Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Part 176

Author: H. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1899
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On June 22, 1886, Mr. Wilmot was married to Miss Charlotte Louden, who was born Janu- ary 30, 1865, in New York City, a daughter of Samuel R. and Charlotte (Keyes) Louden, the former of whom is at present serving as post- master at Riverside. Three children have been born to them. as follows: Adelaide B., July 2, 1888: Charlotte L., August 27, 1889. and Will- iam A., Jr., May 28, 1894. In 1897 Mr. Wil- mot erected the elegant home which the family now occupy, and in addition to that he owns two others-the old Newman homestead, the oldest house in this vicinity, about 160 years old, and the old Lockwood homestead-as well as a lot in Sound Beach. The Newman homestead has never been outside of the family, and yet it has never been "handed down," each successive owner having acquired it by purchase. Mr. Wil- mot is a Republican in political sentiment, but in voting he selects the best men, and his first vote was cast for Grover Cleveland, his ballot being the first one cast for Cleveland at that election in Stamford township. The family at- tend the First Congregational Church, and, though not members, take an active part in its interests and work.

C HARLES GAYLOR, one of Stamford's most highly esteemed citizens, enjoys an enviable reputation as a financier, and his ability and sagacity have been demonstrated in numerous important business enterprises. His keen judg- ment and energetic, vet conservative manage- ment have made him a valued member of various banking institutions and other corporations, and at present he is the president of the Citizens Savings Bank at Stamford.

He married Bethia Knapp, daughter of Hezekiah Knapp, and had the following children: John, born February 16, 1811, is deceased: Mary, born | February 2, 1812, married Rufus Wardwell, and died August 30, 1888; George, born September 21, 1813, is deceased; Charles, our subject, is mentioned more fully below; Sarah Ann, born August 15, 1818, married James Voorhies; Will- I jam H., born March 8, 1821, is deceased; Han- nah Elizabeth, born January 13, 1824, married Benjamin A. Clapp, of Tarrytown, N. Y., and Hezekiah K., born October 16, 1826, is de- ceased.

The subject of our sketch was born at Stam- ford, March 21, 1816, and was educated there in a school located at the present site of St. John's Park. He learned the carpenter's trade in his youth, serving an apprenticeship of five years with Edwin Bishop, and in early manhood he engaged in the lumber business in New York City, where he remained about twenty years. the firm being known as Gaylor & Stevens, Gaylor & Carrington, and later as Gaylor, Carrington & Co. About 1861 he returned to Stamford, hav- ing become interested in the Stamford Gas Com- pany, in which he is still a director. He soon became identified with the financial institutions of the place, helping to organize the Citizens Savings Bank, of which he has been president some six or seven years, and for some time he has been a director in the First National Bank. While not a politician in the commonly accepted meaning of the term, yet he takes much interest in political questions. In early life he was a Whig, but since 1857 he has been a stanch sup- porter of the principles of the Republican party. He is active and influential in local affairs, hav- ing served for many years as a burgess of the borough of Stamford, and at one time he was first selectman of the town. His sympathies have always been readily enlisted for educational and religious advancement, and since 18 _; he has been a member of St. John's Episcopal Church at Stamford, to which his wife also be- longs. While in New York, Mr. Gaylor joined the State Militia, under William H. Seward, and | October 25, 1842, he was made lieutenant in the | 258th Regiment.

On March 10, 1842, Mr. Gaylor was married.

Mr. Gaylor's family has been identified with Stamford for many years, and his grandfather ! in New York City, to Miss Caroline F. Budd, and resided here. . His father, Charles Stewart Gay- I four children have blessed the union: (1) Charles

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Henry; (2) Thomas E. and (3) Caroline B .. all a boy. By occupation he was a farmer and a boatman, running a market boat for years from deceased. (4) Leonard Budd is vice president and manager of the Black Manufacturing Com- , Mianus to New York. Later on he did a general pany. at Erie, Penn., makers of the " Tribune " bicycle. Mr. and Mrs. Gaylor are both remarka- biy well preserved and young looking, and he at- tributes his good health to his temperate habits, for he has never used stimulants or tobacco.

