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For many years Mr. Golden has been conspic- uous in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being a prominent member of Meriden Center Lodge, of which he is Past Grand, being also a past District Deputy Grand Master of the State. He is a member of the New England Order of Protection, an insurance organization. In politics he is a Re- publican. He has acceptably represented the Fifth Ward in the City Council, being clerk of the Fire committee one vear, and serving on the Sewer and Printing committees, and was also elected alder- man, serving with great capacity on several im- portant committees, notably those on Parks, Health, Fire and License, being chairman of the last two. Mr. Golden is now a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, having been the first Repub- lican appointed on this board. For a number of years he has exerted an influence in his party coun- cils, and he is identified with many of its leading measures in this locality. Both Mr. and Mrs. Golden are members of the First Baptist Church.
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Mrs. Golden is secretary of the Ladies' Social and Benevolent Society of that Church. She has filled this responsible position since 1898, and her com- plete and well-written annual reports of the society, as well as reports at the annual roll-call, have been the subject of many favorable comments and con- gratulatory felicitations.
E. HENRY BARNES, of the firm of Sperry & Barnes, pork packers, New Haven, is known as a leading business man and successful dealer in that city. He was born Jan. 17, 1838, in North Haven, a son of Deacon Bayard and Cleora ( Lindsley ) Barnes, and on both sides is descended from the pious Puritan stock of early Colonial history.
The Barnes family was founded in Connecticut in 1640, when Thomas Barnes arrived from Eng- land and located at East Haven. By his wife, Elizabeth, was born one son, Thomas (2).
Thomas Barnes (2) was born Aug. 26, 1653, and on June 26, 1675, married Mary Hubbard. On her death he married Abigail Frost.
Thomas Barnes (3), son of Thomas (2), was born July 26, 1687, and married Mary Leek May 18, 1709.
Capt. Joshua Barnes, son of Thomas (3), was born July 1I, 1722, and married Deborah Woodin Dec. 26, 1745. He died June 7, 1790, she in 1782. He won his title in the Revolution.
Deacon Joshua Barnes, son of Capt. Joshua, was born in 1756, and died Aug. 11, 1839. A patriot of the war of the Revolution, he en- listed in June, 1776, in the company commanded by Capt. Jacob Brockett. In 1779 he was on the "Alarm List." In 1797, 1798 and 1799 he repre- sented his town in the General Assembly, and for fifteen years served as justice of the peace in North Haven. In 1800 he was chosen a deacon in Dr. Trumbull's Church, and retained that position until his death. His name appears on the United States pension rolls of 1832. Deacon Barnes was an ex- tensive farmer in North Haven, where he was also engaged successfully in stone dealing, cabinet mak- ing and blacksmithing, becoming quite well-to-do. He was justice of the peace for many years, and exercised much influence in the community, where he was higlily esteemed for his many sterling quali- . ties.' Mercy Tuttle became his wife Feb. 15. 1781, and died April 1, 1828. They became the parents of six children: ( 1) Joshua, born in 1781, died Nov. 25, 1886; (2) Frederick, born July 4, 1784, was buried in the North Haven cemetery; (3) Mercy, born Aug. 16, 1787, died at the age of four months; (4) Mary, born May 30, 1789, was mar- ried in 1811 to Andrew Pierpont, and died May 20, 1840; (5) Rebecca, born April 5, 1791, was married in 1818 to Eleazur Warner: (6) Bayard was born in North Haven Jan. 22, 1794.
