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Peter Walker, of the above family, was married in 1712, to Mary Styles, who was born in 1691, and died about 1732. To them were born: ( 1) Mary, born in 1716: (2) Samuel, born in 1718, died in 1746; (3) Peter, born in 1718; (4) Patience, born in 1720, died in 1744; (5) John, born in 1721; (6) Hannah, born in 1722; (7) and (8) Grace and Esther; (9) Moses, born Nov. 2, 1725, died the month of his birth; (10) Moses (2), born Oct. 5. 1726. died in 1806; (II) Aaron, born in 1728, died in 1752; and (12) Grace, born in 1730.
Lieut. Moses Walker was a member of one of the companies of minute men from Rehoboth in the "Lexington Alarm," and he served during the war. On March 15, 1753, he married Sarah Bowen, who
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was born Jan. 2, 1735, and died March 3, 1768. Their children were as follows: (1) Susanna, born in 1754, died in 1840; (2) Huldah, born in 1756; (3) Moses, born in 1760, died in 1849; (4) Sarah, born in 1763, died in 1852; and (5) Ethel, born Aug. 29, 1767, died Sept. 22, 1844.
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Ethel Walker married in 1795 Susannah Car- penter, who was born in 1778 and died in 1857. They had the following children: (1) Ezra, born in 1797, died in 1850; (2) George, born in 1798; (3) William, born in 1801; (4) Martha, born in 1803; (5) Nancy, born in 1805; she died in 1849; (6) Henry, born in 1808; (7) Amos, born March 6, 1811, died Jan. 22, 1879, in Owosso, Mich .; (8) Abel W., born in 1814, died in 1837; (9) Leland, born in 1816; (10) Nathaniel C., born in 1818; (II) Harriet, born in 1821, died in 1844.
Amos Walker was born in Savoy, Mass., and through his own efforts secured his education. He graduated from the Medical Department of Will- iams College in 1834, and immediately after his marriage, in the same year, went to Brooklyn, Mich., where he made his home until 1846, when he located in Pontiac, Mich., successfully prac- ticing his profession there many years. On Aug. 27, 1834, he was married at North Adams, Mass., to Mary Bliss, daughter of Ephraim; she was born March 20, 1811, and died Feb. 2, 1866. Their chil- dren were: (1) Mary Ellen, born in 1837, and died in 1869; (2) Abel W., born April 5, 1839, died Nov. 29, 1865, in Pontiac, Mich .; (3) Lawson Ethel, born in March, 1842, died Aug. 3, 1843; (4) Emory Judson, born Nov. 2, 1844, at Brooklyn, Mich .; (5) George R., born Nov. 2, 1848, and lives at Judsonia, Ark .; (6) Frank Bliss, born Oct. 15, 1850; and (7) Wealthy Evelyn, born Aug. 9, 1854, died Sept. 8, 1854.
DR. EMORY JUDSON WALKER was married Feb. 23, 1870, at Pontiac, Mich., to Martha, a daughter of Charles Pittman, who was born March 18, 1847, and to this union have come: (1) Abel Wilmarth, born March 2, 1871, married Hattie Mansfield Beers, and is associated with the firm of C. S. Mer- sick & Company ; (2) Charles Pittman, born Nov. 25, 1872; (3) Mary Evelyn, born Jan. 12, 1875, was married to Professor J. Glover Eldredge, of Moscow, Idaho; (4) Grace Elizabeth, born June 24. 1882; and (5) Emory Judson, born March 21, 1888, died Feb. 10, 1889.
Dr. Emory Judson Walker spent his early school days in Pontiac, Mich., and there made prep- aration for his college course, which was pursued at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich. He pre- pared for his medical education in his father's office at Pontiac, and graduated from Halinemann Col- lege, Chicago, in 1868. At once after his gradua- tion he took up the practice of his profession with his father at Pontiac, and continued there until 1875. when he removed to New Haven, where he has since resided. He was one of the incorporators of Grace Hospital Society at New Haven, and since its or-
ganization in 1889 has been a director and its sec- retary and one of the staff of attending physicians and surgeons. Dr. Walker is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 1, F. & A. M., of New Haven.
