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what is known as Town Hill in North Madison, where he was a farmer through his life. He married, about 1807, Ruth Coe, who was born June 3, 1786, in what is now Middlefield, Connecticut, descend- ant of Robert Coe. His son, Robert Coe, was the father of Captain John Coe, born May 10, 1658, in Stratford, who was less than two years of age when his father died. With his step-father and mother, he removed to New Haven, where he re- mained until he became of age, when he took possession of lands inherited from his father in Stratford. He married, De- cember 20, 1682, Mary, daughter of Joseph Hawley, and they were the parents of Captain Joseph Coe, born February 2, 1687, in Stratford, who became a prom- inent citizen of that town. He was com- missioned Captain of Militia in 1729, and died July 15, 1754. He married, Novem- ber 21, 1708, in Stratford, Abigail Robin- son, born April 3, 1690, in Guilford, daughter of David and Abigail (Kirby) Robinson, died July 6, 1775. David Robinson was one of the early settlers of Durham, Connecticut. Their second son Captain David Coe, born February 18, 1716, in Durham, settled, in what is now Middlefield about 1740, was a successful farmer, was commissioned, in May, 1764, captain of the 16th Company in the 6th Regiment of Connecticut Militia. Too late to participate in the Revolutionary War, he was active in promoting the cause of the colonies. He married, in 1740, Hannah Camp, born November 15, 1720, died October 16, 1808, daughter of Nathan and Rhoda (Parsons) Camp. Nathan Coe, eldest son of David and Han- nah (Camp) Coe, born May 19, 1742, in what is now Middlefield, was a farmer there until his death, December 10, 1796. He married, July 22, 1767, Abigail Par- sons, born July 17, 1746. Ruth Coe,
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youngest child of Nathan and Abigail (Parsons) Coe, born in 1786, became the wife of James Ward Tucker, as previously related. Henry Tucker, eldest son of James W. and Ruth (Coe) Tucker, was born August 20, 1811, in North Madison and was bound out at the age of nine years to Deacon Rossiter, with whom he lived until eighteen years old. He had limited opportunities for attendance at the district school, and after leaving Deacon Rossiter was employed as a farm- hand by Levi Fowler, at Northford, Con- necticut. Later he settled in Durham, where he was joined by his sisters, Abbie and Ruth, who kept house for him, and worked as tailoresses at home. He was economical and industrious, and with his savings purchased a wood lot in the west side of Durham, where for two years he engaged in cutting wood and burning charcoal. With the proceeds of this ven- ture he purchased a house and small farm on Main Street, Durham, the second north of the Congregational Church. Besides his own land, he tilled other sections, which he rented, and in time built a house occupied as the Congregational parson- age, in which he lived for a short time. Subsequently, he purchased a farm of three hundred acres, one-half mile east of Durham Main Street, and engaged quite extensively in agriculture and stock grow- ing. He also operated a saw mill, driven by water power. He died February II, 1892, and his body was laid to rest in the Durham Cemetery. In early life he was a Whig, became one of the original sup- porters of the Republican party, repre- sented the town in 1869, and filled various town offices, including that of first Se- lectman. Active in the Congregational Church, he was a liberal contributor to its support, and often entertained the clergymen of that sect at his home. He
married, March 19, 1838, Rosilla Riedell, who was born April 7, 1817, in Thompson, Connecticut, died March 28, 1895, and was buried beside her husband.
