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In January, 1833, his wife died leaving a son Welcome, born 1820, died October 28, 1871. Mr. Putnam married (second), Sep- tember 10, 1833, Lucy Winchell, formerly of Western, Oneida county, New York. Of several children only one daughter, Mrs. Tacy Victoria (Putnam) Wyman, survived. In 1867 he removed from Centralia, New York,
to Conneaut, Ohio, where he made his home until 1886, when he returned to Chautauqua county, New York, making his home with his daughter at De Wittville. Here, January 12, 1887, Lucy (Winchell) Putnam, his wife died in her eighty-first year.
Removing with his daughter to Newark, New York, he survived until March 12, 1890, dying in his ninety-sixth year. Thus closed a long eventful life which had wit- nessed so large a share of the nation's de- velopment. Born two years before the close of Washington's administration, he lived un- der every president of the United States until Mckinley. His first vote was cast for John Quincy Adams. Mr. Putnam was a strong anti-slavery man when abolitionism was not popular, and his home was a station of the underground railway for runaway slaves. As a citizen he was distinguished for his public spirit, his high standard of honor and unim- peachable honesty. Religiously he was a man of decided convictions of duty and with sturdy faith he conformed his life to the strict dic- tates of his conscience. As he repaired regu- larly to the church each Sabbath morning, clad in a long cloak, a high hat and supported by a cane, he embodied in reality all that he seemed in appearance, a worthy successor of his Puritan ancestors.
Tacy Victoria (Putnam) Wyman, daugh- ter of Newell and Lucy Winchell Putnam, was born at Centralia, New York, January 25, 1839. Her early education was received at the common school near her home and subsequently at Ellington Academy, an in- stitution of high grade in a neighboring town, where as a student she took high rank. Re- ceiving the certificate of a teacher at the age of sixteen, she pursued that vocation for sev- eral years among the schools of the township, including a large select school in the village of Stockton. Possessed of a love for books she has been appreciative of the best litera- ture, and not only has she valued these for their intrinsic merit but gifted with a rich imagination she has been a contributor in prose and verse to various publications. The total of these productions would comprise a not inconsiderable volume. True to her an- cestral traits, Mrs. Wyman possesses a strong moral nature, abhoring shams, quick to dis- cern ethical distinctions and firm to sustain the right. Thus she has proven herself well fitted to sympathize in word and deed with
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the high ideals pertaining to her husband's gospel ministry.
WELD The progenitors of the Weld fami- lies in America descended from distinguished and ancient ances- try in England. The orthography of the name has sustained many changes as have other family names of Englishmen. There were certainly people of the name in England be- fore the date of the Reformation, for some of the families bearing it remained adherents to the Roman church, and some of their de- scendants have been elevated to high positions within it; while others became Protestants, mostly Puritans or Independents. They were a sturdy, honest folk, firm in opinion and loyal to the Crown, until later, when they with others of the Protestant faith immigrated to America that they might enjoy complete free- dom of opinion in religious matters. Even in America their loyalty to the Crown in mat- ters of national government was unshaken, for they considered themselves a colony from England and an integral part of it, and cheer- fully bore arms in the King's service in de- fense of His Majesty's rights and prerogatives against his enemies, until the oppressions of George IV became unendurable.
There were those in the family in England who rose to distinction in civil life, and many of them became learned and influential. Some were distinguished preachers and writers upon religious subjects. Their writings were mostly, however, upon questions of doctrine that at the time engaged attention, but were chiefly controversal treatises and pamphlets that have not come down to the present time, and were upon doctrines that are not now of great interest save to the antiquarian. The emigration from England did not end the practice of such controversy and discussion. nor the rigor of it. The first of the families whose lineage follows were well descended, for they were the sons of Edmond Weld, of Sudbury, Suffolk, England, whose will con- taining the names of his children is found in Windebanck.
