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Christmas, 1861, till his death in that city, April 7, 1866. His grave is in Ellington.
SOLOMON DWIGHT PITKIN ( Presbyterian ) was born June 20, 1822. The family removed to Amherst, Mass., in his infancy, and he was grad- nated at Amherst College in 1843. He studied at Union Theological Seminary, New York city, 1843-45, but graduated at Yale Seminary in 1846. The next year he was ordained, and for three years preached in Wisconsin. In 1850 he went to Battle Creek, Mich., where he subse- quently became pastor. He died at Woodbridge, N. J., September 30, 1858.
EDWARD PAYSON HAMMOND (Presbyterian) was born September 1, 1831, and graduated at Williams College in 1858. He studied the next year in Union Theological Seminary, New York city. He was ordained January 2, 1863. He is well known as an evangelist, both in this coun- try and in Europe. Residence, Vernon, Con.
FREDERIC C. NEWELL ( Methodist) was born August 21, 1836. Ile studied at the Ellington High School, and entered the ministry as a member of the Providence Conference, which includes Eastern Comec- tieut to the Connecticut River. He died at Staffordville, Conn., April 4, 1891.
GEORGE R. WARNER (Episcopal) was born March 22, 1838. Hle studied at the Ellington High School, and with private instructors, and was a teacher for several years. He joined Ellington Congrega- tional church on profession, March 7, 1850, and was ordained as a Con- gregationalist in 1875. Ile studied theology with Rev. Dr. N. S. Rich- ardson of Bridgeport three years, serving also as his assistant. Ile was ordained deacon in that city by Bishop Williams, November 30, 1880, and priest at Monroe, Conn., March 6, 1882. He was rector at Monroe from October 1, 1881, to July 1, 1884; afterwards at Danielsonville ; and is now in charge of St. Thomas' church in Hartford.
ADELBERT PUTNAM CHAPMAN (Methodist and Episcopal ) was born October 17, 184.1. Hle joined Ellington Congregational church on pro- fession, September 2, 1860, graduated at Yale in 1865 ; studied at Bos- ton Theological Seminary ( Methodist ), 1868-70 ; joined New York East Conference in 1870; was ordained deacon at Bridgeport in April, 1872, and elder at Brooklyn, N. Y., in April, 1874. Having changed his ecclesiastical connection. he was ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church at Norwich, December 19, 1879, and priest at Middletown. De- rember 23, 1880. Hle officiated for a few years at Middle Haddam, but is now at Putnam, Conn.
HENRY CHAPMAN MCKNIGHT was born in Enfield, Conn., March 13, 1859. His parents were from Ellington, and returned there in 1860. He joined Ellington Congregational church on profession, May 4, 1875,
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graduated at Yale in 1882, and at Yale Seminary in 1885: and was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church at Falmouth, Me., Octo- ber 7, 1885; dismissed September 3, 1888 ; installed at North Guilford, Conn., March 13, 1889.
RICHARD HUBBARD RUST ( Methodist ) was born September 5, 1842. llis father was a temporary resident of Ellington as principal of the Ellington school. The son graduated at Wesleyan University in 1865 ; studied in Union Theological Seminary, New York city, 1866-68; was ordained in April, 1868 : has been stationed at Brooklyn and Sag Har- bor, N. Y., New Britain, Conn., and various other places.
Mention may also be properly made of Rev. SAMUEL R. BROWN, D.D. ( Reformed), who was born in East Windsor, June 16, 1810, and lived in Ellington with his parents, 1813-18 : afterwards at Mon- son, Mass. He was graduated at Yale in 1832, and at Union Theologi- cal Seminary in 1838: was a missionary teacher in China under the Morrison Education Society, 1838-47, when he returned to America, bringing with him three Chinese boys to he educated, one of whom was Yung Wing. Mr. Brown was principal of an academy at Rome, N. Y., 1848-51 ; pastor of a Reformed Dutch Church near Auburn, N. Y., 1851-59 ; missionary in Japan, 1859-79 ; died in Monson, Mass., June 20, 1880.
