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Conn., where he is associated with Henry Allen & Son, the undertakers, and they have had children : Jennie Louise, Helen Barbara, Delia Newell (who died at the age of four years), Nelson Henry, Jr., James Justin, George Williams and Katie May ; George Williams; Mary Louisa, who married first Ira Browning, of Montville, and second Solon Chapman, of Ledyard, and they now reside in Cali- fornia where he is president of the Napa National Bank, and they have one child, George Maxley.
(VII) George Williams Hewitt was born Feb. 20, 1848, in Waterford, near the Montville town line. His schooling was begun in his native town and later he attended a private school at Uncasville, in the town of Montville. Leaving school at the age of nineteen or thereabouts, he went to Califor- nia, sailing from New York, and going across the Isthmus of Panama by rail, and making the re- mainder of the trip by water, he landed in San Fran- cisco, where he remained about a year, following the trade of house carpenter, which he had learned under the tutelage of his father, and with Richard P. Haven, by whom he had been employed for sev- eral years.
Returning East when but twenty, he started in the contracting business on his own account, and has since been successfully engaged in this line. He has contracted for and has executed a large amount of work in his line in New London and Norwich, and their vicinities. Mr. Hewitt is thoroughly con- versant with the intricacies of his line of work, and the fact that he gives all his work his personal attention, is due his. success as a contractor. In 1892 he established a factory on Main street, New London, where all his inside finishings, etc., are made and designed.
Mr. Hewitt and his family are members of the Quaker Hill Baptist Church, of Waterford. In po- litical views Mr. Hewitt is a Democrat, and has served his native town acceptably as a member of the board of selectmen for a term of two years. His extensive business interests, however, do not give him the time to devote to political office; hence he has refused further preferment.
On July 4, 1871, Mr. Hewitt was married to Lydia E. Gardner, daughter of Henry and Wealthy Ann (Powers) Gardner, of Waterford, Conn. Their children are: (1) Burke Gardner, born May 12, 1873, in Waterford, married, in June, 1894, Ro- wena Perry, of Waterford ; they have three children, Robert James, Marian May and Alta Lydia. He is engaged in carpentering in Waterford. (2) Har- riet E., born July 31, 1876, in Waterford, married Jan. 18, 1900, James H. Lane, of Brooklyn, N. Y .; they reside in Waterford, Mr. Lane being associ- ated with his father-in-law in business. (3) Fred- erick William, born July 11, 1879, in Waterford, married, December, 1900, Alice Gallaudet, of Ston- ington, and they reside in Waterford, he being as- sociated with his father; they have one child, Reginald G. (4) Cyril Comstock, born July 23,
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1883, in Waterford, is a student at Rev. Dwight L. Moody's Mt. Hermon school at Northfield, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt have a pleasant home, most beautifully located on the banks of the Thames river. They are highly respected residents of Wat- erford, where they command the esteem of all who have the pleasure of their acquaintance.
WILCOX. In 1638 the name of (I) Edward Wilcox is found among a list of inhabitants of the Island of Aquidneck, and he also owned land at Manhattan.
(II) Stephen Wilcox was born about 1633 and died in 1690. In 1657 he married Hannah, daugh- ter of Thomas and Martha Hazard. Some time before 1669 he moved to Westerly, Rhode Island.
(III) Edward Wilcox, born in 1662 in West- erly, R. I., died Nov. 5, 1715. His first wife was a daughter of Robert and Mary (Brownell) Hazard, and on May 1, 1698, he was married (second) to Thomasin, daughter of Richard Stevens, of Taun- ton, Mass., born July 3, 1677.
(IV) Elisha Wilcox was born July 9, 1706.
(V) Hezekiah Wilcox, born Dec. 25, 1731, died in 1819, and was buried at Watch Hill, R. I. He married, before 1758, Hannah Parker.
