Commemorative biographical record of New Haven county, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families, V. I, Pt 2, Part 71

Author: Beers (J.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago, J.H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1010

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To Mr. and Mrs. John Newton Champion were born children as follows: (1) Sarah Ann, born Oct. 24, 1859, died in infancy. (2) John Newton is mentioned below. (3) Stephen Elias, born Oct. 19. 1862, was graduated from Gen. Russell's Mili- tary School in New Haven and is engaged in the confectionery business in that city ; he is a member and drummer of the New Haven Light Guards, a member of Hiram Lodge. No. I, A. F. & A. M., and a charter member of Hammonassett Tribe, No. I. I. O. R. M. (4) Moses Aaron, born June 18, 1868, died in infancy.

John Newton Champion (2), son of John New- ton, born March 20, 1861. in New Haven, Conn., married in that city Nov. 21, 1883, Minnie Monk, who was born July 26, 1863, in New Haven, daugh- ter of Joseph C. and Amelia Louise ( Brown) Monk. John Newton Champion was graduated from Russell's . Military School at New Haven in 1877, and after completing his studies entered the florist business. For thirteen years he was in the florist's department of the Frank S. Platt Co. and in 1890 he engaged in business for himself on Chapel street, where he has since built up a very large and widely increasing patronage and is justly regarded as one of the best in his line, not only in New Ha- ven, but the surrounding district. Mr. Champion is a member of the Chamber of Commerce: of the 2d Company, Governor's Foot Guards : president of the New Haven County Horticultural Society ; vice-

president (State of Connecticut) of the American Florist Association ; member of the New Haven Colony Historical Society; member of the Sons of the American Revolution ; and for eleven years was a member of the New Haven Grays, which is desig- nated as Company F, 2d Regiment, C. N. G .; he was drum sergeant of the 2d Regiment. Socially Mr. Champion is a past noble grand of City Lodge, No. 36, I. O. O. F .; member of Wooster Lodge, No. 79, A. F. & A. M .; Harmony Council; Frank- lin Chapter ; the Union League Club; the Pequot Club : the New Haven Yacht Club; the Sachem's Head Yacht Club; and the Young Men's Republican Club, being an ardent Republican in politics. Mrs. Champion is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

W. A. BEERS, the veteran photographer, is a son of Charles Beers, and grandson of David Dia- mond Beers, who followed farming and shoemak- ing in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Charles Beers was born in Fairfield, Conn., where he spent his school days, and left home to work for a family by the name of Sanford. When he was seventeen he walked from Fairfield to New Haven, and apprenticed himself to James Brewster, a carriage manufacturer : in his time he worked twelve hours a day. In New York City he worked for Benjamin Brewster, a noted carriage maker of the day, and later. in Bridgeport, he was employei by Tomlinson & Wood, in the same line. In 1844 he removed to New Haven to take charge of the estate of Capt. William Jocelyn, his father-in-law, and in that city he became foreman for George Hoadley. the well-known carriage manufacturer, with whom he remained until his death. It is said of him that he never attended a theatre, and being of the strict old school he thought the devil, him- self, was in playing cards.' In 1837 he married Elizabeth Ann Jocelyn, daughter of Capt. William Jocelyn, well known in New Haven. Their chil- dren were as follows: W. A., mentioned below ; Susan Elizabeth Sanford married William Gay, publisher, of the firm of Gay Brothers.

W. A. Beers was born in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 17, 1837, and received his education in what is now the Webster school, and in Oxford Acad- emy. In his youthful days Mr. Beers was under instructions with Wells Bros., who took a da- guerreotype picture by electric light in Yale Chem- ical Laboratory as early as 1853. Prof. Seropean, of Yale, with Mr. Beers, who then was with Wells Brothers, of New Haven, were the first in New Haven to make pictures in a camera on paper with- out a negative. This they did in 1853, but the process was difficult, and of no practical value. Mr. Beers was one of the first photographers in New Haven to make photographs on paper and to use the wet process for photographs, and the first one to take daguerreotypes by electric light in the city, and he has kept pace with every improve-

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ment in his calling. In 1854 he began business in photography for himself. The following year he began business at his present location in company with Sereno Mansfield, under the name of Beers & Mansfield. This firm continued for twenty years, and then Mr. Mansfield retired, leaving Mr. Beers to conduct his business alone, which he has done to the present time with marked success. He has been in business on Chapel Street for a longer time than any other person.

