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(VIII) William Gardner Morgan, son of Nathan D., born Dec. 23, 1846, was married in 1868 to Elizabeth C. Hall, of Portland, Conn., daughter of Joel Hall, president of the Shaler & Hall Quarry Co., and the only survivor of his family of four children. To Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have been born three children: Elizabeth Hall, William Denison, and Samuel St. John, the latter now at- tending Trinity College. William G. Morgan spent his early years in Brooklyn, New York and Hartford, and was in the United States Naval Academy at Newport and Annapolis for a time, but in 1867 he was injured and obliged to resign. He then entered the life insurance business, as a clerk in the North America Life Insurance Co. In 1870 he became its actuary, continuing in that position
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until 1874, when he left the company and engaged in manufacturing gas burning goods, and small ar- ticles in New York, until 1879. He then came to Hartford and formed a connection with the ÆEtna Life Insurance Co., being now editor of the " Etna," and its advertising manager. Ile also edits the "Etna Life News,"' entirely for agents, which has a circulation of 3.500; and the accident edition of the "Ætna." devoted to accident business, which has a circulation of 35,000. The regular "Ætna" has a circulation of 275,000. Mr. Morgan is a Re- publican in politics. Religiously he is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, to which his family also belong.
William D. Morgan received his education in Connecticut, attending the common schools and Public High School in Hartford. In September, 1890, he entered the ÆEtna National Bank as clerk, and worked himself up to the position of discount clerk. In 1899 he was made cashier, being the youngest cashier of a National bank, with one ex- ception, in the United States. Theirs is the finest banking office in the State, and the bank, which was organized in 1857, is the second largest. In 1900 Mr. Morgan married Lucile S. Couch, of Providence, R. L., daughter of Albert and Jennie S. Couch, the former a native of Danielson, Conn. : he was in the real-estate business in Providence for many years. Mrs. Morgan is an only child. Our subject is secretary to the board of directors of the bank. Socially he holds membership in the Bachelors Club; the Hartford Canoe Club; the Farmington Canoe Club: the Hartford Scientific Society; and the Church Club. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, and is a Republican in politics.
HOADLY. The family bearing this name in Hartford, of which Charles Jeremy Hoadly, LL. D., State Librarian, was an honored member, is one of the prominent families of the city whose line in New England extends back over a period of over two hundred and thirty years.
William Hoadly, the settler, ancestor of by far the greater part of those who bear the name in this country, was born in about the year 1630 in Eng- land. His name first appears in Saybrook, Conn., in 1663. In 1666 he bought the home lot of Rev. Abraham Pierson, of Branford, Conn., when the latter moved to New Jersey. He there conducted his business as a merchant, his shop being next to his dwelling-house. He was a deputy from Bran- ford to the General Court at nine sessions between 1678 and 1685, was one of the patentees of the town, Feb. 16, 1685-86, and was one of the selectmen sev- eral years between 1673 and 1690. Ile died in No- vember or December, 1709, in Branford. He was thrice married, but of his first wife nothing is known. His second wife, whom he wedded about 1686, was Mrs. Mary (Bullard) Farrington (widow of John Farrington, of Dedham, Mass., and daughter of
William Bullard, of Charlestown, Mass.), who died May 12, 1703, in Branford. About 1704 he married ( third) in Branford Mrs. Ruth ( Bowers) Frisbie, widow of John Frisbie, and daughter of Rev. John and Bridget ( Thompson) Bowers, baptized Dec. 20, 1657, in New Haven, died April 26, 1736, in Branford. His children by his first marriage were : William, Samuel, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah and Abraham.
Charles Jeremy Hoadly, LL. D., of Hartford, was in the seventh generation from William Hoadly ( written by him Hodle ), the settler at Saybrook and Branford, the line of his descent being through Samuel, Samuel (2), James, Hon. Jeremy, and Will- iam Henry.
