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 139

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

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tlement of New Jersey. They have had children as follows: Walter L., born Sept. 3, 1875; Harold, who died in infancy; James L., born Oct. 10, 1881 ; and Philip L., born March 14, 1885.

(3) Sarah Morgan Goodwin (2), born Sept. 25, 1837, married William R. Brounell.

(4) REV. FRANCIS GOODWIN was born Sept. 25, 1839. He received his elementary education in the public schools and high school of Hartford, and at fifteen entered the employ of Howe, Mather & Co., dry-goods merchants of Hartford, with whom he re- mained two years. He was next with Morton & Grinnell, of New York, until May, 1857. He then studied for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church, under private instructors at first, and in Oc- tober, 1860, entered Berkeley Divinity School, Mid- dletown, completing the course of study there in May, 1863. He was ordained deacon in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Middletown, by Right Rev. John W. Williams, D. D., bishop of the diocese. The following month he was appointed chaplain to the bishop, and placed in charge of the missions at Durham, North Guilford, North Killingworth and Ponset, with residence at Middletown. In July, 1863, he received from Trinity College the degree of M. A., and on Dec. 19 was ordamed priest by Bishop Williams. He was elected rector of Trin- ity Church, Hartford, May 14, 1865, and resigned in November, 1871. From April, 1874, to May, 1875, he was in charge of Trinity Church, Weth- ersfield, and from November, 1876, to January, 1877, he was in charge of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford. At the division of the Arch- deaconries, in 1878, he was elected the first arch- deacon of Hartford, which position he resigned in February, 1888. Rev. Mr. Goodwin has given much time and study to architecture. He made the designs of his father's residence on Woodland street, and personally superintended its construc- tion. Since the death of his father, in 1878, he and his brother have had the management of his father's estate. He gives much of his time to church work, and to institutions of a benevolent or charitable public purpose. Since 1875 Mr. Good- win has been a trustee of the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown; president of the trustees of the bishop's fund ; since 1884 a trustee of Trinity Col- lege. Hartford ; since 1875 a trustee of the Watkin- son Library of Reference ; since 1877 a trustee, and since 1870 president, of the Watkinson Farmi School and Juvenile Asylum; from 1879 to 1880 a niember of the board of street commissioners of Hartford; since 1881 a member of the board of park commissioners ; since 1887 a member of the board of school visitors: since 1881 a director of the Retreat for the Insane; from 1886 until 1890 vice-president, then president, of Wadsworth Ath- enæum, Hartford; and president of the Keney Park trustees.

On June 3. 1863, Rev. Mr. Goodwin was mar- ried to Mary Alsop Jackson, born in Middletown, Conn., July 14, 1842, second daughter of Commo-

dore Charles Jackson, of the United States navy, and Martha Lawrence ( Willard) Jackson, and a lescendant of Edward Jackson, a resident of New- town, Mass., in 1643. The following named chil- dren have been born of this marriage: James, Feb. 10, 1805; William B., Oct. 7, 1866; Sarah, May 7, 1868; Alice F., May 30, 1871; Lucy M., Jan. II, 1873 (died May 9, 1884) ; Charles A., Nov. 18, 1876; Francis, Oct. 19, 1878; and Jeanette, July 2, 1884.

(5) Lucy Goodwin, born in 1841, died in 1844. (6) Mary Goodwin, born April 9, 1846, died Oct. 28, 1880.

(7) Walter Goodwin, born Oct. 29, 1851, died July . 22, 1853.

HON. GEORGE KELLOGG (deceased). The Kelloggs have dwelt in Connecticut from the early settlement of New England. For nearly one hundred and fifty years that branch of the family to which our subject belongs has resided in Tol- land county, and along the line of his descent have been men of letters, business sagacity, prominence and great usefulness in their several walks of life, none, however, standing on a higher, broader and nobler plane than him whose name introduces this article.

There lived at Norwalk, Conn .. in 1665, one Daniel Kellogg, the Connecticut ancestor of the Tolland county family. He was a selectman of the town in 1670, was twice married, marrying ( sec- ond) in 1665 Bridget, daughter of John Bouton, a French Protestant. From this ancestor our sub- ject was a descendant in the sixth generation, his line being through Daniel Kellogg (2), Daniel (3), Rev. Ebenezer and Ebenezer.

(II) Daniel Kellogg (2), son of Daniel Kel- logg, of Norwalk, Conn., born in 1671, married and lived in that town. He died in about 1709.

