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 47

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Publication date: 1905
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Asa was will eply regret her death. She was a member and com- mun nt of Trinity Episcopal Church, where her husband

is s or warden. Possessed of a deeply sympathetic

natu her many acts of kindness during her life will long be c' ished and her memory held in loving remembrance by a with whom she was acquainted.

I) EDWIN ALLYN ROATH, son of Col. Asa Roa was born in Union street, Norwich. He at- tend the public schools and the old Norwich ny, which was located in the building which Aca is no a portion of the residence of George F. Bard, in on street, and from which he graduated in 1841 when eighteen years old. On that occasion eived a fine gold medal as a prize for best ship, besides eleven other prizes for scholar-

he r scho ship in various branches of study. Among his class ates at that time were Timothy Dwight, of Yale Judge Shipman, Daniel Dorchester and

Chang3 Rockwell.

win Roath inherited much of his father's abil- 1 but for the fact that a mechanical life ap- to him more than a professional career his

name might well have ranked with those of his dis- tinguished classmates. Soon after graduating he began work on the Norwich & Worcester railroad, which gave him an opportunity to indulge his me- chanical turn of mind, and for twenty-seven years he was a locomotive engineer, serving the traveling public with the greatest of care, so that no serious accident happened during that time on his train. He was subsequently appointed station agent at the Ferry street station, where he remained for twenty- three years. At the time of the dedication of the Bunker Hill monument Mr. Roath ran a special train into Boston. After completing fifty years of active service with the railroad company he retired to en- joy the fruits of his labors. In 1868 he bought his residence on Spalding street, and occupied that place from January, 1870, until his death. He also owned two houses on North Main street, built in 1839, and formerly owned by his father, as well as his grand- father's place in Roath street, built about two cen- turies ago, a home in which the Redman always re- ceived kindly treatment, and from which he was never turned away. When Mr. Roath was a boy Greeneville was a large farm, with one house. When he commenced to work for the railroad company Worcester had a population of only 15,000 people, with prospects not as bright as those of Norwich. Politically Mr. Roath was a Democrat ; as a rule he declined any official honors. In disposition he was quiet but genial, and he was held in high esteem. by all his acquaintances. He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. Mr. Roath passed away Aug. 15, 1900, and was laid to rest in Yantic cemetery.

On Feb. 21, 1849, Mr. Roath was united in mar- riage, in Trinity Episcopal Church, by Rev. William F. Morgan, then rector of the church, to Miss Fran- ces M. Rathbone, of Norwich, who was born June 24, 1828, and still survives, making her home with her son, Frank A. She is a daughter of Asa and Fanny (Geer) Rathbone, granddaughter of Asa and Lucy (Brown) Rathbone, great-granddaughter of Abel (Jr.) and Ann (Gates) Rathbone, and great- great-granddaughter of Abel Rathbone (or Rath- bun), of Salem, Conn., where the family in past years have had numerous representatives. This branch of the Rathbones traces its lineage to Richard Rathbun, born in 1574 in England, who came to Ipswich, Mass. On Feb. 21, 1899, Mr. and Mrs. Roath celebrated the golden anniversary of their wedding. Two children were born to this union : (I) Francis Edwin, born Nov. 5, 1851, who died Nov. 30, 1853 ; and (2) Frank Allyn, born April 18, 1857, who is mentioned below.

(VI) LOUIS PHILIPPE ROATH, named by an aunt who was an admirer of the French "citizen king," was born on Christmas Day, 1833, in Norwich, his birthplace being near what is now North Main street, near the bank of the Shetucket river. He received his education in the public schools of Norwich, which he attended up to 1850, when he left school and took a position as fireman on the old Norwich &

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Worcester railroad, on which his elder brothers were employed. After serving fifteen months as a fireman he was promoted to locomotive engineer, and in September, 1852, at the age of eighteen, he became engineer of a passenger train, continuing in that capacity until 1868, when he resigned this po- sition to become engineer in the newly constructed railroad shops of the company at Norwich (remov- ing his family there), and there he remained for twenty-four years. In December, 1892, at the solic- itation of his employers, he again went on the road, and continued thus until Jan. 10, 1895, when he left the railroad service, after over forty years of faith- ful work. He has since lived retired.

