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 132

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Publication date: 1905
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John O'Hea was born in Ireland, and attended the common schools of his native town, leaving the same at the age of twelve years. He then worked in the grocery store of his brother, Thomas, for about two years, when he set his mind upon com- ing to America, and in May, 1865, he took passage from Queenstown on one of the old styled steamers, landing in New York some twelve or fourteen days later. He arrived in New York a poor boy without a friend, but with unlimited capital in the shape of a strong will to succeed, and an ever willingness to work. The next day after his arrival in New York, Mr. George Williams, the well known baker, now deceased, happened to be in the city in search of a boy to work in his bakery, and being attracted by young O'Hea, offered him a home and a chance to learn the bakery business, if he would come with him to New London, which proposition the lad was very willing to accept, and so soon did he dem- .onstrate his ability and quickness to learn, that within a few years he was made foreman, retaining that position until Mr. Williams retired from the business in July, 1893. So attentive to business had Mr. OHea been during his service with Mr. Williams, that when the latter was ready to turn the business over to another, Mr. O'Hea purchased it. Through untiring toil and unceasing persever- ance, as well as close application to his business, Mr. O'Hea has placed himself in a position where he can reap his just reward. His bakery plant is thoroughly modern, well-supplied with all appli- ances, including an electric department for beating eggs and operating the fans in the bakery, and he

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will soon add an electric appliance for dough mix- ing. He gives employment, day and night, to from fifteen to twenty persons, while he also employs in the delivery of his product from six to eight teams. During the week he uses an average of seventy-five barrels of flour.

Mr. O'Hea is a member of the A. O. U. W .; of Court Nathan Hale of the Foresters of America of New London, of which he was treasurer for three years, and sub-chief ranger for one term. Mr. O'Hea and his family are members of St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic Church, of New London. He is also a member of St. Mary's Star of the Sea Total Abstinence Society of New London, and has served as its president and treasurer for several years ; and of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Di- vision No. I, of New London, of which he served as president for fifteen years. In politics Mr. O'Hea is a Democrat, but not a politician. His vote is cast for the man he believes best fitted for the office, his business interests being paramount with him.

Mr. O'Hea was married to Annie Phalen, of New London, daughter of Nicholas Phalen, and their children are Mary A. and Nellie B., both of whom assist their father in the retail and office work at the bakery. Not only is Mr. O'Hea a good business man, and has attained to his present suc- cessful position through his own efforts, but he is also a home man, who delights in his family and the pleasure of his fireside. His daughters are im- portant factors in social life, while all take a prominent part in Church work. Mr. O'Hea and his family are highly esteemed by a large circle of admiring friends, and he is justly recognized as one of the substantial and representative men of New London.

TIFT. John Tift (or Teft or Tefft, as the name is variously spelled), a brother of William Tefft, of Boston, lived in Portsmouth and Kingston, R. I. He died in 1676, and his wife Mary died in 1679. Mr. Tift was a freeman, 1655, and was recorded as an inhabitant of Pottaqvamscott in 1671. Children : Samuel, Joshua, Tabitha.

(II) Samuel Teft, born in 1644, in Providence, married Elizabeth Jenckes, who was born in 1658, and died in 1740, daughter of Joseph and Esther (Ballard) Jenckes, and sister of Joseph Jenckes, deputy-governor of Rhode Island. Children: John, Samuel, Peter, Sarah, Elizabeth, Esther, Mary, Tabitha and Mercy. Mr. Samuel Teft was a free- man, 1677; was taxed in Kingston, 1687, and was one of twenty-seven who, in 1709, bought the tract of land called Swampton, being part of vacant lands in Narragansett ordered sold by the General As- sembly.

(III) John Tefft married Joanna Sprague, daughter of Jonathan and Mehetabel (Holbrook) Sprague, and resided in South Kingston. He died in 1760, and she in 1757. Issue: John, born Dec. 4, 1699; Joseph ; Samuel; James, born April 21,

1715; Nathan; Mary; Mercy ; Mehetabel; Tab and Sarah. Mr. John Tefft was one of those gaged in the Shannock Purchase in 1703. Previ's to his death he had given his son Joseph a trac [E land in Richmond, Rhode Island.