FRANK BLISS WALKER was married Feb. 23, 1876, to Mary Louisa, a daughter of Benjamin F. Mansfield, who was born Oct. 6, 1855, and died Sept. 14, 1888. To this union came the following children: ( 1) Elizabeth M., born Sept. 23, 1877 ; (2) Edward M., born Feb. 26, 1879, who is now first assistant engineer in the bridge department of the Michigan Central Railroad, and is located at Detroit, Mich .; (3) Minnie M., born March 29, 1883; and (4) Marguerite M., born Aug. 8, 1885. For his second wife Mr. Walker married Margaret Gardiner, a daughter of David Pierson Gardiner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who was born April 10, 1815, and enjoys the reputation of being the oldest mem- ber of the I. O. O. F. in New York, having been for over fifty years a member of Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., of New York.
Mr. Walker received his education in the schools of Pontiac, Mich., and at New Haven. He attended college at Kalamazoo, Mich., and in the summer of 1870 he came back to New Haven, to take up a tailoring business with F. R. Bliss, becoming a member of the firm of F. R. Bliss & Company six years later. On Jan. 1, 1899, the firm name was changed to F. B. Walker & Company. The two members of the firm are F. B. and Charles Pittman Walker. Through Yale associations the firm has a very large western trade, and for the last twenty years Mr. Walker has made extended trips through the West in the interest of his business. Since 1878 he has been a member of Calvary Baptist Church. In the associations of the Masonic fra- ternity he is a conspicuous figure, as he belongs to Hiram Lodge, Harmony Council and Franklin Chapter, and he is one of the charter members of the Union League Club. With four others he founded the Young Men's Republican Club. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Business Men's Association of New Haven. From 1870 to 1877 he belonged to the New Haven Grays.
CHARLES PITTMAN WALKER was born in Pon- tiac, Mich., and was married in New Haven, Oct. 19, 1898, to Carolyn Minerva, a daughter of Ben- jamin Andrew and Lizzie Thomas (Noble) Booth. Mrs. Walker was born July 8, 1877, and is the mother of one child. Richard Booth, born Aug. 16, 1899. Benjamin Booth, her father, was born in 1854, and was married in 1876, at Westfield, Mass., to Lizzie Thomas, a daughter of Jacob A. Noble, by whom he had the following family: (1) Caro- lyn M .; (2) Julia Noble; (3) Elizabeth Isabelle ; and (4) Benjamin Noble.
Benjamin Booth, the grandfather of Mrs. Walker, was born in 1822, and died March 28, 1899. His marriage occurred in 1848, when Caro- line Ann, a daughter of Samuel and Salina ( Smith ) Andrew, became his wife. To them were born:
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(1) Benjamin Andrew; (2) Esther Amelia; (3) William Lincoln; (4) Clifford Herman; (5) Car- rie; (6) Frank I .; and (7) Harry Colfax. Ben- jamin Booth was the son of Noah, and a grandson of Elijah Booth.
Caroline Ann Andrew was a daughter of Sam- uel Andrew; Samuel was the son of William, the grandson of William, and the great-grandson of Jonathan, who was a son of Samuel, a grandson of Samuel, and a great-grandson of William Andrew.
Charles Pittman Walker was born in Pontiac, Mich., Nov. 25, 1872. He attended the New Haven public schools, and was graduated at Hillhouse high school in the class of 1802. The same year he be- came associated with F. R. Bliss & Co., and later became a member of the firm as already noted. He belongs to Hiram Lodge, No. I, A. F. & A. M., the Chamber of Commerce and is also a member of the New Haven Grays.
Mrs. Mary ( Bliss) Walker, the mother of Dr. E. J. and Frank Walker, of New Haven, descends from Thomas Bliss, who was born in Belstone, Eng- land, in 1550, and on account of his Puritan faith suffered much persecution in his native land. His son, Jonathan Bliss, who was born at Belstone in 1575, was bitterly persecuted as a Puritan, and died from fever contracted from long imprisonment.
