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 53

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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He was the first man to enlist in the civil war in the quota from the town of Cromwell, going from Hartford in Rifle Company A, Third Connecticut Regiment of Volunteer In- fantry. April 25, 1861, in response to Lin-

coln's first call for troops. He was mustered out August 12, 1861. and re-enlisted in Com- pany K. Twentieth Connecticut Regiment of Infantry ( Buckingham legion, named after Governor Buckingham) for three years. He was wounded in the first battle of Bull Run. He was orderly sergeant in 1862: was pro- moted to second lieutenant of Company B, April 24. 1864, and to first lieutenant Com- pany E. January 22, 1865. His service was with the Army of the Potomac from Septem- ber, 1862. to September 26, when the Twelfth Corps (to which his regiment was attached), was transferred to the Army of the Cum- berland under General Rosecrans, was subse- quently in the Twentieth Corps under General Sherman in the operations about Atlanta and the March to the Sea, and the operations in the Carolinas. Mr. Boardman participated in eighteen battles, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. in the east, and all under General Sherman in the west. He performed much valuable staff duty. He was detailed as pion- eer officer on the staff of Brigadier General Samuel Ross, May 1. 1864, and commanded the pioneer corps of the Second Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps. He also served in a similar capacity on the staff of Brigadier General John Coburn until his regiment was transferred to the Third Bri- gade of same division and corps, and was re- lieved, receiving warm commendation from General Coburn. He marched with his com- mand in the Grand Review at Washington City at the close of the war, and was there mustered out of service June 13. 1865.

Since the war, Mr. Boardman has lived in Hartford and Cromwell. Connecticut, and has been engaged in the banking business since February 1, 1889, as treasurer of the Crom- well Dime Savings Bank, which position he holds at the present time ( 19II). He has been active and useful in public life, and has held many offices of honor and trust. He was twice selectman of Cromwell. but resigned when last filling the position to accept the of- fice of town clerk and treasurer of the town funds, January 28, 1889, which office he con- tinues to fill, making a continuous service of over twenty-two years. He has been a dea- con in the Baptist church since 18;1, is a church trustee, and has been clerk for more than forty years continuously. He is a promi- nent member of Mansfieldl Post, No. 53, G. . 1. R., of Middletown.

He married. August 21, 1862, Maria Eliza- beth Paddock, born January 28, 1838, dangh- ter of Seth J. and Lucinda ( Kenyon) Pad- lock. She was educated in the district school and Mr. Beckwith's private school at Crom-

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well. Children: 1. Frank Crawford, born October 10, 1866: graduated in 1867 from Yale School of Fine Arts. studied painting two and one-half years in Paris, and has at- tained prominence as an artist and sculptor ; he had the contract to execute the statue of the late Senator Carmack, of Tennessee, to be erected at Columbia. that state ; he married, June 1, 1905, Jane Elam. of Columbia. Ten- nessee ; children : John Elam, born in Crom- well, Connecticut, July 29, 1906. and Mittie, born in Columbia. Tennessee. September 25. 1908. 2. Charlotte Hall, born May 11. 1869, died June 21. 1875. 3. Arthur Howard, born October 15, 1870: has been deputy sheriff of Middlesex county, collector of taxes. registrar of voters, constable. and select- man of Cromwell : married. September 13, 1901, Edith T. Kjeldsen. of Cromwell: no children. 4. May Wilcox. born December 9. 1875: for one year attended New England Conservatory of Music. Boston, becoming very proficient in her study of music : married. June 4, 1896, George Wellington Brewer : children : Grace Anna, born August 22. 1807: Howard George, January 25. 1809: Robert Donald, September 9, 1901; Edith May. De- cember 19. 1902. 5. Rev. Wallace Selden, twin with May Wilcox: prepared for college at Suffield Preparatory School. and graduated from Wesleyan University in the class of 1901 ; September 1. 1901, licensed to preach the gospel by Baptist Church of Cromwell ; graduated in December, 1904, from Rochester Theological Seminary. New York: preached for a time at Shepherd, Michigan : was pastor at Greenwood. Wisconsin. one year, and is now pastor of Baptist church at West Wards- boro. Vermont : married Sadie H. Davidson, of that place, November 4. 1908: no children:

