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Samuel Welles, son of Thomas Welles, was born in Essex, England, in 1630. He was a freeman of Hartford in 1657 and deputy magistrate, 1657-61. After 1649, he was a resident of Wethersfield. His first wife, the ancestress of the subject of this sketch, was Elizabeth Hollister, daughter of John Hollister. She was married in 1659 and died in 1683. Captain Samuel Welles, grandson of Thomas Welles, the pioneer, was born in Wethersfield in 1660, removed to Glaston- bury in 1685, and died there in 1731. He was a selectman of Glastonbury, and for many years a member of the Connecticut Legislature. His wife was Ruth Rice.
Samuel Welles, son of Captain Samuel Welles, was born in Glastonbury in 1689. Graduated from Yale College in 1707, he studied theology, and took charge of a parish in the town of Lebanon, where he remained until 1719. In that year he married Abigail Arnold, and removed to Boston, where he was a Judge, for several years a member of the Colonial Council and held other positions of trust. He died in 1770. The grandfather of Mr. Benjamin Sumner Welles was Sam- uel Welles, a prominent merchant of Boston, who was born there in 1725, graduated from Har- vard College in 1744, and died in 1799, having married, in 1772, Isabella Pratt, daughter of Chief Justice Pratt, of New York. His son was Benjamin Welles, a merchant of Boston, who was born there in 1781, and died in 1860. Graduated from Harvard College in 1800, he traveled several years in Europe, and then, returning to Boston, engaged with his brother, Samuel Welles, in establishing the first American banking house in Paris, France. The wife of Benjamin Welles, whom he married in 1815, was Mehitable Sumner, daughter of Increase Sumner, who was the Governor of Massaceusetts, in 1799. By her he had three children, Elizabeth, Georgiana and Ben- jamin Sumner Welles. By his second wife, Susan Codman, he had one daughter, who married Russell Sturgis, of Boston.
Mr. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born in Boston, and moved to New York in 1859. He married, in New York, in 1850, Catharine Schermerhorn, daughter of Abraham Schermerhorn, who was connected with several of the great families of New York. Abraham Schermerhorn was the third son of Peter and Elizabeth (Bussing) Schermerhorn, and descended from Jacob Janse Scher- merhorn, who settled in New York in 1636. His great-grandmother was Maria Beekman, grand- daughter of the famous William Beekman, founder of the Beekman family in New York. His wife was Helen White, daughter of Henry and Anne (Van Cortlandt) White, and his daughters married General James 1. Jones, Charles Suydam, John Treat Irving, Benjamin Sumner Welles and William Astor.
Mr. Welles has had five children; Benjamin, Helen Schermerhorn, Katharine, Eliza- beth and Harriet Welles. His eldest daughter, Helen Schermerhorn, married George L. Kings- land, son of former Mayor Ambrose C. Kingsland. His son, Benjamin Welles, was born in Boston, in 1857, and graduated from Harvard University in 1878. He is a member of the Union and Harvard clubs, and a patron of the American Museum of Natural History. He married Frances W. Swan, daughter of Frederic G. Swan, of New York, and has two children, Emily Frances and Benjamin Sumner Welles, Jr. The senior Mr. Welles is a member of the Union Club, lives in West Thirty-ninth Street and has a country seat at Islip, Long Island.
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JULIA CHESTER WELLS
T HE Reverend William Wells came of a family of position in the eastern countries of England, a grant of arms having been made to his forefathers by James l., in 1614. Imitating the early Puritan settlers of New England, he came to the United States from Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England, in 1793, for the sake of liberty of conscience. He became minister at Brattleboro, Vt., where he remained for forty years, being distinguished by his refusal to accept pecuniary reward for his services, and by insisting upon an annual reelection by his congregation.
