Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Pt 1, Part 105

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1336


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married Eunice Harris. He was a sailor from the age of twelve years, when he started for the West. Indies, and he made many long voyages on the At- lantic during his life. He spent his later years in Glastonbury, and died there. (4) Eliza, born Aug. 6, 1805, died unmarried. (5) Edwin, born Oct. 6, 1807, married Nancy Kinne, and settled in Hart- ford, where he engaged in the lumber business, in which he was quite successful. Since his death his sons carry on the business. (6) Hannah, born Feb. 17, 1810, married Edwin Miller, a tailor and farmer, who built our subject's present home. (7) Sallie Ann, born May 15, 1812, married Gideon Kinne, a farmer in South Glastonbury. (8) Fran- cis, our subject, is mentioned more fully below. (9) Joseph P., born Jan. 11, 1818, was twice mar- ried, his second wife being Mary Mintz. He is an Episcopalian clergyman, and now resides in Plainfield, N. J. (10) Mary, born Aug. 20. 1820,. died at the age of seventy-four, unmarried. (11) Martha (deceased) was born July 1I, IS23, and married Henry Parsons, of Hartford. He con- ducted a book store in Hartford for some time, and. later was in the real estate business in New Haven, but is now living in Massachusetts.


Our subject was about two years old when his- parents removed to Hartford, but his education was begun in the district schools of South Glastonbury, and later he attended the academy there, of which Elihu Burritt, the "learned blacksmith," was the head. At seventeen he left school, and he had learned the sailmaker's trade with his father in Hartford when he was twenty-one. He then formed a partnership with his brother Edwin, and opened a grocery and provision store at the foot of State street, in Hartford, and after his brother's with- drawal he continued alone until 1839, when he sold out to Thomas Reed. During the remaining years. of his active business life he was engaged in the manufacture of powder kegs fo. E. I. Dupont & Co., of Wilmington, Del., his annual product run- ning as high as 40,000 kegs. In 1842 he removed to Delaware, to be nearer the firm, but after five years he returned to Connecticut and settled at South Glastonbury, where he carried on a factory in the buildings now occupied by Bidwell Bros.' soap works. Mr. Taylor retired from business in 1887, and is enjoying his well-earned leisure at his home, which he purchased from Joseph Ingraham, the father of the noted clockmakers of Bristol. He is a Republican, of Whig antecedents, but has never been an office seeker. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian, and for over forty years he has been senior warden of the church at South Glas- tonbury. On Feb. 27, 1837, Mr. Taylor married Miss Lucretia Miner, who was born in Stonington, Conn., Aug. 25, 1815, daughter of Asa and Han- nah ( Harrington) Miner. She died July 4, 1894, her remains being interred at Glastonbury. Seven children blessed this union: (1) Jane, born Dec. 24, 1837, married John H. Stevens, a carpenter in


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South Glastonbury. (2) Eliza, born Dec. 14, 1839, married William H. Wood, of Hartford, a traveling salesman. (3) Henry M., born Aug. 3, 1841, is a baker in Asheville, N. C. IIe served in the Civil war. He married a Miss Tatrow, and has one son, Edwin. (4) Franklin, born June 11, 1844, in Delaware, married Flora Shipman, has three chil- dren, Benjamin, Robert and Ellen, and resides on a farm in South Glastonbury. Ile served in the Civil war three years, and was a letter carrier in Hartford for many years. (5) Harriet B., born Jan. 29, 1849, married Kirtland Hollister, a farmer of Glastonbury, and has two children, Bessie ( wife of Harris Burr, of Hartford) and Alfred. (6) Alexis I. Dupont, a carriage builder in New Haven, born Dec. 11, 1853, married Addie Tatrow, sister of his brother Henry's wife, and has three children, Alice, Frederick and Kirtland. Alice married William Coats, and has two sons, William and Stanley. (7) Ada died in infancy.


DANIEL W. GREEN, the well-known con- tractor and builder, and a highly-respected citizen of East Hartford, is a native of Sumner, Oxford Co., Maine, and was born July 21, 1857, a son of Edwin and Permelia (Kendall) Green.


