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Farquhar, E. Stuart Farrell, William P. Filipcank, Andro Fitch, Lester H. Fitch, Nelson A. Fitzgerald, William W. Flaherty, Edward J. Fleming, John F. Fuller, Sumner F.
Gallagher, John J. Gardner, Conrad
Goodrich, Albert B.
Goodrich, Alec
Goodrich, Francis
*Graham, Lewis S.
Griffin, William Guindon, William
Halak, Walter W. Hamilton, Clarence E. Hastings, Elliott S. Hastings, Wallace G. Heckland, Harold
Hendee, George M .- Y. Henshaw, Walter R .- S.A.T.C. Heyburn, Robert E. Holcomb, Roy H. Holdridge, Merton L.
Janlowitz, Jurges Jones, Howard P. Jones, Robert S. Jones, Russell M. Jones, William P. Jonkowski, John J.
Kearns, Harry Kearns, Wallace G. Kennedy, Daniel R., Jr .- Y Kennedy, John J., Jr.
Kulas, Anthony P. Kulas, Frank S. Kulle, Jack C. Kzizanowski, Jan. S.
LaFountain, Henry *Lally, William T. Lees, Carlton B.
Loomis, Herman H.
Loomis, Winfield H.
Lyman, Emmett J.
MacArthur, Gertrude E .- Y
MacArthur, Kenneth C.
Magee, Fred J.
Malloy, Charles
Mansfield, William
Martinez, George A.
Matka, John McCann, Frank H.
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McCarthy, Leslie J.
McNach, William Medwood, William R. Merrill, Ralph Miller, A. Waldron
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Sheldon, Walter A.
Thorkey, Fred J.
Tomkelley, Stanley Toothill, William H.
Trasencznia, Alexander
Turner, Olin
Turner, William H.
Rhaum, Wallace H.
Stratton, Morgan C.
Robertson, Harold Russell, Fordham C.
Street, Russell B.
Viets, H. Leon, Jr. Vietts, Seeley H.
Saltus, Charles Saunders, Bertram
Szredzinsky, Telesfor Szvmauski, Clifford
Winiarski, John
Schmautz, William J.
Wlazlo, Michael A.
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* Died in service.
In front of the Speakers' platform, erected at the entrance of the Town Clerk's office, the members of the Grand Army were given seats, and drawn up in line facing the platform were the service men of the Great War, while the people gathered in a large circle behind and on either side. The 104th Regiment Band stationed across the street near the Soldiers' Monument furnished music for a bright and patriotic occasion.
Mr. Edward A. Fuller, a veteran of the Civil War and president of the General Committee of the celebration, presided and spoke impressively of the patriotic service of Suffield men in the long history of the town. Rev. Victor L. Greenwood of the First Congregational Church offered prayer, and Mr. Fuller then introduced Mr. Henry B. Russell, of the Springfield Union, and a former Suffield resident. Mr. Russell's address follows:
We have been looking backward through the mists of the years to the far-off beginnings of an old New England town-to our own unit in that ever-broadening national life which, from such beginnings, has become the greatest material and moral force that civilization, struggling through all the centuries, has produced.
As the Puritan purpose spread outward, up and down the wooded valleys, along the hilltops and rugged coasts, within these old towns fell the seed from which our American democ- racy and freedom sprung; in them was the plant watered; in
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Sikes, Allen B. -S.A.T.C. Smith, William L. Stockwell, William M.
Svacicki, Maxmilian
White, Timothy H.
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them it grew and flowered, and from them, as the pregnant years passed, was the seed carried over the hills, the great rivers, the long western trails. Thus were these old towns the leaven of a nation.
That which is their story and glory is the story and glory of Suffield. Our historical pageantry is the pageantry of them all. The purchases from the Indians, the home lots, the commons, the churches, the schools, the town-meetings-all the funda- mentals of our American institutions, in their origin and de- velopment, were here in old Suffield, as in them all.
Here in old Suffield, also, ever beat the pulse of a national life, striving for a fuller expression, a firmer federation, a higher destiny. Not alone in commerce and trade, not alone in religious and political intercourse did colonial interests mingle in a com- mon cause, that may have been impressed with peculiar force upon Suffield, because so long uncertain whether she belonged to Massachusetts or to Connecticut. Jealous as the colonies were of their independence and rights, when danger threatened, when the general alarm was sounded by fleet messengers, spur- ring their steeds over the turnpikes and through the settlements, from them all-
"Then marched the brave from rocky steep, From mountain river, swift and cold; The borders of the stormy deep, The vales where scattered waters sleep, Sent up the strong and bold."
