Husband Bethuel Boyd Vincent 1 2 3
Born: 4 Aug 1803 - Waterford, Erie Co, PA 4 5
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Died: 21 Jul 1876 4 5
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Father: Judge John Vincent (1772-1860) 5 6 7
Mother: Nancy Boyd (1768-1806) 5 8 9 10
Marriage: 24 Jun 1834 11
Wife Sarah Ann Strong 11 12 13
Born: 24 Sep 1812 11
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Died: Aft 1895
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Father: Capt. Martin Strong (1770-1858) 11 14 15
Mother: Sarah Drake (1778-1866/1867) 11 12
Children
1 M Col. Strong Vincent 13 16
Born: 17 Jun 1837 - Waterford, Erie Co, PA 13 16
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Died: 7 Jul 1863 - Gettysburg, Adams Co, PA 17
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Spouse: Elizabeth H. Carter ( - ) 18
2 M Rev. Boyd Vincent 19
Born:
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Died: Aft 1895
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3 M Ward Vincent 19
Born:
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Died: Aft 1895
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4 F Rose Vincent 20
Born:
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Died: Aft 1895
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Spouse: George Armstrong Lyon (1837- ) 19 20 21
5 F Blanche Vincent 19
Born:
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Died: while young
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
6 F Belle Vincent 19
Born:
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Died: while young
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
7 F Kate Vincent 19
Born:
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Died: while young
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Spouse: Did Not Marry
8 M Reed Vincent 19
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Died: Bef 1884
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General Notes: Husband - Bethuel Boyd Vincent
During his youth he helped his father on the farm and in the salt trade, picking up such education as he could between times at a country schoolhouse. Later, he studied surveying at the Waterford Academy. In June, 1826, he was employed as assistant to Col. James Kearney, U. S. A., in making surveys for a Government canal from the Ohio to the lakes at Erie. He was afterward some seven years in the state service at Meadville, as civil engineer. In 1834, he returned, and lived as a merchant at Waterford until 1843. He then removed to Erie, where he had previously formed a partnership (Vincent, Himrod & Co.) with William and David Himrod and William H. Johnston, in the business of an iron foundry and machine shop. In 1860, he retired from this firm and formed, with others, the banking house of Vincent, Bailey & Co.; and when this was converted, in 1865, into the Marine National Bank of Erie, he became its first President. In 1866, he joined in building "The National" Grain Elevator, of Chicago (burned in the great fire of 1871-rebuilt, 1873), and was a partner in this concern at the time of his death.
Mr. Vincent was, like his father and other of his ancestors, a man of marked individuality of character. He had a clear, vigorous, well-informed mind; an indomitable, almost imperious will; thorough independence, and unwearied energy of spirit; yet, withal, a tenderly affectionate, and hearty social disposition, amounting at times to joviality. As a business man, he was active and successful; as a citizen, public-spirited and benevolent; as a Christian, conscientious, exemplary, most devoted, yet without a particle of cant. There was a wholesome, whole-souled, courageous manliness about him in this last respect, as there was in all else he was and did. Such qualities naturally made him a man of mark and influence among his fellow-citizens.
All these traits were most apparent, perhaps, in his activity in the church of his choice. From his earliest residence in Erie, he was connected with St. Paul's (Protestant Episcopal) Church as a vestryman and warden, and was for thirty years the Superintendent of its Sunday school. He had a great fondness for children, and a great faculty for winning their confidence and affection. He was always ready to be useful anywhere in the Lord's work, from reading public service to pumping an organ. His means, like his strength, were generously given to the same cause. Much of both went into the building of the beautiful St. Paul's Church, and of its four chapels. He was almost always, too, a representative of this parish, both in the diocesan and general councils of the Church. A beautiful memorial tablet in St. Paul's testified to the active blessedness of Mr. Vincent's Christian life, and to the gratitude of those whom he helped to teach and lead in the same way.