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Linda Belle (Free) Wardwell was born in Richmond, Indiana, July 19, 1865. After attending the public schools of Chi- cago, she began her musical education in the Chicago Musical College, whence she graduated, and later obtained a teacher's
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certificate from the Petersilea Academy of Music, of Boston. Her vocal study has been under the eminent teachers of voice culture and interpretation in Chicago, Boston, St. Paul, and New York, and she has been under the instruction of such noted musicians as Dr. John C. Griggs, of Vassar College, Dudley Buck, the com- poser, Francis Fisher Powers, Mrs. Carl Alves, and Oscar Saenger. During her music school study she was under the teaching of Dr. Florence Ziegfield, of the Chicago Musical College, and Carlyle Pe- tersilea, in piano. She held the highest rank in the harmony class of Albert Ruff, in Chicago, studied counterpoint and fugue with the eminent Charles L. Capen, of Boston, and had Mr. Soebeck, of Chi- cago, as her teacher in composition.
Mrs. Wardwell's musical career, in per- formance, as teacher, and in a broader field of musical education, has been a record of great usefulness, and she has gained high reputation in leading musical circles. She has taught piano in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in Des Moines, Iowa, Music School, and taught singing in Du- luth, Minnesota, the Danbury Music School, and privately in New York City and in Stamford, Connecticut. For two years she was soprano soloist in a Metho- dist church of St. Paul, Minnesota, soloist and choir director of the Congregational church of Danbury, Connecticut, for five years, and soloist and choir director of the Congregational church of Stamford for seven years.
For twenty-two years Mrs. Wardwell was chairman of the Plan Study Depart- ment of the National Federation of Musi- cal Clubs, and was the second chairman of music of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She is the author of a set of twenty books on musical history for clubs, teachers, and students, some of which have reached the seventh edition,
a circumstance that in itself demonstrates the need they have met.
Mrs. Wardwell is the founder of the Schubert Study Club, of which she is hon- orary president, and with Mrs. E. J. Tup- per is the founder of the Stamford Women's Club, of which she is still a member. She is a member of the Bridge- port Musical Club, and the National Fed- eration of Musical Clubs. The plan of study on musical history that she has prepared is a comprehensive course, treat- ing of the music of the different countries and conveying a general knowledge of music from early times to the present day. It is endorsed by many prominent musi- cians and the leading music journals, and has become the basis of the work of thou- sands of clubs in the United States. Her works include : (1) General View of Mu- sic-Outline and Musical Programs. Topics : Piano, Voice, Violin, Orchestra, Harmony, Musical Form, Opera, Oratorio and Bibliography. General Views of Mu- sic. Fifteen page chapter on the Develop- ment of the Opera. (2) Topics on History of Music, with Musical Pro- grams. By Mary G. French. (3) Na- tionalities in Music - Outlines and Musical Programs-Italy, France, Eng- land, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Japan. Nationalities in Music. Combination Program-History, Art Literature and Music of. Italy-To be used with Chapter on Italian Music in Nationalities. Read- ing List prepared by Mrs. Thomas G. Winter. (4) German Music-Book I- To Schubert. (5) German Music-Book II-From Schubert to 1915, including Wagner and his Operas. (6) Russian Music-Outline and Musical Programs. Russian Music. (7) American Music- Autobiographical Sketches. Programs arranged by the Composers. 1920-Third Edition, with portraits. (8) American Music-Colonial Period, Indian and Ne-
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gro Music. By Arthur Farwell. Ques- tions and Answers. (9) Music of the Border Countries-In MS. Outline and Musical Programs. With Germany as the center. Switzerland, The Nether- lands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Fin- land, Poland, Bohemia, and Hungary. (10) Seventeen Programs of Modern Mu- sic-Four French, Four German, Five Scandinavian and Four Russian. Topics for Papers on each Program. (11) Opera Outline and Programs. Mignon, Mme. Butterfly and Shanewis, with reading of the Libretto, Tableaux and musical ex- cerpts. (12) A Study of the Literary Works of the Great Tone Poets-Ques- tions and page in Reference Book. Mo- zart's, Weber's, and Mendelssohn's Let- ters ; Schumann's "Music and Musicians," etc. (13) List of Subjects for Musical Club Programs-List of Names for Clubs. (14) Opera Stories. Henry L. Mason. (15) Folk Music.
Mrs. Wardwell attends the Congrega- tional church of Stamford, Connecticut. In political sympathy she is a Republican. She is active socially and interested in all community affairs, although her music and her home claim most of her time and attention.
