History of New Haven County, Connecticut, Volume I, Part 74

Author: Rockey, J. L. (John L.)
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: N. Y. : W. W. Preston
Number of Pages: 966

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J. D. Eggleston, M. D., son of Jere and Louisa (Carew) Eggleston, was born in 1853 at Longmeadow, Mass. He was educated at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.,

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and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, grad- uating from the latter in 1879. He began practice at Windsor Locks, ! Conn., with Doctor S. R. Burnap, his preceptor. In 1880 he began practice in Meriden. He is a member of the state and county medical societies. He was elected to the board of aldermen in 1888, and is chairman of the health committee. He married Elizabeth C., daughter of Honorable Thomas Duncan, of Windsor, Conn.

Frank P. Evarts. son of Philo G. and Jane P. (Seward) Evarts, was born in Hudson, N. Y., in 1846, and was educated at Oberlin, Ohio. In his early days he went West, and when the war broke out, came to Meriden and enlisted in the 12th Connecticut Volunteers, serving two years and two months. He was elected alderman in 1889. He has been foreman for the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company since 1871. He married Mary H., daughter of Doctor Woodbridge Bodwell, of Farmington, Conn.

Charles L. Floto was born in Germany in 1838, and came to Amer- ica with his mother in 1848, locating at Warehouse Point, Conn. From there he went to Broad Brook, where he lived two and a half years, and then to Rockville. While in Broad Brook and Rockville he worked in the woolen mills. He then removed to Hotchkissville, remaining there four years; then to South Britain, then to Waterbury, and in 1857 came to Meriden to work for the Bradley & Hubbard Manufac- turing Company, in charge of the shade and lamp department, remain- ing in their employ for 17 years. He then worked as a clerk in a shoe store one year, then one year with Edward Miller & Co. He afterward bought out John A. Parker in the shoe business, which he ran for 12 years. On account of his health he sold out and took a trip to Europe, traveling most of the time until 1884, when he came home. In the winter of 1885 he went south, and returning to Meriden began improving his property and following the real estate business. In 1888 he again went to Europe. In 1889 he took a trip through the South and West. Since that time his attention has been given to building and attending to the improvement of his real estate. He built his present residence in 1864. His mother died in Meriden, aged 85. He married Mary U. Uschnig, of Austria.

Roger M. Ford, son of Roger Whiting and Emily (Moulthrop) Ford, was born in 1834, in New Marlborough, Mass., was brought up on a farm, and was educated at North Haven, where he spent the most of his time after he was nine years of age. He came to Meriden in the winter of 1859. For two years before the war he ran an engine for the Meriden Britannia Company. At the commencement of the war the family moved to Newark, N. J. He was for a time in the internal revenue department. In 1868 he returned to Meriden and was cm- ployed with the Wilcox Silver Plate Company, and afterward with the Meriden Britannia Company; was two years on the police force and one of the original members. He then went to Massachusetts for four

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years, and returning to Meriden was employed by the Meriden Silver Plate Company. In 1878 he was again on the police force as patrol- man, and was appointed chief in February, 1883. He married Phebe A., daughter of Andrew N. Mason, of Colchester, Conn., a descendant of Captain John Mason. He enlisted April 17th, 1861, for three months, as private in Company F, 1st Connecticut Volunteers; was mustered April 23d, 1861; promoted to corporal July 6th, 1861, at Falls Church, Va .; was at the battle of Bull Run, and was discharged July 31st, 1861. He enlisted September 21st, 1861, for three years, in Company K, Sth Connecticut Volunteers; was mustered in as second lieutenant September 22d. 1861; promoted to first lieutenant Marchi 18th, at Newbern, and to captain of Company G, March 7th, 1863, at Newport News, Va .; and was discharged September 2d, 1864, at Annap- olis, Md., on account of wounds received at Petersburgh, Va., June 25th, 1864. He enlisted at New Haven January 3d, 1865, as private in the Sth Connecticut Volunteers; was promoted to first sergeant, Company E, February 6th, 1865, at Chapins Farm, Va .; promoted to captain Company G, March 1st, 1865, and was mustered out December 12th, 1865. He was in the following battles: Roanoke Island. New- bern, Fort Macon, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburgh, Wall- thal Junction, Swift Creek, Drury's Bluff, and at the taking of Rich- mond, April 3d, 1865.

