BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
In 1792, Colonel John Lincklaen, who was an agent for the Holland Land
Company, went to central New York to see some of the company tracts of land,
including the present township of Cazenovia. Colonel Lincklaen made a temporary
encampment at the foot of Cazanovia Lake, and later founded a village on this
spot. There, in 1807, he built a federal mansion called "Lorenzo." He and his
wife, the former Helen Ledyard of Aurora, New York, had no children, but they
adopted Mrs. Lincklaen's brother, Jonathan Denise Ledyard (1793-ca.1874) and
made him their heir. After the death of Colonel Lincklaen, Jonathan Ledyard
took over the management of the Holland Land Company's affairs and eventually
purchased their interests and property. Jonathan married Jane Strawbridge of
Philadelphia and their eldest son was named Lincklaen Ledyard. In an attempt to
perpetuate the name of the family benefactor, he had his name legally reversed
to Ledyard Lincklaen, but his only child was a daughter, Helen Lincklaen, who
married Charles S. Fairchild, the secretary of the treasury under President
Grover Cleveland. On the death of Mrs. Fairchild in 1931, Lorenzo was willed to
her cousin, Mrs. Eliphalet Remington, who died in 1953, leaving it to her
brother, George S. Ledyard, the present occupant with his son, John
Ledyard.
