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 65

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

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of the Government. At one time he served as alderman from the old Second ward of Hartford. It was very creditable to Mr. Lockwood that he raised himself by industry and integrity from the poition of a carrier boy to that of a journeyman printer, and from that station to a partner of the firm, with a third interest in one of the best-known establishments in New England-its capital (in 1888) being $400,000. Mr. Lockwood departed this life at the age of seventy-four, and he leaves an unsullied name. His children may well be gratified in the excellent record he left of an hon- orable and well-spent life.

On Oct. 25, 1836, Mr. Lockwood married Char- lotte Hull Chamberlin, who was born March 20, 1818, in Hartford, and died Aug. 15, 1873, a daugh- ter of Reuben J. and Sally (Fox) Chamberlin. They had children as follows: William H., born Oct. 2. 1837; Franklin Samuel, born Oct. 2, 1837, died Jan. 8, 1842; Henrietta Charlotte, born May 15, 1843, married Charles A. Pitkin ; Jennie Alvord, born April 28, 1858, married Fred C. Rockwell, of Hartford.

CAPT. WILLIAM H. LOCKWOOD, the eldest son of James Lockwood, began his career at the case when seventeen years of age, and afterward was promoted to the press-room, running Adams book presses and R. Hoe presses under the eye of his father, who was then foreman. It was in 1856 that Case, Lockwood & Co. prevailed upon him to go to New York City to learn the electrotyping business, which he did. He was located with the late Mr. Filmer, on Fulton street, New York, re- maining there until his enlistment in Company A, 16th Conn. V. I. He returned to Hartford within three years and bought the electrotyping plant of Case, Lockwood & Co., which has borne his name since that time, having been in the same building for about forty-three years. Webster's dictionary plates were at that time stereotyped, but later Mr. Lockwood copper-faced all of them. He is now ably assisted in carrying on his large business by his two sons. He was made director in the Case, Lock- wood & Brainard Co., upon the death of his father, in 1888, and is a member of the United Typothetæ. Mr. Lockwood spent two years in the army and was in the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg. He went into the service as first-lieutenant of Com- pany A, and was promoted on Sept 17. 1862, to the rank of captain of Company K. 16th Conn. V. I., because of meritorious service in the field. He also served some time as a member of the City Guards. He has a library of about 400 volumes on the Civil war-probably one of the largest in the county. Socially he is a member of Wyllis Lodge. No. 99. F. & A. M., of West Hartford, and of Robert O. Tyler Post, G. A. R.

On Aug. 24, 1862, Capt. Lockwood married (first) Miss Augusta Victoria Pascoe, daughter of Lester Pascoe, and a sister of Major Henry L. Pas- coe. She died Oct. 23, 1882, and on Feb. 18, 1890,

he married (second) Emma Augusta McClory, daughter of Henry and Emily Augusta Brainard McClory, her father being an attorney of Chicago. He had six children, all born to the first marriage, viz. : Frank P., who is also associated with his father in business; Henrietta H., wife of Archie H. Bronson, quartermaster of the Ist Connecticut Regiment in the Spanish-American war, and now a member of the firm of William Boardman & Son Co., of Hartford; James L., who is associated with his father in business; Bertha C., who married Arthur Towne, now with the Dime Savings Bank of Hartford; Henry P., born Nov. 27, 1863, who died March 22, 1865; and Jessamine C., born Sept. 9, 1876, who died July 23, 1877.

MARCUS MORTON JOHNSON, B. PH., M. D., proprietor of the Woodland Sanatorium at Hart- ford, is one of the best-known physicians and sur- geons of Connecticut. He is a native of Malone, N. Y., born April 21, 1844.

