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(III) Edmund Weld. grandfather of William E., was born Dec. 11, 1768. in Guilford, where he passed his entire life, dying there Nov. 3, 1838, highly respected bv all. He had considerable talent as a singer, and for many years, from the age of
seventeen, led the chior in the church at Guilford. On Dec. 1, 1790, in Guilford, he married Charlotte Stone, who was born in 1770, a daughter of Benja- min Stone, and died Jan. 20, 1810. For his second wife Edmund Weld wedded, June 1, 1812, Mercy Nettleton, born Dec. 3, 1781, who died July 8, 1864. Children by first wife: George, sketch of whom follows ; Charlotte, born Jan. 22, 1793, died May 28, 1886, married Robert Fowler ; Lucy Ann, born Nov. 15, 1794, died Aug. 16, 1797: Mary Adcock, born Sept. 20, 1795; James William, born June 17, 1798, married Eleanor B. Coates: Rich- ard, born June 30, 1800, died Aug. 8, 1852, married Sarah Walker; Henry, born July 9, 1802, married Elizabeth Ward ; Harvey Stone, born July 29, 1804, died March 20, 1885, married Elizabeth Greenleaf; Lucy Ann, born Aug. 23, 1806, died in June, 1852, married John Coats : Mary, born March 23, 1809, died Oct. 14, 1828. Children by second wife: John, born Sept. 25, 1813, died June 6, 1887 ; Betsey, born May 8, 1815, married Charles R. Wheden ; Edmund, born Aug. 5, 1817, died Dec. 8, 1881, married Betsey Isabell ; Samuel, born Sept. 30, 1818, died in 1850, in California ; Lydia Maria, born Dec. 23, 1819, married Jared Buell; Alfred Washington, born March 3, 1823, married Sarah Morgan; and Daniel, born April 12, 1825, died Nov. 8, 1859, married Melinda C. Connor.
(IV) George Weld, father of William E., was born June 8, 1791, in North Guilford, where he re- ceived a district school education, and learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. Later in life he re- moved with his family to Sag Harbor, L. I., there continuing his trade several years, then returning to Guilford, where he passed his later years, dying in March, 1876; his remains were interred in Guil- ford western cemetery. He was a member of the Episcopal Church, and of the choir, being a singer of no mean reputation. In politics he was a Demo- crat, though no office seeker. He was a temperate man, an industrious, loyal citizen, a kind husband and loving parent, and lived an industrious, upright life.
In Guilford, in 1813. George Weld married Mabel Fowler, who was born in that town May 9, 1791, a daughter of William and Olive (Cran ) Fowler, and died Dec. 21, 1821. For his second wife he wedded Mabel Loper, born Sept. 5, 1788, who died Nov. 4, 1869. His children : George Le- ander, born March 12, 1814: William Edwin, a sketch of whom follows; Clarissa Olive, born June 5, 1818, died Dec. 1, 1886; and Frederick Alonzo, born Feb. 1, 1820. William E. is the only survivor.
(V) William Edwin Weld, whose name intro- duces these lines, received in the vicinity of his place of birth a common-school education, which was of necessity somewhat limited, as at the early age of ten years he had to commence supporting himself. Until he was fifteen years old he worked on a farm for his board and clothes, and then removed with his
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father and rest of the family to Sag Harbor, where he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner. Dur- ing this time he made a whaling voyage to the South Atlantic and return; but not caring for a seafaring life he continued at his trade in Sag Har- bor till once more making his home in Guilford, his birthplace. There he commenced business as a carpenter and joiner, and for over fifty years was engaged in building and dealing in lumber, becom- ing one of Guilford's self-made successful men. For the past few years he has, for the benefit of his health, been living on and cultivating a small farm. He still, however, makes his home in Guilford, where he built and owns a fine residence, equipped with all modern improvements. A lifelong Demo- crat, Mr. Weld cast his first vote for Andrew Jack- son; for several years was selectman of Guilford, also burgess of the borough; in religious faith he is a member and vestryman of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Weld is noted far and near for his honest and honorable dealing in both public and private life, and is justly classified among Guil- ford's best citizens.
