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ENCYCLOPEDIA -OF- CONNECTICUT BIOGRAPHY GENEALOGICAL-MEMORIAL
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS
Compiled with the Assistance of a
Capable Corps of Advisers and Contributors
ILLUSTRATED
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THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Inc.) PUBLISHERS CHICAGO
Foreword
E ACH one of us is "the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time." We build upon the solid foundations laid by the strenuous efforts of the fathers who have gone before us. Nothing is more fitting, and indeed more important, than that we should familiarize ourselves with their work and personality; for it is they who have lifted us up to the lofty positions from which we are working out our separate careers. "Lest we forget," it is important that we gather up the fleeting memories of the past and give them permanent record in well-chosen words of biography, and in such repro- duction of the long lost faces as modern science makes possible.
SAMUEL HART.
BIOGRAPHICAL
Wiliam Walter Whileop.
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WILCOX, William Walter (3rd), Manufacturer.
With many worthy ancestors for ex- ample, with a natural aptitude for busi- ness, and with the advantages of being reared in a good New England home, Mr. Wilcox began life under very favorable auspices. The family of Wilcox is of Saxon origin, and was seated before the Norman Conquest at Bury-St. Edmunds, Suffolk county, England. Fifteen gener- ations of this family prior to the year 1600 are mentioned in the "Visitation of the County of Suffolk," going back to the year 1200, when the name was estab- lished as a surname and family title. Many spellings are found in early records, including Wilcocks, Wilcoxon and Will- cox, used interchangeably.
(I) Among the early residents of Hart- ford, Connecticut, was John Wilcox, who served as selectman in 1640, was chosen surveyor in 1643-44, and died in 1651. His name appears on the monument erected to the pioneers of Hartford in the Center Church burying-ground. His wife died about 1668.
(II) John (2) Wilcox, eldest child of John (1) Wilcox, was born in England, came to Hartford with his father, and was one of the first proprietors in 1639. In 1655 he removed to Middletown Upper Houses, now Cromwell, where he died, May 24, 1676. He made extended pur- chases of land there, having forfeited his grant through failure to settle there as early as 1653. Prior to November 1, 1655, he had built a house and he was active in various departments of town manage- ment. He married for his fourth wife
Esther Cornwall, born in May, 1650, died May 2, 1733, daughter of William and Mary Cornwall, pioneers of Middletown, Connecticut. By will of her father she received a whole lot east of the river in what is now Portland. She married (second) John Stow of that town.
(III) Ephraim Wilcox, eldest child of John (2) Wilcox, was born July 9, 1672, in what is now Cromwell, removed to East Middletown, now Portland, where he died January 4, 1713. He married Au- gust 23, 1698, Silence Hand, daughter of Benjamin Hand, who removed from Guil- ford to Middletown.
(IV) Janna Wilcox, eldest child of Ephraim and Silence (Hand) Wilcox, was born September 20, 1701, prior to the removal of his parents to East Middle- town. He married, April 29, 1725, Rachel Boardman, born September 16, 1706, in Wethersfield, Connecticut, daughter of Samuel and Mehitable (Cadwell) Board- man, who removed to Portland.
(V) Aaron Wilcox, third son of Janna and Rachel (Boardman) Wilcox, was born June 13, 1745, in East Middletown, and died there March 6, 1820. He mar- ried Sarah Bell, born February 19, 1745, in Glastonbury, daughter of Isaac Bell, and died October 18, 1813.
(VI) Asahel Wilcox, eldest child of Aaron and Sarah (Bell) Wilcox, was born May 9, 1771, in East Middletown, and died before his father, October 31, 1817. He married, October 2, 1791, Lucy Crit- tenden, born in 1772, died October 25, 1811, daughter of Daniel (2) and Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden (see Crittenden VI).
