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In 1853 Mr. Bailey married, in Meriden, Emily J. Roberts, who was born in Wallingford, a daugli- ter of Ephraim and Susan (Ellis) Roberts, and a granddaughter of David Roberts, who served with distinction in the Revolutionary war, having en- listed at the first call, on July 8, and served to Dec. 18, 1775. He re-enlisted under Capt. Walker until July 9, 1778, his third re-enlistment heing under Capt. Wells, of Wethersfield : his last enlistment was from Jan. 18, 1781, to Dec. 31, 1781, in the 5th Bat-
talion, Wadsworth's Brigade, under Col. William Douglas, of Northford, Conn. Mrs. Bailey died in June, 1895, and was buried in Walnut Grove ceme- tery. She was long a member of the Congregational Church. Three children were given to Mr. and Mrs. Bailey: (1) Lucerne, who died at the age of fourteen months. (2) Hattie L., who married Will- iam H. Aubrey and has had three children, Alfred B., William R. (at home) and Clara L., of whom the last named died at the age of six years. Alfred B. graduated from the Meriden high school in the class of 1897, and from the Yale Law School in 1901, with the degree of LL. B .: he was admitted to the bar the same year, and is a justice of the peace in Meriden. (3) Lucretia S. married Jesse E. Still- man, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere.
Mr. Bailey is a member of Merriam Post, G. A. R., of Meriden, and a charter member of Pacific Lodge, No. 87, I. O. O. F. Formerly he supported the Republican party, but is now a stanch Democrat. With his family he belongs to the Congregational Church. He is a good man, well known and popu- lar, honest and upright, and is considered one of the substantial citizens of Meriden.
HOTCHKISS ( Derby and Ansonia branch). This branch of the family from which came that of the old time hardware dealer Lockwood Hotch- kiss-who is one of the oldest merchants of An- sonia and whose son, Hon. Lockwood Hotchkiss, Jr., has but recently retired from the mayoralty of that city-is, with its allied families, a conspicuous one in and about the old town of Derby, where its members have been prominent from the first settle- ment of that locality in the early Colonial period.
In treating of the first of the name of Hotch- kiss in his "History of Derby," Rev. Orcutt men- tions Elijah and Deacon Eliphalet coming to Derby about the time, adding that it had not been ascer- tained whose sons they were. Recent investiga- tion shows that Elijah Hotchkiss was in the fourth generation from Samuel Hotchkiss, through Joshua, Jacob and Elijah. Samuel Hotchkiss, the American ancestor of the family of which we write, came sup- posedly from Essex, England. He was in New Haven in 1641, where in 1642 he married Eliza- beth Cleverly. Mr. Hotchkiss died Dec. 28. 1653. leaving a widow and six children, the widow dying in 1681. The children were: John, Samuel, James, Joshua, Thomas and Daniel Hotchkiss. Of these Joshua Hotchkiss was one of the most prominent of the New Haven men of that day. He was high sheriff of the county, and a very active and useful citizen of Westville. then Hotchkiss town.
Deacon Eliphalet Hotchkiss, who came early to Derby and from whom the Ansonia family under consideration (that of Lockwood Hotchkiss) is de- scended, was about of the same age as Elijah, who was there with him, and he also descended from Samuel Hotchkiss, the emigrant settler, but the links between them we have been unable to get.
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Deacon Eliphalet Hotchkiss was born in 1727, and married, probably in Derby, Dec. 21, 1751, Comfort, daughter of Jabez Harger, Jr., and settled in Nortlı End, and became one of the most active and most prominent men of Derby. He was a deacon in the First Church of Christ, a justice of the peace and by occupation a carpenter and builder. Deacon Hotchkiss died July 5, 1803, and his wife passed away March 11, 1802. Their children, all born be- tween 1753 and 1787, inclusive were: Susannah, Levi, Eliphalet, Moses, David and Philo.
From Deacon Eliphalet Hotchkiss Lockwood Hotchkiss, Sr., of Ansonia, is in the fifth generation, his lineage being through Levi, Elipha and Albert Hotchkiss.