Nathaniel Green, grandfather of Daniel W., our subject, was born in Spencer, Worcester Co., Mass., was a tanner by trade, and for some years was a partner with his brother, Josiah, who was the pio- neer shoe manufacturer of Spencer. From that town Nathaniel went to Norway, Oxford Co., Maine, where he passed the remainder of his life. To his marriage with Miss H. Willis were born four children: Edwin, the father of our subject ; Daniel, who was a farmer at Norway, and was three times married-first to Susan Haskell, next :o Anna Knightly, and then to a widow, whose name is not given; Charles, also a farmer, who married Miranda Perkins, and lived and died in Norway; and Mary, who was married to Peter N. Haskell, a mill-owner of Waterford, Maine.


Edwin Green, father of our subject, was born in Paris, Oxford Co., Maine, in 1817, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1843, and practiced medicine hereafter until his death, which occurred March [2, 1890, his remains being interred at Otisfield, Maine, where his widow died Mav 6, 1900. To his marriage with Permelia Kendall, who was a native of Milan, N. H., children were born as fol- ows: Parker C., a mechanical draftsman, patter it- naker-in fact, an "all-round man"-at Athol, Mass., who is married to Eliza Willis; Daniel W., he subject of this memoir ; Nathaniel W., a farmer of Otisfield, who first married Rosie L. Frost, and ifter her death wedded Florence Abbott; and Ed- vin G., the youngest of the family, who is also a armer at Otisfield, and is married to Abbie Benson.


Daniel W. Green was educated in the common chools of his native district, also at the South


Paris (Maine) High School, and after leaving school, at the age of sixteen years, on account of weakened eyes brought about by typhoid fever, he- worked in various mills until about 1882, when he went to Crescent City, Putnam Co., Fla. There he learned the carpenter's trade, worked there five years, and then returned to Connecticut, worked one year for Cheney Brothers, in Manchester, next moved to East Hartford worked for W. J. Driggs, contractor and builder, for nine years, and in 1896 began contracting and building on his own account, in which he has met with success-a success due to his pains-taking endeavor to please nis patrons.


On Sept. 19, 1883, Mr. Green married Miss. Emma F. Wetherell, a native of South Manchester, born April 27, 1861, a daughter of William and Frances Celia (Watrous) Wetherell. The father of Mrs. Green has been dead for some years, but her mother is still living in South Manchester. Mrs. D. W. Green is of old Colonial and Revolutionary descent, Jonathan Waterhouse (the name has since been changed to Watrous) having been her great- grandfather and a patriot of the war for inde- pendence. Going back to the first appearance of her family in America, it may be briefly traced up to. the present time as follows: William Mullens, his wife, and their daughter Priscilla, and also John Alden, landed on Plymouth Rock Dec. 22, 1620, coming from England. This John Alden married the aforesaid Priscilla Mullens, and their eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was married to William Pea- body ; the daughter of this couple, Mercy Peabody, was married to John Simons; the daughter of John and Mercy ( Peabody) Simons was chris- tened Martha, and was married to Ebenezer De Land; Thankful De Land, their daughter, was mar- ried to Ebenezer Metcalf, and their daughter, Abia Metcalf, was married to Elijah Webster ; the daugh- ter of Elijah and Abia Webster was also named Abia, and was married to Jonathan Watrous, the Revolutionary soldier, whose pension papers were. made out in the name of Jonathan Waterhouse. From Jonathan and Abia Watrous (or Waterhouse ) descended Rhoda, Polly, Morgan, Dudley Ichabod, Brewster, Abia Marian, Jonathan Bissell. Elijalı Abel (grandfather of Mrs. Green), Hubbard and Ilubbard Judson. The names of the parents of Mrs. Green have already been given.


To the marriage of Daniel W. Green and wife have been born two children: Ernest Carlton, in Crescent City, Fla., Sept. 8, 1886, and Marian Lu- cille, Oct. 28, 1888, in South Manchester. Mr. Green and his family attend the Congregational Church, of which Mrs. Green has long been a con- scientious member. In politics Mr. Green is inclined to Democracy, but does not always cast his vote for that party ; fraternally he is a member of Wads- worth Council, No. 39, O. U. A. M., of Manchester.


