Commemorative biographical record of Middlesex County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Part 107

Author: Beers (J.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago : Beers
Number of Pages: 1502

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William Agift Pease (commonly known as Agift Pease), the grandfather of Captain Pease, was born in Enfield, Conn., in Septem- ber, 1779, and died October 19, 1858, at New- field, Conn. He married Betsy Ranney, daughter of a Revolutionary soldier who win- tered at Valley Forge. They lived in Port- land, where he followed the trade of a ship carpenter. They had the following children : Franklin, who was twice married, first to De- borah Kelsy; Spencer; Aaron, who was twice married, went to California in 1849, came back and followed farming in the town of Cromwell, where he died ; Henry, who married Caroline Post; William Agift, who has al- ready been mentioned; Ruth, wife of Philip Smith ; Cynthia, who married Enos Bell; Su- san, who married Griswold Beebe, and was the mother of seventeen children, all of whom lived to adult age, and sixteen of them lived to marry (she died in Middletown in 1901) ; Eliza, who died young; and Edward (de- ceased), who married Lavinia Chapman.

Aaron Pease, father of William Agift, was born at Enfield, Conn., June 3, 1752, and married Huldah Spencer, daughter of Jona- than Spencer, Sr., of Somers, Conn. He lived and died at Enfield, and was the father of eleven children.

Aaron Pease, father of Aaron, was born at Enfield in 1726, and was a blacksmith by occupation. He was twice married, first to Ann Geer, and subsequently to Mary Terry, and was the father of ten children.

Samuel Pease, father of Aaron, was born at Enfield, October 30, 1686, and married Eliz- abeth Warner. He settled at Enfield, where he died in 1770. He was the father of nine children.

Robert Pease, father of Samuel, was born at Salem, Mass., in 1656, and married Abigail Randall in 1678. He settled in the "North-

fields," and in 1681, removed to Enfield, where he died in 1744. He was the father of ten children.

John Pease, Sr., father of Robert, was born in England in 1630, and was a son of Robert, the emigrant, who came from England in 1634, landing at Boston. Robert set- tled at Salem, Mass., where he died in 1644, at the age of thirty-seven.

Capt. William A. Pease, when a boy, had such privilege as was offered by the district schools of Cromwell and the Cromwell Acade- my. He was reared to farming and at sixteen sailed before the mast on the schooner "Do- retta Kahn," with Capt. Elisha Stocking, of Cromwell. The first time the ship touched at the city of New York the funeral procession of Lincoln was passing and his body was lying in state at the city hall. Our subject was aft- erward on the schooner "Emily S. Gilder- sleeve," and then on the schooner "Choctaw," from Cape Cod, remaining on that vessel a year, and the same length of time on the "Maggie and Lucy," a three-master from Mid- dletown. Subsequently he was on the schoon- er "Henry Harteau," which was rebuilt at Gildersleeve, and on the "W. and B. Doug- las," the three-master out of Middletown. He was first mate on the "Fannie Hazard," and mate on the "Hattie A. Butler," and in 1872 took charge of the schooner "S. S. Scranton," which vessel he commanded four years. In the . spring of 1876 he took charge of the schooner "David Currie," of Middletown, of which he is yet in command.

Capt. Pease and Miss Kate A. Smith were married December 25, 1873, at Middletown. She was born September 16, 1849, daughter of Oliver T. and Ruth McKee (Edwards) Smith. Her father, who was a boss builder, died when she was but two years old, and she lived in Cromwell until sixteen, after which she was in West Haven until her marriage. She is a descendant of the old Edwards family, who were among the early settlers of Crom- well. Mrs. Pease is one of five daughters, three of whom are yet living, the two others being Cornelia, Mrs. Nathan Hale, and Es- ther, Mrs. William H. Putnam, both of West Haven, Conn. Capt. Pease and his wife began housekeeping in Cromwell, lived a year in Portland, and in 1878 set up in Middletown. In 1885 he bought his home at South Farms, which is one of the most desirable locations in

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that community. He and his wife have two children : Alice M., born October 16, 1874, married Rev. Thomas B. Miller, a Methodist clergyman, and has one son, William B., born in 1902. Nellie K., born in December, 1875, lives at home. Mrs. Pease is a Baptist in church connection.