(II) Samuel Hoadley, son of William, died in 1714, in Branford, Conn. He was killed under a haymow. He married, March 6, 1689, in Branford, Abigail Farrington, born April 30, 1668, in Ded- ham, Mass., daughter of John and Mary ( Bullard ) Farrington, died Feb. 26, 1745, in Branford. He became one of the first settlers of Branford, having been granted a parcel of land in 1687, and lived in Hopyard Plain. His children, born in Branford. Conn., were: Abigail, William, Hannah, Samuel, Gideon, Lydia, Benjamin, Daniel and Timothy.
(III) Samuel Hoadley (2), son of Samuel, born Feb. 20, 1696, in Branford, Conn., married in 1720, in Branford, Lydia Frisbie, daughter of Caleb and Hannah Frisbie, born June 1, 1698, in Branford, died there Feb. 6, 1759. Samuel Hoadley lived on his farm. He was very corpulent. His children, born in Branford, were: Abigail, Gideon, Samuel. Ebenezer, Jacob, Lydia, Jerusha and James.
(IV) James Hoadley, son of Samuel (2), born Feb. 25, 1738, in Branford, died there Feb. 18, 1815. He married, March 3, 1768, in Branford, Mrs. Lydia (Buell ) Hoadley, widow of Benjamin Hoadley, and daughter of Capt. Samuel and Lydia ( Wilcox ) Buell, born in 1740, in Killingworth, Conn., died April 17. 1820, in Hartford, Conn. James Hoadley was a farmer. His children, born in Branford, were : James, Ambrose, Lydia, Jeremy and Reuel. (V) Hon. Jeremy Hoadley, son of James, born July 28, 1776, in Branford, died Dec. 1, 1847, in Hartford. Qn July 7, 1798, he married in Guilford, Conn., Harriott Fairchild, daughter of Capt. Asher and Thankful ( Hubbard) Fairchild, born July 5, 1770, in Guilford, died Sept. 22, 1849, in Hartford. Jeremy Hoadley lived in Guilford the first three years after his marriage, and moved to Hartford in 1806. He was a selectman of the town for over twenty years, was an alderman of the city, and on the death of Mayor Griswold became acting mayor of Hartford from Nov. 23, 1835. to April 13, 1836. Hle was one of the representatives for Hartford in the General Assembly at the sessions of 1822, 1823. 1826, and 1828, and was sheriff of Hartford county from 1828 to 1834, declining re-election. He was chairman of the Whig State Central Committee in the Presidential campaigns of 1826 and 1840. His
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children were: William H., Frederick 11., Harriet S., Maria J., Delia A., and Caroline M., all now de- ceased.
(VI) William Henry Hoadley, father of Charles J. Hoadly, LL. D., was born July 30, 1800, in Guil- ford, Conn'., and died Aug. 8, 1849, in Hartford. On Dec. 7, 1824. at Simsbury, Conn., he was married to Harriet Louisa Hillyer, who was born July 23, 1803, in East Granby, Conn., a daughter of Col. All- drew and Lucy (Tudor) Hillyer, and granddaugh- ter of James and Mary ( Humphrey ) Hillyer. Col. Andrew Hillyer was in the French and Indian war, and served under Lord Amherst in the expedition against Canada. He was with Lord Albemarle under Putnam, at the taking of Havana, and of fourteen who went from Simsbury only he and one other returned alive. Later he was in the Revo- lutionary war, serving part of cach year. He raised a company in Granby, and was present at the "Lex- ington . alarm." This Colonel Hillyer was graduate of Yale College, class of 1770, an Episco- palian in religion, and a Whig in politics. His original intention was to become a missionary. He died at East Granby in 1828. He married Lucy Tudor, a daughter of Elihu Tudor, who was a grad- uate of Yale College, class of 1750, and was a son of Rev. Samuel Tudor." Elihu Tudor was one of the staff of Gen. Wolfe at the storming of the heights of Abraham, Quebec, 1759. Later he was with Lord Albemarle, in 1762, at the taking of Havana. As Col. Andrew Hillyer was with him on these oc- casions it is doubtless true that during these times the acquaintance between them was formed which later resulted in Col. Hillyer marrying the daughter of his old army friend. Gen. Charles Tudor Hill- ver, brother of Mrs. William Hoadley, died in Hartford when over ninety years of age.