; packet and transient business on the river. He was an honorable man. a good citizen, and was held in high este em. He married Rebecca Smith. who was from Stamford. Fairfield county, and their children were Henry S., now retired, and a Frederick, a well-known conductor for years on t the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R., is now deceased;

Mrs. Gaylor was born May 25. 1820, in New , resident of Cos Cob: William died when young; Jersey, a daughter of Wesley and Sophia (Fisler) : Budd, and granddaughter of Eli and Ann Budd. The Budds are of English extraction. The Fis- ! Mary A. married Andrew Ferris, and died at Port ler family is of German origin, and five brothers - . Chester, N. Y .; John L. keeps a feed store at Leonard, Jacob, Joseph, benjamin and Samuel - Mianus: Emily E. is now Mrs. W. H. H. Ferris, came to West New Jersey, settling in Gloucester , of Port Chester, N. Y .; George E. was killed by county, where the town Fisierville (now Clayton) . unknown parties while watching oyster beds at was named after them. Of these. Leonard was Greenwich; and J. Albert is our subject. The during the latter part of his lifetime, passed . away in the fall of 18So. He became comfort- ably fixed in life, having saved a competence. Pohtically, he was a Democrat. His wife died in January, 1893. She was a member of the First Congregational Church at Sound Beach. the grandfather of Mrs. Gaylor. He married Miss ! father of these, who farmed almost altogether Ann Marshall, and they had a large family, their daughter Sophia becoming the wife of Wesley Budd. Tothis union were born nine children -- ! four sons and five daughters-of whom three only survive: Caroline F. (Mrs. Gaylor), who is the only one of the family in Fairfield county; Mrs. Eliza S. Haviland, of New York City, and Mrs. Sarah W. Bornan, of Clinton, Jowa. The par- ents died in New York City

J ALBERT LOCKWOOD, a leading citizen . a brakeman on the N. Y. & N. H. R. R., and of the town of Greenwich, Fairfield county. has descended from one of the old New Eng- land famihes.

Born July 8. 1843. at Riverside, Fairfield ; pany H. 28th C. V. I .. under Capt. W. B. Wes- county, Mr. Lockwood in line of descent is of the seventh generation from Robert Lockwood, the progenitor of the family in this country, which . first engagement being at Port Hudson on the line of descent is as follows: (1) Robert. (2) Jonathan, (3) John. (4) Jonathan, (5) Frederick.

Mississippi river. He was a good and obedient soldier, ever ready for whatever duty was as- (6) Uriah. Robert Lockwood came to this coun- | signed him, sharing the fate of his command throughout its term of service. He received an honorable discharge August 28. 1863, and on his return home was occupied for a time with his brother, John L., who owned a vessel that plied on the river. He next tried railroad work again. then went into the oyster business, which he continued in several years. In 1878 he was elected assessor of Greenwich town, serving two years. At the expiration of this time, in 1881, of age, a daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Lock- . he was elected to the office of selectman of his

try from England in about the year 1630, local- . ing at Watertown, Mass., where he remained un- til in about 1646, when he moved to Fairfield county. Conn., and here died in 1658. Fred- erick Lockwood. of the fifth generation, was born in the town of Greenwich, Fairfield county. Feb- ruary 3. 1763, and there died in 1808. His wife was Deborah Reynolds, born May 24. 1766, and died May 15, 1857, when upward of ninety years wood) Reynolds. Their children were Seymour, Frederick M., Ezekiel, Alfred. Luke, Uriah, Lot. Ananias, Sally, Fannie and Deborah.

town, and has held the office ever since with the exception of an interim of three years. Dur- ing all of this time, save two years, he has been first selectman. He has made a most faithful and efficient official, and enjoys the distinction of

Of these, Uriah Lockwood was born in 1805 in the town of Greenwich. He attended the neighborhood schools, was early thrown on his ' having held the office longer than any of his pred- own resources and became self-reliant while yet

. ecessors. He is a very affable and genial gen-

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J. Albert Lockwood, of this review, received his primary education in the schools of Mianus district, going regularly during the winter season only, as his services were needed by his father. He worked on the farm chiefly until he became was so occupied off and on for three years. This , position he left to enter the Civil war, enlisting September 1, 1862, as a private soldier in Com- , come, and was promoted to second sergeant. His command was in the Banks expedition, their

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tleman, and most popular. He takes great in- J., who died in New York; Richard, father of our subject; Mary E., who married Benjamin Hicks, and died in Brooklyn; Margaret, who first mar- ried Alexander Buckhout, and afterward Mr. Stud- well, and who was killed on the railroad at Port terest in anything pertaining to the G. A. R., of : which he is a member, being identified with Lombard Post No. 24, at Greenwich. He was chairman of the committee that had charge of the erection of the Soldiers Monument at Green- | Chester, N. Y .; and Charles T., a truckman who wich. The monument is a handsome one, it be- ! went to Chicago, in the early .. sixties " and there died. ing equaled by few in the State. On its site formerly stood the building in which many of those brave boys enlisted. Politically Mr. Lock- wood is a Democrat, and has great influence in party affairs. He has been an enterprising and progressive citizen, and has erected four houses in his time, one at River Side and three else- where.

