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influences to be found in rural communities make an ideal environment for family life, and it is not strange that some of the best citizens are ; enrolled in the agricultural class.
The subject of this biography, who owns a 1 fine farm in the town of Sherman, comes of an ancestry which has been engaged for several gen- erations in tilling the soil, but has nevertheless kept well abreast of modern progress. Stephen Joyce, our subject's grandfather, received an ed- ucation in the common schools of his day, and throughout his life was interested in farming, for : a time following also the blacksmith's trade. He ! married Miss Thankful Congo, by whom he had i eight children: Abbie, who married Ira North- I Top; Allen, our subject's father; Joel, who mar- Steadwell; Sallie, wife of Dwight Woodruff; Polly, wife of Lyman Porter; Beckie (Mrs. Sal- | mon Brotherton); Drucilla, who married John Knowles; and Ann, wife of Jabez Covill.
Mr. Joyce, our subject. was born January 21, man, and the public schools of that locality
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afforded him a good practical education. He has always been occupied with agricultural interests, and has taken an active part in local affairs, being an ardent Democrat. At times he has been called to serve in local offices, including those of selectman and member of the board of relief. His wife, formerly Miss Charlotte E. Hoyt, belongs to a well-known family mentioned more fully below. Four children have blessed their union, of whom three are living: (1) Fred- erick L., born April 3, 1860, a farmer by occu- pation, married Miss Hannah A. Vincent; they have no children. (2) Clarence E. died at the age of five years. (3) Bertie C., born Novem- ber 21, 1869, is also a farmer; he married Miss Minnie Potter, and has one son, Kenneth. (4) Arthur R., born October 23, 1871, is engaged in agriculture; he married Miss Deborah Wolhes, and has two children-Clarence A. and Ralph M.
The ancestors of Mrs. Joyce settled in Massa- chusetts at a very early period, and her grand- father, Enoch Hoyt, was a native of that State. He served in the Revolutionary war, and in his later years received a pension from the govern- ment. He and his wife. Elizabeth (Leach), feared a large family, as follows: David and Abram, who did not marry; Enoch, who married Emeline Pepper; Hiram, deceased; Rebecca, Mrs. Gilbert; Betsey, wife of George Corbin; John; and George, Mrs. Joyce's father.
George Hoyt was born and reared in the town of Sherman, this county. receiving a pub- lic-school education. For a time he followed the tailor's trade, but later he engaged in farm- ing. which he continued until his death. He married Emeline Mead, daughter of Alanson Mead, a farmer of New Milford. Litchfield Co., Conn., and his wife, Rachel (Squires). and six children were born of this marriage: (1) Caroline married Levi Congo, and had two children -- Flora and Milla. (2) Jane married Stephen Reed; they had no children. (3) Charlotte E. married our subject. (4) George W., who be- came a farmer and butcher by occupation, mar- ried Sarah J. Northrop, and they had two chil- dren-Lillie May, and Ralph N., who died at the age of twenty-three years. (5) Edwin (deceased) was reared and educated in the town of Sher- man, and engaged in farming. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted in Com- pany 1, 7th Conn. V. I., and for three years he served under General Burnsides. He married Miss Phoebe J. Cole, daughter of Lyman and Mary C. (Beardsley) Cole. and they had seven children: George S., an electrician, who is not married; Abram F., who died at the age of ten years; Emma and Gertrude, who died in infancy;
Enoch, a plumber, who is not married; Miss Carrie A .; and one that died in infancy, un- named. After the death of Edwin Hoyt, his widow married Avra Beeman. a farmer, by whom she had four children: Lyman F., Bert, Rufus, and Ernest, who died in infancy. (6) Frank M. (deceased) followed farming for a time, then en- gaged in hatting, and later was in mercantile business in Danbury. He married Miss Harriet Durga; they had no children.
Charles Frederick Lockwood, a half-brother of Mrs. Joyce, was born and reared in New Mil- ford, Conn., and obtained a common-school edu- cation. Having learned the tailor's trade in his youth, he followed it for a time in New Haven, Conn., but ill health compelled him to sell out. Later he engaged in the restaurant business, which he carried on until his death in 1886. He married Miss Caroline Munson, and they had two children-Mary G. and Dolly.
