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In 1890 Mr. Barnum visited Denver, intending to go on to the Pacific Coast, but gave that up and returned home on November 1st, apparently as well as usual, but after November 6th he did not leave his home, and died on April 7th, 1891. "With the calm consciousness that he had only a short time to live, his cheerfulness, courage, constancy, and contentment were surpris- ing and inspiring, and literally he approached his grave 'like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.'"'
CHAPTER LIII.
MEMBERS OF THE CONNECTICUT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM DANBURY FROM 1776 TO 1895 INCLUSIVE.
THE following list of those who have represented Danbury in the Legislature since the birth of Fourth of July is valuable for reference and interesting to study. It will be seen that military titles prevailed in the first ten years.
1776, May, Colonel Joseph P. Cooke. Captain Daniel Taylor.
" October,
Comfort Hoit.
Daniel Taylor.
1777, May, Richard Shute. Captain Eli Mygatt.
" October,
56
1778, May, Colonel Joseph P. Cooke.
Captain Daniel Taylor.
" October, Same persons. 1779, May, 66 October, Captain Noble Benedict.
James Clark.
1780, May,
Colonel Joseph P. Cooke.
Captain Daniel Taylor.
October, Colonel Joseph P. Cooke.
Eli Mygatt.
1781, May,
Joseph P. Cooke. 66
October,
1782, January, adjourned "
Eli Mygatt.
May, Colonel Joseph P. Cooke. 66 Eli Mygatt.
October, Same persons.
1783, May,
550
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1783 October, Colonel Joseph P. Cooke. 66 Doctor Sallu Pell.
1784, May, Colonel Joseph P. Cooke. 66 Major Ezra Starr.
" October, 66 Colonel Eli Mygatt.
1785, May,
6
Major Benjamin Hickok.
" October, Colonel Eli Mygatt. Captain Daniel Taylor.
1786, May,
Joseph M. White.
October, Colonel Eli Mygatt.
66 Major Benjamin Hickok.
Captain Daniel Taylor.
1787, May, 66 James Clark.
October, Colonel Eli Mygatt.
66 Captain Daniel Taylor.
Colonel Eli Mygatt. Joseph M. White.
1788, May, 66 " October, Same persons.
1789, May, Colonel Eli Mygatt. Captain James Clark.
66 66 October,
66 66
1790, May, Colonel Eli Mygatt.
66 Zadoc Benedict.
October, Colonel Eli Mygatt.
66
Captain James Clark.
1791, May,
Same persons.
October,
1792, May, Colonel Eli Mygatt. Elisha Whittlesey.
" October,
Same persons.
1793, May, 66
Elisha Whittlesey.
66
Justus Barnum.
October, Colonel Eli Mygatt.
66 Justus Barnum.
1794, May, Elisha Whittlesey.
66 Colonel Eli Mygatt. " October, Joseph M. White.
551
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1794, October, Benjamin Hickok. 1795, May, Elisha Whittlesey. Colonel Eli Mygatt. October, Timothy Taylor.
66 Isaac Ives.
1796, May, 66 Isaac Ives.
Colonel Eli Mygatt.
" October, Colonel Eli Mygatt. Thomas P. White. 60
1797, May,
D. N. Carrington. October, Elisha Whittlesey.
66 Benjamin Hickok.
1798, May, Justus Barnum.
Benjamin Hickok.
October, Elisha Whittlesey. 66 Thomas P. White. Same persons.
1799, May,
October,
66
1800, May, Captain James Clark. 66 Thomas P. White. " October, Elisha Whittlesey. Comfort S. Mygatt. 1801, May, Elisha Whittlesey. Epaphras W. Bull.
October, Timothy Taylor. Colonel Eli Mygatt. Elisha Whittlesey.
1802, May,
October, Comfort Mygatt. Elisha Whittlesey.
1803, May, 66
Thomas P. White. Daniel B. Cooke.
" October, Captain James Clark.
Daniel B. Cooke.
1804, May, 66 Epaphras W. Bull.
