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Reference is made to sketch of life of Jay Gould in the "Burr Genealogy," by Chas. Burr Todd.
REV. WM. J. GOLD, D.D. (Samuel3, Abraham+, Abraham",
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Daniel", William J.7), b. in Washington, D. C., June 17, 1845; Harvard, 1865; d. Jan., 1903.
Prof. of Exegesis in Seabury Hall Div. School, inst. in class. languages in Racine College, Wis., and Prof. of Greek and warden, etc., in West. Theo. Sem. at Chicago since 1897. Author of many theological works, etc.
In a letter from him dated Chicago, April 8, 1902, he says: " The family story is that at the close of the Rev. War my grand- father Abraham, son of Col. Abraham, like two or three of his brothers, followed the sea, but that ultimately the ship in which he had invested most of his means was wrecked, and that he had a narrow escape with his life, floating for some time in an open boat before he was picked up. Upon this his wife set her foot down, and would not allow any more voyaging. Accordingly, they made their way, in 1789-90, to Delaware Co., N. Y. Jay Gould, in his history of Del. Co., says that 'Abraham was one of a company of emigrants from Fairfield Co., Conn., consisting of twenty heads of families and a single man. Among them were three Goulds besides Abraham, viz., Talcott, Isaac, and David. Abraham had three sons: John Burr, father of Jay, the eldest ; Jason, who became wealthy in the marble business at Smith's Falls, Canada, and Daniel, my father, b. 1807, d. Jan. 3, 1849. He left two sons: myself, the eldest, Wm. Jason Gold, b. June 17, 1845, and Sydney Kendall, b. Oct. 15, 1847. . . My father found that the original spelling of the family name had been Gold before they left Connecticut, and adopted it in his own case from an early period in life. . Your account of his career, p. 209, is cor- rect. His marriage to Miss Mary Ann Kendall, dau. of Amos Kendall, Postmaster-General under Jackson and Van Buren, took place in 1840. My mother was born in Kentucky, and on her mother's side was descended from the Fairfaxes of Virginia ; she d. in 1875.'"
Col. Abraham had a son Jason, who had a son John, b. 1801, who lived in Fairfield and built a house on the same location as the original dwelling of Maj. Nathan Gold. He d. in 1871, leaving ' three daughters in possession of the old homestead: Mary Cather- ine, d. Sept. 25, '99, and two who still survive, Elizabeth Burr and Julia Burr.
Fairfield was considered a sleepy old town in my boyhood ; but that section, from its natural advantages and easy communica-
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tion with New York and other cities by water, rail, and trolley, has become the garden of Connecticut, and a favorite for resi- dence, so that we cannot blame our ancestry for their choice.
We find among the leading families of Fairfield Co. many that trace back their lines to Maj. Nathan Gold.
DESCENDANTS OF REV. HEZEKIAH GOLD ** OF CORNWALL.
THOMAS GOLD" of Pittsfield had four sons and six daughters:
Thomas Augustus6 m. Dorothy Gardiner ; lived in Pittsfield : had 3 children, Gardiner, William, and Maria; Wm. m. a Miss Mott of Baltimore.
Charles . Ruggles" m. (a widow of New Haven) Mrs. At- water, and lived in Buffalo.
Theodore Egbert", unmarried, d. of yellow fever at Vicks- burg, æ. 30.
William Erskine6, m., lived in Pittsfield.
Children:
Frances Theresa7. in. David F. Worcester ( deceased ), Stamford, Conn.
Children:
Caroline Handy, m. John F. Perkins, vice-president Astor Place Bank, N. Y.
Rev. Elwood Worcester. Rector of St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Gold, unmarried.
Caroline Erskine MacDonald. New York, widow of Henry J. MacDonald, an Englishman, d. 1891.
Caroline Wolcott" m. Wm. Gardiner; lived in New Orleans and San Antonio, Tex.
Children:
Sarah, m. Mr. Thayer of New Orleans: one son living in San Antonio.
