History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928. Volume III, Part 95

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1390

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Mr. Anderson is endowed with administrative ability of a high order as well as unerring judgment and the success of any undertaking with which he is connected is assured. During the conflict with Germany, when the country had great need of men of his experience and efficiency, he exerted his efforts to the utmost, becoming the organizer and general chairman of the first Red Cross drive in 1917; chairman of the Manchester war bureau; of the home service section of the American Red Cross Society; and the United War Work drive in 1918. In 1919 he was made chairman of the Memorial Hospital campaign and has served on the executive com- mittee of every drive held in Manchester during or after the war. It was Mr. Anderson who proposed and made possible the building of the Army and Navy Club, an achievement for which he also deserves much credit. In the summer of 1922, when the executive committee of the big Manchester Centennial was looking for a manager who could "put the thing over," Frank H. Anderson was chosen. With characteristic

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zeal, he brought to bear all of his energies in the execution of this commission, exceed- ing the fondest hopes of those responsible for his selection, and the monster affair was the greatest success in the history of the town.

On October 30, 1911, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Grace Pendle- ton, by whom he has three daughters: Claire Barbara, Betty Harper and Laura May.

In fraternal circles Mr. Anderson is known as a York Rite Mason who has also attained the thirty-second degree of the Scotish Rite, for he belongs to the following bodies; Manchester Lodge No. 73, F. & A. M .; Delta Chapter No. 51, R. A. M .; Wol- cott Council, R. & S. M .; Washington Commandery No. 1, K. T .; Connecticut Con- sistory, S. P. R. S .; and Sphinx Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He is a past president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, in the organization of which he was a leading spirit, and occupies the presidency of the Connecticut Retail Merchants Association, consisting of the largest department stores in the state. Moreover, Mr. Anderson is a director of the State Chamber of Commerce, vice president of the Manchester Kiwanis Club and a member of the local Country Club and the Aldine Club of New York. A fine type of the self-made man, Mr. Anderson is a model citizen and has to his credit a notable record of accomplishment, for few men of his years have achieved as much.

GEORGE WILLIAM LILLARD

In the legal profession George William Lillard has found a vocation which affords the best medium for the expression of his talents and is widely and favorably known as secretary of the faculty of The Hartford College of Law, which is largely indebted to him for its inception and development. Born in Washington, Virginia, October 20, 1884, he is a son of Charles H. and Phoebe Alice (Clark) Lillard, both natives of that state and members of fine old colonial families. The father was elected sheriff of Rappahannock county, Virginia, when a young man of twenty-one and served con- tinuously until his death in 1896, when he was forty-five years of age. Afterward his widow removed to Washington, D. C., and is still a resident of that city.

George W. Lillard was reared in the Old Dominion and supplemented his public school education by attendance at the Randolph-Macon Academy at Front Royal, Vir- ginia, graduating with the class of 1903. For a short time he was a student at the Eastern College of Front Royal and then became a salesman for a drug firm, filling the position for a brief period. Afterward he was identified with the real estate business in the city of Washington and then matriculated in Georgetown University, from which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1913. Two years later he was appointed a special agent of the bureau of investigation of the United States department of justice and supervised the activities of the bureau in Washington, D. C. During the World war he had charge of the work in the district comprising Connecticut, establish- ing his headquarters in Hartford in January, 1918, and continued with the bureau of investigation until August, 1919, when he tendered his resignation. Since that date he has been in the service of the Travelers Insurance Company and is identified with its claim department, performing his important duties with characteristic efficiency and conscientiousness.

In October, 1921, Mr. Lillard organized The Hartford College of Law in associa- tion with Allen K. Smith, Roger Davis, James W. Knox, James E. Rhodes and John Burke. It was chartered by the state legislature in 1925 and is located at No. 51 Chapel street, occupying an entire floor of the building. This is an evening school and was established for the purpose of giving to the young men and women of Hart- ford and vicinity an opportunity for the study of law. The institution fills a long felt want in the educational facilities of the state. This is particularly so because of the fact that the many large insurance companies, which have their home offices in this city, employ thousands of young people who will find that a legal education will assist them materially in their work and, consequently, make them more valuable to their employers. Many other young people employed in the offices of the various industries and mercantile organizations of Hartford will also find that a legal educa- tion tends to increase their efficiency and earning capacity. Primarily, the school is for the benefit of those young men and women whose economic conditions force them to earn a livelihood by following some occupation during the day. It also gives those

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who are already engaged in reading law in the offices of practicing attorneys the chance to complete their studies in a systematic manner.