The Doctor's paternal and maternal ancestry are distinguished for noble qualities of heart and brain. In the paternal line he traces his ancestry for five generations to Sir John Johnson, Sr., a sea captain on an English vessel, who later in life settled in Connecticut. His son, John Johnson, Jr., settled in Rutland, Vt., where many of his descendants still reside. He married Mehitable Sperry, who lived to the great age of 102 years, and perished in a fire, in 1836. Silas Johnson, son of John Johnson, Jr., and the grandfather of Dr. Johnson, was a man of much force of character. He moved from Rut- land, Vt., to Malone, N. Y., being a pioneer of that town. Marvin L. Johnson, son of Silas Johnson, is the Doctor's father. He married Polly Chapman. Dr. Johnson's maternal ancestral line is traced through seven generations to a Dean of Canterbury, England. The Chapmans were early settlers of Norwich, Conn., where his maternal great-grand- father, Joshua Chapman, was born in 1755. In 1775, he enlisted in the Revolutionary army in Capt. Chapin's Company. His son, Joshua Chapman, Jr., the maternal grandfather of the Doctor, was an early settler of Malone, N. Y. The Doctor's ances- tors are noted for their longevity, the maternal grandfather having lived to be eighty-two years. old, and his wife dying at the age of eighty-four. The Doctor's mother is now ninety years of age, and is well preserved. both physically and mentally, at- tends church on Sunday, and always remembers the text.

Marcus M. Johnson received his early education, preparatory to entering college, at Franklin Acad- emy, Malone, N. Y., and was graduated from Brown University in 1870, with the degree of B. Ph. He then became instructor in Mathematics and the Sciences in the Connecticut Literary Institute, Suf- field, Conn., for five years, and is officially connected with that institution now. He received his medical degree from the University of New York, where

Marcus M. Johnson B. P& M.D.

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he graduated with honor, receiving the "Valentine Mott Gold Medal," the highest award for excellence in anatomy and dissections. The following year he was house surgeon in the Hartford Hospital. He then pursued his studies abroad for two years. Among the 'eminent surgeons from whom he re- ceived instructions were Thomas Keith, of Edin- burgh, whom he assisted in six ovariotomies, Sir Joseph Lister, of London, and Billroth, of Vienna. In Berlin he received especial instructions in gyne- cology from Martin, and in operative surgery under Von Langenbeck. From 1880 until the present time he has resided in Hartford, Conn., and prac- ticed medicine, making advanced surgery the special line of work with which his name has long been identified. In the practice of medicine he is fully abreast of the times, and as a surgeon his name will never be forgotten. Dr. Johnson had not long been a resident of Hartford when the city was visited (1882) by a great epidemic of diphtheria, 200 men, women and children dying during the year. The Doctor was the first in Hartford to use the bichloride of mercury treatment in this disease, by which he attained a degree of success not equalled by the anti-toxin of to-day. The quickness with which Dr. Johnson saw the inefficiency of the old treatment and adopted the new, together with severe professional opposition, formed an amusing episode in his professional career.

Dr. Johnson's medical training, at home and abroad, especially under Sir Joseph Lister, taught him that the best interest of the patient could not be subserved by operations from house to house. He therefore erected, at 122 Woodland street, Hart- ford, one of the finest sanatoriums of the East, one of the most complete institutions of the kind it has been the writer's privilege to visit. Extreme clean- liness is paramount throughout the building. The operating room is perfect in every detail, containing all the necessary appurtenances to aid in making successful operations. The rays of light cast from three large windows and a skylight give the opera- tor a fine opportunity to do his work. When ne- cessity demands an operation at night a cluster of five strong electric lamps is suspended over the operating table, which does the same service, while, by a cord an electric light searcher is hung to be used when the occasion demands. The institution is equipped with all the latest devices for the treatment with massage and electricity, and has a corps of nurses capable of rendering the best possible care to the patients.

