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(V)
Nathaniel, son of Gideon and Rachel (Talcott)
Hollister, was born in Glastonbury,
Connecticut, in 1731, died in 1810. He
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married, October 29,
1754, Mehitable Mattison (sometimes called
in records Mabel Matson), born in 1739, died
September 26, 1824. Children: 1. Patience,
born March 21, 1756; married November 11,
1777, Joseph Hollister. 2. Nathaniel, born
February 25, 1757, died August 12, 1768. 3.
David, born October 9, 1758, died July 20,
1836; married, June 6, 1782, Hope Clark,
born September 28, 1760, died September 22,
1855. 4. Ruth, born August 5, 1760, died
August 3, 1820; married, February 28, 1782,
Daniel House, who died February, 1819, aged
sixty-two years. 5. Chloe, born October 3,
1762, died October, 1826; married, March 21,
1762, Abner House. 6. John, born August 3,
1764, died aged three days. 7. Jonathan,
born August 3, 1764 (twin), died aged three
days. 8. Isaac, born August 21, 1765, died
in Chenango Forks, New York, about 1845'
married Betty Lucas. 9. Amasa, born May 30,
1768, died March 30, 1847, in Hollisterville,
Pennsylvania; married, in 1790, Mehitable
Everts, born April, 1768, died June 26,
1843. 10. Edith, born August 7, 1770;
married, November 18, 1792, Asa Cook. 11.
Nathaniel, born March 28, 1772, died in
Canada, March 15, 1839; Married, June 5,
1791, Prudence Strickland, born in 1767,
died April 15, 1843. 12. Phoebe, born
February 20 ( 27), 1774, died in 1865;
married, October 13, 1797, William Case, of
Rhode Island. 13. Gideon, see forward. 14.
Giles, born March 14, 1778, died March 28,
1852; married Rhoda May, born December 15,
1783, died aged ninety years; both joined
Mount Lebanon, New York, Shakers. 15.
Rachel, born in 1780, died in 1782. 16.
Rachel, born September 17, 1783, died in
1826; married, February 28, 1808, Allen
Hollister, who died December 23, 1823.
(VI) Gideon
(2), son of Nathaniel and Mehitable (Mattison)
Hollister, was born in Glastonbury,
Connecticut, February 22, 1864. He was a
manufacturer of paper at Andover, whither he
had moved, and was regarded as a valuable,
highly respected member of the community.
He married Mary Olmsted, of East Hartford,
Connecticut, who was a beautiful young
woman, possessed of great energy and force
of character, truly a helpmeet to him. She
died September 1, 1827. Children: 1. Edwin
M., see forward. 2. Samuel O., born, June
4, 1801; married, November 18, 1824, Sally
M. Loomis, of Andover, born there, July 15,
1800. 3. Whiting H., born January 19, 1804,
died in Boston, November 14, 1883; married
(first) November 11, 1829, Sarah Ann Buell,
of Andover, daughter of Major John H. Buell,
of Andover, born there, October 11, 1803,
died in Boston, August 31, 1877; he married
(second) February 21, 1882, Lucella P.
Ware. 4. Charles, born in Dover,
Connecticut, October 21, 1805, died about
1863; married Elizabeth Frances Griswold, of
Windsor, Connecticut, born there, May 20,
1808. 5. Mary, born in 1808, died in 1869;
resided in Hartford, Connecticut; married
John H. Buell, who died in 1836; no issue.
6. Nelson, born in Andover, Connecticut,,
February 12, 1810; resident of Hartford;
married, May 12, 1834, Edith Sawyer, of
Windham, Connecticut, who was born there,
November 21, 1815, daughter of Elijah Ringe
Sawyer and Fanny Spencer. 7. Esther, born
in 1812.
