Westport in Connecticut's history, 1835-1935, Part 1

Author: Dort, Wakefield, 1923- editor
Publication date: 1935
Publisher: [Bridgeport, Conn.], [Printed by the Warner Bros. Co.]
Number of Pages: 248


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Title from cover.


Half-title: ... Ye olde towne of Westport, wrought from se offer townes of Fairfield, Norwalk and Weston one hundred years ago, frites you as its friend, or as a descendant of an early citizon to participate with the present townspeople in its centenary celebration May 2.5th, SHELF CARL and during the summer months in the tercentenary celebration of ve oide commonwealth of Connecticut. 1935.


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Records and have der, neerias. The intende - stants living at the dra partition the limits ofneto in most of their public improvements have interests diesede from those of the seaports in Facifula an Nowalk and such improvements however valuable are often defeated by three other positions of the towns who have the controles and possuo different interests. it is also believe that small towns are manager with smul lego informe Than large ones, It is well known that the towns ' Fanfold Anwalt an Meston are rach lange in territory and population, and your petitionny who compose manly all the Election living within in limits cannot doubt that it with be quatty to Then mitwant to be Defination and become a town by Themdetry. They there for troy your homens to inquire into the allegations afinthis and on finding the same to be him to grant your peticiones Request an fap an act in corpore . ting a town within the limits afredand with all Just might and familiages are usually bestowed whow towns in this state, or grant to your pulitising Lunch other any further relief an tp your home shall been right add profes and your feti · timers as in dig band socle company.


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AUTUMN IN CONNECTICUT


Sunshine has rested on these rolling hills, In patterns from the shadow of each cloud, Since ever earth took form. Clear color fills The woods, as always. Nature has allowed A festival of glory for a space, As she has ever done . . . And yet, today, I look with wonder; as upon a place New and most marvelous! Along this way Came my forefathers; eager to plunge down Deep roots of sentiment in a new land. Here, in these hills, flourished each happy town ... Here was their joy by new contentment fanned Until its flame burned high. With warm delight, I recognize their past in my new sight!


HENRIETTA CHOLMELEY-JONES


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FOREWORD


SHIS is a historical book about Westport. But it is not a history. That would be an anomaly. We know it.


What the thing really amounts to is an attempt to bal- ance a rigid classification of dates and events against a bit of color-not fictitious color but actual, earned picturesque tints. We may have failed. We hope not. At any rate, here it is, for better or for worse.


Accuracy is, in spite of the foregoing, a fetish with us, the editors. We cannot be held responsible for the facts in those articles which were prepared by individuals; for the others we accept the burden.


Aside from all this it is our devout and ardent wish that the book will give an inkling-no, more than that, a certainty- that the history of this area is fascinating. There is so much that couldn't go in here! There is so much more that must immediately, if ever, be unearthed and reduced to words!


The greatest compliment which could possibly be paid our efforts would be to have individuals or clubs or schools start to dig into the facts, fervent and ordinary, which have, in the aggregate, made the history of this town. If that happens, the book, no matter what the criticism, is a success. If not, the book, no matter what the praise, is a failure.


The result is not now so much on the knees of the gods as on those of the readers.


It is with great appreciation that acknowledgement for the material in this book is made to the following: To Alois Forger for the article "How Westport Became a Town"; to Irving Putney for "Colonial Roads and Trails"; to Charles E. Cutler for "Old Houses in Westport"; to Judge Joseph Adams for "Agriculture"; to John A. Baker, John Keene and the Com- mittee on Industries for "Industries"; to Mrs. Leslie Sniffen for "The Red Cross in Westport"; to Dr. W. R. Munson