Sarah" m. Wm. Darling of Hudson, N. Y.
Maria Theresa6 m. Nathan Appleton of Boston.
Children:
Thomas Gold.
Mary, m. James Macintosh, son of Sir Francis of Scotland.
Fanny, m. Henry W. Longfellow ..
Elizabeth Sedgwick6 m. Chas. M. Lee of Rochester ; left one son, Charles.
Martha Washington6, unmarried.
* For sketch see p. 290.
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Frances Jennette6 m. Dec. 24, 1818, Dr. Oren Wright of Pittsfield.
Children :
Charles Gold.
Frances, m. George F. Danforth, judge of Court of Appeals, Rochester, N. Y.
Children:
Henry Wright.
Fanny. w. of Henry Huntington.
Jessie, m. Chas. A. Miller, lawyer in New York.
Mrs. Wright d. Dec. 9, 1826, and he m. 2d, Jan. 1. 1833, Mrs. Frances Pease of Washington, D. C .; son George Worthington, b. Oct. 15, 1833.
BENJAMIN GOLD5. Mary W., dau. of Benjamin Gold5, and Daniel B. Brinsmade of Washington, Conn., m. Jan. 12, 1814.
Children:
Thos. Franklin Brinsmade. d. April 18, 1878: in. Ist, Silence Leavitt, May 30, 1838; she d. June 2, 1843; m. 2d, Elisabeth E. Leavitt, July 22, 1844; she d. Oct. 22. 1850.
Children:
Isabella, b. Feb. 14, 1839 ; d. June 3, 1901. Silence Leavitt, b. May 19, 1843. Samuel Leavitt, b. March 6, 1848; d. Jan. 21, 1895. Esther Hazen, d. Feb. 10, ae. 10 111.
William Bartlett Brinsmade, b. 1840; d. May 16, '80; m. Charlotte Blake Chapin (d. Oct. 5, 1900) Jan. II, '48.
Children: John Chapin, b. April 24, 1852. Anna Louise, b. Dec. 26, 1854. William Gold, Jan. 21, 1858.
Abigail Irene, m. Frederick William Gunn ( Yale, 1837) April 16, 1848. He died Aug. 16, 1881.
Children: Daniel Brinsmade, b. July 9, 1849, d. April 2, 1865. Mary Gold, b. Jan. 20, 1853.
Mary M., d. April 17, '77; m. George L. Browne Aug. 3, '64; he (I. May I, '91.
Next generation :
Samuel Leavitt B. m. Fanny E. Bradley.
Children:
Daniel, b. Nov. 7, 1873. Amelia, b. Sept. 13, 1877.
Isabelle B. m. Wm. J. Ford Oct. 6, '75.
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Silence Leavitt B. m. Nov. 18, '69, Alpheus G. Blake; he d. Apr. 25, 1901.
Children:
Elisabeth B., b. March 2, 1873.
George Franklin, b. Sept. 8, 1875.
Julia Leavitt, h. Oct. 15, 1879.
John Chapin Brinsmade ( Harvard, '74) m. Mary Gold Gunn Oct. 4, '76.
Children:
Frederick Gunn, b. March 1, 1882.
William Bartlett, b. Jan. 4, 1884, d. Aug. 1, 1894.
Chapin, b. March 8, 1885.
Eleanor, b. Nov. 15, 1886.
Mary, b. Nov. 18, 1888.
John Chapin, Jr., b. Sept. 28, 1891.
Charlotte Blake, b. Sept. 20, 1893.
Abigail Irene, b. May 29, 1896.
Wm. Gold Brinsmade ( Harvard, '81) m. Ida Gibson Colton Dec. 23, '85.
Children:
October, 1885, dau. b. and d. same day.
Dorothy, b. Nov. 15, 1892.
John Chapin Brinsmade succeeded Mr. Gunn in charge of the famous Gunnery and Wm. Gold Brinsmade established the suc- cessful Ridge school in the same village.
