Commemorative biographical record of Middlesex County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families, Part 43

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


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win, August 23, 1835; Ellen Maria, April 7 1839; William Henry, July 15, 1841; Charle Gilbert, January 31, 1843 (died March ( 1865).


MARY ELIZABETH LEE, daughter of Jame E. and Ruth (Merwin) Lee, was educated a Guilford Institute, and was for several year a teacher, also an author. She was married a Cheyenne, Wyo., September 30, 1874, to Pro: N. E. Stark, who was school commissione for New Hampshire four years, and principa of schools in Cheyenne for thirteen years Their son, Edward Thayer, was born at Chey enne, October 28, 1875.


Edward Thayer Stark, son of N. E. an Mary E. (Lee) Stark, is a graduate of Wyc ming University, 1899. He was married Sep tember 26, 1901, to Amanda Needles, of Atlar tic, Iowa, and is now telephone inspector i Denver, Colorado.


EDWARD MERWIN LEE, son of James E and Ruth (Merwin) Lee, is a lawyer by pro fession, admitted to the Bar in New York i 1861, and in the United States Supreme Coul. in 1865. He served through the Civil war becoming a private in the Fifth Michigan Cav alry, was promoted through the differer grades to captain, lieutenant colonel and co onel in the same regiment, and afterward brev etted brigadier general. For fourteen month he was in Libby and other military prison where his cheerfulness and courage aided muc in keeping up the spirits of his comrades.


Gen. Lee represented Guilford in the Ger eral Assembly in 1866 and 1867; organize Wyoming Territory in 1869, as secretary an acting governor ; secured the passage of th Woman Suffrage Law there, and appointe women to office; and has made politici speeches in all National and some State can paigns from 1865 to 1892, over a thousand i all. For the last twenty-five years he has bee engaged in the practice of law in New Yor City.


ELLEN MARIA LEE, daughter of James I and Ruth (Merwin) Lee, was educated ¿ Guilford Institute, and, like her sister, becan a teacher and author. She was married Oct ber 20, 1864, to Samuel Allen Bristol (bor October 7, 1841), of Guilford, Conn., wh served nine months in the Civil war, as a men ber of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Co1 necticut Volunteers, and was for two weel


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il Libby prison. They removed in 1869 to Cayenne, Wyo., where he established and nv conducts, as president, the S. A. Bristol Foolishing Company. Their children: Kate, bin in Guilford May 27, 1865; Edward Mer- Lee, born in Cheyenne November 15, I 9; Sara, born in Guilford August 29, 1871 ; Charles Allen, born in Cheyenne February 13, I4; Ruth, born in Cheyenne October 28, Il7 (died March 19, 1880) ; Ellen, born in C:yenne November 13, 1879.


Kate Bristol, daughter of S. Allen and Een M. (Lee) Bristol, was married Septem- b 20, 1887, to John Knox Wade (born De- ceiber 3, 1861, died May 17, 1892) ; their son, Jon Knox, born December 9, 1888, died Au- g t 12, 1890; their daughter, Kate, was born Afgust 4, 1891.


Edward Merwin Lee Bristol, son of S. An and Ellen M. (Lee) Bristol, a printer by trle, was married September 30, 1890, to Mrgaret Morrison (born April 25, 1868), at Ckyenne. Their children: Francis Sistere, bx1 September 30, 1891 ; John Allen, June 27, 18 5; William Merwin, January 2, 1898.


Sara Bristol, daughter of S. Allen and En M. (Lce) Bristol, was married Septem- 1. 18, 1895, to William Curtiss Mains (born S tember 3, 1871), of Brooklyn, N. Y. Their ghter, Margaret, born June 29, 1900, died cla Oppber 4, 1901, at Mt. Vernon, New York.


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tr. c, enlisted in May, 1898, in Battery A. Wy- oung Light Artillery, United States Volun- tes, and served as second lieutenant in that bajery during the campaign in the Philippines, uri honorably discharged and mustered out in September, 1899. He married Daze May MEabe, of Cheyenne, April 18, 1900.


