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Samuel Hull, son of Caleb, grandson of Captain Joseph, and great- grandson of Doctor John, the first, was born March 22d, 1730, and married Eunice Cook, daughter of Captain Samuel and Hannah Cook, of Wallingford, December 26th, 1753. He died April 27th, 1791. She died May 9th, 1803, aged 68 years. Their children were: an infant son, Jedediah, an infant son, Samuel, Zephaniah, Epaphras, Eunice, Lois, Caleb, Elizabeth, Josephus and Hannah.
Samuel Hull, son of Jeremiah and Mary (Merriman) Hull, grand- son of Doctor Jeremiah and Hannah (Cook) Hull, and great-grandson of Doctor John Hulls, first, married Lois Peck and settled on the old homestead of his father. He was an enterprising and successful farmer in the northern part of Wallingford. His children were: Wil- liam, married Alma, daughter of Reuben Hall; Sylvester, married De- lilah, daughter of Benajah Morse; and Lois, married Miles, son of Ichabod Ives.
Samuel Hull, son of William and Alma (Hall) Hull, and grandson of Samuel Hull, was born in 1824, and is a farmer, owning and occupy- ing the homestead of his father and grandfather. He married Susan
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A., daughter of Ira Miller, and has two daughters: Elida ( Mrs. Horace Williams) and Anna (Mrs. Julius Williams).
Friend Johnson, born in 1807, is a son of Samuel and Polly (Tuttle) Johnson, grandson of Ephraim and great-grandson of Reuben John- son. Mr. Johnson has been a farmer. He married Harriet Hunt, who died leaving one daughter, Mary E., now Mrs. A. J. Smith. She first married Captain William M. Whitney, who was lost at sea, leaving two sons, William F. and Doctor S. T. Whitney. His second wife was Phobe Vale, and his present wife was Mary M. Carroll. Mr. Johnson was representative in the legislature in 1849.
Charles N. Jones, born in 1831, is a son of Street and Mary P. (Eastman) Jones, grandson of Nicholas and great-grandson of The- ophilus Jones. He followed farming until about 1869, when he engaged in the grocery and feed business, continuing until 1887. He has been a director in the Dime Savings Bank since its incorporation, and treas- urer of it one year. He has been selectman four terms, and has been chairman of the board three terms. He married Ellen, daughter of John Cook. She died in 1878, leaving four daughters: Mary E., Emma A., Sadie C. and Florence B.
MORTON JUDD was born in New Britain, Conn., November 5th, 1808. Many of the prominent families of the county of New Haven have come to their present wealth and social position from the favorable opportunities and openings to which they have been led up by the business ability and sterling character of parents whose birth goes well back to the beginning of the present century. This is true of the Judd family, who are the immediate descendants of the subject of this sketch. It is not intended to detract a single iota from the independ- ent worth and mastery in the world's affairs, of the sons and daugh- ters. They have the vigor and business thrift of the best New Eng. land stock, but so closely have they been associated with their father for many years, and so related is their business industry to what was his, that it seems to be only the rich development of what he quietly and intentionally introduced them to. The father is perpetuated in his sons by an inheritance of business development, as of physiologi- cal and moral quality.
The Judd family of which Mr. Morton Judd is a descendant is one of the oldest in the vicinity of New Britain. It is possible to trace the ancestry to very honorable position in English biography. The ear- liest person who bore the name in the town of Farmington, Conn., was Thomas Judd, known as " the emigrant." He was deacon of the First church of the Farmington parish. But the immediate ancestors of Morton Judd were John and his wife, Ursula (Stanley) Judd, of New Britain. He (John) was a blacksmith, and learned his trade of Esquire North, who bears the eredit of originating the manufacturing ten- deney and life of New Britain. Morton Judd was a member of a large family of twelve children, the tenth in order of birth.
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His boyhood was accompanied by no special advantages whatever. His school days ended when he was thirteen years of age. At that time the originators of the industrial prosperity of New Britain were struggling to lay the foundation, and young Morton Judd felt the influ- ence of the life about him, for at the end of his schooling he went into a brass foundry to learn the trade of casting brass.