On Sept. 23, 1838, in the town of Guilford, Will- iam E. Weld was married to Myrta M. Holcomb, born Dec. 29, 1820, a daughter of Medad Holcomb, and children as follows came to them: (1) Jane Clarissa ("Jennie"), born Aug. 21, 1841, married Charles W. Shelton, of Windsor, Conn., and later became the wife of Henry Merriam. who died in 1897. One child was born to the first marriage, Lillian Jennie, who married Frederick T. Dudley, and has two children, Shelton Weld and Mildred F. (2) William Edwin, born Aug. 23, 1843, is su- perintendent of the Boston Buckboard Carriage Co., New Haven ; he married Imogene Dorman; they have no children. (3) Julia Augusta, born Sept. 19, 1860, died Oct. 28, 1860.
THE HOLCOMB FAMILY, of which Mrs. Weld is a member, is one of the oldest in America. Thomas Holcomb, the founder of the New Eng- land branch, came from England with the early set- tlers, and located first in Dorchester, Mass., later in Windsor, Conn., where he died. Nathaniel Hol- comb, grandfather of MIrs. Weld, was a native of Granville, Mass., and there married Jennie Adkins ; they had two children : Medad, sketch of whom follows ; and Geneva, who married Walter Stevens, and died in. August, 1862.
Medad Holcomb, father of Mrs. Weld, was born July 27, 1781, in Granville, Mass., whence he came to North Guilford, and here on Dec. 31, 1800, he married Betsey Stevens, who was born in 1777 and died Dec. 9. 1803. For his second wife he married, Dec. 10. 1804, Betsey Benton, born Oct. 25, 1781, died March 12, 1815. For his third wife he married, Ang. 10, 1815, Myrta M. Fowler. born June 26, 1798, who died Aug. 3, 1821. For his fourth wife he married, Dec. 6, 1821, Nancy Parnel Dudley, born April 29, 1707, who died Sept. 26, 1845. His fifth wife was Harriet Leete. Children , outside the city limits of Waterbury.
born to Medad Holcomb : Betsey, born May 9, 1802. married Asa Montgomery ; Polly, born Nov. 29. 1803, married Larius Bartholomew; Elledini, born Sept. 18, 1805, married Thomas Evans; Frederick, born Jan. 31, 1807, married Mary Rogers, and died June 11, 1886; Louise, born Oct. 19, 1809, married Jesse Crane, and died June 3, 1843; Henry, born Oct. 18, 1811, died Feb. 25, 1842; Appollas, born in July, 1813, died July 22, 1813; Sophia, born Feb. 4, 1817, married William C. Dudley ; William Ward, born Oct. 18, 1818, married Julia A. Wheadon ; Myrta M., born Dec. 29, 1820, married William E. Weld; Lorenzo Dow, born Nov. 5, 1823, died Feb. 26, 1826; Mary Ann, born April 29, 1826, died Dec. 22, 1826; Medad, born Sept. 29, 1828, mar- ried Lavina Sherwood; Mary Barker, born Oct. II, 1831, died Dec. 11, 1831 ; Helen, born Sept. 19. 1834, died March 13, 1836; Helen M., born July 18, 1838, married Samuel H. Cruttenden : and Ce- celia, born May 12, 1842, married William Cornell. There were no children by the fifth marriage.
DANIEL L. CHIPMAN, now living in quiet re- tirement in Waterbury, was born in that town Nov. IO, 1821. Samuel Chipman, father of our subject, was born July 16, 1780, in Wallingford, this county. where his father was engaged as a tailor. The latter reared a family of four children, viz .: Samuel : Jolin, who was a farmer and harness-maker in Cornwall, Conn., and lived to the advanced age of ninety-one years ; Joseph, who lived in Fairhaven ; and Elizabeth, Mrs. Grannis.