On Jan. 21, 1857, Mr. Roath was united in mar- riage, in Worcester, Mass., with Miss Laura E. Sea- grave, who was born Jan. 21, 1839, in Worcester. Two sons have blessed this union, Clarence P. and Walter. Clarence P. Roath, born Dec. 12, 1857, re- ceived his education in the public schools of Nor- wich, and soon after leaving school entered the office of the Norwich & New York Transportation Co., with which he remained a year. He was then em- ployed in the office of the Norwich & Worcester railroad shops, and is now a conductor on the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. His home is at Webster, Mass. He has been twice married, his first wife having been Miss Fannie E. Andrews, who died in August, 1896. For his second wife he married Miss Elizabeth S. Service. They have no children. Walter Roath, born Dec. 24, 1861, at- tended the public schools of Norwich, and at the age of sixteen became an apprentice in the United States navy, serving for four years. During that time he visited the ports along the Atlantic coast and the neighboring islands. He then became a fireman on the railroad between Frovidence and Willimantic, receiving promotion in time to the position of en- gineer, and he is now a freight engineer on that road. He married Miss Ella F. Burnham, of Scar- borough, Maine, and they have one daughter, Laura Louise.

Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Roath make their home in a nice residence in Roath street, which he erected in 1869 ; the land on which it stands came to him from his father, and has been in the family name for sev- eral generations. Mr. Roath is a Democrat in poli- tics. He has never sought office, though he served one term in the common council. Fraternally he af- filiates with Montacute Lodge, F. & A. M., of Worcester, Mass., and with the Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers. His religious connection is with Trinity Episcopal Church, in which his son Clarence also holds membership.

(VII) FRANK ALLYN ROATH, son of the late Edwin A. Roath, was born April 18, 1857, in Nor- wich, and obtained his education in the public schools and Norwich Free Academy. Soon after leaving school he entered the employ of the old Norwich & Worcester Railroad Co., in the capacity of clerk. After remaining with them eleven years he resigned

to accept the position of freight clerk with the Nc. wich & New York Transportation Co., which he a ceptably filled for four years, at the end of that tin becoming purser of the steamer "City of Worcester He continued thus for ten years, until Septembe 19( 3, when he resigned after a period of twenty-fi years of service. Mr. Roath is a stanch Democra but, like his father, he has never desired office. F. has also followed in the footsteps of his ancestors i the matter of religious affiliation, belonging to Tri ity Episcopal Church.

On June 20, 1894, Mr. Roath was married, it Worcester, Mass., to Gertrude Hakes, a native c that city, daughter of Henry Babcock and Ann Williams (Woodward) Hakes. Henry B. Hake was a native of Preston, Conn., and died in Wor cester. His wife is a native of North Stonington Conn., and now resides in Washington, Pa. Mrs Roath is a descendant of the Stantons, Averys Chesbroughs, Denisons, and Miners, all old fami lies of Stonington and vicinity. In the Stanton line she traces her lineage back to Thomas, who mar- ried Catherine Washington, who was a granddaugh ter of Robert Bateman, from whom the Bateman an- cestry is traced back to the year 1045. Anna Will- iams (Woodward) Hakes, Mrs. Roath's mother, is a daughter of Appleton and Mary (Williams) Wood- ward, the latter a daughter of Wareham Williams, of Stonington, who was born Feb. 19, 1759. He was a noted school teacher of his time, and also saw serv -. ice in the war of the Revolution, entering the service in 1779 as a private in the company commanded by Capt. William Stanton, of Stonington. They marched to Fort Griswold, where he spent two months, being under Capt. William Latham and Col. William Led- yard, who later were heroes of the battle of Groton' Heights. In May, 1780, Wareham Williams re- enlisted for one year, becoming a private in the com- pany of Capt. William Latham, and was located at Fort Griswold, where he served until May, 1781. On Aug. 9, 1832, he applied for a pension from North Stonington, and was granted one for fourteen months' actual service. Later his widow received a pension. Mrs. Roath is a member of Faith Trumbull Chapter, D. A. R., and in 1901 and 1902 served as regent of same. In 1903 she was a delegate from the chapter to the National Congress of Daughters held at Washington, D. C.

