Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Part 144

Author: H. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1899
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John, eldest son of Rev. Adam Blakeman I, was married about 1653 to Dorothy Smith, daughter of Rev. Henry Smith, of Wethersfield. and made his home in Fairfield, where he died in 1662, leaving three sons, John, Ebenezer and Joseph, all of whom left descendants and are mentioned below. Concerning his widow, Dor- othy (Smith) Blakeman, we quote the following :. "She appears to have possessed remarkable charms. either of person, intellect or heart, for besides passing through a case of litigation in court for her hand she was married four times, twice after she was over fifty years of age." Rev. Adam Blakeman, who survived his son John. in his will-1665-says: " I give to my daughter (Dorothy) Blakeman if she marry not John Thomas and shall take her friends consent in the matter, or continue a widow, five pounds," and. the General Court, October 10, 1665, recorded " The magistrates do order that in case John Thomas and the widow Blakeman do not issue their difference now included on that the said. Thomas shall make good his claim to that woman at the next court at Fairfield, otherwise the widow shall have liberty to marry upon this." John Thomas seems to have abandoned his- claims instanter, for Francis Hall, of Stratford ..


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who had been the attorney for the widow of Rev. Mr. Blakeman in this case before the court, became charmed with his opponent, and married that same month, October 31, 1665, his former wife having died on July 6, previous. Twenty- two years afterward, before the decease of Fran- cis Hall, his son Isaac Hall entered a claim in Fairfield to recover a certain amount of money, which was his own mother's estate at marriage, and guaranteed to her in writing by her husband, Francis Hall, when he sold the estate in Eng- land in 1664. the apparent object being to keep it from the possession of the brilliant step-mother. Francis Hall died apparently in Stratford, but this is not certain. in 1690, and his widow Dorothy, still possessing charms too attractive to Ibe confined to widowhood, married Mark Sen- sion (St. John), of Norwalk, who died in 1693, after which she married Dea. Isaac Moore, of Farmington. She died in 1706.


III. John Blakeman, son of John II, mar- ried Mary Kimberly, and had one son. Abraham, to whom his property, inventoried at more than 1 19 pounds sterling. was left in a will dated Sep- tember 30, 1706, and proved November 18, of the same year.


IV. Abraham Blakeman was born October 25. 1694. and was married February 27, 1717 or '18, to Elizabeth Barton. In 1751 they were re- siding in Trumbull. They had three children: (1) Abraham, born February 26, 1718 or '19, married Eunice Sarah , and had three children-Mehitable, baptized in October. 1743; Phineas, baptized in November, 1745. who mar- ried Elizabeth -, and had one child, Fran- ces Sarah; and Elijah, baptized in June. 1748. (2) Edward, born in April, 1721. married Eunice -, and had the following children: Will- iam, baptized November 19, 1751; John, born in June, 1757; Elizabeth, born in April, 1760; Nehemiah Smith, baptized May 3, 1761, and Nehemiah Smith (2), baptized October 31, 1762. (3) Mabel was born February 1, 1723 or '24.


III. Ebenezer, son of John II. was married first on October 24. 1681, to Patience Wilcoxson, and from this union has descended the Blake- man families of Newtown and Monroe. He was married a second time. on November 3, 1692, to Abigail, daughter of Nathan Curtiss, and his death occurred in 1715. By his first marriage he had four children: Dorothy, born March 18, 1682-83; John born April 4. 1685; Elizabeth, born February 10. 1688 (Mrs. Edward Fairchild); Ebenezer, born August 9, 1693. By his second marriage he had six children: Jonathan, born April 24, 1696; David, born January 6, 1697-98, died in 1703; Abigail, born November 20, 1700,


died in March, 1702-03; Nathan, born Septem- ber 29, 1702; Sarah, born April 3, 1705, and David, born about 1707, dismissed to Ripton Church in 1724. who married Mary -, and had one child, Hannah, baptized in September, 1734.


IV. John, who settled in Newtown, married Abigail Beers, and had the following children: Martha, born November 29, 1714 (married Abel Botsford); Abigail, born October 1. 1716 (married Samuel Bears or Beers); Sarah, born September 20, 1718, died in June, 1721; John, born Sep- tember 27, 1720 (married Margery Glover); Eben- ezer, born March 3. 1723-24 (married Molly Smith); Joseph, who is mentioned below; and James, born June 1, 1730 (married, first, Hul- dah Griffin, second, Hester Hitchcox). The father of these died January 25, 1764, aged about seventy-five. Abigail, his wife, died March 27, 1762, aged seventy. His will is dated July 15, 1759, probated January 30, 1764.


