The surname Ives is derived from the name McIver or Ives, Gaelic, meaning chief or leader, and the family in England doubtless takes its name from St. Ives, county Huntington, England, or some other locality, though it may have been adopted from a personal name, as many other surnames have been.
John Ives, of the Manor Woodhos, in Orington, Norfolk, left his estate to his son Thomas, then less than twenty years old. The father died Oct. 23, 1568.

(I) Captain William Ives, believed to have been of the county Norfolk family, was born in England; he came to Boston in the ship "True Love" in 1635. In 1639 he located at New Haven, Conn., his name appearing in the civil compact dated June 4, 1639, and in the allotment to the first settlers. He and his wife had seats in the meeting house at New Haven in 1646.
Children:
1. John, married in 1667, Hannah Merrian.
2. Captain Joseph, mentioned below.
Perhaps others.

(II) Captain Joseph Ives, son of Captain William Ives, was born about 1650. He married, Jan. 2, 1672, Mary Yale. The history of Wallingford, Conn. gives the following children of "John" and Mary (John married Hannah and the children should be credited to Joseph and Mary):
1. John, born Nov., 1669; died 1738, at Meriden.
2. Hannah, married Joseph Benham.
3. Deacon Joseph, mentioned below.
4. Gideon, of Wallingford, married Feb. 20, 1706, Mary Royce.
5. Nathaniel, born May 3, 1677.
6. Ebenezer.
7. Samuel, June 5, 1686.
8. Benjamin, Nov. 22, 1689.

(III) Deacon Joseph (2), son of Captain Joseph (1) Ives, was born Oct. 14, 1674. He married (second) June 13, 1733, Mamre Munson. They lived in the southwest part of Wallingford.
Children, born at Wallingford:
1. Thomas, May 30, 1698.
2. Elizabeth, Feb. 6, 1700.
3. Hannah, Oct. 13, 1701.
4. Abigail, Aug. 27, 1704.
5. Esther, Jan. 17, 1706.
6. Joseph, Dec. 10, 1709; mentioned below.
7. Phineas, April 8, 1711.
8. Nathaniel, Jan. 15, 1714.
9. Ephraim, Jan. 4, 1717.
10. Dinah, April 4, 1721.

(IV) Joseph (3), son of Deacon Joseph (1) Ives, was born at Wallingford, Dec. 10, 1709. His will, dated Oct. 11,1765, gave certain property to his eldest son Joseph and his sword to Stephen.

(V) Joseph (4), son of Joseph (3) Ives, was born in Wallingford in 1737. He settled at Claremont, New Hampshire, where he ws town clerk and highway surveyor and held a prominent position in the community. He was in Claremont as early as 1767, and died there in 1786. He was a soldier in the revolution and served in the campaign against Ticonderoga as a private. He was afterward lieutenant of minute-men and later captain. He singed the association test, May 30, 1776, and was selectman in 1776.
A descendant, John Ives, of Red Wing, Minnesota, had in his possession a number of papers of Joseph Ives and a copy of his father's will. Among these papers was a petition to the selectmen of Claremont dated March 20, 1778, signed by Abigail Stone, in which she states: "My husband is engaged in the service of the United States of America," and that she has a large family of children which she is unable to support on account of the high price of provisions, etc. - "by reason of all the necessaries of life being sold at such an extravagant price." She requests the selectmen "to see if the town will find some way for me to obtain the necessaries of life to support my family at the prices they were when my husband engaged in the service." The trouble was due to depreciation of the currency and many attempts were made to compensate the soldiers and their families for the hardship resulting from the decline in value of Continental money. Prices were regulated by law; additional money was voted the soldiers, but the suffering was universal. This woman was supporting her family by her own labor while her husband was in the army and she confesses in the petition: "I am unable to support them much longer at this rate." This letter is now (1910) in the possession of Gideon S. Ives, of St. Paul, Minnesota. He has also deeds of land at Wallingford and the letter appointing Joseph lieutenant signed by Samuel Stevens Dec. 177_.
Children:
1. Mary, born July 1, 1763, in Wallingford.
2. John M., mentioned below.
3. Mamre (twin of John), Nov. 14, 1767.
4. Stephen, July 31, 1771.
5. David, March 23, 1773.
6. Elizabeth, Jan. 29, 1775.
7. David, July 18, 1778.

