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 78

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

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22 Niles street, Hartford. The plant was sub- sequently sold by Mrs. Gray to the Pope Mfg. Co., and since then it has been part of that great cor- poration. Mr. Gray was a Republican in politics. Socially he was a favorite in the best circles, and, as he was a fine player, his musical gifts were a source of pleasure at home and elsewhere.

On April 8, 1875, Mr. Gray married Miss Clara M. Bolter, a native of Hartford, and three chil- dren were born to them : Robert Watkinson, a grad- uate of Trinity College; Mary Bartholomew ; and Clara Gray. Mrs. Gray is a descendant of one of the oldest families in America, on the maternal side being of the eighth generation from William Bartholomew of Ipswich, Mass., who came from England in 1634. On her father's side she traces descent from two families of special distinction, each possessing a coat of arms. Her father, the late James Bolter, was a well-known banker of Hartford, and her maternal grandfather, Roswell Bartholomew, was a member of the firm of Ward & Bartholomew, silversmiths, one of the earliest manufacturing firms in the city. Mrs. Gray and her children are highly esteemed in social life, and attend Trinity Episcopal Church, of which she is an active member.

CLINTON S. LOVELAND. Generations of good business qualifications have fitted the subject of this sketch for eminence in the commercial world. As manufacturer and as farmer he has led a suc- cessful and useful life, and his high standing as a citizen has won him recognition by his fellow citi- zens. He is now serving as first selectman of the town of Glastonbury.

Mr. Loveland is a representative of an old Con- necticut family. Elizur Loveland, his great-great- grandfather, was a soldier in the Revolution, having fought at the battle of Long Island, and survived that struggle. Francis Loveland, the great-grand- father of our subject, was a lifelong farmer of Glas- tonbury. His son, Joshua Loveland, was a black- smith, farmer, shoemaker, and general mechanic, and possessed that genius of invention and enter- prise which is making New England the workshop of the world. He remained through life a resident of East Glastonbury. He married Rachel Hills, a native of Glastonbury, and to them were born three children: Chester, father of our subject ; Watson, a farmer of East Glastonbury, who married Laana Bly, a native of Marlboro ; and John, who married Lucretia Covell, of Glastonbury. The last named enlisted in 1860 in the ioth Conn. V. I., and was killed at Proctor's Creek, Va., May 16, 1864.

Chester Loveland, the father of our subject, was born Sept. 30, 1820, and died Aug. 29, 1881. Dur- ing his carlier years he followed the trade of mason and builder, and prospered to a marked degree, but for the last fifteen years of his life he was engaged in the manufacture of paper, in partnership with John R. Buck, a Congressman, of Hartford. The

Clinton D. Loveland

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factory, recently destroyed by fire, was located at East Glastonbury. He married Irene R. Loveland, born Feb. 17, 1823, daughter of Sylvester and Ruth (Riley) Loveland, the latter a descendant of an old and prominent family of Glastonbury and Wethers- field. Her father was a soldier in the war of 1812. To Chester and Irene R. Loveland was born one child, Clinton S., our subject.

Clinton S. Loveland was born in East Glaston- bury Nov. 23, 1847. Receiving a good common- school education, he completed, in 1870, a course of study in the academy at Wilbraham, Mass., under the instruction of Dr. Cook, one of his many class- mates being Senator Crosby, of Glastonbury. Re- turning home, he engaged in farming for ten years, and then entered his father's paper mill, of which he became superintendent, in which responsible position he continued until 1898. In that year he purchased what was known as the John Keeney place, and there erected the handsome and commodious mod- ern residence which he now occupies. Besides this beautiful place, which comprises fourteen acres, he owns several fine farms in East Glastonbury, con- taining in all some 200 acres. Mr. Loveland was married, June 13, 1877, to Miss Hannah Wier, who was born in Glastonbury, daughter of Henry O. and Diantha (Goodale ) Wier, well-known and highly esteemed residents of the city. The union of our subject and wife has been blessed with five chil- (Iren : Ella W., born Sept. 2, 1878, is a graduate of a Hartford Business College, and is a bookkeeper in that city; Chester A., born Sept. 19, 1880, is a student at Huntsinger's Business College. Hart- ford : Alice O. was born March 16, 1883 : Henry C., Oct. 13. 1888; and Ruth, Nov. 15, 1802.