(VII) Edwin
M., son of Gideon (1), and Mary (Olmsted)
Hollister, was born in Andover, Connecticut,
in 1800, died in Windham, Connecticut, in
1870. Upon growing up, he settled in
Hartford, where he was a dry goods merchant,
and later removed to Windsor, where he
engaged in the manufacture of paper. He
married Gratia Taylor Buell, born in
Andover, Connecticut, in 1801, daughter of
Major John H. Buell, an officer in the
Revolution; Aide to General Washington and
an original member of the Society of the
Cincinnati from whom it descended to henry
h. Hollister. Children: 1. 1. Edward
Hubbell, born in Hartford, Connecticut,
November 27, 1826; merchant of New York
City; resided in Brooklyn, New York, where
he died November 27, 1875; married, December
6, 1849, Emily Harriet Phelps, of Windsor,
Connecticut, born in Poquonock, Connecticut,
December 30, 1822, died March 14, 1878. 1.
Sarah Buell, born in Hartford, Connecticut;
married Broughton D. Harris, of
Chesterfield, New Hampshire, graduate of
Dartmouth and resident of Brattleboro,
Vermont, where he engaged in railway
construction. 3. George, born in Windsor,
Connecticut, in 1832; engaged in wholesale
grain business in New York City as senior
member of Hol-
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lister, Crane &
Company; residing in Rutherford, New jersey;
married Phoebe Conkling, of Mattituck, Long
Island. 4. Mary Louisa, born in Windsor,
Connecticut, April 17, 1834; married,
September 23, 1863, Walter Albert Pease,
born in Troy, New York, October 13, 1833;
became a wholesale flour merchant in New
York City,; children: i. Henry Hollister,
born September 1, 1868, ii. Walter Albert,
Jr., born December 14, 1871. 5. Helen
Maria, born in Windsor, Connecticut, about
1836; married Effingham Maynard, of Clark &
Maynard, wholesale publishers and
booksellers in New York City; children: i.
Mary Hollister, ii. Walter, iii. Helen
Louise, and iv. Effingham. 6. John Buell,
born in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1838;
became partner of his brother, George, in
wholesale grain business in New York city,
with residence in Rutherford, New Jersey;
married Ellie Crane, of New York City;
children: i. Emeline Iveson, ii. Edward
H., iii. Gratia Buell and iv Henry
Hutchinson. 7. Henry Hutchinson, see
forward.
(VIII) Henry
Hutchinson, son of Edwin M. and Gratia
Taylor (Buell) Hollister, son of Edwin and
Gratia Taylor (Buell) Hutchinson, was born
in Brattleboro, Vermont, January 4, 1842.
He attended the college of the City of New
York, leaving to serve with Company K,
Seventh Regiment, in a six months' campaign
during the Civil War. He returned to New
York and went into the banking business,
member of several firms, Le Grand Lockwood &
Company, H. H. Hollister & Company, and in
1891 formed the firm of Hollister & Babcock,
of which he was a member until his death,
April 10, 1909. He served as a governor of
the New York Stock Exchange for a number of
years and as governor of the Union Club.
Member until his death of the State Board of
Charities of the Manhattan State Hospital.
One of the original founders of the Riding
club, being president for twenty-one years.
Treasurer of the National Horse Show
Association of the Sons of the Cincinnati
through his grandfather, Major John H. Buell.
Member of the Union, Metropolitan,
Southside, Sportsmans, Matamajaw Salmon and
Riding clubs. He married (first) April 19,
1871, at Newark, new Jersey, Sarah Louise
Howell, of Newark, New Jersey, where she was
born December 22, 1851, died in New York
City, January 18, 1885. She was the
daughter of William A. and Lucetta B.
(Gould) Howell. He married (second) July 4,
1891, Annie Willard Stephenson. Children by
his first wife: 1. Isabelle Howell, born
July 16, 1876, died December 25, 1885. 2.
Henry Hutchinson, born June 2, 1878;
married, October 25, 1906, at Providence,
Rhode Island, Hope Shepley. 3. Louise, born
February 7, 1882; married, at No. 21 West
Forty-ninth Street, New York City, Langdon
B. Valentine, march 27, 1909; daughter,
Anne, born April 28, 1911. 4. Buell, see
forward. 5. Louis Howell, born January 4,
1885; died July 8, 1891.
