--- aliases: - Wadsworth family - The Wadsworths - Wadsworth family of Geneseo - Wadsworths of Geneseo category: Political Figure created: 2026-10-26 location: Geneseo, New York relations: - fn: 10 role: Jeremiah Wadsworth, elected Commissary General of Purchases start: 1778-04-09 type: appointed with: '[[Continental Congress]]' - fn: 13 role: Jeremiah Wadsworth, first-named director; chosen president June 16, 1792 and declined start: 1792 type: founded with: '[[Hartford Bank]]' - fn: 8 role: Jeremiah Wadsworth, described as a founder in the Dictionary of American Biography and as an original subscriber of 104 shares by Burpee start: 1781 type: founded with: '[[Bank of North America]]' - fn: 17 role: Jeremiah Wadsworth, appointed to superintend the treaty for the United States start: 1797 type: participant_in with: '[[Treaty of Big Tree]]' - fn: 62 role: Daniel Wadsworth, son of Jeremiah Wadsworth, who gave the money and the land start: 1842 type: founded with: '[[Wadsworth Atheneum]]' - end: 1862-12 fn: 24 role: James Samuel Wadsworth, military governor, by President's General War Order No. 2 start: 1862-03-08 type: appointed with: '[[District of Columbia]]' - fn: 28 role: James Samuel Wadsworth, mortally wounded; died May 8, 1864 start: 1864-05-06 type: participant_in with: '[[Battle of the Wilderness]]' - end: 1907-03-03 fn: 29 role: James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926), chairman of the Committee on Agriculture start: 1881-11-08 type: member_of with: '[[United States House of Representatives]]' - fn: 31 role: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., Yale class of 1898 start: 1898 type: member_of with: '[[Skull and Bones]]' - end: 1927-03-03 fn: 32 role: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., senator from New York start: 1915-03-04 type: member_of with: '[[United States Senate]]' - end: 1927 fn: 32 role: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., chairman (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-ninth Congresses) start: 1919 type: head_of with: '[[United States Senate Committee on Military Affairs]]' - end: 1951-01-03 fn: 32 role: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. start: 1933-03-04 type: member_of with: '[[United States House of Representatives]]' - end: 1952-06-21 fn: 32 role: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., chairman, appointed by President Truman start: 1951 type: appointed with: '[[National Security Training Commission]]' - fn: 33 role: James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., married at Newbury, New Hampshire start: 1902-09-30 type: spouse_of with: '[[Alice Hay Wadsworth]]' - fn: 33 role: father-in-law of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and maternal grandfather of James Jeremiah Wadsworth type: relative_of with: '[[John Hay]]' - fn: 35 role: sister of Alice Hay Wadsworth, wife of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. type: relative_of with: '[[Helen Hay Whitney]]' - fn: 35 role: nephew of Alice Hay Wadsworth; son of Payne Whitney and Helen Hay type: relative_of with: '[[John Hay Whitney]]' - fn: 4 role: married Evelyn Wadsworth (1903-1972), daughter of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. start: 1924 type: relative_of with: '[[Stuart Symington|W. Stuart Symington]]' - fn: 4 role: William Austin Wadsworth married Elizabeth Greene Perkins start: 1901 type: relative_of with: '[[Perkins family]]' - fn: 42 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, Yale class of 1927 start: 1927 type: member_of with: '[[Skull and Bones]]' - end: 1941 fn: 43 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth start: 1931 type: member_of with: '[[New York State Assembly]]' - fn: 43 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, assistant industrial relations manager of the airplane division during World War II type: employed_by with: '[[Curtiss-Wright]]' - end: 1960-08-31 fn: 45 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, United States Representative start: 1958 type: participant_in with: '[[Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests]]' - end: 1961-01-21 fn: 48 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, Representative of the U.S.A. to the United Nations start: 1960-08-27 type: appointed with: '[[United Nations]]' - fn: 54 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, first president; Antony C. Sutton dated its founding to 1960 start: 1961 type: founded with: '[[Peace Research Institute]]' - fn: 51 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, chairman start: 1963 type: head_of with: '[[Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban]]' - end: 1969 fn: 41 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, appointed by President Johnson start: 1965 type: appointed with: '[[Federal Communications Commission]]' - fn: 50 role: James Jeremiah Wadsworth, chairman of the board of directors, per the Bowdoin citation type: director_of with: '[[Freedom House]]' summary: Connecticut family that settled Geneseo, New York, in 1790 as land agents for Jeremiah Wadsworth and produced a Civil War general, a senator, and a United Nations ambassador who headed the Peace Research Institute. tags: - Person - Family - Wadsworth - Geneseo - Hartford - SkullAndBones - Yale - Hay - Whitney - Symington - UnitedNations - ArmsControl - CivilDefense - Congress - PoliticalDynasty - PeaceResearch updated: 2026-10-26 --- The Wadsworth family is a Connecticut line that settled at Hartford in the 1630s and, through two brothers who went to the Genesee country in 1790 as land agents for their kinsman Jeremiah Wadsworth, founded Geneseo. Its members include a Continental Army commissary general, a Union brigadier general killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, a speaker of the New York Assembly who sat in the [Senate](/organizations/united-states-senate/) and the House, and a United States representative to the [United Nations](/organizations/united-nations/). [Antony C. Sutton](/people/antony-c-sutton/) places the Wadsworth family (1632, Newtown, Massachusetts) among the old-line families on his chart headed "Hypothesis Number One," and his membership index lists two Wadsworths in [Skull and Bones](/organizations/skull-and-bones/).[^1][^2] ### From the ship Lion to Hartford William Wadsworth is recorded as the progenitor of the family in America. He arrived at Boston on the ship Lion on September 16, 1632 with a household of four, settled at Newtown (now Cambridge, Massachusetts), became a freeman on November 6, 1632, served as a selectman there in 1634 and 1635, and removed to Hartford with the Rev. Thomas Hooker's company. He was collector in 1637, a Hartford selectman from 1642 to 1647, and died in 1675.