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Nathaniel, afterward known as Capt. Nathan- iel White, was born in England in 1629, and was, therefore, but three years of age when brought to America. The family made their first home in Cambridge, Mass., but after four years removed to Hartford, Conn. In 1650 or 1651 Capt. Nathaniel moved to Middletown, Conn., of which place he was one of the original proprietors.
Deacon Nathaniel White, son of Capt. Nathan- iel, was born in Middletown, Upper Houses, Conn .. July 17, 1652, and died in Hadley, Mass., Feb. 15, 1742.
Daniel White, son of Deacon Nathaniel, was
born at Hadley, Mass., March 1, 1690, and set- tled in West Hempfield, where he died Oct. 19, 1721.
Preserved White (1), son of Daniel, was born in West Springfield, Aug. 31, 1721. He was a weaver by occupation, and his death occurred in Springfield July 16, 1802.
Preserved White (2), son of Preserved (1), was born in Springfield, Nov. 25, 1743. He was an armorer, learning his trade in the famous armory of his native city. He died June 8, 1823. He was married Aug. 20, 1767, to Miss Mary Terry, daugh- ter of Samuel and Sarah Terry, of Springfield, Mass. Thirteen children blessed this union : Roderick, Martin, Luther, Mary, Luther (2), Roderick (2), Rachel, Hannah, Roderick (3), Hannah (2), Walter, Preserved ( father of sub- ject ) and Persis.
Preserved White (3), father of Leroy Sunder- land White, was born in Springfield, in 1789, and died in September, 1832. He was married July 13, 1823, to Lucinda Rice, a daughter of Jeduthan Rice, of Ludlow, Mass. Mrs. Lucinda White sur- vived until February, 1879, when she passed away. The family born of this union consisted of the following named children: Albert M., born June 18, 1824; Lewis, born Dec. 22, 1825; Lyman, born Feb. 18, 1827; Leroy S .; Sarah Ann, born March 24, 1830; and William W., March 9, 1832. Of this family Albert M., Lewis and Lyman are deceased; Sarah Ann was married March 7, 1854, to the late Gen. George A. Washburn, of Hart- ford; and William W. is a machinist of Water- burv.
Shortly after the death of his father, Leroy Sunderland White was bound out to a farmer until nine years old. He then returned home, and next found employment as a bobbin boy in a cotton fac- tory at Chicopee; while there he was promoted from place to place until he became a room superin- tendent. At a very early age young White mani- fested a decided tendency for mechanics and a pre- cocious faculty for invention. At the age of twelve years he made a miniature tool chest, which he filled with planes, saws, chisels and other tools be- ionging to a joiner's outfit, and all of his own manufacture. This kit was for many years the admiration of his friends, and it foreshadowed the future of the youthful mechanic. He was em- ployed for some years in the Springfield armory, where in former years his father worked. When he was about eighteen years of age he entered the employ of the Ames Manufacturing Co., sword makers of Chicopee, where his duties included die- sinking and ornamental work upon swords, especi- ally ordered by the United States government as presentation swords. About 1855 Mr. White moved from Chicopee, or Springfield, to Hartford. Conn., where he was employed as a machinist and die cutter by the Hartford Manufacturing Co. There he invented the first successful machines for
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burnishing silver-plated flatware, and this patent he sold to the company. The firm of Rogers & Brothers (consisting of Asa Rogers, Simon Rog- ers, the late Mr. D. B. Hamilton and L. S. White) was soon afterward organized in Waterbury, and for this firm, from 1858, Mr. White was for seven- teen years superintendent and master mechanic, and part of this time was its secretary. While with this firm Mr. White invented several new burnishing machines. In 1874 Mr. White was en- ployed by Brown & Brothers to superintend the erection of the plant for the manufacture of flat- ware, and while with them he invented and per- fected machinery for making seamless tubing and kitchen boilers. Since leaving Brown & Brothers he has devoted his time to the invention and manti- facture of a large variety of articles, most of them for use in the application of electricity to mechan- ical devices.
