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HERMAN LAUFER, a worthy and.much re- spected citizen of New Haven, was born at Zurich, Switzerland, Oct. 5. 1848, ne of the two sons of Conrad Laufer, who was engaged in teaching, and later was employed in the government service, but
who never came to this country. The other son, Ernest, became a physician, and is a director of an insane asylum.
Herman Laufer spent his boyhood days in Zurich, where he attended the high school, and presently began the learning of the art of making mathematical instruments. This trade he followed in Vienna, Austria, and cities in Germany, and was also employed at this work in Paris. Mr. Laufer came to this country Feb. 3, 1872, and was em- ployed by the Edison people at Newark, N. J., following his trade of making electrical instruments. On April 5, 1873, he came to New Haven to enter the factory of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., as tool maker. When Albert Tilton became super- intendent, Mr. Laufer took up his work as con- tractor. In 1878 Mr. Laufer was married to Eliza- beth Zils, of Naugatuck, Conn., a daughter of Peter Zils. He is a Republican, and belongs to Trumbull Lodge, and Franklin Chapter, A. F. & A. M. He also belongs to the I. O. O. F., Montowese Lodge, and to the New Haven Swiss Society.
CHARLES HAWKINS, one of the leading and influential citizens of Oxford whose life has been mainly devoted to agricultural pursuits, was born March 30, 1828, on the old Hawkins homestead at Quaker Farms, Oxford, which was once owned and occupied by his grandfather, Zachariah Haw- kins, who was born Sept. 22, 1756, and became a large land holder and slave owner. During Colonial days he was also captain in His Majesty's Militia, and was very prominent in public affairs, serving as selectman and in various other offices. By trade he was a shoemaker.
Silas Hawkins, the father of our subject, was also born on the old homestead, which is now owned and occupied by his son, and throughout life fol- lowed the occupation of farming. Mr. Hawkins died at the ripe old age of eighty-eight years. He mar- ried for his first wife Sibyl Perry, who became the mother of seven children, Hannah, Lucy, Sally, Althea, Ruth, Ira and Eri. For his second wife Silas Hawkins wedded Sarah Minerve Loveland, and the children of this union were Silas and Charles. Ira Hawkins, son of Silas and Sibyl, mar- ried Sally Tomlinson, and, dying without issue, he gave the homestead to his brother Charles.
During his boyhood and youth Charles Hawkins pursued his studies in the common schools, and at the age of sixteen, after the death of his father, he went to Newtown, Conn., where for three months he worked at the hatter's trade. For a time he worked at shoemaking with a Mr. Peck, and then he worked for others for three years. About this time his brother died, and, as previously stated, left to our subject the old homestead, to the cultivation and improvement of which he has since devoted his energies with marked success. Mr. Hawkins owns several different tracts of land, ag- gregating 170 acres, and carries on general farming
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and the dairy business. He also has considerable city property on Hawkins street, Waterbury, and is one of the most prominent and successful business men of his community.
On Dec. 17, 1848, Mr. Hawkins was united in marriage with Miss Louise Jane Johnson, a native of Watertown, Conn., and to them were born six children, as follows: Sarah M., born Jan. 17, 1853, died at the age of ten years; Mary, born Feb. 16, 1855, died at the age of twenty; Charles Nathan, born Aug. 5, 1858, died at the age of six years; Ira L., born March 16, 1861, is a prominent tack manufacturer of Waterbury; Grace A., born Aug. 18, 1865, is the wife of Frank Roberts ; and Robert, born Aug. 18, 1872, aids in the operation of the home farm.
Politically Mr. Hawkins is identified with the Republican party, and religiously is a member of the Episcopal Church of Quaker Farms. He is a worthy representative of that class of citizens who lead, quiet, industrious, honest and useful lives, and constitute the best portion of a community. Wherever known he is held in high regard, and is . certainly deserving of honorable mention in the his- tory of his native county.
