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 157

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(V) Henry Webb, born Sept. 2, 1768, married June 1, 1794, Hannah, daughter of Waterman Clift. Children : William, born May 19, 1797; Mary C., January, 1800; Lucretia, October, 1802; Harriet ; and Lucia, March 23, 1809.

Waterman Clift, referred to in the for. going, was born in 1738, and died in 1828. He was cap- tain of the Sixth Company, in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Col. Samuel H. Parsons, raised on the first call for troops in April-May, 1775. The following year he served as major of the Fourth Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade, com- manded by Col. Samuel Seldon. This battalion participated in the battle of Long Island, in the retreat from New York, when the city was aban- doned, and was present with the army until Dec. 25, 1776, when the term of service of the regiment expired.

(VI) Dr. William Webb, born May 19, 1797, married Jan. 6, 1824, Amanda, daughter of Jona- than Wolcott. Children: William H., born Dec. 7, 1825, and Charles, born March 11, 1833. The Doc- tor graduated from Yale College, and was a promi- nent physician in the town of Windham, and was well known all through eastern Connecticut. He was a good citizen in every respect, and very popular. He died in 1849, while still in the prime of life. His eldest son, William, went to California during the gold fever of 1849, sailing from New London on the schooner "Valasco," to San Francisco, the voy- age occupying 181 days. He died at San Francisco, June 24, 1874.

Charles Webb, the youngest son of Dr. William, was educated in the town of Windham. He was engaged in the banking business from an early age, and continued in it for a number of years, but he is now living retired. He was a member of the city council and was city treasurer four years. He enlisted during the Civil war in Company D, 26th Regiment, Conn. V. I., under Col. Thomas D. Kingsley, Capt. Samuel T. Huntson, and served in the commissary department during his term.

On Feb. 12, 1855, Mr. Webb married, in Nor- wich, Jane E. Backus, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Sanger) Backus. Mrs. Webb died May 30, 1898, and is buried in Yantic cemetery. She was a mem- ber of the Episcopal Church, and of the D. A. R. at Norwich, of which latter she was secretary. She was a lady of culture and refinement, and a de- voted wife and mother. Four children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Webb. (1) Mary B., born July 6, 1857, died Dec. 29, 1860. (2) Frank W., born May 18, 1865, died March 11, 1874. (3) Arthur Backus, born June 9, 1867, was educated in the public school and Norwich Free Academy. He is engaged as a cotton worker. (4) Mabel Sanger, born Sept. 13, 1874, was educated in the public schools, in Norwich Free Academy, and in the art department, and is now an instructor in art in the public schools of Nor- wich. She is a lady of culture and of artistic taste; she is a devoted worker in the Episcopal Church, of

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which she is a member. Mr. Webb is a member of the Sedgwick Post, G. A. R., and fraternally he is a 33d degree Mason.

The Backus family, of which the late Mrs. Webb

and Mrs. Gilbert Osgood were descendants, is one of the oldest families in eastern Con- neeticut. Nathaniel Backus, born in 1669, was married March 22, 1693, to Lydia Edgerston. On July 2, 1702, he married (second) Elizabeth Traecy. His children were: Daniel, born Dec. 26, 1694; Lydia, July 14, 1697; Nathaniel, April 5, 1704; Mary, October 12, 1707; Elizabeth, September, 1709 ; Joseph, Oct. 12, 1710; Jabez, Aug. 9, 1712.

Nathaniel Backus, Jr., born April 5, 1704, mar- ried Hannah Baldwin, and they had children as follows: Nathaniel, born May 4, 1727; Hannah, Dec. 9, 1728 ; Ezra, Aug. 13, 1730; Hannah, March 3, 1733; Phebe, Dec. 27, 1735 ; John, Nov. 4, 1737. Ezra Backus, born Aug. 13, 1730, married Jan. 4, 1758, Naney Lay. Children : Ezra, born June 3, 1759 ; Abigail, May 28, 1760; Phebe, Aug. 12, 1761 ; Eunice, Dec. 23, 1762 ((lied Sept. 6, 1763) ; Eunice, May 29, 1764 (died Aug. 2, 1764) ; Anne, Sept. 10, 1765 ; Nathaniel, March 21, 1767: Caroline, Feb. 12, 1768 ; Joseph, Dec. 25, 1770; Jabez, June 8, 1777.

