George Waldo (1816 - 1886)

Born 14 Apr 1816 in Windham, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah-Ellen (Halsey) Waldo — married 23 Sep 1847 in New York City, New York, United States

Descendants

Died 31 Dec 1886 at age 70 in Scotland, Windham, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

He was the son of Ebenezer Waldo and Eunice Devotion Waldo.

"He was at Amherst College from 1838 to 1840, a member of the class of 1841, but did not graduate. He passed his life in Scotland, on the estate which was originally the property of his great grandfather, Edward waldo, who built a home upon it in 1709, which is still standing in good preservation. He married Sept 23, 1847, at New York City, Sarah-Ellen, daughter of Oliver and Cleopatra (Halsey) Jagger of Westhampton, Long Island [NY]; born Oct. 28, 1822 at Westhampton; died Feb.14, 1898 at Brooklyn, N.Y., at the residence of her son George. ^[1]

"Not all that Genevieve Waldo had learned reflected well on her family. The inventories in the attic’s trunks listed Zacheus’ furniture, books, oxen, boots, and an elderly slave couple of the 1750’s. Gennie knew that the house was old not only in age but in ideas. Connecticut after all had the largest number (3,000) slaves in New England at the eve of the Revolution. Like leading families of the time, Zacheus’ family had a male slave to help build stone walls or cut firewood outside and had a female slave to spin the wool and clean the house inside. Gennie knew the profound effect that this institution had on the slaves and on those who fought it. Her father [George Waldo] was among the earliest abolitionists, joining the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. He worked, lived and studied with freed slaves in abolitionist schools in the 1830s and sought immediate unequivocal emancipation. His ideas would have been considered peculiar if not radical by the vast majority of Americans at that time. But he believed deeply, 'Jehovah would triumph and free his people'." ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ The Genealogy of the Waldo Family , Vol 1, page 853
2. ↑ Town of Scotland Connecticut Historical Society

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• An Emersonian in the Sandwich Islands: The Career of Giles Waldo, eVols, Library, University of Hawaii, Manoa; Mention of younger brother George Waldo