George Lavater Stedman and Adda Maude Shuler Woolverton

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Husband George Lavater Stedman

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           Born: 3 Nov 1831 - Southbridge, Worcester County, MA
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           Died: 15 Nov 1898 - Albany, Albany County, NY
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       Marriage: 6 May 1863

Events

• Graduation: 1856, Brown University.

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Wife Adda Maude Shuler Woolverton

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           Born: 29 May 1840 - Albany, Albany County, NY
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           Died: 28 Sep 1909 - Loudonville, Albany County, NY
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         Father: George Alonzo Woolverton {FGID: 134717874}
         Mother: Caroline Shuler {FGID: 134717971}

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Children

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1 M George Woolverton Stedman

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           Born: 9 Sep 1864 - Albany, Albany County, NY
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           Died: 23 Nov 1954 - Albany, Albany County, NY
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         Spouse: Harriet Teresa Mather
           Marr: 18 Jun 1898 - Loudonville, Albany County, NY

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2 M Francis White (Frank) Stedman

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           Born: 7 Dec 1867 - Albany, Albany County, NY
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           Died: After 1910
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         Spouse: Clara H. Thacher
           Marr: 14 Apr 1893 - Albany, Albany County, NY

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3 M John Porter Stedman

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           Born: 8 Apr 1871 - Loudonville, Albany County, NY
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           Died: 24 Mar 1910 - Albany, Albany County, NY
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4 M Charles Sumner Stedman

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           Born: 6 Nov 1874 - Loudonville, Albany County, NY
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           Died: 29 Sep 1940 - Loudonville, Albany County, NY
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         Spouse: Agnes Lauder McEwan
           Marr: 20 Sep 1899 - Loudonville, Albany County, NY

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General Notes: Husband - George Lavater Stedman

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George Lavater Stedman was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, on 3 Nov 1831.

He received his early education in the public school of his native place and at the high school of Springfield, MA. Later he attended Worcester Academy and the University grammar school at Providence, Rhode Island. He entered Brown University in 1852. At graduation he was president of his class which inaugurated the modern classday at Brown. He was graduated therefrom in 1856, second in his class with the degree of A. B., and with the honor of salutatorian. In college he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternities, and his college gave him a degree of A. M. He then entered the Albany Law School, from which he was graduated in 1857 with a degree of LL.B. The same year he was admitted to the bar at Albany, of which city he then practiced law until his death.

He was there successively a member of the law firm of Stedman & Strong; Stedman & Shepard; Stedman, Thompson & Andrews; and latterly of Stedman & Stedman; all located at No. 445 Broadway, Albany.

In 1871, he took up residence in Loudonville, a suburb of Albany. His interests outside of his family, profession, and his farm were maiinly religious and educational. He was elected trustee of the school at Loudonville and mainly through his efforts it was changed from a district school to a modern grammar school. He had in his young manhood joined the Baptist Church in Southbridge, and on coming to Albany became a member of the then Pearl Street (in 1910 the Emmanuel) Baptist Church, and was closely identified with it for the remainder of his life.

At his death in Albany on 15 March 1898, he was said to be the leading representative of the Baptists in Albany. He was president of the New York Baptist Union for Ministerial Education, 1885-98; trustee of the Rochester Theological Seminary, 1885-1898; trustee of Colgate University, 1890-98; president and trustee of Hudson River Baptist Association North, 1883-98; chairman of its missionary committee, 1886-98; and moderator of its meeting in 1883; trustee of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Albany, 1883-98; clerk of the church, 1864-67. He was for many years superintendent of the Loudonville Union Sabbath school, and was prominent in the founding of the Baptist Social Union of Albany and Troy, serving as president of the association for two terms.

He was one of one of the organizers and trustees of the New York and New England Agricultural Association; organizer and trustee of the People's Gas Company of Albany, 1880-1885; a life member and one-time secretary of the Albany Young Men's Association; vice-president of the Young Men's Christian Association; and one of the earliest promoters of the Albany Historical and Art Society.

At the time of his death he was counsel for the town of Colonie, in which he resided, and the law for the organization of which he drew. The judgment of his fellows as to his characteristics and attainments is attested by the following excerpt fromt he minutes of a meeting of the Albany Bar Association held in his memory. "He became a good lawyer by doing good work... Abundance of professional work came to him from the first and he was known to do it well. ... Then, as years went on, great financial interests more and more sought his help. Moneyed corporations became his clients, large manufacturing establishments invoked his guidance, ecclesiastical and educational interests were intrusted to his charge, large estates came under his management. ... He was an able lawyer, grounded in the principles of law, conversant with leading cases ... he was a safe, trustworthy, and wise counsellor. ... But Mr. Stedman was not alone an excellent lawyer; he was a wise counsellor in the practical affairs of life which do not touch the law. He was a kind friend, a consistent and useful churchman, a good neighbor."

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General Notes: Wife - Adda Maude Shuler Woolverton

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Adda Maud Shuler Woolverton received her education at the Albany Academy for Girls (formerly the Albany Female Academy), from which institution she was graduated in 1859, and to which she always gave her affectionate interest, being a member since graduation of its Alumnae Association and of it Semper Fidelis Society.

Early in life she became a member of the Pearl Street Baptist Church of Albany, later called Emmanuel, and the early religious influence of her home and church she carried into her maturer years, being a devoted member of the church until her death, a teacher and superintendent of the primary department of the Loudonville Union Sunday School, the president of the Women's Baptist Missionary Society of her church from the death of her mother, a former president, until her own death, and an active supporter of all missionary enterprises, both home and foreign. She was frequently a delegate to conventions and meetings of religious and missionary societies, joining her devotion to them with her love of travel. Her philanthropic and educational interests were numerous and widespread, especially prominent being her gifts to an art collection at Colgate University at Hamilton, New York, in memory of her husband. Mrs. Stedman's position as president for many years of the Home for Aged men of Albany, as manager of the Albany Guardian Society, as a member of the Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association, and as manager of the Young Women's Christian Association, and her interest in many of Albany's other philanthropic institutions, all bear testimony to her numerous benefactions. During the many years of Mrs. Stedman's varied public interests and activities, her devotion to her home and friends was never sacrificed, and she is especially remembered as a home builder.

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Notes: Marriage

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