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A native of New Haven county, Mr. Clark was born in the town of Milford (now Orange) Feb. 14, 1822. a son of Celah and Hannah Stone ( Smith ) Clark, whose sketch is given in connection with that of Horatio N. Clark, elsewhere. During his child- hood our subject removed with his parents to Pros- pect, where he obtained his education in the dis- trict schools. He remained under the parental roof until he reached manhood, and then learned the painter's trade, which he continued to follow to some extent for a number of years. in Cheshire and in other places. Later in life he turned his atten- tion to farming in Prospect, near the old home- stead, where at the time of his death he owned a ¿valuable farm of 200 acres, upon which he had made many improvements. He carried on general farm- ing and stock raising. also engaging in the wood business, and during the spring and fall continued to work at his trade. He was noted for his indus- trious and thrifty habits, and prospered in his un- dertakings, becoming one of the substantial citizens of the community.
In Prospect, Mr. Clark married Miss Abigail Williams, a native of Cheshire, and a daughter of
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Albert Williams. She died leaving no children, and was buried in Prospect cemetery. In 1859 he was again married, his second union being with Miss Sarah E. Thomas, a native of Woodbridge, daugh- ter of Noyes H. and Emma ( Baldwin) Thomas, and granddaughter of Abner Baldwin. To this union were born two children: Welleford Selden, a painter of Straitsville, Conn., who married Alta Dickerman, and has four children, Percy, Florence, Leon and Hazel ; and Adelbert Smith, who operates the home farm.
Mr. Clark was a member of the Congregational Church, to which his widow belongs. He ever took an active and prominent part in church work, was a member of the society committee for a quar- ter of a century, and was also clerk and treasurer of the church. All the family have been well-known and highly respected throughout the community in which they live. Politically Mr. Clark was indenti- fied with the Republican party, served as tax collec- tor, and was selectman of his town for twelve years. He was always enterprising in promoting agricul- tural interests, and was a member of the Grange, as are liis widow and son, Adelbert. Mr. Clark's up- right and honorable life won for him the confidence and respect of all with whom he came in contact, and he well deserved the high regard in which he was uniformly held.
JOIIN VAIL, a well-known and highly-es- teemed citizen of Waterbury, residing on Washing- ton avenue, was born in Riverhead, Long Island, Aug. 4, 1832, son of Capt. Jasper Vail, also a na- tive of Long Island, and owner and master of a coasting vessel engaged in local trade. The father was a Whig in politics, and was liberal in his re- ligious views. He married Sophrona Edwards, and they continued to make their home throughout life on Long Island. Their children were Halsie, now deceased; Griffin ; Charles, who was a resident of New London, Conn., was engaged in the coast- ing trade, and was drowned during the seventies, his vessel having capsized; Peter; Francis ; John; George; David; Andrew ; Fanny; and Mehitable.
Our subject obtained his education in the dis- trict schools of Long Island. At the age of eight years he commenced working for his board and clothes, and was thus employed until he was sixteen years of age. He then accepted a position as cabin boy on a coasting vessel, continuing thus for two years, and on leaving the water, in 1850, came to Connecticut. After spending two years in Bristol and adjoining towns, he took up his residence in Waterbury, where he has since made his home. He was successfully engaged in house painting until 1888, and also carried on farming to some extent, having for half a century owned and operated a farm on Town Plot, Washington avenue. Since his retirement from the painting business he has de- voted much of his time to dairying, and in that undertaking has met with good success.
In 1855 Mr. Vail was united in marriage with Miss Mary Adams, who was born in Watertown, Litchfield Co., Conn., a daughter of Seymour Adams. They have become the parents of four children, namely: Ella Rossette, now the wife of Charles Dikeman, of Torrington, Conn .; Jessie Rosalyn, wife of Dwight Robinson; Charles, who married Susie Wilson; and George, who married Miss Ada Hunter.
