Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Part 264

Author: H. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1899
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Not prominent in public affairs, he cared little for the plaudits of men. He was devoted to his home, his friends and associates, and his death was a crushing force upon the members of the household.


Besides a wife, who was formerly Emily Camp, daughter of Dibble Camp, and his daugh- ters-Julia and Lillie-Mr. Dikeman left a brother, Oscar Dikeman, of New Haven. Conn., and three sisters-Sophia. Mrs. George E. Por- ter, of Daytona, Florida; Martha, Mrs. Alfred D. Tyrrill; and Miss Emma Dikeman, of New Haven.


L AMSON BIRCH (deceased). who in his life- time was a resident of Newtown, figured conspicuously in town affairs in the early part of the present century.


Born October 15, 1771, and baptized Octo- District, town of Newtown, and one of the lead- | ber 27. same year, Mr. Birch was the son of ing men of the town: he died January 18, 1827, ! William and Catherine ( Hubbell) Birch, who. ac- his wife on May 6, 1856. Their children were: I cording to Newtown records, were married Sep- Abel Booth, born March 29, 1797; and Lucy Ann, born March 22, 1795, died September 11, 1833.


was a man of strong character. Hewas baptized | According to the Newtown records, he on June


1 ! tember 27, 1750, and had children: Ezra, born June 28. 1751; Nehemiah, February 11, 1753; Sarah, October 13, 1755; Delight. November 14, 1759: Catherine, August 11, 1762: William. Oc- tober 16, 1766; and Lamson.


Lamson Birch was married several times. 15, 1797, married Polly Nichols (who died No- i vember 19, 1807, in her thirty-third year), daugh- ter of Peter and Rebecca (Camp) Nichols, and they had the following children: David M., Will- | iam N., Polly .A., Sally M. and Philo M. Another wife, Betty - -. died May 28, 1823, in her thirty-second year. The last wife of Squire Birch was Mary Ann, widow of James Glover, and daughter of Solomon Glover. She was born November 19, 1776, and lived to the remarkable 1 age of 102 years, dying in 1878. She was mar- ried to James Glover August 3, 1794, and their union was blessed with twelve children.


Our subject resided on a farm probably a half mile southwest of Newtown village. He was a justice of the peace for years. He had the rep- utation of never being in a hurry save when he I heard a case, at which time it occurred to him that the sooner he got it off his hands the better, i so he seldom deliberated long over it but passed judgment promptly. In politics he was a Dem- ocrat, in religious belief a Universalist. From 1813 to 1833 he was several times selectman, and in 1817 he was a representative from Newtown in the State Legislature. He died November 19, 1859, aged eighty-eight years.


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B EV. HENRY L. WHEELER, who died | December 29, 1873. To this marriage were ! born seven children, namely: (1) Henry, born September 25, 1808, died February 12, 1862,


February 22, 1894, aged seventy years, was an esteemed citizen of Sandy Hook. He was the son of Samuel and Betsey (Smith) Wheeler, at Easton. Conn. He married Eliza Barlow, farming people, and was a native of Monroe.


! and had children-Charles H., Caroline E.,


For a time Mr. Wheeler taught school in | Emily S., Sarah N., Stephen B., and Albert S. Southbury, and later at Sandy Hook, both pri- ' Ezra Gilbert died in Newtown. December 16,


vate and public. For thirty-four years he was | 1826. in the tin and stove business at Sandy Hook.


(2) George Gilbert, born November 24, 1810, selling out in 1886. In 1878 he was ordained a i died April 9, 1881. On June 7, 1834, by Rev. Methodist preacher in Brooklyn by Bishop Fos- | C. C. Stratton, rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, of Newtown, Conn., he was married to Julia Ann Bennett, of Weston, who was born September 1, 1810, and died May 9. 1899. The names, with dates of birth, etc., of ' their eight children are as follows: Mary J.,


