Wade & Webb Family History

James M Wade1816–1876

Builder and real estate broker of Brooklyn's Eastern District; a founder and deacon of Trinity Baptist Church. New York · Williamsburg · Brooklyn

Born in New York in 1816, James M. Wade moved his family across the East River to Williamsburgh, where he worked as a builder and real estate broker and raised the sons who wrote home to him from the Civil War. In December 1874 Trinity Baptist Church was organised in his house on Kossuth Place, and he served it as a deacon. He died in Brooklyn on 1 April 1876, leaving his widow Eliza Ann to outlive him by nearly forty years.

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (15)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Searches made
  8. Notes

Birth

  1. 12 Feb 1816 New York 1

Marriages

  1. Date unknown Eliza Ann Marvin

Death and burial

  1. 1 Apr 1876 Death: Brooklyn, Kings, New York 31

Family

Parents
Edward Wade Jr. 1788–?
Spouse
Eliza Ann Marvin 1816–1915
Children
John Edward Wade 1847–1919
Washington Wade 1843–?
Sophia Wade 1849–?
William Henry Wade 1848–1908
James Duncan Wade 1838–1902
Durlyn Wade 1853–1907

Line of descent Wade line

  1. James M Wade
  2. William Henry Wade, son
  3. William Henry Wade Jr, son
  4. Frank Edward Wade, son
  5. William Albert Webb Wade, son

2nd great-grandfather of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

James M. Wade was born in New York on 12 February 1816, a date the FamilySearch tree gives without an attached source.1 The tree names his father as Edward Wade Jr., born in England in 1788, and records four younger brothers and sisters, Edward, Mary Ann, Parkineson and Williams, born between 1818 and 1824; no source is attached for any of them, and the tree does not name his mother.2 What his middle initial stood for is not recorded.3

Marriage and the move to Williamsburgh

He married Eliza Ann, who was born in New York City on 1 March 1816; no record of the marriage has been found, but their eldest son, James Duncan Wade, was born in New York City on 15 March 1838, and in 1858 a court notice named "Eliza Ann Wade, James M. Wade, her husband."4 Her maiden name is uncertain.5 The New York City record of her son William's marriage in 1868 is indexed with the groom's mother as "Eliza Marvin"; her obituary in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1915, on the other hand, calls her "the daughter of John and Mary Elizabeth Wade."5 Inference The obituary may simply have given her parents her married surname, a common error, but until her own marriage record is found the question stays open.5

The family left Manhattan for Williamsburgh, in Kings County, the town across the East River that the Brooklyn papers later called the Eastern District.6 When they moved is not certain.7 One of Eliza Ann's obituaries says she "came to Brooklyn in 1845," but the obituaries of two of her sons give their birthplaces as Manhattan, for John E. in about 1847 and for Durlyn in January 1853.7 The federal census of 1850 recorded James Wade and his wife Ann at Williamsburg, and the New York State census of 1855 found James M. Wade and Ann E. Wade in the first election district of the 15th Ward of the City of Brooklyn.8 Inference The 1850 census is the firmer evidence, so the family was probably settled in Williamsburgh by 1850, even if some of the children were born in Manhattan; the sons' obituaries were written long after the events.8

Builder and real estate broker

The obituaries of his widow in 1915 are consistent: the Eagle says he "was a well-known builder and real estate broker" in Williamsburg, and the Brooklyn Standard Union calls him "one of the pioneer builders and real estate brokers in the Eastern District," who "erected many of the old landmarks still standing in the Eastern District."9 His son James's letters from the Civil War name both trades in his lifetime.10 In February 1864 James wrote from Texas, "If Father should get to building again. or get into some business when he can use my money why do so," and in September, "I think Father will make a good thing of it with the real Estate business he has been at it so long that he has the confidence of the business men and knows all the points of the Trade."10 Inference The first suggests that his building had stopped during the war, while the real estate business went on, but the letters do not say why.10 The trade passed to his son William H. Wade, who was "the architect and builder" of his brother Dr. John E. Wade's new house on Kossuth Place in 1876.11

In 1858 James and Eliza Ann Wade were among the defendants in Benjamin Harris's action in the Supreme Court of Kings County against William Burr and others, filed on 20 August 1858; the published summons names them only as co-defendants and does not say what the suit concerned.12 Inference Naming the wife first, with her husband described as "her husband," was the usual form when a married woman held property in her own right, so the suit probably concerned property in which Eliza Ann had an interest.12

Family and the Civil War

The tree records six children: James Duncan (born 1838), Washington (1843), John Edward (1847), William Henry (1848), Sophia (1849) and Durlyn (1853).13 An article on Eliza Ann's 98th birthday in 1914 says that "of her six children, one daughter and one son died in their early childhood."14 Inference Washington and Sophia, the two for whom the tree has no death, are probably the two who died young, but no record of their deaths has been found.14