On April 24, 1852, Mr. White married Sarah Jane DeLancey, of New Market, N. H. They have lived in Waterbury since 1858, and here have reared their three children, namely: Emma IL, who was married, Dec. 19, 1876, to Alexander C. Mintie, of Waterbury; Jennie C., married, in July, 1890, to Thomas G. Lane, of Portland, Me .; and Edith S., married in June, 1897, to Dr. Edward W. Goodenough, of Waterbury. In 1874 Mr. White passed three months in Europe on a tour for both pleasure and study, and in 1884 he made a more extensive tour. In politics Mr. White is a Republican, and has filled several local offices, such as councilman, street commissioner, etc., but has been more interested in his private affairs than in the concerns of the public. He is a member of Con- tinental Lodge, F. & A. M., Clark Commandery, and of the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Although he never attended a school after reaching his seventh year, he has ac- quired a wonderful store of practical and theoreti- cal knowledge by studying at all favorable oppor- tunities, and he has a fine library well supplied with the works of the best scientific writers and metaphysicians. He experiments a great deal with the X-Rays, in which he is quite skilled, and is classed among the true scientific investigators of Waterbury.
NATHAN FOWLER GRISWOLD, one of Meriden's best-known business men, and president of The Griswold, Richmond & Glock Co., dealers in stoves, furnaces, etc., Meriden, was born in Lock- port. N. Y., and is descended from one of the old- est families in New England.
was mentioned in English records as belonging to Humphrey Griswold, who died in 1671, and was succeeded by his brother, Rev. Henry Griswold, who died about 1720. From him the title passed to his eldest son, Humphrey, and upon the latter's death, in 1772, to his youngest son, Henry. Henry dying without male issue, the estate and title passed to Rev. Mathew Griswold, a justice of the peace for the County of Warwick. On his death, in 1778, he left a daughter, Mary, who became the wife of David Lewis. She died without surviving male issue, but left three daughters, Magdalene, Anne Maria and Eliza. The oldest married the fourth Earl of Dysart, Anne Maria married the fifth, and Eliza died a spinster. A male heir in the direct line being still wanting, the Malvern estate, and the Arms of Griswold, passed to Henry Griswold Lewis, a son of David Lewis by a second mar- riage. The next heir was Lieut .- Col. Edmund. Meysey Griswold, who was succeeded by his uncle, Henry Wigley, M. A., who assumed the surname of Griswold, and whose descendants are still own- ers of the ancestral estate and arms.
The American branch of the Griswold family claims as its first-known English progenitor Mathew Griswold, Esq., of Kenilworth, Warwick- shire, an uncle of Humphrey Griswold, the first Lord of the Manor above named. Mathew had three sons, Thomas, Edward and Mathew, and of these, Mathew, the youngest, was the first to come - to America. While yet very young, he joined a company of pilgrims collected from Warwickshire,. Worcestershire, Somersetshire and Devonshire, un- der the leadership of Rev. John Warham, who left England during the reign of Charles I, and landed on the shores of Massachusetts Dec. 30, 1620. i Nine years later Edward Griswold joined his- brother Mathew, and the two removed from Massa- chusetts to Connecticut, Edward settling at Wind- ! sor and the younger brother at Saybrook.