[^3] The Livingston County Historian gives his dates as 1594 to 1675.[^4] His son Sergeant John Wadsworth settled at Farmington, Connecticut, and John's brother Joseph Wadsworth is the man the genealogy credits with seizing the colonial charter and hiding it in the oak.[^3] Captain James Wadsworth (1677-1756), a lawyer, took up land at Durham, Connecticut, under the patent of 1708.[^5] His descendants there included Brigadier General and later Major General James Wadsworth (1730-1817) of the Connecticut militia, a member of the Continental Congress in 1784 who opposed ratification of the Constitution in the Connecticut convention of 1788, and John Noyes Wadsworth, the father of the Geneseo brothers.[^6][^5] A separate branch of the name had landed at Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1632 under Christopher Wadsworth, and later produced the Revolutionary general and Federalist congressman Peleg Wadsworth.[^3][^7] ### Jeremiah Wadsworth Jeremiah Wadsworth was born in Hartford on July 12, 1743, the son of the Rev. Daniel Wadsworth and Abigail Talcott, a daughter of Governor Joseph Talcott. He went to sea at eighteen and rose to captain, married Mehitable Russell of Middletown on September 29, 1767, and in April 1775 was appointed by the Connecticut legislature as commissary to the colony's forces.[^8][^9] On April 9, 1778 the Continental Congress "proceeded to the election of a commissary general of purchases, and, the ballots being taken, Jeremiah Wadsworth, Esq. was unanimously elected."[^10] George Washington wrote to the President of Congress on August 3, 1778 that Wadsworth "has been indefatigable in his exertions to provide for the Army, and since his appointment our supplies of provisions have been good and ample."[^11] He held the post until his resignation at the end of 1779 and at the request of the Comte de Rochambeau served as commissary to the French army in America until the war ended.[^8][^11] Washington and Rochambeau conferred under his roof at Hartford in 1780; in 1783 he went to Paris to settle his accounts with the French government and received one of the gold medals struck for the peace.[^11] His business interests outlasted the war. The Dictionary of American Biography describes him as a founder of the Bank of North America in Philadelphia and of the Hartford Bank, a director of the first Bank of the United States, and one of the promoters of the Hartford Manufacturing Company (1788), a woolen mill, and records that he began the first insurance partnership in Connecticut in 1794.[^8] Charles W. Burpee wrote that he was an original subscriber to the Bank of North America in 1781 with 104 shares at $400, that he became president of the Bank of New York in 1785 at the request of Alexander Hamilton, and that the Hartford Bank, chartered in 1792, was largely his project in consultation with Hamilton.[^12] At the organizing meeting of the Hartford Bank on June 14, 1792, with Oliver Ellsworth presiding, Wadsworth was the first-named of nine directors; on June 16 the directors chose him president, he declined, and John Caldwell was elected in his place.[^13] He headed the individual subscribers to the new Connecticut State House the same year with $500.[^14] He sat in the Connecticut ratification convention of 1788, in the Continental Congress that year, and in the first three Congresses of the United States (1789-1795), then in the state house and the state executive council until 1801, and died at Hartford on April 30, 1804.[^9] The Livingston County finding aid gives his birth year as 1745; the Biographical Directory of the Congress and the Dictionary of American Biography give 1743.[^4][^9][^8] ### The Genesee lands and the Treaty of Big Tree Jeremiah Wadsworth held shares in the Phelps and Gorham Purchase in western New York. Henry Greenleaf Pearson wrote that he was probably drawn to it through Oliver Phelps, whom he knew from the commissary department of Washington's army, and that his own purchase was about 25,000 acres, township 6 in range 7 on the Genesee River.[^15] In late 1789 his young kinsman James Wadsworth of Durham, a Yale graduate of 1787 and a son of John Noyes Wadsworth, was in his house at Hartford. Pearson wrote that Jeremiah proposed to furnish the money for James to buy land and settle in western New York; Lockwood Doty wrote that Jeremiah offered James and his brother William half of his interest at cost and the agency for the other half if they would remove to the Genesee.[^15][^16] The brothers left Durham in the spring of 1790. William went overland with the cattle, hired men and Jenny, an enslaved person of the family; James bought supplies in New York and shared a sloop to Albany with John Jacob Astor, then on his first fur-buying journey. They built at the place then called Big Tree, now Geneseo.[^16][^4] The Livingston County finding aid calls Jeremiah their cousin; Doty calls him their uncle and Pearson a cousin of James.[^4][^16][^15] In September 1797 Jeremiah Wadsworth was the United States commissioner at the treaty held at Big Tree. Robert Morris had contracted with the Holland Land Company to extinguish the native title at his own expense. Doty recorded that the commissioner first named, Isaac Smith of New Jersey, was prevented by judicial duties, and that "Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth of Connecticut was appointed to superintend the treaty in conformity with law," with General William Shepard representing Massachusetts. At the opening Wadsworth delivered a speech assuring the Seneca that he would watch the proceedings in their interest, and at a private conference Morris offered them $100,000 for their lands.[^17] ### James Wadsworth and William Wadsworth at Geneseo James Wadsworth (1768-1844) and William Wadsworth (1761-1833) took up 2,000 acres at Geneseo at a cost Doty gave as $160, and Cuyler Reynolds's genealogy records that they became the largest sheep and wool producers in the United States.[^16][^18] William, a major general of militia, was captured at Queenston in 1812 and held on parole at Geneseo until exchanged; he never married.[^19][^4] The brothers gave about four and a quarter acres in Geneseo for the Livingston County courthouse and jail, and William was one of the commissioners who superintended the building.[^20] James promoted education at his own expense, procured the school library law of 1838, and founded a library and lecture institution at Geneseo with a $10,000 endowment.