FRANK WOODING STILES, contractor, builder and house mover, is one of the best-known men of the city of Meriden, where he was born April 28, 1849, and both his father and mother be- longed to noted families of the early days in New England. Among his ancestors was John Beecher, one of the first settlers of New Haven, being one of the seven who located there in 1637. It was in that infant colony that he died before his family came to this county the following spring.
In New Haven county the name of Stiles has long figured prominently in both church and State records, and the immediate ancestors of our subject bore their full share of the dignities and responsi- bilities of former days, among them beig Rev. Ezra Stiles, the distinguished president of Yale College, and Rev. Isaac Stiles, who was for thirty- six years the honored pastor of the Church in North Haven. Among his forebears was also Hon. Ezra Stiles, for years an honored citizen of North Haven, who occupied for sixty years the historic home of Dr. Benjamin Trumbull, who had been for sixty years the pastor of the North Haven Church, the successor of Rev. Isaac Stiles, and an eminent his- torian. The desk on which he wrote his four thou- sand sermons, is now in possession of the New Haven Historical Society.
Truman Stiles (2), of Meriden, a carpenter and builder, is in the eighth generation of the direct line from John Stiles, the emigrant ancestor, his lineage being through Isaac, Isaac (2), Isaac (3), Isaac (4), Truman and Sherman Stiles.
John Stiles, of the Millbroke family of England. son of Thomas and Marie Stiles, was baptized in St. Michael's Church, Bradfordshire, England, Dec.
25, 1595, and in 1635 came to Boston in the ship "Christian," when he was forty years of age. He was one of the first settlers of Windsor, Conn., where he died June 4, 1662-63, and his widow, Rachel, entered into her rest Sept. 3, 1674.
Isaac Stiles, son of John the emigrant, was born in Windsor, Conn., and settled about 1665 at Weth- ersfield. Conn. He removed to Stratford, Conn., after 1671, where he died Jan. 5, 1714-15. His wife, Hannah, survived him. He is said to have been the first male child born in the Colony of Con- necticut.
Isaac Stiles (2), son of Isaac, was born in 1663, married Hannah Rose, who was born in 1666, a daughter of Robert Rose, of Stratford, Conn., who came from Ipswich, Eng., in 1634, in the ship "Francis." Mr. Stiles died in 1690, and his widow, May 9, 1693, married Samuel Hargar, of Derby, Connecticut.
Isaac Stiles (3), son of Isaac (2), was born April 5, 1690, and was married for the first time about 1718, to Abigail Adams, of Milford, Conn., who was born Sept. 25, 1696. She died prior to 1724, and Mr. Stiles married again. After living for a time at Stratford, Mr. Stiles removed to Woodbury, where he died April 16, 1787, his wife, Sarah, having passed away Dec. 19, 1771.
Isaac Stiles (4), son of Isaac (3), was born April 17, 1728, married Elizabeth (surname not given).
Truman Stiles, his son, born in 1767, in South- bury, Conn., married for his first wife, Sept. 23, 1793, Lavinia Leavenworth, and, for his second wife, Anna Jarrett, who was born in Southbury, Conn., in 1818. Mr. Stiles was a farmer and a trad- er, and died in 1839. His widow died in 1884, in Watertown, Conn. The children of Mr. Stiles were as follows: (1) Sherman, born in 1796, in South- bury, Conn., where he died July 31, 1838; (2) Charles Robert married and made his home in Buf- falo; (3) Erastus was a farmer, and died from drowning ( he was unmarried) : (4) Nancy, born in Southbury, Conn., died unmarried in Bethlehem, Comm .: (5) Harriet married Abraham Bassett ; (6) Samuel, born in 1818, died in Watertown, Conn. It is probable that all were born in Southbury.