JOHN ADLY COGGESHALL, in his day one of the leading citizens and merchants of Montville, New London county, was born Feb. 28, 1830, in Mansfield, Tolland Co., Conn. He was a son of John Coggeshall and a grandson of John Cogges- hall, and came of a Rhode Island family whose early ancestors were among the more wealthy and prom- inent of the founders of the Providence Planta- tions.

John Coggeshall, the progenitor of this family, was born in 1599 in the County of Essex, England. The family there was of Norman origin and pos-

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sess .of large estates in Essex and Suffolk, includ- le Manor of Little Coggeshall and Codham Wethersfield, in the vicinity of Coggeshall- on-1"-Blackwater. The oldest families, following ages of the Normans, wrote their names with eposition, as Thomas de Coggeshall, who was ner of these vast estates in the reign of King en of Bloss, grandson of the Conqueror, 1135-

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Ste1 II54 Five of the family, several of whom were knig s, were sheriffs of Essex, which until 1556 inchi ed Herefordshire. Coggeshall Abby, the most fams of the Cistercian order, was built by King Step n, 1142, and endowed by his Queen, Matilda of Hilogne, and his son, Eustace, with their lands n Fince.

e coat of arms of the Coggeshalls of Essex, fron whom John Coggeshall, the emigrant New id settler, descended, indicates their connec- Eng ion ith the Crusades, and is probably one of the oldes in English heraldry.

Jan Coggeshall, who was a merchant, emi- grate to New England in 1632, arriving in Boston ship "Lion," and bringing with him his wife

on th Mar and three children, John, Joshua and Ann. He a his wife soon joined the church at Roxbury, form that year. He removed to Boston in 1634, ind i April became a member of that church, with vhici his wife also became connected, and he was soon losen a deacon. He was one of the first boardof selectmen of Boston, 1634, was also a lepu1 that year, and served in the same capacity ever imes. He was one of the seventy-five sup- orte of Anne Hutchinson, who were disarmed. Ie w'one of sixteen persons who, in 1638, went o Piridence and bought from the Narragansetts he is ad of Aquidneck, subsequently called Rhode slan They soon became incorporated in a body

politi nd began the settlement of Pocasset ( Ports-

noutl . Mr. Coggeshall was one of the leading nen q Portsmouth who settled in Newport in 1639. n 16 : Portsmouth and Newport were united, and Mr. (ggeshall was chosen one of the assistants. de ha been one of the elders in Portsmouth chosen 1 16. In 1644 the several settlements were nitec becoming Providence Plantations, but the rgan tion was not effected until 1647. Mr. Cog- esha? became president of Providence Plantations nd d: . in office, about Nov. 23, 1647. His widow ied I :. 19, 1684.

children of John and Mary Coggeshall ere : t Ne (I) John, born in England about 1618, died bort, R. I., Oct. I, 1708. He held several iffer offices during his father's lifetime, was cting major port.

governor in 1689-90, and was appointed [ the militia in 1684. He resided in New- 2) Joshua, born in England in 1623, died Por mouth, R. I., May 1, 1688. (3) Ann, born Eng nd in 1626, died at Newport March 6, 1687 168 (4) Hanniel, baptized in Boston May 3, 5) Wait, baptized in Boston Sept. 11, 1636, >35.

died May 9, 1718. (6) Bedaiah, baptized in Bos- ton July 30, 1637.