No mention of Dr. Johnson's professional career would be complete without referring to his perfect mastery of his special line of work, surgery, he hav- ing opened the abdominal cavity eight hundred times, with a high percentage of recoveries. As a surgeon he is cool, painstaking and skillful, with remarkable success. He is a rapid operator, with such an acute touch, amounting almost to seeing, that he strongly favors making the short incision

in many of his abdominal sections, three of which operations were witnessed by the writer, and re- sulted in the complete recovery of the patients. On July 29, 1899, Dr. Johnson operated on an infant, nineteen days old, for strangulated inguinal hernia, at St. Francis Hospital, Hartford, Conn. The stran- gulation had existed about thirty-five hours. The mother stated that the child was born prematurely, and weighed five pounds at its birth. It is prob- ably the youngest on record on whom this operation has ever been performed-at least, it comes within nineteen days of being the youngest. The infant made an excellent recovery.

Dr. Johnson has contributed and read before the various medical societies several papers, viz. : "Diphtheria, Its History, Etiology and Treatment," Connecticut State Medical Society, May 26, 1892; "The Technique of Removing the Appendix Ver- miformis, with a Report of One Hundred Consecu- tive Cases, with Two Deaths," read in the section on Surgery and Anatomy at the Forty-seventh An- nual Meeting of the American Medical Association, held at Atlanta, Ga., May 5-8, 1896; "Treatment of Pus Cases in Operating for Appendicitis," Connec- ticut Medical Society, 1897; "Ventral Hernia After Appendictomy," presented to the section on Sur- gery and Anatomy at the Forty-ninth Annual Meet- ing of the American Medical Association, held at Denver, Colo., June 7-10, 1898; "History of the First Twenty-three Cases of Gastrostomy, with a Successful Case by the Writer," Connecticut Medi- cal Society, May, 1899; "Report on the Progress of Surgery," Connecticut Medical Society, May, 1899; "Etiology of Hernia of the Ovary ; with the Relation of Two Cases," Hartford Medical Society, June 16, 1899; "Gastrostomy ;" "Improved Technique for Cure of Ventral Hernia," read at the Fifty-first Annual Meeting of the American Medical Associ- ation, at Atlantic City, N. J., June 5-8, 1900; "Ilis- tory and Treatment of a Unique Injury of the Face," read before the Connecticut Medical Society, May, 1900. Dr. Johnson is a member of the American Medical Association, of the City, County and State Medical Societies, and a surgeon to St. Francis Hospital. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, a member of the Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution, and a Knight Templar.

On Feb. 14, 1884, Dr. Johnson was married to Mrs. Ilelen Lyman Jackson, a cultured and estim- able lady. They have two interesting children, Helen Gaylord, born Feb. 22, 1885; and Ethel Chapman, born Aug. 23, 1889.

GEORGE BEACH (deceased). During the first half of the present century Mr. Beach figured conspicuously in the business affairs of Hartford, and especially in its financial circles. In his death, May 3, 1860, the community lost one of its valued citizens and useful men. He descended from an old and prominent family of Litchfield county.

Mr. Beach was a native of Litchfield, Litchfield

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Co., Conn., and was born Nov. 29. 1788. He first entered business life in the firm of Pierce & Beaclı, who were engaged in the West Indies trade. On September 3, 1814. he was elected cashier of the Phoenix Bank, at its organization. He served as cashier until September 8, 1837, when he was elected president, and served as such until April 5. 1860, when he resigned owing to infirmities. At

the first organization of the bank the disturbance of the currency caused by the war with England led the bank to issue a quantity of bills for frac- tional parts of a dollar. These bills the vice-pres- ident of the bank and the directors were authorized to sign, but with that exception Mr. Beach, either as cashier or president, signed all that had been issued by the bank, and its circulation sometimes rose above a million. Undoubtedly, at that time, no man in the vicinity ever signed so many bills.