W. A. Beers was married in Fair Haven to Cynthia Jenette, a daughter of Col. Joseph Wilcox, a shoe dealer, and a prominent man in that com- munity. To this union came one son, Willie Wil- cox, who died at the age of seventeen years. Mr. Beers was a member of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce. In the Hiram Lodge, A. F. & A. M .. he has been a valuable member since 1867, being secretary for twenty-one years-the oldest secretary in the State at that time. For over twenty-three years he has been secretary of the Masonic Pro- tective Society, and has been for years a member of the Young Men's Republican Club. For three years he was Councilman from the First Ward.

The Beers family appears to have originated in Westcliff, County Kent, England, at a place called Bere's Court. William deBere, of Bere's Court, was bailiff of Dover, about 1275. Nicholas deBere held in the Manor of Bere's Court in the twentieth year of the reign of Henry III. The first of the an- cestry of the American family, was Martin deBere, of Rochester, Kent, who was living in 1486. He married a daughter of Thomas Nyssell, of Wrotham, England. From this couple in the fifth generation was Capt. Richard Bere, who was born in 1607, a son of John and Mary ( Selby ) Bere, he of Gravesend, and she of Yorkshire. Capt. Bere came to America in 1635, making his home at Watertown, Mass. He represented that town in the General Court for thirteen years. During the trouble with the Pequot Indians he commanded a company in several battles, and was killed by the Indians near Northfield, Mass .. in 1675.

In the fifth generation was also James Bere, of Gravesend, who was not living in 1635. His wid- ow, Hester, died in 1635. and the same year her two sons, Anthony and James, accompanied their uncle, Capt. Richard. to America. James Bere came to Fairfield, Conn., in 1657, and two years later purchased a house and lot. Two years later he purchased a second lot of eight acres in Green- field, and in 1664 he took the freeman's oath. He died in 1694. To him and his wife, Abigail, were born five children, two of whom were sons, James and Joseph.

Anthony Bere, noted above, was a native of Gravesend, Eng .. and the first record of his name in this country is at Watertown. Mass .. where he took the freeman's oath in 1657. In 1655 he re- moved to Roxbury, Mass .. and in 1658 came to Fair-

field, Conn. He was married, and was lost at sea in 1676. His widow Elizabeth survived him. They had seven children ; the sons who grew to manhood being: Ephraim, born in 1648, in Watertown, Mass .; John, born Jan. 20, 1652; and Barnabas, born Sept. 5, 1658.

Mr. W. A. Beers has a musket and cutlass that were used by one of his ancestors in the Revo- lution.

MOREHOUSE. The family bearing this name in Meriden, the head of which is the well-known contractor and builder Henry L. Morehouse-a sub- stantial and progressive citizen of that busy manu- facturing city-is one of the oldest in Connecticut. reaching back as it does for 260 and more years.

Born Sept. 25. 1845. in New Preston, in the town of Washington, Litchfield Co., Conn., a son of the late Cyrus A. and Cornelia ( Canfield) More- house, Henry L. Morehouse, of Meriden, is de- scended in the seventh generation from Thomas Morehouse, who was at Wethersfield as early as 1640, and the next year at Stamford, where he shared in the first distribution of land, receiving seven acres. He was in Stamford in 1649, and in 1653 in Fairfield carrying on a gristmill. He mar- ried Isabella, daughter of Ralf Keeler, of Norwalk. From this ancestor Mr. Morehouse's lineage is through Jonathan, Stephen, John, John (2), and Cyrus Morehouse.

(II) Jonathan Morehouse, son of Thomas the settler, married ( first) Mary, daughter of Edward Wilson, of Fairfield, and ( second ) April 16, 1690. Rebecca, daughter of John Knowles. Mr. More- house purchased the homestead of his father in Fairfield.