The succeeding years of Mr. Judd's life, until 1847, were occupied chiefly in gaining a firm foothold in the manufacturing world. And it was not until that year that his ambitions were realized. He in- vented a sash fastener, which received the stamp of the Patent Office, September 4th, 1847. He did not realize at the time how useful an article it would prove to be. It was simple in construction and effec- tive, and soon began to displace the goods of English manufacture im- ported by the trade in builders' hardware. An incident illustrates the point. A few years after the manufacture was begun, Mr. Judd tried to increase his sales in the New York market. He appealed to a mer- chant and received the following reply: " No; I have got $5,000 worth of imported fasteners there on my shelves, and I would have sold all of them and as many more if it had not been for your fastener."
In 1864, Mr. Judd's sons, Hubert L., Albert D. and Edward M., en- tered into partnership in New Haven for the manufacture of uphol- stery hardware. Two years later Mr. Judd moved to New Haven and entered into partnership with his son, Albert D., for the manufacture of builders' hardware; and out of this movement grew the Judd Manu- facturing Company. Mr. Judd became president, and the business of the company was greatly enlarged. It was continued in New Haven until 1879, and then moved to Wallingford, Conn.
The choice of Wallingford for location, forms a little scrap of Wal- lingford history, and as it redounds to the good name of the town as a place of residence, it is worth repeating. Mr. Judd's daughter, Martha L., found that residence in either New Britain or New Haven was attended with peril to her health. The evidences were unmistak- able, and Mr. Judd believed that higher ground would be beneficial. Hence he sought the main street of the town. It was soon apparent that the family health was improved ; at the same time Wallingford society was very agreeable. Mr. Judd had been living in the town five years at the year 1879, and in moving the factory of the Judd Manufacturing Company'it was only natural that it should be moved nearer home.
The business was carried on in Wallingford until the year 1887, when it was bought out by H. L. Judd & Co. of New York-the con- summate flowering of the plant set out in Mr. Judd's early manhood.
For many years the business connections of Mr. Judd have been ornamental and without labor rather than active. His name and asso- ciation have given character to the enterprises, rather than demanded of him personal attention. He has lived much at ease in the town on
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its main street; and in the course of years his children have gathered about him and built expensive residences, highly ornamental to the town and very helpful to the tax-payers in general.
Mr. Judd in personal appearance is of medium stature, erect, his eye bright and manner animated, and full of sunshine for the com- pany he may be in, while his conversation is as entertaining as ever. His step is elastic, and now at the age of nearly eighty-three years he is frequently observed to run like a boy. Walking is a pastime. and only the most agile of foot better challenge him to contest. His visits among his children and neighbors spread the sunshine of a happy, humorous nature wherever he goes. The freedom of all the homes of the Judd family seems to have been offered him, and he is at home in them all-children, servants, horses and carriages only wait to hear his desires expressed, and then joyfully fulfill them.
Mr. Judd is a Christian who does not hesitate to declare his rever- ence for things sacred and his faith in God. In New Britain and in the Center Congregational church, which enrolls so much of his family history, he is known as " Deacon," and so in general called Deacon Morton Judd. Not regarding his orthodoxy as exactly the old type, he refused the office, but after months of refusal and much urging on the part of the Center church people, he accepted the position, and wears the title still by the insistance of common love on the part of the parish and the town.
The general favor in which he stands among his neighbors and his church betrays the character he bears. And whether in New Britain or New Haven or Wallingford, where he has lived the last nineteen years, he is spoken of only in terms of esteem and generous praise. His charitable efforts have relieved the poor in many a struggle, and the unfortunate have risen again by reason of his "Good Samaritan" hand. He has borne a willing part in those social activities for good ends which contribute in every live community to the general wel- fare; and by example and precept has been a distinct builder of social and religious worth in society.
In town and state politics he has been retiring, and yet has been pressed forward to the first town offices. He has served the town in the general assembly.
January 26th, 1828, he married Miss Lucina Dunham, of Southing- ton, Conn. She was a Christian who might serve as the impersona- tion of Solomon's description of the good wife and mother, who looked well to the training of her children. Four children were born to them: Hubert L., Albert D., Edward M. and Martha L., now Mrs. Martin, of Kearney, Neb. But their mother died March 21st. 1853. Mr. Judd married, again, Miss Julia Blynn, of Wethersfield. Conn., February 21st, 1855. There was born to them one daughter, Miss Mary B. Judd, of Wallingford. It is enough to say of the second mother that her step-children learned to regard her with filial love
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and reverence, so fully did she succeed to the mother's place in the family. She died November 19th, 1888.
Mr. Judd's residence is on Main street, Wallingford, where he is now (1891) passing the evening of a bcantiful closing day.