[^18] He married Naomi Wolcott in 1804; their children were Harriet (1805-1833), who married Martin Brimmer of Boston, James Samuel, William Wolcott, Cornelia (1812-1831), and Elizabeth (1815-1851), who married Charles Augustus Murray.[^4][^18] ### James Samuel Wadsworth James Samuel Wadsworth was born at Geneseo on October 30, 1807, studied at Hamilton College and Harvard, read law at Yale and in the office of Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1833. He inherited his uncle William's lands the same year.[^21][^18] He took part in the Free-Soil movement of 1848, was a Republican elector in 1856 and 1860, and was one of eleven New York commissioners to the Peace Conference at Washington in February 1861, where, Pearson wrote, he took no part in the speech-making.[^18][^22] He served as a volunteer aide at Bull Run and was commissioned a brigadier general in the summer of 1861.[^23] On March 8, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln's General War Order No. 2 directed that the forces left for the defence of Washington "will be placed in command of Brig.-General James Wadsworth, who shall also be Military Governor of the District of Columbia."[^24] A War Department order of March 15 directed the provost marshal of the Army of the Potomac to turn over to Wadsworth "all the military prisons and prisoners within the District of Columbia and all contrabands now in custody."[^25] Pearson wrote that Wadsworth quartered the fugitives from Virginia in Duff Green's Row east of the Capitol, assigned them a superintendent and employed many of the men at forty cents a day, and that a congressional committee investigating the District jail under United States Marshal Ward H. Lamon found that Lamon made nearly a hundred percent profit on the allowance for each prisoner.[^26] Wadsworth held the governorship for nine months and at his own request was ordered to the field in December 1862.[^23] The Union convention nominated him for governor of New York in September 1862, on the first ballot, 234 votes to 110 for John A. Dix, within days of Lincoln's announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. Thurlow Weed, whose first choice had been Dix, had sounded him through Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, and Chase recorded Wadsworth's answer in his diary. Horatio Seymour won the election, 307,063 votes to 296,492, as reported in the New York Tribune of November 24, 1862.[^27] Wadsworth commanded a division at Gettysburg and, in May 1864, the Fourth Division of the Fifth Corps in the Wilderness. Struck on May 6 while trying to hold his line, he lay behind Confederate lines and died on May 8; Pearson prints the account of Confederate Colonel Charles Marshall of Lee's staff, who found him unconscious beneath a shelter tent. The body was brought through the lines under flag of truce on May 17 and buried at Geneseo.[^28][^23] He was brevetted a major general of volunteers for gallantry at Gettysburg and the Wilderness, with rank from May 6, 1864.[^28] He built the Hartford House at the north end of Geneseo and in 1834 married Mary Craig Wharton (1812-1874).[^4] ### James Wolcott Wadsworth, The Boss James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926), son of the general, was born in Philadelphia on October 12, 1846 and served on the staff of General Gouverneur K. Warren in the Civil War. The Biographical Directory of the Congress records that he was a member of the New York Assembly in 1878 and 1879 and State comptroller in 1880 and 1881; a Republican member of the House from November 8, 1881 to March 3, 1885 and again from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1907, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture from the Fifty-fourth through the Fifty-ninth Congresses; president of the board of managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; and president of the Genesee Valley National Bank. He died in Washington on December 24, 1926.[^29] The county finding aid calls him "The Boss" and records his marriage in 1876 to Maria Louisa Travers (1848-1931); Reynolds gives the place as Newport, Rhode Island, and identifies her as a daughter of William R. Travers and a granddaughter of Reverdy Johnson of Maryland.[^4][^30] ### James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., Yale, Skull and Bones and the Senate James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. ("Young Jim") was born at Geneseo on August 12, 1877, attended St. Mark's School, and graduated from [Yale](/organizations/yale-university/) in 1898. The 1914 genealogy states that at Yale he "was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity in his junior year, and was chosen by the Skull and Bones Society," and that he played on the university baseball team; Sutton's membership index lists him in the class of 1898.[^31][^2] He served as a private in the Puerto Rican campaign of 1898, sailed with three classmates to the Philippines in early 1899, and returned to scientific farming near Mount Morris.[^32][^30] The Biographical Directory of the Congress records his service in the New York Assembly from 1905 to 1910 (Speaker, 1906 to 1910); his election to the Senate in 1914 and re-election in 1920; service from March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1927; defeat in 1926; the chairmanship of the Committee on Military Affairs from the Sixty-sixth through the Sixty-ninth Congresses; and election to the House for the Seventy-third and eight succeeding Congresses, March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1951.[^32] Reynolds adds that in the summer of 1908 he was suggested in various parts of the state for the Republican nomination for governor, which went to Charles E. Hughes, and that he was a trustee of Cornell University and a commissioner of the State Land Office.[^30] Who's Who in America lists his clubs as the Metropolitan Club of Washington, the Racquet and Tennis, Yale and Union League clubs of New York and the Fort Orange Club of Albany, and records that he managed a large ranch at Palo Duro, Texas, in 1911-13.[^33] His aunt Cornelia Wadsworth, the general's daughter, married John Adair of the JA Ranch at Palo Duro, Texas.[^4] On September 30, 1902 he married Alice Hay at Newbury, New Hampshire. She was born at Cleveland on January 6, 1880, a daughter of John Hay, Lincoln's private secretary and later Secretary of State, and Clara Louise Stone Hay.[^33][^34] Her sister Helen Hay married [Payne Whitney](/people/payne-whitney/), and their son [John Hay Whitney](/people/john-hay-whitney/) was therefore a nephew of Alice Hay Wadsworth.[^35] Alice Hay Wadsworth was president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage from 1917 to 1919, was elected honorary president for life, and was national president of the American Women's Legion from 1921 to 1923.