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Mr. Graham was twice married. His first wife, Miss Maria Foote, of Branford, to whom he was united in 1856, died in 1893. Two sons were born to them, of whom one died in infancy. The other, Charles E., is mentioned below. In 1899 Mr. Gra- ham married Miss Estella M. Wagner, of Litchfield.
CHARLES E. GRAIIAM became associated with his father in the brass works in 1877 and for the last ten years has had charge of the business. He was connected with his father in the latter's various enterprises. He has become one of the prominent men of the town, and in 1897 was sent to the State Legislature by the Republicans of his district. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Union League Club, of New Haven. Mr. Gra- liam married Miss Hattie A. Marsh, and they have one daughter, Marguerite.
HON. ABIRAM CHAMBERLAIN, State comptroller and banker of Meriden, where for up- wards of a third of a century he has been identified with the Home National Bank, and for twenty
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years its executive head, is one of Meriden's lead- ing financiers and substantial. citizens.
Mr. Chamberlain was born Dec. 7, 1837, at Colebrook River, Conn., a son of Abiram and Sophronia ( Burt) Chamberlain, and comes . from sturdy New England stock on both sides. On his father's side he is descended from Jacob Chamber- lain, born in Newton ( now Cambridge), Mass., in 1673, previous to which nothing definite of the family is known. From this ancestor Mr. Cham- berlain's lineage is through Col. Jason, Samuel, Samuel Clark and Abiram Chamberlain.
( II) Col. Jason Chamberlain, son of Jacob, born in 1701. in Newton, Mass .. married Hannah . Clark, and settled in Holliston, Mass. He was a man of ability and took an active part in public affairs. He represented Holliston in the conven- tion that adopted the Federal Constitution ; was often sent to the General Court. His interest in politics was always keen, and he acted with parties opposed to the constitution and administration of John Adams.
(III) Samuel Chamberlain, son of Col. Jason. was born in Holliston, July 18, 1732. In the dark- est period of the Revolution Mr. Chamberlain en- listed from Sandisfield, Mass., in Col. Ashley's regiment, the muster returns being dated Jan. 25, 1778, at Valley Forge.
(IV) Samuel Clark Chamberlain, son of Sam- uel, born May 25, 1765, in Holliston, married (sec- ond) Hannah Conklin, born Oct. 30, 1772. Mr. Chamberlain died Nov. 30. 1835, in Colebrook, Conn., and Mrs. Chamberlain passed away May 2, 1846.
(V) Abiram Chamberlain, son of Samuel Clark, born Oct. 2, 1779, married, May 6, 1829, at Sandis- field, Mass., Sophronia Burt, born Jan. 9. 1805, in Tolland, Mass., a daughter of Caleb and Anne ( Murray) Burt. Mr. Chamberlain some years after his marriage removed to Connecticut, and from Colebrook River, Litchfield county, that State, in 1856 to New Britain, where he passed the rest of his life. He was a civil engineer of repute, and for a number of years surveyor for the borough of New Britain. The preliminary surveys and work for supplying the town with water from Shuttle Meadow were made by him, and the work was under his efficient supervision for a number of years. Mr. Chamberlain died Oct. 14. 1876, at which time the New Britain Record said of him : "As a civil engineer he was accurate and careful. This city has occasion to remember the great serv- ices which he so unostentatiously and faithfully rendered, for years to come. As a publie officer he was courteous and unremitting in his conscien- tions efforts to faithfully discharge the duties en- trusted to him. Ill health compelled him to resign his duties as surveyor and water commissioner some years since, and since that time continued ill health has kept him from engaging in active duties. Deacon Chamberlain is mourned by his neighbors, townsmen and church brethren, who knew him
as a kindly man, an upright citizen, and an earnest and sincere Christian." Mrs. Chamberlain died Oct. 4, 1889. aged eighty-four years. She was a member of Center Church, New Britain. She was strong and healthy and possessed of a vigorous constitution, up to four or five months before her death. She was one of ten children, all of whom lived to advanced years, she being the last to pass away.