Sherman Stiles, son of Truman, born in 1796, married Abigail Prindle, of French extraction. Mr. Stiles was a farmer and shoemaker, and lived at Rock Hill, Naugatuck: His widow died at Paris, Ill., Nov. 13, 1871. He was a man of sterling qualities, and was much respected by his fellow citizens. His children were as follows: (I) George E., born in Southbury, married for his first wife, Nov. 4, 1838, Marcia Peck ; and for his second wife, Lavinia Lewis; (2) Caroline L., born March 24, 1822, in Southhury, married Nov. 28, 1841, in New Haven, Conn .. George Atkinson, and lives at Paris, Ill. ; (3) Truman, born March 30. 1821; (4) Elizabeth, born in 1826, married John Hall, and both died at Waterbury; (5) John E., born in 1828, mar-
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ried and lived at Lafayette, Ind., where he died April 25, 1873; (6) Mary, born in 1831, in South- bury, also died at Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 7, 1865; (7) Ellen, born in 1834, is the widow of Frank Collier, and has her home at Naugatuck; (8) Charles is a resident of Newton, Kansas.
Truman Stiles, noted above, was first married April 23, 1848, to Eliza, a daughter of Calvin and Lucy Woodling, who died May 12, 1849. For his second wife he was married April 6, 1851, to Mary E., a daughter of Adonijah and Hannah P. Crowell, and resides at Meriden, Conn, To the first mar- riage was born one son, Frank Wooding. The chil- dren of the second marriage were: (1) William H., born April 29, 1852, married Grace L. Goddard; (2) George C., born April 12, 1853, married Annie L, Wooding, and died April 13, 1900; (3) Alida, born Feb. 26, 1858, died Jan. 2, 1863; and (4) Arthur M., born April 13, 1863, died Jan. 6, 1879. The mother is still living. Truman Stiles was educated in Woodbury, where he learned the car- penter and joiner trade, at which he worked as a journeyman in Woodbury, Waterbury and New Haven until 1847. In that year he came to Meriden, and after working as journeyman and foreman for Lyon & Billard, he, in 1864, started a contracting and building business. In this line he was engaged until 1881, when he retired and engaged in the vending of horse radish, a line which he still follows on a considerable scale. His home is on Butler street. In politics he is a Republican.
signed shoe between the cast iron base plate and steel girder were introduced into the undertaking, and so quickly was the work carried on, that the girders were set, and the stack moved, so that the girders could be taken away, by five men inside of two days. The entire operation was very ingen- ious, being regarded as one of the engineering feats of the age, and reflecting much credit upon the mechanical ability of Mr. Stiles. Mr. Stiles has built many of the more prominent residences of Meriden, and in 1877 he constructed a fine home for himself on Butler and Hanover streets, re- building it in 1898. . It is now one of the very finest on Hanover street.
Mr. Stiles is a Republican in politics, and he has been active in political matters for twelve years, and was many years chairman of the Third ward town and city committees. For the past three years he has filled the office of chairman of the Republican city committee. He was a member of the City Council from the Third ward in 1893 and 1894, and was clerk of the Lamp and Park committees for two years, besides serving on the street committee for the same period. The family attends the Bap- tist Church. Mr. Stiles belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men, and holds the position of Great Senior Sagamore of the State. He has served ten years as Keeper of Wampum in the local tribe; for twenty-five years he has been a life member of the Y. M. C. A.
