Genealogical and biographical record of New London County, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the early settled families, Part 115

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Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1568

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whom died May 30, 1894; and Benjamin Kinne, , born July 6, 1895.

Mrs. Gallup belongs to a very prominent old family, one of the oldest in Voluntown. A full and complete history of the family is at present being compiled by Mrs. Frederic L. Osgood, of Norwich, who has made extensive research and has taken a deep interest in family genealogy .-

Moses Kinne, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Gallup, married at Voluntown, Sept. 27, 1732, Abi- gail Read, who died Jan. 18, 1804, aged ninety-two years. He died July 18, 1788, aged seventy-nine years. They had these children: Rachel, born Sept. I, 1733; Ezra, born April 3, 1736; Huldah, born Oct. 7, 1737; Esther, born May 4, 1739: Ira, born Aug. 7, 1740; Moses, born April 26, 1742; Lois, born Aug. 7, 1743 ; Aaron, born Sept. 24, 1744; Cyrus, born Aug. 1I, 1746, who married a Miss Pal- mer, lived in the State of New York and had eighty- six grandchildren ; Abel, born June 22, 1748; Jesse, born Feb. 6, 1750; and Seth, born May 18, 1752.

Abel Kinne, son of Moses, was born at Volun- town on the farm now owned by his grandson Wil- liam. He was a farmer and landowner, and lived on the old homestead until his death, March 2, 1834, at the age of eighty-six years. On Oct. 3, 1771, in Voluntown, Conn., he married Rachel Frink, who died May 22, 1788. Their children were as follows : Huldah, born Oct. 2, 1774 ; John, born Jan. 27, 1777 ; Abel, born Feb. 2, 1779 ; Rachel, born May 13, 1781 ; Elizabeth, born Aug. 4, 1783; Prudence, born Dec. 17, 1786, died Aug. 30, 1787. He married ( second) Freelove Gallup, born Sept. 3, 1751, at Stonington, Conn. Three children were born to this marriage as follows: Avery, born Feb. 12, 1790; Allen, born Aug. 1, 1791 ; and Hannah, born Nov. 13, 1795.

Avery Kinne, son of Abel, was born on the old family homestead, and like his father, became a farmer. He remained all his life on the home farm, one of the solid, substantial and representative men of his locality. In politics he took a great inter- est, and was identified with the Democratic party. He married Hannah Gallup, Feb. 29, 1814, and these children were born to them: Laura, who married Thomas Tillinghast and lived at Plainfield, Conn. ; Keziah, who died aged thirty-five years; Martin, who married Sarah Thompson; Courtland, who married Mrs. Julia (Kinne) Palmer ; Charles, who died young; and William, father of Mrs. Gallup. The mother of this family died in 1840, and the father Sept. 1, 1861, and they were buried in the family lot at Voluntown.

William Kinne was born on the old Kinne home- stead Aug. 6, 1826, and has lived here all his life. He secured his education in the district schools and grew up a thoroughly practical farmer. He owns a fine farm of 200 acres of the old homestead, and has also been engaged in lumbering, devoting con- siderable time to this business during the winter seasons. With the exception of defective hearing, Mr. Kinne suffers little from the infirmities of age.

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He is a man of high character, and although not a church member, is a liberal supporter of all moral movements. Like his father, he is a stanch Demo- crat.

In Voluntown Mr. Kinne married Hannah Congdon, who has been spared him to cheer and comfort his declining years, and she, too, has been touched lightly by time. They have had the fol- lowing children: Myron, who resides on the old homestead; Josephine Maria, who married Origen S. Gallup ; Cynthia, deceased ; Clarence, who resides at Pawtucket, R. I .; Allen, who died aged twenty years ; and Florence, who died at the age of twenty- five years.

Both the Gallup and Kinne families have long been leading and representative ones in Connecticut, and many members have become prominent in other States. Wherever found they exhibit those sterling traits of character which have made their ances- tors remembered through generations.

