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 118

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

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(I) Michael Spencer passed his entire :: in Bedfordshire. His wife's name was Elizabeth

(II) Jared Spencer, son of Michael, lil at Stratford, England. He became the father ( five sons, all of whom came to New England: hn, who returned to England ; Thomas and W am, who settled at Hartford, Conn .; Jared, at Ha am, Conn .; and Michael at Cambridge, Massach etts.

(III) Thomas Spencer, known as "Se ant Thomas," was born in 1607, in the home in Be brd- shire, England, and upon coming to New En ind,

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in 16: in Car ford i the P was n of six with his four brothers, made his first home ridge, Mass., but, in 1635, removed to Hart- company with the Rev. Thomas Hooker. In lot war of 1637, he served as a soldier, and le sergeant, later being given a grant of land acres as a reward for his gallantry. By his first ve he had three children : Adiah, Thomas and Samu Jared beth, By his second wife he had six children : Sarah, who married Thomas Huxley ; Eliza- 10 married Samuel Andrews, of Hartford ; Hann ; Mary; and Martha, who married a Mr. Bento

(I) Samuel Spencer settled in Windham, now Scotla1, Connecticut.

(\. John Spencer, son of Samuel, was born in Wi ham, where he died. Five of his sons were in thevar of the Revolution.

(V) Jeduthan Spencer, a son of John, was born in W tham, on the Spencer farm, two miles east of Wilham Centre. He was one of those who

turned ut at the "Lexington alarm," and he served ninete he w days in the vicinity of Boston. By trade a carpenter and wheelwright, and was is a good mechanic. He was killed while a bell to the belfry in the Scotland church,

st, 1812, and was buried in a private yard, which . located in the town of Scotland. His wife, Brown, was a native of Brooklyn. Their were: Elisha, who died at the age of nine- rs; Ichabod; John L., who married Lucy

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een y Fuller nd resided in Hanover ; James H., a school eache n early life, who located at Hartford ; Elias, vho r ried Miss Rogers and located at Coventry, vhere : reared a large family.

(V) Ichabod Spencer, father of our subject, vas b 1 in Scotland, Conn., in 1781, and resided here until his marriage. He taught school for even ars in Scotland, during the winter season, ind a taught in Windham and Lebanon before lis m iage. After the latter event he located at

Lisbor where he resided for ten years, first on a ented arm and later on one he had purchased. After sposing of his property, he removed to a Lebanon which adjoins that owned by C. er, which was at that time owned by Joseph his father-in-law. While residing on this wife died in 1827, and later he lived upon ented arms in the vicinity for six years, 1830- 836.

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1 the latter year his eldest son purchased a Scotland, about one-half mile west of the and there he resided for twenty-four years, his death, which occurred May 12, 1853. h was due to the infirmities of age, and he ed at Windham. In politics he was a Whig, ut ne · desired office. He married Henrietta Bab- ock, ative of Windham, daughter of Joseph and lary which McCall) Babcock of Lebanon. Her death curred Jan. 27, 1827, when she was forty- ne, vi; a severe blow to her husband. Their hildr were : (I) Lucius W., born Aug. 5, 1810,

