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ton. Deborah was baptized May 8, 1745. The children born ( all in Woodbury ) to John and Mary ( Bronson) Leavenworth were as follows : Sybil, born in 1747; Amos, baptized Aug. 9, 1753, died Sept. 2, 1828; Avis, born in 1754; Elihn, born Oct. 5, 1756, died Dec. 25, 1756; Elisha, baptized July 3, 1703, died early in life ; Elihu, born June 10, 1763, died July 1, 1817.
(IV) Capt. David Leavenworth, eldest son of (III) John, was born about 1738 in Woodbury, where he passed all of his days, dying March 25, 1820. In 1796 he was captain of the fourth com- pany, 13th regiment of the Colony of Connecticut, and served in the army of the Revolution. {See Cothren, pp. 195-6-7 and 204-8-10-II.] His will was proved April 10, 1820. [XIII Vol., Prob., p. 4.] He was engaged heart and soul in the war of the Revolution; was called out with his com- pany to New York, besides on various other occa- sions, and proved himself one of the active and ener- getic men of those trying times. Accounts of his services and expenses at Fairfield in 1778, and on other occasions, are on file at the comptroller's office at Hartford. The account for militia service, etc., at Fairfield, amounted to £36, 3s, IId; another ac- count is £99, 3s, 4d.
Capt. David Leavenworth married, (first) Feb. 8, 1759, Olive Hunt. Children: Gideon, born Oct. 26, 1759, died Oct. 15, 1827. in Roxbury, Conn .; he served in the Revolutionary army [Cothren, p. 783], and was a commissary under LaFayette. Da- vid died in the spring of 1858; he was in the war of the Revolution. [Cothren, p. 783.] Morse is fully mentioned farther on. Anna, born Nov. 15, 1767. Capt. David married (second) Oct. 30, 1776, Mary Downs. Children : Whitman, born March 22, 1778. Mary, born March 16, 1780, died young. Abigail, who is mentioned in her father's will, mar- ried Josiah Rundle, and moved to Whitestown, N. Y. Olive married Nathaniel Galpin, of Roxbury, Connecticut.
(V) Morse Leavenworth, son of (IV) Capt. David, was born in Roxbury, Conn., July 1, 1764, and died there Nov. 12, 1822. He married, Dec. 25, 1783, Sarah Benedict, born in New Milford, Conn., Jan. 30, 1760, and died in Roxbury, Jan. 29, 1856. She was a daughter of Squire Jonathan Benedict, who was born in 1723. Morse was a highly respected farmer, and through energy and perseverance, which has been characteristic of the name even down to the present generation, hie accii- mulated considerable property. His will was proved Dec. 3, 1822. [XIII, Prob. Vol., p. 138.] He was a soldier in the army of the Revolution. [Cothren, p. 783.] He built and lived and died in the house now owned by his grandson, John H., who is a teacher and farmer, living in Roxbury. Children born to Morse Leavenworth: Martin, born Jan. 12, 1785, died Feb. 16, 1813. Truman, born Aug. 18, 1786, died March 26, 1852. Philo,
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born Oct. 3, 1789, died Feb. 11, 1835; he served in the war of 1812. Wait is fully spoken of farther on. Harriet, born Oct. 30, 1796. Morse, born July 27, 1805, died Nov. 23, 1852. .
(VI) Wait Leavenworth, son of (V) Morse, was born Sept. 12, 1792, in Roxbury, Conn. On March 30, 1812, he married Amoretta Patterson, daughter of James and Clara Patterson, of Roxbury, Conn. He was a farmer, a good citizen and highly esteemed, was pleasant, sociable and of a generous disposition. He was a large man, weighing some 200 pounds. In 1838 he served in the Legislature, and for many years hield various town offices, in- cluding that of selectman. His children, all born in Roxbury, were: James Martin, born Feb. 26, 1813, died Jan. 26, 1814. James Martin (2) is fully spoken of farther on. William, born July 23, 1816. George, born Sept. 15, 1820, died May 12, 1847. Wait, born May 9, 1827. Edwin, born April 21, 1831, died in 1897. Charles Royal, born Dec. 14, 1834, is living in Roxbury. Two others died in infancy.