ter, and at different times he served as preacher in charge at Sandy Hook, Brookfield Iron Works, Southville, and at West Redding. In his sphere in that denomination he was a very useful man. i His wife (formerly the widow of Harry Tucker). whom he married in 1849, was a lovely charac- I born November 20, 1835. died July 11, 1856; ter. A consistent Christian, she was a leader in ! Elias, August 13, 1836; John, February 9, 1838; every good work, an active and faithful member : Emeline, June 20, 1840, died October 20, 1875; of the Church for years. In her hospitable home, for nearly half a century. the Methodist preach- . George. September 10, 1843, died May 15, 1853: Susan, March 20, 1847; Adeline, March ers and presiding elders were entertained. and a | 10, 1849. died May 22, 1881; and Isabel, De- large circle of warm friends ever made welcome. . cember 9, 1851. The father of these was by She was one of those quiet, unostentatious per- : trade a carpenter, also followed farming. He sons who, by their courtesy and good judgment, are such a power for pood in the world.


was a good citizen and an upright man, esteemed by his fellow citizens.


(3) Horace Gilbert, born June 8, 1812, died | May 21. 1886. In early life he was engaged


ADWARD STARR. who was a well-known ; in the butcher business, in connection with farm-


E merchant in Newtown along in the " fifties " and .sixties," died November 27. 1879. when i ing. Later in life he became a merchant, in con- nection with his farming operations, and was he was aged seventy-nve years: his wife, Mary B. (Turner), died January 3, 1870, aged sixty- ! business in Huntingtown District, Newtown. He three years. Mr. Starr gave up business some 1 years prior to his death. retiring with a compe- tence. He was a successful business man and a moneymaker; was a man of light build, frail, and of a genial nature. He had no children. such up to the time of his death. carrying on was a well-read man and one of influence in town affairs, a strong Democrat, but was not : active in politics. Mr. Gilbert married, Septem- i ber 19, 1832, Amanda Morgan, of Redding. born May 19, 1812. She died September 4. 1851. Their ten children were: Ezra A., born December 3, 1833; Edward, April 20, 1835, died


ILBERT FAMILY. Stephen Gilbert, the | March, 1876; Mary F., March 23. 1837; Cornelia,


G ancestor of the families of that name, a : August 28, 1839; Levi C. is referred to farther


sketch of whom is given in the following, mar- on: Horace L., April 13, 1843, died January 17, isso; John L., May 24, 1845. died May 22, : 1885: Charles E., November 5. 1846; Martha . A .. January 29. 1849. died May 26, 1849; and ried Mary Holmes. April 15. 1773. and resided in Huntingtown District, town of Newtown, until his death. December 1 ;. 1823. He was born December 17. 1749: his wife Mary (Holmes) , Albert. September 4. 1851. Horace Gilbert for was born December 15, 1752, and died Decem- i his second wife married. October 15. 1854. ber 14. 1840.


Ezra Gilbert. son of Stephen Gilbert. was born August 28. 1785. He was a farmer and landowner in Hunungtown District. He served as captain of militia in the army at New Lon- don in the war of 1816. On November 22. IS0 ;. he married Sarah Kimberly Smith, of Walling- ford, who was born July 27. 1788, at New Ha- ven, and died at Tottenville, Staten Island, | 1815, died March 30, 1879.


: Sarah Sanford, of Easton. by whom he had there children, namely: Florence, Ida M., and l'anny A. Three of the sons of Horace Gilbert served their country in the war of the Rebellion, Horace L. in Company I, Sth Conn. V. I., and . Charles E. in Company M. 2nd Heavy Artillery.


