Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameFrederic Condit7, 4411 11
Birth7 Dec 1841, Morris Co., New Jersey7
FatherIsaac Louis Condit , 4411 1 (1816-1898)
MotherMary Elizabeth Stout (1822-1886)
Spouses
Birth16 Aug 1845, Fall River, Bristol Co., Massachusetts7
Death13 Mar 1907, Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts35
BurialProvidence, Providence Co., Rhode Island2591
FatherWilliam Cargill Chapin
MotherSarah B. Barton
Marriage16 Jul 18677
ChildrenMary Stout , 4411 111 (1868-1920)
Henry Joy , 4411 112 (1872-1952)
Margaret Chapin , 4411 113 (1875-1955)
Sarah C. , 4411 114 (1878-1893)
Notes for Frederic Condit
Estate was probated in Morris Co., New Jersey.954
The following was written by Frederic Condit before he died of his recollections of his father Isaac:
“My first recollection of any of father’s [Isaac Condit, 4411 1] relatives is of his father [Swain Condit, 4411] supping at our house on Joralemon Street, Brooklyn [New York]; in the basement, and of his putting butter on his gingerbread, which surprised me.
Grandfather had two brothers whom I knew; Uncle Ben and Uncle John Condit [John Ogden Condit, 4412]. Both were prosperous farmers, living in Troy, NJ and near each other. Uncle John resided where Howell Condit [4412 51]; his grandson, does at present, and Uncle Ben on the same road next to where Judd Condit [4412 23] resides now. Grandfather sold him that place; he having run the farm himself. That was before he went into the meat business which he carried on a number of years. I do not know whether father’s mother died there, this occurring when father was three weeks old, but father told me that in the attic of that house were a number of his mother’s writings which were destroyed when Uncle John enlarged the building; raising the roof, and so on.
Father always felt badly about this; for his mother was a woman of superior mind. Father well knew what work was at an early age, no doubt. He had spent his early boyhood in the house of his grandmother and she was a fine woman and very discreet. He had a most warm love and gratitude for her. When he was but six years old [about 1822], he came back to the house one day with a bleeding foot. His grandmother saw that his toe was gone and asked him where it was; when he replied ‘Down in the lot. It ain’t worth anything. I was chopping wood.’ In his teens, he went to work for Mr. William Brandt in Belleville, in his country store. It was the custom all over for such stores to sell liquor, but father soon concluded that this was wrong and he told his employer that he could not continue, for he saw the damage it did, and would leave sooner than keep on selling. Mr. Brandt kept Isaac Condit, and later took him into partnership. In 1840, Mary E. Stout; only daughter of Jonathan Stout, Builder formerly, and possibly then, still living in Newark, became Isaac L. Condit’s wife, and went to live in Belleville, where I was born Dec. 7, 1841.
Somewhere in those years father saw a man fall into the river through the ice in the Passaic River, and hastened down only just in time; after he had laid out a plank to creep out on; to save the life.
Then New York attracted father, and he became a salesman in a large grocery house. He and Curtis Noble; another young salesman then went into the Produce Commission business in Water Street; prospered, and dissolved partnership only because; by 1860 or so, father’s health demanded giving up business.”
The following was written by Frederic Condit before he died of his recollections of his father Isaac:
“My first recollection of any of father’s [Isaac Condit, 4411 1] relatives is of his father [Swain Condit, 4411] supping at our house on Joralemon Street, Brooklyn [New York]; in the basement, and of his putting butter on his gingerbread, which surprised me.
Grandfather had two brothers whom I knew; Uncle Ben and Uncle John Condit [John Ogden Condit, 4412]. Both were prosperous farmers, living in Troy, NJ and near each other. Uncle John resided where Howell Condit [4412 51]; his grandson, does at present, and Uncle Ben on the same road next to where Judd Condit [4412 23] resides now. Grandfather sold him that place; he having run the farm himself. That was before he went into the meat business which he carried on a number of years. I do not know whether father’s mother died there, this occurring when father was three weeks old, but father told me that in the attic of that house were a number of his mother’s writings which were destroyed when Uncle John enlarged the building; raising the roof, and so on.
Father always felt badly about this; for his mother was a woman of superior mind. Father well knew what work was at an early age, no doubt. He had spent his early boyhood in the house of his grandmother and she was a fine woman and very discreet. He had a most warm love and gratitude for her. When he was but six years old [about 1822], he came back to the house one day with a bleeding foot. His grandmother saw that his toe was gone and asked him where it was; when he replied ‘Down in the lot. It ain’t worth anything. I was chopping wood.’ In his teens, he went to work for Mr. William Brandt in Belleville, in his country store. It was the custom all over for such stores to sell liquor, but father soon concluded that this was wrong and he told his employer that he could not continue, for he saw the damage it did, and would leave sooner than keep on selling. Mr. Brandt kept Isaac Condit, and later took him into partnership. In 1840, Mary E. Stout; only daughter of Jonathan Stout, Builder formerly, and possibly then, still living in Newark, became Isaac L. Condit’s wife, and went to live in Belleville, where I was born Dec. 7, 1841.
Somewhere in those years father saw a man fall into the river through the ice in the Passaic River, and hastened down only just in time; after he had laid out a plank to creep out on; to save the life.
Then New York attracted father, and he became a salesman in a large grocery house. He and Curtis Noble; another young salesman then went into the Produce Commission business in Water Street; prospered, and dissolved partnership only because; by 1860 or so, father’s health demanded giving up business.”