V. Joseph, son of John and Abigail (Beers) Blakeman, was born May 23, 1726, and was mar- ried October 7. 1757. to Elizabeth Glover, who was born January 28, 1728, daughter of Jobn Glover. She died January 31, 1821, aged ninety- two, and his death occurred April 15, 1817, at the age of ninety-one. His will was made Janu- ary 1, 1805, and proved May 17. 1817. His children were: Abigail (Mrs. John Turner); Hul- dah (Mrs. Liffe Sanford); Olive (Mrs. Oliver Summers); Elizabeth, born in 1760, who married James Jessup; Jerusha (Mrs. Elnathan Peck); Joseph, who is mentioned below; Lucy, born in 1769, who married Amos Peck; and Bethiab, born in 1771. who married Elijah Terrill, and died August 19, 1855. aged eighty-four.


VI. Joseph, son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Glover) Blakeman, was born April 29, 1762, married Huldah Toucey, granddaughter of Rer. Thomas Toucey, a grandson of Richard Toucey. who came from Towsland, England, to Weth- ersfield, Conn., about 1635. She was born Au- gust 10, 1774, and died August 10. 1837, and his death occurred October 11, 1844. His will was made February 18, 1842, and proved December 5, 1844. Of his children, (1) James Glover, born March 3, 1797, died February 11, 1842. (2, John Toucey, born October 15. 1798, died No- vember 7, 1823, leaving a widow, Sally (daugh- ter of John and Sally Hatch Baldwin), and one child, Sally Delia. His widow afterward became the second wife of Chauncey Noble (son of David and Jerusha Bull Noble), whose first wife was Caroline Boardman. (3) Ziba, born October 23. 1800, is mentioned in the next paragraph. (4) Donald, born September 15, 1804, was married


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February 10, 1833, to Louisa Platt. (5) Joseph, born September 19, 1806, is mentioned more fully below. (6) Maria, born May 21, 1809, married first Abner P. Blakeslee, of Plymouth, Conn., and about 1850 they removed with their eight children from Newtown to Iowa. Her sec- ond husband was Samuel Fuller. She resided in Iowa twenty-eight years, and died at DesMoines November 16, 1883. Her children were Delia, who died at Davenport, Iowa; James; Emily (Mrs. Henry J. Ferguson): John; Joseph, who married Mary J -; Jeannette (Mrs. Dr. H. C. Darner); Elizabeth and David. (7) Delia, youngest child of Joseph VI, died at the age of eight years.


VII. In this branch of the family we will mention especially in this generation (3) Ziba and (5) Joseph, sons of Joseph VI. Ziba was mar- ried May 28, 1823, to Augusta, daughter of Ziba Blakeslee. She was born April 15, 1805, and died May 28, 1885, and his death occurred March 28, 1875. Of their children, (1) Sarah Maria was born May 24, 1824. (2) Huldah Delia, born July 1, 1826, died March 11, 1827. (3) Eliza Jane (1), born May 22, 1828, died January 22, 1832. (4) John Toucey, born September 27, 1830, died October 23, 1857. (5) Eliza Jane (2), born January 26, 1833, was married May 17, 1855, to Delos B. Smith, and died August 15, 1861. (6) Mary Augusta, born November 15, 1836, was married August 18, 1859, to William H. Taylor, and died July 4, 1877, at Oakland, Cal. (7) Martha Theresa, born November 10, 1839, died November 23, 1844. (8) Harriet Brown, born May 22, 1841, was married Sep- tember 10, 1860, to James M. W. Terney, and had one daughter Maud, now Mrs. Ammon Tay- lor. (9) Sarah was married May 1, 1844, to Dr. Monroe Judson, and died February 25, 1867.