(4) Caroline, born November 18, 1813, died March 27. 1887. (5) Smith, born October 29,


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(6) Albert Gilbert, born June 8, 1817, mar-


and was never known to break from party lines- ried May 3. 1846, Rebecca Edmunds, and had . once a Democrat, always a Democrat. His chil- children: William E., engaged in business in i dren's names are Juliette, Elizabeth, Orville and Paris, France: Albert; and Rebecca W., who ; Jerusha. His wife died in 1875, and both are buried in the old graveyard in Huntingtown Dis- trict. died January 23. 1882. The father was grad- ; uated from Dickinson College. Carlisle, Penn., i with the class of '38. In 1842 he was graduated from the University of New York, New York City, and was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme D ENNIS WRIGHT NASH. who died in New- town, June 14, 1891, at the age of seventy- three. was the youngest member of a family of I children, and was the last to pass away. His three brothers-David, John and Peter-as well as his two sisters-Mrs. Charles Peck and Mrs. Ammon Smith-have been dead a number of years. Court of the State of New York in 1845. He served in the State Legislature from New York in 1849-50; from 1851 to 1858 he was secretary of the board of education in New York City; and was then eight years secretary of the board of directors of the Free College and Free Library of that city. By virtue of his attainments he was honored to membership of the American In-


Our subject married (first) Betsey Lawrence, stitute, American Geographical Society and the ; and (second) Catherine Lawrence, who is the Mercantile Library Association of New York. | mother of his daughter-Betsey A.


He was a man of great intellectuality and broad acquaintance, courteous and affable. He resided in Paris several years, and was conversant with the language, books and literature of the French people. For the last fifteen years of his life he lived with his son, Capt. Albert Gilbert, Jr., at Jamestown, N. Y. His death occurred July 21, 1898. (7) Eliza, born March 31, 1820, died January 7, 1887.


LEVI C. GILBERT, son of Horace Gilbert, was born October 24, 1841, and received his educa- tional training in the schools of Huntingtown Dis- trict. In boyhood he assisted his father in his butchering business. When about twenty he went to Canada West (now Ontario), and was there en- gaged for some five years in the manufacture of woolen goods, but since 1868 he has resided on his present farm in Huntingtown District, where he has now about 130 acres of well-improved land. In connection with farming he has been engaged in the butchering business. having bought the business from his father, and has since conducted it. Politically. Mr. Gilbert is a Democrat. In November, 1864, he was married to Elizabeth Waltho, and they have had six children: Will- iam. Frances E., Levi C .. Lillie M., John Le- Roy. and Charles. The sons are in business with their father.


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Mr. Nash was a member of Trinity Church, i and few in the community had a higher reputa- tion for integrity, industry, and all that goes to make up a worthy citizen. By trade he was a carpenter, and, because of his conscientiousness, his industry, and good judgment, his services were always in good demand by his townspeople, among whom he worked for half a century.


P ETER M. NASH, who died November 18, 1889. was one of Newtown's lifelong resi- dents and excellent painters. Strictly upright and honorable in all his dealings, he was through- out life a hard and conscientious worker. He was a son of Micajah Nash, by his second wife, and was born in the Judge Warner corner house, | where his father, who came here from Norwalk, ! Conn., and carried on the hatting business with I his uncle Dennis, resided.


Peter M. Nash learned the comb-making busi- | ness with Charles Peck, his uncle, when the busi- i ness was so prosperous here that there were one I hundred apprentices in the town. Later he went into the comb-making business with Hermon Peck. He was long station agent at Newtown : depot. and finally devoted himself principally to | painting. He was thrifty, owning a number of j places in Newtown, and was a well-read man.


W WALTER JOHNSON, who died in Hunt- ingtown District. town of Newtown, March 20, 1889, in the eighty-eighth year of his


E -- ALI GOULD BENNETT. who died October 24, 1883, was born in Newtown in 1829. age, was a son of Jacob Johnson, and one of the ! In the fall of the year 1854 he, with his family old type of Newtown farmers, most of whom | (he having in 1850 married Minerva C. Sherman), preceded him to their rest. His long life was . settled in Coldwater, Mich., where he resided passed in the immediate vicinity of his birthplace. 1 until 1857, then removed to Bronson, in the In politics, he was a Democrat of the old school, , same State. Up to that time he had followed


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farming, and then commenced to enlarge his business operations, accumulating in course of time a large amount of property. During the financial crisis of 1867, however, he lost every- thing. In 1872 he moved with his family to Burr Oak, and commenced the work of retrieving he began anew. He was in a fair way of once | more making a fortune when he was prostrated by the fatal malady which had its origin about seven years before his death.