Thomas Bliss, also born at Belstone, emigrated in 1636 to America, and made his home at Boston, Braintree, Weymouth and Rehoboth, Mass., and at Hartford, Conn. He died in June, 1644. -----
Jonathan Bliss, born in England in 1635, is re- corded as a freeman in Plymouth in 1655, and was one of eighty who made the Rehoboth North Pur- chase in 1666, building a house there the same year. By trade he was a blacksmith. He married Mir- iam Harmon, and his death occurred in 1687.
Jonathan Bliss, who was born Sept. 17, 1666, was a man of standing in the town, and was mar- ried first, June 23, 1601, to Miriam Carpenter, born Oct. 26, 1674, died May 21, 1706. In 1711 he mar- ried, second, Mary French. Mr. Bliss died in 1719. Lieut. Ephraim Bliss was born Aug. 15, 1699, and was married Dec. 5. 1723. to Rachel Carpenter.
Ephraim Bliss, Jr., was born June 3, 1726, and was married Jan. 17, 1751, to Mary Moulton, who died Nov. 14, 1759. He was an "eight minute man" 1
in the company of Capt. Bliss. He died in July, 1804.
Ephraim Bliss, born in 1753, was married in 1779, to Hannah Carpenter, of Rehoboth, who was born March 6, 1757, died Aug. 18, 1798. His sec- ond wife was Rebecca Smith. He died May. 8, 1822.
Ephraim Bliss, Jr., born in Rehoboth, Aug. 17, 1782, was married Jan. 9, 1806, to Olive Ingram, born Oct. 29, 1785, died Jan. 1, 1849. Mr. Bliss removed to Savoy, Mass., where he engaged in farming. His death occurred in North Wams. Mass., in 1832.
Mary Bliss was born March 20, 1811, and was
married Aug. 27, 1834, to Dr. Amos Walker. She died Feb. 2, 1866.
Franklin Remington Bliss was born Oct. 24, 1826, at Savoy, Mass., and was married June 14, 1854, to Evelyn, a daughter of William Goodnow, of Lanesboro, Mass., by whom he had the follow- ing children : ( 1) Grace Evelyn, born in 1856, mar - ried Rev. T. M. Snyder, D. D., pastor of the Second Congregational Church, of Rockford, Ill., and their children were: Evelyn, who died in infancy ; Frank- lin B .; Alice Dorothy ; and Edward D. (2) Charles Franklin, born June 7, 1858, is the treasurer of the Farrell Foundry Company at Ansonia, Conn .; he has two children, Eleanor and Margaret. . (3) Ar- thur Goodnow died in 1862. (4) Anna Louise, born Sept. 13, 1864, married Dr. Bliss Perry, of Cambridge, Mass., and known to fame as the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. (5) Helen Rockwell, born Jan. 11, 1869, married John H. Gray, of North- western University, Evanston, Ill., where he is pro- fessor of economics ; they have two children, James Bliss and Evelyn.
Franklin R. Bliss was educated at North Ad- ams, Mass., and for a time worked at the tailoring business. For four years he was a cutter at Pitts- field, Mass., and later was employed by William T. Jennings & Co. in the same capacity, and also by Milton St. John, both of New York. Coming to New Haven, to cut for Knevals & Hull, he became a partner with the firm. In 1858 he set up a busi- ness for himself, which he sold in 1899 to F. B. Walker & Company. He has been a member of the Calvary Baptist Church since its organization. In this church he is still very active, and is regarded as one of its most active members, taking an especial interest in its musical service. When this church was erected Mr. Bliss was treasurer of the Asso- ciation, and so well was it financiered that at its dedication its entire cost, SI10,000, had been paid. with balance of $16.38 in the treasury, which the association ordered the treasurer to hand over to a mission Sabbath-school, which later became the nucleus of the present Sabbath-school of 800 mem- bers. . Of the first twenty-nine names placed on his report, Mr. Bliss' is the only name of a man who is still alive. Mr. Bliss belongs to the Hiram Lodge, No. I, A. F. & A. M., and the Chamber of Com- merce.