By his wife, Jane Hancock, the Reverend William Wells was the father of Ebenezer Custerson Wells, 1777-1850, who married Mary, daughter of the famous Revolutionary officer, Colonel John Chester. The Chester family came from London and Barnet, Hertfordshire, England. Leonard Chester settled at Wethersfield, Conn., in 1633, and was the founder of a race which fur- nished the leading men of that district for generations. John Chester, born 1703, was a graduate of Yale, a judge, a member of the Connecticut Assembly, and married Sarah, daughter of the Reverend Joseph Noyes and his wife, Abigail Pierrepont, a lady descended from John Haynes, one of the Puritan gentlemen who came to Massachusetts in the earliest days of its settlement, accom- panying the famous ministers, Cotton and Hooker. He was Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, and in the succeeding year was the principal layman in the company which founded Hartford, being chosen in 1637 the first Governor of Connecticut. Among Governor Haynes' wife's ancestors were the Nevilles, Earls of Westmoreland and the royal house of Plantagenet.
Colonel John Chester, 1749-1809, son of John Chester, graduated from Yale in 1766 and married Elizabeth Huntington, daughter of General Jabez Huntington, who descended from Simon Huntington, one of the founders of Connecticut. John Chester, though a man of considerable property, risked fortune and life by espousing the patriotic cause in the Revolution. He was present at the battle of Bunker's Hill and is represented in Trumbull's picture assisting the dying General Warren. He was Captain of a company which he recruited, one of the first commands for the war, serving in the Continental Army. He received particular commendation from Washington for the discipline and military efficiency of his command, which was one of the few uniformed companies in the army and was frequently employed on particular service as escort to the French officers visiting the American headquarters. After the war, he attained great prominence in civil life, holding a number of important offices in Connecticut. His children and descendants inter- married with distinguished families of both New England and New York.
William Henry Wells, of New York, was the third son of Ebenezer C. and Mary (Chester) Wells, and was born at Brattleboro, Vt., in 1811. He removed permanently to New York in 1858, and was a man of influence and public spirit, and became distinguished in national affairs and philanthropic work of many practical kinds, to which he contributed his unsparing labor. During the war between the States, he took an active interest in the work of the Sanitary Com- mission and was an intimate friend and associate of the leading public men of the past generation, though never a holder or seeker of public office. His relations with President Lincoln were par- ticularly close. His charities were numerous and unostentatious. He died in 1891, having married in 1852, Frances Tracey, daughter of William Gedney Tracey, of Whitesboro, N. Y., the lady whose name heads this article being the daughter and only child of the marriage.
The Tracey family, to which Miss Wells' mother belonged, is of ancient English descent, its lineage being traced back to Anglo-Saxon royalty. The progenitor of the American branch of the family was Lieutenant Thomas Tracey, who came to Salem, Mass., in 1636, and was afterwards one of the first proprietors of Norwich, Conn., being frequently mentioned in the early history of that Colony. Miss Wells inherited and has in her possession a number of old portraits of members of the distinguished Colonial and Revolutionary families from which she is descended, painted by contemporary artists, which form one of the most authentic as well as most interesting private collections of that nature.
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BURR WENDELL
R EPRESENTING one of the oldest families of New York State, the subject of this article, which refers not only to the gentleman whose name is given above, but to his brothers, B. Rush Wendell and Ten Eyck Wendell, is a direct descendant of Evert Jansen Wendell, who came to this country from Embden in 1640, and is mentioned in the early records of New Netherland, where he established himself and founded a family which has since held a distinguished place in both Colonial and later times. Jacob H. Wendell, the present Mr. Wendell's great-grandfather, was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and par- ticipated, in 1783, in the organization of the Society of the Cincinnati. According to the rules of this order, its honors are inherited by the first born male in each generation, and Mr. Burr Wendell, being the eldest of the three brothers, accordingly succeeded his father as a member of the New York Society of that distinguished organization.
Mr. Wendell's parents were B. Rush Wendell, of Albany, and Margaret Ten Eyck Burr, of Cazenovia, N. Y., his paternal grandfather and grandmother being Dr. Peter Wendell and Elizabeth Van Kleeck. On the side of his mother, his grandparents were William M. Burr and Catharine Ten Eyck.