(VI) John M., son of Captain Joseph (4) Ives, was born in Wallingford, Conn. Nov. 14, 1767, and was taken to the new home at Claremont when an infant. He married, Sept. 30, 1792, Mary Thomas.
Among their children were:
Warren, mentioned below.
John and Frank.

(VII) Warren, son of John M. Ives, was born in Claremont in 1799; died in Dickinson, Franklin county, N.Y., 1861. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. In 1829 he removed to northern New York. He was a lawyer and for thirteen years supervisor of the town of Dickinson, and of high standing and great influence in the community. He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
He married Louisa Buxton Ladd, of Newbury, born Aug. 4, 1803, died 1872, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Ring) Ladd (see Ladd VI).
Children:
Frederick, Frank, Adeline, Alma, Charlotte, John, Warren, Marvin Van Buren (mentioned below), Hallan L. and Gideon S., (who is an attorney at law at St. Paul, Minnesota; was lieutenant-governor of the state two terms; furnished much of the data for this genealogy).

(VIII) Hon. Martin Van Buren, son of Warren Ives, was born in Dickinson Center, Franklin county, New York, Nov. 20, 1840. He received his early education in the common and select schools olf his native place. When he was twenty-one he started to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner, and he followed it for a number of years.
He enlisted July 1, 1862, in the Forty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers, and served two years and ten months in the civil war, taking part in the battles of Olustee, Florida, at Drury's Bluff, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and both attacks on Fort Fisher.
When his term of enlistment expired he located at Potsdam, N.Y., where his mother was then living, and conducted a book and stationary store. He also had a profitable business in western railroad tikcets for Rome, Western & Ogdensburg Railroad Company. He retired from this business in 1886. In 1882 he and his brother erected one of the finest business buildings in Potsdam, known as the Ives Block, and in 1890, in partnership with his brother, H. L. Ives, he erected a new Ives Block of marble, one of the finest business structures in the county.
He has been active in public life and honored with many offices of trustg and responsibility. When he was but twenty-one he was elected constable. For a number of years he was assessor of the village, and in 1893 was elected supervisor of the town by a large majority. He was appointed by Governor Roswell P. Flower in 1893 trustee of the New York Agricultural Station at Geneva.
In politics he is a Republican of large influence. He represented his district in the state assembly in 1896-99. He is one of the leading farmers of this section, and owne the Higly Falls farm, on which is located one of the best water-power privileges in the state, and one time owned large orange groves in Florida. He has been president of the St. Regis Valley Horticultural and Agricultural Society, and is one of the best known and most highly esteemed men of this section, especially in the agricultural sections. He has been president of the Raquette Club, and is trustee of the Ray Brook Sanitarium at Saranac Lake, N.Y. A lover of nature and an entertaining writer, he published in 1890 a book entitled "Through the Adirondacks," which has given a national reputation.
He married, in 1866, Sarah, daughter of Seth Benson, of Potsdam, and they have one child, Hallie S., born Nov. 26, 1879.

SECOND ENTRY:

(III) John Ives, son of Captain Joseph Ives (q.v.), was born at Wallingford, Conn., Nov. 1669, and died there in what is now Meriden, in 1738, aged sixty-nine years. He married, Dec. 6, 1693, Mary Gillett.
Children, born at Wallingford:
John, Sept. 28, 1694, mentioned below.
Samuel, Jan. 5, 1696.
Benjamin, Nov. 22, 1699.
Abijah, March 14, 1700.[transcriber's note: not enough months between the these two children].
Mary, March 10, 1702.
Lazarus, Feb. 5, 1703.
Daniel, Feb. 19, 1706.
Hannah, Feb. 10, 1708.
Abraham, Sept. 2, 1709.
Bezaleel, July 4, 1712.
Bezaleel, 1726.

(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Ives, was born at Wallingford, Conn., Sept. 28, 1694. He married, Dec. 18, 1719, Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Hannah Royce. She died at Wallingford, Nov. 5, 1770, aged seventy years.
Children, born at Wallingford:
Eunice, April 20, 1721, died Sept. 11, 1727.
Ann, April 20, 1725.
Eunice, Sept. 11, 1727.
John, July 4, 1729.
Titus, Feb. 17, 1732.
Levi, Jan. 19, 1733.
Joseph and John (twins), April 2, 1735.
Levi, July 30, 1736.
Jesse, April 2, 1738.
Joseph, June, 1745.
Jesse, 2nd.

