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On Aug. 7, 1845, Mr. Beach was married to Lydia Redfield, a native of Guilford, and sister of Mrs. Norman C. Hall, of Meriden, whose genea- logical line will be found in the biography of the late Mr. Hall. Mrs. Beach died Feb. 18, 1897, and was buried in the East cemetery. She was the mother of four children, namely: Hattie Estelle, Mrs. Frederick R. Seidensticker : George Arthur, a resident of Wallingford; Frank Major, residing at Grand Rapids, Mich .: and Ida May, wife of Dr. Edgar A. Wilson, of Meriden.
CAPT. WILLIAM HENRY LARDER, of New Haven, is a retired sea captain, and has a va- ried and eventful history. Many exciting experi- ences have come to him, and he has passed through some thrilling and dangerous moments. He has kept himself in safety, and throughout his active years was known as a capable, brave and trusty sea- man.
Capt. Larder was born in Lincolnshire, England, May 20, 1837, and his father, William Larder, lived and died in England. The father was a farmer, and his name is preserved as that of an industrious
and hard-working man. Mary Ann Vickers, his wife, was a native of England, where her life was spent, and where she died at an advanced age. Capt. Larder attended school but little, and early began working on his father's farm. When he was twelve years of age he came to this country and made his home in Harwinton, Conn., for a time, then moving to Hartford, to learn the file-cutter's trade with James Arthur, with whom the lad spent one year. He went to sea on the whaler "Catherine," sailing from New London, to the Cape Verde Islands, the River Plata, and from there spending a long time in the Indian Ocean. He was absent from Con- necticut some two years, and left the "Catherine" at St. Helena, where Napoleon was exiled, and where he waited six weeks for another vessel, upon which to sail. Finally he sailed to London on the "Kanga- roo," which he left in that city, and sailed on the "Catherine" for the East Indies. With this ship he spent a year, and at Bombay shipped on the "Granger" for Cape Good Hope, but on the way the vessel sprang a leak, and was compelled to seek the harbor at Isle of France, where she was condemned, and Mr. Larder, after a stay of about three months in that port, signed as a sailor on board the bark "Alvira," bound for Amsterdam, where he spent some two months, and then went to London. His next voyage was made on the "Lord Raglan," a merchant ship, bound for the East Indies, but at Bombay Mr. Larder went on board the "Dashing Wave," of Boston, with which he went again to the Isle of France, and later to Boston. The young sailor lad engaged on "R. C. Dyer," a coasting ves- sel, sailing from Belfast, Maine, to Wilmington, N. C., and to Marques, Porto Rico. Returning to this country, he became a sailor on the brig "Benjamin L. Swan," engaged in carrying mules to Santa Cruz, and rums on the return voyages, in which he was engaged for three years. With the "Newitus," he was engaged for about a year by the same firm, and was then employed on the "Rainbow," engaged in the Porto Rico trade for eighteen months, carrying general cargo, and returning with sugar and mo- lasses. On the "Gen. Armstrong" he was a sailor for a time, and was still in the Porto Rico trade. On the "L. W. Armstrong." a full rigged brig, in the same line, he was mate for several months, and for two years held the same position on the "Ellen Perkins," a coasting vessel, running to Virginia, then became first mate on the "Nathan Barrett." and spent a year on the "Emeline," in the coasting trade. After this he was employed on a government cutter for one season of eight months, and was then made "buoy setter." After this period of govern- ment service he next engaged on the "T. C. Ly- man," a coasting schooner, serving both as mate and captain at different times for some two years, when he became master of the coasting schooner "Signal" for one season. He then secured a part in- terest in the "Gloucester," becoming its master for a year. He also had an interest in the "Daniel Mor-
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ris," and sailed as its master for three years. Capt. Larder was three years master of the coaster "Julia A. Berkle," and of the "Baltimore," a schooner, for one year. For another year he was master and sole owner of the coaster "B. F. Woolsey," and also sole owner and master of the coaster "Sarah L. Thomp- son," another year. For one season he was master and largest share owner of the schooner "Sparkling Sea," and for three years master and fourth owner of the "Ella H. Barnes." For seven years he was master of the "Henry H. Grant" (of which he was largest owner for some years), engaged in a coast- ing and West Indies trade, and on the "Royal Arch" for a year and a half. Of this last vessel he was a half owner, and later, in 1895, this vessel sunk in the Nantucket Shoals under Capt. Wentworth, of Boston.