William A. Kendrick, son of John and Frances (Edmunds) Ken- drick, was born in 1848. He was eleven years in New York, in the store of Hall, Elton & Co., and since 1878 has been in the office of G. I. Mix & Co., Yalesville. He married Frances, daughter of G. I. Mix, and has four children: Clara F., Bessie M., Camilla A. and Jose- phine V.
Jared T. Kimberly, born in 1840, is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Olds) Kimberly, grandson of Thomas, and great-grandson of Thomas Kimberly, who was born in Germany, and was a soldier in the revo- lutionary army. He was in the service during the late war from No- vember, 1861, in Company K, 1st California Infantry. Since 1871 he has practiced dentistry in Wallingford. He was one term justice of the peace, and is a member of Arthur H. Dutton Post, No. 36, G. A. R. He married Charlotte F. Chatfield, and has one son, Jared R. Mrs. Kimberly was born in Seymour, Conn., in 1851, and is a daughter of Joel R. Chatfield, born at Seymour, and Mary Tomlinson, born at Rutland, Vt.
Charles N. Lane, born in 1834, is one of six sons of George and Janette (Atkins) Lane, and grandson of Josiah Lane. Mr. Lane served in the band of the 5th Connecticut Regiment from June, 1861, to Sep- tember, 1862. He reënlisted in March, 1865, holding a second lieuten- ant's commission in Company A, 12th Connecticut Volunteers, and was detailed as leader of the band. He was discharged in August, 1865. He is a machinist by trade. In November, 1887, he and his son, C. Fred., bought a small news store and ice cream business, which has grown to considerable proportions under their management. He is a member of Arthur H. Dutton Post, No. 36, G. A. R. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Eldridge Morse. Their children are: Edward C., C. Frederick, and Bessie.
Josiah W. Lane, born in 1838, is a son of George and Janette (At- kins) Lane, and grandson of Josiah Lane. He was in the war from June, 1861, to September, 1862, in the band of the 5th Regiment. He reënlisted in July, 1863, and was in Harland's Brigade Band until July, 1865. He opened a store August 31st, 1865, where he built a larger one a few years later. He deals in dry goods and groceries. He is a member of Arthur H. Dutton Post, No. 36, G. A. R. He married Mary E., daughter of Lucien Pomeroy. Their children are Robert J. and Emeline E.
Oscar B. Lane, born in 1840, is a son of George and Janette (Atkins) Lane. He was in the United States service during the late war from June, 1861, to September, 1862, in the band of the 5th Regiment, and from July, 1863, until July, 1865, in Harland's Brigade Band. He is
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one of five brothers that served in that conflict. Since 1870 he has been a clerk in the store of his brother, J. W. Lane. He married Mary, daughter of Beach Wilcoxson, and has one daughter, Hattie M. He is a member of Arthur H. Dutton Post, No. 36. G. A. R.
Walter J. Leavenworth, son of James M. and Julia (Hurd) Leaven- worth, was born in Roxbury, Conn., in 1845, and came to Walling- ford at the age of nine years. He was in the employ of Hall, Elton & Co. from 1862 until December, 1877, since which time he has been in the office of R. Wallace & Sons' Manufacturing Company, and is now treasurer and general manager of the company, also president of the First National Bank and president and treasurer of the Walling- ford Gas Light Company. In September, 1871, he became a private in Company K, 2d Connecticut National Guards, and was promoted from time to time until February 16th, 1885, when he became colonel of the regiment, which position he resigned June 22d, 1889. He married Nettie, daughter of Robert Wallace, and they have had four children: Clifford W., Isabel, Bessie A. and John W. Isabel died in 1889, aged 16 years.
DOCTOR JAMES D. MCGAUGHEY was born in Greenville, Tenn., August 5th, 1848. a descendant of Scotch-Irish parentage on his father's side, and German-English on his mother's. The earliest authentic account of his paternal ancestors is found in a written record of his grandfather, who states that his grandfather's (the doctor's great-great- grandfather's) name was William McGaughey, and that his wife's maiden name was Elizabeth Lackey, and they came from Scotland be- fore the revolution. They moved from the state of Pennsylvania to Holston, near Abingdon, Virginia, but later settled in Greene county, Tenn., some time after the revolution. From the latter home they removed to Boyd's Creek, East Tennessee, where the wife died in 1804. The great-great-grandfather then removed to Middle Tennes- see, and died near Duck River, about 1810. While living at Boyd's Creek he built a stockade, which was known in the early history of Tennessee as McGaughey's Station .* Of their ancestors, the record states, but little was known, but it is believed that they were Scotch- Irish Presbyterians.