IHIRAM SMITH, born Westfield, Mass., Sept. 21, 1800 ; joined the church in Ellington in 1817; graduated at Amherst in 1823; preached at Hillsdale, Mich.
[Dr. ISAAC DAVIS, probably born in Windsor, and early connected with Ellington parish, moved from there, late in life, to Somers, Conn. Ile was probably the second child and first son of Isaac Davis of Col- chester, and, if so, was born 13th June, 1716. He practiced medicine in Somers, and died 14th November, 1777, aged 62 years ; but is best known from his religious views, having been the founder of a seet peculiar to the colony, and known as the " Davisonians," alluded to by Rev. Samuel Peters, in his (so-called) History of Connecticut, as a sect, who "teach universal salvation and deny the existence of a hell or devils." Rev. Thomas Whittemore, who wrote a Memoir of Oxford Parish, Conn., says : " The attention of certain individuals in this town was first drawn to the subject of Universalism by the conversation of one Dr. Isaac Davis, who visited this place from Somers, Conn." He was at this time an aged man. and it is said he had written a book upon the subject. The Davisonians seemed to have ceased as a sect with the doctor's death.
Dr. Davis m. Rachel Sheldon of Suffield, Conn .. 15 May. 1745. Children:
1. MARTHA; m. -- Hall.
Il. RACHEL, born in Somers, Conn., 15 Apl., 1256; m. Thomas Faxon, b. Brain- VOL. 1 .- 106
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tree, Mass., 19 Feb., 1765. She d. in Conway, Mass .. Jan. 7, 1794. They had a son, Isaac Daris Faxon, who was the father of the Hon. John H. Faxon of Elyria, Ohio; and of a son, Isaac Davis, Jr.
III. ISAAC.
IV. LOVE; m. Ebenezer Sheldon.
(Peters's Gen. Hist. Conn., ed. 1877. p. 199; Univ. Mixwell., vi. 313; Whitemore's Modern Hist. of Universalism, 361; Universalist Quart .. V. 94, XXXV. 2; Sheldon Maga- zine, 12; Faron Family, Hinman Max., and Msx. Notes of Rev. Anson Titus of Ames- bury, Mass.) - 11. R. S.]
XIII. Lawyers Raised up in Ellington.
AARON CHUBBUCK was born August 4, 1791. le removed to Orwell, Bradford county. Pa., in 1813. Without special legal training, he was appointed to a minor judicial office at the age of 28, and continued to hold it by re-appointment and election more than twenty years. In 1842 he was elected prothonotary of Bradford county, and thus became clerk of the courts for three years. In 1856 he was elected Associate Judge, and held the office five years. He died Angust 19, 1881.
JOHN HALL BROCKWAY. A sketch of him is given on a previous page. He was one of the leading lawyers of this part of the State, and had an extensive practice, especially in Tolland and Hartford counties. In the " History of Tolland county," the Hon. Dwight Loomis of Rock- ville says of him : " He had a ready command of language. great facil- ity in illustration, a genial Immor and a happy susceptibility of temper- ament which kindled at once with the spirit of the occasion, which made him very popular as an advocate and public speaker. He was faithful to his clients and devoted to his profession. yet the Christian controlled the lawyer, and he always discouraged litigation, and was eminently a minister of peace. He became a member of the Congregational church in 1827. and was always found in his place in all the assemblies of the elmreh. lle was for many years teacher of a large Bible class in the Sunday-school."
