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(X) Ephraim Miner (2), born June 22, 1668, married May 24, 1694, Mary Stevens, daughter of Richard and Mary (Linken) Stevens, of Taunton, Mass. Their children were: Ephraim, Thomas, Mary, Henry, Rufus, Bridget, Simeon, Stephen, Samuel and Hannah.
(XI) Simeon Miner, born May 14, 1708, mar- ried March 10, 1731, Hannah Wheeler, born Jan. 12, 1712, and their children were: Hannah, Simeon, Thomas, Keturah, Isaac, Eunice, Lois, Lucy, Grace and William.
(XII) Simeon Miner (2), born Dec. 3, 1733, married (first) Nov. 15, 1753, Anna Hewitt, who died Sept. 12, 1754. He married (second) Feb. I, 1759, May Owen, daughter of Rev. John Owen, of Groton, Conn. One child, Anna, was born of the first marriage, and to the second marriage came chil- dren as follows : Simeon, John O., Elisha, Frederick, Mary, William and Hannah.
(XIII) Frederick Miner, born Sept. 28, 1768, in Stonington, Conn., married Hannah Wood. About 1795 he became a resident of New London, Conn., and there engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a most useful and valuable citizen, and held many important positions of trust, honor and responsi- bility. He was appointed by Gov. Oliver Wolcott cornet of the 3d Troop of Horse in the 3d Regiment of Cavalry Oct. 16, 1797. He died July 9, 1849, in his eighty-first year. His four children, all now de- ceased. were as follows: Hannah, who married (first) Rev. Charles Thompson and (second) Rev. Joel H. Linsley, and died in Brattleboro, Vt. ; Alfred, who followed the sea, and died unmarried, of yel- low fever, in New York, at the early age of twenty- seven ; William, a practicing physician in New Lon- don, where he died, who married (first) Lucy Lor- ing and (second) Phebe Miner ; and Sidney.
(XIV) Sidney Miner, son of Frederick, was in
his boyhood given a good common school ecation, under Dr. Dow. For a time he clerked in a kocery store, and later on tried clerking in a differ t line, entering the employ of Joseph Lawrence, wi whom he afterward became associated in the busess of whaling and sealing. This partnership c unbroken until the resignation of Mr. Law 1844, but was continued by the sons of tha
Vinued e, in entle- man, under the firm name of Miner, Lawrice & Co., until Mr. Miner's withdrawal from firm and retirement from active business in 1855 When he retired from the firm he for a time cated on the coasting trade as a merchant, being i frested in several coasting vessels. He was very sı
essful in all his ventures. In 1851-52 he built on se site of one of the old block houses the handson man- sion house in which he afterward made h thomc. This is a large three-storied building of Eccoed brick, located on Main street, and at the tin of its erection it was one of the finest in the city, {1 even at the present time it is surpassed by fe His widow, family and grandson, Sidney H., st reside there. Mr. Miner was a man of wide bus ss ac- quaintance, and it is safe to say that no m: of his day was more universally respected, his hi repu- tation extending as far as his name was knin.
Mr. Miner's political affiliations were Ith the Democratic party, he being one of the ol Jeffer- sonian type of Democrats, and he remaine ruc to his faith as long as he lived. He held varici public offices, ever performing the duties of each Kh thai care, judgment and ability which were chai teristi. of the man. For some eight or ten years, hore of less, he was one of the city aldermen, also holding other city offices of trust. For many year too, h was a director of the National Whaling Bak. Hi religious connection was with the First ( irch o Christ (Congregational) at New Londor and h was active and useful in its work and usine affairs. He materially aided in the wo1 of th erection of the new church edifice in 1852.