Capt. Pease gives much attention to the breeding of fine poultry, and his birds have taken first prizes in many of the leading poul- try shows of the country. He may be called a self-made man, as he has made his own way from the age of ten years, and has amassed a very comfortable competence, and he is one of the well known vessel masters sailing out of the Connecticut river. The Captain is a Re- publican in political faith.

ROBERT CLIFFORD TYLER, post- master at Chester, Conn., and one of the most popular and best known of its citizens, is de- scended from one of the oldest New England families.

Nathaniel Tyler, his great-great-grand- father, was one of the first settlers of Haddam, Conn, and built the first vessels there in 1734. He married Anne Arnold, daughter of Joseph Arnold, and to them were born the following children : Anne, born April 11, 1724; Susan- nah, born October 23, 1726; Nathaniel, born November 19, 1728; Joseph, born February 5, 1730; Samuel, born September 16, 1733, married Abigail Dickinson, died August 17, 1816; Nathan, born April 26, 1736; James, born October 12, 1738, died February 24, 1750; Sarah, born February 25, 1740; Simon, born July 23, 1744, was captain in the navy during the Revolutionary war, was captured in Long Island Sound, and imprisoned in Old New York sugar house (he died in Haddam, July 24, 1813) ; and Mary, boru March 3. 1746, married John Smith.

Joseph Tyler, great-grandfather of our sub- ject, was born February 5. 1730, in Had- dam, and there lived 011 Turkey Hill until liis removal to Leydeu, Lewis Co., N. Y .. in 1804; he died there abont 1814. By his wife, Lydia Coue, of Haddam, he has six chil- dren : Jonathan, who married Rachel, daugh- ter of Capt. Edmund Porter; Patrick, who married Dorcas Brainerd ; Annie, who married Grover M. Tory; Moses, grandfather of our subject ; James ; and Joseph.

Moses Tyler, grandfather of Robert C ..

was born October 7, 1782, in Haddam, Conn., and when a young man he went to Leyden, Lewis Co., N. Y., with his parents, and re- mained there for several years. Later he re- turned to Haddam, and followed milling, his gristmill being located on Mill stream, a little distance west of Arnold's Station, he being the last to operate that mill. Mr. Tyler was a very enthusiastic Methodist, one of the old-time "shouters," and a very good man. His death occurred in Haddam, February 22, 1860, when he was aged seventy-seven years, and he was buried at Haddam Court House. On Septem- ber 29, 1803, Moses Tyler married De- borah Dickinson, daughter of David and Lois (Clark) Dickinson. She died May IS, 1860. The children of this marriage were as follow's: (1) Livah, born August 6, 1804, married, April 2, 1828, Samuel Ventres, who died August 1, 1890, aged eighty-five years, and she died October 27, 1877, aged seventy- three years. (2) Alba Dickinson, born Au- gust 23, 1806, probably died young. (3) Dan- iel Clark, born November 20, 1808, married January 27, 1859, Louisa Fritz, who died January 13, 1900. He is a Methodist minis- ter and lives in Oneida, N. Y. (4) Ashbel, born January 17, ISII, married May 19, 1841, Sophia Dickinson, who died April S, 1895, aged seventy-eight years ; he died Janu- ary 15, 1864, aged fifty-three. He was a quar- ryman and resided in Haddam. (5) Selina Ann, born March 30, 1813, died unmarried April 2, 1887, aged seventy-four. (6) Charles Alvin, born September 16, 1815. married October 9, 1842, Mary Ann Cone. He followed the sea for several years, then set- tled at Cape May, N. J., where he en- gaged in farming. He died December 25. 1899, aged eighty-four, and his wife died in December, 1899. (7) \ son, boru De- cember 28. 1817, probably died young. (8) Carlos B., father of our subject, born 1819. (9) Mary Elizabeth, born October 14, 1821, married Hubbard Ventres, November 6, 1853. She was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, class of 1839, and she died March 12, 1878, aged fifty-six. He died February 20, 1880. ( 10) A daughter died an infant three days old. ( 11) David Oscher, born December 20. 1827, died August 15. 1829.

