Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Part 162

Author: H. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1899
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dered a musket with the rest. At the battle of Cedar Creek, on October 19, 1864, he was shot in both legs, and his horse was captured by the enemy. The faithful animal soon escaped, how- ever, and returned to the Union lines. On No- vember 30, 1861, Mr. Cook left Boston on the ship " Kingfisher," having charge of sixty horses for his regiment, and he landed every one of them safely at their destination. This work re- quired the most assiduous care, and he was often ridiculed for his caution by another wagon master on the vessel who had in charge seventy horses for the 26th Massachusetts Regiment. On De- cember 3 the ship encountered a gale off Cape Hatteras, and out of the seventy horses all died but one, which did not live to reach the end of the voyage, the methods of the two wagon mas- ters being thus brought into sharp contrast. On his return to Bridgeport at the close of the war, Mr. Cook spent three years in the milk business, and ten years in a grocery business on East Main street, but for twenty years past he has conducted a livery stable on Kossuth street. He is a strong Republican, and at times has taken an active part in local politics. His popularity is shown by the fact that in 1880, when a candidate for alderman, he was defeated by a small vote in a ward which normally gives a Democratic major- ity of 800. Socially, he belongs to the G. A. R., Elias Howe Post No. 3, at Bridgeport.


On February 1, 1871, Mr. Cook married Miss Hattie S. Winton, a daughter of Deacon Ebene- zer Winton, a prominent resident of Easton. She passed to the unseen life August 5, 1880, and on November 29, 1881, he married Miss Anna E. Booth, daughter of David Booth, a well-known citizen of Bridgeport, residing at No. 174 Kossuth street. By the first marriage there were two children: Franklin S., born November 29, 1872, who is now engaged in the stamp busi- ness in Kentucky; and Susan Louisa, born April 1, 1876, who received a collegiate education, and now resides in Toledo, Iowa. By the second marriage there is one son Alexander, born Sep- tember, 13, 1888.


J AMES E. CAMP, one of Bridgeport's most popular citizens, has been connected with the Cabinet Department of the Wheeler & Wil- son Manufacturing Company for many years, and has won a high standing in business cir- cles as well as social life. He belongs to an old Connecticut family, and his grandfather, George Camp, who married Julia Mott, was a well- known agriculturist at Norfolk.


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born at Norfolk, in January, 1828, and after com- pleting a course in the local schools he learned the cabinet maker's trade there. Later he re- sided for a time at Sheffield, Mass., and in 1860 he settled in Bridgeport, where he still resides. For a few years he was employed by Jacob Kief- er, but he has since held a responsible position with the Wheeler & Wilson Company. In 1849 he was married at Sheffield to Miss Nancy Munn, a daughter of William Munn, a native of England. They have had five children: Anna Roselle, wife of W. E. Halligan, of Bridgeport; James E., our subject; Frank M. and George W., risi- dents of Bridgeport, and Minnie O., who married Charles A. Campbell, of New York City.


Our subject was born August 25, 1853, at Sheffield, Mass., and was about seven years old at the time of the removal of the family to Bridgeport. He was educated in the public schools of the latter city, and in 1867, at the age of fourteen years, he began an apprentice- ship in the cabinet department of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company's factory. At the age of twenty-four he took a contract in con- nection with the trimming department of the same company, and for twenty-one years he has continued in charge of that work. Although formerly a Democrat, he is now a Republican in politics, and his popularity is shown by the fact that he has been elected to office on the ticket of both parties. He served one term as council- man, having been elected as a Democrat, and one term as selectman, being elected by the Re- publican party, and among the other offices held by him is that of assessor, in which he served four years.


In 1874 Mr. Camp was married in Bridge- port to Miss Della A. Brundage, daughter of Reuben G. Brundage, a well-known citizen of Bridgeport. Two children have blessed this union: Frederick H. and Mabel E. Mr. Camp has a pleasant home at No. 117 Maple street, Bridgeport, and he and his family are connected with the best social circles of that city. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, Corinthian Lodge No. 104, Hamilton Commandery, also Pyramid Temple, Mystic Shrine, and since 1879 he has been an active worker in Pequonnock Lodge No. 4. I. O. O. F., and Stratfield Encampment. In 1892 he was sent as a delegate to the Sov- ereign Grand Lodge of the 1. O. O. F., at Port- land, Ore .; in 1893 at Milwaukee, Wis., and in 1894 at Chattanooga, Tenn., he served in the same capacity. In 1891 he was Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment of the State of Con- necticut, and at present he is grand treasurer of the Grand Encampment of Connecticut.