Mr. Miner was twice married. In 18- the w wedded to Mary Ann Ramsdell, of Mansfiel, Con who died in 1843, in New London, at t age twenty-nine years. To this union were In thr children, as follows: Sidney Ramsdell, bor n 183 who died in 1855, aged nineteen years ; M y Fra ces, born in 1838, who resides in Califonia, u married ; and Frederick William, born Sep 6, 184 The latter was successfully engaged in th groce business in Barclay, Pa., for some years, lafr in t clothing business in New London, Conn. He ma ried Jennie Hale, now residing in Californ dlaug ter of Roland Hale, and died in 1888, le ing t sons, Sidney Hale, born Aug. 23, 1868, erick Roland, born Oct. 28, 1870. For |; seco d Fro wife Sidney Miner married, April 23, 184, Lyd Jewett Belcher, daughter of Col. William (Wilson) Belcher, the former of whom hd Sa as a 1 : Jew seve tive of Griswold, Conn., and the latter City. Col. Belcher ran a general store
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ent pl ., whe lieuter! es in Connecticut, and lastly in Granby, he died at the age of eighty years. He t-colonel of a regiment in the war of Colf elcher was the father of the following ren: San, William, Nathan, Charles, Lydia tt, Fre rick and George.
o Sider and Lydia Jewett (Belcher) Miner born |following children : Joseph Lawrence, Oct. 6.845, was associated with his father in ess, a died Sept. 17, 1876; Lydia Belcher, July 20 1853, died Nov. 20, 1854. Mrs. Miner nembeof the First Church of Christ, and has ctive in church work, her interest be- 1 by her advancing years.
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ALE MINER, son of Frederick William r and andson of Sidney Miner, was born in Lond ing w atten Aug. 23, 1868. His early educational begun in the Bulkeley school, and he 1 Upson Seminary, in New Preston, enterit. the Glen Tower Military Academy at s Fer in 188 contrse ne ens ,whi rnally from which institution he was gradu- He then took a two years' post-grad- Upson Seminary. Returning home he red in the real estate and insurance bus- he has since successfully conducted. e is a Mason, has taken the 32d degree at bod and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. r. Mi and o age iously Chur mber
: is a director of the National Whaling a number of other corporations. He for the Connecticut Humane Society. fe is, like all his family, a member of the of Christ, which he is now serving as the board of trustees. Politically he Jemodt, and has served his townsmen as tax tor.
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;0, 1892, Mr. Miner was united in mar- icy Kimball Bishop, daughter of Giles New London. Three children have d thi union : Sidney Bishop, born Aug. 31, : Wa Lawrence, born Jan. 29, 1899; and id Co tock, born Aug. 30, 1903. REDER am
< ROLAND MINER, son of Frederick er,, was born in New London Oct. 28, He ceived his earlier education there and attend! school at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., going the Worcester Academy. After leav- lemy he went to California, where he in the raising of oranges. He now has je grove at Tropico, Cal. He is un-
EROME S. ANDERSON, who comes of an nd ho men oning
rick Anderson, his son, commanded troops in the battle of Long Island g the evolutionary war.
(III) Julius Anderson, son of Patrick, served with Pennsylvania troops in the war of 1812.
(IV) Jerome Schenck Anderson, father of our subject, was born in Schuylkill township, Chester Co., Pa., and was a Baptist clergyman, whose mis- sion it was to establish churches of that denomina- tion at Phoenixville and Schuylkill Valley, Pa. In 1832 he removed to Stonington, and built the First Baptist Church, and later the Anguilla or North East Baptist Church. In 1837 he served as chaplain of the 18th Connecticut Regiment. He was a man of devout life, and died full of good deeds, at Corner Store, Phoenixville, in 1846.
Jerome Schenck Anderson married Catherine Douglass, of Newark, N. J., who came of Scotch ancestry. Her brother, John G. Douglass, was a prominent attorney of Cincinnati. The issue of this marriage was Jerome S. Anderson. After the death of Rev. Mr. Anderson his widow returned to Stonington, where she made her home until her death, in 1892, at the age of seventy years.