F. E. Fowler, son of Dennis and Maria (Coe) Fowler, was born in Guilford, Conn., in 1845, and was educated at a private school in Mid- dlefield, Conn., and at Meriden Academy. He moved to Middlefield when 12 years of age, and was brought up ou a farm. He started in the butcher business in Middletown when 22 years of age in the firm of Coe, Newell & Fowler, later Newell & Fowler. In 1883 he estab- lished business in Meriden under the firm name of Horton, Eaton & Fowler. Mr. Eaton sold his interest, and the firm has since been Horton & Fowler. Mr. Fowler married Sabina A., daughter of Harry Nettleton, of Durham, Conn. He was elected councilman in 1889.

George B. Francis, youngest and only surviving child of Lyman and Mary (Blaksley) Francis, grandson of Jacob, whose father, Jacob, was a son of Joseph Francis, was born in 1841. He is a farmer on the homestead of his father. He is a member of Meriden Grange, No. 29, P. of H. He married Emily J., daughter of Horace and Esther R. (Johnson) Andrews. Their children are: Howard A., Willie L., born March 15th, 1890, died May 20th, 1890; and Clayton H., born July 23d, 1891.

William Garlick, son of William and Harriet (Darien) Garlick, was born in 1847 in England, and came to America with his parents in 1849, locating in Meriden. He learned his trade of table knife finisher with his father, and first went to work in New Britain, as inspector at the Etna Works. Since 1871 he has worked at etching for the Meri-

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den Cutlery Company. He has been in the ice business since 1877. A Mr. Belden was the first one in the ice business, then came Carpen- ter & Goodwell, then William Garlick and Mr. Williams. William, Jr., bought his father out in 1877, and Mr. Williams in 1879. It is now a joint stock company. His father, after leaving the fac- tory, followed the nursery business, and died in 1880. His mother died in 1882. Mr. Garlick married Nellie MI. Stevens, of South Mer- iden.

L. F. Geisler was born in 1840 in Baltimore, Md., and was educated in the schools of New York, Brooklyn and Sandwich, Mass. He learned the trade of glass cutting in Sandwich, serving seven years, going from there to Boston, where he followed his trade. In 1861 he enlisted in the First Massachusetts Regiment, and served three years. At the close of the war he went to New York and worked at his trade, and in 1867 came to Meriden, where he worked for Parker & Caspar, at glass cutting. In 1871 he established business for himself on Pratt street, and in 1876 built his present place on North Colony and Gris- wold streets, where he established the grocery business. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus, and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He married Marcella Kenelty. of Albany, N. Y., in 1870. Their children are : Mary E., Kattie E., Francis P., Frederick L., Wil- liam H., Maud (died in infancy), Josephine R., Ambrose and Charles.

R. S. Gladwin, son of Joseph and Sarah (Doane) Gladwin, was born at Saybrook, Conn., in 1823. He learned the blacksmith trade at Deep River, Conn., bought out his employer and carried on the business himself, for three years. Afterward he built a shop at Westbrook, remained there two years, and in 1844 came to Meriden, where he worked at his trade two or three years. He was afterward with Snow & Parker until 1849, and went to California in March of that year. remaining there three years and a half. Returning to Meriden he built a blacksmith shop, which he ran for a few years, then having taken stock in the company of Snow & Parker, and being a director in the company, he became foreman of their blacksmith shop. In 1861 he went to Europe to bring his wife home, who had gone there for her health. On his return he continued in charge of the forging department of the Parker shop until 1864, when he went to New Britain and started a shop for Landers, Frary & Clark. He remained there for 18 months, and returning to Meriden started a forging shop for himself in a part of the building now occupied by the Meriden Journal. He afterward bought the property where he built his present shop, and carried on the forging business under the name of Smith & Gladwin. Mr. Smith sold his interest, and the firm was Wetmore & Gladwin until 1872, when the United States Steel Shear Company was organized by Isaac C. Lewis. Lemuel J. Curtis, John Sutliff, S. H. Wood, A. C. Wetmore, R. S. Gladwin and others. At the end of six years the company was consolidated with the Miller Brothers Cutlery

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Company. Mr. Gladwin has since been manufacturing metal shears. He was mayor of Meriden in 1869, also served as councilman. He married Eunice A., daughter of David Averill, of Branford, Conn.

F. P. Griswold, M. D., son of Samuel and Susan (Pratt).Griswold, was born in Essex, Conn., in 1850. He was educated in the common schools, and at the Suffield Institution. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city in 1876, and afterward spent a year and a half in Bellevue Hospital. He first practiced medicine in Guilford, Conn., from 1877 to 1883, afterward spent six months in Florida for his health, then spent six months at the Poly- clinic in New York, coming to Meriden in the fall of 1884, where he has since practiced. He is a member of county and city medical societies. He married Caroline P., daughter of William Seward and Caroline Hull, of Madison, Conn.