They have their rolls of honor-all these old towns in all the wars-and no town has greater cause for pride in her soldiers than Suffield. Their spirit and patriotism are read into the glowing pages of American triumphs on land and sea; and now would we cast their names in enduring bronze, all their names in the equality of their service to their country, all their names henceforth under the eyes of those who enjoy and are to enjoy the blessings of their deeds and sacrifices-ourselves and those to come after us.
Do not suppose it was to them as it is to us. They were think- ing of their duty; we are thinking of their deeds. They saw their hard tasks ahead of them; we look back upon their tasks
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performed. We walk in peace where they fought, where many fell. We reap where they sowed.
"The heroes of those old days are dead; But their spirit lives in today's young men; And never in vain would our country plead
For sons that were ready to die in her need."
Did the treacherous Indian tribes to the north, often under foreign intrigue and leaders, raid the border towns, or did the commonwealths call for help to fight out on this continent that long conflict in which both the fate of Europe and the destiny of America were involved, then out marched the boys of Suffield. They had a great leader, Captain, afterwards Maj .- Gen. Phineas Lyman, the real hero of the battle of Lake George, the first Suffield citizen to rise to national eminence. Suffield was but a little settlement then, yet ninety-four of her sons answered the calls of that intermittent warfare, the burden of which largely fell on these northern colonies and towns. Of these ninety- four, as you will see, more than one-half bore the family names of Suffield's early settlers.
Soon after these wars were ended, and the question whether the king of England or the king of France should dominate in this part of the continent was settled, began to arise the greater question whether the king of England or the American people themselves should dominate here, and establish for themselves and preserve for their children those principles of political liberty they had brought here and nourished in a hard climate, on a stubborn soil, in the midst of alarms. Then one day in the spring of 1775, clattering over the stony turnpikes, came mes- sengers telling of that shot heard round the world, the shot of the embattled farmers.
"As if the very earth again Grew quick with God's creating breath; And from the sods of grove and glen Rose ranks of lion hearted men, To battle to the death."
On a faded pay roll preserved at Hartford is recorded this: "Marched from Suffield for relief of Boston in the Lexington
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alarm, April, 1775, Capt. Elihu Kent and one hundred and fourteen men.
Preparedness? Yes; that preparedness for which America has become most famous-preparedness to shoulder a gun, to fall in, march forth, at once, anywhere, when American honor, or rights, or liberties or firesides are at stake. In that revolu- tionary conflict other Suffield companies were recruited by Captains Oliver Hanchett, John Harmon, Nathaniel Pomeroy and Samuel Granger. Some of them had fought in the French and Indian wars, and, as before, more than one-half of them were the sons of the first and early settlers of Suffield. The Kings sent twelve, Grangers eleven, Kents and Sheldons ten each, Harmons nine, Spencers, Sikeses and Pomeroys eight each, Risings and Austins six each, Gillettes, Hatheways, Remingtons and Warners five each, and so on.
By the time of the war of 1812 the political relations of New England to the states under Virginia leadership had undergone a change. In the tempest of events the conflicting views of Hamilton and Jefferson had developed an acute partisanship. Embargoes and non-intercourse acts had sorely tried commercial New England. It was hard work to recruit armies where the war was unpopular. But there was the flag; it was the govern- ment, struggling under its new constitution, that called, and Suffield did not fail to respond. Whatever may be said of the war, it had its part in shaping the national destiny. There were brave deeds by land and braver by sea, and Suffield has her honor roll. If their names are fewer, the greater is their share in the triumph of that period.
The short Mexican war was even more unpopular in the North, unfavorably shaping, as it seemed then, the conditions of that inevitable conflict yet to be fought. It was largely the regular armies that marched and fought with Taylor and Scott, but Suffield has her honor roll in a war, that, despite its failure to appeal to the patriotism of the whole nation, nevertheless un- locked the gates to the manifest destiny of a great republic, to march on to the Rio Grande and the Pacific.
Then, speedily as the troubled years passed, the nation drifted to that great civil conflict. Not under any new or strange banner of secession, but under the same old flag that was born in the
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struggle for independence, that waved over the victorious armies of Washington at Yorktown, that fluttered from the topmasts of the fighting frigates of 1812, that was borne aloft at Buena Vista and Palo Alto, went forth two hundred and eighty-six Suffield boys to the hard battles of that struggle that fired the national heart and fixed the indivisibility of the Union. It purged the soil of slavery and determined a larger destiny in the centuries to unfold.