The descendants of John and Mary Coggeshall were much honored with public office, and many of the name were soldiers in the Revolution. Of later generations, Rev. Samuel Wilde Coggeshall, D. D., a scholarly man and able and eloquent divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Freeborn Cog- geshall, an Episcopal clergyman and Hon. Henry J. Coggeshall, lawyer and legislator as well as pub- lic lecturer, have worthily worn the name.

John Coggeshall, grandfather of John A., resided in Newport, R. I., where he died. In his family of children was a son, John.

John Coggeshall, father of John A., was born in Newport, R. I., and died in Mansfield, Conn. He was twice married, and by his first wife there were six children. Mr. Coggeshall married for his sec- ond wife, Mrs. Betsey ( Parsons) Jennings, by whom he had one child, John Adly, whose name introduces these lines. Mrs. Coggeshall had eight children by her first marriage. John and Betsey (Parsons) Coggeshall moved from Rhode Island to Mansfield, Conn., making the trip by boat to Norwich, whence they were taken to Mansfield by ox-team. There Mr. Coggeshall settled down to farming, which was his main occupation through- out life. He was a quiet, unassuming man, zealous in religious matters, and he and his wife were in- strumental and active in organizing the first Baptist church in Mansfield, of which they became con- sistent and devoted members. In politics Mr. Cog- geshall was a stanch old-line Democrat.

John. Adly Coggeshall began his schooling in his native town of Mansfield, later attending school at Springfield, Mass. On leaving school he came to Montville, and clerked in a general store for sev- eral years, during which time, by economy, he man- aged to save enough from his earnings to purchase the general store of William Cardwell, in Uncas- ville, town of Montville. He continued to conduct that establishment for over thirty years, when, ill health overtaking him, he sold out in 1890 and re- tired. Mr. Coggeshall was uniformly successful in his mercantile enterprise, and by thrift and close application to business during his active years ac- cumulated a comfortable competence, leaving his wife and family in good circumstances. He was a poor boy when he came to Montville, but with a strong determination to succeed in life, backed by untiring industry and excellent habits, he prospered, and he not only attained an enviable standing in the business world from a financial standpoint, but won and retained the respect and good-will of his fellow townsmen generally. His success was not merely a matter of dollars and cents. He was es- teemed and trusted, as was evidenced in the sup- port he received on the various occasions when he was nominated for public honors, for though he was a business man in the strictest sense of the

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word he found time to serve the interests of his community in many ways. He served several terms as selectman, being a member of that board for many years, was town clerk from 1854 to 1855, held numerous other local offices, and represented the town of Montville in the General Assembly in 1880- 81. His political connection was with the Demo- cratic party, of which he was a stanch supporter, and in religion he was a Baptist, holding member- ship in the church at Willimantic, Conn. Fra- ternally he was a Mason, affiliating with Oxoboxo Lodge, No. 116, of Montville.

On Nov. 29, 1852, Mr. Coggeshall was married, at Montville, to Mary Sibel Cardwell, who was born Sept. 1, 1831, and was the eldest child of Wil- liam nad Rebecca (Landphere) Cardwell, of Mont- ville. Mrs. Coggeshall survives her husband, who passed away May 22, 1892, in Uncasville. The four children born to this union also survive, namely : (I) Mary Effie, born April 29, 1856, in Montville, was married June 26, 1884, to John T. Baker, who is a pharmacist by profession, and they live in Wil- limantic, Conn. They have six children, Florence, Frederick, Mary, William, Helen and Theodore. (2) William Augustus, born July 24, 1857, in Mont- ville, married Oct. 25, 1881, Maria Witter, of Mont- ville ; they have no family. He is a traveling sales- man for an Oregon firm. (3) Mason Jennings, born Feb. 16, 1862, in Montville, was married June 20, 1886, to Anna J. Palmer, of Montville, and they have three children, Agnes, John Adly and Mason. He was for years traveling salesman for J. T. Pow- ers & Co., grocers of New York City. (4) Everett Winslow, born Oct. 28, 1871, in Montville, suc- ceeded his father in the mercantile business in Mont- ville, and has served his native town as clerk for two years, 1894 to 1896. He was married Feb. 9, 1893, to Rose Partello, of Montville; they have no children.