The maternal grandfather of the doctor's grandfather was John Laughlin, and both he and his wife were from Ireland. In his time he was a celebrated weaver, and his wife kept a large dairy at their home, twelve miles from Abingdon, Va. They were staunch Presby- terians and strong supporters of the revolution.
The great-grandfather, on the doctor's father's side, was Samuel McGaughey, who was born in York county, Pa., July 15th, 1763, and was nine years old when his father removed to Holston (at that time Washington county, Va.) From documents in the Pension Bureau of the United States it is learned, from his statements, that, " In the
*See Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee.
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spring of 1778 the Indians made war upon the settlement and his father was called to serve, but that he took his father's place, as his substitute, and served throughout the revolutionary war. He was under Captain James Montgomery, in March, 1779, against the Chicka- mauga Indians, in the expedition commanded by Colonel Evan Shelby . In 1779 he served under Captain John McKee, also in a movement against the Indians, as a mountain rifleman. In 1780 he was in Cap- tain Andrew Cowan's company, under Colonel Isaac Shelby, all being under the command of General Charles McDowell, and marched into South Carolina. He was in the engagements on the Tyre river and on the Palotell. At the battle of King's Mountain he was in Captain John Pemberton's company, in Colonel Shelby's regiment. In 1781 he commanded a company under General Marion in Colonel John Sevier's regiment and was with Marion at the battle of Eutaw Springs."
The records of the grandfather tell us that he had been on fourteen different expeditions after the Indians and in a personal encounter with one, on the Tennessee river, killed him with a corn knife. After the war he was appointed territorial sheriff of his county, by John Sevier, and was with Sevier and against Tipton, in the contest for the state of Franklin, which existed about one year. He also served as one of the commissioners to lay off the county site of Sevier county. His home was on a beautiful farm, a mile east of McGaughey's Station. He had a family of five sons and six daughters. This great- grandfather and his family helped found the old Urbana church, in the upper end of Blount county, Tennessee, and their minister was Gideon Blackburn, the great western orator.
One of the sons of the above, Major John McGaughey, the grand- father of Doctor McGaughey, was born in Greene county, E. T., July 12th, 1792. His wife, Jane Robertson, was born in the same county, January 29th, 1792, and died Jannary 12th, 1864. She was a descend- ant of the Robertson who, as an associate of John Sevier, helped to organize the first government of the state. Major John McGanghey was a clear headed, even-tempered man, but had a fearless disposition. Throughout his life he served in many public capacities. He was one of the commissioners to treat with the Indians before their removal from Tennessee and served as a soldier under Andrew Jackson in his Indian campaigns in Alabama and Mississippi. He was a delegate to the convention to revise the constitution of 1796, under which the state was first governed, representing Greene, Sevier, Cocke, Munroe, Blount and McMinn counties. Under the provisions of that constitu- tion free persons of color were allowed to vote. This right was taken away in the new constitution. Major McGaughey offered an amend- ment to restore it, but the proposition was voted down, thus doing away entirely with free colored suffrage. Although being the owner of a very large farm he would never be the owner of slaves and hired
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all his work done by the day. He also served in both branches of the state legislature a number of times. He took a great interest in the building of the E. T. &. Va. R. R., from Bristol to Knoxville, using all his means to that end. and was a director of the company at the break- ing out of the civil war. In that struggle he maintained his character as a Jacksonian democrat and stood out straight for the Union during the terrible political excitement in East Tennessee in the first two years of the war. He died at the old homestead May 20th, 1874, 82 years of age, and was buried by the side of his wife, at Mount Bethel, near Greenville.
Samuel McGaughey, a son of the foregoing and the father of Doctor McGaughey, was born on his father's farm near the Molaelnicky river, May 31st, 1816, and died at his residence at Greenville, Feb- ruary 25th, 1870. He was a wholesale and retail merchant, also doing an extensive commission business. Ilis integrity was of the highest order and his business capacity was unusually great. The war entirely wiped out his large business, but as soon as peace was declared, he began anew with increased energy and was rapidly re- gaining what he had lost, when he suffered a terrible fall which pro- duced concussion of the brain, from which he died in ten days. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church and for many years a deacon of that body. He had a very liberal mind and great sympathy for the poor, always delighting in doing charitable deeds.
