A modern history of New London County, Connecticut, Volume III, Part 52

Author: Marshall, Benjamin Tinkham, 1872-
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 472


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Being one of the leading business men of Eastern Connectient, he is influential and very popular, and he has a host of friends not only in his home town, but throughout the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island.


In polities, Mr. Clarke is a Republican, and for thirteen years, 1908-1921, has been a valued member of the Voluntown School Board. He is affiliated with Jewett City Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma-


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sons; Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Co- lumbian Commandery, Knights Templar, and in Scottish Rite Masonry has attained the thirty-second degrec. He is a noble of Sphinx Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Hart- ford, Connecticut.


Mr. Clarke was married, at New Britain, Con- necticut, November 23, 1910, to Cora Kilbourn, who was born at Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada, in 1887, the only daughter of William Russell Kilbourn, also born in Canada (but of American parentage), and Isadore Alden (Wooster) Kilbourn, a native of Con- nectient. Mrs. Clarke and both of her parents are of Revolutionary ancestry, and are members of the Alden Kindred of America.


FRANK EMERSON PALMER-In 1897, after attendance at Worcester Institute of Technology, Frank E. Palmer entered Palmer Brothers' Mills at Fitchville, Connecticut, and there has steadily risen through different positions and departments to his present position, that of mechanical engineer of the mills, winning his promotion solely upon his own merits. He is a son of William Henry and Adelaide Randall (Wood) Palmer, his father a pre- vious mechanical engineer at the Palmer Brothers' Mills.


Frank Emerson Palmer was born in Middletown, Connecticut, December 23, 1874. In 1884 his par- ents moved to Norwich, where the lad continued public school study, later being a student at Nor- wich Free Academy. He then spent two years at Worcester Institute of Technology, at Worcester, Massachusetts, leaving that institution in 1897. The same year he entered the employ of Palmer Broth- ers' at their mills at Fitchville as carpenter's appre- tice. He was in due season advanced to a carpen- ter's duty and pay, continuing until his transfer to the drafting room of the machine shop department of the mills and later going into the machine shops. As he became qualified he was advanced to the position of foreman in charge of the machine shop. His next promotion was to his present position as master mechanic of the mills.


Mr. Palmer was elected a member of the School Board for the town of Bozrah, in 1910, and has now held that office for eleven consecutive years. He served in the 3rd Regiment, Hospital Corps, Con- necticut National Guard, 1895. In politics he is a Republican; in church affiliation an Episcopalian.


He married, in Waterford, Connecticut, July 6, 1897, Helen Gay Dawley, daughter of Joseph and Frances (Gay) Dawley, both natives of Griswold, Connecticut, her father a farmer, now deceased. Mrs. Dawley now resides in Bozrah.


JOHN MARVIN HUNTLEY-One of the old families of the southwestern part of New London county, Connecticut, is the Huntley family. Always identified with the progress of the community, but in an unostentatious way, they have borne a part in the general advance.


John Marvin Huntley, who was born in Lyme in 1803, spent his early life on steamboats, and later settled down on the farm in his native town, where he spent his remaining days. He married Delia Caulkins, a member of the pioneer Caulkin's family, of Lyme, and they were the parents of twelve chil- dren: Sarah; Abbey; Florence; Frank; John Mar- vin, of whom further; Delia; Cora; Charles; David; Ervin; Jennie; and Gertrude.


John Marvin Huntley, son of John Marvin and Delia (Caulkins) Huntley, was born in Old Lyme, in October, 1859, and educated in the district schools of his native place. After completing his studies, he took up the work of the farm with his father, and has followed farm work all his life. He has always been interested in the welfare of the community, and is highly esteemed as a friend and neighbor, but though he now stands among the prominent men of the town, he has never been a candidate for public office, and votes independently. He is a mem- ber of Old Lyme Chapter, Patrons of Husbandry (Grange).