Two of the sons served the Union in the Civil War.15 According to his obituaries, James D. Wade enlisted for three months in the 47th Regiment and then served with the Nineteenth Army Corps in the Department of the Gulf, fought at Port Hudson and in the Red River campaign, and was commissioned captain in the 87th United States Infantry, a regiment of Black troops.15 The letters that he and his brother William, "Willie," wrote home to their parents between 1862 and 1864 survive, collected by Melissa K. Dewey and David M. Jones as "Brothers at the Front"; among them is a letter to Willie dated 3 October 1863 and signed by his father "J M Wade."16 The earliest were written from Fort McHenry, Baltimore, in July 1862, and from June 1863 their envelopes are addressed to "Mr James M Wade, 183 South 6 St, Williamsburgh."16

His own letter of 3 October 1863 shows him working to bring Willie home, after the news that the regiment's three-year men would be held in Louisiana: he reported what he had learned of the officers sent north for conscripts, promised to "make fresh efforts in your behalf," advised Willie to take a commission with James if he were kept, and closed, "it affords me comfort know that You put Your trust in God."17 Later that month the regiment's major received a letter from Mark Hoit, the regiment's former colonel, in New York, asking for the discharge of both brothers.18 Inference It was very probably the effort the father had promised, since a note from the parents, dated the ninth, had told Willie that the major would receive such a letter.18 He had advised James, too, to accept his commission, and James, always pleased to hear from him, wrote that "he should have been a Brig Genl he writes like a soldier no surplus words."19 In August 1862 James had told him to take the brothers' pay to the "Savings Bank corner of South 7 St and 4th St," and in 1864 he was to put James's remittances "in the Bank to my account" and to use the money if he needed it in business, for "I have the utmost faith in Pa's Financial abilities, if he has the money to work with."20 James asked more than once after his father's health, and in April 1864 wrote that "so long as Father can make money enough to support the family — I feel perfectly easy."21 In the same letter he was glad to hear "you are about building a house of Worship" and looked forward to walking up the aisle "to our pew"; which congregation the family then belonged to is not stated.22

By 1865 the family was in the 13th Ward of Brooklyn, where the state census indexes the head of the household as "Chas M Wade," with Ann E. Wade; the tree also records a residence in the 11th Ward that year.23 In October 1867 James M. Wade and his sons James D. and William were in the police court, charged with assaulting two brothers, Gottfield (or Gothard) and August Bittner of Scholes Street, at the Wades' house in South Sixth Street, in the Eastern District.24 The Wades answered that the Bittners had come into the house and "without any provocation assaulted the head of the family, James M. Wade," and that the sons had gone to his rescue and driven them away; each side obtained a warrant against the other, and the case was adjourned to 11 October.24 The outcome is not known.25 He is named as father in the New York City marriage records of William H. Wade and Emma May Goodrich on 10 August 1868 and of James D. Wade and Harriet N. Ricker on 21 October 1869.26

Trinity Baptist Church

On 31 October 1874 James M. Wade, Eliza Ann Wade and their sons John E. and Durlyn were among fourteen people at a conference held at the house of David Hathaway, 25 Dodworth Street, Brooklyn, to prepare for organising a new Baptist church.27 A Sunday school was started at Ridgewood Hall, Lexington Avenue and Broadway, and on 18 November James M. Wade was named to the three-man committee on church organisation.27 The church, which took the name Trinity Baptist Church, was organised on 18 December 1874 "at the home of James M. Wade, 10 Kossuth place," and was recognised by a council of churches in April 1875.27 He was "long a deacon" of the church, a deacon being in Baptist usage one of the lay officers elected to assist the pastor.28 When Trinity Baptist dedicated a new building at Greene and Patchen Avenues in October 1912, the minister had hoped that his widow, "in whose home, in 1874, the church was organized," would offer the prayer of dedication; she was kept away by an accident, and her written prayer was read for her.29

Death

The New York State census of 1875 recorded James and Eliza Wade in Brooklyn.30 James M. Wade died in Brooklyn on 1 April 1876.31 No death notice has been found: the Brooklyn papers that would have printed one are not in the Chronicling America collection, and searches of the New York titles that are, for 1876 and 1877, found nothing.32 His place of burial is not recorded.33 Inference When Eliza Ann was buried in 1915 it was "in the family plot in Cypress Hills Cemetery," which makes that cemetery the likeliest place to look for his grave, though no record in hand puts him there.33

He is named as the late father in the New York City records of the marriages of John Edward Wade and Hester Rogers on 30 August 1876 and of Durlyn Wade and Catherine Watson Guillan on 14 September 1879, and in the death records of James Duncan Wade in 1902, Durlyn in 1907 and John E. in 1919.34 Durlyn's obituary in the Eagle calls him "a son of the late James D. Wade," but that is a slip for James M., since James D. was Durlyn's brother; his death record and the 1867 reports name James M. as the father.35 Eliza Ann Wade survived him by nearly forty years, living from about 1900 with her son Dr. John E. Wade at 908 Greene Avenue, and died there on 15 December 1915, in her hundredth year, "the widow of James M. Wade."36

