Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut, a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Volume IV, Part 16

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843- joint ed. cn; Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed; Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917, joint ed; Bostwick, Frederick, 1852- , joint ed; Stearns, Ezra Scollay, 1838-1915, joint ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 1178

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sides at 5: Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven. Children: Aurelia Dwight, boin May 2, 1875, died January 27, 1899, ummarried : Richard, born February 20, 1878 ( Yale. 1899). Wash- ington correspondent of the Springfield Re- publican. unmarried : Thomas, July 26, 1882 ( Yale, 1903), a lawyer at New Haven.

(The Dwight Line).

(III) Captain Henry Dwight, son of Captain Timothy Dwight (q. v.), was born in Dedham, December 19, 1676. He was a farmer and trader at Hatfield, Massachusetts, of wealth and standing, and was for some years judge of the county court. The Dwights be- came one of the leading families of western Massachusetts. He was active in the purchase of the territory for the Dedham settlers, es- pecially that now comprising the towns of Great Barrington. Sheffield. Egremont, Al- ford, etc., in Berkshire, from the Indian pro- prietors. In 1726 he. Major Pynchon of Springfield, and John Ashley, of Westfield, were appointed by the general court commis- sioners under the "Act for issuing one hun- dred thousand pounds in bills of credit" for government purposes. He was a licensed inn- holder in 1728. He married, August 27. 1702, Lydia, daughter of Captain Joseph Hawley, of Northampton, and Lydia ( Marshall) Haw- ley, born July 7. 1680. died April 2 ;. 1748. Ile died March 26, 1732. Children : Brigadier General Joseph, born October 16, 1703 : Cap- tain Seth, August 18, 170 ;: Dorothy, Sep- tember 17. 1709; Lydia, April 25. 1712; Anna, August 14. 1714: Colonel Josiah ( mentioned below ) : Captain Edmund. January 10. 1717; Colonel Simeon. February 18. 1719: Elisha. May 25. 1722: Anna. September 24, 1724.

( IV) Colonel Josiah Dwight, son of Cap- tain Henry Dwight. was born at Hatfield. Oc- tober 23, 1715. He graduated at Yale College, in 1736, and settled in Springfield. Massachu- setts. He was lieutenant-colonel of militia and judge of the court of common pleas in Hampshire. 1750 to 1768. and previously jus- tice of the peace. Hle was a merchant, manu- facturer of potash and iron founder. He owned some 5.000 acres of land, and was an energetic, enterprising prosperous man. He married. about 1750. Sarah, daughter of Col- onel William and Catherine ( Brewer) Pyn- chon, born August 14, 1721. died Angust 4. 1755. He married ( second) October 17. 1757, Elizabeth Buckminster. of Brookfield, Massa- chusetts, born 173t, died March 10. 1708. He dlied September 28. 1768. Children, born at Springfield, of second wife: Colonel Thomas. October 20, 1758: Sarah. August 6. 1760, died young ; Clarissa, July 4. 1762: Sarah. De-

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cember 13, 1764, married Hon. John Hooker (see Hooker ). Hon. Josiah. September 17, 1767.

(VI) Captain Joseph Hooker,

HOOKER son of Jolin Hooker (q. v.), was born at Farmington, Feb- ruary 15, 1705-06. He was a prominent citi- zen, captain of the militia. In later years he was very corpulent and after he retired it was a custom of the local militia to pay their respects to the former commander marching by his house in review as Captain Hooker sat in state upon his piazza. He died at Farming- ton, December 19, 1764. He married. January 23, 1735. Sarah. born May 8, 1712. at Farm- ington, died December 25, 1797, daughter of Nathaniel and Abigail (Ashley) Lewis, of Farmington. Children, born at Farmington : Abigail, February 5, 1736; Noadiah, Au- gust 29, 1737; Mercy, January 19, 1741-42; Ruth, February 21, 1743-44; Anna, December 14. 1749: Joseph, March 30, 1751.