BARNES, Frank Haslehurst, Physician, Hospital Official.
The importance of heredity in breeding plants and animals has long been recog- nized; but the propogation of mankind still continues in the old, unscientific, hap- hazard way. In view of this fact, the study of the lives and antecedents of suc- cessful men and women is especially in- teresting, and the results of such study show that nature works always consis- tently with her own laws. Men do not gather grapes of thorns, nor figs of this- tles ; and men and women of achievement
are the fruition of generations of ances- tors who cultivated those fundamental virtues and qualities which are the basis of real success. Nowhere is this more ex- plified than among those families whose founders were the pioneers of the New World. Legion is the number of their de- scendants who have won leading places in every period and phase of our national life. They dominate the professions, the industries, commerce, finance, and the politics of the present day. Dr. F. H. Barnes in his own career illustrates the truth of these observations. Starting life with the heritage of a splendid physical and mental endowment, he has added lus- tre to an honored family name. Indefat- igable in his industry, giving himself sincerely and unreservedly to the accom- plishment of every task undertaken, open and frank in all his dealings, shirking no opportunity to perform public service, and unmindful of personal sacrifice, withal, he has won for himself a high place in the esteem of his fellow-citizens and recog- nition as a leader in his profession.
Early in the seventeenth century there were two cousins living in Poughkeepsie, New York, in the same neighborhood ; one of them, William Bornshe Van Ness, born in 1738, married Catherine Storm. To dis- tinguish the cousins, one was spoken of as William Bornshe, the latter being the Dutch equivalent of Barnes, and after a time the Van Ness was dropped, and Wil- liam Bornshe Van Ness became known as William Bornshe, and later as William Barnes. In those days people did not value family names as they do now. That line of the Van Ness family has since been known as Barnes.
Three brothers of the name of Van Ness came from Holland at an early day in Colonial history and settled on Long Island, later separating, one going north. There was a Garret Van Ness prominent
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in Albany late in the seventeenth cen- tury, and early in the eighteenth cen- tury. The ancestor of Dr. Barnes settled on a farm (then a wilderness) in Dutchess county, and as late as 1897 that farm, hav- ing been continuously in the family, was owned by a descendant, David T. Barnes.
According to Professor Jonathan Pear- son, the name Van Ness was probably de- rived from Inverness, Scotland. He says : "The word ness, meaning promotory or head land, occurs all along the east coast of Great Britain, especially in Scotland. Holland traded extensively through the seaport town, Inverness, with the highlands and the Glen country along Loch Ness. Scotchmen, escaping from the strife and sterility of their own coun- try to Holland, readily found ships there to convey them to the Dutch colonies, and they were known as from the Ness or 'Van Ness'."
Willam Barnes (or Borntje Van Ess or Ness), was born March 5, 1738, and died August 23, 1807. About 1766 he removed with his family to Poughkeepsie, New York, and there lived until his death. He married, September 21, 1759, at the Pres- byterian church, Randolph Precinct, Catherine Storm, born February 25, 1735, died March 7, 1812. She was a descend- ant of Dirck Storm, the American settler from Holland, who married Maria Peters Monfort. Their son, Gregorus Storm married Engeltje van Dyke, at Tarry- town, New York, and they were the par- ents of Dirck Storm, who married Baren- icka (Veronica) Montross. Among their ten children was Catherine, who became the wife of William Barnes as above noted.
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Richard (Dedrick, Derrick or Dirck) Barnes, son of William and Catherine (Storm) Barnes, was born May 24, 1762, and died January 23, 1832, or 1834. In 1785 he married Elizabeth Tappan, born
September 27, 1763, died March 2, 1859, daughter of Teunis and Hester (Conck- lin) Tappen (Tappan). She is buried at Pleasant Valley, near Poughkeepsie. Richard Barnes and his family lived in Ghent, Kinderhook, and Spencertown, New York.
Charles Barnes, son of Richard and Elizabeth (Tappan) Barnes, was born March 26, 1802, and died June 28, 1883. He was a farmer and also kept a hotel. In politics he was a Republican and in religious belief, a Congregationalist. Late in life Mr. Barnes removed to Nor- wich Corners, New York. He married (first) Maria Ludlow, of Long Island, born August 30, 1801, died October 31, 1857. They were the parents of four sons. He married (second) Maria Frost, and they had no children by this mar- riage.