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for "Westport's Physicians"; Mrs. E. C. Nash, and to Miss Dorothy Adams for "Westport's Schools." For assistance in preparing the list, "Workers for Westport," we give grateful acknowledgment to Selectman Alois Forger, Judge Austin Wakeman, Town Clerk William Krause, all of Westport, and to the State Library at Hartford. For the material in "The Westport Library" we are thankful for the help of Burton Davis, "THE WESTPORTER." Our sources on "Westport in the Wars" were Donald Crawford, "WESTPORT," by Birge, "GREEN'S FARMS" by Jennings, "HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD" by Schenck, "HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT" by Clarke, "REVOLU- TIONARY DAYS IN WESTPORT" by William H. Burr, "FAIR- FIELD COUNTY" by Hurd, "CONNECTICUT'S ACTIVITIES IN THE WARS OF THIS COUNTRY" by Irene Mix (Connecticut State Library), "TRYON'S RAID" by James R. Case, Irving Putney and many other individuals. In the article "Westport Churches" we drew largely on the printed sermons of the Rev. Thomas F. Davies, the Rev. Benjamin Relyea, both of the Congre- gational Society of Green's Farms, on Schenck's "HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD," and on the church histories furnished us by each devotional body in town. The subject matter in "SHIPS AND SAILORMEN" came from Harry B. Sherwood, from Judge Joseph Adams, from Birge's "WESTPORT" and from Hurd's "FAIRFIELD COUNTY."


To Laura Gardin Fraser, who designed the seal; to James Earl Fraser, who designed the medal; and to George Wright, who planned the cover, we wish to express our gratitude, and also to Gerald Mygatt, to the staff of the library, to Dorothy Adams for original lettering of invitation used as title page, and to the host of others who have assisted.


Especially do we acknowledge indebtedness to Mrs. Edith Very Sherwood, executive vice-chairman of the Centenary Committee, without whose zealous and untiring efforts neither this book nor the centenary celebration itself would be possible. June 26, 1935 WAKEFIELD DORT, Editor


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HOW WESTPORT BECAME A TOWN


TN APRIL, 1835, just a century ago, Daniel Nash and others of Fairfield, Norwalk and Weston made application for a charter to incorporate the Town of Westport. Why? Two main reasons. First, the majority of them lived more than six miles from the places where records were kept, and in those days six miles were six miles. Second, the rival seaports of Norwalk and Fairfield were treating the port of Westport like a stepchild.


On May 28, 1835, the charter was granted. On June 16 the first Westport town meeting was held and the following offi- cials were elected: Selectmen (selected men, quite obviously), Town Clerks, Constables, Grand Jurors, Haywards (hay wardens, or hedge wardens; their job being to look after hedges and fences and to impound any cattle that strayed or otherwise ate or slept in or on the hedges), Pound Keepers (who took care of such stray cattle and collected a fee for giving them something except hedges to feed on), Tything Men (tax collectors to you) and Fence Viewers. These last were the town diplomats who had to determine whether a boundary fence went this side or the other side of the big oak.


The first town meeting following the appointment of town officials was held in August, 1835. This was for the purpose of restricting the amount of oysters taken from the waters of Westport in any one day; and one hundred years later we are confronted with the same problem concerning clams.


At a special town meeting held in September of that same year, three assessors and a Board of Relief were appointed to complete the set of town officials. At the first annual town meeting in December they presented the first budget for the town, appropriating $608.42, approximately one and one-half per cent of our budget of today. The following year found a balance of $242.31.


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The salary item presented itself at the annual meeting in 1837, and the Tax Collector, who now took the place of Ty- thing Men, was given one cent on the dollar collected, with a bonus of $5 if he collected 100 per cent of the taxes, and nothing if he did not. The Town Clerk was given the stupendous salary of $1 per year and the Board of Relief $1 per day while sitting. The Selectmen were voted $6 per year in lieu of all other charges and as usual the cream was collected by the constables, who received $1.50 for bringing in each elected town official to take the oath.


On April 30, 1839, a committee of five was appointed, at a special town meeting, to oppose the building of the railroad, and $20 was voted for expenses to go to Hartford for this purpose. The reasons set forth were: the lowering of land values adjoining the railroad because of the smoke, and the trains scaring the cattle and horses. Through seven or eight years of strife in town meetings this railroad matter was argued pro and con, and finally in the year 1848, deciding that oppo- sition was futile, the town sold its rights for $200.


In the years from 1840 to 1848 developed a great need for a Town House. The land was bought; a Town House voted to be built; that vote rescinded, then passed again, and finally dropped entirely and the land was sold at public auction to the highest bidder. Following these discussions about a Town House came the first dissatisfaction with Town Officials, and from 1842 on, we find nearly all offices contested.


In 1843 the Collector's salary was raised to $12.00 per year; he was also required to furnish a bond. It was ruled that people could work on the roads if so desired, to pay the taxes assessed against them.