(IV) Joseph Tefft married Feb. 22, 1729, Es Brownell (of record in South Kingston), and children : Elizabeth, born Dec. 20, 1730; Will- born Feb. 29, 1732; Joseph, born March 19, I; Benjamin, born June 3, 1741 ; Esther, born Aug 1743; Thomas, born Nov. 10, 1745; Sarah, 1 Aug. 24, 1747; and Samuel, born Aug. 27, 1 (all born in Richmond).

(V) Joseph Tefft, born March 19, 1737, the next in the line. He married Lucy Brewste

(VI) Solomon Tift, born May 28, 1758, in Sc. Kingston, R. I., son of Joseph and Lucy (Brewst Tift, was a soldier during the Revolutionary 1 enlisting in Rhode Island in March, 1777, and a private company called the "Kingston Re served three months under Col. John Gardner. July, 1778, he enlisted for nine months in the c pany of Capt. West, under Col. Laphan, of M Jersey. At Arnold's attack on New London, S 6, 1781, he was made a prisoner of war by the B ish, and was put on board the prison ship "Jersc where he came near dying of fever. He wa United States pensioner in 1832, and received ft. the government $40 per year. He must have b an officer in the Revolution, and just before death he presented his sword to his grandson, M son Tift, of Albany, Ga .; it is now in the possess of his great-grandson, Nelson F. Tift; of th place. Solomon Tift married Eunice Burrows, Groton, on Dec. 2, 1779, the ceremony being [. formed by Rev. Silas Burrows. She was born Groton in 1760, daughter of Amos Burrows, a died Oct. 10, 1828. Mr. Tift survived her ma years, passing away Dec. 2, 1850.

(VII) Amos Tift, born May 18, 1784, son Solomon, died Aug. 15, 1829. He was an ea settler in Key West, Fla., where he became a pro inent man, and served for some time as judge probate. He kept a store, and ran the ship that c ried the mail. On April 24, 1806, he was marri by Rev. Lemuel Tyler, at Preston, Conn., to Ha nah Forsyth, who was born Sept. 18, 1785, daugh of Charles and Hannah (Chapman) Forsy and died April 8, 1878. Their family co sisted of thirteen children, of whom we have 1 following record: (1) Amos Chapman, born Jı 24, 1808, is mentioned below. (2) Nelson B., bc July 23, 1810, died Nov. 18, 1891. On May 1838, he married Annie Maria Mercer. (3) A Forsyth, born March 28, 1812, died Feb. 7, 188 On Nov. 3, 1847, he married Annie Wheeler. (. Lucius B., born March 1, 1813, died in Augu: 1866. (5) Julius B., born March I, 1814, died Ju 14, 1814. (6) Hannah Caroline, born Feb. 9, 181 was married Aug. 26, 1832, to Oliver J. Noyes, w was born Sept. 28, 1802, and died Oct. 13, 18€

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three children : Samuel Waldo, born Dec. died Nov. 7, 1873 ; Charles Forsyth, born 1838, died Feb. 3, 1873 (on Feb. 14, 1861, d Elizabeth Hannah Cook, who died Sept. leaving one child, Henry F., born Jan. 26, ! on Aug. 6, 1868, he married Elizabeth , who became the mother of two children, an, born Nov. 7, 1869, and Louis Reeve, 29, 1871, in Galveston, Texas) ; Lucius n Sept. 4, 1845, was married Oct. 8, 1873, Elizabeth Kirkland, of Brandon, Mo., and had one child, Samuel Oliver, born March (7) Amanda B., born March 27, 1816, ed De 20, 1817. (8) Julius, born May 24, 1818, d Af theri 19, di d Ju ne 21 17, 1856. On July 4, 1844, he married Dickinson. (9) Charles, born July 30, April 20, 1878. In May, 1842, he mar- A. Ward. (10) William Orville, born 821, died Oct. 15, 1822. (II) Elizabeth ne, bo. May 13, 1823, died May 17, 1887. On ct. 5, 53, she married Isaac Denison Clift, and d twomildren, Ira and Ruby, the former now de- asec 2) Fı niel d the latter now residing in New York. .ces Amanda, born July 22, 1825, married nchon Sept. 27, 1844, and they had four ildren Fannie, who married Albert M. Day, of 11 .; John P .; Cora, who married Henry y; and George, of New York City, who illian Holt. (13) Ann King, born July ed Nov. 25, 1894. On June 3, 1847, she orge W. Mallory.

