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On April 17, 1833, at Simsbury, Dr. Phelps married Hannah Latimer, born in that town June 23, 1801, daughter of Waite and Hannah (Pettibone) Latimer. Children : Antoinette Randolph, Maria Augusta, Guy Carleton and Guyana Row- land, the first named being the only one
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that attained maturity. Antoinette R. Phelps was a resident of Hartford, her home being at No. 72 Washington street, in that city. She enjoys the dual distinc- tion of being a member of two of the most honored orders in America, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Colonial Dames.
Dr. Phelps was both a Free Mason and an Odd Fellow, and was held in high re- gard by all who knew him, receiving the highest esteem from those who knew him best. As a physician he was careful, re- flective and conscientious, as a citizen patriotic, as a husband and father gentle, loving and true, as a man honest and fearless. He died March 18, 1869, after a short attack of typhoid pneumonia. Until within a few days of his passing away his activity was unimpaired, but a cold contracted through sitting near an open window at a directors' meeting proved the indirect cause of his demise. His wife survived until May 28, 1873, when she, too, fell asleep. Both rest in the cemetery at Simsbury, where also sleep five generations of both families.
WAITE, Henry M., Legislator, Jurist.
Henry Matson Waite was born in Lyme, Connecticut, February 9, 1787, son of Remick and Susannah (Matson) Waite, and a descendant of Thomas Waite, who immigrated from England to Massachusetts about 1663. He was graduated from Yale, A. B., 1809; studied law with Judge Matthews and Governor Roger Griswold; was admitted to the bar in 1812, and was engaged in the ac- tive practice of his profession in Middle- town and in Lyme. He took an active interest in public affairs; he served as representative in the State Legislature in 1815 and for many years following; was State Senator, 1832-33; judge of the Su-
preme Court of Errors of Connecticut, 1834-54, and chief justice of the State, 1854-57. The honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Yale in 1855. He was married, in 1816, to Maria, daugh- ter of Colonel Richard Selden, of Lyme, Connecticut, and granddaughter of Colo- nel Samuel Selden. Judge Waite died in Lyme, Connecticut, December 14, 1869. His son,
Morrison Remick Waite, was born at Lyme, Connecticut, November 29, 1816, and died in Washington City, March 23, 1888. He graduated from Yale College, in the same class with William M. Evarts, Benjamin Silliman, Edwards Pierrepont and Samuel J. Tilden. He studied law and located for practice in Toledo, Ohio, and served in the Legislature of that State. He succeeded Salmon P. Chase as Chief Justice of the United States, under appointment by President Ulysses S. Grant in which capacity he was called upon to deal with many important ques- tions growing out of the Civil War and the constitutional amendments incident thereto. He proved himself a most able and conscientious jurist, holding an even balance between the rights of the States and those of the Federal government, protecting the former from encroach- ment, and checking the centralizing ten- dencies of the latter.
IVES, Nathan Beers,
Prominent Physician.
Dr. Nathan Beers Ives, son of Dr. Eli Ives (q. v.), was born at New Haven, June 26, 1806, died there, June 18, 1869. He was educated at Yale College, receiv- ing the degree of A. B. in 1825 and M. D. in 1828. He began to practice medicine in 1828 at the age of twenty-two years, and continued until disabled by ill health during his last years. As the fruit of his lifetime of industry and a token of his
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ability in his profession he left an ample estate, much larger than had ever before been accumulated in the practice of medi- cine in New Haven. For a good many years it was admitted that he took the cream of the business in his profession, and although he was naturally envied by his younger or less fortunate fellow prac- titioners, none said or felt that his suc- cess was unmerited. "His perceptive faculties were naturally keen and his management of his resources showed un- usual tact. He devoted himself to his professional duties and to the welfare of his patients with a singleness of purpose which can spring only from the genuine fitness of a man for his calling. Rarely did he enter a household as a physician without becoming permanently bound to it as a friend. He had a vivid enjoyment of good company and bright conversa- tion, in which with his natural vivacity of temperament he always bore an active part. There always seemed a certain fit- ness in it that these gifts should be lodged in a short, slight, alert figure." "His soul," as old Fuller says, "had but a small diocese to visit." "It was related of him as a child that he climbed the branches of a great stramonium weed among the herbs of his father's wonder- ful garden." For many years he gave private instruction to medical students, but never consented to become an in- structor in the medical school. He mar- ried Sarah Badger.
Their son, Dr. Charles Linneus Ives, followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, and became an accomplished physician.