Documents

  1. 20 October 1858 Supreme Court, Kings County: Harris v. Burr, Wade and others (summons) The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  2. 1862 Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864 Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade) · letter
  3. 5 October 1867 Police Matters: The Wade Family unknown Brooklyn newspaper · image
  4. 5 October 1867 A Curious Case unknown Brooklyn newspaper · image
  5. 1902 A History of Long Island, vol. 2: biographies of Dr. John E. Wade and Dr. James D. Wade Peter Ross, A History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time, vol. 2 (New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1902) · book
  6. 26 February 1907 Durlyn Wade (obituary) The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  7. 10 October 1912 Dedicatory Feast by Uptown Baptists: Trinity Church Has Dinner in Gymnasium of New Building (with a brief history) The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  8. 11 October 1912 Baptists Dedicate New Church Home: Woman 96 Years Old, Unable to Attend, Sends Written Prayer of Dedication The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  9. 3 March 1914 Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  10. 2 March 1915 Mrs. Wade, 99, Happy With 4 Generations: Her Offspring and Guests, Numbering 100, Extend Love on Birthday The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  11. 16 December 1915 Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  12. 16 December 1915 Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  13. 16 December 1915 Wade—Eliza Ann (death notice) The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  14. 11 January 1919 Dr. John E. Wade Dies The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) · clipping
  15. 3 November 2025 Find a Grave memorial: James M. Wade Find a Grave · memorial

Places

  1. 1850Williamsburg
  2. 1855–1876Kings

Timeline

  1. 12 Feb 1816BirthNew York
  2. 1850ResidenceWilliamsburg, Kings, New York
  3. 1855ResidenceE.D. 1, Ward 15, Brooklyn City, Kings, New York
  4. 1865ResidenceWard 11, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
  5. 1865ResidenceWard 13, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
  6. 1875ResidenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York
  7. 1 Apr 1876DeathBrooklyn, Kings, New York

Open questions

  • Death notice, April 1876. Not in the Chronicling America New York titles (searched 1876–1877). The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Daily Union and Brooklyn Daily Times are the papers to check (Newspapers.com / Brooklyn Public Library), together with the Cypress Hills burial record (Eliza Ann was buried there in 1915) and the Kings County probate index for a will or administration in 1876.

  • Trade and property. The Standard Union obituary of Eliza Ann calls him a pioneer builder and real-estate broker of the Eastern District. The Civil War letters now confirm both trades in his lifetime: "If Father should get to building again" (21 Feb 1864) and "the real Estate business he has been at it so long that he has the confidence of the business men" (3 Sep 1864); the building seems to have stopped during the war. Brooklyn city directories (1850s–1876, for builder or real estate agent), the occupation columns of the 1860 federal and 1865 state censuses, Brooklyn building records and the Kings County conveyance indexes would give his business, addresses and buildings. Addresses known: 183 South 6th Street, Williamsburgh (letters, June 1863–Sept 1864), South Sixth Street (1867), 10 Kossuth Place (1874).

  • The family's bank and church in the 1860s. The sons' pay went to the savings bank "corner of South 7 St and 4th St" (the Kings County Savings Bank, 1862); depositor ledgers, if they survive, may hold the family's accounts. In April 1864 the family's congregation was "about building a house of Worship" and they had a pew: which church (Williamsburgh churches built 1864–1865)? Its records may hold the family's membership, marriages and burials.

  • Mark Hoit (Hoyt). In October 1863 the regiment's major received a letter from Mark Hoit, a New York leather merchant and the 176th's former colonel, asking the discharges of both sons; very probably the father's doing. Low priority.

  • Chronicling America can only reach him through the New York Herald, Sun and Tribune; searches on initials or "Wade" plus a place name are useless on loc.gov (one-letter words are dropped).

  • His father: Edward Wade Jr. or John Wade? (2026-11-09) Ross's History of Long Island (1902) makes his son Dr. John E. Wade "a grandson of John Wade and great-grandson of Edward Wade, who ... emigrat[ed] to this country from England about 1800". Read through the father, James M.'s father would be John Wade, not the tree's Edward Wade Jr.; read through the mother, it is her line. See the 1902 record's notes. Any record naming James M.'s parents (his 1876 death record, his marriage record) would settle it.

