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On October 6, 1881, Mr. McCormack was mar- ried to Fannie Bridgeman, who was born in Cheshire, New Haven county, a daughter of San- uel Butler, an old settler in Connecticut. Three children have graced this union: Fannie, Grace and Samuel. Mr. and Mrs. McCormack are mem- bers of the M. E. Church; in politics he is a Re- publican.
ELMER F. CULVER. It is now more than a hundred years since the family to which this well- known citizen belongs became identified with New Haven county, and its various members have won for the name an enviable distinction by their in- telligence and worth. This high reputation is in no ways diminished in this generation, and our subject, who is counted among the leading agri- culturists of East Haven, displays in a marked de- gree the admirable characteristics which the name suggests.
resides. Jan. 12, 1861. and is a descendant of Joshua Culver, one of the first planters of Wallingford. His son, Samuel Culver, the grandfather of our subject, was a native of that town. The father. Isaac Culver, was born in North Haven, Jan. 23. 1820, and continued his residence there until 1854. when he moved to the farm in New Haven where our subject now resides. Here he was engaged int the manufacture of bricks until 1866, and then fol- Iowed farming and fruit growing, meeting with excellent success in all his undertakings. He was an active member of the Congregational Church. and a very strong Democrat in politics. He died March 26, 1889, honored and respected by all who knew him. On Oct. 28, 1853, he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah A. Forbes, who was born in East Haven, in 1828, and they had two children : Elmer F., our subject .; and one who died in infancy.
Elmer F. Culver acquired a good practical ed- ucation in the Woolsey Graded School and Hill- house High School of New Haven, and graduated from Yale Business College in 1879, and also grad- uated from Coggswell School of Phonography in 1882. He obtained a thoroughi knowledge of every department of farm work, and has never left the parental roof. Since reaching manhood he has suc- cessfully engaged in the dairy, fruit growing and nursery business on the old homestead. For the last two years Mr. Culver has been erecting houses on the old farm, and has sold one house and two build- ing lots therefrom. With the trolley. cars, city water and gas mains passing the place, this land has rap- idly risen in value. At one time Mr. Culver was connected with the firm known as the Demme, Cul- ver & Co., manufacturers of saddlery hardware. but eleven years ago they sold out to the Suffolk Co., of Boston, Mass. Socially he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. On Feb. 6. 1887, Mr. Culver was united in marriage with Miss Alice J. Clark, a daughter of Capt. John Clark, of Milford, Conn., and to them have been born five children, namely : Harold ; Albert F. ; Roy J., deceased ; Olive J. ; and Paul Elmer.
GEORGE A. BOUGHTON, retired factory su -. perintendent, and also a retired musician of the vol- unteer and regular military service during the Civil war, was born Nov. 7, 1835. in Waterbury, New Haven county, and is still a resident of the town.
Jonas Boughton, his grandfather, came from Norwalk. When a young man he was bound out to a blacksmith, and learned the trade, which he followed for a time, later in life changing his voca- tion to that of a farmer. He married Lydia Hine. from the town of Orange, New Haven county, and the young couple at once settled on a farm where Derby now stands, but later removed to one in the western part of the town of Waterbury. To their marriage were born nine children. two of whom
Mr. Culver was born on the farm where he now | died young, the survivors being Charles, who was
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a farmer in Middlebury: Jonas, who went to Ohio and there died: Isaac, of whom further mention will be made; George, who was also a farmer in Ohio; John, who followed blacksmithing in Wood- bury, Conn .; Lydia, who married Lewis Smith, of Milford : and Louisa, who wedded William Orton, of Wallingford, and later moved West.
Isaac Boughton was born in Waterbury in 1808, and died in 1891. He was reared to farming but for years was employed in the Benedict & Burham but- ton factory, and also for others ; however, the failure of his health induced him to resume farming to some extent. He married Caroline Upson, a daugh- ter of Obed .and Sibyl ( Howe) Upson, of Water- bury, and this union was blessed with five children, .of whom George A., the subject of this sketch, is the eldest : Susan A. is the widow of Robert Pryor. Henry I. is foreman on the road at Waterbury, under the selectmen ; Isabelle is the wife of H. S. Peck, of Waterbury: Caroline E. is unmarried.