Ezra Backus, Jr., born June 3, 1759, married in April, 1780, Rhoda Dodge. Children: John, born Aug. 11, 1781 ; Clarissa, May 21, 1784; William, Nov. 25, 1787 : Naney, Oet. 17, 1789. For his sec- ond wife, Mr. Backus married Aug. 31, 1794, Rhoda Treadway. Their children were: Keney, born June 14, 1796; Joseph, March 5, 1798; Alexander, April 18, 1800; Abbie A. Young, Nov. 4. 1802; Joseph (2), Sept. 29, 1804. The father married for his third wife, June 4, 1808, Naney Moore, and they had two children : Charles, born Dec. 8, 1809, and Christopher, May 7, 1812.

Joseph Backus, the father of Mrs. Charles Webb and Mrs. Gilbert Osgood, was born Sept. 29, 1804. He married, Sept. 9. 1829, Mary Sanger, daughter of Capt. John Sanger. Mr. Backus died March 6, 1860. Children : Elizabeth Fitch, born Feb. 13, 1831, married Joseph 1. Miner. Charles Alexander, born Oct. 8, 1832, married Kate Edwards. Mary Sanger, born Nov. 7. 1834, married Gilbert Osgood. Jane Elizabeth, born March 31, 1837, married Charles Webb. Joseph, Jr., born July 19. 1839, died in infancy. Joseph (2) was born Dec. 2, 1842. George Tyler, born Dec. 8, 184444. married Clara Clark. John Edwin, born June 24. 1848, married Nellie Chaffee, and has since remarried.

ALBERT II. LANPHERE, one of Waterford's prominent citizens and a leader in the political life of that town, is a native of same. He comes of one of the old families of the county, being a great- grandson of Luther Lanphere, who was born in Montville, where he lived and died. He was a farmer. Ile married and had several children, Charles, Jared, Lydia and Betsey.

Jared Lanphere, grandfather of Albert H., was

born in 1797, in Montville, Conn .. and died in May, 1873, in Colchester, Conn., aged seventy-six years. The greater part of his life was passed in Colchester. He was a shoemaker by trade, which he followed together with farming. He married Mary Ann Brown, daughter of Philip Brown, of Marlboro, Conn., and she died in the fall of 1882, in Colchester, Conn., at an advanced age, having been born in 1799. Their children were as follows: (1) Charles, who died in Moodus, Conn., in 1902, was a shoe- maker by trade. He married Adelia Brainard. (2) Sarah married Morgan Norcott, and died in Chat- ham, Conn. (3) Albert G. is mentioned below. (4) Cynthia married Seth West, and died in Col- chester. (5) Jeremiah A. died in the fall of 1903 in Colchester. He was a tanner by trade. He mar- ried Wealthy Ann Keeney. (6) Emily E. married Leander Chapman, and died in Colchester, Conn. (7) Henry, who died in Marlboro, Conn., married Fannie West. He was a cotton dyer by trade. (8) Mary Ann married John T. Brown, of Norwich, Conn., where she died. (9) Almeda married John Tew. of Willimantic, Conn., where she died. (10) Daniel died in infancy. (II) Julia married Henry Reynolds, of Colchester, where she died. ( 12) Le- titia married (first) Elsworth Packer. and ( second) David Chester Comstock, of Montville. ( 13) Will- iam went west and has never been heard from. (14) Luey married Joseph Gardner, of Montville, and is now residing in Lebanon, where Mr. Gardner is engaged in farming. (15) A daughter died in infancy.

Albert Gallitan Lanphere, born Dec. 20, 1824. in Colchester, Conn., received his education there. in the district schools, leaving school at the age of eighteen years. He then took up farming and lum- bering in Middle Haddam and Colchester, in 1840 removing to Waterford, where he took up work in the Millstone Quarries. There he remained and worked for nearly thirty-six years, in the employ of Warren Gates and Warren Gates Sons. un- til July 1. 1885. when he resigned as stone entter. He then purchased a farm in Waterford. and has since followed farming, having abont twenty acres at present. He is now living practically re tired. During the days when he was activeh en gaged in farming he had about eighty five acres. In 1855 be built his present residence in Graniteville. where he has since resided. Mr. Lauphere is a member of the First Baptist Church of Waterford. to which his wife also belongs, and he led the chair in the church for sixteen years. Politically he has been a lifelong Democrat, but not particularly active. and has never been an office seeker.