E ZRA PATCH, who died at Sandy Hook, in the town of Newtown, July 31, 1883, aged seventy-six years, was one of the town's oldest citizens, having resided for fifty-four years in the i coming this way.


house in which he died.


Jerome Platt, son of Harry, now occupies a Mr. Patch was born July 5, 1So7, at Dan- : part of the old home farm. In his early years bury. When he was seven years old his father ' he was an experienced hand with oxen, and not infrequently had five or seven voke in hauling wood to the hatters in Bethel. He was born in April, 1836. and has passed his sixty-three years . not far from the old home, occupied in farming. Until he was twenty-three he remained at home with his father. He has been married twice. (first) 10 Martha B. Joyce, who died May 10, 1866, in her twenty-ninth year. and (second) to Ida McLoughlin. His children, all by the first died, and the lad then went to live with Asher Starr, of Brookfield. He afterward learned the clothier's trade with Samuel Morris, of Beaver - brook, and then learned the hatting business with Joel Taylor, of Great Plain. On October 22. 1828, he married Betsey Adams, of Redding, and then came to Sandy Hook to work with Moses Parsons, his brother-in-law. He after- ward went into the him of Parsons & Patch, he being the New York house representative. He . wife, consisted of two sons and three daughters. Mr. Platt is an Independent in local politics, vot- ing for the man he deems best qualified for the office.


once represented the town in the Legislature. and for fourteen years was postmaster at Sandy Hook. For nearly fifty years he was an accept- 1 able and useful member of the M. E. Church, in which he filled the offices of class-leader. steward and trustee.


P LATT. ' Ephraim Platt died May 11, 1834. ; Henry, in 1855; and Philo, in 1859, in his twen- :


aged sixty-four years, and Polly (Kimberly), his wife, died April 12, 1852, aged eighty years. Their remains rest in the old burying ground at : Bennett Platt was a most excellent man and citi- Morgan Corners.


The children of this couple were: Harry and Bennett are both referred to farther on; Char- Jotte married Capt. Hart Shepard; Laura mar- ried William Scudder. and resides at Kalamazoo, Mich. Of these, Harry Platt died November


He was three times married, (first) to Tryphena Crofut, who was the mother of all his children. (second) to Hannah Barnum. and (third) to Julia Perkins. Tryphena Crofut was a daughter of Isaac and Tahpenes Crofut, the former of whom died March 8. 1851. aged eighty-four. and the latter on December 26, 1813, aged forty. four. Tryphena, their daughter, died August 13. 1


"Uncle " Harry, as Mr. Platt was known all over this region of the country, was in his time one of the foremost men in Newtown affairs, and he built many bridges for the town. He was a great cattleman, buying oxen in the eastern part i of the State to sell in Newtown. He was gener- ous and hospitable, was very favorably known, and his place was a rendezvous of all cattlemen


Bennett Platt, son of Ephraim, was born October 4. 1800, and died May 7, 1885. He married Augusta Shepherd, who was born Febru- ary 27. 1817, and still survives. Three of their children died years ago, namely: Laura and .


tieth year. At the father's death two daughters survived. Mrs. George Hoyt and Mrs. Lake. zen, possessed a good mind, and had a most vivid recollection of the past.


W ILLIAM PLATT (deceased). The gene- alogy and early ancestral history of the 25, 1882, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. . late William Platt is more fully spoken of in another article in this volume.


Nathan Platt, his grandfather. the eldest son of Josiah Platt and Sarah (Sanford) Platt, was born March 3. 1761, in Newtown. He married Ruby Smith, of the same town, and lived many years in Waterbury, Conn. He was a soldier of the Revolution. His second marriage was to Charlotte Dickerman. He died in Wallingford, in


1846, in her forty-third year. Hannah (Barnum) Platt died March 4, 1872, in her seventy-second vear. The children born to Harry and Tryphena Platt were: Jerome; Charles married a Miss Bassett, and is keeping . Platt's Inn " at Bethel. I Conn .; Elizabeth married Bennett Blackman, his fortune; but again lost all, and the third time | and lives in Newtown village; Isaac, James and Eliza died years ago, when in youth.