Henry V. Tucker, eldest son of Henry and Rosilla (Riedell) Tucker, was born October 19, 1841, and settled in West- field section of Middletown, where he engaged quite successfully in farming. He married Clara Casey Bacon of West- field, daughter of Daniel Minor and Har- riett Blake (Hall) Bacon of Westfield. She now resides in New Britain. She is a granddaughter of Benjamin and Lucy A. (Wilcox) Bacon, mentioned at length elsewhere in this work. Benjamin Bacon built the house in which LeRoy Minor Tucker now resides, about two hundred years ago. He was a member of the South Church of Middletown, very pious, was formerly a Whig, and later a Repub- lican. He was the father of Daniel M. Bacon, born January 7, 1799, died March 4, 1873. He attended the district school and the Middletown city schools and was a member of the North Church, a Repub- lican in politics, captain in the militia for a period of thirteen years, and was al- ways thereafter known as Captain Minor Bacon. He married, August 2, 1826, Har- riett Blake Hall, born August 2, 1805, daughter of Jonathan and Catherine (Sav- age) Hall, descendant of one of the pioneer families of Middletown, which is mentioned at considerable length else- where in this work. The founder of the family in this country was John Hall, among the earliest settlers of Hartford, later of Middletown, who was the father of Richard Hall, born in England, in 1620, died March 27, 1691, in Middletown. He was a weaver, a large land owner and lived between Court and College streets, his land extending westward to High Street. His wife, Mary, died March 30,
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1691. Their third son, born in September, 1658, in Middletown, died March 14, 1740. He married, December 6, 1683, Phoebe Ward, born May 17, 1663, eldest daughter of William and Phoebe Ward, died May 14, 1741. Their eldest son, Samuel Hall, born November 25, 1696, married (sec- ond), August 26, 1731, Abigail Starr, born October 10, 17II, eldest daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Bolton) Starr, grand- daughter of Comfort Starr, founder of the family in Middletown (see Starr). Her eldest child, fourth son of Samuel, was Samuel Hall (3), born August 20, 1732, married May 7, 1755, Lois Alvord, born April 1, 1736, third daughter of Thomas and Submit Alvord. Thomas Alvord, born August 28, 1683, was a son of Thomas and Joanna (Taylor) Alvord, grandson of Alexander Alvord of Wind- sor, who came from Somersetshire, Eng- land. Jonathan Hall, second son of Sam- uel and Lois (Alvord) Hall, born March 14, 1767, died in 1863, married Catherine Savage and was the father of Hannah Blake Hall, wife of Daniel Minor Bacon, as above noted. For many years he was engaged in business in Middletown, first in the firm of Montague & Hall, later many years independently.
LeRoy Minor Tucker, son of Henry V. and Clara C. (Bacon) Tucker, was born June 19, 1877, in the house in which he now resides, in the eastern part of the Westfield district, where he has ever since resided. He attended the district school of Staddle Hill and the Middle- town High School and was subsequently a student at the State Agricultural Col- lege at Storrs, Connecticut, from which he graduated in 1896. He settled on the home farm and has had very few vaca- tions. He engages in general farming and participates himself in the labors inci- dent to his business. He has done much
work upon the roads. For twenty-two years he peddled milk in Middletown, and since he ceased that occupation, he has engaged largely in grain growing. In 1921 he produced one hundred acres of small grains. He engaged quite exten- sively in the construction of silos and is always busy. He is a member of Matta- bessett Grange of Middletown, in which he has served as assistant steward, and of Apollo Lodge, No. 33, Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the North Church of Middletown. A Repub- lican in politics he has ever refused to be a candidate for office, and devotes him- self to the demands of his extensive busi- ness.
He married, August 10, 1905, Ida D. Scoville, born in Maromas, daughter of Frank S. and Harriett (McKenstry) Sco- ville. They have no children.
PASCALL, Richard Henry, Manufacturer.
At the head of the leading manufactur- ing industry of Portland, of which he has been many years manager, and as citizen of undoubted patriotism and moral worth, Captain Pascall enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who are privileged to know him. He was born October 6, 1841, in Fenton, Staffordshire, England, a son of Richard and Margaret (Pickering) Pas- call. The father, born in 1800, died in England in 1844. He was a man of un- usual mechanical skill, the only one of his father's family to exhibit such ability, and the son inherited some of this talent. Margaret Pickering, wife of Richard Pas- call and aunt of the late Thomas R. Pick- ering, founder of the Pickering Governor works, was a woman of remarkable char- acter. Left with seven children to care for, by the early death of her husband,
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she reared them to lives of usefulness. She was born in 1800 and died in 1859, in New York City. Her senior son, Thomas Pascall, lived many years in New York, where he died. A daughter, Margaret Pickering Pascall, founder of the Pascall Institute, on Lexington Avenue, New York, was long at its head.