William H. Hoadley resided in Hartford all his life : his wife died Feb. 15. 1895, in the old home at No. 78 Ann street, where she had lived since 1833. Their children were: (1) Mary Robbins Hoadley, born Dec. 22, 1825, died April 29. 1896.
(2) CHARLES JEREMY HOADLY, born Aug. I, 1828, was graduated from Trinity College in 1851. at the head of his class. He was given the degree of M. A., in 1854, received the same degree from Yale College in 1879, and the degree of LL. D. from Trinity in 1889. He read law in Hartford in the office of Henry K. W. Welch, and was admitted to the Bar in 1855, from which time he had charge of the State Library, which, through efficiency, dili- gence and ability in his service of nearly fifty years, was made one of the best collections of Law Reports and Statute Law in the land. He edited the New Haven Colonial Records, 1638-65. two volumes, also Connecticut Colonial Records, 1689-1776, twelve vol- umes : Connecticut State Records. 1776-1780, two volumes, and was engaged on the third volume when his sight failed. He was one of the commissioners who prepared Vols. V and VI of the Special Laws of Connecticut. He published several short his-
torical articles, among which were a "Sketch of the Life of Silas Deane," in the Penn Mag. of History, 1877; "Annals of Christ Church, Hart- ford," 1879: "Holidays in Connecticut," 1888: the "Public Seal of Connecticut," 1889; "Town Repre- sentation in the General Assembly," 1892 (the last three in the Connecticut Register for those years) ; "Some Early Post Mortem Examinations in New England," read before the State Medical Society, 1892.
Dr. Hoadly was a member of the American Antiquarian Society, an honorary or corresponding member of a dozen or more historical societies, and president of the Connecticut Historical Society, a position he held for five or six years. Some time ago, on account of his failing eyesight, he declined re-election, but the society would not accept his re- fusal. and he retained the position until his death. While an under-graduate of Trinity College he received the President's prize for Latin prose (the first one offered ), kept up his Latin, and could to . day, were he living, write a petition in Latin. In the fall of 1899 Dr. Hoadly met with a painful acci- dent, by falling down stairs in his home, which, while not breaking bones, partly incapacitated him for work. He died Oct. 19. 1900.
(3) Frederick William Hoadley was born Dec. 2, 1831. Soon after the death of his father he went to Columbia, S. C., where he read law and was ad- mitted to the Bar. Before the breaking out of the Civil war he removed to Little Rock, Ark., and prior to the passage of the secession ordinance held a staff appointment in the militia (judge advocate, with rank of captain). He entered the Confeder- ate service, leaving the State as Captain of an ar- tillery company : was at Memphis (Tenn.), Colum- bus (Ky. ). Fort Pillow and Island No. 10 (Tenn.), where most of his company were captured, he nar- rowly escaping. After this a new artillery regi- ment was formed, called the First Tennessee Heavy Artillery. C. S. A., and he was made its major. At Vicksburg. Miss., he had command of the Water battery, a big gun called "Whistling Dick," and there met his death, in June, 1863. a few days be- fore the place was surrendered. The Vicksburg
Daily Citizen, noticing his death, said : "Major Hoadley was a man of fine intelligence, untiring in- dustry and zeal in the cause, kind to the men under him and a gentleman in every sense." Gen. Grant, writing to his brother, said : "The Major was a great favorite of the citizens of Vicksburg."
(4) James Henry Hoadley, born Dec. 6. 1833, entered the United States navy in 1859 as captain's clerk, on the "Mohawk." and was cruising after slavers on the north of Cuba. He resigned in 1862 to take charge of the United States sanitary com- mission in the Department of the South, in which he continued until after the close of the war. He was sent North, and took charge, as superintendent, of a hospital in New York City, called Lincoln Home, a home for crippled soldiers. Since then, until a
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few years ago, his life has been passed in Broad and Wall street, New York.
(5) George Edward Hoadley, born June 28, 1837, resides in Hartford.
(6) Francis Andrew Hoadley, born Oct. 12, 1842. is teller of the Hartford Trust Co.
