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 33

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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(VI) Simon, son of Jeremiah ( 2) Hubbard. was born at Middletown Upper House, in 1773, and died April to, 1838. He married, in 1799. Chloe, daughter of Jehiel and Ann ( Edwards) Williams, of Cromwell. They had eleven children.

(VII) Jeremiah, son of Simon Hubbard. was born at Middletown Upper House, May 22, 1800, and died April 4. 1856. He was educated in the public schools and followed the sea. He became a master mariner, and for many years commanded a vessel in the West Indian trade. He also owned and con- ducted a farm in Middlesex county. "He was a man of simple habits, intelligent, brave, honest. hard-working and God-fearing, a sturdy specimen of the old-time Yankee 'salt'." He married. March 16, 1825. Elizabeth. born December 8. 1803. died June 23, 1870, daugh- ter of Wickham Roberts, a prosperous farmer. whose homestead included in part the present site of the Connecticut Hospital for the In- sane. They had eight sons andI two daughters.

(VIII) Dr. Robert Hubbard. son of Jere- miah Hubbard, was born at Middletown Upper House. April 27. 1826. He was the eldest son, and owing to the frequent absence of his father on voyages he was obliged at an early age to assume much of the burden of management of the farm. In early life he at- tended the public schools, but his opportuni- ties for education were very limited in his boyhood, but by his own efforts he secured the advantages that he earnestly desired. As jani- tor of the building he earned his tuition at the academy at Cromwell, and also paid his board and other expenses in labor. Rev. Jared O. Knapp was principal of the institution. With the consent of his parents, who could not afford the cost. he prepared himself for col- lege. As a farm laborer in summer he earned some money, and in 1846, at the age of twenty. he was admitted to Vale College. At the close of his first year he was offered the position of principal of the academy at Durham, and he accepted with the intention of using his savings to continue his studies at college : but a year later Dr. Benjamin F. Fowler, of Durham, influenced him to study medicine.

At the end of his second year as principal of the academy he resigned and began to study in the office of Dr. Fowler. After a year he became a student of Dr. Nathan B. Ives, an eminent practitioner of New Haven, and in accordance with a common custom went to live in the doctor's family. During the two years he was with Dr. Ives he also attended the Yale Medical School, and in 1851 was graduated with the degree of M. D., and was valedictorian of his class. In February, 1851. he came to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and be- gan to practice. His office at first was in a drug store on Wall street, and his practice soon became large. He had borrowed two thousand dollars to carry him through school. but was soon out of debt and enjoying a large income from his practice. In May, 1854, he formed a partnership with Dr. David H. Nash, and the firm continued for a period of seventeen years. In 1861 he was recommended by the Connec- ticut State Medical Society and appointed by Governor Buckingham a member of the board of medical examiners to pass upon the quali- fications of applicants for posts as surgeons of Connecticut troops. In 1862 he went to the front as surgeon of the Seventeenth Regi- ment, Connecticut Volunteers, with the rank of major. He was promoted a few months later to the post of brigade surgeon in Gen- eral Sigel's corps, and shortly after the battle of Chancellorsville was again promoted. be- coming surgeon of division in General Deven's command. In recognition of meritorious serv- ices on the field of battle Dr. Hubbard was given the rank of medical inspector and as- signed to the staff of General O. O. Howard. At the battle of Gettysburg he served as me li- cal director in the Eleventh Corps. and he held the same position at the battle of Look- out Mountain. He was also staff surgeon for General Hooker. He took part also in the battles of Missionary Ridge and Ringgold, and was conspicuous in his devotion to the wound- ed on the field of battle. The mental and physical strain of his trying duties finally im- paired his health so that he was obliged to resign. After a short rest he resumed prac- tice at Bridgeport. He went abroad. partly for study and partly in hope of relieving an at- tack of sciatica, caused doubtless by exposure

in the army, and he visited the principal bos- pital, of Germany. He made a second trip in 1883 and a third in :885. In 18to be was elected president of the Connecticut State Medical Society. He was a member of the city and county medical societies and of the American Medical Association. He contrib- uted many interesting reports, addresses and papers to the publications of his profession

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He was the instructor of many young physi- cians who afterwards won high standing in the profession, some fifty in all, among whom may be mentioned Drs. Godfrey, Garlick, Lauder, John C. Lynch, Wright, and Gordon. of Bridgeport, and Dudley, of Chicago. During the last five years of his life he confined his practice to office business and consultation.