(I) Captain Joseph Weld, with his brother, Rev. Thomas Weld, who was a colleague of Rev. John Eliot, who laboriously translated the Bible into the Indian language, and with him and Rev. Richard Mather produced the famous first essay in New World hymnology, the "Bay Psalm Book," in the pastorate of the
First Church at Roxbury, Massachusetts ; set- tled in Roxbury in the colony of Massachu- setts Bay before 1635. Captain Joseph was captain of the training band, and one of the first members of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, a military company yet in existence in Boston. He laid the founda- tions of the wealth he acquired in mercantile ventures, upon the Weld farm in Roxbury, which is yet in the possession of his descend- ants. He died possessed of a large estate estimated by some as possibly the largest at that time in the colony. It inventoried fIo,- 000 sterling. He was a man who loved learn- ing. His will, published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register (vol. vii, PP. 33-34) is a monument of his liberality in matters of education. It is written in the
quaint orthography and rhetoric at the time. It contains his bequests: "To the Collidg, which is in Cambridge, ten pounds for the en- couragement of such youth in sound larning as may not be able to help themselves." He bequeathed to his firm friend, John Eliot, "his best tawny cloke." He was the founder of the famous Roxbury Latin School. There
now stands upon the campus of Harvard Uni- versity, "Weld Hall," and a late valuable ad- dition to the library is known as the "Weld Collection." He had a son, John, mentioned below.
(II) John, son of Captain Joseph Weld, was born in England, in 1623, and arrived in Roxbury in 1638, three years after his father. He had a son, Joseph, mentioned below.
(III) Captain Joseph (2), son of John Weld, was born in Roxbury, 1650. Married, November 27, 1679, Sarah Faxon. His children : Sarah, born October 25, 1685; John, born August 19, 1689, died January 11, 1764; Dan- iel, mentioned below ; Edmond, born June, 1700, died July 25, 1710; Ebenezer, born Oc- tober, 1702.
(IV) Lieutenant Daniel Weld, son of Cap- tain Joseph (2) Weld, was born at Roxbury, August 4. 1697; married Elizabeth Tucker, January 22, 1720. He, like his father, Cap- tain Joseph, and his great-grandfather, Cap- tain Joseph, the emigrant, faithfully served the King in the colonial war, and against the Indians in the defense of the colony. Lieu- tenant Daniel remained upon the original farm in Roxbury. He was buried in the old cem- etery near Bussey Park, Boston, a part of the old Weld farm. His sons Daniel, Noah and
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Job, moved to Charlton, Worcester county. Children : I. Daniel Jr., born August, 1721, married Joana Haven. 2. Stephen, born July 7, 1723, died August 16, 1745. 3. Noah, men- tioned below. 4. Job, born August 4, 1730; married Eunice Thayer. 5. Edward, born April 1, 1733, died October 13, - - 6. David, born August 14, 1734, died January 5, 1821.
(V) Noah, son of Lieutenant Daniel Weld, was born at Roxbury, December 7, 1725, died August 16, 1745; married Eleanor
His children : 1. Calvin, born August 14, 1751. 2. Isaac, mentioned below. 3. Luther, born April 14, 1761 (Calvin and Luther both mar- ried Rogers sisters, were for a time residents of Guilford, Vermont; several of the sons of Luther lived at Cohocton, New York). 4. Kathrin, married a Porter, of Franklin county, Massachusetts. 5. Eleanor, married a Wells, and moved to Tennessee.
(VI) Lieutenant Isaac Weld, son of Noah Weld, was born at Charlton, Massachusetts, 1755, died April 22, 1808. He served in the revolutionary war to the credit of his native town, although he was a resident of Guilford, Vermont, for it is recorded in "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War" that "Isaac Weld, Guilford (there was no Guilford in Massachusetts), private, Capt. Moses Drapers Co. Lieut. Col. Wm. Bonds (late Col. Thomas Gardiner's) 37 Regt., com- pany return, dated Camp Prospect Hill, Dec. 30, 1775." It is also recorded in the same volume as follows: "Isaac Weld, private ; list of men mustered May 15th, by Thomas New- hall, muster master, engaged for the town of Petersham, term 8 months." Also, "certificate dated Petersham, May 23, 1778, signed by Capt. Asa Howe and Capt. Wing Spooner, stating that said Weld and others had engaged and mustered to serve in the Continental army for the term of 8 months to the credit of Petersham." He also served as second lieu- tenant of the Third Guilford, Vermont county, Captain Joseph Elliott, in 1782. (Vermont Revolutionary Rolls, pages 822-824).