The Hartford College of Law was started with five instructors and it now has fifteen, who have been selected with great care, all being men of high calibre. About one hundred students are now enrolled and the institution is steadily growing in popularity as well as usefulness. The course covers four school years of about nine months each and the subjects include every important branch of legal study. The courses outlined by the faculty are supplemented by special lectures on each subject taught, these being given after the students have acquired sufficient knowledge of the subject to derive the greatest benefit therefrom. This is a college of high standing and an institution which is a credit to the city which it serves.

Mr. Lillard was married December 2, 1916, to Miss Caroline M. Eiermann, of Baltimore, Maryland, and they have an attractive home at No. 52 Kenyon street, Hartford. They are affiliated with the Asylum Avenue Baptist church and Mrs. Lillard is identified with several of its societies and also with the Woman's Club. She is secre- tary of the corporation which controls The Hartford Law School and cooperates with her husband in plans for its growth and advancement. Mr. Lillard is a Mason and also belongs to the City Club. An earnest, systematic worker, he has made the most of the gifts with which nature endowed him and his life has been rounded with success and fraught with the accomplishment of much good.

ALBERT DWIGHT WILSON

With efficiency as his watchword, Albert Dwight Wilson has steadily progressed, each forward step bringing him a broader outlook and greater opportunities, and he is now a forceful figure in the management of one of the large productive industries of Bristol. He was born February 5, 1877, in Forestville, Connecticut, and his parents were John and Caroline (Beach) Wilson, the former a pioneer clock maker of that locality.

In the acquirement of an education Albert D. Wilson attended the public schools of Bristol and also had the benefit of a course in the Huntsinger Business College at Hartford, Connecticut. His first commercial experience was gained as a clerk in the establishment of the A. J. Muzzy Company, a Bristol firm, with which he spent seven years, and in 1902 he became a clerk in the employ of the Bristol Brass Corporation. At the end of two years he was promoted to the position of bookkeeper and following the resignation of George Doherty was made cashier. Mr. Wilson next became vice president and since the reorganization has been secretary and treasurer of the corpora- tion. For a quarter of a century he has served the firm to the extent of his ability and his well directed efforts have constituted a vital factor in the conduct and expan- sion of the business.

Mr. Wilson was married June 22, 1904, in Bristol to Miss Cherrie A. Ward, a daughter of Henry and Estelle (Wooding) Ward, and they have become the parents of one child, Estelle, who was born December 22, 1907. In Masonry Mr. Wilson has attained the second-third degree and has long been prominent in the local activities of the order. He was chosen master of his lodge in 1904, high priest of the chapter in 1906, and for twenty years has been its treasurer, and he is a director of the Masonic Building Company. He also belongs to the Chippene Country Club. Thoroughness and devotion to duty are salient traits in his career, and a well spent life has earned for him the respect and esteem of all with whom he has been associated.

ROY TIMOTHY HIGGINS BARNES

Aside from his activity as head of the investment business of Roy T. H. Barnes & Company, which he established in 1902 and which is now the oldest investment house in Hartford, Roy Timothy Higgins Barnes is identified with various other important corporate interests and has long been numbered among the leading financiers of the city. Born in Moline, Illinois, December 28, 1872, he is a son of Rev. Henry Elbert Barnes, D. D., and Amelia Eliza Sessions (Carpenter) Barnes. The following

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ancestral record of the family is copied from the Encyclopedia of Biography which was published by the American Historical Society in 1917:

"The founder of the Barnes family in England is believed to be Sir Hugo de Berners, who came over with William the Conqueror and is duly inscribed on the roll of Battle Abbey. He was assigned lands which are now in possession of the Berners of Wolverton Park, Ipswich. Arms-Quarterly, or et vert. Crest-A monkey ppr. Motto-Del fugo I avola (I escaped from the fire). The simplicity of the coat-of-arms proper indicates its great antiquity. Complicated coats-of-arms are all of more recent date. The crest and motto in this case were added by later generations. There was a branch of the family bearing the same coat-of-arms, but modified by inter-marriage with another noble family which spelled its name de Barners, thus partly accounting for the change of orthography.

