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 138

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
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REV. HORACE WINSLOW, A. B., A. M., is a retired minister of the Congregational Church and a resident of Weatogue, Hartford county. He was born at Enfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., May 18, 1814. His life has been filled with incident and rich achievement. For more than half a century he has been an active worker in the cause of Christianity. Richly endowed by nature and by an illustrious an- cestry for the divine calling, prompted by the spirit within and vielding to its behests without reserva- tion, he has given to the service an intensity and a brilliance that has crowned his labor with a golden measure of success. His work has been truly well done, and the landmarks of his efforts rise in nia- jestic proportions and call him blessed.


Mr. Winslow's lineage has the crystal purity of Pilgrim hope and aspiration. He is the direct descendant of Kenelm Winslow, brother of Gov. Edward Winslow, who came to America in the "Mayflower," and who was the first governor of the English colony at Plymouth. Kenelm Winslow was born at Droitwitch, in Worcestershire, England, April 29, 1599. He embarked for America on the ship "Speedwell," which had to put back twice for repairs, and finally came on the "Mayflower," arriv- ing in 1629. He settled at Plymouth, Mass., and in 164I removed to Marshfield, Plymouth county, where he owned a large tract of land, then called Green Harbor. His place was called the "Eden of the region." The Marshfield homestead was after- ward owned and occupied by the Hon. Daniel Web- ster. He received other grants of land and also ac- quired property by purchase, being one of the twen- ty-six proprietors and planters of Freetown, Mass. He died Sept. 13, 1672, at Salem, Mass., while on a visit. In June, 1634, at Plymouth, Mass., he mar- ried Eleanor Adams, of that town, who survived him, and died at Marshfield, Dec. 5, 1681.


Kenelm Winslow (2), his son, was born at Plymouth, Mass., about 1635, and died at Hartwick, Worcester Co., Mass., Nov. II, 1715. He was a planter and purchased large tracts of land, both in Massachusetts and Connecticut, buying a 1,000-acre tract at Windham, Conn., in 1700. He was styled "Colonel," according to the town records. He was twice married. His first wife was Mercy Worden, who was born about 1641 at Yarmouth, Barnstable


Co., Mass., and died in 1688. He married (second) Damaris who lived until 1729, or later.


Capt. Josiah Winslow, son of Kenelm (2), and Mercy (Worden) Winslow, was born at Marshfield, Mass., Nov. 7, 1669. He died at Freetown, Mass., April 3, 1761. "He established the business of cloth dressing," and was also proprietor of a forge. He was constable, surveyor, assessor, selectman, town treasurer, and a member of the commission to lo- cate the site and to erect the first meeting-house in Freetown. In June, 1695, he married Margaret Tisdale, of Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass., who died in 1737. Josiah Winslow was first lieutenant and afterward captain of the Assonet Company of Mi- litia.


Major Ebenezer Winslow, son of Josiah and Margaret (Tisdale) Winslow, was born at Freetown in November, 1705, and died in Berkley, Bristol Co., Mass., in 1767. He was major of the Second Reg- iment of Bristol county, was town clerk, treasurer, selectman, and justice of the peace for many years. He married, July 20, 1732, Esther Atwood, of Digh- ton, Bristol Co., Mass., who died in 1774.


Capt. John Winslow, son of Ebenezer and Esther (Atwood) Winslow, was born at Berkley, Mass., in 1749. He was a lieutenant and paymaster in a Massachusetts regiment in 1775; was captain of the Third Continental Artillery in 1777 ; and regimental paymaster in 1778, serving in the army through the entire Revolution. He was an extensive land owner, and lived in Greenwich (now Enfield), Mass., and later at Hartwick, Mass., where he died. He mar- ried, first, Rebecca, daughter of Col. John Hathaway, of Berkley, Mass., an officer of the Revolution, who fought at the battle of Bunker Hill. His second wife was Mary Gibbs, of Greenwich, Hampshire Co., Mass., who died in 1784.