COL. STEPHEN J. GOLD6, son of Benjamin Gold5, m. Sarah F. Calhoun Nov. 13, 1826; he d. May 17, '80, ae. 79 years.
Children:
Geo. Ruggles™, b. Oct. 9, 1830, m. Mary Jane Murdock of Cam- bridge, Mass., in '56. He died June 1, 1902, at Flint, Mich.
Children:
Sarah8, m. Rev. Frederick Smith Hayden, Jacksonville, Ill., and has children, Charlotte Calhoun9, Martha Gold", and Thomas Gold". Mary Elizas and Lilian8 at home with their mothers.
Martha Ramsay7 m. Lincoln Swift Gold. He died early.
Samuel Fay7 m., 1866, Harriet Habberton of Brooklyn, N. Y. Children:
Egbert H.8, '68; Esther F.8, '70; Winthrop R.8, '72.
Stephen J. Gold was an inventor, especially in heating and lighting appliances. His brother, Job Swift, d. 1844, was early associated with him. Stoves, lamps, heaters, hot air, and steam
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were all made more serviceable by their inventions. Stephen J., in 1854, was the acknowledged inventor of steam-heating ap- paratus as applied to dwellings, the principle of which was its automatic regulating feature, whereby steam was rendered safe and economical. His son Samuel F. Gold of Englewood followed with a number of useful heating appliances, while his nephew Edward E. Gold, son of Sedgwick Gold, is the inventor and con- trols the manufacture and sale of many patented appliances for warming railroad cars in this country and in Europe, being the president of the Gold Car Heating & Lighting Co. of New York city and Chicago.
Another member of the family who is a successful inventor is Willis Doane, son of Benjamin Franklin Gold. He has been in the U. S. naval service, but is now disabled. His inventions apply to controlling and stopping anchor chains, and have been tested with success in the U. S. navy.
Judge Geo. R. Gold, above mentioned, was a lawyer in Flint, Mich., highly esteemed for his ability and integrity.
Samuel Fay, youngest son of Stephen, after serving in the heating business for a time, went to the war, 1862-3 - orderly sergeant of Co. K, 13th Reg., Brooklyn, N. Y. In '66 returned to Cornwall, and built a wood-turning mill at the old " Essex place." Went to Englewood, N. J., in 1871, and engaged again in heating business in New York. He became thoroughly identi- fied with all the public institutions of Englewood, supt. and di- rector of the Bergen Co. Gas Light Co., the Englewood Elec. Light Co., and the Englewood Sewerage Co .; supt. of the water company ; pres. of the board of education; pres. of Englewood Fire Ass'n ; treas. of Tuscan Lodge, No. 115, F. & A. M. ; member of Lafayette Post, No. 140, of New York city, and member of N. E. Soc. in New York; director in the Gold Car Heating Co. of New York.
Joseph H. Vaill, grandson of Benjamin Gold, is secretary of Connecticut Commission World's Fair at St. Louis.
Miss Elizabeth Sedgwick Vaill, his sister, lives in Demarest, N. J., and her sister Julia, who has summer residence on Block Island, is wintering with her.
The 2d wife of E. C. Boudinot was Miss Delight Sargent of Manchester, Vt., sister of Judge Sargent.
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CAPTAIN EDWARD F. GOLD, SON OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GOLD.
Captain Gold, although not possessing soldierly characteristics, excepting as to intense patriotism and great personal bravery, was one of Cornwall's best-known representatives in the War of the Rebellion. He was such a general favorite, however, among the young men of the town, that when the Nineteenth Connecticut Regiment was formed in 1862, in which he had enlisted (later known as the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery ), he was captain of the company that was mainly recruited from the towns of Corn- wall and Sharon.