On January 3, 1880, Mr. Huntley married Emma Irman, who was born in Norwich, and died in Lyme, in December, 1918, at the age of sixty-one years. She was a daughter of Adelphus Irman, and the marriage was solemnized in Canterbury, Connecti- cut. Mr. and Mrs. Huntley were the parents of two children: Louis, born July 3, 1883; and Nettie M., born September 12, 1889, who is now the wife of Thomas Burke, and has three children: Everett, Florence, and Doris.


AUBREY WILSON JARVIS-Being now in the tenth year of his service as superintendent of ceme- teries of Norwich, Mr. Jarvis is thoroughly identified in the minds of his fellow-citizens with the punc- tilious discharge of the important duties of that reasonable office. He is, however, more conspic- uously and widely known as a musician of local prominence, having made a reputation both as a cornetist and a musical director not only in Nor- wich, but also in different parts of the states of Connecticut and Massachusetts.


Edward Jarvis, grandfather of Aubrey Wilson Jarvis, was a native of England, formerly an officer in the English army, who from London emigrated to Nova Scotia, becoming a farmer in Kings county, where land was granted him by the English gov- ernor, and where the remainder of his life was passed.


Nelson Jarvis, son of Edward Jarvis, was born in Kings county, Nova Scotia, and he and his brother were both children when death deprived them of their father. They were, in consequence, bound out until they reached the age of twenty-one. Nelson, as a young man, purchased a farm in Kings county, and as long as he lived led the life of a farmer. He was a man of some prominence in the com- munity, serving at one time on the school commit- tee. His religious membership was in the Metho- dist Episcopal church. He married Mary Eagles,


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also a native of Kings county, and their children were: Charles, deceased; Eliza, now living in Nova Scotia; Anne, also living in Nova Scotia; Thomas, deceased; Margaret, living in Grovcton, New Hamp- shire; Louise, deceased; Alice, living in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Aubrey Wilson, mentioned below; Delia, living in Lancaster, New Hampshire; and Henry, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Mrs. Nelson Jarvis passed away when about forty years of age, in Kings county, and her husband died in the same place, being then, in 1895, about seventy-two years old.


Aubrey Wilson Jarvis, son of Nelson and Mary (Eagles) Jarvis, was born May 27, 1857, in Green- wich, Kings county, Nova Scotia, and received his education in the district school of his native town. Until his sixteenth year he was engaged in farming, but at that age, moved by the spirit of adventure, lic set out for Sacramento, California. He got no further than Grafton, Massachusetts, where, for a time, he was employed on the farm of a Mr. Crosby, and also on farms belonging to Mr. Warren and Mr. Clarkc. He was then, from 1878 to 1881, occu- pied in learning the currier's trade with S. W. Dodge and Son, of Grafton, and during his sojourn in that town became interested in music, an event which has exercised a lasting influence on his life from that day to this.


Eager for the development of the gift which he now, for the first time, estimated at its true value, Mr. Jarvis went to Boston and took a course of instruction at the New England Conservatory of Music. In July, 1881, he moved to Norwich, where he associated himself with the Hood Fire Arms Company for the purpose of learning the art of gun-making. Remaining until January, 1882, he then entered the service of the Hopkins Arms Com- pany, maintaining this connection for sixteen years, and during twelve years of that time filling the posi- tion of foreman.


While thus prospering as a business man, Mr. Jarvis found his talent for music a source of both profit and pleasure, and while serving as conductor of the Jarvis Military Band composed several pieces of music for that body. About 1896 he moved to Leominster, Massachusetts, where, for about two years, hic was director of the Leominster Military Band.


At the end of that time Mr. Jarvis returned to Norwich and for several years was director of the orchestra of the Broadway Theatre. He was also, during that time, foreman for the Crescent Arms Company of Norwich, and for several seasons was granted leave of absence in order that he might be free to direct the orchestra at Watch Hill, one of the popular summer resorts of that part of the State. He also took a course in piano tuning with the Niles Bryant Correspondence School of Michi- gan, and after leaving the Crescent Arms Company carried on the business of a piano tuner in Nor- wich for about two years.


