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A Sedgwick Genealogy: Descendants of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick
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in March, 1905. No children. She married, 2d, Sylvanus D. Ward, son of Tom Ward and Katharine Ward at Syracuse December 23, 1912. Tom Ward, a distinguished English musician, who came from abroad, organized the Central New York Music Festival at Syracuse in 1892 and conducted all its productions until 1917. Sylvanus Ward was tenor soloist at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn; Collegiate Fifth Avenue and Presbyterian churches New York City and Garden City Cathedral. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1903 after attending the University of Syracuse Law School in the class of 1904. His law office is at 1 East 42d Street, New York City. He has a probate and trust, corporation and real estate practice. He resides at 122 East 82d Street, New York City. (Children (Ward):

1. Tom Sedgwick, b. January 1, 1915, at Montclair, N.J. (B2A,354,1)

2. Marcia Katherine, b. August 22, 1916, at Garden City, L.I. (B2A,354,2)

3. Sylvia May, b. September 17, 1920, at Garden City, L.I. (B2A,354,3)

4. Nan, b. December 8, 1921, at Garden City, L.I. (B2A,354,4)

B2A,354,1.
Tom Sedgwick Ward, 1st child of Ellen May (Sedgwick) Ward (B2A,354) and Sylvanus D. Ward, was born January 1, 1915, at Montclair, N.J., and graduated in 1938 from Union College. He married July 3, 1943, at Utica, N.Y., Janet Movius Sicard, daughter of George Hallum Sicard and Katharine (Burrell) Sicard of Buffalo and Utica. He is with the William Esty Advertising Company of New York City, where he lives at 308 East 79th Street. Child:

1. Tom Sedgwick, Jr., b. December 25, 1944, in New York, City. (B2A,354,11)

B2A,354,2.
Marcia Katherine Ward, 2d child of Ellen May (Sedgwick) Ward (B2A,354) and Sylvanus D. Ward, was born August 22, 1916, at Garden City, L.I., and graduated, B.A., in 1938 at Bennington College. She was for two years during the recent war a director of recreation for the Red Cross in Australia and at Biak in New Guinea. Since her return she has been engaged in dramatic and

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