David PLUMB

  General Notes:

569. DAVID PLUMB' (Catherine Hinsdale' Barnabas' Daniel4 Barnabas' Barnabas' Robert1), son of Ichabod Plumb and Catherine Hinsdale, his wife, born July 9, 1812, married, December 14, 1836, Hannah Maria Bierce.
Children:
1103. i. PRESTON B., (honorable), bom Oct. 12,1837; married
Caroline A. Southwick.
1104. ii. ELLEN, bom Mar. 1, 1840; unmarried.
1105. iii. JOSEPHUS, bom June 28,1841; died at Emporia, Kan., in
1857.
1106. iv. GEORGE, bom Dec. 15, 1843; married Ellen M. Coles;
lives at Emporia.
1107. v. WILLIAM, bom June 27, 1846; married Sally Thomson;
lives in Tuscarora, Nev.
1108. vi. ARTHUR W., bom Dec. 31, 1849; married Mar. 7,1874,
Ellen Nora Wheeler; lives in Reading, Kan.
1109. vii. MARY ELIZA, bom Sept. 20,1852; married Dec. 24,1872,
Perry Edwards.
1110. viii. CHARLES, bom June 15,1857; died Aug. 25,1857.





The life of Preston B. Plumb, 1837-1891: United States senator from Kansas ...
By William Elsey Connelley


Of the sons of Ichabod Plumb one was David Plumb. He was born at Berkshire, Ohio, July 9, 1812, and was bred to the trade of wagon-maker, though he did not become a blacksmith. He remained strong in his attachment to the Episcopal Church; and he supported himself and family by working at his trade.

At Berkshire, December 14, 1836, David Plumb was married to Miss Hannah Maria Bierce. The Bierce family is one of the oldest in New England, having come into Massachusetts in the days of Governor Winslow. Members of the family settled in Connecticut at an early day, and in the general westward trend their descendants passed into New York. Immediately after the Revolution Hugh White, of Middletown, Connecticut, together with others, secured a patent to land in Oneida County, New York. In 1784 they moved there and made a settlement which later became Whitesborough. These were the first white settlers in the State west of the Germans living then on the Mohawk. Whitesborough was on the Indian trail leading to the Great Lakes at what is now the city of Buffalo. Many Connecticut people followed the White colony and settled at Whitesborough, Utica, and other towns in Oneida County, which remains to this day a community with marked New England characteristics.

David married Hannah Marie BIERCE on 14 Dec 1836 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States. (Hannah Marie BIERCE was born in 1813, died on 11 Aug 1886 in Kansas and was buried in Maplewood Mem. Lawn, Emporia, Lyon, Kansas.)