Our Yankee heritage: the making of Bristol, Part 28

Author: Beals, Carleton, 1893-1979
Publication date: 1954
Publisher: [Bristol, Conn.] Bristol Public Library Association
Number of Pages: 350


USA > Connecticut > Hartford County > Bristol > Our Yankee heritage: the making of Bristol > Part 28


Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28


Terry: Andrew, 166, 184; and Andrews, 119; Eli, 96, 113, 115, 120; Eli, Junior, 108, 143; Esther (Ball), 194; family,


118, 128; Franklin Ensign, 191, 237; John Burnham, 121; Ralph Ensign, 115, 121, 138; Samuel, 115, 121, 131, 138, 191; Theodore, 121, 128, 146; William A., 162, 166, 194


Terryville, 201; Road, 237 Texas, 198


Textiles, see Industries: Textile


Thanksgiving, 10, 51, 90, 153


Theatres, 166, 194


Thirteen Colonies, 51, 53, 58


Thomaston, 201


Thompson: H. C., Coek Company, 179, 182, 192, 256; Isaiah, 58; Lydia, store, 87; N. P., and Son, 166


Thorpe, Bill, 91, 125, 127, 184


Thousand Hills, 45


Ticonderoga, Fort, 63 Tiers, land, division of, 4


Time: recording of: devices, 164, 192, 255-56, 258-61; hourglasscs, 47; sun- dials, 47; see also Clocks


Time Magazine, 215


Tin: 94, 95, 128, 138; for pewter, 20; from England, 20; japanned, 90, 94; makers, 79, 86, 87, 89, 117; painting of, 94, 113; peddlers, 62, 94; platc, 94; selling of, 62; shops, 79, 86, 87, 89, 96, 101, 111, 126, 128, 160, 181; trunks, 94; ware, 62, 87, 92, 94, 100, 108, 117, 131


Tinderboxes, 108, 126


Tires, bicycles, 182 Titusville, 154 Tokyo, 217; Rose, 216


Tollhouse, 90


Tompkins, Julia M., 179


Tools: 2, 15, 20, 36, 53, 87, 106, 161, 167, 192, 194, 211, 233, 239, 241; broadax, 5; clock, 74, 75, 111; cutting, see In- dustries; farm, 2, 14, 17, 20, 26, 36, 146; machine, 145-46, 233, 239, 241, 249; pod auger, 6, 74; repairing, 36; shovels, 2, 36, 106, 146; trading, 92


Torics: 62; Chippins Hill, 58, 59, 60, 61, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 77, 84, 89; Danbury, 69; definition, 61; Dcn, 66, 67, 69; New York state, 69; Wyoming Valley, 49, 61, 67, 69, 70, 71


Torrington, 65, 111, 138


Town Hall, 160, 169, 183, 191, 192, 198


327


THE MAKING OF BRISTOL


Town Meetings, 61, 75, 77, 78, 90, 97, 177,179


Townsend, Harry, 189 Towpath, 107; see also Canal


Toys, 106, 148-49, 151, 154, 159, 162, 167


Trades: 152; basketmaking, 20, 37; blaek- smith, 13, 31, 36, 46, 79, 80, 86, 101, 112, 127, 137, 148, 160; brieklayer, 191; brickmaking, 5; buteher, 4, 20, 125, 127, 128, 160; eaning, 92; eooperage, 3, 18, 36; glazier, 31; gunpowder, 17, 59, 62, 73, 86, 115; gunmaking, 102, 122, 152, 153; leather, 37, 46, 115, 162; masons, 36; mechanics, 36, 46; metalworking, 86, 101; painting, 94, 95, 113, 174; plowmaking, 26; potash, 16, 17, 46, 77, 94; ropemaking, 2; salt- peter, see Gunpowder; shinglemaking, 86; shipbuilding, 106; shoemaking, 3, 7, 17, 37, 84, 87, 89, 127, 128, 263; storekeeper, 31; surveying, 13, 23, 26; tailoring, 83, 86, 126; tanning, see subjeet; tinware, see subject; wheel- wright, 26, 106; wiremaking, 84; wood- working, 26, 36, 47, 49, 59, 75, 77, 101, 106


