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 75

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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Watertown. Massachusetts. He came from England in the fleet with Win- throp, in 1630, and was admitted a freeman, May 18, 1631. He was in Cambridge for a short time. In 1638 he was a selectman of Watertown. September 7. 1630, he was en- gaged by the colonial government to make shot, and was captain of a company of sol- diers, being one of the two captains in the regular pay of the colony. He removed to Stamford. Connecticut, where he bought land of Mahacken, Naramake and Makentornth, three Indians, "as far up in the country as an Indian can goe in a day from sun rising to sun settinge." and also two islands. The consideration for the great tract conveyed in the deed was ten fathoms of wampum. three hatchets, three hoes, six glasses. twelve to- bacco pipes, three knives. ten drills. ten needles. He married a Dutch wife and was killed by a Dutchman in 1643, at Stamford. While the records do not permit us to trace the line of descent. it is believed that the Partricks at Norwalk and Stamford were de- scended from him. According to the census of 1790 we find among the heads of families of Stamford and Norwalk, which were enum- erated together, Samuel. Noah. John, Ellen (widow). and Asa Partrick. the last named being a cousin of John Partrick, mentioned below. Two other families of the name lived in the vicinity and no others are found at that time.

( I) Samuel Partrick, a descendant of Cap- tain Daniel Partrick, was born in Norwalk. Connecticut, where he passed his life as a farmer. He was killed by falling from the tongue of an ox-cart. the wheel passing over his head. He is buried in St. Paul's church- yard. Norwalk. He married Mabel Barnes. a native of Norwalk (now Westport). her family being an old one in the town. Mr. and Mrs. Partrick had four children: John, mentioned below: Lewis, Elizabeth. Harriet.

All these children are now deceased, and the mother of the family died at the age of sixty-two.

( II) John, son of Samuel Partrick, was born in Norwalk, in 1798. died September 2, 1847, at Westford, Otsego county, New York. Ifc was a farmer and cattle dealer in Nor- walk. He married Selina Camp. who was born at Norwalk, in 1800, died there in 1878. Children : 1. John A., lived at Norwalk, married (first ) Cornelia St. John : she died, and he married ( second) Julia G. Ailen ; three children, of whom two are living: Emma Se- lina and Mary Frances. 2. Stephen Camp, mentioned below. 3. Julius F., married Anna

PARTRICK Captain Daniel Partrick, im- migrant ancestor, settled in . Watersworth, who is still living at Norwalk; two children, of whom the younger, Sarah W., is still living. 4. A daughter, who died in infancy. The family were members of St. Paul's Church, Mr. Partrick, the father, serv- ing as vestryman there for a number of years.

( III) Stephen Camp, son of John Partrick, was born at Norwalk, October 3, 1831. and attended the public schools, at the same time " assisting his father on the farm until reaclı- ing the age of sixteen. He then served for five years as clerk in a general store. In 1843 he came to Bridgeport, and was clerk in the store of William Hall until 1856, when he engaged in business on his own account as a general merchant, with a store on Broad street, corner of State. While here, in order to get more room. he bought out the firm of Lyon & Harvey, near by, and after twenty- seven years of prosperous business gave up the general mercantile line and engaged in the feed business. After four years of this he sold out and devoted his attention to general contracting. excavating, grading and taking care of lawns, having at one time over two hundred to look after. This occupation he continued until 1907. when he retired. In 1865 he built a handsome residence on Fair- field avenue and in 1866 erected two houses on State street, thus becoming a considerable real estate owner. In politics he is an inde- pendent Democrat. He and his wife are mein- bers of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church.

Mr. Partrick married, April 25. 1550, Esther Frances, born at Southport. Connecti- cut. January 18, 1836, daughter of Julius Pike. for many years a sea captain and later in mercantile business at Southport, ultimately retiring and dying at the age of eighty-four. He married Elizabeth Partrick. a native of Norwalk, and they were the parents of five children: 1. Harriet Emily. deceased. 2. Samuel, deceased. 3. Esther Mary, died in infancy. 4. Esther Frances, married Stephen

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Camp Partrick, as mentioned above. 5. Anna Lavinia. Mrs. Pike lived to the age of sev- enty-seven. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Partrick died young. On the fiftieth anni- versary of their marriage, which occurred April 25, 1909, they received the congratula- tions of the many friends who gathered around them on the joyful occasion of their golden wedding.

Isaac Dormitzer was : DORMITZER man of considerable wealth and prominence. He owned and operated cotton mills in Prague, Austria, where he lived and died. He was born in 1798, died in 1859. He married Esther Frankel, who died in 1845. aged forty-five years. Of their thirteen children, six were liv- ing in 1910. Three came to America, viz : Magdalen, married James Taussig; Joseph, of St. Louis, Missouri, a real estate broker ; Henry, mentioned below.

