Although but 19 years of age he had already become noted as an Electrician.

Henry M. Requa's daughter, Catherine, has been Principal of the 1 2th Street School, New York City, for many years.

James Requa, son of Joseph, had a daughter Mary Eliza, who married Henry Sanger, of Howard, Sanger & Co., and was so the ancestor of Col. Wm. Cary Sanger, of Saugerneld, N. Y. Col. Sanger was elected Member ofxAssembly from Oneida Co., in November, 1894.

The children of Lieut. Joseph Requa creditably sustained the character and integrity of their parents. James, Gerrit, Isaac and Henry M. , were Wholesale Grocery Merchants in Albany ; Gilbert and William were farmers. Jeannette, a daughter of Lieut. Joseph, married Bela Squire, late of Tarry town ; Mary, another daughter, married Geo. Wood and had son G. L. Wood ofTarrytown.

William Requa, son of James Requa, was born at Tarrytown, or rather on that part of Philipsc Manor, afterwards called Tarrytown Heights, and now Pocantico. Hills, July 24, 1771; married Mary Hunt. They had a son, Thomas Hunt Requa, who removed to Esopus, Ulster, Co., and there married Harriet Smith. Thomas Hunt Recpia died at Kingston, 1870. They had three children. William H., who was killed by an accident in 1871, at Boston, leaving two children, both living in Albany. Smith Requa, son Thos. H. , resides at Middleburgh, N. Y. Has four children : William A., Alice May, Albert F... and Jennie L. Chas. W. Requa, another son of Thos. PL, resides in Chicago, and has for 18 years been a member of the Board of Trade 0! of that city. He married Catharine Bruyn, of Ulster Co., and has two sons, Wm. Bruyn and Chas. Howard Requa in the Commission business, Chicago, under the firm name of Requa Bros,