(III) Daniel Kellogg (3), son of Daniel Kel- logg (2), born in 1699, married in 1724 Eunice Jarvis, of Huntington, L. I., who died in 1767.

(IV) Rev. Ebenezer Kellogg, son of Daniel Kellogg (3), born April 5, 1737, in Norwalk, Conn., married Oct. 20, 1756, Hannah, daughter of Rev. Ebenezer and Hannah (Allyn) Wright, of Stamford, Conn. Rev. Mr. Kellogg was graduated from Yale College in 1757. He was ordained pas- tor of the church at North Bolton (later Vernon). Conn., in 1762, and died there Sept. 3, 1817, aged eighty years, and in the fifty-fifth year of his min- istry, his wife passing away June 7. 1807, aged sixty-seven years. They had six children.

(V) Ebenezer Kellogg, son of Rev. Ebenezer Kellogg, and the father of our subject, was born Oct. 21, 1764, in Tolland county, Conn. He mar- ried (first) Abigail, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Pitkin) Olmsted, of East Hartford. She died in 1797, and he married (second) Hannah, daughter of Ashbel and Hannah Olmsted, and (third) Elizabeth Sheldon. He had a large family of children, among whom, of the sons, were:

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(1) Ebenezer, born Oct. 25, 1789, was gradu- ated from Yale College in 1810, pursued his theo- logical studies at Andover, Mass., and in 1815 re- cerved appointment to the professorship of lan- guages in Williams College, a position he resigned 011 account of ill health in 1844, after a period of twenty-nine years of service. In 1826 he married Susan Coit, of New London. His death occurred Oct. 2, 1840.

(2) Martin, born Nov. 6, 1791, died at New London, while in the service of his country, Oct. 1, 1814.

(3) George, born March 3, 1793, is mentioned below.

(4) AAllyn, born Aug. 17, 1794, was a farmer in Vernon.

(5) Nathaniel, born Feb. 26, 1796, was a man- ufacturer in Vernon, where he died May 13, 1854. He was a representative from his town in the State Legislature, and also from his district in the Sen- ate.

The late George 'Kellogg, of Rockville, son of Ebenezer Kellogg, was born March 3, 1793, in the town of Vernon, Tolland Co., Conn., and remained on the farm with his father until after the latter's death, in 1812. He received a common-school ed- ucation, and was reared to agricultural pursuits, but he afterward concluded other occupations pre- ferable, owing to his health. In company with others, among them Col. Francis McLean, Mr. Kel- logg built a mill for the manufacture of woolen goods. This enterprise was incorporated by char- ter in 1828, as the Rock Manufacturing Co., and for the following decade Mr. Kellogg was the agent of the company, having charge of its most important affairs. In 1837 Mr. Kellogg, Allen Hammond, and others, built the mill of the New England Co. at Rockville, and for some years Mr. Kellogg was the agent of that company. Again. from 1846 until late in life, when released from the arduous duties of the business by his associates, Mr. Kellogg was the agent of the Rock Co. For a half century he led a very busy and useful life at Rockville, and is sometimes referred to as the founder of that manufacturing center.

Politically Mr. Kellogg was a Republican. He was sent to the Legislature from the town of Ver- non in 1857, and again in 1865, and the following year ( 1866) represented the district in the Senate. He became a member of the church at Vernon in 1814, and later for several years was one of the church committee. In 1827 he had been chosen one of the deacons, but declined to serve. In 1837 he became one of the constitutional members of the J'irst Congregational Church at Rockville, and was chosen one of its earliest deacons, an office he held by annual election until, in 1849, he left to aid in the formation of the Second Congregational Church in that village; he was a deacon in that church from that time on until called to his reward. From 1855 to 1870 he was identified with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

On Jan. 1, 1817, Mr. Kellogg was married to Eliza Noble, and to them were born: Ebenezer N., Eliza, Harriet, George, and Edward.