The name Washburn is de- WASHBURN rived from two simple words: wash, which ap- plies to the swift moving current of a stream. and burn or bourne, a brook or small stream. The name has been spelled in various forms in the different generations. It has been said of the family, whose origin is in England. that the posterity of John Washburn, the first immigrant of the name to locate in New Eng- land. "will seldom find occasion to blush upon looking back upon the past lives of those from whom they have descended. Fortunate indeed may the generations now in being. esteem themselves, if they can be sure to bequeath to their posterity an equal source of felicita- tion." In this illustrious family have been found some of our nation's greatest charac- ters, in public and in private life, statesmen

and military men in all the American wars. Maine. Vermont, Massachusetts and Wiscon- sin have all had governors from the Wash- burn family, and three brothers served as con- gressmen from three states at the same time, and all with much ability. Authors and col- lege graduates may be found to a score or more, who have left their impress upon the world. In England a John Washburn was the first secretary of the council of Plymouth, and was succeeded in office in 1628 by William Burgess, but it is not known that he was identical with John Washburn, of Duxbury. in 1632, nor is it known that the New England Washburns. the descendants of John. were of kin to William, Daniel and John Washburn. who had land upon Long Island as early as 1653, but whose names soon afterwards dis- appeared from the records there.

( I) Sir Roger, of Little Washbourne. coun- ty Worcester, England, flourished in the lat- ter half of the thirteenth century. Fle is men- tioned in the inquisition of 1259 and was liv- ing in 1290. He married Joan

( II) Sir John. son of Sir Roger, was known during the lifetime of his father as Tolin de Dufford. He was knight of the shire and died before Michaelmas, 1319. He married Isa- bella

( III) Sir Roger (2), son of Sir John. mar- ried. as early as 1316, Margaret -. He was Lord of Washbourne.

(IV) John (2) Washburn. son of Sir Roger. was a younger son. He had an elder brother. also named John, who died without issue, and consequently the estate and manor of Washbourne was confirmed to the younger son by his father. Sir Roger. He married Isabelle -

(V) Peter Washborne. son of John (2) Washburn. married Isolde Hanley in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of Edward III. Had sons, John, mentioned below. and Wil- liam.

(VI) John (3) Washborn. son of Peter Washlorne, married ( first ) Joan Musard. and (second) Margaret Poher. or Powre, of Wichenford. He was knight of the shire, es- cheater, and vice-comes. He was last of the name to own Stanford, and the first in Wich- enford. and was living in July. in the fifth year of the reign of Henry VI. Children: Isolde ( by first wife ), Norman. John. Elynor.

(VII) Norman Washburn. - on of John (3) Washhorn, married Elizabeth Knivton. As son and heir he had a grant of the manor of Washbourne from his father in the fifth year of Henry VI. He died before 1749. Chil- dren: John, mentioned below : Eleanor: and other daughters.

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(VIII) John (4), son of Norman Wash- burn, died in May, 1517. He was probably born as early as 1454. He was commissioner. He married ( first ) loan Mitton. of Weston. county Stafford, and ( second ) Elizabeth Mon- ington, of Butters, county Hereford, who was buried at Bosbury. His will was dated May 3, 1517, and he died May 6 following. He was buried in Wichenford church. Children of first wife: Robert, died in lifetime of his father ; John, mentioned below : Wallace. ex- ecutor of his father's will; Francis. Children of second wife: Anthony, of Bosbury ; Rich- ard.

(IX) John (5), son of John (4) Wash- burn, was founder of what is known as the Bengeworth branch. and married Emme -, who lived at Bengeworth, a few miles distant from Little Washbourne. His will was dated December 27. 1546, and he died soon afterward. His wife made her will May 1, 1547. Children: John, mentioned below ; William, married Margaret Harward.

