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 116

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

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Dr. Barber has resided in Mystic since he was eleven years of age. After attending the public schools and the Mystic academy, he studied at the New York Homeopathic college, from which he was graduated with the class of 1871. He suc-

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ceeded to the practice of Dr. A. W. Brown, in Mystic, and his successful work now covers nearly a third of a century. Dr. Barber has traveled ex- tensively. In 1889, he attended the Paris exposi- tion ; in 1892, he made an European tour, and a year later visited the World's Fair at Chicago. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and is serving as the very efficient health officer of the town of Stonington. Professionally he is a member of the Connecticut Homeopathic Medical Society, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy. Fraternally he is a char- ter member of the A. O. U. W.

Leander Barber, brother of Dr. Barber, married Frances Burdick, of Westerly, R. I., and their chil- dren are: Nellie, of Schenectady, N. Y., wife of H. E. Raymond, and mother of one child, Philip Howard; Frank, in the employ of the General Electric Company ; and Abbie E.

GEORGE H. BRADFORD. The name of Bradford is a familiar one in the annals of New England, and George H. Bradford, the successful and popular merchant of Oakdale, town of Mont- ville, New London county, where he is one of the most enterprising and substantial citizens, is a de- scendant in the ninth generation from Gov. Will- iam Bradford, the line being through William (2), Joseph, John, Samuel, Samuel (2), Samuel S., Sam- uel D. and George H.

(I) Gov. William Bradford, son of William and Alice (Hanson) Bradford, of Austerfield, York- shire, England, and grandson of William Bradford (whose burial is recorded at Austerfield Jan. IO, 1595-6), was baptized March 19, 1589. He went to Holland in 1609, was a citizen of Leyden in 1612, and there on Dec. 9, 1613, was married to Dorothy May, probably a daughter of John and Cornelia (Bowes) May. Mr. Bradford and wife came to New England in the "Mayflower" in 1620, but the latter fell overboard and was drowned in Cape Cod Harbor Dec. 7, 1620, before the boat landed. Gov. Bradford was married (second) Aug. 14, 1623, to Alice, widow of Constant Southworth, and-believed to have been a daughter of a Mr. Carpenter. She died March 26, 1670. Gov. Bradford was one of the foremost men of the Plymouth settlement. On the death of Gov. John Carver in 1621, he succeeded him, and was governor of Plymouth Colony from that time until his death in 1657, excepting five years when he declined the honor. By his wife Dor- othy he had one child, John, born before the emi- gration, was of Duxbury in 1645, and in 1652 was a deputy to the General Court, and lieutenant, and in 1653 he removed to Norwich, Conn., where he died in 1678; his wife was Martha, daughter of Thomas and Martha Bourne, of Marshfield, Mass. By his second marriage Gov. Bradford became the father of three children: William; Mercy, who was born before 1627, and married Benjamin Vermages; and Joseph, born in 1630, who married Jael Hobert, of Hingham, Massachusetts.

(II) Maj. William Bradford, son of Gov. Br ford, was born in Plymouth, June 17, 1624. married (first) Alice Richards, daughter Thomas and Wealthean Richards, of Weymo who died Dec. 12, 1671, aged forty-four ye He married (second) the widow Wiswall; (third) Mary Holmes, widow of Rev. John Hol and daughter of John Wood, of Plymouth. died Jan. 6, 1714-5. Of Maj. Bradford, his b rapher says: "He was next to Miles Stand a chief military man of the Colony. In King I lip's war he was commander-in-chief of the Pl outh forces, and often exposed himself to its pe At the Narragansett Fort fight, he received a mu: ball in his flesh, which he carried the remainde: his life. In that desperate mid-winter encour when both parties fought for their very existe nearly a thousand Indians fell a sacrifice, and at one hundred and fifty of the English were killed wounded." In this war he held the rank of ma Not alone in the military life of the Colony dic take important part, but in the civil life he was a conspicuous figure, being assistant treasurer deputy governor of Plymouth from 1682 to Il and from I689 to 1691, and in the ter year he was one of the Council }[ Massachusetts. His residence was in wit is now Kingston, R. I., on the north of Jones' river. He died Feb. 20, 1703-4. By first wife his children, born between 1651 and It, were: John, who married Mercy Warren ; Willi , who married Rebecca Bartlett; Thomas; Sam , who married Hannah Rogers; Alice, who mar $1 (first) Rev. William Adams, and (second) 14. James Fitch; Hannah, who married Joshua If- ley ; Mercy, who married Samuel Steel; Melat who married John Steel; Mary, who married W - iam Hunt ; and Sarah, who married Kenelm Ba . By his second wife, Maj. Bradford had tive c - dren, all born between 1674 and 1682: Jose ; Israel, who married Sarah Bartlett; Ephraim, 1) married Elizabeth Bartlett; David, who man f] Elizabeth Finney ; and Hezekiah, who married MW Chandler.

