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

236 Olmsted Family Genealogy
Feb. 20, 1808; d. Dec. 9, 1861; m. Oct. 26, 1834, Peter Gedney; d. 1835.
5214, Maru. a. +. 5215, Henry Floyd +.
(4444) JONAS OLMSTED, b. Jan. 31, 1778; d. in Keeseville, N. Y., Apr.
20, 1858; m. (1) Polly Terhune, of Northumberland, N. Y.; d. 1812; (2) Mrs.
Elizabeth Ketchum. He was Postmaster in Northumberland 1830-1837.
5216, Maria; m. Dr. Haywood. 5217, Amanda; m. Dr. Cox. 5218,
Helen; m. Oliver F. Peabody.
(4446) BETSEY OLMSTED, b. Mar. 3, 1782; d. Mar. 28, 1861; m. Aug.
28, 1803, Abijah Northrop; b. May 28, 1779, at Ridgefield, Conn.; d. at
Perrinton, N. Y., Dec. 22, 1852.
5219, Hiram Olmsted, b. July 20, 1804; m. Jan. 28, 1827, Louisa Balcom.
5220, Francis B.; b. June 15, 1806; d. Oct. 26, 1873. 5221, Cornelia E.;
b. Apr. 29, 1808; m. Silas Belden. 5222, Sarah Ann; b. Mar. 14, 1813; m.
Abraham De Groff. 5223, Jared A.; b. Dec. 15, 1815; m. (1) Susan Daroue;
(2) Margaret Aldrich. 5224, Albert B.; b. Sept. 6, 1818. 5225, Alfred
G.; b. Apr. 26, 1821; m. Betsey Biddell.
(4448) POLLY OLMSTED, b. May 21, 1786; d. at Hadley, 111., Oct., 1864;
m. (1) 1806, Alfred Grey; b. July 29, 1778; d. in Montreal, Can., 1820; son of
Judge Grey; (2) 1823, at Victor, N. Y., (Capt.) Jirah Rowley, of Pittsford,
N. Y.
1st marriage: 5226, Charles M.; b. at Sherburne, N. Y., June 13, 1807;
d. Oct. 17, 1855; m. Nov. 24, 1832, Mary Ann Havens. He was of the firm
of " McCormick & Grey," Chicago, 111.; was Mayor of Chicago in 1854.
5227, Mary M.; b. Jan. 1, 1813; m. Mar. 12, 1832, Lemuel W. Hard, of
Cleveland, Ohio. 5228, Jane E.; m. Sept. 21, 1836, John Ogden, of Milwaukee,
Wis. 5229, Elizabeth; m. S. S. Chamberlin, of Lockport, 111.
5230, George M., Chicago, III; b. July 25, 1818; m. 1839, Maria L. John-
son, of the " Pullman Car Co.," Chicago. 5231, Sarah Ann; b. Apr. 20,
1820; d. Aug. 5, 1852; m. Oct. 4, 1837, Horace Chase, of Milwaukee, Wis.
2d marriage: 5232, Alfred G.
(4451) JARED OLMSTED, b. Feb. 14, 1793; d. at Redding, Conn., Mar.
21, 1882; m. Feb. 28, 1819, Polly Abbott; b. at Redding, Conn., Nov. 8, 1788;
d. Nov. 24, 1862; dau. of Thaddeus and Rebecca (Marvin) Abbott. He
served in the War of 1812.
5233, Frederick +. 5234, Hiram +. 5235, Edmond +. 5236, George
Bement; b. Aug. 4, 1830; d. Sept. 15, 1862.
(4452) HIRAM OLMSTED, b. May 28, 1795; d. at Morrison, 111., June
28, 1860;.m. (1) Aug. 10, 1828, Sarah S. Fisher; b. Apr. 23, 1810; d. Jan. 24,
1851; dau. of (Rev.) William and Rhoda (Bardwell) Fisher, of Meredith,
N. Y.; (2) 1856, Sarah Ann Shockey.
1st marriage: 5237, Sarah Bardwell +. 5238, Hiram B. +. 5239,
Portia Nerissa +. 5240, Homer J. +. 5241, Lucy Jane; b. Jan. 20,
1844; d. Feb. 20, 1844. 5242, Horatio Fisher +. 5243, Laura Amelia;
b. June 6, 1848. Her mother died when Laura A. was young, and she was
brought up by her sister Portia. In 1873, she graduated at the Female
Seminary of Oxford, Ohio, and was a Teacher in that Institution until June,
1878. She then took a similar position in the Mills Female Seminary at
Brooklyn, Cal.