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

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Mr. Olmsted's first trade was chiefly with the Indians of the Wyandotte,
Seneca, and Ottawa tribes. Soon after he and his brother opened business,
they received in trade and shipped in one season 20,000 muskrat skins worth
25 cents apiece, 8,000 coon skins worth 50 cents each, 200 bear skins at $5.00
each, 2,000 deer skins at 50 cents each and 150 otter skins at $5.00 each. In
1820 the Olmsted Bros, sent the first pork from Sandusky eastward. It consisted
of 150 barrels and was marketed at Montreal. The cost here was $2,000
for the lot but was sold for considerably less.
In 1825 the firm dissolved and Mr. Olmsted went into business at Tymochter
but in 3 years returned to Lower Sandusky where he remained the rest
of his life. The first wheat shipped East from this point (a lot of 600 bushels)
was sent by Mr. Olmsted in the year 1830. It cost him 40 cents per bushel
in Lower Sandusky and sold in Buffalo at 60 cents. Transportation was then
so high that this advance of 20 cents per bushel was consumed in expenses.
He made nothing, therefore, by the operation.
His marriage license was the second issued after the organization of the
county. He held for a time the position of County Treasurer, also that of
Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, all the duties of which offices
he performed to the entire satisfaction of the people.
(5270) GEORGE GAYLORD OLMSTED, Sandusky, Ohio. b. Jan. 25,
1795; d. Mar. 29, 1846; m. May 8, 1828, Jane Whitinger; b. Sept. 14, 1809;
d. May 27, 1880; dau. of Nicholas and Sarah Whitinger, of Sandusky, Ohio.
6771, Millicent; b. Oct. 8, 1830; d. July 19, 1836. 6772, Anna Maria +.
6773, Henry Sanford +. 6774, Charles Leonard +. 6775, Gaylord;
b. Apr. 15, 1841; m. Jemimah Burnham. 6776, Georgianna; b. Nov. 3,
1845; d. Mar. 19, 1847.
(5272) (Capt.) CHARLES STEWART OLMSTED, b. Nov. 5, 1799; d.
Feb. 12, 1874; m. (1) Apr. 13, 1820, Ann Johnson; b. abt. 1802; d. July 4,
1842; (2) Martha Ann Rogers; d. May 11, 1888.
6777, Delia Ann +. 6778, Lovinla Johnson; b. June 16, 1824; d. Jan.
3, 1879; m. (1) Oct. 4, 1842, Samuel S. Dauchy, of Albany, N. Y.: (2) Nov.
6, 1864, Lemuel Harvey Tupper, of Troy, N. Y.; b. Sept. 3, 1803. 6779,
(Gen.) William Adams; b. at Albany, N. Y., Dec. 25, 1834; volunteer in
Civil War, Apr. 17, 1861; made Captain Apr. 20, 1861; Lieut. Col. Aug. 27,
1861, of 2d New York Vol. Infantry, from Troy, N. Y.; served two years
until expiration of term of enlistment; re-entered the service as Col. of 59th
N. Y. Vols.; assigned to the command of the 1st Brigade, 2d Div., 2d Army
Corps in Army of the Potomac, Nov. 4, 1864; served to the end of the war,
July 12, 1865. Gen. Olmsted received a Brevet promotion of Brigadier
General for gallant and meritorious conduct at Richmond, Va., in 1862, and at
Glendale, Malvern Hill, Hatcher's Run, and Petersburg, Va. ; was mustered
out July 12, 1865. In 1889 was Doctor of Medicine at Trinidad, Col. 6780,
Charles Samuel Dauchy, Albany, N. Y.; b. Sept. 23, 1845. He was
drowned when nine years of age.
Captain C. S. Olmsted always had a particular desire to lead the life of a
sailor. At about sixteen years of age he shipped before the mast, on an outward
bound vessel and, before his return, made the voyage round the world.
He visited England and witnessed the coronation of King George IV. When
on his next voyage the crew mutinied and as Mr. Olmsted was the only