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James Tolles spent much of his early life at the homestead, and after completing a district-school course attended the Smith School, at New Haven, Brown's Boarding School, in West Haven, and the Stevens & Wells Business College, in New Haven. In 1866, on leaving the last named institution, he entered the New Haven County National Bank as clerk, and was soon promoted to the post of book- keeper, which he held twenty years. In 1888 he be- came teller. At present he is the second oldest offi- cial in the bank. In 1871 Mr. Tolles built his present residence, at No. 227 Elm street, West Haven, and he and his family are prominent in the best social circles of the place. He is a deacon in the Congre- gational Church, and has been very active in reli- gious affairs, while his children are equally zealous in the work of the Sunday-school and the Christian Endeavor Society. Politically he is a Republican, and his interest in the cause of education has been shown by many years of service on the board of ed- ucation, part of the time as clerk and treasurer ; he is now treasurer of the West Haven school. Having passed his entire life at West Haven, he lias seen much of the development of the place, the bridge and the horse railroad being among the notable improvements.
On Sept. 27, 1871, Mr. Tolles married Miss Ida Louise Pardee, and of their seven children six are living, as follows : Katherine, wife of George Leete Peck; Harry C., a graduate of the West Haven schools, now in the employ of Stoddard, Gilbert & Co .; Jessie L., wife of Edward G. W. Gilbert, owner of the Imperial Laundry, New Haven ; James M., with Stoddard, Gilbert & Co .; Isabelle S .; and Ray- mond Pardee. Mrs. Tolles was born in Allingtown, daughter of Silas Pardee, a joiner and farmer by occupation, and for many years a prominent citizen of that locality. He died in March, 1901, and his wife, Catherine ( Beardsley), died aged fifty-nine years. Mrs. Tolles is the younger of two children ; her sister Isabelle is now the wife of John E. War- ner, of Hamden.
WILLIAM M. KING. Among the business lines which have continued to prosper through a long period in the city of New Haven is the mak- ing of sails, and one of the well-known manufact- urers in this business is William M. King, located at No. 205 Long Wharf, New Haven. For old residents of this city, a removal of this business house would be regretted-so long has it been a feature of the wharf-and no one could fill the place of its founder, William M. King.
Mr. King was born in the city of New York, Jan. 27. 1836, a son of James Madison and Mary King, of that city. Father King was a sailmaker, and he established himself in business at a con-
venient point at Greenport, L. I., moving later to Fair Haven and then to New Haven, where he died. His two children were both boys, William M. and John, the latter dying at the age of nine years.
William M. King was reared at Greenport, L. I., and there learned the sailmaking trade of his father, and he accompanied him when he came to Connecticut. In 1859 Mr. King associated with him Cornelius J. Van Name, and they embarked in the business of manufacturing sails, awnings, tents and flags, keeping a supply of tents and canopies to rent, paying liberal prices for old sails which had out- lived their usefulness in battles with wind and water and for thirty-one years these friends carried on a successful and lucrative business. In 1891 this part- nership was dissolved by the death of Mr. Van Name, and since that date it has been continued by Mr. King, at the old stand on Long Wharf. Em- ployment is given to about eight men, and it con- tinues one of the leaders in its line in this city.
On March 11, 1856, Mr. King was married to Miss Lydia A. Benedict, of New Haven, Conn., a daughter of William J. and Abigail R. Benedict, of New Haven, and the two children of this marriage were: Nellie and George. The family religious connection is with the East Pearl street M. E. Church, in which they are highly esteemed. In politics Mr. King calls himself an Independent Re- publican, using his own judgment in some cam- paigns, irrespective of party ties. Fraternally he is a Master Mason, belonging to Adelphi Lodge, No. 63, A. F. & A. M., and New Haven Commandery, No. 2, Knights Templar, and he also is connected with the New Haven Chamber of Commerce.
