George Frank Wait was born 22 December 1825 in Brunswick, Medina, Ohio. He married Hannah Pathena Matrin (d. 1871) in 1859. They had four children. He married Almira Graham in 1873. They had five children. He died 19 February 1920 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Germany, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin.

George Denison (1620-1694) married Bridget Thompson (d.1643) in 1622, and emigrated from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts. After her death, he returned to England to serve in Cromwell's army there, was taken prisoner, later freed, and married Ann Borodell about 1645. He and his second wife then returned to Massachusetts, and shortly they moved to New London, Connecticut, and in 1658 to Stonington, Connecticut. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Illinois, Virginia, Tennessee, Texas, California and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and genealogical data in England to the early 1500s. The genealogical data contained in Baldwin and Clift's "The descendants of Captain George Denison" (1881) is is included in this book, as is also the genealogical data from various smaller works