Richard H. Pascall, junior son of his parents, was but seven years of age when he came with his widowed mother and her family to America. His youth was passed in the city of New York, where he enjoyed the benefit of public schools and the free academy, now known as the Col- lege of the City of New York. His strong mechanical bent was early manifested, and was developed by a course in me- chanics at Cooper Institute. In 1862 he left this institution to enlist in defense of the integrity of the nation, becoming a member of Company A, 7Ist New York Volunteer Infantry. After the completion of his term of enlistment in 1863, he be- came sergeant of Company K, 37th New York Volunteers. This was one of the regiments called home from the front to suppress the draft riots in New York City. After peace was established Mr. Pascall joined the New York Militia and rose through the various grades until he became Captain, receiving his commission from Governor Fenton in 1870. This serv- ice was broken by his removal to Con- necticut in that year. In October, 1865, Captain Pascall became associated with his cousin, Thomas R. Pickering, in the production of the Pickering Governor for steam engines. This governor was a re- markable innovation in mechanics, and has grown steadily in use until the Port- land factory is the one with the largest production in the United States of gov- ernors distributed to every civilized country. When the plant was removed
from New York to Portland in 1870 to occupy a new factory built for the busi- ness, Mr. Pascall was foreman, and he became superintendent in 1878. Long before 1903 the original Portland plant had become too small to accommodate the work, and in that year an entirely new plant of brick and stone was con- structed, adjoining the Air Line Rail- road, with switching facilities, where greater convenience and increased capac- ity were secured. May 1, 1888, the busi- ness was incorporated as The Pickering Governor Company, with Thomas R. Pickering as president. Upon his death in 1895, John H. Hall succeeded him and was in turn succeeded by Mr. Pascall in 1903. Through the superior business abil- ity of Mr. Hall and the skillful manage- ment of the plant by Mr. Pascall, the production and sales were greatly in- creased, being doubled in one year. In 1890 the first private electrical plant in Portland was established at this factory, and an independent system of fire pro- tection is also maintained. Captain Pas- call was a director and vice-president of the Portland First National Bank many years, that was later, in 1925, merged in The Portland Trust Company, when he became chairman of the board.
He has always been deeply interested in advancement of educational facilities for the town, taking leadership in pro- moting and carrying to completion the erection of a modern building of brick and stone for use of the grades and accommo- dation of the town high school, and as chairman greatly advancing the standing of the town schools.
With natural determination and fixed principles he has always sustained the Republican party as the exponent of his ideas in good government, but has rarely consented to be a candidate for office.
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In 1906 he represented the town in the State Legislature. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church of Portland, of Portland Lodge, No. 35, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and of Mansfield Post, No. 53, Grand Army of the Republic of Middletown, in whose welfare he has always felt a deep interest. In Free Ma- sonry he has attained high degrees, being affiliated with Warren Lodge, No. 51, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Portland; Washington Chapter, No. 6, Royal Arch Masons; and Cyrene Com- mandery, No. 8, Knights Templar, of Middletown; also Sphinx Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Hartford. Captain Pascall was married, Decemebr 27, 1864, in New York, to Marie A. Lasher, a native of German- town, New York, descended from one of the Knickerbocker families of the Empire State. They were the parents of four children (of whom three survive) namely : Marie Ella, Bessie Pickering, and George Chester. The senior daughter is the wife of Stephen S. Hall (q. v.) vice-president and treasurer of the Pickering Governor Co .; the junior of Walter H. Penfield (q. v.) vice president of the Colts Arms Co., of Hartford; and the son is secretary of The Pickering Governor Company, all residing in Portland.
PASCALL, George Chester, Manufacturer.
As secretary of The Pickering Governor Company of Portland, Mr. Pascall is mak- ing a record as a sterling business man, having already established himself among his fellows as a good citizen and true friend. The only son of Richard H. Pas- call, whose record appears above, he was born August 22, 1881, in Portland, where his primary education was secured, in-
cluding the high school course. He was a member of the class of 1900 at the Hotch- kiss School at Lakeville, Connecticut, and soon found employment in the office of Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, Connecticut. Here he served three years as a clerk, thus gaining considerable knowledge of busi- ness affairs and an experience ever since valuable to him. Close application had somewhat impaired his physical vigor, and he made a trip to Texas, where he quickly recovered. On the first of Janu- ary, 1904, he entered the office of the Pickering Governor Company, as general clerk, and was made secretary of the company in 1921. Here he has taken from the shoulders of his honored father much of the burden of affairs for many years borne by the elder, whose ability and perseverance have done so much to build up and carry on the concern. The junior Mr. Pascall is diligent and efficient, and is appreciated as such by all con- nected with the office. He bears his part in carrying on the beneficient influences of the community, supporting every worthy movement. He is a vestryman of Trinity Church, sustains his share of vari- ous community services and helped in every way to sustain the government in prosecuting the nation's share in the re- cent great World War. He is a member of the world-known Masonic fraternity, affiliating with Warren Lodge, No. 51, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Portland, of which he has served in the stations up to junior deacon ; Washington Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Middle- town; Cyrene Commandery, No. 8, and Sphinx Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Hartford. While not a seeker for public honors, Mr. Pascall feels that every citizen should bear his part in securing good govern-
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ment, and supports Republican principles and policies, as the best means, in his judgment, to secure that end.