(III) Joseph Bradford, son of Maj. Bradf( was born about 1674. He removed from Leba 1 to the north parish of New London in 1717, wl he was very active in the business affairs of the 1 , ish. He was chosen an elder in the Church in I; [., and he died Jan. 16, 1747, aged seventy-three ye . 1 He was twice married. On Oct. 5, 1698, he n ried Anna, daughter of Rev. James and Prisca (Mason) Fitch, who died Oct. 17, 1715, the mot'r of ten children, as follows: Anna; Joseph, who n - ried Henrietta Swift; Priscilla, who married S:|- uel Hyde ; Althea, who died young; Irena, twin Althea, who also died young ; Sarah, who mar:[] Benjamin Willis; Hannah; Elizabeth ; Althea (, who married David Hyde; Irena (2), twin to thea (2), who married Jonathan James. For s second wife Joseph Bradford married Mary (SI -

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wood Fitch, widow of Capt. Daniel Fitch, and to this won came one son, John. Mrs. Mary (Sher- wood Bradford died Sept. 16, 1752.

(.) John Bradford, son of Joseph, was born in Lebail 1 May 20, 1717, and he passed his life as a farm in the North Parish of New London, now know as Montville. He died March 10, 1787, aged venty years. On Dec. 15, 1736, he married Sherwood, and their children, all born be- 738 and 1756, were: Samuel; John, who Mary Fitch; Joseph, who married Eunice Sarah, who married Nathaniel Comstock ; vho married Betsey Rogers ; Benjamin, who

Esthe tweer marri Mapl Perez marri Parthenia Rogers; Eleanor, who died Rebecca, who married Benjamin Ford ; and

young Mary

Samuel Bradford, son of John, was born in Mo ville, Jan. 4, 1738. He engaged in farming in hisative town, and there died July 29, 1807. His vje, Bridget Comstock, daughter of Nathaniel and Mrgaret (Fox) Comstock, died July 15, 1830. Their ight children, all born between 1760 and 1782, Elean Nath

ere: Bridget, who married Ephraim Wells ; , who married Mulford Raymond; Samuel ; el, who married Lucy Raymond; Peggy, rried Daniel Prentiss; William, who mar- rst) Parthenia Bradford, and (second)

who ried Hann Dolbeare; Sarah, who married George Dol- beare nd Esther, who married Reynolds Johnson. (1) Samuel Bradford (2), son of Samuel, was Montville, about 1764. Like his father, he irming for his life work, and settled on a

born chose farm Montville called the "Bradford Place," situ- ated ir Massapeag Station, and now in the pos- sessio of Capt. Jerome W. Williams' widow. He died Abby ter of July 28, 1828. On May 2, 1795, he married olbeare, who was born April 1, 1774, daugh- amuel and Hannah ( Mumford) Dolbeare; she dil Dec. 4, 1841, the mother of five children, name ın Ju marri born Abby, born about 1795, died unmarried 1868; Hannah, born about 1799, died un- in November, 1869; Samuel S .; George D., out 1807, married Caroline, L. Adgate, re- moved o Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, where they d, and where their descendants still reside ; in, born about 1809, died unmarried in July,

:) Samuel Sherwood Bradford, son of Sam- was born April II, 1803. ] He learned the r's trade, and followed it in connection with

He was a natural mechanic, his knowl- tools being instinctive. In politics he was first &Thig and later a Republican, but cared little or ncing for the holding of office. He was a of the Montville Centre Congregational memb Chur servic alway and was a regular attendant upon church Those who knew him declare that he was n a good humor, and certain it is, his happy lispo: brigh Abby on caused him always to look on the ide of life. On Feb. 22, 1830, he married Branch, daughter of Moses and Rebecca

Branch, of Griswold, Conn. ; she died Dec. 24, 1884, in Montville.