VII. Joseph, fifth child of Joseph VI, born .September 19, 1806, was married on Christmas Eve, 1836, at Trinity Church, Newtown, by Rev. S. C. Stratton, to Mary (Botsford) Bailey, daugh- ter of Theophilus Botsford. She was born De- cember 25, 1811, and died February 28, 1872, and his death occurred June 3, 1885. Of their children-(1) Julia Esther, born July 1, 1843, died November 11, 1862. (2) Miss Ann E., born July 14, 1844, is a highly esteemed resident of Newtown. (3) Joseph A., born May 9, 1846, was married March 5. 1867. to Mary Eliza Warner, daughter of Henry S. and Eliza (Hill) Warner, of New Milford, Conn. They have had seven children : William, born September 18, 1868; Joseph H., born January 18, 1870, died October 27, 1872; Mary Eliza, born October 6, 1872; Stanley Joseph, born April 27, 1875;


Albert Francis, born June 13, 1881; Henry Warner, born August 2, 1884, and Eva Hutch- inson, born June 25, 1886. (4) Mary F., born February 16, 1851, at Newtown, was married September 11, 1879, to Rev. Francis Walter Bar- nett, who was bornat West Haven, Conn., Decem- ber 26, 1849. They have had four children, who were born at North Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn., at the dates given : Francis Blackman, May 29, 1882; Mary Pritchard, March 20, 1886; Joseph Noyes, March 21, 1891, and William Ed- ward, October 8, 1893.


IV. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer III, left a will dated May 28. 1753, and proved June 23, 1753, in which he names his wife Mehitabel and the following children: (1) Samuel was born Sep- tember 22, 1726. (2) Ebenezer was born May 1, 1728. (3) Abigail (Mrs. Wooster) was born January 28, 1729-30. (4) Jonas, a resident of Huntington, married Elizabeth Smith, and had five children-Lemuel, Jerod, Charity, Anna and Betsey. (5) Peter was married October 18, 1746, to Abigail Beers, and they had three chil- dren-Eunice, born June 10, 1747; John, born July 5-15, 1749, both of whom were baptized at Greenfield Hill, and Nabby, born February 16, 1755. (6) Enoch was married (first) on July 5, 1782, to Abby Clarke, who died at Huntington, in 1802, aged forty-two, and (second) to


Covell. He had five children-Nathan Clarke, born December 27, 1782; Abby Betty, born No- vember 6, 1784; Enoch, born in 1785; Jane Charlotte, born March 21, 1787, and Elizabeth Sarah, born December 16, 1789. (7) Nathaniel appears to have left no record.


IV. Jonathan, son of Ebenezer III and Abi- gail Curtis, was married December 20, 1722, to Mary Beecher, and they were dismissed to the Ripton Church in 1724. They had one son, William, baptized in October, 1723, died in Rip- ton in 1802, aged seventy-nine.


IV. Nathan, son of Ebenezer III and Abigail Curtis, was married December 20, 1732, to Sarah, daughter of Samuel Wells, and settled in Mon- roe. They had five children-Eunice, born Oc- tober 8, 1733; Sarah, baptized in July, 1735; Gersham or Gurdon, baptized in April, 1737; Ephraim, born in 1746, who is mentioned again; and David Wells, born in 1748, died in 1784.


V. Ephraim, a resident of Monroe, was mar- ried in 1777 to Sarah, daughter of John Willcox- son. She died in 1828, aged seventy-one, and his death occurred in 1811. at the age of sixty- five. They had eight children: Augur, Sarah, Lemuel (who married Rebecca Wells). John, Eli, Philo, Ira and Rufus (a physician at Greenfield Hill). This ends the record of the descendants


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of Ebenezer III, and we will now trace that of Joseph III, youngest son of John II and Dorothy Smith.


III. Joseph Blakeman was a cooper by trade. He was married on July 14, 1674, to Hannah Hall, who was living in 1701. She was a daugh- ter of Francis Hall, who married Dorothy Smith Blakeman for his second wife. Joseph and Han- nah Blakeman had seven children: (1) Joseph, born April 12, 1675, was married first on Sep- tember 14, 1697. to Elizabeth Seeley, and sec- ond on January 27. 1704 or '5, to Hester Wheel- er. His children were Sinasah and Andrew, both baptized in April, 1723; Ephraim, baptized No- vember 3, 1723, and John, who was baptized in 1731, at the age of eighteen. (2) John, born in 1677, was married April 29, 1701, to Jemima Holibert, of Fairfield, and died in 1732. They probably resided in Fairfield, and they had five children-John; Adam; Jemimah; Ebenezer, who was born in 1729, and died in Huntington in 1789; and Peter, born in 1725. (3) Josiah was married November 5. 1735, to Judith Cady. He had three children-Nathaniel Cady, born March 27, 1737; Charity, born May 6, 1742, and Benajab, born December 12, 1743. (4) Samuel appears to have left no record. (5) Abi- gail, born August 12, 1680, was married previous to 1701, to William Smith, of Stratford. (6) Rebecca was married in December, 1708, to Will- iam Curtis. (7) Benjamin was married March 26, 1706, to Rebecca Smith. This completes the list of descendants of John II, and the re- mainder of the sketch is devoted to those of James, the third child of Rev. Adam Blakeman.