Jerome S. Anderson spent his boyhood days in Stonington, attended the private school of Dr. David Hart, and also went to the select school of Miss Lucy A. Sheffield. In 1859 the young man went to' Indianapolis, Ind., and engaged in business, and in April, 1864, he enlisted in Company D, 132d In- diana Infantry, entering the service as corporal; he was mustered out that same fall. During the year 1865 Mr. Anderson met with a very serious accident, losing the sight of his right eye, and at the same time having the sight of the left eye impaired. In order to read he has to look through a jeweler's glass. This did not, however, discourage him, for he conducted successfully a large wholesale and retail grocery establishment at Indian- apolis, Ind., until 1868, when he became a commercial traveler for
a New York tea house. By this time his sight was so im- paired that he was obliged to leave the road, and re- turning to Stonington in 1869 he established the Stonington Mirror. In 1872 he bought the Mystic Journal, which was established in 1859, and in that same year he engaged in an insurance business, rep- resenting the leading fire insurance companies of the country, and doing a general real-estate and loan business as well. Mr. Anderson has been a justice of the peace for thirty years, and is one of the most popular judges in his locality.
The public life of Mr. Anderson has been a var- ied one. He became one of the recognized leaders of the Democratic party of New London county, for two years was State central committeeman, and did valiant service for the party in that capacity. In 1896 he supported William McKinley for President. and since then has been an active worker in the Re- publican party. For thirteen years Mr. Anderson acted efficiently and economically as treasurer of the borough; twenty years he has given his time and attention as a member of the town school board, and eight of these years he was chairman of the district
red family, is one of the leading busi- I public-spirited citizens of the borough n. He was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 22, 3, and his family record is as follows : s Anderson in 1707 came to Philadel- cotland, and settled later in Schuylkill ester Co., Pennsylvania.
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school committee. For twelve years he has been chairman of the town committee, and foremost in every movement calculated to advance the best in- terests of the town.
In social and fraternal organizations Mr. Ander- son has been equally active, having served for eight years as commander of J. F. Trumbull Post, G. A. R. ; he is a member of the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut ; a member of Asylum Lodge, A. F. & A. M. (since 1864) ; and of the A. O. U. W., in which he has been treasurer for three years.
On March 7, 1865, at Indianapolis, Ind., Mr. An- derson married Emma Jane Horn, daughter of Henry J. Horn, a native of Stonington, Conn. Chil- dren as follows have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Anderson : Katherine E., born at Indianapolis, married Henry W. Lamphear, and resides at Ken- yon, R. I .; Jerome S., Jr., born at Indianapolis, now of Stonington, editor of the Stonington Mirror and Mystic Journal, married first Miss Avery, of New London, and second Miss Fitch, of Noank ; Doug- lass, born at Stonington, is an expert toolmaker ; William H. died at the age of four months ; Harry H., a resident of Mystic, married Miss Bentley, and is in the newspaper business with his brother ; Emma V. is of Stonington ; Arthur P., an attorney of Ston- ington and New London, and judge of Probate of the town of Groton, is in the coast artillery ; Charles H. is in the hotel business in New York City; Carl, of Milford, Mass., engaged in the hat manufactur- ing business, married a Miss Fuller of Boston, Mass .; Eugene A., of New York, is engaged in the ribbon business; Malcolm died at the age of one year.
RAYMOND. The name of Raymond has long been familiar in the annals of Connecticut, and the family reputation for worthy and honorable citi- zenship is well maintained in the persons of James Laurence Raymond and James Laurence Raymond, Jr., of New London county, where both are ex- tensive land holders, and the former active in po- litical life.
(I) Richard Raymond appears at Salem, Mass., in 1634, at which time he and his wife Judith were members of the Church there. Mr. Raymond was made a freeman of Salem in the same year. With his sons he seems to have left Salem about 1650, and they scattered themselves along the shore of Long Island Sound. The father settled in Nor- walk, Conn., previous to 1654, and afterward re- moved to Saybrook, where he died in 1692. His children were: John, Bathsheba, Joshua, Lemuel, Hannah, Samuel, Richard, Elizabeth and Daniel.
(II) Joshua Raymond, baptized March 3, 1639, married, Dec. 10, 1659, Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Nehemiah Smith and his wife Ann Bourn. Mr. Raymond was one of the first purchasers of land in the North Parish of New London, where he set- tled. He built a mansion in Montville, which was afterward owned and occupied by his son Joshua.
