Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Pt 2, Part 100

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1172

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Mr. Thrall acquired his education in the brick school house in District No. 7, town of Windsor, and among his first teachers was Eunice Phelps. He was reared as a farmer boy, and after the death of his father he and four brothers took charge of the old homestead, which they operated together until they were married. In 1879 our subject wed ded Miss Vesta E. Bartlett, a native of Cummington, Mass., and a daughter of Ephraim Bartlett, who died when she was quite young. After his death she lived in Hartford, Conn., and for several years successfully engaged in teaching school in Windsor and elsewhere in Hartford county. She is a lady of more than ordinary intelligence, is cultured and re- fined, has served as a member of the school board, and is highly esteemed by her acquaintances and friends. She is sixth in the order of birth in a fam- ily of eight, children, as follows: Rhoda; Aroline ; Lucius, a bookkeeper in Wethersfield, Conn .; Er- mina D., the widow of Joseph Suhanek, late of Hartford ; Alice, the widow of Edwin Burdick, and living near Boston, Mass .; Vesta E. (Mrs. Thrall) ; Eliza ; and Flora, wife of Arthur Ulrich, of Hart- ford, three of whom have passed away, Rhoda, Ar- oline and Eliza. The mother of these children bore the maiden name of Salome Tower. Mr. and Mrs. Thrall have two children : Oliver J. and Alice M.

In 1879 Mr. Thrall purchased his present home

in the town of Windsor, and removed there a few months after his marriage, since which time he has given his attention to the cultivation and improve- ment of the place. In politics he is a silver Dem- ocrat, and though not an office seeker takes a deep interest in the success of his party. He is a Spirit- talist, and his religious views are the result of many years of study and reading. He gives liberally to all charitable enterprises, and endeavors to treat his fellow men as he would have them treat him. He has not made the accumulation of property his sole ambition, but takes life easily and has traveled con- siderably over the United States.

ABEL C. ADAMS (deceased) was in his life- time a leading citizen of Tariffville, town of Sims- bury, where for generations the Adams family have been very prominent.

Mr. Adams was born Nov. 4, 1823, at the cor- ner of Main and Winthrop streets, in the village above named, and was a son of Abel Adams, and a grandson of Abel Adams, who enlisted as a private in the Revolutionary war, at the age of nineteen, May 9, 1775. Our subject's father was the owner of extensive tracts of land. He married Vashti Griswold, and they had three sons and two daugh- ters: James, Thomas, Abel C., Charlotte and Caro- line. The elder daughter lived to adult years, but died unmarried, and the younger died soon after her marriage. James, the eldest son, married Abbie Blakesley, was for years a merchant in Tariffville, and at his death left five children, James G., Albert E., Charles A., Lottie H. and Frederick C. These children were reared to maturity by Abel C. Adans, the subject of this sketch, although the father left considerable property. Thomas, the second son of Abel, married Caroline Hoskins; he also was a merchant, later a farmer, and acquired a comfort- able competence ; he died in Tariffville, and his widow now resides in Windsor. Abel Adams, the father, was a merchant at Tariffville, and trained his three sons in the same vocation. He lived to be over seventy years of age, and died in the Epis- copal faith; his wife preceded him to the grave, and the remains of both now rest in the Scotland cemetery.

Abel C. Adams attended the schools of his native town, and later the Connecticut Literary Institute, at Suffield, and then entered his father's store. How- ever, he preferred farming, and was still a young man when he entered upon this calling, although he did not himself do any manual labor.

