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Gardner Wainwright was engaged in merchantile business in the city of his birth, Middlebury, VT up to six months prior to his death, when he decided to retire from business cares and enjoy himself. The change proved too much for him after being so active.

He was an electrician as well as a merchantile businessman. In November of 1849, he was also a midshipman.

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Henry Pierce Wainwright was a tinsmith. He was last heard about in Denver, Colorado

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He manufactured blank books

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Rufus was a lawyer

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Unmarried as of 1932. Was a manager at the Standard Oil Company in the Canal Zone

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George was a research Chemist

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From the Wainwright Genealogy dated 1903:

Jonathan was educated at Middlebury Academy, Bishop Hopkins, and Dartmouth. He wa inducted into the study of Latin at a very early age. At the age of 14, with the consent of his father, he shipped aboard the whalership, Brighton, Captain Cox commanding, as the guest of the captain. The voyage consumed four years, and took him around the world. He brought back a fine collection of curios from the many strange countries visited during the voyage. Because of his generous nature, he gave away everything he collected.
On the death of his father, he came into possession of a large sum of money. Since his college training was in engineering, he pursued this work in constructing the Hoosac Tunnel, the Great Northwestern Railroad in Canada, and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway of Illinois, and the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad.
While he was track superintendent of the Chicago and North Western, he met a lovely lady who later became his wife. She resided at Michigan City, Indiana. Soon after their marriage, they moved to Detroit, Michigan.
In 1860 he moved to Owosso, Michigan where he engaged in buying and selling farm products, prospering sufficiently to enable him to buy a fine dwelling on November 24, 1863. On December 16, 1864 he moved to Saganaw, Michigan. Here their son, Johathan Gilbert, was baptized in the Espiscopal Church on June 11, 1865, by Reverend William Paret.
In 1869 they moved to Waukegan, IL where they spent their remaining days. He was engaged in the manufacturing of chemical goods used in the harness trade.
Mary Amelia Gilbert was the daughter of Bethuel Potter Gilbert and Marie Sheldon Fowler. Marie had traced her ancesty to William Fowler who settled in America in 1637, as one of the founders of the New Haven Colony.

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Theodore drowned while sailing on Lake Champlain in 1850

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From the Wainwright Genealogy dated 1903:

Mary Amelia Gilbert Wainwright was the daughter of Bethuel Potter Gilbert and marie Sheldon Fowler. Marie had traced her ancestry to William Fowler who settled in America in 1637, as one of the founders of the New Haven Colony. He was the first man of classic education to settle in this country.

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Chauncey Lathrop was engaged in the lake shipping business

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He wa a LT in the Regular army during the Civil War. After leaving the army he was elected a Senator in the Kansas legislature while his father was a member of the house....(from John J. Spaulding) In Vermont he held the office of States Attorney and Judge of Probate. In Atchison KS he was a police Judge.

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Alice lived in Germany with her mother after the divorce