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-- Edward Griswold, mentioned above, was born in England in 1607, emigrated to America, and made his first permanent settlement in Connecticut, at Saybrook, in 1663, and in 1667 moved to what is now Killingworth, in Middlesex county, where- - he settled and which he named after his birthplace in England. Here he became an extensive land- owner, and died in 1691. In 1630 he married Mar- garet (surname not given), who died Aug. 23. 1670, and two years later he married Sarah, widow ' of James Remes, of New London, Conn. His chil- dren were: Sarah, born in 1631; George, in 1633; Francis, in 1635; Lydia, in 1637; Sarah, in 1638. married Samuel Phelps, Nov. 10, 1650, and mar- ried (second), July 21, 1670, Nathan Pinney : Ann, in 1642; Mary, born Oct. 13, 1644, married Tim- othy Phelps, on March 19, 1661 ; Deborah, June 28,
The lineage of the family may be traced, in an unbroken chain of descent, from Humphrey Gris- wold, a "Lord of the Manor," who lived in Eng- land in the sixteenth century. The Malvern estate . 1646, married Samuel Buell: Joseph, March 12, came into his possession in 1600, and the heritage 1647 : Samuel, Nov. 18, 1649; Jolin, Aug. 1, 1652. John Griswold, youngest son of Edward, the still remains with the English branch of the fam- ily. In 1679, Malvern Hall, with the Coat of Arms, ; emigrant, was born in 1652, in Windsor, Conn.,
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and removed with his parents to Killingworth, now the town of Clinton, where he became a land owner and farmer, and died there Aug. 7, 1717. John Griswold was a man of intelligence and influence and was a deacon in the church. On Oct. 27, 1671, he was married to Mary (surname unknown), and after her death to Bathsheba (surname unknown), who died March 19, 1736, and he was the father of these children : Mary, born in February, 1673; Margaret, in December, 1675; Hannah, in October, 1677; John B., Sept. 22, and died Dec. 27, 1679; Dorothy, born in May, 1681 ; Bathsheba, in Decen- ber, 1682, married Daniel Clark, Dec. 1, 1708; Samuel, April, 1685; Lucy, in July, 1686; Martha, in June, 1689, died in March, 1690; Joseph and Benjamin (twins), Sept. 26, 1691; Dorothy, in September, 1692; Marthia, in June, 1694; Daniel, in October, 1696; and Walter, in March, 1700.
Joseph Griswold, twin brother of Benjamin, and son of John, of Killingworth, like his father and grandfather, spent his days in the town of his birth, where he was influential, and a worthy mem- ber of the church, and died April 18, 1770. On Dec. 27, 1714, he married Temperance Lay, who died in September, 1772, and their children were: John, born Oct. 12, 1715; Joseph, Oct. 22, 1716; Martha, April 28, 1719; Giles, June 3, 1725 ; John; Daniel, who married Lydia Hull; and Jedediah.
Giles Griswold, son of Joseph, was born in Kill- ingworth, June 3, 1725, and on Nov. 17, 1746, mar- ried Mary Chatfield, and their children were: Mary, born April 18, 1747; Giles, Oct. 28, 1748; Mercy, Oct. 19, 1751; Lucy, Oct. 15, 1753; Jesse, Aug. 28, 1756, died Sept. 21, 1777; Zenas, born May 10, 1759; Abner, March 31, 1762; Drusilla, Jan. 21, 1764, died in March, 1764; Drusilla (2), May 21, 1766; David, Nov. 20, 1768; and Charity, Feb. 12, 1774.
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Zenas Griswold, grandfather of Nathan Fowler Griswold, was born May 10, 1759, in Killingworth, where he grew to manhood, and where he became a farmer and landowner. He participated in the war of the Revolution, having enlisted Jan. 3, 1777, in Capt. Stevens' company, and was discharged Dec. 21, 1779, re-enlisting May 3, 1781, and served in Capt. Nathaniel Edwards' company. By an act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, he was made a pensioner, and died in his native home, full of years and honors, in 1836. Zenas Griswold was twice married. His first wife, Mary Lane, was born in 1758, and died in May, 1803. Her chil- dren were: Philip, born in January, 1786, settled in Genesee, N. Y .; Jesse, born in February, 1788, settled in Lockport, N. Y .; Deboralı, born Aug. 2, 1790, married William Hill, and died Oct. 15, 1873; Rachel, born in January, 1793, died in 1809: Martin married Sally Fowler; and Sarah married Elias Norton. For his second wife Zenas Gris- wold married Mary Pettibone, a widow, who died in 1843. Two children were born to this union :
Amasa Pettibone, who married Charlotte Chatfield ; and Rachel, who married Louis Chatfield.