On April 29, 1858, Mr. Adams married, in Granby, Miss Martha Moore, who was born in that town March 25, 1836, a daughter of Horace and Polly (Reed) Moore. Horace Moore was born in Southwick, Mass., April 23, 1792, a son of Hor- ace and Sarah (Nate) Moore, and his wife was born in Granby, Conn., March 23, 1805, a daughter of Martin and Bernice (Kendall) Reed. Horace Moore, father of Mrs. Martha Adams, was a fine

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scholar, and taught school successfully for a number of years during the winter season ; in summer he peddled Yankee notions, whips, cigars, etc., and was a pioneer peddler through the West, although he had a broken leg and only twenty-five cents in cash at the age of twenty-one years. After marriage he settled at Granby and engaged in farming, of which he made as fine a success as he had in peddling. He erected many fine buildings, and his dwelling was one of the best in Granby. He lived to be sev- enty-five years of age, and his wife to be seventy- one. Their children were named as follows: Ezra died at the age of two years; Mary died at four : Martha is now Mrs. Adams; Henry W. died in 1858; and Mary (2) died in 1867. Of this family. Mrs. Adams was the only one to reach adult years. Although her father was one of eight children, not one of these is now living, and as Mrs. Adams' cousins, Homer P. and Birney J. Moore, of Cali- fornia, have no children, the name will go out with them.

Mrs. Martha Adams was educated at the Con- necticut Literary Institute, in Suffield, and later graduated from the New Britain Normal School. At the age of sixteen she taught school at South- wick, Mass., receiving two dollars per week and "boarding around;" she later taught the North school, at Hartford, and was teaching at Tariffville when she met her late husband.

In politics Mr. Adams was a strong Republican. and he held various town offices, besides serving several years as deputy sheriff, under High Sheriff Lewis Goodrich, of Simsbury. Mr. and Mrs. Adams had a family of five children : Henry, born April 18, 1859, is a druggist in Spring Hill, Kan. ; Hor- ace M., born Sept. 6, 1861, was traveling auditor for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe eating-houses from Kansas City to Los Angeles for fifteen years, and is now in business in Tariffville: Martha V., born Jan. 14, 1865, is the wife of Dr. C. M. Woos- ter, of Tariffville ; Abel C., born June 24, 1869, is a druggist at Unionville, Conn. ; and Frank E., born Oct. 17, 1872, is also a druggist at Unionville. The sons are well-to-do business men, and give evidence of having been carefully reared and well-taught.

Mrs. Adams, since the death of her husband, in 1877, has resided in the house which was his home from the age of six years. She is a member of the Episcopal Church, and is active in its work, doing good wherever and whenever she can. She is also a member of the King's Daughters, and is one of the most highly esteemed ladies in her town.

OLIVER WOLCOTT KELLOGG, a highly- respected farmer and tobacco grower of East street, Suffield, was born in West Suffield, Conn., April 8, 1855, is a descendant of one of the oldest Puri- tan families of New England, and traces his an- cestry in this country to three brothers of Scottish origin, but of English birth, who came from Eng- land to this country in 1640, and were known as

Lieut. Joseph Kellogg, of Hadley, Mass. ; Samuel Kellogg. of Hatfield, Mass .; and Daniel Kellogg, of Norwalk, Conn. From an old will on file in the State Library at Hartford. Conn., dated June 4, 1657. the following extract is made : "All my houses and lands in Farmington I give to John Kellogg and two sisters, Jane and Kate, in Old England," a palpable evidence of the antiquity of the Amer- ican family.

Some of the earlier Kelloggs were deacons in the Congregational Church, some were selectmen, and some were officers in the army of the King. Samuel Kellogg, of Hatfield, married, Nov. 24, 1664, Sarah, widow of Nathaniel Gunn, and daugh- ter of Robert Day, of Hartford, Conn. Their chil- dren were born as follows: Samuel, April 11, 1669; Nathaniel, June 4, 1671; Ebenezer, June 7, 1674; and Joseph, Sept. 19, 1676. On Sept. 19, 1077, Mrs. Kellogg and her infant son Joseph were slain by the Indians, and March 20, 1679, Mr. Kel- logg married Sarah Root, of Westfield, Mass. Their children were John, born April 25, 1680, died in Hatfield ; Thomas, born Oct. 1, 1681, died about 1757; and Sarah, born April 14, 1684, was mar- ried to Abraham Morton, of Hatfield, May 8, 1701. Samuel Kellogg, the father, died July 17, 1751.

