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 65

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Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
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On June 28, 1855, Mr. Morgan married irginia Haley, daughter of Henry Haley, and grailaugh- ter of Elisha Haley, often a member of tl Legis- lature, and twice a Congressman. The chilen born of this union were: (1) Henry Archer lied at Groton Center when sixteen months of a . (2) John A., born at Bethel, Morgan Co., Ill., Mrch 23. 1861, received his education in the school of Ill nois, and after the family returned to Conne cut, ho entered the employ of Brainard & Armst maining with them eight years, five of ng, re hich h lowin: traveled as salesman in New York, and this he was a commercial traveler until IEl, when the territory of the Cherokee nation was oned fo settlement, and he went there, making it is resi dence for six months ; in 1894, he became ssistan town clerk of Groton. On Jan. 4, 1888, john Morgan married Hattie Rathbone Potter, fought of James Potter, of Noank, and she die Jan. . 1892. On Nov. 7, 1896, he married (secc ) Hat riet Slocomb Storey. They have three ughte -Mary Virginia, Marjorie Storey and Mil ed Fa John A. Morgan is a member of the New Londe Historical Society, and is well known in 1 : line genealogical research.


Nelson Morgan has been a Republican ince ti birth of that party. For ten years he was memb of the board of education ; six years he


rved justice of the peace, and in 1894, he was eleed tov clerk of Groton, which office he still holds. In 18; he was made a Mason, in Charity Lodge Myst and is a member of Charity and Relief Lode at th place. He is also a member of Williams JIst G. R., at Mystic. In every respect Mr. Nelsc Morg is a man of substance, whose word is accep d as a other man's bond, and he holds the confidence of constituents.


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ROSWELL AUGUSTUS MORGAN was born 16, in Noank, Conn., the eldest child of very and Jemima (Fish) Morgan. He public schools of Groton, and the Con- erary Institute of Suffield, Conn. Ac- iowledge of boat building with his father, ter's death he continued the business for or until 1890.


29, 1839, Roswell Augustus Morgan rgaret Wilbur, daughter of William and ly (Ing aham) Wilbur. The children born to Harriet, born Dec. 18, 1842, married, 9, Capt. Charles Ira Chester, and their


mn we: . 2, 1 dre re: Wayland (born March 10, 1870), rry W our (born Nov. 27, 1872, died Oct. 22, el Webster (born Oct. 31, 1876). Eme- rn March 12, 1845, married, Dec. 22, es H. Weaver, of Shannock, R. I., and en were: Margaret (born in April, 1866,


7), D W., 4, Ch r chil ried yerett Potter), Harriet, Charles (who ried In a Hoxie). Francis Wayland, born Sept. 1850 mentioned farther on. Augustus Vin- arch 14, 1858, married, is also mentioned


A. Morgan for many years was a mem- Baptist Church of Noank, of which he eacon for a long time prior to his death. ook an active part in the conduct of town steadily refused nomination for the lead- sitions. Politically he was a Prohibition- h first a Whig and then a Republican. ng ind strious, frugal, honest, he well made his ; in th ored.


vorld, and was most highly respected and Deacon Morgan was truly a representative of Munk, and one of whom nothing but good be sa He died at his home in Noank May 21, vas buried in the cemetery there. Mrs. resides at Noank, and like her late hus- en a member of the Baptist Church for 4, and rgan 1 has ly yea FRAN gan,


WAYLAND MORGAN, son of Roswell A. as born in Noank, Conn., Sept. 27, 1850. was en cated in the public schools of Noank, the stic V itute. at V Vincl ey Institute and the Connecticut Literary After leaving school he taught for some tch Hill, R. I., Old Mystic, Conn., and ter, Ill. He then engaged in boat build- at Nok with his father and brother, until about D, and ·er. e is an expert machinist and marine en- r the past fourteen years he has devoted 1 to lobster fishing, and he has also built e of his boats is a curiosity on the coast. iliary power boat, the main mast of which e stack, and this fact has often caused g him to tell him that his main mast was


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23, 1877, Mr. Morgan married, at Bran- Ella, daughter of William E. and Eunice cranton) Graham, and granddaughter Scranton. The children born to Mr. . W. Morgan are: Leroy G., born Sept.