(IX) Buell,
son of Henry Hutchinson and Sarah Louise
(Howell) Hollister, was born at No. 13 East
Fifty-seventh Street, New York City,
September 13, 1883. He attended the Groton
School and completed his education at Yale
University, graduating in 1905. He engaged
in the banking and brokerage business in New
York City, first with Hollister & Babcock,
on leaving college, and in February, 1909,
formed the brokerage firm of Pyne, Kendall &
Hollister, located in 1913 at No. 55 Wall
Street. He is a Republican and attends the
Episcopal Church. Yale gave him the degree
of A. B. He is a member of the Sons of the
Revolution, Union, Matamajaw Salmon, Yale,
City Midday, Racquet and Tennis clubs. He
married, at St. Bartholomew's Chapel, New
York City, Rev. Leighton parks officiating,
November 14, 1912, Louise Rockwell Knowlton,
born in New York City, October 22, 1886,
daughter of Danford Henry and Minnie (Johnes)
Knowlton.
(IV) Charles,
son of Thomas and Dorothy (Hills or Hill)
Hollister, was born in Glastonbury,
Connecticut, July 26, 1701, died in Eastbury,
Connecticut, February 2, 1753. Of the
thirteen children of Thomas Hollister,
grandson of the first of the name in
America, he was the next younger to Gideon,
whose decent has been given, and he was
closely associated with this brother
throughout his life. To be near his
brothers, Gideon, Thomas and Elisha, he
settled in Eastbury, where he resided up to
the time of his death, and his gravestone is
still to be seen in the old burial ground of
that place. He married, April 5, 1729,
Prudence, daughter of John Francis, of
Wethersfield.
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Children: 1. Charles,
born in Glastonbury, November 2, 1729;
married, September 17, 1749, Charity,
daughter of John and Charity (Dickinson)
Waddams, who was born August 1, 1729. 2.
Elizur, born in Glastonbury, May 27, 1731;
was a captain; died September 11, 1811;
married, December 12, 1754, Elizabeth,
daughter of Timothy Nash, of Ellington,
Connecticut, who was born December 3, 1722.
3. Captain Francis, see forward. 4.
Prudence, born august 16, 1735; married
------------- McKee. 5. Appleton, died
about 1761; inventory returned February 23,
1761, by Gideon and Amos Hollister, and his
estate distributed. 6. Mabel, married
---------- McKee. 7. John, Born in Eastbury
Parish, Glastonbury, in 1742,; married, May
19, 1761, ------------ Fox. 8. Robert, born
in East Glastonbury, about 1744, died there
about 1763; married Katherine ----------;
inventory of his estate, April 19, 1763. 9.
Ichabod, born in Glastonbury, in 1747;
married, May 1, 1771, Esther, daughter of
Samuel Fox, and died in Glastonbury, May 11,
1791.
(V) Captain
Francis Hollister, son of Charles and
prudence (Francis) Hollister, was born in
Glastonbury, Connecticut, April 22, 1733,
died in Havana, Cuba, January 15, 1770. He
was a sea captain, and it was while on one
of his voyages that he was taken sick and
died. His estate insolvent; administration
was granted August 7, 1770, and his two
eldest children, Abner and Berry, chose
Robert McKee guardian; the inventory showing
over forty-one pounds English. He married,
December 15, 1753, Betty McKee, and they
went to live in Tyringham, Massachusetts.
Children: 1. Abner, see forward. 2. Betty,
born March 14, 1757, died in Erie County,
New York; married September, 1774, Samuel
Kelsey. 3. Jerusha, born September 6, 1759,
died in Bethlehem, Connecticut, September
30, 1804; married Colonel Robert Hannahs;
left descendants living in Rochester, New
York. 4. Frances Vose, born May 19, 1761,
died in Torringford, Connecticut, May 15,
1815; married Russell Burr. 5. Prudence,
born August 24, 1763, died in Ira, Vermont,
April 12, 1822; married Omri Warner. 6.
