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(V) His son, De Marquis de Casso y Rujo, was the third of his eight children born to his wife, Candace (Beach) Moore. De Marquis de Casso y Rujo Moore was born on September 18, 1804, in Barkham- sted, Connecticut, and died in Colebrook, in 1889. In addition to a large agricul- tural estate, he owned a saw mill, and manufactured lumber on a large scale, being very successful. He married Thankful Roberts, born September 25, 1808, died September, 1885, daughter of Judah and Mercy (Eno) Roberts, by whom he had nine children, including John Apollos, father of Dr. Moore, of South Manchester.
(VI) John Apollos Moore, son of De Marquis de Casso y Rujo and Thankful (Roberts) Moore, was born in Colebrook, Connecticut, December 18, 1842, where he still lives. He was well educated, first attending the public schools of Cole- brook, from which he graduated to the Suffield Literary Institute, later taking instruction at the Select School, Riverton,
Connecticut, and eventually taking a com- mercial course in the Eastman Business College, of Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he graduated when twenty- one years old. Prior to his Eastman Col- lege course, however, he for three years was a teacher in schools of Litchfield county, Connecticut, and in others of Massachusetts. After deciding to forsake academic for commercial occupations, and graduating at Eastman College, John Apollos Moore for about a year lived in Winsted, Connecticut, where during that time he gained business experience as a hardware store clerk. During the suc- ceeding four years he engaged in inde- pendent business in New Boston, Massa- chusetts, as a general merchant. Since 1872, he has lived in Robertsville, Con- necticut, where he again took up profes- sional work, within reasonable distance of his home. He has held appointments as educator in schools of New Hartford, New Boston, Tolland, and Colebrook, Connecticut, and in addition superin- tended, as best he could, the agricultural operations necessary each season upon the estate of which he was the owner, and since 1902 farming has been a hobby that has kept him in health, and from find- ing the days unduly long. Like many men of scholarly inclinations and acad- emic associations, Mr. Moore is very ret- icent, and has traveled but little, but he evidently has the respect of his town, for he was once elected to the State Legisla- ture, or General Assembly, as representa- tive of his district. He is a Republican in politics, and fraternally is a Mason, affiliated with a Winsted, Connecticut, lodge. And he has been an earnest church worker throughout his life, for many years having been deacon of the Baptist church.
He married, March 3, 1866, Irene Har- riet North, born at Torrington (then Newfield), October 14, 1843, died May 20,
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1905, daughter of Deacon Frederick and Harriet (Hoyt) North. She was de- scended from John North, who came to New England in 1635, in the ship "Susan and Ellen," disembarked in Boston har- bor, and eventually became one of the original proprietors and first settlers of the town of Farmington, Connecticut, the first offshoot from the church of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford. Mrs. Irene Harriet (North) Moore in her maidenhood lived in Torringford, now Torrington, was educated there, and in the Winchester Free Academy, which school is now extinct, although the school building still stands. For some years prior to her marriage she was a school teacher; in fact the family environment was distinctly academic, and one of her brothers, Frederick A. North, bachelor of science of New York University, came into national distinction as a lecturer on travel, the knowledge gained by world wide travels. He was reputed to have seven times circled the world, and he was in Peru, South America, in 1912, when he succumbed to an apoplectic seizure. To John Apollos and Irene Harriet (North) Moore were born the following children : I. Almira Rubie, born August 16, 1867; married Clayton H. Deming, of Tolland, Massachusetts, superintendent of the Tunis Club, to whom she bore five chil- dren : Arthur C., Harvey John, Lynn N., Allen M., and Vernera Deming. 2. De Marquis de Casso y Rujo, of whom fur- ther. 3. Frederick North, born Novem- ber 1, 1871; a civil engineer ; married Susie E. Bull, of New Hartford, Connec- ticut, who bore him six children: Al- thena Elizabeth, Richard Frederick, Al- faretta Irene, Ruby North, John Robert, Marion Marilla. 4. Harriet Thankful, born August 25, 1875 ; she married Homer Deming, of Colebrook; their children are : Bernice and Homer Deming. 5. Cicero
John, born December 14, 1878; a dentist at Terryville, Connecticut; he married Lillian Tarr. 6. Irene Marilla, born May I, 1881; she was a school teacher; she married Grove W. Deming. of Roberts- ville, professor of husbandry at the Moody School, Mount Herman, Massachusetts ; two children: Irene and Grove. 7. Ira Winfield, born June 14, 1883; machinist, of Terryville, Connecticut; he married Iva Remington, and they have two chil- dren : Winfield R., and Ruth.
