Russell White Benedict

	Born	04 Jun 1826	Danbury, Fairfield co., Conn
	Married	13 Nov 1860	Sarah Allen Ogden	at Location
	Died	Date at Location

Parents:

• Father:Zadock "Russell" Benedict; 1799-
• Mother:Sarah Allen Ogden

Children:

1. Edith Benedict 1861-
2. Edgar Benedict; 1865-

Sources

Benedicts to America, Vol I, Pg 385
29. Z. RUSSELL6 (Zadock,5 Matthew,4 Daniel,3 Daniel,2 Thomas1)
b. June 7, 1799; m. Aug. 16, 1825, Mary Ann, dau. Russell White of Danbury, Ct.; m. 2d, Sept. 1, 1830, Mariette, dau. Samuel Tweedy of Danbury, Ct., who d. July 6, 1838. He became a partner, in early life, in a mercantile house of New Orleans, engaged in the Mexican and West India trade. He was afterwards in the crockery business in New York. He is President of the Lawrence Rosendale Cement Co. of New York, and a director in the Seventh Ward National Bank, which latter position he has held for many years. He is gentleman of fortune and of elegant mien and manners; res. New York city. Ch.
1) - RUSSELL WHITE, b. June 4, 1826; m. Nov. 13, 1860, Sarah Allen, eldest dau. David S. Ogden of New York city. He has resided for the past ten years in New York, having previously passed much of his life in Europe, California and Chicago. Ch.
a) Edith, b. Sept. 17, 1861, at Astoria. m Mr Campbell
b) Edgar, b. Aug. 2, 1865, at Bay Ridge. m Martha Rowe. ch:
i) Beatrice
2) - ROBERT MORRIS, b. Aug. 6, 1832; m. April 25, 1860, Margaret, eldest dau. William W. Gorham of Canandaigua. He has res. at C. since his marriage. Ch.
a) Elizabeth, b. April 26, 1861; d. Sept. 26, 1862.
b) Robert Russell, b. Nov. 23, 1863.
c) Gorham, b. Nov. 26, 1867.
3) - ELIZABETH, b. May 14, 1834.
4) - SAMUEL TWEEDY, b. Sept. 8, 1837; m. June 29, 1865, Julia, dau. Prof. Isaac W. and Eliza (Pomeroy) Jackson, b. Jan 28, 1838. Isaac W. Jackson, L.L. D., is Prof. of mathematics in Union College. Samuel Tweedy grad. at Union Coll. in 1860, and at Harvard law school, 1862; practised law in New York for several years, and removed to Schenectady upon his marriage. He was appointed U. S. commissioner in 1869. Ch.
a) Mariette, b. May 17, 1866. m Leslie Cotton, res: Paris
b) William Jackson, b. Aug. 31, 1869.
c) Russell, b 14Jul1874

Footnotes

Astoria is a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the borough of Queens in New York City. Located in Community Board 1, Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City, Sunnyside (bordering at Northern Boulevard), and Woodside (bordering at 50th Street).

Originally, Astoria was known as Hallet's Cove, after its original landowner William Hallet, who settled there in 1659 with his wife Elizabeth (Fones). The place was renamed after John Jacob Astor, who never set foot in the neighborhood, in order to persuade him to invest $2,000 in the neighborhood. He only invested $500, but the name stayed. A bitter battle over naming the village was finally won by supporters and friends of Astor who had become the wealthiest man in America by 1840 with a net worth of over $40 million. Astor did live in a place called "Astoria" (his summer home), built in Manhattan on what is now East 87th Street near York Avenue, from which he could see across the river the new Long Island village named in his honor.

Beginning in the early 19th century, affluent New Yorkers constructed large residences around 12th and 14th streets, an area that later became known as Astoria Village (now Old Astoria). Hallet's Cove, founded in 1839 by fur merchant Steven Halsey, was a noted recreational destination and resort for Manhattan's wealthy

During the second half of the 1800s, economic and commercial growth brought about increased immigration from German settlers, mostly furniture and cabinet makers. One such settler was Henry Steinway, patriarch of the Steinway family who founded the Steinway Piano Company in 1853. Afterwards, the Steinways built a sawmill and foundry, as well as a streetcar line. The family eventually established Steinway Village for their workers, a community that provided school instruction in German as well as English.

In 1870, Astoria and several other surrounding villages, including Steinway, were incorporated into Long Island City. Long Island City remained an independent municipality until it was incorporated into New York City in 1898. The area's farms were turned into housing tracts and street grids to accommodate the growing number of residents.

Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Bay Ridge was originally known as Yellow Hook, for the color of the yellowish soil observed by the original Dutch settlers. This name was changed in the 1853 after yellow fever struck the area and residents realized what an ill fit it was given the circumstances. The new name was given due to the proximity of the neighborhood to New York Bay.

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