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 72

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


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Mr. Purnell, seeing that the tide of business had fairly set in his direction, commeneed developing the remainder of his property. He began at the northern end, where he ereeted what is now known as the Park building, at that time the most pre- tentious business block in town, with the single exception of Cheney's store. Critics and wiseacres were not wanting who prophesied that a store sit- uated. so far from the business center would never be occupied, but Mr. Purnell smiled, and the ten- ants came, and calls for more stores in that neigh- borhood soon followed. He laid a broad paved and curbed sidewalk in front of his entire property, and


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within a few years built the "Orford Hotel," a hos- telry containing fifty rooms, with three large stores, a hall, and a large billiard room. A small block, Park annex, south of the hotel, and a one-story store between the two nearly filled his front line, where ten years before had stood the fence of the open farm lot. While developing the front of his prop- erty, however, Mr. Purnell did not neglect the rear. Neat double tenement houses were built on a new street which he opened on the eastern line, and a year before his death a livery stable in the rear of the Park building was completed. Through his quiet but persistent efforts he succeeded in trans- forming his lot into the business center of the vil- lage. With the single exception of the hotel, which proved to be rather in advance of the demands of the place, his buildings have returned a good in- terest on his investment, and the soundness of his judgment has been abundantly demonstrated.


Mr. Purnell was of a retiring disposition, yet while mingling little in general society he was ex- ceedingly companionable with his friends. His tastes were those of a refined, cultivated gentleman. He read much, his favorite authors being Shakes- peare and Thackeray, and so familiar was he with the works of the greatest of English dramatic poets that he might almost be said to have had his plays "at his tongue's end." While not a member of any church he was always ready to contribute to the ad- vancement of Christianity, and one of the last acts of his life was to tender the free use of his hotel for the entertainment of the Methodist Conference.


Our subject was twice married. By his first wife, Ella Page, of Springfield, he had three chil- dren : Gertrude O., Harry and Maude. His sec- ond marriage, in 1889, was to Elizabeth M. Finlay, of South Manchester, and by this union there were four children: Helen M., Dorothea, Elizabeth and Katharine. Mrs. Parnell is a member of the Second Congregational Church.


SOLOMON FINCH, who for many years has been successfully engaged in the livery business in Southington, was born in that town Feb. 2, 1813, a son of Samuel and Hannah W. (Jones) Finch. Ebenezer Finch, his paternal grandfather, was born in Branford, Conn., in 1749, and Nov. 29, 1773. married Ruth Foote, of Northford. They re- moved to Southington, locating on the farm pre- viously occupied by Deacon Thomas Hart. The grandfather died Sept. 4, 1825. His children were Caleb A., Jesse F., Solomon, Samuel, Ruth and Eunice. The father of our subject was born in Southington Nov. 10, 1784, and also lived on the Deacon Hart place, where he died Feb. 25, 1841. On Nov. 28, 1808, he married Hannah W., daugh- ter of Nathaniel and Content ( Johnson) Jones. She died May 1, 1875, at the age of eighty-seven years. In their family were four children: Theron ; Solo- mon ; Samuel H .; and Eunice, wife of Horatio


Dunham, all deceased with the exception of our subject.


Solomon Finch spent his boyhood and youth in Southington, and received a common-school edu- cation. At the age of thirteen he began life for himself as a shop hand, working in various shops in Southington and adjoining towns until he at- tained his majority, when he again attended a term of school, under Jesse Olney. Subsequently he peddled clocks through New York State for a short time, and in 1836 took an eight-months' trip through Alabama, peddling and repairing clocks, and auc- tioneering Yankee notions, etc., for $25 per month and expenses. On his way to that State, while crossing the Natural Bridge in Virginia, the horse ran away, smashed the wagon, and jumped off the bridge ; Mr. Finch afterward learned that the animal was a noted runaway. At the end of the eight months Mr. Finch, after earning more money than any two peddlers in his company's employ, was "beaten" out of his wages, and left without means in Cahaba, Ala. This circumstance proved to be the turning point of his life. In 1837 he practiced dentistry in the same State, and then joined a theatrical troupe, of which W. R. Hart was mana- ger and proprietor, spending five years on the stage in the Southern States and Cuba. After a varied experience of a year and a half he returned to Southington, in 1844, and engaged in the practice of dentistry here until 1853, when he made a trip to California, and followed the same profession in San Francisco for two years. Owing to ill health he then returned home, and on June 20, 1855, embarked in the livery business, in which he has successfully continued up to the present time, and has occupied his present stand since 1859. He also practiced dentistry in Southington and Bristol more or less for some years, and finally drifted into the practice of veterinary surgery, in which he has met with almost phenomenal success.