SAMUEL BLAKESLEE, the founder of one branch of the family, came with his brother John from England to Boston about 1636. He removed to Guilford, Conn., and later to New Haven. His name first appears in New Haven in 1646, and there he married Hannah Potter, Dec. 3, 1650. He died in 1672. The following "notes of Col. Samuel Blakeslee" appear: "In the early settlement of America there was two men and brothers by the name of Samuel and John Blakeslee, both black- smiths by occupation, left England with their anvil. vise, hammers, tongs and other necessary tools fitted to their occupation, and landed at Boston in Massachusetts, and purchased what was and is since called Boston Neck-a poor barren strip of land which joins the peninsula of the town of Boston to the main land; here they lived a few years with their families and labored at blacksmithing for their support. But the then village of Boston was poor and the narrow neck which they had purchased was incapable of affording much for the subsistence of their families. These two brothers, being stout, robust, enterprising men, agreed to seek an inher- itance. They rose with their families, left Boston and proceeded by the sea shore to New Haven in
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Connecticut. They did not dispose of their land; time passed and they died, and it was never dis- posed of. Samuel bought land in New Haven and settled with his family, but his brother John went to the western part of the State to what is now Woodbury or Roxbury." This account he had from his father and other older men; one was Tillerson. Blakeslee, a descendant of John, who settled at Woodbury or Roxbury. He removed to New Ha- ven, and was for several years the sheriff of the county. He had been a lieutenant in the army. He lived to be a very old man, but retained a firm constitution and a strong mind. The children of Samuel and Hannalı ( Potter) Blakeslee were as follows: John, born at Guilford in 1551; Mary, at New Haven, Nov. 2, 1659; Ebenezer, at New Ha- ven, July 17, 1664; Hannah, May 22, 1666; Jona- than, March 3, 1668, died young; Jonathan, April 1672, died in infancy. The line of descent from this ancestor is through Ebenezer, as follows :
(II) Ebenezer Blakeslee, son of Samuel and Hannah (Potter) Blakeslee, was born at New Ha- ven July 17, 1664, and was one of the earlier set- tlers of North Haven. In his house the Presby- terians held their religious services until a church was established, and later on the Episcopalians held their services at his house. Tradition says that "the early Blakeslees were Episcopalians." His children were Ebenezer and Hannah, born Feb. 4, 1685; Susannah, born May 21. 1689; Grace, born Jan. 1, 1693-94, who married Ebenezer Humaston, Oct. 13, 1718; Abraham, born Dec. 15, 1695, who married Elizabeth Cooper, March 15, 1721-22 ; Sam- uel, born about 1697; Thomas, born in 1700, who removed to Plymouth in 1721, and married Mary Scott, of Sunderland, Mass .; and Isaac, born July 21, 1703, who married Mary Frost May 31, 1733. (III) Samuel Blakeslee, son of Ebenezer, born about 1697, married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Cornwall) Doolittle, born Oct. 15, 1700. He was buried Sept. 5, 1761, aged sixty-four. His wife died April 1, 1772. In 1720 he bought land in Wallingford, at North Farms, which has since been held in the Blakeslee name. Walling- ford land records show a deed from Ebenezer Blakeslee to his son Samuel "for loving affection and good will."