JUDGE RICHARD ANSON WHEELER was born in Stonington, Conn., Jan. 29, 1817, the only son of Richard and Mary (Hewitt) Wheeler. In both paternal and maternal lines, he descended from Thomas Wheeler, who came from England to Lynn, Mass., in 1636; also from Captain John Gallup, who fell in the memorable swamp fight; Thomas Stan- ton, the interpreter general; and Captain George Denison, one of the most distinguished soldiers in Connecticut. He also descended from many other early settlers of the town of Stonington, among them being Thomas Hewitt, William Chesebrough, Wal- ter Palmer, Robert Park, Allen Breed, Edmund Fanning and Robert Burrows, while he could trace his ancestry in direct line back to Thompson, Short, Lake, Prentice, Lord, Washington, Bulkley, Steven- son, Borodel, Irlby, Gore, Weld, Bower, Draper, Stansfield, Eastwood, Chandler, Douglass, Mable, Ireland, Culver, Hubbard, Latham, Masters, Pay- son, Elliot, Tilestone, and Aggar.

Judge Wheeler was reared on the farm which had been owned by his Wheeler ancestors for sev- eral generations, and he lived all his life in the very house built by them in 1735. He was educated in the common schools of the time, until he was seven- teen years of age, when he attended for three months a private school at Mystic, Conn., during the win- ter of 1834-5, thus gaining a thorough knowledge of the fundamental branches, which, with the stud- ies that he pursued out of school, broadened his in- tellect ; with the summers passed on the farm, he attained a rugged constitution which prepared him to enter the battle of life well fitted to meet its every exigency.

At the age of eighteen years he was chosen ser- geant of the 6th Company, 8th Regiment, 3rd Bri- gade, Connecticut Militia, and two years later was elected and commissioned captain of the same com- pany. After three years of service he was honor-

ably discharged from military duty, but wastrer after known to some of his comrades as Calkin Wheeler. He was a member of the board of fu- cation under the old school system for fifteen and was selectman for the years of 1847 and - r's, assessor from 1846 to 1850; representative c town in the General Assembly in 1851 ; high s of New London county for twelve years by four tions; judge of probate for twenty-three ' being elected each second year until by reason cio age limit he was unable to serve longer ; justi the peace for forty years; and a notary public fifty-five years. He was an authority on m. rs of probate, being consulted by those in this and towns, who had difficult problems to decide. though never desiring to be admitted to the for, he acquired a thorough legal knowledge, which of much value to him in the various offices in ych he was placed. Besides settling 1,170 estate inc wrote 650 wills, which disposed of much propy, and never was one of them broken, although eral of them were contested. V'-

Judge Wheeler was the oldest member o fir- First Congregational Church of Stonington, th in years and term of membership, and was cle the church, and one of the standing committe sixty-six years, consecutively, which positiche Jer 'st 'ς. held until his death. He was well-versed il history, as his book "The History of the Church of Stonington"-a volume of 300 p published in 1875-shows. He also wrote an torical sketch of the first three churches of W London county, and an historical sketch of Sto Try lit- ton and sixteen churches, published in the Hi of New London County. His addresses and ings were numerous, and of great value. In he delivered an address on the Mystic Valley. de also delivered an address before the Board of ] le of Westerly, R. I., reviewing the early history of at town and this; an address at the Palmer Reu held at Stonington in 1881, of which twelve dred copies were published, and which were ily sold. In 1874 he delivered his historical Id- 'dress at the Bi-Centennial celebration of the st Congregational (Road) Church at Stonington in 1899 an address upon the early settlers of Stong- ton, at the unveiling of the monument to their r mn- ory at Wequetequock. He was the author chin address delivered by him at the breaking of he ground for the Mason monument at Pequot near Mystic, Conn., and also was one of the mittee appointed by the New London County torical Society to obtain the necessary funds S- or the pedestal for the monument, and an appro [a- tion for the said monument from the Legisla re of our State, and was one of the commissione: to procure the monument and another appropriabon from the State to celebrate its unveiling and tou- perintend the same. He wrote a history of ne Pequot Indians, published in pamphlet form, w ch

Richard Molecular.