(II) Levi Hotchkiss, son of Deacon Eliphalet, born May 2, 1754, was four times married. His first wife, Phebe, died April 3, 1789; his second, Betsey, died April 8, 1691 ; his third wife died Dec. 1, 1801, and his fourth bore for her Christian name Susannah. His children were: Elipha, Lucy, Bet- sey, Phebe, David, Levi and Abbe.
(III) Elipha Hotchkiss, son of Levi and Phebe, born about 1777, married Nancy Folsom. Mr. Hotchkiss died September 21, 1851, advanced in years, and Nancy, his wife, passed away Nov. 15, 1865, aged eighty-six. Their children were: Will- iam, Albert, Mary Ann, Burr, Harriet, Eli, John, Phebe, Jane, Hannah, Amelia, Harvey and Samuel.
(IV) Albert Hotchkiss, son of Elipha, born in September, 1803, married Sally Minerva Curtiss, born Jan. 9, 1800, daughter of Morgan Curtiss. Mr. Hotchkiss was engaged in coopering and farming, and was a resident of Derby and Ansonia. He com- manded the esteem and held the confidence of his fellow townsmen, and died Nov. 29, 1864. His children were: Lockwood, Sarah, Sidney, John, Hattie and Emory.
(V) Lockwood Hotchkiss, son of Albert, born Aug. 4, 1826, married Augusta, daughter of Har- vey and Nancy (Riggs) Johnson. Mr. Hotchkiss received his primary education in the common schools of his neighborhood and early became self- reliant and independent. He learned the trade of a mason, and followed it as an occupation in connec- tion with contracting and building through his early and middle manhood, and connected himself with the erection of many of the buildings of his town and county through that period. In 1867 he, asso- ciated with Nathan S. Johnson, established the hard- ware business in Ansonia, with which he has since been continuously identified, and in which he has reared three of his sons. The style of the firm for years was Johnson & Hotchkiss, then Mr. Hotch- kiss succeeded the firm as sole proprietor. Mr. Hotchkiss is now one of Ansonia's oldest merchants, and most estimable and highly respected citizens. He is doing business amid the scenes of his early boyhood-a period of sixty and more years ago. and where he has done business with several gen- erations of his boyhood friends and acquaintances.
He is of a retiring disposition and has never as- pired to political or public notoriety-never an of- fice holder or seeker. His political affiliation's have always been with the Democratic party, and the re- ligious faith of the family with the denomination of the M. E. Church. Mr. Hotchkiss, though passed the allotted three-score and ten, is still active and useful in business and social life. He has the en- tire confidence of the community. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hotchkiss are:
( 1) Lottie A. married Fred A. Lines, of New Milford, Connecticut.
(2) Albert E. married Nina E. Jewerson, of Brooklyn, New York.
(3) Nettie L. married William Pope, of An- sonia.
(4) LOCKWOOD HOTCHKISS, JR., born in An- sonia, March 18, 1866, married, Jan. 12, 1892. Sus- anna Jackson, daughter of Joseph Jackson, of An- sonia, and their only child is Mildred Elizabeth, born Sept. 6, 1894. Mr. Hotchkiss received his ele- inentary education in the public and high schools of Ansonia, then began a business career with his fa- ther in the hardware store, and has since been identi- fied with it. He developed qualities in business and social life that were considered by his fellow citi- zens such as to make him an available and efficient man to aid in the direction of municipal affairs, and in 1895 he was elected to the common council and served with credit in that and the following year, a term of two years, during the Webster admin- istration. In 1899 he was elected mayor of the city, and served for a term of two years efficiently and ably. Mr. Hotchkiss, like his father, is a Dem- oerat in his political views, and otherwise sustains the father's reputation. He is a genial and pop- ular gentleman, enterprising and public spirited. Socially he is prominent in both Masonry and Odd Fellowship, is a member of Naugatuck Lodge, No. 63, I. O. O. F .; George Washington Lodge, No. 82, F. & A. M., Ansonia ; Mt. Vernon Chapter, No. 35, R. A. M .; Union Council, No. 27, R. S .; and New Haven Commandery, No. 2, K. T.