Our subject died Aug. 8, 1870. In the follow- ing extract, from a sermon preached at the time is given a good conception of the character of Mr. Kellogg, and of his great usefulness: "As a busi- ness man of liberal views, keen enterprise, sterling integrity and clear insight, and all consecrated to weal of man and the glory of God, we have occa- sion to thank God for him, and shall have so long as a tradition of his theories obtains in the manage- ment of our business affairs. Of his devotion to the general, social and moral interests of the place, too much can hardly be said. Could he have con- trolled it, he would have kept out of employ here every bad man or bad class of men. Could he have settled it, every right moral principle should have been supreme among us. Of the position of our friend as a citizen, I need but say that he loved his town, State and country, was loyal to their every interest; that he was an earnest advocate of the rights of all men-a Republican to the core of him, and aways foremost in promoting what he religi- ously believed to be the best interests of his coun- try and mankind in the success of that party. That he had very much to do with the political complex- ion of this town and country, I suppose no one will question. Of the kindness of our friend's great heart many here know that of the poor, and sick, and helpless, and widowed, he was the constant, sympathizing, open-handed friend. Many a suf- ferer has been touched and comforted by his liberal sympathy. He was more than the employer of those who labored for him. He was as well a cor- dial friend and sympathizer, and a wise and ready adviser. As a Christian in all external activities he was abounding and unwearied. He felt that the support of the church and its ordinances in their best efficiency was a first lien upon all he had, and he constantly endeavored to conscientiously dis- charge it. I do not believe he ever refused to give, to the last penny, what he fairly thought he ought to give, to any call of the needs of that church, whether for its Sunday-school, its ordinary ex- penses, or its extraordinary, its arrears, or its prospective efficiency. I know that he has often, especially in the eastern history of the church, bor- rowed to give to it, and gave very often to the far- thest limit his conscience would admit, in burden- ing himself for its weal and thrift. The same con- scientious and careful giving was illustrated in his benefactions to all the grand objects of Christian beneficence. He meant to have a stake, and as large a one as Christian prudence would permit him, in every enterprise for the establishment of the Redeemer's Kingdom at home and round the world. This man of great physique, hardy and much enduring; of strong, clear and comprehen- sive mental faculty; of great and sound moral quality ; of vast energy and tremendous will; of quick sensibilities and most kindly affection; of

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excellent social fiber, genial, humorous, helpful ; this mian, full of devotion to the pecuniary, social, educational, moral, political and religious interests of this Church, this village and the world, has fallen-nay, has risen, with redeemed powers, to spheres full of splendid opportunities for a glori- ous career, which I doubt not he will be even more glorious achieving."

EBENEZER N. KELLOGG, eldest son of George Kellogg, was born Nov. 2, 1817, in Vernon, Tol- land county, and there spent his boyhood. His ed- ucation was acquired at various places, he having attended school at Stockbridge, Westfield and An- dover, Mass., and at Vernon Center, in his native State. At the outset of his practical business ca- reer Mr. Kellogg clerked in Rose's store, in South Coventry, Conn., and later for three years was employed in a wholesale grocery in Troy, N. Y., and for two years in a wool store in that city. In the fall of 1841 these wool merchants sent him to Hartford to sell wool to his old friends, and in 1842 he accepted the proposition of Crosby, White & Dunham to engage in the wool business, entering into partnership with them. Mr. Kellogg has been interested in various important commercial enter- prises of the city since his settlement here. For many years he has been a director of the Connecti- cut Mutual Insurance Co., and has held that rela- tion to the Mercantile Bank of Hartford since its foundation. He has been a director of the Rock Manufacturing Co. for twenty years.

Mr. Kellogg was married, Aug. 17, 1843, at Troy, N. Y., to Miss Lydia M. Billings, of Sara- toga, that State, who died in 1898. Seven chil- dren were born to this union: George Billings, Frank S., Robert W. (who died in July, 1899), Grace, Nathaniel O., Hattie, and Ebenezer (who died when six months old). Like his father, Mr. Kellogg is an active churchman, and has been a member of the Park Church since 1843. No resi- «lent of Hartford occupies a higher position in the esteem and hearts of his fellow citizens.

COL. EDWARD M. GRAVES, associate man- ager of the Hartford Opera House, former assistant adjutant-general of the State, and former editor and publisher, is one of the well and favorably known men and conspicuous characters of Hartford.

Col. Graves was born in Dublin, Ireland, April 2. 1848, a son of Edward Reid Shoosmith, an Eng- lishman and graduate of Christ's College, who died just six weeks before the birth of our subject. The widowed mother came to the United States a few months later to join her relatives, who resided in Brooklyn, where the boyhood days of the Colonel were passed. In 1857 Mrs. Shoosmith married Francis C. Graves. At the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion Col. Graves, then a boy of thirteen, was very desirous of enlisting, and he did so four different times, but upon the demand of his parents was released. In 1862, under the name of Graves (taking his stepfather's name), he enlisted in the

