William Nicholas Gesner
1817 - Abt 1910 (92 years)-
Name William Nicholas Gesner Born 19 Feb 1817 Gender Male Died Abt 1910 Person ID I7456 Multer Last Modified 16 Mar 2006
Father William Herbert Gesner, b. 1790, Closter Road, Palisades, Rockland County, New York 
, d. 1866 (Age 76 years) Mother Mary Ann (Marian) Mann, b. 1 Dec 1798, Tappan, Rockland County, New York , d. 22 Nov 1883 (Age 84 years) Married 30 May 1814 Family ID F1087 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Margaret Taylor Paton, b. 1824 Married 9 Dec 1840 New York, NY Children 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living 4. Living 5. Living 6. E. H. Gesner, d. of Stratford, Connecticut 7. Living 8. Mary Jane Gesner, b. 1 Aug 1841 Family ID F1092 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - William went to Tappantown at age 18 where he worked in the carpenter's trade. He helped tear down the old church and build a new one. Afterwards he went to New York City to work in the Sneden & Lawrence Ship Yard and helped to build "Steamboat Warren." "Wm. Gesner takes tool chest to N. Y. intending to work in Herbert Lawrence's yard." Jan. 6, 1843 where he worked until 1844.
October 28, 1844. William moved from New York to Fair Haven, Connecticut where he went into the ship building business as "Gesner & Baldwin". He built about 140 vessels of various sizes and classes, Sail, Steam and Motor weighing from 1 to 2500 tons. "G. P. Gesner, June 3, 1909."
"George Paton Gesner letter" to Winthrop S. Gilman: "Local Histgory', Palisades Free Library.
- William went to Tappantown at age 18 where he worked in the carpenter's trade. He helped tear down the old church and build a new one. Afterwards he went to New York City to work in the Sneden & Lawrence Ship Yard and helped to build "Steamboat Warren." "Wm. Gesner takes tool chest to N. Y. intending to work in Herbert Lawrence's yard." Jan. 6, 1843 where he worked until 1844.