Trading: 47, 108, 123, 138; beef, 108; by eanal, 108; cattle and horses, 17, 132, 160; chestnuts, 108; eider, hard, 100, 108; Election Day, 92; export, 17, 18, 21, 37, 46, 87; food, 108; freedom of, 73, 74; grain, 17; hardware, 92, 108; imports, see subject; liquors, 108; meat, 17, 21; mirrors, 89, 106, 115, 126; monopoly, 61; peddlers, 62, 94, 101, 108; pelts and furs, 17; potash, 17; re- strictions, 37, 58, 59; tinderbox, 108; tinware, 62, 94, 108; tools, 92; War (1812), 100; woodenware, 108; woolen, 108; see also Markets


Trails: 166; animal, 2; Chippins Hill, 7; Fall Mountain, 7; Indian, 2, 3, 7, 77; moccasin, 2, 37


Training Band: 16, 25, 29, 30, 40, 41, 51, 57, 62, 73; regulations, 26; uniform, 41, 62, 63, 92; see also Militia


Transcendentalist, Alcott, A. B., 101 Transportation and Travel: airplane, 165, 197, 200, 256; automobile, 185, 186, 194, 196, 197; bieycle, 173, 182, 187, 189-90, 200; canal, 98, 106, 107, 108,


109, 134; eanoe, 6; earriage, 80, 91, 96, 99, 106, 127, 133, 157, 160, 161, 166, 181, 184, 185; changes in, 98, 185, 186; Conestoga wagons, 74; con- ditions of, 94, 95; ferry boat, 51; fron- tier, 74; horse and wagon, 24, 62, 91, 92, 94, 96, 99, 100, 108, 111, 133, 201; New Haven-Waterbury, 4; oxen, 2, 5, 17, 26, 27, 80, 102, 108, 131, 141, 162; railroad, 134, 189; river, 17, 74, 94; Sabbath trips, 23, 33; sleigh, 91, 111; stagecoach, 90, 96, 97, 100, 102, 125, 134, 184; teams, 111, 138, 141; trolley ear, 175, 182, 183, 186, 193


Trapping: 7; muskrat, 108; trading pelts, 17; wild eat, 7; wolves, 7, 36


Treadway, Charles Seth, 162, 169, 170, 175, 177, 182, 190, 193; Charles T., 189-90, 193, 196, 198, 199, 247; Charles T., Junior, 217


Treat, Sherman, 101, 118


Treaty: of Paris, 73; peaee, 73


Tredwell, C. A., 187; family, 189; Willie, 187


Trees: 2, 5, 16; apple, 5, 14, 16, 67, 157; apple, Waterbury sweet, 27; basswood, 20; beeeh, 20; birch, 2, 20; button- wood, 20; cedar, 2, 10, 84; cherry, 20, 74, 80, 81, 117, 120, 157; chestnut, 5, 6, 15, 46, 108, 129, 158; elm, 2, 130; hawthorne, 2; hemloek, 2, 5, 7, 46; hiekory, 3, 13, 15, 20, 26; maple, 2; oak, 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 26, 27, 41, 43, 46, 74, 75, 78, 90; pear, 62; pine, 5, 6, 8, 75; spruce, 2; sumae, 7, 48; walnut, 20 "Trifle," see Pewter


Trinity Episcopal Church, see Episcopal Chureh


Trio Club, 183


Trolley: bell, 182; ears, 175, 186, 193; harp, 183, 185


Troy, New York, 132


Trudon and Platt, 217


Truesdell, Joel, 84, 126, 263


Trumbull, Jonathan, 48, 58


Tunxis: Indians, 1, 6; valley, 106 Turkeys, 7, 92


Turner, Elizabeth; see Roberts, Eliza- beth (Turner)


Turnpikes, 125; see also Roads; Trails Tuttle: Abner, 152; and Holmes, 145, 151, 154, 159, 171, 191; Daniel, 125,


328


INDEX


126; Elizabeth (Matthews), 71; George, 126; Gershom, 23; Ichabod, 71; Joel, 67; Nathan, 84; Simon, 25 Typhoid, 71, 97, 158, 169


U


U. S. S. Spence, 217


Union Manufacturing Company, 128


Union Street, 121, 122, 126, 146, 149, 166, 235


Unionville, 109, 237


United Motors, 211


United States: 114; growth, 136, 160, 161, 164; naval observatory, 179


Upson: Asa, 33, 41, 59, 62, 65, 77; family,


77, 153; Lydia, see Byington, Lydia (Upson)


