Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Gird, Emma L. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Gird, Emma L., Litchfield, a native of this town, born on the farm where she 
now lives, is a daughter of John Gird, who was a native of Trenton. He came 
here about 1812, with his mother, from New York city. He was a son of Henry 
Gird, who was publisher of a newspaper in New York city, who came from 
Wesford, Ireland, and was a colonel in the English army. He settled in 
Warrington, and bought a place of George Washington, which is still in the 
family and occupied by his granddaughter, Mrs. Frankland. The mother of John 
Gird, was Mary, daughter of Richard Smith, who settled at Cedar Lake farm, now 
owned by the Sewell Morgan estate. The mother of Emma L. Gird was Laura, 
daughter of Sylvanius King, a native of Monson, Massachusetts. He was a 
descendant of William King, who came over in the Mayflower. William King, one 
of that family, was the first Governor of the State of Maine. There are now 
living seven children of John and Laura Gird: Henry S., Mary H., Richard, Mrs. 
H. P. Martin, L. John, William K., and Emma L. Gird, the last of whom occupies 
and conducts the farm for the estate.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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