(VIII) Samuel Denison Bradford, son of Sam- uel Sherwood, was born in Montville, Jan. 5, 1832. Upon reaching manhood he engaged in farming, making his home where now lives Paul P. Glass- burner. Being industrious and hardworking, he succeeded in his work, and became possessed of a comfortable competence. He was rugged and strong, being of a large frame, and well propor- tioned, and weighing about 195 pounds. His dis- position was quiet and unassuming, and he found his greatest enjoyment in his home, surrounded by his family to whom he was very devoted. He was a cleeply religious man, and was a member of the Montville Centre Congregational Church. On Nov. 20, 1859, he married Adelia Hyde, daughter of Har- lem and Eunice (Avery) Hyde, of Norwich. She was born Jan. 20, 1836, and died Oct. 1, 1897, in Montville, aged sixty-one years. He died Nov. 3, . 1885. Their children were: (I) Mary Avery, born Aug. 16, 1863, married, May 29, 1901, Walter Auwood, of Montville, freight conductor on the Central Vermont railroad, in New London freight yards, and they have one child, Mary Avery. (2) George Henry was born May 6, 1868. (3) Julia Ann and (4) Jennie Abby, twins, were born March 29, 1874. Julia Ann married, March 29, 1899, Paul P. Glassburner, a farmer in Montville, and has two children, Pauline Idelia and Jennie Christine. Jen- nie Abby married Harry William Auwood, freight agent at Uncasville for the Central Vermont rail- road, and has two children, Agnes May and Earl Bradford.

(IX) George Henry Bradford, son of Samuel Denison, and the subject proper of this sketch, was born in Montville May 6, 1868. He received his . education in the district schools of his native town, which he attended until he was seventeen years of age. On leaving school he took up the many duties connected with the operation of the home farm, which had devolved upon him by the death of his father. For about twelve years he continued to conduct the farm, and then desiring a change, he became a brakeman on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, in the passenger service be- tween New London and New Haven, a position in which he continued for about one year, during part of which time he acted as baggage master. On Jan. 15, 1900, he purchased the general store located at Oakdale, town of Montville, which had been con- ducted for years by his father-in-law, the late Judge Henry A. Baker. Mr. Bradford has since largely increased the stock, and his business has steadily flourished under his wise care and good business methods, coupled with his first class stock and cour- teous treatment of customers. On March 7, 1903, he received appointment as postmaster at Oakdale from President Roosevelt.

Socially Mr. Bradford is a member of Uncas Lodge, No. 17, A. O. U. W., of Montville; of

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Thames Lodge, No. 22, I. O. O. F., of Montville; and of Oxoboxo Lodge, No. 116, F. & A. M., of Montville. He attends the First Congregational Church, of which his wife is a member. In his political belief he is a stanch Republican and he has always been active in the work of his party. In November, 1902, he was elected to represent his district in the State Legislature, where he gave efficient service as a member of the committee on Roads, Rivers and Bridges. He is an enterprising business man, who is strictly upright in his deal- ings, and who has won success by honest effort. His genial disposition makes him very popular socially, and he is always pleased to welcome his numerous friends.

Mr. Bradford was married to Anna Alma Baker, daughter of the late Judge Henry A. Baker, of Montville. One daughter, Jessie Arline, has blessed their home.

BAKER. The Baker family to which Mrs. Brad- ford belongs is descended from Alexander Baker, who was born in London, England, about 1607, and sailed from London on the ship "Elizabeth and Ann" in 1635. He was accompanied by his wife Elizabeth, and their two children. They settled at or near Boston, where he followed his occupation of ropemaker. The descendants of Alexander Baker soon left the Massachusetts Colony and settled in Connecticut, locating in the North Parish of New London as early as 1670. From Alexander, the emigrant, Mrs. Bradford is a representative in the eighth generation.