A few-a very few-of that Grand Army of the Republic are still with us, the story of that great passion of liberty and union burned into their souls. To most of us it is history; to all of us a glorious history wherein the wounds are healed and the scars have faded into the cherished tokens of a united people. These names in bronze shall ever tell the story of Suffield's devotion to a land "where live the free, where sleep the brave."
Our war with Spain was brief, as it was victorious, fought largely by regulars and militia, but Suffield was not missing. She had her volunteers, she has her honor roll in that cause of freedom's further development on this hemisphere.
Then, last and nearest to the thoughts and emotions of this generation, is the long roll of Suffield boys of the great war, in which not only the honor, the safety and liberties of America, but the world's civilization and peace, were at stake. The boys who have come back to us from service in France, on the seas and in the far camps need not be told what it meant. Fathers and mothers, wives and sweethearts need not be told what it meant to them. It is enough for the present to know that it was a great cause and a great victory, greater than the world can yet know.
The question of what it meant is passing into the question of what it can be made to mean. History has been made, but is still in the making. We are still beset with problems it has left. Terrible wounds have yet to be healed; scars there are that can disappear only with the years. American destiny, the American relation to the cause of political liberty and human progress elsewhere, civilization the world over, have yet to clear a path into the future.
But it will be cleared. The boys on that long honor roll did not go forth in vain. In any event, their deeds are secure. It
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was the American flag, waving over them in Flanders, in Picardy, in the Argonne and on the Marne that rallied the fainting hearts of the exhausted defenders of their homes and their freedom, that was the symbol of hope for millions of war-worn and war-torn people-the flag that was carried over those hard final battles to victory.
So here, in the civic center of this fairest of old New England towns, near the close of our celebration of two and one-half centuries of its history, we take this occasion to cast in letters time shall neither diminish nor destroy, the names of all these Suffield men of all these years in all these American struggles for a great nation, a free people and a better world. We honor the living and the dead alike, in every service on land and sea. Here do we dedicate an unfading tribute to the soldiers and sailors of Suffield; to their sacrifice for
"That Flag that never stooped from victory's pride; Those stars that softly gleam, Those stripes that o'er us stream, In war's grand agony were sanctified.
At noon the officers and selectmen of the town gave a dinner to all the war veterans of Suffield in the gymnasium of the Suffield school. Other visitors, as on the two days previous, gathered on the green with their box lunches, or enjoyed the hospitality of the homes of Suffield.
The program of the third day was closed in the afternoon with a football game on the Suffield School athletic field, attended by about a thousand people. The 104th Regiment band gave a concert on the field before the game, which was between the Suffield School team, and one from the Springfield College. The local team, which played no losing game during the whole season, won by a score of 28 to o.
The celebration of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Suffield was one leaving only pleasant memories for its people and their guests. It enlisted the co-operation of the townspeople generally and to this co-operation and the faithful work of the various committees its success was due.
Suffield now passes on toward another half-century milestone in its history, to be reached only in the life of another generation.
THE HOSTESS HOUSE
An Old Fashion Home on an Old Fashion Street with Old Fashion Ladies as Hostesses
One of the most interesting and popular features of the cele- bration was the Hostess House, its quaint rooms furnished with rare and beautiful old furniture, containing many specimens of the handiwork of departed generations, and presided over as hostesses during the three days of the anniversary by Suffield ladies in gowns of the olden days.
Through the courtesy of the Masonic Club, the lower floor of the Masonic House was turned over to a committee of ladies, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Edward A. Fuller, to be fur- nished like a home of long ago. "Raised" by Luther Loomis in 1790, and to the older residents of the town long known as the home of the late William L. Loomis, the old mansion has been kept in good condition as a fine example of the archi- tecture of its period. The hand-wrought paneling and other distinctive features were retained when recently the house was refitted for the Masonic Club, and one of these much admired features is the oriel window on the south side. Altogether it made an ideal setting for the hostesses and their loaned heir- looms. Open from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. on the three days, and easily accessible, it was much visited by Suffield people and their many guests.
The spacious lower hall and four large rooms were given over to the hostesses, and the work of furnishing these rooms with the best examples of fine homes of a century or more ago was placed under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Karl C. Kulle, of Suffield, peculiarly qualified by their knowledge of values in antiques, and, with their committee, they made careful exami- nation and selection of the types and specimens suited to the consistent furnishing of the various rooms and with highly suc- cessful results.