Deacon Bayard Barnes, youngest child of Dea- con Joshua and Mercy ( Tuttle ) Barnes, was a prominent man of godly spirit. During the first
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half of the century just closed he was one of the best known and most highly honored citizens of North Haven. Born near the close of the eight- eenth century, he carly walked before his fellow- men with such sterling worth and manly piety that in 1824, when only thirty years of age, he was chosen a deacon in the church, and sustained such relations until 1861, a period of thirty-seven years. A devout Christian and a high-minded gentleman, he died. in the triumph of faith, leaving to his children the legacy of a noble name and the men- ory of a beautiful affection ; and to all men the ex- ample of an upright and just life. When eighteen years of age Bayard Barnes left home and went to Ithaca, remaining there for two years, when he re- turned to North Haven. His marriage to Beda E. Gill, daughter of John Gill, took place Nov. 6, 1816. Soon after this he again went to Ithaca, N. Y., where he was engaged in farming some two years, then returning to North Haven. By his first marriage Bayard Barnes had three children: Au- gusta, born Aug. 1, 1817 ; Beda Goodyear, born Oct. 1, 1819; and Ellen A., born Feb. 5, 1822. Deacon Barnes was married March 31, 1824, to Cleora Lindsley, who was born in 1799, daughter of Dea- con Munson Lindsley, of Northford. To this union came the following children: Andrew, born Feb. 3, 1825; Bayard Elizur, Dec. 11, 1826; Celestia Cleora, Aug. 10, 1828; Marcus Lindsley, Dec. 10, 1830; Eli Henry, July 20, 1832; Herbert, Feb. 4, 1834; Stewart, July 16, 1836; Eli Henry (2), Jan. 17, 1838; and Cleora.
E. Henry Barnes, whose name introduces this article, was reared on the old homestead, and worked on the paternal acres during the spring and summer, attending the district school in the winter season. He came to New Haven Oct. 6, 1858, bringing no capital with him save that of a good name and a determination to maintain against all the temptation and vice of the world his clear char- acter and moral nature. This he has never failed to do. His first employment in New Haven was found in the meat market of an elder brother. On Sept. 1, 1860, Mr. Barnes entered the employ of S. E. Merwin & Son, continuing with them for nearly four years, excepting a brief time when he was engaged in business in Meriden. In March, 1864, he became associated with his brother Her- bert in the wholesale butcher business, the firm being H. & E. Henry Barnes. From this firm E. H. Barnes withdrew in October, 1870, and the same month was organized the firm of Sperry & Barnes, consisting of Joel A. Sperry, E. Henry Barnes and Joseph Porter. To the advancenient of the business 1 interests of this firm Mr. Barnes has since devoted his unremitting attention. The Sperry & Barnes establishment is one of the largest and oldest de- voted to pork packing in Connecticut. Its business reputation is beyond question, and its individual members are men of the highest character, present- ing to the world the highest type of New England i
manhood. These gentlemen were among the first to see the possibilities of exporting American meat to foreign countries. They grasped the oppor- tunity, and their foresight has brought them a very considerable fortune. For years their product has gone outward to England and the continent. Their works are roomy, and furnished with every mod- ern appliance for facilitating business. At the yards, on Long Wharf, the firm slaughter over 200,000 hogs a year, and give employment to over 300 men. Their home markets are in New Eng- land and the Middle States, and their office is at No. 114 State Street, New Haven.
Mr. Barnes has been true to his ancestral faith, and has taken much interest in church affairs. He is identified with the Church of the Redeemer, has served as a member of the "Society Committee," and took a prominent part in securing the payment of the church debt, toward which he contributed lib- erally. He is a Republican, has no desire for civil honors and has refused every invitation to become a candidate for political office. Esteemed and be- loved by all, he is one of the best of the citizens of New Haven. Socially he holds membership in the Quinnipiac Club.
Mr. Barnes has been twice married, his first wedding occuring Christmas Day, 1862, when he was united to Miss Jennie E. Cargill, of Monroe, Conn. Mrs. Barnes died in 1869, leaving two chil- dren : Jennie E., born Oct. 17, 1865, died in Feb- ruary, 1870; and Clara MI., who was born Nov. 8, 1867. For his second wife Mr. Barnes wedded May 25, 1870, Esther C. Post, of Hartford, Conn., daughter of Ezekiel Augustus and Clarissa ( Brown) Post. To this union has been born one child, Bayard, born Nov. 8, 1872. Clara M. Barnes married Sidney Hosmer, of Boston, and of this union there are two children: Esther, born May 26, 1896; and Sidney B., born Feb. 4, 1899. Mr. Hosmer is general manager of the Boston Electric Light Co. He graduated from Yale in 1892. Bay- ard Barnes, the only son of E. Henry Barnes, is instructor in chemistry in the Scientific School of Yale University, from which he was graduated. in 1895; three years later he received the degree of Ph. D.