(IV) Joseph Blakeslee, son of Samuel and Eliz- abeth (Doolittle) Blakeslee, born in Wallingford April 1, 1732, married April 1, 1756. Lois Ives, daughter of Stephen and Sarah ( Hart) Ives, born Jan. 9, 1737. He lived and died in Wallingford, on his father's homestead, passing away aged seventy- two years ; Mrs. Blakeslee died May 16, 1795. He was a farmer and mason, a Congregationalist in re- ligion, and a Federalist in politics. He was a non- commissioned officer in the French and Indian war, and he and Charles Ives hired Benajah Hall to serve in the Revolutionary war three years, under an act passed by the Legislature that any two men hiring one man for the service were exempt during
the time of service. Joseph Blakeslee was at this time about forty-five years old. He had a large family and one son in the service. Children: (1) Samuel, born Nov. 23. 1759, married Dec. 20, 1780, Phebe Curtis, daughter of Joseph and Martha Hart Curtis. He served in the Revolutionary war, enlist- ing in his seventeenth year, in July, 1776, and served until his time expired, in 1780; he also served in the war of '1812, as colonel of a volunteer regi- ment. (2) Lois, born Jan. 9, 1762, married May 7, 1780, Nathaniel Andrews. (3) Joseph, born March II, 1767 married Mary Andrews, sister of Nathaniel, and lived and died in Wallingford. (4) John Webb, born March II, 1769, married Nov. 12, 1792, Ruth Ives, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Butler) Ives. (5) Thankful, born May 16, 1771, married (first) Nov. 4, 1790, Jonathan Moss, and ( second) Nathaniel Andrews. She lived and died in Wallingford. (6) Vincy, born July 29, 1775, married April 7, 1796, Rev. Samuel Miller. He died Nov. 14, 1829. She lived and died in Walling- ford. (7) Asahel, born July 8. 1778, married July 8, 1800, Hannah Maltoon, daughter of Caleb ; they removed to Atwater, Ohio. (8) Asenath, born Aug. 17, 1781, died in her eighteenth year.
(V) John W. Blakeslee, born March 1I, 1769, married Nov. 12, 1792, Ruth Ives, born Jan. 26, 1772, daughter of Charles and Sarah ( Butler) Ives. He died Nov. 5, 1825, his wife Nov. 25, 1838. They lived and died in Wallingford, near the Blakeslee homestead. Both were Baptists, lived worthy Chris- tian lives, and their children call them blessed. They were a family of singers, the father a leader of the church choir, and had a good choir in their nine children who grew to maturity, namely: (I) Idu- mea, born in June, 1793, died on the eighth day. (2) Lovicy, born June 27, 1794, married March 8, 1813 Aaron Chatterton, and lived in Hamden, Conn., until his death. in June, 1842. She died in Wall- ingford, Feb. 8, 1849. (3) Rachel, born June 24, 1796, married Elihu Ives, son of Charles and Mary ( Francis) Ives. born Oct. 8, 1787, died Sept. 15, 1864. She died Dec. 24, 1885. Their children were all born in Wallingford. They removed to Illi- nois in 1838, and in 1840 to Marion, Iowa, where they lived and died. (4) Laura, born June 27, 1798, married William Hill. She died March 23, 1838, in Wallingford. (5) Obed, born March 10, 1800, married Sarah Moss, daughter of Lyman and Sarah ( Francis) Moss, and removed to Marion, Iowa, about 1840. He died Oct. 8, 1845, she in 1899, in Iowa. (6) Lois, born Feb. 17. 1802, mar- ried Harley Francis, son of Jacob and Content. ( Hall) Francis, and removed to York, Livingston Co., N. Y., where they lived and she died April 24. 1862. He died while on a visit in Walling- ford, Aug. 8, 1880. (7) Emily, born Jan. 21, 1806, married March 30, 1831, William, son of Jacob and Content (Hall) Francis. She died in Wallingford Aug. 28, 1839, and he died there April 14, 1879. (8) Silas, born Sept. 13, 1808, married Jan. 17,
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1832, Esther, daughter of Robert and Betsey ( Peck) Buel. (9) Ann, born Sept. 24, 1810, married Nor- ris Cone, born Dec. 22, 1808, died Aug. 18, 1885. She died Nov. 18, 1883. In 1840 they removed to Marion, Iowa, where they lived and died. ( 10) Oliver, born July 22, 1815, married Harriet, daugh- ter of John and Betsey ( Hall) Warner, born March 15, 1822. He died Dec. 15, 1895, she in March, 1900. They lived most of their lives in Meriden and New Haven, but died in Durham, Conn. They had one son, Oliver, who died a young lad.
