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his physical powers were failing, tendered his resig- nation, and lived in retirement until his death, which occurred Aug. 15, 1891.
Mr. Neal was a splendid type of the New Eng- land manufacturer, eminently progressive, keeping apace if not ahead of his competitors. He was courteous and frank, always did as he promised, and the trade had confidence in his word. He was full of hope and encouragement. He was an excellent judge, both of character and of trade conditions. lle had strong convictions, detested shams and pre- tenses, won and deserved confidences, and was courageous enough to voice and act his opposition to trade methods which he believed unfair and u11- just. He was a strong, close friend, but could be an unrelenting enemy. Of plain speech, with simple and unassuming manners, he was easily approached and unpretentious in every way, being a man of the people, and in touch and sympathy with his fellow men. At times stern, his heart would melt at the bare recital of a story of injustice or suffering. He was massive, without adornment, honest in heart and soul. With pluck and perseverance he overcame all obstacles, never suffering defeat, and never resting until his aim was accomplished. He laughed at failure, feared no competition, and had the confidence of a victor entering the arena to win. Conscience and courage were his capital. He was content to be and appear what he was. His memory was tenacious of facts and details. He spoke with directness and to the point. He was a stanch friend of education and of the schools, for a number of years serving as president of the board of trustees of the high school at Southington, and his children were educated in the best schools of the State. His mind remained unclouded to the last, and his death brought to the town a feeling of personal loss.
In religious belief Mr. Neal was a Baptist, de- nominational but not sectarian. He was a liberal giver, and charitable in the highest degree. Though not much of a partisan politician, he usually voted the Democratic ticket, and four times represented the town in the State Legislature. He was public- spirited and identified with many hardware manu- facturing companies, having been a number of years president of the Southington Cutlery Co., the Ætna Nut Co., the Ætna Match Co., and the South- ington National Lank, and a director in other banks, insurance companies and corporations.
Mr. Neal was married, April 14, 1846, to Miss Eunice, daughter of Lloyd and Charity (Cramp- ton) Atkins, and she bore him six children: Mary E. (Mrs. Theodore Mckenzie) ; Lloyd O .; Joseph - ine N. ; Stephen D. ; Julia T. ; and Fanny.
STEPHEN D. NEAL, the efficient and popu- lar general manager of the Etna Nat Company, of Southington, was born Feb. 1, 1861, in that town, a son of Roswell A. and Eunice (Atkins) Neal, a sketch of whom is given above. The paternal
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grandfather, Elisha Neal, married Naomi Frost, daughter of David and Mary Ann ( Hitchcock) Frost. He lived in Southington and New Hart- ford, Conn., and in Otsego, N. Y., later in life re- turning to Southington, where his death occurred. His father, John Neal, was a son of John Neal, Sr., and grandson of Edward Neal, who made his home in Southington, and there died in 1768. Edward Neal was a son of Edward Neal, Sr., an early set- tler of Massachusetts, who married Martha, daugh- ter of Edmund Hart, and located in Westfield, Mass., where his children were born and where he died.
Lloyd Atkins, the maternal grandfather of our subject, was born Oct. 22, 1780, and was married Oct. 22, 1823, to Charity Crampton. His father, Samuel Atkins, was born Jan. 17, 1750, and was married in 1773 to Eunice, daughter of Rev. John Wightman. He died in Bristol July 2, 1830. He was a son of Thomas Atkins, who was born in Wallingford, Conn., April 22, 1716, and was mar- ried Feb. 8, 1738, to Mercy, daughter of Eleazer Aspinwall, of Farmington. In 1733 he located in Southington, where he died in 1790. His father, Benoni Atkins, was born in 1690, and was mar- ried Aug. 20, 1715, to Esther Hall, of Wallingford. He also removed to Southington in 1733, and there died April 28, 1756. He was a son of Thomas At- kins, an early settler of Hartford, who located in East Hartford in 1682, and died Oct. 23, 1694.