(VI) Capt. Jesse Wilcox, born Dec. 29, 1762, at Watch Hill, became a ship carpenter, and he built and sailed many packets carrying freight and passengers to New York. Soon after the breaking out of the Revolution he moved to Stonington, Conn. He and his son, Jesse, Jr., were drowned July 5, 1828, during a thunder squall, while on their way in a small sail-boat from Stonington to Quiambaug. Their bodies were re- covered and buried at Stonington. On Dec. 9, 1784, Capt. Wilcox married Nancy Pendleton, who died Sept. 2, 1796, the mother of six children : Susanna, born Dec. 16, 1785, married Absalom Miner ; Nancy, born March 15, 1787, married (first) Joseph Shef- field and (second) Samuel Taylor ; Jesse, Jr., born Nov. 28, 1788, married (first) Sally Arden and (second) Rebecca Miner ; Abigail, born Sept. 12, 1790, married Lyman Hall ; Phineas, born Nov. 22, 1792, married Mercy Taylor; Lodowick, born Sept. 18, 1794, married Fanny Cottrell. For his second wife the Captain married, on May 6, 1798, Meliit- able, daughter of Ebenezer and Iantha (Mason) Wilcox, who survived him many years, until 1868, reaching the remarkable age of ninety-nine years, six months, twenty-three days. She was a woman of superb constitution and well endowed mentally as well as physically, retaining her powers to an unusual degree to the last. By her the Captain had seven children : Iantha, born Nov. 3, 1799, married Moses Sawyer ; Ebenezer, born June 30, 1801, mar- ried Caroline Cottrell; Elisha, born Nov. 13, 1803, married Mary Denison ; Mason, born Nov. 13, 1806, married Louisa Brown ; Elnathan F., born April 2, 1808, married (first) Mehitable Wilcox and (sec- ond) Julia Denison ; Silas, born Dec. 29, 1811, mar-
ried Emma Haskell ; Elias, born April 3, 1815, 11 ried Hannah L. Denison.
(VII) Elias Wilcox, born April 3, 1815. ( Feb. 15, 1901. In early life he engaged in lob: fishing and ran a packet to New York City, later he engaged in menhaden fishing. About I he established a fish oil and fertilizer factory, wl was the beginning of the business which has m the name of Wilcox famous all over the country that industry, the venture proving a decided suco from the start. On April 23, 1843, Elias Wil married Hannah L. Denison, who was born S. 27, 1820, daughter of Henry and Lucy (Smi Denison, and they became the parents of ten c dren, eight of whom grew to maturity: Lean‹ born April 30, 1844, died Dec. 22, 1895. Ellen born Aug. 27, 1846, married Minthon D. Thor kins, and died Oct. 7, 1889; their only child, O L. Tompkins, is now a very successful attorney New York. Almeda, born Sept. 7, 1848, was n ried July 20, 1870, to Linneus Thompson, and sides in Mystic. Elias F., born Oct. 6, 1850 mentioned below. Stephen R., born Aug. 26, 18 lives in Willimantic, Conn. Hannah A., born A 2, 1855, died Oct. 9, 1857. Rowland H., born ] 26, 1858, is mentioned below. A daughter, bh May 23, 1860, died June 1, 1860. Orrin A., bal Sept. 16, 1861, is mentioned below. Cora L., b May 30, 1864, married Isaac Miller, and died 15, 1899. The parents of this family celebrated til golden wedding in 1893. Mr. Wilcox was a m ber of the Union Baptist Church.
LEANDER WILCOX, born in Stonington .April 1844, was for many years one of the leading mer his line of business in New England. He had b engaged in the menhaden fish oil and fertilizer dustry from boyhood, and with his brothers bit up the largest business in that line on the coast. was the practical founder of what is now the \ cox Fertilizer Co., at Mystic, Conn. On Jan 1865, he married Fanny A. Davis, who was b 1 1 May 10, 1846, in Stonington, daughter of Elias Frances A. (Wilcox) Davis, and died Oct. 7, I( Their daughter, Ella May, is the wife of C. I. F stow. Mr. Wilcox passed away Dec. 22, 1895. was a consistent member of the Union Bay. t Church, which he served as deacon.