(11) Henry, son of Isaac Dormitzer, was born in Prague, Austria, February 14, 1827. He is now living at 27 East Seventy-fourth street, New York City. He received a com- con school education in his native town and attended an Austrian college for one year. As a young man he became a merchant in Prague and gained an excellent business training. In 1848 he sought larger oppor- tunities in America. He embarked in busi- ness at Hoboken. New Jersey, as the proprie- tor of a cigar and tobacco store, and his busi- ness prospered and his capital increased. In 1860 he formed the firm of Bunzl & Dor- mitzer to carry on the wholesale tobacco leaf business, aml in 1874 the place of business was removed to New York City. After ten years more of excellent business. in 1884 Mr. Dormitzer retired and has since lived quietly at the home. purchasing the house in 1874. Both he and his wife have been generous in charity and active in works of benevolence. In politics he is a Republican. He married, in 1850, Anna Essroger. born in Prague. Aus- tria, 1830. died in 1903. Children :

I. Charles, born March 8. 1851, died aged ten years. 2. Edward. died in infancy. 3. Otto, died in infancy. 4. Jennie, born March 30, : 1857. died January 14. 1882: married Charles F. Todt : their daughter Jennie married Louis C. Flemming, of the Guarantee & Trust Com- pany of New York City, and they have one son. Louis Flemming. 5. Edith. born March II. 1859: married Dr. Richard C. Brandeis (de- ceased). of New York City: they had one son, Harry D. Brandeis. 6. Walter, born June 10, 1861: is engaged in the export trade in New York City with the firm of A. D. Straus

& Company : resides at South Orange. New Jersey; married Carrie Auerbach : children: Josephine, Anna and Marion. 7. Helea. Feb- ruary 12, 1865 ; married Rev. Alden L. Ben- nett, Protestant Episcopal clergyman, Mont- clair, New Jersey ; children : Violet Helen and John Alden Bennett. 8. Herbert Spencer, mentioned below. 9. Lucy, born February 3. 1867, died August 16, 1894: parried Walter M. Taussig. of New York City, president of the Wiebusch & Hilger Company, import- ers and manufacturers of hardware : children : Edith, Dorothy and Lucy Taussig.

(III) Herbert Spencer, son of Henry Dor- mitzer, was born in Hoboken. New Jersey. February . 12, 1865. He attended the public and high schools of Hoboken and graduated from Columbia College in 1885. From that time to 1902 he was in the employ of the Wiebusch & Hilger Company, importer, and manufacturers of hardware. He had charge of the cutlery department and of the manu- facturing department of the business. and was treasurer of the company. In 1902 he bought . a controlling interest in the American Shear and Knife Company, of Hotchkissville, Con- necticut, and since then has devoted his time to the business of that concern. He is di- rector. president and treasurer of the cor- poration. He is a resident of Woodbury, Con- necticut. and is president of the Wordhur; Inn Company of that town. He is secretary and treasurer of the Wholesale Pocket Knife Manufacturers' Association. He has been prominent in public affairs and honored with various offices of trust. He is a prominent Republican and vice-president of the Hotch- kissville Republican Club, of which he was one of the organizers. He represented the town of Woodbury in the general assembly of Connecticut in 1000-10. While in the house he was ranking member of the committee on finance. He is a member of Adelphic Lodge, No. 348, Doric, Free and Accepted Masons. of New York City. He married. in 1907. Margaret C. May. born in Yonkers. New York. lived at Danbury, Connecticut, daugh- ter of James J. and Katharine May. Chil- dren: Henry. born April 10. 1900: Herbert Spencer, Jr., June 6. 1910. By a previous marriage his wife had a son, Harold J. ( name changed to Dormitzer), born March 20, 1002.