Samuel Chipman was reared to manhood on a farm in Wallingford. On Dec. 27, 1802, he mar- ried Nancy Potter, who was born in Hamden, New Haven Co., Conn., September 14, 1784. To this union came eleven children, in the following order : Samuel D., born Dec. 29, 1803, became a farmer and died in Waterbury, April 29, 1881 : Sherman B., born June 13, 1806, died Jan. 16, 1860; Lyman. born Nov. 9, 1808, was a hatter in Newtown, and died June 27, 1874; William, born Aug. 13, 1811, was a farmer of Cheshire, where he died: George E., born Feb. 9, 1813, was a cabinetmaker, and died in New York State in February, 1898: Joseph, born July 6, 1815, was first a tailor, and later became a farmer, and died in Waterbury, Sept. 25, 1884: Timothy T., born April 3, 1818, died in South America : Ransom, born Nov. 13, 1819, was a tailor and mechanic in Waterbury, and died Oct. 31, 1884: Daniel L. (the subject of this sketch) : Elizabeth M., born April 2, 1824, married John Whitney, and died in New Haven June 12, 1892; and Martha A., born Feb. 5, 1826, died March 4, 1831.
Daniel L. Chipman grew to maturity on a farm. In his carlier manhood, however, he for many years drove an omnibus through Waterbury, and on re- tiring from that calling, about twelve years ago. took up his home about half a mile from his birth- place, the place comprising about seventy acres just
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On Oct. 1, 1876, Daniel L. Chipman wedded Laura A. Morehouse, who was born in Washing- ton, Conn., and who died, after a pleasant com- panionship of nearly twenty years, June 24, 1895. On Oct. 12, 1896, Mr. Chipman chose for his second wife Sarah V. Worrall, who was born in Litchfield, this State, a daughter of John and Elizabeth ( Chip- man) Worrall, the former a native of England, who became farmer of Litchfield; the latter was a native of Cornwall, Conn., and a daughter of John Chipman, uncle of the subject of this sketch.
Daniel L. Chipman, like his father before him, has been a life-long Democrat. In religious belief he was reared a Methodist. He is now passing the remaining years of his life in the companionship of his estimable wife, surrounded by friends in- numerable, enjoying the fruits of his early labors, and at peace with all the world.
OSBORNE. Through all, saving the first dec- ade and a half, of the century just closed, the name introducing this sketch has been one of prominence in mercantile and industrial life in the town of Derby and of Ansonia, as well as in the social and relig- ious life of those communities. Here have figured a number of the immediate descendants of Capt. Stephen Osborne, among them his son, the late John White Osborne, and in turn his son, Major Wilbur F. Osborne, the latter for years the president of the Osborne & Cheeseman Co., and at this time presi- dent and assistant treasurer of the Union Fabric Co., both of Ansonia, as well as being interested in various enterprises.
Capt. Stephen Osborne, of New Haven, with his wife and family, the wife formerly being Apama Gorham, a granddaughter of Capt. George Gorham, came to Derby to live in 1817. Both Capt. Osborne and Capt. Gorham were patriots and saw active service in the war of the Revolution. A Capt. Stephen Osborne is referred to in the records of Connecticut men in the Revolution as being of Wallingford, and was commissioned a lieutenant on July 26, 1777, promoted captain May 1, 1778; while Capt. George Gorham is given as being. in 1779, in the company commanded by Abner Rob- inson, and in Samuel Mcclellan's regiment. Capt. Gorham was one of the men who assisted in stretch- ing the famous iron chain across the Hudson to ob- struct the British from going up the river.