Samuel H. Phillips.
" October, D. N. Carrington. 66
1805, May,
Captain James Clark. Epaphras W. Bull. Noah Hoyt.
552
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1805, October, Thomas P. White.
66 Nathan Seeley.
Epaphras W. Bull.
1806, May, 66 Benjamin Hickok.
" October, Eliakim Benedict.
66 66 Amos Cook.
1807, May,
Eliakim Benedict.
Morse White.
" October, 66 Moss White.
Eli Mygatt.
1808, May,
Ebenezer Nichols.
66
60 Epaphras W. Bull.
" October, Eliakim Benedict.
66
Moss White.
1809, May,
Joseph P. Cook.
Friend Starr.
October, Eliakim Benedict.
66 Jonas Benedict.
Friend Starr.
66
October, Daniel B. Cook.
66 Nathan Cornwall.
1811, May,
Same persons.
" October, 66 Benjamin Hoyt, Jr.
Friend Starr.
October, Elias Starr.
66 66 Elanson Hamlin.
1813, May,
Samuel Wildman.
66 66 Elijah Sanford.
October, Samuel H. Phillips.
66 Phineas Taylor.
1814, May,
Friend Starr.
66
Daniel Comstock, Jr.
66
October, Russell White. Daniel Hoyt.
1815, May, 66
Elijah Gregory. Friend Starr.
66 October, Eleazer Benedict, Jr.
1810, May, 66 Daniel N. Carrington.
Ephraim M. White.
1812, May,
Elias Starr.
553
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1815, October, Eli Taylor.
1816, May, Elijah Gregory. Eliakim Peck. " October, Peter Ambler.
1817, May, Friend Starr.
Elijah Gregory.
October, Phineas Taylor.
Nathan Seeley.
1818, May,
Samuel Tweedy, Jr.
66 Zalmon Wildman.
October, Eden Andrews.
66 Matthew Wilkes.
Since 1818 there has been but one session a year, in May, until the change in the constitution in 1876, since which time it has been held in January.
1819, Friend Starr.
Zalmon Wildman.
1820, Eden Andrews.
Samuel Tweedy, Jr.
1821, Elijah Gregory. Eden Andrews.
1822, Elijah Gregory.
Reuben Booth.
1823, Sturges Selleck.
James Knapp.
1824, Eli Taylor. Samuel Tweedy.
1825, Zadock Stevens.
Samuel Taylor.
1826, Elijah Gregory. Oliver Shepard. 1827, Russell Hoyt. Isaac Seeley.
1828, Nathaniel Bishop.
66 George Clapp.
1829, William Comstock.
“ Starr Ferry.
1830, Rorry Starr.
Abel Hoyt.
554
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1831, Rorry Starr.
" Ira Benedict, 2d.
1832, Peter Barnum.
Rorry Starr. 1833, Eli T. Hoyt. Russell Lacey.
1834, Eli T. Hoyt. Starr Ferry.
1835, Ephraim M. White.
Abram Stow.
1836, Ephraim M. White.
Hiram Benjamin.
1837, Peter Barnum. 66 David D. Wildman.
1838, Same.
66 Isaac H. Seeley.
1839, Ephraim M. White.
66 Charles S. Smith.
1840, Starr Nichols.
Levi Beebe.
1841, Orrin Knapp.
Henry O. Judd.
1842, William Peck.
Nathan Seeley, Jr.
1843, Sherman Ferry.
No choice for other.
1844, H. L. Sturdevant.
William C. Shepard.
1845, Edgar T. Tweedy.
Starr Hoyt.
1846, Lewis S. Hoyt.
66 Charles W. Couch.
1847, Richard Osborne.
66 William A. Judd.
1848, Benjamin Stone.
66 Horace E. Hickock.
1849, Cyrus S. Andrews.
66 Eli T. Hoyt.
1850, N. H. Wildman. " Joseph Taylor.
1851, George Ferry.
555
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1851, Henry O. Judd. 1852, Ezra M. Starr.
