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Socially Mr. Hughes was a member of Harmony Lodge, I. O. O. F., of New Haven, for forty-three years. He always took an active and commendable interest in public affairs; served as selectman of East Haven in 1857 and other years; and in various other offices. After his section of the town was set aside and added to New Haven he was elected selectman of the latter, in 1888. He was public- spirited and enterprising, and was also very char- itable, the poor and the needy always finding in him a friend. During the winter he would load his wagon with vegetables and produce of all kinds, which he would distribute among the poor of his vicinity. Throughout his career of continued and far-reaching usefulness his duties were performed with the greatest care, and during a long life his personal honor and integrity were without blemish.
SHELTON TRUMAN HITCHCOCK. The Hitchcock family of which the gentleman, whose name here appears, is an honored member, is an old settled one in New Milford.
In the spring of 1635, when twenty-five years old, Mathias Hitchcock came from England to Bos- ton on the bark "Susan and Ellen," and from there removed to Watertown, Conn., where in July, 1636, he secured twenty-three acres of land in the Great dividends, which he afterward sold to D. Patrick. In 1639 his name appears on the records of New Haven as one of the signers of the fundamental agreement made on the fourth day of the fourth month (then called June), 1639. According to "Hitchcock Genealogy" he had a brother, Edward, who also was one of the five purchasers of "South End Neck" (now East Haven), where they dwelt after 1651. He ( Mathias) died in the New Haven Colony Nov. 14. 1669, his widow in 1676. Their children were: Eliakim married March 4. 1666, Sarah Merrick, daughter of Thomas Merrick; Na- thaniel married Jan. 18, 1670. Elizabeth Morse, a daughter of John : John; a sketch of whom follows; Elizabeth, born June 4, 1651, in New Haven, mar- ried January, 1672, Anthony Howel, of Branford, Conn. ( for her second husband she wedded John Nash ).
John Hitchcock, son of Mathias, was born in the New Haven Colony, there grew to manhood, and removed thence to what is now Wallingford, Conn., where he was one of the original proprietors, and owned a large tract of land. He died there July 6, 1716. He was twice married, first on Jan. 18, 1670, to Abigail Merriman, who was born April 18, 1654, a daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Merriman ; for his second wife he married April 18. 1677, a daughter of Samuel Cook. John Hitchcock's chi !- dren were as follows : A daughter, born Oct. 1, 1672,
died young; Abigail, born April 10, 1694, married Jacob Johnson ; Mary, born Dec. 10, 1676, married Benjamin Beach : Nathaniel, born April 18, 1679, married Sarah Jennings; Margery, born Sept. 9, 1681, married Joseph Munson; Elizabeth, born April 18, 1684, supposed to have married Daniel Lines ; John, born Oct. 18, 1685, married Marlow Munson; Mathias, born May 26, 1688, married Thankful Andrews; Hannah, Jan. 9, 1690, is sup- posed to have married John Lines; Damaris, born July 11, 1693, married Sylvanus Clark; Benjamin, a sketch of whom follows.
Capt. Benjamin Hitchcock, son of John, was born March 24, 1696, in Wallingford. When in manhood he moved to what is now Cheshire, Conn., and there owned land and farmed; he also owned land in the parish of Southington. He died in Cheshire, Feb. 12, 1767. By his wife, Elizabeth Ives, who was born Sept. 6, 1700, and died Aug. S, 1762, a daughter of Joseph and Esther Ives, he had children as follows: Bela, born Oct. 27, 1719, married Sarah Atwater; Hannah, born Sept. 12, 1721, married May 26, 1740, Elnathan Andrews ; Benjamin, a sketch of whom follows; Elizabeth, born Feb. 23, 1726; Abigail, born May 10, 1728, married Dec. 9, 1747, Daniel Bradley, of New Haven ; Samuel, born April, 1730; Nathaniel, born June 30, 1732, died March 12, 1734; Enos, bap- tized April, 1734; Joseph, born July 12, 1737, died Nov. 1, 1760; Nathaniel, born Sept. 20, 1739, mar- ried May 4, 1763, Lydia Dutton, and died May 30, 1770; David, born June 29, 1742, married Hannah Doolittle; Damaris, born Sept. 3, 1745, died Nov. 25, 1756.