Mr. Stiles was married Oct. 13, 1875, to Eliza- beth, who was born June 5, 1852, a daughter of John and Mary Aubrey, of English birth, and their
Frank Wooding Stiles was educated in the Meri- den schools, and in the New Haven business col- lege. When he attained man's estate he learned the ! children are: (1) Harriet M., who was born Nov. carpenter and joiner trade with his father, and in 4, 1876; (2) John F., who was born Feb. 6, 1879; (3) Bertha E., born July 26, 1881 ; and (4) Tru- man Aubrey, born March 13, 1895. 1872 began in business for himself as a carpenter and contractor. For thirty years he has extensively engaged in the building business, both in Meriden and elsewhere. In 1884 he added to his other lines LEMUEL GOODRICH HOADLEY. For more than 225 years the name of Hoadley has had a place in the annals of New Haven county. For more than a hundred years Heli Hoadley, his chil- dren and grandchildren have been prominent and forceful citizens of New Haven, notably his chil- dren, Hervey Seward, George and John, and his grandson, George Edward. Heli Hoadley (2), (son of Heli), Hervey Seward (2) (son of Her- vey Seward) and Lemuel G. and Wells C. ( sons of John), are yet residents of New Haven, and nearly all actively interested in business. Sketches of the late George Hoadlev, and of George Edward Hoadley, and their families appear elsewhere. that of house moving, and has all the. appliances for that work. He handles iron stacks, boilers and heavy machinery of all descriptions, in various parts of the State, and is a well-known man in this line. : Several extensive factories in Meriden have been ; constructed by him, and the moving of the smoke- stack of the Curtain Fixture factory was one of his noted achievements. The stack is an iron cylinder, riveted, and four feet in diameter. It stands one hundred feet in height, and is said to weigh about 22,000 pounds. One of the boilers upon which the stack rested had settled and it was thrown out of plumb about a foot. With the oper- ation of bringing it back to a vertical position it The sons of John Hoadley, Lemuel G. and Wells descendants in the seventh generation from William Hoadle (as the name was then spelled), who was the first of the family in New England. was moved horizontally about fifteen feet. Mr. C., of New Haven, and Edward J., of Hartford, are Stiles undertook the job, and introduced two steel girders beneath the base plate. After ten braces had been riveted to it, the stack and the boiler whichi had settled were blocked on four jack screws. The William Hoadley ( Hoadle ) was born in Eng- land in 1630. and he first appeared in this country at Saybrook in 1003. Three years later he bought stack was brought to a vertical position by jacks under each end of the girders. Other appliances of an ingenious nature including a specially de- property in Branford. His name is found on the
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New Plantation Covenant in 1668, and between 1678 and '1685 he was a deputy at nine sessions of the General Court. He was one of the patentees of the town in 1686, and for many years was a selectman and one of the prominent men of the place. His death occurred in 1709. From this an- cestor the lineage of the Hoadley brothers men- tioned above is through Samuel, Timothy, Rufus, Heli and John Hoadley.
Samuel Hoadley married, in 1689, Abigail, daugliter of John and Mary ( Bullard) Farrington, born in 1668. Samuel Hoadley was one of the first settlers in the western part of the town, on lands he with others purchased in 1687. His home was in Hopyard Plain, where he was killed under a hay- mow in 1714. His widow died in 1745.
Timothy Hoadley, son of Samuel, was born in 1709, in Branford, where he was married in 1733, to Mary, who was born in 1710, daughter of John and Rebecca (Truesdell) Harrison. Mr. Hoadley was known as the "sergeant," and was the first of the family to settle in what is now the Parish of Northford in the town of North Branford. Sergeant Hoadley died in 1772, and his widow in 1795.
Rufus Hoadley, son of "Sergeant" Timothy, was born in 1741 in Northford, Branford, and was married, in 1767, to his first wife, Ruth, who was born in 1745, in Wallingford, a daughter of Jonathan and Thankful ( Benham) Peck. Mr. Hoadley was a prosperous farmer, and made his home on the old Hoadley homestead in Northford. He died in 1811, and his wife died in 1787.
Heli Hoadley, son of Rufus, was born in 1776, in Northford, and was married in 1799, in Guil- ford, to Mabel Ann Seward, who was born in 1782, in Guilford, a daughter of David and Mabel ( Field ) Seward. Mr. Hoadley located in New Haven, where he was engaged in the manufacture of trunks, wheelbarrows, carts and similar goods, doing a flourishing business, and accumulating a goodly fortune. He died at the home of his son, John, in North Haven, Feb. 12, 1852; and his wife, Feb. 22, 1826. On Dec. 25, 1830, he wedded for his second wife, Mrs. White, of Middletown.
