David Low Dodge

Notes:

David Low Dodge first dwelt in Norwich, a merchant there.  Removed 1802 to Hartford, and finally settled in New York City, in which place he was a wholesale merchant, at one time partner with Harry Pratt.  On account of the infirmities of age upon both himself and his wife, in the spring of 1836, removed to Plainsfield, New Jersey, and took possession of Cedae Brook Farm.  He sold the farm in 1845, and returned to New York.

The most notable events in his life appear "MEMORIAL OF MR. DAVID L. DODGE" consisting of an Autobiography, etc., Boston, 1854,// Caulkins Norwich, 544 -- A proprietary school was built on the slop of the hill above Church St., and the school was assembled and organized by Rev. Walter King.  David L. Dodge was the first regular teacher.//  616-- Bozrahville, one of the oldest manufacturing establishments of New London County, originated with the Bozrah Mfg. Co., formed 1814, by Frederick De Peyster and Jonathan Little of New York, and David L. Dodge, then of Norwich.  The capital came from New York, but Mr. Dodge suggested and managed the undertaking. Under his direction a stone factory was built for making woolen and cooton goods.  Erastus Hyde was also a partner.// 640-- is partner with Joshua Raymond, Raymond & Dodge.

David married Sarah Cleveland 7 Jun 1798, Norwich, New London Co., CT. Sarah (daughter of Rev. Aaron Cleveland and Abiah Hyde) was born 7 Nov 1780, Norwich, New London Co., CT; died 12 May 1862, New York, New York Co., NY. [Group Sheet]

Julia married Joseph Carew Huntington 1 Oct 1816, Norwich, New London Co., CT. Joseph (son of Joseph Huntington and Eunice Carew) was born 23 Jan 1792, Norwich, New London Co., CT; died 30 Apr 1852, New York, New York Co., NY. [Group Sheet]

Sarah — H. C. Porter. H. died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

David married Caroline Hyde 11 Apr 1827. Caroline (daughter of Erastus Hyde and Fannie Bell) was born 3 Dec 1804, Norwich, New London Co., CT; died 7 May 1864, ____, ____, NY. [Group Sheet]

William — Melissa Phelps. Melissa died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Mary married Norman White 15 Oct 1828, New York, New York Co., NY. Norman was born 3 Aug 1805, Andover, Tolland Co., CT; died Jun 1883, New Rochelle, Westchester Co., NY. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: ____, ____, NY

Elizabeth married Edmund Burke Stedman 25 Mar 1830, New York, New York Co., NY. Edmund (son of Griffin Stedman and Elizabeth Gordon) was born 4 Apr 1800, Hartford, Hartford Co., CT; died 4 Dec 1835, on passage to St. Croix. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married William Burnet Kinney 16 Nov 1841, New York, New York Co., NY. William (son of Col. Abraham Kinney and Hannah Burnet) was born 4 Sep 1799, Speedwell, Morris Co., NJ; died 21 Oct 1880, New York, New York Co., NY. [Group Sheet]

Susan — Uzal Corey. Uzal died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Jun 1860; Editor
• 1860 Census: 31 Jul 1860
• Occupation: 1900; Author
• 1900 Census: 7 Jun 1900

Notes:

STEDMAN, Edmund Clarence, poet and critic, was born in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 8, 1833; son of Maj. Edmund Burke and Elizabeth Clementine (Dodge) Stedman; grandson of Griffin and Elizabeth (Gordon) Stedman, and of David Low and Sarah (Cleveland) Dodge, and a descendant, in the eighth generation, of Isaac Stedman, who was born in England, 1605, and immigrated to Massachusetts, 1635. After Edmund's father's death in 1835, he became the ward of his great-uncle, James Stedman of Norwich, Conn., to whose home he was sent in 1839. He attended Yale college, 1849-51, receiving his A.B. degree, 1871, as a member of the class of 1853; continued his studies under private instructors at Northampton, Mass., 1851, and was editor of the Norwich Tribune, 1852-53, and of the Winsted (Conn.) Herald, 1854-55. He removed to New York city in 1856, where he contributed verse to leading publications, and was editorially connected with the Tribune, 1859-61. He was married, Nov. 2, 1853, to Laura Hyde, daughter of Asa and Elizabeth (Rogers) Woodworth of Danielsonville, Conn. He was located at Washington, D.C., as as war correspondent of the New York World, 1861-63; was in the confidential employ of Attorney-General Bates, 1863-64, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange, 1869-1900, subsequently devoting his entire time to literary work, and making his home in Bronxville, N.Y. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Yale, 1871, and by Dartmouth, 1873; that of L.H.D. by Columbia, 1892, and that of LL.D. by Yale, 1894. Mr. Stedman acquired a wide reputation as a literary critic of unusual discrimination, lecturing at Johns Hopkins university upon the "Nature and Elements of Poetry," upon the creation of the Turnbull chair of poetry, the first chair of its kind in America, 1891, and repeating the same course at Columbia college, 1891, and at the University of Pennsylvania, 1892. He was frequently chosen to deliver original poems on important public occasions. He served as vice-president and president of the American Copy-right league. He edited, with Thomas B. Aldrich, "Cameos, from the Poems of Walter Savage Landor" (1874); "Poems of Austin Dobson" (1880); "The Library of American Literature," with Ellen M. Hutchinson (11 vols., 1888-89); "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe" with G. E. Woodbury (10 vols. 1895); "A Victorian Anthology" (1895), and "An American Anthology" (1900). He is the author of: Poems, Lyric and Idyllic (1860); Alice of Monmouth (1864); The Blameless Prince (1869): Poetical Works (1873); Victorian Poets (1875); Hawthorne, and Other Poems (1877); Poets of America (1885); The Nature and Elements of Poetry, lectures (1892); Poems Now First Collected (1897).