George A. Boughton was educated in the local schools of Waterbury, after which he worked in various factories with his father, commanding good wages when seventeen years of age. He continued thus until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he enlisted, in the Ist Conn. V. I., and went to the front, taking part in the battle of Bull Run. He was next detailed as musician, and at the expiration of his first short term of service enlisted as musi- .cian in the 14th United States Regular Infantry, was appointed sergeant of the band, and as such served all through the war, and also after its termi- nation, for about two and a half years on the Pa- cific coast. Returning home. he served as chief of police for six months, and next became superintend- ent for Barnard, Son & Co., a position his executive . ability retained for him twelve years, since when he has been living in retirement. looking after his real estate.
In politics Mr. Boughton is a Republican. and is now serving his sixth term as selectman, and he has beena member of the board of public works. He is a member of Wadhams Post, G. A. R., and the Knights of Pythias. Religiously he was reared a Congregationalist. Socially, as a genial, charitable gentleman, he is held in the highest esteem wherever known. He is unmarried.
WILLIAM B. HALL was born May 13. 1854. in the same house in which he is now living, in Wallingford, son of Horace Hall, who was born May 25. 1804, in Wallingford, and was a jeweler by trade.
ity in Wallingford after it had been abandoned a number of, years. On Sept. 29, 1825, he married Miss Euretta Johnson, and on July 2, 1848, he mar- ried for his second wife Miss Ann L. Buell. A daughter of Luthier Buell, she was born July 31, 1816, and died Jan. 20, 1898. Horace Hall died June 18, 1877. To the first union were born the follow- ing children: Horatio G. died March 14. 1874, having been shot by an insane man. Emily J. mar- ried Henry MI. Jones, of Meriden. Lana O. mar- ried O. B. Warner, of Meriden. Mary U. married George H. Newton, and died Aug. 17, 1877. Ab- bey E. married W. W. Pinks, of New Britain. Two children died in infancy. To the second marriage was born one child, William B., whose career forms the subject of this writing.
Horatio Gates Hall, the grandfather of William B., was born Jan. 17, 1778. in Wallingford, and was married to Miss Polly Byington, of Branford. in 1798. Mrs. Hall died April 12, 1852, Mr. Hall on Oct. 30, 1819. Their children were: Augustus, Lyman, Horace, Mary, Josiah H. and Abigail.
. Caleb Hall, father of Horatio G., was born Ang. 29. 1731, and died Sept. 21, 1783. He married Prudence Holt, and was the father of the following children : Caleb, Jr .. Augustus, Abigail. Eunice, Benjamin H., Damaris, Horatio G. and George:
Caleb Hall. Sr., the father of Caleb Hall. Jr., was born Sept. 14, 1697. and died July 27, 1749. He married Damaris Atwater, and their children were: Damaris, Stephen. Timothy, Ruth, Caleb, Jeremiah and Lydia.
John Hall, father of Caleb, Sr .. was born Dec. 23, 1670, and died April 29, 1730. He married Mary Lyman, and their children were: John. Sam- uel, Caleb, Eunice, Nancy. Benjamin, Sarah, Eliakim and Elihu.
Samuel Hall, father of John, was born May 21, 1648, and died March 5, 1725. He married Hannah Walker, and was the father of the follow- ing children : John, Hannah, Sarah, Samuel, Theophilus and Elizabeth. John Hall, his father, was the emigrant ancestor of the family.
