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The Parker family, to which Mrs. Ives belongs. is traced back to Jolin Parker, the first of the family in this country. He was one of the earlier settlers of Wallingford, and made his location at what is known as Parker's Farms, in the western part of the town. He died in 1711, and Hannah, his widow, survived until June 7, 1726. Their children were as follows: ( 1) Hannah, born Aug. 20, 1671, married William Andrews Jan. 12, 1692. (2) Eliz- abeth married Joseph Royce March 24, 1693. (3) John, born March 26, 1675, married Mary Kibbe, of Springfield, Mass., Nov. 1, 1699. (4) Rachel, born June 16, 1680, married Thomas Rebyea in 1700. (5) Eliphalet married Hannah Beach Ang. 5. 1708. (6) Samuel married Sarah Goodsell. of Middletown, July 16, 1713. (7) Edward was born
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in 1692. (8) Mary married Joseph Clark Nov. 27, 1707. (9) Abigail, born March 10, 1710, married Joseph Bradley Dec. 8, 1765.
Edward Parker, son of John, the first settler of Parker's Farms, grew up in the town of Walling- ford, and after his marriage settled in Cheshire, where he followed farming all his life. He died Oct. 21, 1776, and is buried in Cheshire. He was three times married. Jerusha, his first wife, died Dec. 27, 1745. On Dec. 1, 1748, he married Re- becca Ives, who died May 23, 1762; and on Sept. 30, 1762, he was married to Ruth Merriman Mer- win. His children were as follows: Ralph, born Jan. 9, 1718, married Martha Ives, daughter of Gideon Ives; Athildred, born July 1, 1719, mar- ried Timothy Hall Jan. 10, 1748; Edward, born March II, 1721, is mentioned below ; Joel, born Feb. 24, 1723, married Susannah Hotchkiss Dec. 25, 1746; Ephraim, born Aug. 23, 1725, married Bath- sheba Parsons Nov. 1I, 1747; Amos, born Nov. 26, 1726, died Aug. 20, 1748; William, born in 1728, died May 2, 1752 : Eldad, born Sept. 14, 1731, mar- ried Thankful Bellamy April 24, 1755, and died July 6, 1779; Joseph Merriam, born Feb. 2, 1734, died March 21, 1734; Joseph, born Oct. 9, 1735, married Mary Andrews May 30, 1758.
Edward Parker, son of Edward Parker, was also a farmer. He married Sarah Burroughs, and their children were as follows: Sarah was born in Cheshire Aug. 28, 1745; Elizabeth, born June 7, 1748, married Enos Clark, of Southington; Will- iam was born June 18, 1752; Abigail, born July 7, 1755, married Deacon Benjamin Yale Dec. 17, 1777 ; Edward, born April 21, 1760, married Rebecca Hen- drick, and removed to Cazenovia, New York.
William Parker, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Ives, was born in Cheshire, and was a farmer all his life. He married Desire Bunnell, and of their children we have the following record: Sarah, born Nov. 7, 1779, married Charles T. Hill; William married the widow of Reuben Hull; Nancy married Dixon Lusk; Anson; Abigail married Elnathan Beach; Fanny married Simeon Perkins, and after his death Simeon Herscy; and Marcus was the grandfather of Mrs. Ives.
Marcus Parker was born in Cheshire, where he spent his life engaged as a carpenter and joiner. He married Mehitable Mathews.
Edward Parker, son of Marcus and Mehitable Parker, was a carpenter in early life, and finally en- gaged as a grocer at Tracy. In 1882 he sold out to his son-in-law, and spent his last days in New Ha- ven, where he died. He married Harriet A. Blake, and their daughter, Ellen A., is Mrs. Almon J. Ives.