(VII) Noadiah, son of Captain Joseph Hooker, was born at Farmington, August 29, 1737, died there June 3, 1823. He was an offi- cer in the revolutionary war, raised the first troops enlisted at Farmington and marched in command of a company of one hundred men or more, the "very elite of the vicinity." They arrived in Boston some three weeks in ad- vance of any other enlisted men from Connec- ticut. He was commissioned captain by the colonial assembly and under that commission served in several different regiments. In 1776 he was commissioned colonel by the provincial congress or general assembly of Connecticut and served as such to the close of the war and was afterward colonel of the Fifteenth Con- necticut Regiment of state militia. He repre- sented Farmington in the general assembly for many years, and was prominent and active in church and state. He was for many years treasurer of the church and was active in rais- ing the funds for building a new church. He personally inspected every piece of timber used in the construction and made a trip on horse- back to the state of Maine to order and select the shingles. The fact that the shingles lasted for fifty years indicates the care he exercised in selecting the stock. He married. January I, 1765, Rebecca, born ar Wethersfield. Sep- tember 7, 1744. died at Farmington, Novem- ber 9. 1816. daughter of Major Josiah and Mabel ( Belden) Griswold, of Wethersfield. Connecticut. Children, born at Farmington : Sarah, October 15. 1765: John. October 24. :766; Joseph, October 24. 1,66 (twin) ; Sally,. November 16. 1767; Lucy, January 16, 1771 ; John, June 21, 1774: James. September II,

1777; Abigail, May 23, 1780; Nancy, Sep- tember 1, 1,82 (twin) : William G .. Septem- ber 1, 1782, mentioned below ; Edward, April 27, 1785.

(VIHI) William Griswold. son of Noadiah Hooker, was born at Farmington. September I, 1782. He was educated as a physi- cian and settled at Middlebury, Vermont, where he had a drug store. He owned land there, which he sold to Cyrus Porter, of Mid- dlebury. He was afterward employed in the office of the Farmington canal and later be- came treasurer of the New Haven Savings Bank at New Haven, Connecticut, and con- tinued at the head of this institution until his death, September 19, 1850. He married, Oc- tober 20. 1807. Melinda, born October 30, 1785, died at New Haven, August 28, 1865, daughter of David and Anne (Champion) Metcalf. of Lebanon, Connecticut. Children : John Metcalf, born at Middlebury, October 25. 1809, died at New Haven, April 16, 1865, graduate of Middlebury College; Nancy Champion. October 18, 1813; Samuel, men- tioned below.

(IX) Samuel, son of William Griswold Hooker, was born at Middlebury, Vermont, June 11. 1817, died at White Pigeon, Michi- gan, July 12. 1852. He married, May 28, 1844, Lydia Elizabeth (Strong) Baldwin, born Angust 16, 1816, at Montpelier, Vermont, died January 2, 1858, daughter of Subell and Lydia Ann ( Bailey) Strong, of Montpelier. Ver- mont, and widow of Dr. Horatio Marsh Bald- win. of Binghamton, New York. Dr. Horatio M. Baldwin was a third cousin of Samuel Hooker and lived at New Haven. Children : William Griswold, mentioned below ; Thomas, born January 10, 1848, married Mary Denni- son, of Iowa, in 1875. he is manager of the Spokane Chronicle; Helen ; Edward D .; Ar- thur ; Harold.

(X) William Griswold (2), son of Sam- ucl Hooker, was born in New Haven. Decem- ber 25. 1845. He attended the public schools of that city and the Hopkins Grammar School. later the Edward L. Hart boarding school at Farmington, Convectient. He was a pupil in the old West Middle District school in Hart- ford. Connecticut. He learned the trade of printer in the printing office of Case & Lock- wood. of Hartford. He enlisted in Company A, Sixteenth Connecticut Regiment of Volun- teer Infantry. July 12, 1862, and was dis- charged June 25. 1865 (in his nineteenth year ). His regiment was in the Ninth Army Corps, Second Brigade. Third Division. Hc took part in the battle of Antietam and was wounded in the shoubler, causing him to be absent from duty for a month. He was at

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Fredericksburg. the siege of Suffolk, in the Blackberry raid on the peninsula during July, 1863, and was captured with his regiment at Plymouth. North Carolina. April 20. 1864. He was confined in the infamous rebel prison at Andersonville. from June to September and was then removed to Charleston, and later to Florence. South Carolina. He was ex- changed and returned to his regiment four weeks before Lee's surrender. He was one of the youngest soldiers from the state of Connecticut. He is a member of the Second Company. Governor's Foot Guard of New Haven and was formerly a member of the Hartford City Guard, and of the New Ha- ven Grays and was elected lieutenant of that company. but declined to serve. He re- turned to his trade after the war and for a number of years has been connected with the Horton Printing Company of Meriden, Con- necticut. as secretary and general manager, and is well known and highly respected by the business world. He is a member of Merriam Post. No. 8, Grand Army of the Republic, and was at one time adjutant of the post. He is a member of the First Congregational Church at Meriden.

He married, August 31, 1870. Georgianna. born December 22. 1850, daughter of Wil- liam and Sarah ( Dennison) Woodmansee, of Mystic, Connecticut. They have no children.