Benjamin Hitchcock, son of Capt. Benjamin, was born in the town of Wallingford Feb. 23, 1724, passed the most of his life in Cheshire. and died there Oct. 4, 1792. He married Feb. 27, 1745, Rhoda Cook, born Oct. 22, 1724, in Cheshire, and died May 16, 1808. Their children: Thaddeus, born Dec. 13, 1745, died Aug. 8, 1752; Hannah, born March 9, 1748, married a Mr. Ward; Benjamin, sketch of whom follows; Rhoda, born Nov. 24, 1752, married April 5, 1755, Obed Doolittle; Lucy, born March 24, 1755; Damaris, born Dec. 5. 1756; Thaddeus, born March 10, 1760, married Abigail Arnold.
Benjamin Hitchcock, a son of Benjamin above, was born Nov. 24. 1752, in Cheshire, then a part of Wallingford, whence he removed to Waterbury, where he became a land owner and farmer, a highly respected and prominent citizen. He died there in ISog. By his wife, Eunice ( Hotchkiss), who was born Jan. 8. 1755, and died in 1799, a daughter of Daniel Hotchkiss, he had children as follows : Anna, born April 19, 1775 ; Saly, born in 1778, mar- ried J. G. Tyrrell; Reuben married Leda Plant, daughter of James Plant; Jared married Dec. I. 1808, Lillie Bunnell ; Manly, born Dec. 23, 1783 : Samuel, born March 3, 1787, married Amelia Os- | born; George, born June 27, 1789, lived in Water-
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town, N. Y .; Benjamin Truman, a sketch of whom follows; and Eunice, born Feb. 19, 1793, married Heman Tyrrell.
Benjamin Truman Hitchcock. son of Benjamin above, and the father of the subject proper of this sketch, was born Aug. 9, 1791, at Waterbury, Conn. Ile was a farmer and land owner at East Farmis. town of Waterbury, died there, and was buried in East Farms cemetery ; a member of the Congrega- tional Church, he was a devout Christian, a good and worthy man, in politics he was an old-line Whig.
On Feb. 22, 1815, Benjamin T. Hitchcock mar- ried Julia Frisbie, who was born in Waterbury, a daughter of Daniel Frisbie, sketch of whom appears elsewhere, and the names and dates of the birth of their children are as follows: Eliza Finette, July 18, 1816, married J. C. Beach, and is still living ; Edward M .; Shelton Truman, sketch of whom fol- lows; Juliette, born July 4. 1828, died in 1831; El- more William, May 13, 1833; and George Benja- min, a sketch of whom follows.
Sheldon Truman Hitchcock, son of Benjamin Truman, and the subject of this memoir, was born Dec. 13, 1822, at the homestead in town of Water- bury, and received his education in part at the dis- trict schools, and in part at a private school. Un- til he was thirty-three years old he worked for his father, and then bought the Maple Lake farm, on the old turnpike near Judge Hill, town of Wolcott, known first as the Lewis farms ; it is a tract of 400 acres, and the house was formerly a hotel owned by Reuben Lewis. Here Mr. Hitchcock has lived for forty-five years, during which time he has made vast improvements and has added 300 acres to the original place, so that the farm lies in the towns of Cheshire and Wolcott. Besides general farming, including dairying and stock raising, he deals largely in wood, and he is noted for honesty and in- tegrity in all his transactions.