(III) Stephen Morehouse, supposedly a son of Jonathan, (the latter having a son Stephen, bap- tized May 21. 1704) born in Fairfield in 1702, mar- ried Abigail Tredwell, of Fairfield, and settled in Redding, where he was instrumental in establishing the first Episcopal society there. Both himself and his wife died and were buried at Redding. Their tombstone inscriptions read as follows :

"Here lies buried the body of Mr. Stephen More- house, who departed his Life May ye 2d, 1767. in ye 66 year of His age."

"The Remains of Mrs. Abigail Morehouse, Wife of Mr. Stephen Morehouse, who after a course of Piety and Virtue exchanged this life for immortality Sept. 6, 1759. in ye 56 year of her age."

(IV) John Morehouse, son of Stephen, born about 1725, settled in New Milford, Conn. He married. Dec. 27. 1763, Phebe. daughter of Deacon Eleazer Beecher : she died Feb. 20, 1807, in the seventieth year of her age, and he married. Dec. 25. 1808, Thankful Atwell, of Montville, and resided in Marblehead. Stephen was the father of the fo !- lowing children : Anna. born Dec. 2, 1764, mar- ried Matthew Mallett : Daniel, born April 27. 1768: John, born Jan. 21, 1770; Jabez, born June 12, 1775 ;

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Phebe, born Dec. 13. 1776, married Abijah Patter- son, of Roxbury ; and Jan, born March 14, 1781.

(V) John Morehouse (2), son of John, born Jan. 21, 1770, married, Jan. 22, 1793. Sarah Straight, of Kent, and resided in Marblehead. Mr. More- house died Sept. 21, 1837. His children were : Isaac, born April 19, 1794: Jabez, born Sept. 22, 1797 ; Sylvia, born June 25, 1800, married Harmon Couch; Anna, born Aug. 11, 1803, married George Foote ; Cyrus, born Nov. 11, 1808: and Catherine, born Oct. 18, 1811, married Horace Clark.

(VI) Cyrus Morehouse, son of John (2), born Nov. 11,. 1808, was a marble worker in New Mil- ford. He married, Nov. 20, 1832, Cornelia A. Can- field, and the children born to the marriage were: Jane, now the widow of John Knowles, residing in New Milford: Mary, widow of Perry N. Hall, of the same place; Annette, who married Isaac San- ford, and both are now deceased : Albina, widow of John Addis, of New Milford; Frank, who married Miss Woolsey, and lives in New Milford : Andrew, a contractor and builder in Bridgeport. Conn .: Henry L., born Sept. 25, 1845. Both parents died and are buried in New Milford.

HENRY L. MOREHOUSE, the last named. now of Meriden, received, in his native town of New Mil- ford, a common-school education. This was sup- plemented by a course at Eastman's Business Col- lege at Poughkeepsie. N. Y., from which he was graduated in 1866. After this he learned the trade of carpenter and builder in Bridgeport, with Mr. Dykeman, and established himself in business as a contractor in Bridgeport. In 1869 he removed his business to New Haven, and in 1872, located in Meriden, where he has ever since carried on building operations under contracts, and has erected many of the residences and business structures of that city, including St. Laurent's Roman Catholic Church, the high school building, and other notable struct- ures. He commands the esteem and respect of the community, of which he is the leading contracting builder. While not an office seeker, Mr. Morehouse takes an intelligent interest in public affairs, local and general, and supports the principles of the Re- publican party. He is a member of the First Con- gregational Church, is domestic in habit and taste, though ready to contribute of time and means in furthering any plan for the general welfare.

In 1869, Mr. Morehouse was married to Miss Mattie C. Wright. daughter of Charles D. Wright. of East Haddam, Conn. She died at her home on Wilcox avenue in 1895, and was buried in East Had- dam Cemetery. She was a member of the M. E. Church, a devoted wife, kind mother, and charitable, Christian neighbor. Her children were four in number. The eldest, Allison F., was educated in Meriden, engaged in business with his father, and is now president of the Morehouse Brothers' Com- pany, builders of the City. Andrew C., secretary and treasurer of the same company, was educated in

his native city and learned the building business with his father. Mattie C. and Franklyn are among the valued members of Meriden society.