JUNIUS HALL, son of Judge John Hall, was born JJune 8, 1811; graduated at Yale in 1831: studied law with his cousin. J. II. Brock- way ; also at Yale Law School in 1835 and '36. In the spring of 1836 he was admitted to the bar at New Haven, and soon after removed to Alton, IH. He practiced there and at St. Louis, Mo., till 1846, when he removed to Boston, Mass. He was a representative from Boston in the General Court of Massachusetts in 1851, and took a prominent part in the proceedings of the session. His legislative duties seriously impaired his health, and he died August 14, 1851. The newspapers of Boston spoke of him, after his death, in terms of high commendation, one of them said, " AAlthough he had been but four or five years resident in this city, he had, besides commanding general esteem in all his social
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relations, acquired an enviable reputation in his profession by those qualities which recommend a lawyer to the confidence of his clients and of the public, and gave promise of extended usefulness as a public man." Another said : " Ile was a man respected by all who knew him. Hle was a representative from the city of Boston in the late legislature, and was one of the most efficient members of the House. His thorough knowledge of parliamentary law, his quick perceptive faculties, his analytic mind, his indomitable perseverance in committee, and his per- snasive and unvarnished speeches in debate, rendered him one of the most attractive members. lle was not a frequent speaker, but always spoke to the purpose : and no man's word had more weight, no man's opinion on nice questions of law was more sought after. Few men in that divided House won so many friends. The loss of such a man will be deeply felt."
LEVI WELLS HALL, brother of the preceding, was born December 25. 1818. He entered Yale in 1836 as Sophomore in the class of 1839, but after a few months left on account of ill health. He became a bookseller in Springfield, Mass., and Syracuse, N. Y. In 1858 he was admitted to the bar in Syracuse, and practiced there for about twenty years. He was elected district attorney for Onondaga county in 1865, holling the office three years. In 1878 he gave up practice on account of impaired health, and engaged in the manufacture of plows and other agricultural implements. He died very suddenly April 19, 1881. The Journal of Syracuse, on the day of his death, contained the follow- ing notice of him : " Mr. Hall was generally known throughout the city and Central New York. He was an active citizen, and his voice was often heard in public assemblages. During the war he was a promi- nent member of the War Committee, and during a number of political campaigns he was a favorite exponent of Republican principles. Ile was connected with several organizations of a religious and benevolent character, and took lively interest in all publie enterprises. Much read- ing made him familiar with a great many subjects, and his conversation always showed that he had a large fund of information at his command. He was of genial temperament, fond of good humor and social life. Ile had become permanently identified with the business interests of this city. He was a publie spirited as well as an enterprising citizen, and was first and foremost in many good works. His life was one of un- usual activity."
ORLOW W. CHAPMAN was born in Ellington, January 7, 1832, and graduated at Union Coflege, N. Y., in 1854. In 1855 he entered the law office of Parker & Gleason of Delhi, Delaware County, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar at Owego in 1857. The following year he re- moved to Binghamton, which city was afterward his residence. In 1862
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he was appointed draft commissioner for Broome county : the same year he was appointed by Gov. Morgan district attorney for Broome county. and in the latter part of that year was elected to the same office, to which he was re-elected in 1865. In 1867 he was elected to the State Senate, and was re-elected in 1869. In 1872 he was appointed by Gov. Hoffman a member of the Constitutional Commission of the State, and at the same time was nominated superintendent of the insurance de- partment, which nomination was unanimously confirmed by the State Senate. He accepted the latter appointment, and declined the former. He resigned the superintendeney January 31. 1876. In 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention which nominated Gar- field for president. For several years he declined publie office, prefer- ring to practice his profession. In 1881. after the resignation of U. S. Senators Conkling and Platt, he was one of a large number of promi- nent citizens who were spoken of for that position. In 1889 President Harrison appointed him Solicitor-tieneral of the United States, which position he held till his death in Washington, D. C., January 19, 1890. llo was a man of splendid physique, of superior ability, persistent in- dustry, and unswerving integrity.
