Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Part 265

Author: H. H. Beers & Co.
Publication date: 1899
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Ives Glover at the age of fifteen learned the blacksmith's trade of Philo Whitney, and when twenty-five commenced business for himself. Jves went to Cold Spring, Newtown, in about 1836, when the Housatonic road was built, and worked at his trade. He bought the place, where he died. in 1842 or 1843. He was one of the town's foremost mechanics, and was of an in- ventive genius; he patented a pin for ox-bows which is considered one of the best pins for that u.S.t . For a half century or more he was sealer of weights and measures. At the age of twenty- three he married Julia Hull. daughter of Clark Hull, a prominent school teacher in Newtown, and their married life lasted fifty-eight years. Four of their six children were living in 1883. namely: (1) Mrs. Charles Smith, of Shelton, whose children are-Edith, Herbert, Leonard,


(Mrs. N. B. Lake), of Brookfield, whose chil- dren an -E. G. Lake, of Newtown; Mrs. Julia F. Cole. of Montana: Wilbur F .; Martin; Rob- ert A. : Ada M. ( Mrs. Norton); and Anne C. (Mrs. Booth). (3) Henry, an engineer on the New York elevated road. had children-John Henry, James C., Thomas 1., and Elmer C. (5) David, the youngest son, lives at home. One son. Martin Van Buren, died in the United States service in 1803.


In politics. Mr. Glover was a Democrat, tried and true. He never missed a vote from 1822 to the time of his death. He was a great reader. was a keen observer, and a ready debater. He took an active interest in National politics, and was well versed in all the leading questions of the day.


G RANVILLE S. GLOVER, son of James and Ann Glover, was born April 17, 1797. in Newtown. and died there December 13, 1874. On January 16, 1826, he married Mary Hawley,


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who was born March 15, 1802, a daughter of Jabez and Parthena (Booth) Hawley, and died April 22, 1852.


The children born to this marriage were: Ann Elizabeth married Henry I. Gilbert. Charlotte died April 6, 1852, in her twenty-seventh year. Jabez H. died March 14, 1860, in his thirty-third year; he married Mary E. Peck, and had two children-Carrie and Effie; the widow and chil- dren now reside in Danbury, Conn ; Jabez was a farmer in Newtown, and held the esteem and respect of the community.


Granville S. Glover, for his second wife, mar- ried Betsey A. Peck, who died July 30, 1889. aged eighty-one years. Mr. Glover was identi- fied with the agricultural interests of Newtown all through his long life. and was respected and esteemed by all.


the town; was representative to the General Court a number of times, and served as town clerk from 1765 to 1799, to which office he was succeeded by his son Caleb.


Caleb Baldwin (3), son of Col. Caleb Bald- win, born October 15, 1772, in Newtown, died there December 10, 1844. He married, (first) May 19, 1799, Betsey Beers. She died Novem- ber 17, 1822, and he married, (second) March 24, 1824, Sarah (Prindle) Beardslee, who was born November 10, 1781, a daughter of Rev. Chauncey .Prindle, an Episcopal clergyman of Oxford, Conn., and the widow of Josiah Beards- lee. She died May 5, 1876, aged ninety-four years. The children of Caleb Baldwin (3), all by the first marriage, were: Anna, Daniel, Mary, Henry (born in 1807, married, in 1845, Alma Bryan), and Elizabeth (now Mrs. Booth, living in Huntington Centre, Conn.). Caleb Baldwin (3) was one of the prominent men of the town;


BALDWIN. The family of Baldwin of New- | was postmaster many years and kept a hotel for town, Conn., treated in the following, were i a long period in Newtown Street. He also farmed descended from Nathaniel Baldwin, who was one | quite extensively. He began keeping the town of the first settlers of Milford, Conn., where he i records while yet in his 'teens, and succeeded his was a free planter. November 29, 1639. He | father as town clerk, serving from 1799 until that office from 1765 to 1799-a period of ser- was a cooper by trade and removed to Fairfield, | 1843: his father, as stated in the foregoing, filled Connecticut.


