1. 2. Rosewell BINGHAM   b. 27 Apr 1754, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
2. 3. Tabitha BINGHAM   b. 24 Jun 1755, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
3. 4. Eunice BINGHAM   b. 18 Jun 1756, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
4. 5. James BINGHAM   b. 23 Apr 1758, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
5. 6. Nathan BINGHAM   b. 4 Jan 1760, Windham, Windham, Connecticut; d. 8 Jul 1760, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
6. 7. Nathan BINGHAM   b. 4 Apr 1761, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
7. 8. Calvin BINGHAM   b. 30 Jul 1762, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
8. 9. Harris BINGHAM   b. 17 Nov 1763, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
9. 10. Vine BINGHAM   b. 27 May 1765, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
10. 11. Lucy BINGHAM   b. 26 Feb 1767, Windham, Windham, Connecticut; d. Aug 1846, Claremont,, New Hampshire.
11. 12. Daniel BINGHAM   b. 10 Apr 1769, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.
12. 13. Truman BINGHAM   b. 17 Feb 1771, Windham, Windham, Connecticut.

1. 14. Nathan BRAINARD   b. 20 Jul 1787, Lemster,, New Hampshire; d. 1869, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 15. Harriet BRAINERD   b. 3 Sep 1790, ,, New Hampshire; d. 15 Jan 1853, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio; bur. Erie St. Cemetery.

RESIDENCES: 1785 - 1823 Lemster, N.H.
1823 Washington, N.H.
1834(?) 21 Prospect Street, (southeast corner of Sheriff) Cleveland, Ohio

OCCUPATION: Owned a music store, "Brainard and Mould" at 34 Superior Street, Cleveland, Ohio

1. 16. Fanny BRAINARD   b. 1812; d. 1875.
2. 17. Silas BRAINARD   b. 19 Feb 1814; d. 8 Apr 1871.
3. 18. Harriet BRAINARD   b. 1818; d. 1838.
4. 19. Henry Mather BRAINARD   b. 1823; d. 6 May 1855, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
5. 20. George W. BRAINARD   b. 1827; d. 24 Mar 1910, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
6. 21. Joseph Mather BRAINARD   b. 1830.
7. 22. Mary BRAINARD   b. 1833; d. 1837.

BIOGRAPHY: Source --- "Pioneer Families of Cleveland, Ohio 1796-1840", Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, 1914 (Evangelical Publishing House) pg 540

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Ozias Mather of East Haddam, son of Dr. Augustus Mather, married, in 1808, Harriet Brainard. She was the only daughter of Deacon Jabez Brainard, the revolutionary soldier, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work. She was also the sister of Nathan Brainard, the pioneer.

BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Mather died in 1813, in Washington, N.H., and Harriet Brainard Mather was left a widow with two little sons, one of them an infant born the year his father died.

BIOGRAPHY: She married, secondly, Edm?nd Lawrence of Groton, Mass., and in 1853, while on a visit with Cleveland relatives, she died, aged 63 years, and was buried in Erie St. cemetery. Mr. Lawrence survived her but a year, his death occurring in West Danvers, Mass. Her children were:

BIOGRAPHY: Henry Brainard Mather, b.1809; married, 1840, Ellen Everett, daughter of Charles Everett. Henry B. Mather died in Boston, Mass., in 1884.
Samuel Holmes Mather, b.1813; m. Emily Washington Gregory.

1. 23. Henry Brainard MATHER   b. 1809, ,, New Hampshire; d. 1884, Boston,, Massachusetts.
2. 24. Samuel Holmes MATHER   b. 1813, ,, New Hampshire; d. 14 Jan 1894, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