WILLIAM M. RANSOM was born August 12, 1833; studied law two and a half years in the office of John H. Broekway in Ellington ; afterward in the Yale Law School: and was admitted to the bar in August, 1855. In March, 1856, he opened an office in Galesburgh, Il .. and continued in practice there until 1863. He was also active in polities, and was clerk of the Illinois State Senate in the Democratic Legislature of 1863, which was prorogued by the Republican governor June 10, 1863. On account of political proscription engendered during war times, Mr. Ransom removed to St. Louis, and engaged in insurance business. In the fall of 1871 he removed to New Orleans, and was duly licensed by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. He made insurance law a specialty, and continned the business of insurance. Exercising a gen- oral and controlling supervision and responsibility in insurance interests in Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas, he removed his office in March, 1887, to Memphis, Tenn., where he now resides.
HENRY BILLINGS BROWN was for a few years a resident of Ellington. Hle was born in Berkshire county, Mass .. March 2, 1836, and graduated at Yale in 1856. fle studied law with John H. Brockway in Ellington, and at Yale Law School in 1858-59. He resides in Detroit, Michigan. Hle was chosen a Judge of the Superior Court of that State in 1868, and in 1875 was appointed Judge of the U. S. District Court for the East Dis- friet of Michigan. In December, 1890, he was appointed by President Harrison Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1887.
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EDWIN BURPEE GOODELL was born May 7, 1851 ; graduated at Yale in 1877, and at Yale Law School in 1880; then entered upon practice in New York city.
FRANKLIN M. CHARTER. A sketch of him is given among " lawyers who have resided in Ellington."
XIV. Physicians Raised up in Ellington.
JOEL CARPENTER. See " Physicians who Practiced in Ellington."
WILLIAM MCKINSTRY, son of Rev. John MeKinstry, was born Oct. 8, 1732, and was established as a physician in Taunton, Mass., previous to 1759. He was a man of delicate physical constitution and averse to contention. In the turbulent times just preceding the Revolution he preferred peace to strife. This subjected him to the imputation of being a tory, and, though he had been generally a favorite, he was now insulted and abused so, that, early in 1775, leaving his family in Taunton, he re- moved to Boston, where they soon joined him. Gen. Gage appointed him Surgeon-General of the hospitals in Boston. Being thus forced to become a royalist, he lived on friendly terms with the British officers. On the 17th of June in that year he gave, by previous arrangement, a dinner party, at which several of those officers were present. At the dinner hour the sound of guns announced that the fight on Bunker Hill had already begun. The guests ate hastily without taking seats at the table, then hurried away to take part in the battle. Dr. Mckinstry was thus fully committed to the anti-American side in the conflict, and when the British were compelled to evacuate Boston, March 17, 1776, he, with his family, went on board one of the vessels. They were detained a few days before putting out to sea, and he died on shipboard at Nantasket Roads, March 21st, and was buried on George's Island. The family were taken to Halifax, where they remained, except the oklest son, till 1778, when they returned to the States, making their home at first in Newport, R. L., as their property at Taunton had been confiscated. The next year they removed to Haverhill, Mass. A daughter of Dr. MeKinstry be- came the wife of Caleb Stark, a son of Gen. John Stark, one of the commanders in the battle of Bunker Hill. Her home was in Dunbar- ton, N. II .. where she died Sept. 11, 1839. The oldest son went to England and entered the British navy. Having lost his right hand in a naval engagement he withdrew from the service, graduated at Oxford, and became an Episcopal elergyman.
ELI CARPENTER was a son of Dr. Joel Carpenter. He settled as a physician at Orford. N. H., and was drowned in the Connectiont River in 1811.
RUGGLES CARPENTER, another son of Dr. Joel Carpenter, practiced in his native town. See " Physicians who Practiced in Ellington."
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JOSEPH KINGSBURY practiced in Ellington.
EBENEZER PINNEY, youngest son of Capt. Benjamin Pinney, died in Ellington, Ang. 6, 1786, in his 24th year.
Dr. EPAPHRAS BELKNAP died Oct. 30, 1787, in the 25th year of his age.
SYLVESTER NASH, born Dec. 11, 1771, studied with Dr. Porter, of East Windsor: removed to Angusta, Oneida county, N. Y., in Feb., 1802, and to Otselic, Chenango county, in 1828; died in Palermo, N. Y., Aug. 29, 1847.