Charles S. Smith. 1853, George Hull.
Pierre A. Sutton.
1854, Frederick S. Wildman.
John H. Dart. 1855, Orrin Knapp.
Nathan Seeley.
1856, Smith Tweedy.
Frederick T. Wildman.
1857, Giles M. Hoyt. William B. Hoyt.
1858, D. F. Comstock. George Starr.
1859, Judah P. Crosby. John Armstrong.
1860, David P. Nichols.
Thaddeus Bronson.
1861, George Starr.
James S. Taylor.
1862, Abijah E. Tweedy.
66 Aaron Pearse.
1863, Alfred N. Gilbert.
David B. Booth.
1864, David B. Booth.
Orrin Benedict.
1865, David P. Nichols.
William H. Tweedy.
1866, Samuel Mallory.
James S. Taylor.
1867, George H. Davis.
Samuel Mallory.
1868, Edward K. Carley.
66 Roger Averill.
1869, Walker B. Bartram. John Tweedy.
1870, Henry N. Fanton.
L. D. Brewster.
1871, Henry N. Fanton.
Ed. R. Humiston.
556
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1872, David B. Booth. " Henry L. Read. 1873, Isaac Smith.
Charles H. Read. 1874, Henry Perry. Thaddeus Rooney.
1875, Levi K. Wildman. Nathan B. Dibble. 1876, Norman Hodge.
Charles H. Crosby.
1877, Charles H. Crosby.
Nathan B. Dibble.
1878, L. D. Brewster. E. S. Davis.
1879, L. D. Brewster.
Charles H. Hoyt.
1880, Benjamin F. Bailey.
David P. Nichols.
1881, David B. Booth.
66 Dwight E. Rogers.
1882, Howard W. Taylor.
Charles J. Deming.
1883, James Ryder.
66 Albert B. Hoyt.
1884, John N. Fanton.
Henry Crofut.
1885, Alfred N. Wildman.
66 Samuel Gregory.
1886, Thomas F. O'Rourke.
66 Cyrus Raymond.
1887, L. Legrand Hopkins.
Dietrich E. Loewe.
1889, W. W. Sunderland.
Dwight E. Rogers.
1891, William A. Braun. Albert B. Hoyt.
1893, William A. Braun.
Albert B. Hoyt.
1895, Eugene C. Dempsey.
Louis Orton.
CHAPTER LIV.
CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD FROM EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT DAY.
THE following record of leading events in the growth of the town and the borough of Danbury will be of interest :
1684. - Temporary settlement.
1685 .- Permanent settlement made by Thomas Taylor, Francis Bushnell, Thomas Barnum, John Hoyt, James Benedict, Samuel Benedict, James Beebe, and Judah Gregory.
1696 .- First Congregational Church erected.
1702 .- Charter of town granted.
1708 .- Danbury made a garrison town.
1719 .- Second Congregational Church building erected.
1727 .- First Episcopal service held.
1735. - Thomas Taylor, first Representative to the General Assembly, and the last of the original settlers, died. Rev. Mr. Shove, first ordained minister, died.
1756 .- First recorded census taken. Population, 1527.
1763 .- First Episcopal Church edifice erected on South Street.
1765 .- Robert Sandeman, of Scotland, founder of the Sande- manian Society, arrived in Danbury from Boston.
1768 .- Third Congregational Church building erected.
1771 .- Robert Sandeman died. First public library estab- lished.
1774 .- Census taken. Population, 2526.
1775 .- Dysentery epidemic. One hundred and thirty deaths. 1776,-Danbury made a depository of army stores.
1777. - Danbury burned by the British under Tryon. General David Wooster killed.
1778 .- Four brigades of the Continental Army encamped on Shelter Rock.
1780 .- Union Lodge, No. 40, F. and A. M., instituted.", ; Zadock
558
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
Benedict starts a hat shop on site of present Consolidated Rail- road station on Main Street.
1782 .- Census taken. Population, 2747.
1784 .- Danbury made a shire town.
