A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

by Geoffrey C. Ward

  35. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Dr. and Mrs. Levi Ward, July 1841, Brinton Collection.

  36. Ward, “Two Missionaries’ Ordeal by Faith in a Distant Clime.”

  37. Ferdinand De Wilton to Dr. and Mrs. Levi Ward, April 18, 1842, Brinton Collection.

  38. Paul William Harris, Nothing but Christ, p. 62.

  39. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Henrietta Ward Clarke, September 25, 1842, Freeman Clarke Family Papers.

  40. Ward, India and the Hindoos, p. 23.

  41. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to the brethren of the Madura Mission, February 2, 1843, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  42. Ward, “Two Missionaries’ Ordeal by Faith in a Distant Clime.”

  43. Rev. Nathan Crane to unknown, December 1844, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  44. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Henrietta Ward Clarke, December 8, 1844, Freeman Clarke Family Papers.

  45. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Rufus Anderson, January 22, 1845, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  46. Madras Mission’s Annual Report to the American Board, January 1, 1845, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  47. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Rufus Anderson, October 22, 1845, Madras Mission’s Annual Report to the ABCFM, January 1, 1845, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  48. Report by Dr. I. W. Sherman, included in a letter from Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Rufus Anderson, January 11, 1845, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  CHAPTER THREE

  1. George K. Ward, “Grove Place and Its People in the Early Days,” Bob Jones Collection, Geneseo, N.Y.

  2. Henry Cherry to Rufus Anderson, November 30, 1846, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  3. Henry Cherry to Rufus Anderson, n.d. 1849, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  4. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Rufus Anderson, December 11, 1846, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  5. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Rufus Anderson, November 4, 1846, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  6. Alfred North to Rufus Anderson, September 20, 1846, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  7. Alfred North to Rufus Anderson, n.d. 1847, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  8. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Rufus Anderson, January 1, 1848, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  9. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Rufus Anderson, February 17, 1848, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, Village Memories of Twenty Years, p. 3.

  12. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, Geneseo, Livingston County N.Y., 1848–1888, p. 4.

  13. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, April 19, 1849, Ward Collection, Local History Division, Rochester Public Library.

  14. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, December 20, 1848, Ward Collection.

  15. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, June 27, 1849, Ward Collection.

  16. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Rufus Anderson, November 5, 1849, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Archive.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to William Shaw Ward, October 9, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  19. Ward, India and the Hindoos, p. 39.

  20. Ibid., p. 36.

  21. Robert Hastings Nichols, Presbyterianism in New York State, p. 116.

  22. James H. Moorhead “The ‘Restless Spirit of Radicalism.’ ”

  23. New-York Evangelist, June 7, 1848.

  24. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, April 28, 1851, Ward Collection.

  25. Anonymous, “View of the Livingston County High-School, on Temple Hill, Geneseo: Under the Care of Seth Sweetser, C. C. Felton, and H. R. Cleveland.”

  26. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, November 10, 1849, Ward Collection.

  27. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, October 11, 1850, Ward Collection.

  28. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, n.d. 1850, Ward Collection.

  29. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, A Christian Gift, or Pastoral Letters.

  30. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, April 14, 1851, Ward Collection.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, June 5, 1851, Ward Collection.

  33. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, July 9, 1851, Ward Collection.

  34. Ibid.

  35. Quoted in Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, May 15, 1851, Ward Collection.

  36. Ibid.

  37. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, February 11, 1865, Brinton Collection.

  CHAPTER FOUR

  1. Ferdinand Ward to Nellie Green, October 19, 1890, and March 20, 1891, author’s collection.

  2. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, n.d., autumn 1875, Brinton Collection.

  3. Ferdinand De Wilton Journal, January 30 and June 2, 1856, Central Church Collection, Geneseo, N.Y.

  4. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, January 19, 1851, Ward Collection, Local History Division, Rochester Public Library.

  5. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, n.d., Ward Collection.

  6. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, April 30, 1852, Ward Collection.

  7. New-York Evangelist, May 13, 1852.

  8. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, April 30, 1852, Ward Collection.

  9. Dr. Walter E. Lauderdale to John Vance Lauderdale, January 14, 1859, John Vance Lauderdale Papers, Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

  10. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, September 20, 1853, Ward Collection.

  11. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, May 6, 1852, Ward Collection.

  12. Ibid.

  13. New-York Evangelist, December 23, 1858.

  14. Peter Josyph, ed., The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, p. 17.

  15. Levi Parsons, History of Rochester Presbytery, p. 52.

  16. Session Book, Central Presbyterian Church, Geneseo, N.Y.

  17. Ferdinand Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, July 8, 1887, Brinton Collection.

  18. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward, December 18, 1857, Brinton Collection.