HALLOCK, Zephaniah, Famous Shipbuilder.
The name Hallock has been variously spelled Holyeake, Holliok, Halliock, Hal- leck, Hallioak, Hallick and Hallack. The
signature of William Hallock, of Long Island, dated at Southold (township) February 10, 1682, and on record at Riverhead, is written Hollyoake by the copyist, and it is quite evident that it was used interchangeably with that of Holyoke. The latter name has been known in England for centuries, and there is a family coat-of-arms. One Ed- ward Holyoke emigrated from Stafford county in 1639 and was afterwards presi- dent of Harvard College. His son, Eli- zur Holyoke, became well known in northwestern Massachusetts from having received a grant of land near Northamp- ton in 1654; also from the fact that Mt. Holyoke was named for him because he camped at its base while looking for land. The family arms appear in his will, 17II, as follows : Azure, a chevron argent, cotised, or, between three crescents of the second. Crest: A crescent, argent.
Peter Hallock, the first of the family to come to America, and one of the New Haven Colony, landed at Hallock's Neck, Southold, Long Island, in 1640, and set- tled near Mattituck. He came over with a company of Puritans with the Rev. Mr. John Youngs. According to a tradition in the family, Peter Hallock was the first of the thirteen men who composed the company, to set foot on the shore among the Indians at Southold. For this reason that part of the village was named Hal- lock's Neck, and the beach extending from it Hallock's Beach, names which are still retained. He purchased from the Indians the tract of land since called Oyster Ponds, now Orient, and then re- turned to England for his wife and on coming back with her found that the Indians had resold his property. He then bought about ten miles west of Matti- tuck. His wife was a widow when he married her, and had a son by her former husband, Mr. Howell. The only child of
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the second marriage was William, men- tioned below.
William, son of Peter Hallock, was born, lived and died at Mattituck. His wife was Margaret - . He died Sep- tember 28, 1684, leaving a will dated Southold (township), February 10, 1682, and proved October 21, 1684, which is preserved in the ancient records both of Suffolk county at Riverhead and of New York City. He left his property to his wife, four sons, Thomas, Peter, William and John, and his five daughters, Marga- ret, Martha, Sarah, Elizabeth and Abigail.
John Hallock, married Abigail Swazey. He removed to Setauket in Brookhaven, and died there, in 1737. His wife died in the same years, January 23, "both very ancient and in unity with Friends." Deeds in Riverhead, Long Island, men- tion four of his sons, John, Peter, Benja- min, mentioned below, and William, who settled near him, as did also his son Jona- than. His dwelling house in Setauket, covered with cedar, is still standing.
William Hallock, son of John Hallock, was born about 1722, died about 1782. He lived many years at Stony Brook, but was in Greenwich, Connecticut, during most of the Revolutionary War, in which he suffered much in the command of picket boats on the sound. He married Sarah Saxton, of Huntington, Long Island, sister of Harriet Saxton, who married Zephaniah Platt, the founder of Plattsburg, New York. After Mr. Hal- lock died his widow lived with her youngest daughter Anne, wife of Lodo- wick Hackstaff, in Sing Sing and New York City, and was buried in St. Paul's church yard, New York, in 1806, aged eighty-three years.
Their son, William Hallock, was born about 1755. He was a soldier in the Revo- lution and a prisoner of the British one year in the old sugar-house of infamous
memory in New York City. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island. His widow was one of the last of the Revolutionary War pensioners. He married Ruth Hawkins. Her last days were spent in Derby, Connecticut.
Their son, Zephaniah Hallock, was born on Long Island at Stony Brook, 1792, died at Derby, Connecticut, January II, 1870. He came to Derby in 1816 and engaged in shipbuilding, first at Sugar street, and then at Derby Narrows, where he built many vessels. He was in part- nership with his brother Israel. Few, if any, men ever lived in town more uni- versally respected than Zephaniah. He was a zealous Congregationalist, joining the church in youth and manifesting his faith in daily good works through a long and useful life. His high standards of morality and business and the daily ex- ample of integrity made him a powerful influence for good in the community. He was of cheerful disposition and socially attractive. He was active in the church and seldom absent from meetings. As ship builders the Hallocks always bore an enviable reputation, both at home and abroad. He was affectionately called "Uncle Zeph" in later years and the town history pays him the compliment of be- ing one of "the most honest men that ever lived." "There was no duplicity or double dealing in his character and rather than shirk his contracts by putting in shoddy timber or practicing any dodge upon his employees, he would sooner suffer loss in dollars." Therefore. any vessel labeled with the name of Hallock whether in port or on the ocean always bore the palm of great merit. He took part in the War of 1812. He married Sarah Hall, a native of Cairo, New York. Children : William Henry; Franklin : Frederick H., died in infancy ; Ann Au- gusta ; Edwin.