Judge Henry A. Baker was during his life one of the prominent and influential citizens of Mont- ville, which town he had served as town clerk for twenty-five years, and as judge of probate for twen- ty-four years. He also spent several years in col- lecting data and compiling his "History of Mont- ville," comprising over 700 pages, which he pub- lished in 1896. He married, May 18, 1846, Hannah Fox Scholfield, daughter of Joseph and Mercy (Newberry) Scholfield, of Montville. She died May 18, 1892, in her sixty-eighth year. To this union were born five children, of whom Mrs. Brad- ford was the youngest. Judge Baker died March 7, 1903, highly respected and sincerely mourned by all who knew him.

CAPT. WILLIAM D. WARD is a retired master mariner residing on West Thames street, Norwich.

Gen. Ichabod Ward, his grandfather, who was born in Rhode Island, in boyhood was apprenticed to a blacksmith; while serving the apprenticeship the Revolutionary war broke out and the employer gave the boy his time, and sent him as a substitute in the army. Sometime after he was discharged from the service, he settled in Voluntown, where he was en- gaged at farming. Later he purchased a farm in Lebanon, and was quite successfully engaged at farming and the raising of stock for the West Indies

trade, the stock being shipped from Norwich. fter [rge disposing of his farm in Lebanon he bought farm on what is now Mt. Pleasant street, int.or- wich, and there resided the rest of his life is ghost : of the comfortable circumstances. He died at the eighty-five years, well-preserved and active last. Gen. Ward served as a commissary geral during a term of service in the war of 1812 hen he was at the defense of New London. He tis a pensioner until his death. He belonged to thepis- copal Church. Gen. Ward married Mary Cat, of Canterbury, Conn., who died before her hu And, leaving the following children: (1) Fenner (who was a farmer and resided in Lebanon; (2) Ic pod, Jr .; (3) Henry, who resided in Norwich #(4) Horatio, who lived on the farm until past Idle age, and then married and removed to Woodbck, Conn., where he died; (5) Sarah, who died u jar- ried ; (6) Mary, who married Ebenezer Leac and died in Pawlet, Vt .; (7) Martha, who married fill- iam Bliss, a grocer, and died in Norwich.

Ichabod Ward, father of Capt. William vas born in Voluntown, and resided both in Lenon and in Norwich. For many years he was en zed in the grocery business with his brother-i jaw, William Bliss, on the West Side near the lege, under the name of Ward & Bliss, and he con fied there for a number of years. Later he sold of the business, and for some years engaged wit his nephew, Dr. Henry Leach, in a similar buless under the name of Ward & Leach. After disting of this he lived retired until his death. H. . Iso served at New London in the war of 1812. Havas in his politics a Whig, and in his religious bel an Episcopalian.

Ichabod Ward married Jerusha Loomis, digh- ter of Oliver and Jude (Adams) Loomis. Mr. ard lived to be sixty-five years old, while Mrs. ard survived her husband until the age of eighty ırs. Both were buried in Yantic cemetery. Their il- dren were: William D .; Mary Emma, who lied unmarried ; Nancy H., who is single and resic[ in Pawlet, Vermont.

William D. Ward was born in the old hrd homestead on Mt. Pleasant street, Norwich, Fe 18, 1827. He received a common school education nd lived at home until the age of sixteen years. He then went on the water, making his first trip i he London Packet "Quebec," with Capt. Hibbard, ho was a friend of his father. He began for wag of $5 per month and his board. The "Quebec" w of the Swallow Tail line, in those days one of the ost famous clipper lines plying the Atlantic. Iter Capt. Ward sailed from New London on a wh ng voyage under Capt. Miller in the ship "India of the Williams & Haven Company, being gone tl :y- three months and circling the globe. They ot 4,000 barrels of oil, the crew sharing proportion :ly in the earnings. Afterward he shipped with ( pt. Hezekiah Storey in the schooner "Hudson," c st- ing to Philadelphia. Following this berth the .p-

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n wa in the schooner "William P. Williams," ptain ogers, running to Philadelphia in the sum- er sean in the coaling trade, and from Norwich Balti ore and Norfolk in the grain business. rd was next employed as mate with Cap- tpt. V

n Roars in the "Joseph Guest," making several vagedo the West Indies, loading in Norfolk with d headings for Kingston, and returning ves th sa from Ragged Island, one of the Bahama Brooklyn, New York.