Dr. Hubbard was well qualified by tempera- ment and training for a public career, and he was called upon to fill many offices of honor and trust. In 1874 he was elected to repre- sent the city in the general assembly of the state. In 1875 he was the Republican can- didate for congress in the Fourth district, but his party was then in a minority there and his Democratic opponent. William H. Barnum, was successful. In 1876 Dr. Hubbard was elected a state senator. In the following year he was again nominated for congress and his opponent won by a narrow margin. He de- clined a third nomination, though a Republi- can victory was foreseen. He preferred to devote his attention exclusively to his prac- tice.

Dr. Hubbard's death was the result of a fall from the steps of his office July 18, 1897. His skull was fractured and he died the next day at the home of Mrs. C. L. Hubbard Stead, of Bridgeport. He was in active practice for the unusually long period of forty-six years. He took rank easily among the foremost in his profession and his practice was large and interesting. He had a national reputation, but was beloved most among his own neighbors. The poor, whom he always served cheerfully. bear him in affectionate remembrance. He had a natural aptitude for his profession, a careful and painstaking preparation. long and varied experience. His memory is especially cherished by the veterans of the civil war in which he served so faithfully and well, and in which he achieved high distinction and rank. Few men enjoyed the respect and esteem of their townsmen in Bridgeport to the extent that Dr. Hubbard did. In all parts of the country friends mourned his death, and none more than the men of his own profession.

He married. Aprit 15, 1855. Cornelia Board- man, youngest daughter of Sherman and Sophia Hartwell. of Bridgeport. His wife died in 1871. Children :

1. Sherman Hartwell, born in Bridgeport. died in 1801: graduate of Yale Law School: practiced his profession at Bridgeport, mak- ing a specialty of patent law : he was a ment- ber of the Athletic Club of New York City and of the Seaside Club of Bridgeport. also of the Coast Artillery Company. of which he was first lieutenant ; he was a crack shot with

the revolver and was the champion of five states : he married Comet, eldest danghter of Hon. John Theodore Ludeling, Chief Justice of Louisiana, and they had one child, John T. Ludeling, born November 12, 1891, now in the Yale Law School at New Haven.

John Theodore Ludeling, father of Mrs. Hubbard, was born in 1824, in New Orleans, Louisiana, son of John Henry and Frances Loretta De Salrane De L'Ailleuse Ludeling, the former a Prussian officer who served under Blucher. John Henry Ludeling was first cousin of Queen Louise of Prussia and the rightful heir to the throne of Prussia before the battle of Waterloo. On coming to the United States he settled at Point Coupe. Louis- iana, where he practiced law and became judge of the district of Point Coupe. He moved to Monroe, and there the boyhood of his son, John Theodore, was spent. The latter was educated in a Jesuit College in St. Louis. He was admitted to the bar in Louisiana. acquired an extensive practice and, like his father, served on the bench. From 1868 to 1877 he was chief justice of the state of Louisiana. He was a Republican, and while his two broth- ers enlisted in the Confederate army, he re- mained a strong Union man, refusing to fight against his family and his country. Although considerable pressure was used to induce him to give his services to the Confederate cause he uncompromisingly declined, steadfastly ad- hering to his principles and at the same time preserving the respect of both parties. He married Mary Singleton, of Singleton Abbey, Ireland. daughter of Enoch Copley and a de- scendant of John Singleton Copley. the por- trait painter, an outline of whose career is given below.