10, 1878, is a marine engineer upon the N. Y., N. H. & H. railroad transfers ; he married in New York City, Miss Katherine Mclaughlin. Lottie Idlella was born Dec. 28, 1883.


AUGUSTUS VINTON MORGAN, son of Roswell A. Morgan, was born in Noank, Conn., March 14, 1858. He was educated in the public schools at Noank, and the Mystic Valley Institute, and learned the machin- ist's trade with the Cottrell & Babcock Company, manufacturers of printing presses at Westerly, R. I. He then engaged in boat building with his father and brother in Noank, and for a time was a marine engineer. For the last fourteen years, like his brother, he has devoted his attention to lobster fish- ing.


On May 31, 1882, Mr. Morgan married Pru- dence Mary Fish, daughter of William S. and Lois Mary (Davis) Fish. Two children have been born of this happy marriage: Mary Grace, born March 8, 1883; and Edith Elizabeth, born Sept. 19, 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are members of the Baptist Church at Noank, of which Mr. Morgan is deacon. They are very prominent in Noank and vicinity, as are all the members of the Morgan family, and they have many friends, who know and appreciate their many excellent qualities.


EDWARD F. BURLESON, proprietor of the flourishing thread factory in Jewett City, has had twenty-five years of experience as a manufacturer. Wise, conservative management, yet courageous in undertaking new ventures-traits he has undoubt- edly largely inherited from his cultivated and intel- ligent ancestors-have been promoters of his success.


A family by the name of Burleson, probably a connection of this particular branch, settled in Vir- ginia at an early date, and some of their descendants afterward went West. As a County in Texas bears the name, and as that State has made it a point to name its counties after the heroes who lost their lives in the battle of the Alamo, it is possible that some of the Virginia stock settled in that region, and that one of them at least fought in that famous battle for Texan independence. However this may be, tradi- tion says that this particular family descends from Sir Edward Burleson, a native of England, who in Colonial days came to America, and settled in the present town of Preston, Connecticut.


Edward Burleson, grandfather of Edward F., was probably born in West Greenwich, Rhode Isl- and, where he spent many years of his early life. Ambitious and enterprising as a youth he learned the shoemaker's trade, which for many years of his mature life he followed for an occupation. He also engaged in farming, and during the last years of his life carried on this pur- suit in the town of Plainfield. Here both he and his wife died, and both are buried in the Moosup cemetery. Her name was Sarah (Ladd), and to them were born five children: Rowena, who never married, is now deceased and buried in the


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Moosup cemetery. Allen Briggs, born Nov. 29, 1816, is mentioned below. Sarah, now deceased, married Erastus Prior, of Jewett City, and they had four children, Charles, Helen, George and Judson. Lucy, also deceased, married Dennis Wheelock of Uxbridge, Mass., and they had three children, H. L. (who is now in business in Jewett City), Helen and Eliza- beth. William, deceased, married Sarah Grover, and they had two sons, John B., born in 1853; and Allen B .. who is now working for the Willimantic Linen Company, at Willimantic.