In his 87th year

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red before the Colonial Society at New Ha- 1 the Rhode Island Historical Society at ice, Rhode Island.

900, after retirement from active, public the age of eighty years Judge Wheeler pub- is "History of the Town of Stonington," 3 genealogies of eighty-seven different fam- ich he had spent many years in preparing as had a wide circulation. The last of his was by request for the New London His- Society, in 1903, and was entitled "Mem- As he was the only surviving charter mem- at organization, he was able to give a sketch ves of each deceased charter member, and nge coincidence the paper was published at time of his death.

Jude Wheeler was president of the Groton Monu: nt Association for three years, during which ime tily commemorated the centennial of the Bat- tle of "oton Heights, in 1881, by a grand celebra- tion. t the time of his death he was president of the St ington Savings Bank, which office he had held f for fo: public: of tha officer liffere thor dge ient a le N f Bos of the societ ount atuck he Bu was in twelve years, also being one of its directors years. In politics he was a steadfast Re- and always took an active part in the work party. That he was popular and a good attested by the fact that he held so many offices in the gift of the people. He was gh student and acquired his great knowl- genealogical and historical matter by pa- painstaking effort. He was a member of England Historic Genealogical Society, 1, Mass., since 1869; life member, and one ce-presidents, of the Connecticut Historical and life member of the New London Historical Society; president of the Paw- alley Historical Society ; and member of lo and Tennessee Historical Societies. He ed to join many other historical societies, nd w also tendered a membership in the Royal listor 1 Society of London, England.

Of s personal characteristics we quote: "He as of rand and noble physique, unassuming in anne istenc nct. Ussess hich frien iends r his Vitlı e 'Gi yeal

of great purity of mind, remarkable per- and had a high standard of moral con- e was a charming conversationalist, and an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes, related in a most happy manner. Having · interest and love for mankind, he made asily, and was loved and esteemed by all straightforward and Christlike qualities. passing away of Judge Wheeler departs d Old Man' of Stonington. He died rich and in political and literary honors. He 1 in the town and throughout the State,

as lo udl his ath leaves a void in the hearts of this com- unity ever to be filled." Jud

Wheeler was twice married. On Jan. 12, $43. 1

wedded Miss Frances M. Avery, of North toning . On Nov. 5, 1856, he married Miss lucy

Noyes, of Stonington, who, with three

daughters-Mrs. Henry Tyler, Mrs. Seth N. Will- iams and Miss Grace D. Wheeler-survives him. He died April 6, 1904.

HALEY. The first record we find of the Haley family in New London county is that of the mar- riage of John Haley, on May 18, 1719, to Mary Saunders, who was born Jan. 6, 1700, daughter of John and Silence Saunders, granddaughter of Tobias and Mary (Clarke) Saunders. They were living at Groton Center, Conn., in 1738, with their six children : John, Joshua, Jeremiah, Caleb, Martha and Elizabeth.

(II) Jeremiah Haley, born in 1734, died Dec. 20, 1803. He settled at Mystic Bridge. He married Catharine, daughter of Ambrose Hilyard, who was born in 1731, and died Oct. 6, 1820. They became the parents of eleven children, namely: Catharine, born Jan. 4, 1759; Mary, Aug. 8, 1760; Thomas, Aug. 28, 1762 ; Rhoda, Nov. 1, 1764; Nathan, Oct. 31, 1766; Charlotte, Feb. 27, 1769; Jeremiah, June 30, 1771; George, Sept. 9, 1773; Hannah, April 24, 1776; Nancy, May 10, 1778; and Simeon, Nov. 24, 1781. All of the sons of this family except Thomas, who died young, became sea captains, and Nathan was appointed American Consul to Nantes, France, where he died Jan. 3, 1841. He received the Cross of the Legion of Honor . for important services rendered France under Bonaparte. He was an intimate friend of Thomas Paine, the noted atheist, and the latter was a visitor to the Haley home, at Pistol Point, Connecticut.

