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Alpheus Drake, son of Ebenezer, was born in Portland, Maine, Oct. 22, 1782, and was married in 1804 to Sybil. daughter of Joseph and Sybil (Grover) Fairbanks. Mr. Drake died in Portland in 1854, and his widow passed away in Winthrop.
to April, 1893, was city attorney, and for years has ably and efficiently served the city as associate judge of the city court. He has served two terms in the city council. His religious affiliations are with the First Methodist Church of New Haven. Frater- nally he belongs to the Masons, affiliating with New Haven Commandery, No. 2, K. T., and he is also a member of the I. O. O. F. As an active Repub- lican, he belongs to the Young Men's Republican League, and the Union League Club, of which latter he has been vice-president.
Judge Dow was married Jan. 13, 1857. to Miss Hester D., daughter of Zirah and Abigail (Downs) Barnes, and to them were born the following chil- dren: (1) Edwin Z., who has been for many years in charge of a department in the Winchester Re- peating Arms Co., married Grace French, and is the father of three children, William ( of New Haven ), Arthur, and Gardner. (2) Harry B. is general traffic manager of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co .; he married Alice Chatfield. (3) Mae B. mar- ried Elbert E. Munsell, agent of the Central States Dispatch Co., at New Haven, and they have one child, Dorothy W.
Captain Dow belongs to Admiral Foote Post, No. 17, G. A. R., where he has filled all the local offices ; for two terms he was Judge Advocate in the State organization. A just and upright judge, an honorable man, on whose name there is no stain, he is a genial and popular gentleman, and both as a citizen and as a man is highly regarded in New Haven.
Edwin Clinton Dow received a common-school education at Middletown, Conn., where he attended Daniel H. Chase's Military school. After leaving there he went to Oxford, Conn., where he was first employed as a mechanic. On the breaking out of the Civil war he enlisted, May 23, 1861, in Company F, 4th Conn. V. I .. which later became Company F, Ist Conn. Heavy Artillery. He was mustered into service as first lieutenant of the company. The regi- ment was early commanded by Levi Woodhouse. who was succeeded by Robert O. Tyler, of Hart- ford, who became a brigadier general, and still later a major-general. Under his thorough discipline and even hand, the regiment became a model one, and its record throughout the war in the Army of the HENRY M. STATES, of New Haven, Conn., well known in railroad circles, is a native of Con- necticut, born in Stonington, April 8, 1848, a son of Benjamin F. States, and a brother of James N. States, mentioned elsewhere in this volume. East is most ereditable. The regiment, either as a whole or in part. was present and participated in the following important events : the siege of York- town ; the battles of Hanover Court House. Gaines' Mills, Chickahominy, Golden Hill, Malvern Hill; Henry M. States passed his early years in his na- tive town, and acquired his literary training in the public and private schools. When he took up life's burden for himself, he went to New York City, and there entered the employ of the Continental Fire Insurance Co., with whom he remained about five years. For several years he was engaged in travel- - ing through the South, and he then returned to New York where he was connected with the street clean- ing department in the capacity of foreman. This was followed by three years as special agent for the Pullman Palace Car Co., with headquarters at Jer- sey City. The railroad service possesses a faseina- tion that to many is almost irresistible and after Mr. States had severed his connection with the Pullman Company, he passed several years on the road in various positions, serving as conductor, baggage man, etc., until four years since, when he located in New Haven, and entered the offices of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road. the siege of Fredericksburg, in 1862, and the battles before that city the following spring and early sum- mer ; Kelly's Ford, Orange Court House : siege of Petersburg and Richmond ; Fort Fisher, N. C .; and the closing scenes of the great war. Gen. Barry, chief of artillery, paid a high compliment to the command in placing it in point of "intelligence and the requirements and services of this special arm as unrivalled in the armies of the United States." Lieut. Dow was made captain of his company Nov. 6, 1861, and throughout his long period of service, closing Oct. 20, 1864, bore an honorable part in the fortunes of his regiment. Returning after his dis- charge from the service, he took up the duties of civil life at New Haven, where he has since proved himself one of the honored and useful citizens of that important center of the political, social and busi- ness activities of the State. Studying law under the instruction of E. P. Arvine, of New Haven, he was admitted to the Bar in that city March 17. 1878. In June, 1870, Mr. States was united in mar- riage with Mrs. Fannie L. Ober, of Brooklyn, a From April, 1887, to September, 1892, Capt. Dow was assistant city attorney; from September, 1892, ; daughter of John Huff, of New York. This union
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has been blessed with one child. In his political faith Mr. States is a Democrat, and for two years served most acceptably as a member of the board of public works. His religious connection is with the Protestant Episcopal Church.