The children of Abiram and Sophronia Cham- berlain were: (1) Eliza R., born June 22, 1831, died March 13, 1835. (2) Valentine B., born April 13, 1833, in Colebrook River, Conn., mar- ried Nov. 17, 1877, Anna Smith. He was pre- pared for college at the Connecticut Literary In- stitute. Suffield, and was graduated from Williams College in 1857. He studied law with S. E. Case, of New Britain, and was admitted to the Bar in 1859. He served as clerk of the House of Rep- resentatives in 1861, and throughout the Civil war was a gallant soldier and officer in the 7th Conn. V. I., as lieutenant and captain. He was selected to command the picked battalion of the 7th regi- ment which made the assault at Fort Wagner, in 1863, and was one of the handful of men that scaled the Rebel parapet and was captured within the fort, and from then until March, 1865, was confined in Southern prisons. For several years after the war Capt. Chamberlain was engaged in business in the South. He then again took up his residence in New Britain, Conn., and was soon elected judge of the City Courts, and continually re-elected until his death. He was elected, in 188), judge of probate for the New Britain district: he was elected State Treasurer in 1884, and for a period served as assistant pension agent. Capt. Chamberlain was long one of New Britain's pub- lie spirited and leading citizens, and at the tine of his death was a director in several of the city's leading corporations, and also president of the Me- chanical National Bank. As a Memorial day speaker he was unrivaled in the State. Capt. Chamberlain died June 25, 1803. (3) John .A., born Feb. 21, 1837. (4) Abiram, born Dec. 7. 1837, is referred to farther on. (5) Eliza A., born Jan. 15. 1840, died Nov. 17. 1841. (6) Cornelia A., born Sept. 20. 1842, married Dec. 13. 1866, Charles Elliott Mitchell, a lawyer of New Britain. who has since forged his way to the front and occupied high and honorable positions in his town. State and nation. He was appointed, in 1889. b; President Harrison, United States Commissioner of Patents.
Abiram Chamberlain, whose name introduces this sketch, and the son of Abiram and Sophronia ( Burt) Chamberlain, was born Dec. 7. 1837. at Colebrook River, Conn. After his school days were over and his father's family became settled in New Britain, he found employment in that city, and for years was connected with the New Britain Na- tional Bank as teller, a position he resigned to ac- cept that of cashier of the Home National Bank,
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at Meriden, Conn., succeeding Samuel Dodd. Upon the death of Eli Butler, in 1881, Mr. Chamber- lain was elected to the presidency of the bank, a position he has since filled with signal ability and efficiency. Since his identity with the bank Mlr. Chamberlain has seen the capital increased to $600,000, its present amount, and a surplus of $150,000. Mr. Chamberlain has also been for years identified with other financial institutions of Meriden, notably the Meriden Savings Bank, of which in the early 'nineties he was vice-president, and he is a man of large financial experience.
Mr. Chamberlain, too, has been identified with various enterprises that have been the means of de- veloping the city and town of Meriden. He was one of the promoters and a director in the Meriden and Waterbury Railroad Co., was treasurer of the Butler & Lyman Land Co., a promoter of the Meriden Land & Investment Co., was treasurer of the Meriden Fire Insurance Co., which began busi- ness in 1872, also a director and late president of the company. He was one of the promoters and a director in the Winthrop Hotel Co. Back in his carlier life in Meriden he served from 1871 to 1874 as city auditor. His political affiliations have been with the Republican party. He has represented his town twice in the General Assembly, and he was made the nominee of his party for State Comp- troller at the Republican Convention held at New Haven Sept. 5 and 6, 1900, and was elected to that office in November, following. Mr. Chamberlain is a genial and courteous gentleman and officer.