(7) Harriet Louise Hoadley, born May 22, 1846, was married June 17, 1874, to Dr. William A. Cor- win. of the United States navy, and has two daugh- ters. He died off Panama, of yellow fever, in March, 1886. She resides in Hartford.
CHAPMAN. The Chapman family of Hart- ford, of which the late Hon. Charles Richard Chap- man was a worthy descendant, and whose children are among the leading citizens of the city, is one of the oldest and most prominent families of Con- necticut.
Hon. Charles Richard Chapman was in the seventh generation from the American ancestor of the family, Robert Chapman, the line of his descent being through Deacon Nathaniel, Deacon Caleb, Phineas, Judge Asa, and Hon. Charles.
( I) Robert Chapman, one of the first settlers of Saybrook, Conn., in 1635-36, or in the succeeding spring, according to family tradition was born in 1616. and came from Hull, England, to Boston in 1635. He was for many years commissioner for Saybrook, Conn., and was elected as their deputy to the General Court forty-three times, and assist- ant nine times. He settled on a tract of land some two miles west of Saybrook. He was a man of exemplary piety. His parents were Puritans. He married, in 1642, Ann Bliss. He died in 1687, and his wife in 1685. Their children were : John, Rob- ert, Hannah, Nathaniel, Mary and Sarah.
(II) Deacon Nathaniel Chapman, son of Robert Chapman, born in 1652, married (first) in 1681 Mary Collins, by whom he had four children, and (second ) in 1698 Hannal Bates, by whom he had five children. Deacon Nathaniel Chapman died in 1726. His widow. Hannah, died in 1750. He was many years deacon of the church in Saybrook, and many times represented the town in the General Court ( twenty-four sessions). He was a large land owner. His children by the first wife were: Na- thaniel, Nathaniel (2), Daniel. and John. Those by the second wife were: Mary, Hannah, Phineas, Caleb and Anne.
(III) Deacon Caleb Chapman, son of Deacon Nathaniel Chapman, born in 1706, married (first) in 1729 Thankful Lord, (second) in 1749 Abigail Lee, and (third ) Widow Hannah Platts. Mr. Chapman served many years as a deacon of the church of Saybrook, and died universally lamented. His children were: Thankful, Phineas, Hannah, Lucretia, Caleb, Elisha, James and Hezekiah.
(I\') Phineas Chapman, son of Deacon Chap- man, born in 1732, married in 1763 Mary Hillier, by whom he had five children : James, John, Asa, Nathaniel and Mary.
(V) Judge Asa Chapman, son of Phineas Chap- man, born Sept. 2, 1770, was graduated from Yale College in the class of 1792, sharing the highest honors of his class while in college with Hon. Roger M. Sherman. After graduation he taught for a time in the academy at North Salem, and also at Norwalk. He studied law at Litchfield, Conn., with Hon. Tapping Reeve, was admitted to the Bar in 1795, and settled in the practice of law at Newtown, Conn. He was repeatedly elected a representative of that town to the General Assembly, and in 1817 was elected a member of the Governor's Council, comprising at that time twelve members. In 1818 he was elected judge of the superior court and court of errors, which office he held until his death, in New Haven, Sept. 25, 1825. He married, at New- town, Conn., Sept. 2, 1798, Miss Mary Perry, daughter of Bennet Perry, M. D., and by her had four children. In 1824 he removed from Newtown to New Haven. His widow died in Brooklyn, L. I., on March 21, 1850. Their children were: Charles, Charlotte, William P., and Henry P.
(\'T) Hon. Charles Chapman, son of Judge Asa Chapman, born at Newtown, Conn., July 21, 1799, studied law with Judge Williams, of Hartford, and subsequently with Judges Reeve and Gould, of Litchfield, and was admitted to the Bar in 1820. On Jan. 3. 1821, he married Sarah Tomlinson, of New- town, by whom he had three children. Some three years after his marriage he moved to New Haven, where he remained about five years, and thence to Hartford. He enjoyed a very extensive practice, being one of the leading lawyers of Connecticut, and was honored by his fellow citizens with many offices of responsibility and trust. He represented Hartford many times in the State Legislature, and represented his district in the XXIId Congress of the United States. As a story-teller he was unsur- passed. His children were: Frances A., Charlotte and Charles Richard. He died in 1870.