John Hathaway Winslow, son of Jolin and Re- becca ( Hathaway) Winslow, and grandson of Eben- ezer Winslow, was the father of the Rev. Horace Winslow. He was born at Greenwich (now En- field), Hampshire Co., Mass., Nov. 17, 1776; served in the war of 1812, and in 1816 removed to Pitts- ford, Monroe Co., N. Y., where he spent the re- mainder of his life, dying there June 1, 1846. He married, in 1798, Claramond Eddy. of Greenwich, Mass., who was born in 1779, and died 1799. For his second wife he wedded, Oct. 30, 1800, Elizabeth Mills, who was born in Needliam, Norfolk Co., Mass., June 14, 1771, and died July 17, 1841. The children born to John Hathaway Winslow were as follows: By his first wife one daughter Claramond. born 1799, married Hiram Hayes, a contractor and builder of Perrinton, N. Y. They had several chil- dren. Mrs. Hayes died in 1892, at the age of ninety-two years and seven months. By his second wife John H. Winslow had eight children-(1) Lorenzo, born 1801, taught school for sonie years, was afterward engaged in several kinds of business, and was a man of much versatility. He married, in 1836, Miss Nancy A. Carver, of Pittsford, N.


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Y., sister of Dr. Hartwell Carver (a projector of a railroad to the Pacific coast, prior to the Union Pacific), and a descendant of the Pilgrim Carver family. They had no children. He pasesd away in 1884. (2) Selinda, born 1803, died in infancy. (3) Philander, born 1804, married (first) Nancy D. Hicks, and ( second) Mary Haven. He had four children by the first wife and three by the second. He was a merchant. Was for a long time deacon in the Baptist Church of Marion, N. Y., where he resided. He died in 1865. (4) Philinda, born 1808, occurs under Mr. Winslow's name. (5) John Mills, born 1811, married, 1836, Harriet M. Child, of Rochester, N. Y., and they had two children. He was a druggist in Rochester for many years. Was in the Civil war, serving in Missouri as as- sistant surgeon on Gen. Fremont's staff. He died in 1886. (6) Horace, born 1814, sketch of whom follows. (7) Charles Elliott, M. D., born 1815, attended a medical school, and also studied with Prof. Frank H. Hamilton, who afterward attended President Garfield. Received his degree but did not practice as his health failed early, and he died in 1845, at the age of thirty. (8) Joshua Upham, M. D., born 1818, married Sarah Celestia Sloane, of Sandusky, Ohio, and they had two children. He also studied with Prof. Frank H. Hamilton, and graduated at a medical school. He practiced his profession for several years and then became a druggist, continuing in that business until his death, in 1887.


Rev. Horace Winslow, our subject, was born at Enfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., May 18, 1814, and was two years of age when he removed with his father's family to Pittsford, N. Y. There he at- tended the public schools, but at the early age of twelve years he began his own support as a clerk in a book store at Rochester, N. Y., receiving for his salary two dollars per month and board. In his youth he possessed a strong desire to consecrate his life to the service of God, and he planned to secure the necessary preparation. He prepared for college at a high school in Rochester. Partly through his own efforts, and partly by the help of his brother, he obtained means to enter and attend Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., from which he subsequently received the degree of M. A. He then entered the Theological Seminary at Auburn, and, later, the Union Theological Seminary, in New York City. In the spring of 1842 he was ordained by the North River (N. Y.) Presbytery, and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at New Windsor, Orange Co., N. Y. In 1843 he became pastor of the Sec- ond Presbyterian Church at Lansingburg, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. In 1845 he was installed pastor of the Congregational Church at Rockville, Tolland Co., Conn., and while there he not only took a deep in- terest in the church, but also in the town and its schools. The two parks at Rockville are the product of his individual labors. With his own hands he planted the trees in the park in front of the church