In addition to these names, which at once recall the foremost families of the Hudson River counties and the central portions of the State, the numerous alliances of their ancestors make the Messrs. Wendell direct descendants of such old Dutch and Colonial families as those of Du Trieux, Van Witbeck, Van Vechten, Lansing, Van Schaick, Schuyler, Van Dyck, Staats, Coeymans, Bleecker, Glen, Van Buren, Coster, Ten Broeck, Cuyler, Van Dusen, De Vos, Beck and Van Eslant. The family connection to which they belong is consequently a wide one, and it would be difficult to name any family of the old New York stock to which they are not in some degree related or affiliated through marriages at different times in the past. Several of their remote ancestors fought in the Colonial French wars, among whom may be prominently mentioned Colonel Peter P. Schuyler, of the New York Provincial forces. The membership of the Messrs. Wendell in the Colonial Order fittingly commemorates the part which so many of their progenitors took in the affairs of the Province from which the present State is derived.
Mr. Burr Wendell was born at Cazenovia, in 1853, and was graduated from the Albany Law School in 1878. In 1881, he married Emily Lentilhon Smith, of New York, daughter of Gamaliel Gates Smith and Margaret Ten Eyck Foster, the issue of this marriage being a daughter, Margaret Ten Eyck Wendell. In addition to the inherited membership of the Cincinnati, Mr. Wendell is a member of the Union Club, the St. Nicholas Society, the Colonial Order and the St. Nicholas Club. His country home is The Farms, at Cazenovia.
B. Rush Wendell, the second of the three brothers, was born at Cazenovia, in 1855, and was educated at Yale, from which institution he was graduated B. A., in 1878, and received the degree of M. A., in 1882. He prepared for the legal profession at the Columbia College Law School, in New York, which conferred on him the degree of LL. B., in 1882. Mr. Wendell's country
residence is at Cazenovia. He has traveled extensively in all parts of the world. He is a member of the Union Club and St. Nicholas Society, and the Colonial Order. In 1895, he married Sarah Delano Swift, daughter of Dr. Foster Swift and his wife, Alida Carroll Fitzhugh. The paternal grandfather of Mrs. Wendell was General Joseph Gardner Swift, LL. D., the first graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and a distinguished soldier. Her grandfather on the maternal side, was Dr. Daniel H. Fitzhugh, of Geneseo, N. Y. The youngest brother, Ten Eyck Wendell, was born at Cazenovia, in 1857, was graduated B. A. from Yale University in 1880, and received the degree of LL. B., in 1882, from Columbia College Law School, where he prepared for the practice of law. He has traveled extensively at home and abroad, has a country home in Cazenovia, is unmarried, and is a member of the Union and St. Nicholas clubs.
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JACOB WENDELL
E VERT JANSEN WENDELL, the ancestor of all who bear the name in this country, was born in Embden, East Friesland, in 1615. Emigrating to the New Netherland, in 1640, he lived for a time in New Amsterdam, and then went to Fort Orange, now Albany, where he died, in 1709. He was a magistrate and held other positions. His wife, whom he married in 1644, was Susanna Du Trieux, daughter of Philip Du Trieux, whose wife was Susanna de Scheene. The second wife of Evert Jansen Wendell was Maritje Abramhamse Vosburg, daughter of Abraham Pieterse Vosburg. The gentleman whose name appears at the head of this sketch is descended in the seventh generation from Evert Jansen Wendell and his first wife.