1785 .- Fourth Congregational Church building erected, later known as Concert Hall. First Baptist Church organized in King Street District. First court-house and jail erected.
1789 .- First Methodist Episcopal service held by Rev. Jesse Lee.
1790 .- Second Baptist Society organized in Miry Brook. First newspaper, Farmer's Journal. Census taken. Population, 3031.
1791 .- Jail burned. Second jail built with proceeds of a lot- tery organized for that purpose.
1792 .- First paper-mill erected in Danbury (Beaver Brook District).
1793 .- Republican Journal first published.
1794 .- First Baptist Church building erected in Miry Brook.
1797 .- Religious Monitor and Theological Scales first pub- lished.
1800 .- Wages for a man and horse on the roads was established by a town meeting at 75 cents per day. Census taken. Popu- lation, 3180.
1801 .- Great flood. Small-pox epidemic.
1803. - Farmer's Journal and Columbian Ark established.
1804 .- New England Republican first published. Permis- sion granted by the General Assembly for a lottery to build a poorhouse.
1807 .- Unsuccessful efforts made to dispossess Danbury of her right as a shire town.
1809 .- First Methodist Episcopal Church erected on the hill near where the Tweedy hat factories now stand.
1810 .- Census taken. Population, 3606.
1817 .- Disciples of Christ Society organized.
1820 .- Census taken. Population, 3873.
1821 .- Second Baptist Church building erected on Deer Hill.
1822 .- First Universalist service held in Great Plain District. Charter granted for a borough government.
1824. - Danbury Bank established.
1826 .- Danbury Records first published.
559
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1829 .- The first fire companies organized.
1830 .- Census taken. Population, 4311. Survey made for a canal from Danbury to Westport.
1831 .- Herald of Freedom and Gospel Witness first published.
1832 .- P. T. Barnum imprisoned for libel. Connecticut Re- pository published.
1833 .- First Universalist Church building erected, corner Main and Wooster streets, now known as St. Peter's Hall. Danbury Gazette published.
1834 .- First pipe water introduced by the Danbury Water Company from Tweedy's springs.
1835 .- Second Methodist Episcopal Church building erected on Liberty Street. First survey made of horse railroad from Danbury to Norwalk.
1836 .- Danbury Chronicle and Fairfield County Democrat established.
1837 .- Danbury Times published.
1838 .- First Catholic service held. First regular grocery in Danbury by D. P. Nichols and L. S. Benedict. 1840 .- Census taken. Population, 4504. First Disciples' Church building erected on White Street, later used as dwelling- house and school.
1844 .- Second Episcopal Church edifice erected on West Street.
1845 .- Hatters' Journal published.
1846 .- The Junta published.
1847 .- Baptist Church building erected.
1849 .- Savings Bank of Danbury established. Milk route established by Horace Bull.
1850 .- Census taken. Population, 5964. Danbury Cemetery Association organized. Hook and Ladder Co. formed.
1851 .- Unsuccessful efforts made to introduce public water. Second Congregational (West Street) Church Society organized. Wooster House opened.
1852. - Universalist Church building erected on Liberty Street. Second Congregational Church edifice erected on Main Street, now owned by the Catholic Society. Danbury and Norwalk Railroad completed.
1853 .- Second Methodist Episcopal Church building erected. Disciples' Society purchased their present building on Liberty Street. Big freshet, November 13th.
560
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1854 .- Great flood in Danbury. Wooster Monument raised. Pahquioque Bank established. Wooster Light Guards estab- lished (the first company in the State to offer its services to the Governor in 1861), E. E. Wildman, Captain.
1857 .- Charter granted for Chapter of Royal Arch Masonry. Illuminating gas introduced.
1858 .- Present First Congregational Church building erected.
1860 .- Jeffersonian published. Census taken. Population, 7234. Public water introduced.
1861. - First war meeting held at the Court House, April 18th.
1865 .- Present West Street Congregational Church dedicated. Charter for Masonic Council granted.
1866 .- Union Savings Bank organized.