During his boyhood and youth Stephen D. Neal pursued his studies in the public schools of his na- tive town, and in the Connecticut Literary Institute, Suffield, where he was graduated in 1881. For ten years he was in the employ of the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., of Southington, and for five years was secretary and purchasing agent for the company, but since Aug. 4, 1896, he has held his present respon- sible position, that of general manager for the ÆEtna Nut Company, to the entire satisfaction of the firm and all concerned.
On Jan. 17, 1884, Mr. Neal was united in mar- riage with Miss Grace Waud, a daughter of Mar- maduke and Jennie ( Moule) Waud, natives of New York and England, respectively, and late res- idents of Boston, Mass. To this union has been born one son, Roswell A. Religiously Mr. Neal is a member of the Baptist Church ; politically he is a Republican. He has taken quite an active and in- fluential part in public affairs, was warden of his borough two terms, and a member of the board of burgesses several years. He is quite prominent in social circles, and is a member of Friendship Lodge, No. 33. F. & A. M .; Triune Chapter, No. 40, R. A. M. : Wonx Tribe, No. 28, I. O. R. M .; the Order of United American Mechanics; and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
ROGER W. SHERMAN, general truckman and contractor, Hartford, was born in East Hart- ford May 18, 1857, son of Mason W. and Susan (Sessions) Sherman.
The first of the Sherman family of whom there seems to be any authentic record is Philip Sher- man, who was born in Dedham, England, in 1610, and came to Portsmouth, R. I., where his son, Peleg Sherman, was born in 1636. Peleg Sherman had a son Peleg, Jr., born in 1666 in Portsmouth. From him descended Caleb Sherman, whose son, David Sherman, married Abigail Slade. Their son, Mason Slade Sherman, born in 1783, at Pomfret, Conn., was married Feb. 22, 1820, to Evelina Whittemore, who was born Dec. 29, 1796. They had two chil- dren, Mason Wales and Mary Wells. Mason Wales Sherman, father of our subject, was born Jan. 5, 1822, and married March II, 1849, Susan Sessions, who was born at Pomfret, Conn., Sept. 10, 1819, and by whom he had children as follows: Maria, deceased ; Alice : Hattie ; and Roger W.
Roger W. Sherman spent his earlier years in Hartford. He was educated at the common schools, and as a boy commenced with his father in the trucking business. He was taken in as a partner, the firm becoming M. W. Sherman & Son in 1891. In 1889-1891 he was in New York in business for him- self. Since 1899 he has practically managed the concern alone, although the firm name remained unchanged up to April 1, 1900, when it became Roger Sherman. It is the oldest established busi- ness of its kind in the city, and next to the largest, giving employment to some sixty horses and thirty men. Besides the general trucking business Mr. Sherman does a large amount of contracting, which alone gives employment to over one hundred men.
In April, 1887. Roger W. Sherman was married to Minnie Wilton, who was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., a daughter of William C. Wilton, editor and publisher of book's and pamphlets. One child, Wil- ton W., has been born to this union.
In politics Mr. Sherman is independent, but in National issues usually votes the Republican ticket ; he served in the common council one term, and then declined further nomination. Socially he is a mem- ber of St. John's Lodge, F. & A. M., of the Council and Chapter, and is identified with the B. P. O. E. In religious faith the family are identified with the M. E. Church, the services of which they attend.
EDWARD HAMILTON BROCKETT, a pro- gressive farmer and tobacco grower of the Meadow Plain District, town of Simsbury, was born June 9, 1854, in the district in which he still lives, and is a member of an old-settled family of the town.