Albert G. Lamphere was married. April 18, 1852. to Phebe Ann Brown, daughter of Henry and In cretia (South) Brown, of Waterford, and they In - came the parents of two children: Albert Henns. born May 5. 185%, and Newton Brown, born May 1.4. 1855 The latter is a stonecutter by trade. Ile is unmarried and resides at home.

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Albert Henry Lanphere, born May 5, 1853, in Waterford, received his education in the district schools and in private schools in his native town. His school days ending when he was seventeen years old, he went to the Millstone Quarries and there took up the trade of stonecutter, work- ing there until the spring of 1894; he had been yard foreman for the last two years. That was under the Millstone Granite Company. Since that time he has been in a way deal- ing in real estate, etc. Mr. Lanphere is a Demo- crat in politics, and has been active in local public affairs from early manhood. When twenty-one years of age he was elected registrar of voters and served for about twenty years, until about 1894. He was elected to the school board when twenty-three, and has served ever since, in the fall of 1903 being elected for another three-year term. He served as justice of the peace for six years. He has taken a very prominent part in town affairs. He served as tax collector for nearly eleven years from July I, 1890, his last book being 1900. In the fall of 1901 he was elected first selectman, having previously served on the board of selectmen, of which he is now a member for the third term. He served as repre- sentative in 1887-88, the first two-year term of the Legislature, and during this term he was a member of the committee on Education. He was again a member of the Legislature in 1899, and during his second term he was a member of the committee on Military Affairs, and the committee on School Funds. He served again the following year, 1901, when he was on the committee on Insurance, and was again elected for 1903-04, serving on the com- mittee on New Counties and County Seats, of which he was clerk. During the deadlock session of 1891 he was in position under Nicholas Staub, of New Wilford, who was the comptroller of the State, as a clerk. Mr. Lanphere is a member of the Union Lodge, A. O. U. W., of Niantic, Conn., and of the B. P. O. E., at New London.

Mr. Lanphere was married, Feb. 25, 1880, to Ida L. Manwaring, daughter of Ansel C. and Sarah ( Morgan) Manwaring, of Waterford, and they have had one child, Sarah Mabel, born Nov. 1I, 1881, who has been teaching for two years in Waterford.

LANPHERE. Daniel Lanphere, of Westerly, R. I., and Welthea Worden, of Stonington, Conn., were married at Stonington Nov. 13, 1765, and their children, all of Westerly record, were: Luther, July 27, 1768; Tacy, May 14, 1770; Eunice, Feb. 21, 1772 ; Oliver, Aug. 18, 1774 ; Lois, Nov. 16, 1777 ; Joshua, Oct. 1, 1787 ; and Keturah, Aug. 9, 1790. (This Luther Lanphere may have removed to Montville, Conn., and there had children. This Luther, of Westerly, was a son of John, Daniel or Amos, brothers, all sons of John and Ruth and grandsons of George Lanphere, the Westerly, R. I., settler. These three brothers, John, Daniel and Amos Lanphere, were married at Westerly, respect-

ively : John, to Elizabeth Foster, March 3, 1727-28, or to Anna Lanphere, July 24, 1730; Daniel, to Catherine Prossor, Jan. 24, 1730-31 ; and Amos to -- ). The Lanphere family was early in Westerly, Rhode Island.

(I) George Lanphere (Landfear or Lanphear) was of Westerly, R. I., in 1669, in which year he purchased land there. He took the oath of alleg- iance to Rhode Island in 1671, and in that town "by the mill" was baptized in 1678. At this time he was a married man, but the name of his wife is unknown. He had 200 acres of land laid out to him in 1704. His death occurred Oct. 6, 1731. His children were: Mary, Shadrach, John, Theodosius, Seth, Sarah, Elizabeth, Richard, and one whose name is unknown, but who married Eber Crandall.