In politics Mr. Loveland is a Republican. In 1895 he was elected to the State Legislature to rep- resent his town, and in 1898 was chosen first select- man, to succeed Henry Potter, holding the office for. three years; he has filled both legislative po- sitions most acceptably to his constituents. Mr. Loveland is genial in manner and disposition, and counts many among his close friends. He possesses good business qualifications and sound judgment, is a leader in his town, and ranks high as a citizen. He is a member of Washington Lodge, No. 61, I. O. O. F., and of the Putnam Phalanx, a very pop- ular organization, and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of East Glaston- bury.

JAMES L. DOYLE, proprietor and publisher of the New Britain Daily Record, was born in Nor- wich, Conn., June 24, 1855, and was educated in the public schools of that town. Upon leaving school he entered the office of the Norwich Adver- tiser, where by successive steps he acquired a train- ing in newspaper work and a knowledge of the print- ing business. Leaving Norwich, he was with the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., of Hartford, for twelve years in the office and as their traveling rep-

resentative. For two years he managed a printing and photo-engraving establishment in New York.

In March, 1898, Mr. Doyle, together with Mr. Bacon, purchased the Record, which had then been established forty years as a weekly newspaper. The job plant was purchased at the same time. In 1890 Mr. Doyle became the sole owner, and two years later established the Daily Record, which has grown in popularity and influence under his management. It's success, and that of the job printing business, can perhaps best be measured by pointing to the fact that the Record has recently been removed to its own building, a commodious brick structure, equipped with new presses and machinery to meet the increased demands of the business. This build- ing and plant are accounted among the best adapted in the State to the newspaper and job printing busi- ness.

Mr. Doyle is an excellent business man, care- ful, shrewd and accurate always, and au able writer, fully informed on all matters of public concern. In politics he has always been a Republican, and the principles of that party are faithfully advo- cated in the columns of the Record.

LYMAN. The family of the late Christopher C. Lyman, of Hartford, descended from one of the early New England emigrants, who became one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut.

Theodore Lyman, of Hartford, the only sur- vivor of the children of Christopher C. Lyman, is of the seventh generation from Richard Lyman, the American ancestor of the family, the line of his descent being through Lieut. John, John, Elias, Elias (2), Gaius and Christopher C.

(I) Richard Lyman, from the County of Essex, England, in August, 1631, embarked with his wife and children in the ship "Lion" for New England, sailing from Bristol. Richard Lyman first became a settler in Charlestown, Mass. He became a free- man June II, 1635, and on Oct. 15 of the same year joined the party of persons who proceeded to settle Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, Conk He was one of the first settlers of Hartford. He died in August, 1640. His widow, Sarah, died soon afterward. His children named in the will were: Richard, Robert, Sarah. John and Fillis.

(II) Lieut. John Lyman, son of Richard Ly- man, born in 1623, in the County of Essex, Eng- land, came to New England with h's father, and married in 1654, Dorcas, daughter of Jolin Plumb, of Branford, Conn. Hle settled in Northampton, Mass., where he resided until his death, in 1690. He was in command of the Northampton soldiers in the famous Falls fight above Deerfield, May 18, 1676. His children were: Elizabeth, Sarah, John, Moses, Dorothy, Mary, Experience, Joseph, Ben- jamin and Caleb.

(III) John Lyman, son of Lieut. John Lyman. born in 1660, in Northampton, Mass., married in 1687 Mindwell Pomeroy, born in 1666, daughter of

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Mary Woodford Sheldon, of Northampton, and widow of John Pomeroy. She died in 1735. John Lyman lived in the part of town called South Farms, and kept a public house near Smith's Ferry. He died in 1740. His children were: Mindwell, Dorcas, Hannah, John, Esther, Gideon, Elizabeth, Phineas, Elias and Gad.