On Oct. 26, 1855, Shelton T. Hitchcock was married to Cornelia C. Andrews, who was born in the town of Wolcott, Aug. 22, 1833, a daughter of Chester and Olive L. (Bassett) Andrews, and granddaughter of Luther and Martha ( Thomas) Andrews. She is a lady of refinement, a good mother, wife and helpmeet in every sense of the word. Children were born to this honored couple as follows: Jennie J., born March 25, 1857. mar- ried William R. Steele, of Waterbury: Nettie C., born Aug. 22, 1860, married George J. Alexander : Eva, born Sept. 1, 1862, died Sept. 8, 1862; and Elbert, born Nov. 7, 1867, died Jan. 1, 1888. The last named was a young man of excellent repute, highly educated and clever, and his taking away so early in life was a sad bereavement to his par- ents and friends. Mrs. Martha (Thomas) An- drews, grandmother of Mrs. Hitchcock, was a sis- ter of Scth Thomas, the noted clock manufacturer of Thomaston, Conn., while the wife of Setil Thomas was Laura Andrews, a sister of Luther
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Andrews, and daughter of William Andrews, a captain in the Revolutionary army. Albert A. An- drews, brother of Mrs. Hitchcock, served three years in the Civil war, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
In politics Mr. Hitchcock is a stanch Democrat, and has filled several positions of honor and trust in the gift of his party, but at all times represented the people, regardless of politics. He was elected to the State Legislature six terms, namely: 1859, 1871, 1872, 1874, 1878 and 1879, and sat in the old house at Hartford the last time, and at the first session in the new house, also the last session in the old New Haven house. For twelve years he served as a member of the board of selectmen for the town of Wolcott, during several of which years he was its chairman ; was a member of the board of relief; has served as assessor ; and was elected grand juror and justice of the peace, but declined these offices. He is very domestic in his life and habits, and tem- perate in all things. In business matters he is con- cuded to be the most successful farmer in Wolcott, and by hard work, judicious management and sound judgment he has earned a comfortable com- petence.
George Benjamin Hitchcock, brother of Shelton T., was born Sept. 16, 1838, on the home farm, in the town of Waterbury, and all his life has engaged in agricultural pursuits on the Meriden road. He married Helen Alexander, daughter of John Alex- ander, and sister to George J. Alexander, of Wat- erbury, and three children have come to their union : Irving, born in 1869, died in 1881 ; Warren B., born in 1872, was married in 1892 to Helen S. Frost, adopted daughter of Mrs. Charles Frost ; and Fan- nie, born in 1882, is living at home. Mrs. Hitch- cock is a member of the Congregational Church at Waterbury.
HENRY B. GRISWOLD, retired, who during his active years was one of the best known business men of Guilford, was born in that town Nov. 25, 1824, son of Joel and Polly ( Bartlett) Griswold.
Mr. Griswold commenced his studies in the home district, and completed his studies with two terms in a select school. As he was the eldest son, he had to help his father in the work, and remained at home until he reached his majority, when he mar- ried and removed to Clinton, where he was a farmer for some years. Returning to Guilford he became employed on a tract of land near the old homestead, on which he made extensive improvements and also took up the lumbering business. At first he cut and furnished ties and timber for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Shore Line. He cut and shipped timber for the construction of the largest sailing ves- sel built in America, and in all furnished timber for more than thirty ships. Later he branched out more extensively, organizing the Griswold Lumber Co., with headquarters at Chicago, of which he was president and his son H. W. secretary and treas-
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urer. The company did a business of more than $100,000 a year, furnishing more than ten million feet of white oak timber for the Michigan Central railroad; considerable for the Grand Trunk rail- road; and also supplying the World's Fair with a large quantity of timber. They thoroughly investi- gated the lumber resources of the West, from Win- nipeg to Texas, and had altogether twenty-five mills in different parts of the country, their mill products going to all parts of the world. Our subject furnished piles for a number of docks in New York, and timber for many of the elevators of that city. During the time he was in business he dealt with many railroad men in the United States and Canada, and has met many of the lead- ing men of the country. He refused an offer of the Canadian Pacific railroad to look after their lum- .ber interests, at a salary of $3,000 a year. He spent one winter and part of several summers in the Adirondacks, in the interest of Thomas C. Durant, the builder of the Union Pacific railroad, locating an old survey for a railroad from Saratoga to Sacket's Harbor, on Lake Ontario, stocking his mills, and looking over timber lands, of which he had six hundred thousand acres. During the Civil war Mr. Griswold furnished the government with timber for war vessels then building, as well as for docks. Mr. Griswold is a reader of character, and a keen judge of men and events. He worked hard at whatever he had in hand, and commanded the respect of his fellow men in every walk of life.