Ist New York (Lincoln) Cavalry, and succeeded in reaching Hart's Island, New York Harbor, which was the rendezvous of the enlisted men. Here his stepfather found him, and again demanded his re- lease, on the ground that he was too young. The surgeon of the camp decided that the tonsils of young Graves were too large to endure the Southern climate, and his discharge was ordered. Finally the parents, seeing that the boy was determined to enter the volunteer army, consented to allow him to enlist, provided he would first have his tonsils removed. This was done, and a few weeks later young Graves joined his regiment at Halltown, Va. As his dis- charge papers were made out in the name of Graves, and in honor of a most worthy and devoted step- father, he has retained the name of Graves ever since, and has had same legalized. While in the army he served throughout the Civil war, and re- turned to civil life with an honorable war record. For five months of his service he was employed as a scout, attached to the staffs of the gallant Sher- idan and Custer. He took part in a number of the great battles of the war, being at Martinsburg, Winchester (2), Fisher's Hill, Opequan, White House Landing, Waynesboro, Cedar Creek, New- market, Hunter's raid to Lynchburg, siege of Peters- burg, Five Forks, Sailors' Run and Appomattox. He received a sabre wound at the battle of Five Forks, and a gunshot wound at Petersburg. He was with Sheridan in all his memorable raids through the Shenandoah Valley.

After receiving an honorable discharge from the service, in 1865, young Graves returned home, but shortly afterward came to Hartford and entered the employ of the Plimpton Manufacturing Co., remain- ing with them some eighteen months. Having been deprived of the higher school privileges, owing to his enlistment at so early an age and his ensuing service in the war, he became ambitious for an edu- cation, and during his stay with the Plimpton Co. pursued his studies at night. Later he entered Mc- Gill University, Montreal, where he completed a special course of study. Returning to Hartford, he was given a position in the "Bee Hive," a large dry-goods house, in which he had charge of the paper-hanging department. During his stay of two years with that establishment he frequently wrote for newspapers, and in this way came to the notice of the newspaper profession. For ten years fol- lowing his dry-goods house experience he edited the New Haven Union, giving up his position at the expiration of that period on account of failing eve- sight. Since then Col. Graves has been variously occupied, and has led a most active and busy life.

An ardent Democrat and an active and influen- tial politician, the Colonel has taken part in many of the fierce political battles of his party in city, county and State, and has served it with tireless en- ergy and unabated zeal. In 1883 he received the ap- pointment of assistant adutant-general of the State with the rank of colonel, and served on the staff of Gov. Thomas M. Waller through his term of office.

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in the fall of 1886 he received at the hands of his party, against his wishes and will, the nomination for mayor of Hartford, in opposition to Gov. Bulke- ley, the Republican candidate. He made the race, and was defeated by a small margin. For many years he has been a member of the Democratic count- ty and State committees, and a delegate to the con- ventions of both. Col. Graves has the reputation of being well versed on the subject of monetary science, to which he has given special thought and study. lle is a firm believer in William Jennings Bryan, strongly advocating his election to the Presi- dency in 1896 and 1900. The Colonel is a man of broad and liberal views, extensive reading, and is genial and social, an all-round interesting conver- sationalist and companion. For a time along in the middle 'eighties he was the editor and manager of the Hartford Daily Telegram. Later in that de- cade he passed one year abroad in travel, and also in receiving treatment for his eyes.

Returning to Hartford from his trip abroad, Col. Graves became actively identified in the business con- nected with the development of the famous mine "Copper King," in which he is one of the largest stock-holders. The "Copper King" promised to be one of the greatest producers in the United States. Our subject is at this time secretary and a director of the Hartford Palace of Amusement Co., the cap- ital stock of which is $50,000. In 1896, associated with H. H. Jennings, of Bridgeport, he leased the Hartford Opera House, and they at once inaugurated a change, making it a popular-priced playhouse ; under their careful management it has been large- ly patronized, and has come into favor. Of the two theaters in the city the Hartford is the older, and in it have played the talent of the country. A notable occasion under their regime was the night of Feb. 6, 1897, when Madame Calve presented the opera "Carmen," playing to a $5,000 house. Another was the appearance there of Anna Held, when hun- dreds of people were turned away, not having been able to secure even standing-room. These gentle- men are successful as managers, and at the begin- ning of the year 1901 re-leased the building for d period of ten years. They intend to entirely remodel it, making it one of the finest theaters in New England.

Col. Graves has been prominent in social lines. He is a member of Robert (). Tyler Post, G. A. R .. of Hartford, and was formerly commander of Henry C. Merwin Post, of New Haven. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Honor, and the B. P. O. E., having held all the offices in the last named. p to and including that of Exalted Ruler.