Both long before and after the Revolution Derby was the scene of much shipbuilding which was the greatest industry of the town. One Thomas Wheeler, of Stratford, who settled on Birmingham Point in 1657, was probably the first engaged there in such industry. After some six years he was suc- ceeded by Alexander Bryan, a merchant, and the latter later by the Hawkenses, and from 1712 to 1720 it was a prominent trading point. Another busy shipyard was, in early days, at the Cove where were built vessels called Boston Coasters. Some distance below figured the Leavenworths, who built
the old bridge in 1798. At what was styled the Red House were built by Capt. Edmund & Sons, Gideon and Edmund Leavenworth, many vessels, schooners and sloops. Gideon Leavenworth was another of the patriots of the Revolution. He was in command of a company of infantry in 1777, and was himself wounded in the battle of White Plains. Packets were built up the Naugatuck river carlier than 1797, opposite the "old Parsons place." Soon after that date Capt. George Gorham built and launched a schooner from near the present Naugatuck and Derby stations. Capt. Gorham built many vessels below the Point of Rocks now known as Hallock's old ship-yard. Sea-captains and sea-faring men, too, were numerous about Derby, some of whom sailed to all points of the world. One George Gor- ham was a sea captain.
Capt. Stephen Osborne, at his death, left an es- tate which in those days was considered quite valua- ble, but the trustee of the estate invested the money in the Derby Bank which failed, and the family were left without means. The son, John White Os- borne, who was born June 26, 1810, in New Haven, came with the family to Derby in 1817, and early learned the shoemaker's trade, receiving for his services his board and $25 per year. On the completion of his trade he accepted a position with George W. Blakeman, then a grocer and dry goods merchant on the east side of the river. He re- mained with Mr. Blakeman for a number of years when at the latter's suggestion and with his assist- ance young Osborne, in 1843, opened a grocery store, on the west side of the river in Birmingham. and at a point where now stand the buildings of the Ousatonic Water Co. (corner Main and Water streets). In about 1845 he formed a partnership with George W. Cheeseman and they moved into the "stone store," built by Daniel Judson in 1836. These gentlemen transacted a large business, operat- ing two stores (the other in Waterbury) until 1859. In 1858 the firm also engaged in the manufacture of hoop skirts, and in the following year removed the business of this industry to Ansonia, still retaining for a time the Birmingham store. The formation of the business firm in the middle forties, of Os- borne & Cheeseman, was the beginning of a busi- ness connection, which for so many years was a great factor in the manufacturing interests of An- sonia and Shelton.
In 1866 the Osborne & Cheeseman Co. was or- ganized as a joint stock corporation, with a capital of $120,000. Before its organization and under the original firm, in 1861, was built the main factory, on the site of the burned Ansonia Clock Works. Subsequently the building was enlarged, and the line of manufacture largely increased to include web goods, suspenders and wire woven tape for skirts. A shop for metallic goods was also run. On the organization of the company John W. Osborne was made president ; Charles Durand, secretary, and George W. Cheeseman, treasurer. Mr. Osborne
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remained the executive head of the company until his retirement from active business in the early sev -. enties. He had led an active, busy and successful business life.
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In his early life, prior to merchandising, Mr. Osborne had engaged to some extent in school- teaching in Derby Neck, which point later for many years was the home of the family, and where the son, Major Wilbur F. Osborne, continues his resi- dence. Mr. Osborne had no taste for public life, and held but one political office in his life time. He was once elected a grand juror but refused to qualify until on a Sunday during divine services at Church, a man more or less intoxicated took from his pocket a bottle of whiskey, and began pouring the contents over the congregation. Mr. Osborne qualified to prosecute this man. When quite a young man Mr. Osborne was confirmed in the Epis- copal Church, but soon thereafter became a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and ever afterward remained a consistent and active Chris- tian. His life was an example to all men-one ever upright and honest, free from malice and always full of kindness for everyone. His life was a tower of strength and a blessing to many who, upon turn- ing from sin, found the new life seemingly hard and the cross heavy to bear. His disposition was such that care rested upon him lightly, and from the time he became a member of the church to the day of his death he gathered strength and courage from all vicissitudes. He was one of the leaders of the church, ever high in its councils. He at one time led the choir and for many years directed the music, was almost continually steward and a member of the official body, and for a long period was super- intendent of the Sunday-school.