BIOGRAPHY:
BRAINARD, SILAS (19 Feb. 1814-8 Apr. 1871) turned an avocation for music into a business that supplied Cleveland with much of its early musical scores and instruments. The son of a merchant, he was born in Lempster, N.H., the son of Nathan and Fanny (Bingham) Silas. He was educated at New Hampton in the same state. He came to Cleveland in 1834 with his father and started in the grocer? business as N. Brainard & Son. An accomplished flutist, the younger Brainard also became active in the city's embryonic musical circles. He joined the CLEVELAND MUSICAL SOCIETY and began arranging music for its members. In 1836 he started his own music business, which eventually became an institution under the name S. BRAINARD'S SONS. Beginning with the retailing of music and musical instruments, Brainard added a publishing business in 1845 and purchased Watson's Hall at the same time, running it as Melodeon Hall and later Brainard's Hall . A house organ which he began in l864 as Western Musical World became one of the country's leading music publications under the name Brainard's Musical World. Although once regarded as having few peers as a flutist, he apparently subordinated his performing talents to the demands of his business. He was noted as the author of a Violin Instruction Book and numerous musical arrangements, some of which appeared under an assumed name. Brainard married Emily C. Mould and had 6 children: Charles, Henry, Fanny, Emma, Annie, and Laura. He died of inflammatory rheumatism in his residence at 348 Prospect Ave., survived by at least 3 sons: Charles, George, and Henry. Brainard was buried in WOODLAND CEMETERY .

S. BRAINARD'S SONS was Cleveland's leading 19th-century musical-instrument dealer and music publisher. SILAS BRAINARD founded the company in 1836 and opened a piano store in the American House hotel on Superior Ave., selling Chickering pianos shipped from the factory in Boston. In 1845 he purchased Watson's Hall, which had been built in 1840, and renamed it Melodeon Hall. In 1860 the name was changed to Brainard's Hall (later Opera House), and in 1875 to the GLOBE THEATER . In Jan. 1864 Brainard began publishing Western Musical World, a monthly journal of articles, hints to musicians, and sheet music. In 1869 the name was changed to Brainard's Musical World. Brainard took his sons, Chas. S. and Henry M., into the business, and in 1871 the company became S. Brainard's Sons. In 1876 they built a new 4-story building on Euclid Ave. near E. 4th St. to accommodate the store and publishing house. Its interior was fitted with massive woodwork, gas light, and a steam-driven elevator. In the 1870s and 1880s, Brainard's published vocal and instrumental music, songbooks, and especially political and patriotic songs. In 1878 S. Brainard's Sons established an office in Chicago; the company left Cleveland altogether in 1889, moved to Chicago, and continued to publish Brainard's Musical World until 1895. Henry M. Brainard remained in Cleveland to operate his own store, an outlet for Steinway pianos.

1. 25. Charles S. BRAINARD   d. 1897.
2. 26. Henry M. BRAINARD   d. 27 Oct 1918, Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 27. Fanny M. BRAINARD  
4. 28. Emma Louis BRAINARD   d. 1883.
5. 29. Annie M. BRAINARD  
6. 30. Laura C. BRAINARD  

OBIT: Name: Brainard, Henry M.
Date: May 4, 1855
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard- On the 3d of May, in the hope of a blissful immortality Henry M. Brainard in the thirty second year of his age. Funeral on Sunday at 3 o'clock, p. m. from the residence of Brainard Sheriff street. 5/6/1855. age 32. Woodland Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 31. Alice BRAINARD  
2. 32. Alfred H. BRAINARD  
3. 33. Water M. BRAINARD   d. 5 May 1878, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.

OBIT: Name: Brainard, George W.
Date: March 28, 1910
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #009.
Notes: Brainard-George W., died on March 24th in his 83d year, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Paul C. Condit, 4218 Carnegie ave. Funeral from his late home at 2 p.m. Monday. Burial private. 1827 - 1910. Lakeview Cemetery Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 34. Florence BRAINARD  
2. 35. Mary BRAINARD  

1. 36. Nellie BRAINARD  

Came to Cleveland in 1835

OBIT: Name: Mather, Samuel Holmes
Date: January 16, 1894
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #055.
Notes: Mather- Entered into rest, on Sunday morning, January 14, Samuel Holmes Mather, in the 81st year of his age. Funeral services at the family residence, No. Prospect st. on Tuesday at 2 o'clock p. m., standard time. Burial private. 1813-1894. Lakeview Cem. Cleveland, Ohio.

1. 37. Frederick Gregory MATHER   b. 1844, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
2. 38. Charles Henry MATHER   b. Abt 1845; d. Feb 1847, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.
3. 39. Ellen Augusta MATHER   b. 1847, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.