Capt. Larder has lived a retired life since that year, feeling that the vicissitudes and dangers through which he has passed well entitle hin to such rest and comfort as he can command in the closing years of a career so richly varied, and so fraught with interesting memories. In 1900 he bought his present home at No. 144 Dwight street, New Ha- ven, which he has greatly remodeled and improved. In Wooster Lodge, No. 79, F. & A. M., of New Haven, he has long been a familiar and welcome presence. In politics he is a Republican, but is not very actively interested in partisan affairs, and pre- fers to keep away from political discussions and issues, taking a keen and philosophical interest rather than a partisan interest in the government of the country, and the welfare of the people.
For his first wife Capt. Larder married Amelia Jane Bowboy, of Albany, by whom he had the fol- lowing children : William, who died at the age of one year ; and Marietta Amelia, who married Charles A. Lamb, and has four children, Violet, Harry, Elsie (who died in infancy), and Evangeline Vivian. (They reside on Spring street ). Mrs. Amelia Jane Larder died in 1889. For his second wife Capt. Larder wedded Ida H. Vickers, of Farmington, Conn., and to this marriage came Raymond ( who died at the age of four years) and Leslie.
.DWIGHT WOODWARD BALDWIN, of New Haven, where at the corner of Park and Crown streets he is engaged as a carriage manufacturer and a dealer in harness, whips, blankets, robes, etc., is one of the leading business men of the city.
Born March 21, 1850, in the town of Washing- ton, Litchfield Co., Conn., Mr. Baldwin is a son of the late George R. T. and Sarah A. (Smith) Baldwin, of Washington and Waterbury, and is de- scended on both sides from old and prominent fam- ilies of Connecticut. Nathaniel Baldwin, the emi- grant ancestor of that branch of the American Bald- wins to which our subject belongs, and one of the first planters of Milford, where he was a free planter in 1639, was a son of John Baldwin, of Parish Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, who died
in 1633, and a grandson of Richard Baldwin, who died in 1553. Nathaniel Baldwin was a cooper by trade. He moved to Fairfield, where in 1641 he married Abigail Camp, who united with the church in Milford in 1644, and died in 1648. He subse- quently married Joanna Westcoat. Nathaniel Bald- win died in 1658. From this emigrant ancestor Dwight W. Baldwin, of New Haven, is a descend- ant in the ninth generation, his line being throughi Daniel, Sergt. Daniel (2), John, Enos, Sammel, Her- man and George R. T. Baldwin.
(II) Daniel Baldwin, son of Nathaniel the emi- grant, born and baptized in Milford in 1644, mar- ried in 1665 Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Bots- ford, one of the original settlers of Milford. This couple after their marriage continued to reside in Milford. He died in 1711.
(III) Sergt. Daniel Baldwin (2), son of Daniel, born in 1668, died in 1725. He made his home in Milford, where his wife, Sarah, died in 1710.
(IV) John Baldwin, son of Daniel (2), baptized in Milford in 1693, married Mary ( whose surname was very likely Camp), and they made Milford their home.
(V) Enos Baldwin, son of John, born in 1730, married Elizabeth Northrop, born in 1733. They resided on Church Hill, in Washington, Conn. Enos finally went to Genesce, N. Y., and died some time prior to 1818.
(VI) Samnel Baldwin, son of Enos, born in 1768, married in 1792 Sarah Logan, born in 1775, and lived in the town of Washington, Connecticut.
(VII) Herman Baldwin, son of Samuel, born in Washington in 1800, married Anna Caroline, daughter of John Trowbridge, of Roxbury. Mr. Baldwin was a manufacturer, and until sixty years of age resided in Washington, thence removing to Waterbury and later to New Haven, where he passed the last sixteen years of his life with the firm of C. Pierpont & Co. He was upright in busi- ness and pure in private life. A man of genius, he devised and invented a number of useful articles, among which were Baldwin's American Feed Cut- ter and Baldwin's Safety Fly Wheel. Mr. Bald- win died Sept. 11, 1881, aged eighty-one years.
(VIII) George R. T. Baldwin, son of Herman, and the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1823, in the town of Washington, and mar- ried in 1848 Sarah A., daughter of Dennis and Sarah (Woodward) Smith, of Watertown, Conn. To this union came two sons: Dwight Woodward and Herman T .; the latter, born May 6, 1853, died aged about nine years. The father was a manu- facturer by trade and occupation, and a man of high honor and integrity, and commanded the esteem and respect of the communities in which his life was passed. He lived in Washington and Waterbury, dying in the latter city in 1860.