1867 .- First cylinder press brought into Danbury by the Dan- bury Times. New Street schoolhouse building completed at a cost of $35,000. Main Street stone bridge built.
1868 .- William Augustus White, donor of Public Library, died. New York, Housatonic and Northern Railroad completed to Danbury.
1869 .- Kohanza dam burst, ten lives lost. Present Kohanza dam built. Danbury Agricultural Society organized. Public Library incorporated.
1870 .- The Times and Jeffersonian consolidated in the present Danbury News. Population, 8753. Knights Templar insti- tuted. Iron bridge on White Street built. Poorhouse com- pleted.
1871 .- First daily paper (The Daily News) established in Danbury. Water-power first applied to printing machinery by the News.
1872 .- The " Cozy Home" instituted.
1873 .- Steam-power first applied to printing machinery. First building designed specially for a printing-office erected by the News. The new brick jail completed.
1874 .- Danbury Globe established.
1875 .- Danburian established. The house in which General Wooster died torn down. Present Catholic church dedicated.
1876 .- July 4th, celebration of the first centennial of the sign- ing of the Declaration of American Independence.
1878 .- Concert Hall, near Soldiers' Monument, torn down.
561
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1879 .- A new Danbury library opened. Elmwood Park re- opened. The Court House remodelled. Telephone introduced.
1880 .- Population, 11,666. Union Lodge, No. 40, F. and A. M., celebrated its century anniversary.
1881 .- New England Railroad opened to Danbury.
1882 .- Pahquioque Hotel burned. Fire alarm established. Hatters' strike.
1883. - Evening News established.
1884 .- Danbury Hospital established. German Lutheran Church dedicated. Police force organized. Borough Court established.
1885 .- Remodelling of the First Congregational Church. The borough adopts the Schuyler electric light for street lighting. Hospital opened for patients. Parochial school built.
1886 .- Danbury Hospital chartered. Housatonic Railroad leased the Danbury and Norwalk Railway. Town Club estab- lished. City Hall completed.
1887 .- Horse railway opened to the public. Board of Trade organized. Electric light introduced.
1888 .- First pavement laid. The Morning Democrat estab- lished.
1889 .- First fire steamer purchased. Population estimated at 18,000.
1890.
January 11th .- Danbury Hospital finished. 14th .- First new hose wagons for Danbury Fire De- partment.
66 17th .- New system of Fire Department, part paid, part volunteer, goes into effect.
February 2d .- Danbury Hospital opened.
March 15th .- Street railway company send petition to Com- mon Council asking leave to extend their system.
April 9th .- Injunction laid on street railway.
66 13th. - Baptist Church celebrated one hundredth an- niversary.
June 5th. - Terrific thunderstorm.
66 22d .- Corner-stone new Methodist Church laid in a blinding rain.
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
562 July 66 20th .- Hottest day of the year, 98º.
2d .- Great Plain Chapel dedicated.
August 12th .- Paving begun on Main Street.
66 16th. - Macadamizing Main Street begun.
60 20th .- City appropriates $500 for an ambulance.
September 19th .- Official census returns. Population, 19,386.
27th .- Big boom in hatting.
28th .- German Lutheran parochial school dedicated.
October 11th .- 53,745 people at the Danbury Fair.
November 17th. - A lock-out inaugurated, and hat factories closed to the Trimmers' Union.
66 28th .- Conference of trimmers and hat manufacturers at Wooster House. No agreement.
December 1st .- A new Trimmers' Union formed. 5th. - Difficulty between trimmers and manufacturers adjusted.
1891.
January 1st .- 150 poor children given a New Year's dinner. 66 11th. - Heavy rain and freshet.
25th .- Heavy snowstorm.
March 18th .- New Methodist Church opened with a concert. March 20th .- New Methodist Church dedicated.
May 7th .- Building of outfall sewer begun.
June 16th .- Thermometer 100° in the shade.
66 26th .- Death of Mrs. Ambler, a famous army nurse in late war.