Mr. Raymond served as commissary of polonia troops in the Pequot war. He was one of com- mittee appointed to survey and lay out a n fronı New London to Norwich-a road afterwa made a turnpike, and became the first incorporat in the United States. For the laying out of this .I Mr. Raymond received a tract of land in Mol; which his mansion was built. He died gril 24. And re- Fragan- 1676, supposedly from the effects of a w ceived in the Great Swamp fight with the N setts, Dec. 19, 1675. His widow remar 1. and her death occurred May 1, 1712. Joshua ymond was the father of the following children : oshua. Elizabeth, Ann, Hannah, Mary, Experie , and Mehetabel.
(III) Joshua Raymond (2), born Sept. 1. 1600, Jame married, April 29, 1683, Mercy, daughter Sands, of Block Island, and they resided 1fre, but Mr. Raymond carried on business in Newtondon. He was necessarily away from home mu of the time, and the care and management of the Ime ai- fairs were left to his wife, who was a winan of great energy and executive ability. Mr. fymond died at his residence on Block sland in I; . The widow and children soon after moved tofeliat is now the town of Montville, Conn., where fe, with Major John Merritt, purchased a tract
tabou 1,500 acres of land. She built a house onthe hill" afterward known as "Raymond's Hill," , which house she and her son Joshua (3) resic. SE died at Lyme, Conn., while on a visit, Ma 8. 1748 aged seventy-eight years. The children bol to the couple, all of record on Block Island, wer Sand- Elizab, Mary, Caleb, Ann and Joshua (3).
(IV) Joshua Raymond (3), born ablt 169; married May 31, 1719, Elizabeth Chr opher daughter of John and Elizabeth (Mulfor Chri tophers. Mr. Raymond settled in Mont le, and was active in the affairs of the town and Churc holding offices of trust in both. He w: sever ate A stice fas con times a representative of the town in the sembly, and from 1738 to 1743 he was a the peace for New London county. He missioned in 1738 lieutenant of the Third
ompar in New London. Both himself and wife uted wi the Church in the North Parish in 172 and was chosen deacon in 1740, sustaining such elation with the church until the time of his dea. M. and Raymond died May 12, 1730, aged thirt married, Nov. 23, 1730, Sarah Lynde, of .ybroo He died. Nov. 12, 1763, and Mrs. Rayrnd di Oct. 19, 1771, aged seventy-five years. [is ch dren were: Elizabeth, Mercy, Joshua (), Jol Edward and Christopher.
(V) Joshua Raymond (4), born Dec 2, 17. married, Oct. 4, 1750, Lucy Jewett, daghter Capt. Nathan and Deborah (Lord) vett, Lyme, Conn. Mr. Raymond settled in ontvi living on a farm which belonged to him He v possessed of fine business ability, and he has act in society and in church affairs. He w seve
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a esentative from New London in the ral A mbly. In 1763 he was chosen deacon, fice he etained until his death, which occurred I4. 90. His widow died Feb. 26, 1811, eighth ne years. Their children were : Mercy,
la, Na an, Josiah, Mulford, Louisa, Charlotte, , Mar, Jewett and Oliver.
VI) Giver Raymond, born Jan. 24, 1771, mar- 1793, Hannah, daughter of Edward d Sarah (Douglas) Raymond. Mr
Oct. hond hond tled in Montville, and owned the farm erly of pied by his great-grandmother, Mercy ds) F mond. Mrs. Raymond died Aug. 20, , and : married, April 2, 1812, Mary Com- , daul ter of Nathaniel and Anna (Stark) stock, ad they removed to Lyme, Conn., where ied Ju 29, 1862. Mrs. Raymond died Feb. 863, ed seventy-eight years. His children : Sam, Oliver, Laura, Hanna, Emeline, Ca- James joseph and Alva (all by the first mar- ) and Mary A., James L., died in infancy, G., A line C., Thaddeus K., Helen L., James ence al Cornelia.