CAPT. ELIAS F. WILCOX was born Oct. 6, If in the town of Stonington, and was reared there, ceiving his education in the district schools. At
Je age of eighteen years he became employed in le establishment with which he is now connected aa proprietor, the Wilcox Fertilizer Works 1 - . r one of the best known and most prosperous ( cerns in the menhaden fishery business at the p ent day. The business of the Wilcox Fertil Works has increased largely under the able I agement of him and his brothers, and is well known throughout New England. Capt. Wilcox is a pr inent man in his community, taking an interes n church work and local affairs, is a deacon of e
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Un Baptist Church, and a member of Charity and Lodge, F. & A. M. He is a Republican in al sentiment. On Jan. 15, 1873, Capt. Wilcox married to Sarah J. Davis, daughter of Elias ulia A. (Wilcox) Davis, of Stonington, and tave had two children: Annie L., who died at e of ten years ; and Willie F., who died at the sixteen years.
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ias Davis, the father of Mrs. Wilcox, was a of Lisbon, Conn. For his first wife he mar- rances A., daughter of Lodowick Wilcox, and
nat. riec afte her death, which occurred Aug. 6, 1848, he mailed Julia Ann Wilcox. By the first union there
we1 three children, namely : Elias N., who became a m in : Va. ber of Company C, 21st Conn. V. I., and died irch, 1865, in the hospital at Newport News, Benjamin F. S., a resident of Mystic; and Far . A., born May 10, 1846, who on Jan. 1, 1865, Je the wife of Leander Wilcox. Eight chil- dreavere born to the second union : Sarah J., who
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PT. ROWLAND H. WILCOX was born in Quiam- in the town of Stonington, Jan. 26, 1858, and spent his boyhood days. His advantages for an dication were limited to the district schools of his ne, and like many of the best citizens of to- s first practical knowledge of work was work farm. From early boyhood he had a great ess for the water and was but a lad when he
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fon beg going with his father on fishing trips. In this ay he early laid the foundation for a most sucosful career as a fishing master. At about the age : fifteen he began making regular trips with fother, Leander, in quest of menhaden. While but boy he was observing, and so readily famil- iari himself with the details of the fishing busi- nesstat at the early age of twenty he was made capta of the sailing gear on the sloop "William T. She an." In 1882 he was made master of the r "Annie E. Gallup," which vessel was under steal his
arge for some time. Subsequently he took chai of the "Annie L. Wilcox," which he re-
tain until 1903, when his present vessel, the “Le ler Wilcox," was launched, and he became her st master. This vessel represents the most imp 'ed type of craft of her kind. Built on mod-
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ern es and after plans of her present master, her cons iction embodies every feature suggested by han one-third of a century's practical exper- n the fishing industry. The "Leander Wil- COX s as nearly perfect in every way as money, skill id a thorough knowledge of the vessel's par-
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or of the eldest brother of the family, who wasthe real founder of the business now being serv by the vessel.
The career of Capt. Wilcox as fishing master has been not only a most successful one, but a unique one in many respects. Early in his career he enjoyed the distinction of being the youngest mas- ter and now, though only a middle-aged man, he becomes one of the very oldest in point of service. As for being highly successful in his business, Capt. Wilcox is without a rival. Early in his career his catches became records, which stood until surpassed by himself, so that whatever honors are possible in that line are held by Capt. Wilcox. In his long career as a fishing captain he has never lost a man, nor has his vessel ever met with an accident. This in itself constitutes a remarkable record. Capt. Wilcox has made a close study of his business, into which he has introduced methods and reasonings based on scientific principles, all of which have been reflective in the results he has achieved. He is con- sidered one of the most expert captains identified with the fishing industry on the Atlantic coast.
