EDWIN AYER
OLD SAYBROOK: Farmer
Edwin Ayer was born in Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), Oct. 15, 1824, and is of the seventh generation in direct descent from John Eyre (pronounced Ayer), who migrated from Norwich, in England, to Newbury, Mass., in 1637. He received his education in the common schools of his town, and at the academies of Saybrook and Essex. He has followed farming through life to some extent, and also lumbering; is now president of the Saybrook Bank of Essex.
In 1849 he went with the crowd to California by way of Cape Horn, and was absent about three years. Was married in October, 1852, to Miss Abbie M. Youngs of Farmington, who died in 1882, leaving three sons and two daughters; two of the sons and one daughter are now residents of the state of Washington. He married for his second wife, in 1883, Miss Carrie E. Youngs, who is now living. He held the military office of major of the Sixth regiment Conn. militia when he left for California, and has subsequently held various civil offices, such as selectman, assessor, chairman of school hoard, and justice of the peace for some twenty-five years, and represented his town in the legislatures of 1872 and 1873. He is now living at his ancestral home, of which his family have held successive title since its first occupation by the English colonists.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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