KEARNY AT SEVEN PINES
by Edmund Clarence Stedman
(1833-1908)

So that soldierly legend is still on its journey,--
  That story of Kearny who knew not to yield!
'Twas the day when with Jameson, fierce Berry and Birney,
  Against twenty thousand he rallied the field.
Where the red volleys poured, where the clamor rose highest,
  Where the dead lay in clumps through the dwarf oak and pine,
Where the aim from the thicket was surest and nighest,--
  No charge like Phil Kearny's along the whole line.

When the battle went ill, and the bravest were solemn,
  Near the dark Seven Pines, where we still held our ground,
He rode down the length of the withering column,
  And his heart at our war-cry lept up with a bound;
He snuffed, like his charger, the wind of the powder,--
  His sword waved us on and we answered the sign;
Loud our cheer as we rushed, but his laugh rang the louder.
  "There's the devil's own fun, boys, along the whole line!"

How he strode his brown steed! How he saw his blade brighten
  In the one hand still left,--and the reins in his teeth!
He laughed like a boy when the holidays heighten,
  But a soldier's glance shot from his visor beneath.
Up came the reserves to the mellay infernal,
  Asking where to go in--through the clearing or pine?
"O, anywhere! Forward! 'Tis all the same, Colonel:
  You'll find lovely fighting along the whole line!"

Oh, evil the black shroud of night at Chantilly,
  That hid him from sight of his brave men and tried!
Foul, foul speed the bullet that clipped the white lily,
  The flower of our knighthood, the whole army's pride!
Yet we dream that he still,--in that shadowy region
  Where the dead form their ranks at the wan drummer's sign,--
Rides on, as of old, down the length of his legion,
  And the word is still "Forward!" along the whole line.

1860 Census:
Squaw Village PO - Atlantic, Monmouth Co., NJ, p. 557, as E. C. Stedman, age 27, b. CT

1900 Census:
Bronxville - Eastchester, Westchester Co., NY, ED 65, sheet 4B

Edmund married Laura Hyde Woodworth 2 Nov 1853, Yantic, New London Co., CT. Laura (daughter of Asa Woodworth and Elizabeth Waterman Rogers) was born 1 Aug 1833, Franklin, New London Co., CT; died Aft 1900. [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth — William Ingraham Kip, Jr.. William (son of Bishop William Ingraham Kip and Miss [--?--]) died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Mary — Nelson Starin Easton. Nelson died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• 1860 Census: 31 Jul 1860
• Residence: 1900; 5532 Howe St. - Pittsburg, Allegheny Co., PA
• 1900 Census: 9 Jun 1900

Notes:

Mr. Frederick Stuart Stedman, graduated Byrant, Stratton, & Whitney's Business College, Newark, New Jersey,  1872.

Residence: City of New York, except for brief periods in Washington, D.C., and Newark.

Formerly clerk in a New York publishing house and from 1880 to 1884 member in the firm E.C. Stedman & Co.; Assistant Editor of Literary Encyclopedia, New York 1884.

1860 Census:
Squaw Village PO - Atlantic, Monmouth Co., NJ, p. 557,w/E. C. Stedman, age 4, b. NJ, as Frederic Stedman

1900 Census:
Ward 20 - Pittsburg, Allegheny Co., PA, ED 240, sheet 9A

Frederick married Ellen Montague Douglas 31 Mar 1880, New York, New York Co., NY. Ellen (daughter of George Douglas and Martha Hammer Montague) was born 22 Dec 1855, New York, New York Co., NY; died Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Frederick married Hilda B. [--?--] Abt 1889. Hilda was born Abt Mar 1865, Washington, District of Columbia, DC; died Unknown. [Group Sheet]