Samuel Kellogg (2), born in Hatfield, April II, 1669, married Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., and about 1702 removed to Col- chester, Conn., where he died in 1708 : his wife died Aug. 3, 1745, leaving four children : Samuel, born May 18, 1694; Joseph, born June 18, 1696: Han- nah, born Sept. 11, 1699; and Eunice, born Aug. 3. 170I.

Deacon Joseph Kellogg, second child born to Samuel Kellogg (2), was married, at Colchester, to Abigail Miller, Oct. 23, 1717. It is recorded that he sold his right in his father's Hatfield estate to his brother Samuel, Feb. 28, 1722, for fourteen pounds sterling. From Colchester Deacon Joseph removed to Hebron, about 1729, and from Hebron to Marlboro, in Hartford county, where he died. His children were named Joseph, Daniel, Mercy, Moses, Elijah, Ezekiel, Abigail, Samuel and Ben- jamin1.

Ezekiel Kellogg, sixth child of Deacon Joseph Kellogg, was born Nov. 12, 1732, and married Ann Owen July 2, 1758 .In Granby is recorded a deed given by Elijah Messenger to Ezekiel Kellogg. Sept. 21, 1770, in the ninth year of the reign of King George I11. The following named children were born to the marriage of Ezekiel and Ann Kellogg : Lydia, born in Hebron. Nov. 24. 1759, died in East llartford, July 4. 1836; Oliver, born in Marlboro, Nov. 30, 1761 ; Rachel, born in East Hartland Jan. 10, 1763: Ann. born Jan. 23. 1766: and Ezekiel, born Jime 14. 1773. The mother of these died in Hartland, June 21, 1773, seven days after the birth of the youngest child. The father was admitted to the communion of the Congre-

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gational Church Nov. 14, 1773; he died in Hart- land, of smallpox, June 16, 1785. He was pos- sessed of considerable poetic ability, was the author of a work on the Revolutionary war, and some of his productions are still in the possession of the Kellogg family.

Ezekiel Kellogg, youngest son of Ezekiel, men- tioned above, was born in Hartland, June 14, 1773, and married Luna Clark Dec. 8, 1796. He was a farmer, and died in Southwick, Mass., Nov. 18, 1828. His children were as follows: Friend, born June 19, 1797, died April 2, 1839 ; Polly, born Nov. I, 1799, died May 17, 1804; Harvey, born May 17, 1801, died July 22, 1876; Eliza, born Aug. 9, 1802, married Justus Kent, and died July 5, 1830; Will- iam, born April 12, 1804, died in Georgia, Oct. 13, 1827 ; Wilson, twin of William, died May 24, 1871 ; Lewis, born July 4, 1806, died Aug. 2, 1821 ; Anna, born July 18, 1808, married Shepherd Eaton, and died near Painesville, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1836; Edwin, born Aug. 23, 1810, died Sept. 30, 1828; Lyman, born Feb. 5, 1813, died in Virginia, Jan. 17, 1898; Mary, born Feb. 28, 1815, married George Town- send, of Ohio, and died near Warren, that State; and Oliver W., father of our subject, was born July 9, 1817. Mrs. Luna (Clark) Kellogg mar- ried for her second husband Augustus Collins, of Granville, and there passed the remainder of her life, dying Oct. 23, 1842.

Oliver Wolcott Kellogg was educated in the common schools of Southwick, Mass., whence he went to Manlius, N. Y., and later to Geneva, there attending a course of lectures in medicine. Re- turning to Manlius, he remained one year, and then entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he graduated at the age of twenty-five years. He began practice in West Suffield, Conn., in 1842, continuing there for seventeen years, and also engaged in farming. In 1859 he removed to Suffield Center and practiced until 1864, at which time he moved to Ellington, Conn., where he bought a farm on which he resided two years, and then returning to Suffield bought the Rising home, re- sumed practice, and here died Dec. 12, 1891, after fifty years of professional work.