Caleb Baldwin, baptized in Milford, in 1702, 1 vice by father and son covering nearly eighty and a descendant in the fourth generation from vears. Nathaniel Baldwin through Daniel Baldwin and Gen. David Baldwin, son of Caleb Baldwin (2), was born March 17, 1758, in Newtown, where he continued to reside throughout life, dying April 14, 1811. He married, February 12, 1778, (second) February S, 1759, Jerusha Daton, of | Hannah Brooks, who died February 15, 1826. Newtown. In his will, dated August 16, 1770, | He was a merchant, a prominent and leading man, a militia general and popularly known as "General." His children were: Laura, Flora, second marriage). Caleb Baldwin was one of | Boyle Van Brooks and David Van Brooks. Daniel Baldwin (2). settled in Newtown, where he died March 9, 1772. He married (first) Mehitabel (who died September 5, 1758), and his children remembered were: Ann, Caleb, Daniel and Jerusha (last named being born of the the leading citizens of the town. In 1740 he David Van Brooks Baldwin, son of Gen. was made, by the General Court, ensign of the | David Baldwin, born February 25, 1788, died first company of Newtown. He was afterward | August 12, 1865. His first wife Nancy diedin 1840, several times a member of the General Court. in her fifty-second year, and for his second wife he married Mrs. Betsey B. Curtis, born in 1805, and died in 1890. For nearly fifty years David V. B. Baldwin was a prominent merchant and | business man of the town, of the firm of Baldwin


Col. Caleb Baldwin, son of Caleb Baldwin, born December 13. 1728, in Newtown, Conn., continued to reside there until his death, Septem- ber 6, 1804. He married, (first) March 8, 1756, Naomi Hard, daughter of Joseph Hard, of New- I & Beers.


town. She died January 18, 1770, and he mar- ried (second) Betty Betts, who died June 28, 1781. He married, (third) September 11, 1787, T URNER FAMILY. Although few of the members of this large family are now left in Newtown, it was among the first to settle there. quently known as Colonel Caleb. His children | They located in the northern part of the town, owning large farming interests, comprising much Anna Febrique. At the time of his first mar- riage he was Lieutenant Caleb, but was fre- (all by his first wife except Caleb, who was by his second wife, were: David, Isaac, Elijah, , of modern Hawleyville, and extending east and John, Philo, Lucinda and Caleb. Lieut. or Col. | west reaching down almost to Newtown village. Caleb Baldwin was prominent in the affairs of | In the town records it is stated that:


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" Jeremiah Turner. son of Jeremiah, by his wife Mary, was born May 27, 1709. A second son, Samuel Turner, was born May 22, 1713. Mary Turner. the mother, died June 13, 1714, and on September 15, of that year, the father was married to Wilmot Sherman, of Stratford." 1 Following this record there appears the names and dates of birth of children as follows: Mary Turner. August 15. 1715; Hannah, March 19, 1 1717; Rebecca, June 15, 1719; Permiah, March | follows: Elizabeth died September 24, 1845, 19, 1721; and Sarah, June 13, 1723. The fa- aged twenty-one years; Lilly D. died August 3. 1843,. aged sixteen; Jane Ann (now deceased) married William Kellogg: and Theodore is a resi- dent of Hamilton, Canada. The parents were plain, unassuming, good farming people. Mrs. Fairchild was a member of the Episcopal Church, and reared her children in that faith. | In 1869 Mr. Fairchild was a representative from Newtown in the State Legislature. ther of these died August 23, 1724. A minute was made on the record by Isaac Beers. when clerk, that the first male child born in Newtown was Jeremiah Turner, born May 27, 1709. Again, there is a tombstone in the cemetery at Hawley- ville, on which appears this inscription: "In memory of Jeremiah Turner, who departed this life December 8. A. D. 1778, in the 69th year of his age, being the first white child that was born in Newtown." By his side on another stone we read that " Abigail Turner, wife of Jeremiah Turner, died May 30, 1795, in her 77th year."


Jeremiah Turner and Abigail Lavenworth {born August 30, 1718). were married, August 17, 1738, and their children were: Jeremiah, born September 8 (old style). 1739; Miles, born October 12 (old style), 1741; Phebe, born March 26, 1744: John. born September 16, 1746; Nathan, born January 7. 1749; Abigail. born August 7 (old style), 1751 ; Mary, born March 21 (new style). 1754: Calvin, born September 19, (new style), 1756; Hannah, born December 13 (new style), 1758; and Frances, born June 20, 1761. Among those of the name buried in the cemetery at Hawleyville indicated by tombstones are the following: Ralph Turner died aped seventy-four years and four days. James Turner died March 23. 1894. aged 70 years. John Tur- ner died April 10, 1865, aged 85 years, 2 months and 12 days; Anna. his wife, died September 22, 1867, aged 83 years and 8 months. Nathan


Blackman, daughter of Daniel and Lois Black- man, the former of whom died October 25, 1842, | aged seventy-seven, the latter May 10, 1847, aged seventy-four. Polly Ann (Blackman) Fair- child was born August 21, 1802, and died April 29, 1893, at the advanced age of ninety, having passed her declining years with her son Theo- dore, with whom she had made her home from 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild had children as


RANK L. SMITH. M. D., physician and surgeon, Bridgeport. Fairfield county, Con- necticut.


