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It is not only as an attorney that Mr. Noonan has become a factor in the life of Waterbury. His name has already become known in politics there, and he . is regarded as one of the rising men in the Democratic party, and is a factor in county affairs. He was elected in the year 1912 to the City Board of Education, serving on that body for one year and for the past four years has been and still is the representative of the Sixteenth Senatorial District of Connecticut in the State Democratic Committee. He is also active in social and fraternal circles, and belongs to a number of organizations and societies, among which should be men- tioned the New England Order of Pro- tection, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Amity Social Club and the Knights of the Golden Eagle. In his religious belief Mr. Noonan is a Catholic, and attends the Church of the Immacu- late Conception in Waterbury.
Mr. Noonan was married, in Water- bury, on November 10, 1915, to Miss Nora M. O'Rourke, a native of that city, and a daughter of Timothy and Ellen (Allman ) O'Rourke. Mr. and Mrs O'Rourke are natives of County Kerry, Ireland, but now reside in Waterbury.
GOODWIN, Henry Hubbard, Business Man.
Henry Hubbard Goodwin, member of the firm of Tucker & Goodwin, whole- sale grocers of the city of Hartford, Con- necticut, is a member of the distinguished old family of Goodwin, which was estab- lished in Hartford in 1639 by Ozias Goodwin. The surname Goodwin is of ancient English origin, and is among the first of the purely English names which were adopted in England after the Nor- man conquest. The branch of the Good- win family of which Henry Hubbard is
a descendant in the eighth generation was established by Ozias Goodwin in Hartford. Ozias Goodwin sailed from London in the ship "Lion," on June 22, 1632, and arrived in Boston, September 16, following, in company with his brother, Elder William Goodwin.
(I) Ozias Goodwin was born in 1596, in Essex county, England, according to a deposition he made in court in Septem- ber, 1674, stating his age to be seventy- eight. He married Mary Woodward, of Braintree, Essex county, England, daugh- ter of Robert Woodward. She is men- tioned as legatee in her father's will, dated May 27, 1640. He became a resi- dent of Hartford in 1639, his home being located on the highway leading from Seth Grant's house to Sentinel Hill, ad- joining lands of Thomas Burchwood, Thomas Hale and Richard Lord. This lot is on what is now called Trumbull street, near Church street. He later re- moved to a lot on the highway from the mill to the old ox-pasture. On April 18, 1659, he signed an agreement, among a company from Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield, to remove to Hadley, Mas- sachusetts, but he decided to remain at Hartford. He was a freeman at the early date of October 13, 1669. He died in the spring of 1683, and the inventory of his estate was dated April 3, 1683.
(II) Nathaniel Goodwin, son of Ozias and Mary (Woodward) Goodwin, was born about the year 1637. He was ad- mitted a freeman in October, 1662, and was one of the townsmen of Hartford during the years 1669, 1678, 1682. He married (first) Sarah Coles, daughter of John and Hannah Coles, of Hatfield, Massachusetts, formerly of Farmington, Connecticut. She died at the age of twenty-nine years, on May 8, 1676, and was buried in the Centre Church burying ground ; her monument, which may still
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be seen, is the oldest one now in exist- ence bearing the name of Goodwin in Hartford. Nathaniel Goodwin married (second) Elizabeth Pratt, daughter of Daniel Pratt, of Hartford, and resided on the east side of what is now known as Village street. He died January 8, 1713- 14, and his widow died after July, 172 The date of his will was August 21, 1712.
(III) John Goodwin, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Pratt) Goodwin, was baptized May 19, 1672, and was the first of the Goodwins to settle on the east side of the Great River, in what is now East Hartford. On his land was situated the old Indian fort, traces of which still re- main. He, like his father and grand- father, was by trade a weaver, and was an industrious and thrifty citizen, promi- nent in the local affairs of his commun- ity. He was a collector of the Ecclesias- tical Society, in 1706, and was a deacon of the church for over twenty years. His first wife Sarah, died in May, 1735, and he married (second) before June, 1740, Mary (Hosmer) Olmsted, daughter of Stephen and Hannah Hosmer, widow of Nicholas Olmsted, of East Hartford, who died on March 2, 1760. He died Febru- ary 6, 1757.
(IV) John (2) Goodwin, son of John (I) and Sarah Goodwin, was born Au- gust II, 1706. He married Dorothy, daughter of Caleb and Dorothy (Hill) Pitkin, of East Hartford. Mr. Goodwin was by trade a tanner and was also a large landholder. He was deacon in 1780. In 1761, a small-pox hospital was erected on his land, on Pock House Hill. He was taxed for keeping a chaise, this be- ing considered an article of luxury in those days. He died September 14, 1793, his wife on August 17, 1789.