George Hamilton Brockett, grandfather of our subject, was a blacksmith, and followed his trade in Simsbury and Canton until his death. His wife's mai- den name was Moses. Their only child, James Evlyn Brockett, received a good district-school education. Being quite young when his parents passed away, he began early to work out as a farm hand, for Elihu Case, and on reaching his majority bought the Deacon Amasa Case farm, of about one hun- dred acres, improved it greatly, and carried on gen-
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eral farming, tobacco growing and the raising of dairy stock. lle married Sarah Cordelia Case, daughter of Horatio G. Case, of Meadow Plain, and to this marriage were born five children: Annie, who was married to Wheeler Case, of West Sims- bury ; Charlotte, still single; Nellie, wife of Samuel D. Alford, of Avon; Edward H., the subject of this sketch; and Belle, who is married to Arthur Woodford. Mr. Brockett, the father of this fam- ily, was first a Whig and then a Republican, and represented his district in the General Assembly of Connecticut in 1871 ; he also served as select- man, and in several other local offices. He was liberal in his views on religion. Fraternally he was a charter member of the F. & A. M. lodge at Col- linsville, and was greatly esteemed by all his fel- low citizens. His death took place on his farm in 1884, his widow surviving until January, 1898, when she expired at the age of seventy-eight years.
Edward H. Brockett was educated in the school of his district, and at a select school in Granby, and has always had his home at the old homestead. Since his father's death he has been engaged in tobacco growing and general farming, and has made many improvements on the place. In 1876 Mr. Brockett married Miss Caroline Elizabeth Bradley, who was born in East Weatogue, and is a daughter of Justin A. and Caroline (Humphrey ) Bradley, and a granddaughter of Capt. Oliver Bradley. They have had two children, Mary A. and George B. Mary A., who was educated in the district school, the Connecticut Literary Institute, and Wilbraham (Mass.) Academy, is now the wife of Charles Rowe, an oyster planter of New Haven. George B. was educated in the district school, the Plain- ville high school, Stone's Agricultural College, and the Hartford Business College.
Mrs. Brockett is a descendant, maternally, of another of the old and respected families of Hart- ford county, the first of the name to settle here having been Michael Humphrey, who married Pris- cilla Grant. John, his eldest son, married Hannah Griffin, and their son, Deacon John Humphrey, who was born Nov. 18, 1671, married Sarah Mills, widow of John Mills, and daughter of John Petti- bone, and died Dec. 31, 1732. Michael Humphrey, son of Deacon John, was born in November, 1703, in Simsbury; he was a deacon in the church, a selectman, a justice of the peace, town clerk of Norfolk, Litchfield county, and representative in the General Assembly from that town, where he was engaged in the manufacture of leather. He married Mercy Humphrey, daughter of Jonathan and Mercy (Ruggles) Humphrey, and died Oct. 21, 1778. Hon. Daniel Humphrey, son of Michael, was born April 10, 1730, was a prominent lawyer in his day, was a delegate to the convention that ratified the Federal Constitution, was a member of the General Assembly of Connecticut for several years, and was also a justice of the peace; he died Aug. 27, 1813, and his wife, Rachel Phelps, who
was born in Simsbury Dec. 12, 1742, a daughter of Hon. David and Abigail ( Pettibone) Phelps, died Sept. 23, 1809. Dudley Humphrey, son of Hon. Daniel, was born Aug. 17, 1784, was a school teacher, surveyor, assessor, justice of the peace, county commissioner ( for four years), member of the Legislature (several terms), and judge of pro- bate. He was a farmer at East Weatovue. Fra- ternally he was a Freemason, belonging to the lodge at Simsbury. He married Phebe Case, who bore him ten children: Hosea, Philemon, Jarvis, Amorette, Phebe, James, David, Daniel, Caroline and Aurelia. Caroline, daughter of Judge Dudley Humphrey, was married to Justin Andrews Brad- ley, son of Capt. Oliver and Hannah Bradley, and became the mother of Mrs. Brockett.
Hon. Edward H. Brockett was for years a member of the board of relief, and in 1894 was elected a member of the State Legislature, in which he served on the Insurance committee ; at present he is a member of the town school board. He is a stockholder and director in the Avon Creamery. In politics Mr. Brockett is a stanch Republican. He is liberal at heart, yet is public spirited, and aids in forwarding every measure calculated to advance the public good, and in consequence enjoys the es- teem of the entire community.