REV. J. H. HOYT, for the past six years the ! pastor of the New Canaan Congregational Church, has during his ministry in this town exerted a marked influence for good both as a spiritual adviser and as a Christian citizen. He has gained the admiration and respect of his fellow- men in all the walks of life wherever his duties, pastoral or social, have called him.


Mr. Hoyt was born, in 1849, in the town of Greenfield, Saratoga Co., N. Y., and there passed his early life on the parentalfarm. In that locality. in addition to pleasant surroundings, he had the advantages afforded by the public schools of the town of Milton and the Saratoga Academy, where he pursued the preparatory study necessary to fit him for the higher training of the college which it was his ambition and purpose to enter. Accordingly, in 1869, he became a member of the Freshman Class of Union College, Schenec- tady. N. Y., in which institution he took the classical course, graduating in 1873, carrying of first prize for Junior oration, and also first prize for essay in English literature. While at college he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity. In 1873 he satisfied his long cherished convictions of duty by entering the Union Theological Semi- nary of New York City, from which he graduated in 1876, the same year receiving the degree of Master of Arts from Union College. He was ordained and licensed by the classis of West- chester in 1876, in which year he took his first pastoral charge, the Reformed Dutch Church near Tarrytown, N. Y., which he served very acceptably for two years. At the end of this time he accepted a call presented to him by the Pres- byterian Church of Bedford, N. Y., which he felt it his duty to answer, and was installed in 1878. His labors among these people were highly soc- cessful, and all the interests of the congregation prospered greatly under his efficient ministry, which lasted for thirteen years, until 1891, when a wider field was opened to him by the Congrega- tional Church of New Canaan, his present charge, which extended to him a cordial invitation to be- come its pastor. Though reluctant to leave an attached and harmonious people, to whom his ministrations had been a constant blessing, be felt it incumbent on him, in view of opportunities for increased usefulness in the Master's vineyard. to sunder his connection with the Bedford Church, and undertake more arduous duties in the new field.


Removing, therefore, to New Canaan, be be- came settled as pastor of this old and influential Church, and here he has since been retained. carrying on the work of the Master with a real and fidelity which has made him beloved not only


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y his congregation but by all with whom he has come in contact. In connection with his Church vork. Mr. Hoyt serves as visiting chaplain to the Soldiers Home at Noroton; this position he has held for five years, preaching to the old veterans wice every month, and by his interest in their welfare he has greatly endeared himself to all the nmates of the home. Mr. Hoyt possesses strong and attractive qualities of head and heart, and his sermons are chaste in style, clear in argument, logical in reasoning and direct in application, the effect of all being heightened by an animated and forcible delivery. His wide reading of and ac- quaintance with secular as well as sacred litera- ture are apparent in all his discourses, which show careful and conscientious preparation, and are interwoven in an interesting manner with illustrations drawn from his own observations as well as from books. And this knowledge, this elo- quence, this strength of purpose, are all made tributary and subservient to the one great end kept steadily in view-the impression of God's soul- saving truths upon men's hearts and minds. Ever abreast of the times, he keeps himself familiar with the various phases of religious thought in the present day, and, though moder- ate and even liberal in his own theological views, so far as not owning subjection to man-made theories or formulas is concerned, he never fal- ters in his adherence to the great doctrines of the Cross; or the recognized standards in which the " faith now delivered to the saints " finds fitting expression. These traits of character account sufficiently for the freshness which imparts steady interest to his pulpit ministrations. and for the hold which he maintains on the hearts of those who wait on his ministry. Personally, Mr. Hoyt is admirably adapted to the many every-day calls made upon one in his position, having a frank, genial, companionable and sympathetic dispo- sition, which he has plenty of opportunity for exercising. Prompt and faithful in the discharge of his pastoral duties, easy and affable in his intercourse with all classes in the community, given to hospitality as the pastor of a Church should be, and ably seconded in this and all other efforts by an equally courteous, cordial, and de- voted Christian wife, it is not necessary to explain why he is held in such popular esteem in New Canaan as a faithful pastor and good citizen, or why his ministry in his different charges has been attended with such success. Mr. Hoyt was mar- ried in 1876, at Tarrytown, N. Y., to Miss Sarah Bennett, daughter of James Bennett, of Sterling, New York.


