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trious, he has achieved a well-merited success in life, and is now enjoying a comfortable competence.
In Newtown, Conn., Mr. Wells was united in marriage with Miss Eveline Judson, a native of that place, and a daughter of Zenas J. Judson, and to them were born five sons, all of whom are with their father in business. Samuel, who is foreman of the factory, married first Jennie Marie Fischer, and second, Mary Schurlke; and Frank married Amelia J. Schurlke. The others are single. Father and sons are all charter members of the Pequot Club, of Waterbury ; Samuel, Frank and Edward are members of the Knights of Pythias. fraternity ; and Frank is also connected with the Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Wells is a member of King Solomon Lodge. F. & A. M., of Woodbury ; and is identified with the Democratic party and is a member of the board of finance of the city of Water- bury. He attends religious services at Union Chapel, of which he is a trustee, and he and his family occupy an enviable position in the best social circles of the community in which they reside.
Mrs. Wells belongs to an old New England family founded here in 1634 by William Judson, his wife and three sons, Joseph, Jeremiah and Joshua, natives of England, who located in New Haven, Conn., where he died in 1662, and where his re- mains were interred. His son Joseph made his home there throughout life, and died in 1696. He married Sarah Judson, and reared a large family. One of their children, James Judson, was born in 1650 and died in 1717. He was a land owner and farmer. Among his several sons was David Judson, who was born in 1693, and married Phoebe Stiles. He died and was buried in New Haven. In his family were four children: David, born in 1715; Phoebe, wife of Matthew Curtis, in 1717; Abel in 1721 ; and Agnes in 1724. Abel Judson moved to Stratford, Fairfield Co., Conn., where he owned and operated a farm. On May 7. 1744, he mar- ried Sarah Burton, by whom he had four children : John, born in 1745, who married Patience Fair- man; Abel, born in 1746: Sarah, 1749, who mar- ried Asher Peck; and Ruth, 1752, who married Henry Fairman.
Abel Judson, Jr., the grandfather of Mrs. Wells, was born in Stratford in 1746 and became a leading farmer of Newtown, Fairfield county, where he owned over 200 acres of land on Mile Hill, now occupied by Daniel G. Beers. He was a man of independent thought and action, and an active mem- ber of the Sandemanian Church. He married Ann Bennett and they became the parents of fifteen chil- dren: Ruth, born Nov. 17, 1769, married M. Hard and had a son, who was a physician among the Catskills, at Hunter, N. Y. : Bennett was born Feb. 12, 1771; Betsey, born Dec. 22, 1772, married Mr. Prindle: Rufus, born Dec. 27, 1774, removed to Ohio; Abner, born Oct. 17, 1776, married first a Miss Hard, second, Miss Judson, and third, Miss Shephard; Abel was born in 1778; Marcus was
born Feb. 3, 1780; Laura, born Dec. 8, 1781, mar- ried Zera Blackman; Jerusha, born Sept. 22, 1783; was married to Eleazer Starr; Silence, born April 3, 1785, married Daniel Wells, a shoemaker of Zoar, Conn .; Isaac, born Feb. 3, 1787; John, born Feb. 11, 1789, was a physician; Martin, born Feb. 17, 1791, was a miller at Sandy Hook : Zenas J., born March 28, 1793, was the father of Mrs. Wells; and Anna, born Jan. 6, 1795, married Thomas Seeley, a shoe maker and hotel keeper of Newtown. Mrs. Wells' father was a tailor by trade, and made his home in Newtown. He married Fanny Torrence, and of their eleven children, the youngest, Eveline, became the wife of Ambrose. H. Wells, our subject.
THOMAS MCEVOY, for nearly thirty years proprietor of a prosperous grocery business in Waterbury, is a native of Ireland, born in Queen's county in 1831.