In 1848 Mr. Finch was united in marriage with Mrs. Arabella ( Witham) Buck, of Southington, and they have two children living: Ella G., wife of John A. Brooks; and Daisy Anne, wife of Dr. James H. Osborne. Fraternally Mr. Finch is a prominent member of Friendship Lodge, No. 33, F. & A. M., of Southington, of which he was master four years, and politically he is a stanch Democrat. He has most creditably served his town as assessor, grand juror and selectman, and was its representa- tive to the State Legislature in the sessions of 1849 and 1873.


JULIUS BOND, an honored and highly-re- spected citizen of Plantsville, who is now living retired, was born in Canterbury, Windham county, this State, Nov. 21. 1828, a son of Joseph and Esther ( Ford) Bond, and is of English descent, tracing his ancestry back to William Bond, one of the first settlers of Massachusetts.


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Our subject began his education in the common schools near his boyhood home, and then attended the Worcester Academy, where he was fitted for college. In 1856 he was graduated from Brown University, at Providence, R. I., and spent the fol- lowing two years in McHenry county, Ill., where he supplied pulpits in different Baptist Churches, having been licensed to preach, though not an or- dained minister. Returning to Connecticut in the fall of 1862, he located in Plantsville, and deciding on account of a difficulty of the throat to engage in other work, entered the employ of the Plant Manufacturing Co. as bookkeeper, continuing with them until 1875, when he became connected with the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., and served them in the same capacity until his retirement from busi- ness, Sept. 1, 1899.


Mr. Bond was married, in 1856, to Miss Julia E. Rogers, daughter of Hiram and Elizabeth (Flint) Rogers, of Hartford; Mr. Rogers moved to Illinois late in life. To this union were born seven children, six of whom are still (1900) liv- ing: Edith B., wife of W. G. Haves; George R .; Adelia, wife of E. A. Marsh; Catherine; Emily, wife of Rev. William J. Tate; and William Gil- bert. Mr. Bond is an earnest, consistent Christian gentleman, and an active member of the Baptist Church of Plantsville, of which he is serving as clerk. His political support is given to the Re- publican party. His honorable and useful career is in many respects well worthy of emulation.


EUGENE S. CLARK, of Poquonock, is prom- inently identified with the tobacco industry, both as a grower and dealer, and is conceded to be an author- ity on the culture and care of that plant. He has had, at times, as much as sixty-two acres under cultivation, and probably raises as large an amount annually as any man in Connecticut, while he pos- sesses the practical judgment and business acumen which enabled him to place his product on the mar- ket in an advantageous way. For many years he has been the head of a leading firm of tobacco dealers and jobbers in Hartford, and his reputation in commercial circles is of the best.


Mr. Clark is a representative of a family which has been prominent in Windsor from an early date, and is of the seventh generation in descent from (I) Hon. Daniel Clark, a noted lawyer, who was secretary of the Colony of Connecticut in 1658, and again in 1664 to 1666. This worthy pioneer pur- chased, in 1664, a triangular tract of land lying on what is now Bloomfield avenue, Windsor, and there he made his permanent home, his death occurring Aug. 12, 1710, in his eightieth year. By his first wife, Mary (Newberry), he had a son, Samuel. (II) Samuel Clark, the next in the line of de- scent, was born July 11, 1661. He married Mehit- able Thrall, daughter of Timothy Thrall, and had a son, Samtiel.


(III) Samuel Clark, son of Samuel and Mehit- able Clark, was born Nov. 10, 1688. He married Abigail Owen, of Simsbury, daughter of Josiah Owen.


(IV) David Clark, our subject's great-grand- father, was born in 1725, and married Rachel Moore, by whom he had twenty-one children.


(V) Russell Clark, the grandfather of our sub- ject, was born in Poquonock, and lived to the age of seventy-seven, his remains being interred in the cemetery at Poquonock. As a business man he was enterprising and successful, having an extensive trade as a cabinetmaker, and for many years he made a specialty of coffins. The homestead was substantially improved during his occupancy, and the house in which our subject now resides was built by him. He married, Oct. 3, 1838, Sarah W. Mather, and had five children : Gilbert, Bradley and Samuel, all of whom died in Poquonock ; Fan- nie, who married a Mr. Griffin, and died in Bloom- field ; and Sydney, who died in Poquonock.