Carlos B. Tyler, father of our subject, was born in Haddam, where he speut his early life. receiving his education at the district schools

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and at the Brainerd Academy. Later he taught school in Haddam, and then learned the trade of stone cutter, which he pursued in connec- tion with quarrying, until a few years before his death, which occurred February 22, 1865. This sad event was occasioned by complica- tions resulting from an accident, in which his left leg was broken in two places. Mr. Tyler was removing his boot, when he slipped, fall- ing in a cramped position and breaking his leg above and below the knee. Although he did not die until some time after the accident, he never walked again. His remains rest at Shailerville. Mr. Tyler was very active in local military affairs, and was known as Cap- tain Tyler. On October 18, 1842, he was married to Cynthia S. Shailer, who was born in Haddam in 1823, a daughter of Capt. Solo- mon Shailer, and she died September 9, 1883. To Mr. and Mrs. Carlos B. Tyler were born five children : Rosalind O., who married the late William Church, a sea-faring man, and is now residing in Meriden, Conn. ; Franklin O., a retired sea captain, who married Caroline Brainerd, and lives in Haddam; Carrie O., who married Frederick Greene, and resides in Wallingford, Conn .; Josephine, who died in in- fancy; and our subject.

Robert Clifford Tyler was born December II, 1853, in Haddam, where he attended the district school. He also attended a part of a session at the Brainerd Academy, which was then taught by Jonathan Brainerd. As he was but twelve years old when his father died, he was forced to leave school and home. At the early age of fourteen he made his way to Chester, and found employment in the factory of John Post. The following winter he man- aged to attend the Chester high school, and this completed his school attendance. Although a boy, he made good wages, as he was such a hard worker and faithful employe, and when the factory changed hands, George Ransom becoming the proprietor, Mr. Tyler was re- tained. Later, when Mr. Ransom sold the plant to Carlton J. Bates, the present owner, our subject remained, and in 1875, when but twenty-three, was made foreman, in which ca- pacity he acted until in March, 1900, when he resigned to take charge of the post office, al- though, at the request of Mr. Bates, he spends a portion of his time at the factory.

On December II, 1877, Robert Clifford Tyler was married to Katie D. Silliman, who

was born at Chester, on September 12, 1856, and is a daughter of Daniel W. and Sarah ( Warner) Sillman. To Mr. and Mrs. Tyler five children have been born: Car- rie S., born December 4, 1878, married De- cember 22, 1898, Edward Clark, a jeweler, employed at Deep River ; Mildred J., born Feb- ruary 14, 1881, is assistant in the post office; Franklin W., born June 18, 1883, at home; Frederick C., born May 8, 1887 ; and Bessie F. born May 5, 1891.

In politics Mr. Tyler is a Republican and served as first selectman between 1894 and 1899. Mrs. Tyler is a consistent member of the Congregational Church and takes a deep interest in the workings of that body. Mr. Tyler is a member of Connecticut Lodge, No. 250, New England Order of Protection, at Chester. Well and favorably known through- out the community in which he resides, Mr. Tyler has many friends, and the success which has attended his efforts is well merited.

¡ EUGENE W. CHAFFEE, who has been prominently identified for many years with the milling interests of Connecticut, belongs to an old and honorable family of New England. Thomas Chaffee, his remote ancestor, settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1635, and seven years later removed to Hull where the family was established for many years. His wife's name was Dorothy. Their son Joseph, who was born in 1643, and died in 1694, married Annie Martin. The family Bible belonging to Thom- as Chaffee, and afterward to Joseph, and to his son, is still in existence, and is remarkably well preserved for a book printed in 1649.

John Chaffee, grandson of Thomas, the emigrant, was born in Swansea December 16, . 1673, and married Sarah Hills, of Malden, in 1700.

John Chaffee, Jr., his son, was born in Swansea in 1707, in 1730 married Mehitable Muscraft, also born in 1707, and died in 1803. They had three children, Simeon, Amos and Miehitable.

Simeon Chaffee was born in Woodstock, Conn., in 1736, and died in 1824. He married Love Davis, who died April 8, 1827, at the age of eighty-two years. They were the par- ents of the following named children: Levi, Willard, Simeon, Jr., Noah, Lucinda and Emery.