The surname Ives is derived from IVES the name Iver or Ives, Gaelic. meaning chief or leader. and the family in England doubtless takes its name from St. Ives, county Huntington, England, or some other locality, though it may have been adopted from a personal name. as many other surnames have been. John Ives, of the Manor Woodnos, in Orington. Norfolk, left his estate to his son Thomas, then less than twenty years old. The father died Oc- tober 22. 1568.

(1) Captain William Ives, believed to have been of the county Norfolk family, was born in England. and came to Boston in the ship "Truelove." in 1635. In 1639 he located at New Haven, Connecticut. his name appearing in the civil compact, dated June 4. Itto. and in the allotment to the first settlers. Hle and his wife had seats in the meeting hou-e at New Haven in 1646. Children: John, mar- ried in 1667. Hannah Merriam: Captain Jo- seph. mentioned below. Perhaps others

(II) Captain Joseph Ives, son of Captain William Ives, was born about money and mar- ried Mary Vale. The history of Wallingford. Connecticut, gives the following children of "John and Mary," but John married Hannah

-, and the children should be credited to Joseph and Mary: Jolm died 1738, at Meri- den : Hannah, married Joseph Denham : Dea- con Joseph : Gideon, of Wallingford, married Mary Royce: Nathaniel : Ebenezer : Samuel, mentioned below ; Benjamin.

(III) Samuel, son of Captain Joseph Ives, was born in Wallingford, Connecticut, June 5. 1606. He married Mary Gilbert.

(IV) Dr. Levi Ives, son of Samuel and Mary (Gilbert) Ives, was born at New Ha- ven, June 4. 1750, and died there October 17. 1826. He was a physician and surgeon of rare qualifications and wide practice. He was a patriot in the revolutionary days, served in the continental army as surgeon, and was at Quebec with General Mongomery. He prac- ticed at New Haven from 1773 to the time of his death. From 1773 to the present day there has been at least one Dr. Ives among the leading physicians of New Haven, and since 1801 an "Old Dr. Ives." as the senior doctor of this remarkable family has heen called affectionately by his patients and the public. Dr. Ives was an active, conscientious and successful physician, who won the repu- tation of a public-spirited and patriotic citi- zen in troublous times. During the revolu- tion he was frequently in active service as surgcon to the forces in the field. Once he bore a lientenant's commission in the line dur- ing the campaign against General Burgoyne.

When the British made their wearisome and futile expedition from Savin Rock to New Haven, he was one of the hardy querilla volunteers that maintained a waspish resist- ance to the slow advance of the enemy. and he was not only a surgeon but a sharpshooter himself. Ile married Lydia Augur.

(V) Dr. Eli Ives, son of Dr. Levi Ives, was born at New Haven, February 7, 1770. As a youth he was studious and earnest. He fit- ted for college partly through his own ex- ertions and partly under the tuition of Dr. Aeneas Munson and Rev. A. R. Robbins of Norwalk, Connecticut. He entered Yale Col- lege and was graduated in the class of 1;)9. Professors J. L. Kingsley and Moses Stuart were classmates. He was for two years rec- tor of the Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven. He declined the tutorship offered to him in Yale College, and proceeded to study medicine under the instruction of his father and Dr. Aeneas Munson, a physician of un- usual attainments in botany and chemistry. He attended lectures under Drs. Rush and Wooster in Philadelphia, and in 1801 began . to practice in New Haven in association with his honored father. He achieved a notal'e success in practice from the outset. He was

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He was a man of varied interests, loving horticulture and agriculture especially, and was president of the horticultural and pomo- logical societies. He was an earnest promo- ter of the Sheffield Scientific School. He sought after the truth, it has been said, in all its forms, and recognized the common bond which connects arts and sciences. He re- ceived many diplomas and degrees from insti- tutions of learning in this country and abroad. He possessed a retentive memory, clear in- sight and profound knowledge of many things. He had the courage to undertake bold treatment in desperate cases. In all the walks of life he was thoroughly honorable and up- right. He was one of the founders of the New Haven Medical Association, and was active in the State Medical Society. When an old man, he was president of the National Medical Association. He was an earnest op- ponent of slavery. and an advocate of total abstinence, when his position on both issues was extremely unpopular. He joined the North Congregational Church in 1808, and was a prominent member for many years.