James Taylor Hoyt, grandfather of Mr. Hoyt, was a native of Bethel, N. Y., and there followed


his profession, that of school teacher, for many years. On account of asthmatic trouble he emi- grated from that locality and settled in Saratoga county, N. Y., where he continued teaching un- til in his old age total blindness forced him to re- linquish it. He was a member of the Congrega- tional Church. He married Rachel Starr, and had five children, namely: Samuel Starr; Rev. Zira T. Hoyt, of Saratoga, who is the only one of the family now living; Rev. James Hoyt. who was pastor of the First Church of Orange, N. J .; Rebecca and Lois.


Samuel Starr Hoyt was born in the town of Bethel, in the year 1808, and removed with the family to Saratoga county, N. Y., where he re- ceived his education. His life work was farming, which he carried on for the most part in Sara- toga county. N. Y., though for a time he farmed in Michigan, near Lansing. He was interested and prominent in the civil, religious and political movements of his time and place, being an act- ive member of the Congregational Church, and devoted to Church and temperance work. He was originally a Whig in politics, and following the issues of the day became in turn an Abolition- ist and finally a Republican. He was a highly respected citizen, and served as supervisor in the town of Milton, Saratoga county. Samuel S. Hoyt was married in Saratoga county, N. Y., to Roxie Caulkins, and they became the parents of eight children: Of whom, Elizabeth (Mrs. Prior) is living in Saratoga, N. Y .; Jane (Mrs. Emigh) is deceased; Lois is deceased; Lucy, the widow of Josephus Whittemore, lives in South Dakota; James Howard has already been spoken of; Hiram Luther is pastor of the Congregational Church at Flint, Mich .; Mary (Mrs. Seeley) makes her home in California; and Charles Ed- ward is pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Durham, Greene Co., N. Y. The father of this family died at Saratoga Springs in the spring of 1895, preceded to the grave by his wife, who passed away in 1890 at the same place.


H ANS PETERSEN, a respected, industrious citizen of Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Conn., was born April 19, 1850, in Schleswig-Holstein, then a part of Denmark, now a Province of Ger- many, and was the youngest child of Peter and Elizabeth Petersen, who had a large family.


During his early boyhood Mr. Petersen at- tended the common schools in his native land, and when but ten years of age hired out as a farm hand, at which occupation he continued while in the old country. In the spring of 1874. believing that he would have more chance for


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advancement in the United States, he set sail from Hamburg in the vessel "Turingia," which arrived at New York City after a voyage of fif- teen days. From there he went to Plainfield, N. J., where he secured work as a laborer. In New York City, on June 25, 1874, he was mar- ried to Miss Marie C. Hartvig, she having pre- ceded him to this country. She was born in Denmark, February 27, 1851, and was a daugh- ter of Jorgen and Katrina Hartvig, being the third child in a family of five. In the fall of 1873 she came to this country, making the voy- age from Hamburg to New York in the "Gotha," the trip consuming thirteen days. From New York Mrs. Petersen went to Plainfield, N. J., where within a short time she obtained employ- ment.


After their marriage our subject and his wife returned to Plainfield, where they resided until the following spring. They then lived in Fair- field, Conn., for a time, and in 1876 re- moved to Trempeleau county, Wis., Mr. Peter- sen investing in an eighty-acre tract of new land there, on which they made their home for one year. Not liking the country out there, how- ever, they returned to Fairfield in 1877, and he was engaged at various occupations here until 1891, when he commenced carpenter work with E. H. Smith, and with him continued until he entered the employ of Thomas Forsythe, car- penter and contractor, remaining with him up to the present writing. Mr. Petersen has proved himself a steady, reliable man in whatever capa- city he has been engaged, and he and his family occupy an excellent position among the respected residents of the community. Mrs. Petersen is a competent helpmeet for her thrifty husband, as well as an excellent manager, and she deserves her share of credit for the prosperity which they now enjoy.