where he labored for seven years. In 1852 he resigned and accepted a call to the First Congre- gational Church at New Britain, Hartford Co., Conn., where he labored for six years. During his pastorate, the church erected the fine building which it still occupies. In January, 1858, he was installed pastor of the Congregational Church at Great Barrington, Berkshire Co., Mass., where he attended to the spiritual wants of his people for four years, and where was built a new church edifice. Having been appointed chaplain of the 5th Conn. V. I., in February, 1862, he resigned his charge and joined the army. In consequence of ill health, and because he was unable to follow his regiment, he later in the year resigned as chaplain and returned home. In 1863 he became pastor of the Congre- gational Church at Binghamton, Broome Co., N. Y., where he labored for four years, and on resigning that charge returned to Connecticut for a few months, his health much impaired by the climate of Binghamton. For a time he was in the service of the American Missionary Association, and also officiated at the First Church (Cong'l.) of Wood- bury, Litchfield Co., Conn., from which he had re- ceived a call, but he finally declined it and accepted one from the Congregational Church of Willimantic, where he was settled in 1869. While there the society built a large and beautiful edifice, costing over $47,000, more than half of which amount was raised by Mr. Winslow's own individual efforts.


In 1876, while driving in a severe thunderstorm, Mr. Winslow was struck by lightning, thrown from the carriage, and became insensible. After regain- ing consciousness he remained for a time in a very critical condition. His people kindly gave him a vacation for six months, after which he resumed work. Finally, after a service of more than twelve years at Willimantic, his health being frail, he resigned his charge and removed to Weatogue, Simsbury. Through this change his health im- proved, and he resumed pulpit work, which he has continued until quite recently. For two years he supplied a Providence (R. I.) Church. He was also supply at Litchfield and at the Windsor Avenue Church of Hartford, and for nine months in his former church at Great Barrington, Mass. For about three years he preached in Simsbury. Rev. Mr. Winslow has devoted over fifty years of his life as a worker in the vineyard of the Lord. Through his untiring efforts many churches have been erected and dedicated to the service of God. He has also been an active worker in the cause of temperance, and his zeal in that great cause is as earnest to-day as in the past. While minister at Rockville, Conn., he organized his Cold Water Army of 300 children, which became quite famous. His potent influence has been enlisted in education, and in the elevation of schools. The prosperity of the community and village improvements have ever appealed successfully to his interest. He is and has always been a stanch friend of individual liberty,


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and of the elevation of the masses, both morally and socially. From early manhood he was opposed to slavery, and at the breaking out of the Civil war was an ardent defender of the Union. In his politi- cal views he is a Republican. In the pulpit and upon the platform Mr. Winslow has always been a logi- cal and forceful speaker and expounder of the truth. In address he is eloquent and persuasive, and is gifted with a wonderful memory.


In 1853 Rev. Mr. Winslow received the degree of Master of Arts from his Alma Mater. He is a life director of the American Tract Society, an hon- orary member of the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions ; a life member of the American Bible Society ; also a life member of the following societies : American Missionary Asso- ciation, American Bethel Society, and American Seamen's Friend Society, and has been vice-presi- dent of the American Missionary Association. He is well known throughout the Eastern States, and is honored for his telling and indefatigable labor in all good causes.


Mr. Winslow was married, May 8, 1850, at the Church of the Puritans, New York City, by the pastor, the Rev. George B. Cheever, D. D., to Char- lotte Henrietta Pettibone, daughter of the late Capt. Jonathan and Mrs. Fanny Rosanna ( Phelps) Petti- bone, of Simsbury, Conn. Mrs. Winslow has for more than fifty years been a worthy and sustaining helpmate to her husband, and has always been in- terested in his work. She is of a kind and lovable disposition, and her devotion to her husband and children is unsurpassed. She was born at Weatogue, Simsbury, and was only three years old when she attended her first school, was a pupil of various private schools, and was graduated at the age of sixteen at Hartford Female Seminary, with first rank in her class. She also took courses in French, Music and Art while residing in Hartford, and later at New York City, being for a time a pupil at the private school of Madame Okill. About the year 1844, Miss Delia Bacon, of New Haven, sister of Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., conducted a class of young ladies in higher branches of study, This class Miss Pettibone joined, giving special attention to the Bible, to Shakespeare, and to philosophy, and the few months spent in New Haven were most delightful and profitable, as Miss Bacon was a lady of rare ability and attainments.