(VII) De Marquis de Casso y Rujo (2) Moore (or in abbreviated form D. C. Y. Moore, as he is now known), was born July 24, 1869, and passed his boyhood in Robertsville, Connecticut, in which place his parents took up residence when he was only two years of age. He received his primary education in that village, attend- ing the common schools, eventually pro- gressing to the high schools of Winsted and Torrington, after which he matricu- lated at the New York University, taking the academic course thereat, and thus completing his general education. He had early resolved to enter professional life, in the medical branch and when only eighteen years of age had commenced his professional studies. He then became a student of medicine in the office of Dr. Walter Havens, then a resident of River- ton, Connecticut. Under his preceptor- ship he remained for three years, during the last two of which he was principal of an academy at New Greenwoods. Dr. Havens was an allopathic physician, and the principles of infinitesimals underlying the teachings of Hahnemann therefore necessarily had no place in the curriculum of the student of Dr. Havens. But he evidently was of independent mind, for it happened that young Moore eventually became a matriculate of the leading New York College of homœopathy, the New York Homeopathic Medical College, with
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which was linked the extensive Flower Hospital, in the actual wards of which the undergraduates of the college received most of their scientific tuition, the fac- ulty of the college being also the medical staff of the hospital. Thus were the students of the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, when graduated, more than usually well fitted in practical under- standing of medicine. That institution also was one of the first medical colleges in New York State to adopt the present rigid pre-medical requirements, and the four-year course of medical study. How- ever, notwithstanding the exacting and extensive theoretical and practical course of medical study before graduation, Dr. Moore, after gaining his degree in May, 1895, decided that before he entered pri- vate practice he would seek further prac- tical experience in the abundant clinical material present in the hospitals of the great metropolis. And he succeeded by competitive examination, and because of his place in the graduating class of his year, in gaining appointment to the resi- dent staff of Flower Hospital. There, and at Broome street, New York, Hos- pital, he served as interne for some months. He then, in September, 1896, was well equipped in knowledge of med- icine, theoretical and practical, to engage successfully in private practice. He re- turned to his native State, and opened an office for practice in South Manchester, where he has since remained, a period of twenty years of successful practice. Dr. Moore is well regarded professionally among his confreres of medicine through- out the State; he specializes in physical diagnosis and general surgery, and was one of the first men in Connecticut to treat pneumonia with vaccine. Dr. Moore is said to be the only professional man in South Manchester to have performed an operation in New York City, after
leaving his college hospital course. Dur- ing his interneship at Flower Hospital, Dr. Moore had much surgical practice, and subsequently, being invited to assist in giving a clinic in that institution, he performing two major operations. And Dr. Moore has aided very materially the Health Department of his adopted town, being chairman of the Board of Health since its organization in 1913. The Board of Health of Manchester has a distinction unique in New England towns, in that with the exception of Brockton, Massa- chusetts, it has full control of all munic- ipal matters appertaining to sanitation. Dr. Moore is greatly interested in the de- velopment of the New Manchester Memo- rial Hospital, and is a member of its board of directors.
Dr. Moore is identified with many pro- fessional, fraternal, and social organiza- tions. Among those to which he belongs are: Hahnemann Medical Society, the Hartford County Medical Society, the Surgeons' Club, of Rochester, Minnesota ; the American Medical Association, and the Manchester Medical Association, of which he was president in 1914-15. Fra- ternally, he is affiliated with Phoenix Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, of New Hartford; and Manchester Lodge, No. 73, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons ; Odd Fellows, Manches- ter Lodge; Maccabees, Manchester Lodge; and Knights of Pythias, of New Hartford. Socially, he is a member of the Manchester City and Country clubs, and although a professional man he shows his interest in town affairs by taking membership in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.
After gaining his medical degree, in 1895, Dr. Moore married, on May 29 of that year, in New Hartford, Ida May Quilter, daughter of Thomas Joseph and Sarah (Tuttle) Quilter, of New Hartford.
