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

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6063, Sarah; b. Nov. 3, 1819; d. same day. 6064, Harriet; b. Feb. 16,
1821;d. Oct. 19, 1827. 6065, James +. 6066, Edward +. 6067, Roger
Smith (M.D.) +. 6068, Sarah Esther; b. May 13, 1828; d. Sept. 18,
1845. 6069, Harriet Smith; b. Mar. 7, 1830; d. Mar. 31, 1838.
6070, Susan Hawley; b. Aug. 30, 1831; d. Mar. 31, 1833. 6071, Samuel
Hawley, Brooklyn, N. Y.; b. Aug. 9, 1838; d. Dec. 22, 1893; m. Oct. 19,
1869, Sarah F. Decker; b. Dec. 4, 1840, at Hudson, N. Y.; dau. of Jeffrey
and Emeline (Perry) Decker.
Dr. Hawley Olmsted grad. Yale Medical School 1861 ; was a Surgeon in
the Civil War, New York Vols., and was mustered out with rank of Lieut. Col.
In the year 1839, he was persuaded to remove from Wilton to New Haven
and resuscitate the Hopkins Gramniar School, an institution older than the
College, to which it was chiefly tributary, but from various causes had greatly
languished. Dr. Olmsted gave ten years of his life to this work, which he was
wont to speak of as his best years. As a tribute to his success in this and other
departments of letters and sound scholarship the Corporation of Yale College,
in the year 1862, conferred upon him the honorary title of Doctor of Laws.
"Although never seeking public olHce, he was often sought to fill positions
where mature judgment was most needed, as also where an 'unswerving
supreme fidelity to Truth and Right' was respected. He was a Member of
the Legislature for Wilton in 1825, '26, '28, '29, and a Senator from New Haven
in 1853. As Chairman of the Committee on Education in 1826 and '28, he
presented reports on Common School Education which attracted no little
attention at the time and which forty years have shown to be singularly
prophetic.
"He died while he was addressing at his own house the literary club, with
which, for more than twenty years, he had been accustomed to meet weekly
for the discussion of some great moral and practical questions. Said an eyewitness:
' He had just completed a most thorough, logical and, as his companions
felt, richly beautiful argument. It was, indeed, the beautiful death
of the Christian soldier with his armor on, the disciple going out of the earthly
service to the " Well Done" of the Lord.'
"He was a man of medium height, stoutly built, very erect, and dignified
in his carriage, but courteous and affable in his address. He governed his
school and won the lasting respect of his pupUs to a remarkable degree with
little apparent effort."—From "Anniversary of Wilton Cong. Ch.," p. 54.
(4813) HAWLEY OLMSTED, b. Oct. 12, 1811; d. Aug. 21, 1874; m. (1)
Mary E. Sturges; b. May 18, 1815; d. Apr. 7, 1861; dau. of Edmond and Sarah
(Adams) Sturges; (2) May 29, 1864, Sarah A. Hunt.
1st marriage: 6072, James Oscar +. 6073, Charlotte Augusta; b. Nov.
24, 1840; m. WiUiam H. Olmsted (No. 5945). 6074, Mary Elizabeth +.
6075, Jane A. +. 6076, Charles Hawley; b. Mar. 12, 1847; d. July 18,
1879; m. Oct. 12, 1878, Sarah Etha Fillow; b. Nov. 25, 1856; dau. of
Solomon M. and Henrietta (Olmsted) Fillow, of Redding, Conn. She m. (2)
Frederick Bailey, Danbury, Conn. 6077, Legrand Edward; b. May 7,
1848. 6078, William Alfred; b. Jan. 1, 1851. 6079, Georgianna,
South Wilton, Conn.; b. Aug. 17, 1852. 6080, George Burr; b. Aug. 30,
1855; d. Nov. 17, 1860. 6081, Frank; b. Apr. 5, 1860.
(4815) WILLIAM OLMSTED, Wilton, Conn. b. June 21, 1815; d. Apr.
30, 1864; m. Salina Lockwood. Mrs. Olmsted m. (2) John S. Sturges.