Patrick MeEvoy, father of our subject, was of the same nativity, and followed farming in the old country. He came to this country and in 1851 set- tled in Waterbury, where he died. He married Elizabeth Terrell, also a native of Queen's county, Ireland, and seven children were born to them, viz. : John came from Ireland to Waterbury, and died there; Patrick was a farmer in Middlebury, Conn., and died there : Thomas is our subject ; Christopher is a Catholic priest in Philadelphia ; Mary is the de- ceased wife of Patrick Dwyer, of Simmonsville, Conn .: Elizabeth and Bridget died unmarried in Ireland.
Thomas McEvoy remained in Ireland until he was nineteen years old, in 1851 coming to Water- bury, where he has since made his home. For seventeen years he worked as a farm laborer, and then opened his present grocery business, in which he has been very successful.
In 1858 Mr. MeEvoy married Ann Mulhall, who was born in Queen's county, Ireland, and died in Waterbury about twenty-eight years ago. She was the mother of eight children, three of whom are de- ceased : those living are: Mary, Sarah, Joseph, Lib- bie and Thomas. Mr. MeEvoy is a member of St. Patrick's Church, Waterbury, and has been identi- fied with that parish some twenty-eight years. In polities he is a Democrat.
CALEB SMITH, a veteran of the Civil war and a well-known resident of Milford, was born at his present residence March 10, 1840, and is a rep- resentative of an old and respected family of that locality.
Caleb Smith (1), our subject's great-grandfa- ther, was born in the town of Milford. His brother, Hezekialı, was the grandfather of Edgar H. Smith, now a resident of that town. Caleb Smith (2), son of Caleb (1), was a farmer by occupation, as were other members of the family ; and he built the house now occupied by our subject. He married Sarah Carrington, and had three children: Charles, men-
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tioned below; Adeline, who married Lazarus N. Smith, a farmer of Milford; and Garrett, a shoe- maker, in Milford, who was also agent for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, at Nauga- tuck Junction.
Charles Smith was born at the present homestead July 16, 1801, and died Feb. 10, 1891. In religious faith he was a Congregationalist, and in politics he affiliated with the Whig and Republican parties. He married Maria Nettleton, of Milford, who was born April 15, 1808, and died Oct. 26, 1865. Her father, Thaddeus Nettleton, was a farmer of Milford. Twelve children were born to Charles and Maria Smith, as follows: Lucius, a carpenter and joiner, who died in Milford Dec. 18, 1870; Otis, who died Jan. 29, 1838, aged eight years; Adeline, who died in August, 1855, aged twenty-four; Matilda, who married Dr. Dwight Lumm, a physician in Percival, Iowa; Caleb ( I), who died Feb. 28, 1836; Charles, a farmer in Nebraska, who married Sarah Skid- more; Caleb (2), our subject ; Emily, who married G. Truman Smith, of New Haven ; Harriet E., who married (first) Caleb Duell, and (second) A. A. Bradley ; Isabella G., who died Aug. 23, 1845, un- married ; Ann M., who married Wallace Parker, of New Haven ; and one who died in infancy.
Caleb Smith spent his boyhood in his native town and received a district school education, attending until he reached the age of sixteen. In September, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, 27th Conn. V. I., and during his term of service he was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, and spent two weeks in Libby prison. He was mustered out July 16, 1863, and returned to the old homestead where he has since been engaged in general farming. The farm, which comprises seventy acres, is located two miles from Milford, and affords an opportunity for two of his sons to carry on the ice business successfully. In politics Mr. Smith is a Republican. Fraternally he belongs to the G. A. R., and religiously to the Con- gregational Church.
On Feb. 16, 1865, Mr. Smith married Miss Marion C. Beard, and they have had twelve chil- dren : Lucia E., who married Arthur J. Platt, of Milford, and died March 20, 1896; Caleb A., who died Jan. 2, 1870; Egbert L., a physician in Hotch- kissville, Conn., who married Althea Allen, of that town ; Robert R., who died March 24, 1873 ; Summer C .; Wallace P .; Mabel C., who died Nov. 13, 1880; Grace I .; Elwood W .; Nelson C .; Clifford M .; and Charles A.