Mr. Vail was a member of the school commit- tee of Town Plot during seven of its most progres- sive years. He was one of the first in Waterbury to join the Republican party, voted for Fremont in 1856, and has since been one of its stalwart support- ers, but has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking. He has always been found true to every trust reposed in him, and receives and merits the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens.
ISAAC BASSETT CLINTON, one of the best-known citizens and successful general farmers and dairymen of the town of Wallingford, was born July 2, 1834, on the old homestead, near where he now resides.
Jesse Clinton, the grandfather of our subject, was a large land owner near Clintonville, where he spent his life, and added to his income very consid- erably by cattle raising. His son, Jesse, the father of our subject, was born on the old homestead, and was the youngest of the family. His early days were spent in school, and he became interested in farming, which he continued all his life. During his management of the farm, consisting of 150 acres, he made many improvements, and became well known as a raiser of fine stock. He married, in North Haven, Rosanna Bassett, a daughter of Isaac Bassett, and six children were born of this union : Merritt, George, John, Isaac, Edwin and Elizur. Mr. Clinton's connection with the Congre- gational Church of North Haven began in his youth, and he lived an honest and upright life.
During his early youth our subject was a pupil in the district school, and later attended the North Haven Academy. He remained at home until he was eighteen, at which time he entered the factory at Clintonville, and later, with his brother, formed the partnership of Clinton Bros. in the manufactur- ing of carriage woodwork, prosecuting this suc- cessfully for twenty-five years, at which time Mr. Clinton's health failed and he gave it up. A life on the farm seemed to promise a return to good health, and he then went into the dairy and fruit growing business on a tract of sixty acres of the original homestead farm. That his hopes were realized his present excellent health attests, the only medicine he needed being fresh air, sunshine and contact with Nature. Mr. Clinton has proved that the Bib- lical assertion that man shall eat his bread in the sweat of his face is sometimes the greatest of bless- ings.
On May 12, 1858, Mr. Clinton was married, in
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Wallingford, to Grace Ann Allen, who was born in that town. Three children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Clinton : Evelyn B., born May 7, 1859, is a dairyman and peach grower ; he was mar- ried Feb. 14, 1888, to Florence A. Redfield, who was born July 10, 1863, and they have one child, Leroy W., born Nov. 25, 1889. Friend is a manu- facturer of witch hazel at Higganum. Conn .; he married Helen G. Clark, of that place. Elbert mar- ried Clara G. Sanford, of Hamden, where they re- side. Both Mr. Clinton and wife are members of the North Haven Grange, where their social quali- ties are much appreciated ; they are connected with the North Haven Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Clinton is descended from an old and prominent family. Roger Allen came to New Eng- land in 1638. The parents of Mrs. Clinton were Hiram and Nancy ( Button) Allen. the former born in 1806, and the latter in 1805: she died in 1885. Children as follows came to Mr. and Mrs. Allen : Franklin, born in 1832: Frances Augusta, born in 1836; Hiram; Grace Ann, born July 18, 1839; and Elenora Melvina, born in 1842. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Clinton, Newberry Button, was a native of North Haven : he was a fifer during the Revolutionary war. and was at Fort Griswold. Later he became a seafaring man. He married a daughter of James Pierpont, of North Haven.
WILLIAM H. PERKINS, an enterprising and progressive gentleman farmer of Bucks Hill, has spent his entire life in Waterbury, where he was born Nov. 3, 1848. He is a worthy descendant of an old and highly respected New York family.