[^33] Their children were Evelyn (1903-1972), James Jeremiah (1905-1984) and Reverdy.[^33][^34] Evelyn Wadsworth married W. Stuart Symington, later a senator from Missouri, in 1924.[^4] Senator Edward R. Burke introduced S. 4164 on June 20, 1940, "a system of selective compulsory military training and service," and Wadsworth introduced the same bill in the House as H.R. 10132.[^36] It was enacted as the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, chapter 720 of the 76th Congress, approved September 16, 1940, and is catalogued under the popular name Burke-Wadsworth Act.[^37][^38] A 1943 publication of the National Service Board for Religious Objectors states that "A New York attorney, Grenville Clark, wrote what was to become the final Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, elaborated and introduced by Senator Burke and Representative Wadsworth," and quotes a House hearing exchange in which a speaker said that Clark "in his first day's testimony said he wrote it."[^39] The Rev. John Haynes Holmes said in a sermon of September 29, 1940, printed in the Appendix to the Congressional Record at the request of Senator Rush D. Holt, that the bill "was not written by Senator BURKE and Representative WADSWORTH, whose names it bore," and that "the measure prepared, here in New York, by not more than a half-dozen men, meeting at the Harvard Club on West Forty-fourth Street."[^40] The same 1943 publication adds that a later labor-draft proposal "was again outlined by Grenville Clark and again introduced by Representative Wadsworth, teamed this time with Senator Austin."[^39] President [Harry S. Truman](/people/harry-s-truman/) appointed Wadsworth chairman of the National Security Training Commission in 1951, and he served until his death in Washington on June 21, 1952.[^32] ### James Jeremiah Wadsworth James Jeremiah Wadsworth, called Jerry, was born in Groveland, Livingston County, on June 12, 1905. He attended Fay School and St. Mark's School and then Yale, where the county finding aid records that he played football and baseball, ran track, and was a member of Skull and Bones; Sutton's index lists him in the class of 1927.[^41][^42] The 1984 obituary in the New York Times says he played varsity football and baseball at Yale and graduated in 1927; the finding aid records his marriage that year to Harty Griggs Tilton of New York City and the birth of their only child, Alice Ann, in 1928.[^43][^41] He was elected to the New York Assembly in 1931, served for a decade, and headed a legislative committee on the problems of unemployed men over forty. In 1938 he was the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor and lost.[^43][^41] The obituary states that he was rejected for military service in World War II because of a bad leg and worked as assistant manager of industrial relations at the Curtiss-Wright plant in Buffalo.[^43] After the war he directed the Public Interest Division of the War Assets Administration, and in 1948 became special assistant to Paul G. Hoffman in the Economic Cooperation Administration. In 1950 he became deputy administrator of the Civil Defense Office of the National Security Resources Board under Paul J. Larsen, and the finding aid records that President Truman then appointed him deputy administrator of the Federal Civil Defense Administration.[^41][^43] The finding aid records that President [Dwight D. Eisenhower](/people/dwight-d-eisenhower/) appointed him deputy chief representative to the United Nations in 1953; the New York Times obituary says he served seven years as deputy chief of the delegation under Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., "often a trouble-shooter in negotiations with the Russians."[^41][^43] On February 27, 1958 the State Department announced that the Secretary of State had designated Ambassador James J. Wadsworth to act as United States representative in future negotiations for an agreement on the limitation of armament, while he kept his post as Deputy Representative to the United Nations. The same release says the Secretary had asked four private citizens to advise him informally on the broad policies for limiting armament: Alfred M. Gruenther, [Robert A. Lovett](/people/robert-a-lovett/), [John J. McCloy](/people/john-j-mccloy/) and Walter Bedell Smith.[^44] The Foreign Relations of the United States lists him as the U.S. Representative to the Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests until August 31, 1960 and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 8, 1960.[^45] At the National Security Council meeting of December 23, 1958 he reported that the Conference had agreed on the first four articles of a proposed treaty and that the Soviet idea of control would put 150 Russians and one or two Westerners at a Soviet control post.[^46] In a telegram from Geneva to [Christian Herter](/people/christian-a-herter/) on February 16, 1959 he wrote: "I have a tremendous emotional desire to make a success of these talks. However, I have reluctantly come to believe that it would be wiser for us to find some way of stopping these negotiations now for some time at least."[^47] The State Department record gives his appointment as Representative of the United States to the United Nations on August 27, 1960, presentation of credentials on September 8, 1960, and the end of the mission on January 21, 1961.[^48] On October 11, 1960, when [Nikita Khrushchev](/people/nikita-khrushchev/) spoke for taking disarmament into plenary debate, Wadsworth stated: "We do this because we think that disarmament is a complex subject requiring serious consideration, and not a subject to be exploited for propaganda purposes."[^49] The New York Times obituary says that Wadsworth rose to criticize Khrushchev's attack on Secretary General [Dag Hammarskjold](/people/dag-hammarskjöld/), and that he called the proposal to replace the office with a three-member committee "ludicrous."[^43] The Bowdoin College citation credits him with representing the American position on disarmament and atomic control, "uncompromising on the necessity of inspection as prerequisite to effectiveness," and notes his service as chairman of the board of directors of Freedom House.[^50] After he left the United Nations he chaired the Citizens Committee for a Nuclear Test Ban. On August 7, 1963 a delegation with Wadsworth as principal spokesman, joined by Marion Folsom, William Clayton, Walter Reuther and Norman Cousins, met President [John F. Kennedy](/people/john-f-kennedy/) to pledge support for the treaty signed in Moscow the day before; Senator Hubert Humphrey told the Senate that Wadsworth had been "one of the pioneers in fashioning many of the provisions of the treaty."