(V) John (3), son of John (2) Ives, was born at Wallingford, July 4, 1729, and died there Feb., 1816. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Couch's company, Colonel Thaddeus Cook's regiment.
He married (first) Mary, daughter of Dr. Isaac Hall. She died Feb. 1788, and he married (second) Sarah ____, who died Nov. 24, 1804.
Children, born at Wallingford:
Lucretia, married Captain Samuel Ives.
John, mentioned below.
Isaac.
Levi.
Joseph.
Joel.
Othniel, born Aug. 17, 1779.
Titus, married Ximena Yale.
Eli, died unmarried.
Anne.
Polly.
Mercie.

(VI) Major John (4), son of John (3) Ives, was born in Meriden, formerly Wallingford, Conn. He married Martha Merriman. He was a pioneer settler in Lewis county, N.Y., whither he removed in 1796. His farm was the present (1910) site of the village of Constableville. After a few years he remoed two miles ot the north of the village of Turin, N.Y., where he spent the remainder of his life, and died March 3, 1828. His widow died at the home of her son, George S. Ives, at Turin, Feb. 12, 1841. He owned eighteen hundred acres of land in Turin and gave to each of his children a farm.
Children:
John, died in California.
Samuel, died in Ohio.
Eli, died at Great Bend, N.Y.
Isaac, died at Ravenna, Ohio.
George, died at Chicago, Illinois.
Selden, mentioned below.
Julia, married Walter Martin, of Martinsburg, and died in Michigan.
Lucretia, married Horace Clapp, and died in Martinsburg.
Martha, married Enoch Roberts, and died in Meriden.
five of the oldest children died young, within five days of each other.

(VII) Selden, son of Major John (4) Ives, was born in Turin, N.Y., Sept. 18, 1806. He married, July 13, 1830, Lucretia Stephens, who was born at Martinsburg, May 18, 1805.
Children:
Cornelia L., born at Turin, April 3, 1831, married J. Harvey Smith, of Fort Plain, N.Y. Aug. 27, 1851, and died at Turin Feb. 9, 1854.
Marcellus H., born at Turin June 9, 1839, and died April 8, 1860.
Mather S., mentioned below.

(VIII) Mather S., son of Selden Ives, was born on the old Ives homestead at Turin, March 30, 1833. He was educated in the public schools and the Clinton Liberal Institute and Lowville Academy. For four years he was clerk in the general store at Rome, N.Y., and at New Albany, Indiana. In 1855 he went to Chicago, Illinois, and entered into partnership in mercantile business with his uncle, George Ives, and continued there until 1861, when he returned to Turin and followed farming.
He was a strong and influential citizen. For twelve years he was supervisor of the town, and he became one of the best-known men of the county. He was a staunch Republican. He was a charter member of the Twentieth Century Club, and was president in 1902-03.
He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian church, of which he was a trustee for eighteen years. He commanded the respect of all his townsmen for his honor and integrity as a man, his good works and kindly, generous heart. He died Feb. 10, 1904.
He married (first), in Chicago, Sept. 15, 1859, Jennie M. Moshier, born at Lexington, Kentucky, July 8, 1843, died at Turin, April 30, 1890. He married (second), March, 1891, Mrs. Pruella Whittlesey.
Children:
1. Cornelia Lucretia, born at Chicago, April 6, 1861; married May 29, 1884, Albert R. Woolworth; children: Mather Clinton, born Dec. 18, 1891; Jennie, April 1903.
2. Estella J., married, Dec. 18, 1884, Isaac Lyman Smith. (See Smith).

SECOND ENTRY:

The surname is derived from the name Iver or Ives, Gaelic, meaning chief or leader, and the family in England doubtless takes its name from St. Ives, county Hungtington, England, or some other locality, though it may have been adopted from a personal name, as many other surnames have been. John Ives, of the Manor Woodhoe, in Orington, Norfolk, left his estate to his son Thomas, then less than twenty years old. The father died Oct. 23, 1568.

(I) Captain William Ives, believed to have been of the county Norfolk family, was born in England and came to Boston in the ship "True Love," in 1635. In 1639 he located at New Haven, Conn., his name appearing in the Civil Compact dated June 4, 1639, and in the allotment to the first settlers. He and his wife had seats in the meeting house at New Haven in 1646.
Children:
John, married, 1667, Hannah Merriman.
Captain Joseph, mentioned below.
perhaps others.