As a banker Mr. Beach was always the friend of the young mechanics, tradesmen and merchants endeavoring to gain a foothold, whose small loans he was disposed to favor, and the directors often yielded to his urgency in such matters. He was steadily and systematically benevolent, but was particularly opposed to signing his name to sub- scriptions, always preferring to write "cash." He believed in dispensing his charities while living. From early life an active Episcopalian, a member of Christ Church, his religious offerings took that direction generally, but not exclusively. He gave the land for St. Paul's Church. The Widow's Home, which he built and maintained, was a most sensible charity-a large house sub-divided into neat tenements, which he let gratuitously to de- serving widows who had no honie, and he was careful on this point. Mr. Beach was a business man and a gentleman of the old school. More- over, he was a most useful citizen and a Christian.

Mr: Beach was three times married. He had seventeen children, thirteen of whom were sons (and three of whom survive him), one being J. Watson, whose sketch appears farther on. Harriet Bradley, the first wife of George Beach, was born June 27, 1792, and died July 10, 1826. Maria Nichols, the second wife, was born May 10, 1799, and died Nov. 15. 1845. His third wife was the widow of E. W. Bull.

HENRY BRUCE BEACH, son of George and Har- riet ( Bradley) Beach, was born Nov. 3. 1817. He spent his early school days in Hartford and Granby, and at the age of sixteen years went to sea in a sealing vessel, sailing for two years. He was then in a country store at Cazenovia, N. Y., for two years. In 1839 he began keeping books for Beach & Co. In 1842 he went into the iron business as agent for Truman Hanks, his father-in-law. In 1844 he bought out the interest of Truman Hanks, and with Samuel Woodruff formed the firm of "Woodruff & Beach Iron Works." In 1870 this firm went out of existence. In 1871 the firm of IT. B. Beach & Son was organized. Mr. Beach

was married first to Mary Hanks, daughter of Truman Hanks. Their only child was Henry Ledlie, born July 13, 1839. For his second wife Henry B. Beach -married Mrs. Frances A. Tomlin- son ( nee Barnard), and for his third wife George- anna Smith, granddaughter of Commodore Rodg- ers, and grandniece of Commodores O. H. and M. C. Perry.

Henry L. Beach, son of Henry B. and Mary (Hanks) Beach, attended military academy at West Haven, Hamden, and Litchfield, Conn., and began his business career in 1859. In 1862 he enlisted in Company 1, 16th Conn V. I., was commissioned lieutenant of Company G, in August, 1862, and was promoted to captain Sept. 17, 1862. He parti- cipated in the battle of Antietam and in other en- gagements, and was mustered out in 1864. He is a member of Robert L. Tyler Post, No. 50, Hart- ford. He was married at Cincinnati to Miss Mary Bence Crane, who died in 1891, leaving no children.

J. WATSON BEACH, whose death occurred at his home in Hartford on March 16, 1887, was born Dec. 28, 1823, ninth child and seventh son of George Beach. J. Watson Beach was for a long period a member of the firm of Beach & Co., widely known as a large importing house, whose colors and dye stuffs are known to all the manufacturers of New England. Their daily cable dispatches went to all countries. Mr. Beach was also president of the Weed Sewing Machine Co., a former president of the Mercantile Bank, in which he was a director at the time of his death, and he was also a director of the Machine Screw Co., vice-president and di- rector of the Western Automatic Screw Co., secre- tary of the Grove Works, and director of the Broad Brook Manufacturing Co. No better known figure than that of Mr. Beach, with his tall and manly form and handsome face, was ever seen on Hart- ford streets. He had hosts of friends and ac- quaintances who knew and liked him for his large- heartedness, and good character and disposition. His genial nature and general intelligence made him a favorite everywhere, and not least of all in Hartford society circles. He was interested in chemistry, and was a thoroughly well-informed man on nearly all subjects.

J. W. Beach left a widow, Josephine E. Coffing, and five children, namely: Mrs. George H. Day, of Hartford; Dr. Charles C. Beach, of Hartford ; George W'., of Beach, Treiber & Co., Boston, Mass .; Mrs. P. H. Ingalls, wife of a Hartford physician ; and Richard J., of Boston, Mass.