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Mr. Quilter was born in England, and early gave military service; he was as- signed to duty on board a warship, and eventually landed in India, where he re- mained for seven years, attached to a cavalry regiment, known as the "Gallop- ing Greys." Retiring from the army, he traveled extensively in the Orient and Far East, and when twenty-seven years of age came to America, where he remained. Locating in New Hartford, Connecticut, he became associated in responsible capac- ity with the Greenwood Manufacturing Company, superintending the plant in which was the widest loom in the district, some say, ever made. The firm manufac- tured sail cloth duck, and the sails for the famous American yacht "Vigilance," which held the United States in the lead in races against British vessels, were made under the supervision of Mr. Quil- ter. He married Sarah Tuttle, thus bring- ing the wife of Dr. Moore into the old Colonial New England house of Tuttle, headed by the brothers who came with their families to New England in the ship "Planter," in 1635. Mrs. Moore thus comes of Colonial and Revolutionary stock, as many of the Tuttles served mil- itarily during the Revolution ; and five of her uncles served during the Civil War.
To the union of Dr. and Mrs. Moore there was issue, a son, Cedric Quilter, being born to them on April 2, 1900. Un- fortunately, this son died seventeen months later, on January 28, 1901, and no further children have been born to them.
PARSONS, Fred A.,
Business Man.
The family name of Parsons is derived from Parson or Person, a term applied to those having dignity or authority, the final "s" being added to denote that the bearer of the name was a son in direct
succession to the bearer of the title. The members of the family have always dis- tinguished themselves in their respective walks of life, and a worthy scion of this ancient name is Fred A. Parsons, a promi- nent business man of New Britain, Con- necticut. The oldest known Parsons of record was John Parsons, of Cuddington, A. D., 1284. In the roll of possessions in the Abbey of Malmsbury is the name of William le Parsons, in 1307.
(I) The ancestor of the family, Cornet Joseph Parsons, sailed from Gravesend, England, July 4, 1635, in the "Transport." He was a son of Sir Thomas Parsons, of Great Milton, and was among the fol- lowers of William Pynchon's Colony of planters, who settled at Agawam, now Springfield, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1636. On July 15th of the same year, his name appears on a deed of cession from the Indians of the Connecticut valley to Pynchon's company. Joseph Parsons was a man of considerable importance in the Colony, and in 1642 he was one of the founders of the new plantation at North- ampton, and was one of the first pur- chasers of land from the Indians there in 1645. He was a fur trader, and had the sole right of barter and traffic in furs in the valley, for which right he paid an- nually the sum of twelve pounds. He accumulated a large estate in land and goods. On November 26, 1646, he mar- ried Mary Bliss, daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Ford) Bliss, of Hartford. He died October 9, 1683.
(II) Samuel Parsons, son of Joseph and Mary (Bliss) Parsons, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, January 23, 1652, and in 1709 removed from North- ampton to Durham, Connecticut. About 1691 he married as his second wife, Rhoda Taylor, daughter of Robert and Thankful (Woodward) Taylor, and in 1709, under the leadership of Rev. Nathan-
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iel Chauncey, they removed to Durham, as above stated.
(III) Aaron Parsons, son of Samuel and Rhoda (Taylor) Parsons, was born April 3, 1711, in Durham, Connecticut. He married, February 6, 1732, Abigail San- ford. They made their home in Middle- field, Connecticut, and were the parents of Stephen Parsons.
(IV) Rev. Stephen Parsons, son of Aaron and Abigail (Sanford) Parsons, was born September 5, 1748, and died at Denmark, now Lowville, New York, January 7, 1820. Rev. Stephen Parsons was of that branch of the Congregational church known as the Separatists. He was ordained a minister in 1788, and in- stalled as pastor at Middletown, where he remained for seven years. About 1794 he became a Baptist, and removed to White- stone, New York, where he organized a Baptist church. In after years he was the organizer of several churches through- out that section of New York State. He married (first), November 30, 1769, Eliza- beth Hambleton, born March 27, 1751, died February 11, 1777, and they were the parents of Aaron (2) Parsons.
(V) Aaron (2) Parsons, son of Aaron (1) and Elizabeth (Hambleton) Parsons, was born December 13, 1770, at Middle- town, died at West Turin, New York, August 26, 1854. His wife, Jane, was born in 1773, and died in 1853. She was the mother of Aaron (3) Parsons.
(VI) Aaron (3) Parsons, son of Aaron (2) and Jane Parsons, was born in 1801, died in 1870. He was a farmer in Ley- den, New York, and one of its most rep- resentative citizens. Mr. Parsons repre- sented the town in the Legislature, and was sheriff of Lewis county for many years. He was the father of Dwight Parsons.