Chief Justice Ludeling died January 21. 1890, at his plantation near Monroe, Louisiana. He was the father of two sons and two daugh- ters. of whom the elder married Sherman Hartwell Hubbard, as mentioned above. Atter the death of her husband Mrs. Hubbard. be- came the wife of C. Frederick Stead, treasurer of Salt's Textile Manufacturing Company, and they have one son, Charles Frederick. Salt's Textile Manufacturing Company nes recu- pies the factory of the old Howe Machine Company on Kossuth street. This concern had its origin in 1803 through the absorption and purchase of the American branch of the infirential English firm of Sir Titus salt. Baronet, Sons & Company. The concern em- ploys over four hundred skilled and expert operatives in the manufacture of pile fabrics. plushes, velvets and seals. Their busines. is chiefly in the United States and Canada. The company is capitalized at Sioo.coo. and

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has the following officers: President, F. E. Kip; vice-president, Frederick Rhodes; treas- urer, C. F. Stead. It is one of the largest tex- tile industries in the country.

. 2. Sophia Todd, daughter of Dr. Robert Hubbard, married Charles M. Everest, vice- president of the Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester, New York.

3. Cornelia E., daughter of Dr. Robert Hub- bard, married Courtlandt H., son of the late Henry Trowbridge, of New Haven, who was an importer and ship owner engaged in the West Indian trade, residing in New Haven ; children : Virginia and Henry Trowbridge.

John Singleton Copley, the first great Am- erican portrait painter, was born July 3, 1737, in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Richard and Mary ( Singleton) Copley, both of whom, al- thoughi of English origin, were Irish by birth, the former a native of Limerick, and the latter the daughter of John Singleton, of Quinville Abbey, county Clare, and Jane Bruffe, his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Copley emigrated to the new world and settled in Boston, the former dying in the West Indies, whither he had gone for his health, about the time of the birth of his only son. About ten years later Mrs. Copley married Peter Pelham, one son, Henry, being born of this marriage. In addition to being a land-surveyor and a mathematician, AMr. Pel- ham was a mezzotint engraver and a painter of passable portraits. Both the brothers, Jolin Singleton and Henry, were from their child- hood devoted to art. Beyond the instruction he received from his stepfather, Copley was entirely self-taught. Tradition says that his first attempts were made on the walls of his nursery and the margins of his school books. He early established a reputation as a por- trait painter, and in 1766 sent to his country- man, the painter, Benjamin West, then resi- dent in London, a picture of a boy seated at a table, holding in his hand a chain to which a squirrel is attached. This painting. a por- trait of the artist's half brother, Henry Pel- ham, was unsigned, and the letter which should have accompanied it having been de- layed, the picture reached its destination with- out an explanatory word. West. however, surmised that it was the work of an American painter from the pine wood of the frame on which the canvas was stretched, and also be- cause the flying squirrel introduced was an animal peculiar to America. The painting bore so plainly the evidence of a master-hand that he was loud in his praise, pronouncing the coloring to be worthy of Titian. The rule excluding from the exhibition of the Society of Incorporated Artists all anonymous works, indeed all works not painted by members of