(VII) James Martin Leavenworth, son of (VI) Wait, and the father of Col. Walter James, was born in Roxbury, Conn., Sept. 28, 1815, and died in Wallingford, Coun., in 1889. By occupation he was a carpenter and joiner ; for some time prior to his death was millwright and carpenter for the R. Wall- ace & Sons Mfg. Co., and superintended the erec- tion of several of the buildings belonging to this firm. He was not active in political affairs, but ex- hibited great zeal in educational matters, and served as a member of the committee that had charge of the building of the public school mu Wallingford (whither he had come in 1852), which was erected in 1870-71 at a cost of nearly $32,000, and is said to be one of the most complete buildings of its kind in the State. He was a member of the Congrega- tional Church, and was a quiet, unassuming man. A great reader, he took considerable pride and much delight in his library, which was quite extensive for a private one, being replete with works of standard authors.
On Feb. 7, 1844, James M. Leavenworth mar- ried Julia Hurd, daughter of Jehiel and Deborah (Percy) Hurd, of Roxbury, Conn., and children as follows were born to them: Walter James, a sketch of whom follows; Julia Isabel, born Oct. 8, 1848, in Roxbury, who died May 29, 1858, in Walling- ford; and Margaret Percy, born May 21, 1859, in Wallingford, now the wife of Charles E. Moody, of Honey Grove, Texas. The mother of these died in Medford, Mass., in 1891.
(VIII) Col. Walter James Leavenworth, son of (VII) James M., was born Feb. 20, 1845, in the town of Roxbury, Conn., where he received, at the primary schools, the earlier part of his education, continuing his studies at the common schools of Wallingford, where the family removed when he was seven years old. At the age of fifteen years, be- ing desirous of following his father's trade, he
started to learn that of joiner; but at the end of a few months he gave it up and entered the factory of G. I. Mix & Co., of Yalesville, New Haven county, manufacturers of Britannia ware. Here he remained but a short time, however, from there going to the Meriden Britannia Co.'s factory in Wallingford, and he continued in its employ until 1862. Heretofore he had no taste for office work, but an opportunity presenting itself, he accepted a position as entry clerk with Hall, Elton & Co., man- ufacturers of plated ware, which position he held until, owing to his marked ability, and the energy which he had shown in every minute detail of the business, he was promoted to the office of secretary of the company. This incumbency he held and the duties thereof he performed to the entire satisfaction of the company, until 1877, in that year resigning to accept the position of treasurer of the Wallace Bros.' factory. In 1879 this firm merged into the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., and Mr. Leavenworth was at the same time elected treasurer and general manager of the placing of the product of this mam- moth factory on the market. From his very com- mencement in this capacity the business of the firm . was trebled, and is still increasing rapidly. The company are large manufacturers of all kinds, and in great varieties, of silver ware for table use, and employment is given to from 700 to 850 hands. They have branch houses in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and London, England.
In addition to his business relations just men- tioned, Col. Leavenworth was until recently presi- dent and director of the Wallingford Gas Light Co., of which he was one of the incorporators; he is a director of the First National Bank of Walling- ford, also one of its incorporators, and on the death of Samuel Simpson (late president of the bank) in 1894, he was elected to succeed him. As a stanch Republican he is a recognized leader, and has served in various offices of trust and honor. In 1897 he represented the town of Wallingford in the State Legislature, and during his two years there was chairman of the military committee.
In municipal affairs he was burgess of the bor- ough of Wallingford four years ; chairman of the board of water commissioners, also four years ; and he is now president of the Wallingford Board of Trade, having held that position ever since the for- mation of the board. He is at present a member of the Central School District Committee, having taken office July 15, 1900, for two years, by the unani- mous vote of the district.
