Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Wainman, John June 26, 1842 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Wainman, John, Warren, was born in Gargrave, Yorkshire, England, June 26, 1842,
a son of Thomas and Sarah (Shepard) Wainman, who had seven sons and three 
daughters; Thomas, died in 1891 at Mohawk; Frank, died in 1884 at Richfield 
Springs; William, Alfred, Edward, Henry, John, Christiana. Sarah and Adelaide. 
The grandfather, Thomas, was born at Leeds, Yorkshire, a man well educated and 
informed. His wife was Christiana Yates, who bore him two sons, Alfred J. and 
Thomas. He died in England about 1835, and his widow came to the United 
States, with his son Thomas, and died in New Hartford, Oneida county, before 
the war. Alfred J. was the first to come to the United States, about 1843, and 
settled in Utica. He was a close friend of Roscoe Conkling, and was in the 
tanner and currier business at New Hartford. He is now in the custom house in 
New York. Thomas Wainman was born in Leeds, Yorkshire,  received a college 
education at Leeds and Cambridge, where he became a teacher. In July, 1847, he 
came to this country, and located in Utica, where he followed his trade; he 
also ran a hotel. In 1851 he moved to Newport and engaged in the shoe
business. Four years later he went to Salisbury, and in 1870 came to 
Jordanville, and followed his trade until his death in April, 1888. He was a 
Democrat and was a prominent Forester in England. His wife survives him. She 
was born in Kendall, Westmoreland county, England, daughter of Thomas Shepard, 
a farmer,who had ten children, three of whom came to the United States. John 
Wainman received a district school education, and at fifteen began to work on 
a farm by the month. In the spring of 1870 he located where he now resides, on 
15O acres on the Robinson estate. He is an active Democrat, but has never 
married.

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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