The quaint and pleasing atmosphere that was thus imparted
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to the rooms was thoroughly enjoyed by all visitors and, if it cannot be adequately described, it can be imagined from the list of the furnishings here given, with the names of those to whom they originally belonged in most cases, and the names of those loaning them for the exhibition.
THE HALL
HIGHBOY. High chest of drawers, Spanish feet, 1710-20. Belonged to the Hezekiah Spencer family of Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. L. Spencer.
TALL CLOCK. Made in Suffield in 1794 by Simeon Smith of Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. Edwin A. Pomeroy
PINE SETTLE. First half of the 18th century. Belonged to Daniel Norton, of Suffield, who fought in the Revolutionary War.
Loaned by Mr. Seymour Loomis and Mr. John Norton.
TABLE. Drop leaves, turned frame, last quarter of the 17th century. Belonged probably to Asahel Hatheway of Suffield. Loaned by Mr. D. N. Carrington.
CHAIR. Cane chair, Spanish feet, 1700-10. Belonged to the Halladay family of Suffield.
Loaned by Miss Marjorie Halladay.
CANDLESTICKS. With grease dish. Belonged to Oliver Granger of West Suffield, Taintor Hill,
Loaned by Mr. Samuel R. Spencer. HERALDIC BLAZONS. Printed fabric, 1768. Came from the Blackbourne collection (mostly laces), part of which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Loaned by Karl C. Kulle.
PORTRAIT. Don Pease (1795-1868), painted at the age of thirty years.
Loaned by Mrs. E. A. Fuller.
CHAIRS. Two chairs showing Dutch influence, 1710-20. Belonged to Joseph Pease of Suffield.
Loaned by Dr. Harold M. Brown.
Banister-Back chair, 1730-40. From the Dr. Horace S. Fuller collection.
Loaned by Mrs. C. F. Sutton.
RUGS. Loaned by Mrs. Chas. R. Latham.
BEDROOM
FIELD BEDSTEAD. Empire style of 1800-20. Originally be- longed to Mrs. Eliza H. Phelps, of West Townshend, Vt., who
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probably had it when she was married in 1814. The bed has its original hangings.
Loaned by Mrs. Eliza S. P. Pierce.
BEDSPREAD. Woven and embroidered by Paulina Harmon (about 1791-1866), who made it before her marriage.
Loaned by Mr. George A. Harmon.
TRUNDLE BED. Trundle, or truckle beds were made as early as 1650. Has belonged to the Fuller family for over 70 years.
Loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fuller.
CRADLE. About 1820. Belonged to Dr. Asaph Bissell of Suffield. Quilt made by Mrs. Deming in 1860.
Loaned by Mr. Charles S. Bissell.
TRIPOD TABLE. Walnut, about 1750. Formerly belonged to Francis Nichols of Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. Charles R. Latham.
GLASS CANDLESTICK. Probably the first half of the 18th century. Came from the George Mather place in Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. George A. Harmon.
LOWBOY DRESSING TABLE. 1710-20. Property of the Latham family for over one hundred years.
Loaned by Charles R. Latham.
MIRROR FRAME. Last quarter of the 18th century. Found in the attic of the George Mather house in Suffield.
Loaned by Karl C. Kulle.
CORNER WASHSTAND. Heppelwhite style, 1790-1800. Prob- ably belonged to Asahel Hathaway of Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. Charles C. Bissell.
PITCHER AND BASIN. "Gaudy painted ware." Originally from the Alfred Owen family of Suffield.
Loaned by Miss Alena F. Owen.
WRITING TABLE. Sheraton style, about 1800. Originally belonged to Dr. Oliver Pease of Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. Edward A. Fuller.
CHEST OF DRAWERS. About 1800. Belonged to Dr. Oliver Pease of Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. Edward A. Fuller.
MIRROR. Dressing glass. About 1790. Belonged to Dr. Oliver Pease of Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. Edward A. Fuller.
BUREAU. Probably 1750 or earlier. Belonged to the Halla- day family of Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. Clara H. Phelps.
MIRROR. Mentioned in an old inventory of the Isaac Owen estate in 1756.
Loaned by Miss Alena F. Owen.
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CLOCK. Mantel type, 1820-30. Belonged to Chauncey Pome- roy of Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. Charles C. Bissell.
BEDSPREAD. Blue and white; hand woven in Strassburg, France, about 1800. Brought to this country in 1840 by Harriet Huntsinger.
Loaned by Mrs. Charles S. Fuller.
BEDSPREAD. Home spun and hand woven in 1720 in Ver- mont. Stamped and worked by an invalid. Taken by horse- back to Conway, Mass., the only way of travel before roads were laid out.