He often dis- coursed to the congregation and his talks were full of light. All through his long life in the church he was the comforter and adviser of all-the one sought and the one turned to in time of need. The effect of his life in the church was the same on the outside upon all with whom he came in contact. He was a man among men. He had his opinions in tem- poral as well as in spiritual affairs, and when they differed from the opinions of others it had not the sting of malice and spite. His opinions were al- ways respected. He died with friends innumerable and without an enemy. Always full of energy and life he was active to the end, his more than four score years falling lightly upon him. His death oc- curred March 6, 1895.
Mr. Osborne was married three times, first to Susan H. Durand, of Derby; second to Mary Douglas, of New York; and third to Miss Eliza Hill, of Reading, Penn. His children, all born of the first marriage, were Wilbur F .; Fannie W., born in 1836, married Isaac D. Drew. and died April II, 1884: Harriet J., born in 1844, died in 1860 ; and Helen V., born Jan. 15, 1848, married E. H. Krehbiel, and died May 10, 1894.
Mrs. Susan H. (Durand) Osborne, the mother
of these children, born in 1816, and died in 1859, was the daughter of the late Samuel Durand, and a descendant in the fifth generation from Dr. John Durand, who was early at Stratford, Conn., marry- ing there Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Bryan, and granddaughter of Alexander Bryan. Dr. Durand settled in Derby about 1685. From this ancestor Mrs. Susan H. ( Durand) Osborne's line of descent was through Joseph, Noah and Samuel Durand.
(II) Joseph Durand, son of Dr. John, born Dec. 20. 1709, married April 25, 1734, Ann Tomlin- son. She died Feb. 14, 1778, and he passed away Ang. 6, 1792.
(III) Noah Durand, son of Joseph, born May 12, 1740, married Abigail, daughter of Caleb Tom- linson, and lived on Great Neck, and there died April 12, 1818. His widow died Nov. 2, 1831.
(IV) Samuel Durand, son of Noah, born July 13. 1783, married ( first) Susan Hawkins, (second ) her sister Sally Hawkins, and (third) Nancy Beers, of Trumbull, Conn., and ( fourth) Nancy Brown, of New Bedford. Mr. Durand was a farmer on Bare Plains. He died in February, 1852. His chil- dren were: Charles, Sarah, Susan H. (Mrs. Os- borne) and Samuel.
MAJOR WILBUR F. OSBORNE. son of John W .. is a native of Derby, and has thus far in life made that town his home ; his business life, however, since the formation of Ansonia, has been in the latter town. He has grown up in the business enterprises estab- lished by his father, and from boyhood taken an active and prominent part in planning and devel- oping the business out of which since have come a number of branches, as well as having engaged in various other enterprises. A few years subsequent to his father's retirement from the presidency of the Osborne & Cheeseman Co. he became the exec- utive head of the concern. In 1882, as an offshoot of the above named company, there was incorpor- ated the S. O. & C. Co., which has since been en- gaged in manufacturing eyelets and eyeleting ma- chinery, and also metal goods. Some years later, in 1887, the Union Fabric Company was incorpor- ated, to cover steel and other wires for use in skirts, bustles, etc. Of this company, Major Osborne was made president, a position he still holds. He is also president of the Schneller Stay Works, of Ansonia, and treasurer of the Connecticut Clasp Co., of Bridgeport. The Major was one of the original incorporators of the S. O. & C. Co., of Ansonia. . and of the Derby Silver Co., of Shelton, now a branch of the International Silver Co. He is one of the prominent manufacturers of the Naugatuck Valley, and is recognized as an enterprising and public-spirited citizen, both in Ansonia and in Derby. He is president of the Derby Neck Free Library.