As a good citizen, always ready to "lend a hand"


in any movement having for its object the better- ment of community conditions, the qualifications of Mr. Jarvis for public office were recognized by his friends and neighbors by his election as super- intendent of cemeteries of Norwich. That was in 1910 and the fact that he is still the incumbent of that office furnishes the most convincing proof of thic satisfaction which his competence and fidelity have afforded to his fellow-citizens.


The fraternal associations of Mr. Jarvis include affiliation with St. James' Blue Lodge, No. 53, Free and Accepted Masons; Hartford Shrine; Columbian Commandery, of Norwich; and all Scottish Rite bodies of that city, including the thirty-second de- grec. He also affiliates with Uncas Lodge, No. II, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Norwich, and belongs to the Arcanum Club. He is a member of the United Church of Norwich. Both as busi- ness inan and musician, Mr. Jarvis has been the architect of his fortune and the result is such as he is entitled to contemplate with reasonable pride and licartfelt satisfaction.


Mr. Jarvis married, May 2, 1881, in Grafton, Car- ric Ella Balcom, born in that place, daughter of Marcus and Sarah (Prentiss) Balcom, both of whom were natives of Grafton, and both of whom are de- ccased. Mr. Balcom, who was a Civil War veteran, was a shoemaker for the Gibbs Shoc Manufactur- ing Company of Grafton. Mrs. Jarvis died, in Nor- wich, Connecticut, in 1916.


WILLIAM ORRIN RATHBUN-The sea has lured many Rathbuns from land pursuits, but they have been equally attracted by the profits of mer- cantile enterprises, and William O. Rathbun has been able to divide his life between the two, fol- lowing the sea from the age of thirteen until about forty, and during the last two decades engaging in business as a grocer in Noank. He is a son of Captain Samuel Orrin Rathbun, a sea captain, grand- son of Samuel (4) Rathbun, a mariner and Civil War soldier, dying in the service, great-grandson of Captain Samuel (3) Rathbun, a captain of fishing smacks running out of Noank. Captain Samuel (3) Rathbun was a son of Elijah Rathbun, the first of this branch to change the spelling of the name from Rathbone to Rathbun. This Elijah Rathbun was born in Guilford, Vermont, but after his first marriage settled in Groton, Connecticut, where he died, February 4, 1825, at the home of his son, Deacon Elijah Rathbun. The father of Elijah Rathbun was Samuel (2) Rathbone, born on Block Island, April 6, 1705, who in 1755 was a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly. He was a son of Samuel (1) Rathbone, born on Block Island, August 3, 1672, son of John Rathbone, who was onc of the original sixteen purchasers of Block Island, which two years earlier (1658) had been granted Governor Endicott and two others by the Massachu- setts Colony for services rendered. (Later the Is- land was attached to the State of Rhode Island.)


John Rathbone, the American ancestor, son of


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Richard and Marion (Whipple) Rathbone, settled on Block Island, and on May 4, 1664, he was ac- corded full political rights. He held many local offices and in 1681-82-83-84 was a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, representing Block Island. He married Margaret Dodge, and both passed away in 1702. He was a man of property, and long before his death had settled each of his five sons on Block Island farms.


The line of descent from John and Margaret Rath- bone to William O. Rathbun is through their son, Samuel Rathbone, and his wife, Patience Rathbone; their son, Samuel (2) Rathbone, and his wife, Eliza- beth (Dodge) Rathbone; their son, Elijah Rath- bun, and his wife, Betsey (Burrows) Rathbun; their son, Captain Samuel (3) Rathbun, and his wife, Nabby (Burrows) Rathbun; their son, Samuel (4) Rathbun, and his wife, Phoebe A. (Packer) Rath- bun; their son, Samuel Orrin Rathbun, and his wife, Mary Ellen (Fitch) Rathbun; their son, William Orrin Rathbun, of Noank, Connecticut. All of these from and including Captain Samuel Rathbun, of the fifth generation, were seafaring men, cap- tains, sailors, fishermen, but all followed the sca. Samuel (4) Rathbun, of the sixth generation, en- listed February 16, 1863, in Company C, Twenty- first Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and died in Satterlee Hospital, Philadelphia, September 25, 1864. He married Phoebe A. Packer, and their eldest son was Samuel Orrin Rathbun, father of William Orrin Rathbun.