JAMES ELTON SMITH, one of the prom- inent farmer citizens of North Haven, bears the hon- orable badge of having suffered for his country's liberty during the Civil war. His ancestors were sturdy New Englanders, the first of the line in
America, Thomas Smith, coming to these shores at an early day. He came by way of Boston to New Haven, where he was propounded for a freeman in 1669, and was a proprietor in 1685. He evidently lived in that part of New Haven from which was created East Haven, where Dodd ( who writes of the carly families of East Haven ) locates him and many of his posterity. In 1662 he married Elizabeth, only daughter of Edward Patterson, one of the original settlers of New Haven.
Thomas Smith, grandfather of James E., was one of the well-known citizens of the Northeastern part of North Haven, then called "Smithtown," be- cause of the number of inhabitants of that name living there, but now known as Clintonville. Thomas Smith married (second) Rosanna Hull, and to this union were born: Ebenezer, who married Bede Bassett; James, the father of our subject; Hiram, who married Polly Smith; Rosanna, who married David Doolittle; and Martha, wife of George Thorpe.
James Smith was born in Clintonville June II, 1805, and spent his youthful days in that locality. He was still a lad when he lost his father. Select- ing the trade of a shoemaker as a lucrative one, Mr. Smith bade fair to become an excellent work- man, but he accidentally thrust an awl into his eye and was deprived of the sight of that member. later in life becoming totally blind. Being thus obliged to give up his trade, farming seemed the best occupa- tion open to him, and he secured farm work in var- ious parts of his town and Wallingford. He finally settled down to agricultural work on the homestead in North Haven, now occupied by his son, where he and his wife died, he in 1887. Mrs. Smith sur- vived to be ninety years and thirteen days old, dy- ing in May, 1897. Her maiden name was Emily Bassett, and she was a daughter of Jesse and Pa- tience (Blakeslee) Bassett. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Smith were: Sarah Lavinia, who married Marcus A. Marks, of Wallingford (a sol- dier of the Civil war) ; Edward A., who married Hannah Maria Tucker ; Willis L., who married Me- lissa Way, and lived in Meriden; James Elton ; Emily A., wife of Isaac L. Doolittle, who resides with Mr. Smith (he served through the Civil war) ; Sanford B. (also a veteran of the Civil war), who married Sarah Lovejoy; Catherine A., who resides with her brother, and Charles B., who married, first. Mary Boyington (who died in 1888), and second Edith Church (who also died).
James E. Smith was born Aug. 8, 1835, in Wall- ingford, where his boyhood days were spent, and there he attended the district school, later going to work on a farm and earning what were then consid- ered good wages. He spent sixteen years in Wall- ingford. and four years in Ulster county, N. Y. Upon his return to New Haven he was employed by William Parmelee as a gardener, but the tenor of his whole life was changed by the Civil war. On Sept. 7, 1861, he became a member of Company E,
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7th Conn. V. I., under Capt. Charles Palmer, of Winsted, who died in the service. During the stormy days which followed, Mr. Smith accom- panied his regiment through the battles of Port Royal, Johnson's Island, Fort Pulaski, James Island, Pocotaligo, St. John's Bluff, Fort Wagner, Fort Gregg, Fort Sumter, Bermuda Hundred, Drury's Bluff, Deep Bottom and Deep Run. At the last named engagement, on August 16, 1864, he was se- verely wounded in the leg, and for one and one- half years this gallant and faithful soldier made his way on crutches, his right leg being yet so crip- pled that it is stiff, and his foot, ever so ready to follow in the march, is crooked beyond help. He received his discharge for disability May 22, 1865. These things are written on the hearts of the younger generation and explain in part the respect accorded the American veteran soldiers.
When able again to take up the duties of life, Mr. Smith returned to farm work, his aged father needing his assistance, and after the death of the father Mr. Smith took entire management of the es- tate. He holds a high position in the community, commanding the unqualified respect of all who know him.