the Society, was waived, and Copley's "Boy with the Squirrel" was given a place in the exhibition. His reputation in England was at once established and he was urged to go to London, but it was not until 1774 that Copley concluded to cross the Atlantic. He was in Italy when the revolutionary war broke out, and wrote to his wife: "It is very evident to me that America will have the power of re- sistance till grown strong enough to conquer, and that victory and independence will go hand in hand." Copley ever remainel loyal to his native land, and at a later period earn- estly desired to return to his old home, but was prevented by force of circumstances. Dur- ing the remainder of his life Copley lived in London. It was not long before he became the fashion, and commissions for portraits of the nobility and of people of note kept him busily employed. In 1779 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy, and soou after was commissioned by the city of London to paint a large picture of "The Siege and Relief of Gibraltar, ' now in the Guildhall of London. In this work all the figures are portraits. His celebrated canvas, "The Death of the Earl of Chatham" established his reputation as a por- trait painter. It is now in the National Gal- lery. London, and copies were sent by the artist to President Washington. John Adams and Harvard College. Washington wrote: "The work is rendered more estimable in iny eye when I remember that America gave birth to the celebrated artist who produced it " Harvard possesses Copley's portraits of John Adams, Thomas Hubbard, Madam and Nich- olas Boylston, President Holyoke, Thomas Hollis, the engraving from "Chatham," and a series of eleven prints from the artist's works. presented by Gardiner Greene. Among his other works are: "Offer of the Crown to Lady Jane Grey"; "Charles demanding in the House of Commons the Five Impeached Members": "King Charles signing Strafford's Death Warrant"; "Assassination of Bucking- ham"; "Battle of the Boyne"; "The Five Members brought back in Triumph"; and "The King's Escape from Hampton Court.'

Copley married, in 1,69, Susannah Farn- ham, daughter of Richard Clarke, a wealthy merchant of Boston and agent for the East India Company, whose name was later to become famous as the consignee of the cargo of tea which was thrown into Boston harbor. Mrs. Copley was a lineal descendant of Mary Chilton, the first passenger to land from the "Mayflower," who became the wife of lohr Winslow. Not long after his marriage Cop- ley became the owner of all the land lying between Charles, Beacon, Walnut and Mount

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Vernon streets. Louisburg square and Pinck- ney street-a tract about eleven acres. Upon this estate -- his "farm," he used to call it --- Copley's early married life was spent. There four of his six children were born; there he practised his art with unremitting diligence. painting those many portraits of courtly gen- tlemen in broadcloth or in satin coats and powdered wigs, and of stately ladies in gowns of rich silk and stift brocade which have made his name famous. His marriage was an emi- nently happy one. The celebrated "Family Group," painted soon after he was established in his English home, represents himself and his wife, four of his children and his father- in-law, Mr. Richard Clarke. For nearly a century this picture hung over the fireplace in the dining-room of Copley's house in London. Upon the death of his son, Lord Lyndhurst. it was brought to the United States, and is now in the possession of Edward Linzee Amory, who has loaned it to the Boston Mu- seum of Fine Arts where it now hangs. Cop- ley died September 9. 1815, at his home in London. His wife survived him many years. as did three children: Mrs. Gardiner Greene. who, after her marriage, lived in Boston, Massachusetts; Miss Mary Copley, who re- mained in London ; and one son, John Single- ton Copley, who became Lord Lyndhurst, the distinguished British jurist and statesman, and was three times appointed Lord High Chan- cellor of England.

WILLIAMS (II) Captain Isaac Wil- liams, son of Robert Wil- liams (q. v.), was born in Roxbury. September 1, 1638. He settled in Newton, Massachusetts, and was deputy to the general court five or six years, and cap- tain of a troop of horse. His will was proved July 27, 1708. He married ( first ) Martha Park: ( second ) Judith Cooper. Children of first wife, born at Newton: Isaac. December II, 1651: Martha. December 27. 1663: Rev. William. February 2. 1665. mentioned below ; John, August 31. 1667, settled in Connecti- cut; Ebenezer, October 22. 1660, settled at Stonington : Thomas. October 23. 1673. Chil- dren of second wife: Peter. August 31. 1680 : Sarah, October 2, 1688: Ephraim. October 21, 1691, settled in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

(I[I) Rev. William Williams, son of Cap- tain Isaac Williamis, was born February 2. 1665. He graduated at Harvard College in 1683 and settled at Hatfield. Massachusetts, in 1685, as a minister. After a long ministry, he died suddenly at an advanced age. about 1746. He published several sermons ; one on the ordination of Stephen Williams in