(VI) Silas Blakeslee, son of John Webb and Ruth (Ives) Blakeslee, born in Wallingford Sept. 13, 1808, married Jan. 17, 1832, Esther, daughter of Robert and Betsey ( Peck) Buel, born Nov. 20, 1808. They lived and died in Wallingford, on the Blakeslee homestead. He passed away June 6, 1893, she on April 17, 1889, and they are buried in In Memoriam cemetery. Children: (1) Lois, born Jan. 24, 1833,, married Oct. 14, 1860, Seth J. Hall, son of Sylvester and Rosetta (Johnson) Hall, born Sept. 4, 1829, in Middletown, Westfield Society. Lois was baptized by Rev. Chas. Keyser Dec. 21, 1851, and united with the Baptist Church in Wallingford. They removed to Meriden, Conn., in January, 1861. (2) Ruth Ann, born Oct. 31, 1836, married Oct. 4, 1856, Elijah James Hough, son of James and Mary Tyler (Rice) Hough, born July 28, 1829, in Wallingford. (3) John Webb, born Oct. 22, 1840, married Oct. 22, 1861, Emerett Atwater, of Chesh- ire, born Dec. 5, 1840. They resided on the Blakeslee homestead until the fall of 1900, when they removed to the borough of Wallingford. (4) James Ellis, born Feb. 13, 1843, died July 17, 1847.
WILLIAM E. WELD, JR., a leading citizen of New Haven, Conn., and the secretary and treasurer of The Boston Buckboard & Carriage Co., of this city, is a native son of the State, born in Guilford, Aug. 23, 1843, The early records of the family tell of two brothers who came in early days to New England from the old England, and settled in Bos- ton, Mass., but as far back as Grandfather George Weld, all the family life has centered in historic Guilford, a little town which has been the mother of many noted and successful men.
William E. Weld, the father of William E., of New Haven, was born in Guilford in 1814, and still resides there. He was a prominent carpenter and builder in Guilford, helping to build the hamlet into a large village through his business efforts. All his life a Democrat, he has upheld those principles, and for a long period was a selectman. He is a consistent member of the Episcopal Church. His wife was in her maidenhood, Myrtie Holcomb, of Guilford, Conn., a daughter of Medad Holcomb, who was a native of Guilford also of French extraction. Mrs. Weld still survives; she has had a family of three children : Jennie C., who is now a widow, re- siding in Guilford; Julia, who died in childhood; and William E., Jr.
William E. Weld, Jr., passed his youth in Guilford and in preparation for Yale College, at- tended Guilford Institute. In 1863, he came to New Haven, becoming bookkeeper for the firm of Wilcox & Hall, dry goods merchants, and remained with this house for four years, going then into the Trades- man's National Bank, where his health broke down. The succeeding year was spent in St. Paul, Minn., in rest, and upon his return to this city, he entered the firm of E. G. Stoddard & Co., wholesale gro- cers, as bookkeeper, remaining with them in this capacity through the following four years.
On Feb. 15 1871, Mr. Weld was married to Imo- gene A. Dorman, of New Haven, a daughter of Royal O. Dorman, of this city who for a number of years was a large and successful carriage manufac- turer. After his marriage Mr. Weld became asso- ciated with Mr. Dorman in the carriage business, remaining thus connected for five years. In 1879 he became office man of The Boston Buckboard Co., and settled in a most satisfactory manner the affairs of that company, when it went out of business in 1885. When a new company was formed the pres- ent style was adopted, The Boston Buckboard & Carriage Co., and Mr. Weld was made secretary and treasurer and also general manager of the comnio- dious offices located at Nos. 155 to 163 East street, New Haven.
In politics, Mr. Weld is a Republican, while so- cially he is connected with the Royal Arcanum, the Chamber of Commerce, and he was formerly a mem- ber of the New Haven Grays. He is an attendant and consistent member of Dwight Place Church, and has always been a contributor toward its charities and missions.
Since taking such a prominent part in the busi- ness world. Mr. Weld has demonstrated his ability, and has surprised even his friends by the intelligent grasp of affairs, his excellent judgment and far- sighted plans. Mr. Weld has always taken a deep interest in fostering and developing trade conditions in his city and the personal attention which he gives to his own line shows that he means to keep it a leading one.
