Male

July 29, 1771

January 4, 1861

East Guilford, CT

Bergen, NY
Rochester, NY

Mehitable Hand Ward (1791)

Levi Ward, Jr. was born July 29, 1771 to Levi and Mary Meigs Ward. He was graduated at Yale College, studied medicine under Dr. Jonathan Todd. He married Mehitable Hand. Ward practiced seventeen years in Haddam, Conn. prior to relocating to Genesee County NY and was the only physician in the area. In 1808 Dr. Ward was selected by the State of Connecticut as their representative in survey of land owned by Connecticut and Sir William Poultney, and in 1810 Dr. Ward was appointed agent for the sale of the "Connecticut tract," proceeds of which formed the "Connecticut School Fund." This tract is said to have been 100,000
acres. Ward also established the first mail route in Western New York. Ward served as President of the Genesee Medical Society, Supervisor of his town and as sessions judge.

In ...1817 Ward moved to Rochester. He was President of the Savings Bank, President of Rochester Bank, President of Monroe County Bible Society, President of the Board of Trustees of the Monroe High School, one of the committee by public appointment sent to New York City to take part in the Erie Canal celebration in 1824. Levi Ward, M.D., died January 4, 1861.
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Nash, Elizabeth Todd, Fifty Puritan ancestors, 1628-1660 : genealogical notes, 1560-1900 1902. Accessed at https://archive.org/details/fiftypuritanance00nash March 25, 2024.