(X) John (6). son of John (5) Washburn, of Bengeworth, married ( first) in 1542, Jone Bushell. He married ( second) in 1561. Jone Whitehead, who was buried in 1567. He was buried in 1593. Child, John, mentioned be- low.

(XI) John (7), son of John (6) Wash- burn, was of Bengeworth, and married, in 1596, Martha Stevens, whose will was proved in 1626. He was buried in 1624. His will was dated August 3, 1624. Children: John, baptized July 2, 1597. mentioned below ; Jane. baptized December 2. 1599: William, baptized November 9. 1601 ; Jone, baptized. April 1I, 1604, buried 1636.

(XH) John (8). son of John (7) Wash- burn, was born in Evesham, county of Wor- cester, England, was baptized in Bengeworth, England, July 2, 1597. He was the immigrant ancestor. Fle settled in Duxbury. Massachu- setts, in 1631. His wife, Margery and two of his sons, John and Philip. joined him there in 1635, coming on the ship "Elizabeth." In that year he had an action in court against Ed- ward Doten, and was taxpayer in 1633. In 1634 he bought of Edward Bompasse a place beyond the creek, called Eagle's Nest. He and his sons above mentioned were on the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. He and his son. John, were among the fifty-four original proprietors of Bridgewater in 1645. They bought the lands of the old Sachem. Massasoit, for several eoats of one and one- half yards each, nine hatchets, twenty knives, ten and a half yards of cotton cloth. The transfer was witnessed by Captain Myles Standish, Samuel Nash and Constant South-

worth. He died in Bridgewater in 1670. He married Margery Moore, who was baptized in 1588. Children: Mary, baptized 1619; Jolin, born 1620, mentioned below; Philip, baptized and buried June, 1622, at Benge- worth : Philip, went to America with his father.

(XIH) John (9), son of John (8) Washı- burn, born in Evesham, county of Worees- ter, England, in 1621, came to America with his father. In 1645 he married, at Duxbury, Elizabeth Mitchell, whose father, Experience Mitchell, came to Plymouth in the third ship "Anne" in 1623 and took prominent part in affairs of the colony. John Washburn in 1670 sold his house and lands in Green's Harhor. Duxbury, which his father had given him. He made his will in 1686, and died at Bridge- water before 1690. His sons, John and Sam- uel, were executors, and his brother-in-law, Edward Mitehell, and his kind friend, John Tomson, were made trustees and overseers. Children: John, married Rebecca Lapham : Thomas, married ( first ) Abigail Leonard, (second) Deliverance Packard; Joseph, mar- ried Hannah Latham and resided in Bridge- water: Samuel, born 1651, mentioned below ; Jonathan. married Mary Vaughan : Benjamin, died on Phipps expedition to Canada : Mary, born 1661, married, 1694, Samuel Kinsley; Elizabeth, married (first ) James Howard, ( second) Edward Sealy; Jane, married Wil- liam Orcutt Jr .: James, born 1672, married Mary Bowden; Sarah, married, 1697, John Ames.

(XIV) Sergeant Samuel Washburn, son of John (9) Washburn, was born in Duxbury in 1651. died in 1720 at Bridgewater. Massa- chusetts. He married Deborah, daugliter of Samuel Packard. He came from Windham, near Hingham, England, and settled at Hing- ham. Massachusetts, in 1638. Samuel Wash- burn's will was made in 1,20, and showed that his sons. Noah and Israel, were dead at that time. Children: Samuel, born 1678. married Abigail -; Noah. 1682, married Eliza- beth Shaw; Israel, 1684, mentioned below; Nehemiah. 1686. married Jane Howard : Ben- jamin, married Joanna Orcutt ; Hannah, mar- ried John Kieth.

( XV) Israel, son of Sergeant Samuel and Deboralı (Packard, Washburn, was born in Bridgewater. Massachusetts, in 1684. died at Bridgewater in 1719. He married. Novem- ber 3. 1708. Waitstill Sumner. His estate was divided among his heirs in 1730. Children : Sarah, born (7on: Deborah. 1712; Seth, 1714; Israel, mentioned below.