Through his industry, skill, and industrious habits, Mr. Green has gained a comfortable home,. which he built in 1891, on a lot purchased from


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Watson Roberts. He is a genial, whole-souled gen- tleman, and he and his wife, with their two bright children, form a happy family, greatly respected by all who know them.


HENRY LEVERET REMINGTON, carriage and wagon-maker, and painter, and for fifty years a prominent citizen of Enfield, was born July 22, 1826, a son of Myron and Angeline (Warner) Remington, bothi natives of Suffield.


Mr. Remington's paternal grandfather, Stephen Remington, was for many years a resident of Suf- field, where he reared a family of twelve children : Myron, Almeron and Albert (twins), Stephen, Thomas, George, Anna (Mrs. Elihu Taylor), Sybil (Mrs. John Fuller), Amy ( Mrs. Norman Hast- ings). Jane ( Mrs. Nathaniel Curtis), Maryette, and Chloe ( Mrs. Norman Adams). Stephen Reming- ton was a farmer, and lived and died in Suffield.


Myron Remington, the father of our subject, was reared to manhood in Suffield. In early man- hood he removed to Streetsboro township, Portage .county, Ohio, residing there thirteen years. He then returned to Suffield, where he remained through life. Himself and wife are buried in Hastings Hills cemetery. Myron Remington had nine children, six of whom grew to maturity : Henry L., Lorenzo M., Lamira (Mrs. Francis Crouch ), Arabella ( Mrs. David Drake), Miranda (Mrs. Henry Sheldon), and Alcemony ( Mrs. Gottfried Heydenreich ).


Henry L. Remington spent his boyhood and youth in Portage county, Ohio, and Suffield, Conn. He received a common-school education, and served .an apprenticeship of three and one-half years at the wagon-maker's trade. He has since then worked as a journeyman for thirty-nine years in Enfield, for Potter & Parsons, and has been in busi- ness for himself since 1888.


Mr. Remington has been twice married. His first wife was Lorinda, daughter of Seth and Nancy (Cooper) King, of Suffield, and by her he had one son, Frank Everett. His second wife was Emily Fowler, of Maine. Mr. Remington is a member .of the Baptist Church of Suffield, and politically ne is a Democrat.


HON. EDWIN N. WHITE, president of the ·Canton Creamery Association, and a leading citi- zen of Canton, is a member of an old Colonial fam- ily. John White, the first of the line to settle in America, arrived in Boston harbor on the ship "Lyon" in 1632, and soon afterward located in Cambridge, Mass., where he was made a freeman in 1633. When Rev. Thomas Hooker led his band of followers into Connecticut and settled at Hart- ford John White was among them, and he took a prominent part in the affairs of the little Colony, serving as elder in the church. He died at Hart- ford in 1684. Of his six children, Mary married Jonathan Gilbert; Nathaniel is mentioned below ;


John married Sarah Bruner ; Daniel married Saral- Crow; Sarah became the wife of Stephen Taylor Jacob, who was born Oct. 8, 1645, married Eliza beth Bruner.


Capt. Nathaniel White was born in England and came to America with his parents when a very small boy. In 1650 he left Hartford and became one of the founders of the new settlement at Mid dletown, Conn., locating at what was then known a Upper Houses, afterward Upper Middletown. Her he spent the rest of his life, partly engaged in agri culture. Being a public-spirited man, and possess ing ample means, he gave one-quarter of his estat for the support of public schools. He was a mem ber of the General Court in 1659, and from 166 to 1710, in all fifty times. He was also deput and magistrate of Middletown, Haddam and Meri den, from 1669 to 1684, having been commissione by the General Assembly. He died Aug. 27, 17I] at his home, and was buried in Middletown cen etery. For his first wife he married Elizabet White, and for his second he wedded Mrs. Marth (Coit) Mould, widow of Hugh Mould, of Ne' London, Conn., and daughter of John and Mar (Jones) Coit. He had a large family, as follows Nathaniel, born July 7, 1652, married Elizabet Savage. Elizabeth, born March 7, 1655, marrie Sergt. John Clark, of Middletown, and died De 25, 17II. John was born April 9, 1657. Mar born April 7, 1659, and died Nov. 15, 1732, W2 married, on Jan. 16, 1678, to Jacob Cornwall, wl died April 18, 1708, and on April 13, 1710, sl wedded John Bacon, of Middletown, who died No 4, 1732. Daniel is mentioned below. Sarah, bo Jan. 22, 1664, married John Smith, of Haddar Conn. Jacob, born May 10, 1665, was marrie (first) to Deborah Shepard, and ( second) to R becca Ramey. Joseph, born Feb. 20, 1667, marri( Mary Mould.