(VII) Dwight Parsons, son of Aaron (3) Parsons, was born in Leyden, New
York, where he died in 1883. He learned the machinist trade, but followed it only a few years, and then established himself in business as a manufacturer of sash and doors. After a few years he gave up this business, and removed to Lakeville, Liv- ingston county, New York, and there kept a hotel for a few years. He removed in 1875 to New Britain, Connecticut, and there entered the employ of the P. & F. Corbin Company, where he worked until his death, as foreman of the finishing de- partment. Mr. Parsons was a member of Harmony Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons. He married Julia Good- rich, and their children were: Fred A., of extended mention; Lina G., wife of James Bahom, of Bridgeport; Belle O., wife of Frank Ramsdell, of New Britain ; Clara, wife of George Shapleigh, of Springfield, Massachusetts; Bertha C., wife of B. C. Merriman, of Bridgeport. With his family Mr. Parsons was an active member of the Congregational church of Leyden and New Britain.
(VIII) Fred A. Parsons, eldest child of Dwight and Julia (Goodrich) Parsons, was born in Leyden, New York, January 4, 1858, and attended the schools there and in Lakeville. For some years he worked as a bookkeeper, and then accepted a posi- tion with the H. R. Walker Company, in the trucking and warehouse business. Mr. Parsons started with this company when it was making its own start, and through faithful, diligent work he helped its in- terests and himself. Twelve years ago he became secretary, treasurer and gen- eral manager of the firm which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in Con- necticut. They operate sixty trucks, mostly horse-drawn, and employ about seventy-five or eighty men, the work for the greater part being for local business houses. Mr. Parsons is a member of the same Masonic Lodge as his father, and is
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also a member of Doric Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Ionic Council, Royal and Select Masters. He is past sachem of Mattabesett Tribe, Independent Order of Red Men ; past grand of Phoenix Lodge, No. 52, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows ; past chancellor patron of Comstock Encampment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows ; and a member of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Parsons married Belle Gaylord, daughter of Edwin and Julia (Whaples) Gaylord, of New Preston, Connecticut.
JACKSON, Francis Oliver, Agriculturist.
A descendant of an old Massachusetts family long identified with the leading business affairs of Middlesex county, Francis Oliver Jackson was born August 8, 1860, in the city of Middletown. The first known of the Jackson family was Christopher Jackson, who lived in Step- ney, a suburb of London, England.
(I) Edward Jackson, son of Chris- topher Jackson, was born in Stepney, about 1602, and was baptized February 3, 1604, at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney. For some time he lived at White Chapel and was engaged in the manufacture of nails. In 1643 he set out for America, ac- companied by his wife, Frances, and in the same year purchased land in Cam- bridge village, near Boston. Three years later he purchased a farm of 500 acres in the same place, which had formerly been the property of Thomas Mayhew, of Watertown, who had purchased it from Governor Bradstreet. It extended west- ward, beginning near the present division line between Newton and Brighton and included what is now Newtonville. Some of this is still owned by the Jackson fam- ily with a homestead at No. 527 Wash- ington street, Newton. The original
house was built before 1638, and stood until 1708. In 1645 Edward Jackson took the freeman's oath, and soon took rank as one of the leading men of Cambridge. For eighteen sessions he represented the town in the General Court, and in 1648 was a member of a committee to revise the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies. He filled various of- ficial stations of responsibility in Cam- bridge, and was a commissioner to end small causes for several years. He was constantly associated with Rev. John Eliot in his work in christianizing the Indians. He was a large owner of lands in Billerica and by will gave 400 acres to Harvard College. He was among the petitioners to set off Cambridge village from the town of Cambridge, and was probably the first slave holder in New- ton. He died, June 17, 1681, and his es- tate, which included over 1,600 acres of land, was appraised at £2,477 19s. 6d. Among his property were two man slaves valued at five pounds each. His wife, Frances, probably died on the voyage to America, as it appears that he married (second), in 1648, Elizabeth Oliver, widow of Rev. John Oliver, and daughter of John Newgate.
(II) Sebas or Seaborn Jackson, fifth son of Edward and Frances Jackson, is said by tradition to have been born at sea on the voyage of his parents to this country. By the will of his father, he received the house in which the latter lived, with 150 acres adjoining his own homestead. The old house, built about 1670, was eighteen by twenty-two feet in dimension, torn down in 1809. He died December 6, 1690. He married, April 19, 1671, Sarah Baker, born April 28, 1650, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Baker, of Roxbury, died March 25, 1725, at nearly eighty-five years of age. By will of her husband, his entire estate was held
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for her maintenance, and was apportioned among their children in case of her re- marriage or death.