Allen Briggs Burleson, father of Edward P., achieved both wealth and a good name for him- self in the world of business. Wisdom, forethought and strict attention to the matter in hand were his guiding stars, and won for him the unbounded con- fidence of the various manufacturing concerns he so ably represented, and gave him prestige in his own particular ventures. He was born in West Greenwich, R. I., in 1816. Upon reaching manhood he went to Sterling, Conn., and secured a position in the Stone Mill of that place, where he remained for some time acquiring much valuable knowledge of use to him in later years. After a while he left this place to accept a more desirable position in a mill at Slatersville, R. I. So rapid was his progress that in the forties he was enabled to obtain the superin- tendency of the John W. Slater Mill in Jewett City. A short test proved he had marked ability for direct- ing affairs, that his knowledge of the business was sound, and that his skill in handling men was admir- able, and he retained this position until 1864. In that year he was called to Willimantic to fill the re- sponsible place as agent for the Willimantic Linen Company. Keeping the welfare of his firm ever in mind he advanced their interests materially in his section, and commanding for himself a large salary, continued this line of work for sixteen years. By this time, 1880, having amassed considerable wealth, he decided to go into business for himself, and re- turning to Jewett City began looking about for an opening. The little hamlet of Clayville just north of Jewett City seemed to be a desirable location, and a thread factory an establishment affording a propi- tious outlook. In company with his son Edward F., however, he had fairly put the mill in good run- ning order, and started what promised to be a flour- ishing industry, when the Slater Mill Company of- fered the most flattering inducements to secure his services as agent, which after due consideration. he accepted. Filling the place to the entire satisfaction of all parties he remained with the firm until his death, which occurred Dec. 29, 1887. His business management was always characterized by the strict- est attention to details, and marked honesty and in- tegrity. That his services were always in demand and his retentions by his various employers long ones, speak more than words of his success.


Mr. Burleson married Mary W. Fanning, who


is still living, and they had four children: Ed F., mentioned below ; Charles A., born Nov. 8, who died Nov. 9, 1876; John W. F., born Dec2. 1858, who died Feb. 27, 1890; and Mary W., March 3, 1861, who married Rev. George B. H of Berkeley, Cal., and has two daughters, Ma! and Marguerite. Mr. Burleson always evinc keen interest in public affairs, and as a Repub (n. never afraid to speak his mind, was influenti fm local politics.


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Edward F. Burleson was born in Gris Conn., March 14, 1854. Coming of a fami means and culture, and himself displaying a Fy and clination toward intellectual pursuits, after prin- The inary training in the public schools of Griswol for -2 čar a short time, and Willimantic for a conside ple i. IO period, he entered the Highland Military Acachy, at Worcester, Mass. Completing his course ire, he took a course at the Institute of Technolo : in .. Fdo Boston. Having been thoroughly prepared fc the work in the last named institution, on leaving spol : The he accepted a position as machinist for the 'lli- mantic Linen Company. This place proved a god xd.i stepping stone, and he was soon put in charge c No. Din I Mill, performing his duties with ability, an fac- quiring power in directing affairs of much va ? to sig il him soon afterward. In 1880, as has been ited, at; he entered into partnership with his father, ar be- "For gan the manufacture of thread at Clayville und .. when his father assumed the agency for the [ter Mills, he still continued the business, having fow dia practically the entire charge of the factory. Ming a a thoroughly reliable article he worked up a frge trade, and was enabled to give employment to fxty tn men and women. His business became prof ble, - and he continued it until 1893, when the mil vas destroyed by fire, and he decided not to rebt


in this same place. Purchasing a privilege c|the Spearmint Brook in Jewett City, he erected a 1 1 in that place, where he- has since continued the 1 nu- facture of thread. He employs thirty menand women, is turning out a very superior article, d is enabled from year to year to enlarge his bu:fess. He is well known throughout his section, and i be- ing recognized as a leading manufacturer.


On Oct. 31, 1876, Mr. Burleson married Rjerta Hallam, daughter of Rev. Isaac Hallam, who the early days preached in Chicago, and in late life officiated as pastor of churches in Willimant |and New Canaan, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Burlesorfave had five children : Roberta F., born Jan. 17. 381, died Aug. 30, 1888; Mary Hallam, born Ju 14, 1883; Charles Allen, born June 13, 1887: Jean Courtney, born April 1, 1890; and Dorothy W porn Feb. 26, 1892. Mr. Burleson's close applicat.În to business has left him but little time for the pe pri- ance of public duties. He is well informed how- ever, and keeps himself abreast of the times On political questions he has firm convictions, al he always votes the Republican ticket.