(IV) Elias Lyman, son of John Lyman, born in 1710, at South Farms, married in 1736 Hannah Allen, daughter of Deacon Samuel Allen, of North- ampton. She was born in 1714, and died in 17 -. Elias Lyman was among those who were called out for the defense of Bennington in the Revolutionary war. He succeeded his father in his business as a farmer and keeper of a public house. He died in 1790. His children were: Hannah, Rachel, Elias, Joel, Elizabeth, Sarah Mindwell and Jonathan.

(V) Elias Lyman (2), son of Elias Lyman, born in 1740 at South Farms, married in 1764 Hannah Clapp, daughter of Jonathan Clapp, of Easthampton. She was born in 1742, and died in 1813. Elias Lyman built a house about a mile north of his fa- ther's, not far from Rock Ferry, where all of his children were born. He was a farmer, and kept a public house. He died in 1816. His children were: Justin, Elias, Gaius, Elizabeth, Hannah, Asahel, Simeon, Rachel and Job.

(VI) Gaius Lyman, son of Elias Lyman (2), born Nov. 24, 1769, married on Jan. 18, 1797, Sub- mit Field, daughter of Deacon Joseph Field, of Sunderland, Mass. She was born June 17, 1774, and died in Hartford April 27, 1846. Gaius Lyman succeeded his brother Justin in the occupation of the Rock House for several years. In 1804 he moved to Hartford, Conn. He traded in lumber and West Indies goods. He died in Hartford, Jan. 4, I845. His children were: Elhanan Winchester, Christopher C., Orra A., Julia E., Emma S., Jane R., Hannah S., and Theodore.

(VII) Christopher Columbus Lyman, son of Gaius, was born Dec. 28, 1800, in Northampton, Mass., and married on Sept. 6, 1830, at Bennington, Vt., Cecelia Breakenridge. She died in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 20, 1870. Their children were: Ce- cilia, born in 1831, died Aug. 1, 1832; Theodore, born Jan. 4, 1834; Cecelia (2), born Oct. 14, 1837, died March 24, 1842; and Mary, born Sept. 30, 1842, died April 21, 1844.

The late Christopher C. Lyman, whose death occurred at his home in Hartford on May 28, 1883, had been a resident of the city for upward of fifty years. He was for a period engaged in the lumber business, but in 1835, on the reorganization of the Hartford Fire Insurance Co., became assistant sec- retary thereof, and faithfully performed his duties as such until 1878-a period of forty-three years. He declined all opportunities of promotion and re- quests to hold a higher position, though he was a director of the company and the largest individual stockholder. Mr. Lyman lived in a quiet and unos- tentatious way, but was of a most charitable nature,

and always gave very liberally to a great many good objects, and did it, as he did everything else, in a most quiet way. He was possessed of musical tastes, and was a man of much musical culture. He was a thorough student in the culture of music, and the musical library which he collected was said to have been the finest, at the time of his death, in the State. He, himself, composed a number of hymn tunes, but never any more elaborate work. He was a Christian gentleman, whom everybody respected. He left a record of a blameless life, and a reputation for integrity and uprightness such as few men acquire.

(VIII) Theodore Lyman, son of Christopher C. Lyman, has been a real-estate lawyer in Hartford, where he was born Jan. 4, 1834, and where his busy and useful life thus far has been passed. He was graduated from the Hartford Public High School 111 1851, and from Yale College in 1855. He studied law under the direction of Thomas C. and Charles E. Perkins, of Hartford, and was admitted to the Bar in that city June 26, 1859. On Jan. 22, 1886, Mr. Lyman was married, at Arlington, Mass., to Laura M., daughter of George T. Sherman. Their children are as follows: Helen, born Nov. 8, 1888; Richard Sherman, born Jan. 29, 1891 ; Bertha, born Oct. 22, 1892; Esther, born March 12, 1894.