S NUMMERS. It appears in the town records of Newtown that the children of Samuel and Rebecca Summers were: Samuel, born at Litch- field, February 8. 1724: Robert, born at Strat- ford, March 10, 1725; Elnor, born at Newtown, July 22, 1726; Ebenezer, born August 25, 1727; Henry, born July 5, 1729: Gersham, born Octo- | ber 8, 1730; Benjamin, born January 8, 1734; Rebecca, born November 4, 1735; Luke, born February 1, 1737; and Jerusha, born August 11, 1739. It is not unlikely that from this source came the numerous families of the name that have resided in Newtown.


Oliver Summers, who died February 6, 1872, aged seventy-two years, was for a long time one of Newtown's prominent citizens. He was a son


Sarah, his wife. died February 15, 1834. aged 75 Turner died March 19. 1820, aged 71 years; I of Gershom and Hannah G. (Parmelee) Sum- I mers. Gershom Summers died October 18, 1826, years. Joseph B. Turner died July 16, 186 ;. , aged fifty-three years, and his wife, Hannah G. aged 83 years and 5 months. Hannah, wife of | Summers, died May 20. 1856, aged seventy-nine Joseph B. Turner, died October 18, 1868, aged 78 years and 9 months. | years. Oliver Summers in early life learned the carpenter's trade, and later was a farmer near 1 Botsford Station, town of Newtown. He took C YRUS DIBBLE FAIRCHILD (deceased). son of Adoniram Fairchild, was for many | the latter decade as selectman. also in the 'sixties. years a respected farmer of Taunton District, Newtown, where his active life was passed. quite an active part in public affairs along in the 'forties and 'fifties, serving a number of times in | In 1843, and again in 1852, he represented the I town in the State Legislature.


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ering. for years was engaged in the publishing of maps, athies, etc., and for a time was a part- tier of 1) Lawson lake, the firm being Griffin A LA. He was also associated in the same ::. " with other. The father some years before the youth retired from business, and his con George and son-in-law Marshall H. Sears continued it for six years; then Mr. Sears with- drew, and the business was carried on for eight years by George Guttin, who in the meantime made wirable inventions (which he patented) that revolutionized the button industry. In isNo he took bruce & Griffin into partnership. and in the bought of the Ousatonic Water Com- pany a factory. formerly occupied by the Shel- tin bins Hardware Company, and they now have a benne - employing from 75 to 100 hands. They are active, industrious men and prosperous.


George Gatan was married in 1872 to kabell Griffin, they have no children. Bruce N. Grithn was twice nailed, chrst) in 1874 to Anna Hin- man, who died in 1875; and (second) to Ida Danties There were two children born to the second marriage Clarence and John (


P ARMELII The Parmelees now residing at and in the vicinity of Hattertown and Huntingte wn District, town of Newtown, are in main the descendants of Nathaniel and Alathea Parmeice, whose remains now rest in the old burying pround in Huntingtown District. Na- thaniel died May ;. 1834. in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and Alathea passed away Novem- ber 28, 183 ;. aped seventy-six years. Their children were


(1) Kutus, who married Diamy Bundy, was a wagon maker and farmer. He died December 28. 18-8. aged eighty-five years. He and his wife had no children. (2) Hiram, born Feb- ruary 1, 1700. married Betsy Winton, and had children- John, born November 4. 1832. and now a resident of Hattertown, followed carpen- try and farming: Alva: Laura A. died Febru- ary 6, 1834. Susan H. died November 30, 1833. Hiram Parmere, the father of these children. died March 10. 1878, and the mother on Sep- tember 25. 18;5. (3) Olive, born September 15. 1794. matried Burr Turney, and had chil- dren-Huam, John (deceased); Isaac (deceased); George, a resident of Hattertown, where he is engaged in wagon making and farming: Esther; Jane: and Poliy A. (4) Hermon, who died May (first) Polly Fair weather, who died March 5. 1831, and (secondi Polly Peck, who passed away March