  • Times death notice, January 1864 (2026-11-09). A "DIED." column of 13 Jan 1864 (p. 8), repeated on 14 Jan 1864 (p. 5), names a James Wade. It could be a child's notice naming him as the father (Washington, b. 1843, and Sophia, b. 1849, have no death dates). Not read: nytimes.com refuses our fetches. Matt can open it free: https://www.nytimes.com/1864/01/13/archives/died.html

Searches made

  1. 2026-11-08Bulk review of Matt's OneDrive genealogy folder (Phase 3): all documents transcribed and compared with the tree13 document(s) name this person; see Documents above. Conflicts and new facts are in each document record and in research/sources/document-review-2026-11-08.md
  2. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "James Wade", New York, 1876–1877no matches
  3. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "James Wade", New York, 1831–187718 pages; first: [New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.]), 1857-03-04, p. 5](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030213/1857-03-04/ed-1/?sp=5); [The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1862-04-08, p. 03](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1862-04-08/ed-1/?sp=3); [The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1845-10-06, p. 2](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1845-10-06/ed-1/?sp=2)
  4. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "James M Wade", New York, 1831–18778 pages; first: [The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1876-02-28, p. 03](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1876-02-28/ed-1/?sp=3); [The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1872-01-31, p. 08](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1872-01-31/ed-1/?sp=8); [The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1866-10-09, p. 07](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1866-10-09/ed-1/?sp=7)
  5. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: "J M Wade", New York, 1831–187737901 pages; first: [New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.]), 1858-04-02, p. 4](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030213/1858-04-02/ed-1/?sp=4); [The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1875-05-20, p. 15](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1875-05-20/ed-1/?sp=15); [The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1874-01-16, p. 10](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1874-01-16/ed-1/?sp=10)
  6. 2026-11-08Chronicling America: all of: Wade Brooklyn, New York, 1831–187738683 pages; first: [New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), 1874-06-08, p. 12](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1874-06-08/ed-1/?sp=12); [New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), 1873-08-04, p. 8](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1873-08-04/ed-1/?sp=8); [The New York herald (New York [N.Y.]), 1877-09-17, p. 09](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1877-09-17/ed-1/?sp=9)
  7. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "James Wade", New York, 1876–1877No matches: no death notice for James M. Wade (d. 1 Apr 1876, Brooklyn) in the New York titles on Chronicling America (Herald, Sun, Tribune). The Brooklyn papers that would have carried it (Daily Eagle, Daily Union, Daily Times) are not on Chronicling America; see Open questions.
  8. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "James Wade", New York, 1831–187718 pages; the first 10 read, none is this person. 1857 Tribune: Senate roll call "James, Wade" (Senators). 1862-04-08 Herald: Sergeant James Wade, Co. C, Berdan's Sharpshooters, wounded; James M. was a 46-year-old civilian builder and his son James D. served in the 47th/172nd-176th NY and 87th USCT, not Berdan's. 1845-10-06/07 Herald: James Wade arrested in Manhattan for stealing from and stabbing William B. Travers; 1845-09-02 Herald: James Wade, 8th Ward, interfering with officers; 1842-07-23 Herald: Mr. James Wade heard a man fall at Catharine Market slip; 1851-11-10 Tribune: canal-boat captain James Wade robbed at Five Points; 1862-09-16 Herald: James Wade, dining saloon, 46 Ludlow St. These are all Manhattan items without age, trade or address that fits a Williamsburgh builder; not identifiable as him and no reason to connect them (the 1845 arrests concern a violent petty criminal, the 1851 and 1862 men have other trades). 1875-02-23 Sun: James Wade, old resident of Ogdensburg (died): not him. 1863-08-24 Tribune: OCR "wade" for "made". Hits 11–18 not reviewed.