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NTEETON. One of the most noted and hilies Connecticut is the Huntington fam- brand of which settled in Lebanon. Hunt- like ny of the modern family names in 1. wał riginally referred to as a title of honor thful ervant of a grateful king. The fam- in the eleventh century was closely o rov! blood. The progenitor of the Amer- wasf imon Huntington, who was born in 1, wl 'e he married, probably, Margaret of Niwich, or its immediate vicinity in lied on the voyage to this country, of 533, and his body was consigned to


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The church records of Roxbury, contal the earliest account of the Hunt- name ting ancie 1 New England, and this is in the Rev. John Eliot himself, the pastor church. It reads as follows: "Mar- untin on, widow, came in 1633. Her hus- ed by with


Le way of the smallpox. She brought 'er." These children were: William, , Chistopher, Simon and Ann. She was , it is pposed, in 1635 or 1636, to Thomas on, tlf of Dorchester, Mass., and they re- sor, Conn. Her husband became a nt ma being the deputy from that ancient nes, to the General Court.


ington, son of Simon and Margaret, his youth in Windsor, Conn. He


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1629 in England, and was therefore our yirs of age when he was brought to He went to Saybrook with his brother d' there in October, 1653, he married ughter of Joseph Clark, of Windsor, Sayb k. In 1660 he joined the Colonists Norwich, and thenceforward he le first of that important settlement Chuil- and State. He was chosen soon remd. 1 to Norwich, Deacon of Mr. Fitch's in w ch office he served until, in conse- of his


Infirmities, he was succeeded by his 696. 1 1674 and in 1685 he represented 111 t


General Court. Simon Huntington ırge id holder and an enterprising man. h occ red in Norwich June 28, 1706, aged


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seven ears, and Sarah his wife died in ed ei ty-eight years. Their children were : . in Saybrook in August, 1654, mar- orwi Nov. 23, 1676, Dr. Solomon Tracy, in I 3. (2) Mary, born August, 1657, in k, ma ied a Mr. Forbes, of Preston. (3) porn Saybrook, Feb. 6, 1659, was taken trente Norwich in the spring of the next lied n of 8, 1683, he married Lydia Gager, v. 2, 1736. He succeeded his father : Church. (4) Joseph, born in Nor- pten r, 1661, married Rebecca Adgate. ted a Windsor in 1687, and in 1729 was of the Church. His death occurred leacon I747 infan


(5) Elizabeth, born February, 1664, (6) Samuel was born March I,


1665. (7) Elizabeth (2), born Oct. 6, 1669, married Joseph Backus. (8) Nathaniel, born in July, 1672, died young. (9) Daniel, born March 13, 1675, or 1676, married (first) Abigail Bingham, and ( sec- ond) Rachel Wolcott, of Windham. (10) James, born May 18, 1680, married Priscilla Miller ; he be- came prominent in Norwich, and there died Sept. 3,1727.


Lieutenant Samuel Huntington, son of Simon, was born in Norwich. He removed to Lebanon in 1700, having sold his house and lot in Norwich for a parsonage. Before his removal he had become a public man, having filled several offices, being as early as 1692 appointed constable, having already been one of the townsmen. He was much beloved and respected both in Norwich and Lebanon, and was a large land owner in both places. For his services as military manager he was entered on the records as lieutenant, a title in those days won only by a true martial bearing, and intended as a most honorable distinction. On Oct. 29, 1686, he married in Norwich, Mary, daughter of William Clark. He died in Lebanon May 10, 1717, and his wife Oct. 5, 1743. Their children were: (I) Elizabeth, born April 24, 1688-89, married Moses Clark, of Leb- anon, a son of Daniel Clark, and he died Sept. 18, 1749 ; she died Dec. 27, 1761, the mother of six chil- dren, the youngest being Col. James Clark, born Sept. 15, 1730. Col. James Clark served at the battle of Bunker Hill, having marched with his troops from Lebanon to Boston in three days, a distance of ninety miles. He served very gallantly during that battle, and the year before his death, when he was in his ninety-fifth year, Col. Clark was one of the forty survivors of the battle who were present at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill mon- ument by Gen. La Fayette in 1825. During the war the French General was at Lebanon, and specially noticed Col. Clark. In the warmth of his French heart he kissed him, and upon hearing of his three days' march from Lebanon, and of his pressing into the engagement, said to him: "You was made of goode stoof." Col. Clark died Dec. 29, 1826, in Lebanon. (2) Samuel was born Aug. 28, 1691. (3) Caleb, born Feb. 8, 1693-94, married Lydia Gris- wold, and resided in Lebanon. (4) Mary, born Oct. I, 1696, died July 30, 1712. (5) Rebecca, born February, 1698, married Joseph Clark, of Lebanon. (6) Sarah was born Oct. 22, 1701. (7) John, born May 17, 1706, married Mehetable Metcalf, a sister of his brother Samuel's wife. (8) Simon, born Aug. 15, 1708, married Sarah Huntington.


