The eldest son of Silas Waite was born in Wardsboro, Vermont on July 4, 1787. He was a through “Green Mountaineer,” standing over six feet and weighed about 250 pounds. His schooling was limited, learning read, cipher and had to write on birch bark. Saddle and harness making was his trade for a short time. He was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Windham County and toke an interest in law.
He married Miss Olive Davis on October 17, 1811 who was born also born in Wardsboro on September 16, 1786. She is related to the Davis’s in Kiantone and Busti.
The family, wife and two children, loaded a two-horse wagon with their worldly goods and journeyed south to Carroll New York in 1816. He engaged in the lumbering business and was very unsuccessful. The landing on the “Conewango” where he drew with ox-teams, his logs and shingles, is still called “Waite’s Landing”.
Moving to Jamestown in 1821, he commenced the study of law and practiced this profession for about 30 years. He served in the Office of Justice, District Attorney, and Examiner in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner and County Superintendent of the poor. His wife Olive dies on February 27, 1851
He immigrated to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and on January 8, 1855 he died of apoplexy. In 1870 his remains were placed next to his wife in Jamestown.
Son Franklin H was living in Mankato, Minnesota and Davis H is editor and publisher of the Jamestown Journal.
Edited from: History of Chautauqua County, New York 1875
Contributor: sidewinder
He married Miss Olive Davis on October 17, 1811 who was born also born in Wardsboro on September 16, 1786. She is related to the Davis’s in Kiantone and Busti.
The family, wife and two children, loaded a two-horse wagon with their worldly goods and journeyed south to Carroll New York in 1816. He engaged in the lumbering business and was very unsuccessful. The landing on the “Conewango” where he drew with ox-teams, his logs and shingles, is still called “Waite’s Landing”.
Moving to Jamestown in 1821, he commenced the study of law and practiced this profession for about 30 years. He served in the Office of Justice, District Attorney, and Examiner in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner and County Superintendent of the poor. His wife Olive dies on February 27, 1851
He immigrated to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and on January 8, 1855 he died of apoplexy. In 1870 his remains were placed next to his wife in Jamestown.
Son Franklin H was living in Mankato, Minnesota and Davis H is editor and publisher of the Jamestown Journal.
Edited from: History of Chautauqua County, New York 1875
Contributor: sidewinder
The eldest son of Silas Waite was born in Wardsboro, Vermont on July 4, 1787. He was a through “Green Mountaineer,” standing over six feet and weighed about 250 pounds. His schooling was limited, learning read, cipher and had to write on birch bark. Saddle and harness making was his trade for a short time. He was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Windham County and toke an interest in law.
He married Miss Olive Davis on October 17, 1811 who was born also born in Wardsboro on September 16, 1786. She is related to the Davis’s in Kiantone and Busti.
The family, wife and two children, loaded a two-horse wagon with their worldly goods and journeyed south to Carroll New York in 1816. He engaged in the lumbering business and was very unsuccessful. The landing on the “Conewango” where he drew with ox-teams, his logs and shingles, is still called “Waite’s Landing”.
Moving to Jamestown in 1821, he commenced the study of law and practiced this profession for about 30 years. He served in the Office of Justice, District Attorney, and Examiner in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner and County Superintendent of the poor. His wife Olive dies on February 27, 1851
He immigrated to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and on January 8, 1855 he died of apoplexy. In 1870 his remains were placed next to his wife in Jamestown.
Son Franklin H was living in Mankato, Minnesota and Davis H is editor and publisher of the Jamestown Journal.
Edited from: History of Chautauqua County, New York 1875
Contributor: sidewinder
He married Miss Olive Davis on October 17, 1811 who was born also born in Wardsboro on September 16, 1786. She is related to the Davis’s in Kiantone and Busti.
The family, wife and two children, loaded a two-horse wagon with their worldly goods and journeyed south to Carroll New York in 1816. He engaged in the lumbering business and was very unsuccessful. The landing on the “Conewango” where he drew with ox-teams, his logs and shingles, is still called “Waite’s Landing”.
Moving to Jamestown in 1821, he commenced the study of law and practiced this profession for about 30 years. He served in the Office of Justice, District Attorney, and Examiner in Chancery, Supreme Court Commissioner and County Superintendent of the poor. His wife Olive dies on February 27, 1851
He immigrated to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and on January 8, 1855 he died of apoplexy. In 1870 his remains were placed next to his wife in Jamestown.
Son Franklin H was living in Mankato, Minnesota and Davis H is editor and publisher of the Jamestown Journal.
Edited from: History of Chautauqua County, New York 1875
Contributor: sidewinder
Gravesite Details
wed Olive Davis--he died in Fond du Lac, WI and buried in Lake View in 1870
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