Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Part 210

Author: H. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1899
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Before commencing business in Scotland on his own account, he in 1883 was with the well-known firm of sanitary engineers. Dent & Hellyer. of London, England. He displayed much talent in that line of work and nade articles that were exhibited in International Exhibitions held. as fohows In London. 1883: Edinburgh. 1884 and isse. and Glasgow, 1885, at all of which his work was most highly commended, and awards in the way of medals and diplomas given him.


" the Lamp of Lothian." a historical ruin in Haddington. Scotland, received a place in the John knox collection. Bishop's Castle, Glasgow, International Exhibition. 1888, and was treated in the ". book of the Bishop's Castle, and Hand- book of the Archaeological Collection, " published by Constable & Co.


In April. 1859. Mr. Brown and his sister vis- ited his native land, arriving in New York on the morning of the great parade. when that city was celebrating the Centenary of the Inauguration of Washington. On the advice of their many friends they were induced to remain, and Mr. brown to engage in business. He has no reason


and as president of the Scottish Society marched at the head of the Scottish contingent. which was augmented by delegations from the Highland Guard of New York City and the Caledonians from Bridgeport. Conn .: this was the grandest procession ever held in Stamford. He was one of the representative citizens appointed to super - vise the distribution of relief to the needy dur- ing the severe winter of 1894.


Mr. Brown has traveled extensively in both One piece of his work a model (in bronze) of . this and the old country, and was one of those fortunate enough to witness the " Diamond Jubilee " celebration at St. Paul's Cathedral. London, also the military and naval reviews held at Aldershot and Spithead, respectively. He is one of Stamford's substantial men and well-to-do citizens.


B BARTHOLOMEW RYLE, who is at present serving as selectman of the town of Stam- ford, Fanfield county, is one of the prospering business men of that locality, where he has lived from early manhood.


Mr. Kole is a native of Ireland, born in 1852 to regret the step then taken. From that time ' in County Kerry, where he was reared, receiving to this he has been actively engaged in business, . his education in the national schools of his native and is now one of the extensive contractors of { country. At the age of seventeen he set out for Stamford He stands well as a man in the esteem of his fellow citizens He has given evi- dence of his ability and good judgment, and skill I in the handling of large contracts here, and also in New York State. In 1889. deciding to remain in business in Stamford. he turned over his busi- news in Haddington, Scotland, to Thomas M. kiss. his brother-in-law. the United States, with little but his ambition and persevering energy to help him make his way in the world, and, landing in New York City. soon afterward came to Stamford, where, with the exception of one year, when he was engaged in farming in Pennsylvania, he has ever since re- sided On his return to Stamford from Pennsyl- vania he opened a grocery and liquor business. which he has continued to carry on up to the present time, and he has added another branch of trade, wholesaling beer. His establishment is on the Connecticut road, and Mr. Ryle has now a thriving business, which he has built up by good management and the observance of honorable business methods, for he bears an enviable repu- tation for honesty throughout the township. In 1806 his fellow citizens honored him with elec- tion to the responsible position of selectman. which he is at present filling.


Socially. Mr. Brown is promment in various anders in Stamford, and is past grand of Tyne- side Lodge. 1. O. O. F., Haddington, Scotland, ako a member of Rippowam Lodge. I. O. O. F., at Stanford. For several years he was pres- ident of the Stamford Scottish Sonety, and as such presided at the Burns Birthday banquets, which were attended by the clergy, professional, and business men of Stamford. He is a mem- ber of Umon Lodge No. 5. F. & A. M., and rep- Invented both that body and the Scottish Society ! at the Robert Burns Centenary celebrations held at Damfries and Glasgow, Scotland, July 21. |


Mr. Kvie was married in Stamford to Miss Mary Stack. and their family consisted of six ING0. He is an active member of St. John's . children: John Francis, Robert. Thomas, Nellie Episcopal Church, and director of St. John's Ann, Maggie and Minnie. They are devout Cath- Chapter. " Brotherhood of St. Andrew." having . olics in rengious faith, belonging to St. John's attended as delegate the National and State con- i parish. and Mr. Ryle is a member of the Cath- wantons of the order. He served on a number olic Benevolent Legion and the Second Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. His brother of committees in connection with the two hun- dred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of . is a priest in Montville, Conn .. and Father Mc- the town of Stamford, held in October, 1893. ! Clean, of Hartford, is his nephew.