Loaned by Mrs. C. D. Ives of Conway, Mass.
GLASS LAMP. Probably late 18th century. Belonged to Mrs. Calvin Philio of Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. Seymour Loomis and Mr. John Norton. SHEFFIELD CANDLESTICKS. Came from the Martin Rockwell (1778-1834) family, South Windsor, Conn.
Loaned by Mrs. Laura Southergill.
CHAIR. Comb-back rocker, about 1800. Bought at auction at Mrs. Simon Kendall's place, Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Fuller.
BEDSIDE TABLE. 1800-IO. Sheraton style. Belonged to Jennett Barnard Owen of West Suffield.
Loaned by Amos B. and John Crane.
TRIPOD TABLE. Large top, first quarter of the 18th cen- tury. Belonged to Rev. Ebenezer Devotion, one of the early pastors of the Congregational Church in Suffield.
Loaned by Dr. Harold M. Brown.
EASY CHAIR. Last quarter of the 18th century. Belonged to Asahel Hatheway of Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. D. N. Carrington.
ARM CHAIR. Dutch style about 1725. Belonged to the Leavitt family of Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. Chas. C. Bissell.
ROCKER. Four slats in back, about 1750. Belonged to the Halladay family of Suffield.
Loaned by Miss Marjorie Halladay.
CHAIR. Chippendale style, third quarter of the 18th century. Belonged to Andrew Clark, who came from Great Barrington to Suffield forty years ago.
Loaned by Miss Antoinette Clark.
CHAIR. Sheraton style, 1790-1800. Original seat covering. Loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Schwartz.
EMBROIDERED PICTURE. From the Halladay family.
Loaned by Miss Marjorie Halladay.
SAMPLER AND SILHOUETTE. Samples made by Hannah Spooner
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Cooper in 1785, aged 10 years. Silhouette of Hannah Spooner Cooper.
Loaned by Mr. William Cooper.
WILLOW PICTURE. 1818. Belonged to Abigail Johnson of Lebanon, Conn.
Loaned by Mrs. P. W. Street.
PRINT. "Morning Prayer." Belonged to Mary Anne Corey Clark, of Washington Mountain, Massachusetts, who brought it to Suffield 64 years ago.
Loaned by Miss Antoinette Clark.
WORK BASKET. Belonged to Mary King Fuller, who was married in 1796.
Loaned by Mrs. C. F. Sutton.
BIBLE. Joseph Fuller family Bible, 1796.
Loaned by Mrs. C. F. Sutton.
TABLE COVER. Embroidered in wool by Mary Bulkley of Rocky Hill.
Loaned by Mrs. C. F. Sutton.
RUGS. Loaned by Mrs. Chas. R. Latham and Mrs. William Clement.
LIVING ROOM
TRIPOD TABLE. Tip table, about 1800. Belonged to Dr. J. K. Spelman of Suffield.
Loaned by Dr. Harold K. Brown.
SOFA. Sheraton style, about 1800. From the Dr. Horace S. Fuller collection.
Loaned by Mrs. Caroline F. Sutton.
CARD TABLE. Sheraton style, half round, 1790-1800. For- merly belonged to Fannie L. Crane of Suffield.
Loaned by Amos B. and John Crane.
SLANT TOP SCRUTOIRE. 1740-50. "The use of this low frame with bandy legs seems to have been popular principally in Con- necticut."-Lockwood. Belonged to Phineas Sheldon of West Suffield.
Loaned by Karl C. Kulle.
TEA TABLE. Rectangular top with raised edges; candle slides. Probably the last quarter of the 18th century.
Loaned by Miss Emma Newton.
PEMBROKE TABLE. Hepplewhite style, last quarter of the 18th century. Came from Remington family of Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. S. Fuller.
TRIPOD TABLE. Raised edge, square top, 1780-90.
Loaned by Mr. Samuel R. Spencer.
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BANJO CLOCK. Willard, about 1800. From the Alfred Owen family of Suffield.
Loaned by Miss Alena F. Owen.
CHAIRS. Windsor arm chair, third quarter of the 18th cen- tury. From the Gay Mansion, Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. Chas. C. Bissell.
Windsor rocker, last quarter of the 18th century. Belonged to the Gideon Granger family of Suffield.
Loaned by Mrs. L. P. Bissell.
Two chairs in the Dutch style, 1710-30.
Loaned by Mr. and Mrs. Chas. L. Spencer.
Arm chair in Chippendale style, third quarter of the 18th century. Belonged to the Allen Rising family of Suffield.
Loaned by Mr. Samuel R. Spencer.
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