In 1848 it was voted to lay out and build a road to the rail- road station, now known as Riverside Avenue. We find that ninety years ago the same procedure was followed as today by our town meeting-viz, reducing the first amount asked for and appropriating less, and then calling other meetings to make up the deficiency.


Five years later the town decided one Selectman was enough. They elected Alva Gray, but the following year went back


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to the board of three when William J. Finch was elected First Selectman serving for 19 years. Soon after he was elected Town Clerk for a long period.


From 1860 to 1866 practically all town meetings concerned war, volunteers, the draft and bonuses.


In the years following, the disorder after the war became apparent, for the town voted to build a jail on the west side of the river. Speeding had become dangerous with the one- horse shay; so an ordinance was passed limiting the speed on the bridge to a gait no faster than a walk. From 1870 to 1873, the need of a new bridge was discussed and finally a bond issue was voted for that purpose. Twenty years later a bridge was built at King's Highway.


In the next ten year period, the slogan of the people seemed to be "better roads." In 1890 the cry had changed to "fire pro- tection". In 1894 the encroachments upon the beach had be- come serious and the Selectmen were instructed to remove all buildings thereon. In 1908, feeling the need of a Town Hall, a committee was appointed and our present one built. Through- out the record books there were meetings for and against a Town Farm until the present one was purchased in 1901. In 1903 criticism of the roads entered the meetings. A motion was made in a town meeting that scrapings and dirt from the gutters should not be put in the center of the roads.


On the 27th of August, 1917, was created the most important office in town-the Board of Finance, whose job it is to oversee and recommend the spending of all money. In 1921 the Town took over the Fire District and the following year came the Town Plan Commission, which has done marvelous work in beautifying Westport. Then came the organized paid police department, paid drivers for the fire companies and as the town needed more supervision in expansion, the Zoning Commission. In the past few years we have added a Town Court, a Small Claims Court, a Probation Officer and last, but not least, a Welfare Department to care for the needy.


Thus in one hundred years, we have grown from a small town under simple supervision with a yearly expenditure of $600 to a model, well organized, self-governed community


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whose yearly budget amounts to more than half a million dollars.


Frederick M. Salmon, one of Westport's most prominent citizens, had the distinction of serving ten years as Comptroller for the State of Connecticut; County Treasurer for six years; State Senator for two terms. During these years he was in- fluential in obtaining State grants for the building of the Saugatuck and Westport Bridges, and the taking over by the State of the Wilton Road, the entire Shore Road from the Norwalk Town Line to Sasco Creek, Southport; Riverside Avenue and North Main Street to the Weston Town Line.


Harry R. Sherwood, as member of the Legislature from from 1915-1921, cooperated with Mr. Salmon's interests in the above projects. .


The following have served Westport as Selectmen from 1835 to 1935:


1835-1837


THOMAS ROWLAND TAYLOR HURLBUTT JOHN GRAY, 2ND


1838


JABEZ ADAMS THOMAS ROWLAND JOHN GRAY, 2ND


1839


JOHN GRAY, 2ND


ISAAC BENNETT ALFRED TAYLOR


1840-1841


JABEZ ADAMS THOMAS ROWLAND HEZEKIAH M. COLEY


1842


DAVID COLEY JOHN GRAY, 2ND STREET H. KEELER


1856 WILLIAM J. FINCH LYMAN BANKS


WILLIAM BURWELL


1843


HEZEKIAH M. COLEY ISAAC BENNETT STREET H. KEELER


1857 WILLIAM J. FINCH BRADLEY GODSELL JOHN N. BETTS


1858


WILLIAM FINCH BRADLEY GODSELL ALFRED TAYLOR 1859-1861 WILLIAM J. FINCH ALFRED TAYLOR TALCOTT WAKEMAN


1862-1863 WILLIAM J. FINCH EDWARD J. TAYLOR LONSON COLEY


1864 WILLIAM J. FINCH FRANKLIN SHERWOOD ORRIN W. HOTCHKISS


1865 WILLIAM J. FINCH EDWIN J. TAYLOR AARON B. HULL


1866-1869 WILLIAM J. FINCH EDWIN J. TAYLOR WILLIAM T. WOOD


1870-1871 WILLIAM J. FINCH EDWIN J. TAYLOR FREDERICK MOREHOUSE


1872 WILLIAM J. FINCH EDWARD J. TAYLOR JAMES SMIBERT


HEZEKIAH M. COLEY ISAAC BENNETT BURR JENNINGS, JR.