  19. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, December 11, 1857, Brinton Collection.

  20. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward, December 18, 1857, Brinton Collection.

  21. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, December 25, 1857, Brinton Collection.

  22. Jane Shaw Ward to Ferdinand Ward, December 25, 1857, Brinton Collection.

  23. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward, March n.d., 1858, Brinton Collection.

  24. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward, April 3, 1858, Brinton Collection.

  25. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward, March n.d., 1858, Brinton Collection.

  26. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, December 11, 1857, Brinton Collection.

  27. New-York Evangelist, December 23, 1858.

  28. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, March 9, 1858, Brinton Collection.

  29. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, March 4, 1858, Brinton Collection.

  30. August 11, 1858, Session Book, Central Presbyterian Church, Geneseo, N.Y.

  31. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Levi A. Ward, April 1858, Ward Collection.

  32. August 11, 1858, Session Book.

  33. Ibid.

  34. August 25, 1858, Session Book.

  35. Ferdinand Ward, fragment of farewell sermon, Ferdinand De Wilton Ward Collection, Waidner-Spahr Library, Dickinson College.

  36. Geneseo Democrat, October 14, 1858.

  37. October 18, 1858, Session Book.

  38. Dr. Walter E. Lauderdale to John Vance Lauderdale, November 7, 1858, John
Vance Lauderdale Papers.

  39. October 25, 1858, Session Book.

  40. Dr. Walter E. Lauderdale to John Vance Lauderdale, January 14, 1859, John Vance Lauderdale Papers.

  41. Walter Lauderdale Jr. to Frances Lauderdale, January 1, 1859, John Vance Lauderdale Papers.

  42. New-York Evangelist, January 4, 1859.

  43. Ibid., January 13, 1859.

  44. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, Why I Am an Old-School Presbyterian.

  45. William Shaw Ward, “The Cloud and the Silver Lining,” Brinton Collection.

  46. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, February 24, 1860, Brinton Collection.

  CHAPTER FIVE

  1. Livingston Republican, September 10, 1862.

  2. Sarah Ward to Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, September n.d., 1862, Brinton Collection.

  3. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, October 21, 1862, Brinton Collection.

  4. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward, November 20, 1862, Brinton Collection.

  5. Livingston Republican, January 18, 1863.

  6. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to William Shaw Ward, January 27, 1863, Brinton Collection.

  7. W. S. (William Shaw) Ward, “How We Ran the Vicksburg Batteries,” p. 604.

  8. Livingston Republican, May 10, 1863.

  9. Stephen W. Sears, Chancellorsville, p. 186.

  10. Sarah Ward to Ferdinand De Wilton Ward, May 27, 1863, Brinton Collection.

  11. Livingston Republican, April 28, 1880.

  12. Livingston Republican, July 9 and August 12, 1863.

  13. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward, August 24, 1863, Brinton Collection.

  14. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, October 7, 1863, Brinton Collection.

  15. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, October 22, 1863, Brinton Collection.

  16. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward, October 17, 1863, Brinton Collection.

  17. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward, November 17, 1863, Brinton Collection.

  18. Daniel F. Kemp, Civil War Letters, A64–97, Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society Archives.

  19. Livingston Republican, November 12, 1863.

  20. Jane Shaw to Henrietta Ward Clarke, November n.d., 1863, Freeman Clarke Family Papers, Freeman Clarke Family Papers.

  21. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward, January 15, 1864, Brinton Collection.

  22. Sarah Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, March 1, 1864, Brinton Collection.

  23. Sarah Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, January 1, 1866, Brinton Collection.

  24. Sarah Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, March 1, 1864, Brinton Collection.

  25. Sarah Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, August 20, 1864, Brinton Collection.

  26. Ibid.

  27. John H. Brinton, Personal Memoirs of John H. Brinton, p. 67.

  28. U. S. Grant to John H. Brinton, June 11, 1873; John Y. Simon et al., eds., The Papers of U. S. Grant, vol. 24: 1873, p. 143.

  29. Sarah Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, December 17, 1866, Brinton Collection.

  30. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward, February 16, 1865, Brinton Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

  31. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, n.d., Brinton Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

  32. Sarah Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, January 17 or 18, 1866, Brinton Collection.

  33. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward, September 22, 1865, Brinton Collection.

  34. Sarah Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, January 26, 1866, Brinton Collection.

  35. Mary M. Brinton to Sarah Ward, January 25, 1866, Brinton Collection.

  36. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, February 7, 1868, Brinton Collection.

  37. Sarah Ward to William Shaw Ward, February 6, 1865, Brinton Collection.

  38. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward, December 6, 1866, Brinton Collection.