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ELIOT, Ely A.,
Merchant and Public Official.
Bennett Eliot, the first known ancestor of the line herein followed, was a resi- dent of Widford, County Hertford, Eng- land, and married there Letteye Aggar. His remains were interred in Nazing, County Essex, England, November 21, 1621. Their son, the Rev. John Eliot, was baptized at Widford, August 5, 1604, and died May 21, 1690. He was a student at Jesus College, Cambridge University. He embarked about the middle of August, 1631, in the ship "Lion" for Boston, arriv- ing November 2. He immediately took charge of the church at Boston in the ab- sence of the pastor, Rev. John Wilson. In 1632 he became teacher of the church at Roxbury. He began to preach to the Indians, September 14, 1646; in 1650 he selected Natick, Massachusetts, as a place for an Indian town and the foundations were made the following year ; in 1653 he had so far progressed in his knowledge of the Indian language that he had devised and translated the Book of Psalms; in 1654 he printed a catechism in the Indian tongue ; in 1657 he preached to the Po- dunk Indians at Hartford in their own language ; in December, 1658, he had com- pleted his translation of the whole Bible into the Massachusetts dialect; in 1660 he was first called "The Indian Apostle," a title by which he has since been distin- guished ; the publication of the Bible was completed in 1663; the translation of the Psalter was published in 1664, and in 1666 the Indian grammar ; in 1686, after much revision and delay, a second edition of the Bible was printed and distributed among the Indians. When he was eighty- four years old he continued to preach from time to time to the Indians. He died May 21, 1690.
His son, the Rev. Joseph Eliot, was born December 20, 1638, and died May
24, 1694. He graduated at Harvard Col- lege in 1658, and became the minister at Northampton, Massachusetts, and Guil- ford, Connecticut. He worked with his father teaching the Indians, and was one of those who signed the covenant of the church at Northampton. His son, the Rev. Jared Eliot, was born November 7, 1685, and died April 22, 1763. He gradu- ated at Yale College in 1706 and became a famous minister. He served as school- master in his native town, and resigned from that position to accept the call as pastor of the church at Killingworth, now Clinton, and there served for a period of fifty-six years. He was a physician as well as clergyman, and he trained so many students in medicine who subse- quently attained distinction that he was commonly called "the father of regular medical practice in Connecticut." He was scarcely less famous in scientific in- vestigation. He discovered the existence of iron in the dark red sea sand, and as a result of successful experiments made America's first contribution to the science of metallurgy in a tract entitled : "The Art of Making very good if not the best Iron from Black Sea Sand." These in- vestigations won for him by unanimous vote the gold medal of the London Soci- ety of Arts in 1762. His son, George Eliot, was born March 9, 1736, and died May 1, 1810. He was a farmer by occu- pation.
His son, George Eliot, was born Janu- ary 27, 1767, and died October 3, 1828, in Killingworth, where he conducted agri- cultural pursuits. He was a man of im- portance in the community, filled many public offices and represented his town in the Legislature. He was courtly and dig- nified in manner and was known by the title "Esquire George." He married, De- cember 23, 1790, Patience, daughter of Noah Lane, of Killingworth. They were the parents of Ely Augustus Eliot.
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Ely Augustus Eliot was born Septem- ber 18, 1791, at Clinton, Connecticut, and died January 7, 1870. He married, July 14, 1818, Susan Maria, daughter of Hum- phrey Pratt, of Saybrook. She died Janu- ary 9, 1870. He was a merchant in Clin- ton, 1815-50, but later retired from, busi- ness and devoted himself to more leisurely pursuits. He was active in originating and carrying on the construction of the New Haven & New London railroad, and was president of the road for the years 1854-57. He was elected by the Legis- lature judge of the county court of Mid- dlesex county, 1842-44, 1846-47, and in 1839 was elected a member of the State Senate. He was lieutenant of coast artil- lery in 1814 and brigadier-general of artil- lery after the war. As such, he was a popular and efficient officer. He collected a considerable library, and devoted also much time and attention to the cause of agriculture. An address which he deliv- ered before the Agricultural Society of Middlesex County, 1849, was published at the time and is now a rare pamphlet. He was courtly and dignified in manner and refined and scholarly in all his tastes.