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was born October 5, 1786, 'n South Wilbra- ham, Mass., to which point his father had moved early in his married life, and died Sep- tember 21, 1871. He was a farmer by occu- pation. His first marriage, in 1814, was to Keziah Harwood, who was born in 1787, and died March 14, 1821. To this union came : Zelotes Emery, who is mentioned below; and Mertilla K., born in 1818, who died in 1830. On October 6, 1821, Emery Chaffee married for his second wife Lura Harwood (a sister of his first wife), who died May 3, 1868. By this marriage were born: Franklin Dexter, born in 1824, now living in Albany, N. Y .; Edwin Stearns, born April 13, 1828, who died October 21, 1873; Henry Winslow, born in 1835, who died in 1837: Lura Clarinda, born in 1829, who married Anson C. Brewer, of Wilbraham, Mass., in 1849, and died in 1852. Originally a Whig in politics, Mr. Chaffee be- came a Republican, and he was a Congrega- tionalist in religion.

Zelotes Emery Chaffee, father of Eugene W., was born September 17, 1815, in Wilbra- ham, Mass., and died June 10, 1877. On March 4, 1841, he married, in Willimantic, Conn., Hannah Sophronia Snell, who was born in Union, Conn., April 19, 1819, and who is now living in Moodus, Conn. They had the following named children : ( 1) Eugene Wins- low, born April 20, 1842, was married No- vember 4, 1868, to Katharine M. Day, who was born September 20, 1849. (2) Herbert Winthrop, born August 11, 1844, is now' a clergyman of the Methodist Church in Fre- donia, Kans. : he married Jerusha Adda Smith, of Princeton, Kans., in 1872. (3) Lois Clar- inda, born July 27, 1853, married Charles W. Kimball, of Manhattan, Kans., in 1885. (4) Arthur Willard, born May 14, 1855, was edu- cated at Wilbraham, Mass., and at the Poly- technic Institute at Worcester; he began his career as bookkeeper in the employ of the New York Net & Twine Company, in which he is now a stockholder, and treasurer of the corporation, and he is assistant treasurer of the the Moodus Savings Bank, and a director of that institution ; he is one of the officers of the East Haddam Library Association. In poli- tics he is a Prohibitionist. He was married in Clinton, Conn. June 7. 1888, to Emma Hurd, daughter of Andrew J. and Mary Hurd. (5) Nellie Eugenia, born in Sprague, Com ..

September 30, 1863, is now the librarian of the East Haddam Public Library.

Zelotes Emery Chaffee learned the trade of machinist in Willimantic, Conn. During a part of his early married life he lived at Chicopee Falls, Mass. Returning to Willi- mantic he removed from there, in 1849, to Moodus, where he ran a machine shop until 1863, in that year going into a mill at Lisbon, Conn., and operating it for a year. In 1864 he came back to Moodus, and the following year took an interest in the New York Net & Twine Company, becoming its manager and acting in that position until his death. This company was started in a small way in 1826, by William E. Nichols, who made a cotton seine twine.

Eugene W. Chaffee traces his ancestry on his mother's side as follows: Thomas Snell, Jr., settled in Windham, Conn., and by a grant of the town was the first teacher in the settle- nent. His wife was named Faith. Thomas Snell, his son, was born in Sandwich, Mass .. in 1715, was married in Windham, in 1737, to Mary Jennings and died in 1797. His wife was born in 1717, and died in 1790. Their children were: William; Mary; a son that died in infancy ; Eunice, who married Daniel Carpenter ; Thomas and a twin sister: Mory; Betsey; Thomas (2) ; Mary (2) : Joseph: Mary Ann; Jemima ; and Irene.

Joseph Snell was born June 3. 1755. and died October 30, 1846. He was married to Abigail Barton, his first wife, February 27. 1783; and to Lydia Farnum, his second wife. November 23, 1785. She was born in 1757. and died June 15. 1819. Joseph Suel! was a captain in the militia, and made his services as a Revolutionary soldier count in the training of the citizen soldiery. He was an orderly on the staff of Gen. Knox in the war of the Revolution. His children by the second mar- riage were: Thomas, who married Hannali Strong: Lydia, who married Parley Russell ; Joseph, Jr .: Betsey, who married successively. Marcus Bugbee, John Dixon and Jonathan Larned: Asa Farmmm, who married Louisa Eaton; and Erastus. Joseph Suell irarried for his third wife, Marjory Dunton, widow of Jonathan Harwood. Both were seventy years old at the time of this marriage, and they lived together for more than twenty years. She died in 1848, at the age of ninety-three.