Dwight Woodward Baldwin, son of George R. T., was reared in his native town and Waterbury, and in an atmosphere of mechanics and mannfact-
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uring, and inibibed no doubt from his father and grandfather his tastes in these lines. He received quite a liberal education in the Waterbury high school, from which institution he was graduated, and in the National Business College, at New Ha- ven. He commenced his business career in 1868. in New Haven, as bookkeeper for H. N. Whittlesey & Co., dealers in crockery ware, located in Chapel street. His next business experience was with the manufacturing concern of C. Pierpont & Co., whose place of business was at the corner of Park and Crown streets, and with this establishment he was identified for a period of more than twenty-five years, which speaks loudly of the estimation in which he was held by his employers. He was su- perintendent and manager of their works, of which, in January, 1896, he became proprietor. Mr. Bald- win is a clean-cut, energetic, far-sighted business man, and one of New Haven's substantial citizens. He has served his ward ( the second) in the com- mon council.
On Sept. 30, 1872, Mr. Baldwin was married to Mary Ada, daughter of Elisha Dickerman, of New Haven. They have had four children: Carrie Trowbridge, born in 1873; Hattie A., born in 1877, who died in 1880: George H., born in 1879, who died in 1886; and Howard D., born in 1886.
HON. T. ATWATER BARNES. The late Amos Foot Barnes and son, Hon. T. Atwater Barnes, now prominently identified with several financial institutions of New Haven, together and in turn have for nearly sixty years been among the leading business men of that city.
T. Atwater Barnes, son of Amos Foot and Nancy Richards ( Atwater) Barnes, and grandson of Capt. Merritt Barnes, who through a long life- time was an honored citizen of Watertown, Conn., is on his mother's side a representative of one of the first families of the Colony of New Haven.
David Atwater was one of the first planters of New Haven, and in the first division of lands of the town a farm was assigned him in the "Neck" be- tween Mill and Quinnipiac rivers, on which he lived, it is believed, until his death, in 1692. From this first American ancestor, T. Atwater Barnes is a descendant in the eighth generation, his line being through Jonathan, David (2), Jonathan (2). Thomas, Thomas (2) and Nancy R. ( Atwater) Barnes.
(II) Jonathan Atwater, son of David, the planter, born in 1656, married in 1681 Ruth Peck. He was a merchant, and died in 1726.
(III) David Atwater (2), son of Jonathan. born in 1683, married (second) in 1718 Tabitha Whit- head.
(IV) Jonathan Atwater (2), son of David (2), born in 1722, married in 1745 Sarah Beach, of Wal- lingford.
(V) Thomas Atwater, son of Jonathan (2). born in 1747, married in 1772 Margaret Macomber.
(VI) Thomas Atwater (2), son of Thomas, born April 15, 1785, married Jan. 15, 1806, Sarah Beecher.
(VII) Nancy Richards Atwater, daughter of Thomas, born Nov. 9, 1816, married Amos F. Barnes.
Amos Foot Barnes, his father, was born April I, 1818, in Watertown, Litchfield Co., Conn., and in order to receive better school advantages was sent when eleven years of age to Hartford, where for seven winters he attended the old Stone School House. Through the summers he was occupied at work on his father's farm in Watertown. At the age of eighteen, in 1836, he began his business ca- reer as a clerk in the grocery of Harry Ives, in New Haven. In 1842 young Barnes, then married only about a year, started in the grocery business on his own account, and at the location on State street where he did business as a member of the firm of Finch & Barnes, wholesale grocers, the rest of his life. The firm soon established a good trade, and were successful. In 1855 the partnership was dis- solved, Mr. Barnes assuming sole charge and re- taining the old stand. He continued the business under his own name until 1869, at which time he associated with him his son, T. Atwater Barnes, the firm style becoming Amos F. Barnes & Son, which continued until the death of the senior mem- ber, in 1890. This was one of the well and favor- ably known business houses of New Haven, both its members having established a good reputation for integrity and fair dealing. The father was a sub- stantial man of the community and a useful citizen, but had no aspirations politically, having no taste for political honors. For two terms he was a member of the common council and for six years was on the board of education. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank, and a director in the same from its beginning until his death; and was also for years a trustee of the Connecticut Savings Bank. His religious connections were with the Center Congregational Church, and he was often chosen by that society to offices of honor and trust.
On May 6, 1841, Mr. Barnes was married to Nancy Richards Atwater, of New Haven, and seven children blessed the union, all now deceased ex- cepting T. Atwater Barnes.