(VI) Hon. Samuel Clark, our subject's father, was born and reared at the present nomestead, and from an early age was active in business affairs, his first money being earned at stripping tobacco from the stalks at twenty-five cents per day. He learned the papermaker's trade, but did not follow it, as his attention was turned in early manhood to inde- pendent ventures, in which he made a large fortune, his ability and thorough application to business making his enterprises uniformly successful. For forty years ne conducted a general store at Po- quonock, his stock including dry-goods, groceries and liquors, as was then the custom in similar es- tablishments, and he also engaged extensively in tobacco growing and had a cigar factory at the village, his various lines of business employing many men and bringing large sums of money to the locality. His credit was of the best, and he was well-known throughout the county, his sterling qualities of character winning him a host of friends. In politics he was a strong Democrat, and for six- teen years he was postmaster at Poquonock, while he also served at one time as a member of the State Legislature. He was a small man, weighing from 140 to 145 pounds, but had a good constitution, and lived past the average of three-score and ten, his death occurring at Poquonock in September, 1881. He believed in enjoying the good things of life as they came. Mr. Clark married Cordelia Blanch- ard, who survived him, dying at the age of eighty- nine, at the residence of their youngest daughter, then in Springfield, Mass. They had four children: Frances, who married Byron Barnard, and died at Poquonock, in the house where she was born; Eu- gene S., our subject ; Emerist (Mrs. John Miller), of Boston ; and Hortense ( Mrs. Theron Holcomb), also of Boston.


(VII) Eugene S. Clark was born Aug. 30, 1833, at his present home, and his education was begun


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in the schools of Poquonock, T. M. R. Randall be- ing one of his early teachers. For two years he at- tended a school at East Hampton, Mass., but not- withstanding his father's carnest wish that he should continue his studies in more advanced institutions, he felt too strongly inclined toward business life, and as a boy liked nothing better than to be in the store. After a time he became a member of the firm of Samuel Clark & Son, and from boyhood he has been interested in tobacco growing, his farm in Bloomfield town being devoted to that crop. In 1869 he formed a partnership with H. H. Clark, of Akron, Ohio, and engaged in business at Poquonock as dealers in leaf tobacco under the title of E. S. Clark & Co .; in 1896 the firm became Clark, Dimond & Clark, their establishment being located at Nos. 225-227 State street, Hartford. Mr. Clark has re- sided at the old homestead throughout his life with the exception of fourteen years spent in Hartford ; and his residence is one of the most attractive in the town. While he is a thoroughly progressive business man, his disposition is unassuming and quiet, and his religious creed is based upon the Golden Rule. He takes a hearty interest in all pub- lic matters, being a stanch Democrat, but has never sought or held office. Mr. Clark has all his life been a lover of ourdoor sports, and has been a great fisher and hunter. He built, in Poquonock, the first and only trout hatchery, probably the first in the State, and some years ago gave an exhibition at the Fair in Hartford which was highly educational and interesting. For years he has been the first to catch the shad and the lampreys that run up the Farmington river, and he has particular skill as a caster of the fly in trout fishing. He has enjoyed good health, and is possessed of a wonderful con- stitution, but for two years he has been a little less active than formerly.


Mr. Clark married Miss Jennie E. Potter, a mem- ber of a prominent family of Hartford, and two chil- dren have brightened their home: (1) Mabel H., born July 16, 1882, in Poquonock, is now being ed- ucated in the St. Joseph convent, in Hartford; she is a natural musician. (2) Harold LeRoy, born in Hartford, Oct. 20, 1888, is living in Poquonock.


The Potter family, from which Mrs. Clark is descended, was founded in this country by Nathan Potter, a native of England, and members of same were among the early settlers of Rhode Island. Daniel Potter, father of Mrs. Clark, was born in Voluntown, Conn., July 3, 1818, came to Hart- ford in 1837, and for years engaged in the shoe business. He now resides with his daughter. Hc married Hannah Boardman Dunham (now de- ceased), who bore him two children: Jennie E. (Mrs. Clark), and Clayton, now a resident of Phil- adelphia.