(VII) George Robinson HAMMOND Ilanimiond, son of Colonel Isabel Hammond iq. v.), was born at Hampton, Connecticut, May 28. 1814. and died there January 16, 1802. He was educated in the public schools of his na- tive town. He engaged in farming and stock-

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raising on the old homestead in Hampton. and was one of the substantial and prosper- ous men of his day. For several years he was captain of the Hampton company in the state militia, the first captain known to furnish men a dinner, instead of rum. He held in succes- sion most of the town offices and represented it in the general assembly in 1867. He was a man of strict integrity and strong character. prominent in the Congregational church, of which for many years he was a deacon. In early life he was a Whig. but he was strongly anti-slavery in his beliefs and joined the Re- publican party when it was formed. He mar- ricd, at Mansfield, March 30. 1840, Sarah Elizabeth, born January 12. 1813, died April 13. 1876, daughter of Joshua and Phebe ( Adams) Bottum. Her mother came from New London to Mansfield. Children, born at Hampton : George Asahel. mentioned below : Henry Robinson. November 28, 1842; died September 16, 1849; Betsey, July 21, 1844. died September 23. 1849: Charles Stedman, June 4, 1846, died March 28. 1847; Charles Storrs, born July 12. 1848; William Henry, January 4, 1850: Harriet E., born August 20, 1853. died April 30. IS54: Lucy Ann, April 26, 1856. died December 17, 1886.

(VIII) Hon. George Asahel Hammond, son of George Robinson Hammond, was born in Hampton, May 26, 1841. on the Hammond homestead, "Red Roof," now occupied by his brother. He received his early education in the Foster School of Hampton, and at Wil- liston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachu- setts. He taught school for a year at Can- terbury, Connecticut, and for three years at Hampton. He became especially skillful in penmanship, and even while a student at Wil- liston he was called upon to teach writing. In July, 1862, soon after he had come of age. the town of Hampton had a quota of nine men to raise for the military service. Disas- ter had followed the flag, and the north was filled with gloom and dread. and everywhere the example of the loyal and brave citizen was urgently needed. Mr. Hammond set the ex- ample in Hampton. He refused to take a bounty, and enlisted with the spirit of the first volunteers called out by Lincoln. His example was followed by others until the quota was filled. and the town not only avoided a draft but received a fresh stimulus to its patriotism and faith in the Union. He enlisted as a priv- ate September 6, 1862, and was subsequently mustered into Company G. Twenty-sixth Reg- iment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, at Norwich. He was elected orderly sergeant of the company, and when the captain lost his life in the attack on Port Hudson, Louisiana.

May 27, 1863. Sergeant Hammond became acting lieutenant and continued thus until the expiration of his nine months' terin of enlist- ment, August 17, 1863. The Twenty-sixth Regiment became a part of General Neal Dow's brigade, in General Banks' Nineteenth Army Corps. It was stationed at New Or- leans in January, 1863, and took part in the siege and taking of Port Hudson. Subse- quently Mr. Hammond still further aided the Union cause by furnishing a substitute for a term of three years. After his return from the front he taught school at Pomfret for a year, and then entered the employ of his uncle, Charles L. Bottum, a prominent silk mant- facturer. He learned the business in every detail from the ground up, and was promoted step by step until he became superintendent of the inill. He was admitted to partnership in the firm of C. L. Bottum & Company in 1872, and at the same time C. C. Knowlton, another nephew, was also admitted to the firm. Mr. Knowlton's business was destroyed in the great Boston fire of 1872. In 1878 Mr. Hammond and Mr. Knowlton, who were cousins, organized the firm of Hammond, Knowlton & Company. with George M. Morse as special partner, to manufacture silk. Their first mill was on the west side of the river at Putnam. At the end of three years Mr. Morse retired from the concern. In 1885 the business was moved to the Harris Mill, to which extensive additions were made in 1892, more than doubling its capacity. The quality of the goods made in this mill is sec- ond to none. All of the silk thread used by the sewing machines at the World's Colum- bian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 was sup- plied by Hammond. Knowlton & Company ( the official silk), and the firm received a medal for producing the best twist and sew- ing silk in the world. The business was in- corporated as the Hammond Knowlton Com- pany. of which Mr. Hammond was president The business of this concern is one of the most valued and important of the town of Putnam. The relations between the company and the workmen have been mutually satis- factory and amicable. The company takes rank among the leading silk manufacturing concerns of the country. Mr. Hammond was one of the founders and a director of the Put- nam Foundry and Machine Company, the New London Wash Silk Company, the Hampton Silk Company, and the Putnam Box Company. These companies and the Eureka Silk Manufacturing Company are controlled by Hammond, Knowlton & Company, with offices on Broadway, New York, and various other large cities. Mr. Hammond is also

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president of the Putnam Light and Power Company.