A RTHUR C. MIDDLEBROOK, a farmer of the town of Wilton, was born in that town October 31, 1873, and was educated in the com- mon schools of the locality. His education hav- ing been completed, he learned the butcher busi- ness, but not having a liking for that trade, he became engaged in farming, which he has since successfully followed. In politics he is a Repub- lican. and in religious faith he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Wilton. He married Mrs. Mary Seymour, widow of the late Charles O. Seymour, who was a prosperous farmer of the town of Wilton, and died in 1892. Her maiden name was Mary Morgan, and she was born in April, 1857, a daughter of Harris and Mary S. (Rockwell) Morgan, the former of whom is a farmer of the town of Wil- ton, and an eminently respectable man. By her marriage to Mr. Seymour she had four children, as follows: Charles E., born September 8, 1883; Edna M., February 28, 1885; Frank L., Sep- tember 9, 1886; and Clarence, January, 1889.
Samuel Middlebrook, great-great-grandfather of our subject, was born in the town of Fairfield, and was there educated in the common schools. Afterward he engaged in farming, which occupa- tion he followed during life. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.
Charles Middlebrook, son of Samuel, and great-grandfather of our subject, was born and educated in Fairfield, and throughout his adult life was engaged in farming. He married a Miss. Smith, by whom he had the following children: Mary, who married Henry Flower; Samuel, a sketch of whom follows; James, who married
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Emily Olmstead; Sarah, who married a Mr. Sexton; and Charles, who married Ella Murphy. Samuel Middlebrook, eldest son of Charles, and grandfather of our subject, was born in the town of Wilton, where he obtained a good com- mon-school education, and he afterward gradu- ated from the high school at that place. Through- out his life he was engaged mostly in farming. He married Miss Artemisia Olmstead, daughter of Lorenzo Olmstead, and by her had the follow- ing children: Charles, a sketch of whom follows; Flower, who married Carrie Beers; Bell, wife of Frank Williams; and Marion, who remains single.
Charles Middlebrook. eldest son of Samuel, and father of our subject, was born in the town Wilton in 1852. Having received an excellent common-school education he engaged in the Mr. Warncke married, at Jersey City. Miss Annie B. Evans, a daughter of Henry E. and Martha (Miesner) Evans, the former of whom is a brewer of Dover, N. H. Mrs. Warncke was born at Dover. N. H., January 9, 1864, and 1 there grew to womanhood, receiving her educa- tion in the common schools. To this marriage has come one child. George L., born January 6, 1889. grocery business in Wilton for some time, and then for some years was engaged in various occu- pations, at length learning the watch and clock maker's trade at which he is now engaged. He married Miss Agnes Beers, who was born at Weston, February 3, 1854, a daughter of Edwin and Abigail (Mead) Beers. Edwin Beers was a farmer and shoemaker of Weston, and a success- ful and respectable man. To this union were born Claus H. Warncke, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Hanover, Germany, and the following children: Arthur. who married Mrs. Charles O. Seymour; Agnes M., who died at the ; received his early education in the schools of his age of nineteen; Louise, who married Theodore 1 Comstock; and Challis, who is still single.
Charles O. Seymour, father of our subject's wife's first husband, was born in Ridgefield, April 11, 1816, and was educated in the common schools of that town, afterward devoting his life to farming. He married Miss Maria Olmstead, and their children were: Christopher, who mar- ried Fannie -; Bell, wife of Samuel Gregory; Helen, who married H. B. Coley; Lucy, who died in infancy; and Charles O., who married Mary Morgan, as already related.
Before closing this sketch it may be proper to add the names, together with dates of birth, of the brothers and sisters of the father of our sub- ject's wife's first husband. to wit: Delia A., Jan- uary 25, 1804; Hiram, December 8, 1805; Ru- fus, April 15, 1808: Lucy, June 18, 1811; and | four children; Louis H., our subject; Elizabeth; Charles O., 1816. The father of these was born Annie. who married Captain Sunburgh, and Emily, who is unmarried. March 10, 1782, the mother on February 27, 1782.