The Beard family is well known in Milford, and Andrew Beard, Mrs. Smith's grandfather, was a resident of the town. His brother was the grand- father of Joseph T. Beard, of Milford. Allen C. Beard, Mrs. Smith's father, was born in Milford, Jan. 28, 1813, and died Aug. 29, 1897. On March 22, 1840, he married Abigail Smith, of Milford (daughter of William Smith, and his wife, Susan Beard), who died Jan. 20, 1870. This union was blessed with a large family of children, the names
and dates of birth being given as follows: Abigail A., Sept. 7, 1841 ; Susan, Sept. 9, 1842; Marion C., Dec. 22, 1844, in Bethany ; an infant, May 23, 1847; Andrew A., May 22, 1848; Kate S., Sept. 3, 1850; Sarah M., July 14, 1853; Flora G., Nov. 24, 1855; and William, July 17, 1858. All are living except Sarah M., who died Nov. 28, 1896; William, who died Oct. 17, 1858; and one that died unnamed.
JOHN EDWIN TOWNER, a machinist by trade, but now engaged in agricultural pursuits, is a well-known, prosperous citizen of Branford. A native of Connecticut, he was born Jan. 21, 1840, on the farm whereon he now resides.
Richard Towner, the first of the family to settle in Connecticut, tradition says was a native of the Isle of Man, that he was impressed on board a Brit- ish warship and put ashore sick at Charleston, S. C., where he married. His wife's name was De- borah. From there it is said he and his family came to Connecticut, settling in 1689 in Branford, where he died Aug. 22, 1727. Richard Towner, his son, baptized in 1700, was a farmer in Branford. He married Elizabeth Tyler Sept. 28, 1720, and died March 1, 1753. His son Jonathan, born in Bran- ford Nov. 16, 1721, married Mary Darrow Nov. 10, 1743. He died Feb. 20, 1804, she on Feb. 15, 1806.
David Towner, son of Jonathan and Mary (Dar- row) Towner, and the grandfather of John Edwin, was born in Branford in 1768. He was a farmer by occupation, and also for a time kept a tavern on the Guilford pike, although he was a scythemaker by trade, which he learned of Ezekiel Hayes, great- grandfather of Rutherford B. Hayes, ex-President of the United States. Mr. Towner would carry on his back the scythes he made, and sell them through- out the county. He married Betsey Bishop, of Beth- lehem, and by her had the following children who grew to maturity: John, Harriet, Nancy (Mrs. Henry Rogers) and Davis (who married Almira Brooks). The father of these died Sept. 24, 1851, the mother April 4, 1853.
John Towner, son of David and Betsey ( Bishop) Towner, and the father of John Edwin, was born Sept. 15, 1794, at Branford, and died June 20, 1853- He was a lifelong farmer. On Feb. 6, 1825, he mar- ried Martha Tyler, who bore him three children : Harvey E., born Oct. 21, 1826, married Grace E. Auger. Emily S., born Dec. 15, 1834, was married June 16, 1855, to John R. Holcomb, who died Aug. 7, 1899 ; she has one son, Frank E. John E. is our subject. The father was a Whig in politics, as was also his father. John Towner volunteered for ser- vice in the war of 1812, and served as coast guard.
John Tyler, the maternal grandfather of John Edwin Towner, was a native of Branford, where he carried on farming. During the Revolutionary war he served in the army, and was wounded in battle. His wife Ann (Rogers), who was also born in Branford, was a descendant of Thomas Rogers. who came over in the "Mayflower." George Tyler, father
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of John, married Lydia Raynore. He also was a farmer.
John Edwin Towner, the subject proper of these lines, was reared on the old homestead, and educated in part at the common schools of the neighborhood, in part at the Branford Academy. He then served a four-years apprenticeship in New Haven at the trade of machinist, which he afterward followed for years in the railroad shops of that city. During the Civil war he was a member of Company C, 15th Conn. V. I., enlisting in July, 1862, and was mus- tered into service Aug. 15, 1862. He participated in the battle of Fredericksburg, the siege of Suffolk, and in several minor engagements, was wounded at Kinston, N. C., March 8, 1865, taken prisoner and incarcerated in Salisbury prison fifteen days, also for a few days in the jail at Danville, N. C., after which he was sent to Richmond, taken through the lines to Annapolis, and honorably discharged June I, 1865. Since 1870 he has been engaged exclusively in farming.
