Son of Stephen and Jemima Babcock Waite
Husband of Sarah Buchanan (md. 25 Feb 1818)
From the History of Catt. Co., Evarts, 1879:
Reuben Wait settled on lot 39 in 1825, having come from Washington County that year. He was a native of that county, and was born in 1793. He died December, 1865, on the farm where he first settled. One son is living in Cold Spring, one in town, and one in the State of Kansas. Warden B., another son, resides on the old homestead. Isaac, James, Peleg, Oliver, and William Wait came from the same place as the above in 1825, and located on lots 36 and 39.