(II) Shadrach Lanphere, the eldest son of George, married Jan. 15, 1696, Experience Read, and their children were: Joseph, born Feb. 10, 1700; Ann, Oct. 7, 17Q1 ; Oliver, Sept. 3, 1703; Prudence, Aug. 10, 1706; Solomon, April 10, 1708; Experience, January, 1711 ; John, Oct. 15, 1712; Hezekiah, Nov. 15, 1714; and Mary, Jan. 1, 1718.

Shadrach Lanphere and his family lived in Ston- ington, Conn., while all of the other children of George were of Westerly. He died Jan. 29, 1728, and his widow passed away in 1732. In 1732 all of the children of Shadrach were residents of West- erly, R. I., excepting Solomon and John, who were then at Norwich, Conn .; Hezekiah, who was at Lebanon, Conn .; and Joseph, whose whereabouts were not given.

LUTHER A. MORGAN. The Morgan family of Groton is one of the most prominent and one of the earliest settled families of New London county. Luther A. Morgan, for many years one of the lead . ing business men of Mystic, is a descendant in the eighth generation from the pioneer ancestor in America, his ancestral line being as follows :

James Morgan, the earliest ancestor of the fam- ily in America, was born in 1607, in Wales, and came to this country, arriving at Boston in April, 1636. On Aug. 6, 1640, he married Margery Hill, of Roxbury, Mass., where he had settled. In 1650 he removed to New London, residing near the pres- ent third burial ground in the western suburbs of the city of New London. On Dec. 25, 1656, he sold his homestead in New London and removed to what is now the town of Groton, where he became a large proprietor and dealer in lands. He was one of the early selectmen, and a deputy to the General Court in 1657 and for nine terms thereafter. Mr. Morgan was an active and useful member of the church. He died in 1685.

Capt. John Morgan, son of James Morgan, was born March 30, 1643, and married Rachel Dymme.

Capt. John Morgan (2) was born June 10, 1667, and married Ruth Shepley.

Capt. John Morgan (3) was born Jan. 4, 1700, and married Sarah Cobb.

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Capt. John Morgan (4) was born July 28, 1729, and Feb. 1, 1760, married Prudence Morgan.

Stephen M. Morgan, son of Capt. John Morgan (4), was born April 19, 1762, and on April 13, 1787, married Parthenia Parke. He died April 26, 1844.

John Morgan, son of Stephen M. Morgan, was born Jan. I, 1799, and on Dec. 31, 1820, married Mary Allyn, daughter of Rufus Allyn, of Ledyard. Their children were: Harriet, born Dec. 5, 1821, died young : John Parke, born May 26, 1823, mar- ried (first) Mary L. Maynard, and (second) Lydia Smith, and resides at Jersey City, N. J. : Hannah M., born March 25, 1825, married Frank Noyes and died April 13, 1901, in Stonington, where she resided ; Eneas, born March 5, 1827, died June 12, 1863, in California, unmarried : Stephen A., born Jan. 29, 1829, married Jane Lewis, and they resided in Ledyard, where he died in December, 1903 (they had four children, John; Julia, wife of Ira Chapman ; Mary and Anna, the latter deceased) ; Rufus, born Jan. 26, 1831, died young ; Parthenia. born May 26, 1832, married Samuel Lamb and died in Groton ; Elisha, born July 7, 1834. died Oct. 17, 1852; Luther A. was born Oct. 29, 1836; Elkanah, born Jan. 9, 1839, died Oct. 15, 1858; Sybil, born Sept. 28, 1840, now deceased, married Erastus Lamb, of Ledyard ; Eliza, born Aug. 14, 1842. mar- ried William R. Gallup, and lives at Sacramento, Cal. (they have two children, Ida May and Effa M., the latter the wife of Joseph D. Lord ) : Harriet, porn March 14, 1845, married Edward Baker, and hey reside at North Orange, Massachusetts.

John Morgan, the father, spent his entire life in Ledyard, following his trade of carpenter. He died here in May, 1875. not long surviving his wife, who had died in January of the same year.