(V) John (3) Goodwin, son of John (2) and Dorothy (Pitkin) Goodwin, was born November 11, 1742. He married
Elizabeth Olmsted, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Pitkin) Olmsted, of East Hartford, and resided in East Hartford. He died June 10, 1784, at Sag Harbor, Long Island, where he had removed on account of ill health. His widow mar- ried Timothy Cowles, of East Hartford, and died July 16, 1822.
(VI) John (4) Goodwin, son of John (3) and Elizabeth (Olmsted) Goodwin, was born April 7, 1772, in East Hartford. About the year 1800 he removed to Hart- ford, where he was engaged in the shoe manufacturing business, located at Main street near Pearl. On December 16, 1807, he married Anna Belden, daughter of Nathan Belden. She was born Sep- tember 13, 1778, and died April 11, 1849. He died March 14, 1828.
(VII) Henry Augustus Goodwin, son of John (4) and Anna (Belden) Goodwin, was born October 5, 1823, and married (first) on May 18, 1847, Louisa Hubbard, daughter of Alvan and Polly (Colton) Hubbard. She was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut, August 8, 1824, and died August 26, 1866. He married (second) Ellen Pinney, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary Ann (Lee) Pinney, of South Wind- sor, born March 17, 1842. Mr. Goodwin was a druggist in Hartford for many years. He was a Free Mason, holding the office of treasurer in St. John's Lodge, No. 4, of that order for many years. His son Lester, who succeeded to the business, was treasurer of this lodge for many years. His religious affiliations were with the South Church, later Pearl Street Congregational Church of Hartford. He died November 2, 1871 ; his widow married John A. Stoughton, and resided in East Hartford.
(VIII) Henry Hubbard Goodwin, son of Henry Augustus and Louisa (Hub- bard) Goodwin, was born September 13, 1857, in Hartford, Connecticut. He re-
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ceived his education in the public schools of his native city. At the completion of his studies in 1872, he entered the office of Smith, Northam & Robinson, dealers in flour, grain and feed, remaining with that firm for two years. He then took a position with H. A. Botsford & Company (later Botsford & Ingraham), dealers in hay, straw and refrigerator dressed beef, later Botsford, Ingraham & Swift, and continued with this firm seven years. In October, 1882, he obtained a position with the firm of Keneys & Roberts as book- keeper and cashier, becoming a member of the firm in 1889, and was confidential clerk for Mr. Henry Keney. The firm of Tucker & Goodwin was organized on April 1. 1896. He is an executor of Mr. Henry Keney's will, one of the trustees of his estate and trustee of Keney Park. He is a member of the Twentieth Cen- tury Club, Chamber of Commerce, Auto- mobile Club, is vice-president of the Young Men's Christian Association, deacon of Immanuel Congregational Church, and is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution.
Henry Hubbard Goodwin was married in Hartford, October 19, 1892, to Emma L. Rood, daughter of Colonel David A. Rood, proprietor of the United States Hotel for many years. Children of this union are as follows: Henry Rood, born November 2, 1894; and David Keney, born June 27, 1898.
GOODWIN, James Lester, Business Man.
James Lester Goodwin, the secretary- treasurer of the Whitlock Coil Pipe Com- pany of Elmwood, was born in Hartford, January 12, 1880, and is a son of Lester Henry and Esther (Campbell) Goodwin. He is in the ninth generation from the founder of the family in New England.
The Goodwin family has been identified continuously with Hartford from its Colonial days, and is noted for its able members who have distinguished them- selves as business men, in the learned professions and as public benefactors.
Goodwin is an ancient name. It is obviously a compound-the first element may be derived from the Gothic guda, meaning good, or it may come from goda, meaning God's; the second element is evidently from vin, or win, meaning friend ; so that the name Goodwin signi- fies either good friend, or God's friend, and whichever be correct it connotes a worthy character. The name is found early in English records. The Goodwins were a prosperous people, as is indicated by the land records, and from the thir- teenth century to the present time they have had a strong bent for the clerical profession.