N. F. Griswold, son of Martin and Sarah (Fowler) Griswold, was born in 1824, in Lockport, N. Y. At the age of 11 years he was employed in a store in East Haddam, Conn. He came from Middle- town to Meriden when 16 years of age, where he learned his trade with Pomeroy & Ives, after which he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, for two years, then returned to Meriden. In 1849, during the gold excitement, he went to California for two or three years, returned to Meriden again and soon after went to Holyoke, Mass., engaging in the tin ware and stove business for a few years, then returned to Meriden, engaging with Pomeroy, Leonard & Co., tin ware manufacturers, in East Meri- den, for a few years. About 1857 he bought them out and carried on the business himself until about 1863, when he established the retail business in Meriden, running the manufacturing business in connec- tion, which he afterward sold out, carrying on the retail business only, since that time. After five or six years he took in a partner, and for a time the firm was Griswold & Searles. They dissolved, and Mr. Griswold carried on the business alone for a few years. Then Mr. Lewis, son of Isaac C. Lewis, became a partner, and the firm was Griswold & Lewis, later Griswold, Lewis & Glock, and still later Griswold, Richmond & Glock, until July 1st, 1889, when they organ- ized a stock company known as the Griswold, Richmond & Glock Cooperative Company; N. F. Griswold, president; John L. Richmond, treasurer; Charles C. Glock, superintendent. Mr. Griswold's first wife was Eliza, daughter of Ambrose Williams, of Meriden. His present wife is Myra, daughter of Samuel Rockwell, of Hartford, Conn.

George J. Grossman, son of Rudolph and Frances (Yost) Grossman, was born in 1847 in Hoechst, on the Maine, and came to America in 1867, working in New York, New Jersey, Boston and other places, until 1876, when he came to Meriden and bought out F. W. Shelley. who established the monument business in 1869, and which Mr. Grossman has since carried on. He married Madeline, daughter of Jacob Kuster, of Hartford, Conn.

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George H. Haas was born in Germany in 1829, came to America in 1854, and located in the town of Meriden near the Wallingford line. He worked in what was then Sanford's auger shop in Wallingford, where he remained 12 years. He moved to Yalesville in 1857, and in 1864 located on his present farm in Meriden, continuing to work in the auger shop until about 1868. Since that time he has been in the farming and milk business. He married Margaret, daughter of John Bader, of Germany, in 1854. She was a passenger on the same ship with him to this country. Their children are: Henry W., born 1855, in Meriden, married Mary C., daughter of Herman Duis, a native of New Orleans, but for the past 20 years a resident of Meriden; Albert F., died 1879; and Katie B.

A. F. Hall, son of L. L. and Lucy A. (Bush) Hall. was born in 1841. at East Hampton, Conn., and was educated at the common and private schools of his native place, finishing his studies at Fall River, Mass. He was interested in the manufacture of horseshoe nails in New London for about two years, and was engaged a short time in manu- facturing in New Haven. In 1869 he went to Canton, Ohio, and organized a stock company for the manufacture of steam engines and machinery, and was office manager and a director in the company. Afterward he was called to Montreal, Canada, in charge of the agency for the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company, which he conducted for six or seven years. Since October, 1880, he has been with Man- ning, Bowman & Co., Meriden. He enlisted August 23d, 1862, in the 14th Connecticut Volunteers. served with that regiment through the battle of Antietam, was afterward transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps at New Haven, served three years and was discharged there, in 1865. He was elected councilman of the city of Meriden in 1888. He married Martha H., daughter of Byron W. Nichols, of New Haven.

Reverend A. H. Hall, son of Samuel W. and Margaret B. (Knowl- ton) Hall, was born in Boston, Mass., March 7th, 1845, and graduated from Harvard University in 1867. He then spent three years in Eu- rope and the Orient, studying and traveling, a part of the time study- ing at the University of Berlin. He afterward spent three years at the Theological Seminary, Andover, Mass. He was ordained and in - stalled pastor of the First Congregational church of Meriden in March, 1875, continuing there four years. After an interval of one year in Boston, he was called to the Center church, Meriden, in March, 1880, and has been pastor there since. Since 1880 he has spent six sum- mers in Europe; in 1891 was a delegate to the International Council of Congregationalists in London. His published pamphlets have been : "A Study of Mr. Froude's Historical Methods." 1887: "The Mission of the Church to Intelligence and Wealth," 1888: "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount," 1891. He married Mary D .. daughter of Deacon Ed- ward Twichell, of Plantsville, Conn. Mrs. Hall was educated at Abbott Female Seminary, Andover, Mass.