Samuel Huntington, son of Lieut. Samuel, was born in Norwich, and was a boy when his parents removed to Lebanon. By occupation he was a farmer. He was an upright Christian man, and was elected deacon of the Lebanon church. His death occurred at the age of ninety-four. On Dec. 4, 1722, he was married to Hannah Metcalf, born Jan. 17, 1702, daughter of Jonathan and Hannah (Avery) Metcalf; she died Oct. 14, 1791. Their


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children were: (1) Samuel, born Oct. 16, 1723, graduated at Yale in 1743, studied theology and for a short period was a preacher. He afterward became a merchant and resided in Lebanon, Can- terbury and East Haddam, and was deacon of the Canterbury church during his residence there, and later, during his residence in East Haddam, he was deacon and clerk of the church and a prominent man. He died in the latter town March 20, 1797. (2) Mary, born June I, 1725, married Rev. John Porter, of Bridgewater. (3) Zerviah, born July 23, 1727, married Elisha Harvey, of East Haddam. (4) Oliver was born April 15, 1729. (5) William, born Aug. 12, 1731, died Sept. II, 1731. (6) William, born Aug. 20, 1732, married Bethia Throop ; he was a farmer, a useful and Christian man, who bore the title of captain, and he died May 31, 1816. (7) Sybil, born February, 1734, married Rev. Eleazer May, of Haddam, a graduate of Yale in 1752, and in 1756 was settled at Haddam, where both he and his wife died, he on June 30, 1803, and she in 1816. (8) Eliaphalet, born April 14, 1737, graduated from Yale in 1759, was installed over the Church in Kill- ingworth in 1764, where he preached until 1775; he died Feb. 8, 1777. He married Sarah Elliot, granddaughter of Rev. Jared Elliot, and the fourth generation removed from Dr. John Eliot, the "Apostle to the Indians." She married (second) Rev. Achilles Mansfield, who succeeded her first husband at Killingworth. (9) Jonathan, born March 19, 1741, married Silence Selden, of East Haddam. He was engaged in a mercantile busi- ness in East Haddam, Hartford, Conn., and in Ver- mont, finally locating in Higganum, Conn., where he died in March, 1832. . (10) Eleazer, born May 9, 1744, married Betsey Pitkin, and resided in Leb- anon, where he died in 1777. (II) Josiah, born Nov. 5. 1746, married (first) Rhoda Louise, and ( second) Abigail Gilbert. He was a merchant, and died March 29, 1835, in Wethersfield, Conn., where for many years he had been a deacon in the Congrega- tional Church.