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WILLIAM HENRY LEE, son of James E. Ruth ( Merwin) Lee, served in the Civil enlisting in 1862, in Company B, Six- lı Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and discharged for disability in 1863. He is rmer in Guilford, and represented that i in the General Assembly in 1886. He a charter member of the Guilford Bat- and remained a member for twenty years, ; corporal, second lieutenant, and for more tl1: four years its first captain. He married M. v Elizabeth Griswold, of Mystic, Conn.,


November 21, 1867. Their children: Ruth Mary, born July 28, 1869; Charles Sherman, November 12, 1870; Edward Merwin, Decem- ber 1, 1872 (died August 10, 1892) ; William Randall, February 14, 1876; Albert Clifford, August 5, 1883.


Ruth Mary Lee, daughter of William H. and Mary E. (Griswold) Lee, married Addi- son Earle Baldwin, of Branford, Conn., April 5, 1893. Their children are: Dorothy Rae, born June 1, 1895; Harriet Carpenter, born July 1, 1900.


Charles Sherman Lee, son of William H. and Mary E. (Griswold) Lee, was for seven years a member of Battery A, Connecti- cut National Guard, and for five years of the Connecticut Naval Reserves. At the outbreak of the Spanish war he enlisted as seaman in the United States Navy, and was honorably discharged at the close of the war. He is now a member of Company F, Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard ( New Haven Grays). He is engaged in manufacturing in New Haven.


Edward Merwin Lee, son of William H. and Mary E. (Griswold) Lee, was a graduate of Guilford Institute, in 1890. He was a bright scholar and a great favorite. He was for a time employed in Meriden, and after- ward entered the wholesale house of Charles G. Kimberly in New Haven. There, a few months later, he received injuries, by falling down an elevator shaft, which resulted in his death.


William Randall Lec, son of William H. and Mary E. (Griswold) Lee, with his brother Charles S. served in the navy during the Spanish war, and is now a member of the Connecticut Naval Reserves. He was married November 28, 1900, to Lucy Foote, of Guil- ford, Conn., and is engaged in manufacturing in New Haven.


Albert Clifford Lee. youngest son of William H. and Mary E. (Griswold) Lee, still remains on the farm with his father.


CHARLES GILBERT LEE, son of James E. and Ruth (Merwin) Ece, served in the Civil war, enlisting in Company B. Sixteenth Reg- iment, Connecticut Volunteers. He was made corporal August 11, 1863 : was in several bat- tles : captured with his regiment at Plymouth. N. C., April 20, 1864 ; a prisoner at Anderson-


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ville nine months; and died March 6, 1865, at Wilmington, N. C., from the effects of his imprisonment.


The following poem relating to the two brothers, William H. and Charles G. Lee, at Antietam, was written by Susie E. Ward, their former teacher at the Guilford Institute:


WHAT THE SICK SOLDIER TOLD ME.


The surgeon said "Remain," but somehow I could not stay,


For the order had been given, and the boys were on their way;


And thinking on the morrow's fight, I saw my brother stand,


Calm in battle, as he used to be, when plowing father's land;


Or I saw him falling, wounded, or lying ghastly-dead; From my bed of straw upspringing, "I am going too," I said.


So I hurried on just after; on the ground at night we lay; And I felt his arm about me in the old accustomed way. But when morning came, quick-footed, and our ranks in order stood,


He was twenty paces from me: Oh, how boiled my fevered blood!


Placed so near him, yet not with him, 'twixt us two a score of others,


Till the men passed me down the line, for they knew that we were brothers.


Did you ask how went the battle? Why, we lost the day, you know,


And at last, when we retreated, I tried hard but could not go.


Sick at heart and sick in body, I was falling to the ground, But Charley was beside me, his dear arm about me wound; While one comrade took our muskets, passed our knap- sacks on to others,


That he might be strong to help me, for they knew that we were brothers.


O Christian, fellow Christian, is it so with you and me,


Children of one Heavenly Father, members of one family?


Do we live a love so simple? Is a strong arm ever thrown,


Round him whose faltering footsteps show his strength is almost gone?


And when worldly hearts press onward, blindly parting us from others,


Do their dense ranks quickly step aside, knowing that we all are brothers?