Captain Samuel Orrin Rathbun was born in the town of Groton, New London county, Connecticut, in 1836, died in 1870. He early began following the sea and became a master of coasting vessels. His father died in the service of this country in 1864, and a brother, Charles H. Rathbun, was enlisted in the same regiment as his father, serving from July 28, 1862, in Company C, Twenty-first Regi- ment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, until hon- orably discharged and mustered out, June 16, 1865. Captain Samuel O. Rathbun built the schooner "William O. Irish," during the war, and was her captain in the work of carrying supplies to the armics South. He was a member of the Masonic order, and a man of strong character, well liked by all. His death at the early age of thirty-four was deeply regretted. He contracted swamp fever in Florida and died from its effects. He is buried in the cemetery at Noank. He married Mary Ellen Fitch, born in the town of Groton, in 1834, and still survives her husband, having been a widow half a century. Her home is in Noank with her son, William O. Rathbun, her only living child, her chil- dren, Dora and Ira, having passed away, and a son died in infancy.


William Orrin Rathbun, of the eighth generation, son of Captain Samuel Orrin and Mary Ellen (Fitch) Rathbun, was born in the town of Groton, New Lon- don county, Connecticut, September 24, 1858. He attended Noank public schools until thirteen years of age, then having lost his father, and being the N.L .- 2.26.


eldest of the children, he became a wage earner, adopting the family calling and shipping on a fish- ing smack. He continued a fisherman and sailor many years, alternating service on fishing smacks with voyages on coasting vessels as best suited his interest. In November, 1899, he quit the sea and began clerking in a Noank grocery. Three years later he bought the business, taking possession in April, 1902. He has greatly enlarged and improved the store since becoming its owner, and has made this enterprise a prosperous and profitable one. He is a member of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, of the Baptist church, and is church librarian. He also belongs to the fraternal order, Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Mr. Rathbun is unmarried. His home in Noank has long been presided over by his widowed mother, now in her cighty-cighth year and a widow since 1870.


FRANKLIN WILLIAMS STEWARD-Spending his lifetime in the tilling of the soil and carrying on a productive business which supplies the daily needs of the people, Franklin W. Steward, of Water- ford, Connecticut, one of the best dairy sections of New London county, represents the modern New England farmer of the twentieth century.


Mr. Steward is a son of Livy Steward, who was born in New London, Connecticut, and in early life worked as a butcher in that city. Later he came. to Waterford, and purchasing land, built the sub- stantial house which is now the residence of his son, and which has come to be known as the Stew- ard homestead. He followed farming until his death, which occurred on January 22, 1898, when he was fifty-four years of age. Livy Steward mar- ried Eliza Clarke, who was born in Ledyard, May 12, 1845, and is still living, at seventy-seven years of agc. They were the parents of the following children: Willis Grant, born in New London, who married Frances Chappell, and has had three chil- dren, of whom two died in infancy; Anna, who was born in New London, and is the wife of Gideon Huntley, and has four children: Earl, Ida, Livy, and Spicer; Eleanor, the wife of George Adelbert Sharp, of East Lyme, and they have had four chil- dren: one died in infancy, Adelbert, Clinton, Bea- trice, and Ellwood; and Franklin William, of whom further.


Franklin William Steward was born in New Lon- don, October 26, 1879, and the family removing to Waterford when he was one year old, it was in the schools of this town that he received his education. As soon as his studies were completed, he joined his father in carrying on the work of the farm, taking more and more responsibility as the years passed, and since his father's death he has carried on the farm alone. The farm is situated in the Gilead district of Waterford, where he conducts a very extensive dairy business. He has always been a hard-working man, taking little time for relaxa- tion, and is one of the successful men of the com- munity.