In 1238 we find a Robert Goodwin recorded as a citizen of Norwich. In 1300 Adam Goodwin was a burgess of Col- chester. In 1347 Galfridus Goodwin was assessed for his lands at Rockland in Norfolk when Edward III. levied an aid for the marriage of his son, and from that time down to the emigration to America. the name recurs with increasing fre- quency. At the instigation of the late James J. Goodwin, to whose published genealogy we are indebted for much of our information, extensive researches were made in England with a view to establish the English ancestry of the American family ; but at the time of pub- lication of the work referred to. the iden- tity of the English progenitor had not been definitely established. The line herein followed traces to Ozias Good- win, whose sketch appears in preceding article.
Lester Henry Goodwin, son of Henry Augustus Goodwin (q. v.), and the father
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of the Mr. Goodwin of this sketch, was born in Hartford, October 18, 1854, and died May 15, 1904. He was married on December 12, 1876, to Esther, a daughter of James and Esther (Griswold) Camp- bell, whose birth occurred in North Man- chester, Connecticut, March 28, 1854. She died in 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Henry Goodwin were the parents of the follow- ing children: Harriet Louise, born Sep- tember 5, 1877; James Lester, the gentle- man who heads this brief appreciation ; Howard, born January 5, 1884. Lester Henry Goodwin received his education in the grammar and public high schools of Hartford. He then went into the drug business with his father, who died when Lester Henry was but seventeen years of age, and at this youthful age he took charge of and continued the business until his death. Since that time the busi- ness has been continued by the estate, his son, our subject, being president of the company. Lester Henry Goodwin was treasurer of the State Pharmaceutical Association for a number of years. He was a member of St. John's Lodge, No. 4, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and was the treasurer of this lodge from 1887 until within a short time of his death. He was also a member of Wash- ington Commandery, Knights Templar, of Hartford, and Connecticut Consistory of Norwich, Sphinx Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
James Lester Goodwin, son of Lester Henry and Esther (Campbell) Goodwin, was graduated from the Hartford High School in 1897. He remained out of school for about a year, and then entered Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1902. He then went to Providence, Rhode Island, and entered the employ of the American Brass Com- pany as a salesman, covering the terri- tory of Rhode Island and part of Massa- chusetts. The death of his father made
it necessary for him to return to Hartford and look after the interests of the estate. He managed the drug business actively for a year, and has since been elected president of the Goodwin Drug Company. In 1906 he entered the office of the Whit- lock Coil Pipe Company, manufacturers of heaters, coils and bends. Advance- ment was rapid from assistant treasurer to treasurer and later duties of secretary were added to that of treasurer. Mr. Goodwin is also a director of the com- pany. Mr. Goodwin is prominently identified with the social and club life of the city, and is a member of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, the University Club of Hartford, the Graduates Club of New Haven, Yale Club of New York City, the Hartford Club and the Hartford Golf Club. He is also a member of the Coun- try Club of Farmington, and the Hart- ford Yacht Club, and in his religious be- lief is a Congregationalist and attends the Asylum Hill Congregational Church.
GOODWIN, James Lippincott, Landscape Gardener.
Of the eighth generation of the family founded in America by Ozias Goodwin, whose residence began in Hartford, Con- necticut, with the founders of the town in 1639, James L. Goodwin combines with such early New England ancestry, descent from Richard Lippincott, founder of the Lippincott family of Philadelphia, who, going from Massachusetts in 1665, was one of the patentees of the first Eng- lish settlement in New Jersey. The line of descent from Ozias Goodwin is through his son, Nathaniel; his son, Ozias (2); his son, Jonathan ; his son, James (1); his son, James (2) : his son, James Junius Goodwin and his wife, Jo- sephine Sarah Lippincott, only daughter of Joshua and Josephine (Craige) Lippin- cott, of Philadelphia; their son, James
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Lippincott Goodwin. These Goodwins were all residents of Hartford, men of eminence in the business world, of wealth and highest standing. The careers of various members of the family are given at length in this work.
James Lippincott Goodwin, third son of James Junius Goodwin, was born in New York City, October 10, 1881. After preparation in private schools, he spent four years, 1896-1900, at Groton School, going thence to Yale University, whence he was graduated Bachelor of Arts, class of 1905. Later desiring to thoroughly prepare for the business of landscape gardening in all its branches, he entered Yale School of Forestry in 1908, and in 1910 was graduated Master of Forestry. The succeeding two years he engaged in forestry in New York City, having his own office, but in 1912 returned to Hart- ford and during the summer of that year was associated with the park board as engineer. He then spent a few months in the service of the State Board of Park Commissioners as field secretary, resign- ing in March, 1913. Soon afterward he incorporated the James L. Goodwin As- sociates, of which he is president. The company does a general landscape gard- ening and forestry business, with Hart- ford as headquarters, and are ranked with leaders in their special line.
