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reaching the great age of eighty-nine years.
The life of Patrick Carroll was plainly, quietly lived, but so long as there was necessity he continued in active labor, then retired to a contented old age, happy in the love of his children and children's children. He was a man highly respected in his community and no man had a bet- ter record as a man of honest, upright life. He took an interest in the town affairs, always voting the Democratic ticket as a principle. Shortly before his death the family located on their present farm of twenty acres, all under cultivation, the sons continuing its cultivation, tobacco being their principal crop.
Mr. Carroll married Mary Hyland, born in County Cavan, Ireland, February 18, 1830, who yet survives, aged eighty-nine, well-preserved and active. They were the parents of seven children, six of whom grew to manhood and womanhood : I. Thomas, born February 24, 1859, died aged thirty years. 2. John, born July 12, 1861, killed in a railroad accident, May 22, 1913, he a railroad conductor ; he mar- ried Jennie Hughes, and they were the parents of : Thomas, John, Mary, Eliza- beth Hughes, and Sarah, the sons serving in the United States army in the war with Germany. 3. Edmund, born Oc- tober 8, 1863, married Anna Ryan, of Simsbury, and had three children : Mary, wife of Dr. Edward Powers. who is a cap- tain with the American Expeditionary Forces in France; Anna: and Patrick, died May, 1917, at the age of twenty- three. 4. Catherine, born April 1, 1868, married Charles Toole, and has two chil- dren : Jane and John Toole. 5. Mary, born October 22, 1871. 6. Charles, born June 21, 1874. Thus the life of this quiet, domestic, home-loving man. Patrick Car- roll, was lived, simply, but usefully and
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honorably. He possessed the sterling principles of character, loved liberty and died true to his ideals.
BRISTOL, Anson Wheeler, Useful Citizen, Civil War Veteran.
The name of Bristol undoubtedly be- longs to the class known as "place" names; that is, derived from the resi- cents of the first one of the family who adopted a surname. The use of surnames among the common people of England is of comparatively recent origin, and in many cases what would be now called a "nick name" was adopted as a family name.
(1) The founder of the family in this country was Henry Bristol, a native of England, who came to Connecticut with his brother Richard at an early day. The latter was among the first proprietors of Guilford and a prominent citizen there. Henry Bristol settled at New Haven, where he arrived as an apprentice to Wil- liam Davis. He was born about 1625, and after attaining his majority continued to reside at New Haven, where he died in 1695. His wife Rebecca died previous to January 26, 1656, on which date he mar- ried Lydia, daughter of Francis and Mary (Edwards) Brown, born about 1637-38, died in 1719.
(II) Eliphalet Bristol, fourth son of Henry and third son of his second wife, Lydia Bristol, was born October 2, 1679, in New Haven, where he made his home, and died May 18, 1757. In 1716 he re- ceived a part of the estate of his brother- in-law. Joseph Peck. His wife, Ester (Peck) Bristol. born in 1679, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Sperry) Peck, sur- vived him. Benjamin Peck was a son of Henry l'eck, one of the earliest settlers of New Haven.
(III) Elijah Bristol, second son of Eli-
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phalet and Ester (Peck) Bristol, settled in Woodbury, Connecticut. He married Sarah Thomas, born March 28, 1716, in New Haven, daughter of Israel and Sarah (Humphreeville) Thomas.
(IV) Gad Bristol, second son of Elijah and Sarah (Thomas) Bristol, was born December 4, 1738, in Woodbury, where he made his home. He married, May I, 1760, Rachel Riggs, born January 23, 1741, in Derby, Connecticut, daughter of Ebenezer, Jr., and Rachel (Peck) Riggs.
(V) Philo Riggs Bristol, second son of Gad and Rachel (Riggs) Bristol, was born December 1, 1763, in Woodbury. He was a cooper by trade and lived in Oxford, New Haven county, Connecti- cut. He married in Southbury, January 16, 1791, Nabbie Lyman, undoubtedly a daughter of David and Mary (Guitteau) Lyman, of Bethlehem. Both Southbury and Bethlehem were formerly a part of the town of Woodbury.
Keziah, wife of George White; Burton H., and Anson Wheeler.