(III) Capt. Simeon Haley was born Nov. 24, 1781, in Groton, about midway between Mystic and Old Mystic, and was quite young when the family moved to Pistol Point, Mystic Bridge. He was reared in the same manner as the ordinary boy of the period. A longing for the sea overcame him at an early age, and like many of the boys of the town, he went on the water when very young, at the age of twenty years becoming master of a vessel, en- gaged in the coasting trade. Later he became an owner and master of packets, was able to retire from the water, and thereafter until his death he was not engaged in active business. He erected the resi- dence now occupied a part of the year by his daugh- ter, Mrs. Albert Haley, on the corner of Haley and Cottrell streets, in Mystic, and that place was his residence for many years. Haley street was named for him. The captain was killed by the cars on May 9, 1859, while walking on the track west of Noank station, and his remains were interred in Elm Grove cemetery, at Mystic. Capt. Haley served at the de- fense of Stonington in the war of 1812, and was a most active assistant to Capt. Jeremiah Holmes, the "Hero of Stonington." Capt. Haley was so black- ened by powder that when he returned home his wife did not recognize him. His widow drew a pension for many years. For many years he was In- spector of Customs for the port of Mystic. The Captain was a member of the Masonic fraternity. He

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was an attendant and supporter of the Old Road Congregational Church, and his second wife, Mrs. Priscilla Avery (Burrows) Haley, was a member of the Union Baptist Church. Capt. Haley was a typical representative of the gentleman of his gen- eration. He was kindly and courteous but firm, as a man who was the architect of his own career had need to be. He was one of those who helped to make Mystic famous in maritime circles a half cen- tury or more ago.

Capt. Haley was married March 15, 1803, to Sarah Packer, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Avery) Packer, of Groton, and she long preceded him to the grave, passing away Nov. 25, 1834. On April 16, 1837, he married for his second wife, Pris- cilla Avery Burrows, daughter of John and Betsey (Haley) Burrows, and granddaughter of Hubbard and Priscilla (Baldwin) Burrows. Mrs. Priscilla A. Haley died May 5, 1895. By the first union there were three children : Catharine, born Dec. 28, 1805, married Capt. Dudley Stark, and died Dec. 15, 1846; Lucy, born March 15, 1807, married Thomas Ash, and died March 9, 1849; Simeon, born Aug. 22, 1812, married Lydia Esther Brown, and died Sept. 2, 1842. By the second marriage there were two children, Nathan, born Jan. 27, 1840, died Oct. 21, 1865. Catharine, born Oct. 3, 1849, married Albert Haley, who was descended from John Haley, through Caleb and Mary (Helm), Stephen and Lucy (Gallup) and Dudley and Rebecca F. (Voorhies) Haley.

(II) Caleb Haley, married (first) Mary Helm (or Helmes), born in 1740, daughter of Rouse Helm, and was from Little Rest, R. I. Their chil- dren were Caleb, Elisha, Stephen and Betsey. He married (second) a Miss Northrop.

(III) Stephen Haley, born July 5, 1772, died Oct. 18, 1854. On Dec. 1, 1803, he married Lucy Gallup, who was born June 23, 1779, and died May 30, 1876. They had nine children: Albert, Ste- phen, Dudley, Warren, Mary, Emily, Cordelia, Lucy and Sally.

(IV) Dudley Haley was born in Groton June 4, 1816, and died Oct. 3, 1890, at Brooklyn, N. Y. He was married Dec. 14, 1842, in New York City, to Rebecca Freeman Voorhies, who was born Oct. 9, 1823, in Perth Amboy, N. J., and died March 28, 1904, at Winsted, Conn. They had three children, Eliza, Albert and Robert, of whom Robert died at the age of sixteen years. Eliza, who died at the age of thirty-six, was the wife of Joseph Lloyd Haigh, and five of their children survive, two living in Win- sted, Conn. Mr. Haley went to New York when a young man, and engaged in business at the Fulton Fish market, as a member of the firm of D. Haley & Co., being long a successful merchant there, and the firm became a very well known one in its line.