1716; "The Great Salvation Explained in Sev- eral Sermons," 1717: election sermon, 1719; a sermon on the ordination of Rev. Warham Williams, 1733; the ordination of Nehemiah Bull of Westfield; convention sermon, 1729; "The Duty and Interest of a Christian People to le Steadfast," "Directions to Obtain a True Conversion," 1730: a sermon on the death of his wife, 1745. President Edwards, in die- scribing his character at his funeral, said in part: "He was a person of unnatural com- mon abilities, and distinguished learning, a great divine, of very comprehensive knowl- edge, and of a solid accurate judgment ; judi- ciousness and wisdom were eminently his char- acter. He was one of eminent gifts, qualifying himself for all parts of the work of the min- istry ; and there followed a savor of holiness in the exercise of those gifts in public and private. In his public ministry, he mainly in- sisted on the most weighity and important things in religion. Christ was the great sub- ject of his preaching; and he much insisted on those things, that nearly concern the es- sence and power of religion. His subject was always weighty, and his manner of teaching them peculiarly happy, showing the strength and accuracy of his judgment, and ever breathing forth the spirit of piety, and a deep sense on his heart of the things he delivered. His sermons were some of them vain, but were all weighty. His presence and conversation did peculiarly command awe and respect, yet it was at the same time humble and conde- scending." He married ( first) Eliza. daugh- ter of Rev. Dr. Cotton. He married sec- end ) - -, daughter of Rev. Solomon Stod- dard, of Northampton, one of the greatest divines of New England. Children of first wife: Rev. William, of Weston. born May II, 1688: Martha, October 10, 1600, married Edward Partridge : Rector Elisha, August 26, 1604; Solomon, born June 4. 1700, mentioned below. Children of second wife: Daughter, born January 1, 1707, married - Barnard, of Salem: Elizabeth : Colonel Israel, of Hart- ford. born November 30. 1700: Dorothy, Jane 20, 1713, married Rev. Jonathan Ashley. of Deerfield.

( IV ) Rev. Solomon Williams, son of Rev. William Williams, was born June 4. 1700, and graduated at Harvard College in 1719. He was ordained December 5. 1722, and was a distinguished minister at Lebanon. Connecti- cut. He published a sermon at the ordination of Jacob Elliot at Goshen. in 1730: a sermon on the day of Prayer, on the occasion of the visit of Eunice Williams, daughter of Rev. John Williams, who was carried captive bye the Indians to Canada, preached at Mansfield.

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August 4. 1741. He also preached an election sermon which was published, one on the death of Eleazer Williams in 1743: "Christ wa- the Living Witness of the Truth," 1744: a vindi- cation of the Scripture of justifying faith, in answer to Andrew Croswell. 1746: "The True State of the Question Concerning the Qualifi- cations for Communion," in answer to Jona- than Edwards. He died in 1769. or, according to another authority. in 1776. He married Mary Porter. Children : Solomon, died young : Solomon, died young : Rev. Eliphalet. born February 24. 1727, lived in East Hart- ford, died 1803: Ezekiel. May 4, 1729. died February 18, 1788, sheriff of Wethersfield ; Governor William, March 18. 1731, died Au- gust. 1811, signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence : Mary, February 11, 1733 : Thomas, November 12, 1735, mentioned below : Moses, May 8. 1740, died aged ten : Samuel, Decem- ber 5. 1741, died January, 1742: Eunice, May 22, 1745. died June 14. 1836.

(\') Dr. Thomas Williams, son of Rev. Solomon Williams, was born November 12, 1735, died February 10, 1819. Dr. Williams was a graduate of Yale College in 1748. He was a physician of Lebanon. Connecticut. He married Rebecca Wells, a descendant of Gov- ernor Thomas Wells. Children : Solomon (twin). mentioned below : Mary ( twin), born 1783. died 1831.