In the second American generation came Johannes Wendell, a merchant of Albany, magistrate in 1684, and a commissioner to treat with the Five Nations, in 1690. His first wife was Maritje Jellisse, and his second wife was Elizabeth Staats, daughter of Major Abraham Staats, of Rensselaerwyck. Abraham Wendell, son of Johannes Wendell, was born in Albany in 1678, and became an importer in New York, and afterwards in Boston, dying in 1734. He married Katarina, daughter of Tunis and Helena (Van Brugh) De Key, descended from the Honorable Johannes Pieterse Van Brugh, burgomaster of New Amsterdam, in 1656 and 1673. John Wendell, son of Abraham Wendell, born in New York, in 1703, became a well-known merchant of Boston. He was connected with the Ancient and Honorable Artillery, being its commander in 1740. He married in 1724, Elizabeth Quincy, daughter of the Honorable Edmund Quincy, the grandson of Edmund Quincy, who came to Boston in 1633. The younger Edmund Quincy graduated from Harvard in 1699, was Colonel of the Suffolk Regiment and Justice of the Supreme Court.
John Wendell, 1731-1808, the son of John Wendell and his wife, Elizabeth Quincy, was the grandfather of Mr. Jacob Wendell. He graduated from Harvard College in 1750, and, removing to Portsmouth, N. H., became a well-known lawyer. His first wife was a descendant of Lieutenant- Governor John Wentworth, of Portsmouth. His second wife, the grandmother of Mr. Jacob Wendell, was Dorothy Sherburne, daughter of Judge Henry and Sarah (Warner) Sherburne, of Portsmouth. Judge Sherburne was a Harvard graduate in 1728, a delegate to the Colonial Congress of Albany, in 1754, and Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire.
Jacob Wendell, Sr., was born in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1788, and became a successful merchant. His wife was Mehetabel Rindge, daughter of Mark and Susanna Rogers, of Ports- mouth, N. H., and descended on both sides from early pioneers to New England.
Mr. Jacob Wendell was born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 24th, 1826. After completing his education in his native place, he entered upon mercantile life in Portsmouth, and then went to Boston, where he became a partner in the commission house of J. C. Howe & Co. Removing to New York in 1863, he has since then been engaged in business in this city, first as partner in J. C. Howe & Co., then in the firm of Wendell, Hutchinson & Co., and finally at the head of the firm of Jacob Wendell & Co. He is also a director in several banks, insurance and real estate associations, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In 1854, Mr. Wendell married Mary Bertodi Barrett, daughter of N. A. Barrett, of Boston. He has four sons : Barrett Wendell, Harvard, 1877, who married Edith, daughter of W. W. Greenough, of Boston, and who is one of the professors of Harvard University ; Gordon Wendell, Harvard, 1882, who is in business with his father and who married Frances, eldest daughter of the Reverend Alfred Langdon Elwyn, of Philadelphia; Evert Jansen Wendell, who graduated from Harvard in 1882, and who is identified with many philanthropic enterprises in New York ; and Jacob Wendell, Jr., who graduated from Harvard, in 1891, and in 1895 married Marian, daughter of the late Major Philip R. Fendall, of Virginia. The city residence of Mr. Wendell is in East Thirty-eighth Street, and his country home is Frost Fields, New Castle, N. H. He is a member of the New York Historical Society, the New York Biographical and Genealogical Society, the Holland Society, the New England Society, the American Geographical Society, the Metropolitan and Union League clubs, and the Century Association.
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GEORGE PEABODY WETMORE
B ORN in England in 1615, Thomas Whitmore, the ancestor of the Wetmore family, came to America in 1635, landing in Boston. He was in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1639, and after- wards in Hartford. His first wife, Sarah Hall, daughter of John Hall, was the mother of his son, Izrahiah, one of the first settlers of Middletown, a freeman in 1652, and a representative to the General Court in 1654-1655. Izrahiah Whitmore, or Wetmore, 1656-1742, was a magistrate, and in 1721-28 a deputy to the General Court. His wife was Rachel Stow, daughter of the Reverend Samuel and Hope (Fletcher) Stow, of Middletown. The Reverend Izrahiah Wetmore, their son, 1693-1728, was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Stratford. His wife was Sarah Booth, of Stratford. The most famous Wetmore in the early generations of the family, was Judge Seth Wetmore, 1700-1778, son of the Reverend Izrahiah Wetmore. For forty-eight successive times, between 1738 and 1771, he was a deputy to the General Court of the Connecticut Colony. He was also a magistrate of Middletown, and a Judge of the county court. By his second wife, Hannah Whitmore, daughter of Joseph Whitmore, of Middletown, he had a son, Seth Wetmore, the great-grandfather of the Honorable George Peabody Wetmore.