MARY PARMELEE MERWIN, daugh- ter of Miles Merwin, Sr., and Phebe (Camp) Merwin, was married April 27, 1824, to Thomas. Noble (born April 27, 1797, died January 20, 1854), of Westfield, Mass., where his ancestors had lived for several genera- tions. They remained in Westfield until 1841, when they removed to Granville, Mass. In 1843 they removed to Cromwell, Conn., remaining there until Mr. Noble's death, which occurred eleven years later. A few


months after the death of her husband, Mrs Noble, with her younger daughter, returne to Durham to care for her aged father, wher she remained until a few weeks before he death, when she was taken, in failing health to the home of her sister Alva, in Cromwel where she died at the age of seventy-two.


Before her marriage she learned the tai or's trade in Middletown, Conn. Whereve she lived she always made herself useful if church work and in the neighborhood, bein one of the reliable and efficient persons whos aid was sought in case of sickness or deatl or any emergency ; and she had frequent of casion for the exercise of her talents amon her kinsmen and acquaintances.


Their children: William Merwin, bor February 2, 1825; Mary Amelia, May 2 1827 (died January 22, 1886) ; Thomas, Ma 23, 1831; Merwin Lee, September 2, 183 (died August 20, 1853) ; Charlotte Ellen, D cember 23, 1846 (died February 8, 1866).


WILLIAM MERWIN NOBLE, son of Thomi and Mary P. (Merwin) Noble, was engage for thirty-five years in the manufacture hammers at Cromwell, Conn., under the fir name of Warner & Noble. During the yea of his active life he was one of the leadin men of the town, and has held different tow offices. He was married May 8, 1850, to Al - mira Parmelee Mildrum (born June 19, 182 died January 26, 1891). Their children: A thur William, born May 29, 1851; Cla Adelia and Emma Amelia (twins), March I 1853; Edward Shepard, April 29, 185 Robert Mildrum, March 16, 1860; Willia Cleveland, October 2, 1869.


Arthur William Noble, son of Willia M. and Almira P. (Mildrum) Noble, has be for many years in the hardware business Riceville, Iowa. In the great fire which curred there July 20, 1901, when more th fifty places of business were burned, his sto and dwelling house were both destroyed. ] married Laura Anna Pierce, May 12, 18 Their daughter, Julia Charlotte, was bc April 5, 1898, and their son, Lucius Pier born February 22, 1902, died three days af birth.


Clara Adelia Noble, daughter of Willi: M. and Almira P. (Mildrum) Noble, was m ried October 20, 1874, to Daniel Webster, Berlin, Conn. Their children: Mary Emr


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bon June 21, 1879; Helen, May 26, 1881 ( ed September 6, 1882) ; Hattie Louise, De- comber 14, 1883; William John, October 21, I16; Stewart Noble, July 31, 1888; Gertrude, F ruary 5, 1891.


Emma Amelia Noble, daughter of Will- ia M. and Almira P. ( Mildrum) Noble, with tl| exception of a few years spent in the West wh her brothers, has always lived at the he of her father in Cromwell.


Edward Shepard Noble, son of William M ir and Almira P. (Mildrum) Noble, resides Cromwell, and has been for twelve years win the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Company, il. Et Berlin. He was married May 17, Il 2, to Minnie Augusta Griswold, of Crom- w[ .. They have had three children: Har- ol Beaumont, born November 27, 1887, dil August 29, 1888; Le Roy Beaumont was bon June 17, 1891; Howard Edward, born Mch 1, 1896, died August 22, of the same


Robert Mildrum Noble, son of William Mand Almira P. (Mildrum) Noble, con- dlu:s a hardware store in Riceville, Iowa, and is lso engaged in the sale of musical instru- m ts. He was married June 27, 1888, to E abeth Sumner Kimball, of Wentworth, Jo|1. Their children : Gaylord Kimball, born I, 1889; Douglas, December 22, 1894 (cd January 2, 1895) ; Robert Mildrum, Jr., A;il II, 1896; Curtis Cleveland, December 27 1898; Isabel, July 8, 1902.