VII) AMES LAURENCE RAYMOND was born 8, in North Lyme, Conn., and there in listric schools received his preliminary edu-
leting his studies in the academy in m, com ;, and
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Haddam. His life has been passed on ld far ly home, and he has become through in- his own efforts one of the largest land rs in e county. Besides general farming he evote considerable time to the raising of thor- bred ss in von cattle, and he has met with great s undertaking. Through his influence of cattle raised in the county has been oved. His extensive dealing in live
tanda ly in gene ly has given him a wide acquaintance, caused lim to become one of the best known in his ne in eastern Connecticut. · olitica le ha
" Mr. Raymond is a stanch Republican, ong been active in party work. being of theleaders in the county. He has served tern
as representative in the State Legisla- and : ) as State Senator. In 1902 he was a er offre Constitutional Convention. He is a of ra judgment and remarkable foresight, s reg led as an adviser and counselor of his
in t section. In his religious belief he is onalist.
31, 1860, Mr. Raymond was united in h Miss Hester E. Wood, daughter of 'oline (Lee) Wood, of Lyme. Their four ren w :: (1) Carrie Lee, born Sept. 3, 1861, jed, I . 12, 1889, Edward Lyman Bill, pub-
of sic Trade Review, by whom she has chile n: Jan Hester Raymond, born Jan. 21, Raymond, born Sept. 23, 1895; and hrop ight, born May 4, 1897. (2) Mary stock, oin July 23, 1863, married, Oct. 23, Fredrick S. Fosdick. (3) Hester Laurence, Mare 22, 1868, married, July 3, 1893, Prof.
Edward Burr Van Vleck, of the Wesleyan Untivers- ity, and has one child, John Hasbrouck, born March 13, 1899. (4) James Laurence, Jr., was born July 18, 1874.
JAMES LAURENCE RAYMOND, JR., was born in North Lyme, and there passed his early years in at- tending the district school. For one year he was a student in the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield, and then for two years he was enrolled at the East Greenwich Academy, after which he spent another year at the Institute at Suffield, completing his schooling at the age of nineteen. Returning home he began active work as a farmer, remaining with his parents until April 1, 1896, when he located in Montville. There he purchased the old David Hillhouse homestead, consisting of 296 acres, and located on "Raymond Hill," named for his ances- tors. In addition to this land in Montville, he also owns 108 acres in North Lyme. He engages in general farming and also in teaming. In all his work he is progressive and enterprising. His farm is fully equipped with the most modern appliances in the way of machinery, and his land receives his utmost care, no labor or expense being spared to make it one of the most attractive places in the County.
On Dec. 21, 1895, Mr. Raymond was united in marriage with Edith May Anderson, daughter of Louis P. and Mary (Dowd) Anderson, of Guilford, Conn., where the former is a carpenter and boat builder. The one child of this union, James Lau- rence, born Feb. 20, 1901, died April 20, 1901. Mr. Raymond is a stanch Republican in politics, but is not an office seeker. Fraternally he is a member of the M. W. A., of Montville. Both he and his wife belong to the Hamburg Congregational Church of North Lyme.
MORGAN. The history of the well known Morgan family reads as follows :
(I) James Morgan, born in Wales in 1607, mar- ried, Aug. 6, 1640, Margery Hill, of Roxbury, Mass., and died in 1685. He was settled in Roxbury at first, having arrived in Boston in April, 1636, and in 1650, he removed to New London, Conn., resid- ing near the present town burial ground in the western suburb of the city of New London. On Dec. 25, 1656, he sold his homestead and removed to what is now the town of Groton, where he became an extensive land holder and dealer in property, se- lectman, deputy to the General Court in 1657, and for nine times thereafter, and was an active and use- ful member of society and the church.