II. James Blakeman was a farmer and miller by occupation. He purchased first the tide mill at the Eagle's Nest, and then the one at Old Mill Green, but he afterward sold out and removed to the Near Mill River, and built the first mill at what is now called Peck's Mills, receiving a large grant of land from the town to recompense him in part. He was one of the most active business men of that locality in his day. In 1657 he mar- ried his first wife, Miriam, daughter of Moses Wheeler, and in April, 1708, he married Bath- sheba, daughter of Stephen Pensin, of Derby. His last days were spent at Farmill, where he built a mill, and he was probably buried on the top of the hill north of the present paper-mill there. His will was dated at Orenoque July 18, 1689, and proved November 7, 1689, the estate being inventoried at 402 pounds 18 shillings. His children were-Sarah, born April 25, 1658, wife of John Todd, of New Haven; Mary, born April 21, 1661 (Mrs. Seale); Hannah, born Jan- uary 21, 1664 (Mrs. Gilbert); Jane, born Octo-


ber 26, 1668. and married June 12, 1687, to Jos- eph Russell, of New Haven; Miriam, born Feb- ruary 8, 1670 (Mrs. Joseph Northrup); Zachariah, born May 26, 1678, who is mentioned below; Adam, born January 1, 1683, and married Apri) 6, 1708, to Bathsheba Pierce, of Derby; James, born December 4, 1686, and died unmarried, leaving his property to his brothers, Zachariah and Adam, in a nuncupate will presented for pro- bate May 24, 1709, in which he also mentions his sisters, Jane Clarke, Miriam Smith and Mar- tha Stebbins; Elizabeth; and Martha (Mrs. Stebbins).


III. Zachariah, son of James II and Miriam Wheeler, was married December 24, 1704, to his first wife, Elizabeth Denman, of Derby. She died in 1732, and on June 19, 1733, he married Mrs. Dinah Sherman, of New Haven. His death occurred July 11, 1779. He had four children: Mary, born September 2, 1705 (Mrs. Ebenezer Coe); Elizabeth, born July 28, 1708; James, born October 28, 1713, and Zachariah, born July 14, 1720.


IV. Zachariah married Elizabeth Hull, and died March 23, 17 -. He probably removed to Unity in his later years. His children were Abi- jah, baptized in November, 1750; Zachariah, born about 1753; Mary, baptized in March, 1756; Elizabeth, born July 28, 1768, who married John Burritt, and removed to Monroe, and Mercy, who married Agur Curtis.


V. Zachariah died April 23, 1835, aged eighty-two. He was married (first) on Novem- ber 12, 1777, to Anna Hawley, of North Strat- ford, who died March 23, 1789, and he after- ward married Sarah Beard. By his first mar- riage he had six children: Abijah, born Septem- ber 17, 1778, died in August, 1807; Sarah, born February 16, 1780, died May 10, 1782; Philo, born January 1, 1782, was married in 1811 to Hepsa Wooster, and settled in New York State, where he died in 1830; Sarah, born June 25. 1784. married Eli Curtiss; Treat, born June 29, 1786, is mentioned below; Robert, born May 16. 1788, died July 11, 1788. By the second mar- riage there were three children: Elizabeth (Mrs. David C. Booth); David and Beard, baptized in April. 1799, died July 15, 1875.


VI. Treat, son of Zachariah and Anna (Hawley) Blakeman, was married January 8. 1811, to his first wife, Hannah Birdsey, who was born January 16, 1790, the daughter of Ezra Birdsey, and died June 20, 1849, aged fifty-nine years and five months. In November, 1850, he married Rebecca Ann Wills, who died August 20. 1873, aged eighty-four. His death occurred Au- gust 1, 1877, at the age of ninety-one years and


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one month. Of his four children, Abijah, born June 21, 1812, was married November 15, 1836, to Sarah Tomlinson; Mary Ann, born February 25, 1819, was married June 3. 1846, to S. P. Tomlinson; Birdsey, born January 25, 1824, is mentioned below; and Benjamin, born June 12, 1826, was married October 25, 1848, to Caroline Fairchild.