In politics he was first a Republican, but later became a Prohibitionist, was very active in the cause, and was nominated by the Prohibition party as its candidate for the State Senate from the third district. He served as a member of the school com- mittee, as superintendent of the Congregational Sunday-school in Suffield and West Suffield, and as deacon of the church in West Suffield, and was one of the most useful and respected residents of Suf- field. Dr. Kellogg was married in Southwick, Mass. to Miss Eliza Smith Fletcher, a native of New Ips- wich, N. H., and a daughter of Rev. Thomas and Elizabeth (Pratt) Fletcher, the former a Presby- terian divine; her grandfather and great-grand- father were also named Thomas; the latter was a soldier under King George. Rev. Thomas Fletcher

died in Southwick, Mass., and his widow at the home of her son in Westfield, Hampden Co., Mass., in the faith of the Presbyterian Church. Their children were: Eleanor Read, the eldest daughter, was married to Dr. John Scoville, of Cornwall, Conn,. and both died in Sheffield, Mass .; William Otis was a banker in Westfield, Mass .; Harriett Newell, who lives in Westfield, is the wife of Lewis R. Norton, president of the Hampden Bank; Dwight died young; Eliza Smith is the mother of our sub- ject. The children born to the marriage of Dr. Oliver W. Kellogg were named as follows: Mary Eveline died when nine years old; Thomas Fletcher died at the age of four years; Eliza Harriet died when sixteen months old; Harriet Maria died at the age of five years; Oliver W. is our subject ; and Eliza Fletcher lives in Suffield, caring for her mother, who has reached the ripe age of eighty- four years.

Oliver W. Kellogg, our subject, graduated from the Connecticut Literary Institute, and early began work on his father's farm in West Suffield; he re- moved with his parents to Ellington, but returning to Suffield worked one year in Luce's (now Clark's) grist-mill. He next moved to Feather street (now East), and in 1892 purchased the Kinney farm, of sixty acres, on which he has made very extensive and valuable improvements, and has successfully cultivated tobacco, etc.

Mr. Kellogg was united in marriage, Jan. I, 1879, with Miss Libbie Chapell, who was born in Washington, Mass., a daughter of Amos and Maria G. (Bottum) Chapell. Peter Chapell, grandfather of Mrs. Kellogg, married Miss Rhoda Lee Congdon, who was born in New London, Conn., and to this union were born twelve children: James, who died in 1896; Mary Ann, who died at the age of eighteen years; Rhoda, who married Lorenzo Webb; Eliza, who was married to Nelson Stewart, but is now de- ceased; Rachel, who married Francis W. Joy, of Plainfield, Mass. ; Melissa, wife of Justin Ferguson, of Hinsdale, Mass .; Amos, father of Mrs. Kellogg; Enoch, deceased; Sarah D., widow of Ebenezer Bal- lentine, anl living in Hartford, Conn .; Harriett E., deceased wife of William Balientine, of Springfield, Mass. ; William, who died in infancy ; and Wilson, also deceased.

Amos Chapell, father of Mrs. Kellogg, was born June 19, 1825, married Miss Maria G. Bottum in September, 1855, and in 1867 came from Wash- ington, Mass., to Suffield, and bought the H. K. Granger farm. They have had two children: Lib- bie, Mrs. Kellogg; and Willis Lincoln, a druggist of Hinsdale, Mass. Amos Chapell was first a Democrat in politics, but since the Civil war has supported the Republican party. He and his genial wife are now residing in retirement in Suffield. To Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Kellogg has come one child, Lawrence Chapell, born in 1886, who is a bright lad.

Mr. Kellogg is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Congregational Church, and for

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four years was church librarian. He is a genial and agreeable gentleman, is very popular, and with his wife stands very high in the esteem of the com- munity.