EDWIN ARMSTRONG RUSSELL was born in Russell, Hampden Co., Mass., July 5. 1833, a descendant of one of the oldest families of Con-


necticut. He is of English extraction, his great- great-grandfather, William Russell, the first of his name to settle here, having come from England and taken up his residence in New Haven, where he followed his trade of stonecutter the remainder of his days.


Richard Russell, Jr., grandson of William Rus- sell, and grandfather of Edwin A. Russell, was born in New Haven, where he grew to manhood and was educated in the district schools. While still a young man he removed to Russell, Hampden Co., Mass., there settling on a farm of 130 acres on which he made many improvements, and where he passed the remainder of his life. He married Miss Sarah Yale, of Bristol, Hartford Co., Conn., a lady of unusual intelligence, and to this marriage nine children were born : (1) Simeon, who married a Connecticut lady and became the father of five children, Griswold, Fanny, Auduma, Whitney and Loomis. This family first removed to Ohio, and thence to Michigan, where they spent the remain- der of their lives. (2) Thomas spent most of his life in Russell, Mass., but died in Burlington, Conn., the father of two children, Elizabeth, who mar- ried Benajah S. Brockett, of Blandford ; and Sarah, who became the wife of Andrew Hull, of Burling- ton. (3) Louisa married William Henry, who died in Ohio. (4) Matilda never married. (5) Almon married and had a family of five children, Almon, Amanda, Sarah, Celestia and Rodney ; they removed to Ohio, settling in Medina county. (6) Abel was the father of our subject. (7) Yale re- moved to Ohio, and settled in Franklin county. His family consisted of four children, Cornelia. Darwin, Wilson H. and Amanda. (8) Lydia, who was mar- ried to Joseph Henry, a son of William Henry, lived and died in Ohio. (9) William died young. The father of this family was a Whig in politics, and in religion a Congregationalist ; his remains now lie interred in the cemetery at Russell. His wife died in Medina county, Ohio, at the great age of ninety-nine years, nine months and some days.


Abel Russell, father of Edwin A. Russell, our subject, was born in 1800, in Russell, Hampden Co., Mass., and educated in the district schools. He spent the major part of his life on the old home- stead of 150 acres, engaged in general farming, dairying and stock raising ; later he removed to the town of Blandford, in the same county, was there engaged several years in agricultural pursuits, and finally came to Suffield, Conn., where he died at the home of our subject in 1871, his remains being interred in the cemetery at Blandford. He was a consistent member of the Congregational Church, in Blandford, and in politics was hrst a Whig, later a Republican. He was very domestic in his habits, was strictly temperate, and was greatly respected for his sterling honesty and Christian character. He married ( first) Emeline Loomis, a native of Southampton, Mass., and a daughter of Curtis Loomis, which marriage was blessed with three


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children : Almon, residing in Suffield, Conn .; Ed- win Armstrong, the subject of this sketch; and Elizabeth, who married Alexander H. Lewis (both Mr. and Mrs. Lewis died in Springfield). The mother of our subject died in 1853, at Russell, and Mr. Russell afterward married Betsey ( Ellsworth), the widow of James Morton, of Blandford, where she passed away without issue.


Edwin Armstrong Russell received his prelim- inary education in part at the public schools of his native town, and in part at its select schools, which was supplemented by an attendance at the West- field Academy. For several terms, during his earlier manhood, he taught school, and also learned and worked at the carpenter's and joiner's trade. He spent ten years on the old homestead in Russell, but in 1866 sold the farm and came to Suffield, buy- ing his present farm of sixty acres, and here for thirty-three years he has devoted his time and at- tention to the cultivation of tobacco, to dairying, and to general farming, meeting with uniform suc- cess.


Mr. Russell was united in marriage, in 1855, at Blandford, with Miss Sarah Louise Tinker, a native of Blandford, and a daughter of David Parks and Mary Elizabeth ( Hamilton) Tinker, who were of English descent and old settlers of Blandford. One child, Henry B. Russell, has blessed this marriage. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Suffield, later graduated at the Con- necticut Literary Institute, of Suffield, and finally graduated from Amherst ( Mass.) College. He is now a journalist and author of some repute. In 1896 he wrote the biographies of Mckinley and Hobart, and since has written the "History of In- ternational Monetary Conferences," "Sketches of the Klondike and Alaska Gold Fields," and also a "History of the Late War with Spain." He mar- ried Miss Louise Clark, daughter of Silas W. Clark, of Suffield, and they have had one child, Fordham Clark.


