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James Wadsworth (April 20, 1768 Durham, Connecticut Colony – June 7, 1844 Geneseo, New York) was an influential and prominent 18th- and 19th-century pioneer, educator, land speculator, agriculturalist, businessman, and community leader of the early Genesee Valley settlements in Western New York State.
The district includes Geneseo's historic commercial center and its most refined residential neighborhood, plus the 102.8-acre (0.416 km 2) estate of the Wadsworth family. That estate, The Homestead (Geneseo) was already separately listed in 1974. The district consists of 312 properties, of which 288 are contributing.
James S. Wadsworth. Photo from the Library of Congress. James Samuel Wadsworth (October 30, 1807 – May 8, 1864) was a philanthropist, politician, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864.
Geneseo, as well as nearby Mount Morris, was part of the Morris Reserve that Morris held back from his sale of much of western New York to the Holland Land Company. Geneseo was the birthplace of Eliza Emily Chappell Porter in 1807, a nurse, teacher, school builder, and Underground Railroad operative during the Civil War.
Geneseo / ˌ dʒ ɛ n ɪ ˈ s iː oʊ / is a village in and the county seat of Livingston County in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States, [3] south of Rochester. The name "Geneseo" is an anglicization of the Iroquois name for the earlier Iroquois town there, Gen-nis-he-yo , which means "beautiful valley".
One historic district, the Main Street Historic District (Geneseo, New York), is further designated a National Historic Landmark. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 24, 2025.
Wadsworth Normal and Training School (1867–1871) ... Milne Library. Geneseo is a public liberal arts college with 61 undergraduate majors, 5 master's programs, ...
Wadsworth was born in Geneseo, New York on August 12, 1877. He was the son of New York State Comptroller James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846–1926) and Louisa (née Travers) Wadsworth (1848–1931). [2] His paternal grandparents were Union General James S. Wadsworth [1] and Mary Craig (née Wharton) Wadsworth (1814–1874). His grandfather built a ...