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Mr. Hull married (first) March 31, 1878, Mary J. Jencks, by whom he had one son, Hadlai. Mr. Hull married (sec- ond) June 26, 1906, Ellen Brewster, by whom he has one daughter, Eleanor.
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RUSSELL, Thomas Wright, Insurance Broker.
Thomas Wright Russell, of the firm of Allen, Russell & Allen, general insurance brokers, of Hartford, Connecticut, was born in that city, September 1, 1880, son of Thomas Wright and Ellie (Fuller) Russell. In him are focused the strains of many of New England's old families, families whose members have distin- guished themselves as founders and patriots, serving their day and generation in those useful occupations that contrib- uted to the material upbuilding of the various communities in which their lots were cast; others served efficiently and honorably in legislative bodies and in town offices; while in times of local or national danger there were those who proved their courage, loyalty and patri- otism on the field of battle. Among the names to which Mr. Russell traces his lineage we may mention Stephen Terry, of Windsor: Thomas Graves, of Hart- ford; Thomas Wright and Benjamin Crane, of Wethersfield; Elder John Strong and Thomas Nash, of Boston and New Haven.
According to Lower, a leading author- ity on the origin of names, it is claimed by the Duke of Bedford that the name of Russell is derived "from the Lords of Rosel, an ancient fief in the neighborhood of Cherbourg in Normandy, who were a younger branch of the barons of Brique- bec. Hugh de Rosel, a benefactor of the Abbey of Caen. accompanied the Con- queror to England, and was rewarded with possessions in County Dorset, the principal of which were Kingston, after- ward called Kingston Russell, and Ber- wick." The name is a compound of two Norman and French words, "roz," a castle, and "el." synonym for "cau," water. The name was first given to the
tract of land, then to the castle and fam- ily inheriting it. "Le Rozel" implied a bold tower by the water. The name originated with Hugh Bertrand, second son of William, Baron of Briquebec in Lower Normandy-Hugh being invested with the castles of Bannerville and Le Rozel about 1045. In the earlier gener- ations in England the name was spelled Rozel, Rosel and Rousell, the first being used by the oldest son and the latter by the younger members of the family. Many branches of the family bear coats- of-arms. The ancient armorial bearings found in the Connecticut family are iden- tical with those of the Earl of Bedford, except the crest.
Three brothers, sons of the Duke of Bedford, came to this country, but the date of their coming and the location of their settlement cannot be ascertained. The members of the Russell family of this sketch are direct descendants of one of these.
Families of the name of Russell are numerous in England. The following English ancestry of John Russell, the founder of the family in America, is from a chart by J. R. Hutchinson, a distin- guished English genealogist. While some question has been raised as to the relationship between the first William Russell, of Ipswich, and the William. Rus- sell who married Anne Arnold, Mr. Hut- chinson after months of research became convinced that he had established the correct line of descent.
(I) Richard Russell was a yeoman of Ebbeston. County Suffolk, England, whose will was dated October 10, 1452, and proved December 12, 1452. His wife Joan died at Laxfield, and her will was proved November 12. 1465. Their son,
(II) William Russell. a yeoman of Laxfield, married Joan He re- ceived, after his mother's death, lands in
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Ebbeston and Laxfield devised to him in his father's will. Their son,
(III) William Russell, of Laxfield and Ipswich, received his father's lands after his mother's death. He was dwelling as an apprentice in Ipswich in 1521. His son,
(IV) William Russell, was baptized at St. Margaret's, Ipswich, March 17, 1537- 38. For many years he was sergeant and mace for the borough of Ipswich. He became a freeman in October, 1574, and died prior to May, 1609. He married (first) July 20, 1557, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Whiting, a merchant, of Ips- wich. William Russell was buried at St. Margaret's, February 5, 1567-68. His son,
(V) William Russell, of Ipswich, mar- ried, June 23, 1596, Anne Arnold. Their son,
(VI) John Russell, was baptized in April, 1597. He was made a freeman August 6, 1623. He was a draper and tailor. He left England in the ship "De- fence," with his sons Jonathan and Philip, and arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 3, 1635. As no record of his wife is found in this country, it is probable that she died in England. John Russell was made a freeman March 3, 1636; sur- veyor of arms, 1638; custodian of lost goods, 1639; was elected a surveyor in 1641 ; selectman, 1642-43 : was chosen one of three land recorders in 1644; clerk of the writs in 1645, and constable in 1648. His son, Rev. John Russell, was chosen pastor of the church at Wethersfield, 1648-49. John Russell. Sr., came to that town about 1651. He became a freeman in Connecticut, May 17, 1655, and was made a freeman in Hadley, Massachu- setts, March 26, 1661, at which time he was a resident there. In the following May the Massachusetts General Court appointed him to be "Clarke of ye writs for Hadley," and he held that office until
1681. He was a juryman in Northamp- ton in 1662 and 1665; in 1663 he was chosen clerk of the train-band, and was selectman of Hadley in 1670. He was a glazier, a trade that required some skill in the days of diamond glass. He died May 8, 1680.