On Nov. 16, 1872, Mr. Towner married Susan D. Hoadley, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Gunn) Hoadley, of Branford, and three children were born to them : Anna P., Merle E. and Laura E. Anna P. died July 27, 1899 ; she was a graduate of the State Normal School at New Britain, from which she held an honorary diploma, and followed teaching until ill health compelled her to resign. Mrs. Towner passed away March 21, 1897. The family attend the services of the Congregational Church. In politics Mr. Towner is a Republican. Socially he is a member of Wooster Lodge, No. 79, F. & A. M., Franklin Chapter, and Harmony Coun- cil, R. A. M., all of New Haven, and is affiliated with the G. A. R., Mason Rogers Post, No. 7, De- partment of Connecticut, of which he is the present adjutant and a past commander. He was com- mander when the soldiers' monument was dedicated.
HON. GEORGE OTTO SCHNELLER. In sketching the life of George Otto Schneller, late of Ansonia, a mere list of the large number of organ- izations with which he was connected, and which felt his guiding hand, would be wholly inadequate to give a correct idea of the man and his methods, for as a captain of industry he was a Napoleon, the ablest general of his State and time. The names of the institutions which felt his power may perish with the years, but his methods and genius will ever re- main an inspiration.
Born in Nuremberg, Germany, June 14, 1843, of an aristocratic family, and educated in the schools of his native land, at the age of seventeen Mr. Schneller left home and family, and, unaided by money or influence, started his business career in New York. His love of home had not lessened, but his love of independence was greater. Self- reliance was the key to all his actions. Loving his family with that strong passion which showed itself in his healthful dreams, and which had not faded out
in the delirium of his last sickness, he cut loose from family ties and learned the language and manners of his adopted country while engaged in occupations which brought him renumeration barely sufficient to pay the cost of board and clothes.
"The sun set, but set not his hope, Stars rose, his faith was earlier up."
As an elegant penman and accurate accountant Mr. Schneller obtained a position with O. W. Bird, of New York, who was a commission man, doing business for Osborn & Cheesman, of Ansonia, Conn., and thence drifted to Ansonia as an accountant for that firm. Rapidly rising until he commanded the largest salary obtainable in that position, he left his money well invested and visited his ancestral man- sion with the best wishes of his employers. But, though his stay was long, he wrote that he "felt like an eagle in a hen coop," and again canie to this country. While waiting for something to turn up he made an engineer map of Ansonia and Derby, on the plan of the engineer maps of the German Empire, which he considered a model for the State.
In 1876 Mr. Schneller purchased a spectacle fac- tory at Shelton, Conn., and, applying his inventive genius to the improvement of the mechanical process, resold it in six months to a competitor for three times its original cost. He then turned his attention to the manufacture of cyelets. The usual propor- tion of eyelets had been only about one half of the metal employed, and the process had been slow and complicated. In three years he had invented ma- chinery which saved more than sixty per cent. of the scrap wasted even by the best known process. To enable him to surpass the cheap hand labor of Europe he invented and patented a machine which turned out seven thousand eyelets per minute. By the process employed for setting eyelets only one at a time was handled. He invented a machine for setting every eyelet in a corset at one stroke, which revolutionized the industry both in this country and in Europe. His inventions ranged from buttons to water meters and multiplex telegraphic apparatus. In addition to attending to his manufacturing inter- ests, he represented his town on the board of edu- cation, and in the State Legislature from 1891 to 1893; was one of the leading spirits in the electric street railroad of Derby ; and when the rubber com- panies of the United States formed a gigantic cor- poration he was a leading director and master spirit.