Ensign Daniel White was born Feb. 23, 166 in Middletown, and spent his whole life ther He held many public offices, including those constable and selectman. He died Dec. 18, 173, and was buried in the cemetery at Middletow. In March, 1683, he married Susannah Mould, New London county, daughter of Hugh Mould, noted shipbuilder, and their children were: Dani, born Dec. 8, 1683, married Alice Cook; Nathani, born Sept. 8, 1685, married Mehitable Hurlbur; Joseph died Oct. 8, 1687; Joseph, born Oct. 8, 168, married Mary Hull; Hugh, born Feb. 15, 160, married Mary Stone ; John, born Nov. 27. 160, married Susannah Alling : Susannah, born Oct. 1, 1694, married Thomas Johnson, of Middletow; Isaac is mentioned below; Ruth, born Sept. : , 1703, married, on June 10. 1730, Jehiel Stone, f North Guilford; Rachel, born Feb. 2, 1705, ma- ried, on April 16, 1729, William Chittenden, Guilford.


Deacon Isaac White, the next in the line f descent, was born Nov. 9, 1696, at Upper Hous",


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Middletown, and made his home in that 1. cality. On Jan. 15, 1749, he was appointed deacon of his church, and from 1746 to 1749 he was selectman of Middletown. He died June 26, 1768, and was buried in Middletown cemetery. On June 30, 1726, he married Sybil Butler, daughter of Thomas But- ler, of Hartford county. She was born March 6, 1702, and died Nov. 7, 1781. They had the fol- lowing children: Moses, born Aug. 2, 1727, mar- ried Huldah Knowles; Martha, born Oct. 27, 1728, died April 1, 1813; Sybil, born Aug. 14, 1731, mar- ried, on April 18, 1753, Francis Whitemore; Elias is mentioned below; Aaron died young ; Isaac, born Jan. 16, 1741, died Dec. 8, 1741; and Ruth, born March 7, 1743, married, on Dec. 26, 1764, Dr. John Osbrim, a prominent physician, and a soldier in the French and Indian war.


Elias White, our subject's great-grandfather, was born at Upper Middletown May 5, 1734, and died there Jan. 27, 1800. On Nov. 13, 1760, he married Prudence Savage, of Upper Middletown, who was born July 13, 1737, daughter of Joseph and Prudence Savage. She died at Whitestown, N. Y. By this marriage there were nine children : Sybil, born Oct. 28, 1761, was married to Leveret Bishop, a ship carpenter, of Guilford. Mary Sav- age, born June 8, 1763, was married, on May 16, 1782, to William Cheney, of Gaylord, and died March 15, 1828. Reuben, born March 10, 1765, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and died in New York in June, 1783. Edmund, born Oct. 15, 1766, was taken sick on board a man-of-war, and died Aug. 24, 1782. Comfort, baptized Nov. 6, 1765, was a ship carpenter, and died at Demerara, South America. Joseph married Martha Hasgill. Pru- dence, born Jan. 31, 1773, married, in 1825, Dea- con Joseph Blake, of Whitestown, N. Y. Elias is mentioned below. Isaac, born June 22, 1780, mar- ried Pricilla Phomb.


Elias White, our subject's grandfather, was borr in Upper Middletown, where he grew to manhood, and in 1800 he settled in Cornwall, Conn. He mar- ried Cynthia Rogers, daughter of Capt. Edwin and Hannah (Jackson) Rogers, and they had chil- dren : Comfort, Edwin, Elias, and Rogers.