HOTCHKISS, Henry, Business Man and Financier.
Samuel Hotchkiss, founder of the fam- ily in America, who is supposed to have come from Essex, England, was a resi- dent of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1641, being among the first to locate there, and remaining there until his death, De- cember 28, 1663. He married, in the New Haven Colony, September 7, 1642, Eliza- beth Cleverly, who died in 1681. Their son, Daniel Hotchkiss, was born June 8, 1657, died March 10, 1712. He married, June 21, 1683, Esther Sperry. Their son, Daniel (2) Hotchkiss, was born in Au- gust, 1687. He married Susannah Brad-
ley. Their son, Obadiah Hotchkiss, was born in 1731, died in 1805. He married Mary (Mercy on tombstone) Perkins, of Bethany. Among their children was Jus- tus Hotchkiss, baptized December 6, 1772, died May 6, 1812, aged thirty-nine years. He was married twice, his wives being sisters, descendants in the sixth genera- tion from Samuel Hotchkiss. His second wife and the mother of his two children was Susannah Hotchkiss. Their oldest son was Henry, see forward.
Henry Hotchkiss was born April 29, 1801, died December 15, 1871. He and his brother Lucius, only children of their parents, attended the academy at Fair- field, Connecticut. Henry, at the age of eighteen, returned to New Haven and be- came a clerk for his uncle, Russell Hotch- kiss, who was at one time associated with his father in the lumber business, and served in that capacity three years, and upon attaining his majority became asso- ciated in the business as a partner. In 1828 the uncle retired from business, be- ing succeeded by his two nephews, and under the name of H. & L. Hotchkiss they continued the same until 1850. The two brothers were also interested in other enterprises. From 1842 to 1852 they were private partners in the business of L. Candee & Company, manufacturers of rubber shoes, Leverett Candee having ac- quired the right to manufacture under the Goodyear patents. In this business they were among the pioneers, and from a small beginning the rubber shoe indus- try has grown to vast proportions. The corporation known as L. Candee & Com- pany was organized as a stock company in 1852, with a capital stock of $200,000, Mr. Candee being the first president. In 1863 Henry Hotchkiss became president and treasurer, retiring from the latter office in 1869, when his son, Henry L. Hotchkiss, succeeded him as treasurer.
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The office of president, Henry Hotchkiss retained until his death in 1871, when Henry L. Hotchkiss was elected to the position, which he has since retained. L. Candee & Company manufacture twenty thousand pairs of boots and shoes each day, or over six million per year. Henry Hotchkiss was one of the original corporators of and a director in the large Waterbury brass manufactory of Holmes, Booth & Haydens ; an original corporator of the New Haven & New London rail- road, now the Shore Line Railroad Com- pany, and later a trustee and manager for several years. He served in the capacity of president of the New Haven County Bank for almost two decades, and was the first president of the Union Trust Com- pany of New Haven, holding the office from its organization in 1871 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son, Henry L. Hotchkiss. He was a director in the Colonial Historical Society of New Haven, and during his early life was active in military affairs and in the New Haven fire department.
Henry Hotchkiss married, May 22, 1823, Elizabeth Daggett, born May 3, 1803, died in September, 1882, daughter of Benjamin Prescott, of the shipping firm of Prescott & Sherman, of New Haven. Children: I. Elizabeth S., died January 26, 1896. 2. Mary A. F., died October 3, 1839. 3. Martha, married Dr. John O. Bronson, died February 22, 1898. 4. Susan V. 5. Mary A., married Captain Charles H. Townshend, formerly in com- mand of the steamer "Fulton," plying be- tween New York and Havre. 6. Henry Lucius. Mrs. Hotchkiss traced her ances- try to John Prescott, who emigrated from England to Boston and Watertown in 1640, and who was the first settler of Worcester county and the founder of Lancaster. The next in descent was Cap- tain Jonathan Prescott, who had a son,
Rev. Benjamin, who had a son, Benjamin, who had a son, Benjamin, born October 27, 1757, in Salem, Massachusetts, died October 23, 1839. In 1783 he married Hannah, daughter of Tilly and Thankful (Allen) Blakeslie, who died May 10, 1824, and they were the parents of Mrs. Hotch- kiss.
HUBBERD, John Henry, Lawyer and Public Official.