icago Mall rried 1827, rried (VI 8, di rried ame 1

Amos Chapman Tift, born July 24, Feb. 26, 1883. On Sept. II, 1839, he hebe Harding, at Old Mystic, and they parents of seven children : Henry Hard- is metioned below. William Orville, born March harried Eliza Mallory, and they have had en, Orville M. and Catherine Stark; they "ifton, Ga. Caroline, who lives in Mys- is the wife of William K. Holmes. Helen S. E. Beebe, of Westfield, N. J., and they

1842 chil idle ir Cont marri e two hildren, Helen and Caroline. Eliza mar- 1E. Noyes, of Mystic, Conn., and is deceased. nund Harding, who lives in Tifton, Ga., mar- i Cat rine Ransom, and they have one child, herin

Annie Mallory married Frank Buck- y live in Mystic. The father of this fam- business in Key West until 1840, when › Mystic, Conn., and embarked in gen- ndising, continuing thus for many years.

member of the M. E. Church.

IENRY HARDING TIFT was born March Old Mystic, in Stonington, and wa's mar- 5, 1885, in Albany, Ga., to Bessie Will- hey have had three children : Henry H., )ct. I, 1887, in Washington, D. C .; illingham, born Dec. 15, 1889, in Al- and Amos Chapman, born July 24, 1891, Ga. Henry H. Tift spent his boyhood Conn., where he received his schooling. of twenty he went to Hartford, Conn.,

and for five years, from his twenty-third year, he was engaged as steamship engineer. At the end of that period he went to Albany, Ga., for two years, to take charge of a machine shop, sash and blind fac- tory and woolen factory owned by his uncles Nel- son and Asa. In 1872 he went into the pine woods at what is now Tifton, Ga., one of the best towns in the State, and his activity in business and public life in that section has given him a place among the leading citizens. He has cleared about 100,000 acres of pine land, and in connection with this work has become interested in planting, real estate and banking, being now president of the Bank of Tif- ton, director of the National Bank of Tifton, president of the Tifton Cotton Mills, president of the Tifton Knitting Mills, president of the Tifton Wholesale Grocery Co., president of the Ensign Os- kamp Co. (operating large sawmills at Ocilla, Ga.), and president of the Georgia Inter-state Sawmill Association. For several years he owned and oper- ated the Tifton & Northeastern railroad. He was commissioner from Georgia to the Louisiana Pur- chase Exposition at St. Louis. Mr. Tift has kept in touch with his early home and associations, and in the line of. his principal business has furnished con- siderable timber to the shipyards at Noank and Mys- tic, Conn. As may be judged by this brief state- ment concerning his mercantile enterprises, there is hardly an important feature of the commercial life of his section of his adopted State with which he is not identified, and he has proved himself an able man in all his ventures, a fact to which his suc- cess gives substantial testimony.

BENJAMIN F. RANDALL, a successful farmer and venerable citizen, residing in Goshen Society, in the town of Lebanon, takes pardonable pride in an honorable ancestry extending back through several centuries.

The family name of Randall is distinctly trace- able back to the period of the Norman conquest in 1066. It first appears in the celebrated "Domesday Book" of William the Conqueror, in the assignment of lands to individuals bearing this name, as ten- ants in capite, immediately from the crown, and re- stricted to those who accompanied the Conqueror from his native kingdom of Normandy, of which they may have been native citizens, or the descend- ants of those who came over from Denmark or Norway, with Rollo the Dane, at the beginning of the tenth century, A. D. 901.

John Randall, to whom our subject can trace his ancestry, was at Westerly, R. I., in territory claimed by Connecticut as in Stonington, in 1667, and was recorded as a farmer in 1669. In 1670 he bought a lot of land on the Pawcatuck river, and was ad- mitted an inhabitant of Stonington Nov. 30, 1670. In 1682 he was a deputy from Westerly to the Rhode Island Assembly, and in 1679 took the oath of fidelity to Rhode Island. He died at Westerly about 1684-85. The children born to him and his

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wife Elizabeth, were: John, born in 1666, died at Westerly ; Stephen, born in 1668; Matthew, born in 1671, died at Hopkinton, R. I .; and Peter.

