Wade family.

Benjamin F. Wade, Ashtabula County, Ohio lawyer and zealous abolitionist, was one of the foremost Radical Republican U.S. Senators of the Civil War. Wade demanded that Lincoln make the war a crusade to free the slaves, and he led the charge to keep control of Reconstruction in the hands of Congress. His family, descended from Jonathan Wade, a 1632 immigrant to Massachusetts, was one of the most prominent families of Ashtabula County during the 19th century. The first of the family to settle in Ashtabula County was James Wade, father of Benjamin, who arrived there in the 1820s.

From the description of Papers, 1862-1891. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 22496302