When the dam which furnished power to the ex- tensive mills of his former employers was carried away, Mr. Schneller purchased and reorganized the textile branch of the business under the style of the Ansonia O. & C. Co., and became director and presi- dent of the Birmingham Brass Co. At the solicita- tion of friends he sometimes invested in outside schemes, but they never prospered as did those under his own guiding hand. His theory was that difficul- ties existed in all kinds of business, but were not apt
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to be recognized in those operations carried on at a distance.
"A score of airy miles will smooth Rough Monadnoc to a gent."
He believed that distant ventures were of little ac- count, but used to say that every young man had a gold mine under his feet if he could only see it.
Mr. Schneller loved the fresh sea breeze and liad his lovely summer cottage by the seashore. The last year of his life ( 1895) he determined, in the spring, to build a new factory for his increasing business, and when it was completed to enjoy an ocean trip with his family to the home of his youth ; but before this could be realized he felt the breath of eternal morning on his brow. Just as his factory was completed, he caught a severe cold, which set- tled in the region of his heart, and he never re- covered.
In 1873 Mr. Schneller was married to Clarissa Alling, of Ansonia, and to the union six children were born. The eldest, Marie Eloise, called by her classmates "Birdie," easily won first honors in her class, and in her memory a window has been placed in the high school building at Ansonia. The only son, George Otto, born in 1878, who evinces much of his father's spirit, determination and busi- ness ability, succeeds by the terms of the will to the care of his father's various enterprises.
COL. WALTER JAMES LEAVENWORTH, No history of the State of Connecticut would be complete without special mention of the Leaven- worth family, who from a very early day were con- spicuous among its earlier settlers, and have borne a prominent part in the growth and prosperity of the several portions of the State where the various branches have located.
The first of the family in this country of whom we have mention was ( I) Thomas Leavenworth, a native of England, in which country he married Grace (surname unknown). Some time after 1664 (as learned only by tradition, however) they emi- grated to America, and he died in Woodbury, Conn., Aug. 3, 1683. An inventory of his personal estate was taken Aug. 20, the same year, showing valua- tion to be £225, 25, Id: this appears on the probate records of Fairfield district, also that he left two sons and one daughter, to-wit: Thomas ( doctor ). a sketch of whom follows: John, born probably in Woodbury, Litchfield Co., Conn .. possibly in Eng- land, died after 1718; record of birth and death of daughter not given. The father of this family was a farmer and settled, no doubt, on Good Hill, in the Western part of the present town of Woodbury, not far from the line of Roxbury, and there and in that vicinity the family have continued, being now quite numerous. A tradition in the family is that Thomas landed at New Haven, doubtless having come from England.
In Russell's "Lives of Eccentric Personages,"
p. 96, in the record of the life of Sir Gerald Massey, reference is made to Sir Lewis Leavenworth as liv- ing in London, and to a ball given by him about the middle of the eighteenth century. Grace, the wife of ( I ) Thomas Leavenworth, survived him, and re- mained in Woodbury for a time (perhaps perma- nently ), and was there in February, 1686, owning land in "Hlosky Meadow," about a mile from the village of Woodbury. It is supposed that she died in 1715. The execution of bonds by his wife, after his decease, with London persons, to which was at- tached the Leavenworth arms, would indicate that Thomas had formerly been a resident of London. Little is known of him, however, and no headstone bearing record of him is to be found in any of the cemeteries of Woodbury. But he was evidently a prosperous man in his affairs, judging from the property that he left, and from the way in which he brought up his children, viz .: in habits of industry and frugality. Unfortunately few data are pre- served from which to form definite opinions of his character, save what may have been inherited from him. Of the character of the Leavenworth family there is little to be said that cannot with equal truth be applied to the good and early families of New England. They brought with them from the mother country the pure and rigid principles as well as the stern and unyielding spirit which had char- acterized the Puritans of England for a century previous.