  9. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "James M Wade", New York, 1831–18778 pages, all read; none is this person. loc.gov matched the middle initial loosely: 1876-02-28 and 1872-01-31 Herald: Major James F. Wade, 9th Cavalry (army lists); 1866-10-09 Herald: constable James P. Wade, Beverly; 1859-11-15 Herald: "James R. Wade & Co." real-estate advertisement; 1862-08-28 Herald: Capt. James H. Wade of a New Bedford regiment, and a passenger list with "Mr Wade, Mrs Wade" (unidentifiable); 1873-02-24 Sun: "Deelny waded"; 1862-10-18 Herald and 1847-06-22 Tribune: post-office letter lists ("Wade W", "Wade Patrick", "Wade, Edward M"). The 1847 "Wade, Edward M" in a New-York letter list is noted under Edward Wade Jr. (LVPD-PDX); it cannot be identified.
  10. 2026-11-08Assessment: Chronicling America: "J M Wade", New York, 1831–1877 and all of: Wade Brooklyn, 1831–1877Uninformative: 37,901 and 38,683 pages. loc.gov drops one-letter words, so "J M Wade" searched as "Wade", and "Wade Brooklyn" matches every page with both words (including "made" misread as "wade"). Of the snippets shown: Mrs. J. M. Wade of Sag Harbor (Herald 1875-05-20) and J. M. Wade of Philadelphia (Herald 1874-01-16) are not this person (Brooklyn builder); George H. Wade of Brooklyn, swimmer (Herald 1877-09-17), is after his death and not in the tree. Initial-form and surname-plus-town searches need a Brooklyn title or a state portal with proper phrase search; not reviewed further.
  11. 2026-11-09Find a Grave search: James Wade, b. 1816 ±3, d. 1876 ±3: 1 resultsbest: [James M. Wade (19 Feb 1816 – Apr 1876), Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/288625918/james-m-wade); score 17 (high, before review)
  12. 2026-11-09Civil War letters: the biography's quotations checked against the scans of the originals (research agents, reviewed by Claude; table in research/documents/civil-war-letters/brothers-at-the-front.md)Signed "J M Wade" (3 Oct 1863); envelopes address him at 183 South 6 St, Williamsburgh, from June 1863; "Willie was 14" removed
  13. 2026-11-09Find a Grave memorial recorded[memorial 288625918](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/288625918), high confidence: [record](../documents/findagrave/288625918-james-m-wade.md); 0 headstone photo(s)
  14. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "James Wade", New York11990 pages; first: [Border life : experience and memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley, 1998, p. ](https://archive.org/details/borderlifeexperi0000perk?q=%22James%20Wade%22); [The Emison families; origin and history of the American Emisons, with partial genealogies and notes on the following collateral families: Baird; Clarks; Holmes; Posey; Allen; Dunning; Rabb; Sinclair; Scott; Campbell-McClellan-Patterson-Cullop-Mantle-Brevoor t; Simpson; McCord-Hogue; Reiley., 1946, p. ](https://archive.org/details/emisonfamiliesor00emis?q=%22James%20Wade%22); [The Emison families, revised; Supplement (1962), 1962, p. ](https://archive.org/details/emisonfamiliesre00emis_1?q=%22James%20Wade%22)
  15. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Wade", inside 1887BPL21 pages; first: [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 1251](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n1251/mode/1up?q=Wade); [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 143](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n143/mode/1up?q=Wade); [Lain's Brooklyn Directory for the year ending May 1, 1887, 1887, p. 310](https://archive.org/details/1887BPL/page/n310/mode/1up?q=Wade); 1 with the given name (James)
  16. 2026-11-09Internet Archive: "Wade", inside brooklyn-city-directory-1858-1859-lain-yale-university-librarynot searchable: brooklyn-city-directory-1858-1859-lain-yale-university-library: No hOCR or Abbyy file present
  17. 2026-11-09Civil War letters, detailed read of all 33 items from the scans (three research agents, one per period; digests reviewed by Claude, readings spot-checked against the scans)New for him: the sons' letters confirm his trades in his lifetime ("If Father should get to building again", 21 Feb 1864; "the real Estate business he has been at it so long", 3 Sep 1864); his own letter of 3 Oct 1863 to Willie ("make fresh efforts in your behalf", advice to take a commission with James) and, very probably his doing, Mark Hoit's letter asking both sons' discharges (22 Oct 1863); the savings bank at South 7th and 4th Streets (10 Aug 1862) and James's remittances banked by him (Jan 1864); James: "he should have been a Brig Genl he writes like a soldier no surplus words" (19 Oct 1863); concern for his health (1 Sep 1863, 3 Sep 1864); the family's congregation building a house of worship (13 Apr 1864). Nothing contradicts the tree. Biography revised; new quotations listed.
  18. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "James Wade", New York (11,990 pages)First 20 reviewed: Ohio Valley and Emison family books and other namesakes; too broad. Not him.