Socially Col. Leavenworth is a member of the Wallingford Club, of Wallingford, and also of the Republican League Club, and the Union League Club, both of New Haven. His religious connec- tions are with the First Congregational Church of Wallingford, of which he is a liberal supporter.
Col. Leavenworth enjoys a military record that covers nearly fifteen years. On Sept. 15, 1871, he enlisted in Company K, 2d Regiment, Connecticut
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National Guard; was appointed first sergeant on the 19th of the same month, and promoted suc- cessively to second lieutenant (Dec. 144, 1871), first lieutenant (Aug. 25, 1873), and captain (Jan. 29, 1874), resigning Jan. 17, 1877. On Nov. 11, 1880, he was again appointed to the captaincy of the same company, and again resigned June 16, 1882. On July 26, 1882, he was elected lieutenant colonel of the 2d Regiment National Guard, and Feb. 16, 1885, was promoted to the colonelcy of same, which rank he held several years, resigning from the command June 22, 1889. He was highly esteemed as an efficient officer and a strict disciplinarian.
On Oct. 23, 1867, Col. Leavenworth was married to Miss Nettie A. Wallace, a native of Watertown, and a daughter of Robert and Louisa Wallace, of Wallingford, and children as follows have been born to them : Clifford Wallace, born May 16, 1869, a graduate from Yale in 1891, is now president of the Valentine Linsley Silver Co., of Wallingford ; Isabel Wallace, born in 1871, died in 1889; Bessie Adele, born in 1874, was married in 1897 to Carl- ton H. Leach, son of the late Hon. Oscar Leach, of Middletown ( they have one child, Walter Leaven- worth) ; and John Wallace, born July 20, 1882, is at present attending school at Andover, preparatory to entering Yale.
It can truly be said that Col. Leavenworth has, during his business career, identified himself prom- inently with every interest of his town in the line of public improvement, and has earned the reputa- tion which attaches to him-that of being an honor- able and highly useful, loyal citizen. A repre- sentative self made man, his success in life is due wholly to his untiring energy and indomitable per- severance, and he has in all respects proven himself to be a worthy scion of a worthy family.
AUSTIN MANSFIELD, who was for many years a prominent business man of New Haven, came from a long and honorable line of New Eng- land families. Jesse Merrick Mansfield, his father, was in the seventh generation from Richard Mans- field, who came from Exeter, Devonshire, England, and settled in Quinnipiac (New Haven), in 1639. being one of the first settlers of the Colony. Joseph Mansfield, son of Richard, lived on the part of his father's farm located in what is known as Hamden, and died in 1692. Joseph Mansfield (2), his son, born in 1673, married Elizabeth Cooper ; he occu- pied the homestead and farm of his father and grandfather. Joseph Mansfield (3), born in 1708, married Phebe Bassett in 1732, resided at the old place of his ancestors, and died about 1762, leaving a son, Titus, who married Mabel Todd, and lived at the old Mansfield farm. Jesse Mansfield, son of Titus and grandfather of our subject, was born in 1772. and was a carpenter by occupation : he married Keziah Stiles, and lived in Hamden, Connecticut.
Jesse Merrick Mansfield, the father of our sub- ject, was born July 11, 1801, in Hamden, Conn., and 1
was a farmer there during the early part of his ca- reer, but later engaged in the coal business in New Haven, where his death occurred March 23, 1878. Mr. Mansfield was three times married, first on Oct. 23, 1825, to Charlotte Heaton, who died June 19, 1844. His second wife, Julia Tuttle, died in 1849, and on Nov. 3, 1850, he married Catherine B. Warner. His children were: Ellen, born in 1826, died in 1860; Austin, born in 1829, died in 1831 ; Austin (2), born April 7, 1833, died Nov. 24, 1898; Susan, born in 1837; Howard, born in 1849; and Burton, born in 1856.