Notwithstanding the fact that Captain Gold did not readily master the intricate evolutions of army tactics as laid down by Hardee and Upton, he continued to hold to a marked degree the esteem of the members of his company by reason of his unques- tioned bravery, and especially on account of his solicitude for the welfare and personal comfort of the men of his command. It is related of him that during the winter campaign of 1864-65 he was known to lend his only blanket to a soldier who had returned from hospital without one, while he himself spent the night doz- ing by the side of a camp fire seated upon an empty "hardtack " box. His term of service was from July 20, 1862, to Feb. 24, 1865.
Inheriting a liberal patrimony Capt. Gold received a good education in the common and academic schools; fond of the best literature and a thorough student of American history.
Returning from the war in broken health and fortune, reject- ing the offers of friends, he supported himself by manual labor, seeming to derive more pleasure in building a good stone wall than from the pay to meet his wants. He lost the esteem of some by his irregular associates and habits, yet he never failed to assert his right to be treated with respect when imposed upon by any rude fellow. At the dedication of the soldiers' monument at Kent we saw from the platform this illustration: At an interval in the exercises he went, in a familiar, jocose way, among the band, who were resting. The man with the bass drum, stepping behind him, put his big drum like a hat upon the head of the captain. As he took it down the drumhead received a blow from the soldier that carried his arm clear to the shoulder. That put a speedy end to the rudeness.
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As a soldier he was always in favor of action, "extending the line," and was currently reported as " never asleep while in camp." As a patriot his oratory was thrilling, inspiring to heroic action. It was said that he had no superiors in that line in the Union service. B. Sept. 29, 1823, he d. May 25, 1895, and is buried in the cemetery at Cornwall.
LOVELL. - Died, in Flint, Michigan, May 6, 1888, Catherine M. Lovell, in her 85th year. Widow of John B. Lovell, and dau. of the late Col. Benjamin Gold of Cornwall.
Miss Harriet A. Lovell, granddau. of Mrs. C. M. Lovell, died at Marash, Turkey, in 1895. She was a teacher in the mis- sion college. Any family line is ennobled that offers such sac- rifices for Christ's sake.
Extract from letter of Mrs. C. M. Lovell, dau. of Dea. Benjamin Gold, dated Flint, Mich., Feb. 18, 1879:
Dear Cousin :
I am very glad to have this History of Cornwall, but I am very sorry that so many of those good families in South Cornwall are left out. [So am I .- ED.] Of course you are not to blame. It seems strange to me that the descendants of those families could not have looked up those family records for you - Frederick Kellogg, a grandson of Gen. Swift; Mrs. J. T. Andrew, a granddaughter of his oldest son, Rufus Swift; the Hopkins and Paine families; Patterson families. John C. Calhoun's mother was David Patterson's daughter. There are and have been many other families whose records ought to have been looked up. It was a mistake to say that my grandfather Johnson " was never heard from." My mother used to talk a great deal about her father. She said that her uncle Amos and some others that were in the army saw him, and that her uncle told him of the death of two of his children, and he wrote to her mother that he "should see her soon," but he did not come. Not a great while after there was a notice in a paper of the death of one Solomon Johnson, and grandmother supposed that it was her husband. She, of course, believed he was dead, or she would not have married Gen. Swift.
John Pierce's only daughter and only child married Rev. Merwin for her first husband, and they had four daughters. The oldest was wife of Rev. Timothy Stone; the second, wife of Prof. Porter of Andover ; the third did not marry; the youngest was Gen. Brinsmade's first wife. I heard my mother say that "she was called the handsomest girl that ever was in Cornwall, although she had red hair."
My brother Ruggles was a great scholar. My father was anxions that he should have a profession, and he thought of being a lawyer, and studied with his uncle Thomas Ruggles Gold two years; then turned his attention to the ministry, went to Andover three years, and was licensed, but never ordained, as his health failed. He taught in the Academy at Cornwall several years, and taught Hebrew to most of the ministers around. His last work was in Chatham, N. Y. He had there a class of ministers in Hebrew and a class of young men fitting for college. He died at Washington, Conn., 1829.