Comfort White, the father of our subject, was born at Cornwall, Conn., Jan. 3, 1802, and after receiving a good district-school education he be- gan teaching in New York State. Later, however, he engaged in farming near Utica, N. Y., and then at Sheffield, Mass., finally locating in Canton, Conn., where he bought, in 1859, the Hosford farm, a tract of 160 acres. For some years he made a specialty of tobacco culture. He was a man highly respected, temperate in his habits, liberal in church views, and in politics a stanch Democrat, although he never sought public office. On Dec. 3, 1826, he married Laura Norton, of Cornwall, daughter of Theodore and Mary (Gudd) Norton. She died Sept. 13, 1836, and on May 31, 1837, he married Miranda Rood, of North Canaan, Conn. The children of the


first union were: Mary Eliza, born July 26, 1829, married on Feb. 15, 1853, Walker S. Millard, a school teacher; Augustus Fredrick, born March 6, 1832, married in April, 1858, Harriet Watts, died in May, 1887; Julia Maria, born Feb. 21, 1834, and died Dec. 31, 1876, was the wife of Col J. F. G. An- drews, of Simsbury, Conn. Edmond Rogers, who died March 3, 1857, and Edwin N., the subject of this sketch, were twins. By the second marriage there was one child, Augusta Rogers, born Oct. 22, 1847, and married to Dan G. Wilcox, of Avon,. Connecticut.


Our subject was born in Cornwall, Conn., May 14, 1836, and spent his early life partly in Utica, N. Y., and partly in Sheffield, Mass., where he at- tended the district school and the high school; he also attended the high school at Winsted, Conn. He has since been engaged in agriculture on the farm at Canton. Since the death of his father Mr. . White has taken sole charge of the homestead, and has dealt largely in live stock and tobacco, although he has given his attention mostly to general farm- ing. Like his father he is liberal in church matters, and a good Democrat, but unlike him he takes an active part in public affairs. In 1878 he was elected by a large majority to the State Legislature, where. his broad-mindedness secured him a place on the committee on Women's Rights. He has also filled many local offices, serving as selectman for three terms, and chairman of the board of assesors for four years.


In 1860 Mr. White married Miss Anna L. Case, a lady of pleasing and refined manners, who was born in Canton, daughter of Gen. Jarvis and Lucia (Adams) Case. They have had four children : Lena Belle, born June 11, 1865, attended the Col- linsville High School, and was married Oct. 20, 1887, to Oren H. Godard, of Granby, son of Harvy Godard. Fanny Adams, born April 20, 1869, grad- uated from McLean Seminary in 1884. George Francis, born Aug. 31, 1870, attended the Collins- ville High School, McLean Seminary, and Yale Business College, New Haven, from which he grad- uated, and afterward went into the fish business in New York; he married Isabelle Bartlett, of Terry's Plains, Simsbury, Conn., daughter of Sheriff Joseph L. Bartlett. Hellen Maria, born Jan. 9, 1879, died Oct. 19, 1879. Socially the White fam- ily is much respected, and our subject is a Master Mason, uniting with the F. & A. M., Village Lodge, No. 29, Collinsville.


JAMES O'CONNOR, a well-known market gardener and general farmer of Wethersfield, was born in Barley Will, New Market, County Cork, Ireland, in October, 1860, and is descended from some of the best families of that country. His parents, Patrick and Joanna (Eagon) O'Connor, spent their entire lives in County Cork, as farming people. Both were devout members of the Cath- olic Church, and were highly respected by all who.


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kenw them. Their children were: Timothy, who died in Australia ; Hannora, wife of Richard Power. of Waterford, Ireland ; James, our subject ; Patrick, a resident of Wethersfield, Conn .; John, a dairy farmer of the same place; Mary, wife of Philip G. Smith ; and Jeremiah, also a resident of Wethers- field, Connecticut.


