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

112 Olmsted Family Genealogy
2d marriage: 2416, Elizabeth Woodbridge +. 2417, Frances Sarah;
b. Oct. 14, 1843 ; d. Jan. 8, 1847. 2418, Henry Martyn + • 2419, Walter
BuDDiNGTON +. 2420, Francis Romaine +. 2421, Sarah Frances;;
b. Oct. 10, 1851; m. Apr., 1873, Wellington T. Read, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
2422, Mary Jane; b. Apr. 1, 1853; m. Oct. 28, 1875, Frank D. Hallett, of
Winsted, Conn. 2423, Margaret; b. June 12, 1854; d. Aug., 1854.
(1196) GEORGE FITCH OLMSTED, b. Mar. 2, 1806; d. July 9, 1841;
m. at Newmansville, Fla., June 16, 1839, Sophia Mary Sanchez; dau. of
Francis Sanchez. He published the American Mercury, the Connecticut,
Mirror and the New England Advocate at Middletown, Conn.
2424, Francis Palmer; b. Apr. 2, 1840.
(1200) ROBERT PITKIN, Kansas City, Mo. b. June 8, 1813; m. Oct. 22,.
1842, Sarah Knox; b. Apr. 2, 1825; dau. of John Knox.
2425, Sarah A.; b. Feb. 4, 1844; m. Aug. 15, 1876, (Rev.) Alfred S. Clark.
2426, Robert Knox; b. July 31, 1846; m. Apr. 23, 1879, A. A. Thomas.
2427, Charles S.; d. Jan. 29, 1852. 2428, Mary B.; b. July 15, 1856; d.
June 30, 1858. 2429, Ellen Olmsted; b. Nov. 3, 1861; m. Oct. 6, 1885,
(Rev.) James Otis Lincoln, of Troy, N. Y.
(1218) GEORGE JAY OLMSTED, b. Jan. 8, 1834; d. Nov. 11, 1876; m..
Dec. 13, 1860, Maria Mehitabel Burnham; b. Oct. 26, 1832; d. Sept. 18, 1887;
dau. of Thomas and Mehitabel (Alexander) Burnham, of E. Hartford, Conn.
2430, Henry Dwight; b. Feb. 14, 1862. 2431, Robert Elisha; b. Dec.
13, 1870; grad. Amherst, 1893.
(1260) (Brig. Gen.) JAMES S. WADSWORTH, Geneseo, N. Y. b. Oct. 3„
1807; d. May 8, 1864; m. Mary Craig Wharton.
Early in the year 1861, the rebellion in the slave states of the Union
against the general Government found Mr. Wadsworth at his temporary
residence in the city of New York. The President of the United States had
called for troops to defend the seat of Government from spoliation and possible
capture at the hands of the South. In this hour of its extremity, Mr. Wadsworth,
in the impulsive patriotism of his nature, rushed to the country's,
rescue. With his own purse and credit, he furnished a vessel with a cargo
of army supplies, went with it to Annapolis, and gave his personal attention
to its distribution among the troops that had been hastily called to protect
the city of Washington. This assistance on the part of Mr. Wadsworth, rendered
in the impoverished condition of the public treasury, although afterwards
repaid to him, was none the less creditable to both his patriotism and liberality.
He now abandoned his private affairs to his agents, and devoted his entireenergies
to his country. As a volunteer Aide to General McDowell, he engaged
in the first battle of Bull Run, and by his courage and skill, retrieved
much of the disaster of that ill-fated engagement. In July, 1861, he was
appointed Brigadier General, and assigned to a command in the Army of the
Potomac. He was later the Military Governor of the city of Washington.
Under General Reynolds he was appointed Commander of the 1st Division, and
led this Division in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. At
Gettysburg, his was the first Division engaged, going into action at nine in
the morning and remaining on the field till four in the afternoon. Nor washe
of his family alone in his devotion to the public service. Three sons,.