ALBERT L. POPE. For many years the mak- ing of Columbia and Hartford bicycles has been one of Hartford's leading industries, and the great factories devoted to this purpose comprise the larg- est cycle-manufacturing plant in the world.

The Pope Manufacturing Co., now known as the Columbia department of the American Bicycle Co., was organized in 1877, and from small be- ginnings its business has grown to vast propor- tions. Albert L. Pope became manager of this great industrial establishment in 1899, his advance- ment to the position affording striking proof of the fact that men need no longer grow old in order to qualify for responsible business positions.

Mr. Pope is a son of Col. Albert A. Pope, found- er of the bicycle industry in America. If his par- entage afforded him any unusual opportunities for business success, it may be noted that they were of a kind which he never could have made the most of had he not himself possessed exceptional ability.

Albert L. Pope was born in Newton, Mass., in 1872. After being educated at Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., he expressed strong preference for a business career, and spent a year at the Columbia factories in Hartford, thoroughly familiarizing him- self with the details of manufacturing and office work, and during this period he entered the works daily at seven in the morning, remaining until six at night. This course of training gave him prac- tical experience in every department of factory and office. He afterward traveled in the interest of the company, and made a thorough study of every branch of the selling system. In 1894 he was ap-

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pointed manager of the Pope Company's Boston branch, controlling the territory included in the States of Maine, New Hampshire and eastern Mas- sachusetts. In this position he was uniformly suc- cessful, and in 1897 he was made secretary of the l'ope Manufacturing Co., and took up his perman- ent residence in the city of Hartford. That he most ably filled the position as secretary is evidenced by the fact that he was subsequently promoted to his present position.

Mr. Pope was for nine years prominently con- nected with military affairs in Massachusetts and Connecticut. For three years previous to 1896 he was provost-sergeant on the First Brigade Staff of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and later was captain on the staff of Brig .- Gen. Matthews, com- manding the First Brigade, Massachusetts National Guard. In 1898, during the Spanish war, Mr. Pope was at Marblehead in camp with the brigade, which was not, however, called into active service. After his removal to Hartford Mr. Pope, during 1898 and 1899, served as quartermaster of the First Regi- ment, Connecticut National Guard.

For several years Mr. Pope was a member of the Algonquin Club of Boston, and also a member of the Boston Athletic Association, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club of Boston, the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, and the Hull Yacht Club of Hull, of which latter organization he was rear commo- dore. In 1899 he built the stanch steam-yacht "Co- lumbia," well known among the pleasure craft of the Connecticut river, Long Island Sound and ad- joining waters.

SUMNER FAMILY. The principal family of the name of Sumner in Connecticut is traced back to (I) Roger Sumner, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, who married Nov. 2, 1601, Joane Frank- lin, and died Dec. 3, 1608. Their only child was

(II) William Sumner, born at Bicester, 1605, married Oct. 22, 1625, Mary West, came to New England in 1636, and settled at Dorchester, Mass. He was selectman for more than twenty years, and was deputy to the General Court 1658, 1666-70-72- 78-81-83-86. His wife died June 7, 1676, and he on Dec. 9, 1688. Issue : William, Joane, Rogers, George, Samuel, and Increase. Of these,

(III) William Sumner, born at Bicester, mar- ried Elizabeth, daughter of Augustine Clement, of Dorchester. He was a mariner ; moved to Boston where he died in February, 1675. His widow died before 1687.

(IV) Clement Sumner, the next youngest in a family of ten children, was born at Boston Sept. 6, 1671; married May 18, 1698, Margaret Harris ; lived at Boston.

(V) William Sumner, the eldest of seven chil- dren, was born March 18, 1699, at Boston; married Oct. II, 1721, Hannah, daughter of Thomas Hunt, of Lebanon, Conn. He was a physician, and lived at Hebron, Conn. In 1767 he moved to Claremont,

N. H., where he died March 4, 1778; she passed away April 2, 1781.

(VI) Reuben Sumner, the third of nine chil- dren, born at llebron, Conn., May 29, 1727, married March 6, 1754, Elizabeth Mack, at Hebron, Conn. He died April 2, 1807, she on July 10, 1805.

