Wolsey Gilbert Dayton (1832 - 1905)

Born 5 Mar 1832 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Addie Josephine (Hale) Dayton — married 14 Sep 1868 in Bath New York

Died 25 Jul 1905 at age 73 in Rochester, Monroe, New York, United States

Biography

Wolsey was born in 1832. Wolsey is the child of Johnson Dayton.

He served in the 17th CT during the Civil War from which he deserted, likely because of his wife's death. He was a shoemaker and foreman at the prisons in Auburn and Madison, NY. In the 1870s he had a shoe store in the Rochester, NY.

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Sources

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHRS-WHQ : Sat Sep 16 00:06:01 UTC 2023), Entry for Gilbert W Dayton and Sarah A Dayton, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M86T-FX5 : Thu Sep 14 19:30:50 UTC 2023), Entry for Woolsey G Dayton and Ada G Dayton, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSJ7-1DH : Sun Sep 17 10:58:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Walsey G Dayton and Adelaide Dayton, 1900.
• "United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K83F-VKW : 8 March 2021), Gilbert W Dayton, 1890; citing NARA microfilm publication M123 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 338,214.
• "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGRF-Y1RH : 23 March 2023), Wolsey G Dayton, 1905.

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Dana Dayton for starting this profile.

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