Timothy, born March 4, 1756, died March 26,
1787, at Tyringham, Massachusetts. 7.
Appleton, born January 14, 1767, died in
Glastonbury, August 26, 1773.
(VI) Abner,
son of Captain Francis and Betty (McKee)
Hollister, was born October 28, 1754, died
in Cato, Cayuga County, New York, September
12, 1813. He was a soldier in the
Revolution, and was with General Benedict
Arnold in his march to Quebec. After
Arnold's surrender, he made his escape
through the almost pathless wilderness, and
after great suffering reached his home. He
married (first) June 18, 1775, Sarah Betty,
of Tyringham, Massachusetts; he married
(second) Widow Elizabeth Granger; Children,
all by first wife: 1. Margaret, born
September 22, 1777, married Francis McKee,
and resided in Adams, New York. 2. Francis,
born May 7, 1779; married Silence Richards,
of Oneida, New York; removed to new Orleans,
in 1808, and died there shortly. 3. James.
born March 16, 1781, died at Tyringham, July
1, 1781. 4. Abner, born September 26, 1782,
died at Cato, New York, march 13, 1851;
married (first) December 3, 1804, Polly
Woodbridge, married (second) March 10, 1843,
Mrs. Nancy Kirkpatrick, of Syracuse, New
York. 5. Harleigh, born December 25, 1784,
died at sea, October 15, 1808; married
Polly, daughter of Judge Ebenezer Butler, of
Manlius, New York. 6. Sarah, born August
12, 1787, died at Salina, New York,
September 21, 1804; married Daniel sparks.
7. Betty, born October 31, 1789, died in
Syracuse, New York, September, 1876;
married, in 1804, David Carter, of Jefferson
County, New York. 8. Almyra, born January
5, 1792, died in Rochester, New York,
December 21, 1842; married (first) Timothy
Cossett, Jr., of Pompey, New York; married
(second) Rev. Chauncey Cook. 9. Philander
V., born July 21, 1793, died in Bloomfield,
Indiana; settled in Green County, Indiana,
where he married Polly Brazle. 10. John
Bentley, see forward. 11. Millicent, born
October 17, 1798, died, without issue, July
15, 1823; married Edmund Root, a merchant of
Lima, New York. 12. George A., born
November 6, 1800, died in Rochester, New
York, February 28, 1856; married Sarah
Cooper, of Adams, Jefferson County, New
York.
(VII) John
Bentley, son of Abner and Sarah (Betty)
Hollister, was born October 15, 1795, died
in Mt. Clemens, Michigan at the age of
thirty-five years. He was a government
surveyor and prosecuted his work
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in Missouri and
Arkansas, where he surveyed enormous section
of the country while in a primitive state, a
pioneer as it were. He was a soldier in the
War of 1812, and was severely wounded in the
battle of Lundy's Lane. He married, at
Lima, New York, Mary Chamberlain.
Children: 1. Hamilcar, born August 15,
1822, died June 13, 1824. 2. John Hamilcar,
born in Riga, Monroe County, New York,
August 5, 1824, deceased; graduated at the
Berkshire (Massachusetts) Medical College in
1847, and removed to Grand Rapids, Michigan;
later, 1855, to Chicago, and on the founding
of the Chicago Medial College he was elected
professor of anatomy; for several years was
president of Cook County Bible Society;
vice-president of American Sunday School
Union, and director of the Illinois Home
Missionary Society; married, January 2,
1849, Jennette Windiate, born in Drayton,
England, deceased. 3. Juliette, born May
27, 1826, died August 25, 1828. 4.
Jeanette, born August 31, 1828; married
William M. Ferry Jr., brother of United
States Senator Ferry; resident of Grand
Haven, Michigan. 5. Harvey James, see
forward.