Utensils, household, 1, 2, 8, 9, 14, 15, 20, 21, 36, 84, 94 Utter, Hattie O., 174


V


V-J Day, 225 Vallcy Street, 126, 196 Vaux, France, 200 Veeder-Root, Incorporated, 217, 233 Vella Lavella, 216


Verges, clock, 79, 122, 160 Vermont, 108, 119, 235


Veteran's organizations, 154, 220


Victory Fund Committee, 217 Victory gardens, 218 Victory Heights, 220 Villa, Pancho, 198


Virginia, 46, 101, 120


Visiting Nurse Association, 194, 201 Vosges Mountains, 199


W


Wade, John F. (Mayor), 190, 198, 200 Wag, see Pendulum


Wages: brass workers, 144; canal, driver, 108; clergyman, 29, 159; clock ped- dlers, 101; clock workers, 119, 120; glaziers, 31; nurses, 158; policy, 259;


sweeping Meetinghouse, 31; tin indus- try, 95; see also Rates: labor


Wagon: 94, 108, 173; Conestoga, 74; lumber boxes, 111; makers, 120, 125, 152, 153, 194; shcd, 113; wheels, 166; see also Carriages Wallabout, 71


Wallingford, 13, 14, 23, 25, 51, 68, 90, 91


Walnuts, 20, 129 War bonds, 217


Warming pans, 8


Warner: A. H., & Company, 192; Albert, 122, 160; Alonzo, 127, 130; Henry A., 146; Strcet, 89, 128, 146; Winthrop, 122


War: Austrian Succession, 25; (1812), 100, 113, 116; Franco-Prussian, 159; French and Indian, 25, 41; Mexican, 120, 136; Seven Years, Europe, 41; Spanish-American, 187, 189; see also Civil War; Revolutionary War; World War


Washburn Wirc Company, 206


Washington: city, 100, 153, 258; George, 63 Watches, 208, 212, 256, 258-60; see also Clocks


Water: Bristol Water Company, 169-71, 191, 198; domestic, 15, 171; effect on industry, 169; for Forestville, 191; municipal ownership, 198; power, 17, 96, 109, 112, 115, 125, 127, 145, 146, 169, 182; reservoir, 147, 149, 169; Street, 127, 160, 167, 177; supply, 90, 158, 169-71, 202; well, 97, 157, 158, 202; wheels, 17, 113, 162, 179, 181, 182, 187, 189


Waterbury, 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 16, 18, 45, 87, 91, 95, 96, 111, 114, 138, 141, 143, 144, 145, 149, 160, 162, 243 Waterbury Buckle Company, 148 Watertown, 40, 201, 235


Weapons, 53; see also Firearms Weather vane, 131


Weaving: 18, 20, 83, 92; for Continental Army, 65, 66; see also Textiles Weddings, 9, 10, 91, 94


Weights: clocks, 75, 108, 122, 138; Seal- ers of, 77


Welch: Clock Company, 191; Drusilla (Mitchell), 177; Elisha Niles, 126, 149,


329


THE MAKING OF BRISTOL


153, 154, 164, 167, 177, 192; E. N.,


Company, 137-46, 149-55, 184; George, 126, 137, 138; Harmanus M., 108, 109, 138, 144, 151; Henry, 144; Jane (Buckley), 137, 138; Spring and Company, 154; Thalia (Wildman), 137; Zelinda (Niles), 137


Wells, Joseph A., 119


West Britain, 75 West Hartford, 91


West Indies, 14, 15, 18, 21, 37, 46, 87, 109, 141


West Side, see Cemeteries


West Street, 7, 21, 31, 37, 59, 65, 77, 84, 86, 89, 99, 101, 116, 126, 132, 137, 141, 158, 194


West Virginia, 251


Western Reserve, 36


Western Union cloek, 179


Westmoreland County, Pa., 66, 67


Wethersfield, 1, 47


Wewak, 216


Wheat: 14, 17, 59; export of, 17


Wheels: 20, 125-36; carriage, 106, 166; cart, 26; clock, 47, 112, 119, 120; cut, 194; quilling, 8; spinning, 8, 36, 192; steel-bearing, 126; "tub," 46; wagon, 166; water, 17, 113, 162, 179, 181-82, 187, 189; wright, 26, 106 Whig Party, 129, 130