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1845. in his eighty-fourth year, and was buried in Waterbury. His wife Ruby died in 1829. His children by his first marriage were: Levi Smith, Alfred, Ely, Almon, Anner, Leonard, Sarah and Martha.


Levi Smith Platt, father of William, was born in 1787. He married Patty Hawley. of Danbury, and spent his closing days on his farm there, dying at the age of fifty-eight. His chil- dren were: Emmon, Mary Ann, William, Lorin and Elizabeth. Of these, Emmon lived to be in his eighty-second year, dying October 16. 1890. For years he worked with his brother William in the button business.


William Platt was born in 1814 in Washing- ton. Conn. He entered Yale College, but on ac- count of poor health he was obliged to give up his studies there. He followed teaching success- fully until he commenced manufacturing buttons in Danbury, in 1842. In 1844 he moved the business to Cold Spring. continuing the same there until 1869, when he moved to Newtown village. In 1839 he married Fannie Sherman, of Danbury, daughter of Ornan Sherman, and commenced housekeeping in the house where General Wooster died-the headquarters of Gen- eral Lyon during the siege of Danbury in the days of the war of the Revolution. In 1854 Mr. Platt represented Newtown in the State Legisla- ture. He was a prosperous and influential citi- zen. He built a beautiful home crowning one of the hills adjacent to and overlooking the village of Newtown, where his widow and son Charles and family reside. Mr. Platt's death occurred in 1894. His children were: Francis William, born 1840, married Annie Northrop, 1866, and died 1877; Emily Jane, born 1841, died 1876; Charles Smith, born 1846, married Ella Eoline Ingraham. of Adams, Mass., in 1879; Fannie E., born 1850. died 1853; and Roger Sherman, born 1854, died 1872. The children born to Charles Smith and Ella E. Platt are as follows: Charles Roy, born 1880; Arthur Ingraham, born 1882; and Agnes Electra, born 1883. Charles S. Platt has for years been the organist of Trinity Church. He is a music teacher of considerable note, hav- ing studied music abroad, and is one of New- town's useful citizens.


R `ICHARD PLATT, the progenitor of many of the New England Platts, came to this country in 1638 and landed at New Haven. He owned land in and around New Haven. He was enrolled among the first settlers of Milford, No- vember 20, 1639, having four in his family. " He had probably brought with him from Eng-


land his children, Mary, John, Isaac and Sarah, for his first child baptized in Milford, by the record, was Epenetus, July 12, 1640. Subse- quently were baptized Hannah, October 1, 1643; Josiah, 1645, and Joseph, in 1649.'


In August, 1889, at the interesting and note- worthy commemoration of the settlement of Milford 250 years ago, the name of Richard Platt was mentioned with honor, and among the coping stones of the beautiful memorial bridge erected over the Wapawaug, to perpetuate the memory of the early settlers, was one placed with this inscription:


DEACON RICHARD PLATT, OBIT 1684. MARY HIS WIFE.


This among the capstones in the bridge was placed there by the liberality and thoughtfulness of two of his descendants, the late Prof. John- son T. Platt. of New Haven, and Theron E. Platt, of Newtown.


The sons and daughters of Richard, as nearly in the order of their precedence as we are able to determine. were Mary, John, Isaac and Sarah; then those who were baptized in Milford-Epe- netus, Hannah, Josiah and Joseph. It should be stated that Richard and his sons John and Josiah are recorded among the original purchasers and proprietors of Newtown. But John finally went to Norwalk. Isaac and Epenetus to Hunt- ington, L. 1., only Josiah and Joseph remaining in Milford, the first home of the family.