(5) Fred D. is yet single and a clerk in the store with his father.
The Riggs family, allied by marriage with the Hotchkiss, is an early Colonial family, descendants of Edward, the American ancestor, who came from England in 1633, locating in Roxbury, Mass. A son, Edward (2), married (first) in 1635 Elizabeth Roosa, and settled in Milford, Conn., in 1646. In 1654 he, with Edward Wooster, and perhaps others. settled in the town of Derby.
The Johnsons, too, were early and prominent in the Colonial period in Derby, New Haven, Wood- bury, Seymour and this section of Connecticut. There were several different families of this name in the territory referred to. Harvey Johnson, the ia- ther of Mrs. Lockwood Hotchkiss, Sr., was a man of unusual enterprise in the line of his business. that of a mason and builder. He was born Feb. 14,
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1798, in the town of Monroe, Conn., but later lived in Derby and Ansonia. He married Nancy Riggs, of Oxford, and they became the parents of twelve children. This couple celebrated their golden wed- ding Feb. 14, 1869, and lived to a ripe old age. Few men, if any, in the State had in his day erected so many public and business buildings and dwellings as had Mr. Johnson. Among these were the Insane Retreat at Hartford; the State prison at Wethers- field; old Washington College, now Trinity, at Hartford; St. John's Church at Bridgeport; St. James' church at Birmingham; St. John's church at Waterbury; and a stone church in Washington, Connecticut.
PHILANDO ARMSTRONG. For many years the firm of H. B. Armstrong & Co. repre- sented one of the most solid business concerns of the State of Connecticut. This firm was estab- lished in 1876 by Philando Armstrong, consisting of himself and H. B. Armstrong.
John Armstrong, the father of Philando, was born in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and was descended from the great and widespread Border family of Armstrongs, which derives its name from the following circumstances: "An ancient King of Scotland had his horse killed under him in battle, and was immediately remounted by Fairbeorn, his armor-bearer. For this timely assistance the King amply rewarded him with lands on the Border, and to perpetuate the memory of so important a service as well as the manner in which it was performed- 'for Fairbeorn took the King by the thigh, and set him on his saddle'-his royal master gave him the appellation of Armstrong, and assigned to him for a crest an armed hand and arm : in the left hand a leg and foot in armor couped at the thigh, all proper."
Our subject's father early chose the life of a sailor. At the age of sixteen he left home and shipped to the West Indies, and it was in one of the ports there that he fortunately fell in with Capt. Ichabod Smith, and returned with him to West Ha- ven, remaining on his farm for the succeeding two years. Being successful in this line. Mr. Armstrong remained on a farm all his life. His marriage took place in West Haven to Polly. daughter of Jere- miah Smith, and the following children were born to them: Lorenzo died at the age of two years : Sereno died in 1898: Cynthia married Robert Mills : Harriet married Henry Thompson; Lorenzo (2) lived to the age of eighty; William O. lived to be sixty-six : Eliza married a Mr. Richards: Philando is mentioned below. The father died in 1840, but the mother survived until 1865.
Philando Armstrong was born June 21. 1825, and spent his early school days in West Haven. Until he was sixteen years old he worked on the home farm. In 1837 Lorenzo and William, his older brothers, opened up a grocery business on Long Wharf, and Philando worked for them and was so efficient that they gave him a place in the Bushnell & Dewell; later he went into the tobacco
firm before he was of age. The firm enlarged and became shipping merchants in the New Haven, West Indian and South American trade, continuing in business until 1875. The heirs of Lorenzo and William Armstrong continue the business in New York City under the original name of L., W. & P. Armstrong, of Wall street, New York city.