Mr. Griswold married, Nov. 25, 1845, Miss Polly E. Wilcox, who was born Oct. 21, 1825, daughter of Sclah Wilcox, of Clinton. She died Aug. 19, 1866, and was buried in the Alderhood cemetery. To this union came two children: (1) Emelyn, born Sept. 26, 1847, is the widow of James A. Dudley, who died in 1897, and was buried in Alderhood cemetery. They had five children- Lillian E., born Oct. 21, 1871 ; Harry C., born July 31, 1878, now a student at Harvard; Ernest Gris- ; wold, born in August, 1880, now at Leland Stan- ford University; Alice Griswold, born June 22, 1883; and Laura Eliot, born Feb. 14, 1886. (2) Henry Wilcox, born Feb. 21, 1850, received a good business education, and was engaged in the lum- ber business with his father as partner. He is now the general manager of three cold storage ware- houses-located respectively in Jersey City, Spring- 1 field, Mass., and Albany-of the Eastern States Re- frigerating Co., whose home office is in New York City. He is a thorough business man and has been very successful. He married Mettie M. Mor- rison, who had more than a local reputation in music and art, and to this union came one child, Ruth, who is now in the Guilford high school. Mrs. Henry Wilcox Griswold died April 18, 1896, in Chicago.
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Henry B. Griswold married for his second wife, Oct. 17, 1867, Eugenia Maria Scranton, who was born in New Haven, daughter of Hamilton W.
and Ann Maria (Rowe) Scranton. Abraham Scranton, her grandfather, was one of the best- known citizens of Madison, Conn. To this union came one child, Herbert H., who was born Jan. 2, 1876, and died May 6, 1882.
Mr. Griswold is a Republican, with strong in- dependent proclivities. He was selectman for two terms, and has been justice of the peace and grand juror of the United States Court. In religion hie has allied himself with the First Congregationar Church. He is a good, whole-souled man, and is well liked in his community.
RANSOM BENJAMIN HALL (deceased) was through life one of the best known and most .. highly respected citizens of Wolcott, New Haven county, where he was born July 12, 1852. His father, Heman Wilsey Hall, was a native of the same town, born in 1824, a son of Deacon Orrin Hall, and a brother of Mrs. Harriet J. Gladding, who still occupies the old homestead, and in whose sketch more extended mention is made of the family. The mother of our subject, who bore the maiden name of Betsey Ann Sperry, was descended from one of the oldest families of the State. being a daughter of Joseph and Abigail Sperry, of Wolcott.
Ransom B. Hall acquired his literary education in the district schools of Wolcott, and upon the home farm gained an excellent knowledge of agri- cultural pursuits. He lived with his grandparents until reaching manhood, his parents having died when he was young. On starting out in life for himself he chose the occupation to which he had been reared, and in his labors met with most excel- lent success, becoming one of the largest land own- ers and most extensive farmers of his section of the town. He was also interested in stock raising.
In 1874. in Woodtick, town of Wolcott, Mr. Hall was married to Miss Anna E. Root, a native of that town, a daughter of Timothy and Mary (Goodwin) Root, and a granddaughter of Mark Root and Vir- gil C. Goodwin. She is a lady of education and re- finement, and successfully engaged in teaching in the district schools for several years. Since her husband's death she has moved to Mill Plain, in the town of Waterbury, where she has erected an ele- gant residence. She is an active member of Mad River Grange, of which she is now secretary. In religious belief che is an Episcopalian. Her chil- dren are Nettie J .. George R., Daisy M. and Robert R .. all at home. The older son is now engaged as a traveling salesman for the Cycle Supply Co., of Hartford.
Mr. Hall died on his farm in Wolcott Oct. 3, 1889, and was laid to rest in Woodtick cemeterv. He was a Republican in politics, and always took quite an active and prominent part in pulic affairs, being specially interested in educational matters. He was serving as tax collector of his town at the. time of his death. Religiously he was a leading member of the Congregational Church, and always
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took a deep interest in its work. In his home he was an indulgent father, a kind and devoted husband, and his genuine worth and manly virtues were wide- ly recognized. He never acted except from honest motives, and in all his varied relations, in business affairs and social life, he maintained a character and standing that impressed all with his sincere and manly purpose to do by others as he would have others do by him.