Charles Tappan Barnes, son of Charles and Maria (Ludlow) Barnes, was born in Sauquoit, New York, September 7, 1836. He was educated at Whitestone Semi- nary, and subsequently taught school for several years. He then became principal of a school at Mohawk, New York, and was later superintendent of schools at Little Falls, New York, where he re- mained for several years. Mr. Barnes was particularly gifted for his work of instructing the youth of the country, and at the time Andrew S. Draper was su- perintendent of Public Instruction in the State of New York, he selected Mr. Barnes to conduct the teacher's institute in that State, and Mr. Barnes continued in this line of work until his retirement from his profession several years ago. Mr. Barnes had always taken an interest in farming, and during odd times worked at this occupation. It has been said of him that "as a teacher, he sought not only to increase his pupil's store of knowledge, but he endeavored by precept and exam-
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ple to inspire the young with high ideals of morality, usefulness and patriotism."
Mr. Barnes was a member of the New York State Faculty Teachers' Institute, and of the State Board Executive Teach- ers' Institute.
A Republican in politics, Mr. Barnes has always been interested in local county affairs, and has served as a delegate in many conventions of his party. He has never sought to hold public office, and has always refused to be a candidate for such office. A man of splendid mental powers, a thoughtful student of books, nature and mankind, eminently practical in applying his conclusions in his every day relations, his sound judgment makes his opinion valued by a wide circle of friends who hold him in high esteem.
Mr. Barnes married, at Millers Mills, New York, Flora Ann Johnson, born Jan- uary 21, 1844, daughter of Alfred and Flora E. (Taylor) Johnson. Her father, Alfred Johnson, was born April 20, 1813, at Columbia, New York, and died aged 100 years. He married Flora E. Taylor, born May 31, 1817, in Litchfield, New York. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes were: I. Margaret Edith, born January 4, 1868, an instructor of music, at Summit, New Jersey. 2. Frank Hasle- hurst, receives extended mention below. 3. Charles Alfred, born July 2, 1874; is assistant manager of the Cudahy Packing Company, at Brooklyn, New York. 4. Harold Ludlow, born March 22, 1884; is a physician, residing in Brooklyn, New York.
Frank Haslehurst Barnes, eldest son of Charles Tappan and Flora Ann (John- son) Barnes, was born June 17, 1872, at Mohawk, New York. He was educated in the public schools, at the Sauquoit High School and the Utica Free Acad- emy. Having decided upon a medical career, he then entered the New York
Homœopathic College from which he was graduated in 1896, with the degree of M. D. Previous to this time Dr. Barnes had read medicine under Dr. Aaron Os- borne of Utica, and had pursued special studies in chemistry and physics, under private tutors; and under the preceptor- ship of Professor William Hart, he took up the study of the German language.
In 1896 Dr. Barnes came to Stamford as assistant to Dr. J. J. Kindred, a spe- cialist in mental and nervous diseases. The following year a partnership was formed between Dr. Barnes and Dr. Kin- dred, and in 1898, two years after coming to Stamford, Dr. Barnes purchased the sanitarium. It is beautifully located, with an area of about fifty acres of well-kept grounds, requiring the services of be- tween thirty-five to forty people. There are six houses and cottages which accom- modate seventy-five patients, and these patients come from all parts of the United States, Canada, Cuba and Porto Rico.
Dr. Barnes is Neurologist to the Stam- ford Hospital; Associate Professor in Mental and Nervous Diseases at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. He takes a very active interest in many matters outside of his own personal business in- terests. He is a member of the Fairfield County Medical Society, and was at one time its president, also acting counsellor for that society ; is a member of the Amer- ican Medical Association; was chairman of the committee for a State Farm for Inebriates.
During the World War Dr. Barnes en- tered into many of the home activities, among them being: Chairman of Stam- ford Branch of Fairfield County Farm Bureau ; member of the Medical Advisory Draft Board; was a captain of a team in every Liberty Loan Drive, his team being assigned to solicit physicians, school teachers, and the rural districts of
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Stamford. Dr. Barnes is now a member of the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association, and the Stamford Chamber of Commerce, of which he is also ex-president ; member of Republican Town Committee, School Committee, Medical Association of the Greater City of New York, and Society . of Medical Jurisprudence of New York City. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masonic body; he is a member of Union Lodge, No. 5, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; and is also a member of Puritan Lodge, No. 14, Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Dr. Barnes's clubs are: Suburban, Woodway Golf, Stamford Yacht and the Connecticut Automobile Association ; also Transportation Club of New York City.