(III) Edward (2) Jackson, son of Sebas and Sarah (Baker) Jackson, was born September 12, 1672, in that part of Cambridge, now Newton, and died March 27, 1748. In 1734 he deeded to his son, Michael, sixty acres, which he had re- ceived from his father. His wife Mary, born about 1677, died March 5, 1753, in Newton. The records of that town give her age as eighty or eighty-six years.
(IV) Michael Jackson, fourth son of Edward (2) and Mary Jackson, was born February 28, 1709, in Newton, was a tanner by occupation, and occupied the paternal homestead, where he died Au- gust 27, 1765, leaving an estate inven- toried at £453. He married, October 17, 1733, Phoebe Patten, born December 2, 17II, in Cambridge, fourth daughter of Nathaniel and Deborah Patten, grand- daughter of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Adams) Patten, great-granddaughter of William and Mary Patten, who were among the earliest residents of Cam- bridge.
(V) Michael (2) Jackson, eldest child of Michael (1) and Phoebe (Patten) Jack- son, was born December 18, 1734, in New- ton. He was very active in military af- fairs in which he gained the rank of gen- eral. He was lieutenant in the French and Indian War; was a member of the famous "Boston Tea Party" who threw the tea into the harbor, previous to the Revolution. When the Revolution broke out, he was a private in a volunteer com- pany of minute-men in Newton, and on the alarm of April 19, 1775, because of the absence of commissioned officer, was elected captain for the day. He stepped from the ranks and at once led his com- pany to join the regiment at Watertown. When they arrived there the commis-
sioned officers were holding a council in the schoolhouse and he was invited to participate. For a short time he listened ; then took the floor, and in his speech said : "There is a time for all things, but the time for talking has passed, and the time for fighting come." It was "time now not for the wag of the tongue, but for the pull of the trigger." He left the council, took up the march, and was fol- lowed by a portion of his company, which came into contact with Lord Percy's Re- serves, near Comfort, and was soon scat- tered. Rallying south of the wood, they were joined by a part of a Watertown company and did effective work in har- rassing the retreating British. The New- ton company received the thanks of Gen- eral Warren for its bravery.
Jackson was commissioned major June 2, 1775, in the Continental army then in Cambridge, and on the first day of 1777 was commissioned colonel of the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment. This body was distinguished throughout the war, and fought at Bunker Hill, where Colonel Jackson said he had forty-two fair shots at the enemy. In 1783 he was transferred to the command of the Third Massachu- setts, also of the Continental Line, and commissioned brevet brigadier-general under act of Congress, and served until November 3, 1783. In an action with the British near King's Bridge, above what was then New York, he received a severe wound from a musket ball, which shat- tered his leg below the knee, and from which he never entirely recovered. He died April 10, 1801, aged sixty-six years. The bearers at his funeral were all dis- tinguished officers of the Revolution. Five of his brothers and five of his sons were in the Revolutionary army. He married, January 31, 1759, Ruth Parker, of Watertown, Massachusetts, daughter of Ebenezer Parker.
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(VI) Ebenezer Jackson, third son of General Michael (2) and Ruth (Parker) Jackson, was born December 18, 1763, in Newton. He was one of the five brothers holding commissions during the Revolu- tion, so that the family altogether com- manded six memberships in the Society of the Cincinnati. In 1792 he settled at Savannah, Georgia, was a planter and mer- chant, and late in life removed to Middle- town, Connecticut, where he died Octo- ber 31, 1837. He married, July 25, 1792, Charlotte (Fenwick) Pierce, born July 21, 1766, widow of Major William Leigh Pierce, of the Continental Line, of Georgia, and daughter of Colonel Edward and Mary (Drayton) Fenwick.
The Fenwick family has been traced to Stanton, county of Northumberland, England, where Edward Fenwick mar- ried Sarah Neville, of Cheat, Yorkshire. Their third son, Robert Fenwick, born about 1640, married Ann Culcheth, of Northumberland, and was the father of John Fenwick, who settled in South Carolina, where he was king's counsellor and colonel of a regiment of Colonial troops. He died in London in 1747. He married Elizabeth Gibbs, and they were the parents of Edward Fenwick, born January 22, 1720, died July, 1775. He was king's counsellor also, and colonel in the South Carolina militia. He married, February 1, 1753, Mary Drayton, born December 31, 1735. Their second son, John Roger Fenwick, was severely wounded and gained distinction in the War of 1812. Their seventh daughter, Charlotte, became the wife of Ebenezer Jackson as above related.
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