On the side of the doctor's mother, his great-grandfather, Peter Burkhart,* came from Germany before the revolutionary war, and settled in Frederick county, Md., where his maternal grandfather, George Burkhart, was born September 30th, 1775. On September Sth. 1794, he married his first wife, Hannah Hedge, who bore him five chil- dren, and died May 3d, 1801. He married his second wife. Elizabeth Castle, January 7th, 1805, who bore him twelve children, the doctor's mother being the eleventh. His grandmother, Elizabeth Castle, was of English descent, and was born and reared near Frederick City, then called Frederick Town, Md. Her birthday was November 25th, 1779, and she died at Paperville, East Tenn., July 14th, 1855. The grand- father died at the same place June 29th, 1852. They had settled in that section of Tennessee in 1806, where Grandfather Burkhart built a paper mill, in which was made the first sheet of paper ever manu- factured in the state of Tennessee, and for which he received a pre- mium of $50. From the location of the mill the place became known as Paperville, a hamlet four miles east from Bristol. The only sur- viving member of his family is a son, J. W. Burkhart, of Ruthton, Sul- livan county, Tenn., who has preserved the family accounts.
The mother of Doctor MeGaughey, Caroline A. Burkhart, was born at Paperville, March 4th, 1821, and died in Atlanta, Ga., January 27th,
* Originally spelled Burckhardt, but it was abridged by the doctor's grand- father to the present form.
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1886. She was the mother of eleven children, six sons and two daugh- ters of her family surviving her. All reside in the South except the doctor, who has been an adopted citizen of Connecticut the past twenty years. The mother of this family was a woman of extraordinary worth and piety, and her lovable disposition caused her to be esteemed by all who knew her. She was an earnest, consistent member of the First Presbyterian church, and was much interested in its welfare. The memory of her good deeds remains as a priceless heritage to the family left to follow her Christian example, and all the children have become useful citizens.
James D. McGaughey first attended school in 1854 in a small boys' department, in a young ladies' seminary at Greenville, presided over by Mrs. Valentine Sevier, a daughter of Deacon Lyman Cannon, of Wallingford, Conn. From this he went to the old Greenville College, the oldest institution of learning in the state. In the civil war the Third Georgia Battalion of confederate troops was quartered in Greenville, to intimidate the inhabitants of the town, two-thirds of whom were Unionists. They took the college for a small-pox hos- pital and destroyed one of the most valuable libraries in the state, and all the apparatus belonging to the college. Determined to pursue his studies, he now entered a private school, which was also disbanded on account of the hostilities in that section. He next took instruction under a private tutor, Robert MeCorkle, one of the most thoroughly educated men in the state, and pursued his studies under great diffi- culties. Some days he was unable to reach the house of his tutor on account of the guerrilla warfare in the streets and the fear that he might be impressed into the confederate service by these lawless men; but he persevered and continued his studies through all these peril- ous times,* and until he entered Jefferson Medical College, at Phila-
* The impressions of those stormy scenes remain very clear in the mind of Doctor McGaughey, from the reading by his father from the Richmond Dispatch of the account of the firing upon Fort Sumter, until the last incident of the war. He saw the first two Union men hung by General Leadbetter, their crime being the burning of the bridges between Greenville and Knoxville, to prevent some manenvre of the confederates. Six or eight more were hung in Knoxville and many others were put in prison. He witnessed the battle between the Union- ists under General Alvin C. Gillem and the celebrated cavalry commanded by the confederate John H. Morgan. He saw the latter at the head of his troops entering town at 4 o'clock Saturday evening, and saw him dead the next morn- ing, September 4th, 1864, at 7 o'clock, while being carried out of town on the horse of a federal soldier. His body rested across the saddle in front of the sol- dier, his head hanging down on one side, his feet dangling on the other. A large bullet hole in the front of the left chest was visible. In the fight in which Mor- gan was killed, all of the staff but one, Major Bassett, were captured. The pris- oners were brought to town under gnard, and stood on a corner near the house of the doctor's father, where he had a good view of their crestfallen appearance. A short time after the battle he also met and talked with Mrs. Lucy Williams, who has been credited with betraying Morgan into Gillem's hands, by riding with the information from Greenville to Bull's Gap, Gillem's headquarters,
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