TIMOTHY EDMUND GRISWOLD, an old- time farmer of Bloomfield, was born Nov. 9, 1838, on his present place, and descends from one of the oldest of New England's pioneer families. His genealogy may be traced back to 1607, as follows:
Cicero Griswold, father of our subject, was born on the same farm, in Bloomfield, July 15, 1807, was married Nov. 15, 1837, to Sarah E. Goodrich, who was born March 22, 1813, to which marriage were born Timothy E. as above, and Sarah E., Dec. 15, 1840. The latter was first married to Charles D. Brown, afterward to a Mr. Blackwell, and of the former further mention will be made in full. Mrs. Sarah E. Griswold passed away Jan. 20, 1891, and Cicero Griswold, who had lived all his days on the home farm, died Nov. 27, 1894. He was first a Whig in politics, then a Republican, and was a member of the Congregational Society.
Noah Griswold, father of Cicero, and grandfa- ther of our subject, was born in the town of Wind- sor, Conn., Sept. 10, 1771, and died Oct. 8, 1849. He married, March 13, 1794, Rhoda Pinney, who was born May II, 1773, and died April 3, 1865. Their children were eleven in number: Lavinia, born Dec. 30, 1794, died Sept. 9, 1798; Julia, born May 29, 1796, died April 25, 1810; Lucinda, born Feb. 16, 1798, married Hayden G. Peck Dec. 9, 1825, and died Jan. 15, 1867; Lavinia (2), born Aug. 23, 1800, married Luther Pierce, Oct. 23, 1836, and died in February, 1887; Rhoda M., born Nov. 9, 1802, married Hiram Thrall, and died March 6, 1872; Aurelia, born Jan. 17, 1805, was married to Harvey Allen; Pamelia (twin of Aurelia) died
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Oct. 15, 1825; Cicero was born July 15, 1807 ; Julia C., born Oct. 23, 1810, married Samuel Alford March 17, 1836, and died Oct. 22, 1895; Noah, Jr., born Feb. 28, 1814, died in December, 1894; and George W., born May 13, 1816, died Oct. 15, 1898.
Noah Griswold, great-grandfather of our subject, born Sept. 11, 1722, first married Abigail Griswold, and (second ) Mindred Griswold, and became the father of six children : Elisha, Aurelia, Frederick, Noah, Toba and Lydia.
Matthew Griswold, great-great-grandfather of our subject, born Feb. 25, 1686, married Mary Phelps June 6, 1709, and to this marriage were born : Mary, Jerusha, Lucy, Matthew, and Noah.
Josiah Griswold, great-great-great-grandfather of our subject, born March 12, 1647, married Mary Gaylord, July 14, 1670, and died Nov. 14, 1716, the father of five children: Mary, Joseph, Francis, Matthew, and Abigail.
Edward Griswold, the great-great-great-great- grandfather of our subject, was born in England in 1607, and in 1630 married Margaret -, who died Aug. 23, 1670. Edward Griswold was attorney for a Mr. St. Nicholas, of Warwickshire, who had a house built in Windsor, Conn. Mr. Griswold came to America at the time of the second visit of George Fenwick, who came in the interest of the owners of the Warwick land patent, and he first located in Windsor, but in 1649 removed to his land grant at Poquonock, Hartford county, at that time an out- post settlement. He took an active part in public affairs, was the deputy from Windsor to the General Court, and was the principal promoter of the set- tlement at Hammonasset, organized in 1667 as the town of Kenilworth, and now called Clinton. He was the first deputy from that town, and was magis- trate and representative for more than twenty years. He was particularly active as a member of the Leg- islature, and in 1678 was a member of the commit- tee for establishing the Latin school at New Lon- don. He died at Kenilworth in 1691, the father of eleven children, born in the following order: Sarah 1631 ; George, 1633; Francis, 1635; Lydia, 1637; Sarah, 1638; Ann, 1642; Mary, 1644; Deborah, 1646: Joseph. 1647 : Samuel, 1649 ; and John, 1652. . Timothy E. Griswold, the subject proper of this biographical sketch, passed his boyhood days on the home farm, attended the district school of his town and the public schools in New Britain. On April 30, 1862, he married Miss Sarah A. Barn- ard, daughter of Harrison Barnard, of Bloomfield, and the three children of this union were as fol- lows: Edmund T., born Jan. 31, 1864, married Carrie S. Wells, April 15, 1891; Addie E., born May 10, 1869, died March 4, 1870; and Frederick C., born Jan. 25, 1871.