ABNER WARNER. one of the representative farmers and prominent citizens of Hamden, New Haven county, was born in that town, Oct. 31, 18.42, upon the farm which originally belonged to his grandfather, Jonah Warner, who was the first of the family to locate thereon. He followed the joint- er's trade throughout life and was a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was twice married, his first wife being Alma Peck, by whom he had two children : Alma ; and Wealthy, wife of Chester Gaylord. For his second wife he married Olive Sanford, and to them were born nine children, namely: Lizzie, wife of Alfred Doolittle; Maria. wife of Seymour Doolittle, a brother of Alfred; Lithia, wife of Silas Hotchkiss; Miranda, who died unmarried ; Eliza ; Abner ; Minor ; Zelas ; and Har- ley. The grandfather died at the age of eighty- eight years, and his wife was over eighty at the time of her death.

Abner Warner, Sr., the father of our subject, was also a native of Hamden, and was a farmer by occupation. He was a very hard working man and prospered in business affairs. He was a great fox hunter, and that sport furnished his chief source of enjoyment. Religiously he was a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and took an active part in its work. He wedded Miss Mary Bradley, and to them were born the following chil- dren : Bradley, who died at the age of twenty-one years ; Minerva, wife of Bennett Doolittle; Cyrus, a resident of Woodbridge, Conn .; Frederick, who died at the age of fifty-nine years ; Albert, who acci- dentally shot himself while out hunting at the age of twenty-one years; Miranda, wife of Orrin Mun- son, of Handen ; Chauncey, who died at the age of fifty-six years; and Abner, our subject. The father died at the age of sixty-three years, the mother at the age of eighty-two, honored and respected by all who knew them.

Abner Warner was reared upon the old home- stead, his education being obtained in the common schools of the neighborhood. He did not leave the parental roof until long after the death of his father and mother, as he purchased the home farm, and there continued to reside until 1889, when he went to Centerville, Conn., and engaged in the meat busi- ness for one year. From there he removed to Ham- den Plains, where he followed farming, and was also interested in the milk business until 1894. when he purchased the Enoch Bassett farm of thirty acres in the town of Hamden, carrying on the dairy busi- ness there until the spring of 1899. He then took up his residence in the house which he had erected on a part of the Bassett farm, on Whitney avenue, opposite Whiting Park, and here he successfully engaged in market gardening and the poultry busi-

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ness until the fall of 1901, when he moved to Beth- any, Conn., where he now owns the "William Lounsbury, 2d, farm."

On April 3, 1863, Mr. Warner was united in marriage with Miss Laura A. Hitchcock, and to them has been born a daughter, Elsie M., a gradu- ate of the State Normal School of New Britain, Conn., who has successfully engaged in teaching in the schools of West Haven for five years. Mr. Warner affiliates with the Prohibition party, and for thirty-five years has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has served as su- perintendent of the Sunday school. Both his wife and daughter were members of the same church, and Mrs. Warner has been an efficient teacher in the Sunday school. A public-spirited and progressive citizen, Mr. Warner takes a deep interest in every- thing pertaining to the public welfare, and never withholds his support from any enterprise which he believes will prove of benefit to his town and county.

JAMES SAMUEL ELTON, son of John Prince Elton, was born in Waterbury Nov. 7. 1838, and was educated at Rev. C. W. Everest's School in Hamden and at Gen. Russell's Military School in New Haven. In 1863, after a brief apprenticeship with the American Pin Co., and in New York, he engaged in business in his native town and has been responsibly connected with the Waterbury Brass Co. from that time to the present. On the death of Jos- eph C. Welton, in 1874, he was elected his successor in the presidency, a position which he has continued to fill with much wisdom and efficiency. He is a director of the American Brass Co., the New Eng- land Watch Co., the Oakville Co., Blake & John- son, the Waterbury National Bank (of which his father was one of the organizers and the second president ), and several other business corporations.