The Pettibone family, of which Mrs. Winslow is an honored representative, is one of the oldest in New England. It had also fifteen members in the Revolutionary war. John Pettibone, the founder, migrated, it is supposed, from Wales, and was pos- sibly a soldier under Cromwell, the followers of whom were known as "Round Heads." He was a freeman in Windsor in 1658. In 1667 he resided in that part of the Farmington valley which ( 1670) became Simsbury. He was a freeman of Sims- bury in 1669. He married, Feb. 16, 1664, Sarah, daughter of Begot Eggleston; she was born March


28, 1643. Their children were as follows: John, born June 15, 1665, married Mary Bissell, Dec. 18, 1690; Sarah, born Sept. 24, 1667, married (first ) John Mills, (second) John Humphrey, and died April 3, 1748, leaving nine children; Stephen, born Oct. 3, 1669, married Deborah Bissell, of Windsor, who died in 1739; Samuel, born Sept. 2, 1672, mar- ried Judith Shepard, of Concord, Mass., and had five children (he died Feb. 11, 1747) ; Rebecca, born March 9, 1675, married Thomas Holcomb, March 6, 1700, had three children and died Oct. 13, 1731 ; Henry, born June 20, 1677, died about 1706, unmarried ; Ann, born March 11, 1679, married John Holcomb . (she was the mother of nine children and died July 12, 1753) ; Benjamin, born May 28, 1682, died March 12, 1705, unmarried; Joseph, born March 11, 1688, married (first) Thanks who died Nov. 2, 1724, and for his second wife he wedded Hannah Large. He had eight children, and died Sept. 14, 1762.


Samuel Pettibone, son of John and Sarah (Eg- gleston) Pettibone, was born in Simsbury, Sept. 2, 1672; was a farmer, and spent his entire life in the town of Simsbury. He was a well-known citi- zen, and one of the foremost men of Simsbury in his day. He married, Judith Shepard, of Concord, Mass., and their children were as follows: Samuel, born in 1700, and died Nov. 26, 1752, married Eliza- beth Thrall; Hepzibah, died Feb. 25, 1755; Jon- athan, born in 1709, died Sept. 26, 1776; Isaac, born June 19, 1711, died in 1771; Abraham, born Nov. 8, 1713, died July 30, 1725.


Col. Jonathan Pettibone (1), son of Samuel and Judith (Shepard) Pettibone, was born in the town of Simsbury in 1709; was well educated, and fol- lowed farming. He was prominent during the opening scenes of the Revolution, and before the war, was commissioned colonel of the 18th Con- necticut Regiment of Militia, which was called out in 1776. He died Sept. 26, 1776, at Rye, N. Y., while in the service. A monument was erected to his memory in Simsbury. Col. Pettibone (1) be- sides being prominent in military affairs, was justice of the peace for sixteen years, and represented the town in the General Assembly for fourteen sessions. The names of Col. Jonathan Pettibone (1), Col. Jonathan Pettibone (2) and Capt. Jonathan Petti- bone (3), as representatives, occur forty times in the history of the town of Simsbury. Col. Petti- bone married Martha Humphrey, who bore him children as follows: Giles, born Dec. 9, 1735, died March 17, 1810; Ozias, born May 9, 1737, died Sept. 9, 1812; Rosanna, 'born Aug. 9, 1739, died Oct. 15, 1813; Jonathan, born Aug. 12, 1741, died March 20, 1826; Martha, born Dec. 3, 1743, died March 25, 1749; Annis, born Nov. 17, 1745, died March 14, 1821 ; Ahijah, born May 25, 1749, died April 15, 1784. Martha Humphrey Pettibone was a brave and patriotic woman, judged by the fact that she gave her husband (then a man sixty-six years of age), and all of her sons, to the service of their


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country in the war of the Revolution. Three of the four sons were officers, as well as their father.


