create: 3 Dec. 2004 mod: 26 Sep. 2006  
Parents: Parents:
James NESMITH  1800 - 1872 1 Ichabod MACOMBER  1777 - 1845 4
Caroline LEEDS  1804 - 1888 1 Abigail WEST  1789 - 1863
m. 4 Mar. 1851 prob. Boston, MA 6
Henry Edwin NESMITH Sr.1,4
Sally Howard MACOMBER 4
ID 001
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Birth 7 July 1828 Brooklyn, NY 1 Birth 13 May 1825 Boston, MA 4
Death 18 Oct.1901 at home 117 Death 20 Jan.1878, Brooklyn,
  Remsen Street, Brooklyn,   NY 4, 8, 9
  NY 1, 7 Occ.  
Occ. shipping merchant, 2, 3, 5 Educ.  
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 Sarah Macomber NESMITH,  b.9 Dec.1851 prob. Brooklyn, NY, d.10 June 1853 prob. Brooklyn, NY,
Henry Edwin NESMITH Jr.,  b.16 May 1854 Bethpage, LI, d.17 Aug.1913 Bay Shore, NY,
Mary Caroline NESMITH,  b.20 Mar.1856 Brooklyn, NY, m. 2 Dec.1880 Benjamin Augustus JESSUP,
Howard Macomber NESMITH,  b.22 Dec.1857 Brooklyn, NY, m.2 Dec.1880 Jennie M. BURLESON,
Frederick W. NESMITH,  b.28 Apr.1859 NY, d.9 Mar.1861 prob. Brooklyn, NY,
Agnes E. NESMITH,  b.1 Mar.1861 Brooklyn, NY, m. 3 May 1883 Edwin H. SHEATHAR,
Abbey Louise NESMITH,  b.24 May 1863 Brooklyn, NY, m. 30 June 1885 Henry Edwin BAXTER,
George Washington NESMITH,  b.13 Dec.1865 Brooklyn, NY, d.29 Sep.1866 Brooklyn, NY,
Charles A. NESMITH,  b.19 Mar.1868 Brooklyn, NY, m. 18 June 1891 Helen Orem WEST


Notes for Henry Edwin NESMITH Sr.

Lived in Brooklyn, NY.
Resident of the Heights (Brooklyn), NY [Henry E (Jr.) obit.]. At the time of death another article [Jr. obit] states that Sr. has been dead for about 12 years (clipping 1913) which would be about 1901.
Resident of Brooklyn, NY (1st district, 3rd ward) in the 1860 census. [Nesmith, Henry E. NY KINGS CO. BROOKLYN 3 W. 1 DI 474 1860] also
Lived at 117 Remsen Street, Brooklyn at time of death.
Director to the Mechanic’s National bank. elected Jan 11,1899 (also Charles M. Pratt?).

see [Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899: a companion volume to King's handbook of New York City. New York, N.Y.: M. King, 1899, 618 pgs., p.257: at heritage quest] a portrait of Henry E. Nesmith, “Nesmith & Sons, Shipping and Commission Merchants, Director Mechanics’ National Bank”

[From Brooklyn, NY, Historical Chronology, 1642 - 2000, posted online at:
http://www.placeinhistory.org/Projects/Dumbo/DumboChron2.htm ]
"1885: James Nesmith's son, Henry Nesmith, commissions Brooklyn architect Thomas Stone to design and build the 5-story section of the Empire Stores (toward Main Street)."
"1889: On April 20, the entire block between Dock Street and Main and Water and Plymouth Streets is transferred from James Nesmith and George Baxter to James Nesmith and his son, Henry (1828-1901)."
Ad in [Our Firemen : the Official History of the Brooklyn Fire Department, from the first volunteer to the latest appointee, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1892, 593 pgs., p.522:] “Nesmith & Sons, Empire Stores; Corner Dock and Water Streets”

"1895: James and Henry Nesmith sell their property to the Brooklyn Wharf & Warehouse Company."
Died 18 Oct. 1901 at home 117 Remson Street, Brooklyn, NY.

Index of Ships' Names in Queens of the Western Ocean; the story of America's mail and passenger sailing lines, by Carl C. Cutler 1961,
James Nesmith, p.373, 379,
Caroline Nesmith, p.386, 405, 525,
Henry Nesmith, p.409,

Notes for Sally Howard MACOMBER
 

ID: Source: Page, Description: CID:
1. 32
d. cert. NYC #19360/1901:
son of James Nesmith of Belfast, ME and Caroline Leeds
837
2. 11 NYC 1850 Census, M252, R21, p.213: Henry. ae.22, merchant, b.NY.
837
3. 25
New York City Directory
New York City, 1880, p.68:
1338
4. 51786
Macomber Genealogy, p.211:
837
5. 10376
Kings Notible New Yorkers, p.257:
portrait above taken from
837
6. 30 New York Times of Oct. 21,1901 p.9:
d.18 Oct.1901, ae.74 = b.1827.
166
7. 464 New England Library of Genealogy, p.330: b.1825 Boston. 172
8. 32 d.cert. NYC #564/1878:   837
9. 30 New York Times of 22 Jan.1878, p.5:   837