Mr. Elton is an officer and active member of St. John's Episcopal Church. the managing trustee of the Hall "Church Home" fund, a director of St. Margaret's Diocesan School, the Waterbury Hos- pital and the Silas Bronson Library and an efficient supporter of the charitable and semi-charitable in- stitutions of the city.

In 1881 Mr. Elton was made the nominee of his party-the minority party in the district- for State Senator, and, having been elected, served his constituents with ability in the General Assem- bly in 1882 and 1883.

On Oct. 28, 1863. James S. Elton married Char- lotte, daughter of Hiram Steele. of East Bloom- field, N. Y. They had one son, John Prince, who was born. June 20, 1865, is a graduate of Trinity College and is now treasurer of the Waterbury Brass Co. Mrs. Elton passed away May 8. 1899.

EDWIN HOLT ENGLISH, son of the late Charles L. and Harriet ( Holt) English, was born in New Haven, Gonn., Sept. 28, 1854. In his youth- ful days he attended French's Private School, and

subsequently he prepared for College at Hopkins Grammar School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1871. He entered Yale with the class of 1875, but ill health prevented the completion of his course. After leaving college hie went to Ko- komo, Ind., and there entered the employ of Calvin Gallup & Co. ( in which firm his father was a part- ner), wholesale dealers in hardwood lumber. He remained in the West two or three years, and then he returned to New Haven. In 1876 Charles L. English retired from the firm of English & Holt, and Edwin H. succeeded to his father's interest in the business, the firm name of English & Holt being retained until the retirement of Mr. Holt, July 1, 1897, when it was changed to E. H. English & Co.

On Oct. 5. 1882, Mr. English married Miss Lucy W. Kellogg, second daughter of Hon. Stephen W. Kellogg, of Waterbury. Immediately after his marriage, he and his wife spent several months traveling in Europe and the East.

During the last four years of his life Mr. Eng- lish suffered greatly from ill health, lung trouble having developed. While facing and fighting with great pluck and courage a fatal disease, he was ever at the head of his large business interests, retaining even in hours of weakness and suffering the active control of its management. Mr. English was a man of exceeding worth, a man of strong and cer- tain ability, a man sure and reliable. He enter- tained no doubt as to his position upon matters under discussion, and had no timidity in stating his views. Those who knew him and even those who met him casually liked and respected him. In national poli- tics he was a Republican, and was in favor of gold monometalism, of moderate protection and muni- cipal reform. He was interested in and endorsed in- ter-collegiate foot ball and athletics in general. In religious connection he was a member of Center Church, and socially he belonged to Quinnipiac Club. Mr. English was a director in the Merchants National Bank, C. Cowles and Co., and the New Haven Colony Historical Society, and he was elected a member of the Chamber of Commerce April 1, 1878. Mr. and Mrs. English had a family of eight children. Their first child, Lucia Hosmer, was born April 16, 1884, and died May 22, 1892. The other children are as follows: Marguerite Griswold, born Feb. 11, 1886; Stephanie Kellogg, born Aug. 27, 1887 : Charles Leverett, born Oct. 20, 1888; Harriet Holt, born Oct. 21, 1890 ; Edwin Holt, born Jan. 16, 1893; Katharine Atherton, born Dec. 27, 1894; and Frank Kellogg, born Feb. 28, 1898. Mr. English passed away at his home No. 390 Prospect street, New Haven, Oct. 6, 1899.

ELI COE BIRDSEY. One of Meriden's best known and highly respected citizens, is Eli Coe Birdsey, whose distinguished ancestry, both paternal and maternal, reaches far back beyond the settle- ment of the State of Connecticut.

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Thomas Welles, who was governor of the Colony during the years 1655 and 1658, he traces through many titled gentlemen in both France and England to the year 929. Among these was Simon de Welles, who was one of the Crusaders during the third Crusade in Palestine, and, although it is im- possible to obtain a positive knowledge of his achievements in the Holy Land, it is historical that "he was in the siege of St. Jean d' Acre during the year 1191 with Richard, Coeur de Lion, and had a special grant of arms by the king," a copy of which is in the possession of Mr. Birdsey, of Meriden.