(XVI) Captain Israel ( 2) Washburn, son of Israel (1) Washburn, was born at Bridge-

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water, August II, 1718, died in Raynham, Massachusetts, January 21, 1796. He settled in Raynham in 1743, and all his children were born there. Captain Israel Washburn was elected March 4, 1776, a member of committee of correspondence. inspection and safety for the town of Raynham: was also captain of the military company known as the train band of Raynham, November 9, 1774. He was also in the revolution, serving as a sergeant in Captain John Shaw's company. Colonel Abiel Mitchell's regiment, on the alarm of August 2, 1778, discharged August 10. He married, in 1740, Leah Fobes. of Bridgewater. born there, March 27, 1720, died December 9, 1789. Children : The first three died as infants. 4. Leah, born November 20, 1749, died March 6, 1831 ; married Jason Fobes. 5. Olive, born August 8, 1752, died April 16. 1846. 6. Is- rael, born 1755, mentioned below. 7. Nehe- miah, born June 6. 1759, died January 3. 1818; soldier in the revolution, wounded in the Rhode Island campaign. 8. Seth, born Sep- tember 29, 1761, died February 3. 1832: he was a physician. 9. Oliver. born July 14, 1704, died December 23, 1823 ; married Sally Las- coun.

(XVII) Israel (3), son of Captain Israel (2) and Leah ( Fobes) Washburn, was born in Raynham, January 30. 1755, died Janu- ary 8, 1841. He was a soldier in the revolu- tion on the Lexington alarm in Captain James Williams' Jr., company : sergeant in Captain John Starr's company, Colonel Abiel Mitch- ell's regiment ; captain of a Raynham company in 1782. He was a member of the convention that adopted the first constitution of common- wealth, and deputy to the first general court of the state, in 1780, and served several years. He married, in 1783, Abiah King, born June 9, 1762, in Raynham, died May 25, 1842. Children: 1. Israel, mentioned below. 2. Molly, born November 14, 1786. married Pey- ton R. Leonard. 3. Sidney, born November 14, 1788. 4. Benjamin, born February 10, 1791, married Jane Aspinwall. 5. Reuel, born May 21, 1793, married Delia King. 6. Elihu, born July 22. 1795. 7. Philander. born June 29, 1799. 8. Eli K., born July 22. 1802, married Naney Dean. 9. Cornelia, born Jan- uary 7. 1807.

(XVIII) ) Israel (4), son of Israel (3) Washburn, was born in Raynham, November IS, 1784. He was a representative from Raynham in the general court. He removed to Livermore. Maine, in 1809. He married March 30, 1812, Martha Benjamin, twin of Polly, born at Livermore, October 4. 1792, died May 6. 1861, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel Benjamin, an officer in the revolution,

and Tabitha (Livermore) Benjamin. He came to Maine in 1806, visiting Bangor, Ed- dington, Mariaville, Trenton and Livermore. He remained some months at the latter place and then went to the county of Lincoln, where he was employed for a year or more as a school teacher, and afterward engaged in trade and ship-building with Barzillai White, at White's Landing, now Richmond, on the Kennebec river. In 1809, having purchased of Artemas Leonard, his farm, store and goods at Livermore, he commenced business here as a trader and remained until 1829. His later years were passed on a farm called "The