John Randall (2), son of John, died in Ston- ington, Conn. His first wife Abigail died at Ston- ington in 1705, the mother of the following chil- dren : Elizabeth, Jonathan, Mary, John, Dorothy and Abigail. For his second wife John Randall married, Nov. 25, 1706, Mary, daughter of John and Rebecca (Palmer) Baldwin. She was born at Stonington, Conn., Feb. 24, 1675, and died there. Eight children were born of this union: Sarah, Na- than, Ichabod, Sarah, Joseph, Benjamin, Rebecca and Joseph.

Benjamin Randall, son of John, was born June 2, 1715, at Stonington, Conn. He located at Col- chester, Conn., where he was admitted as a freeman Dec. 6, 1763, but he had probably located there a number of years before that date. He is represented as possessing great physical power and endurance, and some of his dealings with the lawless and troublesome elements of the half formed society in this new country are repeated at the present time, as "reminiscences of early days in Colchester." His death occurred June 15, 1811. He was married to Ruth Brown, who died in Colchester, May 20, 1791. Their children, all born in Stonington, Conn., were : Sylvester, Elias, Rufus, Mary, Benjamin, Amos, Sarah, Asa, Joseph and Anna.

Asa Randall, son of Benjamin, born in 1751, was the great-grandfather of our subject. He re- sided at Colchester and died in 1834. In that town he was married to Mary Tenant, born at Colchester in 1745, and died there in 18II. Their children were: Asa, Samuel, William, Polly, Nehemiah and John.

William Randall, son of Asa and grandfather of Benjamin F., was born in Colchester in 1773. He removed to Goshen Society in the town of Lebanon in 1799, where he resided the rest of his life, and where he died much esteemed, May 23, 1830. His wife was Polly Chamberlain, who was born at Col- chester in 1772, and died at Lebanon March 3, 1835. They had two children : Permelia, born Oct. 1, 1797, married Andrew Lathrop, and died in Lebanon ; and John Caviler, born March 16, 1799.

Capt. John Caviler Randall, father of Benjamin F., was born in Colchester, and was about three weeks old when his father moved to Lebanon. He was reared to farm work and attended the district schools and a select school taught by the Congre- gational minister in the vicinity. For several terms previous to his marriage he taught school. He looked to the care and comfort of his parents, and after their death succeeded them to the farm, and there resided the rest of his life. He died there Sept. I, 1876, and his remains rest at Goshen. He was a well-to-do farmer, and was very highly respected. In his political views he was first a Whig and later a Republican. For many years he was captain of the local company of militia, and was known as Capt.

Randall. In church affairs he was very ade, and was a member and a very liberal supportof the Goshen Congregational Church. On Nov 1818 Capt. Randall was married, at Colcheste Conn. to Nancy Crocker, who was born at Chester, July II, 1796, and who died July 1, 18 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lucius W. . binson, in Columbia. Of their nine children, in 004 all were living except two. The oldest was theeigthy- three years old, and the youngest was si: Their children were: (I) Caroline Aur -seven, bor Albert Sept. 29, 1819, was married Oct. 10, 1841, W. Stark, a farmer, who died in Lebanon ; 1 widow survived until Aug. 5, 1903. (2) Benjamin born Feb. 27, 1821, is the subject propoof our tanklin sketch. (3) William Nelson, born Sept. , 1822, married, March 3, 1846, Mary Barrett Bijus : he was a farmer and resided in Exeter, wher he died Oct. 19, 1861. (4) Erastus Ripley, borni pril 5. 1824, is mentioned elsewhere. (5) Nancy Ermelia, born Feb. 23, 1826, was married, May 1 349, to Mary John Spaulding, and resides in Exeter. r G., born Sept. 22, 1828, married March 4, 6, Srl- vanus Backus, who died in Colchester

Jay 29, 1902. (7) Sarah Jane, born Aug. 12, jo, was married Feb. 5, 1851, to Edwin Gillett, ai fresides in Hebron. (8) John C., born Oct. 29, 1.2, was married, Nov. 7, 1859, to Mary J. Holbro ; he is a farmer in the Gilead Society in the tow [of He- bron. (9) Harriet Elizabeth, born April 1, 1837 married May 4, 1859, Lucius W. Robinso a well- to-do farmer, of Columbia, where he die May 2 1901. His widow resides at East Hampt, Con necticut.