A stanch Republican in political views, Mr. Smith has been active in local affairs, and has been called upon to serve in several important positions. He is a member of the board of relief, and during the administrations of Speakers Harrison, Hall, Chase and Pine, in 1881-82-83-84, was doorkeeper of the Connecticut House of Representatives. Socially he is connected with Admiral Foote Post, No. 17, G. A. R., of New Haven. He has long been a member of the Congregational Church of North Haven.
SAMUEL A. LEWIS is well known in New Haven business circles as the proprietor of an ex- cellent storage and transfer warehouse, the best and largest in the city. He was born in Nauga- tuck, this county. April 4, 1846, son of Lucien F. Lewis, also a native of Naugatuck. Asahel Lewis, his grandfather, was a farmer, and died at the early age of thirty-five years. He married Sarah Atkins, who lived to be eighty-one years old, and they had five children, all of whom are now de- ceased.
Lucien F. Lewis, the father of Samuel A., was reared in Naugatuck, where he followed farming during the earlier years of his life, and he was en- gaged in brickmaking at Southington and Cheshire. He died at Southington in 1878. He married Susan Hitchcock, a native of Southington, where her father, Samuel Hitchcock, was long a promi- nent farmer. Mrs. Susan Lewis was one of a fam- ily of three children. To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis came five children, four of whom are now living: Henry D., who is in New Haven : Samuel A. : Ed- ward M., a foundryman in Anniston, Ala .; and Elliot L., superintendent of a wire mill at Troy, N. Y. Mrs. Lewis died at the age of sixty-eight.
Both parents were members of the Congregational Church, in which he was a deacon, and they were active workers in both church and Sunday-school. Their children were reared in the faith of the church, and became members as they reached ma- ture years.
Samuel A. Lewis spent his earlier years in Naugatuck, and in 1853 accompanied his parents to West Haven, where the family resided until 1862. From that year until 1868 he was engaged in the Cheshire brickmaking enterprise, in com- pany with his father. From the year last named he was in Southington with his father until 1872, when he bought out his father's interest, and ran the business alone until 1874. The ensuing year he was in the brick business at North Haven, and then engaged in trucking at Naugatuck until 1881, in which year he transferred himself to North Haven, and again carried on the manufacture of brick until 1884. That year he came to New Haven and founded the business which he now carries on; until 1890 he was also engaged in trucking. In 1893 he finished his present warehouse in Olive street, a magnificent structure, having 102 feet front, 168 feet depth, and four stories in height, the entire space being devoted to storage. It is the largest building of the kind in the city, and the business created now gives employment to fif- teen men and twenty horses, and is constantly in- creasing. Mr. Lewis is noted as having the larg- est business of the kind in the State, incorporated as the S. A. Lewis Storage & Transfer Co., of which he is president. He has another warehouse, built in 1884. 55 by 110 feet, and two and one- half stories high, which is situated on Whalley avenue. There he did business until 1893, when he put up a building in Olive street, and in 1898 erected another, on Brewery street, 40 by 90 feet, and two stories in height. Mr. Lewis is well pre- pared for every kind of work that belongs to trucking and storage. Mr. Lewis began life with- out capital, and by dint of his own energies has won a foremost position among the better class of business men in his city, and the foremost posi- tion of any man in his line, in either New Haven or Connecticut. He is a man of energy, and has a personal knowledge of every detail of the immense business of which he is the head. Personally he is a modest, plain man, enjoying to an unusual extent the confidence of the best people of New Haven, who make up the major portion of his pa- trons.
Mr. Lewis was married in 1870 to Sarah J. Pardee, a native of Cheshire, and a daughter of George F. Pardee, a farmer of that town, who lived to be seventy-five. Louisa ( Cook), his wife; was born in Cheshire, of an old family. They had four children, three of whom are living: Sarah J., Mrs. Lewis: and George and Georgia, twins, the former a resident of Cheshire, the latter the wife of Edward T. Hall, of Cheshire.
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Mr. Lewis is a Republican, and belongs to the Congregational Church. He is popular in the city, and his friends regard him highly as a reliable and trustworthy man.