(VI) Solomon (2) Williams, son of Dr. Thomas Williams, was born in 1783. died in Manchester, Connecticut, in 1875. at the great age of ninety-two years. In 1806 he married Martha Baker. of Brooklyn. Connecticut. daughter of Dr. Joseph Baker, who was a neighbor of General Israel Putnam and went with Putnam's regiment on the Lexington alarm. April 19, 1775, as surgeon. Dr. Baker's wife was a granddaughter of Rev. Ebenezer Devotion, of Suffield, Connecticut, and daugh- ter of Rev. Ebenezer Devotion. of Scotland parish, Windham, Connecticut. and a descend- ant of Edward de Votion, of Boston, a dis- tinguished Huguenot refugee. Two of Mrs. Williams' brothers were officers in the United States army, in the war of 1812. Captain James Baker continued in the army until disabled by illness, while the other brother. Colonel Ru- fus L. Baker. remained until shortly before the civil war when he resigned rather than obey orders from Jefferson Davis, then sec- retary of war, for the sending of arms and ammunition to southern arsenals and forts.

Children of Solomon and Martha Williams : 1. Rebecca Wells, born in iso;, married Rev. Story Hebbard, and died in Beirut. Syria, in . 1840: he was stationed on the island of Malta, she in the Syrian mission. 2. Thomas Scott.

born in 1812, a civil engineer. married, in 1816. Ellen Goodwin, of East Ilartford ; he died in 1875, leaving four children. 3. Samuel Por- ter, born in 1814, merchant and banker for many years at Lima, Indiana, married ( first ) Lydia Hume: (second ) her sister. Isabella Hume : he died in California, March 31, 1897. leaving four children. 4. Sarah Trumball, born in 1816, married Edwin Robinson, of Brooklyn, Connecticut, a direct descendant of Rev. John Robinson, of Leyden, and had three children : he died February 8, 18St ; she died March 12. 1900. 5. James Baker, mentioned below. 6. George Wells, born in 1820, married Martha Woodbridge, of Manchester, Connecti- cut, and had one son, Charles S ... of Hartford. 7. William Stuart, born in 1822, married Mary Edwards Goodwin, of East Hartford, and he was for more than forty years associated in business with his brother. James Baker Wil- . liams ; William S. died in 1894, leaving four children : Emily, Mrs. F. D. Glazier. of South Glastonbury : George Goodwin, of Hartford. now president of The J. B. Williams Company : Bernard Trumbull, who died in iSos: Mary Stuart, Mrs. L. S. Welch, of New Haven. 8. John Albert, born in 1824. a civil engineer. employed in the construction of the Boston water works and of the railroad from Galves- ton north to Austin, Texas ; married. in Texas. Caroline Sherman, and diedl at Galveston. of yellow fever, in 1860, leaving one son. Albert Sidney. 9. Solomon Stoddard, born in 1826. in Lebanon, ched in Manchester in 1847. 10. Martha Huntington, born in 1828, in East Hartford. married, in 1862, Bryan E. Hooker. a lineal descendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker. the first minister of Hartford : he died in ISSs. she in 1907, leaving two sons: Edward W. Hooker, mayor of Hartford in 1908-09, and Thomas Williams Hooker.

(VII) James Baker, son of Solomon :2) Williams, was born in 1818. at Lebanon in the house occupied by his great-grandfather for fifty-four years, by his grandfather eighty- four years and by his father forty-six years. He attended the public schools in Lebanon. East Hartford and Hartford and the East Hartford Academy for two terms. In :1.e spring of 1832 he left the Stone School . n Dorr, now Market street. Hartford, and went to live with Deacon Horace Pitkin, of Man- chester. where he worked on the farm and learred how to use his brains as well as his han's in his daily tasks. In the spring of 18344 he entered the employ of F. & H. C. Wood- bridge. nephews of Deacon Pitkin, as clerk in their store on Manchester Green, and Cool- tinued during the next four years, receiving a: wages but twenty-five dollars the first year and

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