William B. Hall was born in Wallingford, and grew up in his native village, securing his education from the public schools, and at the Yale Business College, New Haven. Leaving school at the age of seventeen, he clerked for Philip J. Talcott, in his dry-goods store, for a year or more, and was then a clerk in the postoffice for several years. As assistant postmaster, under L. M. Hubbard, he had an extensive experience in the administration of pos- tal affairs, which was put to good account when he was appointed postmaster under the first administra- tion of Grover Cleveland. Mr. Hall was postmaster five years. and then went to Northampton. Mass., where he was engaged for a time as a representa- tive of the Quinnipiac Fertilizer Co. Coming back to Wallingford, he secured a position with the R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Co., where he was
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For a number of years Horace Hall conducted a store in that city, and the latter part of his life was spent in farming. A Democrat, he never took a particularly active interest in politics, though he served as tax collector a number of years. He was an Episcopalian in religion. A zealous Freemason. and an energetic man, he was one of those who were instrumental in reviving the Masonic fratern-| bookkeeper for five years, in 1895 becoming their
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purchasing agent, which position he is holding at the present time.
William B. Hall is a Democrat, and has served on the Democratic town committee for several . years, and was chairman for one year. He has served as borcugli and town treasurer some three years. A member of the Masonic fraternity, he has taken much interest in the workings of that society, and has been master of Compass Lodge, No. 9, at Wallingford, for five years, holding that office at present ; he is also one of the trustees of the lodge. As a member of the board of managers of the Masonic home since its establishment, in 1894, he has rendered that institution vast service. In religion he is associated with St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Mr. Hall was married, Sept. 17, 1878, to Miss Arabella Bates, who was born in New Haven. a daughter of William Bates. On July 29, 1896, Mr. Hall married for his second wife Miss Ella M. Lacore, of Northampton, Mass., daughter of Solomon Lacore. To the first marriage came three children : Annie Bates, born June 25, 1879; Clara Elizabeth, born Sept. 27, 1882; and Horace W., born April 29, 1885. Mina Ella, born July 8, 1897, is the only child of the second marriage.
WILLIAM L. WARD, prominent in the busi- ness circles of Seymour, was born in the town of Naugatuck, New Haven county, Oct. 31, 1858, and comes of good old English ancestry.
The Arms of the Wards, Gorleston, County of Suffolk, England. granted .in 1593, were: Az., a cross between four eagles, displayed Ar. Crest : On a mount vert a hind couchant, Ar. Andrew Ward, fifth son of Richard Ward, of Gorleston, County of Suffolk, England, came to America about 1632. He was appointed by the General Court of Massachusetts, with Roger Ludlow and six others, to govern the Colony of Connecticut for one year. He was one of the first judges in the first legisla- tive body in Connecticut, which met at Hartford April 26, 1636, soon after removing to New Haven, and for several years was a member of the General Court. He afterward settled in Fairfield, and was one of the most influential men of that place. He died in 1663, Esther Ward, his widow, in 1665. Their children were: Edmund lived in West- chester, N. Y .; William ( Dr.), born 1645, was killed in the Narragansett war ; Mary married John Burr, of Fairfield: Andrew, born in 1647, died in Killingworth în 1691; Samuel, born in 1649, died before 1693; Abigail; Anna married Caleb Nichols ; John; Sarah married Nathaniel Burr.
Andrew Ward (2), son of Andrew and Esther Ward, settled in Killingworth in 1668. He mar- 1 ried Trial Meigs, daughter of John Meigs, of Guil- ford, and their children were: Andrew (3). born in 1669 (died in August. 1756) ; John, March 16, 1671; Abigail. Sept. 15. 1672; Sarah. Nov. 15, 1674; Peter, Oct. 14, 1670; William, Oct. 18, 1678,
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(died Dec. 14, 1760) : Samuel Sept. 24. 1680 (died in 1681) ; Esther, May 2, 1684 (died the next month ) ; and Mary Ann ( the youngest in the fam- ily), who was an ancestor of Henry Ward Beecher.
