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

292 Olmsted Family Genealogy
6765, Caroline L.; b. Nov. 21, 1830; m. Charles E. Canfield, of Harvard,
Neb. 6756, David; b. Jan. 20, 1833; killed in battle of Spottsylvania during
the Civil War. 6759, Clara; b. Jan, 18, 1836; d. Oct. 28, 1860. 6758,
Catherine; b. Jan. 3, 1839; m. Theodore L, Briggs, of Stamford, Conn.
6759, Mary; b. Sept., 1846; m. Sept. 8, 1870, Lewis E. Marshall, of Bed-
ford, N. Y. 6760, Elizabeth; b. July 5, 1849; m. Mar. 22, 1871, John C.
Haight, of Bedford, N. Y.
(5259) STEPHEN OLMSTED, b. June 4, 1812; d. Sept. 25, 1840; m. Eliza
Redding.
6761, Eliza; m. Bunce, of Northport, L. I.
(5260) FRANCIS B. OLMSTED, Northport, L. I. b. Dec. 9, 1820; m. (1)
Oct. 17, 1844, Nancy Ruland; b. Apr. 1, 1829; d. Oct. 17, 1854, at Brookhaven,
L. I., N. Y.; dau. of Joel and Nancy (Smith) Ruland; (2) Harriet Amanda
Mott; b. Feb. 12, 1839; dau. of Henry and Rebecca Mott, of Sag Harbor,
L. I., N. Y.
1st marriage: 6762, John Wands +. 6763, William Marcus; b. Aug. 21,
1850. 6764, Isabel Bancker; b. Apr. 10, 1854. 2d marriage: 6765, Frank
Eugene; b. Mar. 10, 1861. 6766, Mary Alice; b. Feb. 2, 1863. 6767,
Harold Clarence; b. May 1, 1876.
(5269) JESSE SMITH OLMSTED, Lower Sandusky, Ohio. b. Dec. 24,
1792; d. at Fremont, Ohio, Nov. 9, 1860; m. Jan. 1, 1821, Azuba Ferguson; babt.
1793; d. June 10, 1882; dau. of Richard and Juliana (Davis) Ferguson.
6768, Dorcas Ann; b. Sept. 12, 1824; d. Aug. 25, 1826. 6769, Anna Maria
+ . 6770, Charles +.
Jesse S. Olmsted was born in Ridgefield, Conn. When he was quite young
his father removed to Albany, N. Y., where young Olmsted was placed for
awhile under the instruction of Dr. Knott. When quite a young man he was
employed as bookkeeper in a large mercantile establishment in his native
city. Here he became a thorough accountant and took his first lessons in
mercantile transactions. In the fall of 1817 Mr. Olmsted, in company with
his brother, Geo. G., brought from Albany, N. Y., to Lower Sandusky, 0.,
the first stock of goods that rose to the dignity of a mercantile transaction.
It consisted of a general assortment of dry goods, groceries, hardware, crockery,
liquors and wines and amounted upon the invoices at Albany to the handsome
sum of $27,000. This firm of brothers also brought with them carpenters
to build a store and coopers to make barrels to be used at the fisheries located
in that place.
The workmen—eleven in all—together with nails, glass and the hardware
necessary for their intended building were transported from Albany to Buffalo
by land, thence by water to Sandusky. The pine lumber was brought from
Buffalo by water. The amount paid for transportation of the stock of merchandise
was $4,400. Immediately upon their arrival the brothers commenced
the erection of their store. It was the second frame structure built
in Lower Sandusky. Its dimensions were 60 by 30 feet, two stories high, with
dormer windows and projecting beams with pulley blocks attached in front
for raising goods. It was considered a mammoth building and for many
years was a kind of commercial emporium, the stock of goods in it being
greater than any between Detroit and Cleveland and Urbana and the Lake.