jan. 19, 1846, Joseph Seymour, Oswego, N. Y.; b. Sept. 17, 1815; d. Apr.
9, 1887; son of Joseph and Abigail (Carlo) Seymour.
2341, Daughter; b. Feb. 11, 1847; d. Feb. 11, 1847. 2342, Edwin Goodwin;
b. June 9, 1851. 2343, Son; b. Aug. 1, 1853; d. Aug. 4, 1853. 2344,
Charles Henry; b. Feb. 5, 1856. 2345, Francis Hall; b. Sept. 30, 1858;
d. Sept. 3, 1862.
(1129) HORACE ELY GOODWIN, b. July 30, 1815; d. Mar. 19, 1887; m.
Apr. 26, 1842, Julia A. Holmes; b. July 1, 1814; d. July 19, 1889; dau. of
Benjamin and Erepta (Craw) Holmes.
2346, Junius Eugene; b. Jan. 13, 1843; d. Aug. 25, 1864. 2347, Julia
Louise; b. Nov. 26, 1845; m. Albert Palmer Pitkin; b. Feb. 27, 1829; d.
Feb. 21, 1892; son of Denison P. and Phebe Dunham (Turner) Pitkin.
2348, Carolyn Alice; b. Sept. 23, 1856.
(1130) EDWIN OLMSTED GOODWIN, b. Nov. 24, 1819; d. Nov. 25,
1882; m. Sept. 13, 1848, Harriet Brown; b. Apr. 10, 1818; d. Nov., 1904; dau.
of Jonathan Clark and Sophia (Bingham) Brown.
2349, Edwin Pratt +. 2350, Emily Seymour +• 2351, Harriet
Rosalie; b. Oct. 2, 1855; d. Sept. 9, 1856. 2352, Jennie Arabella; b.
Feb. 18, 1858; d. Nov. 5, 1862.
(1132) FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, A. M., LL. D., Brookline, Mass.
b. at Hartford, Conn., Apr. 26, 1822; d. Aug. 28, 1903; m. June 13, 1859, Mary
Cleveland (Perkins) Olmsted (see No. 1133).
Mr. Olmsted was for three years a student of civil engineering, and later
pursued scientific studies at Yale College. He was then for two years a working
student of agriculture, and afterwards seven years a farmer and horticulturist
upon his own land. At this time he was already an ardent lover
of natural scenery, and for the enjoyment of it made many journeys, chiefly
in the saddle or on foot.
In 1850 he traveled in Europe, mainly on foot, giving special attention
to rural affairs, particularly to parks and pleasure grounds and the manner
in which they were managed and used. He was aided in doing so by letters
and advice of Professor Asa Gray, Mr. A. J. Downing and Sir William Hooker.
In 1853 and 1854, he was engaged in a study of the economical condition
of the Slave States. For closer observations of rural details, he traveled
a distance of more than four thousand miles in these states on horseback.
In 1856, he visited Europe again and has done so three times since, in
each case giving special study to parks and pleasure grounds, public forests,
zoological and botanical gardens and the plans and manner of enlargement
of towns and suburbs.
In the spring of 1857 he was appointed superintendent of the preparatory
work of the projected Central Park of New York. The following fall, in
association with Mr. Calvert Vaux, he devised a plan for this park, which was