Editing Frederick Law Olmsted (section)

== Personal life ==
On June 13, 1859, Olmsted married Mary Cleveland (Perkins) Olmsted, the widow of his brother John, who died in 1857. [[Daniel Fawcett Tiemann]], the mayor of New York, officiated the wedding. Olmsted adopted Mary's three children (his nephews and niece), [[John Charles Olmsted]] (born 1852), Charlotte Olmsted (born 1855), and Owen Frederick Olmsted (born 1857).<ref name=":0" />

Frederick and Mary also had two children together who survived infancy: a daughter, Marion (born October 28, 1861), and a son [[Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.]] (born July 24, 1870). Their first child, John Theodore Olmsted, was born on June 13, 1860, and died in infancy.<ref>Witold Rybezynski, ''A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century,'' Scribner, New York, 1999.</ref><ref name="OlmstedHubbard1922">{{cite book |author1=Frederick Law Olmsted |url=https://archive.org/details/fredericklawolm00hubbgoog |title=Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822–1903 |author2=Theodora Kimball Hubbard |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |year=1922 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/fredericklawolm00hubbgoog/page/n103 78]–}}</ref>

In recognition of his services during the Civil War, Olmsted was elected a Third Class member of the Massachusetts Commandery of the [[Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States]] (MOLLUS) on May 2, 1888, and was assigned insignia number 6345. Olmsted's election to MOLLUS is significant in that he was one of the few civilians elected to membership in an organization composed almost exclusively of military officers and their descendants.<ref>1912 Register of the Massachusetts Commandery of MOLLUS.</ref> In 1891 he joined the Connecticut Society of the [[Sons of the American Revolution]] by right of his descent from his grandfather Benjamin Olmsted who served in the 4th Connecticut Regiment in 1775.<ref>Yearbook of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution 1897, 1898 & 1899, p. 587.</ref>

In 1895, [[senility]] forced Olmsted to retire. By 1898 he moved to [[Belmont, Massachusetts]], and took up residence as a patient at the [[McLean Hospital]], for whose grounds he had submitted a design which was never executed. He remained there until he died in 1903.