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W ALLACE OLMSTEAD, the able editor of the Danbury Dispatch, undertook a difficult task when he entered the journalistic field in competition with that well-known and long-established paper, the Danbury News. Out of thirty-two rivals that have arisen from time to time against the News the Dispatch is the only one to achieve success, a fact which speaks more eloquently than could any words for the courage, energy and mental power of its young owner and editor.


Mr. Olmstead has a good ancestry behind him, his lineage being traced back through eleven generations to one Thomas Olmstead, who was born in England about 1525. His ancestors set- tled in America in Colonial times, and his great- grandfather, Ebenezer Olmstead, served in Washington's army in the struggle for independ- ence. His grandmother on the paternal side was a daughter of John Roberts. another Revolution- ary soldier.


At the time of our subject's birth, May 27, 1868, his parents, Frederick S. and Mary Jane (Boughton) Olmstead, resided in Balls Pond District, five miles from Danbury, but in 1870 the family removed to that city. where Mr. Olm- stead obtained a common-school education dur- ing his boyhood. At fifteen he left school to enter the employ of the New York Central rail- road, and remained five years in the operating department. In 1888 he began the study of law under the direction of Judge James E. Walsh, and a year later entered the law school connected with Yale College, where he was graduated in 1891. Returning to Danbury he was in the fol- lowing year appointed deputy registrar of voters; from 1892 to 1894 he served as clerk of the city court, and in 1897 he was elected city clerk by the largest majority ever accorded any candidate for this position. In the summer of 1894 Mr. Olmstead purchased a small interest in The Even- ing Daily Dispatch, on which he worked for a short time as reporter. He received early pro- motion to the editorial chair, and in July, 1895, he bought the entire business. Realizing that the prospects for success were not of the brightest, he made several changes with excellent results, and on January 1, 1896, he began issuing the paper in the morning instead of the evening, as before. The Dispatch is fearless in its championship of any measure which seems to promise benefit to the people, and is thoroughly loyal to Danbury. In connection therewith is an extensive job and book printing business. some fine specimens of work being turned out. In May, 1896, Mr. Olmstead took into partnership his brother, Frederick S. Olmstead, Jr., as business manager.


In politics our subject is a Democrat, and at present he is chairman of the town committee. So well did he manage the local campaign in 1896 that his town went Democratic, being one of two in the State to give a majority to that ticket.


In October, 1893, Mr. Olmstead was united in marriage with Miss Nellie E. Conklin, daughter of William and Hortense (Oliver) Conklin, of Danbury.


Frederick S. Olmstead, Jr., was born in Dan- bury, February 19, 1875, and received his ele- mentary education in the public schools. In Sep- tember, 1892, he entered Vermont Academy, at Saxton's River, Vt., but in December. 1894. ill- ness compelled him to abandon his studies and return home. In the fall of 1895 he took a posi- tion as a reporter on the staff of the Dispatch, and a few months later became a partner in the business, as stated above, his special duties in- cluding the management of the newspaper and job-printing department. Like his brother, he is a stanch Democrat. The Olmstead family is prominent in social life as well as in business and political circles, and both of the publishers of the Dispatch are charter members of Justinian Sen- ate No. 65. Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order.


H (ENRY O. CANFIELD. In the early life of Henry O. Canfield is well typified the keen versatile traits which mark the successful business man of to-day. He had been thoroughly i schooled for his work in life, for before entering upon it he had been given those preparatory touches by way of education which made the foundation broad and deep, fitted for the subse- quent structure. His ancestry displayed various bents by the way of avocation. His grandfather, Capt. Ira B. Canfield, son of Josiah Canfield, followed the fortunes of the ocean, and gave up his life to his occupation, for he was lost at sea. His father, Jared H. Canfield, was a manufacturer of rubber goods, and that is the business of the subject of this sketch.


Henry O. Canfield was born at Naugatuck. Conn., November 19, 1847, a son of Jared H. and Mary A. (Andrews) Canfield. The father was born at Saybrook, Conn., and the mother. who was a daughter of Benaja Andrews, was born at Meriden. Conn. They had three children: Isaac A., Elizabeth C., and Henry O. The last named received his education in the public schools at Naugatuck, and subsequently studied abroad-in France and Germany.