In 1868 Mr. Griswold removed to the Sally Brown estate, which he had bought, and on this lie remained until 1891, when he returned to the old home ; his two sons reside on the Brown farm, where they passed their boyhood days, and the fam-
ily have resided in the north middle district of Bloomfield through four generations. Mr. Griswold is an ardent Republican in politics, and has served his fellow townsmen as selectnian and as a member of the board of relief. Fraternally he is affiliated with Hiram Lodge, No. 98, F. & A. M., at Bloom- field, of which he is a past master, and he is also the master of Tunxis Grange, P. of H. He is a mem- ber of the Congregational Society of Bloomfield, and no name in the county is more highly honored than that of Timothy Edmund Griswold.
CARLTON BURDETTE IVES, proprietor of a well-equipped meat market at No. 113 Main street, Bristol, where he also handles game, vegetables, canned goods, etc., was born in that town, Dec. 31, 1855, and is a son of Enos Byron and Aurelia E. (Jones) Ives.
Enos B. Ives, father of Carlton B., was born Oct. 8, 1827, on a farm in Peaceable street, Bristol, was educated in the district schools and the Bristol Academy, passed through the usual routine of a farmer lad's life, did some little stonemasonry when still young ; for many years was in the butchering business, and in the latter part of active life worked at joining and other light labor. In 1897 he retired and is now making his home with his son, Carl- ton B.
In politics Enos B. Ives was originally a Know- Nothing, but on the organization of the Republican party became a member thereof, and under its auspices served as a member of the district school committee two terms. In religion he is a Congre- gationalist. To the marriage of Enos B. Ives with Miss Aurelia E. Jones, which took place Nov. 4, 1854, were born four children, in the following order: Carlton B., the subject of this sketch, of whom much is to be said after something has been related concerning his ancestors.
Louis Byron Ives, the second child, was born Nov. 24, 1858, was a wood turner by trade, but later was connected with his brother, Carlton B., in the meat trade. On Dec. 8, 1887, he married Miss Mary Lewis, of Waterbury. To this marriage were born two children: Morton, Jan. 2, 1892, and Margaret, Feb. 21, 1893. The father, Louis Byron, was called from earth Dec. 19. 1896, and his remains were interred in Waterbury, where his widow still resides with her children.
Edward Keys Ives, the third of the four chil- dren of Enos B. Ives, was born Feb. 12, 1870, and is a bookkeeper for Taylor & Sons, lumber dealers of Hartford. He married Gertrude Allpress, of Bristol, but has no children.
Orrin Francis Ives, the youngest of Enos B. Ives' family, was born May 25, 1873 ; he is a clerk in Charles Rapelye's drug store at Hartford.
Mrs. Aurelia E. Ives was a daughter of Ed- ward K. Jones, was born April 1, 1833, and died Nov. 4, 1891, her remains being interred at Bristol.
Gideon Ives, great-great-grandfather of Carlton
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B. Ives, was of English extraction, if not birth, and with three brothers-Enos, Amos and Reuben- was among the earliest to locate at Wallingford, although he and Enos later removed to Bristol. One of the early experiences of Gideon was an encounter with an Indian on Fall Mountain, in which the savage was killed. The red man had been track- ing Mr. Ives and Jesse Gaylord through the forest all day, while they were out hunting, but before he could take the scalp of either, himself "bit the dust" -but it is not definitely known which of the white men did the killing.
Enos Ives, great-grandfather of Carlton B., was born in Bristol Oct. 25, 1754. He was very in- fluential in town affairs-served in the Revolu- tionary army, became a constable and justice of the peace, and was quite active in public matters gen- erally. In October, 1774, he married Miss Eunice, daughter of Titus Merriman, of Meriden, Conn., and this marriage was blessed with six children, as follows: Keturah, born Aug. 7, 1778, died Sept. 29, 1840; Eunice, born March 1, 1780, died June 12, 1843; Charles Granderson, born Oct. 20, 1781, died May 6, 1867 ; Sarah, born Sept. 24, 1789, died April 20, 1835; Enos, Jr., born May 21, 1793, died Aug. 13, 1866; and Orrin, born Sept. 1, 1797, died March 9, 1867. Enos Ives, the father, passed away March 9, 1830, his wife on May 16, 1832.