JOHN N. HAWKINS (deceased) was a prom- inent representative of the agricultural interests of Oxford, New Haven county, in which town he was born May 4, 1836. He acquired his education in its common schools. On leaving home, at the age of nineteen years, he engaged in railroading for one summer, and then went to Newtown, Conn., where he was employed in the rubber works a few months prior to opening of the Civil war.
Mr. Hawkins enlisted Sept. 7. 1861, for three years, becoming a private in Company G, 7th Conn. V. I., and was mustered into the United States ser- vice at New Haven. After drilling for some time at Washington, D. C., the regiment was sent to Annapolis, Md., and later joined Sherman's army, their first engagement being at Hilton Head,
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which was followed by the battles of James Island and Drury's Bluff. They were all through the siege of Petersburg, and while there our subject's term of enlistment expired, and he was honorably dis- charged, Sept. 17, 1864. Returning to Oxford he continued to engage in farming there with marked success until his death, which occurred June 1, 1901, when he was sixty-five years of age. In 1869 he removed to the farm which he ever after occupied, consisting of 120 acres of well improved and valu- able land, under a nigh state of cultivation. He also owned forty acres elsewhere, and carried on general farming and the dairy business.
Mr. Hawkins was married, Aug. 28, 1866, to Miss Harriet Worster, of Oxford. Our subject was an honored member of Upson Post, No. 40, G. A. R., of Seymour. In his political affiliations he was an ardent Republican. He was well known and highly respected, and his widow is equally esteemed among their neighbors and many friends. Mr. Hawkins left no children of his own, but an adopted daughter, Bessie L., bears his name.
BURTON G. BRYAN was born in Watertown, Conn., Sept. 27, 1846, a son of Edward Bryan, and traces his ancestry for generations through an hon- orable line on both eastern and western shores of the Atlantic. As far back as 1277 lands were held in the parish of Bukhamough by William and Rob- ert Brian. Roger Bryan was a Knight of the Shire, in Hertfordshire, at the 23d and 25th Parlia- ment in the time of Edward I. The line in which we are more directly interested is traced unbroken to Thomas Bryan, of the parish of Aylesbury, Buck- inghamshire, England. He was born about 1575 and had a son, Alexander, born in 1602. Alexander had a son, Richard, born in England, whom he brought with him to America in 1639. They settled in Milford, Conn., and in the patent of Milford from the General Court, dated May 25, 1685, Rich- ard Bryan was named second of seven persons, Gov. Robert Treat being the first named. They were both prominently identified with the early settle- ment of the town and both were wealthy men. Alexander Bryan, the father of Richard, left Mil- ford and moved to Meriden, finally locating in Wat- crtown.
Roderick Bryan, grandfather of Burton G., was born in Watertown in the same house in which his son and grandson have lived. He married Orril Blakeslee, of Thomaston, Conn., and settled on the farm in Watertown, where they reared two chil- dren, Edward, the father of Burton G .; and Eme- line, who married Henry Smith, of Watertown, and is now deceased.
Edward Bryan was born in Watertown Feb. 24, 1819, and still resides there on a farm. He married Mary Turney, who was born in Newtown, a daugh- ter of David Turney, of an old Connecticut family of English extraction. Mrs. Mary Bryan is still liv- ing in Watertown at the age of seventy-nine years.
Mr. Bryan is a Republican, but in early life was a Whig, as was his father before him. In religion they are Methodists.
Burton G. Bryan spent the earlier part of his life on the farm in Watertown and grew to man- hood under his parents' roof. When he was eight- een years of age he went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to attend Bryant & Stratton's Business College, and when he was nineteen he began teaching school, having charge of the American Missionary Associa- tion School at Norfolk, Va. He taught the writing ciasses and had the general management of the institution. On Feb. 19, 1867, Mr. Bryan came to Waterbury and began bookkeeping for A. F. Ab- bott, the real-estate, insurance and investment dealer of this city. With the exception of five years he was with that house until 1880, when lic assisted in the organization of the Manufacturers' National Bank, of which he served as teller for seven years. In June, 1887, Mr. Bryan organized the Fourth National Bank, which began business in August, 1887. As cashier of that bank he has rendered a valuable service to the commercial classes of this city in building up a first class institution for their accommodation. In November, 1899, he was made president of the bank. In addition to his position in the National Bank he is also secretary and treas- urer of the West Side Savings Bank.