FREDERICK AARON HIGBY, foreman of the castor department of Foster, Merriam & Co., Meriden, was born Nov. 23. 1833. in Turin, Lewis Co., N. Y., and is a descendant of Edward Higby. the first of the name in Connecticut.
(I) Edward Highby, Higbie or Highbee, was at New London as early as 1648, and sold his house there the next year. He was an innkeeper at Mid- dietown, Conn., in 1674. and soon thereafter went to Jamaica, Long Island. He was probably at Huntington, Long Island, in 1683, and resided there as late as 1701. His wife. Lydia, joined the Church in Middletown, Conn., in 1674. coming from First Church at Hartford, and was dismissed on Oct. 14, 1677, with six children, to join the Church at Ja- maica, Long Island.
(II) John Highby, born about 1656, died in [688. He married Rebecca Treadwell, of Fairfield, Connecticut.
(III) Edward Highby, baptized at Middletown. Conn., Aug. 24, 1684, married Nov. 29. 1706, Re- becca Wheeler, of Stratfield (now Bridgeport), Conn. Mr. Highby and his wife united with the Middletown Church April 26, 1713, and he was dismissed Dec. 19, 1773. to form a new Church at Westfield, Conn., where he died Nov. 21, 1775, in the ninety-second year of his age. His wife died Oct. 22, 1771. From this branch of the Highby or Higby family, Frederick A. Higby is descended.
Daniel Higby, Jr., the grandfather of our sub- ject, was a native of Westfield, Middlesex Co., Conn., born at the foot of Higby Mountain. His fa- ther, Daniel Higby, Sr., removed from Westfield to Constableville, Lewis Co., N. Y., with his family. and became a farmer and landowner there, and con- tinued to reside and was buried there. Daniel Higby, Jr., went with his parents to Constableville, where he followed farming and became a landed proprietor, He married Margaret Cone, who was a native of Middlesex County, Conn., and both died and were buried at Constableville, N. Y. They were the par- ents of ten children: Daniel, the eldest, died in Constableville; Sarah married Enoch Daniels, a farmer of that place: Aaron; John, died in Mich- igan; Asahel and William died in Constableville; Olive married Philetus Hough; Silas died in Oneida Co., N. Y .: Sophronia died young; and Lucy was the wife of William Snyder, of Con- stableville.