was a farmer in early life, but later was engaged in the manufacturing business at Stafford, and was for several years an overseer in the Willimantic Linen Company. After several years residence on Bab- cock Hill in Lebanon, he returned to Willimantic and there resided until his death July 29, 1888. In February, 1838, he married Mary Neil, and they were the parents of George H. Spencer, assistant postmaster at Willimantic. (2) George D., born Jan. 26, 1813, was engaged in early life as a clerk in stores in Lebanon, Norwich and Hartford, after which he went into the grocery business on his own account at Hampton, and later from 1847 to 1864 in Lebanon. He spent the latter years of his life at the home of his son, George F., in Deep River, dying May II, 1883, aged seventy-two years. He was first a Whig, later a Republican, and in 1854 he represented Lebanon in the legislature; was also town clerk and judge of probate for many years, and was eighteen years on the school board, being altogether a very prominent man, who served his town continuously for thirty-four years. He was a member of the Baptist Church, in which he served as trustee and treasurer. In Hampton, Conn., in June, 1839, George D. Spencer married Martha Maria Spaulding, who was born in December, 1815, and who died May 15, 1883. They had two children, George F., who for many years was one of the lead- ing men of Deep River, Conn., where he was en- gaged in a mercantile business, but who is now located at Hartford, being a member of the firm of George F. Spencer & Co .; and Dwight S., born in 1851, was a member of the firm of Spencer Bros., and died March 9, 1883. (3) Mary E., born May 20, 1817, was married on Nov. 9, 1841, to Zados Babcock, a farmer of South Windham, and their one daughter, Ellen B., died unmarried. Mrs. Bab- cock died April 12, 1904. (4) Joseph B., born July 16, 1821, was married March 27, 1849, to Harriet Sophia Barrows, of Mansfield, and he resided at South Windham, where he died on August 2, 1903 ; his wife died on July 23, 1903. They left two chil- dren, Alma P. and Clara W., the latter now the wife of J. G. Palmer.

The second marriage of Ichabod Spencer took place June 30, 1830, Mrs. Ruth Clark, widow of Charles Clark, of Brooklyn, and daughter of Libeus Washburn, becoming his wife. She was born in Pomfret in 1794, and her death occurred Aug. 12, 1359, in Scotland, Conn., and her remains were buried at Brooklyn. One daughter by her first marriage, Eliza Ann, became the wife of William F. Essex, and died in August, 1879, in Millerton, N. Y. ; her remains lie in the Essex family plot in Willimantic. The children of Ichabod Spencer by his second marriage were: Charles Edward, was born Dec. 24, 1831. Frederick L., born May I, 1833, was married in January, 1886, to Mary W. Peckham, and he died in July following ; he was a farmer and stockdealer of Windham; during the

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civil war he enlisted in the 18th Conn. V. I. and became a sergeant, and was honorably discharged with his regiment.

Charles Edward Spencer was born Dec. 24, 1831, in Lebanon, and was two years old when the family located in Scotland, in which town his boy- hood days were passed. He attended the district school until the age of seventeen years, and after that time made his home with his brother Joseph, who then resided on our subject's present farm. While there he attended for three terms the school of Jabez Fitch, who had a select school at South Windham. From the age of thirteen years, he spent the summer season as a farm laborer, receiv- ing five dollars a month when he was thirteen ; six dollars a month when he was fourteen years; eight dollars a month when he was sixteen years, and after that twenty dollars a month. Prior to his marriage he taught school for eight winters, but after marrying, he settled on his present farm, which was purchased from his mother-in-law, and, with the exception of three years which were spent on a nearby farm, he has since made it his home. He has made many extensive improvements upon the prop- erty, and he has added to it until he now owns 130 acres. He makes a specialty of dairying.

On July 2, 1861, Mr. Spencer was married, in Willimantic, to Harriet Haskell, born Aug. 2, 1835, in North Stonington, a daughter of Hezekiah and Sarah (Hewitt) Haskell. The children born of this union were: Ida May, born Feb. 1, 1864, died Feb. 12, 1874; Frank Washburn, born Jan. 8, 1869, assists his father at home; and Adorna, born Jan. II, 1876, a graduate of the Willimantic High School, class of 1894, married, Oct. 3, 1895, Arthur Sweet, a farmer of South Windham. In politics Mr. Spencer is a stanch Republican, and has served as justice of the peace, and grand juror; in 1889 he represented the town in the State Legislature, and while there served on the committee on in- surance.

Mr. Spencer was one of the organizers of the Lebanon Creamery Association, and has served as a director since its organization. When he was nineteen years of age he joined the Windham Con- gregational Church, of which his wife and daugh- ter are also members. He has been active in church work, serving on the church committee, and at the present time he is clerk and treasurer of the branch church at South Windham, and has been chairman of the committee since it was started. Mr. Spencer is a hardworking man, and commands the esteem and respect of all who know him. He ranks among the substantial men of the town, and his success has been gained through his own efforts.