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Mr. Steward married, at Saybrook, Connecticut, on June 4, 1910, Mary Dennis, daughter of Frederick Latimer and Mary (Sharp) Dennis. Mr. and Mrs. Steward are the parents of five children: Dorothy Latimer, born in Waterford, March 2, 1911; Ade- laide Eliza, born November 19, 1914; Francis Eu- genia, born December 14, 1916; Franklin William, Jr., born June 8, 1918; and Denise Churchill, born January 25, 1922.


EXEVERIE J. RAVENELL, JR .- A well known resident of Norwich, and successful business man of the town, Exeverie J. Ravenell is one of the genial proprietors of the City Lunch, one of the most widely patronized restaurants in Norwich.


Mr. Ravenell is a son of Joseph and Helen (Car- roll) Ravenell. Joseplı Ravenell was born in the Province of Quebec, Canada, and worked there as a farm hand. He died, when still a young man in the prime of life, at Angel Garden, Province of Quebec, in 1887, leaving his young wife and four little children, of whom Mr. Ravenell of Norwich is the second. Helen (Carroll) Ravenell later mar- ried Charles A. Chamberlain, of Norwich, and they are now residents of this city, also owners and managers of the Martin House, at No. 16 Broadway, one of the most popular hotels of the Thames valley.


Exeverie J. Ravenell was born in Taftville, in the town of Norwich, October 23, 1881, and received his early education in the public schools of Jewett City, also in this county, thereafter completing his studies at the Holy Cross College, at Farnham, Province of Quebec. Returning to the United States after his college course, Mr. Ravenell was employed for a short time in the plant of the Ash- land Cotton Company, of Jewett City. In 1902 he came to Norwich, where he served an apprentice- ship as a barber, which business he followed here until 1907. At that time he went to Providence, Rhode Island, where he established a barber shop on a large scale, conducting a very high class place, with gratifying success. In 1918, however, being induced to locate once more in Norwich, he ac- cepted the position of counter man and chef at the City Lunch, while awaiting a desirable opportunity to establish himself permanently. This lunch room, which is one of the most attractive in the city, and was founded in 1913, was at this time under the management of Chamberlain & Company. In May, 1920, Mr. Ravenell, in association with Homer Fraser, whose life is reviewed elsewhere in this work, purchased the City Lunch from Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Chamberlain, and since that time Messrs. Ravenell and Fraser have conducted the restaurant with constantly increasing success. The place is equipped in the most modern way, is a model eating house in every way, and is very widely patronized.


Mr. Ravenell is a member of the Norwich Cham- ber of Commerce, and in political affairs reserves the right of independent thought and action. He served an enlistment in Company C, Third Infantry, Con-


necticut National Guard, as a private, from 1905 to 1908. Fraternally, he is a member of Norwich Lodge, No. 430, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and of Norwich Lodge, No. 490, Loyal Order of Moose. He and his family are members of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church.


On October 18, 1905, Mr. Ravenell married, at Taftville, Connecticut, Anna Caron, daughter of Jo- seph and Caroline (Dubee) Caron, of Norwich. Mr. and Mrs. Ravenell are the parents of three children: Helen Anna, who was born in Norwich; Alfred Leon, born in Providence, Rhode Island; and Edwin Alousious, also born in Providence. The family now resides in Norwich.