T. Atwater Barnes was born Jan. 13, 1848, in New Haven, attended the public schools of the city. and was one year at the famous military school of Gen. Russell, in New Haven, from which institution he was graduated when sixteen years of age. He then entered his father's store, as clerk. in which capacity he remained until of age, in 1869, when he was admitted as a partner. and the two sustained such relations until separated by the father's death, in 1890. Through his application to business, tact and ability young Barnes rose rapidly into prom- inence in both business and social life in New Ha- ven, where his ability and worth as a citizen have been recognized, and he stands to-day one of the
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city's most substantial and prominent men. For many years he has been closely identified with a num- ber of the city's large business interests and actively interested in its public affairs. He has been for a period of years a member of the New Haven Cham- ber of Commerce, and served two years as its presi- dent. He has also served as secretary of the State Board of Trade ; is at this time president of the New Haven Trust Co .; a director and vice-president of the First National Bank; a trustee and member of the finance committee of the Connecticut Savings Bank; and is also director in a number of other corporations in New Haven and elsewhere.
Mr. Barnes has been prominently connected with the military affairs of both city and State, having served over seven years as a member of the New Haven Grays, a famous organization in the city's history, known as Company F, 2d Regiment, Na- tional Guard of Connecticut. He first joined this organization as a private, and was advanced through the various grades to first lieutenant, from which grade he was appointed brigade inspector, with the rank of major, and served on the staff of Gen. R. B. Cranford, performing the duties of such office with efficiency for some five years. He afterward served on the military examining board for a period of three years. Major Barnes is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, by which he has been honored as candidate for representa- tive in the General Assembly, to which body he was elected, and served in 1897 with ability and credit, and to the satisfaction of his constituents.
On Oct. 15, 1873, Mr. Barnes was married to Phoebe B. Phipps, of New Haven, and their chil- dren are: Amos F. and Frank G. P. Barnes.
FRANCIS HOLDEN, one of Meriden's re- spected citizens, now living retired in this city, was born in Rocky Hill, Hartford Co., Conn., Nov. 12, 1831. Ebenezer Mitchell Holden, grandfather of Francis, was a native of Hartford county, a de- scendant of an old and honorable New England family of Scotch descent, and a soldier seven years in the Revolutionary war. Ebenezer Holden mar- ried a Miss Goodrich, who was a direct descendant of a Goodrich who came in the Mayflower and after- wards returned to England but subsequently settled in Connecticut. Had three sons and one daughter. Eber Holden, the father of Francis Holden, was born in New Berlin, N. Y., where, for some years, his occupation was farming. He served in the War of 1812, after which he settled in Rocky Hill and purchased a small farm near by, upon which he spent the remainder of his life, his burial place being in Rocky Hill cemetery. Eber Holden married Durinda Morley, of Glastonbury, Conn .. and she also was buried at Rocky Hill. Eight children were born to them, two of whom, Marilla and Mary Ann, died in early life. The survivors were Nancy, born March 22, 1822, married Henry Pelton, and died
Jan. 5, 1901 ; Albert, born Feb. 25, 1826, who resided in New Haven; Henry, born Nov. 7, 1827, who went West; Humphrey, born Dec. 28, 1829, de- ceased; Francis, born Nov. 12, 1831, our subject ; and William, born May 2, 1835, who resides at Rocky Hill in the old homestead on the banks of the Connecticut river.
Francis Holden spent his boyhood days on the farm at Rocky Hill, and he attended the village school. In 1845 he came to Meriden, and for the past fifty-seven years has made this his home. At first an employe in a lock-shop, he has since worked in various manufacturing concerns, and has tried and mastered several trades. The last eleven years of his active life were spent with the Charles Parker Co., from which association he retired in the year 1897. Since then he has been enjoying the. comforts and pleasures incident to a well merited relaxation from responsibility.
Mr. Holden is a man of quiet tastes, and finds enjoyment in mingling with his many friends, and in recalling, at his pleasant home on North Colony street, the many events of his years of active life. He is a member of Main Street Baptist Church. In politics he has long been identified with the Republi- can party, but has never sought office. By a life of industry and upright living he has won the esteem of all who know him. The remembrance of his love for his invalid wife and fondness of their children will be long cherished by those who knew them in. their happy home.