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11, 1890, at the age of eighty-one. One child, Peter, was born to the first marriage, and to the second were born Mariette, Sarah, Angeline. and Emma. (5) Eloise, born in 1801. married Brad- ley Hull, and had children-Sally and Mary, both of whom are now residents of Hattertown. The mother of these died February 10, 1872, aged seventy-one years, the father on March 27, 1885, aged eighty-four years. (6) Polly Ann, born March 15. 1807. married David Corning, and had children-Edward, David, and two whose names are not now recalled. (7) Levi died April 17, 186;, in his seventy-first year. his wife on December 4, 1873, aged seventy-six years. He was a shoemaker by trade. and also was en- gaged in farming. His children were -- Julia A. married Charles Short, of Woodbridge. Conn .; Grandison B., born April 13, 1823, and a resi- dent of Hattertown, married Mrs. Phebe Latin, a widow, who died in September, 1898, aged eighty-four years. He is by trade a wagon maker, and has also been occupied in farming: George, born March 22, 1826, married (first) October 17, 1860. Rebecca J. Benedict, and (second) No- vember 13, 1881, wedded Ada C. Summers, but had no children by either marriage (George is a carpenter by trade, but has engaged in farm- ing chiefly since his first marriage: he is a Demo- crat in his political views, and in his religious faith is a Baptist, being identified with the Church at Stepney); Theodore S., who died in 1869, aged thirty-nine years, was twice married, (first) to Margaret Morehouse, who died in 1853, aged twenty-five years, and (second) to Lydia Patter- son, daughter of Doctor Patterson, of Easton; Fanny E., born in 1832, married George French [see sketch]; Amanda ]. died in youth.


G EORGE FRENCH, a farmer residing in Huntingtown District, was born August 9, 1829. in Newtown, and is a grandson of John and Sarah French, who died August 21, 1842, aged seventy-eight years, and April 26, 1847, aged seventy-six, respectively. Their children were William. Nabby, Turney cour subject's fa- ther). Abel, Abel (2), and David.


Turney French was born January 9, 1798, and died December 17, 1883. He married Bet- sey Bennett, who was born June 13, 1799, and died September 7, 1887. Their umion was blessed with the following children: Wheeler married Euphena Judd; Louise is the wife of Horatio Northrop: George is our subject : Horace F. mar- ried Verona Johnson : Henry married Aurelia Tay- lor: and Harriet married Edwin Briscoe.


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life, thus far, in Huntingtown District, engaged mainly in farming. In 1851 he was married to Miss Fanny E., daughter of Levi and Polly (Beers) Parmelee, and children as follows were born to them: Hobart S., Wilbur E. and Levi T.


E ALIAS B. SANFORD, whose death occurred June 2, 1881, when he was ninety years of age, was one of Newtown's most worthy citizens.


Born in Newtown, February 16, 1791, our subject was a son of Isaac Sanford, a wheel- wright and wood turner. Elias B. Sanford took up the trade of his father, and soon became pro- ficient in the manufacturing of spinning wheels for wool flax. The spinning wheel was a leading in- dustry in the town in those days, when the power loom and factory spinner were scarcely known. Mr. Sanford continued in that occupation until such things pave way to the march of progress and improved machinery. At the age of fifteen he became particularly interested in religion, and united with the M. E. Church, of which he was a consistent and exemplary member for the long term of seventy-five years. He held responsible positions in the Church during his long life and was an officer thereof when he died. Quiet and unobtrusive in his manners, Mr. Sanford was one who never put himself forward, but was always found ready to discharge to the best of his ability the various duties devolving upon him, as hus- band, father. Christian, friend, and neighbor. His true worth was best known and appreciated in the Church and family circle. He lived with his first wife. Sally (Lockwood), a little more than five years. she dying November 5. 1819. For his second wife he married Lucretia Fair- weather, who survived him, being eighty-eight years of age in December following his death. She died January 18, 1890, and they had spent sixty-one years of married life together. Eight of their ten children were living at her death. Isaac, the eldest, then sixty-six years old. had been a member of the Eastern New York: Method- ist Conference about forty years. In 1881 he was living at Middlefield, Conn. Rev. Elias B. Sanford. then of Thomaston, Conn., is a grandson of the deceased, as was also the late Dr. Wilbur F. Sanford, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (2) Lockwood Sanford, the second son, who was sixty-four years old when the mother died, was an artist and designer and engraver in wood, liv- ing in New Haven. (3) Joseph B., at that time sixty years of age, was a well-to-do farmer of Preston, Penn. (4) Sarah died in Pennsylvania at the age of forty. (5) Frances died at Pres- ton, Penn., aged forty-four. (6) Edson, who