William Cleveland Noble, youngest son of Villiam M. and Almira P. ( Mildrum) No- is living in Cromwell, and has been for ral years in the employ of the Peck, Stow. & Wilcox Company, of East Berlin. He was inicied to Mary Frances Hill, July 6, 1898. r son, Kenneth Hill, was born April 3,


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MARY AMELIA NOBLE, daughter of Thom- nd Mary P. (Merwin) Noble, married ry Arnold, of Westfield, Mass., in 1848.


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= went to California in 1849, and engaged ining, returning home after a few years. 855 he again went to California, accom- ed by his wife. They remained there een years, in 1869 returning to Connec- with their two sons and settling in Had- ¡Their children: Edward Clark, born 5. 1856, and Frank Hubbard, born Jan- 13, 1858, at Woolsey Flat, Nevada Co.,


Cal. ; two other sons, Charles and Henry, who died in infancy, were born at Lake City, Cali- fornia.


Edward Clark Arnold, son of Henry and Mary A. ( Noble) Arnold, was educated at the Middletown High School, at Westfield, ( Mass.) Academy, and at Williston Acad- emy, Mass., of which latter he is a graduate. He resides in New York City, where for many years he has held the position of advertising manager for the Chautauquan Magasine.


Frank Hubbard Arnold, son of Henry and Mary A. ( Noble ) Arnold, resides in Wa- terbury, Conn., where he is employed in the large brass factory of Benedict & Burnham. He was married December 27, 1890, to Mary Hazen, of Haddam, Connecticut.


THOMAS NOBLE, son of Thomas and Mary P. (Merwin) Noble, removed with his fath- er's family to Cromwell, Conn., when twelve years of age. In 1857, he went to California,. crossing the Isthmus, and engaged first in mining, and afterward for six years in the hotel business as partner with his brother-in- law, Henry Arnold. Later they engaged in the same business for three years in Nevada. Mr. Noble returned by the same route, in 1869, to Cromwell, where he has since resided, engaged principally in farming and dairying, and is now president of the Cromwell Cream- ery Association. He and his family are members of the Congregational Church, and for several years he has had charge of the financial matters of the Ecclesiatical Society, and has also been its clerk and treasurer. With fine musical taste and voice, he has been prominent for many years in the music of the church and Sunday-school. He married April 13, 1870. Elizabeth M. ( Baldwin ) Belden, of Cromwell. Their children: Sarah El- len, born May 27. 1871 ; Thomas Henry, born November 20, 1875.


Sarah Ellen Noble, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth M. (Baldwin) Noble, has al- ways lived in Cromwell. She inherits her father's taste for music, and like him is nse- ful in the Sunday-school and the choir, as well as the social life of the church.


Thomas Henry Noble, son of Thomas and Elizabeth M. ( Baldwin) Noble, is eighth in the line of descent, and seventh of the name, from Thomas Noble, the emigrant an- cestor, who died in Westfield, Mass., in 1704 ..


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He has always resided in Cromwell, except a few years which he passed in New Haven as stenographer for Judge William K. Town- send. He is now employed as stenographer with the J. & E. Stevens Company, in Croni- well.


M'ERWIN LEE NOBLE, son of Thomas and Mary P. (Merwin) Noble, was an ambitious scholar, and was preparing for Yale College at Monson ( Mass. ) Academy, but during a va- cation was drowned, while bathing in Long Island Sound, off Madison, Connecticut.


CHARLOTTE ELLEN NOBLE, daughter of Thomas and Mary P. (Merwin) Noble, re- moved with her mother from Cromwell to the Merwin homestead in Durham when about eight years of age. She, like her older brothers and sister, was of a very lively tem- perament, learned readily, and had a retentive memory. She was the youngest granddaugh- ter, and her presence made the Merwin home- stead an attractive place for the many cousins who were slightly older. She died at the age of nineteen, from diphtheria contracted while caring for a young cousin of the next genera- tion.


ALVA MERWIN, daughter of Miles Merwin, Sr., and Phebe (Camp) Merwin, was married September 17, 1822, to Isaac Stebbins Baldwin (born July 17, 1800, died April II, 1871). They resided in Durham until Oc- tober, 1834, when they removed with their two children to Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y., and one year later to Norwich, N. Y. There their son Lyman, a boy of great prom- ise, was drowned at the age of eleven years.