PAULUS JULIUS MEFFERT, proprietor of the Terrace Gardens at Meriden, was born at Suhl, Thuringen, Prussia, Germany, July 7, 1843, son of Frederick and Wilhelmina ( Habermann ) Meffert, the father a gun manufacturer and engraver. Both our subject's parents are now deceased. They were members of the Lutheran Church. Of their six children, Robert, Amanda and Beata reside in Suhl, Germany : Paulus Julius is our subject ; Gustav is a gun manufacturer at Suhl, Germany ; Ernest died while serving in the Franco-German war. The fa- ther married for his second wife Anna Cornelia
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Krech, who died in 1900, the mother of three chil- dren : Hedwig, Lydia and Maria, all living.
Paulus J. Meffert received a good education in his" home country, and found employment in the engraving department of his father's factory, where he was engaged in working out the ideas for a new kind of gun. Mr. Meffert came to this coun- try in 1866, and was engaged at silver plating for some time with the Wilcox Silver Plate Co., where he had a good situation. In 1868 he took a place with the Meriden Britannia Co., and held same until July of the following year, when he went to Springfield, Mass., to be a gun engraver. Mr. Meffert remained in Springfield until 1870, when he removed to New York City, to become an en- graver for John Ward, in Maiden Lane. There he was engaged eleven years, when he came again to Meriden, entering the employ of the Meriden Silver Plate Co., which he served from 1881 to 1897. In the latter year Mr. Meffert took possession of his present place, which had been conducted as a summer resort under the same name-the Terrace Gardens. Here he has made many and extensive improvements, and conducts the Gardens in such a manner as to win the good opinion and patronage of the people of Meriden, with whom he is very popular.
In 1899 Mr. Meffert was married in Meriden to Mrs. Christine Messner, widow of Jacob Mess- ner. They are members of the Lutheran Church, and are kind-hearted and warm-souled people. He is independent in politics, is a member of the Saengerbund, the B. P. O. E. and other societies, and was among the founders of the German-Amer- ican. School Association and the Turnverein, as well as of the Saengerbund.
MARSHALL JEWELL ADAMS, M. D., who enjoys a large and lucrative practice in West Ha- ven and vicinity, is an able representative of the medical fraternity. No profession offers better op- portunities for bringing success than the one with which he is connected ; yet this measure of success must come as a reward of thorough preparation and earnest effort. That Dr. Adams is recognized as a leading physician and surgeon is due to his un- tiring labor and deep researches along the various lines of medical knowledge.
The Doctor is a native of Connecticut, born Nov. 6, 1864, in Suffield, a son of Chester and Cath- erine ( Woodworth ) Adams, the latter of whom was born in Suffield, a daughter of Dver Woodworth. who for many years kept the old tavern at Enfield Bridge, and died there at the age of eighty years. Chester Adams was born in Becket, Mass., and when twenty years old moved to Suffield, Hart- ford Co., Conn., where he followed agricultural pur- suits, in course of time purchasing a farm in that town, which he conducted till 1865. In that year he removed to Windsor Locks, same county, and embarked in the commission business, but he died in
the following year, aged fifty-one. He and his wife had a family of five children, three of whom reached maturity and two survive, viz .: Adella, wife of E. W. Bull, of Tariffville, Conn. ; and Marshall Jewell. The mother died in ISO8, at the age of seventy-five years, a member of the Baptist Church, as was also her husband.
Marshall Jewell Adams passed his earlier years in Tariffville, Conn., where, at the common schools, he received a portion of his education, at the age of thirteen moving to New Haven, where he completed his literary studies at Hopkins' Grammar school. From New Haven he went to New York, and at- tended the Homeopathic College there, from which institution he was graduated in 1887; then returned to Connecticut, and commenced the practice of his profession at Fairhaven, remaining there until 1891. In that year he located in West Haven, where he has since practiced, having built up a thriving cli- entele, his specialty being surgery, in which he has had a wide experience, and to which he has given much time and study; he has been for three years senior surgeon at Grace Hospital, New Haven.