In 1783, after the close of the war, he served in the controversy in Vermont between the settlers from New York and those from New Hampshire as to the rights of the peo- ple of those states to the territory, which was subsequently admitted into the Union as Ver- mont. He joined the party that defended the people of New York. To them was applied
the reproachful term, "Yorkers." These peo- ple in Vermont appear to have been formed into some sort of military or quasi-military organization in the controversy, probably wholly voluntary, without any authority over them for there is not to be found in Vermont any record of its proceedings. It is found, however, that Isaac Weld was fined in Guil- ford, two pounds ten shillings for being sec- ond lieutenant in the Yorkers regiment. It is a well known historical fact that these prob- ably misguided men were dispersed by Ethan Allen. He removed from Guilford to Wards- borough, in the same county, and afterwards to Verona, New York, and then to Sodus Bay, Wayne county, New York.
He married, 1780, Betsey Farrell. Chil- dren: I. Catherine, born March 8, 1782; her record is unknown. 2. Robert Farrell, men- tioned below. 3. Noah, mentioned below. 4. Anna, born October 29, 1789, died unmar- ried, June 6, 1808. 5. Betsey, born Novem- ber 24, 1792; married a Pierce; lived at Wales, New York. 6. Jane, born 1795, died unmarried, 1854, at Sugar Grove, Pennsyl- vania. 7. Sally, born January 27, 1799; mar- ried Amos Moore; died soon after marriage. 8. Roxana (spelled in some records Roccena), born November 22, 1803 ; married John Baker, January 26, 1826; lived at Rices, New York ; died November 1, 1891.
(VII) Robert Farrell, son of Lieutenant Isaac Weld, was born 1784, died 1870, at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. He resided in Sodus Bay, New York, and Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania. He was a farmer, a man of superior intelligence, sterling integrity and highly respected. He married, February 9, 1817, Clarissa Howe. Children: I. Theodore Nelson, born November 23, 1817, died at Chandlers Valley, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1862 ; married, January 14, 1848, Julia A. Jones ; children, born at Sugar Grove: i. Frank Al- bert, born March 7, 1849, died November 12, 1893; married (first) September 6, 1870, El- len Knapp; (second) November 25, 1879, Clara Irvine; children : a. Clyde Albert, born April 29, 1871, married, June 21, 1900, Elea- nor Vance, and their children are: Theodore Vance, born September 10, 1903, Clyde Vance, born June 20, 1907, and Paul Allison, born October 25, 1908; b. Muree, born April 23, 1891, married and lives in California. ii. Emma, born November 3, 1854; married, March 1, 1877, Aaron Skinner, M. D .; resides
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at Ashville, New York; children : a. Frank Austin, born January 26, 1879, died March 11, 1888; b. Gertrude Emma, born February 28, 1881, married, March 3, 1903, Victor M. Thompson, children : Alice, born February 14, 1905, Helen, November 27, 1907, and John, October 12, 1910. iii. Maude Julia, born September 28, 1884. iv. Edgar Aaron, born December 9, 1886, married, September 14, 1911, Lillie V. Akeley. v. Mabel Bernice, born April 1, 1890. vi. Clifford Weld, born October 2, 1892. 2. Susan Ann, born July 25, 1821, at Bath, New York, died at Youngs- ville, Pennsylvania, 1894; married, April 8, 1857, Cyrus F. Arters ; no children. 