The connection of Capt. Wilcox with the Wilcox Fertilizer Company, of Mystic, has, with the excep- tion of a short interval, been continuous. He shares the credit for the high standing of that concern as a result of efficient service in his important branch of the business. Personally, Capt. Wilcox is modest and retiring, without a single trait of character to suggest his life's business. Of an easy, refined man- ner, and strictly temperate habits, in no degree a user of tobacco, and equally as abstemious in the use of intoxicants and profanity, he sets an ex- ample for those in his employ which, to a remarkable extent, is emulated. Capt. Wilcox is a member of Eureka Harbor, No. 8, American Association of Masters and Pilots of S. V. He is also a member of the A. O. U. W. In political matters, while a supporter of Republican principles, he takes only such active interest as becomes a citizen desirous of having competent men in office. He estimates highly the advantage of education and takes an interest in its advancement.
On March 4, 1883, at Chincoteague Island, Va., Capt. Wilcox was married to Miss Clara Elizabeth Matthews, a native of that State, and comes from an old Virginia family whose connections include the Fitzhughs, Lees, Mitchells, Hollands, and other prominent families of the Old Dominion State. Two daughters have come to this union : Edna Matthews, born Dec. 23, 1883, graduated from Mystic high school, the Williams Memorial Institute, at New London, and is now a student in the New Britain Normal School; Marion Elizabeth, born Aug. 21, 1890, is a student at the Mystic high school. Capt. and Mrs. Wilcox are both members of the Union Baptist Church, of which he is a substantial sup- porter, and where Mrs. Wilcox takes an active part in church work and the Ladies' Aid Society Auxil- iary thereto.
ORRIN A. WILCOX, youngest son of Elias Wil- cox, was born at Quiambaug, Sept. 16, 1861, and received his preliminary education in the district
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school. He began going on the water with his brother, Capt. Elias F., when quite young, and so continued until he went to Eastman Business Col- lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to prepare himself for office work. Returning home he began work in the office with his brother Leander, dividing his time there with the duties of traveling salesman for the firm. He continued as such until the death of Leander Wilcox, since which time he has had entire charge of the office work and takes a most active part in the management of the business.
On Sept. 18, 1890, Mr. Wilcox was united in marriage with Mary B. Waterman, a native of Mys- tic, and daughter of James W. and Prudence (Bailey) Waterman. Two children have been born to them: J. Waterman, born Aug. 9, 1891, and Helen Marie, born July 29, 1893. Like his brothers Mr. Wilcox is a Republican in political faith. He is a member of Stonington Lodge, No. 26, I. O. O. F., and a member of the Union Baptist Church.
CHARLES BENONI BROMLY, a successful farmer of the town of Lisbon, who has carved out his own fortune, comes of a family long known in the county, the first on record being Luke Bromly, who in 1660 purchased a mill in the town of Ston- ington.
Alas Bromly, grandfather of Charles Benoni, was born, it is supposed, near Hartford. His early life was passed in that vicinity, and soon after his marriage, which occurred in Manchester (now East Hartford), Conn., he located in Preston, and lived for a few years on rented farms. He then purchased a farm about four miles from Norwich where he spent the rest of his life, and where he died in April, 1856, in the ninety-third year of his age, well pre- served and active to the very last. He was a pen- sioner of the Revolutionary war, having served a few months in the latter part of that struggle. His remains rest in the cemetery at Preston City. He was a Democrat in politics. Called upon to preach, he often supplied the pulpit in the Presbyterian Church at Preston City. His wife was Esther, daughter of David Bidwell, of Manchester. They became the parents of six children: Josiah, who married Eliza Boone, and lived and died in Preston ; James M., who married Emily Capron, and resided in Preston ; George W., who married a Miss Mosier, and made his home in Preston ; Emily, who became the wife of Merrick Wright, of Greeneville; Esther, who wedded W. L. Tubbs, and died in Greeneville ; and Horace Bidwell.