GEORGE W. LYMAN, one of the well known and most substantial citizens of Lebanon, now liv- ing retired from work, after many successful years devoted to farming, is a descendant of an old Con- necticut family.

Richard Lyman came to America with hiswife and five children in 1631. Their English homevas at High Ongar, County Essex, twenty-five jiles from London. They sailed from Bristol, Er f.nd, in August, 1631, and landed in Boston the flow- ing November. They first settled at Charle wn, Mass., and there remained until October, 1635 hen they joined the party of one hundred persons i der the leadership of Rev. Thomas Hooker and lime "original settlers" of Hartford, Richard Lafin's name being on the monument erected to thefirst settlers in the rear of the Center Church al hat city. He was a land owner and a prominent zen of Hartford, and he died in 1640. His widow for- merly Sarah Osborne, did not long surviv him. They were the ancestors of the greater ports of those bearing the name in this country. Th line- age of George W. Lyman from the emigrant ich- ard is through the latter's son Richard (2), REard (3), Samuel, Jabez, Elisha, Capt. Alvin (fand Ludlow Lawrence.

Capt. Alvin G. Lyman, grandfather of Cbrge W., was born in 1770, son of Elisha I han. He became an extensive farmer, and resided i feb- anon until his death, in 1853. He was one the substantial men of the town, and was a man in- fluence and prominence. As captain of thelocal company of militia, he was in command of hi om- pany at New London when that place was peat- ened by the British in the war of 1812. Pol rally he was a Jeffersonian Democrat, and religion l' an

attendant of the Baptist Church. He marad a Miss Maples, who died in early life, leaving feral small children as follows: (I) Thomas, a far r in Lebanon, who married (first) a Miss Lathrc | and (second) Harriet Slade; (2) Ludlow Law ince ; (3) George, a wheelwright by trade, who left ome when a young man, and died in the Civil wa (4) Albert, a farmer in Lebanon, who married rst ) Lucinda Segars, and (second) Jane Gillett (5) Frances, who married (first) a Mr. Ingraha land (second) Eliaphalet Manning, and died in Muglen ; (6) Lucy, who married John Gardner, and od in Willimantic ; and (7) Jane, who married Bri man Manley, and resides in Lebanon.

Ludlow Lawrence Lyman was born A1 25, 1813, in Lebanon, and his early life was shut in hard work on the farm. All his education vls re- ceived in the district schools. Until the e of twenty-one he remained at home, giving h time to his parents, but the month following his tain- ing his majority he left home, and was enloyed for two months by Judge Hebard, on L. anon Green. The following spring he took his ter's farm on shares, and remained there for t teen years, during this time meeting with good sicess. He was careful of his earnings, and in that vy ob- tained the start which later brought him [alth. He removed from his father's farm to one of hty- three acres, located at the lower end of L non street, and there he very successfully carri on

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armir ne la1 on, a f the ian, al eing® ew m rere t ebanı is pri as a roug ympa bang ool ofk vas a ery ticall hich : supported the Republican party, but he ight public office. In his early life he was r of the local militia, and served as pay- ever me last ith the rank of lieutenant. Mr. Lyman was careff- and economical man, and a man of splen- id bu f the

less judgment, and through the exercise traits he accumulated a large property, at le tir of his death being ranked among the ealthit men of the town. He married Harriet . Tay r, of Lebanon, daughter of John B. Tay- r, wh venty und. id a und's riftin survived him and died April 16, 1900, aged ine years, and was buried beside her hus- rs. Lyman was a very faithful helpmeet, endid business woman. Much of her hus- ccess was due to her wise counsel and . She, too, was a member of the Congre- tiona Church.