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lingford. On June 1, 1829, he married Julia Brad- ley, of East Haven, a sister of the late Mrs. Ed- mund Parker, of Meriden. In response to the wish of his parents, he returned to his native place to care for them in their declining years, and to till the home farm. Here he remained nine years, and after the death of his parents returned to Meriden. About 1840, he settled on a farm formerly owned by Gen. Walter Booth, on North Colony street, includ- ing the present site of the State School for Boys, and here tilled a large tract for several years. He subsequently purchased the Liberty Perkins place, on Ann street, now the property of his daughter, Mrs. John C. Knight. He continued for many years to work in the coffee mill department of the Charles Parker Company. He passed away Jan. 13, 1880, at the ripe age of seventy-eight years, and was in- terred in East Cemetery. He was a Democrat in early life, but espoused the principles of the Re- publican party when the Civil war began, and ever after continued that affiliation. Of quiet nature and strictly temperate habits, he was an honored member of the Methodist Church. He was a charter mem- ber of Hancock Lodge, No. 28, I. O. O. F., of Meriden. His wife survived him until Dec. 3, 1891. dying in the eighty-third year of her age, and was interred in East Cemetery. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a true Christian, and a devoted wife and mother. Eight children blessed the union of Aaron and Julia Higby, as fol- lows: (1) Grace Ann, born March 23, 1830, married Edward Benham, of Cheshire. (2) Caroline, born Nov. 25, 1831, died Feb. 10, 1867: she married James Williams, and had one child, Frederick, who died in childhood. : (3) Frederick Aaron is the sub- ject of this notice. (4) Jasper L., born June 10, 1836, married (first) Celia Hull of North Haven, and (second) Gertrude Buckley. He died at the home of Mrs. Knight, in Meriden, Aug. 11, 1901, and was buried in East Cemetery; he left a son, Howard E., a resident of Pittsburg, Penn. (3) Julia. born Nov. 10. 1837. died in 1840. (6) Julia (2), born July 15, 1840, married. Dec. 3. 1867, John C. Knight, whose biography appears in this volume. (7) Louisa, born Jan. 24. 1844, died the same year. (8) Geneva, born Sept. 15, 1847, died Oct. 8. 1849.
During the gold excitement of 1849, Mr. Higby made the trip to California, with several of his ac- quaintances, including Capt. Woodruff. N. F. Gris- wold and Charles Coe. Of all his companions, only N. F. Griswold, of Meriden, is now living. They went on a schooner, via Cape Horn, and returned by steamer at the end of three years.
Frederick Aaron Higby was but seven years old when he came to Meriden with his parents, and here attended the district schools. Among his teachers were a Miss Betsey Foster, and the venerable Charles Hinsdale Collins, the well-known grocer of Meriden. At an early age, Mr. Higby struck out
Aaron Higby, son of Daniel and Margaret (Cone) Higby, was born in Constableville, where he grew to manhood on the farm. Before he was : twenty years old he came to Meriden and worked for Frederick White in the manufacture of coffee ' to do something for himself, and was employed on mills. He subsequently spent a short time in Wal- | the farm of Ashbel Griswold during the summer,
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attending school again in the winter. When six- teen years old he went to work in the coffee mill de- partment of the Charles Parker Co., receiving as compensation six dollars per month and board, mak- ing his home for a time in Mr. Parker's family, and he remained in the shop until he attained his majority. In 1854 he entered the service of Foster, Merriam & Co., and has continued this connection almost half a century, with the exception of three years spent in defense of the Union. For a number of years he has been foreman of the costor depart- ment of that well-known establishment, and through strict attention to business, has won the respect and confidence of his employers, and the esteem of those under his direction.
On Aug. II, 1862, Mr. Higby enlisted in Mer- iden in Co. F, 15th Conn. V. I., under Capt. A. L. Harvey and Col. Dexter R. Wright. He continued in the service until the close of the war, and was in the Ninth Army Corps, un- der Gen. Burnside. Receiving a furlough of thirty days he came home, and at the close of his furlough, was detailed in the commissary department at New Haven, having charge of the local department un- der Capt. Hart, of New York, who was Commis- sary General at New Haven.
Mr. Higby's first marriage occurred in Meriden May 6, 1856, the bride being Miss Mary Ann, daughter of the late John Sutliff, mention of whom is made elsewhere. She was born March 23, 1832, and died Feb. 22, 1859, leaving two children: Ida M., born July 12, 1857, and William F., Dec. 8, 1860, now a resident of Meriden. Mr. Higby was married (second) Oct. 2, 1866, at Ansonia, Conn., to Martha M. Joy, who was born at Newmarket. N. H., a daughter of Eben and Mehitabel (Doe) Joy, of that place. Three children came to this union : (1) Harry, born Oct. 19, 1871, died in 1893. (2) Edward Joy, born Sept. 17, 1873, is manager of the F. Hallock hardware store at Derby, Conn .; he mar- ried Louisa Peck, of Ansonia. (3) Mary Caroline, the third, is the wife of William R. Bannister, of Meriden, and has two children, Grace Esther and Rowland Higby. Mr. Higby is an active member of Merriam Post, No. 8, G. A. R., of Meriden. of which he is Past Commander, and of Pilgrims' Harbor Council, No. 543, Royal Arcanum. Mrs. Higby is active in the work of the Womans Relief Corps, being identified with the local corps, in which she has served as president and chaplain. The fam- ily attend the Congregational Church. Mr. Higby endeavors to live up to the requirements of the golden rule, and is regarded as a good citizen by those privileged to know him. Attached to his home, family and friends, he does not seek the hon- ors or emoluments of official station, but acts the part of a true patriot by voting for his convictions, usually acting with the Republican party.