Dr. Barnes married, September 22, 1897, at Stamford, Ella Betts Jerman, born November 12, 1874, daughter of Chauncey Lockwood and Ann Ruth (Betts) Jerman. Mrs. Barnes is a mem- ber of the Stamford Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, being a di- rect descendant of Captain Betts ; she is also a member of the Stamford Women's Club and of the Schubert Club, as well as taking an active interest in many char- itable organizations.
(The Tappen-Tappan Line).
Otto Tappen, born about 1500, was Lord of Tappenberg and Tappen Camp, as was the next in line, Jurger Tappen, born about 1530. Otto Tappen, his son, was born in 1566, and was the last Lord of Tappenberg and Tappen Camp. He was the father of Anthony Tappen, who was born in 1598, and who was a veteran of the Thirty Year War, and father of the New England settler.
Jurgen (Teunicen) Tappen, glass maker, the immigrant ancestor of the
Tappan and Tappen family in New York, was born in Holland about 1600, and died in 1677, at Albany, New York. When he came to this country, about 1630, he must have brought considerable property with him from the Old World as he appears to have been in easy circumstances, if not affluence, from the first. He was popular with the people and on terms of warm friendship with the patroons and leading merchants. A devout member of the Dutch church, during the inclement win- ters he devoted several hours each week to visiting and caring for the sick poor. The same kindly spirit actuated him in his dealings with the Indians, who called him the "Good Chief." He had served in the Thirty Year War with his father and was given a grant of land at the close of the war in New Netherlands. Tradition is that this grant was for a thousand acres of river front (Hudson), extending as far back as the setting sun. As early as 1662, Jurgen Tappen was residing at Fort Orange. His wife was a daughter of Wybrecht Jacobes.
Theunis Tappen, son of Jurgen and - (Jacobes) Tappen, was born after 1661, at Albany, and died in 1726. He was married in Kingston, October 10, 1695, by Domine Nucella, to Sarah Schep- moes. His name is found in the list of militia officers from Dutchess county, New York, in 1700, with rank of en- sign. In his will, which was proved March 6, 1726-27, six children are men- tioned.
Johannes Tappen, their son, was bap- tized at Kingston, August 29, 1703, and married, September 22, 1726, Tjaatjen Du Bois.
Teunis Tappen or Tappan, their son, was baptized at Kingston, November 3, 1728. When young, he removed to Poughkeepsie, New York, and there died in 1809. He married there, February 9,
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1749, Hester Concklin, born January 8, 1730, died January 19, 1812, daughter of John Concklin. They were the parents of Elizabeth Tappan, who married Rich- ard Barnes (q. v.).
(The Concklin Line).
John Concklin, of Southold, New York, married there, December 2, 1653, Sara Solomon.
Deliverance (Lawrence) Concklin, their son, appears on the records of the Dutch church at Tarrytown (which is the Sleepy Hollow church made famous by Washington Irving), as early as 1700, being variously spelled as Levorens, De- lefferens, Kankle and Cancely. He was deacon of the church in 1718, 1724, and 1735. The date of his death is not known. It is supposed he descended from John Concklin, who was of Southold, Long Island, in 1650, and that the name Deliv- erance was a Dutch corruption of Law- rence. The Christian name of his wife was Engeltje (Angelica) and they were the parents of John, of further mention.
John Concklin, son of Deliverance and Engeltje Concklin, married, March 22, 1723-24, Annatje Storm, daughter of David Storm, born in Holland, and grand- daughter of Dirck Storm, the American settler. In 1728-29, John Concklin, and his wife, removed to Poughkeepsie, and there lived. At one time, John Concklin held a captain's commission in the Dutchess county militia, in which capac- ity in September, 1755, he led a detach- ment to Albany, during an alarm when General Johnson was attacked at Lake George, and also in March, 1757, he marched to the relief of Fort William Henry, when it was attacked by the enemy. He was a signer of the Patriotic Articles of Association in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, in July, 1775. He died in 1785. John Concklin was the father of
Hester Concklin, who became the wife of Teunis Tappen or Tappan, as noted above.
STANTON, Archie Byron,
Banker.
There have been many prominent men bearing the name of Stanton in the annals of Connecticut and throughout New Eng- land, and members of this family have succeeded in adding more honor to a name which the founder of the family in America had early honored. Thomas Stanton, a scion of a house of ancient English origin, was a brave soldier, a just magistrate, and a wise interpreter be- tween the Red race and the White race. His record forms a part of the early his- tory of New England, and one historian has said of him :
Never perhaps did the acquisition of a barbar- ous language give to a man such immediate, wide- spread and lasting importance. From the year 1636, when he was Winthrop's interpreter with the Nahantic sachem, to 1670, when Uncas visited him with a train of warriors and captains to get him to write his will, his name is connected with almost every Indian transaction on record.