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Joseph Snell, Jr., was born February 24, 1791, and was accidentally killed by being caught in a mill belt January 20, 1832. On November 25, 1813, he married Hannah Chaf- fee, who was born in 1792, and died October 24, 1849. Their children were: Erastus ; Mary Ann, who married Dr. William S. Pres- ton, of Patchogue, L. I .; Hannah Sophronia, who married Zelotes E. Chaffee, and became the mother of Eugene W. Chaffee; Lois, who married William L. Weaver, of Willimantic; and Joseph.

THE HARWOOD FAMILY, mentioned in the foregoing, has long been established in this State. David Harwood, son of John and Em- ma Harwood, was born in 1668, was married in 1701 to Mary Wilcot, and died in 1752. Their son, David Harwood, and his wife, Mar- garet, had a son, Jonathan Harwood, Sr., who married Elizabeth Sterns. Jonathan Har- wood, Jr., son of Jonathan, Sr., born in 1748, died at the age of sixty-seven; he married Marjory Dunton, who afterward became the third wife of Joseph Snell, Sr. Keziah, daugh- ter of Jonathan, Jr., was born in 1787, married Emery Chaffee, and died in 1821.

THE DAY FAMILY has also been iong known in this State, and its various representa- tives have occupied conspicuous places in their respective generations. John Day, of Hart- ford, son of Robert, and brother of Thomas Day, married Sarah Maynard, of Hartford, and is supposed to have died in 1730. His children were: Joseph; John; Thomas; Mary, who married William Clark; Maynard; Sarah ; who married Jared Spencer; William; and Joseph. -

{ John Day (2), son of John, was born in 1677, in Colchester, Conn., and married for his first wife Grace Spencer, of Hartford; his second wife was named Mary. He died in 1752. He was the father of the following named children: Lydia, who married Joseph Fuller; Mary, who married Jonathan North- am; John; Joseph; Benjamin; Editha, who married David Bigelow; Daniel; David; Ab- raham; Isaac; and Daniel (2).

Abraham Day, son of John (2), was born March 17, 1712, and died March 17, 1792. On November 20, 1740, he married Irene Foote, who died August 7, 1809. Their chil- dren were: Ephraim; Ezra; Nehemiah; Abra- ham; Elisha; Lucy, who married William Brainard; Elijah; Irene, who married David

Yeomans; Sarah, who married Samuel North- ram; and Oliver.

Elijah Day, son of Abraham, was born in 1754, and died April 22, 1798. On March5 IO, 1776, he married Dorothy Olmsted, a daughter of Capt. Stephen Olmsted (a soldier of the war of the Revolution). Mrs. Day lived to reach the venerable age of ninety-four years. Their children were: Dr. Stephen O .; Justin ; and Fannie, who married Augustus Williams.

Justin Day, son of Elijah, was born April 7, 1781, and died September 5, 1863. He be- longed to the Westchester Society and resided on the farm formerly owned by his grand- father, Abraham Day, in Colchester. Matilda Day, of Stockbridge, became his wife Novem- ber 5, 1800, and was the mother of the follow- ing children: Elijah; Eleanor Louisa, who married Ansel Hungerford; Stephen Olmsted; Amasa; Sarah Maria, who married John I. Worthington ; and Dorothy Olmsted, who mar- ried Brainard D. Kellogg.

Amasa Day, who is mentioned in the fore- going list, was born May 12, 1808, in West- chester, and in 1839 married Ursula Maria Gates. He lived for some time in the State of New York, but in 1843 removed to East Haddam. His first wife died in 1844, without issue, and in the following year he married Sa- rah Selden Spencer, born in 1818, who died December 18, 1891. To them were born: Charles Amasa who died when five years of age; Katharine Maria, who married Eugene W. Chaffee; and a daughter who died un- named. Mr. Day died November 12, 1896.