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e W. Lyman, the only child of his par- born Oct. 8, 1841, on the Lyman home- n, west of his present home. He was a 1all b the

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when his parents moved to the farm south een. He attended the district school and Academy, which was then presided over · Messrs. Crandall, Bronson and Standish. 1001 hours he was given a severe course in

k. He remained at home, assisting his the management of the farm, which he to do after the death of his parent. In moved to his present nice home, but still to manage the farm, in addition to look- lis other interests.

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man was married (first) to Kate E. Peck- outh Kingston, R. I., daughter of Edwin m. She died March 30, 1898, aged fifty- ır yea On June 4, 1900, Mr. Lyman was mar- (l to 1, N.

la Estella Hill, who was born in Haver- "., daughter of Frank and Sarah (Bos- formerly of Haverhill, but later of Co- nn.

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'man is a Republican, on national affairs, I affairs supports the candidates best fitted He has served for a time as grand juror, ared for political preferment. Mr. Lyman

is a member of Lebanon Grange, and Mrs. Lyman of Columbia Grange. They are members of the Congregational Church, and active in religious work. Mr. Lyman is, like his father, a careful, con- servative business man, thoroughly reliable in all his dealings, and no man in the town is more de- serving the esteem in which he- is held.

AMOS ROSWELL CHAPMAN, for eleven years first selectman of the town of Groton, and a man of ripe experience and solid traits of character, was born in the town of Ledyard, Conn., April 4, 1847, son of Roswell Button Chapman, also a na- tive of Ledyard.

Roswell B. Chapman learned the trade of a carpenter under Col. Roswell Button, of Jewett City, and until the year 1853, he engaged in building. In that year, however, he removed to Mystic, Conn., and there followed the trade of a ship joiner until his death, which event took place Sept. 12, 1876. He married Mary Ann Wilcox, daughter of Robert Nelson Wilcox, of Ledyard, and the children born of this marriage were: Amos Roswell; Everett B .; Mary Ellen, who married William Comstock and resides at Perrysburg, Ohio; and Martin W. In political faith Mr. Chapman was a Democrat.

Amos R. Chapman was educated in the Fifth school district of Mystic, Conn., and was admitted to the old academy there. After completing his course of studies, he learned the trade of ship joiner under his father, and has followed that line of work on the Mystic and Connecticut rivers. In 1870, he obtained the contract for finishing the schooner yacht "Rambler," built in New London by P. E. Beckwith, and he also worked on the barque "Gray Eagle," at Noank ; the American tea ship "Benefac- tor" at Greenport, L. I. ; a barque at Warren, R. I., and for a good many years he has held the contract for finishing all the work done at the Palmer yard in Noank.

In March, 1872, Mr. Chapman was united in marriage at Noank, Conn., with Martha Ella Doug- lass, daughter of Capt. James Winthrop Douglass. They have a son, Herbert Douglass, who married Mabel Palmer, and has two children, Herbert D., Jr., and Harold Palmer.

Mr. Chapman has been a Democrat all his life, and represented Groton in the Legislature in 1890. Since 1884 he has been justice of the peace. For fourteen years he has been selectman, and for eleven years of this time he has served as first select- man. He is recognized by his townsmen of both parties as the right man in the right place, and has discharged the duties of his office in a manner that allows of no criticism. He has been as loyal to one part of the town as to the other, and probably no one is more familiar with the town affairs than he. Mr. Chapman is above reproach of any kind, and his strictly honorable principles have been repeatedly shown forth.