Mr. and Mrs. Petersen have had three chil- dren, as follows: Annie K. is a stenographer and lives at home; Peter W. is in New York City, and George H. is at present attending the Bridgeport High School. Mr. and Mrs. Peter- sen have been members of the Congregational Church since 1877. He is a stanch Republican in political connection, and, fraternally, he united with Pequonnock Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Bridge- port. In 1893 he built the present comfortable home of the family.


education, found employment, at the age of nine- teen, as a cutter in James Ryder's marble yard, in the same town. There he remained until September 26, 1877, and he then spent two years-from November 19, 1877, to September 1, 1879-with C. L. Halstead, a druggist. On September 6, 1879, he entered the employ of the Adams Express Company as a driver, and was afterward promoted to the position of way-bill clerk. In the fall of 1884 he went to Phila- delphia, Penn., to take a course in shorthand and typewriting in Haven's Business College, and on graduating, in the spring of 1885, he returned to Danbury. In 1886 he was employed by Car- ter & Co., a New York publishing firm, to assist in the preparation of directories for Danbury and other cities. In the following spring he became a member of the firm of Thompson, Breed & Crofutt, directory publishers, who, after making directories for Southern cities, transferred their operations to the North, and prepared directories for Yonkers, N. Y., and Danbury, Conn. In 1888 Mr. Crofutt began publishing the Danbury Directory independently, and for twelve years he has issued the volume annually.


In the meantime Mr. Crofutt has been actively interested in local affairs. On September 1, 1885, he was appointed deputy registrar of voters by his father, and on the resignation of the latter, in 1887, was elected to the office of registrar, which he held until the fall of 1895. In June, 1895, he was appointed to fill his father's unex- pired term as constable, and on October 7, of that year, he was elected to that office, in which he is now serving. Among the notable arrests made by him, that of the bigamist, Jeannette Smalley Kaashan (or Hall), attracted most atten- tion. She was arrested at Newburgh, N. Y., extradited and returned to this county, where she was convicted at the May term of court, 1896, and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years.


Frederick B. Crofutt is an ardent Republican, and on one occasion was made to suffer for his active work for the party. Having been ap- pointed in June. 1890, to the position of captain of Hose Company No. 2, in the paid fire depart- ment, he was requested in June, 1894, to resign, for political reasons. We quote from the Dan- bury News the words of Councilman Goos, at that time chairman of the fire committee of the city council. "The removal is made necessary by Mr. Crofutt's prominence in political work in direct violation of the rules of the department.


AREDERICK BARNUM CROFUTT, the youngest son of Harris L. and Hannah A. | Mr. Crofutt is an excellent department officer. (Barnum) Crofutt, was born August 6, 1858, in ; and I cannot say anything against him person- Danbury, and after receiving a public-school | ally." Soon after Mr. Crofutt's enforced resigna-


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: on five members of his company tendered their :signations to Mayor Andrews and left the ervice. One was Robert W. Davis, afterward ouncilman from the First ward and a member f the Fire committee: another, Frank G. Bou- on, since city clerk for two years, and a third, frederick A. Hoyt, is captain of Hose Company .o. 1 in the paid fire department.


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Socially. Frederick B. Crofutt belongs to 'augussett Tribe No. 3, Improved Order of Red Men: Union Lodge No. 40, F. & A. M .; Eureka Chapter No. 23. R. A. M., and to Samaritan Lodge No. 7. I. O. O. F., in which latter lodge te has passed through the chairs. On February 4. 1897, he was married to Miss Florence H. Harvey. of Danbury, a niece of ex-Mayor Charles ;. Peck. They have one daughter, Marion, born December 19, 1898.


F RANK N. TAYLOR, a prosperous and en- ergetic business man, and an excellent citi- ren of Westport, Fairfield county, was born :here April 21, 1854. being of the fourth genera- tion of the family born in Fairfield county.


Jonathan Taylor, his great-grandfather, mar- ried Orpha Gregory, and reared his family on a farm in the town of Westport.


Capt. Alfred Taylor, grandfather of Frank N .. in early life learned the shoemaker's trade, followed it for a time, then became a farmer. He married Chloe Gregory, and to them were . born five children, namely: Warren died when young: Alfred N. is the father of our subject; Betsey Ann married John Goodsell, of the town of Westport, formerly a shoemaker, but at the time of his death a grocer; Nancy married Wal- ยท ter Bradley. a farmer of Redding. and Emeline. married Bejamin Fitch, a shoemaker, and later a farmer. The parents of this family lived and died in the town of Westport. The father gained his title from his connection with the mi- . litia in the " training days."