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Erwin D. Hall, born in 1836 in New Marlborough, Mass., is a son of Edward and Clarissa (Burnham) Hall. He was educated at the common schools and at Williams Academy, Stockbridge, Mass. He came to Meriden about 1851, and was employed as foreman of the sewing machine department of the Charles Parker Company, and afterward engaged in the grocery business a short time. He enlisted in the 8th Connecticut Regiment, and was appointed second lieuten- ant. On account of wounds received at the battle of Drury's Bluff he was discharged, October 6th, 1864, and then appointed in charge of the government bakery at Point Lookout, Md., where the troops were fed; also about 25,000 rebel prisoners. On his return to Meriden at the close of the war he married Lucy A., daughter of Captain Ben- jamin Latham, of Mystic Bridge, town of Stonington, Conn. He then engaged in the insurance business. He was town and city collector for four years. In April, 1877, he was appointed postmaster at Meri- den, and continued in office until February, 1886. He then resumed the insurance business, which he has since carried on. In May, 1890, he was elected secretary and treasurer of the Breckenridge Manufac- turing Company, and since then has given most of his time to the management of this concern.

George L. Hall, son of Noah and Harriet (Hotchkiss) Hall, was born in Meriden in 1822, in the same house where he has always lived, and was brought up on his father's farm. He taught school for 14 winters, working on the farm summers. He served as one of the committee on the high school building, and also as committee of the Northeast school district. He married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Al- worth, of England, who came to America in 1843, his children coming two years later. He always followed the manufacturing business. and came from Great Barrington, Mass., where he was employed in woolen manufacturing, to Meriden, entering the employ of Charles Parker, remaining until his death.

Nelson Hall, son of Orrin and Annie G. (Hall) Hall, was born in Meriden in 1821, and remained on his father's farm until the age of 21, when he started in the peddling business, which he carried on for six years. He then began the manufacture of Britannia goods in Middletown. and from there went to Middlefield, and about 1853 sold out the business to the Meriden Britannia Company and came back to Meriden, locating on the old homestead, where he has since carried on farming. In 1873 he built his present house near the site of the old one. He served on the board of relief several years. He married Alma E., daughter of Ira Preston, of Meriden.

Russell Hall, son of Orrin and Annie G. (Hall) Hall, was born in Meriden in 1835, and was brought up on his father's farm until he was 19 years of age. He then started in the tin peddling business, which he followed for 19 years. About 1861 he located at his present place, where he has since been engaged in manufacturing peddlers'

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supplies and tin ware, and dealing in all kinds of paper stock and metals, but of late years has given more attention to grocers' sup- plies, including tin and glass ware, wooden ware, cutlery, paper bags, paper of all kinds, etc. He was married, first, to Emily S., daughter of Ira Preston, of Meriden. His present wife is Mary E., daughter of Ransom Baldwin, of Meriden.

Wilbur B. Hall, son of Lewis and Lucy M. (Birdsey) Hall, was born in Meriden in 1860, and was educated in the common schools. He was employed for six years with the Wilcox Silver Plate Company, Meriden, established business for himself in 1882, and in 1885 built his present factory, where he is engaged in manufacturing silver plated and white metal goods. He married Lillie E., daughter of George Beckley, of Meriden.

Daniel H. Hart, son of Samuel I. and Abigail D. (Hall) Hart, was born in 1815 at Meriden. He was brought up on a farm, and was edu- cated in the common schools and at Suffield Institution. At the age of 21 he went to live on the farm of Daniel Hall, his grandfather on his mother's side, where he remained until after the war closed. He . then located on his present farm, which was formerly owned and occu- pied by Isaac Lewis. He married Harriet G., daughter of Samuel Miller, of Middletown, Conn., in 1840. His grandfather, Benjamin Hart, was in the revolutionary war, and died at the age of 85.

Ives W. Hart, son of Daniel H. and Harriet G. (Miller) Hart, was born in 1842 in Meriden, was educated at the Meriden Academy, and has always followed farming. He has been clerk of the East school district since 1885, and treasurer of Meriden Grange. No. 29, since its organization.

Herman Hess, born April 4th, 1861, in Meriden, is a son of Fred- erick and Johanna (Yobke) Hess. He received a common school edu- cation. He was employed in the dry goods business about five years, was in the ticket and freight offices of the N. Y., N. H. & H. railroad five years, and was afterward employed for five years with the Meri- den Malleable Iron Company. In 1883 he was elected city auditor to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Frederick B. Derby: in October, 1886, was elected town clerk and registrar of vital statistics; was elected city clerk in December, 1886, and reelected each year since. He married Eugenia D., daughter of the late Norman W. Pomeroy, of Meriden.