3. Squire Howe, born November 23, 1823, at Bath, New York, died February 18, 1900; he lived in Centerville, Pennsylvania; served in the civil war in the Two Hundred and Eleventh Penn- sylvania Infantry. He married (first) June 27, 1853, Martha Goodwin; (second) Novem- ber 26, 1884, Susannah Dye; children : i. Wil- liam R., born September 4, 1854, married Kate Simmons, child, Ellis, born June, 1889, resides at Springfield, New York. ii. Mary Amelia, born September 25, 1856, married, December 25, 1873, Sidney R. Putnam, and their children are: a. Jay A., born March 22, 1875, married (first) August 11, 1897, Louise Fish, (second) December 19, 1901, Addie Goodwill, resides in Centerville, Pennsylvania, children : Elmer R., born October 14, 1898, El- lis D., October 14, 1898, Leonard, August 7, 1903, Laota, July 23, 1905. b. Jennie A., born August 4, 1881, married Charles McFadden, lives at Centerville. iii. Charles, born October 25. 1858, married, June 6, 1879, Mary Mc- Cabe, lives at Bradford, Pennsylvania, chil- dren : Theresa K., born March 12, 1883, James Squire, May 4, 1885, Martha Grace, March 24, 1890. iv. Franklin, born January 23, 1861, married, May 14, 1882, Etta Young, lives at Centerville, Pennsylvania, children : Duane, born August 6, 1883, Clara, June 10, 1886, Letty, August 13, 1890, Ethel, May 9, 1892. v. Frances, born January 14, 1863, married Fred Wilson, resides at Centerville, Pennsyl- vania. vi. Squire, born February 22, 1867, died December, 1896; married Rose McFad- den, no children. vii. Minerva, born August 14. 1869; lives at Bradford, Pennsylvania. viii. Mabel, born April 1, 1872; married Lon Bernard, of Bradford, Pennsylvania; no chil- dren. ix. Aaron, born March 15, 1874, mar- ried Rose (McFadden) Weld, widow of his
brother Squire. 4. Sarah McCay, born July 25, 1826, died August, 1905; married, April 13, 1853, Washington P. Cummings ; children : Ada (Cummings) Blodgett, of Bakersfield, California, Duane Cummings, of Peoria, Illi- nois, Dona (Cummings) Jackson, of Warren, Pennsylvania. 5. Lieutenant William Wallace, born February 23, 1829, at Bath, New York, died at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania ; he remain- ed on the Weld farm at Sugar Grove; served three years in the civil war in that fighting regiment, the Ninth New York Cavalry ; was highly respected by his townspeople, a very capable man and a progressive farmer ; mar- ried, January 1, 1868, Christine Falconer ; children : i. Robert James, born at Sugar Grove, October 27, 1868, married, June 5, 1902, Fanny Wright; he was educated at Pennsylvania State College, is a thoroughly scientific farmer, and is employed by the Penn- sylvania Agricultural Authorities in the win- ter to conduct farmers' institutes throughout the state. ii. Fred Falconer, born at Sugar Grove, September 19, 1871, married, June 27, 1901, Eliza R. Busick; children : Alice Christina, born January 29, 1903, and Theo- dore Busick, June 24, 1905 ; he was also edu- cated at Pennsylvania State College, is a civil engineer, and resides at Seattle, Washington. iii. Guy Theodore, born at Sugar Grove, April 25, 1874, died February 27, 1883. 6. Caroline Howe, born January 4, 1832, at Busti, New York, died January 14, 1832. 7. Jeanette Langdon, born March 16, 1833, at Busti, New York, died October 5, 1833. 8. Mariette, born
October 1, 1835, at Busti, New York, died June 11, 1836, 9. Mary Ann, born October I, 1835, at Busti, New York, twin of Mariette, died in infancy. 10. Clarissa Emaline, born January 18, 1840, at Sugar Grove, Pennsyl- vania, died September 3, 1883 ; married, Sep- tember 2, 1868, Enoch Dupree ; it is said she left three daughters, but no record of them is found.