(VII) Anson Wheeler Bristol, son of Captain Noah Russell Lyman and Mary (Barbour) Bristol, was born June 9, 1840, in Canton, and has always made his home upon the paternal farm. As a boy he attended the public schools, and as a reader and observer of current events became a well informed citizen, enjoying the esteem and confidence of his contem- poraries. In 1861 he purchased the pa- ternal homestead consisting of fifty acres, which he sold in 1886, and bought his present farm of one hundred acres, one- fourth of which is under cultivation. He produces considerable quantities of to- bacco, in connection with other farm pro- ducts, giving especial attention to dairy- ing. In this he employs usually some twenty cows and also raises young stock and disposes of his milk to dealers. In 1884 Mr. Bristol represented Canton in the Legislature and was a member of the committee on agriculture. He is among the most patriotic residents of the com- munity, and served his country during the Civil War for a period of eleven months. He enlisted in 1862 and became a mem- ber of Company I, Twenty-second Regi- ment of Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He is now a member of E. R. Lee Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of New Hartford, Connecticut, and is one of its past commanders. His political connec- tion has always been in connection with the Republican party. Mr. Bristol mar- ried Sarah E. Williams, of Brooklyn, New York, daughter of Absalom Williams, and a descendant of an old Massachusetts family. Mr. and Mrs. Bristol were the parents of twelve children, and are the grandparents of thirty-two grandchildren. Ten of their children grew to maturity, and they are: I. Minnie, married George
(VI) Captain Noah Russell Lyman Bristol, second son of Philo Riggs and Nabbie (Lyman) Bristol, was born June 9, 1797, in Southbury, and lived in Canton, Connecticut, where he died September 8, 1861. He was well educated for his day, and when a young man taught school, and learned the trade of cooper from his father. He spent his time at this occupa- tion until he was about fifty-five years old, when he engaged in farming on the grant now owned by his son in the town of Canton, Connecticut. He had settled in that town while a young man and served there many years as town clerk and justice of the peace, and also as rep- resentative in the State Legislature. In early life a Whig in political affiliation, he adhered to the Republican party from its organization until his death. He mar- ried Mary Barbour, daughter of Giles Barbour, of Canton, and they were the parents of four children : Volney R., E. Bidwell, and was the mother of Jasper
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Warren Bidwell. 2. Burton N., married Lizzie Case, and they have six children : Amy Luella, Richard Burton, Mortimer Robert, Edward Raymond, Russell An- son, and Elizabeth Coe Bristol. 3. Morti- mer Lucius, was educated at the Maine State College, and subsequently was su- perintendent of Colt's Fire Arms Com- pany, of Hartford ; he married Rosa Bill, and died in 1917, leaving three children : Grace, Clark, Ralph. 4. Anson Wheeler, Jr., married Mae Smith, and is the father of five children: Florence Smith, Stuart Arthur, Herman Harvey, Anson Wheeler, 3d, and Alice Phelps Bristol. 5. Helen, married Samuel D. Richardson, and is the mother of four children : Danford Ward, Pearl Bristol, Samuel Anson and Ilelen Elizabeth Richardson. 6. Roscoe C., married Louise Humphrey, and their children are : Mildred Lydia, Sarah Elizabeth, Marion Humphrey, and Edith Louise Bristol. 7. Christa, married Har- old William Humphrey; she died April 20, 1919, and was mother of a son, Har- old William, Jr. 8. Sterling W., mar- ried Ruth Codaire, and is the father of one child, Robert Austin Bristol. 9. Catharine, married Myron F. Butler, and is the mother of one child, Robert Bris- tol Butler. 10. Mary, became the wife of George E. Bidwell, whose ancestry is contained elsewhere in this work. The family is associated with the Congrega- tional church of Canton.
The Barbour family, of which Mr. Bristol is a descendant, was founded in this country by Thomas Barbour, who came to Windsor in 1635, being then twenty-one years of age. He arrived in New England in the ship "Christian." March 16, 1634, with the Saltonstall party under Francis Styles, and was a soldier of the Pequot War. His wife. Jane, family name unknown, whom he married on Oc- tober 7, 1640, died September 10, 1662, and
he died on the following day. Their third son, Samuel Barbour, born October 1, 1646, in Windsor, resided on the paternal homestead, and died March 17, 1708. He owned the halfway covenant at the Wind- sor church, October 12, 1671. Hle mar- ried, December 1. 1670, Mary Cozzen. who died May 19, 1676. Their second son, Samuel Barbour, born May 17, 1673, died about 1725. He married, December 17. 1712, Sarah Holcomb, born in 1691, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Bliss) Holcomb, of Simsbury. Their second son, Dr. Samuel Barbour, born 1714, lived in that part of Simsbury which is now Can- ton, where he died in 1797. He married (second) Hannah Humphrey, born June 8. 1718, died 1819, daughter of Captain Noah and Hannah (Case) Humphrey, of Canton, granddaughter of Lieutenant Samuel Humphrey, great-granddaughter of Michael Humphrey, founder of the family in Windsor. Her youngest child, Giles Barbour, born 1769, lived in Canton, and married Mary Garrett, who died in 1861 at the age of eighty-four years. Their daughter, Mary, became the wife of Noah R. L. Bristol, of Canton, as previ- ously noted.