Mr. Hammond has been honored with many offices of trust and responsibility. In politics he is a Republican, and he is active in public life. He has represented the state of Con- necticut in three national conventions of the Republican party. He was for many years a member of the school board of Mansfield, Connecticut, and represented that town in the general assembly of the state in 1876 in the Old Capitol at Hartford. He served on im- portant committees, including that on school funds. For more than twenty years he has been on the school board of Putnam, and for fifteen years was chairman. He represented Putnam in the general assembly of 1885-86 and 1905. In 1886 he was chairman of the committee on manufactures and member of the committee on railroads. In the previous year. the bill which he introduced to incorporate the Putnam Water Company was passed. He proved himself a wise, able and efficient legis- lator. In 1888 he was elected to the Republi- can state central committee from the Sixteenth district, and for ten years he was the Repub- lican leader in his district and an influential member of the state committee. In 1896 he was a presidential elector, voting for Mc- Kinley. In 1900 was a delegate to the Na- tional Republican convention at Philadelphia, also at Chicago in 1904 and 1908. In 1910 he was elected state senator from the Twenty- eighth district, was chairman of the finance committee and member of the committee of education. Mr. Hammond was commissioner from Connecticut at the Chicago World's Fair.

He has lost no opportunity to serve the town of Putnam and promote its best inter- ests . and welfare. He was instrumental in forming the Putnam Business Men's Associa- tion, and was its president several years. He has always been active in the movement for better public schools. No man has shown more public spirit in the community. He is a popular member of many social organiza- tions. He is a charter member of Israel Put- nam Lodge. No. 33. Odd Fellows of Putnam, of which he was the first treasurer ; a member of Putnam Lodge, No. 18. Ancient Order of United Workmen: of Putnam Council. No. 340, Royal Arcanum: of Quinebaug Lodge. No. 106, Free Masons: of Putnam Chapter, No. 41, Royal Arch Masons: of Columbia Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar. of Norwich ; and Sphinx Temple, Mystic Shrine. of Hartford; of A. G. Warner Post. Grand Army of the Republic, of which he is past commander ; of Army and Navy Club of Con-

necticut : the Thames Club of New London ; the C. A. C. Club of Putnam, and the Hart- ford Club. He and his family are liberal supporters of the Congregational church. Mir. Hammond is personally popular and is uni- versally respected and honored in the com- munity for his business ability, integrity and uprightness.

He married, October 12, 1862, Jane Cran- dall (niece of Prudence Crandall) born De- cember 28, 18440, daughter of Hezekiah and Elmira (Clapp) Crandall, of Canterbury, Con- necticut. Children, born at Mansfield: I. Charles Henry, born August 17, 1868, died April 15, 1888, in Colorado. 2. Bertha Eliza- beth. born April 1, 1870; graduate of Putnam High School in 1888; valedictorian of her class : studied two years at Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Massachusetts; travelled abroad with her mother in 1890, and subsequently spent two years at Mt. Vernon Seminary, Washington, D. C .: married Dr. Neil Mac- phatter, mentioned below.

(IX) Dr. Neil Macphatter Hammond was born in Canada, August 10, 1859. Both his father and mother were born in the highlands of Scotland, and emigrated to Canada. His father, Matthew Macphatter, was born in Argyleshire, February 16, 1816. Ilis ances- tors are known to have lived in the highlands of Scotland for generations. and they took an active part in many of the wars against Eng- land and hostile clans. About 1250 one of the northern clans wished to take possession of Kantyre and sent soldiers to seize it. They were met at Glen Barr by Matthew Macphat- ter, who was at the head of affairs, anl he defeated the invaders so disastrously that nearly all of them were slaughtered. and that part of Scotland has since been free of in- vasion. Neil Macphatter. the grandfather, came to Canada in 1832 and settled in Pus- linch, Ontario, a territory then a dense wilder- ness. After much toil and hardship. com- fortable homes were established for the inmi- lies. Dr. Neil Macphatter's mother was Jean Ramsay, a very beautiful and accomplished woman. descended from Lord Ramsay, the Earl of Dalhousie, one of the most distin- guished families of Scotland.

Dr. Macphatter was brought up on a farm. where he managed to receive a fairly good education from the schools near by. When thirteen years of age he was sent to a private academy to prepare himself for the medical profession, and after two years there he passed the entrance examinations to the University of Toronto. He spent four years here in Trinity Medical College, and was granted a fellowship at that college, when he received