Col. Jonathan Pettibone (2), son of Col. Jona- than Pettibone ( 1), and Martha ( Humphrey) Petti- bone, was born Aug. 12, 1741, in Weatogue, Sims- bury, where he was educated, and engaged in farni- ing. He was a second lieutenant in the Revolution- ary war under his father, and later was made first lieutenant, serving through the Revolution; after the war he held the rank of colonel. He died March 20, 1826. He was a man who commanded respect, and his name was a household word, for he took a deep interest in education and the town generally, and held many positions of trust and responsibility. On Feb. 9, 1769, he married Han- nah Owen, born May 13, 1749, daughter of John and Esther ( Humphrey ) Owen. It has been said that Mrs. Hannah (Owen) Pettibone managed the farm sometimes with only a young boy to help her, while her husband, his father and brothers were absent at the war. At one time all the able-bodied men of Simsbury were in the service. The chil- dren of Jonathan and Hannah (Owen) Pettibone were as follows: Martha, born May 16, 1770, married Austin Phelps, and died Dec. 9, 1821. Hannah, born Feb. 9, 1773, married Waite Latimer, and died Nov. 1, 1830; Jonathan, born May 31. 1775, died Sept. 19, 1829; Dorinda, born April 5. 1778, died March 15, 1857; Harlow, born April 7, 1781, married Nancy Lucy Cornish, daughter of Deacon George Cornish, and died Feb. 27, 1823 : Samuel, born Feb. 21, 1784, married Catharine Mills, born March 27, 1790, daughter of Elder Jared and Joanna Case ( Russell) Mills; Samuel died Aug. 26, 1820; Hon. John Owen, born Oct. 22, 1787, graduated at Yale in 1805 (being a class- mate of Rev. Dr. Heman Humphrey, who was president of Amherst College) ; John Owen Petti- bone was for many years probate judge of Sims- bury, and served in the State Senate ; he was a large land owner, and died Aug. 19, 1876; Virgil, born April 2, 1790, died Oct. 24, 1864; was probate judge and held various other offices.


Capt. Jonathan Pettibone (3), son of Jonathan (2) and Hannah (Owen) Pettibone, and the father of Mrs. Winslow, was born May 31, 1775. He was a man'of education and refinement ; was a general merchant in Weatogue for many years, and had the honor of being the first postmaster of what is now the town of Simsbury. He was noted for his up- right character and honorable dealings. He was a captain of militia, in politics a Democrat. He died Sept. 19, 1829, and was buried in Simsbury. On May 1, 1823, he was married, in Simsbury, by the Rev. Allen McLean, to Fanny Rosanna Phelps, born March 8, 1795, in Simsbury, daughter of Col. Noah A. Phelps, of Simsbury, and sister of the late Hon. Noah A. Phelps, Secretary of the State, and author of Phelps' "History of Simsbury."


Mrs. Fanny R. (Phelps) Pettibone was the granddaughter of Maj. Gen. Noah Phelps, a dis-


tinguished officer of the Revolutionary war. He was a captain in the French wars, was made colonel during the Revolution, and afterward commissioned brigadier general and then major general. In 1775 a plan was formed to capture Fort Ticonderoga. Capt. Phelps raised a company of men and bore the chief expense of fitting it out for service. He then joined the expedition to Lake Champlain, entered Ticonderoga as a spy, ascertained the condition of the stronghold, and, escaping unharmed, by his re . port enabled the Americans to capture that im- portant fortress with much more cleverness and dis- patch than otherwise might have been possible.


Mrs. Pettibone was a lady of admirable traits. Attractive in personal appearance to her latest days, she was even more winning in character. While strong and unyielding in principle, she was yet full of kindness, expressed both in words and deeds- no appeal from the sick or unfortunate reaching her in vain, and her cheerfulness and unselfishness in all matters of everyday life were very prominent, as also her fortitude and patience in trial. When young she united with the Simsbury Congrega- tional Church, and her religious experience was real and deep. She devoted much time to the reading of the Bible. Tenderly cared for by her daughter, with whom she had made her home, she died in Willimantic at the age of eighty-two years-the last but one of eight sons and daughters-deeply mourned by all who had known her. Born and married in the old Phelps home in Simsbury, then occupied by her brother, Hon. Jeffery O. Phelps, her funeral services were held there, and her re- mains then laid in the ancient burying ground beside those of her husband. Mrs. Pettibone was. a lineal descendant of William Phelps, who came to this country from England in 1630. Capt. Jonathan and Fanny R. ( Phelps) Pettibone had but one child, Charlotte Henrietta, the wife of our subject, Rev. Horace Winslow.


