BIOGRAPHY: Jarvis Congdon; Dutchess co., New York

Transcribed by W. David Samuelsen
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1683
History of Duchess County (sic - Dutchess County), New York
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of someof its Prominent Men and
Pioneers.
By James H. Smith, assisted by Hume H. Cale and William E. Roscoe
published by D. Mason & Co., 1882, Syracuse, New York
page 330

Jarvis Congdon

     James Congdon and Lydia Southwick, parents of Jarvis Congdon, moved into
this county from the state of Rhode Island, and settled in the town of
Beekman. They were members of the Society of Friends, and parents of seven
children of whom jarvis was the fifth. He remained at home until twenty-seven
years of age, March 27, 1828, he was united in marriage with Lydia, daughter
of John Wing, of South Dover, by whom they had one child, James, who died when
at the age of eight years.

     After a short sojourn in different towns in the county, Mr.Congdonw as
called, in 1842, to Sperintend the Nine Partners Boarding School fo Friends
located at Mechanic in the town of Washington. Many of the students of that
institution afterwards occupied prominent positions in the financial,
literary, commercial, and political history of the country. He conducted the
affairs of that school successfully for nine years when he resigned his
position and purchased his present residence.

     Mr. Congdon possess in a remarable degree the vigor which is the result
of an exemplary Christian life, and is much beloved by many of his old
students and acquaintances at whose request his portrait and biography are
here published. He and his wife are both worthy members of the Society of
Orthodox Friends.