bition soon asserted itself and he branched out into various enterprises. Success crowned his efforts, and at forty-five he had accumulated much property and was a wealthy man. A large carriage business was established by him in New Haven with branches in Augusta, Ga., and Mobile, Ala. Mr. Hoadley never held public office, but was foremost in public enterprises and improvements. An ardent admirer of Henry Clay, he gave the name of the distinguished Kentuckian to his oldest son. Mr. Hoadley died suddenly in Philadelphia, while en- route to the South on business. On the occasion of his death the New Haven "Journal and Courier," of Feb. 10, 1852, said, "The announcement of the death of Hervey S. Hoadley yesterday was received with universal regret in this city, where he has been long known and respected. As one of the most prominent business men of this city and interested in manufacturing, his loss can hardly be replaced. His death occurred at about twelve yesterday, in Philadelphia, where he was attacked while on his way South. Many young men commencing busi- ness have proved the generosity of Mr. Hoadley, and the whole community will mourn his loss." The children of Mr. Hoadley born to his second mar- riage, and all in New Haven, were as follows; Henry Clay, born in December, 1841, died Sept. 6, 1849; Caroline Helen, born March 22, 1842, was married Dec. 14, 1866, to Thomas G. Guernsey, of Bangor, Maine; and Hervey Seward, born March 1, 1846, is a resident of New Haven.
John Hoadley, the son of Heli, born March 28, 1814, was married Dec. 25, 1835, in New Haven, to Jenette, a daughter of Timothy and Lucy ( Fowler) Tyler. She died Nov. 7, 1846, and he was married in North Haven, Dec. 6, 1847, to Mary Ann Noyes Culver, who was born Jan. 13, 1815, a daughter of Samuel and Rhoda Hall (Eaton) Culver. She died at Montowese, Dec. 6, 1892. Mr. Hoadley was by trade a carriage maker and trimmer, and for a quarter of a century was identified with that busi- ness in New Haven. During the latter part of his life for more than forty years he followed farming in the vicinity of New Haven, residing at Montowese. His children who lived beyond infancy were: (1) Charles A., born in 1838, died in 1854. (2) Her- vey Seward, born in 1842, enlisted as a private sol- dier in Company A, 15th Conn. V. I., and was killed Dec. 14, 1862, at Kinston, N. C. (3) Mary Jane, born Feb. 26, 1843, married Julius E. Larkins, of New Haven, Sept. 16, 1863. (4) John Edward,
Hervey Seward Hoadley, son of Heli, was born March 15, 1804, in New Haven, and was married Nov. 13, 1830, in Berlin, Conn., to Catherine Helen, who was born Oct. 12, 1808, a daughter of James and Elizabeth ( Simons) Guernsey, of that place. ! She died March 13, 1837, and Mr. Hoadley was married a second time, Oct. 29, 1840, when Caroline Esther Guernsey, a sister of his first wife, was born April 21, 1844, was married, first, Aug. 26,
united in matrimony with him. She was born Jan. 1875, in Hartford, to Emma F. Endicott, who died in that city, Dec. 28, 1888, and he married, second, May 19, 1891, in Portland, Maine, Mrs. Ray (Al- len ) Buxton, a daughter of William and Lucy ' (Porter) Allen. Mr. Hoadley is a resident of Hartford, and was a manufacturer of the Moses cough drops, now sold in nearly 2,000 places ot business in this country and Canada. His children 12, 1807. Mr. Hoadley died Feb. 9, 1852. Until he was twenty-one years of age, he worked as an apprentice under his father, a noted wood worker in trucks, wheels and carriages. When he became of age he began life with a good trade and fifty cents.in money. For a few years he world at the bench, and then became associated with his brother, George, in the manufacture of carriages. His am- are: Eva May, born Feb. 18, 1878; and Arthur
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Endicott, born July 8, 1882. (5) Lemuel G., born Feb. 25, 1852. (6) Wells Carrington.