CHARLES E. WHEELER, secretary and gen- eral manager of the Standard Machine Company, of Mystic, was born Oct. 24, 1845, in New York City. His father, grandfather and grandmother were all natives of England, and in that country the grand- father was a ship chandler.

Edward Wheeler, the father of Charles E. Wheeler, was an excellent musician, and had his own band in New York City. He married Lucinda Lockwood, of Westport, Fairfield Co., Conn., and they had six children: Jane, Mrs. C. W. Perry, of Bridgeport; Eunice, deceased; Albert Henry, of New York City ; Charles E. ; Sarah Comstock, Mrs. J. H. Carpenter, of East Orange, N. J. ; and George, who died young.

Charles E. Wheeler was educated in the schools of New York City, which he attended until he was thirteen years of age, after which he lived on the farm in Long Island with his grandparents until he was sixteen. At that time he commenced clerking in his father's grocery store in New York City, and sub-

sequently engaged in that business for h Irvington, N. J. On leaving Irvington, Mr.

elf at theeler made his home in Newark, proper, where haontin- ued to reside for thirteen years, and then moved years, During @rk for with York Rose, to Caldwell, N. J., where he lived for t from that place coming to Mystic in 1902. all of this time he was employed in New four years, being in the machinery busir T. W. and C. B. Sheridan on Read street, M City. The following ten years he was wa McAlpin & Co., the largest leather dealer A New York City, and then again worked for the feridan Company.

The Standard Machine Company of Mtic, of which Mr. Wheeler is secretary and gene man- ager, is one of the live and thriving inde fries of the place, and turns out book-binding minery, printing and embossing presses, die-cuttingfachin- ery and a continuous book-trimmer.

Since locating at Mystic, Mr. Wheele Las be- come very prominently identified with the 1} of the community, and has heartily supported eve more- ment which promised to be of benefit or val to the public. He is an active member of the Vifge Im- provement Society. He has always been afearnest Church and Sunday-school worker. At vington he united with the Reformed Church, was hember of the Presbyterian Church at Newark a Call- well, and upon his removal to Mystic j ed the Congregational Church, in whose work he Is taken a zealous interest. He was an elder in th Presby- terian Church at Caldwell for eight year resign- ing upon his removal to Mystic, where in january, 1904, he was elected deacon to succeed the le Dea- con Elias Williams. He is also deeply int :sted in the Sunday-school work. Fraternally he a mem-

ber of the Royal Arcanum.

In 1882 Mr. Wheeler married Emma of Brooklyn, N. Y., a descendant of the ol Stantor family of Stonington, Conn. Their chilen art Edna L., Norton Cooper and John Rando?

LADD. The Ladds of eastern Conne cut de- scend from the Haverhill, Mass., fami of the name, reference here being confined to t, family and lineage of Samuel J. P. Ladd, the lar form- erly a representative in the Connecticut sembly postmaster of Canterbury, and a man of p ninence and usefulness through a long life, and 10, 100) venerable in years, is passing the evening his li. with a son, Dr. Samuel P. Ladd, in Mocho. An- other son, Arthur Clinton Ladd, is now pijident of the Jewett City Water Works and deput collect of internal revenue in charge of the First I ision the District of Connecticut.

On their grandfather Ladd's side th childres of Samuel J. P. Ladd are direct descendan pf Eldar William Brewster, the leader of the Pilgen Bar who landed from the "Mayflower" on lymouth Rock in 1620. They are descendants in e eight generation from Daniel Ladd, the 'emigr t ances-

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s branch of the family, their lineage being Samuel, David, Samuel (2), Samuel (3), .P. and Samuel J. P. Ladd.