(VII) William Walter Wilcox, young- est child of Asahel and Lucy (Crittenden)
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Wilcox, was born May 20, 1803, and lived in Portland, Connecticut, where he died, November 6, 1824, shortly after his mar- riage. His wife, Mary Plum (Rand) Wil- cox, born in 1804, survived him but a short time, and died November 4, 1826. (VIII) William Walter (2) Wilcox, only child of William Walter (1) and Mary Plum (Rand) Wilcox, was born May 23, 1825 (after the death of his father ), and was many years one of the most active and prominent citizens of Middletown, Connecticut, where he died, November 10, 1903. The public schools supplied such education as he was priv- ileged to receive and early in life he mani- fested exceptional capability. Having ac- cumulated a capital of $133.00 he estab- lished what grew to be a great industry, founded upon his inventions of ship chandlery articles. Previous to the age of six years he lived with his grandmother and was then taken into the family of his aunt, Mrs. Ira K. Penfield, of Portland, Connecticut. His home there was in the section of Chatham, now a part of Port- land, known as Gildersleeve. About the time of his majority he suffered a severe attack of measles which impaired his health and he went South, where he trav- elled extensively in the interests of a New York business house until 1847. Return- ing to Middletown, he entered the employ of Eldredge H. Penfield, who had just patented a brass eyelet or grommet, and had begun its manufacture with hand and foot presses in a small room in Middle- town. Mr. Wilcox's wages were five shil- lings per day and when his employer went out of business in 1849, he was indebted to Mr. Wilcox in the sum of $133.00. Forming a partnership with his uncle, Ira K. Penfield, under the business title of Penfield & Wilcox, the business was con- ducted with Mr. Wilcox as travelling salesman until June 1, 1849. He visited all
of the sail lofts along the coast from Nova Scotia to Texas, where he demonstrated the advantages of his manufactured goods over those previously in use and soon gave the business a great impetus. Shortly afterward, Mr. Wilcox invented a round edge sail thimble, made of malleable iron, which came into general use through- out maritime industry.
Mr. Wilcox was the first in this country to introduce galvanized iron castings and forgings in ship construction. In 1859, after ten years of very successful business, Mr. Wilcox sold his interests to his part- ner and engaged in business on his own account. He leased space with water power at the south end of the city at a cost of $75.00 per year and soon admitted to partnership in his business Joseph Hall, of Portland, with whom he con- tinued some ten years, and then became sole owner by purchase of his partner's interest. At this time Mr. Wilcox formed a co-partnership with several gentlemen of Middletown, under the firm name of Wilcox, Crittenden & Company, a title which is now known throughout the mari- time world. Many of the goods manu- factured by his establishment are still in use in the English navy. He made im- provements on the original invention, re- sulting in an entirely new grommet, which was patented in 1884, a very great im- provement on anything heretofore used. Mr. Wilcox visited England, where he succeeded in introducing it to the English navy, and his establishment soon became one of the largest in this line of business in the United States. The plant at Mid- dletown was operated by both steam and water power and subsequently by elec- tricity generated by those same powers. Their goods are now used in all of the great navies and find a ready market in all harbors. In 1906 the establishment received a charter from the State of Con-
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necticut, and though its chief moving spirit has passed away, the business con- tinues to increase in volume. Mr. Wilcox was variously active in local affairs ; he was made a director of the Middletown National Bank in 1883, served in both branches of the city government ; and was elected representative to the State Legis- lature in 1877 and 1879. He was a regu- lar attendant and liberal supporter of the South Congregational Church, in which Mrs. Wilcox has always been a prominent worker.
Mr. Wilcox married, November 17, 1853, Elizabeth Shepard Crittenden, (see Crittenden line), who was born March 5, 1835, in Portland, daughter of George and Anne Eliza (Sellew) Crittenden, a de- scendant of an old time family of that section. (See Crittenden line ).
(IX) William Walter Wilcox (3rd), eldest child of William Walter (2) and Elizabeth Shepard (Crittenden) Wilcox, was born April 11, 1862, in Middletown, Connecticut, where he is now actively engaged as the successor of his father in a very extensive manufacturing industry. He grew up in his native city, received an excellent preliminary education, and graduated from Williams College, B. A., in 1885. Immediately on leaving college, he engaged in business under the training of his honored father, and was prepared upon the death of the latter to assume the full responsibilities of president of the Wilcox, Crittenden Company.