Returning to America, Mr. Canfield was for several years engaged in the dry-goods business.


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Railroad construction in the West was develop- ing rapidly, and in 1871. at the age of twenty- ' a number of years, being at present the only four years. Mr. Canfield began a valuable expe- Democrat filling a town office, which fact speaks " well for his faithful discharge of official duty. In 1869 he was honored by election to the State Legislature. He is a member of several fra- ternal orders, belonging to Umon Lodge No. 40. F. & A. M., of Danbury. and was a member of Evergreen Lodge No. 49. 1. O. O. F., in Brook- rience in transportation work by becoming local agent at Pekin. Ill .. for the Peoria, Pekin and Jacksonville Ratiroad Company. He rose rapid- ly, and in 18;6 was appointed general freight agent of the company. He remained an official in its service until isso, when the property was . sold to and absorbed by the Wabash road. Then I feld. In St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of which for five years Mr. Canfield filled satisfactorily a he has long been an honored member, he has served as vestryman. His long service in the interests of his fellow citizens, his progressive- ness, his abundant charity for all men, have given him an honored place in the esteem of his still more dificult role, that of commissioner for various railroad pools, which the common carers at that time bad in operation. In November. 1885, be accepted the position of secretary and general superintendent of the Campbell Rubber I neighbors. Company, and to fill that position be removed to Bridgeport. He remained with that company until January 1. 1889, when he resigned and started a rubber business of his own, which he has ever since successfully conducted


Daniel Meeker, the grandfather of our sub- jest, was a lifelong resident of the town of Fair- held. He married Eunice Buckley, and in their family were the following children: Daniel Hill. David, Eunice ( who married Thomas Raymond,


In the social amenities of life Mr. Canfield is , of Norwalk, Conn.), Abigail, Charity, and Will- prominentis connected He is a member of , iam, all of whom are now deceased. Daniel Mecker was a farmer by occupation, and polit- ically a loyal subject of Great Britain. He was a devout member of the Established Church.


many organizations, and has held numerous of- fices in these vara us bodies. He is a Freemason of the thirty second degree, and a member of time Sea Side. Algonquin and Brooklyn Country Chats. He married Miss Impone C. Freshour, and they have three children. Joseph B., Albert H .. and Henry B. The parents are members of the South Congregational Church. In politics Mr. ( anfield is a Republican:


David Mether. father of our subject and sec- ond in the above-mentioned family, was born at Greenfield, in the town of Fairfield. Fairfield Co. Conn., January 26, 1777. and in his native vil- Jage passed his boyhood days in the usual man- net of farmer boys-attending the district school and working on the home farm. His occupa- tion was always farming, which he carried on D AVID H. MEEKER, first selectman of the town of Bror kfield, was born at his present residence. November 27. 1825, and has always made his home here His education was ob- tained in the district schools and at Robbins select school at Brookfield Center. His first business venture was as drover, buying cattle in constantly since his youth, when he came to Brookfield and made his home with his brother Wilham. He cleared the timber from a tract of land in the western part of the town, and that clearing is to-day the well-tilled fields of the farm of our subject proper. David H. Meeker. At Newtown, Conn., David Meeker was married the west and shipping them to Eastern markets. . to Hannah Harris, daughter of Prof. Luther Har-


. He has always farined in Brookfield, and has been eminently successful in his chosen calling. modern improvements of a first-class farm all betokening him to be a man of energy and enter- prise.


his well-kept buildings, citan fields, and the . ceased-Mary, who married E. Leach; Sally.


ris, and in their family was one son-David Har- ris. our subject - and four daughters, all now de-


who married R. Lane; Eliza, who became the wife of Hanford M. . Kellogg; and Cornelia M., who married J. W. Morehouse. Mr. Meeker was


On March $. 1836. Mr. Meeker was united in i a very prominent man in the politics of his town. voting with the Whig party, and was selectman for a number of years. He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. In all movements of importance David Meeker was at the fore, and his death on January 20. 1857, made a vacancy it was difficult to fill. His genial manners and honorable dealing made an impression that has not been effaced by the intervening years.