The second Seth Wetmore, 1744-1810, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War. His wife was Mary Wright, daughter of William and Lucy (Downing) Wright, the eighth in descent from John Rogers, the martyr, and in the fifth generation from George Wyllys, Deputy-Lieutenant- Governor, and Governor of Connecticut, 1640-43. Seth Wetmore, third, 1769-1830, was a lawyer in St. Albans, Vt., sheriff, a member of the Governor's Council, and a judge of probate. He was married three times; first to Nancy Shepard, daughter of General William and Nancy (Dewey) Shepard, of Westfield, Mass., second to Salome Smith, of St. Albans, Vt., and third to Mrs. Anne Goodrich. William Shepard Wetmore, son of the third Seth Wetmore, was the father of the Honorable George Peabody Wetmore. Born in 1801, he engaged in business in Middletown, Conn., and afterward in Providence, R. I. For several years he was settled in Valparaiso, and afterwards went to China as the head of the house of Wetmore & Co. He was twice married; first to Esther Phillips Wetmore, daughter of Samuel Wetmore, of New York; and second to Anstice Rogers, of Salem, Mass. He had three children, William Shepard, George Peabody and Anne Derby Rogers Wetmore.
The Honorable George Peabody Wetmore was born in London, England, and was graduated from Yale College in the class of 1867. He has made his home principally in Newport, but in business and social affairs, has been closely identified with New York. He has served as Governor of the State of Rhode Island, and at the present time is a member of the United States Senate. He married Miss Keteltas, and has two daughters, Edith and Maud Wetmore. He is a member of the Metropolitan, Tuxedo, Knickerbocker, Union League, Union, Riding and other clubs, the Metropolitan Club of Washington, and the Somerset Club of Boston.
Another branch of this family is represented in New York by Edmund Wetmore, great- great-grandson of Judge Seth Wetmore, by his third wife, Hannah Edwards, daughter of the Reverend Timothy and Esther (Stoddard) Edwards. The great-grandparents of Mr. Wetmore were Oliver Wetmore and Sarah Brewster, a descendant in the fifth generation from Elder William Brewster, of Plymouth. His grandparents were the Reverend Oliver Wetmore, 1774-1852, and Esther Arnold Southmaid, daughter of Captain Jonathan Southmaid. His father was Edmund Arnold Wetmore, a distinguished lawyer of Western New York, and for two terms, after 1845, Mayor of the City of Utica. The mother of Mr. Wetmore was Mary Ann Lothrop, daughter of John H. and Jerusha (Kirkland) Lothrop. Mr. Wetmore was born in Utica in 1838, and graduated from Harvard College in 1860. He is engaged in the practice of law. He married Helen Howland, lives in Lexington Avenue, and is a member of the Metropolitan and other clubs. Major William Boerum Wetmore, U. S. A., is another great-grandson of Judge Seth Wetmore. His mother, who lives in Newport, was Sarah T. Boerum, daughter of Captain William Boerum, U. S. N.