ALLYN HYDE practiced in Ellington.
OLIVER MCKINSTRY, great-grandson of Rev. John Mckinstry, was born July 14, 1791; practiced in Monson, Mass., where he died in March, 1852.
JOHN CHUBBUCK was born in Ellington, Feb. 23, 1795. He studied medicine with Dr. IL. A. Hamilton, of Somers, and practiced several years at Warchouse Point, Conn. He then removed to Nichols, Tioga county, N. Y., and later to Binghamton, N. Y., where he continued for many years. lle was a surgeon in the Union army in Brazos and San- tiago in Texas in 1863-4. Ile died at Binghamton March 18, 1878.
HOLLIS S. CHUBBUCK, brother of the preceding, was born March 13, 1809. He studied medicine with his brother in Warehouse Point, and practiced for a time at Orwell, Bradford county, Penn .; afterward at Elmira, N. Y., where he died March 4, 1883.
LATHROP MCCRAY, born Aug. 23, 1799, and Warren MeCray, born Ang. 21, 1803, were brothers. They practiced mostly in the vicinity of Springfield, Mass., and the older brother probably died there. The younger died in Ellington Dec. 26, 1876.
CALVIN PEASE practiced in Ellington.
CYRUS B. NEWTON, born in 1831, studied in Somers with Drs. Or- son Wood and E. A. Hamilton; graduated M.D. at Yale in 1856, and soon after settled in Stafford Springs. He has taken part in publie life as selectman, school visitor, representative in the legislature, and State prison director.
HORACE P. PORTER was born Feb. 6, 1839. He was graduated M.D. at Yale in 1861, and was soon after appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 7th Regiment Conn. Volunteers, and hold the position two or three vears. In 1864 he became Surgeon of the 10th Regiment Conn. Vohm- teers. He was often detached on important service, having been surgeon in charge of a hospital at Beanfort, S. C .; also surgeon in charge of the 10th Army Corps Hospital. He is now practicing at Oneida, Nemaha county, Kansas, and an officer in the G. A. R.
ELI WARNER was born March 24, 1843, and graduated at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1867. He was In-
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terne at Blackwell's Island Hospital, 1867-68, and later was in Ward's Island Hospital. Ile was afterward Assistant Resident Physician at Kings County Lunatic Asylum for three years. In 1871 he commenced practice in Hartford, where he continued till his death. He was chair- man of the city Board of Health. city physician, post surgeon, and med- ical examiner. He died of consumption May 28, 1884.
HAMILTON C. KIBBE was born in Somers Sept. 25, 1843. llis parents removed to Ellington when he was a few weeks old. He studied medicine with Dr. Joel A. Warren in Ellington, at the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield. Mass., and at Michigan University : then became Assistant Surgeon in the army till the war elosed, on hospital duty. Hle then pursued additional medical and seientific studies at Michigan Uni- versity, and was graduated there in 1866. Afterward he went to Europe and studied at Berlin and Tübingen, and in hospitals at Paris. Return- ing to America, he spent seven years at Osceola. Mo., two years at Charleston, Illinois, and now resides at Oblong, Crawford county, Illinois, where he is both druggist and physieian.
JAMES F. GOODELL, born May 15, 1849; studied at Cornell Univer- sity, and at the Homeopathic Medical College in New York city, where he graduated in 1879. He is practicing at Mill Brook, Dutchess county, N. Y.
EVERETT J. MCKNIGHT, born June 12, 1855; graduated at Yale in 1876, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city in 1879. He is settled as a physician at East Hartford, Con.
LESLIE C. TILDEN was born in Enfield July 31. 1866. His parents returned to Ellington in his infancy. He was graduated from the Medi- eal Department of New York University, New York city, in 1888. and is practicing in Oberlin, Deeatur County, Kansas.
XV. Ellington Men who have received College Degrees.
The following list ineludes natives or residents of Ellington who have received a college degree of any kind. Ministers of the churches and physicians who have practiced here (except those born in the town) are not included.