Mr. Lockwood has been twice married, the first time to Sarah A. Wescome, to which mar- riage were born children as follows: Albertina died at the age of nine years; William A. died in infancy; Bessie G. is now Mrs. Clinton Worden. of Stamford; and Clarence A. is now attending business college at Stamford. The mother of these children was the daughter of Capt. W. B. Wescome. After her death Mr. Lockwood mar- ried Mrs. Lucien Greene, whose maiden name was Ida F. Snyder.

R ICHARD BULLWINKLE. This enterpris- ing citizen of Mianus is blessed with many friends, is widely and popularly known, and. with- al. possesses that happy temperament which is pervaded with cornradery. and none know him but to feel the genial spirit of that disposition. Yet the sterling character of Mr. Bullwinkle is not a whit behind his manner, and he is regarded as one of the township's best citizens.

Mr. Bullwinkle is of German extraction. His grandfather, Henry Bullwinkle, was born near Berlin, Germany, but prior to his emigration to America, during the latter years of the last cent- ury, he had lived for some time in London, Eng- land. By trade he was a sugar maker. and for some time after he came to this country he ; was buried in Greenwood cemetery. Brooklyn. worked in the factory where the Havemeyers were but engineers. He settled in New York City, remaining there up to his death. He fol- lowed the contractor's business, and owned prop- erty at Third and Orchard streets, buying lots and building houses. He was married in this country to Miss Mary E. Gable. Mr. Bullwinkle lived to the age of seventy. his wife surviving to the age of seventy-seven. The children of Henry and Mary Bullwinkle were as follows: Catharine, who married Henry Melins; Ann, who married Abram Ryker. and died in Brooklyn; John, a piano-forte maker, who died in New York; Henry

Richard Bullwinkle, the father of our subject, was born on Orchard street, New York, April 29, 1815. He had little schooling. and when a young man bottomed chairs for a livelihood. However he attended night school, and became an excellent penman. As soon as he had prop- erly qualified himself, he abandoned the manual | trade he had learned and secured a position as a bookkeeper. In that capacity he had some in- teresting experiences. Once he was instructed by a member of the firm that employed him to make some false entries. He demurred, even when the dishonest employer drew a revolver and threatened to shoot him. The young bookkeep- er could not be prevailed upon to become dis- honest. but at once left the employ of that firm. He possessed a quick and retentive memory, and | was well informed upon many subjects. His penmanship enabled him to secure a position as a draughtsman in a building firm, and soon after he was superintending for them the construc- tion of the Moyamensing prison, and later that of the asylum at Ninth avenue and Thirty-fourth street, New York. He was also engaged in the construction of the Orphan home at Fifty-second street and Fifth avenue. For some years he was engaged as a contractor and as a dealer in build- eis' supplies. In 1860 he retired. He resided in New York until 1877. when owing to ill health he removed to near Mianus, where his son. our subject, now lives, and to him he turned over the management of his business affairs. In politics he was a stanch Republican, and he was a mem- 1 ber of Dr. E. H. Chapin's Universalist Church in | New York City. He died June 23. 1880. and

Richard Bullwinkle, Sr., was twice married. his first wife being Miss Maria M. Laughlin, who bore him two children: Sarah E .. now the wid- ow of Isaac Taylor. and living in New York, and Hiram G., who died at the age of twelve years. The death of Mrs. Bullwinkle left two young children, the elder of whom was only about four years of age. They were tenderly cared for br his second wife, who was Miss Mary Smith, and whom he married in May, 1848. She was born in Sussex county. N. J., July 15. 1825. daugh- ter of John S. and Catharine (Beemer) Smith. John S. Smith was the manufacturer of a fancy

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side saddle for ladies, which was then very pop- ular.

