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in Kinsman, Ohio, but whose people were originally from Lisbon, and she died in 1913.
W. Tyler Browne, only child of the above parents, was born in Lisbon, Connecticut, December 26, 1856. His early education was acquired at the dis- trict schools near his home and the Quaker School at Providence, Rhode Island. Then followed a four years' course at Phillips Academy, at Andover, Massachusetts, and a course at Sheffield Scientific School (Yale University), and he is a graduate of both Phillips-Andover and Sheffield. With this very comprehensive preparation the young man entered Harvard University Medical School, from which in- stitution he was graduated in the class of 1882. Dur- ing the last year at Harvard, Dr. Browne was active in hospital training, and his hospital experience in- cluded a period of internship at the Boston City Hospital, the House of the Good Samaritan, and the Children's Hospital, all of Boston. Dr. Brownc began practice in Lisbon, his native place, where he was engaged for ten years. In 1890 he came to Norwich, located on Main street, and entered upon his activities in this city. For three decades he has handled a constantly increasing practice, and since Inon has been located at his present offices, No. 275 Broadway. For a number of years he was active as a general practitioner, but during that period was fitting himself by post-graduate work and research for those specialties in which he has since been so successful, especially in the line of therapeutic elec- tricity. With the discovery of the X-Ray he pur- chased the original experimental machine of the General Electric Company and for several years had the only X-Ray apparatus in the county. In 1903 he traveled abroad, visiting the private X-Ray labra- tories of specialists and those of the principal hospi- tals of Europe. For many years he has been obliged to decline all general practice, and has devoted his attention to these specialties, the eye, ear, nose and throat, also Roentgenology and its affiliated thera- peutic agents, electricity, the violet ray and vibration. He is now consulting Roentgenologist at the Backus Hospital, and is esteemed an anthority in his spe- cialties. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Connecticut State Medical Society and the Norwich Medical Society, and is also a mem- ber of the American Roentgen Ray Society and the New York Electro-Therapeutic Society. Dr. Browne was a pioneer in the use of automobiles in this part of the State, for as early as 1898 he had what was then known as a horseless carriage, which was pro- pelled by a storage battery. Broadly interested in the civic advanee of Norwich, he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and gives his endorsement to all civic progress. He is a member of the Park Congregational Church, of which for many years he has been deaeon.
Dr. Browne married, in Monson, Hampden county, Massachusetts, in 1889, Gertrude Bell, of that place.
JOHN CLARKE-To merit the confidence and esteem of the fellow-citizens of the town in which
James E. Lord
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you reside to such an extent as to be chosen by them to fill public offices denotes that the man so honored must be a man of integrity, public spirit and enter- prise, and these atttributes of character are domi- nant in the person of John Clarke, the present as- sessor of Liberty Hill, Lebanon township, Connecti- cut, who also served in various other public capa- cities, namely, representative, selectman and justice of the peace.
Joseph Clarke, the earliest member of the family of whom we have definite information, was a resi- dent and probably a native of Charlestown, Rhode Island, where he pursued the occupations of farm- ing and fishing. His wife, - (Nichols) Clarke, bore him seven children, the eldest of whom was Joseph, through whom the line descends.
Joseph (2) Clarke removed to Lebanon, Connecti- cnt, from Carolina Mills, Rhode Island, and later removed to Columbia, Connecticut, purchasing a small farm and subsequently a larger one, upon which he spent the remainder of his days, his death occurring July 2, 1881. He married Margaret Cran- dall, a native of Rhode Island, and they were the parents of nine children; the eighth of whom was James M. Clarke, father of John Clarke, of this review.