William Ward, son of Andrew (2) and Trial Ward, married Lettis, daughter of John Beach, of Wallingford, and resided in Wallingford. Their children were: Mecock, born July 17, 1702; Will- iam, Jan. 7. 1705: Mary ( date unknown ) ; Amy, 1707 ; Ambrose, March 6, 1709; Lettis, July 7. 1711 ; John, 1714; Royal. June 20, 1716; Archibald. July 5, 1718: Zenas, Sept. 17, 1720 (settled in Wood- bury ) ; Titus, April 27, 1723.
John Ward, son of William and Lettis Ward. married Elizabeth Abernathy May II. 1736. He was a druggist, and lived in Wallingford. Their children were: Thilus, born April 24, 1737, en- listed Nov. 14, 1781. in Capt. Vial's Company of Guards, stationed at Guilford for the defense of the sea coast : Abel, born July 1, 1740, lived in Wood- bridge, and died Nov. 20, 1759; Titus was born March 18, 1742; Martha was born July 17, 1746: John, born May 24. 1748, died in infancy; and John (2) was born Nov. 19. 1751.
Titus Ward, son of John and Elizabeth Ward. married Amy Smith Jan. 7. 1763. He died near New York City, and his property was on a vessel which was captured by the British in the Revolti- tionary war. His children were: Silva, born Aug. 8, 1764, married Isaac Plumb, of Milford: Abel was born May 24, 1766; Titus, born March 30. 1768, married Sarah Smith. of Milford: Betsey. born March 22, 1770, married Samuel Beach, of Milford; Nancy was born June 10, 1773; John. born May 13, 1774. died young; Sarah, born May 26, 1776, married Elijah Prindle: William, born Jan. 5, 1780, died young; and Statica, born July 16, 1782, married Billions Wright.
Abel Ward, son of Titus and Amy Ward, mar- ried Rachel Hotchkiss, of Woodbridge, in what is now Bethany. She died in 1787, and for his second wife he married Anna Wheeler. He had two chil- dren : Richard, born Sept. 21, 1787, died in Nau- gatuck, March 2. 1851 ; Rachel, born Jan. 23, 1792. married Jervis Sommers, and two of their children. Jervis and Mary, are now living in Southford.
Richard Ward, son of Abel and Rachel Ward. married Dec. 15, 1811, Roxanna, daughter of Cul- pepper Hoadly (a soldier of the Revolution) and his wife Molly Lewis, of Salem Bridge (now Nau- gatuck). Mrs. Ward died Feb. 6, 1865. Their children were: Lewis, born Sept. 27, 1812: Lawren, born Dec. 27, 1814: Maria, born Feb. II. 1819, who married Ralph Smith, of Bridgeport: Mary, born Feb. 17, 1823, who married Ganan Pot- ter, and died Aug. 2, 1842: and William, born March 7, 1825, who married Elizabeth A. Hine, and resided in Naugatuck.
Lewis Ward. son of Richard and Roxanna Ward, was married April 9. 1835, to Mary Ann Curtis, of Huntington, who was born April 15,
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1812, and died Dec. 12. 1895. aged eighty-three vears and seven months. Their son, James B., was born Oct. 8, 1836, in Naugatuck, and was the father of the subject proper of this sketch.
James B. Ward. was a carpenter by trade. He married Jane E. Hotchkiss, a daughter of Eber and Thurza Hotchkiss, of Bethany, and had two chil- dren, both sons: William L., our subject : and Elmer J., born Feb. 21, 1863, who is with the G. I. R. Glove Co., at Naugatuck. The father of these died in December, 1862, when a young man. He was a Republican in politics. He attended the Congregational Church.
William L. Ward, whose name introduces this sketch, received his education at the winter schools of Naugatuck, and early in life commenced earn- ing a livelihood, as he was but four years old when his father died. His first employment was with the G. I. R. Glove Co., with which he remained twelve years; then for nine years he was in the employ of F. W. Tolles, furniture dealer and un- dertaker, also in Naugatuck. On Aug. 1, 1898, he removed to Seymour and bought out E. F. Bassett, who had been in the furniture and undertaking busi- ness there some forty-two years. Mr. Ward was the prime mover in the establishment of the Valley National Bank, of Seymour, which was organized June 14, 1900, and of which he has since been president. Our subject is now serving as treasurer of the town of Seymour.