Fred. M. Hotchkiss, son of H. Dwight and Eliza (Smith) Hotchkiss, was born in Prospect, Conn., in 1846. He was employed by H. L. Spencer, grocer, of Meriden, for two years. In 1863 he went to New Haven as bookkeeper in the wholesale grocery house of Yale & Bryan, remaining with them as bookkeeper three years, then went on the road as salesman. In 1869 he started in the brokerage business in New Haven, remaining about one year, then entered the employ of E. Henry Barnes, pork packer, and in 1871 established a wholesale

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and retail grocery business in Waterbury, continuing for six years. He spent the winters from 1877 to 1879 in the South on account of his health, devoting the rest of the time to settling the estate of his grandfather, David M. Hotchkiss. He afterward started on the road again for the wholesale grocery and importing house of J. D. Dewell & Co., New Haven, remaining with them until he started business in Meriden. Several years previous to leaving Dewell & Co., he had established a carriage repository and harness business, now known as the Meriden Harness Company, in Meriden, and March 1st, 1889, established a wholesale grocery business. He is wholesale agent for some of the largest companies in the country. He is first vice-presi- dent of the Connecticut Commercial Travelers' Association, national director of the Travelers' Protective Association of America, and his voice is often heard on the floors of conventions of traveling men in defense of the commercial travelers and their interests. He married Nellie A., daughter of H. L. Spencer, of Meriden.

H. E. Hubbard, born in 1844 in Haddam, Conn., is a son of Epaphro and Achsah (Dickinson) Hubbard. In 1866 he went to Hart- ford, engaging in the stair building business in the firm of C. B. May & Co. In 1872 he came to Meriden and established business for him- self on State street, in what was known as the Old Meriden Steam Mill, which was burned in the summer of 1873. A year after he built a planing mill on Cherry street, which was burned in 1875, and in 1877 or 1878 he built his present place on Center street. He married Lora B., daughter of Orrin Hale, of Glastonbury, Conn. He was alderman of the First ward two years, and once first selectman of the town.

Oliver J. D. Hughes, M. D., son of Honorable John H. Hughes, of Bushey Park, Herts, England, and Sophie L. Tidblom, was born in the port of Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, 37 years ago. He was educated at St. John's Grammar School, Buenos Aires, Royal Surrey Cadets, Peckham, London, Real Gymnasium, Mannheim and Heidel- berg University (degree Ph. B. 1871) Germany. He received the degree of M. D. from Long Island College Hospital in 1875. He passed the German Army Medical Board (3d Army) in 1870, and served through the Franco-German War (1870-71) in Third (Crown Prince's) Army, Medical Department; was decorated with Iron Cross, Baden Cross of Merit and war medal. He was house surgeon at Long Island College Hospital and Eastern District Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., house surgeon and chief of staff at Marine Hospital, Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y., also assistant under Doctor Kitchen at Ward's Island Emigration Asylum, N. Y., and was surgeon Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Mexican Mail, and inspector on board of health, Brooklyn, N. Y. He first went into private practice at Fultonville, N. Y., for a few months, then went to Brooklyn, N. Y., and was asso- ciated with Doctor J. G. Johnson. From there he went into the

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Mexican service, coming home to be married to Jennie W. Toothe of Brooklyn, N. Y., and returning with her to Mexico. He returned to the United States and settled in Meriden six years ago, at 38} West Main street. He has been town physician for four years, member of board of school visitors, and health board and high school committee, and is a member of state, county and city medical societies. He erected his present residence in 1890 at 88 East Main street.

P. Ethan Hull, son of Cornelius and Polly (Rogers) Hull, was born in Meriden in 1836, and was educated at Meriden Academy. He was first employed in grocery and dry goods stores and afterward in the harness business. He then went West for one year selling lumber. Returning East he established himself in the stationers' hardware business, under the firm name of Hull & Co. He was afterward for 13 years with Miller Brothers Cutlery Company, and since that time has been superintendent of the Meriden Saddlery & Leather Com- pany. He has served two years in the council. He married Frances L., daughter of Ezra Pratt, of Meriden. His father was for a great many years in charge of the coffee mill department of the Charles Parker Company.

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History of New Haven County, Connecticut, Volume I, Part 74

Author: Rockey, J. L. (John L.) Publication date: 1892 Publisher: N. Y. : W. W. Preston Number of Pages: 966

Author: Rockey, J. L. (John L.)
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: N. Y. : W. W. Preston
Number of Pages: 966