Ebin Jennings Ward
Source: Biographical & Genealogical Record of LaSalle Co., Ill - 1900
[Page 64] EBIN JENNINGS WARD - Ex-mayor of Marseilles. Born September 2, 1854 in Marseilles, Illinois. The first mention of the WARD family in America was of William WARD, in 1639, in Sudbury, Connecticut. In direct descent, his son Samuel was born September 24, 1641 and died in 1729. His son, Joseph, was born in 1670 and died at Marlboro, June 30, 1717, aged forty-seven. Phineas WARD was born August 5, 1705 and died October 19, 1756, aged fifty-one. Captain Josiah WARD, born September 4, 1741, was an officer in the Connecticut army and died February 27, 1795 in Henniker, New Hampshire. Josiah WARD was born September 15, 1769 and died in Croydon, New Hampshire in 1826. Dr. Daniel WARD was one of the pioneer physicians of this place. A native of Croydon, N. H., born June 6, 1810, son of Josiah and Elizabeth (HOYT) WARD, the latter a daughter of a Revolutionary War soldier. The father of the doctor died when the latter was sixteen years old. He graduated in 1834 from the Vermont Academy of Medicine. Two years later he came to Hennepin, Putnam County, Illinois, and shortly after to Marseilles. He was twice married, his first wife being Miss Mary Ann GOLDWAITE, of Newport, New Hampshire, and their three children were: Ada A.; Zina G.; and Mary H. Ebin J. is the only child of the second marriage, his mother had been Julia Belle, daughter of Levi JENNINGS, of Fall River, Illinois. On the mother’s side were Moses JENNINGS who was born August 19, 1733 and died March 26, 1813; and Levi JENNINGS, born July 10, 1778. His daughter, Julia Belle JENNINGS was born November 13, 1819 and married and married Daniel WARD, October 25, 1853. She died at Marseilles on September 6, 1862 and was survived several years by the Doctor, who died in Marseilles, March 21, 1873. E. J. WARD grew up in Marseilles. He went to high school in Chicago, then graduated from Yale College in 1878. In 1880 worked as civil engineer for the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. From 1890 to 1895 worked in Chicago on the grainage canal. The last four years has lived retired in Marseilles. October 5, 1881 he married Miss Anne Randolph VAUGHAN, who was born January 27, 1857. They have one daughter, Julia JENNINGS, born April 4, 1887. Mrs. WARD is daughter of Dr. Isaac P. VAUGHAN, of Glasgow, Missouri.
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