  19. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: "Wade" inside 1887BPL (1 with "James")The James Wades listed (carpenter, glassblower, labourer, steamfitter, fish dealer) and James D. (his son, physician) are not him; he died in 1876. No widow "Eliza A." listed.
  20. 2026-11-09Internet Archive assessment: Ross, *History of Long Island* (1902), found under LVPD-1F4MATCH (high): his sons' biographies name him: "His parents were James M. and Elizabeth (Wade) Wade, natives of New York city. The father, who was a prominent builder, died at the age of sixty years"; the doctor is "a grandson of John Wade and great-grandson of Edward Wade", emigrant from England about 1800. The tree makes James M. a son of Edward Wade Jr. (b. 1788, England), which does not fit either reading of the sketch. Record [1902](../documents/1902-ross-history-of-long-island-wade-physicians.md).
  21. 2026-11-09Internet Archive hits assessed: 3 searchesNo match by name search; named in his sons' 1902 biographies (record written).
  22. 2026-11-09DPLA: "James Wade"71 pages; first: [James Wade (State Library and Archives of Florida), n.d., p. ](http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/193807); [James Wade (State Library and Archives of Florida), n.d., p. ](http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/193806); [James Wade [signature]. (The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. The New York Public Library), 1841, p. ](https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e0627420-e27a-0130-d32a-58d385a7bbd0)
  23. 2026-11-09New York Times: "James Wade", 1876–1877no matches
  24. 2026-11-09New York Times: "James Wade", 1851–18777 pages; first: [New York Times: CITY CRIME.; New-York Criminal Record for 1852. We present our readers below with a chronological record of the most prominent cases of crime within this City and vicinity, taken from our files for the past year: JAN. 8. Three colored women named Hannah Jones, Ellen Johnson and Annie Jones were convicted of high way robbery; they pursued a countryman named James Wade, knocked him down in the street and took from him $23 in money. They were sent to the State Prison for ten years., 1853-01-03, p. 6](https://www.nytimes.com/1853/01/03/archives/city-crime-newyork-criminal-record-for-1852-we-present-our-readers.html); [New York Times: IMPORTANT WAR NEWS; Gen. McClellan Before Yorktown with the National Army. The Water Batteries on York River Shelled Out by Our Gunboats. Gen. Magruder in Yorktown with 30,000 Rebel Troops. Shipping Point in Our Possession. Some of the Rebel Outworks Carried. A Probable Siege of Two or Three Days. LIST OF CASUALTIES THUS FAR REPORTED., 1862-04-08, p. 1](https://www.nytimes.com/1862/04/08/archives/important-war-news-gen-mcclellan-before-yorktown-with-the-national.html); [New York Times: Passengers Arrived., 1863-10-18, p. 8](https://www.nytimes.com/1863/10/18/archives/passengers-arrived.html)
  25. 2026-11-09New York Times: "James M Wade", 1851–1877no matches
  26. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: "James Wade" (71 hits; 10 cached)All namesakes: James Wade photographs (Florida Memory; University of Virginia "Mrs. James Wade", 1917); NYPL portrait-file item "James Wade [signature]", engraved by J. C. Buttre, New York, 1841 (no subject given; nothing ties it to him); Frisco railroad employee cards; James Wade Seley, Marlow, Dickson. Not him.
  27. 2026-11-09DPLA assessment: 1 searchNo match.
  28. 2026-11-09New York Times assessment: "James Wade", 1851–1877 (7 hits)3 Jan 1853, p. 6, "CITY CRIME": "a countryman named James Wade" robbed in the street, Jan 1852. Not him: "countryman" means a visitor from the country, and he was a Williamsburgh builder. 8 Apr 1862, p. 1, Yorktown casualty list: a soldier (the Herald's Sergeant James Wade, Berdan's Sharpshooters). Not him: he was 46 and at home. 18 Oct 1863, 2 Jul 1864, 4 Aug 1865, p. 8, "Passengers Arrived": ship passenger lists, not him (low; nothing shows him travelling). 13 Jan 1864, p. 8 and 14 Jan 1864, p. 5, "DIED." (https://www.nytimes.com/1864/01/13/archives/died.html, https://www.nytimes.com/1864/01/14/archives/died.html): a death notice naming a James Wade, printed twice. POSSIBLE (low): it is not his death (1876), but a notice can name the father of the dead person, and his children Washington (b. 1843) and Sophia (b. 1849) have no death dates in the tree. not read: nytimes.com refused the fetch, so only the headline and index entry were seen. For Matt (free).
  29. 2026-11-09New York Times assessment: 3 searchesNo match. "James Wade" 1876–1877 and "James M Wade" 1851–1877: no hits, so no Times death notice for April 1876. One possible (Jan 1864, for Matt to open).