L OUIS H. WARNCKE was born in Hanover, Germany, March 22. 1861. After receiv- ing his education in the public schools of his native country, he was employed for a year or two on a farm, and when sixteen years of age I
he set sail for the United States, landing in New York in 1877. For about three years, after reaching that city, he was employed in the gro- cery business, and thence going to Jersey City, N. J., he established himself in the pickling business, which he carried on successfully for about twelve years. At the end of this period he sold his pickle factory, and removed to Wil- ton, Conn., where he purchased his present farm, on which he carries on general farming and pickle growing and packing, being located at Cannon's Station. In business affairs Mr. Warncke has been unusually successful, and he occupies a respected position among his neigh- bors and friends. He is a member of the United Friends, of Jersey City, and he was for years a member of the Lutheran Church.
native place. In England he learned the trade i of sugar boiler, at which he worked in England I for a few years, after which he returned to Ger- many, and there purchased a farm, following farming the remainder of his life. He married Miss Amelia Giese, of Germany, and by her had the following named children: August, born in En- gland. who married Annie Stevens, and has had children as follows, all born in New York-Harry, Etta, August, William, Emily, and Lydia (Mr. Warncke is engaged in the wooden and willow ware business in New York City); Ernest, a sales- man for a paper warehouse in Brooklyn, N. Y., who married Rebecca Schumaker, and had three children, two of whom died in infancy; Henry, also a salesman in Brooklyn, N. Y .. now deceased. who married Louisa Gerker, and had
John Litchen, great-grandfather of Mrs. Louis H. Warncke, was born in Germany. edu- cated in the public schools of that country, and always carried on farming. He was the father of two children, viz .: Matier and John. Matier Litchen, grandmother of Mrs. Warncke, was born in Germany and married Chris Miesner, a farmer of that country, the following children
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being born to this union: John, who married Annie Finkledis; Jacob, who married Katie Litchen; Christ; Mary, who married Henry Schumacher; Annie, who married Charles Kerner; Katie, who married Charles Tipke; and Martha.
Martha Misner, was born in Hanover. Ger- many, April 28, 1835. She came to the United States when in her nineteenth year, in 1854, and 'located in Boston, Mass., where she met and married, for her first husband, Henry E. Evans, a native of Holstein, Germany, who had come to this country a few years before. At the time of their marriage he was engaged in a cooper shop in Boston, but later he purchased a brewery, which he ran for a few years, and then sold, re- moving to Dover, N. H. Here he purchased a brewery, which he conducted until his death, in the year 1869. He and his wife had the follow- ing children: Martha, who married Frederick Gieseler; Annie B., who married Louis Warncke; Henry, who married Maggie Biner; and John, who married Minnie Wagner. After her hus- band's death Mrs. Evans married Louis Erlacher, mate of a sailing vessel, who followed the sea most of his life. At the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion he enlisted in the United States navy, where he served as ordinary seaman for a time, later being promoted to paymaster's de- partment. He was engaged at Fredericksburg and other places, was wounded in the capture of a vessel, and is now drawing a pension. After the close of the war he was for some time em- ployed in a cotton mill in New Hampshire, but he is now living in retirement.
CAM. A. STEMBERG, merchant tailor, has an interesting history which illustrates the fact that the road to success lies open to the one who wills to make the most of such opportunities as fate allots to him.
Mr. Stemberg was born September 20, 1858. in the city of Hasenpoth, Courland, Russia, and is of Jewish ancestry. His grandfather, David Stemberg, was a resident of Hasenpoth, and his father, Abraham Stemberg, was a native of that city. The latter followed the shoemaker's trade from boyhood until a few years ago, and having passed the Scriptural limit of three-score years and ten he is now living in retirement, in Brook- lyn, N. Y. His wife, Amelia (Goldberg), was born at Grobin, near Libau, Russia, the daugh- ter of Seleg and Sara Goldberg, who lived to ad- vanced years, the former dying at the age of eighty-six, and the latter when ninety-eight. Our subject was one of a family of seven children,
of whom the youngest son was killed by accident when a year and a half old; the survivors are Silas, John, Sam. A., Hugo, Nicholi, and Jennie.
Sam. A. Stemberg attended school in his na- tive place for some years, but from the age of seven his instruction was limited to the evening sessions, as the days were spent in learning the tailor's trade. By the time he was thirteen he had secured a knowledge of all branches of the business, and he then began to work as a journey- man. Young as he was he desired a better open- ing than his native land afforded, and a few months after the completion of his apprentice- ship he came to America, landing in New York City in 1870. There he immediately found em- ployment in the merchant-tailoring establishment of Underhill, Sloat & Muchmore, on Broadway, remaining with them over three years, and sub- sequently rented a shop and took in work until 1877, when he removed to Danbury and entered the employ of William A. Braun. Five years later he embarked in business on his own ac- count, and so successful did he become that he frequently employed two cutters and fourteen workmen at one time.