On Nov. 21, 1872, Mr. Chamberlain was mar- ried to Miss Charlotte E. Roberts, and to them have come children as follows: Albert Roberts and Harold Burt. Of these, Albert Roberts was born in Meriden in 1876, and acquired his prelim- inary education in the grammar and high schools of Meriden, after which ( 1897) he was graduated from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. After reading law in the office of Hon. George A. Fay, he took a two-years' course at Yale Law School, and was admitted to the Bar in 1901. He has been active in public affairs and represented the Third ward in the city council for two terms. In March, 1902. he was appointed by Judge Frank S. Fay to be clerk of the city court, and is now efficiently serving in that position.
On his mother's side, Comptroller Chamberlain is a descendant in the eighth generation from Henry and Eulalia Burt, of Roxbury, Mass., and in 1638 of Springfield, his line being through Jon- athan (and Elizabeth Lobdel), Henry (2) (and Elizabeth Warriner ), James ( and Merey Sexton). Asa (and Ruth Hubbard ). Caleb ( and Anne Mur- ray) and Sophronia ( and Abiram Chamberlain). Ilis maternal ancestors were residents of Spring- field, Sandisfield and Tolland, Mass.
BUCKINGHAM. The Buckinghams of Wa- terbury and Watertown have been leading citizens and business men of their respective communities
from the early settlement of those towns. The late Hon. John Buckingham and son Scovill M. Buckingham, of Waterbury, were prominently iden- tified with the development of the industries of that great manufacturing point.
The ancestors of these men were pioneers of Connecticut. Capt. John Buckingham, of Water- bury, was in the seventh generation from Thomas Buckingham, the Puritan settler, and ancestor of all American Buckinghams. Thomas Buckingham was one of the company to which Eaton and Hop- kins, two London merchants, and the two ministers -Davenport and Prudden-belonged. They reached Boston in June, 1637, and New Haven in 1638. Thomas Buckingham removed to New Mil- ford in the autumn of 1639. He was of the com- pany, of which Rev. Peter Prudden was the pas- tor, who first settled the town.
The line of Capt. John Buckingham's descent was through Samuel, Samuel (2), Thomas (2), Thomas (3), and David.
(H) Samuel Buckingham, son of Thomas Buckingham, baptized in 1640 or 1641 at Milford, Conn., married in 1663 Sarah Baldwin, daughter of Timothy Baldwin, one of the first settlers of Milford.
(III) Samuel Buckingham (2), son of Samuel Buckingham, born Nov. 1, 1668, married Sarah (surname not given). 'He was a proprietor in the town of New Milford, Conn., although he never moved there.
(IV) Thomas Buckingham (2), son of Sam- uel Buckingham (2), born in 1699, married in 1724, Mary B. Woodruff.
(V) Thomas Buckingham (3), son of Thomas Buckingham (2), born in 1727, married about 1750. Sarah Treat, of Milford. He removed to Water- town. Conn., in 1772.
(VI) David Buckingham, son of Thomas Buckingham (3), born in 1760, married in 1785. Chloe Merrill. He died in 1832, and she passed away in 1841. Their children were: John, Sarah, Chloe, David and George.
(VII) CAPT. JOHN BUCKINGHAM, son of Da- vid Buckingham, married Sept. 10. 1809, Betsey Scovill, daughter of James Scovill, a lady of most amiable disposition and manners, and well qualified to adorn the large homestead over which she was destined to become the mistress, her husband hay- ing inherited the ancestral farm of his grandfather Merrill in Watertown. John Buckingham soon be- came a leading farmer, and for the best part of his life devoted himself to the tillage and improvement of his thrifty domain, making it one of the most attractive in the place. In early life he had quite a fondness for military distinction, became a captain of State troops, and during the war of 1812-1814. he commanded a company of volunteers to assist in the defense of New London and its harbor, then menaced by the British fleet, under Holcomb of the 74-gunship "Ramillies." After the close of the war he received a commission as colonel in the
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State militia which, however, he soon resigned. He removed to Waterbury in 1851, and became more immediately identified with the interests of the place, although his business interests for several years had been located in Waterbury. Longer ago than twenty-five years prior to his death he was en- gaged in manufacturing in Waterbury in connec- tion with his brother-in-law, J. M. L. and William HI. Scovill, under the firm of Scovill & Bucking- ham, and when, in 1850, it was merged into the Scovill Manufacturing Co., Capt. Buckingham still retained his interest as a stockholder in the new concern, but a few years prior to his death, in con- sequence of growing infirmities of age he withdrew from active business pursuits.