DANIELSON, Joseph,
Minister of the Gospel.
Arms-Argent, a bend sable.
To understand the meaning to a man of the honor of his family-to know the general status in a democracy of fam- ilies of old and honorable lineage, is to know and understand the meaning and brightness of the national honor. For this can never be any brighter than the honor of the family. This statement is nowhere more clearly and conclusively proved than in the Roman civilization, in which the dominant unit was the fam-
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ily, and in which the parent was given the power to slay any of his sons who brought disgrace to the family name. To-day the weapon which the community uses to punish the crime of staining family honor is public opinion. Public opinion, the moral law, love of country, home and God, are what have made the artistocracy of America, not an aristocracy of wealth or noble blood in the ordinary interpre- tation of the word, but an aristocracy of right and of noble deeds.
In the foremost ranks of this aristoc- racy in the State of Connecticut is the Danielson family, which holds a place of honor and respect in the community eclipsed by none. The Danielson family is of Scotch origin, and was established in America in the middle part of the seventeenth century. Since the time of its founding the family has been promi- nent and active in the service of the country, and has furnished its sons lib- erally in times of peace and war. Its members have from time to time been distinguished in military service, and have rendered valuable services in official life. The borough of Danielson, Connecticut, the home of several generations of Dan- ielsons, was named in their honor, and is to-day a silent monument to them, mute evidence of the high place which they have always held in the hearts and minds of the community.
(I) Sergeant James Danielson, progen- itor of the family in America, was a native of Scotland, whence he emigrated to the New World, settling on Block Island, now the town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island, among the earliest residents of that place. Early land records show him to have been a man of considerable fortune. He assumed a prominent place in the town. Between the years 1688 and 1705 he purchased several large tracts of land
in Block Island, and was admitted a free- man of Rhode Island, at the May session of the General Assembly in 1696. In 1700, Sergeant Danielson was elected ser- geant of the town of New Shoreham. In September, 1696, he agreed to raise one hundred pounds to pay for making a suitable harbor. In the same year he served as a soldier in the expedition against Quebec, under General Wolfe, and participated in the engagement on the Heights of Abraham against the French under Montcalm. In early life he served almost continuously in the wars against the Indians, and in reward for heroic services received a grant of land in Voluntown, in the eastern part of Con- necticut, from the General Assembly. His purchases of land were very exten- sive. In 1706 he bought eight hundred acres of land on the Quinebaug river, in what is now the town of Pomfret. This included a mansion house and barn. The following year he bought a tract of two thousand acres of land lying between the Quinebaug and Assawauga rivers. He is said to have been the first settler south of Lake Mashapaug, at the southern end of which he built a garrison house. This new settlement afterwards became the present town of Killingly. James Daniel- son became one of the most prominent and influential men in that section of Connecticut. He presented the town with a burying ground, located between the two rivers above named, and was the first to be buried in it. He died on January 22, 1728, at the age of eighty years. His first wife was Abigail His sec- ond wife, Mary (Rose) Danielson, died February 23, 1752, in her eighty-sixth year.
(II) Samuel Danielson, son of Sergeant James and Mary (Rose) Danielson, was born in 1701. He inherited a large part of
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his father's extensive property holdings, including his homestead, in what is now the town of Killingly. He succeeded to his father's place in the community, which was much like that of the English coun- try squire. lle became a leader in the in- dustrial affairs of the town. Part of the vast Danielson holdings on the Quine- baug river became the site of a manufac- turing village named Danielsonville, now known as Danielson. Samuel Danielson married Sarah Douglas, on March 26, 1725. She was born about 1704, and died March 29, 1774, aged seventy. He died in 1780, at the advanced age of eighty- five years.
(III) Colonel William Danielson, son of Samuel and Sarah (Douglas) Daniel- son, was born .August 11, 1729, in the town of Killingly, Connecticut, and re- sided there all his life, becoming very prominent in the town's affairs. He was elected constable and collector of taxes in 1760. In the same year he was elected lieutenant. In 1774 he became first major of the Eleventh Militia Regiment, and in the following year took one hundred and forty-six men from Killingly to Cam- bridge, Massachusetts. He became col- onel in 1776, and after the close of the Revolutionary war was general of mil- itia. In 1788, Colonel William Danielson was a member of the State Convention called to ratify the National Constitution. He married, October 29, 1758, Sarah Wil- liams, born in 1737, died January 10, 1809. He died in Killingly, August 19, 1798.