(II) Capt. James Morgan, born March 3, 1644, married, in November, 1666, Mary Vine, of old England, born in 1641. She passed away in 1689. The second wife of Capt. James Morgan bore the name of Hannah, and she was born in 1640, and died in 1711. He died Dec. 8, 1711. He was one of the first two deacons of the first church in Groton, was principal magistrate and transacted the greater
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portion of the civil business in his vicinity for years. He was moderator of the first town meeting, and was first selectman of the town, and became captain of the first town militia in 1692. In 1689 he was one of the deputies to the General Court from New Lon- don, and for the new town of Groton in 1706, and for several years was a commissioner to advance and direct the Pequot tribe of Indians in the manage- ment of their affairs.
(III) Deacon James Morgan was born Feb. 6, 1668. By his wife Hannah he became the father of four children ; she died about 1720. His wife Anna died June 17, 1751, and he died on the old home- stead, May 4, 1748. During a long life, he was act- ive and useful in church and civic affairs, drawing up deeds, wills and similar papers, and his name ap- pears generally as moderator in all town or society meetings.
(IV) James Morgan, Jr., was born in 1693. His first wife, Hannah, died Feb. 2, 1728, and in 1729, he married (second) Mary Morgan, born in 1698, daughter of Capt. John Morgan. He died Aug. 25, 1770, and Mary died Sept. 5, 1776. James Mor- gan, Jr., occupied the old original homestead of the first James, in Groton, he being the fourth lineal oc- cupant of the same name.
(V) Joshua Morgan, born in 1733, married Esther Stoddard, Nov. 13, 1760, and died Oct. 10, 1774. Their children were: Esther, born in 1761, married Jabez Edgecomb; Hannah, born in 1763, married Gilbert Fish ; Joshua, born in 1767, married Jemima Fish ; Mary, born in 1769, married Thomas Edgecomb; Anna, born in 1771, married Robert Williams.
(VI) Joshua Morgan, born in 1767, married Je- mima Fish in 1787, and died July 9, 1796. Their children were: Joshua, born 1788, married Jane Fish ; Roswell, born Nov. 22, 1789, married Jemima Fish ; Gilbert Fish, born in January, 1792, married Catherine Edgecomb; Prentice, born Feb. 22, 1795, married Prudence Breed. Joshua Morgan was a sea- faring man, and resided in Noank.
(VII) Roswell Avery Morgan was born in Noank, Nov. 22, 1789. He engaged in the coasting trade, and was also a ship builder. On Sept. 24, 1814, he married Jemima Fish, daughter of Thomas Fish, who served in the Revolutionary war under Capt. Hungerford. His wife was a descendant of Moses and Martha (Williams) Fish, who were mar- ried in Groton in 1713. Five children, two sons and three daughters, were born to Roswell A. Morgan and wife: Harriet, who died at the age of seven years; Caroline, who married Frederick A. Will- iams, and died aged twenty-two years ; Roswell A., of Noank, mentioned below; Amanda, widow of Perry Bennett, of Springfield, Ill., who died March 9, 1903 ; and Nelson, mentioned below. Both Mr. Morgan and his wife were most excellent people, prominent in social and church matters.
NELSON MORGAN, town clerk of the town of Gro- ton, was born in the village of Noank, July 6, 1830.
Having received a good, practical educationht the age of eighteen years, Mr. Morgan, the you fest in the family of five children, began teaching en the common schools, and followed that profes 11 for about twenty-five years in Rhode Island, (. necti- cut, Michigan and Illinois. He first went Mich- igan in 1852, and after teaching for a few m ths in the town of Allen, Hillsdale Co., Mich., he to Connecticut, and remained there until 18
urned when he made a second trip to the same place, in A ngan, Vester,
and the next year-1858-he went to Wi Ill., as a teacher.
In September, 1862, he enlisted at Jack Inville, Ill., in Co. B, IOIst Ill. V. I., and during his liteen months' service, he rose from private to the ank of second lieutenant. After the war he taught hool in Illinois until 1875. In 1892 he became stati agent at Poquonock Bridge, and by his faithful ance of all duties, soon won the respect a"; confi- ·form- dence of patrons and officials, and was offof the best men in the employ of the Consolidated filroad. He resigned from that position in March, 1 1, and now devotes his entire attention to his duties town clerk.
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