(VII) Philip Russell, son of John Rus- sell, Sr., was born in England. He went to Wethersfield, Connecticut, with his father and brother, and located in Hadley, Massachusetts, a few years after his father removed there. He followed the same trade as his father, and took an active part in town affairs. He was chosen rate-maker, January 17. 1677-78; was selectman the following year and again in 1686; constable in 1683, and in March, 1690, was appointed "Clarke of ye writts" for Hatfield. He died May 19, 1693. He married, January 10, 1666, for his second wife, Elizabeth, born January 14, 1642, daughter of Stephen and Eliza- beth Terry, of Windsor. She was killed by the Indians, September 19, 1677. Ac- cording to Savage, Stephen Terry came to this country in 1630, probably in the "Mary and John ;" settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts; was admitted freeman there, May 18, 1631, and held the office of constable; about 1636 he removed to Windsor, and there served as juryman and constable; about 1660 removed to Hadley, was one of the first settlers, served as constable and selectman, and no man paid more taxes there than he. His wife, whose name is unknown, died in Windsor, Connecticut, in June, 1647. Their son,
(VIII) Sergeant John Russell, was born January 2, 1667, and died January 16, 1746. He married (first) April 9, 1691, Martha, born July 15, 1667, died July 15. 1740, daughter of Nathaniel and Martha (Betts) Graves, of Wethersfield. Nathaniel Graves was born in England,
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about 1629, settled in Wethersfield, Con- necticut ; made freeman there, May 21, 1657: surveyor, 1661 ; fence viewer, 1669; drew lands, 1670; married, January 16, 1655, Martha, daughter of "Goody Bets, the school dame," a widow who main- tained herself by keeping a school in Hartford: he died September 28, 1682, and his widow died April 13, 1701. His father, Thomas Graves, was born in Eng- land, before 1585, and came to New Eng- land with his wife and five children prior to 1645. His name is first found on the records in Hartford in 1645, when the family located there, and there he took an active part in local affairs. He was one of the promoters and organizers of the town of Hadley, though well advanced in years. He died there in November, 1662. His widow, Sarah Graves, survived him four years. The Graves family is a numerous and old one in England, dating back to the Conquest, and many of its branches bore coats-of-arms.
(IX) Hezekiah Russell, son of Ser- geant John Russell, was a farmer by occu- pation, and settled in the State of Con- necticut. His son,
(X) Hezekiah Russell, was born Feb- ruary 13, 1739, and died August 2, 1816. His birth occurred in Wethersfield on the Connecticut river, where he resided until he was sixteen years of age and then re- moved to Northampton, Massachusetts. He was a carpenter, and served as col- lector. His name appears among a list of officers of Massachusetts militia as second lieutenant in the Third Northamp- ton Company, Second Hampshire County Regiment, commissioned April 5th, 1776 (vol. 28. 108) ; appears with rank of lieu- tenant on muster and pay roll of Captain Oliver Lyman's company ; time of enlist- ment, August 17. 1777: time of service seven days: residence Northampton, marched to East Hoosac on an alarm
(vol. 21, 22) ; appears with rank of first lieutenant on muster and pay roll of Cap- tain Jonathan Wales' Company, Colonel Ezra May's regiment ; time of enlistment, September 22, 1777; time of discharge, October 15, 1777; service, twenty-eight days. Marched to Stillwater and Sara- toga. Service against the insurgents by order of Elisha Potter, sheriff of North- ampton, May 6th to June 15th, 16th and 17th, 1782. At Springfield, June 12, 1782, and at Hadley, June 13, 1782 (vol. 9, 429). Appears with the rank of captain on pay roll of Second Company, Second Hamp- shire County regiment, September 27, 1784. The above is from the State records of Massachusetts, and signed by William L. Olin, secretary of the commonwealth. Hezekiah Russell married, in Northamp- ton, January 1, 1767, Abigail Clark, who died December 12, 1819, in her seventy- eighth year. Children: Hezekiah and Seth, twins; Asa, Seth, Thaddeus, John and Martha, twins; Abigail, and Nancy.
