Description:
Drawing of two sailboats docked by a windmill, which is signed "Lucy S. Olmstead April 9th 1836" and on the reverse "Lucy Starr Olmstead-1836." This drawing descended in the family of Timothy Dwight V (1778-1844), son Timothy Dwight IV (1752-1817), the eighth president of Yale College (1795-1817). Timothy Dwight V lived in New Haven, Connecticut, where he became a wealthy hardware merchant. In 1809, he married Clarissa Strong (1783-1855), the daughter of Massachusetts governor Caleb Strong (1745-1819), uniting two prominent New England families. The Dwight Professorship of Didactic Theology at Yale was named for him, and he financially supported the chair for the remainder of his life. Timothy V and Clarissa's son, Timothy Dwight VI (1811-1895) married Lucy Starr Olmstead (1816-1876), the daughter of Zalmon Olmstead (1783-1853) and Rebecca Barlow (1788-1861) of Moreau, NY, of Moreau, NY, in 1842, and was a merchant in New Haven; later a manufacturer of tool and coach lace in Seymour, Connecticut and cars in Chicago; spent many years in Beloit, Wisconsin; and finally a manufacturer of paper bags in Chicago, Illinois, where he and his family moved in 1870. Timothy Dwight VI was the donor's great-grandfather.
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