In 1859 Mr. Holden was united in marriage with Lucy Jane Parker, born in Augusta, Oneida Co., N. Y., March 17, 1838, daughter of James I. and Maria (Ives) Parker. Mrs. Holden died in Meriden Oct. 19, 1899, after twenty years of sick- ness, during which she was kindly and tenderly cared for by her loving and devoted husband and son. She is buried beside her children in the West cemetery, in Meriden, and is tenderly remembered as a good, Christian woman, devoted wife and mother, and faithful member of the Baptist Church. As her family loved her in life, so they mourn her in death. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Holden, namely: George Parker, born Dec. 5, 1861,. died Oct. 21, 1868; Nettie Jane, born Feb. 22, 1866, died Oct. 17, 1868: Frederick Arthur, born June 7, 1876, died July 25, 1878; and Parker Willis, born in Meriden July 10, 1870, a citizen of Brooklyn, N. Y., and whose business talent prompted his parents to give him a thorough training in a preparatory school. The latter passed with credit through the common and high school, later graduating from the Yale Business College, in New Haven. His prelim- inary business experience was acquired while a clerk for two years in the furniture store of George Morse, after which he filled a similar position for his uncle, George T. Parker, a wholesale fruit dealer of New York city. His ability may be recognized from the fact that before he had attained his major- ity he had purchased the business from his uncle,
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and is now successfully engaged, with a partner, in a wholesale commission house on Washington street, New York City, under the firm name of Smith & Holden. He is possessed of unusual finan- cial ability and great sagacity, and these traits, com- bined with unquestioned integrity, have won him a high place in the confidence of the public.
On Oct. 15, 1901, Mr. Parker Willis Holden married Juliette Louise Jacobs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Young Jacobs, of Brooklyn, N. Y. After a few short months of happiness in their home, 991 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. Holden died, March 24, 1902, and was laid to rest in Greenwood cemetery.
JARED LEWIS (deceased), who during his lifetime was one of Meriden's well-known citizens, was born in that city, Jan. 28, 1811, son of Isaac and Esther ( Beaumont ) Lewis, and brother of the late Hon. Isaac C. Lewis, of Meriden.
Mr. Lewis was educated in the district schools of Meriden, and at Cheshire Military Academy. After the death of his father, he lived with an uncle, Patrick Lewis, who was engaged in the hotel busi- ness in Wallingford, and with whom he remained for a few years, prior to engaging with the late Charles Parker in the making of coffee mills. Later Mr. Lewis became associated with others in the mining of iron ore at Colchester, Conn., and a few years afterward started South as a peddler of Yan- kee notions, but soon disposed of his stock and went to Texas, where he lived for several years.
From Texas Mr. Lewis removed to Buffalo, N. Y., and embarked in the grocery business, continu- ing the same until his return to Meriden, in 1860. In partnership with his brother, under the firm name of I. C. Lewis & Co., he was for some years in- terested in a grocery business near Black Pond. Later, Mr. S. J. Hall bought the interest of I. C. Lewis, and the firm of Lewis & Hall continued for three years on the corner of Colony and Main streets. Subsequently Mr. Lewis opened up a dry- goods business on Colony street, which he success- fully conducted for five years, and during that time became widely known in trade, and was well patron- ized by a discriminating public. Mr. Lewis then retired from business, and died in Meriden, in Aug. 1890, and was buried in the beautiful Walnut Grove cemetery, connected with this city.
In Meriden Mr. Lewis married Mehetable Pad- dock, born in Meriden, a daughter of the late Sam- uel Paddock, and sister of Deacon Samuel Pad- dock, of Meriden. Though having reached the age of eighty-nine years, Mrs. Lewis still retains her mental alertness, and is still a worthy and be- loved representative of one of the old and honored families of this locality. The children born to the late Jared Lewis and wife were as follows: Char- lotte Elizabeth, who married William Dudley, a soldier during the Civil war, in Co. K. 8th Reg., Conn., V. I. and now residing in Washington, D.
C .; Charles Henry, who was a soldier in Co. K, 8th Reg., was wounded in the arm at Petersburg, and died in the hospital; Jared, who is a resident of Meriden; and William, who belonged to the same regiment and company as his brother, and after faithful service, lost his life on the battle field of Antietam.
Jared Lewis, Sr., was a stanch Democrat, and although he never sought political office, served his city as one of the first members of the council. He was an active member of Meridian Lodge, No. 77, A. F. & A. M., of Meriden. His religious connec- tion was with the Congregational Church. As a citizen, Mr. Lewis was held in great regard, was known to be thoroughly honest, liberal and public- spirited, and he was a man whose life and influ- ence were in the direction of temperance and moral- ity. His industry was notable, and his studious habits made him intellectually superior to many of his associates.
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