Tagging Along: Memories of My Grandfather James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.

This engaging memoir records the recollections of a grandson of the times he spent with a kind, wise, generous, and very patient grandfather. Focused on events in James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr.’s, life as he related them to his grandson, Stuart Symington, Jr., weaves this story of his grandfather’s political career and private life against a rich background of family history. This original work is published by Milne Library at the State University of New York College at Geneseo.
This graceful memoir of Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr., by his grandson, Stuart Symington, Jr., is the first original work in a series of publications growing out of the Special Collections of the Milne Library at the State University of New York at Geneseo. It is fitting that it appears under the Milne Library imprint, for the histories of Geneseo and the Wadsworth family are inextricably bound together. The Village of Geneseo was founded by James and William Wadsworth, two well-born, ambitious brothers who came to the Genesee Valley from Durham, Connecticut, in the 1790s. Their descendants have maintained close connections with the College and the Village ever since. Indeed, at its founding in 1871, SUNY Geneseo was first called the Wadsworth Normal and Training School. The College stands on land donated by a Wadsworth; its establishment and early development was supported in part by the tireless efforts and philanthropy of this civic-minded family. That tradition continues to this day.