marriage with Miss Sarah E. Hoy, daughter of Joel B. Hoy. and one child was born of this union: Hannah Eliza. who married Edmund Weld. by whom she had five children -- Paul Fletcher, Harier Bishop. Jessie (deceased). Ed- mund, Jr .. and Ruth. Mrs. Mecker died De- cember 16, 1542. Politically Mr. Meeker is a worker in the ranks of the Democratic party,


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T THOMAS K. ORTON, proprietor of the Star Bakery and Grocery, Bridgeport. is a man of enterprise and foresight, and, as the first in his locality to place home-made bread on the mar- ket in any quantity, he has reaped a well- deserved reward in a large and lucrative patron- age. In other departments of his business he is equally disposed to introduce profitable innova- tions, and his stock of goods is chosen with judg- ment and arranged with taste. His success has not been gained without hard work and shrewd management, as he began life with no capital or influential friends, and his reverses at times have been so severe as to have discouraged an ordi- nary man; but through all he has kept on per- sistentiy, paying every dollar of indebtedness contracted. and maintaining unsullied his integ- rity and honor.


Mr. Orton belongs to an old Virginia family. | his ancestors having resided for several genera- tions at Portsmouth, in the Old Dominion. Thomas Orton. the great-grandfather. was born in 1729, and died in 1804. Thomas Orton, our subject's grandfather, was born April 14. 1785. He was a man of wealth and influence. and owned a large tract of land in the vicinity of Portsmouth, where he died at a comparatively early age from injuries resulting from the burst- ing of a gun while he was hunting bears in the woods. The names, with dates of births, of his children are as follows: Elvington K., 1808; G. W., 1810; Ezekiel. 1812; Catharine, 1815; Elizabeth, 1818; Martha, 1819; Margaret, 1820, and Thomas T., July 3, 1827.


Thomas T. Orton, the father of our subject. gave early evidence of rare mechanical ability. and after becoming familiar with the details of the blacksmith's trade he was employed as a skilled workman in the navy yard at Ports- mouth. He sympathized strongly with the abolition movement, and when the Civil war broke out his opinions brought him into popular disfavor, and more than once caused danger to his life and liberty. For laughing when Roanoke Island fell into the Thomas K. Orton was born September 3C. 1849, at the old home in Portsmouth, Va., and he can recall many stirring scenes and incide ::: | in connection with the Civil war. At one tient. I while in Dr. Holmes' embalming office in Was"- ington, he saw the bodies of five generals, nan.t- ly: Generals Rice Stevenson, Wadsworth, Secc. wick and Hayes, brought in from the battle c: the Wilderness; also saw the "Merrimac" wher. she went down after her engagement with the " Monitor." He attended a private school unti. the removal of the family to Washington in ISt :. Federal hands, he was arrested for treason, and he was at the same time accused of running the blockade and carrying information to Newport News. As his family lived in Portsmouth he was compelled to remain there and keep up. so far as possible, an outward appearance of loyalty to the Confederate cause. When the Rebels took possession of Portsmouth navy yard he was drafted into their service, and continued his work there. He unspiked the same cannon that he had previously spiked, and was also employed for some time in the building of the famous " Merri- | and afterward he continued his studies in a night


mac," especially in the construction of the prow. As the war progressed he found it more and more difficult to evade persecution, his real sentiment being well known, and in the fall of 1862 he re- moved to Washington, D. C., where he found employment in the navy yard. At the time that Early's forces were approaching the capital, all available men in the service of the government were called out to resist the threatened raid, and our subject's father willingly " shouldered arms" for the cause. He was courageous and de- termined by nature, and but for his family would doubtless have been in the Union army. While he was not a Church member, he gave to the sup- port of religious work. and throughout his life he was noted for correct habits and moral upright- ness.


His wife, Jane F. (Lewis), was born in Ports- mouth, Va., where her father, Samuel M. Lewis. was engaged in business as a cabinet-maker. She was a member of the Baptist Church, and was much esteemed for her qualities of mind and heart. Her death occurred in Washington, Sep- tember 26, 1864, and her remains were interred at Portsmouth, where her husband afterward ff- sided, engaging in work in the navy yard, and also in the filling of private orders. While at work he accidently broke a limb, causing a per- manent injury and probably hastening his death. which occurred at Portsmouth, February 15. 1889. His home and family were his deares: interests, and he considered it his first duty to provide every essential comfort for his loved ones. Our subject is the eldest of seven children. the others being Samuel, a brass finisher in Phila- delphia; George M., a blacksmith by trade. ba: now overseer in the bakery of his brother, J. H Orton; Fannie E., the deceased wife of Frederick Friedlin, of Portsmouth, Va .; Ada, who married Joseph Moore, of Rocky Mount, N. C .; John H .. established in business in Bridgeport, and for $23 years a partner of his brother Thomas, now doing a large and successful business; and Miss Janc. who also resides in Bridgeport.