The Birdsey family is among the earliest im- planted in Connecticut. John Birdsey, a native of Reading, Berkshire, England, came to Boston, Mass., in 1636, bringing or accompanying his aduit sons. He settled at Milford, Conn., in 1639, and was one of the first planters there and died in 1649. It is supposed that he had sons, Edward, Joseph and John.

John Birdsey (2), son of John, was born in 1616, and died in Stratford, Conn., April 4, 1690, having married Philippa, daughter of Rev. Henry Smith. Their daughter, Joanna, born Nov. 18, 1642, married Timothy Wilcoxson.

John Birdsey (3), son of John (2), was born March 28. 1641, and died July 9, 1697. He mar- Phoebe Wilcoxson, Dec. 11. 1669. His will is found in Fairfield. His children were: Hannah, born Feb. 5. 1671, married Isaac Beach ; Mary, born in November, 1675, died June 17, 1691 ; Sarah, born May 9, 1678, and died in 1679: Abel, born Nov. 30, 1679, and died June 8, 1704: Joseph, born Feb. 22, 1681, and married first Sarah Thompson, and sec- ond Tabitha Walker ; Elizabeth, born Oct. 21, 1685, died in 1692, and Dinah, born in 1688. married first Benjamin Beaclı, and second Samuel Norton.

Abel Birdsey, son of John (3), a native of Strat- ford, .Conn., died May 14, 1747. His first wife, Comfort, was a daughter of John Welles, a grand- daughter of John Welles, and a great-granddaughter of Thomas Welles. She died June 29, 1717, and Feb. 25, 1718, he married Mrs. Mercy Dunton, of Hempstead, Long Island. The latter died Feb. 6. 1763. The children of the first marriage were: Mary, born March 31. 1705; Elizabeth, born Dec. 17, 1706, married Benjamin Curtis; Johanna, born Oct. 17, 1708; Phoebe, born Sept. 9, 1710; John, born Sept. 26, 1712: Eunice, born in Jan. 1715; Comfort, born in May, 1717, and Samuel. The children of the second marriage were: William, born Feb. 20, 1720: Sarah, born July 20, 1722, mar- ried Ephraim Lewis : Abel, born Jan. 4, 1724; and Thomas, born Sept. 5, 1727.

John Birdsey, son of Abel, of Stratford and Middletown, Conn .. died June 5, 1798. It is prob- able that he was twice married, as the Stratford records speak of his wife, Hannah, while the Mid- dletown records give her name as Sarah. It is possible also that his first two children, Benjamin and Gershom were twins, as records are confused

about them, and the father's will mentions them to- gether as of the same age, although they died before he did. The baptism of Benjamin is given as occur- 1 ing in May, 1734, and that of Gershom in 1735. They are supposed to have been the children of Hannah. The Middletown records give the chil- dren as follows: Gershom, born Nov. 21, 1734, John, born March 16, 1736; Mary, born April 16, 1738; Sarah, born April 2, 1740; Eunice, born Dec. 20, 1742; Abel, born Feb. 23, 1745; David, born May 12, 1748, and Seth, born Oct. 13, 1751. The will of John Birdsey was proved Sept. 24, 1798, at Middletown, and on Dec. 15, Elisha H. Birdsey, of Middletown, and John Curtis, of Newtown, began proceedings to appeal from the order of the Middle- sex Probate Court to the Superior Court. In the distribution ordered April 29, 1799, the heirs of Benjamin and Gershom, received their portions. After trial of the appeal and numerous legal pro- cedures, which reduced the estate from $18,268.57 to $16.510.12, the distribution was finally made May 25, 1801.

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Commemorative biographical record of New Haven county, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families, V. I, Pt 2, Part 71

Author: Beers (J.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Chicago, J.H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 1010

Author: Beers (J.H.) & Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago, J.H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1010