LEVERETT G. HEMINGWAY for many years conducted a wholesale and retail milk busi- ness in Park street, New Haven, and was well and favorably known in that city. A native of East Ha- ven, he was born Aug. 29, 1828, and was descended from a family long identified with this section of the State.
Moses Hemingway, the great-grandfather of Leverett G., was born in East Haven, Aug. 14, 1751, and died Jan. 5, 1806. He married Martha Tyler, who died Sept. 25, 1801, at the age of forty- nine.
James Hemingway, son of Moses, born June 12, 1777, married Jan. 27, 1797, Elizabeth Bradley,
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daughter of Josiah and Comfort ( Hitchcock ) Brad- ley. Josiah Bradley died in September, 1827, aged eighty-four; his wife died May 17, 1811, aged sixty-eight.
Samuel Hemingway, son of James, born Sept. 9, 1803, in East Haven, died Oct. 2, 1849, in the triumph of faith. He was equally conscientious as a deacon in the church, as a farmer and cobbler and as a curator at the colleges. On April 2, 1826, he married Amanda White, who was born in 1808, and died in 1886.
Leverett G. Hemingway, son of Samuel, was reared in East Haven and New Haven, received his education in the public schools, and before the Civil war was an engraver with Edward Benjamin. He enlisted first with the three-months men and was captain of his company, and later served three years in the Connecticut Heavy Artillery, being honorably discharged at the close of the struggle with the rank of major. Mr. Hemingway always took a deep in- terest in military matters, and was the founder of the Hartford City Guard. In 1870 he retired to a farm, but subsequently engaged in the milk busi- ness, and was thus employed until he passed away December 8, 1893, at the age of sixty-five years. His life was an exemplary one, and he was honored and respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Mr. Hemingway was united in marriage with Miss Rachel Bailey, born in Brigh- ton, Penn., in 1825, and of Quaker parentage, being a daughter of William and Mary ( Buckman) Bailey. Five children blessed this union: Anna married Addison C. Brown; S. Roger is cashier of a bank in Redlands, Cal. ; Fanny A. married Hiram C. Taintor; Leverett is engaged in the milk busi- ness in New Haven; and Mary was married April 16, 1884, to Dennis F. Ryan, and has one child, Agnes. Mrs. Hemingway, who now makes her home with the daughter Fanny, is a member of the College Street Church, with which Mr. Heming- way also united.
Dennis F. Ryan was born April 12, 1861, in New Haven, son of Timothy Ryan, a native of Ire- land, who was a painter by occupation, and followed that trade many years. Timothy Ryan served in the Civil war in the Ninth Conn. V. I., celebrated as the "fighting Ninth." He married Ann Ryan, of Tipperary, Ireland, who survives him, and is now (1901) sixty-six years of age. They had two chil- dren : Dennis F. and Thomas, the latter engaged in the grocery business in Westville. Dennis F. Ryan was reared and educated in Westville, and for a number of years has been interested in the milk business in partnership with his brother-in-law, Leverett Hemingway.