Mrs. Mary (Smith) Bullwinkle was one of eight children. She was reared on a farm, and was favored with a very fair education for the times. attending an academy in addition to the training which she received in the public schools. | Her father lived to the age of seventy-five years. 1 her mother surviving five years. The eight chil- dren of John S. and Catharine Smith were as follows: Charlotte, who married John Evans, and died at Port Jervis, N. Y .; Wilham, a me- i chanic, who died in New York: Horace, who en- listed in a New Jersey regiment during the Civil war, was wounded at Malvern Hill, and died in Libby prison; Miranda, widow of Charles A. Harvey. Brooklyn; Mary, mother of our subject; Sarah and John (twinsi, the former of whom is the widow of Robert S. Allen. Brooklyn, John being a resident of Kansas City; and Coe W., of i Elizabeth. N. J .. for twenty-five years connected with the Central railway of New Jersey. Three children were born to Richard and Mary Bull- winkle, as follows: Anna G. (Mrs. Jesse Ritch). of Greenwich township; Richard, subject of this sketch; and Carrie (Mrs. W. G. Adams). The mother remained at the old home until April, INgo, since when she has been living with her daughter Carrie.

Richard Bullwinkle, the subject of this sketch, was born in New York City May 12, 1860. He attended the public schools of that city, and took also a short course at a private school, but at the early age of fifteen years, in 1875. he entered the wholesale hardware house of Hart. Bliven & Mead, Nos. 246-248 Pearl street, as a clerk. This position he resigned in May, 1877, to enter the employ of Goodyear & Mckay, sewing machine manufacturers, No. 18 Murray street, New York. With them he remained until he came to the country to live, and to look after the business of his father.

Mr. Bullwinkle was married August 15. 1880, 10 Miss Estella A. Bowen, of Palmer's Hill. She I store, but in November, 1897, he closed out that

was born October 15. 1800. the daughter of Wilham and Sabina (Bonnell) Bowen. To Mr. and Mrs. Bullwinkle have been born four chil- dien: Richard, born August 26. 1881. a clerk in the Stamford National bank; Edna M., born October 8. 1883; Horace K .. born September 18, 1887. and Gertrude E., born June 29. 1895. Mrs. Bullwinkle is a member of the Methodist Church.

Since coming to Fairfield county Mr. Bull- winkle was for a time in the wholesale and retail grocery trade at Greenwich and later at Mianus. He was also at one time in the dairy business.

He owns sixty-five acres of land which he rents. and lives in a commodious dwelling which was built by the family to replace one destroyed by fire in 1884. At present Mr. Bullwinkle has large New York interests. Politically, he is a ( strong Republican. He has served as a member of the board of registration at Greenwich, for three years was treasurer of that city, and post- master at Mianus during the Harrison adminis- tration. Socially, he is prominently identified with the Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum at Greenwich. He is one of the leading social representatives of Greenwich township, and prominent in the affairs of the community.

P ATRICK BOYLE is well-known to the peo- ple of Stamford. Fairfield Co., Conn., as the proprietor of a thriving business in Meadow street, and the owner of considerable valuable real estate in the city, where he has made his home since 1865

Mr. Boyle came to this country from Ireland. where he was born in 1847, in County Galway. a son of Michael Boyle, who was a lifelong rest- dent of that county. By occupation he was a farmer and collector of rents. being the agent for an estate, and the family were in very comfort- able circumstances. There were five children- four sons and one daughter. Patrick received a good education in the private, parochial and na- tional schools of his native land, which he at- tended until he was eighteen years of age. Soon after his arrival in America he settled in Stam- ford. Conn .. and he has not spent a night outside of the city since. He began his career in the New World as gardener on an estate, working thus for a year. after which he was in the employ of John W. Leeds for fifteen years. finally, in i 1878, embarking in business on his own account as the owner of a grocery and liquor business in Meadow street. Later he bought a building on Main street, in which he conducted another

establishment to give his entire attention to the Meadow street store, to which he has added a meat market. Mr. Boyle has a constantly grow- ing and profitable patronage, and in addition to ¡ his retail business he wholesales Clausen & Price's ale. the Albany Brewing Company's ale and Clausen & Sons Brewing Company's lager beer. Mr. Boyle has proved himself a good manager and judge in his mercantile career, and as a re- sult enjoys a competence which affords him all the comforts and many of the luxuries of life. and is the owner of much desirable property in Stamford, which he has accumulated by economy

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and several timely investments. He deserves great credit for the advance he has made by his own industry, and he is respected by all who know him in Stamford as a worthy self-made man. In connection with his other business he, in 1898, erected at Shippan Point the " Auburn Hotel." and is conducting it as a summer hotel.