"The clear pedigree begins with Sir John Berner, of West Horsley, in Surrey, and of Berners-Roding, Essex, ob. 1347. His eldest son, Sir James (of Berns-Roding) was beheaded on Tower Hill, 1388. Sir James' eldest son, Sir Richard, of West Horsley, was created baron, temp. Henry IV, ob. 1421. A second, William, was the ancestor of the Berners of Finchinfield, Essex, with which branch the coat-of-arms in its simplest form is identified. The most illustrious of Sir James' children was a daugh- ter, Julyana or Juliana, whose last name is spelled Berners, Barners, Bernes, but most frequently Barnes. She was the authoress of a treatise on 'Hawking, Hunting and Cote Armour,' otherwise known as 'The Boke of St. Albans,' now highly prized by collectors as one of the earliest printed books, having been issued in 1488 by that mysterious printer, the 'Schole-mayster of St. Albon.' Dame Juliana was prioress of Sopwell, a nunnery near St. Albans, in which Abbey of St. Albans her book was printed.

"In the next generation, Margery Berners, daughter of Sir Richard, married John Bourchier (fourth son of Earl of Ewe), who was summoned to parliament as Lord Berners (temp. Henry VI) jure uxoris, ob. 1474. His grandson, Sir John Bourchier (ob. 1532), became famous as the translator of 'Froissart's Chronicles,' and writes himself in his will as 'John Bourchier, Knt., Lord Barnes.' Leland calls John Lord Berners, the translator of Froissart, Lord Barnes, and again we have 'the Lorde Barnes' as killed at Barnet, and in the same volume it appears that 'Syr Henry Neville married one of the daughters of the Lorde Berners.' One of the early de Berners married a great-great-granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell. The early settlers of the name in Long Island came from the neighborhood of Maidstone, Kent, and their settlement was at first called Maidstone on that account.

"Roy Timothy Higgins Barnes, investment broker of Hartford, while not him- self a native son, carries in his veins the blood of families distinguished in New England and in Connecticut from early colonial days. His own success in the field of finance and his standing in business and social circles stamp him as a worthy scion of the early pioneers of freedom to whom he owes so much.

"Though diligent efforts have been made to trace in England the origin of the Barnes family to which our subject belongs, success has not thus far rewarded the searches. Nor has it been shown that there was any relationship between William Barnes, the founder of this family, and the heads of any of the other families of this name. The first record of the family that we find is at East- hampton, Long Island, where William Barnes (supposed son of Charles and Mary) died December 1, 1669. The Christian name of his wife was Elizabeth, and she died February 28, 1724, 'aged near eighty.' Several tracts of land were allotted to him at Easthampton, Long Island, July 5, 1653. On April 16, 1706, land was assigned to him and to some of his brothers. His son, Stephen Barnes, Sr., married Mary Barnes, whose mother was Hannah Linsley. Stephen was of record as a church member at Branford in 1711, and Mary Barnes in 1712. He had removed to Branford between April 6, 1701, and December 13, 1702. He entered an earmark for his cattle at Easthampton, May 26, 1696. His son, Stephen Barnes, Jr., was born January 2, 1705, at Easthampton, Long Island. He removed from Branford to Southington in its early settlement, and located in the southwest part of the town, where he died March 27, 1777. He married, January 5, 1726, Martha Wheadon, of Branford, died March 18, 1773, and was the first one buried in Plantsville cemetery. Their son, Asa Barnes, was born August 24, 1745, kept a tavern in the southwest part of Southington, and was known as 'Landard' (Landlord) Barnes. He was very popular. The officers of the French army made his house their