Mr. Pascall was married, June 1, 1910, to Helen Boughton, who was born in Hannibal, Missouri, daughter of Henry C. and Harriet (Chamberlain) Boughton of that city. Her grandfather, Sanford L. Boughton, was born August 27, 1810, and settled at Warsaw, New York, in 1840. He was a friend of education, and was a member of the school board of Warsaw from the inception of its union school in 1853 until his death, September 26, 1859. He married Maria A. Roberts, and they were the parents of Henry C. Boughton. The latter, born July 15, 1845, was ap- prenticed to a printer in Warsaw, and set- tled in Hannibal, Missouri, where he en- gaged successfully in the book and sta- tionery business until his death, which occurred September 17, 1923. He mar- ried, March 4, 1873, Harriet Chamberlain, who was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, and survives him.
Mrs. Pascall is a member of the general association of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Pascall are the parents of a son, Richard Boughton Pascall, born January 4, 1912. He is a member of Troop 21, Boy Scouts of America.
WAKEMAN, Howard Nichols, Lawyer, Historian.
Accomplished in his profession as a general practitioner in the law, his train- ing and experience in both the States of Connecticut and New York being re- corded as of a very high order of value in their legal interests, Howard Nichols Wakeman, long in practice at the Con- necticut bar, is a factor for progress in the civic life of this State, and he has held
important State and township office in a service of broad benefit to the community. Learned in the historical lore of a State abounding with distinguished Colonial and Revolutionary records, Mr. Wake- man is not only widely known as the cura- tor of the archives of Bridgeport and its neighborhood, but he is one of the best in- formed of the State's historians concern- ing the Plantation and Provincial eras, and those immediately following, in Con- necticut's remarkable story of settlement and growth. Mr. Wakeman, one of the accomplished editors of this work, is a son of Zalmon Wakeman, a teacher in the public schools, and who served as a mem- ber of the General Assembly of Connecti- cut, and Susan (Warner) Wakeman.
Howard Nichols Wakeman was born November 21, 1856, at Greenfield Hill, in the town of Fairfield, where he attended the public schools. He prepared for his profession in the Law School of Yale Uni- versity, where he was graduated in the class of 1888, with his degree Bachelor of Laws, and upon his admission to the Con- necticut bar in 1887 he at once began the practice of law in this State. Mr. Wake- man was also admitted to practice at the New York bar in 1904, and from that date to 1914, he was in the employ of the Law- yers' Title and Trust Company. He is active in financial matters, and is a mem- ber of the board of directors of the South- port Savings Bank.
Mr. Wakeman's interest in the political life of the State has been notably mani- fested in Legislature and as a member of the General Assembly at Hartford in 1897; and he has also served as personal tax collector of the town of Fairfield.
Prominently associated with the in- creasingly valuable program of work of the Bridgeport Scientific and Historical Society, Mr. Wakeman holds the office of
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secretary of that society. He is a com- municant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Howard Nichols Wakeman married, October 28, 1891, Grace Melville Hall, daughter of Henry Hall and Catherine (Silliman) Hall. Their children are: I. Tallmadge Nichols Wakeman, born July 23, 1892. 2. Katherine DeForest Wedel- staedt, born May 12, 1895. 3. Clara Lacey Wakeman, born February 9, 1899.
MYLCHREEST, Joseph Warren, Director of Public Works.