an influential factor in the establishment of rounded and consulted by two sons and one grandson, all engaged with conspicuous suc- cess in the practice of medicine. He was ten- der and generous in disposition and made many friends among all ages and classes. the Yale Medical School in 1813, and became one of the first five instructors, as assistant professor of materia medica and botany, con- ducting all the duties of that department for a period of sixteen years. He devoted much time and labor to the making of a botanic garden, which was located on the present site of the Sheffield Scientific School. In 1829 he was transferred to the department of theory and practice of medicine, and contin- ued in this chair until he resigned in 1852 on account of age and infirmity. During the thirty-nine years in which he was a teacher in the Yale Medical School he had in his classes more than fifteen hundred students. He had the advantage in youth of being the son of a learned and able physician, and he began his career with a thorough and practi- cal knowledge of medicine and a good general education. He was versed in Latin and Greek and ranked well in college. When he was but twenty-three years old he was honored by his selection as the Phi Beta Kappa orator. Ile spoke on botany and chemistry. He had the additional advantage of studying under Rush. Shippen. Wistar and Barton, at the University of Pennsylvania, then the best of their profession in this country. He was given the degree of M. D. causa honoris, by the Connecticut Medical Society. Though his He married. September 17, 18os. Ma- ria. daughter of Dr. Nathan and Mary ( Phelps) Beers. Her father was an adjutant in the revolution. and had charge of Andre the night before his execution. Dur- ing that time Major Andre drew a pen por- trait of himself and gave it to Mr. Beers. This interesting heirloom is now in the Yale Art Gallery. Dr. Ives died October 8, 1861. Children : Levi, and Nathan Beers. both men- tioned below. practice was large. he was not strict in his business methods and he was satisfied with modest fees when he might have acquired wealth. His skill in the use of medicine showed a wide acquaintance with drugs not then generally known, and he was always a leader in study and practice. He and his eldest son, Dr. N. B. Ives, in 1832 applied chloroform, discovered by Samuel Guthrie of Sacketts Harbor, and described in the Journal of Science that year, but just failed of dis- (VI) Dr. Levi Ives, son of Dr. Eli Ives. was born July 13. 1816, at New Haven. He attended the Hopkins Grammar School, and took a partial course in Yale College. He be- instruction and entered Yale Medical School, from which he graduated in the class of 1838. He was an interne at Bellevue Hospital for a year and a half, and then began to practice medicine at New Haven in association with his father and brother. The fame ci the fa- ther and grandfather did not suffer at his hands. He made obstetrics a specialty, and had a very large practice. With . indoubted natural skill. quick in judgment, of good sense and genial disposition, he won the hearts as well as the confidence of his patients. Aft- erward he widened his field of practice and became consulting physician and aargeon in covering its properties and usefulness as an anaesthetic. He was a member of the con- vention of physicians that framed the first United States Pharmacopeia in 1820. and ten . gan the study of medicine under his father's years later at the next meeting of the con- vention he was the presiding officer. He was vice-president of the Connecticut Medical So- ciety. 1824-27, and in 1861 was president of the American Medical Association. He was a candidate for lieutenant-governor of Con- necticut on the Anti-Masonic ticket in 1831. He was simple in his tastes and lived plainly. It has been said that his face was a plain in- dex of his character, showing a charming combination of benevolence, shrewdness and simplicity and often lighted with mirthful- ness. He enjoyed the privilege and happiness of a serene and beautiful old age, closely sur-

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the Connecticut State Hospital. He was a member of the New Haven Medical Society. of which he was at one time president; mem- ber of the Connecticut Medical Association and the American Medical Association, to the conventions of which he was often a dele- gate. IIe belonged to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He married, in June, 1841. Caroline, daughter of Elijah Shoemaker. of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, grandson of Elijah, one of the victims of the horrid massacre. Their only child was Robert, born April 1842, graduate of Yale, A. M. and M. D., deceased.