JOHN WILLIAM McDONALD, city sheriff of Waterbury, Conn .. was born in County Queens. Ireland, March 18, 1848, a son of John and Mary (Newman) McDonald, natives of the same county. John McDonald, the father, was a farmer in
Ireland, and there his death occurred in 1849. He was a prominent man in his community, partic- ularly in religious matters, and for years had served as sexton. He married Mary Newman, and of this union were born ten children, of whom we have the following record: (1) Margaret is the wife of John Gaffney, and resides in Ansonia, Conn. (2) Elizabeth married John Ward, and both died in Newark, N. J. (3) Edward went South in 1856, made his home in Charleston, S. C., until the out- break of the Rebellion, when he went to Houston, Texas. From that State he enlisted, and served under General Jackson through the war. In 1867 he returned to Waterbury, but died in Newark, N. J., in 1871. (4) Maria (deceased) was the wife of Martin Phelan, of Waterbury. (5) Julia mar- ried Patrick Reed, and lives in Waterbury. (6) Ann married Philip Boylan, who died in 1865, and she is also deceased. (7) Sarah, now Mrs. James Meehan, resides in Waterbury. (8) John William is the subject of this sketch. (9) Jane is married to James Leeney, of Waterbury. (10) Catherine is still single. The death of the father occurred al- most immediately after the advent of the tenth child, and the widowed mother brought her little army of children to America, settling in Waterbury, Conn. The lamented death of the mother took place in Waterbury March 10, 1888, at the age of eighty- eight years. She had reared her family in the re- ligion of her ancestors-the Roman Catholic.
John William McDonald was but three years of age when brought to Waterbury, and this town has since been his home. At the age of eight years he left school, and went to work for the Water- bury Clock Case Co., at a time when there were but two men in its employ. A few years later he went to the Steele & Johnson Co., where he re- mained some time, and then entered the employ of the Holmes, Booth & Haydens Manufacturing Co. In 1858 he went to New York, where he was em- ployed about a year in a store, and for a part of the time he lived in that city he held a position as bartender. He enlisted in 1861, but did not take part in the war. In 1866 Mr. McDonald returned to Waterbury, and again entered the employ of Steele & Johnson, and later of Holmes, Booth & Haydens. In 1867 he joined the Fire Department, becoming a member of Phoenix company, in which he served over thirty years, or until its dissolution. He is now a member of Rose Hill Company, No. 5, being the oldest volunteer fireman in the city. He is also a member of the Conn. National Guard. He served several years as special policeman, and two years as a regular, and then for some time was connected with A. M. Young in setting up tele- phones. In 1878 he was elected city sheriff, and has proved himself to be an efficient and competent of- ficer.
On Oct. 18, 1875, Mr. McDonald married Mary A. Gagain, a native of New York, and a daughter of John and Mary (Garvey) Gagain, natives of Ireland. Seven children have blessed this marriage,
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viz .: Charles E., born in September, 1877 ; Loretta ; Elizabeth; John W., Jr .; George, at school; and Georgiana and Harry both died in infancy. Po- litically Mr. McDonald is a Democrat; fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias, and is a charter mem- ber of his lodge. He also belongs to the Ancient Order of Hibernians; the Knights of Columbus; the Independent Order of Foresters ; lodge No. 25, B. P. O. E., of New Haven ; the Union .Club; and other societies. Religiously he is a sincere Cath- olic, and is one of the few original members left of the Immaculate Conception Parish of Water- bury. He has led a strictly moral life, and although he has sold liquor across the bar in his day, and been strongly tempted by the constant example of others, he has never tasted any intoxicating bev- erage.
HON, DWIGHT W. TUTTLE, one of the leading members of the New Haven county Bar, for many years the able and efficient prosecuting at- torney of New Haven county, and for a number of years representative of his town in the General As- sembly of Connecticut, is a member of one of the early New England families who colonized New Haven.
William Tuttle, the emigrant ancestor, with his wife, Elizabeth, and three children, sailed in the ship "Planter" from London, England, in 1630, landing at Boston, and settling in New Haven in 1639.
Seventh from this ancestor is Hon. Dwight W. Tuttle, his line of descent being through Jonathan, Nathaniel, Nathaniel (2), Jesse and Jesse (2).
Jonathan Tuttle, son of William, the emigrant, was baptized in Charleston, Mass., in 1637, and married Rebecca, daughter of Lieut. Francis Bell, of Stamford. Mr. Tuttle made a settlement near the Quinnipiac river, in what is now the southern part of the town of New Haven, about 1670, and there built a bridge over the river which was long known as Tuttle's bridge. He died in 1705.