(XI) Thaddeus Russell, son of Heze- kiah Russell, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, September 4, 1774, and died when about fifty years old from apoplexy, having been a stoutly built man. He was a carpenter by trade. He mar- ried, June 23, 1796, Mary Wright, who died November 30, 1836, aged sixty-three years. Their son,
(XII) Charles Russell, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, May 26, 1797, and died in Colerain, Massachusetts, May 5 or 6, 1871. He removed from his native place to Greenfield, Massachusetts, from whence he removed to Colerain, and there spent the remainder of his days. He was a tailor and clothier. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and for a number of years had charge of the choir. He married, January 1, 1823. Adeline Nash, born in Greenfield, July 9, 1805, died in Colerain, September
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23, 1882, daughter of Daniel Nash, who was born in Greenfield, January 18, 1780, married, September 7, 1802, Mary Mar- shall, who was born May 9, 1782; they settled in Duxbury, Vermont. His father, Daniel Nash, was born November 4, 1742, spent his life on or near the family home- stead in Greenfield. Tradition says that he and his brother Sylvanus, in company with their father, built Nash's mills on Mill river. He married Anna Atherton, who died June 14, 1804; he died Febru- ary 22, 1819. His father, Daniel Nash, was born in Great Barrington, Massachu- setts, September 13, 1715, and died in what is now Greenfield, July 1, 1790. He settled in that part of Deerfield that is now Greenfield, but it was probably about the time of his marriage. When Green- field was organized, July 3, 1753, he was one of three men chosen as selectmen and assessors, and was again elected in 1758. In September, 1774, he was elected repre- sentative to the Provincial Congress of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and served on the Committee of Safety. He was a blacksmith. He married (first) in 1741, Abigail Stebbins, who died Novem- ber 26, 1749. His father, Daniel Nash, was born in 1676, and died March IO, 1760. He was a blacksmith. In 1626 he sold out in Northampton, and we next find him in what is now South Hadley, where he engaged in business as a black- smith. From there he moved to Great Barrington in 1739. He is mentioned in the church records of that town as Deacon Daniel Nash, a title which he must have brought from some other church. He married, June 1, 1710, Experience, daugh- ter of Jonathan and Mary (Strong) Clark, and granddaughter of Elder John Strong, a sketch of whom appears else- where in this work. Jonathan Clark mar- ried, March 20, 1679, Mary Strong. He was the son of William and Sarah Clark,
who came to Dorchester, Massachusetts, between the years 1636 and 1639. They removed to Northampton about 1660, where he became a leading citizen, hold- ing many offices. He died July 18, 1690, aged eighty-one years. Lieutenant Timo- thy Nash, father of Daniel Nash, was born in England, or at Leyden, Holland, in 1626. His name is found for the first time in the New Haven records under date of December 3, 1645. He was made freeman, March 4, 1654. The last men- tion of him in the New Haven records is dated April 23, 1660, and on February II, 1660-61, he was given permission by Hartford to come in as an "inhabitant with us." On June 22, 1663, we find him allotted land in Hadley, the town to "be at the charge to bring up his Iron, Tooles, and Household stuffe at this time now he hath for his remouvall." He had prob- ably been trained to his father's vocation of gunsmith, but had probably changed it into that of an ordinary blacksmith, one of the trades most valued by the settlers. He was an important citizens of the town, a lieutenant in the militia, and represented the town at the Massachusetts General Court in 1690-91-95. He married Rebekah Stone, probably in 1657. He died March 13, 1698-99, and his widow in March or April, 1709. His father, Thomas Nash, came to Boston, July 26, 1637, in Rev. Jonathan Davenport's company. He was a gunsmith. His name appears in the Book of Records of the colony that settled in New Haven. He was probably well advanced in years when he came to Amer- ica. Family tradition says he came from Lancaster or Lancashire, England. He was admitted freeman at New Haven, May 19, 1651. He married Margery, daughter of Nicholas Baker, of Hertford- shire, England. She must have died be- fore he did, as she is not mentioned in his will, which is dated 1657. He died
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May 12, 1658. Children of Charles and
Adeline (Nash) Russell : Thomas Wright, mentioned below; Charles N., George A., Mary J., Franklin C., Susan E., John J., William N., Leroy C., Nancy E.