Your cousin, C. M. LOVELL.
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The Hopkins, Brinsmades, Everests, Vaills, Lovells, and Boudinots have multiplied beyond the scope of my volume, but it is safe to say that they have done their share in the progress of the nation.
THOMAS RUGGLES GOLD3.
History of Oneida Co., N. Y., page 614, says: "Another prominent citizen of Whitestown, and one of its early settlers, was Hon. Thomas R. Gold. He was a lawyer of eminence, and for many years stood at the head of his profession in central New York. He represented this district in Congress in 1810, '11, '12, '13, '16, and '17, and it was said of him that " he was the last to retire and the first up in the morning." From 1796 to 1800 he was in the State Senate, and in the latter year was chosen as member of the Council of Appointment. At the erection of the Presbyterian Church at Whitesboro, in 1803, it became neces- sary to level the ground around it, and Mr. Gold drove the oxen attached to the plow," etc., etc.
HENRY D. PECK, son of Mary Gold, dau. of T. R. Gold and John Peck of New York, writes me of himself and family: " m., in 1870, an adopted dau. of Horace L. Sill of Lyme, Conn., and lives in Staunton, Va.
Children:
John Sedgwick, graduate of Cornell, m., 1900, to Miss Arnold, from near Boston; now with the Westinghouse Electric Co., Pittsburg.
Horace Sill, about 28, is of the firm of E. J. Knight & Co., bankers, Providence, R. I.
Louis T. is with a manufacturing company of same place as draughtsman.
Jennie M., teacher of elocution at Nashville, Tenn.
One other dau., the youngest, at home.
" You will remember me as a puny, pale-faced little boy, but my boys are all tall, 5 feet 10 in. to 6 feet, well developed, and strong, thanks in a great measure to life in the country. My daughters, too, are up to the average height and quite healthy, probably for the same reason."
THOMAS R. GOLD", Jr., besides son Thontas Raymond Gold of Chicago, had two elder daughters: Anna Louisa, m. Wm. Pier- son Johnes, and had only child Edward R. Johnes, Yale, B.A., 1873, Columbia, LL.B., '76. He had two sons, Edward Gold
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and Raymond. He was a lawyer in New York, and d. March 29, 1903.
In '59, six years after death of Mr. Johnes, his widow m. Rev. J. S. Shipman, D.D., of Christ Church, New York, and had six children.
GERTRUDE GOLD m. James Farwell; had one son, who was drowned.
MARTHA, w. of Thomas R. Gold, Jr., after his death m. S. Newton Dexter, and d. Oct. 5, '98, ae. 89 years.
Her life covered nearly a century, and her personal character and relationship brought her in close connection with all the social and educational interests of Central New York, and she was an important factor in every movement for the material and moral growth of the period. On her mother's side she was connected with Benjamin Wright, the constructor of the Erie Canal, and through both parents with a long line of N. E. ancestors, founders, and patriots.
To a delicate type of beauty, which did not leave her even in extreme age, she added a gentleness of speech, a grace of bearing, a tact in repartee, and a pervading sweetness and charm of effect sufficient to impart to all who met her, new emphasis and meaning to the phrase " a lady of the olden time."
HEZEKIAH GOLD5.
All the children of Sally Maria Rogers, oldest dau., are dead, leaving no issue.
JULIA R. CLEVELAND, 2d dau., children James Douglass, b. Oct. 8, '22, d. June 19, '99; had three children :
Thomas Gold, b. May, 1808, d. '71 ; had nine children.
Julia Antoinette ( Aiken), b. Jan. 25, '30, d. Nov. 23, 1903, in San Francisco, California ; left three children :
Florence Carnahan Aiken. William Cleveland Aiken, architect. Charles Sedgwick Aiken, journalist.
DANIEL CLEVELAND m. 2d wife June 7, '53, Mrs. Margaret McLean. Had one son by this marriage :
Edward Rogers Cleveland of Spokane, Wash., ed. and pub.
