Joseph Sedgwick and Gen. Albert Sedgwick
While researching my Sedwick/Sedgwick line I came across these two biographies. I hope it's of some help to someone here.
SEDGWICK, Joseph- Farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. New Diggings; born 11 March 1815 in Durham, England; in 1837 came to Pennsylvania; in 1838, to Missouri; in 1839 to Shullsburg; in 1841 he came to New Diggings, where he has since lived; he first made a claim of ten acres, and kept adding as his means would allow, and now owns 280 acres well improved. He has been School Director and a member of the Town Board. Married Hannah PEACOCK in 1847; she was born in England in 1825; died in 1874; have eight children: Thomas, John W., George S., Joseph A., Sarah J., Elizabeth A., Hannah E. and Ruth E. Source:History of La Fayette County, WI - 1881 - Chicago: Western Historical Co., p 744
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John Andrews Sedgwick and his wife Nancy had two sons,*Gen. Charles F. Sedgwick, a lawyer who removed to Sharon, and Albert. The latter was born in Cornwall in 1801. He married, in Oct 1822, Mary Hunt of Canaan, and had six sons and three daughters. In 1824, he obtained the establishment of a post office in Cornwall Hollow, and became postmaster a few years later. He removed to Bantam. For seventeen years he was sheriff of Litchfield County but resigned in 1854 to accept his appointment as commissioner of the School Fund in which office he served twelve years, beginning with the 1855. That fund attained its highest income during this period, being $143,193.75 in 1857. He died at Litchfield in 1878, May 14th.
Source:A History of Cornwall, Connecticut, A Typical New England Town, By Edward G. Starr, B.D. 1926