Dr. Charles C. Beach, son of J. Watson and Josephine E. (Coffing) Beach, attended boarding school in Berkshire county, Mass., and the public schools of Hartford. He graduated from Yale Sci- entific School in 1877, when he became a member of the Delta Fraternity. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1882, and was for a time house physician in St. Luke's Hos- pital, New York City. He then continued his med-

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ical studies in Berlin and Vienna, and in 1885 be- gan practice in Hartford, Conn. Dr. Beach mar- ried Mary E. Batterson, daughter of Hon. James G. Batterson, of Hartford. They have four children, namely: Goodwin Batterson; Joseph Watson; Charles Bradford; and Elizabeth Goodwin.

HON. IRA NICHOLS BEVANS, a retired business man and traveling salesman now residing in Bristol, was born in Trumbull, Fairfield Co., Conn., July 5. 1825, and is a son of Timothy V. and Samantha ( Herd) Bevans.

Timothy V. Bevans, born in Stratford, Conn., was a son of a sea captain with five children, and was himself a sca captain in early life, but in his later years became a farmer in Trumbull and Mon- roe. Fairfield county. In politics he was first a Whig, afterward a Republican, and in religion was an Episcopalian, in which faith he died at the age of ninety-three years; his wife died at the age of sixty-five years. To their marriage were born nine children : Julia, who was married to Cyrus Botsford, died in Humphreysville, Conn. ; Russell R., a hatter, died in Danbury ; Charles, first a shoe- maker, later a farmer, died in Trumbull ; Lucy Ann, who was married to Samuel French, also died in Trumbull ; David, who was a carriagemaker, died in New Haven ; John, a carpenter and joiner, lives in Bethel, Conn .: Samantha married Louis French, who died in Bridgeport, where she still lives; Ira N. is the subject of this sketch; Susan N. (now Mrs. Knapp), resides in New York City.

Ira Nichols Bevans was educated in Monroe, I.airfield county, to which town his parents removed when he was quite young. At the age of fifteen years he quit school and clerked for eight or ten months in the grocery store of William Ross, who failed. Young Bevans then went to Sandy Hook, where he clerked for William C. Clark one year, and then returned to Monroe, where for a year he farmed for James Drew, and the following two years he passed at home with his father. For a limited period he superintended the cotton factory of F. M. Cargill, at Monroc. He then worked as a shoemaker in Trumbull two or three years for Samuel French, his brother-in-law. Mr. Bevans now married, to which important event further al- lusion will be made, and removed to Bethel, enter- ing into partnership with George Cole in the manu- facture of fine boots for Nathan Seeley, who had a large store in Montgomery, Ala. This partner- ship was continued for two years, when Mr. Bevans purchased the business and conducted it on his sole account two years longer, when he sold out and went to Waterbury. There he worked in a cotton factory for five years, then took charge of the company's boarding house, and also superin- tended a part of the company's mill for another Fear. The next enterprise of Mr. Bevans was a trip to Texas, where he passed four years selling

cotton gins, and also traveled through other "cot- ton States," and for eight years sold agencies for various gins. In April, 1861, he returned to the North, and for some time remained in Plymouth, Conn., where his family then resided. For a few months he and his brother were employed in mak- ing army accoutrements-knapsacks, haversacks, etc., at Hartford, and in the spring of 1862, in com- pany with Eli Terry, bought the clock spring busi- ness of the Cook Axle Co., of Winsted, and brought it to Terryville, but in 1865 he sold his share to Mir. Terry and went to New Orleans, where for six months he was engaged in selling machinery of all kinds. On returning to Plymouth, Conn., he passed a short time with his family, and then accepted the foremanship of the tempering depart- ment of 1. Strouse & Co.'s corset factory in New Haven, but a year later (1868) went to Thomas- ton, Conn., and assumed charge of the spring de- partment of the Seth Thomas Clock Co., and this position he held for twenty-two years, perfecting a number of different springs while so employed.