ROMAIN BEAUREGARD-A native son of Taftville, Connecticut, Mr. Beauregard is now one of the enterprising and successful merchants of that village. Energetic and public-spirited, he has com- pelled success, and his future is secure. His busi- ness is that of a meat dealer, and prior to his be- coming its head, his father, Wilford Beauregard, had conducted the same business in the same village for about a quarter of a century, retiring in 1915. Wilford Beauregard was born in St. Rosalie, Prov- ince of Quebec, Canada, and there spent the first fourteen years of his life in attendance at the parish school. He was a sturdy adventurous lad, and at the age of fourteen came to the United States, find- ing employment in a Massachusetts chair factory. That was in 1877, and until about 1890 he was va- riously employed. He then came to Taftville, New London county, Connecticut, where he was em- ployed in a meat market, conducted by Napoleon LeBlanc, whose daughter, Rosanna, he married in 1894. About 1894 Mr. LeBlanc sold out to his son- in-law. Wilford Beauregard, who conducted the market until 1915, when he sold the business to his son, Romain, and retired. Wilford and Rosanna (LeBlanc) Beauregard are the parents of seven children: Romain, of whom further; Constance, born in 1899; Armand, born in 1901; Leo, born in 1902; Albert, born in 1905; Anthony and Antoinette, twins, born in 1907. The family reside in Taftvill


Romain Beauregard, eldest son of Wilford and Rosanna (LeBlanc) Beauregard, was born in Taft- ville, New London county, Connecticut, August 9, 1896, and since 1915 has been one of the prosperous merchants of that village. He attended village schools until ten years of age, then a private school in Granby, Quebec, Canada, returning to Taftville in 1909. He was then a lad of thirteen, and for the next six years he was in his father's employ in his meat market, and there he gained his business edu- cation and laid his plans for the future. On Sep- tember 1, 1915, he bought the meat market in which for six years he had been an employee, and has now been its owner and manager for seven years. While a man cannot be judged by seven years of his life, a fair estimate can be made of his methods and character. Mr. Beauregard has developed the traits which make success sure, and he is succeeding.


Romain Beauregard.


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A feature of his business is his "store on wheels," the first of its kind in Connecticut. This is a five- ton truck fitted up and stocked as a combined gro- cery and meat market, with a sold storage depart- ment, and in miniature is a modern storc. This truck he sends over given routes on given days, and is building up a profitable business in addition to his meat market in the village. Mr. Beanregard, just fairly started along life's pathway, has im- proved his years, twenty six, wondrously well, and has gained with his business success the respect and esteem of his community. Mr. Beauregard is a member of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church of Taftville, and a fourth degree member of Pone- mah Council, Knights of Columbus. In politics he is a Republican.


Mr. Beauregard married, January 11, 1917, at the age of twenty-one, Mary Bois Clair, and they are the parents of two children: Arthur Joseph, born December 13, 1918; and Reathea Mary, born Janu- ary II, 1920. The family home is in Taftville.


YOUNGS MORGAN-The Morgans are an old Colonial family, long seated in New London county, Connecticut, James Morgan, immigrant ancestor, having settled in New London in 1650. He was born in Wales in 1607, arrived in Boston in April, 1636, settled in Roxbury, and there married Mar- gery Hill, April 6, 1640. In 1650 his home was in New London, near the present town burial grounds in the western suburb of the city of New London. He sold his homestead, December 25, 1656, and re- moved to what is now the town of Groton, New London county, where he became an extensive land owner and an influential citizen. He was select- man, deputy to the General Court in 1657 and for nine terms thereafter, and was prominent in the church. His son, Captain James Morgan, was one of the first two deacons of the first church of Gro- ton, as well as the principal town magistrate, and for years transacted the greater portion of the civil business of that community. He was moderator of the first town meeting, first selectman of the town, and captain of the first brass band in 1692. The same year he was a deputy to the General Court and for years he was a commissioner to "advise and direct the Pequot Indians" in the management of their affairs. Deacon James Morgan, son of Captain James Morgan, throughout his lifetime was active and useful in church and civic affairs, drawing wills, deeds and legal papers, his name generally appear- ing as moderator of the town and society meetings. He was the father of a fourth James Morgan, who occupied the old original homestead in Groton, being the fourth in lineal line, and the fourth James Mor- gan to occupy it. The Morgan and Avery families have intermarried and Avery has been frequently used as a middle Morgan name. From this James Morgan of Groton comes Youngs Morgan, also of Groton, son of Captain John A. Morgan, grandson of Youngs Morgan, and great-grandson of Nicholas




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