Horace Bidwell Bromly was born in Preston Nov. 21, 1823, and was brought up on the farm. When he was but ten years of age he apprenticed himself to a Mr. Covell, at Poquetanuck, to learn the blacksmith's trade, for a lump sum of $60 and board for three years. He followed that trade for several years, and then began work in the Shetucket mills, at Greeneville, where he was employed for nearly thirty years, the last fifteen years as over-
seer and loom fixer. His health failed from hard work and long indoor confinement, and he chased a farm in Preston, which he cultivated a number of years, and then bought 260 acre North Stonington. He lived on the latter [ about sixteen years, when disposing of the farm moved to East Norwich, where he now lives tired, a most highly esteemed citizen and a fait adherent to Democratic principles. Mr. Broml one of the very few surviving "real sons" of American Revolution, as before stated, his fa having served in the Continental army. On 17, 1847, he was married in Preston, to Eunice Benjamin, who was born Dec. 23, 1847, daug fr of Sebra and Lucy (Standish) Benjamin. T seven children were: (I) Horace D., born Oct. 1848, is a farmer in North Stonington. He mar 1 first Emily C. Woodmansee, and second Hanh Kinney. His four children, all born of the sec 1 marriage, were: Minnie A., who married Josh Rood, and died leaving one child, Frances M .; nice J. ; Peleg H. ; and Orra E., who married I ]- lin Elton Miner, and resides in North Stoning (2) Charles Benoni was born Sept. 1, 1855, an is mentioned below. (3) Frank E., born Jan. 21, I' , resides in Atchison, Kans., where he is ticket agft for a railway company. He married Fanny Te and they have had four children, two of whom +1 in infancy ; those surviving are Claudie and (1. (4) Esther B., born July 6, 1860, died Nov. [., 1861. (5) Mary E., born May 22, 1863, is at h fe caring for her parents. (6) Ellen M., born S. 17, 1865, married Elias H. Chapman, of East M- wich, and had one child, Lewis, who died you. (7) Lillian E., born March 20, 1868, died Oct l), 1870.
Charles Benoni Bromly was born in Norw f and received his education in the district school. the town of Preston, whither his parents remc when he was quite small. He was early the recip- of practical training in farm work, and he remai 1 at home until a few months before his marri:f. After that event he rented a farm in North Ston ton, and after living thereon for five years, he rei 1 a farm near Mystic, whence after five years he - moved to Voluntown, and lived there six years. n November, 1891, he moved to his present fall, which he had purchased from the heirs of Corne,s Murphy. It originally consisted of 115 acres, Mr. Bromly has added to it until he now has lit 3 11 acres of fine land, all in a good condition, and e n f
improved with neat and comfortable buildings. also owns a farm of 170 acres on Bundy Hill Lisbon. In April, 1904, he purchased the farn the late Hezekiah L. Reade in Lisbon, consis of 260 acres. His land is given over to gen farming, although for a number of years he card on the dairy business, conducting a milk routen Norwich, which, however, he has since disposed f. He owns some fine thoroughbred Devon stock.
On Nov. 25, 1874, Mr. Bromly was married n
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terlyR. I., to Mary A. Sanders, born Oct. IO, orth Stonington, a daughter of Edward t (Lathrop) Sanders, the former a far- 'ter the death of his wife, made his home ughter, Mary, tenderly cared for until Mr. and Mrs. Bromly have had an in- mily of children : Laura J., born April the wife of James Ernest Kennedy, of in., by whom she has a daughter, Flor- "ank A., born March 24, 1878, married 1, and with her and their two children, and Elsie B., resides in Canterbury, la M., born May 13, 1881, died Sept. essie B., born Feb. 26, 1883, was mar-
7, in Mah who, his leath sting I876, on, C E. e Bli rles n .; I| I88I , Nov! 8, 1903, to Elisha Potter, and resides at ic ; Nie A., born June 23, 1884, died Nov. 8, .; andLewis W. was born Sept. 13, 1901. Mr. nly i leading Democrat, and has long taken activepart in public affairs. In 1892-93 he ed ast member of the board of selectmen, and 897 1 represented Lisbon in the State Legis- re. I has also held a number of the minor offic, and in every place he has been found,
as gi n evidence of a conscientious perform- of 1 duty as he sees it. Socially he be- s to hland Lodge, A. O. U. W., of Jewett He id his family attend the Newent Congre- nal Circh.