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n Ward's first vessel as commander was "Gleaner," running between Norwich and ew Y. Later he commanded the packet "Jane aria,"

both of which vessels belonged to D. M. entic of Norwich. After seven years in these ssels ohn aptain Ward had charge of the schooner les," doing a general freighting business. ptain Tard's introduction to the sound liners was board the "Plymouth Rock," of the Ston- e, with Capt. Cleveland Geer as captain. nouth Rock" then landed at Groton, near t site of the Eastern Shipbuilding Com- lowing a brief period in the schooner "J. igham," running in the coal trade, Captain september, 1867, entered the employ of the ine, going as pilot of the steamers "City ce" and "City of New London," for about

İn I. 4 Captain Ward took command of steamer ity o:Boston," and remained in that capacity for ght yes, although in that time he was employed City of New York," and "City of Law-

the ce," ile the "City of Boston" was laid up. In 32 Ca ain Ward assumed the command of the ity o Worcester," and with the exception of a a year, held the position of commanding

le ov cer o hat vessel until 1898.

Capt Ward was married in Norwich to Angelina lith, and rn in Preston City, daughter of Charles izabeth Billings (Standish) Smith, and a ect ocendant of Capt. Miles Standish. Mrs. ard

€ 1 Jan. 13, 1899, aged sixty-nine years. e andher husband were the parents of ten chil- llows: (I) Mary Emma, the principal of n, as

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Thames street school; (2) Harriet Edith, o elie young; (3) Sarah Alice, who also died did (4) Jessie H .; (5) Annie Elizabeth,

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o ina ed Samuel E. Gailey and resides in Nor- had three children, Gladys Lulu, Andrew ird Frederick Standish, deceased) ; (6) lliam Bliss, a machinist, residing in Norwich,

o ma ied Harriet Sweet and has four sons,

rry lliam, Louis Denison, Reginald Horatio i Les Fletcher ; (7) Martha A., at home; (8) mis, who died young; (9) Sybil Blossom,

ter L home and (10) Gertrude Loomis, a teacher in Mt De Pleasant' street school. Capt. Ward crat on all national issues, but in local tirs h think s independent, and votes for those whom vill best serve the public interests. Him-

self an upright and honorable man, he commands the respect of the community.

The mother of Capt. Ward, Jerusha Loomis, was a descendant of (I) Joseph Loomis, born about 1590, a woolen draper of Braintree, Essex, England, who came to Boston, Mass., in 1638, in the ship "Susan and Ellen."

He went to Windsor, Conn., about 1639, and was granted a tract of land on the west side of the Connecticut river near the Farming- ton river ; he had also tracts of land on the east side of the Connecticut. He brought with him five sons and three daughters. His wife died Aug. 23, 1652. Their children were: Joseph, born about 1616; Mrs. Nicholas Olmstead; Elizabeth; John, born in 1622; Thomas; Nathaniel; Mary; and Samuel.

(II) Nathaniel Loomis, born in England, mar- ried Nov. 24, 1653, Elizabeth, daughter of John Moore. Mr. Loomis was made a freeman in 1654, and was admitted to the church May 3, 1653. He died Aug. 19, 1688. Their children were : Elizabeth, born Aug. 7, 1655 ; Nathaniel, March 20, 1657 ; Abi- gail, March 27, 1659; Josiah, Feb. 17, 1660-61 ; Jonathan, March 30, 1664; David, Jan. 11, 1667-68; Hezekiah, Feb. 21, 1668-69; Moses, May 15, 1671 ; Mindwell, July 20, 1673; Ebenezer, March 22, 1675; Mary, Jan. 5, 1680; and Rebecca, Dec. 10, 1682.

(III) Jonathan Loomis, born March 30, 1664, married Dec. 27, 1688. His wife died July 17, 1699. Mr. Loomis was a resident of Hartford from 1684 to 1694. He died Oct. 23, 1707. His children were : Sarah, born Sept. 13, 1689; Nathaniel, Jan. 27, 1690-91; Jonathan, May 4, 1693; Jonathan (2), Feb. 1, 1694-5; and George, Oct. 22, 1697.