GEORGE C. FIELD, a prominent citizen of Branford, who has united the occupations of farm- ing and blacksmithing in a long and honorable life, was born in Killingworth, Conn., March 6, 1836, son of Danford Clark and Lucretia (Griswold) Field, natives of Clinton and Killingworth, respec- tively.
The father of our subject was reared in his native place, and was a shoemaker by trade. At one time in his life he was a merchant. Locating in Bran- ford April 1, 1836, he followed farming there the balance of his life, dying Nov. 29, 1890, at the ven- erable age of eighty-five years. He had a numer- ous family, of whom the following lived to maturity : Cynthia J., who married James S. Ludington ; John R., now deceased: Michael G., now deceased ; George C .; Chancellor W .; Edmund I., who was killed at the battle of Antietam, during the Civil war; David DeF., who is now deceased; Stillman K., now deceased ; James R. : Viletta S .; and Har- riet M., who married Elmer Hurst. The paternal grandfather of George C. Field, James E. Field, was a son of Samuel Field. The maternal grand- father of Mr. Field was Michael Griswold. Both these worthies were lifelong farmers, the former in Clinton, and the latter in Killingworth.
George C. Field was reared in Branford, where he has always lived. Here he began his business career by serving an apprenticeship of three and a half years at the blacksmith trade, and he has also carried on farming in connection with the shop. Mr. Field was married, Aug. 27, 1863, to Sarah, a daughter of George L. and Matilda L. (Dowd) Dowd, of Madison. Mr. Field has been selectman of Branford, and in politics is a Democrat.
REV. WATSON LYMAN PHILLIPS, D. D., pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, was born in West Troy, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1850, son of Rev. Jonas and Maria E. (Nims) Phillips. .
Rev. Jonas Phillips was a native of Fishkill-on- the-Hudson, where many of the name still reside. He and his wife had four children: Anna, now a resident of Ballston Spa, N. Y .; Emma F., who died in 1871; Watson Lyman, whose name intro- duces this sketch; and Olin F., who died in early childhood. The father died in 1883, at the age of sixty-three, and the mother lived to the age of eighty. Rev. Jonas Phillips was a teacher in early life, and afterward entered the ministry of the Methodist Church, becoming a member of the Troy Conference. He was a fluent speaker, an effective lecturer, a zealous temperance worker. and was also active in missionary work. serving as treasurer of the missionary society of his conference. Mr. Phillips enjoyed great popularity wherever he was
known, and commanded the highest respect of all with whom he came in contact. He was a prominent member of the Masonic Fraternity, in politics was an ardent Republican, and he was an unusually well informed man in many lines.
Through his mother Dr. Phillips is descended from Godfrey Nims, one of the early settlers of Deerfield, Mass., whose house was burned, some of his children killed, and others, with his wife, car- ried to Canada, at the time of the Deerfield massa- cre.
Dr. Phillips obtained his early education at pri- vate schools, at the Poultney (Vt.) Academy, and the Fort Edward (N. Y.) Institute. He was gradu- ated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1872, and then took a partial course at the Theo- logical School of Boston University, in the spring of 1873 joining the Providence Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His first pas- torates were in Massachusetts, where he preached successively in the churches at West Duxbury, South Yarmouth, Fall River (the First Church) and New Bedford (the County Street Church). In 1880 he was called to the pastorate of the Summer- field Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and later to St. John's Church, in that city. In 1888 he became pas- tor of the First Church in Wilkesbarre, Pa .. one of the largest and strongest churches in that part of the State. In 1890 he accepted a call to the Church of the Redeemer (Congregationalist), New Haven, Conn., where he still remains. Dr. Phillips made the change of denominations because of his fondness for the Congregational polity and for a settled pastorate, and because of the influence of Presbyterian blood inherited from his mother's fam- ily. The Church of the Redeemer is one of the most prominent churches of the State, and is dis- tinguished for its members' influence and liberality. The society conducts the Oak Street Mission, ne- cessitating the employment of an assistant pastor and a lady missionary. This energetic and active congregation conduets a reading room, clubs for boys and young men, a sewing school, mothers' meeting, Band of Hope, Penny Savings Bank, sing- ing classes, kitchen garden and the usual Sunday- school and gospel services.