1845-1848


ISAAC BENNETT DORDON JELLIFF GANIEL BURR


1849


HEZEKIAH M. COLEY ALVA GRAY ALFRED TAYLOR


1850-1851


ALVA GRAY HEZEKIAH M. COLEY DAVID COLEY, 2ND


1852


DANIEL BURR BURR MEEKER BURR KEELER


1853


ALVA GRAY


1854-1855 WILLIAM J. FINCH AARON B. ADAMS LYMAN BANKS


1844


1873 WILLIAM J. FINCH EDWARD J. TAYLOR BURR MEEKER


1874 SILAS B. SHERWOOD JAMES SMIBERT GERSHAM B. BRADLEY


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1875


CHARLES KEMPER


SILAS B. SHERWOOD GERSHAM B. BRADLEY


1876-1878


CHARLES KEMPER


SILAS B. SHERWOOD FREDERICK MOREHOUSE


1879


GERSHAM B. BRADLEY


JOHN H. JENNINGS


CHARLES H. KEMPER


1880


GEORGE S. ADAMS


JOHN H. JENNINGS


SILAS B. SHERWOOD


1881


SILAS B. SHERWOOD HENRY H. GILBERT


JOHN H. JENNINGS


1882


GERSHAM B. BRADLEY JOHN H. JENNINGS ELIPHALET GRAY


1883


CHARLES H. KEMPER


ELIPHALET GRAY JOHN B. MORRIS


1884


CHARLES H. KEMPER ELIPHALET GRAY RUFUS WAKEMAN


1885


CHARLES H. KEMPER HENRY GILBERT RUFUS WAKEMAN


1886


CHARLES H. KEMPER HENRY GILBERT RUFUS WAKEMAN


1887


RUFUS WAKEMAN DANIEL BRADLEY, JR. SILAS B. SHERWOOD


1888


1911


ROBERT COLEY JOHN K. GAULT SAMUEL BANKS


1912


JOHN W. HURLBUTT


! DANIEL BRADLEY, JR.


RUFUS WAKEMAN


1891


SAMUEL WHEELER


RUFUS WAKEMAN DANIEL BRADLEY, JR.


1892


SAMUEL B. WHEELER


WILLIAM H. TAYLOR GEORGE P. JENNINGS


1893-1895


ROBERT COLEY


CHARLES BUCKLEY DANIEL BRADLEY, JR.


1896-1902


LEWIS P. WAKEMAN ROBERT COLEY OSCAR SMITH


1902


OSCAR SMITH LEWIS P. WAKEMAN SAMUEL B. WHEELER


1903-1904


EDWARD C. BIRGE JOHN K. GAULT SAMUEL B. WHEELER


1905


LEWIS P. WAKEMAN JOHN K. GAULT SAMUEL WHEELER


1906


EDWARD C. BIRGE JOHN K. GAULT F. W. TAYLOR


1907


FRED KEMPER EDWIN A. BEERS GEORGE S. JENNINGS


1908


LEWIS P. WAKEMAN ROBERT COLEY MERRICKVH. COOLEY


1909-1910 LEWIS P. WAKEMAN ROBERT COLEY SAMUEL BANKS


1930-1931 K. W. MANSFIELD CHARLES WAKEMAN JOHN P. MCCORMACK


1932-1933 K. W. MANSFIELD CHARLES WAKEMAN MILTON HARRINGTON


1934-1935 K. W. MANSFIELD ALOIS J. FORGER MILTON HARRINGTON


JUDGES OF PROBATE, DISTRICT OF WESTPORT-1835-1935


THOMAS F. ROWLAND


RUFUS BLAKEMAN


GEORGE L. CABLE


MYRON L. MASON


FRANK W. PERRY


WILLIAM H. RICHARDS SILAS B. SHERWOOD


FREDERICK A. SALMON


ELIPHALET SWIFT ALVA GRAY EDWARD J. TAYLOR DANIEL B. BRADLEY, Jr.