Norlands," where he lived to be over ninety, dying September 1, 1876. He was for many years town clerk and selectman : was represen- tative in the Massachusetts general court, 1815-16-18-19. Children, all born at Liver- more : 1. Governor Israel, born June 6, 1813, died May 12, 1883; was educated for the bar and settled at Orono, Penobscot county, Maine, in December, 1834, and practiced until 1860; was representative in the state legisla- ture in 1842 and in the thirty-second to thirty- sixth congress of the United States, resign- ing January 1, 1861, to become governor of the state: was re-elected governor next elec- tion and declined a subsequent election ; was appointed by President Lincoln collector of the port of Portland and held that office many years until 1877; was resident of the board of trustees of Tufts College, and was elected president of the college in 1875 but declined. 2. Algernon S., born November 29, 1814, was a merchant in Boston and a banker in Hallo- well, Maine. died September 29. 1879. 3. Eli- hut B., born September 23. 1816, mentioned below. 4. Cadwallader Colden, born April 22, ISIS, died in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, May 14, 1882; was a clerk in a country store and a school teacher in early life ; went to Daven- port, Iowa, in 1839, and worked in the geo- logical survey: studied law in the offices of Joseph B. Wells and Reuel Washburn and was admitted to the bar, March 20. 1842: was elected surveyor of the county of Rock Island. Illinois, in 1840; entered partnership with Cy- rus Woodman, agent of the New England I.and Company, in 1844, at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and the firm became large real es- tate operators and bankers; was elected to congress and served from December 3, 1855- to March 3, 1861 ; colonel of the Second Wis- consin Cavalry in the civil war and did gallant service ; commissioned brigadier-general. July 16, 1862, and major-general, November 29, 1862, and continued until May 25, 1865. in active service: was again in congress from March 4, 1867, to March 4, 1871 ; in 1871 was

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elected governor of Wisconsin and held the telligencer in Gardiner, Maine, in 1833, as office two years: was candidate for the United a printer's apprentice. The paper was dis- continued a year later, and he became a teacher in the public schools. In May, 1835, he entered the employ of the Kennebec Jour- nal at Angusta, Maine, and within a year be- came the assistant editor and acquired his first experience in politics during the session of the legislature. He then decided to study law and entered Kent's Hill Seminary, at Readfield, Maine, in 1836. After a year in that institution he continued his studies in the office of John Otis in Hallowell. In March, 1839, he entered the law school at Harvard University and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He settled at Galena, Illinois, and be- came a partner of Charles S. Hempstead. States senate : erected a flouring mill in 1876. the foundation of an enormously successful business : founded the Washburn observatory in the state university at a cost of $50,000; was life regent of the university from which he received the degree of LL. D .: made mu- nificent gifts to public charities in his life and in his will: married Jeanette Gratoit and had Nettie and Fannie. 5. Martha B., born Feb- ruary 6, 1820: married Charles Stephenson and had Lizzie C., Frederick W., Hattie E. and Benjamin W. Stephenson. 6. Charles Ames, born in Livermore, March 16, 1822, died in New York, January 26, 1889; gradu- ated from Bowdoin College in 1848 and was admitted to the bar at Mineral Point, Wis- consin ; became editor and then proprietor of the Alta California of San Francisco; took an active part in founding the Republican party ; from 1850 to 1860 owned and edited the San Francisco Daily Times; in 1860 was presiden- tial elector-at-large from California and in 1861 was appointed by President Lincoln com- missioner to Paraguay to which he was after- wards minister from 1863 to 1868; lived at Oakland, California, and Morristown, New Jersey; published two works of fiction and several valuable historical books. 7. Samuel. B., born January 1. 1824, was a shipmaster in the merchant marine and afterwards in the Ittmber trade in Wisconsin and Minnesota: was a captain in the navy in the civil war. 8. Mary B., born November II. 1825, died March 15. 1867: married Gustavus A. But- fum, of Clinton, Iowa. 9. William .Allen, born October 22, 1827, died November 28, 1828. 10. William Drew. born January 14. 1831. graduated at Bowdoin in 1854: admitted to the bar in 1857 and began to practice in Min- nesota; in 1861-65 was surveyor general of the state; engaged in manufacturing in Min- neapolis: president of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad: represented the city of Minneapolis in the legislature and his district in congress in 1878, serving until March 3. 1885 ; married Elizabeth L. Muzzy. 11. Caro- line Ann, born January 30, 1833. married Freeland A. Holmes, M. D .. surgeon in the Sixth Maine Regiment, and died in the service in 1863.