(XIII) Thomas Wright Russell, son of Charles and Adeline (Nash) Russell, was born in Colerain, Massachusetts, May 22, 1824, and died in Hartford, Con- necticut, April 23, 1901. He received his formal education in the public schools of his native town and a course of two years in an academy. He was always a student, however, and a lover of books. Reading, travel and close observation made him a man of culture and refinement. He be- gan his business life by entering a dry goods store in Mystic, Connecticut. He remained there six years, and then re- moved to Hartford and entered upon his long career in the insurance business. For a year and a half he traveled as gen- eral agent of the Charter Oak Life Insur- ance Company. In November, 1857, he was chosen vice-president of the com- pany, and continued in that office until October, 1864, when he entered the serv- ice of the Connecticut Mutual Life Ir surance Company of Hartford. While he was with the last named company its directors obtained a charter for The Con- necticut General Life Insurance Com- pany, which was organized primarily with the view of insuring at adequate rates those persons who might be declined by other companies as not being first class risks. Mr. Russell was requested to take the management of the new company, which he did, after enlarging its scope so as not to be limited to impaired risks. For ten years he was secretary of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Com- pany, and then for a period of twenty- three years and until his death, was its valued and respected president. Under
his direction the company steadily advanced and developed and took rank as one of the safe, conservative and re- liable institutions in the country.
Mr. Russell took an active and promi- nent part in the military, political and religious life of his day. He was a Re- publican with independent inclinations. When he was a resident of Mystic he represented the town of Stonington in the State Legislature ; he served three terms as a member of the Hartford Common Council ; and was a member of the First Company, Governor's Foot Guard, tak- ing a special interest in the Veteran Corps of that organization. For thirty- three years he was a member of the Hart- ford City Mission Society, and furthered its interests materially by his wise coun- sel. He was a deacon of the Park Con- gregational Church for more than thirty years. He became a member of the Colo- nial Club at its organization. He was of quiet disposition, affable and courteous, winning and holding many friends by these attractive qualities and command- ing their respect and confidence by his unswerving devotion to truth and right. He was a man of strong determination and had the courage of his convictions. Having, after careful consideration, deter- mined upon a certain procedure as right he permitted no obstacle to defeat the accomplishment of his purpose. Mr.
Russell married twice, and by his first marriage had no children. He married (second) Ellie F. Fuller, of Boston. Among their children was Thomas Wright, Jr., of whom further.
(XIV) Thomas Wright Russell, Jr., attended the public schools of his native city, Hartford, and graduated from the Hartford High School in 1897. He then entered Yale University. from which he was graduated in 1901 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His first business
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experience was gained in the employ of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, with which he was connected for about one and a half years, resigning then to engage in the insurance business on his own account. He continued alone until 1908, in which year his present part- nership was formed-Allen, Russell & Allen, general insurance brokers, the company conducting a local business in Hartford and vicinity. Mr. Russell is a director of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. He has always taken an active interest in public affairs ; he served for some years as a member of the Republican town committee; was a member of the Common Council for three years, holding the office of president for the year 1906; and served for two years on the Board of Aldermen, one year as president of that body. He served one term as member of Troop B, Connecticut National Guard. He is an ex-president of the Connecticut Life Underwriters' Association, president of the Hartford Golf Club, and a member of the Hartford Club, Yale Club of New York, Graduates' Club of New Haven, New Britain Club, Waterbury Club, and Phi Beta Kappa fraternity of Yale.
Mr. Russell married, January 16, 1912, Dorothy Mason, daughter of Frederick and Clara (Davol) Mason, of Bridge- port, Connecticut. Children: Dorothy, born August 13, 1914; Thomas Wright (3), born July 19, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Russell are members of Immanuel Con- gregational Church of Hartford.
BARBOUR, Lucius Albert,
Financier, Business Man.
Lucius Albert Barbour needs no intro- duction to the readers of this work, as his position as a leading financier and business man of Hartford, as an authority
on military matters, and one of the most distinguished officers in the militia of Connecticut, make his name a familiar one to a very wide circle that far over- laps the boundaries of either city or State. He is a member of a fine old Connecticut family whose members have been closely associated with the affairs of the region from the earliest colonial times, and whose strong and manly virtues and abilities he has inherited.