(VII) CHARLES RICHARD CHAPMAN, whose death occurred at his home on Laurel street, Hart- ford. Jan. 25. 1897, was the son of Hon. Charles and Sarah (Tomlinson) Chapman.
He was born Nov. 23, 1827, in New Haven, and the family moved to Hartford when he was an in- fant. He was graduated from Trinity College in 1847, and belonged to the I. K. A. Society. Hav- ing studied law at Northampton, Mass., and in New York in the office of John Van Buren, son of ex- President Van Buren, he was admitted to the Bar in Hartford in 1850, and practiced law there until 1885, when he became postmaster. He was mayor of Hartford for three terms, from 1866 to 1872. In 1857 he represented the city in the State Senate ; represented the city in the House in 1856 and 1872; served as city attorney in 18744, 75, 76, and was held in high esteem by all who knew him on account of the uprightness of his character, the geniality of his nature and the faithfulness of his friendships. Many times nominated for office and many times elected,
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he went through every campaign with clean hands and untarnished reputation. He was as fair and just to his opponents as he was faithful to his party and his friends. He was always courteous in his manner and considerate in his speech, and he proved worthy of every trust reposed in him. In politics he was a Democrat.
Mr. Chapman married, May 1, 1855, Mrs. Har- riet (Putnam) Thomas, daughter of Rt. Rev. Thomas Brownell, Episcopal bishop of Connecticut. Mrs. Chapman and four children-Mrs. Charles Holland, of Eastbourne, England ; Thomas Browneil Chapman, of Hartford, Conn. ; Mrs. Howard Dudley Bean, of New York City, and Robert Holland Chap- man, of Torrington, Conn.,-survive him. Thomas Brownell Chapman married Helen Louise, daugh- ter of William H. Post, and they have one daughter, Priscilla Alden. Mr. Chapman is New England agent for Holmes, Booth & Hydens, of Waterbury, Conn. Robert H. married Renova M. Walbridge, of Pittsburg, Kansas, and they reside in Torrington, Connecticut.
HOOKER. The name of Hooker was brought into prominent notice in ecclesiastical circles in England by two men who were born in the six- teenth century. Richard Hooker was born in Exeter in 1554. He became a scholar of Corpus Christi Col- lege in 1573: Master of Arts in 1577 : Deputy Pro- fessor of Hebrew in 1579: received holy orders in 1581. In the religious discussions of his day he held to Arminian views, maintaining also the Anglican form of church government. He is chiefly dis- tinguished for his great work on "Ecclesiastical Polity.
Thomas Hooker, the founder of the Connecti- cut Colony, was born in Marfield, Leicestershire, Tilton parish, in 1586. The American Cyclopedia says that he is supposed to have been a cousin of Richard Hooker. After being graduated at Em- manuel College, Cambridge, he took orders, preached some time in London, and was chosen lecturer at Clemsford in 1626, at St. Mary's Church. He con- tinued there about four years, his preaching draw- ing great crowds, and there was a wide and pro- found impression made by his discourses. People flocked to his ministrations from great distances, some of great quality among them, one of whom was the Earl of Warwick, who afterward sheltered and befriended Mr. Hooker's family, when he was forced to flee the country.
Hooker's labors resulted not only in the visible reformation of morals in Chelmsford, but in stimu- lating to similar endeavors many other ministers of the surrounding region. But he was not long to remain there, as his preaching was too evan- gelical to please those in authority, and he was si- lenced by Archbishop Laud, and for about two years taught school in Little Baddow. In 1630 he left England for Holland, as he had been cited to ap- pear before the High Commission Court. Mr.