Luthier Albert Morgan was born Oct. 29. 1836. n Ledyard, Conn., near Meeting House Hill, and obtained his education in the schools at Ledyard. On March 14. 1853, he came to Mystic and began Jerking for David Nelson Prentice, their establish- hent standing on the site at present occupied by amphere & Co. On April 1, 1871, he embarked the grocery business for himself, and continued ctively in the business until Sept. to, 1903, when e disposed of it, at the time being the oldest grocer the town. On Dec. 29. 1880, Mr. Morgan suf- red from a disastrous fire, but, as an example of isiness enterprise, within three days he was agam ady to serve his customers in another store, and July 4, 1881. he took charge of a new and better hilding, which had been erected on the ruins of " old one. During his early business career he id a partner and also an interest in a fish business, e latter the Menhaden fishery. He has done isiness under the styles of 1. A. Morgan & Co. Gurdon S. Allyn & Co. While his business reer has been one of much more than ordinary ccess, it has always been marked by adherence to norable and upright methods. Since he has re-

sided in Mystic he has always felt too busy to accept political office, but has been made a member of the board of assessors. He is now engaged in the real- estate business and is attending to the management of his own private interests. In politics he is a Republican, and he cast his first vote for President for Abraham Lincoln. He is a member of Charity and Relief Lodge, F. & A. M., and Benevolence Chapter, R. A. M. He is a member of Mystic Bridge Congregational Church, as are both of his daughters.

On May 14, 1868. Mr. Morgan was married to Susan E. Prentice. daughter of David N. Pren- tice, his early employer. Mrs. Morgan died Feb. 14. 1885. The two daughters of this marriage were: Frances Elizabeth, born Dec. 8. 1872, and Margaret. born Oct. 1, 1875. The latter has scholastic attainments of a high order. being a grad . tiate of Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, class of 1900, and for some years has engaged in teaching : she is now completing her fourth year at an ad- vanced school at Princeton, Indiana.

COL. JOHN L. DEVOTION (deceased), of Norwich. The Devotion family of Windham, from which sprang the gentleman whose name heads this article, himself long a man of prominence in his community and the State, was one of the first of the many intelligent and prominent families of that an- cient town. Many of the name of Windham were graduates of Yale and Harvard, and men of achieve- ment in the professions and of distinction in public life. The Devotion family, too, was connected by marriage with some of the most prominent families of their section of the commonwealth.

Col. Devotion was born in 1818, in Windham. Conn., a son of Jonathan Devotion, and a descen lant in the seventh generation from Edward Devotion. the immigrant ancestor of the branch of the family under consideration. From Edward Devotion the line of the late John I. Devotion is through John. Rev. Ebenezer, Rev. Ebenezer (2). Hon. Ebenezer (3) and Jonathan Devotion.

(1) Edward Devotion appears as a resident of that part of Boston, Mass,, called Muddy River. which became Brookline. He umted with the church in March, 1645, and was then a single man He was made a freeman in 1045. He had children at Brookline : Mary, born Feb. 25. 1089, and Eliza beth, April 20, 1651 : at Roxbury ! Martha, March 13. 1653, and Hannah. Dec. 3. 1054, at Brookline Deborah, Mas 17. 1057, and John, June 29. 1050). at Roxbury again Sarah. Jan. 10. 1002. Edward July 12. 100% (died June 12. 100g), Sarah, Feb 1.5. tom: Edward. Feb. 15. mas, and Thomas. M. I. 1670.

(II) John Devotion, baptized June 20. 1650. It Brookline, married Hannah, daughter of John Brock. He was of Suffield, and in 1, 20 bought two acres of land on the east side of the Willimantic river, m Windham, which embraced water privi

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leges. He with others from Suffield organized a company for the manufacture of iron. These parties built, in 1727, the first dam across the river there. In his will there are mentioned children: Hannah, Edward and Rev. Ebenezer. Mr. Devotion left a good estate.

(III) Rev. Ebenezer Devotion, born in Brook- line, Mass., about 1684, married Hannah Breck, who was born Feb. 16, 1688, and died March 3, 1719. By this union there were these children: Ebenezer, born May 8, 1714; Hannah, April 29, 1716; and Mary, Dec. 8, 1717 (married Deacon Richard Gay, of Granby). Rev. Mr. Devotion married for his second wife Naomi Taylor, daughter of Rev. Ed- mund Taylor. She died Aug. 6, 1739, and on Oct. 27, 1740, he married (third) Mrs. Sarah Hebbard. Mr. Devotion was graduated from Harvard College in 1707. He preached at Suffield in 1709, and was ordained pastor of the church there June 28, 1710, being the second minister in the town. He was continued in the pastorate of the church there for thirty years, and was successful in it. He died April . II, 174I, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.