Mr. Goodwin married, October 1, 1912, Dorothy Wendell Davis, daughter of Frederick W. Davis, of Hartford. Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin are members of Christ Episcopal Church.
COFFIN, Owen Vincent,
Man of Affairs, Governor.
Owen Vincent Coffin. thirty-eighth governor of Connecticut (1895-97), was born at Mansfield, Dutchess county, New York, June 20, 1836, son of Alexander H.
and Jane (Vincent ) Coffin, and a lineal descendant in the seventh generation from Tristram Coffin, original settler of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, and the first of the name in this country.
Owen V. Coffin was educated at the district school, the Cortland (New York) Academy, and the Charlotteville (New York) Seminary. He worked on a farm when a boy, and at sixteen he taught school. He afterwards engaged as sales- man in a wholesale mercantile house in New York City. From 1855 until 1861 he was the New York agent of a promi- nent Connecticut manufacturing com- pany. On June 24, 1858, he was married to Ellen E. Coe. of Middletown, Connec- ticut, and in 1864 removed to that place. His business capabilities and high moral qualities were readily recognized, and he was made treasurer of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Middletown. After fourteen years of efficient service, ill health from overwork forced him to withdraw for a time from active busi- ness. In 1884 he was made president of the Middlesex Mutual Assurance Com- pany, Middletown, and this position he was holding in 1917. He has been direc- tor and vice-president of the First Na- tional Bank of Middletown : secretary, treasurer and trustee of a railroad com- pany, and a director of the Boston & New York Air Line Railroad Company. In politics he is a zealous Republican ; in religious faith a Congregationalist.
He served as mayor of Middletown two years ; State Senator for the Twenty-sec- ond District, 1887-88. and again in 1889- 90. in a Democratic stronghold. and was an acknowledged leader of his party. In 1889 he was elected chairman of the gen- eral caucus committee of the General Assembly of the State. His unswerving integrity in the discharge of his official duties has largely contributed to his polit-
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ical elevation and success. He was among the pioneers in encouraging and establishing Young Men's Christian as- sociations, especially in Brooklyn, New York, and Middletown, Connecticut, be- ing president of both branches. He took great interest in agricultural matters, and in 1875 was elected president of the Middlesex County Agricultural Society. He has held more than twenty-five official positions, and in 1909 was presi- dent, chairman, director or trustee of some eight or ten corporations and or- ganizations. In 1894 he was elected gov- ernor of Connecticut by a plurality of 17, 688 and a majority of 12,969-both plurality and majority exceeding those ever before given a candidate of the State when there was a contest.
He was married, June 24, 1858, to Ellen Elizabeth Coe. Their son, Seward Vin- cent Coffin, was graduated at Wesleyan University, and became a successful manufacturer at Middletown.
HILL, Ebenezer J.,
Manufacturer, Congressman.
Ebenezer J. Hill, a representative in Congress from Connecticut, also a manu- facturer, banker and financier, was born in Redding, Fairfield county, Connecti- cut, August 4, 1845, son of the Rev. Moses Hill and his wife, Charlotte Ilsley (McLellan) Hill, the former named a Methodist clergyman, who was several times a member of the General Confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal church, a member of the Connecticut General Assembly and of the Norwalk Board of School Visitors.
Ebenezer J. Hill attended the public schools of Norwalk, completing his studies there at the age of fourteen, after which he spent two years as clerk in a lumber business. He then entered Yale, the college of his choice, with the class of
1865, and remained two years. In 1863 he left college and entered the army as a civilian employee and remained in service throughout the war as clerk in the com- inissary department. In 1867 he became secretary and treasurer of the Norwalk Iron Works, and in 1871 he became con- nected with the lumber business, from which he retired twenty-three years later. He also served in the capacity of vice- president of the Norwalk Woolen Mills and the National Bank of Norwalk, and was for several years president of the Norwalk Gas Company and of the Nor- walk Street Railway Company.
He has been equally prominent in pub- lic affairs. He served twice as burgess of Norwalk ; twice as chairman of the Nor- walk Board of School Visitors; and was a delegate to the National Republican Convention of 1884. He was a member of the Connecticut Senate 1886-87; served one term on the Republican State Central Committee ; was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth Congress and to the six succeeding congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1909) and reelected to the Sixty-second Congress (1911-15), and to the Sixty-fourth Congress (1913-15). He spent eight years in studying sound money as a member of the banking and currency committee in Congress, and was a member of the ways and means com- mittee in Congress. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Odd Fellows and the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution.