June 18, 1813, from exposure while serving in the war of 1812. On Sept. 13, 1807, at Lee, N. H., Mr. Joy was married by Rev. John Osborn, to Miss Mary French, who was born at Stratham, Vt., Feb. 13. 1790, and died at New Market, N. H., Feb. 18, 1867. Their children were: Alfred T., born in Durham, Sept. 5, 1808; Mary S., born at Middleton, N. H., Jan. 22, 1810, married William Badger, Jan. 18, 1827; and Eben J., born at New Market, Nov. 30, 1812. Timothy M. Joy was a descendant in the sixth generation from Thomas Joy, who came from England in 1757, and settled at Boston; he was an architect, and built the first town house there.
Eben J. Joy, son of Timothy, passed his life in his native town, and followed tanning and farming. On Feb. 28, 1833, he married Mehitabel M. Doe, who was born at Durham, Sept. 13, 1813, and now resides in New Market. Three of the twelve chil- dren born of this union, died in infancy. The others were: Sarah M., born Sept. 20, 1836, married Charles A. Dearborn, of New Market, in 1860; William W., born March 20, 1838, died June 3, 1900; Mary L., born Feb. 27, 1840, married in 1858, D. K. Foster, of New Market, and died February, 1868; Martha M., born April 12, 1842, married Frederick A. Higby; Timothy M., born May 5, 1846; Ida E., born July 18, 1848, married in 1879, Henry H. Murray, of Burlington, Kans .; George E., born Dec. 15, 1850; Edward H., born March I, 1853 ; Charles F., born Jan. 26, 1856.
JOHN ROBERT STREAT TODD, one of Wolcott's prosperous fruit growers and farmers, was born March 7, 1846, on the Todd homestead in that town, and is a representative of an old and highly esteemed family of New Haven county. The first to locate here was Christopher Todd, son of William, of Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. He married Grace Middlebrook, a daughter of Michael Middlebrook, of Hold Mills, same county, and later came to America, becoming one of the first settlers of Davenport, in the New Haven Colony, in 1637. He owned a large tract of land, and was engaged in farming, milling and baking. His children were John, Samuel, Mercy, Grace, Michael and Nancy. Samuel Todd, son of Christopher, was born in New Haven in 1645, and succeeded his father in business. On Nov. 26, 1668, he wedded Mary Bradley, a daughter of William Bradley, and died in 1714. In his family were eleven children : Sam- uel. Joseph, Mary, Sarah, Joseph, Hannah, Jonah. Daniel, Abigail, Mercy and James.
Samuel Todd (2), born July 1, 1672, was a farmer and land owner of North Haven, and served as deacon of the church. He died in December, 1741. In September, 1698, he married Susannah Tuttle, and for his second wife he married Esther Maltby. His children were Lydia, wife of Rev. Benjamin Doclittle, of Northfield, Mass. : Caleb :
Timothy M. Joy, grandfather of Mrs. Higby, was born July 16, 1789, at Durham, N. H., and after . Stephen, also a resident of Northfield; Mehitable ; a life passed in agricultural pursuits, died there | Christopher ; Samuel, the first pastor in the North
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parish of Waterbury, Conn .; Susannah, wife of Rev. Caleb Humiston ; and Elizabeth, wife of Dea- con Samuel Sackett.