In 1891 Dr. M. Jewell Adams married Nettie Seeley, daughter of Charles Seeley, a sea captain residing in New Haven. Three children have been born to this union: Bernice, Helen and Marion. The family attend the Congregational Church. In politics the Doctor is a Republican, and has served on the school board and as health officer of the bor- ough of West Haven. Socially he is affiliated with the F. & A. M., belonging to Annawan Lodge. No. 115, West Haven, and to Joseph Andrews Chap- ter of West Haven. He is a member of the Legis- lative committee of the Home Society, and since the court was established, has been assistant prosecut- ing attorney for West Haven.
Dr. Adams has written numerous articles on Surgery for magazines, medical works, etc. He is a member, and has been president of, the State Homeopathic Medical Society, also the New Haven Homeopathic Medical Society, and is examiner for the Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Co., for the Improved Order of Heptasophs (of which he is a member ), and for the New England Order of Pro- tection (of which he is also a member). He is a great lover of dogs and horses, and possesses some good ones. Fond of hunting, he each year seek's health and recreation in a trip in the South.
BLACKSTONE. There died in the town of. Branford, Conn., on Feb. 4, 1886, at the remark- able age of ninety-three years, Hon. James Black- stone, whose useful life of prominent citizenship covered only a little less than a century in that community, with which the family were identified for two centuries.
James Blackstone was born in 1793, in Bran- ford. a descendant in the sixth generation from Rev. William Blackstone, a graduate in 1617 oi Emanuel College, Cambridge, England. He re- 1
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ceived in that country, after graduation, ordination, but soon became of the Puritan persuasion, left his native country on account of his non-conform- ity, and became the first white settler upon the famous neck of land opposite Charlestown, which is now the city of Boston. Upon his invitation the principal part of the Massachusetts Colony re- moved from Charlestown and founded the town of Boston on land Mr. Blackstone desired them to occupy. Rev. Mr. Blackstone was the first in- habitant of Boston and the first man admitted a freeman in the town. Soon after 1635 he removed to Rhode Island, residing near Providence until his death, which occurred May 26, 1675. He was a religious man, with literary tastes, of correct, in- dustrious, thrifty habits, and of kind and philan- thropic feelings. He married, in July, 1659, widow Sarah Stephenson. From this immigrant settler Rev. William Blackstone, the late Hon. James Blackstone's lineage is through John, John (2), John (3) and Timothy Blackstone.
(II) John Blackstone, only son of Rev. Will- iam, married in 1692, and in about 1713 removed to Branford, Connecticut.
(III) John Blackstone (2), son of John, born in 1699, married, and died in Branford Jan. 3, 1785, aged nearly eighty-six years.
(IV) John Blackstone (3), son of John (2), born in 1731, in Branford, died Aug. 10, 1816, aged eighty-five years.
(V) Timothy Blackstone, son of John (3), born in 1766, in Branford, died there in 1849, when eighty-three years of age.
(VI) James Blackstone, son of Timothy, was reared on the homestead which had been occupied by five generations of the family, all of whom pos- sessed the traits of character of the immigrant an- cestor-industry, modesty and marked executive ability. James, like his forefathers, was a farmer. Timothy B. Blackstone was the donor of the handsome and costly library at Branford, Conn., which is styled "The James Blackstone Memorial Library." The building he had erected, and pro- At twenty he was chosen captain of a company of Connecticut militia, and was in command of same for several months while serving as coast guard dur- 1 ing the war of 1812-15. He was chosen to a number . vided in endowment for the maintenance of the of town offices, serving as assessor and selectman ; was several times a representative from his town in the General Assembly of the State; and in 1842 was a member of the State Senate from his district. His political affiliations were with the old Federal and Whig parties, and later with the Republican party. A man of fine intellect and good judgment, his counsel and advice were sought by persons of Branford and other towns. He was a man of char- acter and remarkable ability, and "if his tastes had led him to a larger place for the exercise of his ability, no field would have been so large that he would not have been a leader among men." Mr. Blackstone was a cousin in the fifth degree to Sir William Blackstone, the great authority upon the common law of England, and the portraits of the two men bear a marked family resemblance.
James Blackstone's children were as follows :
(1) George, the eldest son, died unmarried in 1861.