[^51] The finding aid adds a 1955 trip to London for the United Nations Disarmament Commission sub-committee, the 1957 conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna, and two novels of the 1960s, The Price of Peace and The Glass House.[^41] President [Lyndon B. Johnson](/people/lyndon-b-johnson/) appointed him to the Federal Communications Commission in 1965, where he served until 1969. The obituary quotes an earlier Times article calling him "an unpredictable maverick" on the Commission and says he cast the key vote in the first case in which the commission denied renewal to a major television licensee. In 1970 he joined the American team negotiating the charter of the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium, Intelsat, and then returned to the family farm of about 3,000 acres at Geneseo. His autobiography, The Silver Spoon, was published at his own expense in 1980; its introduction calls the title "a somewhat wry admission that I have been considered all my life as a rich person descended from rich people." He died in Rochester on March 13, 1984.[^43][^41] The Bowdoin citation describes the record of the preceding three generations of his family as "a United States Senator, two United States Congressmen, a Brigadier General, an Ambassador to Great Britain, and a Secretary of State."[^50] ### The Peace Research Institute Antony C. Sutton wrote in the section of his book on think tanks that "In 1960, James Jeremiah Wadsworth ('27) set up the Peace Research Institute. In 1963 this was merged to become the Institute for Policy Studies, along with Marcus Rashkin, who had been National Security Council Aide (1961-3) to McGeorge Bundy ('40)."[^52] Elsewhere in the same book he wrote that the Rubin Foundation, a client of the New York law firm of Lord, Day and Lord, "is one of the financial angels for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C."[^53] The press and congressional record places the Institute's beginning in 1961. Arthur Larson, director of the Rule of Law Research Center at Duke University and former director of the United States Information Agency, said in a Utah State University commencement address of June 3, 1967 that after the Duke center was started in 1958, "several of us formed a Peace Research Committee," and that "The Committee then led to the Peace Research Institute, Inc., with Ambassador James J. Wadsworth as its first president."[^54] A newspaper editorial reprinted in the Senate on July 26, 1963 referred to "the foundation-financed Peace Research Institute founded in 1961 by former Ambassador James J. Wadsworth."[^55] Shirley Scheibla wrote in Barron's of October 6, 1969 that the Institute for Policy Studies "had its genesis in the Peace Research Institute, which began operations in Washington on April 5, 1961," with an announcement that it would be a private agency for research in "all fields relevant to peace, security, disarmament and international order," and that it shortly obtained a $20,000 contract for a study for the [Arms Control and Disarmament Agency](/organizations/arms-control-and-disarmament-agency/); Senator Paul J. Fannin had the article printed in the Congressional Record.[^56] The agency's second annual report, printed in the Record on February 11, 1963, lists the grant: a study of the factors pertinent to the political control of an international police force, awarded on June 19, 1962 to the Peace Research Institute of Washington, D.C., in the amount of $20,000.[^57] Scheibla wrote that the study was signed by Arthur I. Waskow and called for an international police force.[^56] Donald Michael was the Institute's director.[^58] Scheibla wrote that the Peace Research Institute "merged with the Institute for Policy Studies, which had just been founded by Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet" late in 1963, and that Waskow then went to work for the Institute for Policy Studies as senior fellow. She listed its financing as the [Ford Foundation](/organizations/ford-foundation/), the Edgar Stern Family Fund, the Samuel Rubin Foundation, Irving Lauck, the Institute for International Order, the Milbank Foundation, a gift of the Fontaney Corporation "through the generosity of James P. Warburg," the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the National Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church, the Field Foundation, the Cudahy Fund, the Edwin Janss Foundation, Jennifer Cafritz, Walter E. Meyer and Michel Gellert, on an annual budget of $400,000.[^56] Marcus Raskin and Richard Barnet are the Institute for Policy Studies founders named in the article.[^56] ### William Austin Wadsworth and the other branches William Austin Wadsworth (1847-1918), a son of William Wolcott Wadsworth and Emmeline Austin, established the Genesee Valley Hunt Club and in 1901 married Elizabeth Greene [Perkins](/people/perkins-family/) (1869-1943), who founded the Wadsworth Nursing Home in Geneseo.[^4] The general's daughter Cornelia (1839-1921) married first Montgomery Ritchie and then John Adair, his daughter Nancy (born 1843) married Edward M. Rogers, and Elizabeth (1848-1930) married first Arthur Post and then Arthur Smith Barry, Lord Barrymore.[^23][^4] Craig Wharton Wadsworth (1841-1872), who served for a time on his father's staff, married Evelyn W. Peters; their sons were James Samuel "Jim Sam" Wadsworth (1870-1930), the father of James Livingston Wadsworth (1897-1918), listed in the finding aid as the first World War I casualty of Troop M, and Craig Wharton Wadsworth Jr. (1872-1960), a Spanish-American War veteran and Rough Rider.[^23][^4] Harriet Travers Wadsworth (1881-1975), sister of Wadsworth Jr., married Fletcher Harper.[^4] ### George Wadsworth II A different man of the same surname held a diplomatic post in the same years. George Wadsworth II (1893-1958), a career Foreign Service officer, was appointed ambassador to Saudi Arabia on October 21, 1953, presented credentials on January 9, 1954, and left the post on January 1, 1958.[^59] His telegram of February 6, 1954 from Saudi Arabia, signed "the Ambassador in Saudi Arabia (Wadsworth)," concerns the agreement between the Saudi government and the Onassis company and is cited in the biography of [Robert Maheu](/people/robert-maheu/).[^60] ### The Wadsworth Atheneum and the Morgan Memorial Jeremiah Wadsworth's only son Daniel Wadsworth inherited his Hartford house, which stood on the site of the later museum.