William Perkins, his father, was born in Butter- nuts, now Gilbertsville, Otsego Co., N. Y., a son of Benonia Perkins. When nine months old he was brought by his parents to Bethany, New Haven Co., Conn., where his father engaged in farming and died. William Perkins was educated in the schools of Bethany, and was fifteen years of age on coming to Waterbury, which town was then in its infancy. Here and in Prospect he learned the carpenter's and joiner's trade, and in time became the best-known contractor and builder in the Nau- gatuck Valley. When he was twenty-one years of age he formed a partnership with Archibald and Elisha Rice. He erected several of the public build- ings in Waterbury, including the "Scovill House," the First Congregational church, and the Scovill fac- tory. His work was done with great dispatch, and he put up nine houses in ten days in Waterbury. For several years he also engaged in the manufac- ture of sash and blinds at his factory at City Mills. He was a large land owner, having property at Lake Wood, now known as Perkins avenue, and also at Waterville. He was quite prominent in politics, and was a recognized leader of the Democratic party in Waterbury, taking a deep interest in all public matters. He served thirteen years as selectman, to which office he was nominated and elected by both :
. the Democratic and Republican parties, and in the discharge of his duties gave eminent satisfaction to all concerned. He was first selectman five years. He was public spirited and progressive, and gave his support to all measures calculated to advance the educational, moral or material welfare of his town and county. He was a man of independent thought, and had the courage of his convictions, doing ever what he deemed best for the general good. Mr. Perkins died at his home on North Main street, Waterbury, in 1875, and was laid to rest in Riverside cemetery. He attended the Episcopal Church, and was a member of the Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows.' For his first wife Mr. Perkins married Mary Tuttle, who was born on North Main street, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Judd) Tuttle, and his second wife was Almira Jerome, of Waterbury; she is buried in Riverside cemetery. He had four children : (1) Elizabeth, who was edu- cated at the Waterbury Academy and Miss Draper's boarding-school, is now the widow of John H. Smith, a son of Hon. Nathan Smith, a Congress- man from New Haven, and makes her home in Waterbury. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She had two children- Mary Elizabeth, who died in infancy ; and William Easton, a merchant of Waterbury. (2) . William H. is our subject. The other two children died in infancy.
During his boyhood and youth William H. Per- kins was given excellent educational advantages, at- tending the public and select schools of Waterbury : the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire: and the New Haven Military Institute, under Gen. Russell. In early life he learned the carpenter's trade with D. H. Meloy, a well-known architect and builder of Waterbury, with much success, and followed that occupation for several years. In 1887 he removed to what is now known as Perkins avenue, on Bucks Hill, and turned his attention to the operation of the Holt farm, upon which he has made extensive improvements, including the erection of a fine resi- dence, beautifully located, and supplied with all modern conveniences. He has built an artificial lake which is well stocked with fine fish, and on which he has a pleasure boat. He keeps about twenty head of cattle, to supply the family wants. Fancy dogs and game chickens are bred here with much success, and Mr. Perkins' Great Dane "Gover" is one of the best dogs in New England. At the present time Mr. Perkins is erecting. regardless of expense, extensive chicken barns, completely fur- nished with numerous incubators and all the latest appliances, with the intention of supplying Water- bury with chickens. This business is managed by his son Harry, who has familiarized himself with the culture of chickens, and the enterprise is ex- pected to prove a big success.
As a hunter and fisherman Mr. Perkins has few equals in Connecticut. All his life he has been a sportsman, and in his younger days was a noted ath-
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lete. He was one of the originators of the Monitor Base Ball Club, which was organized in the Gothic Hall building, Waterbury, and of which he was catcher. Later he held the same position in the Waterbury Base Ball Club, and it was largely due to his remarkable ability that each club held the State championship during his association therewith. His active participation in the great National game is a thing of the past, but his interest in it is undimin- ished, and he is held as an authority on the game by many of the noted players of to-day.
Mr. Perkins was married, in Waterbury, to Miss Ella L. Grilley, a native of that town, and a daugh- ter of Albert Grilley. They have three children : Alice M., now the wife of William R. Johnson, of Wolcott ; Harry W .; and Mary E., who is attending a boarding-school in Lyme, Connecticut.
Religiously Mr. Perkins is a member of St. John's Episcopal Church of Waterbury ; fraternally he belongs to Mad River Grange. He casts his ballot for the men and measures of the Democratic party, but has never cared for the honor or emolu- ments of political office, preferring to devote his entire time and attention to his business interests. He is a thorough and systematic farmer, and car- ries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. He is widely and favorably known, and stands deservedly high in the esteem of his fellow citizens.