(VIII) Harvey
James, son of John Bentley and Mary
(Chamberlain) Hollister, was born in Romeo,
Michigan, August 29, 1830, died in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, September 25, 1909. He
organized and operated the banking
institution now known as the Old National
Bank of Grand Rapids, Michigan, holding for
a period of fifty-five years the office of
cashier and then president, He was a
Republican. He attended the First
Congregational Church, was its deacon and
treasurer. He married, June 6, 1855, Martha
Clay, born June 30, 1833, at Putney,
Vermont, died at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
December 23, 1901. Her father was Captain
George Clay, of Putney, Vermont, who died in
1856. Her mother was Sarah Buel (Goodhue)
Clay, born October 4, 1800, died July 31,
1852. They were married September 18,
1832. Sarah Buel Goodhue was the daughter
of Dr. Joseph Goodhue, who was born in
Dunstable, Massachusetts, December 20, 1784,
died in Deerfield, Massachusetts; was a
surgeon in the United States Army for
twenty-one years and eminent in his
profession; he married, December 20, 1784,
March Clay, who died July 19, 1795. Dr.
Joseph Goodhue was the son of Rev. Josiah
Goodhue, born in 1728; graduate of Harvard,
1755; die at Putney, Vermont, November 14,
1797, who married Elizabeth Fletcher, of
Dunstable, Massachusetts, who died October
22, 1793. His parents were Samuel Goodhue,
born April 6, 1696, died November 7, 1785,
who married, in 1717, Abigail Bartlett, of
Newburyport, Massachusetts, son of Joseph
Goodhue, born at Ipswich, 1639, died there,
September 2, 1697, who married, July 13,
1661, Sarah Whipple, daughter of Elder John
Whipple, and his father was William Goodhue,
the emigrant, born in England, 1612-13,
arrived in America in 1635-36, married
Margery Watson, of Kent, England.
Children: 1. Mary Goodhue, born at Grand
Rapids, Michigan, February 2, 1860' married
there, January 8, 1885, McGeorge Bundy, born
July 8, 1855, son of Solomon and Elizabeth
A. Bundy, both of Oxford, Chenango County,
New York; Hon. Solomon Bundy was a member of
the forty-fifth congress from the
twenty-first New York District; McGeorge
Bundy qualified as an lawyer and practiced
in Grand Rapids; issue: i. Nathan
Hollister, born May 18, 1886, graduated at
Yale University, class of 1908, treasurer,
director Fasburgh Lumber Company, Norfolk,
Virginia, where he resides, ii. Harvey
Hollister, born March 30, 1888, graduated at
Yale University, class of 1909, and Harvard
Law School, iii. Frederick, born January 4,
1900. 2. Clay Harvey, born at Grand Rapids,
Michigan October 7, 1863; graduate of
Amherst, 1886; married, Holyoke,
Massachusetts, December 19, 1888, Justina
Merrick; issue: i. Paul Merrick, born
November 12, 1890, graduates at Harvard
University, class of 1913, ii. Martha Clay,
born October 24, 1892, graduates at Vassar
College, class of 1914, iii. George Merrick,
born April 23, 1896, iv. Clay H., Jr., born
May 14, 1902. 3. George Clay, see forward.
4. John Chamberlain, born at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, March 27, 1873; graduated at
Boston Latin School, 1892, Yale University,
1896, married Jane Bowen, April, 1902.
(IX) George
clay, son of Harvey James and Martha (Clay)
Hollister, was born at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, September 8, 1781. He attended
the Boston Latin School, 1889-92, and Yale
University, 1892-96. He se-
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elected the profession
of banking, and first became a clerk in the
office of Dominick & Dickerman where he
remained from 1897 to 1900. He then became
a partner of Halsted & Hollister, continuing
as such 1900-04. He was made a member of
the New York Stock Exchange in 1904, and
formed a partnership with other,
constituting the firm of Hollister, Lyon &
Walton, at No. 7 Wall Street. He was a
member of Squadron A, National Guard, New
York, for five and one-half years; is a
Republican; attends the Episcopal Church.
