Waldo, George, 1816-1886.

George Waldo (1816-1886) was a farmer from Scotland, Connecticut.

George Waldo, the youngest son of Ebenezer and Eunice Devotion Waldo, was born in Scotland, then a parish of Windham, Connecticut, on April 14, 1816. Giles, his closest sibling, was two years his senior. Following his brother's footsteps, George was apprenticed to a Norwich printer at age fourteen. In 1832 he attended the Academy at Plainfield and two years later he and Giles went on to Lane Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, where they became friends with Theodore D. Weld, William Tappan, and William Smith. When the school was broken up by anti-slavery agitation, the brothers went to Oneida Institute in New York and then to Amherst College, where George prepared for the ministry. George left Amherst in his junior year; worked briefly in the printing office of a New York daily paper; taught at the school in Southold, Long Island where his brother Giles was principal; and returned in 1842 to the Waldo homestead in the Shetucket River valley of Scotland, Connecticut, where he spent most of his remaining years.

George ran the family farm after his father died on July 7, 1843. In the fall of 1848, he married Sarah Ellen Jagger of West Hampton, Long Island and lived briefly in Brooklyn, New York and in William Tappan's house in Lenox, Massachusetts. The couple built a house on the Waldo property in 1857 and converted the old farm house into a dairy works in 1877.

George's health began to fail in 1860, as a slow paralysis attacked his body, affecting his speech and finally reducing him to an invalid. He died on the last day of 1886 at the age of seventy-one, and his wife died twelve years later. They were survived by seven children: Genevieve, Ernest, Hubert, Margaret Mabelle, Melvine, Gerald, and Jessie. Ebenezer Waldo ( -1843) m. Eunice Devotion

Eliza Waldo

Giles Waldo ( -1849)

George Waldo (1816-1886) m. 1848 Sarah Ellen Jagger ( -1898)

Genevieve Waldo

Ernest Waldo

Hubert Waldo

Margaret Mabelle Waldo m. 1877 George Cyrus Thomas

George Thomas (stepson)

Waldo Thomas

Margaret Thomas

Dorothea Thomas m. Andrew R. Morehouse

Melvine Waldo m. 1884 Ralph A. Weston

Gerald Waldo m. 1885 Mary

Jessie Waldo

May Waldo ( -1868) Note: The names of important correspondents are underlined. Ebenezer and Eunice Waldo had six other children. The children of George and Sarah Ellen Waldo are arranged in approximate birth order.