HENRY WARD CHITTENDEN (deceased) was a worthy member of an honored old Connecti- cut family, one of the best in the State.
a magistrate of the Plantation, and deputy to the General Court until his death, in February, 1660. at the age of sixty-seven years. William Chitten- den was married in England to Joanna Sheaffe. daughter of Dr. Edmund and Joanna Sheaffe, of Cranbrook, Kent. Her sister Dorothy was the wife of Rev. Henry Whitfield, who was the first minister of the Guilford Colony, and one of its leading men. Ten children were born to William and Joanna Chittenden, viz .: Thomas, who married Joanna Jordan ; Elizabeth, who married Thomas Wright ; Nathaniel; John, mentioned below; Mary, who married John Leete; Hannah, born Nov. 15, 1649, who died in 1650; Joseph and Hannah (twins), born April 14, 1652, the former of whom died June 22, 1652, the latter Sept. 13, 1674: Deborah, born Dec. 12, 1653, who died Sept. 16, 1674; and Joanna. The mother of these remarried, her second husband being Abraham Cruttenden, of Guilford, who had also been previously married. She died in Guil- ford Aug. 16, 1668. Her mother, widow of Dr. Edmund Sheaffe, came with the family from Eng- land, and died in Guilford Aug. 1, 1659.
Sergt. John Chittenden. son of William. was married Dec. 12, 1665, to Hannah Fletcher, of Mil- ford. He died in Guilford in April, 1716, aged seventy-three years. Children: John, born Oct. 17, 1666, married Sarah Clay: Elizabeth, born Jan. 26, 1670, married Thomas Cruttenden : Joseph is re- ferred to below : Gideon, born Sept. 23. 1678, died in 1679; Abel, born May 14, 1681, married Deborah Scranton : Lydia, born March 30, 1684. married William Hall.
William Chittenden, the first of the name in Joseph Chittenden, born March 26, 1672, in Guilford, spent his entire life there, and died Sept. II, 1727. On Aug. 26, 1692, he married Mary Kimberly, born in April, 1671, daughter of Nathan- iel and Mary Kimberly, of New Haven. She died Jan. 14, 1742. Children: Deborah, born Jan. 28, 1693, married John Spinning: Patience, born Jan. ,19, 1696, married John Hubbard; Gideon, sketch of whom follows; Daniel, born March 15, 1700, mar- ried Abigail Downes; Joseph, born Jan. 25, 1702, married Patience Stone: Thankful, born Jan. 27, 1704, married Timothy Bartlett. Connecticut, was a native of England, and was one of a company of seventy-five-gathered chiefly from the Counties of Kent. Surrey and Sussex, in the South of England-who determined to leave the mother country and seek a new home in the wilderness of the Western World. This company sailed from England for America about May 20, 1639, in a ship of 350 tons burden, and arrived in New Haven July 10, after a passage of seven weeks. William Chittenden came from the parish of Cranbrook, in Kent, some thirty-five miles south- east of London. He was prominent among the original settlers of Guilford, and as a man of abil- ity and influence held many important offices in the Plantation during his active life. He was one of the six persons selected to purchase the land in Guilford from the native owners, and was also one of four-Robert Kitchell, William Chittenden, John Bishop and William Leete-who received, ac- cording to the record, full power and authority to act, order and dispatch all matters respecting the public weal and civil government of the Plantation "until a church is gathered among us." It is sup- posed that he was a soldier in the English army, and served in the Netherlands in the Thirty Years war, as he was the principal military man of the Plantation, and bore the title of lieutenant. He was ried Ebenezer Evarts; Stephen, born May 9, 1739,
Gideon Chittenden, son of Joseph, born Feb. 3, 1698, in Guilford, passed the greater part of his life in his native town, and in 1762 removed to New Milford, Conn., where he and his wife both ended their days. On March 21, 1721, he married Abi- gail Bishop, born April 19, 1701. daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Wetmore) Bishop, of Guilford, and they had children : Abraham, sketch of whom follows; Millicent, born April 5. 1725, married John Hopson : Abigail, born March 17, 1727. married Samuel Stone: Pru- dence, born Oct. 14, 1729, married Nathaniel Johnson: Giles, born Dec. 8, 1731, married Temperance Bishop: Miles, born June 15, 1734, died Dec. 15. 1755; Ruth, born May 15, 1737. mar-
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married Lucy Bardsley; Catherine, born May 9, 1747, married Ebenezer Gaylord.