FREDERICK GEORGE GODDARD, a well- known farmer and tobacco grower of the town of East Granby, belongs to that class of citizens who started out in life with naught but an abundance of determination and indefatigable industry, and who have succeeded through their own diligence, energy and economy. He was born Oct. 16, 1851, in that town, when it still formed a part of the town of Granby. His grandfather, Datus Goddard, was a native of Bushy Hill, town of Granby, and as a farmer spent his entire life in that town. He was a Democrat in politics, and was well-known and highly respected. He married a Miss Case, and to them were born five children : Newell, Byron, Wat- son, George D. and Almira.

George D. Goddard, father of Frederick G., was a native of the town of Granby, and received a common-school education. Throughout his active business life he worked as a farm laborer, and he spent his last days with his son Frederick, who pro- vided for him in his old age. He died at the home of his son Frederick on Nov. 27, 1893, and was buried in East Granby. His political support was always given to the Democracy. In early life he married Miss Mary Clark, of New London, Conn., by whom he had five children : Elizabeth, now the widow of Henry Griswold; William, who died near New Milford, Conn .; Frederick G .; Albert; and Jesse. The mother, who was a consistent member of the Congregational Church, passed away in 1862, and was laid to rest in East Granby cemetery.

Frederick G. Goddard, whose name opens this sketch, was only eleven years old when he lost his mother, and the following year he commenced to earn his own livelihood, working as a farm hand for small wages. His school privileges were necessarily limited, though he attended the common schools for a short time. He continued to work for others for twenty-six years, during which time, by his thrift and industrious habits, he managed to save about $3,300, which, in 1890, he invested in sixty- eight acres of land, known as the Talbott farm. Here he has since resided, and has devoted his time and attention to tobacco raising and general farm- ing, meeting with a fair degree of success in his labors.

On April 22, 1890, in Simsbury, Mr. Goddard was united in marriage with Miss Emma M. Nye, a native of Blandford, Mass., and a daughter of Welcome and Margaret ( Fair) Nye, who are still living. Two children have come of this union : Howard W., born Jan. 17, 1892, and Freda O., born Jan. 28, 1894, both now in school. The family attend the Congregational Church, and Mr. Goddard is identified with the Democratic party. His wife is a lady of marked ability, well educated and re-

fined. and belongs to an old and highly-respected family. Upright and honorable in all the relations of life, Mr. Goddard has won the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has come in contact, and his friends are many throughout Hartford county.

GEORGE REMINGTON. Scientists tell us that energetic and well-directed toil is conducive to health and long life, and in the career of this highly-esteemed resident of Suffield we find an illus- tration of the theory. Beginning life a poor boy, he passed through years of hard work before he gained his present handsome competence, and yet, at the advanced age of seventy-eight, he is as strong as many men of fewer years.

Mr. Remington comes of a good old family, and is now the only representative of his generation in the town. Stephen Remington, his grandfather, who was a resident of Suffield, had two sons, one of whom went West, his descendants being now scat- tered.