Eugene W. Chaffee was born in Chicopee Falls, Mass., April 20, 1842, was a few months old when his parents removed to Willimantic, and seven years old when they came to Moodus. He was educated at the Wilbraham Academy. He gave way to the patriotic fever at the out- break of the Civil war, enlisting September 10, 1861, in Company E, Tenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into the service September 30th. He served until Oc- tober 7, 1864, when he was honorably dis- charged. Mr. Chaffee participated in the fol- lowing engagements: Roanoke Island, New- bern, Kinston, Whitehall and Goldsboro, in North Carolina in 1862, and the battles on Morris Island during the siege of Charleston, in the summer of 1863. He passed the winter of 1863-64 in Florida, and the following spring joined the Army of the James. In May,

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1864, he was in the battle of Drury's Bluff, and in the numerous battles and skirmishes prior and subsequent to that battle, including the siege of Petersburg. He was wounded in the neck at Deep Bottom, August 14, 1864, the wound inducing partial paralysis of the hand and arm.

Mr. Chaffee attended the Eastman Business College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in the winter of 1864-65, and the following spring began keeping books for the Net & Twine Company, under his father's supervision. When his father died he succeeded to the management and part ownership of the business. The company at present operates two mills for the manufacture of cotton seine twine and net- ting, one of which was built in the latter part of the twenties, and one, at Moodus Falls, in 1865. Since 1898 Mr. Chaffee has been presi- dent of the company, with W. E. Nichols as vice president and A. W. Chaffee as secre- tary and treasurer. Mr. Chaffee has been treasurer of the Moodus Savings Bank since its organization in 1870. He is also a direc- tor of the National Bank of New England, in East Haddam. In politics he is a Republi- can, and represented the town in the General Assembly of 1889, serving on the committee on Finance. Belonging to the Congregation- al Church, he serves as deacon, treasurer and clerk, and is superintendent of the Sunday- school. He has been president of the East Haddam Public Library since it was organized ; and socially he is a member of Morton A. Tainter Post, No. 9, G. A. R., of Colchester.

On November 4, 1868, Mr. Chaffee mar- ried Miss Katharine M. Day, and they have had children as follows: ( 1) Amasa Day, born June 13, 1870, graduated from the high school in Hartford in 1886, and from Yale College in 1890. Three years later he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York, and from Bellevue Hospital in 1895. He is now a practitioner of Medicine in New York. (2) Katharine, born Septen- ber 17, 1888, is attending the home school.

EDWARD EVERETT DICKINSON. Among the successful men of Middlesex county, none have attained a front rank so rapidly as the subject of this sketch. who. while yet a young man, has succeeded in plac- ing his business and product so before the pub-

lic as to have gained both a national and an international reputation.

Thomas N. Dickinson, father of our sub- ject, was born in East Haddam, Conn., where his father, Samuel L., was a shoe manufac- turer, his birth occurring in June, 1825. Fin- ishing his primary education in the district schools he took a higher course in the Suffield Literary Institute and spent some time later in teaching school in East Haddam, locating in Essex about 1850. About the time of the breaking out of the Civil war, in company with the late Jared E. Redfield and others, he en- gaged very extensively in the manufacture of soldiers' clothing, owning mills in Rockville, Chester and other places. At the close of the war, Mr. Dickinson transferred his business in the manufacture of cloth to that of cotton wadding, the goods being branded under the name of Middlesex Mills Wadding, in which business he continued for many years, making of it a pronounced success. Later Mr. Dick- inson engaged in the retail clothing business in Essex, his store being located on the site of the present office of E. E. Dickinson & Co .. following in that line until 1875. when he be- gan the production of an extract of witch ha- zel, of which he was the originator. Preparing the extract in bulk, he started salesmen on the road to introduce the goods, whose excel- lence soon proved their best advertiser. A very remarkable success followed and Mr. Dickinson remained in the business until 1895. when he formed a partnership with his son. Edward E., who succeeded to the manage- ment. Two years later the father sold his in- terest to his son, and the firm became E. E. Dickinson & Co. Mr. Dickinson then lived re- tired until his death, which occurred July 16. 1900.

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Commemorative biographical record of Middlesex County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Part 107

Author: Beers (J.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Chicago : Beers Number of Pages: 1502

Author: Beers (J.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Chicago : Beers
Number of Pages: 1502