[^61] The National Register of Historic Places lists the Wadsworth Atheneum, a Gothic Revival building of cream granite, as built in 1842 to the design of Ithiel Town, and states that Daniel Wadsworth gave Hartford the money for it and donated the land.[^62] Hartford's Library Company, a forerunner, was incorporated in 1799 "largely at the instance of Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth."[^63] Before 1910 the Colt Wing and the Morgan Memorial had been added to the original building.[^64] The will of [J. P. Morgan](/people/j-p-morgan/), published in April 1913, refers to "The Morgan Memorial" of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in its article on the art collections.[^65] [^1]: Antony C. Sutton, *America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones* (1983), chart "Hypothesis Number One: A Secret Society Dominated By Old Line American Families And New Wealth Has Existed From 1833 To The Present Day" (Wadsworth Family, 1632 Newtown, Mass.) and the text on old-line families. https://archive.org/details/americas_secret_establishment-skull_and_bones [^2]: Sutton, *America's Secret Establishment* (1983), membership index, class of 1898 ("Wadsworth, James Wolcott Jr.") and class of 1927 ("Wadsworth, James Jeremiah"). https://archive.org/details/americas_secret_establishment-skull_and_bones [^3]: Cuyler Reynolds, ed., *Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley*, vol. 2 (New York, 1914), Wadsworth family, p. 850 (William Wadsworth and the ship Lion, Sept. 16, 1632; Newtown; Hartford; Sergeant John Wadsworth; Joseph Wadsworth and the charter; Christopher Wadsworth at Duxbury). https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami02reyn [^4]: Livingston County Historian's Office, "Wadsworth Family: A Subject Finding Aid" (April 2019, revised 2022), section II and the family tree, with bibliography. https://livingstoncountyny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/11709 [^5]: Reynolds, *Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York*, vol. 2, p. 851 (Captain James Wadsworth of Durham; Hon. James Wadsworth; John Noyes Wadsworth, who married Esther Parsons in 1757). https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami02reyn [^6]: *Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005*, H. Doc. 108-222 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 2005), p. 2098, "Wadsworth, James" (born Durham, Conn., July 8, 1730; major general of Connecticut militia 1777-1779; Continental Congress 1784; opposed ratification in 1788; died September 22, 1817). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222.pdf [^7]: *Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005*, p. 2099, "Wadsworth, Peleg" (born Duxbury, Mass., May 6, 1748; Representative from Massachusetts, 1793-1807). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222.pdf [^8]: *Dictionary of American Biography*, vol. 19 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936), s.v. "Wadsworth, Jeremiah," pp. 308-309 (birth July 12, 1743; commissary to Connecticut forces April 1775; commissary general April 1778 to resignation December 4, 1779; commissary to the French troops at Rochambeau's request; founder of the Bank of North America and the Hartford Bank; Hartford Manufacturing Company; insurance partnership of 1794). https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofamer19amer [^9]: *Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005*, p. 2099, "Wadsworth, Jeremiah" (born Hartford, July 12, 1743; went to sea 1761; Continental Congress 1788; First through Third Congresses; state executive council 1795-1801; died April 30, 1804). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222.pdf [^10]: *Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789*, vol. 10, ed. Worthington C. Ford (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908), p. 328, Thursday, April 9, 1778. https://archive.org/details/us_congress_continental [^11]: Henry Greenleaf Pearson, *James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo, Brevet Major-General of United States Volunteers* (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), pp. 4-5 (Jeremiah Wadsworth; Washington to the President of Congress, August 3, 1778, citing Ford's *Writings of George Washington*, vol. 7, p. 141; Rochambeau; the gold medal; commissary general elected April 9, 1778 and held until January 1, 1780). https://archive.org/details/cu31924032774220 [^12]: Charles W. Burpee, *The Story of Connecticut*, vol. 2 (New York: American Historical Company, 1939), chapter on Hartford and its banks. https://archive.org/details/burpeesstoryofco02burp [^13]: John Alden Brett, ed., *Connecticut Yesterday and Today, 1635-1935* (Hartford, 1935), Hartford National Bank and Trust Company section (articles of association; meeting of June 14, 1792 with Oliver Ellsworth presiding; directors; election of Wadsworth as president on June 16, 1792, his declination, and the election of John Caldwell). https://archive.org/details/connecticutyeste00bret [^14]: Burpee, *The Story of Connecticut*, vol. 2 (1939) (State House of 1792; subscribers headed by Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth with $500). https://archive.org/details/burpeesstoryofco02burp [^15]: Pearson, *James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo* (1913), pp. 5-8 (Jeremiah's purchase of township 6, range 7; James Wadsworth's graduation from Yale in 1787 and stay at Jeremiah's Hartford house; the Phelps and Gorham purchase; Oliver Phelps; the brothers' departure in spring 1790). https://archive.org/details/cu31924032774220 [^16]: Lockwood L. Doty, *A History of Livingston County, New York* (Geneseo: Edward E. Doty, 1876), pp. 240-241 (James Wadsworth and Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth's offer; the 2,000 acres at Geneseo for $160; William, "Jenny" and the ox cart; James and John Jacob Astor on the sloop to Albany). https://archive.org/details/historyoflivings00doty [^17]: Doty, *A History of Livingston County* (1876), pp. 223-228 (the treaty of 1797; Robert Morris and the Holland Company; Isaac Smith; "Col. Jeremiah Wadsworth of Connecticut was appointed to superintend the treaty in conformity with law"; Wadsworth's speech; the offer of $100,000). https://archive.org/details/historyoflivings00doty [^18]: Reynolds, *Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York*, vol. 2, pp. 851-853 (James Wadsworth: sheep and wool; the school library law of 1838; the $10,000 library; his children; General James Samuel Wadsworth's education, 1833 bar admission, the lands inherited from William Wadsworth, the Free-Soil movement of 1848, elector in 1856 and 1860, Peace Conference delegate). https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami02reyn [^19]: Doty, *A History of Livingston County* (1876), pp. 306-310 (General William Wadsworth at Queenston; prisoner and on parole at Geneseo). https://archive.org/details/historyoflivings00doty [^20]: Doty, *A History of Livingston County* (1876), pp. 351-352 (act appointing General William Wadsworth, Daniel H. Fitzhugh and William Markham to superintend the public buildings; land given by William and James Wadsworth). https://archive.org/details/historyoflivings00doty [^21]: Pearson, *James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo* (1913), pp. 22-23 (born October 30, 1807). https://archive.org/details/cu31924032774220 [^22]: Pearson, *James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo* (1913), pp. 51-52 (election to the Peace Conference in February 1861; "took no part in the speech-making"). https://archive.org/details/cu31924032774220 [^23]: Reynolds, *Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York*, vol. 2, pp. 852-853 (Bull Run; brigadier general, July 1861; military governor from March 1862 for nine months; division command; the Wilderness; children of General Wadsworth). https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami02reyn [^24]: Frank Moore, ed., *The Rebellion Record*, vol. 4 (New York, 1862), Documents, "President's General War Order, No. 2," Executive Mansion, Washington, March 8, 1862, art. III. https://archive.org/details/rebellionrecordd04moor [^25]: *The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies*, Series II, vol. 3 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898), General Orders No. 25, War Department, Adjutant General's Office, March 15, 1862, p. 378. https://archive.org/details/warofrebellion0203rootrich [^26]: Pearson, *James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo* (1913), pp. 131-133 (the District jail and Marshal Lamon's profit, citing the New York Tribune, July 2, 1862; the contrabands at Duff Green's Row). https://archive.org/details/cu31924032774220 [^27]: Pearson, *James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo* (1913), pp. 154-156, 164-165 (nomination of September 1862; vote of 234 to 110; Weed and Chase; Seymour, 307,063; Wadsworth, 296,492, citing the New York Tribune, November 24, 1862). https://archive.org/details/cu31924032774220 [^28]: Pearson, *James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo* (1913), pp. 272-289 (the Wilderness, May 5-8, 1864; Colonel Marshall's account; death on May 8; return of the body on May 17; brevet commission dated May 6, 1864). https://archive.org/details/cu31924032774220 [^29]: *Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005*, p. 2098, "Wadsworth, James Wolcott" (born Philadelphia, October 12, 1846; Assembly 1878-1879; comptroller 1880-1881; House 1881-1885 and 1891-1907; died December 24, 1926). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222.pdf [^30]: Reynolds, *Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York*, vol. 2, pp. 853-855 (James W. Wadsworth Sr.; marriage of 1876 at Newport; James W. Wadsworth Jr.: St. Mark's, Yale 1894-1898, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones, Spanish-American War, Philippines in 1899, Assembly 1904-1910, the 1908 gubernatorial talk, trustee of Cornell; marriage of September 30, 1902 to Alice Hay). https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami02reyn [^31]: Reynolds, *Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York*, vol. 2, p. 854 ("was chosen by the Skull and Bones Society"). https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami02reyn [^32]: *Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005*, pp. 2098-2099, "Wadsworth, James Wolcott, Jr." (born Geneseo, August 12, 1877; Yale 1898; Assembly 1905-1910, Speaker 1906-1910; Senate March 4, 1915 to March 3, 1927; chairman, Committee on Military Affairs; House March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1951; chairman, National Security Training Commission, 1951; died June 21, 1952). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc222.pdf [^33]: *Who's Who in America*, vol. 14, 1926-1927 (Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1926), entries "Wadsworth, Alice Hay (Mrs. James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.)" and "Wadsworth, James Wolcott, Jr." (marriage at Newbury, N.H., Sept. 30, 1902; children Evelyn (Mrs. Stuart Symington), James Jeremiah, Reverdy; National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage 1917-1919; ranch at Paloduro, Texas, 1911-1913; clubs). https://archive.org/details/whoswho141926 [^34]: Reynolds, *Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York*, vol. 2, p. 855 (Alice Hay, born Cleveland, January 6, 1880, daughter of John Hay and Clara Stone Hay; children Evelyn, born July 7, 1903, and James Jeremiah, born June 8, 1905, at Mount Morris). https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami02reyn [^35]: Yale University, *Obituary Record of the Graduates of the Undergraduate Schools, Deceased During the Year Ending July 1, 1927*, entry for Payne Whitney, B.A. 1898, pp. 171 to 172 (marriage to Helen Hay; the son John Hay Whitney). https://archive.org/details/obituaryrecordof00yale_4 ; Reynolds, *Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York*, vol. 2, p. 855 (Alice Hay, daughter of John Hay). https://archive.org/details/genealogicalfami02reyn [^36]: *Congressional Record*, 76th Cong., 3d sess., vol. 86: Senate, June 20, 1940, p. 8680 (S. 4164, introduced by Mr. Burke); House, p. 8907 (H.R. 10132, introduced by Mr. Wadsworth). https://archive.org/details/us_congress_76 [^37]: Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, ch. 720, S. 4164, approved September 16, 1940, 54 Stat. 885. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-54/pdf/STATUTE-54-Pg885.pdf [^38]: Yale Law Library, Database of Federal Statute Popular Names, entry "Burke-Wadsworth Act (see Selective Training and Service Act of 1940)." https://documents.law.yale.edu/node/48446 [^39]: National Service Board for Religious Objectors, *Congress Looks at the Conscientious Objector* (Washington, 1943), narrative of the Selective Training and Service Act, the House hearing exchange, and the later national service proposal. https://archive.org/details/congresslooksatc00nati [^40]: *Congressional Record*, Appendix, October 2, 1940, vol. 86, pp. 6059-6060 (extension of remarks of Senator Rush D. Holt printing the sermon "As We Move Toward War" by the Rev. John Haynes Holmes). https://archive.org/details/us_congress_76 [^41]: Livingston County Historian's Office, "James Jeremiah Wadsworth (1905-1984) Collection," finding aid C169 (August 2022), section II, Biographical Information. https://livingstoncountyny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/15946 [^42]: Sutton, *America's Secret Establishment* (1983), membership index, class of 1927 ("Wadsworth, James Jeremiah"); Livingston County Historian's Office, finding aid C169 (2022), section II. https://archive.org/details/americas_secret_establishment-skull_and_bones [^43]: *Congressional Record*, Senate, June 20, 1984, "A Tribute to James J. Wadsworth," remarks of Senator Daniel P. Moynihan printing Joseph B. Treaster, "James J. Wadsworth Dies at 78; Headed U.S. Delegation to U.N.," *New York Times*, March 15, 1984. https://archive.org/details/us_congress_98 [^44]: U.S. Department of State, *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960*, vol. III, Microfiche Supplement, National Security Policy; Arms Control and Disarmament, doc. 294, press release, Washington, February 27, 1958. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v03mSupp/d294 [^45]: U.S. Department of State, *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960*, vol. III, National Security Policy; Arms Control and Disarmament, list of persons ("Wadsworth, James J., U.S. Representative to the Geneva Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapon Tests until August 31, 1960; Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 8, 1960"). https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v03 [^46]: *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960*, vol. III, doc. 189, memorandum of discussion at the 392d meeting of the National Security Council, Washington, December 23, 1958. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v03/d189 [^47]: *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960*, vol. III, doc. 200, telegram from the Delegation to the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests to the Department of State, Geneva, February 16, 1959. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v03/d200 [^48]: Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "James Jeremiah Wadsworth," People, Department History (appointment August 27, 1960; credentials September 8, 1960; termination January 21, 1961). https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/wadsworth-james-jeremiah [^49]: *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958-1960*, vol. II, doc. 227, editorial note on the General Assembly debate of October 11, 1960. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v02/d227 [^50]: Bowdoin College, honorary Doctor of Laws citation for James Jeremiah Wadsworth. https://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/college-history-and-archives/honors/Wadsworth61.pdf [^51]: *Congressional Record*, Senate, August 8, 1963, "Citizen Support for Test Ban Treaty," remarks of Senator Hubert Humphrey with the statement to President Kennedy and the press release of August 7, 1963, vol. 109, pp. 14536-14538. https://archive.org/details/us_congress_88 [^52]: Sutton, *America's Secret Establishment* (1983), text on think tanks. https://archive.org/details/americas_secret_establishment-skull_and_bones [^53]: Sutton, *America's Secret Establishment* (1983), text on the Lord family and Lord, Day and Lord. https://archive.org/details/americas_secret_establishment-skull_and_bones [^54]: *Congressional Record*, Senate, June 27, 1967, vol. 113, pp. 17415-17418 (remarks of Senator Frank Moss printing the commencement address of Arthur Larson, "Can Knowledge Bring Peace?", Utah State University, June 3, 1967). https://archive.org/details/us_congress_90 [^55]: *Congressional Record*, Senate, July 26, 1963, vol. 109, p. 14024, editorial "Purely a Matter of Economics," Bloomington (Ind.) *Telephone*, July 25, 1963. https://archive.org/details/us_congress_88 [^56]: Shirley Scheibla, "The Institute for Policy Studies Aims To Disarm the United States," *Barron's*, October 6, 1969, printed in the *Congressional Record*, Senate, October 6, 1969, vol. 115, pp. 28750-28751, at the request of Senator Paul J. Fannin. https://archive.org/details/us_congress_91 [^57]: *Congressional Record*, Senate, February 11, 1963, vol. 109, p. 2149 (second annual report of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, "Grants," item 1). https://archive.org/details/us_congress_88 [^58]: *Congressional Record*, Appendix, April 30, 1963 (extension of remarks of Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier printing Donald Michael, "Peace and Politics: Aspirations and Limits," address of November 5, 1961, *Adult Leadership*, February 1963; Michael identified as director of the Peace Research Institute, Washington, D.C.). https://archive.org/details/us_congress_88 [^59]: Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "George Wadsworth II," People, Department History (career Foreign Service officer; ambassador to Saudi Arabia, appointed October 21, 1953, credentials January 9, 1954, left post January 1, 1958). https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/wadsworth-george [^60]: U.S. Department of State, *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952-1954*, vol. IX, *The Near and Middle East*, part 1, doc. 329, telegram from the Ambassador in Saudi Arabia (Wadsworth), February 6, 1954, pp. 786-787. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1952-54v09p1/d329 [^61]: Burpee, *The Story of Connecticut*, vol. 2 (1939) (Jeremiah Wadsworth's large property left to his only son Daniel, including his residence on the site of the Wadsworth Atheneum). https://archive.org/details/burpeesstoryofco02burp [^62]: National Park Service, *The National Register of Historic Places 1972* (Washington, 1972), Connecticut, Hartford County, "Wadsworth Atheneum, 25 Atheneum Square, North, 1842, Ithiel Town." https://archive.org/details/nationalregister001972 [^63]: Burpee, *The Story of Connecticut*, vol. 2 (1939) (the Library Company incorporated 1799). https://archive.org/details/burpeesstoryofco02burp [^64]: Brett, *Connecticut Yesterday and Today* (1935), section on Samuel P. Avery and the Morgan Memorial (the Colt Wing and the Morgan Memorial added to the original Wadsworth Atheneum before 1910). https://archive.org/details/connecticutyeste00bret [^65]: *New-York Tribune*, April 20, 1913 (full text of the will, Article XXXII, art collections and "The Morgan Memorial" of the Wadsworth Athenaeum). https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83030214/1913-04-20/ed-1/ --- *The Info Web has an MCP server for agents at https://theinfoweb.org/mcp (streamable HTTP, no auth): search by meaning, exact text, source or date, and follow typed, footnoted connections. Setup and the same tools over GET: https://theinfoweb.org/llms.txt*