Abraham Chittenden, born Feb. 16, 1723, passed his entire life in Guilford, engaged in agri- cultural pursuits, and died there July 19, 1810. On March 15, 1749, he married Mercy Burgis, who was born Sept. 26, 1719, daughter of Thomas and Mercy ( Wright) Burgis, and died Feb. 24, 1801. Children; Abraham, sketch of whom follows; Eliab, born March 26, 1754, died Aug. 29, 1756; Mercy, born April 17, 1756, married Nathaniel Parmelee; Sarah, born May 13, 1760, died Aug. 30, 1769.
Abraham Chittenden, born Aug. 10, 1751, lived to the ripe age of over ninety-six years, passing away March 4, 1848, and his remains rest in Guil- ford cemetery. He became deacon of the First Church in Guilford in 1799. On Nov. 17, 1774, he married Diana Ward, born Sept. 24, 1752, daughter of Gen. Andrew and Diana ( Hubbard) Ward, of Guilford. She died April 24, 1784, and on May 25, 1785, he married Lydia Baldwin, daughter of Israel Baldwin, of North Branford, and widow of Simeon Rose. She passed away Oct. 17, 1819. By his first marriage Abraham Chittenden had three children: Sarah, born Oct. 13, 1775, married Dr. Jared Red- field; Betsey, born July 23, 1777, married Benjamin Baldwin; Abraham I., born Nov. 17, 1781, married Deborah Fowler. By the second marriage there were four: Diana, born April 13. 1786, married David Parmelee ; John Baldwin, born Jan. 16, 1790, married Eliza Robinson; Henry Ward, sketch of whom follows; Lydia, twin of Henry W., married Samuel Robinson.
Henry Ward Chittenden, whose name introduc- es this sketch, was born Dec. 7. 1794. He received a good practical education, and in his younger years engaged in mercantile business in Guilford, later in life taking up farming, in which connection he also managed the Griffing farm, known as the "Stone House farm." His entire life was spent in Guil- ford, where he died Oct. 30. 1867, and his remains rest in Guilford cemetery. Being a man of social, genial temperament, and of unblemished integrity, Mr. Chittenden was a well-known and highly re- spected citizen, and quite popular. In political faith he was a Whig, and later a Republican, and he held various local offices, including that of town clerk. He held membership in the First Congrega- tional Church, and was a good Christian man. On May 17, 1820, Mr. Chittenden was married. in Guilford, to Charlotte Griffing. horn Jan. 28, 1800, daughter of Joel and Sarah (Fairchild) Griffing : she died May 5, 1822, and was buried in Guilford cemetery. On March 10, 1824. Mr. Chittenden married, for his second wife. in Guilford, Mary Griffing, born in Guilford Feb. 6, 1801. daughter of Hon. Nathaniel and Sarah ( Brown) Griffing, and a cousin of his first wife: she died March 21. 1876, and is buried in Guilford cemetery. Mrs. Chitten-
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den was a lady of means, and gave liberally to the poor and to the church, and was quite active in every good cause. She was a member of the First Church, to which she gave an excellent organ and a fund for the salary of the organist. To Henry W. and Mary (Griffing) Chittenden came one child, Sarah Brown, born June 18, 1835, who was married Sept. 14, 1859, to Edward H. Owen, of Stock- bridge, Mass. He died May 28, 1864, and on March 20, 1867, she married Henry D. Cone, a paper manufacturer in Housatonic, Mass., who died Nov. 16, 1896. Mr. Chittenden adopted the daugh- ter of his sister, Mrs. Parmelee, Lydia D., who is a lady of culture and refinement. She. makes her home in Guilford, where she is well known and highly respected.