( VII) Rev. Henry Peterson Sumner, a Metho- dist preacher, the ninth in a family of eleven chil- dren, born June 10, 1773, married Oct. II, 1796, Jerusha, daughter of Solomon Perrin, of Hebron. She died Feb. 4, 1798; he married ( second) Sept. 11, 1798, Mary S., daughter of Timothy Goslee, of Glastonbury, Conn. He died Jan. 18, 1838; his widow died at Bolton, Conn., July 9, 1875.

(VIII) John Wesley Sumner, eighth in a family of twelve children, was born at Hebron, Conn., Sept. 16, 1812. He resided at Bolton, of which town he was a representative in 1877-78. On Nov. 23, 1836, he married Mary, daughter of George Gleason, and a brief record of their children is as follows: Ilenry Peterson, born at Hebron, Conn., Jan. 21, 1838, died at Bolton, Conn., Aug. 29, 1873. Mary Elizabeth, May 23, 1840, May 24, 1840. George Gleason, a sketch of whom follows. Mary Ella, born at Canton, Conn., April 24, 1848, mar- ried Feb. 8, 1871, J. L. White, of Bolton, and died Oct. 6, 1876. Frank Chester, the youngest, a sketch of whom follows.

GEORGE GLEASON SUMNER, born Jan. 14, 1841, at Bolton, Conn., attended the district schools of the place until fourteen years of age, and was then sent to the Bartlett High School at New London. After studying there a year and a half he became teacher of the district school in Andover, after which he went to Williston Seminary, there to fit himself for a college course. Ill health, however, compelled him to relinquish his plans for securing a university education, and the next four years he spent upon the farm in Bolton, working in the summer time and teaching in winter. During this period he was town clerk for three years, probate clerk and acting school visitor.

In 1864 Mr. Sumner began the study of law with Hon. David S. Calhoun, in Manchester, after- ward removed to Hartford, and entered the law office of Waldo & Hyde, and in 1866 he was ad- mitted to the Bar. In 1867 he was elected a rep- resentative from the town of Bolton to the General Assembly. The same year he removed his residence to Hartford; in 1868 was elected an alderman from the Fifth ward, and served four years. He was city

attorney for one term, associate judge of the city court, police commissioner for three years, and re- corder of the city court for four years. In 1873-74 he was chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. In 1877 he was a candidate for the State Senate from the First District, and received a certificate of election, but was compelled to relinquish the position after a contest. In the year following he was elected mayor of the city of Hartford. In 1883 he was elected lieutenant-governor of the State.

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In 1887-88 he served as State senator from the First District.

In October, 1870, George G. Sumner married Miss Julia E., daughter of Hon. David Gallup, of Plainfield, Conn., and two children came of this union : William Gallup, born Dec. 5, 1871, died in Jan., 1873; and Ella Gallup, born in March, 1875, died young. The mother of these was called from earth March 2, 1875.

FRANK CHESTER SUMNER, born June 8, 1850, at Canton, Conn., received his education at the pubic schools of Bolton, Conn., and the Hartford High School. At the age of seventeen years he en- tered the employ of the Hartford Trust Co., as messenger, and rose by degrees until reaching his present responsible position, that of secretary- treasurer. He is a director of the State Prison, of the Pratt & Whitney Co., and of the Gray Telephone Pay Station; a trustee of the Mechanics Savings Bank ; and has served as a jury commissioner ; also as a member of the board of health twelve years, up to 1900.

On June 17, 1896, Frank C. Sumner was united in marriage with Miss Mary L. Catlin, daughter of George S. and Adelaide L. (Catlin) Catlin, and a granddaughter of Hon, George S. Catlin.