AUSTIN WAKEMAN


1913


AUSTIN WAKEMAN ROBERT MILLS ROBERT H. COLEY


1914


AUSTIN WAKEMAN NATHANIEL GAULT ROBERT MILLS


1915-1917


AUSTIN WAKEMAN WELFORD LEWIS ROBERT MILLS


1917-1919


AUSTIN WAKEMAN WELFORD LEWIS ELI MEAD


1920


AUSTIN WAKEMAN WELFORD LEWIS WILLIAM WOOD, JR.


1921 AUSTIN WAKEMAN WELFORD G. LEWIS ROBERT MILLS


1922 AUSTIN WAKEMAN WELFORD LEWIS THOMAS GLYNN


1923


E. C. NASH HARRY AYERS WELFORD LEWIS


1924


K. W. MANSFIELD WELFORD LEWIS WALTER DUFFY


1926-1929 K. W. MANSFIELD WELFORD LEWIS JOHN P. MCCORMACK


SILAS B. SHERWOOD ORLAND J. ALLEN RUFUS WAKEMAN


1889-1890


ROBERT COLEY JOHN K. GAULT LEWIS P. WAKEMAN


EDWIN WHEELER


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STATE SENATORS FROM WESTPORT


J. E. WHEELER LLOYD NASH F. M. SALMON KENNETH BRADLEY


STATE REPRESENTATIVES FROM WESTPORT


1836


THOMAS F. ROWLAND


1887


HENRY P. BURR


1837


LEWIS RAYMOND


1889


BENJAMIN F. BULKLEY


1838.


.HENRY SHERWOOD


1889


BENJAMIN F. BULKLEY


1839-41.


ELIPHALET SWIFT


1891


ROBERT S. CRAUFURD


1842


GEORGE L. CABLE


1891.


ROBERT S. CRAUFURD


1843.


DAVID COLEY, 2ND


1893.


EDWARD M. LEES


1844-45 ... ELIPHALET SWIFT


1893.


EDWARD M. LEES


1846


WILLIAM PLATT


1895.


RUFUS WAKEMAN


1847


HEZEKIAH ALLEN


1895


RUFUS WAKEMAN


1848.


. DAVID COLEY, 2ND


1897.


JOSEPH G. HYATT


1849


WILLIAM J. JENNINGS


1897


JOSEPH G. HYATT


1850 A. A. HUTCHINGSON


1899


JOHN HENRY JENNINGS


1851-52 ... S. H. KEELER


1899


JOHN HENRY JENNINGS


1853.


DANIEL BURR


1901


LLOYD NASH


1854.


EDMUND W. TAYLOR


1901.


. LLOYD NASH


1855.


. WILLIAM BURWELL


1903.


HOMER S. BEERS


1856-57.


. WILLIAM J. FINCH


1903.


HOMER S. BEERS


1858


RICHARD H. WINSLOW


1905


JOSEPH G. HYATT


1859


MOSES W. WILSON


1905


JOSEPH G. HYATT


1860


WILLIAM BURWELL


1907


WILLIAM E. ALBIN


1861


DAVID S. BURR


1907


WILLIAM E. ALBIN


1862


TALCOTT B. WAKEMAN


1909


SAMUEL E. BANKS


1863-64.


. JONATHAN E. WHEELER


1909


SAMUEL E. BANKS


1865


MYRON L. MASON


1911


WILLIAM H. BURR


1866


TALCOTT B. WAKEMAN


1913


WILLIAM J. WOOD


1867


EDWARD J. TAYLOR


1917


HARRY R. SHERWOOD


1869


JAMES SMIBERT


1919


HARRY R. SHERWOOD


1870.


. THOMAS R. LEES


1921.


DANIEL B. BRADLEY and


1871


.JEREMIAH BROWN


HARRY R. SHERWOOD


1872


. SILAS B. SHERWOOD


1923


DANIEL B. BRADLEY and


1873.


. EDWARD M. LEES


HARRY M. AYRES


1874.


THOMAS D. ELWOOD


1925


.SARAH B. CRAWFORD and


1879.


HENRY B. BURR


EDWARD W. HUBBELL


1881.


JONATHAN E. WHEELER


J. KENNETH BRADLEY


1882. JOHN W. HURLBUTT


1931


EDWARD W. HUBBELL and




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