A brief record of the eight children born to Col. Noah A. and Charlotte (Wilcox) Phelps is as follows: (1) Charlotte Melissa, born 1786, died 1871, married Frederick William Jewett, of Granby, Conn., and had five children, a sketch of one of whom, Frederick S. Jewett, occurs farther on. (2) Noah Amherst, Jr., born 1788, died 1872, married ( first) Delia Clark, of Hartford, Conn., and (second) Catherine St. John, of New Haven, Conn., had six children. (3) Jeffery Orson, born 1791, died -, married (first) Pollina Barnard, of Simsbury, Conn., and (second) Harriet Humphrey, (4) also of Simsbury ; he had four children. Fanny Rosanna, born 1795, died 1877, married Capt. Jonathan Pettibone, of Simsbury, Conn. ; her record comes under Rev. Horace Winslow's name. (5) Hector Fayette, born 1797, died 1874, married Selina Barnard, of Bloomfield, Conn .; they had eight children. (6) Emma Maria, born 1799, died 1862, married Col. William Mather, Jr., of Sims- bury, Conn. ; they had five children. (7) Guy Row-


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land, M. D., born 1802, died 1869, married Hannah Latimer, of Simsbury, Conn .; they had four chil- dren. (8) George Dwight, born 1804, died 1872, married (first) Frances Henrietta Randolph, of New York City, ( second) Mary Ayres, also of New York City, and ( third) Harriet Augusta Ayres, of New Brunswick, N. J .; he had five children.


Frederick Stiles Jewett, a son of Frederick Will- iam and Charlotte Melissa ( Phelps) Jewett, and a grandson of Col. Noah A. Phelps, was born at Simsbury, Conn., Feb. 26, 1819, and lived during his childhood and much of his youth with Mrs. Pettibone, who loved him almost as much as an own son. He spent two years before the mast on a whaling voyage, in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, which experience gave him a real acquaint- ance with the sea in all its phases, and with ship- ping and sailors-a knowledge afterward of im- mense value to him while winning his way to a prominent place as a marine painter. He, however. first turned his attention to literary work, and showed himself a writer of considerable ability, both in verse and prose. At one time he was an editor of the "New England Weekly Review," published in Hartford, and afterwards editor, suc- cessively, of two papers published in the British West Indies, viz .: The Kingston Despatch, of Kingston, Jamaica, and the Antigua. Observer, of St. John, Antigua. After residing for several years in the West Indies, his health became frail and he returned to this country, locating at Hartford. While living there he held several offices of the city government. He also did much of the designing and laying out of Bushnell Park. He married (first), in Hartford, Miss Cook, and (second ) Miss Steele, of Antigua. Mr. Jewett is one of the art- ists included in "Art and Artists in Connecticut," by H. W. French.


To Mr. and Mrs. Winslow have been born three children: Fanny Henrietta, Lillian and Mary. (I) Fanny Henrietta was born at Rockville, Conn. She received a finished education, attending successively Rose Cottage Seminary, Binghamton, N. Y., the Hartford Female Seminary, and the Young Ladies Collegiate Institute, of Waterbury, Conn. In the special department of music she also became an apt and proficient student. She is a person of literary and musical tastes. She married, Oct. 4, 1876, William Preston Smith, of Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Conn., who is residing at Weatogue, Simsbury. He is a man of prominence, served the town of Woodbury in the Legislature, and has also served as a member of the State Republican committee. Mr. Smith is a son of the late Phineas and Cornelia (Minor) Smith, and a member of an old family of his native town. Representatives of the Smiths served in the Revolution, and many have been leading men in the profession of law. The Hon. Nathan Smith and the late Hon. Truman Smith, both of the United States Senate, together with the Hon. Nathaniel Smith, also United States Sen-




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