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

444 Olmsted Family Genealogy
was educated in the district schools and High School of Elyria, Ohio, and graduated
from the Commercial School of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1865. He then
taught school in Ohio and Wisconsin and subsequently went into the insurance
business in Cleveland, in 1867, and has been thus engaged up to the present
day, having built up by close attention to business, strict integrity and honorable
business methods, one of the largest and most important insurance agencies
in the State. He has been the State Agent for The National Life Insurance
Company of Vermont smce 1879.
Mr. Olmsted is a Director and Treasurer of The National Safe and Lock
Company of Cleveland, is a Director in the Central National Bank, Director
in the Woodland Avenue Savings and Trust Company, Director in The Land
Title and Abstract Company, and a Member of The Chamber of Commerce.
President National Land Co., Director National Life Insurance Company of
Montpelier, Vt., Director and Treasurer Union Savings & Loan Co., Director
of Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. In politics he is a Republican.
Mr. Olmsted is a member of The Union Club and prominent in civic and
business affairs of Cleveland,
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JAMES GREELEY OLMSTED
Was educated at Leroy (N. Y.) Academy. He moved to Des Moines, Iowa,
in 1876. Member of firm of " Bentley & Olmsted " Shoe Mfg., in 1884. President
of St. Charles Savings Bank, Vice-Pres. First National Bank of Prairie City,
Iowa. Director of Central State Bank, Central Trust Co., Minburn Savings
Bank, and Waterbury Chemical Co., all of Des Moines, Iowa. Pres. of Des
Moines City Library.
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HON. JAMES WOLCOTT WADSWORTH, Jr.
Born Aug. 12, 1877; m. Sept. 30, 1902, Alice Hay; b. Jan. 6, 1880;
dau. of (Hon.) John and Clara (Stone) Hay, of Washington, D. C. Mr.
John Hay was Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Roosevelt.
Mr. Wadsworth received his early education at St. Mark's School at
Southborough, Mass.; grad. Yale, 1898; Member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and
"Skull &Bones" fraternities. Private in Battery A., Penn. Light Artillery m
Spanish-American War. Elected to New York State Assembly from Livingston
County, 1904; re-elected 1905; Speaker of Assembly 1906-07; was nominated
for Speaker without opposition in 1907. Candidate for Governor of
New York State on Republican ticket, 1912.
Evelyn; b. July 6, 1903. James Jeremiah; b. June 12, 1905
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WILLARD H. OLMSTED
Willard H. Olmsted was educated in the common schools and in the High
School at Auburn, N. Y. Studied law in the latter city and was admitted to
practice at the Bar on April 10, 1880, his first partner in the law business being
Peter A. Hendrick, at present Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of
New York. A penchant for newspaper work took him into journalism, and