Nathaniel Tuttle, son of Jonathan, was born in 1676, married Esther Blakeslee, and died in 1728, leaving a son Nathaniel. The latter was born in 1714, married first, in 1737, Mary, daughter of Josiah Todd, and after the death of his wife in 1742, he married Abigail Ingham.
In the fifth generation. Jesse Tuttle, son of Nathaniel (2), born in 1750, married first, Lucy, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Alling ) Dickerman, of Hamden, and for a second wife Eunice Gilbert. Mr. Tuttle was chosen tything-man of Hamden for the year 1794; grand juror for 1798; one of the surveyors of highways in 1803: and a selectman in 1805. 1806, 1807 and 1808. He died in Hamden in 1849, having been a member of the General As- sembly for a number of years.
Jesse Tuttle (2), son of Jesse, and the father of the Hon. Dwight W .. was born Aug. 18, 1802, mar- ried, Dec. 20, 1825, Daney R., daughter of John B. 85
Johnson, of Wallingford. The wife died in 1840, and his second marriage occurred May 1, 1842, to Lucinda Williams, daughter of Willoughby Will- iams, of Wallingford. Of the first marriage were born John, Lucy ad Charles R .; and of the second, Dwight W. and Grove J.
Dwight W. Tuttle was born Jan. 1I, 1845, in Hamden, Conn. After receiving a good common- school education he entered the Yale Law School, from which he was graduated, and was admitted to the Bar in New Haven in 1867. Since then he has been engaged in the practice of law in this city. Mr. Tuttle is also interested in farming in East Haven, and also in Florida. His political affilia- tions are with the Republican party, and from early manhood he has been active and useful in public affairs. For a number of years he held the office of town clerk, and has served as a justice of the peace since he was twenty-one years of age. A conspic- uously meritorious service from many standpoints has been that of prosecuting attorney for New Ha- ven county, an office retained for a decade and a half. He has also served his town as grand juror, and as a member of the Board of Relief. During 1881, 1889 and 1891 he was a representative from his town in the General Assembly, his standing as an attorney entitling him to a place on the Judiciary committee, on which he served in the last two ses- sions. Mr. Tuttle has also served as chairman of the Republican town committee, and as school visitor in East Haven. In 1897 he was sent to the Senate from the second district by a majority of 2,700, the largest ever given in this district, and was appointed chairman of the commission in the Indian Terri- tory by the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Tuttle' has been prominent in all political matters, and has been a delegate to conventions for twenty years. He was a member of the National League, chair- man of the delegation, and one of the sub-commit- tee that drafted the resolutions adopted at that con- vention.
Socially Mr. Tuttle is a member of the Masonic fraternity ; the East Haven Grange, of which he is Past Master : and the Sons of Temperance, of which he is Grand Master and Patriarch of the State. On Sept. 16, 1879. he married Bertha Lancey, who was born in East Haven, a daughter of John Lancey.
HON. JULIUS PRATT, one of the foremost citizens and business men of Meriden of his day and generation, was one of the State's strong and forceful characters.
Born Nov. 24. 1791, in Saybrook, Conn., Mr. Pratt was a son of Deacon Phineas and Hepsibah ( Pratt ) Pratt, and a descendant in the sixth gen- eration from Lieut. William Pratt, who came from the parish of Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, Eng- land, to New England, supposedly with . Rev. Thomas Hooker in 1633. to Newtown ( now Cam- bridge ), Mass. Lieut. Pratt was the son of Rev. William, the grandson of Andrew and the great-
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grandson of Thomas Pratt, of Baldock. From Cambridge, Mass., he went to Hartford, Conn., in 1636, and later to Saybrook He married Eliza- beth, daughter of John Clark, first of Saybrook and afterward of Milford. Lieut. Pratt was a large landholder in Saybrook. From 1666 to 1678 (the year in which he died) he was deputy to the Gen- eral Court-twenty-three sessions.
From Lient. William Pratt the lineage of Julius Pratt, late of Meriden, is through John, John (2), Azariah and Deacon Phineas Pratt.