VII. Birdsey Blakeman, son of Treat and Hannah Blakeman, married Ann Maria Tomlin- son, and had five children: (1) Frederic Tomlin- son, born November 30, 1850, died November 5, 1873; (2) Marianna, born March 15, 1852, was married June 21, 1881. to John V. B. Lewis, and has had one daughter, Anna Blakeman Lewis (born February 2, 1883); (3) Theodore, born August 26, 1856, died October 22, 1856; (4) Louis Henry, born May 30, 1858, was married October 4, 1881, to Eleanor Leal Greenleaf, and has had one son, Frederic Tomlinson Blakeman (born July 25, 1883); and (5) Emily Morrison, born October 6, 1863, died March 8, 1868.


Timothy Blakeman, married Buela Chil .: Huldah, baptized May. 1737; Zadoc, bap- tized July. 1739; Timothy, baptized September, 1741; Abel, November 22, 1748, in Trumbull; Benjamin, baptized January 10, 1753; Diantha, baptized March 1, 1758.


John Blakeman married Martha -- , and (second) Eunice Worden. September 28. 1750. Chil .: Andrew, born January 3, 1740; Josiah, born April 28, 1741; Sarah, born March 25. 1743; Martha, born March 1, 1749. By second wife: Martha, baptized March 29, 1752; one unnamed, baptized November, 1753, in Trumbull; Mary, baptized April, 1756.


James Blakeman married Sarah Hawley, of North Stratford, January, 1773. She died in 1775, aged twenty-six years. He married (sec- ond) Widow Ann (Beard) Curtiss, in May. 1784. She died in 1843, aged eighty-one years. He died in 1835, aged eighty-eight years. Of his children, Miller, born October, 1773, died in 1781. Sarah was born December, 1775. By second wife: Eben, born February, 1785. mar- ried Sarah Wheeler in 1809; Anna, born August, 1787; Ard, born June, 1789; Catee, baptized November, 1794.


Asa Blakeman married Hannah Curtiss, 1791. She died in Huntington in 1799, aged twenty- seven years. He married (second) Betsey Wheeler in 1803. He was born in 1765, and died in 1813. Children: Louisa, born 1792; Ursula, born 1793; Alanson Curtiss, born 1794; Melissa, born 1795.


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Elijah Blakeman married Mary Hubbell, April 27, 1807. She died November 22, 1809.


He married (second) Abiah Curtiss, August 26, 1810. Chil. by this wife: Henry, born May 3, 1811; Phineas, born February 16, 1813; Cur- tiss, born September 22, 1814.


John Glover, probable son of John of New Haven, was in Stratford as early as 1702. He married, November 27, 1700, Mrs. Margery Hubbard, of New Haven. She died in March, 1703-4. He married widow Bethia Bickley, July, 1767. She was the daughter of Benjamin Beach. "John Glover, joiner, of Newtown, Conn., in 171 1 sells to Mr. Moss his lands in Strat- ford." Children: John, born December 30, 1701; Henry, born October 3, 1703. By wife Bethia: Benjamin, born May, 1708.


A' NDREW J. PALMER is one of the progress- ive business men of Sound Beach, whose energies are devoted to the oyster business, and by his ability, enterprise and upright methods he has established for himself an enviable reputation. Although he is comparatively a young man, he has already won a success in his chosen calling.


On his father's old homestead at Sound Beach, Mr. Palmer was born June 18, 1863, a son of Isaac B. and Armenia (Jones) Palmer, and in the district schools of that village he acquired his education. At the age of fourteen years he left home and began the battle of life for himself as a gardener's helper for a Mr. Hhout, in Stamford township, Fairfield county. Later he worked for Hanford Briggs as a farm hand at $15 per month, spending the winters at home and attend- ing school. At the age of sixteen he became in- terested in the oyster business, and after working for others for one year, he went to New York City, where for a year and a half he was em- ployed in the round house of the Sixth Avenue Elevated railway. The following two years be was fireman on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, and gave up that position simply on account of failing health. He then worked at oystering until his health improved, when he returned to the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railway Company. New York, and remained with that company nearly two years, working his way upward to night engine dispatcher, with four hundred men under him. Returning to Sound Beach, he embarked in the oyster business on his own account, and so successful has he been that he is now quite extensively engaged in oyster growing, and owns considerable grounds.