EDWIN JESSE CLINTON, a member of the carriage wood-work firm of E. J. Clinton & Son, Clintonville, Conn., was born in the town of Wall- ingford, Sept. 4, 1836, and belongs to a family long located in this part of the world.
The Clintons are said to be of Scotch descent, and are supposed to have come to Massachusetts to Connecticut in the latter part of the seventeenth century. Laurence Clinton, the first of the name in New Haven, settled in what is now North Haven in 1702. He became a member of Center Church, New Haven, in 1704, and was one of six men who united in forming an Episcopal Society in North Haven in 1723. By occupation he was a mason. Records show that he was born in 1679 and died 1757-8, and that he was married about the year 1700 to Mary -(probably Brockett ), and becanic the father of seven daughters, viz .: Elizabeth, who married James Bishop Jan. 20, 1725-6; Abigail ; Mary, who married Isaac Griggs, Oct. 21, 1725; Lydia ; Sarah ; Anne ; and Phebe. He married (sec- ond) Elizabeth Barnes (?), and had sons, Laurence and John.
(II) John Clinton, second son of Laurence, was born April 9, 1740, and on June 7, 1764, married Ann Thorpe. A daughter, Anna, was born April 9, 1766. This family all died in the fall of 1777, probably of smallpox-Anna, the daughter, on Sept. 29; Ann, the mother, on Oct. 10, and John soon after in North Haven.
(II) Capt. Laurence Clinton, eldest son of Laurence, was born Jan. 1, 1737, and died Sept. 9, 1804. He was appointed captain of the Ninth Com- pany, or Train Band, Connecticut Militia, in 1781, and he served in the Revolutionary war. He bought the "Clinton Homestead" in the town of Walling- ford in 1776. It has been the home of three gener- ations of the Clintons, and is now the residence of Elizur Z. Clinton. Capt. Laurence Clinton was a wealthy farmer and extensive land holder. His wife, to whom he was married Nov. 15, 1759, was Elizabeth Todd, born Sept. 29, 1736, died April 30, 1803. She was a daughter of Gershom Todd and Hannah (Mansfield) Todd, granddaughter of Mich- ael Todd, great-granddaughter of Christopher Todd, one of the first New Haven Colonists. Their chil- dren were Esther, Jesse, David (born Aug. 27, 1765, died April 21, 1783), Eunetia and Hannah. He married (second) widow Lucretia De Witt, who afterward married Nathaniel Johnson, and died in 1844.
(III) Esther Clinton, oldest child of Capt. Laurence Clinton, was born Aug. 5, 1760, and mar- ried Solomon Jacobs, who was born July 1, 1759, and died Nov. 7, 1799. The children born of this were as follows: David, born Jan. 6, 1781 ; Clinton, Aug. 13, 1782; Solomon, Sept. 9, 1787; Hannah, April 6, 1789, and died Dec. 30, 1794; Linus, Sept. I, 1791 ; Anson, Sept. 27, 1793; Silas, March 22, 1796; and Esther, May 2, 1800.
(III) Eunetia Clinton, born Dec. 13, 1768, fourth child of Capt. Laurence Clinton, married Thomas Beach and removed to Vermont. She had three children-twin daughters, and a son, Laur- ence.
(III) Hannah Clinton, fifth child of Capt. Laurence Clinton, was born in 1772, and died Jan. 15, 1861. She married Joel Pierpont, and became the mother of two children: Louis, who married Rosette Jacobs, and had no children ; and Lewey, born April 5, 1795, and died March 10, 1887, aged ninety-two. Lewey Pierpont married John Todd, who was born Feb. 4, 1791, a son of Gideon, and grandson of Christopher Todd. Gideon Todd was the father of Caleb Todd, from whom was de- scended the wife of Abraham Lincoln. John Todd died April 9, 1861, the father of three children : George Clinton Todd, born Dec. 1. 1816, died Oct. 31, 1825; Laurence Pierpont Todd, born July 7, 1822, married (first) Marie Antoinette Baldwin (born in 1836), and (second) Mary Wiley (no children by either marriage) ; and George Henry Todd, born Jan. 24, 1828, married May 11, 1858, Lydia C. Chapman, who was born Oct. 4, 1842, and they reside on the Gideon Todd homestead in North Haven, the ancestral home of Mrs. Lincoln.