Hooker's Chelmsford friends paid the penal sum into the Court. It was well he Hled, as persecution began to be severe. He remained in Holland until 1633, preaching in Amsterdam, Delft and Rotter- dant. That year he came to America, and with him came his assistant, Rev. Samuel Stone. Some of his friends in England, from the towns of Chelms- ford, Braintree and Colchester, had preceded him. They settled at first at Mt. Wollaston, near Boston, and were known as "Mr. Hooker's Company." After the coming of their pastor they . removed by order of the court to Newtown, here remaining until 1636, when a large portion of them emigrated with their leaders, Hooker and Stone, to the banks of the Connecticut river, and founded the town of Hartford. Hookor was not only a powerful preacher and a religious guide, but is now regarded as the father of the Connecticut Constitution, and consequently of that of the United States. An old sermon of his which has been found within a few years says: "The choice of public magistrates be- longs unto the people by God's own allowance. The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." John Fiske says of the Connecti- cut Constitution : "It was the first written Consti- tution known to history that created a government, and it marked the beginning of American democ- racy, of which Thomas Hooker deserves more than any other man to be called the father. The Govern- ment of the United States is to-day in lineal de- scent more nearly related to that of Connecticut than to any other of the thirteen colonies." There were more than twenty-five books written by Mr. Hooker published in London : the most important one for the New England churches was called "A Survey of the Sum of Church Discipline."
Thomas Hooker and his wife Susan had five children, two sons and three daughters. He died in 1647, aged sixty-one years. His eldest son. John, returned to England, and remained there. Ilis daughter Johanna married Rev. Thomas Shepherd. His son Samuel, who was born in 1633, was grad- uated from Harvard College in 1653, and ordained a minister in 1657 in Farmington, Conn. He mar- ried in 1658, in New York. Mary Willet, who was born in 1637. daughter of Thomas Willet, the first mayor of New York City. Rev. Samuel Hooker died in 1607. His widow married Rev. Thomas Buckingham. A monument has been erected to her by the Hooker Association, in Norwalk, Conn .. also one to Rev. Samuel Hooker, in the old burying- ground in Farmington. He had a large family, nine sons and three daughters.
John Hooker, son of Rev. Samuel, was born in Farmington in 1664, and spent his life in that town, dying in 1746. "He was five years Speaker of the Lower House, nine years a member of the Upper House, and nine years a judge of the su- perior court." He married Abigail Stanley, of Farmington, daughter of Capt. John Stanley, who was a member of the Lower House and of the Gen-
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eral Court for at least twenty-five years. They had a large family of children. Hezekiah, the eldest son, was born in 1688, left Farmington when a young man, and went to the new town of Woodbury, where he died. He married Abigail Curtis, and they were the parents of ten children. Asahel, who was born in Woodbury in 1736, removed to Bristol, where he bought land and became a successful farmer. He married Sarah Parmalee. Of their six children, Asahel studied divinity and became a minister, and was settled in Norwich, Conn. He was the father of Rev. Edward W. Hooker, D. D., who was professor in the Theological Seminary at East Windsor Hill, and afterward pastor for some time in Newburyport, Mass. Another son of Asahel, of Woodbury and afterward of Bristol, was Bryan, who was born in Woodbury in 1764, and died in Bristol in 1826. He was one of the first woolen manufacturers in Connecticut, and was very suc- cessful in producing fine and serviceable cloth for men's wear. He built a fine house for that time in Bristol on a hill side, with the land sloping down to the bank of the little Pequabuck river, where, not many years before, when the stream was larger, the Tunxis Indians had fished and paddled their light canoes. In 1804 Bryan Hooker married Mrs. Nancy (Lee) Fuller, a daughter of William Lee, of Bristol, and, widow of Mr. Fuller, who was a teacher in Hartford. She had two children : Rhoda Fuller, who married S. Augustus Mitchell, of Phil- adelphia, the author of many school books; and Franklin Fuller, who lived and died in Bristol. To . her marriage with Bryan Hooker three children were born: Lydia, born in 1805, married Hon. Cyrus P. Smith, mayor of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Nancy, born in 1809, married William Hill, of Troy, N. 1., and she is now (1900) living in the Hooker home- stead at Bristol, at the advanced age of ninety-one years, supposed to be the oldest living descendant of Thomas Hooker; Bryan Edward is mentioned below.
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