(II) Captain Joseph Ives, son of Captain William Ives, was born about 1660. He married, Jan. 2, 1672, Mary Yale. [transcriber's note: now just a minute here; he has to have been born several years before 1660 if he married in 1672; not too many 12 yr olds marry, not even back then]. The "History of Wallingford, Connecticut," gives the following children of "John" and Mary (John marriah Hannah, and the children should be credited to Joseph and Mary):
John, Nov., 1669, died 1738, at Meriden.
Hannah, married Joseph Benham.
Deacon Joseph, mentioned below.
Gideon, of Wallingford, married Feb. 20, 1706, Mary Royce.
Nathaniel, born May 3, 1677.
Ebenezer.
Samuel, June 5, 1696.
Benjamin, Nov. 22, 1699.

(III) Deacon Joseph (2) Ives, son of Captain Joseph (1) Ives, was born Oct. 14, 1674, and married, May 11, 1697, Esther Benedict; (second) June 13, 1733, Mamie Munson. They lived in the southwest part of Wallingford.
Children, born at Wallingford:
Thomas, May 30, 1698.
Elizabeth, Feb. 6, 1700.
Hannah, Oct. 13, 1701.
Abigail, Aug. 27, 1704.
Esther, Jan. 17, 1706.
Joseph, Dec. 10, 1709.
Phineas, April 18, 1711.
Nathaniel, Jan. 15, 1714.
Ephraim, Jan. 4, 1717.
Dinah, April 4, 1721.

(IV) Ephraim, son of Joseph (2) Ives, was born at Wallingford, Jan. 4, 1717-18, and married there March 12, 1741, Elizabeth Atwater.
Children, born at Wallingford:
Sarah, Nov. 19, 1741.
Ephraim, Jan. 7, 1744.
Phineas, June 12, 1746.
Elnathan, Dec. 21, 1848, mentioned below.
Elizabeth, Nov. 6, 1751.
Eunice, Feb. 19, 1753.

(V) Elnathan, son of Ephraim Ives, was born at Wallingford, Dec. 21, 1748. He settled at Watertown near Plymouth, Conn., and the census of 1790 shows that at that time he had in his family three sons under sixteen and three females. He was a soldier in the revolution, in the Tenth company, Tenth regiment, in 1777. He was also under Lieut. Lazarus Ives, Captain Barnes' company, in 1776.
Among his children was Merchant, mentioned below, and Truman, father of William A. Ives, and gradfather of Brayton Ives, the well-known financier of New York.
Elnathan Ives was one of the incorporators of the town of Plymouth, Conn., formerly Watertown, and originally part of Waterbury, about 1790.

(VI) Merchant, son of Elnathan Ives, was born in what is now Plymouth, Conn., about 1790, and died there at the age of seventy-five years. He married Sally Osborne.
Children, born at Plymouth:
Emila, Hiram, James, John and William.

(VII) John, son of Merchant Ives, was born in Plymouth, Conn. in 1818, and died at New Haven, Conn. in 1886. He followed general farming at Plymouth, and was active to the time of his death.
He married Martha, born in Plymouth, 1820, died 1857, daughter of Zachariah Tomlinson.
Children:
James, Eleanor and Mary.

(VIII) James, son of John Ives, was born in Plymouth in 1843, and was educated there in the common schools. In 1858 he located at Ogdensburg, New York, where an uncle had made his home, engaging in 1861 with Morgan, Arnold & Co., and in 1869 engaged as clerk and bookkeeper in the Judson Bank of that town. In 1883, in company with I.L. Seymour, he purchased the Arnold & Company brewery, and continued in this relation until his final retirement from active business in 1905. The firm conducted a large and flourishing business.
He is independent in politics. For a number of years he was city treasurer, but never sought public office. He is a member of Ogdensburg Lodge, F.A.M.; Ogdensburg Commandery, No. 54, Knights Templar, and of Media Temple, Mystic Shrine of Watertown, N.Y. He is a member of the Century Club.
He married (first) in 1864, Isabelle, daughter of James Chatterton, of Ogdensburg; (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Albert Morton, of Ogdensburg. He has no children.

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