For thirty-five years Philando Armstrong was in business with his brothers on Long Wharf, but in 1876 he established H. B. Armstrong & Co., which for twenty-five years has been engaged in the furniture business, and is now being closed up, the property in Orange street being designed for a box factory. Since 1842 Mr. Armstrong has re- sided in New Haven, and here his first marriage, to Charlotte Malloy, was celebrated. The second union was to Catherine Bradley. Mr. Armstrong's children were: Wallace Townsend Burden, who died Feb. 9, 1886; Henry Bolden; Delora, de- ceased ; Lillian, deceased : Lillian Idlewild, who mar- ried F. H. Benton, and has two children, Roger and Louis; Philando Sitiendio, born Oct. 1, 1865; Ricardo Fuertoes, born Dec. 6, 1867 ; and Maud S., born Aug. 29, 1871. All were educated in New Haven. H. Bolden Armstrong was born in New Haven Oct. 1, 1855, and married Lillian I. Clark, a daughter of Henry W. Clark, of New Haven. Children as follows have been born to them: Delora Etta, Aug. 13, 1882: H. B., Jr., . June 26, 1893; and Lillian Clark, May 1, 1895.
ROBERT CATLIN PECK (deceased) was, during his lifetime, one of the most successful and prominent business men of New Haven, a leader in the wholesale grocery trade and an estimable and highly respected citizen.
The Peck family is one of the old ones of Litch- field county, Conn., where many of them still reside, and in the town of Bethany. Sidney Peck, the fa- ther of our subject was born, and there married Catherine Catlin, a daughter of Dr. Catlin, a promi- nent physician of Litchfield county. To them were born six children : Joseph C., Robert C., Jay, Maria R., Sidney and Catherine. Joseph C. and our sub- ject became merchants in Morris, Conn .. for a few years, and later they came to New Haven : Jay died in young manhood ; Maria R. and Sidney have both passed away: and Catherine married Darwin B. Randall, a merchant of Morris.
Robert C. Peck was born in the town of Bethle- hem, Conn., Oct. 19. 1832, and died Aug. 20, 1869. His boyhood was spent on the farm until he was twenty-one, and then he went into the mercantile business with his brother. Joseph C., in Morris. where lie married Miss Mary Elizabeth Dewell, who was born in Norfolk, sister of Hon. James D. Dewell, of New Haven. A short time after marriage Mr. Robert C. Peck and wife moved to New Haven, and he there embarked in the business which he so suc- cessfully conducted for such a long period. His first entrance into the business was as salesman for
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business, and then became one of the firm of Benja- min, Peck & Kellam, wholesale grocers, so contin- uing until his death, when he left behind him the record of an honest and industrious life, in which he had gained and retained the respect and confi- dence of a large patronage.
A family of four children were born to our sub- ject and wife: James D., who died at the age of twenty ; Robert C. and Frederick H., who died in in- fancy; and Minnie R., who married Sherlon D. Smith, a native of New Haven and a resident of this city. In his political opinions Mr. Peck favored the Republican party, and the family have long been con- nected with the Congregational Church, where Mr. Peck was known for his Christian character.
CHAMPION. Few families coming to New England in its early settlement were of a higher order and character than the one bearing this name, and few were so conspicuous in the war of the Revolution and in public affairs before and after that period. Such names as those of Col. Henry Champion and his son, Gen. Henry Champion, two of Connecticut's distinguished sons, are written upon its scroll of fame, while their posterity have played well their parts in keeping intact the country they assisted in saving. The late Henry Champion, of New Haven, whose promising career as a use- ful citizen and successful lawyer was brought to a close at the very threshold of manhood, on Jan. 30, 1867, was a lineal descendant of Gen. Champion, and gave every promise of a life that would have been an honor and credit to the name he bore. He was the last of his line.
Henry Champion was born Nov. 8, 1838, at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, son of Rev. George and Susanna ( Larned) Champion, and a descendant in the eighth generation from Henry Champion, who emigrated from England to the American Col- onies and settled at Saybrook, Conn., where he is found as early as 1647. After having assisted in developing Saybrook Mr. Champion removed with his family to the east side of the Connecticut river, and became one of the first and most active founders of the historic town of Lyme. Concerning his first wife little is known. His second wife, to whom he was married in March, 1698, was Deborah Jones. Mr. Champion died in February, 1709.