Stephen Remington (2), our subject's father, was a farmer at Hasting's Hill, in the town of Suf- field, and, as he started in life on his own resources and was disabled for some years previous to his death, he was not very successful financially. He died in 1827, at the age of fifty-one. In early man- hood he married Miss Chloe Gillett, a native of Granville, Conn., who died in 1824, aged forty-seven. She was a most estimable woman, industrious and faithful to her sense of duty, and during the long illness of her husband the care of the family and management of affairs devolved chiefly upon her. The labor-saving methods and appliances of the present day were unknown, and she did the family washing at a stream near the old home. Of the twelve children none are now living except our subject. (1) The eldest, Myron, went West soon after his marriage, but returned to Suffield, where he died at the age of thirty-nine, leaving seven chil- dren, one of whom was in the Civil war. ( 2) Albert engaged in farming in early life, but his health failed, and he settled in Springfield, Mass., where he died aged seventy-four. He married Emeline Mor- ley, of Agawam, Mass .. who died aged sixty-five, and they had six children: Margaret E., a resident of Suffield : Julia, who lived only six weeks: Robert A., who enlisted during the Civil war in the Ist Massachusetts Cavalry, and was starved to death while a prisoner at Andersonville: Henry W .. a hotel clerk at Boston. Mass., and a hotel keeper at Newark, N. J., who died Dec. 25, 1870: M. Jennie, who married E. Pember, and died in Plainville, Conn. : and Sarah Grafton Reed, who died in Jan- uary, 1879. unmarried. (3) Almon, twin of Albert. died in Suffield, aged thirty-six years, leaving five children. (4) Aun married Elihu S. Taylor, of Suf- field, and had three children. (5) Sibyl married Jolin Fuller, of Suffield. (6) Amy married Norman Hast- ings, of Suffield, and had seven children. (7) Jane

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married Nathaniel Curtis, of Suffield, and had five children, one of whom served in the Civil war. (8) Marietta never married. (9) Stephen, who was a wheelwright at Suffield, had four children, one of whom served in the Civil war. (10) Thomas, who was a farmer in the town of Suffield, had two chil- dren. (II) George is mentioned more fully below. (12) Chloe married Norman Adams, of Suffield, and had six children.

George Remington was born March 15, 1821, at the old home on Hasting's Hill, and was but six years old when his father died. His attendance at the local schools was limited, as there was much work to do at home, and all the children began to earn money as soon as possible to help support the family, the girls doing spinning for neighbors at seventy- five cents per week. The homestead was taken by Almon Remington, who purchased a quit claim from the other heirs as they came of age, paying one hun- dred dollars to each one. Our subject remained at the farm until he was about seventeen and a half years old, when he spent six months with John Rice, a farmer, receiving eight dollars per month, with a bonus of three dollars for being steady. In the fall of 1838 he went to Northampton, Mass., to learn the blacksmith's trade, with the understanding that he would receive thirty dollars the first year, thirty-five dollars the second, forty dollars the third, and forty-five dollars the next six months. After one year and two months he left the place, and never had a penny for his hard work. Returning to Suf- field, he "did chores" for his board from January till April 1, 1840, and then entered upon a two-years apprenticeship to Francis Nichols, a blacksmith, at fifty dollars per year. At the expiration of his term he was employed at $200 per year for three years, and later worked for a few months for Eli- phalet Moran, whose shop stood just south of our subject's present home. Having determined to en- gage in business on his own account he rented this shop, and three years later bought it, with a house and lot north of it, where he has since made his home.

Mr. Remington was known as a skilled work- nian, and for many years his trade kept him working early and late. In one week he shod several oxen and as many as ninety horses, pointing all the nails, and filled numerous small orders for repairs or gen- eral blacksmithing. His constitution was strong and his body, while never fleshy, was wiry and mus- cular, giving him great endurance. About the time of the breaking out of the Civil war his health began to fail, and for two years he worked as a farm hand in order to recuperate. For the next five years he had charge of the Hathaway farm, and since giving up that position he has lived in comparative retire- ment, although the care of his real-estate holdings and making of private loans on securities occupies some of his time. At present he is a director in the Suffield National Bank, and his wealth and rep- utation for sagacity in financial affairs make him

one of the substantial citizens of the town. Polit- ically he was a Democrat until 1896, when his opin- ions on the currency question led him to vote for Mckinley. He has never sought political office, but has not shirked the duty of a good citizen, and when the new school house was built in Suffield he served as chairman of the building committee. He and his estimable wife are leading members of the Baptist Church, and for ten years he was chairman of the committee of that Society.

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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 2, Part 100

Author: J.H. Beers & Co Publication date: 1901 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1172

Author: J.H. Beers & Co
Publication date: 1901
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1172