  39. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, June 8, 1867, Brinton Collection.

  40. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 19, 1873, Brinton Collection.

  41. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, March 27, 1867, Brinton Collection.

  42. Ibid.

  43. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, March 15, 1867, Brinton Collection.

  CHAPTER SIX

  1. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, March 15, 1867, Brinton Collection.

  2. “Ferd Ward’s Boyhood,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, June 24, 1884.

  3. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 25, 1865, Brinton Collection.

  4. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, April 10, 1867, Brinton Collection.

  5. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sara Ward Brinton, November 27, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  6. Author’s interview with Harold Ward, October 22, 1969.

  7. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, April 25, 1868, Brinton Collection.

  8. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to William Shaw Ward, undated fragment, Brinton Collection.

  9. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to William Shaw Ward, undated fragment, Brinton Collection.

  10. Ferdinand Ward to William Shaw Ward, September 7, 1868, Brinton Collection.

  11. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 14, 1884.

  12. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 25, 1869, Brinton Collection.

  13. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 25, 1869, Brinton Collection.

  14. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, February 14, 1869, Brinton Collection.

  15. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 14, 1869, Brinton Collection.

  16. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, February 27, 1869, Brinton Collection.

  17. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, June 24, 1884.

  18. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 13, 1870. Brinton Collection.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 18, 1870, Brinton Collection.

  21. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, February 13, 1870, Brinton Collection.

  22. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 20, 1870, Brinton Collection.

  23. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 22, 1879, Brinton Collection.

  24. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, February 9, 1870, Brinton Collection.

  25. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, February 13, 1870, Brinton Collection.

  26. Ibid.

  27. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, March 3, 1870, Brinton Collection.

  28. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, March 9, 1870, Brinton Collection.

  29. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, November 25, 1871, Brinton Collection.

  30. Macon (Georgia) Weekly Telegraph, June 7, 1884.

  31. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, October 10, 1872, Brinton Collection.

  32. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, November 22, 1872, Brinton Collection.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Ibid.

  35. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, December 19, 1872, Brinton Collection.

  36. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, December 26, 1873, Brinton Collection.

  37. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 19, 1873, Brinton Collection.

  38. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, January 22, 1873, Brinton Collection.

  39. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, February 17, 1873, Brinton Collection.

  40. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Ferdinand Ward, September 2, 1873, author’s collection.

  CHAPTER SEVEN

  1. New York Times, October 30, 1882.

  2. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, November 17, 1873, Brinton Collection.

  3. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, July 7, 1874, Brinton Collection.

  4. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, July 17, 1874, Brinton Collection.

  5. Ibid.

  6. New York Tribune, May 11, 1884.

  7. Ferdinand Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, September 26, 1874, Brinton Collection.

  8. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, n.d. 1874, Brinton Collection.

  9.
James H. Callender, Yesterdays on Brooklyn Heights, pp. 103–04.

  10. Stephen Fiske, Off-hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers, p. 303.

  11. Ferdinand Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, July 21, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  12. Jane Shaw Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, March 28, 1874, Brinton Collection.

  13. Ferdinand Ward to William Shaw Ward, March 18, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  14. Ferdinand Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, July 21, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  15. Interview with James D. Fish, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 17, 1883.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Ferdinand Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, August 13, 1873, Brinton Collection.

  18. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, August n.d., 1873, Brinton Collection.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sidney Green, August 4, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  21. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to Sarah Ward Brinton, November 27, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  22 Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to William Shaw Ward, March 10, 1876, Brinton Collection.

  23. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to William Shaw Ward, February 11, 1876, Brinton Collection.

  24. Ibid.

  25. Brooklyn Eagle, March 27, 1868.

  26. Ferdinand De Wilton Ward to William Shaw Ward, November 23, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  27. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, June 11, 1875, Brinton Collection.

  28. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, March 13, 1877, Brinton Collection.

  29. New York Tribune, November 7, 1885.

  30. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, September 3, 1877, Brinton Collection.

  31. Ferdinand Ward to Jane Shaw Ward, October 25, 1877, Brinton Collection.

  32. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, October 12, 1877, Brinton Collection.

  33. Ibid.

  34. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, November 9, 1877, Brinton Collection.

  35. Jane Shaw Ward to William Shaw Ward, April 10, 1878, Brinton Collection.

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  1. New York World, July 7, 1886.

  2. New York World, July 2, 1886.

  3. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 27, 1883.

  4. David L. Rinear, The Temple of Momus: Mitchell’s Olympic Theatre, p. 75.

  5. Ibid., p. 125.

  6. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 27, 1883.

  7. Ibid.

  8. New York Tribune, May 11, 1884.