A - Graduates of Fale College.
1746. John Mckinstry, clergyman.
1785. John Ellsworth, clergyman.
1802. John Ilall, educator.
1820. John Hall Brockway, lawyer.
1×24. AHlyn Hyde, M.D., (honorary,) physician.
1829. James Wood, medical student ( died carty ).
1831. Junius Hall, lawyer.
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1845. Edward Hall, A.M., (honorary.) teacher.
1856. Henry Billings Brown, lawyer, judge.
1856. Cyrus Brownlee Newton, M.D., physician.
1861. Horace Philo Porter, M.D., physician.
1865. Adelbert Putnam Chapman, clergyman.
1866. Levi Wells Hall, A.M., (honorary. ) lawyer.
1875. Frederic Noah Pease, Ph. B., chemist.
1876. Everett James MeKnight, physician.
1877. Edwin Burpee Goodell, lawyer.
1877. Thomas Dwight Goodell, professor at Yale.
1882. Henry Chapman MeKnight, clergyman.
1891. Arthur Chapin Pease, Ph.B., Civil Engineer.
B-Graduates of other institutions.
1799.
Dartmouth, Roswell Shurtleff, clergyman, professor.
1806. Middlebury, William Andrews, clergyman.
1816. Middlebury, Horace Belknap, elergyman, physician.
1835. N. Y. University, Joseph Addison Saxton, clergyman, professor.
1837. Kenyon, Rodolphus Kibbe Nash, clergyman, teacher.
1×37. Episcopal Theological Seminary, Lexington, Ky., Francis Burnett Nash, elergyman.
1841. Wesleyan University, Darius Morris, clergyman.
1843. Amherst, Solomon Dwight Pitkin, clergyman.
1854. Union, Orlow W. Chapman, lawyer.
1858.
Williams, Edward Payson Hammond, evangelist.
1865. Wesleyan University, Richard H. Rust, clergyman.
1866.
University of Michigan, Hamilton C. Kibbe, M.D., physician.
1867. Coll. of Phys. and Surgeons, N. Y., Eli Warner, M.D., physician.
1867.
West Point, Oliver E. Wood, 1st Lient. U. S. Army.
1879. Homeop. Med. Coll., N. Y., James F. Goodell, M.D., physician.
1888. N. Y. University Medical Department, Leslie C. Tilden, M.D., physician.
XVI. Ellington in the War of the Revolution.
Ellington was included in East Windsor until after the Revolution- ary War, and therefore has no separate record of men who served in the Continental army. No complete list of such men can now be made. The recently issued " Record of Connecticut Men in the War of the Rov- olution " is incomplete because the rolls of many companies and regi- ments are missing, except the names of commissioned officers.
The " Lexington Alarm" of April, 1775, called out thousands of men from Connecticut who marched at once " for the relief of Boston."
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The duty was necessarily temporary and brief. Some of the companies returned home before reaching Boston, as their presence was not needed. Upon the organization of regiments for service during the year many of the same men enlisted, and continued for different terms during the war.
The roll of the Ellington company that volunteered to march to Boston, will be found upon page 634 of this volume.
It has been found impracticable to obtain a complete list of men from Ellington who served in the War of 1812. Of the 11,500 names of the " Connectiont Militia " who served in that war but a small number can be positively identified as residents of Ellington. There seems to be no doubt as to JABEZ COLLINS, CLARK FOSTER, and LYMAN FOSTER. It is preferable to elaim none on mere probability.
In the Regular Army there were over 1,800 officers and men from Connectiont. but none of them are eredited to Ellington.
In the Mexican War there were very few enlistments from Ellington. The Conn. Official Record gives the name of HENRY BUCKLAND, enl. 30 Apl. '47. Co. F, 8th Inf. U. S. A., wd. Sept. 8. '47, at Molino del Rey, Mexico; dis. 24 Nov., '48, time ex.
XVII. Ellington in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65.
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