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headquarters while camping for a little time on French Hill. He gave a ball in honor of his guests which, at the time, created some excitement. He married, October 20, 1765, Phebe, daughter of Luther Adkins, baptized September 21, 1746, died April 25, 1826. Luther Adkins was born in 1718, removed from Southington to Wolcott, where he died August 3, 1788. He married, November 14, 1743, Eunice, daughter of Daniel Andrews, of Farmington. Benoni Adkins, father of Luther, was born in 1690, married, August 20, 1715, Esther Hall, of Wallingford. He removed to Southington about 1733, and died there April 28, 1756. His father, Thomas Adkins, came first to Hartford, was located in East Hartford in 1682, and seems to have died in Middletown, the date, October 23, 1694. Selah Barnes, son of Asa and Phebe (Adkins) Barnes, was born March 4, 1769, lived near the tannery of Higgins & Twichell, in Southington, and for many years was engaged in preparing and shipping corn meal to the West Indies. He died October 15, 1850. He married for his second wife, Adah, widow of David Clark, who died February 7, 1858. His son, Rev. Henry Elbert Barnes, D. D., was born October 21, 1832, and until the age of sixteen worked on the farm in summers and attended school in the winters. During the winter of 1850-51 he attended school at Springfield, Massa- chusetts, and again in the winter of 1853-54, with the purpose of completing a business education. It was about this time that his attention was turned to the ministry. He had united with the church three or four years before. After spending some time at Monson Academy he entered Amherst College in 1856 and at the close of the first term of the freshman year left and was admitted to Yale, where he graduated with high grade in 1860. The same year he entered the Chicago Theological Seminary, but did not finish the prescribed course. Following a sense of duty he was ordained a minister of the Congregational church in May, 1862, and accepted the chaplaincy of the Seventy-second Illinois Regiment, continuing in the service for a year. He was connected with the memorable siege of Vicksburg. Resuming his theological studies for a year he was called to Newton, Iowa, in 1864. There he labored until 1868, when he was called to Moline, Illinois, where he remained until the fall of 1874, when he accepted a call to Worcester, Massachusetts. From there he went to a church in Boston. Three or four years prior to his death, in March, 1911, he retired from active work in the ministry, and during this time resided in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was very active in Grand Army of the Republic work, and was a past commander of the post in Brookline. He mar- ried, May 1, 1862, Amelia Eliza, daughter of Dr. Nelson and Eliza S. (Sessions) Carpenter, of Warren, Massachusetts. They had the following children: Harry E., born January 24, 1863; Mary L., born January 1, 1866; Alice W., born July 3, 1868; Ralph N. C., born September 4, 1870; Roy T. H., mentioned below.

"Amelia Eliza Carpenter was born July 12, 1832, daughter of Nelson Carpenter, M. D., born January 12, 1801. He married (first) Eliza Sabin Sessions, January 21, 1829. He resided at Willington, Connecticut, and Warren, Massachusetts. Dr. Car- penter's father died when he was four years old, and when he was nine years old he was compelled to contribute towards his own support. He was ambitious and persistent, and succeeded in acquiring a good education. At the age of twenty-one he entered a medical school, and at the age of twenty-three established himself in the practice of his profession at what is now Warren, Massachusetts. He had a large practice and was noted for his skill. He died August 21, 1872. His father was Joseph Titus Carpenter, born January 2, 1774; married, April 15, 1800, Huldah, daughter of Peter Davidson, of Brooklyn, Connecticut. Joseph T. Carpenter was a farmer and died April 11, 1805, at Ashford, Connecticut. His father was Jonah Carpenter, born 1744, in Sutton, Massachusetts; married, November 22, 1769, Zeruiah, daughter of Isaac Whitmore, of Killingly or Thompson, Connecticut. She died August 29, 1834, and he. January 31, 1805, in Ashford, Connecticut. His father was killed about the time he was born, and he was adopted by a Mr. Whitmore, probably the father of the lady he married. Jonah Carpenter was a minuteman of the Revolution, and went to Dorchester when the British invaded Boston. His father, Isaiah Carpenter, was born February 7, 1714; married, September 12, 1734, Althea, widow of John Titus. She was born May 29, 1714. Isaiah was killed by a falling tree, March 23, 1744. Althea Titus was the daughter of Joseph and Jane Titus, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, the line tracing back through John (4); John (3); John (2), to Robert (1), who with his wife Hannah emigrated from London in the

