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195 whose eldest son is Theodore Frelinglmysen^ M'^Curdy of Norwich, Conn.,
196 dXi^ stcowA sow, Richard Aldrich'^ M'^Curdy, is President of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York. Mr. Robert Henry M'^Curdy
197 had three daughters : the eldest of whom, Gertrude Mercer,^ is the wife
of Hon. Gardiner Greene Hubbard of Washington, D. C, and mother of
198 Mabel Gardiner}^ now Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell ; and the two others,
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1 Sarah
Lord^ and Roberta Wolcott,^ are married, respectively, to Dr. Elias
Joseph Marsh of Paterson, N. J., and Charles Mercer Marsh Esq. of New
York (see i^at©ttr?ri>)« The fifth son of Richard and Ursula (Griswold)
201 M'^Curdy was Alexajtder Lynde^ M'^Curdy, lately deceased, of Santa
Barbara, California, who left two daughters (see if^ac^ttt*5fg). The
youngest child of the Griswold-M^Curdy marriage was the late Mrs. Sarah
202 Ann^ widow of Stephen Johnson Lord of Lyme. She was admired in
her youth for her great beauty, and in later years for the refinement,
dignity and symmetry of her character. Two sons, now of Kansas City,
203 Mo., survive her; and a daughter, Gertrude M'Ctcrdy,^ the wife of
Dr. Edward Dorr Griffin of Lyme, who is himself, also, a Griswold by
descent, through the eminent lawyer George Griffin of New York, above
mentioned (see ILOVtf),
Here the writers finish their sketch of the history of the descendants
of the first Matthew Griswold, covering a period of nearly two hundred
and fifty years. The male descendants have not been very numerous. It
is the record of a family that has been unusually free from those vicissitudes
which, in the case of many families, are so apt to be found, in the lapse of
several generations, to have lowered the social standing of some of their
members or branches. This family has numbered among its members, by
blood or marriage, many individuals of distinction ; while with only few
exceptions all have been worthy in character and highly respectable in
position.