Capt. Buckingham possessed only a common school education, but he cultivated and improved his mind by extensive reading and intercourse with men which amply qualified him to take part in town, legislative and educational affairs. He had a taste for general literature and knew how to appre- ciate the genius of Shakespeare, and other literary authors of eminence. A man of sound practical views and of strict integrity, he was often called upon by his fellow citizens to fill responsible posi- tions in the administration of public affairs, the du- ties of which he discharged with fidelity, and with an eye single to the public weal. He had repre- sented both Watertown and Waterbury in the Gen- eral Assembly, and in 1838 was a member of the State Senate from the Sixteenth district.
Capt. Buckingham died May 3, 1867. He was buried with Masonic honors, having been in his life time very much attached to that fraternity. He was identified with the Episcopal church.
HON. SCOVILL MERRILL BUCKINGHAM, son of Capt. John and Betsey (Scovill) Buckingham, was born Aug. II, ISII, in Watertown, Conn. Young Buckingham received only a common school educa- tion. He was prepared for a mercantile business in a public school in Farmington, Conn., along with his boyhood friend afterward the Hon. John P. Elton. Returning from school he entered the store of his uncles, J. M. L. and William H. Scovill, in the spring of 1827. He remained in the store for a number of years, then was transferred to Scovill's button factory to superintend the same. In 1839 or . 1840 a co-partnership was formed and called Sco- vill & Co., with a capital of $20,000, and Mr. Buck- ingham was associated with his uncles, and his brother-in-law, Abraham Ives. He continued pros- perously in that concern until the formation of the Scovill Manufacturing Co., in 1850, with a capital of $250,000, when the original company and a butt- ton company in which his father was largely inter- ested were merged into the new concern. After the death of his uncles, J. M. L. and William H. Sco- vill, Mr. Buckingham was made president of the company. This position he held until succeeded by Samuel W. Hall. Mr. Buckingham was always in- terested in the prosperity of Waterbury, and was largely engaged in the formation of several mann-
facturing companies from 1848 to 1860, and was president of many of them. He was one of the carly directors of the Waterbury National Bank. lle was president of the Plymouth Granite Com- pany. Mr. Buckingham took great pride in build- ing houses. The block of residences on Willow street known as the Buckingham block, the first of the kind in Waterbury, was his idea. The con- stant improvement in real estate throughout the city gave evidence of his interest in public matters. He was a liberal contributor to the Naugatuck railroad and to the Hartford and Fishkill ( now the New England) railroad, whereby Waterbury was given increased facilities to New York and Boston. Mr. Buckingham was instrumental in forming the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Co., in which he always held an interest. He was connected with many other enterprises. The poor and oppressed always found in him a kind friend. In his early manhood he developed an interest in religious matters, and for over fifty years he was an active officer in the Church. He succeeded in 1854 his uncle, William H. Scovill, as senior warden in St. John's Episcopal Church. He gave liberally toward the building of the present church edifice. and also of Trinity College and other church institutions about the country. At one time he represented the Whig party in the State Legislature. "Mr. Buckingham was an active young man, full of animal spirits, very fond of a good horse and a good gun, as was his father before him. Years and cares sobered his spirits, and he be- came the grave, sedate, scrupulously neat and re- fined person familiar to the elder ones of the present generation."
On May 18, 1835, Mr. Buckingham was married to Charlotte A., daughter of Aaron Benedict; she died Jan. 9, 1887. One child, John A., was born to the marriage. Scovill Merrill Buckingham died April 7, 1889.
JOIN A. BUCKINGHAM, only child of Scovill M. and Charlotte A. (Benedict) Buckingham, born April 1, 1839, married, in 1870, Anna McClean. daughter of Samuel McClean, of New York, and granddaughter of the late Hon. Charles Chapman, of Hart ford.