Martin Griswold, father of Nathan Fowler Griswold, was born on the old Griswold homestead in Killingworth, where he grew to manhood, and where he married Sally Fowler, daughter of Nathan and Chloe ( Davis) Fowler. After his marriage he removed with his wife to Lockport, N. Y., where his brother Jesse was also located, and engaged in farming for some time, but after the death of his wife, which occurred shortly after the birth of our subject, he sold out, and returned to Connecticut, locating in Middletown. There he engaged at gun- making for several years for the United States Government, and then went West, locating in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where he bought a farm and spent the remainder of his days. Mr. Gris- wold was a hard-working, honest man, well known for his integrity and for his fair and honorable dealings, a man who made the Golden Rule his life motto and steadily endeavored to follow it. His happiness was only found when he was square with the world and his fellow men. In his younger days he was a Democrat, but held anti-slavery views, and at the formation of the Republican party associated himself with it, ever after being a strong partisan, although no office seeker. For his second wife he wedded Mary Post, of Westbrook, Conn., who died in Ohio. She became the mother of several children, all of whom are dead except Anne and Willard M. Griswold, a railway agent, residing in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Nathan Fowler Griswold, the subject proper of this sketch, was only three days old when his mother died, and he was thus early deprived of her tender, fostering care. While still a babe he was taken by his bereaved father from his native New York home to Connecticut, and there placed under the care of his maternal grandparents, in Durham, and there attended the district schools. When he was but eleven years of age he started out to make his own way in the world, trying one season on a farm. This life did not entirely please him, and he then engaged to work in the store of Uriah A. Ayers, of East Haddam, where he re- mained four years, receiving as compensation his board and clothes. While filling this position he managed to attend school during the winters, but the greater part of his education was received through study at home, through reading, and in the severe school of experience. The desire to learn a trade first brought him to Meriden, and he worked first with Pomeroy & Ives, learning the tinning trade, and during his four years with that firm he received for the first year $25, with an increase of $5 every year. After completing his trade within one or two months of his apprenticeship, he pur- chased his remaining time. and started for the West, with Cincinnati as his objective point. The trip was an interesting one, filled with variety and
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excitement. By canal he reached Buffalo, thence by boat he went to Toledo, thence again by canal, and here the canal gave way and the passengers suddenly found their boat high and dry on land in the woods. Each one had to do the best he could, Mr. Griswold finally reaching the Queen City by team. He soon found employment at his trade, with Greenfield & Winchell, and there for a period of three years worked as a journeyman. Returning to Meriden, he worked for Pomeroy & Leonard, and later removed to Holyoke, Mass., where he first started in business and remained two years, and then returned to Meriden. In 1854 he started in the tinning business for himself, first with George F. Searles as partner, who later sold out. With Henry J. Lewis, son of the well-known citizen, Isaac C. Lewis, the business was conducted under the firm name of Griswold & Lewis, until 1876, when Mr. Charles C. Glock became a partner. and the firm became Griswold, Lewis & Glock. Mr. Lewis later sold out to Mr. J. L. Richmond. the firm thus becoming Griswold, Richmond & Glock. In 1889 the firm changed into a stock com- pany, known as the Griswold, Richmond & Glock Co., of which Mr. Griswold is president and Mr. Glock is superintendent.
Mr. Griswold has conducted a successful busi- ness for nearly half a century, succeeding on ac- count of his ability, energy and keen foresight. A man of kind and genial disposition, large-hearted and generous, he is very frequently called upon for aid for charitable purposes, and liberally responds. In his religious views Mr. Griswold avows himself an agnostic, declaring his belief to be founded on facts and science, in the place of superstition and faith, which has been opposed to progress. Mr. Griswold believes there is much wisdom in Paine's "Age of Reason" and in Ingersoll's "Age of Truth," and closes his testimony with the gentle assertion, "with malice toward none, and charity for all, I simply confess that I don't know." Mr. Griswold's spotless private life and his untarnished public reputation disarm all criticism, and he is in every way a citizen of whom his city is justly proud.