Mr. Hill married, June 15, 1868, Mary Ellen Mossman, of Amherst, Massachu- setts, who bore him four children.
BALDWIN, John Davison, Journalist, Author.
John Davison Baldwin, journalist and author, was born at North Stonington, Connecticut, September 28, 1809, and died
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July 8, 1883, past the allotted scriptural age of three score years and ten.
He obtained a practical preliminary education principally through his own exertions, this fact proving that he pos- sessed even during his early years a dis- position to make the best of his oppor- tunities, and the knowledge thus obtained was supplemented by a course at Yale College, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Master of Arts, and subsequently he pursued a course in theology and was licensed to preach the Gospel at the age of twenty- four years. In addition to his minister- ial work, which was of great value and benefit, he having been an eloquent and forceful preacher, he wrote frequently for the magazines on archaeology and kin- dred subjects, and later drifted into jour- nalism, for which line of work he was particularly qualified. In 1842 he became editor of the "Charter Oak," one of the leading newspapers of Hartford, Connec- ticut. He subsequently served in the same capacity on the "Daily Common- wealth," one of the newspapers of Boston, Massachusetts, contributed articles for the columns of the "Advertiser," and in 1859 became the proprietor of the "Wor- cester Spy," which he conducted credit- ably and successfully for more than two decades, his name becoming well known through these various mediums. He also took an active interest in politics, and be- tween the years 1863 and 1869 he repre- sented the Worcester district in Con- gress by three successive elections, his term of service being noted for faithful- ness and efficiency, two qualities essential for the fulfillment of public office. He was the author of a volume of poems, and of two volumes of antiquarian study, entitled "Prehistoric Nations" and "An- cient America."
ANDRETTA, Antonio S.,
Financier.
The citizenship of this great land is made up largely of people from every country and clime, who have left their native lands for various reasons, prin- cipally the betterment of their condition and to escape persecution, political and religious, and prominent in the city of Hartford among that class of men whom Sunny Italy has furnished is Antonio S. Andretta, a private banker of that city, conducting business under the firmn name of Pallotti, Andretta & Company.
Antonio Andretta, grandfather of An- tonio S. Andretta, was a resident of For- enza, Province of Basilicata, Italy, where many generations of the family have resided, and where they have been re- spected and esteemed for the many excel- lent characteristics displayed by them in their conduct of affairs. He was an extensive grower of grapes, from which he produced excellent wine, for which there was a great demand. His son, Sal- vadore Andretta, father of Antonio S. Andretta, was born in Forenza, Italy, and died there, in 1898, aged sixty-four years. He was educated in the public schools of his native city, and his active business career was spent in the lumber business. being a manufacturer and dealer in that commodity, achieving therein a large de- gree of success. He was also active in public affairs, and served in the capacity of alderman of Forenza for a number of years. He married Maria A. De Bonis, daughter of Gaetano De Bonis, of For- enza, Italy. She is residing in Italy at the present time (1917) aged about seventy years. Of their children four attained years of maturity, namely: Antonio S., of this review; Maria, became the wife of a Mr. Bochicchio, of Forenza : Louisa,
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who became the wife of a Mr. De Bona, of Hartford ; and Theresa.
Antonio S. Andretta was born in For- enza, Province of Basilicata, Italy, Janu- ary 27, 1874. He was educated in the public schools of his birthplace, and in the National Salvatore Rosa College, located in the city of Potenza, where he was a student for eight years. The fol- lowing two years were spent in his home town, after which he took the examina- tion for clerk of court, which he passed successfully, and held the position of assistant clerk of court for two years, the name of the position being Pretura. Be- ing of the opinion that his prospects for advancement were better in the new than the Old World, he accordingly left his native land for the United States, in the year 1896, and located in the city of Hart- ford, Connecticut. His first employment in this country was in the office of Engi- neer Graves, a member of the Connecti- cut River Bridge and Highway District Commission. He remained with him dur- ing the year 1898, engaged in surveying work. He then became connected with the Charter Oak National Bank of Hart- ford, and for the greater part of a year remained with this institution, gaining considerable experience and knowledge of the banking business, and at the ex- piration of that period of time he formed a partnership with Nichola Pallotti and established a private banking house. During the time he was engaged with the Charter Oak Bank, he was engaged also as a teacher in the night school on Morgan street, Hartford. The partner- ship with Mr. Pallotti continued until the early part of 1900, since which time Mr. Andretta has conducted the business alone. In 1908 he opened a branch office at No. 630 Chapel street, New Haven, and in connection therewith he conducts a ticket agency business, both of which are
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