Benjamin F. Randall was born Feb. 1821 in Lebanon, in a house that forms a pa

of hi present residence. He attended the distri school- in the winter season until the age of eight ! year the summer season being devoted to farm ork or his father's farm. He remained at home ntil h attained his majority, and then was employed as : farm laborer in Lebanon, working by tl [montl- for $12 and $14 per month, and working fin "sun up to sundown." He was thus engaged r som fifteen or sixteen years, when he was mand, an. then located on a farm in Exeter Society Lebanon, remaining there for about sev Selling out he removed to Columbia, and

own o y'ear vught brotl large farm, adjoining the one occupied by

1 ther er-in-law, Lucius Robinson, and he resi for twelve years. At the end of that tin he sol out, and coming to Lebanon, purchased h presen farm of 136 acres (the old homestead of hi brother, John, where he has since resided ngage in general farming. Of late years he has t ned th nes A management of the farm over to his son, who is conducting it.

On Jan. 4, 1858, Mr. Randall was n ried t Frances C. Hall, who was born in Colche: r, Aug 8, 1825, a daughter of Henry and Ruth Stark Hall. Five children blessed this union: ( Henr

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., bor rthur 368. rmer ov. 2 March 19, 1859, died July 4, 1864. (2) elson, born Dec. 10, 1861, died Dec. 31, ) Luther Hall, born July 13, 1863, is a id resides at Berkley, Mass .; he married, 1889, Ida V. Underwood, and they have vo ch ren : Amy A. and Elmer L. (4) Benja- ., born Feb. 6, 1866, died Jan. 8, 1869. (5) born Nov. 16, 1868, was married June 15, Julia A. Manning, of Lebanon, daughter Nathaniel, and granddaughter of Deacon nning, and they have three children : Bes- born Sept. 22, 1893), Ethel Flora (born 1896) and Arthur James (born Nov. 12, Ir. Randall and his son, James, are Re-

in F., mes 92, t Deac bez M e Hal eb. 21 399). blica in national affairs, and they are strong pport ; of the temperance cause. Mr. Randall is alw s been a hard worker, and by thrift and dustry e and las acquired a competence ; and he is act- rell preserved for his years. The family atten the Congregational Church at Goshen, and ey ar ield in the highest esteem.

STE HEN A. BAILEY, proprietor of a thriv- g mealand provision store at Norwich, is a rep- : of one of the oldest New London county The family record reads as follows :

sentat milies In 1 o there came from England in the brig us" to the shores of Virginia, one Will- 7, aged forty-one years. Mary, his wife, y-four years, came over the next year in Prospe m Ba: ed th e "G "ge" with her son Thomas, aged four ars. 1626 William Bailey is on record as the ner cand in Virginia.

Tho Bailey, son of William and Mary, ved m Virginia to New London, Conn., in Jan. 10, 1655, he married Lydia, daugh- 5I. (

of J les Redfield. That same year the towns- n of ew London, "with the advice and con- it of [r. Winthrop," granted him a lot lying rth o rive Mr. Winthrop's land on the east side of upon which he settled. Thomas Bailey d in 575, in that part of New London now ed G ton. In 1676 his widow married William orne, f Dorsetshire, England. Thomas Bailey the father of children as follows: Mary, ohn, William, James, Joseph and Lydia. las Bailey was the ancestor of those bear-

me in eastern Connecticut.