The only education which our subject received was obtained in the National schools of his native town. He grew to manhood on the home farm, and after his father's death, which occurred when he was still in his 'teens, he remained with his widowed mother for some years, working hard upon the farm. Having saved a little money he decided to come to the United States, where he believed that better opportunities were afforded ambitious young men. In 1889 he sailed from Queenstown, and on landing in New York found that he had only an English sovereign (about five dollars in our money ) with which to begin life in the New World. By boat he came to Hartford, which trip cost him $1.50, so that he only had $3.50 on reaching Wethersfield, where he found employment with S. WV. Robbins, at fifty cents per day and board. In the fall of the same year he went to California by way of the Panama route, and for a time worked on a ranch in Merced county. after which he spent four months on a dairy farm near San Francisco. Not caring for California, he returned to Con- necticut at the end of that time, and again found employment on the dairy farm of Mr. Robbins at Rocky Hill, for whom he worked six years. With the money he had saved from his wages he then purchased his present farm of twenty-three acres, known as the Shamrock farm, and upon that place he has since successfully engaged in market gar- dening, selling his produce in New Britain and Hartford.


In 1890, Mr. O'Connor was married in Wethers- field to Miss Kate Gilman, also a native of County Cork, Ireland, and a daughter of Cornelius Gilman. She died in 1898. She was a good wife and mother, a faithful member of the Catholic Church, and her death was deeply mourned. Five children were born of that union: Maggie and Hannah (twins), the latter of whom is now deceased; Patrick; Cor- nelius ; and Johanna. Mr. O'Connor is also a com- municant of the Catholic Church, and is well-known and highly respected. He takes no active part in political affairs, but as an industrious, enterprising man, he prefers to give his entire time to his busi- ness interests.


HOADLEY C. BREWER, one of the most re- spected farmers and tobacco growers of Hockanum, town of East Hartford, descends from a very old Connecticut family. He was born May 10. 1841, and is a son of Reuben, a grandson of Reuben, and a great-grandson of Daniel Brewer, the last-named of whom was born and lived all his life in a small house, now fallen to decay, that stood in the lane


that leads from High street, at a point north of the liome of the late Selden Brewer, to the Con- necticut river. During the life of Selden the old house was kept in repair, but since his death it has been permitted to become an uninhabited ruin.


Reuben Brewer, a son of Daniel, and grand- father of Hoadley C., located on a farm on Brewer street when only one other house, the residence (now) of Mrs. Cynthia Vibberts, stood on the street ; she is a daughter of Reuben Brewer, son of Reuben, and aunt of Hoadley C., and widow of Andrew Vibberts, and now greatly advanced in years. On this spot where Mrs. Vibberts lives, Reuben, the grandfather, was born Feb. 23, 1778, and his death took place on his new farm, Nov. 8, 1844. He married Eunice Maria Hills, daugh- ter of James and Mehitable Hills, who was born Sept. 19, 1778, and died in May, 1853. Their chil- dren were: Sophia, born May 20, 1798, and died March 1, 1841, was the wife of Ebephus Gaines, a seaman, who lived on Bigelow Lane, East Hart- ford; Cynthia, born Aug. 11, 1800, died Feb. 7, 1802; Reuben was the father of our subject ; Laura, born Nov. 5, 1807. was married to Talcott Hills, a joiner, and lived near Willow Brook; Janeway and Jane (twins) were born April 24, 1810 (Jane- way married Sarah Marble and lived in East Hart- ford Meadow, and Jane was married to Ralph Hills, a farmer on Brewer street, but both are now de- ceased) ; Osman, born April 9, 1814, married Lu -. ana Spencer, was a farmer, and lived on Brewer street ; Henry Edward, born Dec. 14, 1816, mar- ried Susan Hills, was a farmer, and lived in Hills- town; Cynthia, born March 30, 1818, was married to Andrew Vibberts, and is still living on Brewer street ; Royal, born Oct. 9, 1820, died March IO, 1822; Royal Hills, born April 13, 1823, married Esther Forbes, for his first wife, and Mrs. Tal- cott, nce Grant, for his second and now lives on Brewer street ; Eunice Maria, the youngest of this family of thirteen, was born Dec. 11, 1825, was married to Palmer Sessions, a civil engineer, and lived and died in New York.




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