THE PARMELEE FAMILY, of which Miss Lydia D. Chittenden, the adopted daughter of Henry W. Chittenden, is a descendant, is one of the oldest families in Guilford. The first of that name in New Haven Colony was John Parmelee, who came from England and was one of the first settlers of New Haven, where he spent the balance of his life, dying there in November, 1659. He is buried there. He married Elizabeth Bradley, a widow, and three chil- dren were born to them: John, sketch of whom fol- lows; Hannah, who married John Johnson; and Mary, who married Denis Carpenter, and died March 16, 1668.
John Parmelee spent his life in the New Haven Colony, and died in January, 1689. His first wife. Rebecca, died Sept. 29, 1651, and in 1652 he married Ann Plane, a widow, who died March 30, 1658. In 1659 he again married, his third wife being named Hannah. Chil- dren : Nathaniel, born in 1645, married Sarah French; John, born Nov. 25, 1659, married Mary Mason, and died Jan. 3, 1749; Isaac, sketch of whom follows; Hannah, born Nov. 5, 1667, mar- ried T. Hill; Stephen, born Dec. 6, 1669, married Elizabeth Baldwin, and died Jan. 3, 1749; Job, born July 31, 1673, married Betsey Edwards, and died Nov. 16, 1765; Caleb married Abigail Johnson ; Priscilla, born May 8, 1678, died Dec. 10, 1692: Joel, born in 1679, married Abigail Andrews, and died in July, 1748.
Isaac Parmelee, born Nov. 21, 1665, made his home in Guilford, where he died Jan. 3. 1749. On Dec. 30, 1689, he married Elizabeth Hillard, born June 18, 1666, died June 3, 1746, and they had chil- dren : Ebenezer, born Nov. 22, 1690, died Sept. 27. 1777, married Ann Cruttenden ; Abraham, born May 28, 1692, died Sept. 29. 1752, married Mary Bishop; Joseph, sketch of whom follows: Eliza- beth, born Jan. 30, 1697, died March 14, 1780, mar- ried Nathaniel Baldwin: Sarah, born Aug. II, 1699. died May 4, 1730, married Michael Hill; Isaac. born May 20, 1702. died Tuly 13. 1752. mar- ried Elizabeth Evarts : Andrew, born June 20, 1704, died Aug. 1, 1795 ; Rachel, born Nov. 18, 1707, died
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Nov. 9, 1793, married Samuel Evarts ; Josiah, born in December, 1709, died Aug. 10, 1739, married Sarah Evarts.
Joseph Parmelce, born in Guilford Sept. 14, 1694. died April 21, 1751. On Sept. 19, 1716, he married Abigail Kimberly, born July 22, 1696, died Nov. 28, 1763. Children : Abigail, born Jan. 31, 1719, died Feb. 8, 1780, married Caleb Bishop; Jo- sephi, sketch of whom follows; William, born in 1724, died March 13, 1799; Elizabeth, born Nov. 21, 1728, married Ebenezer Chittenden; Beulah, born Aug. 30, 1732, died Sept. 16, 1818, married Nathaniel Elliot ; Samuel, born July 27, 1737, died June 2, 1807, married Sarah Bishop.
Joseph Parmelee, born Aug. 3. 1721, in Guil- ford, died July 3, 1804. On Nov. 30, 1742, he mar- ried Obedience Spencer, born Sept. 6, 1725. died June 9, 1750. On April 12, 1752, he married Abi- gail Cruttenden, born Aug. 20, 1727, died June 23, . 1788. On Oct. 12, 1788, he married Mary Den- ning, died Oct. 2, 1795. Children : Obedience, born Aug. 13, 1743, married Jesse Evarts; Cather- ine, born Aug. 23, 1744; Luther, born Jan. 25, 1750, died Aug. 7, 1750; Joseph, born March 19, 1755. died Feb. 19, 1785; David, sketch of whom follows.
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