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and butterice .S) Ann, born May 9, 1;55, mar- red I better beers and had seven children -- lov ratred a Mr. Candee: Abhah married a Mas Moment: 1. benezer married a Miss Botsford. Father nared a Mr. Glover: Currence married a Mr. Jeta. Theo married a Miss Hawley, and F ..... Hatred a Miss ( andre. (o) Zalpha, born in November. 175;, was married. September 12. 1;+1. to Z ammon Peck, and had two children -- Samtt, and Leckiel. (10) Abner, born Septem- bert. 1;30. married Lucena or Lavinia Nichols. daughter of leter Nichols, and had two chil- Chester and Phủo (11 Hannah, born Mas 14. 1:01. died February 10. 1700. (12) late .. toin September 9. 170: (13) Mary fairedemest Mr. Somers, and second) I ben-


timeof (vienus Hard. known as ( yrus of Jeneste died October 18, 1838. ared sixty- five 11.1. lie was married. December 6, 1802. to Abigail daughter of Gould ( urt .: She died Ihren det 24. 1841, aged fifty-nine years Their Sophia ,who named brutus Botsford, William and Amos. Ames Hard mar- red des Mie Maniette Camp, by whom he had two cheden. Inzabeth and Willwent , and by lovec.t .: marriage, to Miss Catinatime Lane. he had are son. Chester.


B UKION E. CLARK, who throughout his hi time was a resident of the town. was ban October 20, 1802, and died in Newtown, He was a son of David and Hat naho mers, Clark, the former born in 1775. in Stratford. Conn., and the latter in 1782. in brie. . water They both passed away in 1851, Hatman on March 9. David on October 17 To their ut on were born the following children: hatten 1. four subject). Caroline. Baldwin S., and Walhan.


Barton 1. Clark in youth learned the trade of tamer and corner with Jerenvah beers, and later in a so learned the comb makers trade. which the mess be carried on for some years until the paint of 1837. After that he followed the latter and cormier trade. carrying on business on the percent site of the home of his son Ed- ".[! ] Still later in life he worked occasion- als at comb making in the factory in Berkshire. He atte: ded the services of the Epecopal Church. wh'e in his political views he was first a Whig. inter a he; allican, and as a citizen and neighbor be held the esteem and respect of all. On In Der 24, 1826, he married Abba Terrill. wir was born November 10. 1SOS, a daughter


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were: Edward T., born October 22, 1827 (is referred to below), and Juliette. born April 13, IS34. The mother of these died June 30, 1876, aged sixty-seven years.


Mrs. Mary Ann Botsford, who resided in Rox- bury; Maria Lake, who lived in Land's End; Mrs. Eunice Ann Blackman, who lived in the Racketts: and John. The mother of this family died December 28, 1893.


Edward T. Clarke (as he usually spells his name). when a boy, assisted his father in the tan- ning business, but not liking that as an occupa- tion he learned the shoemaker's trade. Later he H ENRY NICHOLS, whose remains now rest in the old cemetery in Huntingtown Dis- trict, town of Newtown, beside those of his wife, was for years a blacksmith and farmer in that locality. taught school, worked at different times on the railroad, and for a time at comb making. In 1854 he became employed at Berkshire, in the factory of Curtis & Warner, as foreman in the comb-making department of their works. In A son of Peter Nichols. and a grandson of Peter Nichols, he was born in Easton, Conn .. lived some years in Redding, and in about 1845 ; or 1846 settled in Huntingtown District. where the remainder of his life was passed. He mar- ried Polly A. Dimon, and the marriage was blessed with four sons, namely: John B., who married Sarah E. Matson, resides in Hattertown, I Conn .: Henry E. is a resident of Michigan, where he married; Frederick died August 5, 1860, when twenty-one years of age; and Jerome about a year thereafter he became superintend- ent in the button department, and for thirty- | eight years sustained such relations with Mr. Curtis. This long term of years is an evidence of his ability and faithfulness. Mr. Clarke is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church at Sandy Hook. Conn .; in his political affiliations, he is a Republican. On November 5. 1848, he mar- ried Sylvia M., daughter of Hermon Peck. Their one child, Herbert C .. died March 9, 1859, aged four years. The mother died May 4, 1889, | is referred to farther on. The father of these in her sixtieth year. On May 12, 1896, Mr. Clarke was again married. this time to Susan J. Hyde, widow of Charles Hyde. of New Haven.




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