Austin Mansfield was reared in the vicinity of Hamden, and attended the district schools, and later came to New Haven, where he began his career in the lumber business in association with George D. Gower. The death of Mr. Gower, in 1885, caused some immaterial changes, and for several years Mr. Mansfield continued the business alone and then took his son with him, making the firm Austin Mans- field & Son, this name continuing until the death of Mr. Mansfield, in 1898. The first marriage of Mr. Mansfield was to Emily Ford, who died in 1879, leaving one son, Louis A., who carries on the lumber business established by his father. On May 14, 1885, Mr. Mansfield married Miss Charlotte E. Jud- son.
The family of Mrs. Mansfield came from old Revolutionary stock. Her father, Jerome T. Jud- son, was born in Newtown, Conn., Nov. 9, 1830, and died in New Haven, July 16, 1872. He mar- ried Jane P. Hall, who was born in Newtown, June 20, 1836, a daughter of Alexander Hall, Esq., of Newtown, who was born in Putnam county, N. Y., June 23, 1800, and Reb cca Colburn Hall of New- town. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome T. Judson were mar- ried and lived in New Haven, where he became well known as the senior member of the packing house of Judson Bros. Mrs. Mansfield was their only child. After the death of Mr. Judson, his widow, in 1879, became the wife of George M. Grant, who is now also deceased.
Jerome T. Judson was a son of Truman Judson, a farmer of Roxbury, Conn. He married Antoi- nette Hurlburt, and reared a family of ten children : Jerome T., the father of Mrs. Mansfield was the eldest of the family. The others were Charles E., deceased ; Philena; Warner D .; Henrietta ; Antoi- nette ; Martha; Betsie ; George; and Ellen.
LUTHER WHEELER CUMMINGS was born in Montpelier, Vt., July 6, 1841, son of Oren Cum- mings, a native of the same place, who was born Feb. 20, 1801, and died at East Montpelier, April 21, 1884. Elisha Cummings, the father of Oren, was born in Sutton, Mass., and his father was Dan- iel Cummings.
Elisha Cummings moved from Sutton to Mont- pelier, he and his wife making the journey in an ox-cart, and settled in the wilderness, engaging in farming, and disputing a place with the wild beasts
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that abounded at that time. At the time of his location the nearest neighbor was three miles away. Mr. Cummings lived to the age of ninety-one. He .and his wife reared a family of nine children : Sophia, Joel, Oren (the father of Luther W.), Avery, Lorenda, Almira, Amassa, and Lucius and Luman (twins), all of whom were farming people, and settled in the same part of the State.
Oren Cummings, the father of Luther W., was a farmer all his life. He married Betsy Wheeler, who was born in Montpelier in 1802, and died Feb. 22, 1878. To them came five children : Henry M., born in 1828; Albert O., born in 1829: Timothy S., born in 1833: Elizabeth, born in 1837: and Luther W., whose name appears above. Henry M., who was a farmer. died in East Montpelier, Vt.,Aug. 7, 1881. Albert O. is now retired from active la- bors, and is living in Montpelier. Timothy S. is a farmer, and lives at East Montpelier. Elizabeth married Henry S. Town, a farmer in Montpelier. Oren Cummings became a Republican when the party was organized.
Mrs. Betsy ( Wheeler ) Cummings was a daughter of Jerathmel B. Wheeler, who was born in 1768, and settled in Montpelier, coming with his brother Benjamin from Massachusetts. They were great-grandsons of James Wheeler, who was born in England. Col. Philip Wheeler, son of James, was born in 1698, and died Sept. 19, 1765. Capt. Philip Wheeler, son of Col. Philip, was born in ---- 1733. We have the following concerning him :
REHOBOTH, MASS., Nov. 22, 1774.
The town of Rehoboth, being legally warned and assem- bled on the 21st inst., made choice of Mr. Ephraim Stark- weather, Mr. Samuel Peck, Capt. Ebenezer Peck, Capt. Philip Wheeler, and Capt. Thomas Carpenter, a Committee for executing the Plans of the Continental and Provincial Congresses; and. also gave Orders to the Constables and Collectors to pay Henry Gardner, of Stow, Esq., Monies which they then had or in future might have in their hands belonging to the Province, agreeable to a Resolve of the Provincial Congress, who have considered the late Treasurer Gray unworthy of any further Confidence, and an avowed Enemy to the Rights of America.