(VII) Noah (2) Weld, M. D., son of Lieu- tenant Isaac Weld, was born at Wardborough, Vermont, November 4, 1787, died in July, 1851, at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, on a farm adjoining that of his brother, Robert F., upon the state line between Pennsylvania and New York. He also resided at Centerville. He had an extensive practice in both Pennsyl- vania and New York. He was a skillful phy- sician, and possessed the confidence of the people. He married, in 1815, Huldah Susan-
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nah Hoyt, of Danbury, Connecticut. She was born in Danbury, January 14, 1787. Children : I. Decatur, born at Centerville, Pennsylvania, died at Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, August 16, I -. 2. Delilah, born at Centerville, 1818, died at. Sugar Grove, 1847; married, 1837, Jeremiah Andrews, M. D., a regimental surgeon in the civil war; children: i. Wesley R., born 1838, died at Washington, D. C., Feb- ruary 5, 1910; he was quartermaster of the One Hundred and Seventy-fifth Regiment, New York Volunteers, in the civil war; after- wards became a merchant in New York City, and subsequently became editor of an influen- tial newspaper at Meadville, Pennsylvania ; was chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican state committee and secretary of United States Senator Boise Penrose ; married Ruby A. Rob- inson, one daughter, Genevieve, married Charles A. Singer, of New York, and died in 1891. ii. William H., born January, 1840, at Youngsville, Pennsylvania ; was first a mer- chant, which business he conducted at Titus- ville, Pennsylvania ; was elected state senator from Crawford county, Pennsylvania ; subse- quently settled in Alberquerque, New Mexico. where he engaged in railroad building and real estate; he represented New Mexico in congress as territorial delegate and will be elected beyond doubt to the senate of the United States when the legislature of New Mexico meets ; he married (first) 1862, Rose Eddy; (second) 1883, Mary Frey; children : William H. Jr., born 1864, died 1885; Belle ; Frank, died in infancy; Marguerite, died in infancy ; William Stanley, resides at Titusville, Pennsylvania. 3. Descartes, born at Center- ville, 1820, died in California, 1853 ; he settled in Sugar Grove, Pennsylvania, where he joined his father in the practice of medicine, succeeded him, and continued practice until his health failed and he went to California ; he married, in 1840, Angeline Noyes; chil- dren : i. De Silver, born at Sugar Grove, 1842, died 1899; married Mary Derickson, one child, Charles D. ii. DeLeo, born at Sugar Grove, 1853, married, 1880, Henry C. Lay ; children : Henry C. Jr., Margaret Weld, Harold; they reside at Blairstown, New Jersey. 4. Del- phine, born at Centerville, August, 1826, died at Meadville, Pennsylvania, July, 1876; mar- ried, January, 1852, Chester Bullock ; child, Frances Lena, born at Sherman, New York, 1852, married, 1870, William Thorpe, of Meadville, Pennsylvania. 5. DeForest, men-
tioned below. 6. Delisca Jane, born at Sugar Grove, 1832, died at Chicago, Illinois, 1899; married, October, 1857, Charles H. Baker, child, William De Forest, born at Red Wing, Minnesota, died in infancy. 7. Delonora, born at Sugar Grove, August, 1836, died March, 1888; married, 1857, Joel I. Hoyt ; no children. 8. Delessley, born at Sugar Grove, April, 1841, died there at age of six.
(VIII) DeForest, son of Noah (2) Weld, M. D., was born at Sugar Grove, Pennsyl- vania, August 31, 1828. Upon him, before he obtained his majority, because of the de- mand of the extensive medical practice of his father and elder brother which required long rides to the distant homes of pioneers, de- volved the management of the business of the farm and the care of the household. He early acquired a taste for traffic and manage- ment of affairs, and soon learned to hold his own with traders. He was especially fitted for such service by an excellent education in the common schools supplemented by a course in the academies that provided better advantages. At his majority the desire for a business ca- reer called him from the farm to Jamestown, New York, then a prosperous village of active business men, where he found employment in the store of Alonzo Kent, then the most enterprising merchant of the region. Such was his industry and his application of sys- tematic methods that in two years he was ad- mitted a partner in the firm, Kent & Weld. It was not long after that, on the retirement of Mr. Kent to organize the Jamestown Bank, he succeeded to the entire busine'ss. He be- came the leading merchant of the county, and his business affairs extended to the adjoining county. His enterprise aided largely in build- ing up the village into a city of great activity. After some years as a merchant he engaged in the life insurance business at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and brought to it the same in- dustry and systematic methods that had char- acterized him as a merchant. He soon be- came the manager in that city of the affairs of one of the leading life insurance companies. This position he yet holds, and his endurance, persistent industry, and success as an octogen- arian are the envy of men many years his junior.