James M. Clarke as born in Columbia, Connecticut, March 22, 1831, and died at Liberty Hill, December 5, 1919. His active years were devoted to agricul- tural pursuits in various towns of Connecticut, namely, Lebanon, Columbia, Franklin and Liberty Hill, in the latter named place conducting a general store in connection with farming for several years. He married, October 26, 1854, Mary Taylor, born in Lebanon, Connecticut, July 19, 1835, a daughter of John B. and Prudence (Avery) Taylor. Children: 1. James Henry, married (first) Elizabeth Webster, (second) Sarah Strong. 2. John, of whom further. 3. Minnie E., became the wife of Henry V. Oehlers. Mrs. Clarke died October 6, 1920.
John Clarke was born in Franklin, Connecticut, June 26, 1861. He acquired his early education in the local common and select schools, and later taught school in Lebanon and Andover. Since four years of age he has resided at Liberty Hill on the pres- ent homestead, which he purchased in 1884, and his active years have been devoted to farming. He has greatly improved his original purchase, and has ac- quired other property until he has large holdings of real estate at Liberty Hill. He also acted as local agent for the firm of Long & Saunders, of Quincy, Massachusetts, dealers in monuments, and as pur- chasing agent for the Providence Dairy Company, establishing their milk routes, which proved of bene- fit to the farmers of Lebanon, Colchester, Columbia and Hebron. He has also been instrumental in the settlement of estates, acting recently for some of the largest estates in Lebanon, both in the capacity of executor and trustee.
Mr. Clarke has always taken a prominent part in the political, fraternal and social affairs of the town- ship, gaining and retaining the confidence and trust
of all who have the honor of his acquaintance. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1887 was chosen to represent his town at the first bi-ennial session of the State Legislature, and served on the com- mittee on Woman Suffrage. He was the youngest man ever sent to represent the town, and next to the youngest member of the House. He also served as first selectman, justice of the peace, and for the past thirteen years and at the present time (1922) is a member of the Board of Assessors, proving of value to the board and to his constituents. He united with the Exeter Congregational Church, May 3, 1891, and was elected as its deacon, September 3, 1894, which office he held for 18 years. He also served the church in various official capacities. In 1912 he was instrumental in organizing the Liberty Hill Church, and was elected as dcacon and trustee, which offices he still holds. He also assisted in the merging of the Exeter and Liberty Hill churches in 1920, when the Liberty Hill church became the Exe- ter Liberty Hill Congregational Church, and he is also serving in the capacity of superintendent of the Sunday school connected therewith. He was a mem- ber of Lebanon Lodge, No. 23, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and of the American Order of Fraternal Helpers until their dissolution.
Mr. Clarke married, June 7, 1882, Amelia Foote, born in Exeter, December 5, 1861, daughter of Hor- ace and Lucy Ann (Webster) Foote, who has been an inspiration and help in all his various enterprises.
JAMES EVELEIGH LORD-The first Lord of this branch to settle in New London county, Connec- ticut, was James A. Lord, an Englishman, and the father of James Eveleigh Lord, promoter of the summer settlement on Fishers Island Sound, known as Lord's Point, in the town of Stonington. James A. Lord, formerly a mariner, settled down to farming after his Civil War service, he having served one year in Company H, 26th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, nine months' men. When his son, James Eveleigh Lord, chose a permanent oc- cupation he, too, turned to the land, Lord's Point being first a part of his farm.