In Meriden Mr. Griswold married Eliza Will- iams, a native of that town, where she died, and her remains rest in the West cemetery. She was a consistent and valued member of the Universalist Church. The children born to this union were : Ella A., who married Eugene H. Ray, superintend- ent of the Silver City Plate Co .; Charles, who died in young manhood, and now sleeps in the West cemetery by his mother: Frank, who died while a resident of Chicago; and Lewis F .. who is a de- signer for the Charles Parker Co. For his second wife Mr. Griswold wedded Mira Rockwell. who was born in Hartford. a daughter of Capt. Samuel Rockwell, and is a lady of high culture and of fine attainments. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold reside in their beautiful home on Lincoln street, where they offer a bounteous hospitality.
The Rockwell family, of which Mrs. Nathan F. Griswold is a descendant, is one of the oldest in Hartford county. William Rockwell, the first of the family in America, was born in Dorchester, England, April 14, 1624, was married in his native country to Susannah Capan, a daughter of Bernard Capan. They came to America in 1630, locating first in Dorchester, Mass., where he was one of the twenty-four freemen who took the oath of fidelity on May 18, 1631, was a deacon in the church there, and was one of the jurors in the first manslaughter case tried in the Colony. In 1637 he removed his family to Windsor, Conn., where he passed the re- mainder of his days, dying May 15, 1640. William Rockwell was also a deacon in the church at Wind- sor. On May 29, 1645, his widow married for her second husband Mathew Grand, and she passed away Nov. 14, 1666. The children were: Joan, born April 25, 1625, in England; Samuel, July 18, 1627, in England; John, March 28, 1631, in Dor- chester, Mass .; Ruth, in August, 1633, in Dor- chester : Sarah, July 31, 1634, in Windsor, Conn .; and Joseph, in 1635, in Windsor. Ruth married Christopher Huntington, and removed to Say- brook in 1660, and later to Norwich, where they were early settlers. Sarah became the wife of Walter Gaylor.
Sergeant Samuel Rockwell, son of Deacon Will- iam, was born in England, came to America with his parents, and removed with them to Windsor and was one of the early settlers of what is now East Windsor, and there engaged in farming until his death, in 1711. On April 6, 1662, he was ad- mitted to membership in the Windsor Church, and en April 7, 1660, he married Mary Norton, of Guil- ford, a daughter of Thomas and Grace (Wells) Norton, and to them were born these children : Mary, baptized in January, 1661, married, Oct. 23, 1683, to Josiah Loomis; Samuel, baptized Oct. 19, 1667; Joseph, May 22, 1670; John, May 31, 1673; Abigail, 'April 11, 1676, married, Nov. 9, 1704, John Smith, and died Oct. 12, 1741; and Josiah, baptized March 10, 1676.
Lieutenant Joseph Rockwell was born in East Windsor, where he grew to manhood and was en- gaged in farming all his life, dying on June 26, 1733. His marriage was to Elizabeth Drake, born Nov. 4, 1675, a daughter of Job and Elizabeth (Al- vord) Drake, and to them were born six children : Joseph, Nov. 23, 1695; Elizabeth, Dec. 12, 1690, died in infancy ; Benjamin, Oct. 26, 1700; James, June 3, 1704; Job, April 13, 1709; and Elizabeth, July 24, 1713, married Jonathan Huntington.
Benjamin Rockwell, son of Lieut. Joseph, was born in East Windsor, Oct. 26, 1700. At the age of nineteen years he removed to Stafford, Tolland county, where he became engaged in farming and passed the remainder of his life. He married Mar- garet Park, a daughter of Robert Park, of Preston, Conn., and their children were Margaret, Samuel and Elizabeth.
Samuel Rockwell, only son of Benjamin, was
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born in Stafford, Conn., Nov. 28, 1727, and died there Nov. 24, 1794. He was twice married, the first time, Dec. 15, 1757, to Hannah Orcutt. born Jan. 2, 1738-9, a daughter of Nathan and Phebe ( Little) Orcutt, and to this union these children were born : Benjamin, Job, Samuel, Nathan, Han- nah and Margaret. His second marriage was to Hannah Johnson, the widow of Elias Lee, and she died Dec. 16, 1834, at the age of eighty-one, having been the mother of one daughter, Lucy.