Mr. Wilcox has always been active in furthering the best interests of his native city and State, and is recognized as a citizen of ability and worth. He is vice- president of the Middletown National Bank ; a director of the Farmers and Me- chanics Savings Bank; and of the Con- necticut Industrial School for Girls; and is secretary of the board of trustees of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane.
Though firm in his support of the political principles expounded by the Republican party, he steadfastly declined to be a can- didate for any public office until 1918, when he was elected representative to the State Legislature. In the session of 1919 he served as chairman of the Committee on Railroads. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, and of numerous clubs, among them being : University Club of New York City ; Graduates' Club of New Haven ; Highland Country Club; and the Sigma Phi frater- nity of Williams College. During the World War he was active in many organ- izations: Chairman of the Middlesex County American National Red Cross (with nineteen branches throughout the county ) ; vice-chairman of the Middlesex County War Bureau; one of the public speakers of the Connecticut "Four-Minute Men;" and member of the Connecticut State Guard. With his family, he is iden- tified with the South Congregational Church of Middletown.
Mr. Wilcox married, in Hartford, No- vember 3, 1886, Mary Elizabeth Root, of that city, born August 23, 1865, only daughter of G. Welles and Pauline S. (Brooks) Root (see Root line). Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox are the parents of three chil- dren : 1. Pauline Root, born August 3. 1891, now the wife of Julian B. Smith, of Waterbury. 2. Elizabeth, born September 10, 1896; married, June 15, 1921, Phelps Ingersoll, of St. Paul, Minnesota. 3. Wil- liam Walter (4), born December 27, 1901.
(The Crittenden Line).
Down through the generations the Crit- tenden family has been connected by mar- riage with many of the most prominent pioneer families of the State, including those of Kimberly, Bulkeley, Lord, Chauncey, Robbins, Hamilton and Pyn- chon.
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(I) The founder of the Crittenden fam- ily in America was Abraham Crittenden, who came from Cranebrook, Kent, Eng- land, and was one of the founders of the Guilford Colony, of which he was made a trustee, and secretary at the time of its purchase in 1639. He was born about 1609-10, and died in January, 1683, at Guilford, where he was often in public office and a large landholder. His first wife, Mary, who accompanied him from England, died in 1661.
(II) Abraham (2) Crittenden, eldest son of Abraham (1) and Mary Crittenden, born about 1635, was a farmer in Guilford, Connecticut, and died September 25, 1694. He married, May 13, 1661, in New Haven, Connecticut, Susannah, daughter of Thomas and Jane Griegson ; she died Sep- tember 8, 1712.
(III) Abraham (3) Crittenden, eldest son of Abraham (2) and Susannah (Grieg- son) Crittenden, was born March 8, 1662, in Guilford, where he had a two-acre home lot in 1716 and was assessed over £ 183. He married, May 6, 1686, Susannah Kirby, born March 8, 1664, in that part of Middle- town which is now West Cromwell, daughter of John and Elizabeth Kirby ; she died in October, 1729, in Guilford.
(IV) Daniel Crittenden, son of Abra- ham (3) and Susannah (Kirby) Critten- den, was born May 27, 1696, in Guilford, and became a physician of a somewhat roving disposition. He lived successively in New Haven, Middletown, and Milford, Connecticut, and Edgartown, Massachu- setts, where he died in 1751. He married Patience Bradley, probably a daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Thompson) Bradley, of New Haven, who died August 14, 1733, said to have been fifty-five years of age, more probably forty-five.
(V) Dr. Hopesdale Crittenden, son of Dr. Daniel and Patience (Bradley) Crit- tenden, was a resident of New Haven in 1741, of Haddam in 1745, and later of Mid-
dletown, where his house is still standing. He married Mary Wetmore Bacon, born in 1719, daughter of Nathaniel and Han- nah (Wetmore) Bacon. They were the parents of fifteen children.