In November, 1851, they returned to their native State, locating in Cromwell. After the death of her husband nearly twenty years later, Mrs. Baldwin lived for several years with her sister, Mrs. White, at the Merwin homestead in Durham, returning to her Cromwell home in 1884. Always kindly, cheerful and hospitable, her house was a favorite resort of her nephews and nieces, as well as her chil- dren, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She retained much of her physical and mental vigor to the last, and enjoyed to its close a life of continuous activity and usefulness. Her death, at the age of eighty-eight years, occurred on the fifty-ninth anniversary of the great accession to the church in Durham, dur-


ing the ministry of Henry Gleason, at which time she became a member of that church. Their children: Mary Elizabeth, born Decem- ber 28, 1823; Lyman Merwin, February 2 1827 (died June 1, 1838) ; Henry Merwin June 21, 1840 (died May 2, 1864) ; Sarah Allen, February 14, 1846.


MARY ELIZABETH BALDWIN, daughter of Isaac S. and Alva (Merwin) Baldwin, mar- ried April 5, 1842, James Maddock (born ir 1816, died November 5, 1843), at Norwich N. Y. Their daughter, Elizabeth Maddock was born January 24, 1843. After the death of her father she lived with her mother's pa- rents, taking the name of Baldwin.


Mary E. (Baldwin) Maddock was mar ried (second) August 26, 1845, to Ebenezer Hibbard Vansize (born January 10, 1822 died April 17, 1893). In 1850, they re- moved from Norwich to Utica, where Mrs Vansize is now living, in the house which she has occupied for more than half a century. She is a constant attendant at church and Sunday-school, faithful to the prayer-meet ing, and active in church and charitable work Their children : William Baldwin, born Apri 8, 1853; Catherine Hibbard, March 21, 1860. (died April 10, of the same year) ; Hibbard Kimball, June 20, 1864; Mary Merwin, De cember 5, 1865 (died September 10, 1866).


Elizabeth Maddock Baldwin, daughter o James and Mary E. (Baldwin) Maddock, wa married December 25, 1863, to Lewis Bel den (died August 7, 1864), of Rocky Hill Conn., who served in the Civil war in Com pany H, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery and died in the service August 7,1864. Sh married (second) April 13, 1870, Thomas No ble, of Cromwell, Conn., and they have two children, as before mentioned.


William Baldwin Vansize, son of Eben ezer H. and Mary E. ( Baldwin) Vansize, ha been engaged in various applications of elec tricity to the useful arts, including the tele graph and telephone. He studied law, an was admitted to the Bar in New York Stat in 1879, and has since practiced as a paten, lawyer and expert in New York City. H was married September 22, 1874, to Maria G. Fellows, of Albany, N. Y. She died i 1893, and' he subsequently married Ameli Ridout, of New York City, and, at presen® resides in Brooklyn, New York.


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Hibbard Kimball Vansize, son of Eben- elr H. and Mary E. ( Baldwin) Vansize, has bin for twenty years connected with the Ceida National Bank of Utica, N. Y. He bjan as corresponding clerk in 1882, and is nv paying teller. He married Cora Mary Mrton, December 8, 1887. Their daughter, ry Mildred, was born August 9, 1891.


HENRY MERWIN BALDWIN, son of Isaac S and Alva (Merwin) Baldwin, served in tl Civil war enlisting in Company C, Sev- ein Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers. He w; severely wounded in the battle of Olustee, F., February 20, 1864, and after two ths spent in the hospital at Beaufort, S. C was given a furlough, and went to his hoe at Cromwell, Conn., where he died from illess ten days later.


