In 1790, William Vedder (b~ 1766, son of Albert and Neeltje (Banker) Vedder) married Eva DeGraff (b~1770, daughter of Cornelius and Rebecca (Van Patten) Degraff). In 1797, William was deeded 44 1⁄2 acres by the Trustees of the Town of Schenectady; with a yearly lease payment of 4/6ths of a bushel of winter wheat. His property adjoined his father-in-law Cornelius DeGraff’s property. William and Eva had at least 7 children. Eva died between 1830 & 1840. In 1847, just prior to his death, William “sold” all of his property on Spring Road for $1 to their son, Albert W Vedder. According to the deed, William also acquired other parcels of land over the years and by 1847, owned about 75 acres of land (in 4 separately described parcels).

Albert W Vedder (b~ 1798), married Catharine Ann DeForest (b~1807) in 1829. They had two daughters; Eleanor born in 1830 and Catharine born in 1835. Albert was seen on Spring Rd on the 1856 and 1866 maps of Glenville in the exact location of the 32 Spring Rd house. Albert died in 1879 and his wife, Catharine, likely died between 1880-1899.

In 1849, their daughter, Eleanor, married Reuben Ellsworth (b~1821) from Montgomery County, NY. Reuben was an entrepreneur, manufacturing brooms in Glenville and was a Legislator in the State Assembly. They moved to Illinois in 1857. There, Reuben ran a hardware business, a manufacturing company, invested in real estate, patented inventions and was elected for 2 terms in Congress. He died in 1885 and news of his death was published in many national newspapers. Eleanor died in 1896. Albert and Catharine’s youngest daughter, Catharine, never married and always lived with her parents. In 1899, she sold the 45 +/- acre parcel (which included the house) to Michael Murrin (b~ 1842 in Ireland). Catharine moved to 130 Glen Ave, Scotia and died in 1913. Michael and Ellen (Lane) Murrin (b~1869 New York) moved to the farm on Spring Rd from Schenectady with their son Howard (b~1899). Michael deeded the property to Ellen and Howard in 1912 and he died in 1915. Ellen and Howard sold the farm to Doris Boyle in 1929 and they moved to 52 Vley Rd., Scotia. Howard was a graduate of Union College, an attorney for the Village of Scotia and a pilot. He never married and retired in 1955, moving to Florida where he died shortly afterwards. Ellen Murrin died in 1950.

Doris (Calkins) Boyle was b~1896 in Willsboro, Essex County. About 1919, she married Ernest Haviland Boyle b~1891; he was an architect from Richmond County, NY. It was said that Haviland designed the street lamps for Chinatown in San Francisco. By 1925 Haviland was working for GE in Schenectady and they had moved to Halcyon St, Scotia. In 1929, Doris purchased the 45 +/- acre parcel on Spring Rd and they moved there with their daughter Dorothy. By 1930, Haviland was a self-employed architect and an art teacher at the Clark School in Albany. Utilizing the beams from an old barn on the property, he added a 2nd floor office, a garage and changed the look of the exterior of the house. The Boyles also subdivided the property and sold off several lots. In 1948, they sold the house (now on 1 1⁄2 acres) to William G and Zora J Jordan. The Boyles stayed in the Glenville area until the 1960’s, when they moved to California to be near their daughter.

Haviland died there in 1987 and Doris in 1995.
In 1950, the Jordan’s sold it to Robert C and Millicent J Leech.
In 1954, the Leech’s sold it to John D and Katherine G Coleman.

In 1959, Jane and Donald Stavely purchased the property from the Coleman’s and lived there until 2006.
About 1960 the construction of the Glen Oaks housing development was started (on the back acreage of 32 Spring Rd) by Stanley Szymczak. The streets were named for the Boyles: Haviland, Doris, and Boyle.

The current owners, Lisa Schweinfurth and Christopher Shawn, have continued to care for the house and have made many quality and appropriate improvements.