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WILLIAM FISHBOURNE WHARTON
T HOMAS WHARTON, ancestor of the Pennsylvania family of that name, came to this country in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was a son of Richard Wharton, of Kellorth, Parish of Orton, or Overton, Westmoreland, England. Thomas Wharton became a man of prominence in Philadelphia, and was an influential member of the Society of Friends. In 1713, he was a member of the Council of the city, and died in Philadelphia in 1718. John Wharton, his son, and his wife, Mary Dobbins, daughter of James Dobbins, were the parents of Thomas Wharton, 1735-1778, one of the most celebrated men in the early history of Pennsylvania. Thomas Wharton was born in Chester County, Pa., and became highly esteemed for his integrity and patriotism. During the agitation that preceded the Revolution, he took a decided stand on the side of the Colonies, and in 1774 was a member of the Committee of Correspondence. In the following year, he was on the Committee of Safety, being its president in 1776. In 1777, he was chosen Governor of Pennsylvania, and when the British occupied Philadelphia, removed with the Executive Council to Lancaster, where he died. The famed entertainment known as the Meschianza, given by the British officers during Howe's occupation of Philadelphia in 1778, was held at Walnut Grove, the Wharton mansion and grounds.
Thomas Wharton's first wife was Susannah Lloyd, daughter of Thomas Lloyd and great- granddaughter of Thomas Lloyd, president of the Pennsylvania Council in 1684-88 and 1690-93. His second wife was Elizabeth Fishbourne, daughter of William Fishbourne and Mary Tallman. William Fishbourne was the son of William Fishbourne, a member of the Provincial Council 1723-31, and grandson of Ralph Fishbourne, of Talbot County, Md. The elder William Fishbourne moved to Philadelphia, and in 1702 married Hannah, daughter of Samuel Carpenter.
Fishbourne Wharton, 1778-1846, son of Governor Thomas Wharton, and grandfather of Mr. William Fishbourne Wharton, married Susan Shoemaker in 1804. She died in 1821, and he married, in 1832, her sister, Mary Ann Shoemaker. George Mifflin Wharton, 1806-1870, the son of Fishbourne Wharton and Susan Shoemaker, was one of the leaders of the Philadelphia bar. He was also interested in public education, and gave much time to its promotion. Active in public affairs in Philadelphia, he was for many years a director and president of the Board of Control of the city. He was also a member of the Select Council, and at one time president of that body, and for one term held the office of United States District Attorney. A graduate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1823, he was for many years a trustee of the institution. His wife, whom he married in 1835, was Maria Markoe, daughter of John Markoe and Hitty Coxe. The present Mr. Wharton is related to the Wadsworth family, of Geneseo, prominent in the history of New York State. Mary Craig Wharton, a descendant of the original Thomas Wharton through his son Joseph, married, in 1834, James Samuel Wadsworth, afterwards General in the Civil War, who commanded the First Army Corps at Gettysburg, and was mortally wounded at the Wilderness.
Mr. William Fishbourne Wharton, the son of George Mifflin Wharton, was born in Philadelphia in 1846. Graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1865, he has since lived in New York, where he has been engaged in business, and is a member of the Stock Exchange and connected with important financial enterprises. His wife, whom he married in 1871, was Frances Turner Fisher, daughter of William Fisher and Sarah Julia Palmer, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Wharton is the niece of Admiral Palmer and Admiral Turner, and a great-granddaughter of Sarah Livingston and Major John Ricketts, while she is the great-great-granddaughter of Mary Alexander and Peter Van Burgh Livingston, and is a descendant in the sixth generation from James Alexander and his wife, Mary Provoost, the parents of General William Alexander, Lord Sterling. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Wharton are George Mifflin, Richard and Percival Charles Wharton. The residence of the family is in West Thirty-sixth Street, and their summer home is at East Islip, Long Island. Mr. Wharton is a member of the Metropolitan and Union clubs, and he was one of the originators of the Riding Club.
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EVERETT PEPPERRELL WHEELER
O NE of the most picturesque figures in the early Colonial days of New England was Sir William Pepperrell, the hero of Louisburg. The story of his life reads like a romance. His father was born in Tavistock, Cornwall, of parents in the humblest circumstances. He took up his residence upon the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New Hampshire, and became a fisherman. Prospering in business, he removed to Kittery Point, Me., and engaged in trade with the West Indies, accumulating a considerable fortune before he died.
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