Mr. Stemberg married Miss Fannie Rosen- thal, a daughter of Ferdinand and (Miller) Rosenthal. Three children have blessed their union: Silas Abraham, Alphonso F., and Davis David. Mr. and Mrs. Stemberg are members of the Hebrew Congregation at Danbury, and are leaders in their social circle. Mr. Stemberg be- longs to the Hebrew Cemetery Association of Danbury, and to various fraternal orders, hold- ing membership with Reform Lodge No. 361, I. O. O. F., of the City of New York; Devo- tional Encampment at Danbury; Danbury Lodge No. 120, B. P. O. E .; the Connecticut Indemn- ity Association, of Waterbury, an insurance order; and with Paugussett Tribe No. 3, Improved Order of Red Men, he and his wife belong- ing to Pocahontas Tribe of the same order. He takes an ardent interest in public movements and in all that concerns the welfare of his adopted country, while in politics he is a Republican.
J AMES FRY, a venerable and highly-esteemed citizen of Danbury, was born in that town April 16, 1822, and after a life of unusual eventfulness and change is passing the quiet afternoon of his existence amid the scenes of his childhood. His ancestors were early residents of the locality, his father, James Fry, having been a son of Rome and Rachel Fry. Our subject's mother, whose maiden name was Sarah Sturgis, was born in Danbury, and was also a member of
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an old family. Of four children, James, who was the youngest, is now the only survivor; the others were William H., Jane and Henry.
Danbury has always kept well abreast of the times in educational affairs, and the schools which Mr. Fry attended in boyhood were as good as could then be found in a town of the size. His common-school course was supplemented by study in the academy. When but fifteen years old he left school to go to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., as an apprentice to a carpenter, with whom he remained three years. At that time he thought of "a life on the ocean wave" as the summit of happiness. and when eighteen he shipped on board of the whaler "Elbe," of Poughkeepsie. They sailed for the Pacific ocean, going around Cape | Horn, and then turned north, touching at the | the son of Abijah Wakeley.
Sandwich Islands on their way to the Arctic regions, where they spent the season, securing 1, Soo barrels of oil as a result of their labors.
Mr. Fry married Miss Catherine A. Keech, daughter of Benjamin and Maria (Demorest) Keech, of Poughkeepsie, and eleven children were born to this union: Martha S., Kittie G., Andrew W., Josephine A., Fredrick D., Edward J., William H .. Lillie, Adeline, Charles M., and George R. Of this large family all are living except Lillie, Kittie G., and Martha S., who was
the wife of Thomas A. Lounsbury, chief engineer of the Danbury fire department. As a good citi- zen Mr. Fry has always taken much interest in local affairs, and he is one of the prominent Democrats of his town. Before Danbury was incorporated as a city he served as warden for five years and burgess for one year, and he has I also held several minor offices; for nine years he was water commissioner.
D AVID A. WAKELEY, who has passed man's allotted time of three-score years and ten, and is still hale and hearty and in full posses- sion of all his faculties, was born August 7, 1825, at Chestnut Hill. town of Trumbull, this county,
Our subject attended the district schools ! near his home and then learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for eight years, after- ! Hoping to increase their cargo they set sail for ; ward engaging in the manufacture of boots and New Zealand, expecting to spend a season there, I shoes for the New York and Southern trade. but they encountered a storm and were wrecked, I employing a force of about thirty men. He did both vessel and oil being lost. The crew were i not find this work congenial to his tastes, and all saved. however, and Mr. Fry, who was taken I began farming, paying particular attention to on board the ship " Arab, " from Bristol. England. | the dairy business. in which he has now been as a carpenter. was taken to London, the vessel I engaged for a quarter of a century. It has touching at Java. Singapore, Madras, Calcutta, | proven a financial success, and Mr. Wakeley is Pondicherry (then a French port), and Canton, i enabled to enjoy all the comforts and luxuries he and then after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, | may desire. stopping at St. Helena, Portsmouth, and the Isle Mr. Wakeley married Miss Melinda Mallett. of Wight, beiore reaching their destination. I a daughter of Daniel Mallett, and three children During this long trip Mr. Fry had studied the bless their union: (1) Melvin A., who married | iams, and has had four children-Miles B., Irene, Lewis A. (who died in May, 1899, at the and (3) Annie. wife of John Treadwell. In poli :- cal faith Mr. Wakeley is a believer in the prin- i ciples of the Democratic party; and in religious belief he is a member of the Congregational Church, as are also his children and grand- children. For many years he belonged to the Good Templars. His is a grand example - well worthy of emulation-of temperate habits and right living. and he stands among the pres- ent generation like some sturdy oak. science of navigation as fully as he could. and on | Miss Abigail Williams, daughter of Bradley Will- being discharged at London he went to Green- wich and completed the course offered on that 1 subject. He then returned to New York City, ; age of twenty-two years), and Eva; (2) Estelle; thus completing a journey around the earth. His desire for a seafaring life had disappeared, and coming back to his native place he established himself in business as a carpenter and millwright, | and later became interested in contracting and building. Many of the dwelling houses in Dan- bury and vicinity were built by him, and he superintended the erection of the new city hall. He has also done a large amount of work in the West, especially in Janesville, Wis., where he built the "Ford House," an elegant structure, destroyed some years ago by fire.