(2) Mary, the eldest daughter, died May 10, 1900. She married Samuel O. Plant, and resided in Branford, living with her daughter, Ellen Plant. Her grandchildren, through her daughter Sarah, are William L., Paul W. and Gertrude Harrison.
(3) Lorenzo, the second son, lived for many years in Norwich, and died there in 1888. He had five children : (a) James De Trafford, who had one son, Lorenzo; (b) Mrs. Harriet ( Blackstone) Camp, of Norwich, who has three children, Walter Trumbull, Talcott Hale and Elizabeth Norton; (c) Mrs. Frances Ella Huntington, of Norwich; (d) William Norton Blackstone; and (e) Louis Lo- renzo, who died in 1893.
(4) Ellen, the second daughter, married Henry B. Plant, late of New York City, who died in 1900. She died in 1861, leaving one son-Morton L. Plant, who married and has one son, Henry B. Plant.
(5) John, the third son, died some years ago, leaving three children, George and Adelaide Black- stone and Mrs. Emma Pond.
(6) TIMOTHY B. BLACKSTONE, the youngest son, born in Branford, in 1829; married, in 1868, Miss Isabella F. Norton, daughter of Henry Barker and Emeline F.( Frisbie) Norton, of Norwich, Conn., who were descendants of early Connecticut settlers. Mr. Blackstone died in Chicago, Ill., May 26, 1900. He left the East nearly fifty years ago. After his marriage his home up to the time of his death was at No. 252 Michigan avenue, Chicago. For more than thirty years he managed, with consummate skill, the affairs of the most successful of all the great railroads of the West, and was best known through his presidency of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Co.
library, in memory of his father. The library build- ing is one of imposing beauty, standing on high ground in the main street of the town. It is de- signed in the purest Grecian Ionic style, the archi- tectural details being taken from the beautiful Erechtheum of the Athenian Acropolis; it is con- structed of Tennessee marble of a very light tone. The public exercises of dedication were held in the building June 17, 1896, and the building was there- after open for use. In June, 1901, the library consisted of 11.800 books. Over a hundred peri- "odicals are taken for the main reading room, and twelve for a branch library which was opened in Stony Creek in February, 1900. Surely the people of Branford have reason to rejoice that James Blackstone lived there and gave to them a son whose affection for his native town, and filial de- votion to his father's memory, led him to place
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here this enduring monument of architectural beauty, this ever-flowing fountain of education, culture and refinement.
RAY. The Ray family of which Eugene Ham- ilton Ray, president of the Silver City Plate Co., is a descendant, is one of the old and respected ones of Middlesex county, where they have been estab- lished for more than 200 years. Their ancestral line as far as can be learned by careful research is as follows :
Three brothers, James, Peter and Joseph Ray, some records indicating that they were Portuguese, others Scottish, emigrated from Narragansett and settled in. Haddam, Conn., as early as 1710. James, the eldest brother, lived to the age of 100 years, and he had three sons, namely: James, Benjamin and Joseph. No record of Peter's family is obtain- able, but Joseph had eight sons, namely: Isaac, Nathaniel, Jeremiah, Joseph, Timothy, Elisha, Dan- iel and Jacob.
Peter Ray, a grandson of one of the three Ray brothers, was born Dec. 12, 1745, and died in East Haddam, Conn., Feb. 2, 1834. He was in the Revo- lutionary war according to facts obtained from .Washington, D. C. He married Mehitable John- son, born Nov. 14, 1743, and died Jan. 21, 1834. Their children were: Sarah, born Sept. 22, 1767, died March 12, 1847, married A. Dickerson ; James, born June 30, 1770, died Feb. 7, 1818; Asa, born June 12, 1773, died young; Benjamin, born Sept. 14, 1775, died June 18, 1817; Martha, born Sept. 17, 1777, died Oct. 5, 1802 : Asa (2), born April 20, 1782, died Sept. 16, 1883; Annie, born May 13, 1786, married Eber Ruttv, died Aug. 5, 1872, and he died in Meriden ; and Ezra, born Aug. 17, 1779, died Aug. 4, 1832.
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