Orrin Ives, grandfather of Carlton B., and spoken of in the foregoing paragraph, was born on the Ives homestead on Peaceable street, Bristol, Conn., and was a lifelong farmer. He married, Dec. 23, 1824, Miss Angeline Peck, a daughter of Samuel and Ilannah Peck, which union resulted in the birth of two children, the elder of whom was Enos B., father of Carlton B., and of whom a brief notice has been given above, and the younger, Orrin Burdette, was born Aug. 23, 1830. He mar- ried (first) Gertrude Hawley, and (second) Alice H. Hawley, and died in South Carolina April 18, 1896, on his way home from Florida, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health. In politics he was first a Whig, later a Republican, and in re- ligion he was a Congregationalist.
Carlton B. Ives, whose name opens this bio- graphical notice, attended the schools of his native borough until sixteen years of age, and then served a two-year term at learning wood turning with H. A. & A. H. Warner. For the next two years he was in the employ of the Union Hardware Co., at Torrington, as a wood turner, then for about eight months worked for Hiram C. Thompson, clock move- ment manufacturer in Bristol. He was next employed for several months by his uncle, Orrin B. Ives, as a clerk in a clock, jewelry and crockery store, and finally engaged in his present line of trade by en- tering the meat market of W. E. Strong, at the same stand still occupied at No. 113 Main street. After working for a year for Mr. Strong, the two formed a partnership and bought out John Elton, on the North Side, where they conducted a meat
market for nine months. They then re-sold to Mr. Elton, and returned to the old stand on Main street, where for a short time Mr. Ives again worked for W. E. Strong; M. L. Gaylord and Mr. Ives then formed a partnership and bought out Mr. Strong, conducted the business together about three years, when Mr. Ives bought Mr. Gaylord's inter- est, and has prosperously carried on the business alone up to date. Besides this business he is one of the directors of the Serpentine Paint Company. Carlton B. Ives and Miss Louise C. Michael were happily joined in marriage May 26, 1886. Mrs. Louise C. Ives was born in New Britain Oct. 21, 1861, a daughter of Christian Michael, and has borne her husband two children: Harry Lee, July 8, 1888, and Myrtle Aurelia, April 21, 1892. The family attend the Baptist Church, and fraternally Mr. Ives is a member of Pequabuck lodge, I. O. O. F., and of the E. L. Dunbar encampment; he is also a member of the A. O. U. W. In politics Mr. Ives was a Republican until 1896, when he began to sympathize with the Free Silver movement ; how- ever, he gives politics, as a rule, but little attention, although at present he is treasurer of the town of Bristol. He is interested in the upbuilding of his town, and is the owner of considerable property there. Personally he and his family are very high in the esteem of the neighbors, and as a business man his name stands without a stain.
HENRY THOMAS HART, an old resident and one of the most respected of Burnside, town of East Hartford, was born in Medford, Mass., Jan. 3, 1828, and is the only son of Thomas Pass- more Hart by his first marriage.
Thomas Passmore Hart was born in New Hampshire about 1801, learned the hatter's trade, and married Lois McClure, who was also born about 1801, and was one of a family of thirteen children. By this marriage were born two children: Mary Passmore (who died in infancy) and Henry T. (subject of this sketch). Mrs. Lois Hart passed away Dec. 25, 1831, and Thomas P. afterward mar- ried Mary Riggs, who was born in 18II, and died in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. 1, 1846, having borne Mr. Hart one child, Martha E., who was born in Oxford, Conn., was married to B. K. Bullock, and now lives in Provo City, Utah, and is the mother of thirteen children. Thomas Passmore Hart died about the year 1836, leaving behind an untarnished name.
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