Caleb Todd, son of Samuel (2), was born Feb. 2, 1700, and became a farmer and land owner in North Haven, where he died July 5, 1737. On Dec. 15, 1725, he wedded Mary Ives, a daughter of Samuel Ives, and to them were born three chil- dren : Phobe, wife of David Blakeslee; Hezekiah ; and Bethia, wife of Mathew Gilbert.
Hezekiah Todd, son of Caleb, was born May 2, 1728, was reared on a farm in North Haven, and lived there all his life. He was married in North Haven, Jan. 17, 1753, to Lydia Frost, a daughter of Ebenezer Frost. Their children were Caleb ; Heze- kiah ; Bethuel ; Lydia, wife of Joel Sackett, of North Haven; Moses: Oliver: Joel; and Phoebe, who married Parker Bates, and died in Southington.
Hezekiah Todd (2) was born Nov. 5, 1755, moved from North Haven to Cheshire in 1783, and passed the remainder of his life on a farm near Judd's Hill, in Wolcott. The place has always been kept in the family, and is now owned and occupied by Edwin A. Todd, his great-grandson. Hezekiah Todd (2) died there May 18, 1836. In January, 1783, he married Mercy Holt, a daughter of Joseph and Hannah ( Blakeslee ) Holt. She died Sept. 12, 1819. Children were born to them as follows: Hannah, born April 13, 1784, married Freeman Upson; Jerry was born Dec. 3. 1785; Lydia, born Dec. 7, 1789, married Joseph Holt, of Waterbury, and died in Wisconsin; Streat, the grandfather of our subject, was next in the order of birth ; Mercy Melinda, born June 11, 1794, died unmarried Jan. 22, 1822; Lucina, born March 7, 1796, was mar- ried May 2, 1822, to Samuel J. Holmes, of Water- bury ; and Polly Ann, born May 12, 1800, was mar- ried, in December, 1824, to Timothy Porter, of Waterbury.
Streat Todd was born Aug. 27, 1792, in Che- shire, and followed farming and butchering, fur- nishing Waterbury with meat almost entirely for fourteen years, doing the butchering on his farm in Wolcott, and carrying the meat to Waterbury every day to supply customers. In 1836 he left the business to his son Ransom, who continued it until his death, in 1857. Streat Todd was a self-edu- cated as well as a self-made man, was industrious, upright and honorable, and a consistent member of the Congregational Church. He died Oct. 25, 1860, on the farm in Cheshire now owned and occupied by Edwin A. Todd, and was laid to rest in the family burying ground at Woodtick. On Feb. 16, 1815, he married Ruth W. Welton, a native of Wolcott, who died April 2, 1879, in Waterbury, aged eighty-six. In their family were the follow- ing children: Ransom S. born Jan. 18. 1816; Jenette, born Aug. 17. 1817, who married Harry Thomas, and died May 19. 1836: Rober: C., born April 21, 1820; Edwin, born Jan. 30, 1823; James, born Oct. 18, 1825; William S. and Willis H., |
twins, who were born Jan. 19, 1828, the former dy- ing Dec. 12, 1833, the latter Nov. 9, 1871 ; Franklin, who was born Nov. 24, 1832, married Adaline Thomas, and removed to Ohio, now living in York, Medina county ; Eveline, who was born July 29, 1834, and is the widow of Nelson Morris, of Water- bury; Jane; and William S., born May 20, 1838, now of Waterbury, who was married Nov. 28, 1862, to Emogene Miner.
Robert C. Todd was born April 21, 1820, and ob- tained a good practical education in the district schools of Wolcott. He followed farming upon the place now occupied by the subject of this sketch, and at one time owned 300 acres of land. Politically he was a stanch supporter of the Democratic party. He was highly respected and esteemed by all who knew him. He died Oct. 19, 1895, and was buried in the Woodtick cemetery. On April 2, 1843, he married Miss Louisa Barnes, of Cheshire, who found a pleasant home with our subject, and died June 30, 1901, at the ripe old age of seventy-eight years. Five children were born to them, namely : Ellen E., born April 2, 1844, died June 11, 1865; John R. S., our subject, is next in the order of birth ; Emily J., born Feb. 26, 1848, died Oct. 14, 1856; James Augustine, born Oct. 29, 1851, is. men- tioned more fully below ; and Edwin A., born Jan. 21, 1854, is a resident of Cheshire.