Edwin A. Russell is a Republican, and is an active worker for the success of his party. He served his fellow citizens of Russell as selectman and assessor for several years, and was also a mem- ber of the school board of that town. In Suffield he has served as chairman of the board of select- men for three years, and as a member and chairman of the school board. He was one of the organizers of the Suffield Creamcry Co., its president for sev- eral years, and has been superintendent of the creamery from its start, in 1889. Mr. Russell is prominently identified with the Congregational Church in Suffield, was superintendent of the Sun- clay-school of same for several years, and has been a deacon in his church since 1870, being recog- nized as one of the pillars of the society. He is a useful citizen, of the highest respectability, and his amiable wifc shares with him the esteem of all who know them.


PAUL THOMSON. This well-known resi- dent of West Hartford is one of the leading foreign- born citizens of that town, and in his successful business career has shown the characteristic thrift and enterprise of his race. Beginning with no cap- ital except that acquired by his own industry, he built up a large trade as a market gardener, and is to-day quite well-to-do.


Mr. Thomson was born in Perthshire, Scotland, April 15, 1846, a son of William and Annie ( Mc- Arther) Thomson, lifelong residents of Perthshire, and descendants of old Scottish families. The fa- ther was quite an extensive farmer, and both par- ents were devout members of the Presbyterian Church. They had a family of seven children : Robert, now deceased; James, a resident of Hart- ford, Conn .; Jessie, in New Zealand; William, a banker of Glasgow, Scotland; Paul, our subject; John, deceased; and Annie, wife of George M. Stearns, of Springfield, Massachusetts.


Paul Thomson acquired his education in the public schools of his native land, and as soon as old enough to be of any assistance commenced to aid his father in the operation of the home farm, thus acquiring a good practical knowledge of the occupa- tion he has chosen as a life work. In 1871 he em- igrated to America, and resided in Hartford for three months prior to coming to West Hartford. For a year he was in the employ of Joseph Daven- port, and in 1872 bought the J. B. Powell farm, five- eighths of a mile south of West Hartford Center, on which he raised tobacco and garden produce for ten years. He then devoted his entire time and at- tention to market gardening, selling to the whole- sale trade, in which business he met with most ex- cellent success, continuing same until the spring of 1899, when he rented his gardening land, built greenhouses, and now devotes his entire attention to the cultivation of flowers, making English violets a specialty.


On June 24, 1880, at Keene, N. H., Mr. Thom- son was united in marriage with Miss Nettie D. Metcalf, and to them have been born three chil- dren: William Wallace, Carlyle Clifford and Ru- pert Roy. Mr. and Mrs. Thomson are both earnest and consistent members of the Congregational Church of West Hartford, and take an active and prominent part in its work, Mr. Thomson having been a member of the committee of the Eccles.asti- cal Society for a number of years, while his wife is now president of the local work department. He is master of the West Hartford Grange. Politically he supports the men and measures of the Republican party, and efficiently served as justice of the peace in 1897 and 1898.


JOB COWING, a well-known resident of the town of Suffield, has been identified with the agri- cultural interests of that locality for many years, and the honesty and uprightness of his character,


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as shown in his daily life, have won him the respect of the community. He and his estimable wife have spent more than half a century of happy wedded life and are still enjoying excellent health, the after- noon of their existence being brightened by com- forts gained through their united efforts in former years.


Mr. Cowing comes of good Colonial stock, his grandfather, Gathelius Cowing, a native of Massa- chusetts, having served as a soldier in the Revolu- tionary army.


Job Cowing, our subject's father, was born in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Mass., but removed in early manhood to Chesterfield, Hampshire Co., that State, where he made his permanent home and engaged in farming and stock raising. In politics he was a Whig, and as a citizen he was held in high esteem. By his first wife, Rachel Coleman, he had one daughter, Electa, who married George Kendall, of Northfield, Mass. His second wife, Sybil King, of West Hampton, Mass., was a woman of rare worth, and was greatly beloved by her family and asso- ciates. She died in Chesterfield in 1857, he in 1856. They had children: Aurelia, deceased wife of R. Gurney : Elvira, married to Ansel Thyer ; Cynthia, married to Jacob Loomis ; Dexter, deceased : Eunice, who died unmarried ; Fannie, deceased wife of Jason Thyer : Job, our subject : Charles, next in the order of birth; Sybil, deceased wife of Spellman Stevens ; Sumner, deceased ; and Austin.




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