On April 14. 1868, Mr. Bryan married Fannie K. Peck, at Watertown, Conn. Mrs. Bryan is the daughter of Leman O. Peck, who was born in the neighborhood of Watertown. One child, Wilbur P., has been born of this union; he is cashier of the Fourth National Bank and lives at home. Mr. Bryan has always been a Republican and was town treasurer for two terms, and, although this is re- garded as a Democratic town, clerk of the council two years. Mr. Bryan belongs to Continental Lodge, No. 75, F. & A. M., and in Masonry has reached the thirty-second degree, and is also a member of Townsend Lodge, I. O. O. F., and the Royal Arcanum, and has been the Grand Treasurer of the Grand Council of this State since its organi- zation. He and his family belong to the Second Congregational Church.
MORSE. For two hundred and fifty and more years the posterity of John Morse, or Moss, have dwelt in Connecticut. Of those of whom we par- ticularly write are the family of the late Joseph Morse, a former prominent and wealthy citizen of Meriden.
The late Joseph Morse, whose death occurred at his home in Meriden, Oct. 16, 1897, was in the seventh generation from Jolin Moss. or Morse, one of the founders of New Haven and Wallingford, Conn., the line of his descent being through John (2), John (3) and Levi, Benajah and Harley.
(I) John Moss, born in England about 1610. came early to New England, was at New Haven, Conn., in 1639, and was one of its founders. He was
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one of the foremost to undertake the settlement of Wallingford, Conn., in March, 1669, but resided at New Haven until 1670, when he joined the new colony. His name was associated with nearly all the leading measures of that village and settlement for a series of years. He was a godly Puritan.
(II) John Moss (2), son of John Moss, born in 1650, married in 1677, Martha Lathrop, and re- sided at New Haven and Wallingford. He died March 31, 1717.
(III) John Moss (3), son of John Moss (2), born Nov. 10, 1682, married in 1708 Elizabeth Hall. He resided in Wallingford, and died May 14, 1755.
(IV) Levi Moss, son of John Moss (3), born in 1722, married Jan. 19, 1743, Martha Fenn. He resided in Wallingford.
(V) Capt. Benajah Moss, son of Levi Moss, born Jan. 11, 1763, married Lois Hall, daughter of David Hall, and his children were: Olive, Elkanah. Harley, Hermon, Benajah, Delila, James, Benajah (2), Ira, Emery, William, Eldridge and Franklin. When he was sixteen years old he was drafted into the army of the Revolution, but his father hired as a substitute for $300 a man by the name of Fenn. When the war of 1812 opened, however, Benajah Morse offered his services, and held the rank of captain. He served along the Connecticut coast. His home was at Wallingford, where his death occurred July 12, 1841.
(VI) Harley Moss, son of Benajah Moss, born March 29, 1792, married May 9, 1821, Harriet Moss, and died Oct. 5, 1848. He resided in Wall- ingford. His children were: David H., Lois H., Louisa A., Joseph, Harley, Emery and Andrew. Harriet (Moss) Moss was a daughter of Philo and Rachel (Webster) Moss, and was born July 1, 1803.
Philo Moss was born April 8, 1770, a son of Amos Moss and his second wife, Esther Andrews, of Litchfield. He left an estate valued at $40,000, and was the first man to sell a yoke of oxen for $100 in that county. His marriage to Rachel Web- ster occurred April 24, 1794.
Amos Moss, father of Philo, was a son of Levi Moss (IV) and his wife, Martha Fenn. He was born Nov. 17, 1744. and died in December, 1819.
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