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

322 Olmsted Family Genealogy
(5775) ELOISA BENNITT OLMSTED, b. in Cadiz, Ohio, Mar;, 1836; d.
Dec. 2, 1877; m. John L. Stettinous, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
7531, Mary Longwoeth; b. 1855; m. May 10, 1887, James Handasyd
Perkins; b. Feb. 20, 1848; d. Dec. 3, 1889; son of James Handasyd and
Sarah Hart (Elliott) Perkins. 7532, Henry Olmsted; b. 1859.
(5777) HENRY OLMSTED, Brooklyn, N. Y. b. Jan. 3, 1843; m. Feb. 16,
1865, Letitia Ball; b. June, 1846; dau. of George Washington and Mary Jane
(McNickle) Ball.
7533, Mary Bennett; b. May 30, 1866. 7534, George Ball, Cleveland,
Ohio; b. Jan. 29, 1870. 7535, Henry, Chicago, 111.; b. Oct. 28, 1872; m.
June, 1909, Lyndall Marion Jones.
(5778) WILLIAM EDMOND OLMSTED, b. May 26, 1837; d. Apr. 19,
1879; m. Sept. 14, 1860, Ellen Conolly. He served 4 years in th; Civil War,
in Co. B., 29th Regt., Pennsylvania Vols.
7536, Mary; b. Mar. 17, 1862; d. young. 7537, Willl\m Lincoln; b. Apr.
17, 1865. 7538, Ellen Margaret; b. May 17, 1871.
(5780) CHARLES EDWARD OLMSTED, New York City. b. Feb. 24,
1842; m. Feb. 1, 1864, Rosina Begley. He served in the Civil War, from July,
1861, to July 15, 1865, in Co. A., 82d Regt., Penn. Vols.; was wounded at
battle of Cold Harbor, under Gen. Grant.
7539, Edward; b. Oct. 14, 1866. 7540, Mary Elizabeth; b. 1868; d.
young. 7541, James; b. Aug. 17, 1871. 7542, Catherine; b. Dec. 9, 1873.
7543, Charles; b. Dec. 20, 1875. 7544, Mary Elizabeth; b. Oct. 18, 1878;
d. young. 7545, Brddget; b. Mar. 16, 1880.
(5808) WILLIAM OLMSTED, New York City. b. Apr. 24, 1853; d. Apr.
29, 1895; m. May 24, 1882, Dolores Martinez; b. in Cuba, W. I., Nov. 13, 1855;
dau. of Raymond Martinez.
7546, Louis William; b. May 25, 1883; d. May 29, 1898. 7547, David; b.
Mar. 24, 1885. 7548, Harold; b. Jan. 29, 1894. 7549, Willmm Raymond;
b. June 20, 1895,
In 1877 Mr. William Olmsted entered the law oifice of Close & Robertson
at White Plains, N. Y., and was admitted to the Bar as Attorney and
Counselor, in 1880, and after remaining with the firm for a time, left to accept
a position in the Custom House in New York, where he was engaged at the
tirne of his death. His ability and energy were rewarded with promotion
and he was made Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Correspondence, which
position he creditably filled to the last. His many estimable and attractive
personal qualities gained for him many steadfast friends, and his office in the
Custom House contains many evidences of the love and esteem which his
associates in business had for him. He came from old Revolutionary stock,
his great-grandfather. Major David Olmsted, having been one of the Colonists
who gave the alarm before the battle of Lexington. After the Revolution
the family settled in Bedford and it is one of the oldest in Westchester County,
some of its members still residing in the original homestead in Bedford. He
was a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution and a veteran
of N. G. S. N. Y., having been a member of Company B., Twenty-third
Regiment, Brooklyn, of which company he was Corporal.