(VI) Daniel (2) Crittenden, second son of Dr. Hopesdale and Mary Wetmore (Bacon) Crittenden, born in 1744, was a farmer living in what is now the town of Portland, and died in 1824. He married Rhoda Tryon, daughter of William and Sarah (Goodrich) Tryon, born about 1746, died in 1828, and their daughter, Lucy, be- came the wife of Asahel Wilcox as prev- iously noted.
(VII) David Crittenden, son of Daniel (2) and Rhoda (Tryon) Crittenden, born about 1778, lived in Portland, where he died in 1859, and where his house is still standing. He was a lieutenant in the United States army in the War of 1812, and served at the defense of New London. He married, April 25, 1802, Elizabeth Shepard, who was born July 10, 1781, daughter of Lieutenant Daniel and Phebe (Strickland) Shepard, died August 19, 1821. Lieutenant Daniel Shepard was a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
(VIII) George Crittenden, eldest son of David and Elizabeth (Shepard) Crit- tenden, was born April 23, 1808, in Port- land, where he was reared on the paternal farm and began life in the immediate vicinity of his birthplace, where he was a farmer, and died September 20, 1852. He married, November 12, 1832, in Glaston- bury, Anne Eliza Sellew, who was born March 7, 1806, in that town, daughter of Thomas and Lucy Bulkeley (Lord) Sel- lew, died May 10, 1891, at the home of her son in Middletown (see Sellew line). Their daughter, Elizabeth Shepard Crit- tenden, married William Walter (2) Wil- cox, as previously noted.
(The Sellew Line)
. (I) The Sellew family is of French origin, and was founded by Philip Sellew (Salu,
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Selu, and Seleu), a Huguenot. The pres- ent form of the name gives little clue to its original spelling. When a young man Philip Sellew settled at Edgartown, on Martha's Vineyard, and was a school- master for a period of fifty years there and at Hyannis, and died May 15, 1773. His second wife, Abigail Martin (Martain), was undoubtedly also of French origin.
(II) Captain John Leland Sellew, son of Philip and Abigail (Martin) Sellew, was born in 1717 in Edgartown, and mar- ried there, September 20, 1739, Hannah Hamilton, born there July 18, 1721, daughter of James and Barsheba (Pease) Hamilton.
(III) Philip (2) Sellew. son of Captain John and Hannah (Hamilton) Sellew, born about 1740, at Edgartown, and set- tled in Glastonbury, Connecticut. He was probably a soldier of the Revolution, as one of his name served in that struggle. He married, in Glastonbury, April 2, 1767, Elizabeth Kimberly Smith, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Kimberly) Smith, of Suffield, and Wethersfield, respectively. (IV) Thomas Sellew, second son of Philip (2) and Elizabeth Kimberly (Smith) Sellew, was born in 1774, and lived in Glastonbury, where he died in 1862. He married, January 1, 1800, Lucy Bulkeley Lord, born about 1775, died in 1816.
(V) Anne Eliza Sellew, daughter of Thomas and Lucy Bulkeley (Lord) Sel- lew, was born March 7, 1806, and died in 1891 ; she became the wife of George Crit- tenden, of Portland (see Crittenden line), and the mother of Elizabeth Shepard Crit- tenden, who became the wife of William Walter (2) Wilcox (see Wilcox line). She survives her husband and now resides in Middletown, where she has long been active in social life. She is a member of the Huguenot Society and was formerly regent of Wadsworth Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution ; and vice-
president for Connecticut of the Mary Washington Memorial Association. She is the mother of a son and daughter, the latter, Mary Crittenden Wilcox, born Au- gust 8, 1866, married, October 1, 1890, Heman Charles Whittlesey, Yale 18So, now treasurer of the Wilcox, Crittenden Company.
(The Root Line).