James A. Lord was born in Oldham, a county parliamentary and municipal borough of Lancashire, England, one of the leading centers of cotton spin- ning in England. When a lad he left home secretly and went to sea as cabin boy on a packet ship com- manded by a Captain Eveleigh, who took a dcep in- terest in the boy, and caused him to supplement the education received in the public schools by a course of study under the captain's personal direction on board the ship. James A. Lord continued a mariner for several years, and rose to authority, being first officer on the ship "Star of Empire" at the age of twenty-two. After leaving the sca he settled in Led- yard, New London county, Connecticut, where his father, John Lord, had been superintendent of the mill, until the spring of 1860, when he moved with his father-in-law, Henry W. Hill, to the Stonington Town Farm, of which Mr. Hill was made superin-
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tendent. He then enlisted in the 26th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and served until wounded in the attack and capture of Port Hudson, by General Banks, July 9, 1863. He rejoined his regiment after his recovery and continued in the service until he returned to Connectient, with an honorable discharge, settled in the town of Stoning- ton, New London county, and there tilled the soil he owned until his death in 1904. He married (first) Mary E. Hill, who died in 1888, daughter of Henry W. Hill, who was a grandson of Samuel Hill, a patriot of the Revolution, killed at the battle of Groton Heights in 1781. Henry W. Hill married Emeline Eliza Main, a direct descendant of Ezekiel Main and his wife Mary, whose names appear in the early history of the Road Church. James A. and Mary E. (Hill) Lord were the parents of five children: James E., of further mention; Mary G., wife of John V. Syl- via, of Stonington; Emmeline, widow of Augustus Pearson, who married (second) Orrin H. Babbitt, and resides in Derry, New Hampshire; John W., married May Stancliffe, and resides in Stonington, Connecticut; Henry A., married Irene S. Russell, and resides in Norwich, Connecticut. James A. Lord married (second) Mary E. Coffin, of Waterbury, Connecticut, and to them two children were born: Fannie A., wife of William D. Ferguson, of Boston, Massachusetts; and Helene, of Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts.
James Eveleigh Lord, eldest son of James A. and Mary E. (Hill) Lord, was born in the town of Led- yard, New London county, Connecticut, August 30, 1859, but in 1860 the family moved to Stonington, in the same county. There he attended the Road school, later Phillips Grammar School in Salem, Massachusetts, and in 1880 was a graduate of the Ipswich High School of that town. After complet- ing his studies he was engaged as a clerk in the Boston office of the auditor of the New England railroad, but on account of ill health he, after a brief experience, returned to New London county, where for the next decade he was employed with his grandfather, Henry W. Hill, at the Stonington Town Farm. In 1892 he bought the Samuel C. Langworthy farm of two hundred and twenty acres in the town of Stonington and has spent the intervening years in cultivating and developing that property, conduct- ing it as a general farming and dairy business. He was the first secretary and treasurer of the Tang- wank Creamery Company of North Stonington.
His farm lying along the Sound, separating the Connecticut shore from Fishers Island, offered excel- lent summer resort advantages, and in August, 1898, a small cottage was built, which made the com- mencement of the summer community at Lord's Point. The Point has become very popular and is now one of the attractive, well known Sound resorts. Mr. Lord established at the Point a water system for the use of the residents, there now being eighty cot- tages, two hotels, stores, and a post office within the limits of the settlement, which is now in its twenty- third year.
Mr. Lord, now a Republican in politics, but for some years a Democrat, served his town as member of the Board of Relief in 1898, member of the Board of Assessors for five years, and for twenty years was clerk of the town Board of Selectman, and for two years he was a selectman. He is a member of Latham Post, Sons of Veterans, of Mystie; and the Royal Arcanum; treasurer of the Lord's Point Com- munity Society; member of the committee and treas- urer of the First Congregational Ecclesiastical So- ciety, and deacon of the First Congregational church, of Stonington, Connecticut.
In his efforts to improve the quality of stock and poultry, Mr. Lord has accomplished a great deal of good. As far back as 1892, in company with Charles P. Williams, of Stonington, sheep breeding was car- ried on at the Lord farm, the partnership continuing until 1908. They specialized in registered Shropshire sheep, and through their efforts as breeders and ex- hibitors they placed a great deal of blooded stock throughout New England and other States. From boyhood Mr. Lord had the care of the turkey flock at the farm, and in 1905 he began exhibiting some of his fancy birds at important poultry shows, making a modest winning in the great show at Boston. In 1906, and for twelve consecutive years following, assisted by Mrs. Daniel C. Amos, of Oakland, Ken- tucky, he exhibited the famous "Dan Amos" breed of mammoth bronze turkeys which they had developed through cross breeding. The winnings of these birds in competition were phenomenal, the owners exhibiting them in Boston, New York and Chicago poultry shows and in other cities. Choice birds of this breed were shipped as far as Australia, and to other foreign countries, and eggs were demanded from poultry fanciers all over England and Germany.