John Hubberd, immigrant ancestor, was probably born in England, though he may be related to the Hingham family of this name. He was an inhabitant of Boston, Massachusetts, as early as 1670. He re- moved to Roxbury and served in King Philip's war in Captain Isaac Johnson's company, 1675-76. He married Rebecca Wells. She joined the church February 17, 1683. He went to Woodstock, Con- necticut (New Roxbury or Mashemequit), settled by forty Roxbury families who left Roxbury, July 21, 1686. John Hub- berd was an original proprietor. Their son, John Hubberd, was born at Wood- stock, May 3, 1689, died after 1731. He was one of the petitioners for the charter of the town of Pomfret, set off from Woodstock, dated in 1713. He bought the homestead of John Adams in 1710. It is located between Canterbury and Mortlake. He married Elizabeth -. Their son, Joseph Hubberd, was born at Pomfret, Connecticut, about 1720. He removed to Salisbury, Connecticut, and located at Tory Hill. He bought a farm of one hundred and forty-five acres, four- teenth lot, near Middle Pond in Salisbury of John and Experience Palmer for three hundred pounds sterling, June 18, 1774, by warrantee deed (see Salisbury land records, volume 7, page 102). He was a Loyalist during the Revolution, though a personal friend of General Israel Put-
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nam, his neighbor. He married at Pom- fret, July 5, 1744, Deborah, daughter of Joseph Cleveland. Their son, Parley Hubbard, was born in Pomfret about 1767, died in 1848. He removed to Salis- bury with his parents in 1781. He was a large and successful farmer, owning the land where the Hotchkiss School is located at Lakeville, Connecticut. He was captain in the State militia. He mar- ried Anna, daughter of John and Sarah (Landon) Catlin, of Salisbury. Children : I. Hiram Bosworth, born 1796, died March 21, 1869; married Polly Dean, of Canaan. 2. Joseph Augustus, born 1800, died 1877, at Honesdale, Wayne county, Pennsyl- vania ; married Daphne Bushnell. 3. John Henry, mentioned below. 4. Alexander, born 1806, died June, 1881 ; married Man- dane Van Deusen ; children : Jane, James, John Henry, Edwin, Anna.
Hon. John Henry Hubberd was born in Salisbury, March 24, 1804, died July 30, 1872, in Litchfield. He received a good education in the district schools and became especially proficient in mathe- matics and Latin. He was qualified to teach school at the age of fifteen years. He was a lifelong student, however, and a man of many attainments. He began to study law in the office of Hon. Elisha Sterling, of Salisbury, and was admitted to the bar before he was twenty-two years old. He established himself in the prac- tice of his profession at Lakeville, Con- necticut, and resided there for thirty years. In 1847-49 he was a State Senator from the seventeenth district. He was appointed State Attorney for Litchfield county in 1849 and held the office four years. In politics he was originally a Whig, afterward a Republican and a leader of his party. He gave earnest sup- port to the government during the Civil War and helped to recruit the Thirteenth and Nineteenth regiments. In 1863 he was elected to the Thirty-eighth Con-
gress and reëlected to Congress in 1865 from the fourth district. He served his district with ability and distinction. He was an able and successful lawyer and continued in practice until shortly before his death. The following tribute by his neighbor and friend, Hon. Henry B. Graves, was published in a Litchfield newspaper at the time of his death: "The Hon. John H. Hubberd died in this vil- lage on the 30th of July, 1872. The de- ceased was born in Salisbury in Novem- ber, 1804, and was therefore at his death past sixty-seven years of age. He was admitted to the Litchfield county bar in April, 1826, and soon after commenced practicing law in his native town, in the village of Lakeville, where he continued in a very successful business until about seventeen years since, when he removed to Litchfield. Here he was constantly occupied in his profession, being engaged in most of the important cases tried in our higher courts until his election to Congress in 1863 from this district. He was again returned to Congress in 1865. Having served his four years in Congress, he again returned to the practice of law and continued it till within a few weeks of his death. He was very industrious, energetic and persevering ; never discour- aged by an adverse decision, where there was an opportunity to pursue the cause of his client further, and was often vic- torious in the court of review, where he had been overruled in the inferior courts. In the course of his professional career he had a lucrative practice and for many years was one of the more prominent law- yers in this county. He served five years as State Attorney of the county, in which position he gave general satisfaction ; he was also State Senator from the 17th dis- trict two terms and served in various other public relations and in all of them acquitted himself with honor. He was a good citizen ; liberal, kind and generous
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