(IV) Nathaniel Loomis (2), born Jan. 27, 1690- 91, married Feb. 17, 1715, Mary Dyer, and died in 1770, in Ashford, Conn. His wife, who survived him, bore him children, as follows: Dyer, born April 20, 1717; Nathaniel, in 1719; Irene in 1721; and Mary, in 1723. Mr. Loomis lived in Lebanon and Ashford, Connecticut.

(V) Nathaniel Loomis (3), born in 1719, mar- ried (first) May 27, 1743, Hannah White, who died Aug. 6, 1758. He married (second) Nov. 15, 1759, Sarah Rockwell. Mr. Loomis resided in Stafford from 1754 to 1770; in Ashford from 1770 to 1787, when he removed to Whitestone, N. Y. His chil- dren were: Oliver, born Dec. 18, 1743; and Zer- viah, April 5, 1776.

(VI) Oliver Loomis, born Dec. 18, 1743, mar- ried Jerusha, and died in 1813, in East Windsor, Conn. His children were: Oliver, born Sept. 24, 1763 ; Benjamin N., Dec. 7, 1765; Justin; Susan ; Jerusha ; Dimins; Nathaniel, March 7, 1780; and Deborah.

(VII) Oliver Loomis (2), born Sept. 14, 1763, married (first) Dec. 9, 1787, Jude Adams, who died March 31, 1814, aged fifty years ; he married (second) Mrs. Deborah Hamlin. Mr. Loomis was a soldier of the Revolution. About 1783 he removed

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to Pawlet, Vt., where he died Jan. 4, 1837. His children were: Gideon Adams, born Sept. 18, 1788; Jerusha, February, 1790; and Mary Adams, in 1793.

(VIII) Jerusha Loomis, born in February, 1790, married in 1824, Ichabod Ward. Mrs. Ward died at Norwich, Conn., on Oct. 23, 1869.

HON. WILLIAM MARVIN, town clerk, and judge of probate for the town of Lyme, lives in the old family home, where he and several gener- ations of his forefathers were born. The Marvin family has been settled in what is now Lyme and Old Lyme nearly 250 years, Reynold Marvin, an ancestor, being one of the original proprietors of the town.

Elisha Marvin, great-great-grandfather of Judge William Marvin, was born in what is now Old Lyme, whence he moved to Lyme, and built the house which has ever since been the family home- stead. He died Dec. 31, 1801. On May 17, 1739, he married Catherine Mather, and their children were as follows: Pickett, born March 9, 1740; Elisha, Jr., born June 9, 1742; Timothy, born May 23, 1744 ; and Joseph, born Feb. 14, 1755.

Joseph Marvin, who was born on the old home- stead in Lyme, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and he died Nov. 19, 1839. He married, Oct. 16, 1783, Phebe Sterling, who was born Oct. 15, 1763, and died Nov. 6, 1822. Their children were as follows: Fanny, born Oct. 7, 1784; Phebe, born June 7, 1786; William, born May 12, 1788; Jemima, born March 28, 1790; Joseph, born Feb. 8, 1793 ; and Clarissa, born May 5, 1795.

William Marvin was born at the old homestead, and died April 15, 1876. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, a deacon in the Congregational Church, and judge of probate. He married, Oct. 21, 1819, Sophia Griffin, of East Haddam, who died Nov. 15, 1863. Their children were as follows: (1) Junius. born Oct. 2, 1820, who married Adeline Raymond ; (2) George Griffin, born Feb. 18, 1824; (3) Ellen Clarissa, born Nov. 16, 1826; (4) William Joseph, born April 6, 1830; (5) Harriet Sophia, born March 26, 1833, who married Millington Carpenter ; and (6) Francis G., born Nov. 23, 1835.

William Joseph Marvin was born at the old home in Lyme, and passed his boyhood in his native place, attending the academy at Essex. He married Jan. 28, 1869, Ann M. Parker, daughter of Marshfield S. Parker, who was born in Lyme, Sept. 30, 1830, and died Oct. 23, 1900.' Their two children were: William, mentioned below ; and Harry S., born Aug. 8, 1875. The latter was educated at East Green- wich Academy, and at Dow Academy, Franconia, N. H., and is a member of the drug firm of Mitchell & Marvin, in Boston. William Joseph Marvin was a Republican in politics, and held the office of town treasurer at the time of his death, which occurred April 7, 1878. He and his wife were members of the Congregational Church at Lyme.

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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 116

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