Major Osborne served three years and seven months in the Civil war, having enlisted in April. 1861, from the Wesleyan University, first, in the
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three months service, and later in the first regiment that was sworn into the United States service for the entire Civil war. He received promotion to sergeant, second and first lieutenant, and captain of artillery ; was artillery instructor of the 2d Con- necticut Artillery ; inspector general of defences at Washington, South of the Potomac; ordnance offi- cer ; acting quarter master, etc.
AUGUSTUS I. GOODRICH, who is now liv- ing in Waterbury, comes of an old and honored American family of English extraction.
Luther Goodrich, grandfather of our subject, born July 16, 1776, in East Haddam, Conn., was a sea captain. He was a member of Columbia Lodge, No. 26, F. & A. M., of East Haddam. He married Sarah Danforth ( who died in 1861), and by her had a family of four children: Sarah and Miranda both died at the age of twenty-five years : George was the father of our subject : Hepsey P. married William Dorrance, lived in Andover, Conn., and died at the age of sixty-two years.
George Goodrich was born in East Haddam, Sept. 8, 1805, and died Dec. 29, 1879. He received his education in Rocky Hill, Conn. He learned the trade of cabinetmaker in Hartford, from there pro- ceeding to Bristol, where he worked in a clock-case factory until 1878, at that time moving to Water- bury, where he passed the rest of his days. He married Charlotte L. Ives, who was born in Bris- tol, a daughter of Ira and Cynthia (Shaler) Ives : her father was a Captain in the Revolutionary war. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. George Goodrich, viz .: Miss Almira M., living in Water- bury : Augustus I., our subject : and George L. and Samuel R., mechanics, who reside in Bristol. The mother died in 1848. The father was a lifelong Whig and Republican, and in religious faith both he and his wife were Congregationalists.
Augustus I. Goodrich was born Sept. 16. 1833, in Bristol, and there attended the common school and academy. At the age of twenty-three, in the year 1856, he came to Waterbury, where he has resided ever since, having been continuously in the employ of the Waterbury Clock Co. until May, 1899, since when he has lived retired. For many years he was superintendent of the works, and dur- ing his long service of over forty years he proved himself honest, capable and industrious, leaving with a record second to none in the company's employ.
On Jan. 22, 1861, Mr. Goodrich married Helen I. Corbett, who was born in Rome. N. Y., daughter of Samuel and Rachel Corbett, the former a repre- sentative of an old Boston ( Mass. ) family, and the latter of an old Maine family. Two children have been born to this union: Frederic S. and Charles G., both very talented young men.
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Frederic S. Goodrich, M. A., professor of Greek in Albion (Mich. ) College. was born in Waterbury Sept. 9. 1865, and there received his early education, later attending Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham,
Mass., from which he graduated in the class of 1885. taking the commencement oratorical prize. For a year he was engaged in newspaper work, after which he continued his studies at Wesleyan Univer- sity, Middletown, Conn., and was graduated in the class of 1890. During his course he took prizes in Latin, Greek and English literature, and led the class in general scholarship. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon fraternities. After graduation he spent a year abroad, studying in the University of Berlin, and in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He visited points of interest in Egypt, Palestine and Asia Minor, and on his return he taught Greek for a year in Wesleyan University, and in 1892 was ap- pointed to the professorship of Greek in Albion Col- lege, where he has since remained. Prof. Goodrich is regarded as an authority in his chosen field, and is also well-known as a lecturer on various topics. In 1894, under his management, the students of the Greek department at Albion College gave a highly successful production of Sophocles' "Oedi- pus Tyrannus," and in 1900 "Iphigenia among the Taurians," both in the original Greek. Prof. Good- rich received the degree of M. A. from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1898. The Professor is an ordained minister of the M. E. Church, and is a member of the Detroit Conference. On Jan. 3, 1893, he married Mary M. Harrison, of Waterbury, an accomplished art student, and they have two children, Frederic H. and Helen R. Mr. Goodrich is a Freemason and Odd Fellow. In 1900 he was the nomince for governor of Michigan on the Pro- hibition ticket.
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