(I) Thomas Stanton appears on record in Boston as early as 1636, when he served as magistrate and as Indian interpreter for Governor Winthrop. During the Pe- quot War, he rendered valuable assist- ance in the same capacity, and special mention is made of his bravery in the battle of Fairfield Swamp in which he nearly lost his life. At the close of the war, it is probable that he returned to Boston, as he appears as one of the mag- istrates in the trial of John Wainwright which took place in October, 1637. In 1639 Thomas Stanton was settled in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was appointed official interpreter for the Gen- eral Court. It is worthy of note that
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throughout his life he served as a medium of communication on many important oc- casions between the English and the In- dians. He was widely known as an In- dian trader, and his operations covered a large territory. About 1651 Thomas Stanton removed to Pequot, and several years later, seven to be exact, took up his residence in Stonington. He settled at what was then known as Wequete- quock Cove, then considered a part of Suffolk county, Massachusetts; he was the third settler and was appointed one of the managers. He was granted sev- eral tracts of land, and was elected a deputy magistrate by the General Court. In 1664 Thomas Stanton was a commis- sioner to try small cases, and in 1666 was overseer-general of the Coasatuck In- dians, a commissioner of appeal in Indian affairs, and was successively reelected commissioner during the remainder of his life. In 1666 he was a member of the General Assembly and was regularly re- elected until 1674. During King Philip's War, Thomas Stanton took an active part, his sons also participating. He aided in founding the church in Stonington, and his name stands first on its roll of mem- bership.
Thomas Stanton married Ann Lord, daughter of Dr. Thomas and Dorothy Lord, born in England in 1621. Dr. Lord was the first physician licensed by the General Court to practice in Connecticut. The site of the original residence of Thomas Stanton in Hartford has been occupied by the Jewell Belt Manufactur- ing Company for many years.
(II) John Stanton, son of the immi- grant, Thomas Stanton, and his wife, Ann (Lord) Stanton, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1641. He was the first recorder of Southerton (now Stoning- ton) ; he was commissioned captain, Feb- ruary 18, 1675, of one of the four Con-
necticut regiments in King Philip's War. Captain Stanton married, in 1664, Han- nah Thompson. His death occurred Oc- tober 31, 1713.
(III) John (2) Stanton, son of John (I) and Hannah (Thompson) Stanton, was born May 22, 1665. He received lands from his father in Preston, and lived on them. The Christian name of his wife was Mary.
(IV) Daniel Stanton, son of John (2) and Mary Stanton, was born in Preston, Connecticut, June 8, 1708. He married, in 1737, Dinah (according to one authority Stark, and to another Galusha) ; she died in 1754.
(V) Elisha Stanton, son of Daniel and Dinah Stanton, was born in October, 1752, and died in Norwich, Massachu- setts, February 13, 1813. Elisha Stanton was settled in Vermont before the Revo- lution, and subsequently went to Massa- chusetts. In 1781 he married Anna Rust, daughter of Gershom and Mary (Cooley) Rust, of Hampden county, Massachu- setts, born November 1, 1762, in Chester, died in Norwich, June 6, 1808.
(VI) John Warren Stanton, son of Elisha and Anna (Rust) Stanton, was born September 13, 1782, in Hampshire county, Massachusetts, and died Novem- ber 13, 1858. He lived in Worthington and Chesterfield, Massachusetts; and El- licott, New York. On December 13, 1814, he married Sally Brewster, daughter of Squire Jonathan (4) Brewster, of Worth- ington, and she died in August, 1840 (see Brewster VIII).
(VII) Charles Brewster Stanton, son of John Warren and Sally (Brewster) Stanton, was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, town of Ellicottville, August 15, 1836. As a young man he went to Kanawha county, West Virginia, with his brothers and established a factory for the manufacture of coal oil from cannel coal.
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That was before the day when crude oil refining had begun. Mr. Stanton was engaged in this business before the Civil War broke out and continued in it until modern methods of refining crude petro- leum made the older method unprofit- able. Shortly after the war, Mr. Stanton went West to Franklin county, Kansas. He lived in Centropolis, and later in Ot- tawa. Here he engaged in the jewelry business and continued in that line dur- ing the remainder of his active life.
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