On August 12, 1863, at Jamestown, New York, he married Mary Matilda Hazeltine, a descendant of the Haywards who settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts, at about the same
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time as did Captain Joseph Weld, her hus- band's ancestor. She is also a descendant of Edward Rawson, who was for more than thirty years the secretary of Massachusetts Bay Colony. One son Lewis DeForest, born July 9, 1863, died August 28, 1863.
The foregoing was compiled upon the au- thority of manuscripts in the possession of Mr. J. Edward Weld, and the Rev. Charles F. Robinson, descendants of Captain Joseph Weld, which were written from the records of the towns of Oxford and Charlton, Massa- chusetts, and Guilford, Vermont, and from the records in the possession of the families of descendants. Correspondence has been had by the present compiler with the living de- scendants of Captain Joseph Weld, with clerks of the towns above mentioned, and use has been made of the records in the offices of the adjutant-general of the United States and the adjutant-general of Vermont. Aid was received from the Genealogical Dictionary (Savage) ; the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; the Historical Regis- ter of the Officers of the Continental Army (F. B. Heightman), and the Orderly Book (Col. William Henshaw).
SIDWAY The American ancestor of the Sidway family of Buffalo, New York, was James Sidway, of Dudley Woodside, England, born May 8, 1759. He was educated and grew to early manhood in his native land. During or about the revolutionary period he immigrated to the American colonies, where he made settlement in Orange county, New York. He enlisted as a drummer in Captain Henry Goodwin's company, Colonel Messenfel's New York regi- ment, serving until this regiment was mus- tered out of service. He married, in 1781, and continued his residence in Goshen, Orange county, until late in life, when he removed to Buffalo, where he died March 18, 1836. He is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery of that city, where his grave has been appro- priately marked by Buffalo Chapter, Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, being the first grave so honored. He married, August 14, 1781, Rebecca Milks. They had two chil- dren, William and Jonathan.
(II) Jonathan, son of James and Rebecca (Milks) Sidway, was born in the town of Goshen, Orange county, New York, April 1, 1784, and died in Buffalo, January 21, 1847.
He was educated in the district schools of Goshen, and followed a farmer's life until about 1812, when he removed to Buffalo. Here he engaged in the shipping business and became a conspicuous figure among the early pioneers in lake navigation and commerce. He married, January 1, 1826, Parnell St. John, born at Aurelius, Cayuga county, New York, June 12, 1801, died in Buffalo, April 29, 1879. When she was a child her parents removed to Buffalo, where her mother was living in 1813, when the town was burned by the British and Indians. Gamaliel St. John and his oldest son, Elijah Northrup, were drowned in the Niagara river, June 6, 1813, while they were bearing dispatches from army headquarters in Buffalo to a division in Canada, their boat being capsized by coming in contact with the cable of the war vessel "John Adams," which was anchored in the river. It is an interesting fact that the St. John home on the west side of Main street, between Court and Mohawk streets, was the only house left standing. Of the nine chil- dren of Jonathan Sidway, four only reached years of maturity : I. Katherine, married Asaph S. Bemis of Buffalo. 2. Jonathan (2), married Caroline B. Taunt, of Buffalo. 3. Franklin, of further mention. 4. James Henry, who met a hero's death at the early age of twenty-five years, as assistant fore- man of Taylor Hose No. I, while battling with the flames that consumed the American Hotel, January 25, 1865.
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