From the Providence Gascette and Country Jour- nal of Saturday, Dec. 3, 1774:
Sunday Night last died at Palmer's River Captain Philip Wheeler, whose Death was occasioned by a Wound he received in the Leg at the Training of his Company a few Days before, a young Man having carelessly and con- trary to Orders, discharged his Gun which contained a double Charge of Powder. This fatal Accident should cau- tion all that are engaged in learning the Art military to sub- mit themselves entirely to the Orders of their Officers.
Capt. Wheeler has left a Wife, and a numerous Family of Children, to deplore his loss.
Luther W. Cummings grew to manhood under the parental roof, and remained on the home farm until he was twenty-one years of age, receiving his education in the old district school. It was a mile from his home, and his father had to go three miles. When he had reached the age of twenty-
one it was time for him to strike out in life for himself. The first move he made was to come to Connecticut, where he worked as a laborer on the railroad near Hartford, which presently led him to the position of fireman on the Providence, Hartford & Fishkill Railroad ; he served an apprenticeship of four years. Mr. Cummings came to Waterbury in 1867, and took charge of the engine for the Steele & Johnson Co., and for twenty-five years was its operator. For abont seven years he has been re- tired from active work.
On Sept. 15, 1874, Mr. Cummings married Miss Isabel A. Frost, a native of Waterbury, and a daughter of Jared Frost, who was born in North Haven, Conn., Sept. 18, 1820, and died in. Water- bury June 11, 1873. Jared Frost was with the Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Co., many years. He married Susan Lambert, who was born in Waterbury, Dec. 26, 1822, and died Jan. 29, 1883. They had two children : Charles N. and Isabel A. (Mrs. Cummings). Charles N. lives in Kenosha, Wis., where he is superintendent of the Chicago Brass Co., and president of the Badger Manufactur- ing Co. Willard Frost, the father of Jared, was born in North Haven, Conn., married Miriam Ives, Dec. 3, 1809, and died April 17, 1854. The fol- lowing children were born to them : Horace, Louise, William T., Jared ( the father of Mrs. Cum- mings) and Alva. The father of Willard Frost was born in North Haven June IS, 1748, and throughout his life was a man of mark. His wife. Mabel Stiles, was a daughter of Isaac Stiles, and the niece of President Stiles, of Yale College. Their children were Polly, Titus, Julia, John, Samuel, Willard and Leverett. Ebenezer Frost, the grand- father of Willard, was born in North Haven, and died about 1757. Damaris Ives became his wife, and they reared a family of eight children: Mary, Samuel, Sybil, Amos, Titus, Mary, Lucy and Eben- ezer. Ebenezer Frost, father of the Ebenezer just mentioned, was born in North Haven Aug. 15. 1677, married Mary Tuttle, and reared the following children : Hannah, Ebenezer, Mary, Mary, Sarah, Martha, John. Abigail, Amos, Thankful and Eliza- beth. John Frost, the father of Ebenezer, was born in England, and settled in North Haven.
After their marriage Luther W. Cummings and his wife settled in Waterbury, where three children were born to them: Harry F., July 26, 1875 ; Nor- man W., Feb. 27. 1881 ; and Phillip I., Nov. 13, 1892. Mr. Cummings is an independent in political matters. He is a man of good character and stand- ing in the community.
CHARLES AUGUSTU'S MEIGS, born in Ox- ford, Conn .. March 6, 1825, has been prominently identified with the industrial and mercantile inter- ests of this count "aring the past half century.
Samuel Meigs, mus father, was born in the town of Bethlehem, Litchfield Co., Conn., in 1791, a son of Dr. Phineas Meigs, a leading physician and prom -.