Mrs. Mary E. (Root) Wilcox is a de- scendant of one of the oldest Hartford, Connecticut families of English origin and was herself born in that city, where her father was an active business man.
(I) The family of Root has been traced to John Root, a resident of Badbey Parish, Northamptonshire, England, who mar- ried, about 1600, Ann Russell. He appears to have been a resident of Farmington, Connecticut, and is supposed to have re- turned to England and died at Badbey. The baptisms of four of his children are recorded there.
(II) Thomas Root, eldest son of John Root, was baptized January 16, 1605, in Badbey, Northamptonshire. England, and came to this country about 1637. He was among the first settlers of Hartford, Con- necticut, where he lived for about fifteen years and where all his children were born. His name appears on the Founders' Monument there, and in 1639 he is called a "considerable landholder." On May 9, 1654, he removed with his family to Northampton, Massachusetts, and became one of the eight planters of what was then called Nonatuck, was selectman, a soldier of the Pequot War, and is supposed to have been a deacon of the church there. Ry occupation he was a fariner, and also a weaver of cloth. He died July 17, 1694, and left a will in which he mentioned all his children and the fact that he lived with his son, Jonathan, at the old homestead. His wife's name is unknown.
(III) Thomas (2) Root, son of Thomas
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(1) Root, was born about 1644, in Hart- ford, Connecticut, and lived in Northamp- ton until the death of his first wife, when he removed to Boston, Massachusetts, and subsequently to Lynn, and is described as a husbandman in that town. He mar-> ried, July 3, 1666, Abigail Alvord, eldest daughter of Alexander and Mary (Voar) Alvord, born October 6, 1647, in Wind- sor, Connecticut, died June 17, 1699, in Northampton.
(IV) Deacon Thomas (3) Root, eld- est child of Thomas (2) and Abigail (Al- vord) Root, was born April II, 1667, in Northampton, and in 1709 settled in Cov- entry, Connecticut, where he was the first town clerk, first deacon of the church, and died November 3, 1758. He married, March 4, 1691, Thankful Strong, daughter of Jedediah and Freedom (Woodward) Strong, born in Northampton, died in 1745, in Coventry.
(V) Ebenezer Root, second son of Dea- con Thomas (3) and Thankful (Strong) Root, born November 5, 1693, in North- ampton, was in his sixteenth year when he removed with his father to Coventry, and there spent his life filling various civil offices and gaining the esteem of his fel- lows, and died January 30, 1760. He mar- ried, May 19, 1718, Sarah Strong, daugh- ter of Joseph and Sarah (Allen) Strong, of Coventry, born in 1699, died, December 13, 1784.
(VI) Hon. Jesse Root, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Strong) Root, was born Jan- uary 10, 1737, in Coventry, and died March 29, 1822, in Hartford. He was a gradu- ate of Yale, and an eminent lawyer, lieu- tenant of militia, captain of volunteers during the Revolution, State's attorney, assemblyman, congressman, judge of the Superior Court, chief justice in 1789, presi- dential elector in 1808, honored by Yale with the degree of LL. D. and chosen to deliver the address of welcome when Gen-
eral Washington visited Hartford. There was concentrated in him all the strong characteristics of his sires, and to his de- scendants he bequeathed the same rich legacy. He married, May 19, 1758, Mary Banks, of Newark, New Jersey, born' about 1733, died December 5, 1813, in Coventry.
(VII) Dr. James Banks Root, fifth son of Hon. Jesse and Mary (Banks) Root, was born May 20, 1770, and lived in Athens, New York, where he died, Febru- ary 25, 1813, at the age of forty-three years. He married, June 8, 1797, Martha Sargeant, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, born 1773-1774, died March 15, 1821.
(VIII) Erastus Sargeant Root, son of Dr. James Banks and Martha (Sargeant) Root, was born December 19, 1798, in Burlington, Vermont, and lived at Mount Morris, New York. He and his family were identified with the Methodist Epis- copal church. He married, April 7, 1822, in Augusta, New York, Dorcas Welles, of Winchester, Connecticut.