Mr. Lord married, October 23, 1895, Fannie Noyes, daughter of Francis and Maria (Morgan) Noyes, of Stonington, and a direct descendant of Rev. James Noyes, born in 1608, in England, who came to New England in 1634. He was settled over the church at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635, and continued pas- tor of that congregation until his death, October 22, 1656. Mrs. Lord also traces descent from Elder Wil- liam Brewster of the "Mayflower." She is a graduate of the State Normal School at Willimantic, and was a teacher in the public schools of Stonington. When the Lord's Point farm was purchased they were to- gether in the enterprise and together they have planned and exceuted the development. When Mr. Lord left the Stonington Town Farm, which had been his home for ten years, and came to his own farm, he brought with him his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Hill, who had made a home for him, and at the Lord farm they were made very welcome and happy during the remainder of their lives.
EDWIN LORD DANIELSON-The profession of medicine is one that requires the utmost skill, perseverance, energy and integrity, all of which at- tributes were markedly in evidence in the person of Dr. Edwin L. Danielson, late of Lebanon, who in
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addition to his extensive private practice served in public office, the obligations of which he fulfilled in a manner that was satisfactory to all concerned.
The family of which the late Dr. Danielson was a worthy representative was one of the oldest and most substantial in Eastern Connecticut, and it fur- nished representatives in all the stirring movements of Colonial and National history. The first American ancestor of whom we have authentic information was Sergeant James Danielson, born about 1648, died January 22, 1728, in what is now Killingly, Connecti- cut. He was of record as a freeholder of Block Is- land in 1696, was sergeant of the town in 1700, was a member of the Town Council in 1704-05, and was chosen a deputy to the General Assembly in August, 1705. He married (first) Abigail Rose, (second) Mary Ackers. Samuel Danielson, son of the second wife, was born in 1701, and died in 1786. He was a graduate of Yalc College. He married Sarah Douglass, who bore him ten children, among whom was William Danielson, born August 11, 1729, died August 19, 1798. He attained the rank of colonel in the war with England, serving with the Connecticut troops. He married Sarah Williams, and the Sarah Williams Danielson Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, at Danielson, was named in her honor. They were the parents of five children, among whom was James Danielson, born January 18, 1761, died in Killingly, Connecticut. He married Sarah Lord, who bore him six children, among whom was Elisha Danielson, born in Killingly, March 4, 1796, died there in 1866. He served as captain in the local militia for many years. He married three times, his third wife, Sarah (Ely) Danielson, died in 1871. They were the parents of seven children, namely: Katharine E., Charles E .; William H .; Sarah; Edwin Lord, of this review; George E., and Walter.
Edwin Lord Danielson, son of Captain Elisha and Sarah (Ely) Danielson, was born in Danielson, Connecticut, May 24, 1852. His early education was obtained in the schools of Killingly township, and his boyhood was spent on the homestead farm. Having chosen medicine as his life work, he matricu- lated in Columbia College of Physicians and Sur- geons, from which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1882, having previously studied under the preception of Dr. Rienzi Robinson, of Danielson. He opened an office for the practice of his profession in Canaan. Connecticut, there prac- ticing for four years, the number of his patients in- creasing with each year, then spent a year in the State of Texas, and in 1887 returned to his native State and opened an office in Lebanon, building up an excellent praotice, the direct result of his skill in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Although the greater part of his time was taken up with his inside and outside calls, he yet was able to serve in a public capacity, filling the position of health officer for a number of years, and in 1892 was chosen medi- cal examiner for the town of Lebanon, for which position he as well qualified. He also served as a
member of the School Board. Dr. Danielson was staunch in his advocacy of Republican principles, and he affiliated with Buckingham Lodge, No. 57, Ameri- can Order of Fraternal Helpers, for which he was medical examiner.