Religiously Mr. Chapman is a member of the

all the rest of his life. He greatly improved and brought it to a high state of cultiva- made it one of the most productive farms wn. Mr. Lyman was ever a hard working was active until his last sickness, his death ised by a shock which preceded his death a hs. He died Jan. 25, 1896, and his remains first placed in the new cemetery south of Green. He was about six feet tall, and in : weighed nearly two hundred pounds. He un of good habits, and had excellent health ut life, until his last illness. Of great 7 and uniform good nature, he was slow but when once aroused he was not slow to He was ever a strict temperance man, and Member of the Congregational Church, and a ular attendant upon divine service. Po- e was a Democrat until the Civil war, after

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Union Baptist Church. In his fraternal relations, he is a member of Charity and Relief Lodge No. 72, A. F. & A. M .: Benevolence Chapter No. 21, R. A. M .; and Mystic Council No. 29, R. & S. M. He has been master of the blue lodge and high priest of the council, and is secretary of the Masonic Fra- ternal League. He is also a member of Stonington Lodge I. O. O. F., and Mystic Encampment ; the Knights of Pythias; the A. O. U. W .; Knights of the Golden Cross, American Benefit Society; the celebrated Jibboom Club at New London, and is connected with other organizations.

WILLIAM LORING. The Loring family, of which the late William Loring was a most worthy representative, and his son, George H., is now the only male representative, is one of the oldest fami- lies of New England.

The name Loring as a proper name is of great antiquity and is of German-French origin, being derived from Lotharingia, or Lorraine, a province in France. The first of the name in the New World was Deacon Thomas Loring, who came from Ax- minster, Devonshire, the garden of England, to Dorchester, Suffolk county, in New England. His wife was Jane Newton, whom he married in his native home. They left England Dec. 22, 1634, with their two sons, Thomas and John, remained in Dorchester, Mass., for some time, and later moved to Hingham, still later settling at Hull, Mass., where he died April 1, 1661 ; his widow fol- lowed him to the grave Aug. 25, 1672. He was one of the first deacons of the Hingham Church and was a Godly man. After their coming to New England their family was increased by four more children, namely : Isaac, Josiah, Joshua and Benjamin.

(II) John Loring, son of Thomas, was born Dec. 22, 1630, in England, and came to America with his parents. He grew to manhood and spent his entire life in Hingham, Mass., and he died at the home of his son, Capt. Thomas, Sept. 19, 1714. He was a very religious and God-fearing man. He married Dec. 16, 1656, Mary Baker, daughter of Nathaniel Baker, and they became the parents of ten children. This wife died July 13, 1679, and he married second Sept. 22, 1679, Rachel Buckland, a widow, who bore him four children.

(III) Isaac Loring, the fourth son of the first marriage of John, was born at Hull, Jan. 22, 1666. When a young man he removed to Boston, where he spent the remainder of his life, and where he died Dec. 3, 1702, from smallpox. On Aug. 5, 1691, he married Sarah Young, and their children were: Sarah, born Aug. 26, 1693, who in 1716 married Joseph Blanchard; Ruth, born Dec. 19, 1696, who died in 1772; Isaac, born April 20, 1699; William, born Dec. 23, 1700; Mary, born Feb. 5, 1702, who married in 1730 Joseph Dyer; and two daughters that died in infancy.

(IV) William Loring, son of Isaac, born Dec. 23, 1700, was a carpenter and joiner by occupation.

He married Nov. 19, 1724, Ann Holland, El to them were born five children: Ann, born M 29, 1726, who married Benjamin Clark in 1749; aac. born Nov. 30, 1729; Sarah, born Dec. 26, 31: William, born June 20, 1736; and Mary, bon.ug. 6, 1738. The mother of these children died in ,784.

(V) Isaac Loring, son of William, was 1 1 in Boston, Nov. 30, 1729, and learned the trade bail- maker, making that his life occupation. He n fried Elizabeth Russell, about January, 1751, and this union was born a son, William, Jan. 15, 1756. Saac Loring died before March 31, 1758, as the Ston probate records show that Ann Loring, mott of Isaac, was appointed administrator of the state on that date.

(VI) William Loring, son of Isaac, wa orn at Boston, Jan. 5, 1756, and followed the sea.

from Miss Caulkins's history of Norwich we gle.[ the following : "In February, 1788, the brig 'C. Essa' came from Port au Prince ; her master, Capt Vil- liam Loring, had died on the passage hon just as they came upon the coast. The vessel touced at Elizabeth Island, and buried Capt. Loring affar- paulin Cove, that very cold Tuesday night, Ib. 5, 1788." There is a tombstone at Naushon, El beth Island, on which is the following inscription

"In memory of Capt. William Loring, o for- wich, Conn. He was born in Boston, Jan. 5 756, and died at sea Feb. 2, 1788.