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LAURA SEDGWICK (Stevens), b. May 26, 1804; had four children. Only one lived to marry: Mary Lorain, b. Nov. 11, '84; m. Rev. Kinney. Lived on Staten Island, and had three children.
DR. SAMUEL WADSWORTH GOLD", only son of Hezekiah5, b. Sept. 27, 1794; m. Phebe Cleveland, April 17, 1817.
Children:
Theodore Sedgwick, b. March 2, 1818. Mary Elizabeth, b. Nov. 21, 1820, d. April 6, 1821. Julia Lorain, b. June 24, 1824, d. Aug. 12, 1875.
THEODORE SEDGWICK GOLD+; Yale, '38; m. Ist, Caroline E. Lockwood of Bridgeport, dau. of Charles and Eunice Lockwood, Sept. 13, '43; she d. April 25, '57, ae. 32 years.
Children:
Eleanor Douglass, b. Sept. 11, 1844, m. Charles Henry Hubbard, of Sandusky, O., Sept. 30, 1868; lives in Hartford City, Ind.
Children:
Rollin Barnard. b. July 22, '69.
Caroline Lockwood, b. Oct. 14, '71, m. Harry O. Miller of Marion, Ind., April 22, 1902.
Eleanor Gold, b. Sept. 20, '73. d. August II, '74.
Charles Mills, b. Oct. 24, '75. Alice Gold, b. Feb. 7, '78.
Mary Elizabeth", b. Feb. 2, '47, d. July II, '57.
Emily Sedgwick", b. Jan. 31, '49, d. April 2, '58.
Rebecca Cleveland", b. July 29, '51, m. Samuel Mott Cornell, Nov.
8, '76; lives in Guilford. Mr. Cornell d. June 21, 1903. Children:
Martha Gold, b. Aug. 10, '78. Theodore Gold, b. May 6, '84. d. July 19, '84.
Caroline Simons', b. Oct. 3, '55, m. William Franklin Gibson, son of Otis Gibson, D.D., of San Francisco, Cal., July 25, '82.
Children: Eleanor Eliza, b. May II, '83. Otis, b. Oct. 7, '84. Theodore Gold, b. Oct. 11, '86. Alice, b. July 15, '88. Myra Eliza, b. Nov. 7, '90. Caroline Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, '92. Eunice Lockwood, b. Oct. 29, '95.
Mr. William F. Gibson was a lawyer in San Francisco, and held many positions of public service. He carried through the courts of California, from the lowest to the highest, the success- ful claim of a girl born in California of Christian Chinese parents
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to an equal right with other children in the public schools of the state. He died March 25, 1902.
T. S. GOLD m. 2d, Mrs. Emma Tracy Baldwin, April 4, '59. Children:
Alice Tracy", Wellesley, '83, b. Jan. 14, '60, d. in Washington, D. C., Dec. 15, '90; m. Franz Ulrich von Puttkamer of Versin, Germany, Oct. 18, '87. He died in Germany June 30, '92. They left one daughter, Ottony Kriemhild, b. Sept. 1, '88, at Wash- ington, D. C., now residing in Germany.
Martha Wadsworths, b. July 20, '61, m. Colin Daniel Morgan of Montreal, Sept. 30, '85.
Children:
Theodore Gold, b. Feb. 9, '87. Marjorie Tracy, b. Dec. 31, '88.
Henry William, b. Aug. 3, '91. Alice Gold, b. April 2, '95.
Charles Lockwood", B.P., Yale, '83, b. April 14, '63; m. Clara Ben- ton Sedgwick, Dec. 19, 1900.
Son :
Theodore Sedgwick Gold, 2d, b. May 7, 1902.
James Douglass, B.P., Yale, '88, M.D., Columbia, '91, b. Nov. 5. 66; m. Gertrude House of Bridgeport, Oct. 17, '94; practicing medicine in Bridgeport.