In the direct line he traces his descent from the immigrant ancestor, Thomas Barber (as the name was then spelled), who came from England to the American colonies in the good ship "Christian," as early as 1634, arriving in this country March 16, 1634. Full of the splendid spirit of enterprise that possessed so many of his countrymen in that age and which has been the determining element in the character of our New World civili- zation, Thomas Barber, then but twenty years of age, pushed on into the wilds and made his way to the settlement that formed the germ or nucleus of the present town of Windsor, Connecticut. Here he settled in 1635, and took an active part in the stirring events of that time, fight- ing in the Pequot War and otherwise dis- tinguishing himself. He married, Octo- ber 7, 1640, Jane -; their married life continued for twenty-two years, and their deaths occurred but one day apart, September 10 and 11, 1662.
Lieutenant Thomas Barber, son of Thomas and Jane Barber, was born July 14, 1644, and died May 10, 1713. He was a prominent citizen of Simsbury, Con- necticut, where he followed the trade of carpenter and built the first meeting house. He married, December 17, 1663, Mary Phelps, daughter of William and Mary (Dover) Phelps. She died in 1687.
Samuel Barber, son of Lieutenant Thomas and Mary (Phelps) Barber, was
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born May 17, 1673, and died December 18, 1725. He married, December 17, 1712, Sarah Holcomb, born 1691, died 1787, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Bliss) Holcomb.
John Barber, son of Samuel and Sarah (Holcomb) Barber, was born December 4, 1719, and died December 27, 1797. He married, January 22, 1746-47, Lydia Reed, born December 18, 1726, died October I, 1806, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Hill) Reed.
John (2) Barber, son of John (1) and Lydia (Reed) Barber, was born Novem- ber 29, 1749, died November 3, 1825. He married, in 1773, Elizabeth Case, born April 20, 1752, died May 26, 1817, daugh- ter of Captain Josiah and Esther (Higley) Case.
John (3) Barbour (the modern spelling being adopted in his time), son of John (2) and Elizabeth (Case) Barber, was born February 18, 1783, died November 24, 1865. He married, October 13, 1803, Delight Case, born October 15, 1773, died April 13, 1811, daughter of Elisha and De- light (Griswold) Case.
Lucius Barbour, son of John (3) and Delight (Case) Barbour, was born in Canton, Connecticut, July 26, 1805, and died February 10, 1873. He passed the first fourteen years of his life in his native town, and then accompanied his parents to the town of Sheldon in the western part of New York State. Upon attaining man- hood he left the home of his parents and traveled through the south and west as a salesman, representing a dry goods house. He was very successful in this line of work and amassed a considerable amount of money, a large portion of which he invested in western real estate, and he temporarily located at Madison, Indiana, where a large portion of his prop- erty was located. Here he engaged in the dry goods business on his own account
and was successful from, the beginning. He became a wealthy man owing to the great rise in value of his real estate invest- ments, in the selection of which he dis- played rare judgment. After disposing of his dry goods business in Madison he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and there engaged in the same line of business, once more prospering greatly. Subsequently he returned to the east, taking up his residence in Hartford, Connecticut, and there spent the remainder of his days. He still continued to hold his western possessions, and up to the time of his decease derived a handsome return from the same. Mr. Barbour was a man of many excellent qualities, prudent and con- servative, but possessing the kindest of hearts, and always willing to aid every enterprise that had for its object the alleviation of distress. He was highly re- spected in the community, and left an un- blemished reputation as a heritage to his successors, in addition to a large share of this world's goods.
Lucius Barbour married, April 23, 1840, Harriet Louise Day, born February 2, 1821, a daughter of Deacon Albert and Harriet (Chapin) Day, formerly of West- field, Massachusetts. Deacon Albert Day was a very prominent Hartford business man, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Connecticut from 1856 to 1857. He was descended in the seventh generation from Robert Day, of Ipswich, England, where he was born in 1604, approximately, from whence he came accompanied by his wife and family to New England on the ship "Elizabeth," settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into which community he was admitted a freeman, May 6, 1635. Four children were born to Lucius and Harriet Louise (Day) Barbour, as follows: Harriet Louise, who died in childhood; Lucius Albert, of whom further; Mary Adelia,
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who died in infancy; Hattie Day, who became the wife of Richard Storrs Barnes, of New York City ; he died December 25, 1914.
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