HENRY FREDERICK SMITH. Mr. Smith, who was for nearly thirty years identified with the wholesale grocery trade of Hartford, and has been for thirteen years connected with the municipal gov- ernment of the city, was born July 12, 1853. in the city of Weimar, in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Wei- mar-Eisenach, Germany.

Robert H Smith, father of our subject, is one of the most influential German residents of Hart- ford, no less because of his native intelligence and superior education than on account of his genial disposition and his sterling moral worth. As a young man he learned the trade of a file maker in Germany, where he was born Sept. 10, 1828. While yet a young man he married Elizabeth Krumpholz, whose father was a large forge owner, and a man of some wealth in the Fatherland. Their first child, Henry F., was born July 12, 1853, and while he was yet an infant of six weeks the young parents emigrated to America. In 1854 Robert H. Smith, with his wife and child, settled in Hartford, where he formed a partnership with James W. Arthur, to carry on the business of file makers and general locksmiths. Early in the 'sixties he embarked in business by himself, manufacturing files, and usually employing from six to eight men in his shop at No. 129 Front street. He soon acquired a well- deserved reputation for turning out superior work, and business was prosperous with him until ill health compelled his retirement from active pur- suits in the early 'eighties. He was always a stanch Republican ; also took an interest in fraternal so- ciety work. He was a charter member of the Ger- man Independent Aid Society, and the first chan- 1

cellor commander of Herman Lodge, No. 16, K. P., and is an active member of Hartford Lodge, F. & A. M., and other Masonic bodies. Both he and his wife were confirmed in the Lutheran Church in childhood. Mrs. Smith, mother of Henry F., died Oct. 1, 1886. She bore her husband four chil- dren, of whom, as has been said, Henry was the first born. The others in order of birth were Cath- erine, born Feb. 20, 1855, married George A. Prut- ting. Jr., and died in Mav, 1889; Rose, born Oct. 29, 1857, is the wife of Dr. Charles W. Brunner, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; Marie, born March 4, 1866, mar- ried George A. Prutting, after the death of her eld- est sister, Catherine.

Henry F. Smith received his early education in the German-English school on Temple street, and at the old Centre school. His father, however, wished him to study in the schools of his native land, and in July, 1865, the boy ( then only twelve years old) was sent to Germany, where he became an inmate of the household of an uncle at Weimar. This uncle was a man of prominence ; a paymaster in the Ducal army at that time ; and afterward holding the same post in the Imperial army of Germany. For three years young Henry F. was a pupil in the Real (Pre- paratory) school, an institution which fitted its stu- dents for entrance to the universities, but in July, 1868, he returned to the parental roof-tree in Hart- ford. On Oct. 8 of that year he entered the em- ploy of Foster & Co., wholesale grocers, and the story of his connection with that concern affords a key to the secret of his success in life. He showed such innate ability, quick perception, ready grasp of emergencies, industry and fidelity, that he rapidly rose from the humble rank of office boy to a com- manding position, after serving as bookkeeper, sales- man and buyer. For twenty-seven years and three months he remained with the firm, resigning Jan. 1, 1896.

It is in his career as a public man, however, that Mr. Smith has been especially conspicuous. In 1886. and again in 1887, the Republicans of the Fourth ward elected him to represent them in the common council board. He served on several im- portant committees, among them those on Amuse- ments and Claims. In 1891 he was the unsuccess- ful Republican nominee for the office of town clerk, being defeated by his Democratic opponent. John E. Higgins, by 1.388 majority, the total vote polled being 7,702. Two years later he again locked po- litical horns with the same antagonist, and was again defeated, although the majority was reduced to twenty-eight, in a total vote of 5.800. In the spring of 1894 the same gentlemen were opposing candidates for the office of city clerk of Hartford, Mr. Smith being chosen by a majority of 882. In 1895 he was once more a successful candidate, and in 1896 (the offices of town clerk and city clerk hav- ing been consolidated) he was elected to the dual position by a majority of 735, for the period of two years. So satisfactorily did he fill this position that

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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 78

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