In 1890 Mr. Bevans came to Bristol, and as the E. Ingraham Co. had begun to make their own springs, he was placed in charge of that depart- ment, and held charge until 1895, when he was taken ill and retired, turning over to his son, Walter E., his position with the Ingraham Company.

Ira N. Bevans was first married to Miss Har- riet Evaline Wiard, a native of Wolcott, and a daughter of Solomon Wiard. She died in 1853, the mother of one child, Walter E., who succeed- ed his father in the Ingraham Company. Walter E. has been twice married; his first wife, Jennie llumphreyville, was divorced, and he afterward wedded Mrs. Evaline Scarrett. For his second wife our subject wedded Mrs. Louise Rouell Blakeslee, of Thomaston, to which marriage there has been no issue. In politics Mr. Bevans is a Republican, and in 1885 he represented Plymouth in the State Legislature, having led his party at the polls by forty-two votes. He was also on the board of relief and a grand juror. In Terryville he was likewise on the board of relief. In 1894 he was warden of Bristol, being the second to fill that office, but illness necessitated his resigna- tion before the expiration of his term.

Fraternally Mr. Bevans is a member of Union Lodge, No. 96, F. & A. M., and Granite Chapter, No. 42, F. & A. M., of Thomaston. He formerly was treasurer of Bristol Grange, No. 116, P. of II .. of which his wife is also a member, and they are both members of the Order of the Eastern Star. of which she was associate matron and secretary at Thomaston. Mr. and Mrs. Bevans are consist- ent members of the Episcopal Church, of which he is past vestryman. Altogether he has lived a most active and useful life, notwithstanding the fact that he has for some years been an invalid, and for two years was confined to his room, but

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from this attack he has happily recuperated, and stands again among his fellow men, honored and respected.

PHINEAS HENRY INGALLS, A. M., M. D., one of the most distinguished physicians of Hart- ford, was born April 18, 1856, in the little town of Gorham, Maine, about ten miles from Portland, Maine. His ancestry is of the old New England stock. and he is of the seventh generation from Edmund Ingalls, who came from Lincolnshire, England, in 1629, and settled in Andover, Massachusetts.

The Hartford Post in a recent sketch gives the following data : "The Doctor's grandfather, Phineas Ingalls, was born in Massachusetts, but he formed one of the band which went to Maine soon after the Revolutionary war, in which he fought, and was one of the founders of Bridgton, in that State. His son, the father of the present bearer of the name, was also Phineas Ingalls, and he became a leading physician in Gorham and vicinity in 1820." Dr. Ingalls' mother was a daughter of Samuel Elder, a prosperous farmer of Gorham, Maine, and on her side he is a lineal descendant from Josias Cook, who came over in the "Mayflower."

The early life of Dr. Ingalls was spent in his native town, and at the public schools of Portland, Maine. He entered Bowdoin College, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1877, and receiving the degree of A. M. in 1885. No doubt he inherited a liking for the medical profession from his father. At any rate he decided, about this time, to become a physician, and at once began the study of medi- cine at Portland, Maine, with Dr. S. H. Tewks- bury and Dr. Charles W. Bray. He attended two courses of lectures at the Maine Medical School, and took a three-years' course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He was graduated there in 1880, and his first practical serv- ice was entered upon immediately after that at the Woman's Hospital in New York City, where he served as house surgeon and gained a wide and serviceable experience. Here he remained until No- vember, 1881, when he returned to Portland, Maine, and engaged in work there until March, 1882, when he came to Hartford. For three years he was lo- cated on Elm street, and there he established the nu- cleus of the large practice which he now enjoys. At the end of that period he came to No. 112 High street, where he has since remained. Dr. Ingalls makes a specialty of diseases peculiar to women, and his practice is largely in operations and consulta- tion work in Hartford and adjoining towns. It is probably the largest gynecological practice enjoyed by any physician in Connecticut.

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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 65

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

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