On Sept. 16, 1866, Col. Graves was married to Priscilla H. Parkhurst, a native of Rockville, and a daughter of George Parkhurst. To this marriage were born children as follows: Lillian E. married Frank P. Furlong, ex-postmaster of Hartford : Eva married Marcus M. Munsill. now deceased, and they had one child, Marcus M. ; Edward G. is the general

manager of a business in New York City ; Gertrude I. died July 15, 1898. The mother of this family died Feb. 27, 1879, aged thirty-three years. Col. Graves was again married, Jan. 15, 1880, to Minnie Rexroth, of New Haven, who died Dec. 15, 1880, leaving an intant daughter, Minnie, who died at the age of nine years. After nearly twenty years Col. Graves was married for the third time, Nov. 19, 1900, 10 Mrs. Florence MI. Loomis.

ALFRED BRINTNALL REDFIELD (de- ceased). If an honorable business life over which there falls no shadow of wrong is deserving of emulation, and merits commendation, then Alfred B. Redfield justly won the high regard in which he was held. He was recognized as one of the most prominent citizens of the city of Hartford, and ever faithfully and diligently discharged both public and private duties that devolved upon him.

Mr. Redfield was descended in the eighth gen- cration from William Redfield, the progenitor of nearly all the Redfields in this country, his line of descent being through William, James, Theophi- lus, Daniel (1), Daniel (2), Ebenezer and Will- iam H.

(I) William Redfield was probably one of the early emigrants from England to the colony of Massachusetts. He left the Old England for the New during the decade of years which followed 1630. As early as 1639, and perhaps earlier, he occupied a house and a few acres of land on south side of Charles river, about six miles from Boston. His dwelling house and land were confirmed to him on the Records of the Proprietors of Cam- bridge in 1642, and the same records show that in September, 1646, he sold his place to Edward Jackson. He probably migrated with the younger Winthrops to the river and harbor of Pequot, or, as it was afterwards called, New London, in the jurisdiction of the Connecticut Colony. The first evidence of his presence here was in 1652, when he built a house at Brewsters Neck, about seven miles north of the present city of New London, and where Jonathan Brewster on May 29, 1654. conveyed to him ten acres of arable land. The fam- ily name at this time was Redfin, but gradually the name assumed the form of Redfield, which it has ever since retained. By his wife Rebecca he had children as follows : Rebecca, James and Judith.

(II) James Redfin or Redfield was a tanner by trade, having been apprenticed to Hugh Rob- erts, of New London, April 1, 1666. Mr. Roberts broke up his establishment in New London and removed to Newark, N. J. James Redfield re- moved from New London, and in May, 1669, he was married in New Haven to Elizabeth How, who was born in 1645, a daughter of Jeremy How. of New Haven, and granddaughter of Edward How, who was one of the early settlers of Lynn, Mass. The next that is known of him with any degree of certainty is in 1676, when in July of that

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year he was living at Saybrook with his wife and children, and also a servant man. One acre of land was granted to him at Saybrook in Decem- ber, 1683, to which another acre was granted in 1686. While it is not known how long he resided .at Saybrook, it is certain that he removed to Fair- field, Conn., as early as 1693, his wife, Eliza- beth, having died before his removal. He mar- ried (second ) Deborah, daughter of John Sturges, or Sturgis. The children by the first wife were: Elizabeth, Sarah and Theophilus ; children by the second wife were: Margaret and James.

(III) Theophilus Redfield, oldest son of James, son of William, was a joiner by trade and probably settled in Killingworth, Conn., soon after com of age. The first mention of him on the records of that town is in March, 1703, or '04, when he bought a small piece of ground for a homestead in what was then Killingworth, but which has since been set off by the name of Clinton, and is now one of the pleasantest of those villages which bor- der on Long Island Sound. On Dec. 24, 1706, he married Priscilla Grinnell, a seventeen-year-old maiden, daughter of Daniel and Lydia Grinnell, and great-granddaughter of John and Priscilla Al- den, of Colonial fame. Daniel Grinnell, who three years before had settled in that part of Saybrook then called Pochaug (now Westbrook), came from Little Compton, K. I. (then called Seaconnet ) . was a son of Daniel Grinnell, of that place, and probably a grandson of Mathew Grinnell, who was in Portsmouth, R. I., in 1638. In 1717 or 1718 he bought a tract of land of about 120 acres on Chest- nut Hill in North Killingworth. Thither he re- moved, and there resided during the balance of his life. This property seems to have been retained for the most part in the hands of his descendants.

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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 139

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