"Loring in all the prime of life, Hath quit this brittle clay, And calmly steered his single bark To yonder world of day."

Capt. William Loring married Zerviah Lord May 17, 1781, and four children were born tc em : William, born March 21, 1782, who was a se cap- tain, and died Feb. 14, 1824; Henry, born J 22, 1784; George, born April 23, 1786; and Isaa born April 1, 1788, who died at sea in 1805. The ther of these children was married again, March € 794, to Daniel Dunham, to whom she bore three ch ren : Hannah, born Jan. 6, 1795; Daniel, Feb. 18 797; and John, Sept. 25, 1800. Mrs. Dunham die Nov. I, 1828, and her husband died July 1, 1812.

(VII) George Loring was born April 23 786, and died Dec. 13, 1852. On March 23, 1809, 1 mar- ried Lucy Lester, who was born Feb. 8, 17% and died Aug. 12, 1836, daughter of Elijah and I |naris (Lord) Lester. The children of this union · re as follows : Lydia, born April 6, 1810, marrie June died 3, 1835, Andrew Huntington, of Norwich, w in Savannah, Ga., Jan. 21, 1839; Frances An born in Preston, Feb. 24, 1812, died May 22, 1834 ;f.cnry Iaria Jan. Isaac, born July 19, 1814, married Lucy Baldwin, Sept. 4, 1855, and died in Norwic 27, 1871; William, born Feb. 3, 1817, is me oned below; Lucy Ann, born July 27, 1819, marr 1 Dr. William W. Miner, Nov. 3, 1836, and she di Dec. I, 1837; Sarah, born Oct. 2, 1821, married liver Perry Avery, Feb. 22, 1843 ; Charles Frederic born

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c. 15 824, died in St. Louis, March 1I, 1860; d Gece, born Dec. 17, 1830, married first March 1859 Harriet Kennedy, second Susan C. Ken- ly, an third Mary Francis.

İVill n Loring, whose name opens this sketch, in North Preston, now known as Gris- 3, 1817, and grew up on a farm, early

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accustomed to farm labor, which was his wor A few years before his death he came Norvth, locating on Laurel Hill avenue, where died fec. 10, 1896, in the eightieth year of his was a Christian man and was for thirty rs docon of the Preston City Congregational urch. He was one of the largest donors when , chug was founded, and he had been the gest ditributor up to his death. Up to the last was v 1 read and posted on all leading questions the d

On 1. 2, 1842, William Loring was married Harr

Kinney Morgan, daughter of Erastus 1 Poll Meach) Morgan, the latter a daughter of ob M. ch. Three children blessed this union : 's. o re ldren man-

ge Greenman ; George H .; and Mary, s in Denver, Colo. The mother of these ed Jan. 20, 1894. She was a charitable

laritable not only in relieving the suffer- and eds of the unfortunate, but in overlooking

esses of those led into temptation. She weal s a g 1 and noble mother, and a devoted wife, r findig her chief pleasure in her home.

GEOR H. LORING, son of William, was born SI, in Preston, where he attended school,

t. I, he a attended the Eastman Business College, eepsie, N. Y. He grew up on the farm,

Poug! the continued until 1871, when he went to t Gr Plains to enter the employ of Lyman ıdall,

ith whom he remained until the death that itleman, when Mr. Loring assumed the nage

it of the farm for Mr. Randall's widow. r capacity he remained four years. Later 1 in farming for himself, and purchased Smith farm, on which he resided twelve

the la enga Alba r's. April, 1897, he removed to Norwich, cre he as since resided, retired from active busi- , his ome being on the northeast corner of coln enue and Uncas street.

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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 118

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