Stearns Family Association Funding.

In the summer of 1892 a few persons in Syracuse, N. Y., and vicinity formed a New York State Association of the Stearns families, with E. C. Stearns, President, Edson J. Stearns, Vice President, and Mrs. Avis (Stearns) Van Wagenen, Secretary and Treasurer. It was the intention of the association to solicit additional memberships until a sufficient number should join them from all parts of North America and ultimately become a National Organization, with the purpose of taking that part of “Bond's Genealogies" pertaining to the Stearns families, as a basis for a new work, and bringing the records of all who would cooperate in the movement down to the present time. After several months of earnest effort throughout the state, so little interest was aroused in the subject that the Association finally abandoned its object. In the early part of the year 2001 Bryan Kent Stearns decided to re-start the association and call it the Stearns Family Association. Our intent is the same as it was back then.Find all Stearns and variations and grow our family tree.