(II) Dr. Thomas Leavenworth, son of (I) Thomas, was born in 1673, perhaps in Woodbury, possibly in England, and died Aug. 4, 1754, in Ripton, Conn. About 1698, at Stratford, he mar- ried Mary Jenkins, a daughter of David and Grace Jenkins, born in 1680, died at Ripton, in June, 1768, and she and her husband were buried at Ripton Center. In 1697-98, Dr. Thomas Leavenworth was received into communion with the Stratford Church, having on the IIth day of January, that year "owned the covenant," and in 1724 he and his wife became original members of the Church at Ripton, of which he was one of the founders. In 1726 he was deacon of the church, and a member of the society's com- mittee. In 1731 he was one of the promoters of and interested parties in a copper mine in Woodbury.
Dr. Thomas Leavenworth was a man of posi- tion, influence, energy and wealth. He had the proper appreciation of the value of learning, and educated his son Mark at Yale, where he was grad- uated in 1737. Dr. Thomas evidently gave to all his children every advantage usually en- joyed at that period, as all of them became active, useful and prominent men in after life, in the places where they resided. On July 6, 1748, he made his will which was offered for probate by his widow, June 12, 1754, and was proved three days later. [It can be found in Book 1754-1757, pp. 41-44.] He left a large property for those times. The Doctor lived in Stratford as early as 1695, and probably re- moved to Ripton about 1721. His residence was di-
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rectly on the bank of the Housatonic river, about two miles above the village of Birmingham, and a short distance below the site of the "Leavenworth Bridge," built originally ( 1768-69) by his son Capt. Edmund, and his grandson. Gideon, and subse- quently rebuilt by the latter. Here he had a large farm fronting on the river for more than a mile; but not a vestige of his dwelling now remains. This property has remained in the family for over 200 years.
Dr. Thomas Leavenworth and his wife are, no doubt, the common progenitors of the whole family now living in the United States. The headstones at their graves still remain in good condition in the old cenietery, near the Ripton Church, of which he was one of the founders. A brief record of the chil- diren of this pioneer couple, all born in Stratford, Conn., is as follows: James, born Sept. 1, 1699, died Aug. 1, 1760. David, born Oct. 12, 1701, died April 10, 1735. Ebenezer, born April 7, 1706, died in 1834, unmarried. John is fully spoken of farther on. Zebulon, born about 1710, died May 2, 1778. Mark, born about 1711, died Ang. 20, 1797, in the eighty-sixth year of his age and the fifty-eighth year of his ministry; in March, 1760, he was appointed chaplain of the 2d Connecticut Regiment, com- manded by Col. Nathan Whiting. Thomas, born about 1713, died in 1795. Mary, born in 1717, died in 1813. Hannah, born about 1719, was alive in 1763. Sarah, born Nov. 6, 1721, was alive in 1758. Edmund, born in 1725, died July 17, 1785.
(III) John Leavenworth, son of ( II) Dr. Thomas, was born Nov. 3. 1708, and was baptized in Bridgeport (then Stratford), Conn. He mar- ried (first), about 1737, Deborah Hurd, who died Jan. 1, 1746; he married (second), Jan. 29, 1747. Mary Bronson, who was born July 21, 1719, a daughter of Ebenezer B. and Mary Mann. He re- sided in Ripton in 1733. [ Book IV, p. 164, Wood- bury Records.] His father deeded to him lands on Good Hill, in 1733, and he received a part of the estate of his brother Ebenezer. as well as part of the estate of his father. He died about the year 1783. and his will was proved in Woodbury Feb. 17, 1785. [VIII Prob. Vol., p. 164.] His sons, Amos and Elihu, were his executors. He had a number of slaves with their families, which he disposed of by his will. During his life he was one of the leading men of Woodbury, and he lived on Good Hill, near the residence of the late John Leavenworth, and on or near the very ground where his grandfather Thomas first settled. The children born (all in Woodbury) to John and Deborah ( Hurd) Leaven- worth were as follows : David (Capt.) is fully spoken of farther on. Abigail, born about 1739, died March 4, 1782. John, born in 1739, died in June, 1802; served in the war of the Revolution. [Cothren, p. 783.] Lemuel, born Oct. 9, 1743, died April 30, 1825 : he took up arms to resist the inva- sion of Burgoyne, and was at the battle of Benning-
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