(IV) Ebenezer Devotion, son of Rev. Ebenezer, born May 8, 1714, in Suffield, now in Connecticut, then in Massachusetts, married, July 25, 1738, Martha, daughter of Simon and Martha (Lathrop) Lathrop, of Norwich, and by her had five daughters and one son, the latter graduating from Yale in 1759; one of the daughters became the wife of John M. Breed, of Yale, 1762; and a third married Gov. Samuel Huntington. In 1773 Mr. Devotion mar- ried, for his second wife, a daughter of Rev. James Cogswell (Yale, 1742) ; she died Dec. 6, 1795, in her eightieth year.

Mr. Devotion was graduated from Yale College in 1732. He studied theology, and in 1735 was in- vited to preach to the Third Ecclesiastical Society in Windham, Conn., which had been organized in 1732, under the name of Scotland parish, now the town of Scotland. In August he accepted a call to settle, and on Oct. 22d a church was organized and he was ordained pastor, the sermon on the occasion being preached by Rev. Thomas Clap, afterward rector of Yale College. He continued in this relation until his death, in the same place, July 17, 1771. Mr. Devo- tion maintained a high reputation among his flock, and all his acquaintances, for ability and goodness. A striking instance of the confidence felt in his judg- ment was his appointment as one of the representa- tives of the town in the General Assembly held in October, 1765, in the height of the excitement against the Stamp Act.' President Stiles writes in his Diary on hearing of his death, "he was a gentle- man of solid understanding, extensive reading, and eminent for every kind of merit. A good divine, a pious man, an able politician." Mr. Devotion pub- lished a number of sermons, etc.

(V) Hon. Ebenezer Devotion, the only son of Rev. Ebenezer (Yale College, 1732), of Scotland Parish, in Windham, Conn., born there Aug. 10,

1740, married June 7, 1764, Eunice, born Sept. II, 1742, daughter of Judge Jonathan and Elizabeth (Rockwell) Huntington, of the same town. Their children were : Ebenezer, born Sept. 27, 1765 ; John, Dec. 22, 1766; Jonathan, Jan. 10, 1769; Eunice, Sept. 6, 1770 ; Martha, Jan. 25, 1773 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 28, 1773 ; and Louis, Nov. 17, 1776.

Mr. Devotion was graduated from Yale College, in 1759, and settled in his native parish as a farmer and as a storekeeper on an extensive scale. As early as May, 1774, he was commissioned a justice of the peace. He served as a representative in the Gen- eral Assembly in four sessions in the year 1775, and again in 1789, 1791, 1794 and 1801. He was prom- inent in the support of the Revolution. An extract from one of his letters, printed by Miss Larned ir. her History of Windham County, shows his pa- triotic spirit. Subsequently he occupied for abou: twenty years before 18II a place on the Bench a: judge of the County Court. One of his sons, John t -.

Devotion, was graduated from Yale College in 1785, but died before his father. The latter died in Scotland parish on July 21, 1829, at the age o eighty-nine.

(VI) Jonathanr Devotion, born Jan. 10, 176g married (first) Roxanna House, and (second) o Nov. 3, 1811, Mrs. Clausse (House) Tyler, widow of Daniel P. Tyler, and a sister of his former wife She died April 5, 1850, and Mr. Devotion died i December, 1843.

John L. Devotion of this article, in young mar hood located in Norwich, beginning a business caree; as clerk in the drug store of Samuel Tyler, and late on he became associated in the same business as partner with William Tyler, the style of the firm be ing Tyler & Devotion. In 1849 the excitement it cident to the discovery of gold on the Pacific coa. allured Mr. Devotion to the coast, but after a sho period there he returned to the city of his adoption and in 1855 he was made cashier of the Shetuck Bank, a position he filled with credit to himself ar to the satisfaction of all interested for twenty year until his death, which occurred at his home on Was' ington street, Feb. 8, 1875. From 1853 on until hi death he was the secretary of the New Londe County Mutual Fire Insurance Co., and was a mei ber of its board of directors. He was also a dire tor of the Chelsea Savings Bank, and of the Sh, tucket Bank.

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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 157

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