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

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for five years he was a member of the staff of the New York Evening World
and for five years thereafter was on the staff of the New York Sun. Appointed
a City Magistrate of The City of New York by Mayor Strong on December
30, 1897. Selected by Mayor Low to establish the first Children's Court in New
York City, and by him appointed a Justice of the Court of Special Sessions
for that purpose on May 2, 1902. Served as such Justice for a full term of ten
years.
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STEPHEN WESLEY OLMSTED
Stephen Wesley Olmsted was born at Athens, Pa., where he lived until
the beginning of the Civil War, working in a mill, which was owned and conducted
by his brother-in-law. When the news of the assault upon Fort
Sumter spread over the country, followed by President Lincoln's first call
for volunteers, he was among the first to respond. He enhsted at Elmira,
N. Y., within two weeks after the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter, joining
Co. E of the 23d New York Vols. His regiment went immediately to the
front, joining the Army of the Potomac. He participated in the first battle
of Bull Run, in the Peninsular Campaign, and was in the battles of Antietam,
Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, South Mountain, and many other bloody
conflicts during the war. He served with his regiment for two years, and was
honorably discharged and breveted Corporal.
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DANIEL OLMSTED
He was born at Masonville, Delaware County, N. Y. (Birthplace
given on p. 246 incorrect.) In 1836 moved with his wife and children
to a point which came to be known as " Olmsted's Corners," near
Ulysses, Potter County, Pa. He was a successful man, and highly
respected throughout the county. At about the same time there moved into
Potter County, four brothers, Hosea, Samuel, Leavitt and Lucas Cushing.
The first named was a merchant and the second cleared a farm on Cushing
Creek. Hosea was the first Postmaster at Cushingville, now Brookland.
These families intermarried and became prominent in the county. Daniel
Olmsted was the first U. S. Postmaster at Ulysses, Pa., having been appointed
July 30, 1839. Although his descendants have held many public offices, his
own inclination did not run in that direction, and that of Postmaster was the
only public office he ever held, or to which he ever aspired. He, with his
brother, Gardner H. Olmsted, and the brothers Leavitt and Lucas Cushing,
were among the Trustees of the first Baptist Society of Ulysses, incorporated
Jan. 26, 1849, and he was at all times a prominent and useful member of the
Baptist Church, into which he and his young wife had been baptized at Masonville
in 1827. In 1865 he moved to Bennettsville, N. Y., where some of his
people still lived, and which is near Masonville, his former home. There he
died Oct. 2, 1882. (Date of death on p. 246 incorrect.)
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RIGHT REV. CHARLES SANFORD OLMSTED
Bishop Olmsted was a student at St. Stephen's College, New York, 1869-