He is a member of the University, Yale,
Alpha Delta Phi, metropolitan, Squadron A
and Riding clubs. Previously he resided at
Grand Rapids, but his home is Quaker Ridge,
New Rochelle, New York. He married, at
Mamaroneck, New York, June 1, 1899, Martha
Swift, born at Yonkers, New York, July 27,
1878, daughter of Samuel Swift, M. D., and
Lucy (Davies) Swift. Children: 1. Martha,
born at Mamaroneck, New York, July 30,
1904. 2. Anita, born at New York City,
February 12, 1906. 3. Watson Dickerman,
born at New Rochelle, New York, May 24,
1910.
HICKS. This
name has been described as being of Norman
or Anglo-Saxon origin, and some authorities
state that it has been derived from a
village of the name in Gloucestershire,
England. The name is, however, frequently
found in Wales, where the Ap Hickses were
prominent for many centuries, and are of
Celtic origin. The earliest historical
reference to the Hicks family is found in
the record of the knighting of Ellis Hicks
on the battle field of Poictiers, September
19, 1356, by Edward, the Anglo-Norman Black
Prince, for distinguished bravery in
capturing a set of colors from the French,
whose force is said by English historian to
have outnumbered the English by five to one.
(I) Robert
Hicks, immigrant ancestor of the Hicks
family, arrived in Plymouth Harbor, November
11, 1621, on the ship "Fortune". He was a
son of James, of Southwark, London, and was
lineally descended from Sir Ellis Hicks.
Robert's second wife, Margaret Winslow, and
her children, followed him on the ship
"Ann", the latter part of 1622. They
settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where he
did full duty as a pioneer in developing the
land and building a home. He was a man of
considerable consequence in the community.
The "History of Plymouth" states that he
owned considerable land in that town, and
gives a fac-simile of a deed made by him to
Miles Standish for the transfer of certain
real estate in Plymouth. The same history
gives the fac-simile of his will and that of
Margaret Winslow, his second wife. Who was a
sister of Governor Winslow. Robert Hicks
took the oath of fidelity about 1644. He
married (first) Elizabeth Morgan; and
(second) Margaret Winslow. Children by
first marriage: 1. Elizabeth, 2. Thomas,
3. John, mentioned below. 4. Stephen.
(II) John,
second son of Robert and Elizabeth (Morgan)
Hicks, was born in England, and came to this
country in 1630. He was a graduate of
Oxford University. He remained a short time
in Massachusetts with his father, but in
company with his brother, Stephen, he
migrated to Rhode Island, and in 1639 he was
in Newport, Rhode Island. Still with his
brother Stephen, he went to Long Island
about 1640, and settled at what was
subsequently Flushing. John was an original
proprietor of the town of flushing, as well
as incorporator, October 10, 1645, and of
Hempstead in 1647. In 1645 governor Kieft
granted patent to Thomas Farrington. John
Hicks and others, of the town of Flushing.
He was am ember of the celebrated Hempstead
convention, February 28, 1665. In 1664 he
was a justice under commission from
Connecticut, the same year being also a
deputy from Hempstead. His name and the
name of his son Thomas appear in connection
with almost every public measure for years,
and he was frequently appointed to fill some
of the most important offices. He acquired
considerable reputation as a successful
negotiator with the Indian tribes of Long
Island. He married (first) Herodias Long,
of England; (second) Rachel Starr.
Children: 1. Thomas, mentioned below. 2.
Hannah. 3. Elizabeth. There was no issue
by the second marriage.