Dr. Phillips is well known as a lecturer and after-dinner speaker. He is deeply interested in all movements toward good citizenship. In college he was a member of the Greek letter fraternities Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. He received the degree of M. A. from Wesleyan University in course, and the degree of D. D. in 1889 from that institution and Dickinson College. Dr. Phillips is a Freemason, and was formerly chaplain of lodges in South Yarmouth and Fall River, Mass. is a member of the Graduates Club and of the He Congregational Club, both of New Haven, and served one year as president of the latter. He is a corporate member of the American Board and the Connecticut Bible Society ; is a director of the Con-
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gregational Home Missionary Society, of the Con- necticut Missionary Society and the Organized Charities Association, New Haven; and has for many years been president of the New Haven City Missionary Association. His political support is given to the Republican party.
On June 22, 1873, Dr. Phillips was married to Ella Vernon Stetson, of East Pembroke, Mass., and children as follows have been born to this marriage : Arthur Vernon, Frank Lyman and Ruth Palmer. The eldest son received his literary education in the common and high schools, studied one year at the Yale Law School, and is now on the staff of the Evening Leader. He married Miss Charlotte Pal- mer, of New Haven. Frank L. is attending Shef- field Scientific School, preparatory to taking up the study of medicine. The daughter is being educated at the National Park Seminary, Forest Glen, Mary- land.
Mrs. Phillips heartily co-operates in her hus- band's work, and is a manager of the Home for the Friendless, and of the Young Woman's Christian Association in New Haven. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and her family has a fine record for services in the Revolu- tion. One of her ancestors, Cornet Robert Stetson, a resident of Scituate, Mass., was active in Colonial affairs in his locality and was a member of the First Company, Governor's Guard. He owned a large tract of land. Alexander Stetson, Mrs. Phill- ips' father, was born on the original tract in Scituate, and worked all his life as a mechanic and "box fit- ter." He died at the age of eighty-four, the mother at the age of seventy-three. They were identified with the Methodist Church. Mrs. Phillips is also descended from Gov. Thomas Prince, who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1634 to 1638, and from 1657 to 1663, and assistant governor from 1635 to 1657.
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JOHN LINES, an ex-soldier of the Civil war, and at present superintendent of the burner depart- ment for the Scovill Manufacturing Co. at Water- bury, was born in that town, then known as Naug- atuck, Jan. 7, 1833. His father, Joseph W. Lines, a farmer of Bethany, New Haven county, was one of a large family of children, several of whose names are still remembered, viz .: Lewis, Linas, Jos- eph W., Nancy and Julia. Others went West, and their names are not now known. Lewis was a far- mer in Bethany, where his death took place; Linas went to Illinois when young, and was a farmer : Julia was married to a Mr. Boughton, and went West; Nancy first married a MIr. Sperry, and later became the wife of John Gorham.
Joseph W. Lines, father of our subject, was an axmaker by trade and later became an adept at the forge, at which he worked in Naugatuck, Spring Mills, N. J., Farmington, Conn., and Berlin, this State. At one time he was an overseer at the Con- cord, N. H., State prison. He married Lydia Rus-
sell, daughter of Enoch Russell, a sawmiller of Prospect, Conn., where her birth took place, and to this marriage were born four children: Henry ; Jane ; one that died in infancy, unnamed ; and John, the subject of this sketch, who is the only one that survived childhood. The father was first a Whig politically, and later became a Republican. He passed the declining years of his life in Naugatuck.