Mr. Boyle's marriage to Miss Katie Wendle took place in Stamford January 17, 1878, and has been blessed with eight children: Mary, Michael, Joseph, John, William, Marguerite, Catherine and Leona. Of these, Mary was for two years a pupil at Mt. St. Joseph's Seminary, Hartford, Conn., graduating from that institu- tion in June, 1896. Michael, after spending four years at the Stamford High School, began his college career at Villa Nova College, Delaware county. Penn., in September, 1898. Joseph en- tered Merrill's Business College, Stamford, Conn., as a student in November, 1898. Mr. Boyle served four years as treasurer of the Fenian As- sociation, and for some years held the same office in the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal organi- zation. He is a member of the Liquor Dealers Association in Stamford. Politically. he has supported the Democratic party ever since he be- came a citizen of the United States.

0 LIVER B. MORGAN, one of the progressive and wide-awake business men of Stamford, Conn., comes of an old and highly respected Connecticut family, his grandfather, Ezekiel Morgan, having been born in the town of Wil- ton, Fairfield county. He was a lifelong farmer; was married to a Miss Sarah Willock, also a na- tive of Wilton, and had a numerous family.

Aaron Morgan, son of Ezekiel Morgan, and the father of our subject, was born in the town of Wilton, where he passed his boyhood, and where for some years of his earlier life he fol- lowed the trade of blacksmith. During the last twenty-five years of his life he engaged in agri- cultural pursuits in South Wilton, same county. In Ridgefield, Conn., he married Miss Susan Ferry, of that locality, and they both died in Wilton, the parents of four children: Oscar A., living in Stamford; Irad F., in Wilton; Emily, married to Theodore R. Fancher, of Wilton, and Oliver B., our subject. Aaron Morgan and his wife were consistent members of the M. E. Church, and in politics he was a Whig, later a Republican. He died February 15, 1874, his wife on February 25, 1884.

Oliver B. Morgan was born April 29, 1842, in the town of Wilton, Fairfield Co., Conn., and, as will be seen, is the youngest in his parents'

family of children. He received his primary education at the public schools of his native place, which was supplemented with an attend- ance at Whitlock's private school. When twenty years of age he moved to Stamford, and clerked in the grocery store of R. S. Miller, until his en- listment, in November, 1864. in the Commissary Department, Second Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, in which he served until the close of the war. In July, 1865, he re- turned to Stamford, and again entered the em- ploy of R. S. Miller as clerk, remaining in that incumbency until 1867, in which year he em- barked in the grocery business, on Main street, Stamford, under the firm name of O. B. Mor- gan & Co. At the end of seven years he sold out, and spent the following ten years on a farm in High Ridge, Conn .; during the subsequent four years he filled the position of bookkeeper for Hoyt & Potts. In 1889 he bought out the George B. Toms toy and newspaper business, which he has since conducted with eminent suc- cess on Atlantic street.

On May 24, 1869, Mr. Morgan was married to Miss Jennie Stevens, daughter of Cephas Stevens, of High Ridge, Stamford, and one son, Julian C., was born September 6, 1883. In re- ligious faith, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are members of the M. E. Church; socially, he is affiliated with the G. A. R. Post of Stamford. They are most highly esteemed people, true to all the duties and obligations of life, and have many friends.

T HOMAS BRADLEY. Connecticut sent to the defense of the Union many brave sol- diers during the trying days of the Rebellion, and among them all none fought more devotedly for the cause of freedom than did this son of Old England. Coming to this country in boyhood, Mr. Bradley has always felt complete sympathy with the highest ideals of American citizenship. and his history shows that he possesses the en- ergy and intelligence to make the best of life. At present he holds the responsible post of chief of police of the city of Norwalk, and in this as in other positions he has manifested ability and fidelity to duty.

Mr. Bradley was born October 27, 1842, at Leeds, England, where his father, Squire Brad- ley, was a bookkeeper in a woolen-mill. Squire Bradley and his wife, whose maiden name was Mary Thompson, were both natives of England. but about 1847 they came to America and settled for a time in Newburg, N. Y., the father engag- ing in business as a manufacturer of horse

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blankets and similar goods. In 1854 he re- moved to Cohoes, N. Y., but his death occurred in Jersey City from drowning. He was a mem- ber of the Methodist Church, and a man of ex- cellent character; his widow is also a consistent follower of the faith of John Wesley. His re- mains now rest in the cemetery at Newburg. N. Y. Of nine children six lived to mature age, our subject being the youngest. Sarah Ann married Thomas Longstaff, of Norwalk; Susan is the widow of Sheldon Nickerson, of the same city; Elizabeth married George A. Cunley, of Tarry- town, N. Y .; Mary B. is now Mrs. George B. Croft, of Philadelphia; and Etta married George Nickerson. of Norwalk.

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Part 176

Author: H. H. Beers & Co. Publication date: 1899 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1795

Author: H. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1899
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1795