Oliver Huntington, son of Samuel, resided in the south end of Lebanon street, in the house that stood on the site of the home now occupied by Mr. C. S. Meech, but later removed to the Col. James Clark place, and there made his home until his death in 1802. He followed farming and shoemaking. On June 24, 1761, he married Anna Lynde, who died March 23, 1811. She was a descendant of Nathan Lynde (or Lind), and was of Holland Dutch line- age. Their children were: (1) Anna, born July 21, 1762, married Deacon Caleb Huntington and died in Norwich. (2) Louisa, born Nov. 12, 1763, mar- ried Dr. Lewis Collins, of Litchfield, and died in Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 7, 1858. (3) Hannah, born Aug. 12, 1765, died July 29, 1783. (4) Lynde, born March 27, 1767, graduated from Yale in 1788, and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Branford, in 1795 ; he married Mrs. Anna Atwater, widow of Rev. Jason Atwater, his prede-


cessor at Branford, and his untimely death S. 19, 1804, cut short a promising career. (5) OIL, born Dec. 22, 1771, married Abigail Talcott, of bron. He removed, in 1805, to Oswego, N. where he became a substantial freeholder ar prominent man. In 1812 he was commissioner Gov. Tompkins as brigadier-general of the 4Ist fi- gade of New York Infantry, and in 1815 he wa: pointed high sheriff of Broome county, and rob- 1- pointed the next year. He passed away Nov. 13. 1823. (6) Samuel, born in 1773, died Marc 4 1813, in Lebanon. (7) Eliaphalet was born : t. 19, 1777. (8) Labeth, born in 1770, died Ju1 [2. 18II. (9) Lucy died Dec. 4, 1775.


Eliaphalet Huntington was born in Lebano fin the house where his parents first resided. Whi fie had but a common-school education, he closelyfp- plied himself, and by continual study he becar a well-posted and capable man. He was a farmer fid was well-to-do, being prominent in town af 's, holding many offices, and he officiated at nume fus political gatherings. He died of typhoid fever ct. 20, 1861. On Dec. 24, 1805, he was marriesto Nancy Clark, daughter of James Clark; she jed Dec. 24, 1827, aged forty-four years. His seud wife, whom he married Nov. 19, 1828, was Sah Allen, daughter of Dennison Allen, of Wind fm. The children of Eliaphalet Huntington were aby his first marriage, and were as follows: (1) I,de Lord was born Aug. 15, 1807. (2) Conlia Louise, born Aug. 20, 1809, died Oct. 20, 1812. [3 ) Juliette, born May 22, 18II, was educated , a select school in New London. After the demil of her mother, which occurred when she was sis fen, the young girl took the mother's place in carir for the younger members of the family. In appeance she was very beautiful. In October, 1831, she ar- ried Dr. William Wattles, and she died in Sag ar- bor, L. I., in October, 1841, and was buried Pre. Dr. Wattles, after his retirement from pralice, spent the latter years of his life in Goshen Safety in Lebanon. His children were: William | of Philadelphia, is connected with Henry Clay 1|in1- bull in Sunday school work; John D. is alstas- sociated with Mr. Trumbull, whose daugliter So- phia Trumbull, became his wife, and died in ila- delphia ; George H. died in Philadelphia, who lie Ork . was greatly interested in Sunday school James Frank married Harriet, daughter of dge Elisha Carpenter, of Hartford, and is in the pu ias- ing department of the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. , at Boston. (4) Cordelia Elizabeth, born Aug 24, 1813, became the second wife of Deacon Jabe Mc- Call, and resided in Goshen Society of LetHon ; she died in Lebanon Centre in December, 189 (5) Henry Hart, born April 26, 1815, attended icon academy at Colchester, taught school for seral years and in early life moved to Mount Cle ens, Mich., where he engaged in farming and also per- ating a nursery. After the death of his wife : re-


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d fo bout fifteen years near Pontiac, Mich., located at Lansing, where he died at the is son, in December, 1898. He married istol, by whom he had one son, Arthur w a well known restaurant owner of 6) Licy Ann was born Aug. 1, 1817. Har fi, born Sept. 7, 1819, died Aug. 15, 1824. Louise, born Aug. 6, 1823, was educated


final ne of anor ight, sing. Ma the rict school and Westfield academy at Mass. She taught school in Lebanon,


stfielc th W dham, and, later, on Staten Island, and 1 in private school on Duffield street, New k. urning home, she, a year later, Feb. 18, 2, wap married to Richard A. Sheldon, who died . 8, 16, in Columbus, Ohio. She returned to anon nding Y.




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