(IV) General James Danielson, son of Colonel William and Sarah (Williams) Danielson, was born in Killingly, Con- necticut, January 18, 1761, and died there October 25, 1827. He married, on De- cember 3, 1788, Sarah Lord, of Abington,
Connecticut. She was born June 17, 1769, and died April 28, 1852.
(V) Hezekiah Lord Danielson, son of General James and Sarah (Lord) Daniel- son, was born in Danielson, Connecticut, December 16, 1802, and resided there all his life. He was prominent in local af- fairs in the town, and was a deacon of the Congregational church. He died in 1881. He married Laura Weaver, of Brooklyn, Connecticut. Their children were: 1. Charlotte Tiffany, born in 1827 ; married Orville M. Capron, resided in Danielson and died in July, 1918. 2. Lucy Storrs, born in 1829; married John Hutchins, and resides in Danielson. 3. Elizabeth S., born in 1831; married Charles C. Cundall, and died in Seattle, Washington, in July, 1916. 4. John Weaver, born in 1833; died in August, 1913 ; notable figure in New England mill- ing industries throughout his life. 5. Jo- seph, mentioned below. 6. Edward, born in 1837, died in 1882. 7. Daniel, born in 1842; now a resident of Danielson. 8. Henry M., born in 1845; resides in Dan- ielson.
(VI) Rev. Joseph Danielson, son of Hezekiah Lord and Laura (Weaver) Danielson, was born in Danielson, Con- necticut, April 20, 1835. He was edu- cated in the schools of Danielson, and Phillips Academy, Andover, where he pre- pared for college, and was graduated from Williams College in the class of 1861. Having decided to study for the ministry, he immediately entered Union Theolog- ical Seminary. Shortly after completing his course he was ordained in the Chris- tian ministry, and was placed in charge of the Congregational church at Sacar- appa, Maine, where he spent four years, devoting all his strength and time to min- istering to the needs of his congregation, which when he left it was flourishing not
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only spiritually but materially. From Sacarappa, Mr. Danielson went to Sau- gerties, New York, where he remained for eight years, at the end of which time he was placed in charge of the Congre- gational church at Southbridge, Massa- chusetts. Here his work, judged by the number brought into the fold, was most telling and effective, and he had the priv- ilege and joy of receiving at one service as many as fifty communicants into the church under his care. His work here covered a period of twelve years. Mr. Danielson next spent two years at Wind- sor Locks, Connecticut, following this with nearly seven at Southington, Con- necticut, where he concluded his service as a minister of God, after a long and full career. Mr. Danielson, from his earliest years in the ministry, had been an able preacher, and a pastor beloved for his keen sympathy and his genial humor.
Rev. Joseph Danielson married, on November 1, 1865, Frances Weld, daugh- ter of Deacon Stowell Leverett and Avis Ludentia (Whitmore) Weld. Mrs. Dan- ielson survives her husband and resides in Danielson, Connecticut. Their chil- dren are: I. Louise Whitmore, born Oc- tober 27, 1868 ; now a teacher in the High School at Danielson, Connecticut. 2. Frances Weld, born January 17, 1873; editor of the Congregational Sunday School Publishing Society. 3. Alice Jo- sephine, born March 23, 1882, married Edward Field Walker, Jr .; they are the parents of three children: Edward Field, Avis Walker, and Katherine Frances Walker.
Rev. Joseph Danielson died February 20, 1898. Tributes to his memory came from all over the country from men who had known him, and having known him had loved him, and from the churches in which he ministered so faithfully. The
following is but a brief excerpt from one of the many memorials passed at the time of his death :
Rev. Joseph Danielson was a good man. Earth is richer for having had him. You who call him pastor, and we who know of his life and work unite to recognize him to-day as one to whom the Master has said, "Well done, come up higher."
Rev. Joseph Danielson * died in the world's sense of the word, one morning of the month just past. But he did not die. To the best of his ability, for more than thirty years, he built his clean, sweet, loving, consecrated, Chris- tian self into scores and hundreds. These took on his character. They will give it to others; and so in these he touched and through the power of the Divine moulder, he will live not only while earth lasts, but while eternity lasts.
HOLLEY, Julian R.,
Business Man.
As treasurer and secretary of the Bris- tol Brass Company, of Bristol, Connect- icut, Mr. Holley holds a responsible posi- tion which he most efficiently fills. For thirty-five years, 1883-1918, he has been associated with that company in the ac- counting department, and is an authority on all matters pertaining to his depart- ment, past or present. The Holleys came to Tolland county, Connecticut, from the State of Rhode Island.