(III) Thomas,
son of John and Herodias (Long) Hicks, was
born in 1640, probably in what was later
called Flushing, and died in 1739. He was a
man of considerable ability and seemed to
have a liking for public affairs, following
the example of his father
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in taking a prominent
part in initiating and promoting the
advancement of the community. He was a
large landowner and engaged in farming, and
also seems to have been interested in
numerous commercial enterprises. He was the
first judge appointed for the County of
Queens, and was a lieutenant-colonel of the
Continental forces on Long Island. In 1666
he obtained from Governor Nichol a patent
for four thousand acres including Great Neck
and adjacent lands. Here he erected a fine
mansion and introduced the English manorial
manner of living. He married (first) Mary,
daughter of Richard Butler, of Stratford,
Connecticut, and widow of John Washburn; and
(second) Mary, daughter of Thomas Doughty.
Children, by first marriage: 1. Thomas, 2.
Jacob, mentioned below. By second
marriage: 3. Isaac, 4. William, 5. Stephen,
6. John, 7. Charles, 8. Benjamin, 9. Phoebe,
10. Charity. 11. Mary, and 12. Elizabeth.
(IV) Jacob,
son of Thomas and Mary (Butler) (Washburn)
Hicks, was born at Hempstead, Long Island,
in 1669, and died in 1755. He lived for
some years at Rockaway, Long Island, he
married Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel
Carpenter. Children: 1. Samuel. 2.
Stephen 3. Thomas. 4. Joseph. 5. Jacob.
6. Benjamin. 7. Elizabeth. 8. John,
mentioned below. 9. Sarah. 10. Hannah.
(V) John, son
of Jacob and Hannah (Carpenter) Hicks, was
born at Rockaway, Long Island, about 1700.
He was a farmer and owner of considerable
land. He married Martha, daughter of
Gershom smith. Children: 1. Samuel, born
March 29, 1739. 2. Joseph, February 26,
1741. 3. Stephen, mentioned below. 4.
Jacob, July 11, 1753.
(VI) Stephen,
son of John and Martha (Smith) Hicks, was
born at Hempstead, September 9, 1750, and
died December 20, 1816. Although his
immediate ancestors had been Quakers,
Stephen was an Episcopalian. He married
Mary Hewlett, who was born November 17,
1758, and died March 30, 1830, at Rockaway,
Long Island. Children: 1. John, born
February 15, 1778. 2. Sarah, September 18,
1779. 3. Oliver Hewlett, mentioned below.
4. Stephen, October 7, 1783. 5. Martha,
October 29, 1785. 6. Richard, August 4,
1788. 7. Abraham, January 16, 1791. 8.
Phoebe, March 22, 1793. 9. Mary, May 1,
1795. 10. Whitehead, September 20, 1797.
11. Samuel, June 1, 1800.
(VIII)
Oliver Hewlett, son of Stephen and Mary
(Hewlett) Hicks, was born at New York, June
30, 1781, and died there, of cholera,
September 17, 1832. He engaged in business
about 1800 and soon became well known in
commercial circles. He first resided at 87
Maiden lane, and his counting house was at
88 South Street. In 1819 he was elected
secretary of the Fulton Fire Insurance
Company, which office he held until 1828.
In 1830 he was elected president of the
Farmers' Fire Insurance and Loan Company,
now the Farmers' Loan and Trust company. He
was president of the North American
Insurance Company. He lived at 54 Wall
Street, and in 1823 at 29 Wall Street. In
1826 he moved to 540 Broadway, where until
the spring of 1832 he continued to reside,
at the end of which time he purchased a
house at 415 Broome Street. He owned a farm
on the Bloomingdale Road from 83rd
to 106th Street, where he lived
in 1800 and where afterwards his family
spent their summers. He gave the land on
which St. Michaels' Church was built, and
was one of the original pre holders,
occupying one of the two large box pews. He
was a vestryman of St. Michaels' from 1807
to 1813, from 1813 to 1815 was a warden, and
treasurer from 1810 to 1815. The early
vestry meetings were usually held at his
house in Wall Street. On April 1, 1823, he
was elected vestryman of St. George's
Church, and was its senior warden for
several years. He was also a vestryman of
St. Thomas' church; his pew there was No.