Dr. Danielson married, November 29, 1893, Emma Frances Gay, of Lebanon, born March 7, 1857, daughter of the late William Read and Catherine (Wettmore) Gay. One child was born of this mar- riage, Sarah Catharine, born in Lebanon, November 10, 1895, died August 2, 1919, at Hartford, Connecti- cut. Dr. and Mrs. Danielson were members of the Congregational church of Lebanon, which he served as clerk for a number of years. Dr. Danielson died at his home in Lebanon, January 18, 1918, and his remains were interred in Danielson Cemetery.
THE CHURCH FAMILY dates from John a't Church (that is, living near a certain church, whence his patronymic.) He lived at Great Parndon, Essex, 1335-96. He married, in 1360, Catherine Winchester, daughter of Richard Winchester. Their son, Robert Church, died in 1420, leaving a daughter, Joan, who married Richard Maistor. John (2) Church, the second son of John at Church, was a resident of the city of Leicester, where he held much property. In 1399 he was a member of Parliament, and also in 1420, from Leicester; from 1402 to 1422 he was mayor of Leicester. He had sons, John (3) and Robert, (the latter a haberdasher in London, and father of Thomas Church, the sculptor), and a daughter, Ca- therine, who died before July 25, 1450. Of these, John (3) Church, a merchant, had two sons, John (4) and Reynold. Reynold Church, son of John (3) and Agnes Church married, in 1496, Margaret Green, daughter of Robert Green, of Chester. To Reynold Church was given a coat-of-arms. The arms of the Malden, Essex, branch is almost identical with the Nantwick coat-of-arms.
John (5) Church, son of Reynold and Margaret (Green) Church, was alderman and bailiff of Malden, Essex. He married (first) Joan Henkyn; (second) Mary Tyrrell. daughter of Edmond Tvrrell, a des- cendant of Walter, who slew King William Rufus. This line is closely connected with the Greens of Es- sex, who also intermarried with the Wrights of Essex, in several instances. William Church, second son of Reynold and Margaret (Green) Church, had a son Richard, who built, in 1575, the half-timbered house still standing at Nantwick, styled "Church's Mansion." Richard Church married Margaret Wright, daughter of Roger Wright, and died in 1592. Robert Church, third son of Reynold and Margaret (Green) Church, born about 1505, in Castle Camps, Cambridgeshire, was a counsellor-at-law, and also steward of the Earl of Oxford (Harleian M. T. 1542). He had two sons, Bartholomew and John (6). The first married Alice Runner. John (6) Church, brother of Bartholomew Church, was of Sanford county, Es- sex, and married Catherine Swan, circa 1547; and their children were John and Thomas. The latter married Thomasine (the feminine name of Thomas).
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He was warden of St. Clements, Ipswich, 1597. John (7) Church, son of John (6) Church, of Sanford (or Samford), married Joan Titerall; he died before Nov- ember 4, 1593, leaving several children, of whom Richard Church, born May 9, 1570, married Alice, widow of his brother Henry, and was a merchant tailor. Richard Church, settled in Braintree, Essex, where he was thrown into contact with many subse- quent settlers of this country, the Greens, Marshes, Wards and Graves. His son, Richard (2) Church, was the immigrant, and evidently came over with his relatives, John and Nathaniel Marsh, and Isaac Graves, from Braintree, Essex, to Braintree, New England. The father, Richard (1) Church, had five children, who married into these families: Alice, born January 12, 1603, married, May 18, 1624, Thomas Green, of Witham, Essex; John, born May 7, 1607, died July 15, 1638, married Elizabeth Marsh, daughter of Robert Marsh, of Braintree; Henry, born in 1609, married a Browne, but dicd without issue; Richard (2), already named as the immigrant; and Arnold, born March 23, 1611, married Margaret Ward, sister of Nathaniel Ward, later of Hartford and Hadley.