From this emigrant ancestor the late Henry Champion's line is through Thomas, Henry (2), Col. Henry (3), Gen. Henry (4), Maj. Henry (5), and Rev. George Champion.
Thomas. Champion, son of Henry the emigrant settler, was born in Saybrook, Conn., in April, 1656, married in Lyme, Aug. 23, 1682, Hannah, born Sept. 14, 1664, in Lyme, daughter of Woolston and Hannah (Briggs) Brockway. After Mr. Cham- pion's death, which occurred April 5, 1705, his widow remarried, and died March 2, 1750.
Henry Champion (2), son of Thomas, was born May 2, 1695, in Lyme, and married in East Had-
dam, Conn., Jan. 16, 1717, Mehitable, baptized in December, 1704, in East Haddam, a daughter of Moses and Mary Rowley. The family home was in East Haddam, and there Henry died Nov. 26, 1779, his wife dying Oct. 5, 1775.
Col. Henry Champion (3), son of Henry (2), was born Jan. 19, 1723, in East Haddam, Conn., married first, Dec. 25, 1746, Deborah, born June 20, 1724, a daughter of Capt. Joshua E. and Mehit- able (Dudley) Brainard. She died March 17, 1789, in Westchester, and he married, second, in West- chester, Nov. 24, 1791, Mrs. Sarah ( Brainerd ) Lewis, born April 30, 1744, a daughter of Stephen and Susannah ( Gates) Brainerd, and died Jan. 17, 1818. Col. Champion passed away July 23, 1797, in what is now Colchester, Conn. At the age of eighteen years he was appointed ensign of the East Haddam South Company, and was made lieutenant of the same in 1750, and became captain of a com- pany for service in the French and Indian war, joining the main army at Lake George. Later he was chosen captain of the Fifth Company, 2d Regi- ment, from which he was transferred to the com- mand of the 12th or Winchester Company, in 1760. In 1772 he was appointed major of the 12th Regi- ment Colonial Militia, and in April, 1775, Major Champion, with Oliver Wolcott, Jeremiah Wads- worth and others, was appointed by the General As- sembly, a commission to supply all necessary stores and provisions for the troops to be raised for the defense of the colonies. When Gen. Washington took command he recommended that Major Cham- pion, Joseph Trumbull and Jeremiah Wadsworth be made commissioners; Congress accordingly ap- pointed them. In October, 1775, Henry Champion was promoted from the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the 12th Regiment of State Troops, to that of colonel of the 25th Regiment, which was com- posed of companies from Colchester and East Had- dam. When the army began to assemble at New York, in April, 1776, Col. Champion was appointed commissary of the troops, and the main army was supplied almost wholly by him from that time, and he also provided for the troops ordered to Rhode Island. In 1778 Col. Champion was appointed sole commissary-general of the Eastern department of the Continental army, by Col. Peter Colt, and was reappointed by the State in April, 1780. In the spring of 1780, in consequence of the distressed con- dition of the army, which had wintered at Morris- town, Gen. Washington appealed to Gov. Trumbull for assistance. Col. Champion was placed in com- mand of a train which was largely supplied from his own resources. It reached the Hudson in an astonishingly short time, was ferried over at New- burgh and delivered into Washington's hands. When the great general received these stores he remarked that "no other State than Connecticut could have furnished them."
In May, 1780, Col. Champion resigned his com- mission in the army and returned to his home in
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Westchester. In politics he had been prominent prior to his enlistment in the army, and during the progress of the Revolution he had been regularly elected to office; was deputy to the General As- sembly from Colchester, in 1761, from 1765 to 1779, in 1781, 1783, and from 1790 to 1792 Col. Cham- pion was also deacon in the Westchester Church from 1775 until his death.