(V) Albert Haley, born Nov. 15, 1845, in New York City, followed his father's business from boy- hood until his death, which occurred Feb. 4, 1901, in Brooklyn. He was one of the successful men do-

ing business at Fulton market, the business lacon- ducted now being carried on under the firm ame of Burnett & Keeney. He married Catharine Miley, who was born Oct. 3, 1849, at Mystic, Conn, fışlı- ter of Simeon and Priscilla Avery (Butws) Haley, and they had one daughter, Lucy.

JESSE A. MOON, one of the successful bung business men of New London, and a profnent Mason, belongs on the maternal side to the fome family, who through succeeding generation have helped to make Connecticut's history since t [very beginning of the Eighteenth century, when S Timothy Jerome came thither from the

Feant e of Wight. Mr. Moon's mother was, before in liage, Miss Sarah Desire Jerome, daughter of Jo: H. Jerome.

Jesse H. Jerome was the son of Jesse, a was born at the family homestead, between M ville and Waterford, in December, 1808. His b food was passed there until he was sent away to phool . in New London, to the Buckly House. Win he was old enough to choose his vocation he Fided upon farming, which had been familiar to hi front his earliest days, and he settled on a farm of senty- five acres on the west side of Ocean avenue ( osite Thames street, where he lived for over fifty fears. In 1855 he built the house in which his da İhter, Mrs. Ogden, now resides. Mr. Jerome was a trong Republican in his political views, and alwa , took an active part in public affairs, thoughi hatever cared to hold office, and accepted no positi

save that of chairman of the school committee. le be- longed to the First Baptist Church of Ne Lon- dan, and showed a devoted Christian spirit i every act of his life.

On Nov. 6, 1831, Mr. Jerome was maxed to Miss Betsy Gee, who was born Ju 20, 1808, daughter of William Gee, of yme, and a member of one of the oldest nilies of that place. To their union two children were born: (I) Sarah Desire, born May 17, 183 mar- ried John Moon, of England, and became the other of : John, born July 14, 1852 ; Jesse Augustu April 19, 1856; and Willard Barnes, in March, 18. (2) Bessie A., born Dec. 27, 1841, was marri |Dec. 31, 1867, to Charles Richard Ogden, born St. 26, 1840, and they had four children : Lavinia Agusta, born Sept. 19, 1868, now at home; Charles ] hard, May 2, 1872; Frederick Jerome, July II, I. 4, de- ceased Nov. 7, 1892 ; Abbie Jerome, Sept. 1- 1879. Before his marriage Mr. Ogden was in t post office at New York City, but afterward w : into business there.

Jesse H. Jerome was a man of splendid p" sique, and his fine constitution carried him on into good old age. He passed away Dec. 9, 1891, and wife died two years earlier, Aug. 13, 1889.

John Moon, son-in-law of Jesse Jerome, id fa- ther of our subject, was born and educated : Ply- mouth, England. He served an apprenticlip of

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en ye s with his father, a blacksmith, and be- ne an pert in the tempering of steel. He came Ameka, married, as stated above, and after ne yes residence in New England, went, in 5, tofalifornia, where he remained until called k to ew London by the illness of his wife. ile inane West Mr. Moon became interested in h gol and silver mining, but after he returned the Hut, he sold his mining property, bought Lyn Brainerd and started a horse-shoeing iness He soon sold it, however, and engaged stone tting for a while, but gave that up also 1 boust a lot on North Main street, where he up a ving top and opened up at his trade once more. good opportunity to sell, he did so, and n purased the place which his son now owns, No. ler th 1/2 Godden street. There he continued firm name of J. & J. A. Moon, until his th, Of: 14, 1898.