Daniel Ladd came in the ship "Mary and m London in 1633-34, and appears first of Ipswich in 1637, when he was granted 1648 he sold this land, upon which he had use, to Henry Kingsbury, and in the deal rred to as of Haverhill, County Norfolk. was at Salisbury in 1639, and removed to verh of which town he was one of the original He was a very energetic and enterprising held many positions of trust and respon- He died at Haverhill July 27, 1693, and inn, whose maiden name is not known to away Feb. 9, 1694. His children were : Daniel, Lydia, Mary, Samuel, Nathaniel, d Sarah.

amuel Ladd, born Nov. 1, 1649, in Haver- , małed, Dec. I, 1674, Martha Corliss, daugh- of G rge Corliss. Mr. Ladd lived in the West rish. e was captured and killed by the Indians ing hay from a field Feb. 22, 1698. His "ere : Daniel, Lydia, Samuel, Nathaniel, hvid, Jonathan, Abigail, John and Joseph. David Ladd, born April 13, 1689, married . I, 1716, Hepzibah Hazen, of Rowley ; en ha ldren ekiel, (III "st) died rch 2 dren arch 20, 1728, and he married (second) 1729, Mary Waters, of Colchester. His ere : Azubah, Hepzibah, Bethsheba, Han- lah, David, Samuel, Ezekiel, Daniel, Abi-

Jere and oner.

(IV) Samuel Ladd, of Franklin, Conn., born 30, served in the Revolutionary army er Chain Throop of Lebanon. On Jan. 15, ,, he trried Hannah Hyde, daughter of Jacob. die Feb. II, 1775. Their children were : id, E abeth, Jacob, Hannah and Samuel.

V) muel Ladd, born Oct. 17, 1768, married gail I 1d, daughter of Abner, and was of ıklin, onn. Their children were: Jedediah P. n in 1gust, 1796), Hannah, Alvirah and Car- VI) dediah Perkins Ladd, born in August, ed March 16, 1820, Eliza Brewster, a dant of Elder William Brewster of the

, ma it des vflow " Their children were: Lovisa E. and 1el J. VII) amuel J. F. Ladd, son of Jedediah P., bornept. 9, 1822, in the town of Franklin, H was reared on a farm and educated in listric and select schools of his native town. ied when he was a lad of thirteen, and he responsibilities of the farm were ather that y up him. Naturally robust, his habits of 'ndedo his best physical development, and he. edl hi maturity with a constitution and power lurar coul the nt tc worth more to him than any pecuniary e as a preparation for the stern duties before him. At the age of twenty-two shtabula county, Ohio, bought a drove

of 355 head of cattle, and drove them to his farm in Franklin, being forty-eight days on the road. He has from that time onward dealt more or less in cat- tle and horses, and very largely in real estate. In 1846 he contracted to draw granite of which the Nathan Hale monument was constructed, and this he did with an ox team, personally driving the team on the several trips necessary, back and forth, twen- ty-two miles each way.

In 1856 and for some years afterward, Mr. Ladd was temporarily a resident of Hartford. During this time he became a member of the Old Fourth Church. He was actively instrumental in assisting to organize the Republican party in that year, and became prominent among the politicians of Con- necticut in the first Lincoln campaign. In 1861 he represented the town of Franklin in the State Legis- lature. It was during this year that the new town of Sprague was created from adjoining portions of the old towns of Franklin and Lisbon. Mr. Ladd went to the Legislature a citizen of Franklin; he re- turned to his home at the close of the session a citi- zen of Sprague. Previous to this time when Gov. Sprague (Sr.) of Providence, first contemplated the purchase of water power and the erection of a man- ufacturing plant on the Shetucket river, where the village of Baltic now stands, he employed Mr. Ladd to accomplish the difficult feat of buying all the real estate contemplated in his proposed purchase, at a given price, from the twenty-seven owners who then held it. This Mr. Ladd succeeded in doing, ob- tained the twenty-seven deeds, and was directly in- strumental in the erection of the village of Baltic some years after the Baltic privilege was taken up. He was employed by the younger Spragues to se- cure all the water rights between Baltic and Will- imantic, fifty-five feet fall-equal to two such privi- leges at Baltic-which would have been occupied if the Spragues had not met with financial reverses.

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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 47

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