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the degree of Bachelor of Medicine (M. B.). A short time after he wrote such a fine thesis on "Diseases of the Hip Joint" that the Uni- versity conferred upon him the degree of M. D., and appointed him one of the exam- iners of the university. He soon sailed for Scotland in order to pursue the study of medi- cine, and entered the famous medical schools of Edinburgh, where he remained for two years. He then entered the list for the L. R. C. P. degree of Edinburgh and was success- ful. After this he went to Glasgow and took the L. F. P. S. degree of the Faculty of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of that city. While in these institutions he became acquainted with some of the most prominent men of the pro- fession of Scotland. He was selected to be- come the assistant of Lawson Tait, the emi- nent surgeon whose ability has won him rec- ognition as the greatest surgeon of his day. and with him he spent a year as assistant in abdominal surgery and diseases of women. On his return to Canada he was asked to be- come professor of abdominal surgery and diseases of women in the University of Col- orado, and accepted. moving to Denver, Col- orado. Not long after this he was asked to become president and senior surgeon of St. Anthony's Hospital in Denver, and he was also elected professor of abdominal surgery in Gross Medical College. Denver. and had patients from all parts of the country. In 1897 he married Bertha E. Hammond, only daughter of Hon. George A. Hammond. of Putnam, Connecticut, and shortly after mar- riage they sailed for Scotland. the doctor wish- ing to secure the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons if possible, the highest degree that it is possible to secure in the medi- cal profession. Although few succeed in at- taining it. he was again successful, and re- ceived the coveted F. R. C. S. degree. He settled in New York City on his return to this country, and was made adjunct profes- sor of surgery in the Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital. and there rapidly gained a high reputation. He has written much for medical literature, and has a fine literary style. His wife died October 18, 1900, and their one child, Janet, born October 1. 1899, in Putnam. died there May 16. 1900. In 1903-04, by spe- cial act of the legislature of Connecticut, his name was changed to Hammond. when Hon. George A. Hammond adopted him as his son.

The Dorman family located DORMAN early at Hamden, Connecti- cut. According to the first federal census taken in 1790 there were five families of that name at that time in this

town, of which the heads were Benjamin, Daniel, Roger, Stephen and Jolin Dorman.

(I) Deering Dorman, son of one of those mentioned above, was born in Hampden, Con- necticut, in 1799. died at New Ilaven, Con- necticut, ISSI. aged eighty-two years ten months. He was a prosperous and success- ful farmer, raising vegetables and fruit, and was well known among the old residents of that section. He was among the first to build a house on Dixwell avenue, in 1840, which is still standing, although now located on Dor- man street, to which it was later removed, thic street being named in his honor. He was a lifelong member of Hamden Plains Metho- dist Episcopal Church, and served on the dif- ferent boards many years. He was the fa- ther of five children : Maria. Orin. Levi, Har- vey, Matilda, all now deceased.

(II) Levi, son of Deering Dorman, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, July 19, 1825, died there in 1908. He was educated in the public schools, and for a time followed the business of landscape gardener. He was thoroughly versed in the value of real estate and was engaged to purchase large tracts for park purposes, for the New Haven Park Com- mission. Among these were the land for West Rock Park, Beaver Pond Park an l oth- ers. His father was also a landscape garden- er, in addition to being a farmer. and some of the first of the large number of elm trees. which have given to New Haven the name of the "City of Elms", were set out by Deering Dorman, who was in turn followed by his -on. Levi Dorman, and who was later joined by his son, Burton Henry Dorman, whose sketch follows. At times the tivo latter set out as many as one thousand trees in a single fall and five hundred in the spring. Among these are included many of those beautiful speci- mens to be found upon Orange street, Whit- ney avemte and many other streets and ave- nues. He was a member of Hamden Plains Methodist Episcopal Church, taking an active part in all its affairs: was president of the Hamden Cemetery Association. He mar- ried (first) Cornelia Keeler, born at Fairha- ven, Connecticut, died at New Haven, April 17, 1870. on her forty-first birthday. He married ( second ) Mrs. Samuel Sheppard. ne? Amelia Matthews. Children of first wife: I. and 2. Died in infancy. 3. Harvey B., cdu- cated in the schools of New Haven, and later followed the business of his father, landscape gardening: for eighteen years he held the po- sition of superintendent of Evergreen Ceme- tery. New Haven, and during this time per- formed a vast amount of work to beautify the same and it was justly reckoned as among

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the most handsome cemeteries in the state of Connecticut. He took an active interest in the political affairs of the city, particularly the second ward, which he served for several terms in the common council : also held the office of constable many years. Ile was a member of Hiram Lodge, No. I, Free and Accepted Masons, of New Haven, the oldest lodge in the state. He married Lillian Par- ker : children : Mabel. married Dr. Gordon, of Mechanicsville, Vermont, and Harry B., who was employed in the General Electric Com- pany, now residing in Ballston Spa, New York. Harvey B. Dorman died in 1903. aged fifty years. 4. Lillie V., married Ephraim Nov, now deceased : she resides in Ann Ar- bor. Michigan. 5. Burton H., see forward. Child of second wife: 6. Ella Amelia, a trained nurse, resides in New Haven with her mother.

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