SARAH ALLEN BALDWIN, daughter of Is- ad S. and 'Alva ( Merwin) Baldwin, was mar- to Henry G. Newton (mentioned below) Stember II, 1885. For several years she a teacher, and later studied medicine, and


W W graduated in 1885 from the New York M'lical College for Women. She has prac- 1 her profession but little, but is actively


tid in rested in matters of church, education and chity in New Haven, where she now. re- si s. She is chairman of the Woman's De- pa ment of the City Missionary Association of New Haven; chairman of the visiting com- mlce of the New Haven Woman's School Aciation ; a member of the executive com- mfee of the Home for the Friendless, and of th board of managers of the Elm City Kin- derarten Association ; one of the original in- co orators named in the charter of Grace H pital; a member of the outlook committee of Plymouth Church, and secretary of the He Department of its Sunday-school; and th first woman ever registered as a voter in Conecticut.


RHODA MERWIN, daughter of Miles M win, Sr., and Phebe (Camp) Merwin, was ied June 28, 1829, to Edmund Sage (born Ju


3, 1804, died May 4, 1878), of Cromwell, 1., who owned and managed a large farm he main turnpike between Hartford and N


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Ci on Haven. The six daughters of Miles MĄwin, Sr., always had a very strong affec- for each other. As their children grew isits between the families were frequent,


and children as well as adults looked upon these gatherings as a great event in their lives. Many such meetings were held in the spacious Sage home, and "Aunt Rhoda" was a house- hold word among her sisters' children.


In later years another sister, Mary, and. afterward Alva, with their families, settled in Cromwell, all living within a half mile of each other, making it a favorite rallying place for the others, and the scene of many festive occasions. The three sisters, as well as their husbands and children, were good singers, and. the musical evenings which they spent together were much enjoyed by all.


The life of Mrs. Sage and her husband. was later overshadowed by the loss of four of their five children, between the ages of nine- teen and twenty-nine years, all living at home. until their deaths, which occurred within nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Sage afterward removed to Newark, N. J., where she died a few years later, at the age of sixty-three. Their chil- dren : Elizabeth Williams, born June 17,. 1830, died August 16, 1859; Frances Mer- win, born February 21, 1832, died February 1, 1851 ; Martha Marietta, born February 13, 1834, died June 9, 1856; Charles Edmund was born February 3, 1838; Henry Lewis, born: September 20, 1841, died April 25, 1860.


ELIZABETH WILLIAMS SAGE, daughter of Edmund and Rhoda (Merwin) Sage, was a. graduate of the State Normal School of New Britain. She was for several years an enthus- iastic and very successful teacher, until failing health obliged her to relinquish her work. So devoted to her profession was she that, when cautioned by her physician against continuing in school, she remarked to her friends: "If I knew I could live only one year and continue teaching, or two years without teaching, I should choose to teach."


FRANCES MERWIN SAGE died at nineteen, MARTHA MARIETTA SAGE at twenty-two and HENRY LEWIS SAGE at nineteen years of age (children of Edmund and Rhoda ( Merwin) Sage). They were all of good ability, kind- hearted, and apparently had reason to expect successful and happy lives. The three cousins, Henry M. Baldwin, Henry Lewis Sage and Henry Gleason Newton, being nearly the same age, were often in company, and the "three Henrys" always had enjoyable times together. CHARLES EDMUND SAGE, son of Edmund


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and Rhoda (Merwin) Sage, served through the Civil war, enlisting in the Fifth Connecti- cut Regiment, in June, 1861. He was sworn into service as a member of the Fifth Regiment Band, was in several battles, and was dis- charged in 1862; then was appointed carrier of dispatches at the headquarters of the gen- eral commanding. Afterward, for ten years, he was located in Newark, N. J., superintend- ing the erection of many buildings, both pub- lic and private. Then, purchasing a farm in Somerset county, N. J., he removed thither, where he at present resides.


Mr. Sage was married September 19, 1868, to Mary Anna Esch. Their children: Walter Merwin, born October 15, 1869; Edmund Esch, July 6, 1871 ; Frederick Henry, Novem- ber 24, 1874.


Walter Merwin Sage, son of Charles E. and Mary A. (Esch) Sage, is a graduate of the State Normal School of New Jersey, and of the Law School of Dickinson College, Car- lisle, Penn .; he also graduated in the classical course of the same college, holding three di- plomas, and having the degree A. M. con- ferred by said college. He is at present prin- cipal of the Fairview school, North Hoboken, New Jersey.




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