On July 10, 1898, William L. Ward was united in marriage with Lulu L. Tolles, daughter of Isaac B. and Maria W. Tolles, the former of whom was born in Bethany, the latter in Middlebury, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Ward attend the services of the Con- gregational Church. Socially he is a member of the F. & A. M., belonging to Morning Star Lodge, No. 47, Allerton Chapter, of Naugatuck, and the New Haven Commandery. He is also affiliated with the I. O. O. F., Mechanics Lodge. Seymour. Mr. Ward's political support is given to the Republican party.
JOHN J. McLARNEY. Among the self-made business men whose intelligence and enterprise have helped to develop the thriving little city of An- sonia, the subject of this sketch holds a prominent place, and the following brief account of his career will be of interest. He was born in that city, May 17, 1851, and is descended in both paternal and maternal lines from the Irish race which has furnished so many valued citizens to America.
John McLarney, his grandfather, passed his life in Ireland as a farmer, dying at the age of eighty- seven years, and his wife, Catherine Cook, also a native of Ireland, attained the age of ninety-six years. In religion they were devout Catholics, and their descendants adhere to the same faith. They had a large family of children, of whom but few are now living.
born and reared in Acklemore Parish, County Cavan, Ireland, and learned the shoemaker's trade in his youth. On coming to America he entered the employ of Mr. McWilliams, a railroad con- tractor for whom he made shoes and harness, and in 1848 he went to Ansonia to work for Harvey Reamer, for whom he made the first pair of "pegged" boots ever finished in the town. Later he was employed by Wallace & Sons, and the A. B. C. Co., but for a few years before his death, which occurred at the age of seventy-six, he lived in re- tirement. His wife, Mary McIntyre, also lived to the age of seventy-six, was a native of Scotland. and one of the two daughters of Thomas McIntyre, a farmer, who died aged seventy-six. Her mother. whose maiden name was Alice Gillis, died aged seventy-one. Our subject was one of a family of seven children and is the oldest of the three now living; Hugh resides in New Haven, and James in Ansonia.
The early years of John J. McLarney were spent within sight of Ansonia, and his education was se- cured in the public schools of that city. Together with his brothers he learned the trade of clock- maker, which he followed for a number of years, and he then learned the horseshoers' trade and worked for a time as a journeyman in that .busi- ness. Later he joined in the firm of Terry & Mc- Larney, and engaged in the manufacture of carts and business wagons at the corner of Canal and Bridge streets, making a specialty of heavy business wagons. On retiring from this business in 1896, our subject spent some time in repairing his houses, of which he owns several, and then took a position as a journeyman horseshoer. The death of his brother, Thomas F., on May 22, 1898, led to his taking charge of the undertaking establishment left by the deceased, and in this venture he has met with success. his knowledge of the business having been first gained while working as a journeyman. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Em- balming in September, 1899. He also conducts a livery stable at No. 30 Green Street, keeping a num- . ber of horses and a fine line of hacks, coaches and carriages ready for any call. In politics he is a Democrat, and he served as constable and grand juror when the town included Derby. He is an active member of the Young Men's Temperance Association, having served as its vice-president. treasurer and secretary, and he is also connected with the Catholic Legion, in which he is now trus- tee, the Mutual Reserve of New York City, an in- surance association, and the Hartford Life Insur- ance Co., of Hartford. and the Royal Arcanum.