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spring of 1635 in the ship 'Hopewell.' They located in Salem and removed to Rehoboth in 1644. Althea Titus married for her first husband, her second cousin, John Titus, son of - Titus, who was half-brother to her grandfather, Joseph Titus. John Titus (2) was eight years old when he came to America with his parents. He married Abigail, born April 9, 1643, at Weymouth, died February 22, 1687, daughter of Captain William Carpenter. He was born in England in 1605, and came to America in the ship 'Bevis.' He was admitted freeman of Weymouth, May 13, 1640; represented Weymouth in the general court of Plymouth in 1641 and 1643, and represented Rehoboth in 1645. He was one of the most prominent men in the colony and the intimate friend of Governor Bradford, who married his cousin. Isaiah Carpenter was the son of Noah Carpenter, who was born March 28, 1672; married Sarah, daughter of Matthew Johnson. She was born April 4, 1677, and died September 29, 1726. Her grandfather, Edward Johnson, was born at Hernehill, near Canterbury, County Kent, England, and came over with Winthrop's company in 1630. He was first commissioned lieutenant of 'The Military Company of Middlesex, Massachusetts,' in 1650 he was called captain; served during Samuel Gorton's rebellion; in 1643 was elected deputy from Woburn, and held that office for many years, serving through one session as speaker of the house of deputies. Noah Carpenter was proprietors' and town clerk of Attleboro for some years. On November 1, 1734, he, with Caleb Hall, donated the land on which the new meeting house was built. He was a farmer and linen wheelwright. His father was William Carpenter, who was born about 1631 or 1632 in England. He was the son of Captain William Carpenter, above referred to, whose daughter Abigail married John Titus. He married for his second wife, December 10, 1663, Miriam Searles, who died in Rehoboth, May 1, 1722, aged ninety-three years. William Carpenter died in Rehoboth, January 26, 1703, aged seventy-two years. With the exception of the year 1693 he served as town clerk of Rehoboth from May 13, 1668, until his death. In 1656 and 1668 he was deputy to the general court of Plymouth; was elected deacon of the church the same year, and in 1670 was a member of the committee chosen to settle the bounds between the town of Taunton and the north purchase, he being one of the purchasers. It is said of him: 'He was a man of superior ability, accurate in all of his business transactions, and a reliable coun- sellor in the colony; and he was noted for his superior penmanship, as all his writings show.' In England the ancestry of this family has been traced back without a break to John Carpenter, born prior to 1300. He was a member of parlia- ment in 1323 for the borough of Leskard, in Cornwall. He was in the service of the city from his youth, and was generally known as John Carpenter, Town Clerk of London, to which office he was elected April 20, 1317. He was educated for the law; was a man of attainments superior to many of his contemporaries, of intellectual capacity, and of high moral worth. His office was one of considerable authority, placing him next below the recorder in the local courts of law, called the Hustings and the Mayor's Court, which had extensive jurisdiction in civil matters. He was executor of many wills, among them that of the ever famous Sir Richard Whityngton, 'thrice Lord Mayor of London.' The Carpenter coat-of-arms is as follows: Arms- Argent, a grayhound passant, and chief sable. Crest-A grayhound's head, erased per fesse sable and argent. Motto-Celeritas, virtus, fidelitas."

Roy Timothy Higgins Barnes, whose name introduces this review, was sent to Bishop's College, Lenoxville, Canada, for his early education. When he was fifteen years of age he went to Boston to spend his summer vacation. That is about the age when many boys are moved by a strong desire to make their start in the world of business, and young Barnes was one of those lads in whom the desire could not be quenched. Results have shown the wisdom of his parents in permitting him to yield to this impulse. His first employment was with the Boston News Bureau, doing such work as falls to an inexperienced youth. He made the most of his opportunities for observation, diligently and intelligently performing such tasks as were assigned to him, and it was not long before he was made one of the reporters of the bureau. That bureau is Boston's headquarters for financial infor- mation and news; and during the five years that he was there, from 1887 until 1892, Mr. Barnes laid the foundation of his education in finance. He resigned to enter the employ of the municipal bond house of Dietz, Denison & Prior as a bond sales- man. He was with them five years, handling municipal securities, and strengthening and broadening his knowledge of the investment business. In 1897 he opened the

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Hartford (Conn.) office for Harvey Fisk & Sons, conducting that branch until 1902, when he established the present investment business of Roy T. H. Barnes & Company, now the oldest investment house in Hartford. He is also president and director of Barnes Associates, Inc., which owns the building at the corner of Trumbull and Pearl streets in Hartford, and is president and trustee of the West Hartford Trust Company of West Hartford, Connecticut, as well as a director of the Connecticut Power Company and the Bristol Brass Corporation of Bristol, Connecticut.

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History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928. Volume III, Part 95

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859 Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Number of Pages: 1390

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1390