(IX) George Welles Root, second son of Erastus Sargeant and Dorcas (Welles) Root, born April 26, 1826, in Mount Mor- ris, was for many years in business in Hartford as a member of the firm of Owen, Day & Root, dry goods commis- sion merchants. He was a Congrega- tionalist. He married, January 18, 1850, Pauline S. Brooks, of Hartford. Their youngest child, Mary Elizabeth Root, born August 23, 1865, became the wife of William Walter Wilcox, 3d. (see Wilcox line).
BACON, John Plum,
Undertaker, Public Official.
Among the oldest families of Middle- town, Connecticut, is that of Bacon, and many of its descendants are still found in that town, pursuing worthily the various
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industries which are important in the community. This is probably a place name, derived from the ancient seigniory in Normandy, whence the ancestors re- moved to England. The great Suffolk family of Bacon was founded by one Gremald or Grimaldus (a relative of the great Norman chieftain, William de War- renne), who came to England at the time of the Conquest, and settled near Holt, in Suffolk. His great-grandsons took the place name of Bacon for a sirname. The name is still in use in the North of France. In 1082 William Bacon endowed the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen. The Bat- tle Rolls of England in the eleventh century and the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth century bear the name, with occasional variations in spelling, such as Bacun and Bachun, and occasionally as Beacon. Descendants of the family were very early in Virginia. The original site of the family was near Ipswich, in Suf- folk, but prominent representatives have been found in Durham, Hampshire, Nor- folk, Somerset and Yorkshire. William Bacon, born about 1608, lived in the par- ish of Stretton, County of Rutland, Eng- land, and had a numerous family.
(I) Nathaniel Bacon, son of William Bacon (according to a doubtful tradition), was born about 1630, and came to New England when about nineteen years old and settled first with his Uncle Andrew Bacon, a deacon, at Hartford, Connecti- cut. In the fall of 1650 he joined the com- pany which founded Middletown and was afterwards a leading and influential man, a large landholder in that town. By the will of his Uncle Andrew he received con- siderable property. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas Miller, Sr., and his wife, Isabella, who came from Rowley, Massachusetts, and settled in Middle- town ; she died July 6, 1680.
(II) John Bacon, fourth son of Nathan-
iel Bacon, was born March 14, 1663, in Middletown, where he made his home, and where he died November 4, 1732. His home was on his father's homestead, to which he succeeded on the death of the latter. He married. November 26, 1689. Sarah Wetmore, or Whitmore, baptized November 27. 1664. in Middletown. daughter of Deacon Thomas and Sarah (Hale) Wetmore, sometimes written Whetmore. She died February 14, 1698. (III) Lieutenant John (2) Bacon, son of John (1) and Sarah (Wetmore) Bacon, was born January 30, 1695, on the home- stead, which he inherited as the only sur- viving son, and became a large land- holder. He married, March 5, 1719, Sarah White, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Mould) White, a descendant of Robert White, a yeoman of Messing. County Essex, England, who was living in Shel- ford when he married, June 24. 1585, Bridget Allgar, baptized March 11, 1562, daughter of William Allgar. Robert White was buried June 17, 1617. His son, Elder John White, baptized in Shelford, married, December 26, 1622, Mary Levit. In 1632 they came in the ship "Lion" and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Gore Hall, of Harvard University, now stands. In 1633 he was a freeman, in 1635 townsman or selectman, and in 1636 moved to Hartford. His home lot was on what is now Governor street, ten rods south of the Park river. He was often selectman of the town. In 1635 he had grants of land in Middletown, but does not appear to have removed thither. In 1659 he settled at Hadley, Massachu- setts, where he was often in official sta- tion, and in 1670 returned to Hartford. Here he joined the Second Church, of which he was an elder until his death, which occurred between December 17, 1683, and January 23, 1684. He lived to hold in his arms his great-grandchild.
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