Lemuel Goodrich Hoadley, whose name intro- duces this article, was married Nov. 21, 1878, to Mary Bentley Fitch, who was born in North Haven, April 6, 1855, a daughter of Justus Johnson and Lucy Ann ( Huntley) Fitch. One child, Florence A., born April 11, 1883, has blessed this union. For some years Mr. Hoadley followed the carpenter trade, and for fifteen years was a wholesale confec- tioner. For many years he has dealt extensively in real estate and money loaning. His work in buy- ; ing tracts of land, building on a very extensive scale, has been of vast value to New Haven. He is prominent as a Mason, and an Odd Fellow, and is a member of the Young Men's Republican Club; religiously he belongs to the Baptist Church, as does also Mrs. Hoadley.
Wells Carrington Hoadley was born Sept. 2, 1853. and was married June 9, 1881, in North Hav- en, to Alice E., a daughter of Lucius and Betsy Melissa (Linsley) Brockett, by whom he has the following children : Harold Lucius, born Nov. 10, 1886; and Robert Wells, born Dec. 10, 1888. Mr. Hoadley has been engaged in the wholesale con- fectionery business in New Haven, and is one of the prosperous young men of that city.
Heli Hoadley, son of Heli Hoadley, born Feb. 18, 1836, was educated in New Haven. For some years he followed the sea, but now lives in New Haven.
CHATHAM FREEMAN, or "Old Chat," as he was commonly called in his later years, was born in Africa about 1750. He was stolen from his home when about five years of age and shipped to Amer- ica, where he was sold into slavery. He used to relate to the children of the neighborhood his dis- tinct remembrance of the day he was stolen, how he cried and begged the cruel thieves to let him go back to his mother. He was told that they would not take him away if he would bring his little playmate, Cato. This he did, but, of course, the promise was not kept, and the poor little black children were taken on the long terrible journey : across the waters shut up in a kind of cage. Ignor- ant little Chat thought they were being fattened for killing, and charged Cato, who was younger, to eat sparingly and was very much provoked at him because he could see no object in becoming thin.
At the time of the Revolutionary war Chat was the slave of a farmer who lived in the eastern part of Meriden, and Cato was the property of some one in Wallingford. Chat's master offered him his free- dom if he would substitute for his son, who had been drafted. He accepted the offer and served our country as a private soldier in the Connecticut line during the remaining seven years of the war, re- turning to Meriden at its close as free as the coun- try for which he had so long been fighting.
Upon gaining his own freedom, his next thought was the freedom of Rhea, a slave girl whom he wished to marry. Accordingly he gave his time for another long term of years, and thus Rhea gained her freedom and became his wife. He used to say with great satisfaction: "She is truly my wife, for I've bought her with my own money."
One year when the crops in Meriden were a partial failure, Old Chat tried again and again to buy some corn, but in vain, as the farmers had hard- ly enough for their own use. The last appeal was made to Unele Isaac, who refused as the others had done; when Chat put the case before him in the following words: "If your family had no food, and you could not beg, borrow, or buy, would you think it wrong to steal?" Unele Isaac hardly knew what reply to make, but sold him the corn.
Chat and Rhea had one daughter, Katy, who married Robin Prim. Katy was a member of the Broad Street Baptist Church. The last of Old Chat's descendants died many years ago. Chat and his wife were regular attendants of the old Con- gregational Church on Broad street.
In 1826 on the occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Inde- pendence at the Congregational Church, Chatham Freeman was one of the honored heroes of the day. People are now living who remember seeing him march into the church with the other survivors of the war and occupy with them one or more of the old fashioned square pews. His name was placed on the pension roll Sept. 16, 1818, and he lived to receive about fifteen hundred and twenty dollars. He died Feb. 13, 1834, at the age of eighty-four years, and it is thought he rests in the Broad street cemetery by the graves of his kindred in the corner where the poor were buried. His resting place is unknown, but the record of his honest, faithful life and noble deeds remains, and entitles him to the rank of a true hero.
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