James A. Todd received a district-school edu- cation and was reared upon the home farm. At the age of seventeen years he started out in life for himself, finding employment in the silverware fac- tory of Rogers Brothers, as an assistant in the office, where he remained two years, and later was a traveling salesman for the same firm for twelve years. He then went to Newburyport, Mass., and became connected with the solid silver works of the Towle Manufacturing Co., as secretary. In 1888 he removed to Chicago, Ill., to take charge of their business in that city, where he still remains. He is now vice-president of the company. He has been twice married, his first wife being Lucella Upson, daughter of Lucian Upson, and his second Han- nah Leek Holley, of New York.
The early education of John R. S. Todd, which was obtained in the district schools, was supple- mented by a course at a business college, and for a time he successfully engaged in teaching school during the winter months, while he aided in the work of the farm during the summer season. He has always remained on the old homestead, en- gaged in agricultural pursuits. He has planted a fine peach orchard, being extensively engaged in fruit growing, also follows dairying and general farming, and is interested in stock raising.
On Nov. 19. 1889, Mr. Todd was united in mar- riage with Miss Edith Williams, a lady of culture and refinement, who was graduated from the New Haven high school, and for a time successfully en- gaged in teaching school in Wolcott. They have two children : Ruth Irene, born Nov. 10, 1890; and
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Oscar Barnum, born Aug. 3, 1892. Mrs. Todd iş a native of Bethel, Fairfield Co., Conn., a daughter of Jerome B. and Mary ( Barnum) Williams, na- tives of Bethel and Easton, respectively. Mr. Todd is a member of the Agricultural Society and a charter member of Mad River Grange, to which his wife also belongs. He has been quite promi- nently identified with local politics; has filled the office of selectman for fifteen years; and has also .served as assessor, tax collector and justice of the peace. His public service has been most exemplary, and his private life has been marked by the utmost fidelity to duty. He is therefore numbered among the most valued and highly estecmed citizens of his native town.
EDWIN A. TODD. Prominent among the successful farmers and fruit growers of New Ha- ven county may be named Edwin A. Todd, whose home is in Cheshire, and who, by his enterprise and energy in the direction of his chosen industry, has given to his work a significance and beauty of which few deemed it capable.
A native of New Haven county, Mr. Todd was born in Wolcott, Jan. 21, 1854, and on the paternal side is of English descent, being a grandson of Streat and Ruth W. (Welton) Todd. His father, Robert C. Todd, was born in April, 1820, in Wol- cott, where he continued to make his home until he came with his father to Cheshire, where he fol- lowed farming for a time. After his marriage he returned to Wolcott, where his death occurred Oct. 19, 1895. In 1843, in Cheshire, he married Miss Louisa Barnes, a native of that town, and a daugh- ter of Jolin and Roxana ( Peck) Barnes, who were also born in Cheshire. Mrs. Todd died June 30, 1901, in Wolcott, aged seventy-eight years. She was the mother of five children: Ellen E., who died at the age of twenty-one years: John R. S., a resident of Wolcott ; Emily, who died at the age of eight years ; James A., a resident of La Grange and business man of Chicago, Ill .; and Edwin A. .
Edwin A. Todd grew to manhood on the home farm and acquired his literary education in the schools of Wolcott. On laving aside his text- books and starting out in life for himself he en- gaged in farming, and in 1885 located upon the old homestead in Cleshire, where Hezekiah Todd, his great-grandfather, settled over a century ago, mak- ing it his home until his death. Mr. Todd has made many improvements upon the place, which com- prises 150 acres of land, and now gives special at- tention to fruit culture, having a fine plum and peach orchard from which he derives a good in- come. His handsome and commodious residence was erected in 1896.
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