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inent citizen of that place who died in 1805. Samuel Meigs was reared and educated in his native town. and at the age of twenty removed to Oxford where he was employed by the Hon. David Tomlinson, grandfather of Charles A. Meigs, as will appear later. Mr. Tomlinson conducted a general mer- cantile business at Quaker Farms, a village in the town of Oxford, and was engaged in the West In- dies trade, owning vessels plying between Derby, New Haven and those Islands ; was also largely in- terested in agriculture, owning 2.300 acres of land, mostly in the town of Oxford. and was a wealthy and influential citizen of that place, serving for a time as Senator in the State Legislature. Samuel Meigs married Lorena, daughter of David Tom- linson, and to them were born five children, namely : Sarah E., who married Charles Dick, and died in 1888; Jane C., widow of George Lum: Benjamin, who died in childhood : David T., who died in 1889; and Charles A., whom we are reviewing. Samuel Meigs spent his last years upon the farm in Oxford, where he died in the spring of 1855, at the age of sixty-five. He was a member of the Masonic fra- ternity, served in the State Legislature, and although not a lawyer, he was well versed in legal matters through extensive reading.
Charles Augustus Meigs passed the early years of his life at the old homestead in Quaker Farms, and obtained his education in the common schools of the neighborhood. At the age of sixteen he went to Birmingham, Conn., where he served a five years' apprenticeship to the tailor's trade, but owing to ill health, was unable to follow that occupation. Re- turning to Oxford he taught school for one season, and in 1849 removed to Waterbury, Conn., where he started the first bakery in the place. He con- tinued in the baking business until the spring of 1852, when, accompanied by his brother David, he went to California by way of the Nicaragua route. On landing at San Francisco they proceeded to the Feather River country, where they engaged in pros- pecting and mining until 1855, when they returned to Waterbury. There he again engaged in the bak- ing business, and in 1857 took John T. Trott into partnership, under the firm name of Meigs & Trott. This firm continued for over thirty years and be- came well known throughout the State on account of its extensive business, especially in the manufac- ture of crackers. In 1858, leaving the firm business to the management of his partner, Mr. Meigs again went to California. where he remained for seven years. Since his return to Connecticut in 1865, he has divided his time between Waterbury and Quaker Farms, having business interests in both places. He has, however, during the past few years devoted most of his time to his farming interests, and at present resides at the old homestead where he was born nearly seventy-seven years ago.
daughter of Ebenezer and Julia ( Davis) Riggs, of Oxford, becoming his wife.
Ebenezer Riggs was a prominent citizen of that town, served in the State Legislature, and was con- spicuous for his hospitality and kindly characteris- tics. Mrs. Meigs' ancestors include many people prominently identified with the early history and development of New Haven county, among theni being Sergeant Edward Riggs, one of the first two settlers of Derby, Conn. Of this second marriage have been born three children : David, who died in infancy; Mary, a resident of Waterbury; and Charles E., an attorney at law of that place, who is a graduate of the Scientific Department of Yale University, and was a student in both the Yale and Harvard Law Schools. In his political views, Mr .. Meigs is a Republican, and religiously he is a mem- ber of the Protestant Episcopal Church, to which his wife also belongs. As a business man he is honorable, prompt and true to every engagement. He is a man who has lived and has been active dur- ing the world's greatest period of development, and he belongs to the type of New England family that is too fast disappearing.
ALBERT CHATFIELD. Among the ener- getic and successful farmers of Oxford, who thor- oughly understand the vocation which they follow, and are consequently enabled to carry on their call- ing with profit to themselves, is the subject of this review. He is actively engaged in agricultural pur- suits on a fine farm of sixty acres.
Mr. Chatfield is a native of the town of Oxford, born on the farm now owned by Preston Henman, March 14, 1824, and is a son of Lewis and Thirza (Perry) Chatfield. In early life the father engaged in mercantile business in Oxford, but later followed. farming. He died in 1858, at the age of seventy years, and his wife passed away at the advanced age of ninety-three. In their family were only two children, and Martha, the older, is now deceased. .
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