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: birth 12 Feb 1816, New York, no source attached back to the text
  2. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: father Edward Wade Jr.; siblings Edward Wade III (1818), Mary Ann (1820), Parkineson (1822), Williams (1824) FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-PDX (their page): born 1788, England, no source attached; no wife recorded back to the text
  3. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: name James M Wade Research log, searches made back to the text
  4. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4NH (their page): birth 1 Mar 1816 Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): born in Gold street, New York City, on March 1, 1816 1902-10-20-dr-james-duncan-wade-obit: born in New York City on March 15, 1838 Supreme Court, Kings County: Harris v. Burr, Wade and others (summons), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Eliza Ann Wade, James M. Wade, her husband back to the text
  5. "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Eliza Marvin in entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868. Record: Eliza Marvin in entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868 Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): the daughter of John and Mary Elizabeth Wade, both dead more than half a century, notes on the conflict back to the text
  6. Police Matters: The Wade Family, unknown Brooklyn newspaper: South Sixth street, E.D., facts: Eastern District, i.e. Williamsburgh Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): She lived many years in Williamsburg FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: residence 1850, Williamsburg, Kings, New York; 1855, Brooklyn City back to the text
  7. Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District, The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York): Mrs. Wade came to Brooklyn in 1845 Dr. John E. Wade Dies, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Seventy-one years ago he was born, in old New York City Durlyn Wade (obituary), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): born in Manhattan, January 4, 1853 back to the text
  8. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, James Wade, 1850. Record: James Wade, 1850 "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Ann Wade in entry for James Wade, 1850. Record: Ann Wade in entry for James Wade, 1850 "New York, State Census, 1855", FamilySearch, James M Wade, 1855. Record: James M Wade, 1855 "New York, State Census, 1855", FamilySearch, Ann E Wade in entry for James M Wade, 1855. Record: Ann E Wade in entry for James M Wade, 1855 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: residence 1850 Williamsburg; 1855 E.D. 1, Ward 15, Brooklyn City back to the text
  9. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): where her late husband was a well-known builder and real estate broker Ann E. Wade Dies in Her 100th Year: Husband Was Builder of Many Landmarks in Eastern District, The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York): one of the pioneer builders and real estate brokers in the Eastern District, erected many of the old landmarks back to the text
  10. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Parents, Clarksville or Boca del Rio, 21 February 1864, page 2 (Folder34b): If Father should get to building again. or get into some business when he can use my money why do so; James to Mother, Boca Chica, 3 September 1864, page 2 (Folder45b): I think Father will make a good thing of it with the real Estate business he has been at it so long that he has the confidence of the business men and knows all the points of the Trade back to the text
  11. 1876-07-10-william-h-wade-built-house-for-brother-john-e-wade: Mr. William H. Wade was the architect and builder back to the text
  12. Supreme Court, Kings County: Harris v. Burr, Wade and others (summons), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Benjamin Harris, Plaintiff, against William Burr, Eliza Ann Wade, James M. Wade, her husband ... filed 20th day of August, 1858; notes on the form of the names back to the text
  13. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: children James Duncan (1838), Washington (1843), John Edward (1847), William Henry (1848), Sophia (1849), Durlyn (1853) back to the text
  14. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Of her six children, one daughter and one son died in their early childhood FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: Washington Wade (1843–?) and Sophia Wade (1849–?), no deaths recorded back to the text
  15. 1902-10-20-dr-james-duncan-wade-obit: enlist in the Forty-seventh Regiment, One Hundred and Seventy-second New York Volunteers, Nineteenth Army Corps, Gulf Department, Port Hudson and the Red River campaign, captain of the Eighty-seventh United States Infantry 1902-10-20-dr-james-d-wade-obit-brooklyn-citizen: enlisted for three months in the Forty-seventh Regiment, a commission in a colored troop, captain of Company F, Eighty-seventh United States Infantry back to the text
  16. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): letters of James and Willie to their parents, 1862–1864; J. M. Wade to Willie, Williamsburgh, 3 October 1863, page 2 (Folder27b): Your Affect Father J M Wade; Willie to Parents, Fort McHenry, 27 July 1862; envelope of Willie's letter of 4 June 1863, postmarked New Orleans June 1863 (Folder15e): Mr James M Wade 183 South 6 St Williamsburgh L I back to the text
  17. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): J. M. Wade to Willie, Williamsburgh, 3 October 1863, pages 1 and 2 (Folder27a, 27b): bringing the sad news that your hope of comeing home at the present time has been greatly diminished; make fresh efforts in your behalf; if you can get a commission in the Reg with James I think it would be best to do so; it affords me comfort know that You put Your trust in God back to the text
  18. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): Willie to Parents, Bonnet Carre, 22 October 1863, page 1 (Folder25a): Your Note of the Ninth, the Major to receive a letter that would be the means of my discharge; had receive the letter from Mark Hoit requesting the discharges of James and myself; Willie, 4 September 1863, page 2 (Folder46b): He was formerly our Colonel back to the text
  19. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Mother, New Orleans, 15 October 1863, page 3 (Folder23c): Father in his letters seems to think under the circumstances that I had better accept of the Commission; James to Mother, 19 October 1863, page 4 (Folder26d): I am always pleased to hear from Father, he should have been a Brig Genl he writes like a soldier no surplus words back to the text
  20. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Parents, Fort McHenry, 10 August 1862, page 1 (Folder08a): down to the Savings Bank corner of South 7 St and 4th St; James to Mother, Point Isabel, 17 January 1864, page 1 (Folder32a): which Pa will put in the Bank to my account; James to Parents, 18 January 1864, page 2 (Folder33b): I have the utmost faith in Pa's Financial abilities, if he has the money to work with back to the text