December 7th .- New armory building formally opened by Company G.
1892.
January 4th. - Several deaths from grippe.
12th .- Thermometer below zero.
66 14th .- Severe thunderstorm.
66 15th .- Eight inches of snow.
31st. - New Disciples' Church dedicated.
March
23d .- Crofut & White's factory burned. $30,000.
Loss,
May 23d .- Local street railway sold to an outside syndi- cate.
563
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
September 22d .- Danbury and Bethel Street Railway Company petition to use electric motor power.
24th .- Severe electrical storm with much damage.
October 21st .- Scholars of public schools celebrate Columbus Day.
December 28th. - Order of Golden Cross instituted.
1893.
January 17th .- Mercury 20° below zero.
21st .- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company make extensive purchase of prop- erty on Canal Street.
March 10th .- Common Council vote in favor of trolley sys- tem for street railway.
April
5th .- Town meeting votes to build new almshouse.
66 12th .- Legislature passed amended city charter.
66 16th .- New Baptist Church on West Street dedicated. 21st .- Special town meeting votes $5000 for Crosby Street Bridge.
22d. - Alexander M. White deeds property valued at $55,000 to Danbury Library.
May 5th .- Legislature gave Danbury Hospital an annual appropriation of $3000.
30th .- Corner-stone of Soldiers' Monument in Woos- ter Cemetery laid.
July 1st .- Danbury Library made a free institution. 26th .- Decided to postpone building of trolley until following year.
September 10th .- New Universalist Church dedicated.
October 11th .- Hat Manufacturers' Association presents prop- osition for change of mutual agreements to trade unions.
November 8th. - Hat manufacturers issue notice that agree- ments with employés will be severed Novem- ber 25th.
25th .- 4000 hatters discharged, 19 factories closed.
66 28th .- Hatters declare the action of the manufac- turers a lock-out.
December 9th .- Knights of Labor take up the cause of locked- out hatters.
65 14th. - Merchants' Board of Trade organized.
564
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
1894.
January 1st .- First break in lock-out. Beltaire, Lurch & Co. resumed work as a fair shop.
2d .- John W. Green announced that he would open an independent shop.
66 4th. -- Hat manufacturers issued statement in which they threatened to have their hats made in other places.
66 9th. - Prospect of settlement of hatting troubles.
66 10th .- Negotiations begun for a settlement of the labor trouble.
66 12th. - Finishers' and Makers' associations gave com- mittees power to effect a settlement of the difficulties with the manufacturers.
66 14th .- Conference between trade-unions and manu- facturers.
66 16th. - Hatters conference in session. A settlement looked for.
66 18th .- Conference ended without agreement.
66 19th. - Manufacturers decide to open independent shops.
22d. - Six factories ready to open "fair." Negotia- tions being made with the unions.
66 24th .- Trimmers refuse to grant concessions asked by manufacturers. Eight independent factories opened. Few applications received.
66 29th .- Six concerns open fair shops and employés re- turn to work.
66 31st .- Labor unions declare the lock-out off.
February 1st .- Hundreds of hatters return to work.
66 19th .- Petition sent to New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad officials for a new railway station.
66 20th .- Hatters' free soup kitchen discontinued.
March 4th .- James Montgomery Bailey died.
April 11th. - Training school for nurses opened at the hos- pital.
May 4th. - Public hearing upon the trolley question largely attended.
565
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
May
9th. - City engage an electrician to supervise con- struction of proposed electric road.
17th .- Monsignor Satolli given a reception in Dan- bury.
28th. - Monument to soldiers and sailors in unknown graves unveiled in Wooster Cemetery.
June
7th .- Common Council gives street railway permis- sion to adopt trolley system.
66 16th .-- High School Alumni Association formed.
18th. - Construction of electric road begun.
66 29th .- School officers elected by ballot for the first time in the history of the Centre District.
July
5th .- Delay in building trolley caused by scarcity of rails.
66 10th .- Danbury hatters indorse the Western railway strike.