On February 16, 1893, Mr. Palmer was mar- ried at Stamford to Miss Alice Davis, who was born and reared at that place, and is a daughter of Theodore and Phoebe (Bedell) Davis. The same


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year of his marriage Mr. Palmer built a pleasant residence at Sound Beach, where he has since made his home. He has always been an ardent Republican in politics, but not an office seeker. Socially, he belongs to Empire Lodge, I. O. O. F., at Greenwich; his wife is a member of the Congregational Church.


CETH STEVENS DANN is one of Stamford's most enterprising and successful business men, and in addition to extensive agricultural oper- ations he has carried on a large trade as a cooper, also acted as local agent for the Cove Mills, while since 1889 he has been a successful manager of the Mount Pleasant Dairy in Stamford.


Mr. Dann was born February 19, 1830, at Hunting Ridge, in the town of Stamford, where his family settled in Colonial times. Squire Dann, our subject's grandfather, who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary army, was a resi- dent of Hunting Ridge, and he and his wife, whose maiden name was Rachel Lockwood, were much respected in the neighborhood. Jonathan Dann, the father of our subject, was born at the old homestead at Hunting Ridge, and his life was spent in agricultural pursuits in that locality. In politics he was a Whig. and he took great in- terest in religious work as a leading member of the Methodist Church near his home. He also served in the war of 1812. He married Miss Mary Stevens, a daughter of Jacob Stevens, and had a large family of children, as follows: George, the eldest, located in Wisconsin, and was very successful in business; Julia is deceased; William resides in California; Emeline is de- ceased; Sellick and Charles are residents of Stamford; Ann Eliza is a resident of Wisconsin; Henry is deceased; Joseph, whose occupation in his younger days was that of school teacher, later was engaged quite extensively in the brick business in Wisconsin; Betsey is deceased; and Seth S. is our subject. There were thirty-two grandchildren who came to majority, among whom were three doctors and three school teach- ers.


Mr. Dann, our subject, remained at the old home until he reached his majority, his educa- tion being obtained in the local schools. On December 28, 1851, he was married in North Stamford to Miss Mary Slater, daughter of Charles Slater, a prominent citizen of that locality, and soon after his marriage he made his home upon a farm adjoining his father's estate, which he now owns. Later he removed to another farm on Hunting Ridge, and since September, 1889, he has resided at what was formerly known as the


Alfred Hoyt farm in Stamford. For twenty-five years he was the agent of the Cove Mills, and the greater portion of the product of his cooper shop was disposed of to that company, the re- mainder going to New York City. While he is not a politician, he takes much interest in public questions, and is a stanch supporter of Republic- an principles. In religious faith he is a Method- ist and for many years he has been a prominent member of the local society of that denomina- tion.


His first wife passed to the unseen world June 23, 1861, and November 22, 1862, Mr. Dann married Miss Emily Jane Webb, daughter of Alfred and Sarah (Weed) Webb, well-known residents of Stamford. By his first marriage be had two children: (1) Sarah A., who married John W. Holly, to whom three sons were born- Roy and Howard (both born in Wisconsin), and Walter; and (2) Valaria O., a school teacher, who married W. M. Holly, brother to Jobn W., and they have one son-Willie Mason. John W. and W. M. Holly are sons of Charles Holly, a much respected and successful farmer. By his second marriage Mr. Dann has one son, Herbert Irving, a prominent young agriculturist and dairyman of Stamford, who owns and operates the W. H. Weed farm. He was reared to farm work under his father's direction, remaining at the old home on Hunting Ridge until he reached the age of sixteen, and was given the best edu- cational privileges to be found in the vicinity, graduating in 1893 from the high school at Stam- ford. During the past year he has devoted con- siderable attention to general farming, but for four years he has been chiefly interested in dairy- ing, in connection with the Mount Pleasant Dairy, which is now the largest business of the kind in Stamford. He was married April 28, 1898, to Miss Nellie Lounsbury, daughter of James H. and Cecelia E. Lounsbury, of Stam- ford.




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