(III) Jesse Eton Clinton, second child of Capt. Laurence Clinton, and the only son who lived to mature years, was born Aug. 9, 1762, and died Dec. 12, 1836. He married Patience Todd (born June 9, 1768, died Aug. 23, 1845), a daughter of Enos and Sarah ( Blakeslee) Todd, and granddaughter of Gershom and Hannah ( Mansfield) Todd. When a young man, Jesse Clinton taught school, and was afterward a successful farmer. He was the first of the family to live in the town of Wallingford. This couple had ten children, namely: Eunetia, David, Lyman, Sally, Hannah, Elizabeth, Bemon, Cynthia, Aurelia and Jesse.
(IV) Eunetia Clinton, eldest child of Jesse Eton Clinton, was born June 25, 1788, and married Eli Sackett, bv whom she had two children, Eunetia, who died Sept. 24, 1882 ; and Milo. Eunetia (Clin- ton ) Sackett died Nov. 21, 1824.
(IV) David Clinton, second child of Jesse Eton Clinton, was born June 20, 1790, and died Dec. 30, 1879. He married Lucy L. Smith, daughter of Jude Smith, and she died Aug. 29, 1883, aged eighty-eight years. They had six children : Salina, Lyman, Lavinia L., Eunetia O., Celia C. and Delia M. David Clinton founded the Clintonville Agri- cultural works prior to 1830. It was for a long time
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the most successful business concern in North Haven, and he was at one time considered the wealthiest man in the town. Corn shellers, horse rakes, and otlier agricultural machines were com- ing into use, and on these he made many improve- ments. Clinton's implements became renowned, and were found wherever farming was carried on. In 1850 he associated with him, his son, Lyman, under the firm name of D. Clinton & Son, and thus the business was carried on successfully until 1875.
(V) Salina Clinton, daughter of David Clinton, married Benjamin Johnson, and had four children, as follows: ( 1) Henrietta, who was twice married. By her first husband. Jolin Bartholomew, she had a son, John. On Sept. 21, 1869, she married Henry Plumley, and by this union became the mother of three children-William, who married and has two children; Lucy, who married Charles Barber, and has one child; and Benjamin, who died at the age of seventeen. (2) Julia married Elias Potter, and resides in Massachusetts. Her children are, Dolly, Nellie, William, Florence, Charles and Ernest. (3) Lucy died unmarried. (4) William went West.
(V) Lyman Clinton, second child of David Clin- ton, was born March 21, 1817, and died Jan. 30, 1888. He was married Nov. 24, 1841, to Lavinia Blakeslee, who was born May 7, 1822, and died May 10, 1892. Their children are: Margaret La- vinia, Julia Josephine, David Laurence, Lyman Frederick, Anson Blakeslee and Delia Eunetia. Lyman Clinton engaged in the manufacture of ag- ricultural implements with his father.
(VI) Margaret Lavinia Clinton, daughter of Lyman Clinton, was born March 10, 1843, and on Oct. 25, 1866, married George Spencer Vibbert, who was born May 10, 1843, a son of Nelson and Lucy A. (Hosmer) Vibbert. He is engaged in the card printing business. The children born of this union are: (1) Edith, born Feb. 8, 1868, married Nov. 17. 1896, William Smith, son of Alonzo and Sarah (Neal) Smith, and has one child, Winford Spencer, born Aug. 13, 1898. (2) Freddie, born May 1, 1870, died young. (3) Grace Lavinia, born June 28, 1872, married Sept. 13, 1893, Clarence B. Sherwood, son of Charles Sherwood, and has two children, Roland and Stirling. (4) Stephen Spen- cer, born Sept. 2, 1876, married Nov. 18, 1897, Lou- ise Smith, born April 28, 1874, daughter of Hub- bard and Emily (Barker) Smith, of Guilford, and has two children, Esther Emily, born in June, 1899; and a son born in June, 1901.
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