  21. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Mother, 1 September 1863, page 4 (Folder19d): I would like to hear from Father I hope his health is good tell him not to worry; James to Mother, 3 September 1864, page 2 (Folder45b): I am in hopes that Father will keep his health; James to Parents, Boca del Rio, 13 April 1864, page 1 (Folder36a1): so long as Father can make money enough to support the family — I feel perfectly easy back to the text
  22. Brothers at the Front: American Civil War Letters & Documents of James D. Wade and William H. Wade, 1862–1864, Transcribed and edited by Melissa K. Dewey & David M. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida, 2007 (unpublished, for Webb Wade): James to Parents, Boca del Rio, 13 April 1864, page 5 (Folder36d): I am glad to hear you are about building a house of Worship; Then how proud I shall feel to walk up the Isle to our pew with Mother's arm in mine back to the text
  23. "New York, State Census, 1865", FamilySearch, Chas M Wade, 1865. Record: Chas M Wade, 1865 "New York, State Census, 1865", FamilySearch, Ann E Wade in entry for Chas M Wade, 1865. Record: Ann E Wade in entry for Chas M Wade, 1865 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: residences 1865, Ward 11 and Ward 13, Brooklyn back to the text
  24. A Curious Case, unknown Brooklyn newspaper: the brothers Bittner entered their residence in South Sixth street, and without any provocation assaulted the head of the family, James M. Wade, each of them procured a warrant, adjourned to the 11th instant Police Matters: The Wade Family, unknown Brooklyn newspaper: Court Officer Nicholson arrested James M. Wade, James D. Wade, and William Wade, Gothard Bitner and his brother August Bitner back to the text
  25. A Curious Case, unknown Brooklyn newspaper Research log, searches made back to the text
  26. "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, J. M. Wade in entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868. Record: J. M. Wade in entry for William H Wade and Emma May Goodrich, 10 August 1868 "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, James M. Wade in entry for James D. Wade and Harriet N. Ricker, 21 October 1869. Record: James M. Wade in entry for James D. Wade and Harriet N. Ricker, 21 October 1869 back to the text
  27. Dedicatory Feast by Uptown Baptists: Trinity Church Has Dinner in Gymnasium of New Building (with a brief history), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): conference at the home of David Hathaway, 25 Dodworth street, October 31, 1874, Ridgewood Hall, committee on church organization November 18, 1874: A. H. Van Hoesen, Daniel Hathaway, James M. Wade; church organized December 18, 1874, at the home of James M. Wade, 10 Kossuth place; recognized April 22, 1875 back to the text
  28. Her 98th Birthday: Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Has a Party at Her Son's Home, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): Trinity Baptist Church, where her husband, the late James M. Wade, was long a deacon back to the text
  29. Baptists Dedicate New Church Home: Woman 96 Years Old, Unable to Attend, Sends Written Prayer of Dedication, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): the unavoidable absence of Mrs. James M. Wade, in whose home, in 1874, the church was organized; she wrote out the prayer back to the text
  30. "New York, State Census, 1875", FamilySearch, James Wade, 1875. Record: James Wade, 1875 "New York, State Census, 1875", FamilySearch, Eliza Wade in entry for James Wade, 1875. Record: Eliza Wade in entry for James Wade, 1875 back to the text
  31. "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, James M. Wade, 1 Apr 1876. Record: James M. Wade, 1 Apr 1876, New York City Municipal Deaths FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: death 1 Apr 1876, Brooklyn back to the text
  32. Research log, searches made: Chronicling America: James Wade, New York, 1876–1877: no matches; the Brooklyn papers are not on Chronicling America back to the text
  33. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-4ZV: no burial recorded 1915-12-19-eliza-ann-wade-buried: the burial in the family plot in Cypress Hills Cemetery back to the text
  34. "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, James M. Wade in entry for John Edward Wade and Hester Rogers, 30 August 1876. Record: James M. Wade in entry for John Edward Wade and Hester Rogers, 30 August 1876 "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, James M Wade in entry for Durlyn Wade and Catherine Watson Guillan, 14 September 1879. Record: James M Wade in entry for Durlyn Wade and Catherine Watson Guillan, 14 September 1879 "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, James M. Wade in entry for James Duncan Wade, 19 Oct 1902. Record: James M. Wade in entry for James Duncan Wade, 19 Oct 1902 "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, James M. Wade in entry for Durlyn Wade, 24 Feb 1907. Record: James M. Wade in entry for Durlyn Wade, 24 Feb 1907 "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, James M. Wade in entry for John E. Wade, 10 Jan 1919. Record: James M. Wade in entry for John E. Wade, 10 Jan 1919 back to the text
  35. Durlyn Wade (obituary), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): a son of the late James D. Wade, notes: almost certainly the paper's error "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949", FamilySearch, James M. Wade in entry for Durlyn Wade, 24 Feb 1907. Record: James M. Wade in entry for Durlyn Wade A Curious Case, unknown Brooklyn newspaper: the head of the family, James M. Wade back to the text
  36. Mrs. Eliza Ann Wade Dies in 100th Year: Born in New York City When All Above Canal Street Was Farming Land; Shook Hands With Lafayette, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): For the past fifteen years she had made her home with her only surviving son, Dr. Wade, 908 Greene avenue, the widow of James M. Wade, who died nearly forty years ago Wade—Eliza Ann (death notice), The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York): December 15, 1915, at her residence, 908 Greene av, widow of James M. Wade back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to James M Wade (12)
  1. 1850James Wade, "United States, Census, 1850"
  2. 1855James M Wade, "New York, State Census, 1855"
  3. 1865Chas M Wade, "New York, State Census, 1865"
  4. 10 August 1868J. M. Wade, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  5. 21 October 1869James M. Wade, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  6. 1875James Wade, "New York, State Census, 1875"
  7. 30 August 1876James M. Wade, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  8. 1 Apr 1876James M. Wade, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  9. 14 September 1879James M Wade, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  10. 19 Oct 1902James M. Wade, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  11. 24 Feb 1907James M. Wade, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"
  12. 10 Jan 1919James M. Wade, "New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949"