JohnHoon and his son built up the largest iness

their line in New London, were careful 1 con vative in their methods and made a ancial ainerd

ccess of it. The father was a member of odge, F. & A. M., of New London, was Republan in his politics and a member of the Episcopal Church, of New London, hav- nfirmed before leaving England. He was feedingly well informed on the topics of

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ugustus Moon was born in New London 856. Until he was sixteen he went to Ocea avenue school, where he received a good eral (

ication. After leaving school he served appreliceship of four years to C. F. Stoll, in e-cutug, but at the close of his term, instead ; that trade, he entered his father's shop, treet, and learned the trade of horse- He began at the very bottom, as any one have been obliged to do, learned every ail, an worked as a journeyman there until he mar nersl

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drug store, located at No. 477 Bank ch they bought from the estate of John Shortly before his father's death, Mr. on cafe into possession of the drug business, inducted by him as Moon's Pharmacy, retained the old firm name for the shoe- Both in business and in every other re- e Mr. Moon and his father were unusu- friends, and a deeper bond of sympathy 1 than often exists between father and

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on chose for his wife, Miss Lillian B. d they were united April 29, 1891. Mrs. daughter of Charles Walden, of New d is a graduate of the Young Ladies' of that city. They have had five chil- guerite, who died aged three months ;

J. Willard, born Nov. 16, 1892; Spencer, born April I, 1897 ; Jesse Augustus, born March 16, 1900, who was burned to death, in October, 1902, from acci- dental ignition of his crib in the room at home; and Sidney Harold, born Jan. 5, 1902.

On national issues Mr. Moon is a Republican, but on local questions he is independent and votes for the men whom he thinks will best conserve the interests of the city. He belongs to the Masonic Fraternity, Brainerd Lodge, Union Chapter, Cush- ing Council, Palestine Commandery and Pryamid Temple, of Bridgeport, Conn. Mr. Moon's early association with his father in business of course re- moved many obstacles from his path with which most young men have to contend at first, but his own energy, business acumen and ability have been equally instrumental in securing his present success.

OSCAR MAXSON BARBER, M. D., a success- ful physician of Mystic, Conn., and a man widely known and universally respected, was born in Hop- kintown, R. I., June 25, 1837. His ancestors were Welsh, Scotch and English, and there is record of one Moses Barber, the founder of the family in this country, in Rhode Island, in 1652.

Joseph Barber, the great-grandfather of Dr. Bar- ber, was a ship builder of Westerly, R. I., and in 1804, he built the "Dauphine," the first whaler built on that coast, and he was its principal owner. This vessel sailed from New London Sept. 6, 1805. Jo- seph Barber married Deliverance Barber, daughter of Daniel, and granddaughter of Moses Barber, and their son, Sprague, became a sea captain in West- erly, and was drowned in the New York harbor. He married Lucy Stillman, daughter of Col. George Stillman, of Westerly.

Franklin Barber, son of Sprague and Lucy (Stillman) Barber, was born in Westerly in 1808. In 1849 he removed to Mystic, Conn. and became interested in the woolen factory that was established by the Greenman company. He married Lydia W. Maxson, of Hopkinton, R. I., daughter of Nathan Maxson. She was a Daughter of the Revolution. Four children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy, and the others were: Oscar M. and Leander.

The earliest known ancestor of Dr. Barber, on the maternal side of the house, is the Rev. John Maxson, born in 1638, a minister of the Seventh Day Baptist denomination. His son, John, was one of the organizers of the town of Westerly, in 1660. Another of Dr. Barber's maternal ancestors was the Rev. John Crandall, who was also one of the organizers of Westerly. Dr. Barber's grand- father Maxson was a captain during the War of 1812.

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Genealogical and biographical record of New London County, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the early settled families, Part 115

Author: Publication date: 1905 Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co. Number of Pages: 1568

Author:
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1568