INGERSOLL. The ancestors of the New Ha- ven family bearing this name, and their posterity in turn, have dwelt in New England for two litin- dred and fifty or more years, and for one hundred and fifty years in New Haven, where they have fig- ured conspicuously in public affairs, Colonial, State and National. There they have been a family of lawyers, men of great eminence in the profession. Such characters as Hon. Jared, Judge Jonathan, Hon. Ralph I., Judge Charles A., Gov. Charles R. and Hon. Colin M. and his son, George P. Inger- soll, have reflected great honor upon the profession, the State, the Nation and the name, and constitute within themselves a family galaxy of distinguished lawyers and public men.
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Hon. Colin M. and Hon. Charles R. Ingersoll, brothers, still members of the Bar of New Haven, though advanced in life, are in the sixth generation from John Ingersoll, who was at Hartford in 1653 or earlier, then at Northampton and Westfield. Mass., respectively, dying in 1684. His third wife was Mary Hunt, a granddaughter of Gov. Web- ster. From this John Ingersoll Colin M. and Charles R. Ingersoll trace their line of descent through Jonathan, Rev. Jonathan, Judge Jonathan and Ralph I. Ingersoll.
(II) Jonathan Ingersoll, son of John, of Hart- ford, born in 1681, in 1712 married Widow Sarah Miles, who died in 1748, aged sixty-two years. In 1698 Mr. Ingersoll was a resident of Milford, Con- necticut.
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(III) Rev. Jonathan Ingersoll. son of Jonathan, born about 1713 in Stratford, Conn., married in 1740 Dorcas, daughter of Rev. Joseph Moss, of Derby. Mr. Ingersoll was graduated from Yale College in 1736 and entered the ministry, being li- censed Feb. 15, 1738, by the Presbytery at Eliza- bethtown, N. J. He lived for a time in Newark, N. J. On Aug. 8, 1739, he was installed pastor of the Ridgefield (Conn.) Congregational Church, suc- ceeding Rev. Thomas Hawley, who died in 1738. and becoming the society's second pastor. He was a man of fine mind and good heart and served the church with great faithfulness until his death. which occurred Oct. 2, 1778, when he was in the sixty-fifth year of his age and the fortieth of his ministry. In 1758 he joined the Colonial troops as chaplain, on Lake Champlain, and is said to have exerted an excellent influence on the army and to have been highly respected by the soldiers.
(III) 'Hon. Jared Ingersoll, son of Jonathan and brother of Rev. Jonathan, born in 1722, in Mil- ford, Conn., married ( first ) in 1743 Hannah Whit- ing, who died in 1779; and (second) in 1780 he married Hannah Alling. In 1742 he was graduated from Yale College, and soon afterward settled in the practice of law in New Haven. In 1757 he went to Great Britain as agent of the Colony, receiving a special appointment from the General Assembly ; he went again in 1764, and during this last visit was appointed to the office of stamp master, and as such was famous. In 1770 he was appointed by the Crown judge of the vice-admiralty court in the middle district of the Colony and went to Phila- delphia to reside. The office was abolished at the beginning of the Revolutionary war. when he re- turned to New Haven to live and there his death occurred in 1781. Judge Ingersoll was one of the ablest lawyers of his time, was remarkably eloquent. and as a lawyer made the cause of his client clear to the jury by his power of explicit statement and his logical method of reasoning. His manner was open, frank and engaging and he was very success- ful.