(XIX) Hon. Elihu Benjamin Washburne, who used the final "e" in writing the surname. son of Israel (4) and Martha ( Benjamin) Washburn, was born in Livermore. September 23, 1816, died in Chicago, Illinois, October 22, 1887. He was educated in the public schools, and after working on his father's farm. entered the office of the Christian In-

He was a staunch Whig and took the stump for that party in support of General Harri- son for president. In 1844 he was a delegate to the Whig national convention in Baltimore and on his return he visited Henry Clay. the nominee of the party for president. In 1848 he was nominated for congress in the Galena district, but was defeated. In 1852 he was a delegate to the Whig national convention and in the same year was elected to congress, serving from December 5, 1853. to March 6. 1869. He soon gained a national reputation, and in 1855 became chairman of the commit- tee on commerce, which he held for ten years. He and William IT. Seward were appointed the committee of the house to receive Abra- ham Lincoln as president. From his length of service he came to be known as the "Father of the House." and in that capacity he ad- ministered the oath of office to Schuyler Col- fax three times and to James G. Blaine once. From his careful scrutiny of public expendi- ture he was given the name of the "Watch- dog of the Treasury." He was a steadfast friend of General U. S. Grant during the civil war. was influential in procuring promotions, and himself originated the bills making Grant lieutenant-general and general of the army. Mr. Washburne was a member of the joint committee on reconstruction and chairman of the committee of the whole in the matter of impeachment of President Johnson. He op- posed all grants of public lands and subsidies to railroads, and resisted vigorously the bill that subordinated the first mortgage of the government of the Pacific railroad to the mort- gage of the railroad companies. He also op- posed log-rolling river and harbor bills, all extravagant appropriations for public build- ings, all subsidies for steamship lines and all undue renewals of patents. Among the im- portant bills that he introduced was one to establish the national cemeteries. At the be-

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ginning of his administration, General Grant appointed Washburne secretary of state. He resigned to become minister to France. an office he held during the Franco-P'russian war during which he also represented the German government at Paris. When the empire was overthrown, he was the first foreign represen- tative to recognize the new republic. He re- mained in Paris during the siege and was at his post when the Commune ruled the city. Hle visited the venerable Archbishop Darboy, of Paris, when he was hurried to prison, and succeeded in having the prelate removed to more comfortable quarters. but failed to save his life. He retained the good-will of the French during all the changes of government and the Emperor of Germany recognized his services by conferring upon him the Order of the Red Eagle. This he declined, owing to the provision of the United States consti- tution preventing acceptances of such honors. but when he resigned in 1877 the emperor sent him his life-size portrait, and he was similarly honored by Bismarck. Thiers and Gambetta. On his return to this country he settled in Chicago and in 1880 was mentioned as a candidate for president, but he declined to run. He was president of the Chicago His- torical Society from November. 188 ;. until he died, and was frequently invited to lecture on his foreign experiences. He wrote a series of articles for "Scribner's Magazine," which were expanded into a work of two volumes, entitled "Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869-1877." His collection of pic- tures, documents and autographs he desired to be given to the city of Chicago, provided they should be exhibited free to the general public. He edited "History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois" (1882), and "The Edwards Papers" ( 1884).

He married. at Gratoit's Grove. near Shells- burg, Wisconsin. July 31. 1845. Adele. daugh- ter of Henry Gratiot. She was born at Fevre River, now Galena, Illinois. November 12. 1826, died in Chicago, March 18, 1887. Her grandfather. Charles Gratiot, was born at Lausanne. Switzerland, whither his parents had fled on the revolution of the edict of Nan- tes when all Huguenots were driven out of France. Charles Gratiot came to America and served the cause of the American revolution with great devotion. Henry Gratiot married Susan Hempstead, of New London. Connecti- cut, daughter of Steplien Hempstead. of New London, who was a soldier in the revolution- ary war, as were the other three great-grand- fathers of Mrs. Elihu B. Washburn's children. Children of Elihu B. and Adele ( Gratiot ) Washburne: 1. Infant son, born Galena, Ili-

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