Gen. Henry Champion (4), son of Col. Henry, was born March 16, 1751, in Westchester, Conn., and in East Haddam, Oct. 10, 1781, married Abigail Tinker, who was born March 24, 1758, in East Haddam, daughter of Sylvanus and Abigail (Olm- stead) Tinker. She died April 19, 1818, in West- chester, and Gen. Champion also died in that town, July 13, 1836.
Mr. Champion entered the service of the Con- tinental army at the time of the Lexington Alarm, served first as an ensign, then as second lieutenant of the Eighth Company, 2d Regiment, and off May I, 1775, was made first lieutenant, and was one of the detachment of officers and men who were en- gaged at the battle of Bunker Hill. On June I, 1776, he was promoted and made adjutant on the staff of Col. Samuel Wyllys, of the 22d Continent- als, and after the evacuation of Boston marched with the regiment by way of the shore towns to New York. His regiment assisted in fortifying the city, and on Aug. 24 it was ordered to the Brooklyn front, where it took part in the retreat of Sept. I. He was also a member of the army at White Plains, where the regiment remained until its term of service expired in the following De- cember. On Jan. 1, 1777, Lient. Champion was pro- moted to be captain of the Ist Connecticut Line, with which he remained after the regiment was re- organized as the 3d. As an illustration of Gen. Champion's originality, as well as the genuine pa- triotism that characterized the Champion family, he enlisted the services of his sister Deborah, then only seventeen years old, to carry dispatches from New London to Gen. Washington at Boston. She also at one time carried the money which was to pay the troops. The journeys were made on horseback with but a trusted old slave named Aristarchus to accompany her, her sex enabling her to pass the British lines undetected.
On July 15, 1779, Capt. Champion was detached from his old regiment and appointed acting major of the First Batallion, Light Brigade, his commis- sion dating from Jan. 1, 1779. This brigade had been organized by Gen. Washington to do duty at the front and especially to attempt the capture of Stony Point, on the Hudson, which the enemy had occupied since May. The corps was composed of picked men from all the regiments under Wash- ington's immediate command, and was organized into four regiments of two batallions each. Con- necticut furnished one of these regiments, num- bering 400 officers and men, which in the assault formed part of Wyllys' right column. At mid-
night on July 15 Gen. Wayne assaulted and carried Stony Point with such skill, dash and completeness as to elicit the praise of the enemy themselves. Re- maining with the army, Mr. Champion continued his brilliant career until the close of the Revolution. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
On his return to Westchester Gen. Champion entered into politics, and was deputy from Colches- ter to the General Assembly in 1789, 1793 to 1798, and 1800 to 1805, and from 1806 to 1817 held the office of assistant. From 1813 to 1828 he was a deacon in the Church in Westchester. It was through the efforts of Gen. Champion that the charter for the Phoenix Bank of Hartford was se- cured. The State Bank had refused him the ac- commodation of $2,000, and the former bank came into existence ; he remarked at that time, "Well, if this bank cannot accommodate me, I'll have one that can." He was also largely interested in the Connecticut Land Company, to which he subscribed over $85,000, and the towns of Champion, N. Y., and Champion, Ohio, were named in his honor. Gen. Champion was instrumental in securing the school fund for Connecticut, and was chairman of the committee of the State Legislature appointed to arrange for the holding of the famous Hartford convention of 1814.
Major Henry Champion (5), son of Gen. Henry, was born on Aug. 6. 1782, in Westchester, Conn., married there on May 5, 1803, Ruth ( Kimberly) Robbins, born Oct. 5, 1782. a daughter of Rev. Robert and Jerusha (Eastabrook) Robbins. She . died Sept. 12, 1863, in Troy, N. Y., while Major Champion died Dec. 28, 1823. in Westchester. Mr. Champion enlisted in the 26th Regiment Infantry, Regular army, July 2, 1814, and served until Feb. 25, 1815. Later he was appointed major of the Connecticut Militia, resided in Westchester and represented Colchester in the State Assembly in 1820.
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