Benjamin Rockwell, the grandfather of Mrs. Griswold, was born in 1758, on the old homestead in Stafford, where he died in 1803. His marriage was to Eunice Lillibridge, of Stafford, and these children were born to the marriage: Park, Sept. 16, 1790, and died Sept. 4, 1877, married Esther Slater, a daughter of Moses Slater, born May 14, 1793, and died in March, 1883, and they had five children, Benjamin, an unnamed infant, Maurice, Miranda and Emeline; Samuel, the father of Mrs. Griswold; David, born in 1800, died Jan. 18, 184C4 married Lavinia Hyde, of Stafford, who was born in 1794, and died June 8, 1852; and Polly.
Capt. Samuel Rockwell was born on the old homestead in Stafford, where he received a con- mon-school education, growing to manhood in his native town. In early manhood he came to Hart- ford county, where lie started in business and be- came one of the largest grain and feed dealers in the city of Hartford, building up a prosperous trade, and becoming noted for his honesty and up- right dealings. Domestic in his habits, neverthe- less he took an interest in public affairs, was a stanch supporter of the Democratic party, and although he ever upheld its principles, he just as strenuously refused public office. Mr. Rockwell was captain of the State militia in Stafford, and always took a deep interest in it. His religious connection was with the Congregational Church. where he was liberal in the support of charity, and was a devoted husband and father, a man who en- joyed the respect of the community.
Capt. Rockwell was twice married. He first married Lydia Lillibridge, and three children were born to them: Benjamin, Emery and David, the latter a theological student at Trinity College, Hartford. He married, second, Hannah Hyde, and to this union five children were born: James, Clark, Almira, Charles and Willard, all deceased except Mrs. Griswold and Charles, who resides in Hartford. Both Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell are buried in Spring Grove cemetery. Mrs. Rockwell was noted for her gentle, winning manner, and was a consistent member of the Congregational Church. She had descended from one of the oldest families in Connecticut, William Hyde having been one of the oldest settlers of Norwich. The name of Will- iam Hyde first appears in Hartford in the old bury- ing ground as one of the oldest settlers, but the name was well known in England for many years before it was found in America. Sir Robert Hyde
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was chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1660. Sir Edward Hyde, afterward the Earl of Clarendon, is known to all students of English his- . tory as the grandfather of Queen Anne and of Ed- ward Hyde, who became one of the provincial gov- ernors of New York.
William Hyde was probably a contemporary of Sir Robert and came to America with Rev. Thomas Hooker, the first minister in Hartford, removing to Saybrook and later to Norwich, where he died on Jan. 6, 1681. William Hyde's children were : Hester, who married John Post; Samuel, born in Hartford, about 1637, married, in June, 1659, Jane Lee, a daughter of Thomas Lee, of East Saybrook, and their children were Elizabeth, born in August, 1660, married Richard Lord; Phebe, born in Jan- uary, 1663, married Mathew Griswold; Samuel .. born in 1665, married Elizabeth Calkins: John, born in December, 1667, married Experience Abel; William, born in January, 1670, married Ann Bush- nell; Thomas, born in July, 1672, married Mary Backus : Jalus, born in May, 1677, married Eliza- beth Bushnell; and Sarah, born in 1675, died the same year.
Thomas Hyde, son of Samuel, was born in July, 1672, in Norwich, Conn., and died April 9, 1755. In December, 1696, he married Mary. daughter of Stephen Backus, of Norwich, and their children were: Mary, born Feb. 21, 1698, married John Pember ; Thomas, born July 29, 1699, married Elizabeth Huntington; Phebe, born March 16, 1702, married John French; Jacob, born Jan. 20,. 1703, married Harriet Kingsbury ; Jane, born Dec .- 4, 1704, married John Birchard; and Abner, born Sept. 12, 1706, married first Jerusha Huntington,. and second, Mehetable Smith.
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