(II) John Pratt, son of Lieut. William, the set- tler, born Feb. 20, 1644, in Hartford, Conn., mar- ried, June 28, 1668, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Jones, of Guilford, Conn. Mr. Pratt was a large landholder in Saybrook, and also in Hebron, Conn. He first settled in the old part of Saybrook on land given to him by his father about 1672. On the death of the father, in 1678, the homestead at Essex Point came into his possession; and at that time he removed thither. John Pratt was a blacksmith by trade, and his shop was located near the spot that early in the fifties was occupied by Elias Pratt (a descendant in the eighth generation) for the same purpose. John Pratt was deputy to the General Court a number of times. He died, it is supposed, in 1726.
(III) John Pratt (2), son of John, born Sept. 5, 1671, married, Nov. 20, 1697, Hannah Williams, and resided in that part of the town called Pauta- paug. He died supposedly in 1744.
(IV) Azariah Pratt, son of John (2), born Aug. 1, 1710, married, Jan. 18, 1738, Agnes Beebe. He was a blacksmith by trade, and a resident of Saybrook.
(V) Deacon Phineas Pratt, son of Azariah, born June 27, 1747, married, Feb. 17, 1771, Hepsibah, daughter of Nathan Pratt. Phineas Pratt was a goldsmith by trade and a skillful mechanic. In 1777 he served in the Revolution, as a member of Capt. Daniel Platt's Company, Seventh Regiment, commanded by Col. William Worthington. He aided David Bushnell, inventor of the American Turtle, in the construcion of that machine. Later in life he assisted his brother Abel in the construc- tion of machinery for making ivory combs. It is said that he was the first inventor and maker of any machinery that would enable the combmakers to compete with the English. He was for many years a deacon in the Second Church in Saybrook. He died Feb. 4, 1813, and his wife died Jan. 9th, of the same year.
Julius Pratt, son of Deacon Phineas, in early life lived at the homestead which was located about one mile west of Pautapaug Point. At the age of fifteen he commenced work with his brothers, Abel and Phineas, in ivory combmaking, and at the age of twenty-two engaged with his brother Philo in the silversmith business in Pautapaug. In Febru- ary, 1818, he removed to Meriden, and in connec- tion with Messrs. Bush, Williams, Howard, Reed,
Starkey, Rogers and Spencer, soon commenced the manufacture of ivory combs on Harbor brook, a little south of the Middletown and Waterbury turn- pike bridge. Finding the water-power too small for his increasing business he removed to what is now called Prattsville. Joined with Mr. Webb he con- tinned to be a leading member of the ivory comb business, and his energy and enterprise contributed in a large degree to the development of this branch of manufacture, which in a few years distanced for- eign competition, and thirty years ago became a large and important business, the goods being ex- ported to nearly all parts of the world. While Mr. Pratt was heavily engaged in business at Pratts- ville, he was also interested in another company at Crow Hollow, afterward at Hanover, where much of his time was occupied. He was one of the pio- neers in the manufacture of cutlery, and had the pleasure while living of seeing that business well established on a firm and profitable basis. He was a stockholder and director in the Home National Bank of Meriden from its commencement. In this connection, as in all other business relations, his counsel was sought and relied upon at all times.
As a citizen Mr. Pratt always enjoyed the re- spect and confidence of the community where he lived. Uncompromising in principle, unflinching in the discharge of duty, sagacious as an adviser, mod- est in demeanor, active and liberal in private and public charities, and affectionate toward his family and friends, it may well be said that the best blood of the Puritans flowed in his veins. He never sought for preferment, but was called to represent his town in the State Legislature of 1852, and was elected senator of the Sixth District of Connecticut in 1854. In his business intercourse he may have left the impression at times that he was austere, but his apparent sternness arose from the prompt- ness and decision with which he always transacted his business. His language was direct, final and rigidly business like. He was seldom misunder- stood, and but few ever attempted to swerve or cajole him. Beneath his apparent harshness was an inner life as gentle as a dove. He loved with a woman's heart, but he spoke with the promptness of a business man, and in all his movements there was a kind of military precision which, to the un- observing, might easily be misapprehended.
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