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school there. as his help was needed for a time in the support of the home. His first money was earned by selling papers, and many times he , he had control of property worth more than stood in front of the ". Metropolitan Hotel " dis. , $40.000. He is a man of strictly temperate hab- posing of his stock. He made the most of his , its, and has never dealt in intoxicating liquors of educational advantages, his active mind easily any kind, or tasted any in more than thirty years; while since 18;6 he has not used tobacco. Po- litically, he was first a Republican, but of late years he has affiliated with the Prohibition party. He is a member of the Second Adventist Church. short time in early life he was connected with the Masonic Fraternity. acquiring knowledge, and after his father's te- turn to Portsmouth he engaged in clerking. spending nearly five years in a dry-good store there. Later he went to Haydenville. Mass .. to learn the brass finisher s trade, which he followed . in which he holds the office of deacon, and for a until the Mill river food. of which he was an eve-witness, destroyed the factory in which he had been working


This catastrophe compelled him to seek em- ployment else where, and in 1875 be removed to Bridgeport, where he worked for a short time for the White Manufacturing Company, and later for . Eaton. Cole & Burnham, making metal patterns. Ill health obliging him to give up that ime of business, he. in August, 1870, established a pro- cery at No. 40 State street, beginning in a small way. He afterward took in his brother, and the firm came to be known as " Orton Bros." As the venture did not turn out satisfactorily in fact. the firm was almost ready to give ups. they de- cided to supply the public with good bread, by which means they hoped to re-establish them- . selves in business and repain some of their losses.


especially stipulating in the will that he should not be required to give bonds, and in this capacity


Mr. Orton has an attractive and clever fam- ily. His wife, to whom his success is largely due, was formerly Miss Fannie E. Miller, of Hay- denville. Mass., and their marnage occurred in that village. September 25. 1872. They have had seven children: Leroy M., a baker at Stratfield, Conn .: Wilfred T., a baker in Bridgeport; Miss Ruth Mabel, who is at home; Sadie E., who died Inne 1. 1898, aged seventeen years; and James P., Elmer W., and Clarence W .. all at home.


L EWIS L. HOWE, a substantial and enter- prising farmer, and one of the best citizens of Peck's Land. Greenwich township. is de- « ended from an old and prominent New England They then engaged in the manufacture of what , family, whose members have for over two cent- has come to be known as " Orton's home made i unes been residents of Fairfield county. On bread." which has constantly gained popularity. | October 30, 1722. a grant of land situated in Their increasing custom in this line served to i what was then Stamford township, was made to Isaac Howe by King George. Isaac was a son | of Nathaniel Howe, who was born previous to 1650, married a Miss Bowers, and died June 29, 1 1092, in Greenwich, Conn. Isaac Howe was


bring a larger trade to their grocery. On account of a large credit business, the hrm was obliged to dissolve, and abandon the grocery, and give ex- clusive attention to the bakery business, John H. opening a bakery in Hast Bridgeport, and Thomas , born September 20, 1669, and died May 7, 1733. K. continuing at No. 284 Main street, where he | He was married June 1, 1701, to Miss Elizabeth renamed until he built his present store and resi- ! Waterbury, who was born January 9, 1683, and


dence at No. 200 Iramistan avenue. Mr. Orton ! their children were: Nathaniel, Sarah, Eliza- has recentiy compounded and put on the market . beth, Isaac, Bowers, David, Ebenezer, James a new baking powder, called the " Excellent , and Epenetus.


Baking Powder." and which is composed of the highest-grade materials. Few business men in Bridgeport have contended successfully with such serious disadvantages as the above hrm of Orton Of these, Isaac Howe was born January 9. 1710. was appointed and commissioned an en- sign in the First Connecticut Battalion by the General Assembly in November, 1776, and the Bros .. and now, when reviewing the steps which I following December was promoted to captain of




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