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James C. Wetmore (Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, merchant and Ohio state military agent)

b. 1813-05-01 d. 1895-08-13

Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, merchant and Ohio state military agent. New York native. Son of Oliver Wetmore and Sarah Brewster Wetmore. Married Catherine Mary De Hart Chetwood Wetmore in Elizabethtown, New Jersey on May 31, 1851. Father of John C. Wetmore. Member of the New York Stock exchange from 1850 to 1856. Merchant in Columbus, Ohio in 1860. Appointed State Military Agent for Ohio 1861 to 1865.

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White

Bibliography

: Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Franklin County, Columbus, p. 90. New York, Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801-1880 (Baber Collection), Marriages taken from the “Brooklyn Eagle,” (accessed via ancestry.com). Richard F. Miller ed., States at War, Volume 5, A Reference Guide for Ohio in the Civil War (Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2015), 411. “The Ogden Family in America: Elizabethtown Branch and their English Ancestry: John Ogden, the Pil,” North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), 259 (accessed via ancestry.com). James Carnahan Wetmore, The Wetmore Family of America and Its Collateral Branches with Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Notices (Albany, NY: Munsell & Rowland, 1861), 314 (accessed via Google Books). “Obituary Record, James C. Wetmore,” New York Times, August 14, 1895. James C. Wetmore, Report of James C. Wetmore, Ohio state military agent, to the governor of Ohio (Washington D.C: Philip & Solomons, 1865), 3-9 (accessed via HaitiTrust).

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Wetmore, James C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201988 (November 12, 2026).

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