AMU L NOYES MORGAN, one of the ng a'l substantial citizens of Colchester, de- ls fro James Morgan, born in 1607, in Wales t Llandaff, Glamorgan county), who wo younger brothers, John and Miles, bably witl g frc Bristol, England, where the family ap- to ha : moved some few years prior to 1636, which the brothers sailed, and in which ear i arri at Boston. James Morgan was at ury i 1640, and there married, August 6th, of year, Iargery Hill. He removed to Pequot
v Lc on, Conn.) in 1650, where he had a ot assigned him. About 1657 he re- grant of land across the river in what d to
G on. For several years he was select- of No
London, and was one of the first depu- ent fil that town to the General Court, 1657. : times thereafter chosen to that body, ist tile in 1670, and was a very useful and men er of the church. His death occurred 85, al his children were: Hannah, James, Jose , Abraham and a daughter.
I) C t. John Morgan, born March 30, 1645,
ed (f t) Nov. 16, 1665, Rachel Dymond, and her ath (second) Widow Elizabeth Will- and › his two marriages were born seven eight hildren, respectively : John, Samuel,
Ha ah, Mercy, Sarah, James, Elizabeth, ım, chel, Andrea, Margery, Joseph, The- is an Mary.
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nuel Morgan, born Sept. 9, 1669, mar- , 1709, Hannah Avery, and died some
time between 1729 and 1734. The children of this marriage were: Samuel, Elijah, Hannah, Abijah, Lucy, Theophilus, Experience and Timothy.
(IV) Timothy Morgan, born about 1723 set- tled in Groton, and was occupied in farming, dying Oct. 13, 1795, aged seventy-three years. His wife, Deborah, bore him the following children: Ex- perience, born July 22, 1749; Deborah, born March I, 1751; Timothy, born Feb. 8, 1753; Elizabeth, born Sept. 8, 1754; Daniel, born Aug. 2, 1756; Da- vid and Jesse, born Jan. 27, 1758; Theophilus, born Oct. 12, 1759; Samuel, born May 12, 1763; Aaron, born May 27, 1765; and Hannah, born July 26, 1767.
(V) Samuel, born May 12, 1763, in Groton, married, Oct. 14, 1786, Mary Holmes, and was en- gaged in farming. He settled in the town of Sa- lem about 1793 or 1794, and became a large land- holder in the western portion of the town, where he died Dec. 5, 1819. He was active in the affairs of the town, and died a wealthy man. His widow died Aug. 10, 1841. Their children were: Mary, born May 22, 1788, died young ; Samuel, born Nov. 5, 1789, married Mary Stratton, went to Hamil- ton, Wayne Co., Pa., and became a wealthy farmer ; Jeviah, born March 27, 1791, went to Ohio, and was there married and died; Aaron, born Oct. 29, 1792, married a Miss Rathburn, was a school teacher in early life and went to Wayne county, Pa., and became a wealthy farmer; Hannah, born April 3, 1794, married John Smith, and died in Colchester ; Mary, born Dec. 25, 1795, married Harry Bailey, and died in Bozrah ; Roswell, born Sept. 22, 1797 ; Timothy, born March 31, 1800, died a young man ; Elmira, born Feb. 20, 1805, married Nathaniel El- dridge, and died in Preston, Connecticut.
(VI) Roswell Morgan, father of our subject, was born in Salem, Conn., and received a common school education. When a young man he went to Wayne county, Pa., where his brothers had pre- ceded him, and taught school there several terms. He received about eight dollars a month with board at the various houses. During the summer he worked upon the farm. He later returned to Salem and assisted on the farm until his marriage, after which he located on Rathburn Hill in a dif- ferent portion of the town, and there resided until after the death of his father. At that time he bought the interest of the other heirs, and spent the remainder of his life upon the homestead. He kept his large farm of some 270 acres in a good state of cultivation, and was justly considered one of the best farmers of the town. Mr. Morgan was a mem- ber of the Baptist Church of Colchester, and had the reputation of being charitable to all human in- terests. His political affiliations were with the Democratic party, prior to the organization of the Republican party, but he became identified with. the latter upon its formation. He held some of the town offices, but as a rule preferred the quiet of domestic life to official position. He was a mem-
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