(I) Perry Holley, grandfather of Jul- ian R. Holley, of Bristol, was the original settler. He was a blacksmith by trade, and spent the greater part of his life em- ployed at his trade in his native Rhode Island. Late in life he located in Mans- field, Connecticut, and there purchased a farm, and after making such changes as he deemed necessary, he returned to Rhode Island, intending to bring his fam- ily and occupy his new purchase at once. But he was taken seriously ill and died after a short illness. His widow, Celia
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(Rawson) Holley, removed to the Mans- field farm with her children, and there died, aged eighty-three. Perry and Celia Holley were the parents of five children : Lucinda, married Eldridge Cranston, and died in Willimantic; Perry (2), of fur- ther mention; Betsey, married Elijah Shumway, and resided in Mansfield, Con- necticut : Nancy, married Alden Church, and died in Chaplin, Connecticut ; and Gil- bert, died in a southern State.
(II) Perry (2) Holley, eldest son of Perry (1) and Celia (Rawson) Holley, was born in Rhode Island, July 2, 1909, and died at the farm in Mansfield, Con- necticut, in March, 1885. He was quite young when his mother brought her fam- ily to the Mansfield farm, but he quickly took his place as head of the family, work- ing on the farm and rapidly developing, both physically and mentally. When a young man he learned the trade of an iron mill worker, becoming an expert in the manipulation of the heavy trip hammer used in forging steel and iron. He was one of the first to gain such good control of that powerful but clumsy machine, and he was always steadily employed at good wages in the plants throughout New Eng- land engaged in the manufacturing of bits and augurs. For a few years he operated a forging plant of his own in company with Hiram Parker, the shop being near his home. After being employed at his trade for many years he returned to the farm, and there spent his declining years managing its cultivation and operation. He was a member of the Methodist Epis- copal church at Gurleyville, and in his younger years was a very active worker.
Perry (2) Holley married Lois Fenton, born in Mansfield, April 18, 1808, died at the farm, April 18, 1892, daughter of Elisha and Phileta (Storrs) Fenton, her father a blacksmith. Mr. and Mrs. Holley
were the parents of eleven children: I. Celia Ann, died in childhood. 2. Antice D., married, August 16, 1859, William E. Fenner, a successful farmer and poultry raiser in Mansfield, Tolland county, Con- necticut ; they were the parents of a son, Frank Ellsworth Fenner, a merchant of Waterbury, Connecticut, now in Califor- nia. 3. George, deceased ; was a mechan- ical expert of Sturbridge, Massachusetts ; married Mary Ann Scott, and had two sons, George Henry and Fred M. 4. Lu- cinda, died in infancy. 5. Harriet Lucinda Phileta, deceased ; married David Clapp, whom she survived with a daughter, Har- riet M. 6. Mary Ellen, deceased ; married (first) Edward Simons, whom she sur- vived with a daughter, Jennie R. ; married (second) Norman Dunham, whom she also survived. 7. Lovisa Maria, deceased ; married George M. Clark, cashier of the Meriden (Connecticut) National Bank. 8. Perry Earl, a professor of penmanship ; married Carrie Allen, and moved to Waterbury, Connecticut; they are the parents of Perry N., and Pearl, deceased. 9. Sarah Jane, died aged fourteen years. 10. Dwight Storrs, deceased ; married and located in Forestville, Connecticut ; chil- dren : Everett and Edna. 11. Julian R., of further mention.
(III) Julian R. Holley, youngest child of Perry (2) and Lois (Fenton) Holley, was born at Mansfield, Connecticut, May 16, 1855. After completing public school study he pursued a course at Eastman's Business College, then began his business career as a grocer's clerk in Forestville, Connecticut. He continued in the gro- cery business as clerk for several years, then became a partner, but one year later withdrew, and on May 1, 1883, located in Bristol, Connecticut, having secured a bookkeeper's position with the Bristol Brass Company. Thirty-five years have
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since elapsed, but the association has never been broken, that connection like the years flowing smoothly along. He has been a potent factor in the develop- ment of the company, his responsibility growing constantly and increasing not only the accounting and financial work but the superintendency of the plant at times. He is now secretary and treasurer, also a director of the Bristol Brass Com- pany; a director of the Bristol National Bank; director of the Bristol Manufac- turing Company; director of the Ameri- can Silver Company ; director of the Bris- tol Press Publishing Company ; treasurer and director of the Masonic Building As- sociation. Mr. Holley is a member of Franklin Lodge, No. 56, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and in the Ancient Ac- cepted Scottish Rite he has attained the thirty-second degree. He is also a mem- ber of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and of the Bristol Baptist church. In political affiliation he is independent.
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