66 13th .- Work begun upon Memorial Lodge in the cemetery.
26th .- Work on disinfecting plant begun.
August 8th .- Centre District vote to purchase lot in East Danbury for schoolhouse.
25th. - A no-license movement inaugurated.
September 13th .- Ground broken for' the construction of the trolley.
66 17th. - Encouraging boom in hatting.
November 15th. - New almshouse opened with a reception.
31st. - Danbury and Ridgefield telephone company's line opened.
December 14th .- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad prevent electric road crossing tracks at Bethel.
66 30th. - First electric car run over the Danbury and Bethel Line.
1895.
January 1st .- Electric street railway formally opened.'
March 20th. - W. H. Francis, oldest hatter, died.
April 27th .- Anniversary of burning of Danbury in 1777.
May 30th .- Electric road opened to the Fair Grounds.
566
HISTORY OF DANBURY.
June 3d. - City meeting asks appointment of committee to amend the city charter.
66 24th. - First electric car to Lake Kenosia.
October 11th .- Governor Coffin and staff visit Danbury Fair. 66 30th .- New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad purchase property on White Street for new station.
December 26th .- First Congregational Church holds its two hundredth annual meeting.
INDEX.
"Ye Labor and ye Patience, ye Judgment and ye Penetration which are required to make a Good Index, is only known to those who have gone through with this most necessary and painful, but least praised part of a publication."
William Oldys, 1687.
NAMES OF PERSONS.
A.
Abbott, 142, 187, 228, 315, 322, 532.
Adams, 68, 91, 117, 156, 362, 448, 449, 506. Addis, 169. Adkins, 211.
Agnew, 66, 68, 71, 80, 81. Akin, 142.
Allen, 2, 152, 299, 440, 461, 508.
Ambler, 56, 59, 142, 144, 165, 229, 242, 249, 260, 284, 307, 309, 397, 411, 440, 462, 526, 531, 545, 562.
Ames, 155. Amsbury, 313, 418, 446, 459, 460. Anderson, 15, 313.
Andrews, 46, 103, 138, 161, 197, 240, 248, 291, 292, 322, 385, 428, 430, 476, 483, 521, 525, 526. Andros, 52. Anthony, 116. Armstrong, 257.
Arnold, 30, 61, 63, 72, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 83, 89. Ashley, 197, 395. Astor, 217. Atherton, 16. Atwater, 79, 84. Atwood, 19. Aubrey, 323. Austin, 459, 463, 464.
Averill, 146, 356, 358, 361, 362, 367, 381, 393, 395, 397, 401, 402, 405, 407, 411, 428, 446, 453, 455, 464.
B.
Babbit, 136. Babcock, 137, 215, 216, 238, 372.
Bacon, III., 168, 273, 292, 385, 395, 430, 446, 463, 464, 468, 475, 476.
Bagg, 375.
Bailey, III. IV. V. VI., 149, 313, 377, 391, 428, 446, 449, 450, 451, 452, 454, 465, 466, 467, 472, 564.
Baily, 527.
Baker, 203, 372, 428.
Baldwin, 29, 35, 91, 145, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 388, 437, 446, 464, 530.
Ballou, 322. Balmforth, 214, 509.
Banks, 502, 525, 533, 544.
Barber, 221, 300, 470, 522, 533.
Barberry, 519.
Barclay, 388, 531.
Barelle, 312.
Barlow, 470.
Barns, 57.
Barnes, 155, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207. Barnhart, 305, 306.
Barnum, 13, 14, 17, 25, 44, 49, 52, 54, 56, 58, 69, 88, 89, 98, 103, 125, 134, 140, 146, 148, 164, 197, 208, 209, 243, 244, 261, 282, 295, 323, 332, 333, 342, 343, 350, 362, 368, 377, 387, 396, 397, 412, 449, 450, 453, 455, 475, 476, 501, 502, 508, 509, 510, 525, 527, 528, 531, 538, 539, 540, 544, 545, 548, 557, 559.
Bartlett, 56, 80, 532.
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