Abijah Wakeley, father of our subject, was born in the town of Trumbull, a son of David Wakeley, a farmer of that town. His education was all obtained in the public schools of his native place, and on leaving school he began learning the blacksmith's trade, which he fol- lowed all his days. He married Miss Sally Peet, and six children were born to them, four of whom have since joined the silent majority- Stiles, Polly Ann, Harriet and Miles; Eliza is
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the wife of Alvah Jennings, of Fairfield; and | cation in his native State. He lived at home, David A. is our subject. The entire family be- | assisting his father on the farm, until his mar- longed to the Congregational Church and con- tributed liberally toward its support, as well as to all movements that were apt to bring good to their fellow men.
riage, in March, 1888, to Miss Anna Palmer, of | Pleasantville, Westchester Co., N. Y. She was | born October 9, 1861, daughter of John W. and Sarah A. (Husted) Palmer, attended the Yon- | kers school, and taught school for two years prior to her marriage. Shortly after that event Mr. and Mrs. Waterbury went to Colorado Springs, Colo., for the benefit of his health, but I they returned in a few months to Pleasantville, and in 1890 located on the farm in Greenwich township, Fairfield County, Conn., which has tainly deserves to be classed among the pro- i since been their home, Mr. Waterbury purchas- gressive agriculturists.
C WHARLES WATERBURY, who owns and occupies " Willow Lane Farm," in Green- | wich township, Fairfield county, has been a resi- dent of that section for comparatively few years, but he is regarded as a valuable citizen, and cer- 1 ing the place from Charles E. Fitch. .. Willow
Mr. Waterbury comes from an old and highly | Lane Farm " comprises sixty acres of excellent respected New York family. His father, John i land, on which the present owner has made Waterbury, was a native of Westchester county, I numerous improvements, and in addition to ordi- N. Y .. as was also his father, John, Sr., who nary crops he has given considerable attention I to fruit growing. at this writing having a number was born in King Street. The latter was a car- penter and followed his trade during the earlier : of fine trees on the place. The income his farm years of his manhood, later taking up farming pursuits. He removed to Whippoorwill, where yields well repays him for the care and labor he bestows upon it, and he has shown himself up- he passed away when over eighty years of age. I to-date and enterprising in adopting new methods Of his eight children John was the third in order . wherever practicable. Mr. Waterbury is the of birth. He grew to manhood in Westchester i only one of his family living in Fairfield county, county, where he was married to Rebecca Brund- ; though there are others of the same name. Mrs. age, who was born at North Castle. Westchester ! Waterbury is the only one of her father's family county. the daughter of Allen Brundage. Soon , here. They are the parents of two children. afterward the young couple removed to New ; namely: Ada P., born September 14, 1889, and York City, where Mr. Waterbury engaged in | John A., born June 3, 1896. Mrs. Waterbury trucking, and in 1857 they migrated west. loca- i is a member of the Methodist Church, with ting on a new farm in an undeveloped region of : which she united before her marriage. Mr. Illinois. He erected the first buildings on this | Waterbury is a stanch Republican, but he takes no active interest in party affairs aside from vot- ing.
land. Having been trained to farm work from boyhood, the labor of cultivation was not new to him, and he improved the farm materially during the fifteen years of his residence there. His next move was to De Kalb county, Ill., where he fol- lowed farming until 1892, in which year he re- turned to New York State, and he has since lived : where he has been engaged at various occupa-
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