S omas s Th the Elija s bor 1 of ley rth rch I s borı dren 19, di Do ; N o ; Ja

Bailey, grandfather of Stephen A. Bailey, Jan. 25, 1766, and followed the occupa- armer all his life. He resided on the old nestead on Bailey Hill in the town of nington. He died Aug. 25, 1849. On 1798, he married Margaret Fanning, who lay 6, 1777, and died April 27, 1857. The this marriage were: Amy, born Feb. 7, Sept. 18, 1805; Lyman, born April 17, y, born June 28, 1802, died Aug. 13, es, born May 28, 1804, died Dec. 3, 1870 ; nise

born April 8, 1806, died Oct. 5, 1849 ; oline porn April 5, 1808, died Dec. 21, 1891 ;

Emeline, born May 31, 1811, died Dec. 27, 1899; Lucy A., born April 20, 1813; Eunice, born April 23, 1815 ; Elijah, born Aug. 31, 1817; William W., born Oct. 23, 1819, died Feb. 14, 1886; an infant son, born Oct. 5, 1821, died the following day.

Elijah Bailey, father of Stephen A., was born Aug. 31, 1817, on Bailey Hill, in the town of North Stonington. He received a good, sound common school education, being progressive and studious, and in early manhood taught the district school for several terms. He remained at home until his mar- riage, after which he settled in Ledyard, and for twenty-one years was a resident of that town, liv- ing at Meeting House Hill. He started a general store in Ledyard, which he afterward sold to Solo- mon Chapman, who in turn sold the business to the late Edmund Spicer.

Mr. Bailey also conducted a branch store at Gale's Ferry and another at Stoddard's wharf. Dur- ing his life in Ledyard he was prominently identi- fied with town affairs. He was called familiarly the "Mayor of Ledyard," being constable, collector, acting school visitor, justice of the peace, postmaster for several years, and registrar of voters. He was identified with the Congregational Church there, and for years was leader of the choir. Although he led an exemplary life, and was a constant church attendant, Mr. Bailey never joined any denomina- tion. When Mr. Bailey reached the three score year mark he disposed of his interests in Ledyard, and purchased from his brother the old Bailey homestead in North Stonington, which was his home when he died. He entered actively into polit- ical life, and held many minor offices there besides being a justice of the peace.

Mr. Bailey was a Democrat until Stephen A. Douglas was nominated for the presidency. He left the party during that campaign, voting for Abraham Lincoln, and he was a consistent Republi- can during the rest of his life. Mr Bailey was one of the old-time farmers. He had a good education, and was easily a leader in public affairs in Ledyard and afterward North Stonington. He was free- hearted and popular. His married life of over sixty years was particularly happy. About a year before his death, he came to Norwich with his wife to visit a daughter, Mrs. Everett O. Miller, their stay being extended until he was taken suddenly ill with the disease which caused his death Feb. 1I, 1900. He was buried in the cemetery at Preston City. His wife, Sarah A. Allyn, was a daughter of Rufus Al- lyn, of Ledyard, and she resides in Norwich. Their children were: Francis died at the age of one year ; Henry T. is a farmer, and resides at East Great Plain; Sarah Jane is the wife of Courtland R. Swan, a farmer of North Stonington; Youngs A. is a farmer of East Great Plain ; Rufus F. is a liv- eryman of Jewett City ; Stephen A. ; Freelove is the wife of Everett O. Miller, of Norwich.

Stephen A. Bailey was born in Ledyard, May 28, 1861, and was about four years old when the

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family moved to North Stonington. He received a district school education, and assisted on the home farm until the age of twenty years. In 1881 Mr. Bailey left home, and came to Greeneville to learn the carpenter's trade under the late Andrew E. Carey, of that place, and remained there about two years. He was then employed by Arnold & Hiscox, contractors and builders of Norwich, and remained with them for a time. Leaving their em- ploy, he then entered into partnership with his father-in-law, Thomas M. Frazier, who was con- ducting a meat and provision business at No. 161 Franklin street, the new firm becoming T. M. Fra- zier & Co. About eighteen months later he bought his partner's interest, and remained there a little more than six years longer, when he disposed of the business, and engaged in a livery business on Main street, near the Preston bridge. Selling out this business, he went to New Haven to engage in a livery business there, and later disposed of this business and returned to Norwich, spending sev- eral months in looking after his real estate hold- ings. About nine years ago he established his pres- ent business at No. 40 Broadway, having Nelson T. Crowel as a partner for about a year and a half. For several years past Mr. Bailey has been sole proprietor of the business, and he owns the block on Main street from Nos. 359 to 375 Main street in addition to other property.

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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 132

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