(VI) Dr. Nathan Beers Ives, son of Dr. Eli Ives, was born at New Haven, June 26, 1806, died there June 18, 1869. He was edu- cated at Yale College, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1825 and M. D. in 1828. He began to practice medicine in 1828 at the age of twenty-two years, and continued until dis- Dr. Ives was in his thirty-eighth year when he was appointed professor of the theory and practice of medicine in Yale Medical School. He had been in active general practice in as- sociation with his father in New Haven for thirteen years, and had gained a large share of the respect and contidence of his profes- sional fellows, as well as that more common favor which makes itself manifest in the length of a doctor's visiting list. "To his in- tercourse with his pupils. accordingly, he brought a considerable wealth of observation and experience as well as that native enthu- siasm which was one of his most striking traits. It is a trait which greatly endears a teacher to his pupils, an elder to his juniors. Sharp statements, if not of fact, at least of opinion, with no trimming or qualifications, are apt to stick fast in the mind, easy to jot down in the notebook-these are the delight of the learner, especially in medicine, where as yet too many regions in which of neces- sity he wanders darkling. That agnosticism in therapeutics, which was somewhat fash- ionable for a while not long since. and which abied by ill health during his last years. As the fruit of his lifetime of industry and a token of his ability in his profession he left an ample estate, much larger than had ever before been accumulated in the practice of medicine in New Haven. For a good many years it was admitted that he took the cream of the business in his profession, and although he was naturally envied by his younger or less fortunate fellow practitioners. none said or felt that his success was unmerited. "His per- ceptive faculties were naturally keen and his management of his resources showed imusual tact. He devoted himself to his professional duties anil to the welfare of his patients with a singleness of purpose which can spring only from the genuine fitness of a man for his calling. Rarely did he enter a household as a physician without becoming permanently bound to it as a friend. He had a vivid en- joyment of good company and bright conver- sation, in which with his natural vivacity of temperament he always hore an active part. There always seemed a certain fitness in it that these gifts should be lodged in a short. . its apostles seemed to regard with compla- slight. alert figure." "Ilis soul", as okl Ful- cence as a mark of intellectual superiority has never prevailed at New Haven. Dr. Ive- at least was free from it-it was foreign to his nature to be lacking iu positive conviction- ca any subject to which he turned his serious attention." ler says, "had but a small diocese to visit " "It was related of him as a child that he climbed the branches of a great stramonium weed among the herbs of his father's wonder- ful garden." For many years he gave pri- vate instruction to medical students, but never consented to become an instructor in the med- ical school. He married Sarah Badger.

(VII) Dr. Charles Linneus Ives, only child of Dr. Nathan Beers Ives, was born in New Haven, June 22. 1831. He attended the pub- lic schools of his native city. Vale College. and studied medicine in Philadelphia. In

Yale, in the professional school and in the great hospitals of New York City, he had the best opportunity America could afford to prepare liim for his life work. "During the period of preparation, as throughout his life, it was characteristic of him that what- ever his hand found to do he did it with his might. There was a bright alacrity in his way of work and living and, if natural zest ever failed to attract him, an inexorable sense of duty always stood ready to supply motive power. He was a devoutly religious man with an intense feeling of responsibility for himself and for other people by which rather than by considerations of expediency or com- fort he was actuated. He had a curiously in- hesitating way of attacking situations which men are apt to fight shy of, as being knotty and unproductive or involving troublesome collisions."

From his youth he had a constant struggle against ill health, and five years after he was chosen professor he had to resign for this reason. On the same account he gave up his practice, but afterward he accepted the pro- fessorship of diseases of the nervous system in the Medical School of the University of New York, and went to Europe to make a spe-

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cial study of the subject. Owing to contin- ved ill health, however, he was never able to enter upon the duties of this position. In la- ter years he found congenial occupation in the preparation of a book, entitled "The Bible Doctrine of the Soul," embodying the result of theological studies, to which he was for a long time addicted. He died at New Haven March 21, 18;9. He was a member of the New Haven Medical Society, the Connecticut Medical Society. and the American Medical Association. He married, June 20, 1860, Eliz- abeth Watson Salter, born in New Haven, December 27. 1833. daughter of Cleveland Jarman Salter, granddaughter of Daniel Sal- ter of Tiverton. England. who settled at New Haven. Her mother was Eliza (Cotton ) Sal- ter of Hartford. They had no children. Mrs. Ives resides at 66 Trumbull street, New Ha- ven.

WADSWORTH The surname Wads- worth is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word. Waldesworth, meaning Wood's Court, and from very ancient times has been in use in Yorkshire, England. where it is still common. The surname Walworth had the same origin. The only coat-of-arms of Wadsworth is of the Yorkshire family and is described: Gules three fleurs-de-lis stalked and slipped argent. Two immigrants of the family, probably sons of Thomas Wadsworth, came from England to America in the early settlement, Christo- pher and William, mentioned below. The Bi- ble that Christopher brought with him is still preserved in the Cowles family of Hartford. He settled in Duxbury. Massachusetts, and became a prominent citizen.

(I) William Wadsworth came with his brother Christopher in the ship "Lion." land- ing at Boston, Sunday, September 16, 1032, after a voyage of twelve weeks. It is believed that he was here carlier and had returned to England. He was born about 1600. He was admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay Col- ony, November 6. 1633. He settle1 in Cani- bridge and when the town was organize.1 he was elected to the first board of selectmien and served in 1634-35. From Cambridge he came to Hartford, Connecticut, in the Hook- er company and lived there the remainder of his days. He died in 1675. He was among the more wealthy and substantial proprietors of the town. He was collector in 1637. se- lectman. 1642-47. and active in church and state affairs. His house lot was co-extensive with the present square bounded her Asylum. Trumbull and West Pearl streets. and the road to the river and continued in the family until

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