John Lines spent his boyhood in Waterbury, in New Jersey and at Farmington, Conn. At the proper age he was apprenticed to a machinist in Bristol, Conn., thoroughly learned the trade, fol- lowed it at New Haven for a time, and later with the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. at Wat- ertown, Conn. He also worked in Waterbury, and was there at the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted in Company C, 14th C. V. I. He was detailed as a musician, and served two years and ten months.
After returning to Waterbury from his army service Mr. Lines worked at his trade for various employers until 1873, when he was given the su- perintendency of a contract at Sing Sing, N. Y., which occupied his attention one year. Returning to Waterbury, he was employed there until 1881, when he was placed in charge of a contract at Cleveland, Ohio, which took another year of his time. On his return, in 1882, he accepted his pres- ent position with the Scovill Manufacturing Co., which he has filled with the utmost satisfaction to all concerned.
In 1857 Mr. Lines married Miss Sarah J. Neale, of Plainville, Conn., a daughter of Jeremiah Neale, a native of the town. This union has been graced with one child, Clarence W., who is in the employ of the Scovill Manufacturing Co. Mr. Lines is a stanch Republican in politics. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and also belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men. In religion he is a Baptist. He is universally respected in the community for his integrity and steady-going habits.
HERBERT BARNES belongs to an old and prominent Connecticut family, of which he is a most worthy descendant. The first member of the family in Connecticut was Thomas Barnes, who arrived from England in 1040, and located at East Haven, where he married. To this emigrant settler and ancestor, and his wife Elizabeth, was born a son. Thomas (2), whose birth occurred Aug. 26, 1653. This son married Mary Hubbard, June 26, 1675. and on her death wedded Abigail Frost.
Thomas Barnes (3), son of Thomas (2), was born July 26, 1687, and married Mary Leek May 18, 1709.
Capt. Joshua Barnes, son of Thomas, was born July II, 1722, and married Deborah Woodin Dec. 26, 1745. He won his title in the Revolution, and died June 7. 1790. She died in 1782.
Deacon Joshua Barnes, son of Capt. Joshua, was born in 1756, and died Aug. 11, 1839. A patriot of
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the war of the Revolution, he first enlisted in June, 1776, in the company commanded by Capt. Jacob Brockett. In 1779 he was a member of the "Alarm List." In 1797, 1798 and 1799 he represented his town in the General Assembly, and for fifteen years served as justice of the peace in North Ha-
ven. In 1800 he was chosen a deacon in Dr. Trumbull's Church, and retained that position until his death, on Aug. 11, 1839. His name appears 011 the United States Pension Rolls of 1832. Deacon . Barnes was an extensive farmer in North Haven, where he was also engaged in stone dealing. In the community he exercised much influence, and was highly esteemed for his many good qualities. Feb. 15, 1781, he married Mercy Tuttle, who died April 1, 1828. They became the parents of six children : (1) Joshua, born in 1781, died Nov. 25, 1886; (2) Frederick, born July 4, 1784; (3) Mary, born Aug. 16, 1787, died at the age of four months : (4) Mary (2), born May 30. 1789, was married in 1811 to Andrew Pierpont, and died May 20, 1840; (5) Rebecca, born April 5, 1791, was mar- ried in 1818, to Eleazer Warner; (6) Byard, born in North Haven, Jan. 22, 1794.
Deacon Byard Barnes, youngest child of Deacon Joshua and Mercy (Tuttle) Barnes, was a prom- inent man of godiy spirit. During the first half of the century just closed he was one of the best known and most highly honored citizens of North Haven. Born near the close of the 18th century, he early walked before his fellow men with such sterling worth and manly piety that in 1824, when only thirty years of age, he was chosen a deacon in the church, and sustained such relations until his death, Feb. 5, 1861, a period of thirty-seven years. A devoted Christian and high-minded gentleman, he died in the triumph of faith. leaving to his chil- dren the legacy of a good name, and the memory of a beautiful affection, and to all men the example of an upright and just life.
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