Based on New York Times articles and biographies we know that after graduating from Yale, William Maxwell Evarts visited Windsor to teach and practice law and set up a small firm in town. He also met Helen Minerva Bingham Wardner during this period. Helen was a native of Windsor, Vermont, born on June 22, 1820. She was the eldest child of a banker Allen Wardner who most notably served as Vermont State Treasurer from 1837-1838. William Maxwell Evarts married Helen Minerva Wardner in Windsor Vermont on August 30th, 1843.
Maxwell and Helen had twelve children, all born in New York City. Helen was busy.
Charles Butler Evarts 1845–1891
Roger Sherman Evarts 1847–1849
Allen Wardner Evarts 1848–1920
William Evarts 1851–1878
Hattie Sherman Evarts 1852–1917
Mary Evarts 1854–1920
Helen Minerva Evarts 1856–1920
Elizabeth Hoar Evarts 1858–1920 (third owner of 26 Main St.)
Prescott Evarts 1859–1920
Sherman Evarts 1859–??
Louisa Wardner Evarts 1861–1920
Maxwell Evarts 1862–1913
The family split their time between the the high society circles of New York City and Windsor, Vermont. The New York Times reported on debutante balls and social gatherings involving many of the children as well as their time in Vermont. Below is a picture of Helen in Windsor--note 26 Main Street in the background.
Elizabeth Hoar Evarts was the eighth Evarts child and was born in New York City on January 4th, 1858. She was married to Edward Clifford Perkins in Windsor, Vermont on August 2, 1882.
Based on the will of her father we know Elizabeth inherited 26 Main Street upon his death in 1901. Partial will (as printed in the New York Times) shown below:
Elizabeth Hoar Evarts Perkins became the third owner of 26th Main Street and we believe she owned it until her death in 1920. What happens next leads to perhaps the most famous residents of 26 Main Street--another group of Evarts decendants who called the location home for more than 80 years.
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I love the next bit! Thanks for the very easy to understand History N8
I would like to know what happened in 1920 or if the dates on the kids are wrong. Seems like something dramatic happened though.
Some kind of epidemic maybe? That was fascinating. Very cool to understand the history of the building and to be a part of adding to that.
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I tried doing a little research into something that happened in 1920--we need to get some insight from the historical society. They might know something we don't.
ok...so some of those death dates on the evarts children are not correct. i am just now finding obituaries for some. would be cool to trace what happened to each of the kids.
I am loving the history. I'm curious about who has lived in each of your homes?! Turns out I have some family who lived in Vermont a long long time ago...I need to get the details.
yeah, and they lived in windsor, I also meant to say :)
Elizabeth Hoar Evarts was the grandmother of Solicitor General & Harvard Professor Archibald Cox; William Maxwell Evarts was the grandson on US founding father Roger Sherman.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin,_Hoar_%26_Sherman_family
Aaron--thanks for the comments. We have run the pedigree charts back to the 1300's and forward as well. We may post them here. The family lines involved are amazing. For purposes of this blog, we have been trying to focus on people who have lived at 26 Main St. Elizabeth is a bit of a mystery as there is more information on her husband (Perkins) than her own history. All the best!
Elizabeth H. E. Perkins was my Grandma. She had 28 grandchildren.
She left the house to three of her six children, Maxwell Evarts Perkins, Charles C. Perkins and Mary A. D. P. Thomas, with the right to survivorship. Charles was the survivor but, none of his children wanted the house. They then offered it to the Thomas and Max Perkins cousins. Bertha Frothingham and Elizabeth Gorsline (Max's children) took posession of the House. Bertha lived for many years in the house. A few years before her death she sold the house and moved up the hill for Assisted Living in the house that her greatgrandfather, William Maxwell Evarts, had lived in.
There is something wrong about, at least some, of those 1920 deaths. I was born in 1918 and remember several of those great aunts or uncles.
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I have just found the date of my Grandma's, Elizabeth Hoar Evarts Perkins, death. It was on October 19, 1940.
I am guessing that the other 1920 dates are because someone took the dates from the Sherman geneology and it does not go beyond 1919.
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