(IV) Judge Jonathan Ingersoll. son of Rev. Jonathan, born in 1747, in Ridgefield, Conn., mar- 5
ried Grace, daughter of Ralph Isaacs, of Branford. He was graduated from Yale College in 1766. be- coming a lawyer and locating for practice at New Haven, where for many years he pursued his pro- fession with great industry, fidelity and success. Before he had reached middle life, by the unso- licited suffrages of his fellow citizens, he entered public life and became one of the purest states- men Connecticut has ever had. For years he was a member of the General Assembly and was once elected to the Congress of the United States, but de- clined to accept the honor. From 1798 to 1801 he was on the Bench of the Superior Court and in 1811 he succeeded Gov. Smith as Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, serving as such until 1816. Soon afterward he re-entered the field of political life and he was one of those who did most to secure the final overthrow of the Federalists. The Toleration party, led by Judge Ingersoll and Oliver Wolcott. carried the State in 1818 and they were elected lieu- tenant-governor and governor, respectively. It had been a long struggle of the people against the Legis- lature and the people had triumphed. Judge Inger- soll held the office until after the adoption of the present Constitution. He died in New Haven Jan. 12, 1823.
(V) Hon. Charles Anthony Ingersoll, son of Judge Jonathan, was born Oct. 19. 1798, in New Haven, studied law under the direction of his elder brother, Hon. Ralph 1., and attained eminence at the Bar, serving as State's attorney from 1849 to. 1853. In the latter year he was appointed by Pres- ident Pierce Judge of the United States District Court of Connecticut, and continued in such posi- tion until his death, Jan. 12, 1860.
(V) Hon. Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, son of Judge Jonathan, and the father of Hon. Colin MI. and Hon. Charles Roberts Ingersoll. of New Haven, was born Feb. 8, 1789, in New Haven. After his graduation from Yale College, in 1808, he read law for two years under Hon. Seth P. Staples and then opened an office in New Haven. The period was an interesting one. Pierpont Edwards, able and eloquent, had recently been transferred to the Bench of the District Court of the United States, leav- ing at the Bar, as its most prominent members. Da- vid Daggett, Nathan Smith and S. P. Staples, each pre-eminent in his way. It is the best evidence of Mr. Ingersoll's energy and talent that he was able. in the presence and by the side of these strong men. first to stand erect, then to attain eminence. While still young Mr. Ingersoll became interested in poli- tics. Though by birth a Federalist. when the ques- tion was presented whether Connecticut should longer have a State religion and Congregationalists be a privileged sect he, with his father and other influential churchmen, took the side of equal rights. and in 1817 became a Tolerationist. As a member of the new party he was chosen, two years later. to represent New Haven, previously a strong Fed- eral town, in the Legislature. The session which
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followed, on account of the new Constitution, was an important one, and he immediately took a high position among the leaders in debate. Mr. Ingersoll was a working member, faithful to his trust and probably the ablest man on his side. Until wanted for a higher place he was retained there, in 1820 and 1821 being made chairman of the Finance com- mittee, and in 1824 he was Speaker of the House.
In 1825 Mr. Ingersoll was elected representative to Congress, which election vacated his seat in the Legislature, to which he had been again chosen. For eight years he was continued in Congress, sup- porting during the first four the administration of President Adams, and afterward acting with the National Republicans, led by Henry Clay. For four years he served on the Ways and Means commit - tee, which was the most important committee in the House, and during the last two years he held the second place on that committee. Able, industrious and vigilant, he rose rapidly and steadily. from the start in the estimation of the public. While a mem- ber of Congress Mr. Ingersoll served one term as mayor of New Haven. After the expiration of his Congressional career, in 1833, he returned to New Haven and resumed the practice of law. In 1834 he supported the administration of President Jack- son and in 1835 he was selected to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate, but he declined the great honor and several times declined nomination for governor when his party was in power, and it is stated that he could have had any office in the gift of the people. While in Congress he became an in- timate friend of Mr. Polk, and when that gentle- man was elected President of the United States, in 1846, he appointed Mr. Ingersoll minister to Russia without his knowledge or consent, which honor was accepted. After an absence of two years at St. Petersburg he gladly returned to his profession and for twenty years practiced law with unabated vigor and never with greater success. He loved the law and with great energy devoted himself to it, through a long life, desiring to attain excellence and emi- nence in the profession, and on that objective point were brought to bear the converged forces of his whole nature. Mr. Ingersoll had a noble endow- ment of intellect, vigorous and well-balanced and obedient to his will, equipped with all needful adorn- ment, and was a hard student of both books and human nature.
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