Whigville, 130


White, George A., 192


White House Café, 189


Whiting, I. Hawley, 108


Whitney, Eli, 102


Whittling, 15, 20, 74, 75


Wiard, Darius, 84; Seth, 77


Wicket, 129-30


Wicks: candle, 18; lamp, 154; tinder boxcs, 126


Wilcox: Albert B., 101; Algernon, 190; and Judd, 162; Emerson, 166; family, 108; James, 134 Wildcats, bounties for, 7


Wildman: Daniel (Reverend), 83, 84, 99, 117; family, 89; Thalia, see Welch, Thalia (Wildman)


Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 54


Williams, A. F., 173


Wilson: Albert D., 243; park, 247; John (Captain), 57, 66


Windham, 47, 48, 49


Windlasses, 20


Windows: 90; boarding up, 10; church, 31; glass in, 15; house, 2; Newell house, 29; oiled paper, 9


Windsor, 1, 47, 115


Wing, Leonard F. (Major General), 216 Winstcd, 113, 147


Winston Brothers, 146


Wintergreen, 7


Winton: Alexander, 185; car, 189


Wire: 75, 251; combs, tuck, 126; hoop- skirt, 148; making, 75, 84, 143, 174-75; steel, 121


Wisconsin, 235


Wismer, E. L. (Reverend), 199 Witchcraft, 86


Witches Rock Road, 86


Wolcott: 13, 48, 75, 84, 86, 92, 101, 116, 147, 173; Green, 84; Oliver (Governor), 102; Road, 61, 84, 86, 166; Spindle Top, 13; Street, 21, 46, 59, 71, 79, 80, 83, 84, 86, 112, 121, 166, 179, 202 Wolcottville, see Torrington Wolf: 6, 7, 15; trapping, 7, 36


Wood: 20; ball bearings, 100; barrels, 3, 9, 36, 37; blanking of, 237; bottles, 2, 6, 20; bowls, 16; bread trough, 16; bucket, 15; cabinets, 115, 122; coffins, 115; combs, 84, 106; cutting, 167; "darling cradle," 16; dowel pins, 21; export of, 17; finishing of, 113; for fuel, 13-15, 128, 145, 158; handles, 146; mahogany, 107, 111; nutmegs, 100; paddles, 15; pegs, 6, 8; piggins, 15; pine, 5, 8, 9, 15, 111, 147; spells, 15; spouts, 15; tubs, 14; uscs of, 80, 86; water mains, 158; whittling, 15, 20, 74, 75; working, 3, 20, 26, 47, 49, 59, 75, 77, 80, 87, 101, 106, 115, 121-22, 127, 130, 146, 162; see also Cloeks; Furni- ture; Lumber; Trees


Woodford, M. N., 164


Wooding, Alva L., 130; Charles L., 179, 198, 199, 225 Woodstock, 58


Woodward, Edward Prindle (Doctor), 177 Wool: 128; spinning, 8, 15, 20, 83; ex- port, 17; carding, 83


World War I: Bristol in, 198-205, 208.


211, 230, 251; military supplies, 200, 204, 205, 208, 211, 230, 251


World War II: Bristol in, 215-31, 243;


330


INDEX


military supplies, 227, 229, 230, 237, 239, 243, 247, 249, 253, 255, 256, 258, 260


Wozenski, Edward (Colonel), 215-16 Wright: Company, 148; Filbert, 147; Harvey, 146, 147; Julius, 147, 148 Wyoming Valley, 47-55, 60, 61, 67, 69- 71, 77,80


Y


Yale: Abel, 139; Benjamin, 48; Eli, 89; family, 77, 153; Job, 48; mills, 89, 112; observatory, 181; Sarah, 80;


Thomas, 89; University, 24, 26, 69, 133, 171, 189, 205, 214


Yellow Taxicab Company, 196 Yokohama, 217 Young Brothers, 192


Y.M.C.A., 161, 166-67, 179; World War I, 199


Z


Zanana Beach, 216 Zbikowski, Edmund P. (Captain), 221 Zinc, 138, 145, 159


Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 221 Zurowski, Bronislaw William, 217


331





Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.