On April 25. 1888, he married Miss Ellen E. Coleman, and four children have blessed this union, of whom two are living: John J. and Alice E. Mrs. McLarney is a native of Ansonia, and a daughter of James and Bridget ( Mulligan) Cole- man. Ifer father, now deceased, was a well known
Patrick McLarney, our subject's father, was , agriculturist and prominent citizen, whose influence
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was recognized in church and township affairs. Mis. McLarney was educated in the public schools of Derby, and is a graduate of the Derby High School. On leaving the high school she began teaching, con- tinuing fourteen years, and in this work she was very successful; for three years previous to her marriage she was principal of the Factory street school in Ansonia. Both Mr. and Mrs. McLarney are highly esteemed socially, and are leading mem- bers of the Catholic Church of Ansonia.
EDWARD WALTER LEETE. The Leete family in Connecticut was established here more than two hundred and fifty years ago by Gov. Leete. an old-time worthy and an important figure in early Colonial affairs, who came to America with the Henry Whitfield expedition.
Gov. William Leete was born in 1612 in Dod- dington, England. Thomas Leete, his grandfather. married Maria Slade, and their son John Leete mar- ried' Ann Shute; William Leete, who afterward. played such a prominent part in the Colonies, was their son. William Leete was bred a lawyer, and was clerk of the Bishops' Court at Cambridge. where the oppression of the Puritans turned him to a study of their tenets and finally led him to the adoption of their faith. He arrived in Connecticut July 10, 1639, and he was one of six selected to pur- chase from the Indians the land wanted for a new settlement. A tract of 250 acres, three miles from Guilford, now known as Leete's Island, came to him. He took a leading part in the development of the rising Colony and was one of its most trusted mem - bers. In 1658 he was made deputy governor of New Haven Colony, and in 1661 was made gov- ernor, holding this office until its union with the Colony of Connecticut. He was deputy governor of Connecticut from 1669 to 1676, when he was chosen governor, and served in that capacity until his death, in 1683, in Hartford. Gov. Leete was married in England, in 1638, to Anna Paine, who died Sept. 1. 1668. On April 7. 1670, he married Mrs. Sarah Rutherford, who died Feb. 10. 1673. His third wife, Mary, had also been married twice before, to Gov. Francis Newman and Rev. Nicholas Street, respectively. She died in 1683. Gov. Leete was the father of nine children.
John Leete, eldest son of the Governor, was born in 1639, in Guilford, and is said to have been the first white child born in that town. In 1670 he mar- ried Mary, daughter of William and Joanna (Sheafe): Chittenden. To this union were born eight children. Mrs. Leete was born in 1647, and died March 9, 1712. John Leete died Nov. 25, 1692:
Pelatialı Leets, fifth child of John, was born March 26, 1681, and on July 1. 1705. married Abi- gail, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth ( Bartlett) Fowler. They became the parents of five children. Mrs. Leete died Oct. 22. 1760. Soon after their marriage they moved to Leete's Island, which after-
ward became a flourishing settlement. Some of the land allotted to Gov. Leete after the purchase of the property from the Indians has never been held by any but those of the family name. On these ances- tral acres seven generations of Leetes have resided, engaged as farmers. Deacon Peliatiah Leete was a successful farmer, and did "not consider a hundred busliels of shelled corn to the acre more than an average yield." He had a hundred cattle. In 1705 he erected a large house. ou a commanding spot overlooking the Sound, in which he lived until his death, Oct. 13, 1768. This house sheltered several generations of the family. Pelatiah Leete was a deacon in the Fourth Church of Guilford. He served as a representative of the town in the Gen- eral Court.
Deacon Daniel Leete, eldest son of Deacon Pela- tiah, was born Oct. 14, 1709, was a farmer and stock raiser, and died on his farm Oct. 1. 1772. He was a deacon in the Fourth Church of Guilford. On June 14. 1738, he married Rhoda Stone, who was born Nov. 2. 1719. daughter of Caleb and Sarah (Meigs) Stone, of Guilford, and died Dec. 23. 1769. Both Mr. and Mrs. Leete are buried in the old cemetery on Guilford Green. They had five children. Daniel Leete's home stood where Calvin M. Leete's house now stands, and was noted during the Revolution.
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