138. He gained a reputation by his
production of a book "The Insurance
Adjuster", written in 1825 and reprinted in
several editions. The following extract is
from the Advertise of September 17, 1832:
"It is with
deep regret we announce the sudden decease
of Oliver Hewlett Hicks, president of the
Farmers' Loan and Insurance Company. Mr.
Hicks has been in delicate and rather feeble
health for some time past, but was able to
attend to the laborious duties of his
office. He was able to attend church three
times on Sunday and went to bed in the
evening in better health and spirits than
usual. At three o'clock yesterday morning
he was seized with cholera, and so rapid was
the disease that his feeble constitution
sunk rapidly and he expired at six o/clock
last evening. For the last forty years Mr.
Hicks has
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been one of
the most active business men in Wall Street,
and for a number of years has enjoyed the
confidence of the merchant community in
adjusting marine losses. No person was more
deservedly esteemed in private life, and in
special business in which he was engaged
none had attained a higher reputation. His
loss to his afflicted family and numerous
circle of friends is irreparable. The death
of so valuable a member of society may be
truly considered a public loss.
He married,
in 1800, Julia, daughter of Samuel and Anne
(Hubbard) Bush, of Greenwich, Connecticut,
where she was born July 4, 1784, dying March
21, 1871. Children: 1. John Augustus,
mentioned below. 2. Samuel Bush, born
August 13, 1804. 3. Mary A., March 4,
1807. 4. Charlotte A., December 10, 1809.
5. Julia B., August 15, 1812. 6. Matilda,
April 5, 1815. 7. Oliver H., January 1,
1818. 8. Maria B., March 18, 1821. 9.
William H., January 30, 1824. 10. Samuel
B., May 3, 1827.
(VIII) John
Augustus, son of Oliver Hewlett and Julia
(Bush) Hicks, was born at No. 54 Wall
Street, New York, February 21, 1802, and
died at Burlington, Vermont, November 4,
1869. He was graduated from Columbia
College, New York, in 1823, and from the
General Theological Seminary in 1826. He
was ordained deacon by the right Rev. John
Henry Hobart, in Grace Church, Jamaica, New
York, August 22, 1826, and became assistant
to the Rev. Evans M. Johnson, in Jamaica and
Brooklyn, and rector of Trinity Church,
Easton, April 1, 1827. His ministry in
Easton was very successful. He was ordained
to the priesthood by Bishop White of
Pennsylvania, in Christ Church,
Philadelphia, May 28, 1828. In April, 1831,
he accepted a call to St. John's Church,
Troy, New York, and resigned in January,
1832, on being called to Rutland, Vermont.
He was rector of Rutland for twenty-eight
years, and the parish under his care became
one of the largest in Vermont. He received
the degree of D. D. both from the University
of Vermont and Middlebury College in 1847,
and also ad eundem from Trinity
College in 1849. The high esteem in which
his character and services were held by the
clergy and laity of the diocese is clearly
shown by the frequency with which they
elected him to the highest offices in their
gift. He was elected in 1856 a trustee of
the newly organized Vermont Episcopal
Institute. His voice lost is power in 1860,
and he resigned from his parish to accept
the Willoughby professorship in the
Institute. AS a preacher his style was
clear, logical and terse, and always clothed
in classical English. He preached last on
Sunday, October 17, 1869, in Milton,
Vermont, and was taken ill on his return
Monday, and died on Wednesday, November 4,
1869. He married Lucy, daughter of George
and Catey (Caldwell) Cleveland, at
Middlebury, Vermont, September 11, 1828; she
died August 6, 1860. Children: 1. William
Cleveland, (q.v.). 2. Julia Bush, January
29, 1831, died October 13, 1873. 3.
Marriette Kieth, July 4, 1832. 4. James
Milnor, June 25, 1834, died August 2, 1910.
5. George Cleveland, April 20, 1836. 6.
Henry Hubbard, May 20, 1838, died June 12,
1872. 7. John Augustus, mentioned below.
8. Kate Caldwell, October 17, 1844, died
April, 1991. 9. Oliver Hewlett, June 11,
1849. |