A native of Middletown, Mr. Myl- chreest has attained a prominent position among the citizens of the city, and is actively useful in the direction of its ma- terial interests, while contributing his share to its moral and social development. His forebears were among the leading people of the Isle of Man, one being among the first seven Manx settlers. The present detailed knowledge of the family begins with John Mylchreest, who was the father of William Mylchreest, a con- tractor who built many of the engine houses at the mines of Manxland. He died at the age of sixty years, and his wife, Catherine (Davidson), also a native of Man, reached the age of seventy-five years. They were the parents of fourteen children, the second of whom was Wil- liam Mylchreest, born August 8, 1842, at Kirk German. Up to the age of fourteen years he attended an excellent school in the neighborhood, and early began receiv- ing instruction from his father in the mason's art. When twenty-two years old he went to Liverpool, whence he soon moved to Halifax, Yorkshire, England, where he continued at his trade and re- ceived instruction in draughting and ge- ometry at a night school. Returning to
his native place, he continued there until 1869, when he set sail with his bride for the United States. The voyage was made on the steamer "Australasia" of the Cunard line, and they arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, after a passage lasting eight days and six hours, on April 9, 1869. Seven days later found them in Middle- town, Connecticut, where Mr. Mylchreest continued a most industrious and success- ful career until advancing age compelled him to retire, and died January 13, 1922.
After working six days in the Middle- sex quarry of Portland, he found employ- ment as a bricklayer, in which he con- tinued for some time in Middletown and Hartford. In 1869 he formed a partner- ship with Hugh McConochie and James Moore, to engage in building operations, under the style of McConochie, Moore & Mylchreest, and the association was con- tinued some nine years. At the end of that period Mr. Moore withdrew, and the business was continued a similar period by McConochie & Mylchreest. Follow- ing this Mr. Mylchreest was sole pro- prietor of the business, being ultimately succeeded by his sons, by whom it is still carried on. Many of the most substantial buildings in Middletown are monuments to his skill, among which may be men- tioned the Young Men's Christian Asso- ciation building, several structures of Wesleyan University, numerous resi- dences, two wings of the State Hospital and the German Lutheran Church. In- cluded in his operations were thirteen buildings of his own, which he sold or rented. Thirty years after his arrival in Middletown, he erected his substantial residence on Brainerd Avenue and in the same year he put up the fire engine house on Main Street, one of the best buildings of its kind in New England. Several of the fraternity houses adjacent to the col-
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lege are samples of his skill. A faithful member of the Methodist Church, a use- ful citizen and a good husband and father passed away when he died. A consistent Republican in political principle, Mr. Myl- chreest served in 1898 and 1899 as alder- man of the city.
He was married, March 25, 1869, at his native place, to Ann Senogles, born April 9, 1850, in the same locality, being the twelfth of the thirteen children of Joseph and Catherine (Mylchreest) Senogles, their fifth daughter and the only one of the family to come to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. Mylchreest were the par- ents of six sons and three daughters. .
Joseph Henry Mylchreest, second son of William and Ann (Senogles) Myl- chreest, was born October 5, 1871, in Mid- dletown, Connecticut, where he was edu- cated in the public schools. At the age of thirteen years, he laid aside his books to engage in masou work, which has occu- pied his time since. He continued in the employ of his father until 1906, when he became a member of the firm including the father and sons. He has been identi- fied with the construction of several col- lege buildings and fraternity houses, the Central National Bank building and others. Mr. Mylchreest is a member of the Methodist Church, is a Past Grand of Central Lodge, No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which body he is a trustee, and of Souheag Encampment, No. 6, same order, and was chairman of the building committee of the order which purchased and remodeled the former Universalist Church for the uses of the order. He is identified with the local blue lodge, chapter, council and commandery of the Masonic fraternity, Lady Wash- ington Chapter, Eastern Star, and Sphinx Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of
the Mystic Shrine, of Hartford. He has always been a busy man, with little time for other than his private affairs, but has ever sought to further progressive move- ments, without taking any political office, and consistently supports Republican principles and policies.
Mr. Mylchreest married, February 12, 1893, Sarah Anne Barrow, who was born in Sheffield, England, daughter of Alfred and Sarah Anne (Bailey) Barrow, with whom she came to America when four years old. Alfred Barrow, born Septem- ber I, 1849, was superintendent of the Soby Saw works in Sheffield some forty years, and died in Middletown April 5, 1912. His wife died November 26, 1922, aged seventy-two years. Mr. and Mrs. Mylchreest are the parents of two sons, namely: I. William B., chief draughts- man in the New York office of the late Henry Bacon, designer of the Lincoln monument at Washington. 2. Joseph Warren.
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