T. S. Gold, life member Conn. State Agricultural Society, and officially connected with it from the beginning, in 1853; first sec- retary of Connecticut State Board of Agriculture, from 1866, thirty-four years; trustee of Storrs School and Agricultural Col- lege, from organization in 1881 for twenty years ; member of Board of Control of Connecticut Experiment Station from beginning, in 1887 ; Fellow of A. A. A. S .; member Am. Pom. Soc., Am. For. Ass'n, Conn. Forestry Ass'n, Nat. Geo. Soc., Am. Hist. Ass'n, Conn. Hist. Soc., S. A. R., Founders and Patriots, and other societies.
During that period of thirty-four years, one-third of a century, the Board of Agriculture discussed in its meetings many objects of interest in rural and urban life, and were successful in promoting education, improved husbandry, the health and comfort of man and his dependent animals, road improvement, forestry, water sup- ply and sewage in all their varied connections, which, when large enough, have been encouraged to go alone and work independently, like children in large families, thus securing to the state the benefit of many enthusiastic workers.
At present the only Golds in Cornwall are represented in three generations: Theodore Sedgwick", Charles Lockwoods,
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Theodore Sedgwick9, 2d. They inherit and occupy the Cream Hill Farm, Douglas, Wadsworth & Gold.
DESCENDANTS OF FREDERICK LYMAN AND JULIA L. GOLD. -
CHILDREN WHO LIVED TO MATURITY.
ANNA ELIZABETH m. James Morgan of Montreal, Canada. Children:
James Douglas. Frederick Cleveland. Harold Matthews.
FREDERIC GOLD LYMAN, Montreal, m. May Goodwin of Biddeford, Me. She d. -- , '88.
Son: John Goodwin.
SARAH MEAD m. John Lewis, Philadelphia. She d. about six years ago.
ONESIMUS GOLD3.
Descendants in one line from Onesimus3, son of Nathan Gold, Jr.
Mr. Henry Clay Ryder furnishes me a record of descendants of Onesimus in twenty-three full-sized pages, from which I select one line as sample.
ONESIMUS, son of Nathan Gold, Jr., m. Eunice, dau. of Samuel Hubbell, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth. Their dau. Re- becca, b. 1724, d. 1810, m. Ephraim Nichols, 1740, who d. 1782, son of Ignatius, and had twelve children.
Son, EBENEZER NICHOLS, m. 1762, Sarah Scudder, b. 1742, dau. of Peter and Martha Brush Scudder of Huntington, L. I., and had six children.
GOULD, NICHOLS, their son, b. 1765, d. 1833; m. Sarah Treadwell, b. 1765, and had eight children.
Daughter, BETSY, m. 1825, Stephen Ryder, b. 1794, d. 1876, of South East, Putnam Co., N. Y .; had seven children.
A son, HENRY CLAY RYDER, b. 1829, m. Ist, 1854, Anna Elisabeth, b. 1832, d. 1864, dau. of Edward Selleck and Cloe Knapp Hull.
A son, Edward Hull Ryder, b. 1859.
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Henry Clay Ryder m. 2d, 1868, Augusta Georgiana, b. 1837, dau. of Dea. Samuel and Asenath (Morgan) Talcott of Gilead, Conn.
Children:
John Talcott. Wm. Stuart Talcott. Ely Morgan Talcott. Dorothy Nichols.
Mr. H. C. Ryder is treasurer of Savings Bank of Danbury, appointed Aug. 1, 1873. His oldest son, Edward Hull Ryder, is a successful farmer in Danbury. Another son, Ely Morgan Tal- cott Ryder, Yale, Ph.B., '96, is in employ of A. B. Hill, engineer of New Haven.
THE GOLD FAMILY IN VIRGINIA.
We find a number of the name of Gold in Virginia who claim descent from Maj. Nathan Gold of Connecticut, but they only trace back to the close of the Revolution, and I am not sure of the connection.
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