Alfred N. Taylor, the father of our subject, was born August 5. 1821, in the town of West- port, Conn. He learned the carpenter's trade which he followed in connection with farming throughout his lifetime. He was an industrious and hardworking man, and a man of good com- mon sense, practical in his ideas, and made an excellent neighbor and citizen. He married Susan Grumman, a daughter of Hiram Grumman, of Wilton, Fairfield county. This marriage was blessed with the following five children: Ruth Ann married George Richardson, of Westport, and is now deceased; Nancy married Joseph Brower, a shoemaker by trade, and is also now


deceased; Sarah L. married Henry Grupe, of New Canaan, and they are now residing on a farm in lowa; Alice married John Tinkler. now a resident of Westport, formerly of Brooklyn; and Frank N. is our subject. After the mar- riage of the parents they settled on a farm in the town of Westport. Both are now deceased, the the father dying August 3, 1888, and the mother on June 7. 1854. They were members of the Episcopal Church; in his political views he was a Democrat.


Mrs. Susan (Grumman) Taylor was fifth in order of birth in a family of five children, the others being as follows: Marvin, Russell, Cather- ine and Sarah M. The Grummans were of Eng- lish extraction.


Frank N. Taylor passed his boyhood on his father's farm, where he was reared to the age of seventeen, and there received such education as the general farmer gave his sons. He then came to Westport as an apprentice to the trade and business which he now conducts, serving his time with John B. Goodsell, then the proprietor of the store. On the completion of his apprenticeship, young Taylor worked two years for his employer, then was taken into partnership, and such rela- tions existed until March, 1881. At that time Mr. Taylor became sole proprietor, and has ever since conducted the business alone. He deals in stoves, pumps, tin, sheet-iron and copper ware, does steam-fitting, gas-fitting, plumbing, and job- bing of all kinds in the best manner and on the most reasonable terms. He is the agent at West- port for Boynton's latest patent furnaces. Be- sides being a first-class workman, he is a good judge of all materials in his line, and one desiring any goods of his kind or materials will do well to give him a call. Mr. Taylor commands the re- spect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. In poli- tics he follows the views held by his ancestors, and gives his allegiance to the Democratic party. At this writing he is auditor of the town of West- port, and he has served the county as grand juror. Socially. he is a member of Temple Lodge No. 65, F. & A. M.


On December 27. 1876, Mr. Taylor was mar- ried to Isabelle Allen, of Newtown, Conn., a daughe ter of William Allen, and to them have com- children as follows: Lula B., Susan A. and Mil- dred, all at home.


C LARA J. BRADLEY, a well-known and highly respected resident of the town of Easton, Fairfield county, comes of an old estab- lished family, the members of which have for the most part engaged in agricultural pursuits


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for many generations back. She was born No- vember 14, 1852, in the town of Easton, Fair- field county, and educated at the Westport school.


Gersham Bradley, grandfather of our subject, was born in the town of Weston (now Easton). Fairfield county, and during the greater part of his busy life kept a general store at Easton, at the same time conducting a farm. In religious faith he was a member of the Congregational Church at Easton, and in his political sympathies was always a sound Democrat. By his wife Mary (Scudder), of Huntington, L .. I., he had children as follows: Sarah (Mrs. Williams), De- borah (Mrs. Parrack), Maria (Mrs. Spear), Betsey (Mrs. Platt), Matsey (Mrs. Bates), Scudder, Burr, Harry, Lewis (a sketch of whom follows) and Gersham.


Lewis Bradley, father of our subject, was born in the town of Easton, in 1810, and died April 15, 1869. He was a lifelong agriculturist, and one of the most highly esteemed citizens in the county. During the old-time militia days he was captain of a train band; in politics he was an ardent Democrat, and in religious faith he was a member of the Congregational Church of Easton. On January 20, 1833, he married Miss Rhoda A. Andrews, who was born May 15. 1813, a daughter of Joseph H. and Clara (Thorp) Andrews, and their children were as follows: Sarah J., married to William H. Couch; Walker B., deceased at the age of thirty-two years; Lewis B., married to Henrietta N. Jones; Ger- trude A., wife of Aaron B. Wood; and Agnes A. and Clara J., both unmarried. The mother of this family passed from earth February 13, 1892. Of the Andrews family, Francis was the first to make a settlement in the United States, be- coming a farmer. Of his children, John An- drews was born in 1646, and died in 1683; John, son of John, was born October 24, 1679, mar- ried Helnirah Burr, who was born October 26, 1680, a daughter of Daniel Burr, who was a son of John Burr, one of the first settlers of Fair- field county.




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