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York ;
(i.) Marj/ Elizabeth;'^ who married: first, Francis Potter of New
and, secondly, Edward Sherman son of Judge Gould of Litchfield,
Conn.; and died in 1881, leaving one son by her second marriage, Edward
Sherman,^ who married Isabella Ludlow.
(2.) Henry Augustus ;'^ graduated at Columbia College in 1827;
Doctor of Medicine 1830; made LL.D. at Yale College in 1864; who
married Helen daughter of Peter A. Jay, granddaughter of Chief Justice
John Jay
; and died in 1884, leaving six surviving children, as follows:
I. Henry Atigushis ;'^ who married Emily daughter of Dr. Samuel Blois
of New York; 2. John Jay ;^ 3. Augustus Jay ;^ Professor of Civil
Engineering in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University ; who
married Adeline Blakesley ; 4. Alfred Wagstaff; ^
Jay;^ 6. Robert Ogden,'^ M.D.
5. Mary Rutherford
"The eldest son of Henry Augustus and Helen (Jay) Du Bois was
Cornelius Jay ^ who died Feb. 11, 1880, after a long and painful illness.
He was born in New York Aug. 30, 1836, and graduated at Columbia
Law School in 1861. On the breaking out of the civil war he went with
the Seventh Regiment to Washington. In 1862 he went with it to Balti-
more, and upon his return to his father's house in New Haven there
recruited Co. D. 27th C. Vol., and went out as Captain. He was one of
the two Companies which escaped capture in Virginia, thus saving the
regimental colors. He served in Zook's Brigade, under Hancock, at
Aquia Creek, Falmouth, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. At the
battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, he received a severe wound, from which
he never fully recovered. He was, indeed, supposed to be among the
killed, but his brother Henry Augustus, then serving as Assistant Surgeon
in the regular Army, fortunately found him, dressed his wounds, and had
him conveyed to his friends in New York. Gen. Hancock sent word to
his father that he had 'never seen a more gallant charge,' and Col. Brooke
said 'there was not a more gallant soldier in the army than Capt. Du Bois.'
After partly recovering from his wounds he became Adjutant of the 20th
C. Vol., and served under Hooker and Sherman in Georgia. At the battle
of Resaca, when the Regiment was ordered to storm a strong position of
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