Josiah Platt, son of Richard (1), was bap- tized in 1645. the probable year of his birth. The town records say that "Josiah Platt and Sarah Canfield, both of Milford, were married December 2, 1669." Their children were: Josiah, born June 29, 1671; Sarah, September 17, 1673; Mary, November 13, 1675; John (a favorite name in most of the branches), Septem- ber 5, 1677; Josiah (2), August 9, 1682; Hannah, baptized November 29, 1685; Abigail, baptized March 4. 1688; and Joseph, January 15, 1693.


The Newtown town records show that Josiah Platt, of the town and county of New Haven, in consideration of love and affection to his son, Josiah Platt, of Newtown, willed him half his land on Gelding Hill, in Newtown, October 18, 1758. [Vol. VI], p. 157.] Josiah Platt, of Mil- ford, Conn .. " in consideration of love and good will which I have and do bear unto my grand- son, Josiah Platt 3d, now of Newtown, " October 18, 1788, willed him land in Newtown. [Large Vol. VII, p. 155.] Josiah Platt, Sr., of Milford, to his son, Josiah Platt, Jr., of New Haven,


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willed "108 acres on Gelding Hill, in New- town." [Id., 1, 49.]


The will of Josiah Platt, dated October 26, 1758, is on record in the Probate court of New Haven. The testator mentions his wife, Sarah, and sons Josiah, Nathan, Isaac, Jonas, daughter Frances (Peck), and granddaughters Sarah, Abi- gail and Mary. He gave lands in Waterbury to his sons Nathan and Isaac. "Nathan Platt and Amos Platt conveved to Mary Platt, wife of Isaac Platt, lands in Zoar, descended to them from their mother, Sarah Platt."


John Platt was an early settler in Newtown. On February 7. 1721-22. he conveyed to his brother, Josiah Platt, of Milford. the one-fourth part of a whole right of commonage in undivided land throughout the whole township. [Bk. 1, Vol. XXVI.] John Platt, of Newtown, conveyed land in that town to his sons, Ebenezer, John and Moses, in 1741. In Newtown it is recorded, March 11, 1766, that Josiah Platt was aged ninety-one; January 3, 1769, his widow was about ninety-one years of age.


In Newtown Records [Vol. VIII] the follow- ing is found: "Josiah Platt and Sarah Sanford | were joined in marriage covenant November 13, 1758. Children: Hannah, born October 3. 1759: Nathan, born March 3, 1761; Isaac, born December 24, 1762 ; Louisa, born May 28, 1765; Amos, born January 12, 1768; and Jonas, born January, 11, 1770."


TIVES GLOVER, who died June 16, 1883, in | and Mrs. ]da Treat, of Seymour. (2) Mary the eighty-second year of his age, was born March 12, 1802. He took great interest in pass- ing events. He descended from Henry Glover, who came to this country from England in about 1660. being among the early proprietors of New Haven. and a large land owner in what is now that city.


John Glover, the great-great-grandfather of Jves Glover, was a large land owner in his day. a prominent man in town affairs : he was town clerk in 1712 and 1713. He died June 30, 1752, aged seventy-eight years.


Simeon Glover, Ives Glover's father, was born May 14. 1772. He married, for his first wife, Olive Booth, August 3. 1792: for his second wife. Rachel March 22. 1795 : and, for his third wife, Mary Gregory, August 2, 1801. There was one son born to him by the first mar- riage. Ebenezer Booth Glover. who died in the United States service at New London, Conn .. June 8. 1815, aged twenty-one years. There were three children born to the second marriage: Harry, Charles and Olive; and four children born


to the third marriage: Ives, Melora, Nancy, and Henry. Charles Glover (above), who died at Roxbury. Conn., March 22, 1884, in the eighty- sixth year of his age, was a native of Newtown, born February 14. 1798, and was the last surviv- ing child of Simeon Glover, of Newtown. The earlier part of his life was passed in Newtown, working at his trade as a mechanic. The first . one-horse wagon ever in Newtown was made by | him, and in those days it was a novelty. After middle life he moved to Roxbury. Industry was his motto, and here, among the hills and dales, he lived until the time of his death, rearing a family of nine children. He was a great reader, and possessed of a very retentive memory.




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