(I) Richard (2) Church, the immigrant ancestor, born February 6, 1610, married, May 18, 1627, Anna Marsh, daughter of Edward Marsh, of Braintree. In 1636 he came with the Hookes to Hartford, and was one of the original proprietors, and resided on the east side of Burr street (originally known as the road from "Centinel Hill to the Cow Pasture," ac- cording to W. L. Porter). "Centinel Hill" is that part of Main street at the head of the present Mor- gan street, and was originally much higher than it now is. The "Cow Pasture" was in the vicinity of the present Keney Memorial tower, and it was di- rectly east of the "Cow Pasture" that Richard Church lived, his land probably extending down to the present Windsor strect. He was a participant in the great controversy which divided the First Church in Hartford, and he sided with the party which opposed the Rev. Samuel Stonc, as his signa- ture to a letter to Mr. Stone's remonstrance shows. This letter bears date of March 12, 1655, at which time Richard Church was in Hartford. Probably, in 1659, he removed to Hadley, with the "withdrawers," and there died, December 16, 1667. He left five chil- dren: Edward, born February 26, 1628, died Septem- ber 10, 1704; Samuel, born March 3, 1629, died young; Mary, born November 2, 1632; John, of whom fur- Hartford, Connecticut, was born May 9, 1636, died April 3, 1684.
(II) John Church, son of Richard (2) Church, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born May 9, 1636, died October 16, 1691. He married, October 27, 1657, Sarah Beckley, daughter of Richard Beckley, of New Haven ("Hartford town records"). John Church may have gone to Hadley with his father, as no births of his family are found at Hartford. Richard Beckley removed from New Haven (founding the well known family there) to Wethersfield. If John Church did go to Hadley, he returned to Hartford and was admitted to the Second Church. February
26, 1670. No mention of his wife is made at this time, but she was admitted to the church, June 23, 1678. The names of their children are known from his ad- ministration and will, and are as follows: Sarah, born in 1659, married George Knight, died in 1730; Richard, of whom further; Mary, died January 30, 1705; John, born in 1670, married Abigail Cadwell, in 1699, died in 1735; Samuel, born in 1671, married Elizabeth Clark, in 1710, died in 1718; and Deliver- anec, born in 1679.
(III) Richard (3) Church, son of John and Sarah (Beckley) Church, was born in 1663. He married, March 3, 1692, Elizabeth Noble, daughter of Thomas Noble, of Boston, born February 9, 1663. He set- tled in Westfield Massachusetts, where cight chil- dren were born to them. After 1705 they removed to Colchester, Connecticut, where he died April I, 1730, in his sixty-seventh year. His widow married Deacon Samuel Loomis, and died in Colchester, Au- gust 10, 1741, aged seventy-eight years, six months and one day. Their son, James Church, born at Westfield, Massachusetts, October 26, 1696, came to Hartford, and married, in 1722, Abigail Stanley, daughter of Caleb Stanley. He was ensign, and was admitted to the South Church, March 28, 1725. He died in 1751. His will, dated March 13, 1750-51, men- tioned wife Abigail, and gives to son Joseph the land in Colchester, "it being the lot my honored fa- ther lived on, with the buildings." To "my son James, one-half of my dwelling house in Hartford. Son James, who is under age, to be maintained at college; three daughters, Abigail, Jerusha and Mary." Joseph Church, a grandson, is given a hundred acres of land in Litchfield. Lands in the town of Bed- ford are also mentioned. Children of Richard and Elizabeth (Noble) Church: Hannah, born October 5, 1692; Rachel, born March 1, 1694; John, born Janu- ary 12, 1695, died June 19, 1754; James, mentioned above; Joseph, born December 7, 1698; jonathan, of whom further; Samuel, born November 28, 1702; and Elizabeth, born March 26, 1705.
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