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1 The trucks were a contrivance like a long pair of skids on two wheels, with their heavy loads of casks or hogsheads drawn by large horses hitched tandem.
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stores nearly all gone, and the few remaining ones deserted, or occupied for mean uses.
A fleet of seventy-five or more flat-boats - large flat-bottomed vessels, with a centre-mast and two square sails- were employed in the up-river traffic. When there was little or no wind the passage up the stream was extremely slow and laborious. In going over the Enfield falls and rapids two men were required on each side with long poles to force the boat up against the current. Large quantities of rum, molasses, sugar, salt, coffee, and various other tropical products were conveyed to Spring- field, Northampton, and the river towns in New Hampshire and Ver- mont, even as far north as White River Junction in Hartford, Vt., and Littleton, N. H. On the return voyage the flat-boats were filled with lumber, beef, and pork. The lumber was used by the ship-builders, who occupied the river front from Grove to Potter Street, and were kept constantly employed on account of the superior quality of ship-timber in this section, and the good reputation of the work done here. The river above the bridge was frequently filled with rafts of logs, which were in great demand for spars, masts, and timber, and were shipped all along the coast.
The inland transportation of goods was carried on by lines of freight-wagons. One line ran regularly from Northampton to Hartford, via Westfield, Granby, etc. A semi-weekly line ran also from Hartford, Monson, and Brimfield, Mass. The Albany Turnpike was alive with covered wagons running between Hartford and Norfolk, Canaan, and the southern towns of Berkshire. There were twenty roadside taverns between the old Goodwin Tavern on Albany Avenue and New Hartford, a distance of twenty miles. The construction of the Boston and Albany Railroad cut off both the inland and up-river trade from Hartford, as the country merchants could then visit Boston easily, and freight could be more quickly transported than by the old methods.
The wholesale trade centred in Commerce and Ferry streets, ex- tending gradually to State Street, which was not extended through to the river until after 1800. Before that time it ran no farther east than Front Street, and was principally occupied by residences. Commerce Street was lined with warehouses from Morgan Street to State Street ; and in 1825 there were nineteen large business houses dealing in West India goods on that street, and seventeen on Ferry Street. Among these merchants were Freeman Kilbourn, Eliphalet Averill, Elisha Peck (who afterward went to New York), Nathan and Denison Morgan, Rus- sell Bunce, David Porter, Solomon Porter & Co., Indicott & Pomeroy, Frederick Bange (who built the house now standing on the south side of State Street with pilasters in front), Jeremiah Brown, Daniel Buck & Co., David Watkinson, Edward Watkinson, Eli Ely, James M. Bunce, S. & W. Kellogg, Haynes L. Porter.
In 1828 there were three banks, - the United States Branch Bank, Enoch Parsons president, located at 13 State Street ; the Hartford Bank, Nathaniel Terry president, 16 State Street; the Phoenix Bank, Charles Sigourney president, 148 Main Street; there was also the Bank for Savings at 12 Asylum Street, Daniel Wadsworth president. A man who did a great deal for the prosperity of Hartford at this time in the way of improving real estate was Henry L. Ellsworth, twin brother of Governor Ellsworth, mayor of the city in 1835. He built up
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Central Row from Main Street to Prospect Street, but a portion of the buildings have been torn down. He also erected the building on the corner of Main and Asylum streets, now owned by the Hon. Julius Catlin.
Regular lines of packets ran between Hartford and Boston, New Bedford, Nantucket, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, and Richmond in 1832, and occasional vessels arrived from the British Prov- inces with lumber and plaster. C. H. Northam & Co. were agents for the Norfolk and Richmond line ; T. K. Brace & Co., for the Boston line of packets, established immediately after the close of the War of 1812, composed of five topsail schooners, carrying both freight and passengers, the cabins being handsomely furnished. This coasting line brought goods around the cape to Hartford, for all the up-river towns, flat-boats, with sails, being used the remainder of the way. One of the best known captains of this time was Ebenezer Flower, afterward Mayor of Hartford. The building of the Boston and Albany Railroad eventually destroyed this business, but it was very profitable while it lasted. There was also a line of packets to New York, and later Daniel and Dudley Buck owned a line of steam-propellers plying between this city and New York, the "Sachem," "Seneca," "Uncas," and "Osceola." At the time of the Civil War these vessels were sold to the Government. There was also a line of steam-propellers running to Albany, and M. W. Chapin owned a line of steam-schooners for Philadelphia, - the "Jose- phine " and the " Rough and Ready."
The largest of all the houses in the West India trade, that of E. & R. Terry, was not established near the river, but on Main Street, at the junction of the Windsor road and the Albany turnpike. Eliphalet and Roderick Terry were the sons of Judge Eliphalet Terry, of Enfield, where the family had been settled since 1700. Mr. Eliphalet Terry has received notice in connection with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, of which he was one of the founders. Roderick Terry was born March 2, 1788 ; died Feb. 9, 1849. For a long period the store of E. & R. Terry was one of the landmarks of Hartford ; but before his death Mr. Roderick Terry removed to State Street, where he carried on the hard- ware business. He was a member of the city council, and alderman for several years ; member of the legislature ; one of the directors of the Retreat for the Insane ; one of the first directors of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad Company ; and the first, and, until his death, only president of the Exchange Bank. He was an active member of the old North Church, and for many years chairman of the church committee.
The firm of H. & W. Keney (Henry and Walter) was established in 1830, and is now, if not the oldest, the oldest business house but one in Hartford. It has been in one sense succeeded by Keneys & Roberts, in which the brothers are in partnership with Mr. Ebenezer Roberts; but they maintain also their old original firm name in some of their business relations, and are among the most widely known and wealthi- est, as well as most respected, of Hartford houses.
Charles Seymour & Co., the oldest firm now in business, dealing in West India goods and hardware, was established in 1799. From 1801 Charles Seymour carried on the business alone until 1829, when he took his son, Charles Seymour, into partnership, and since the elder Mr. Seymour's deatlı, in 1852, the business has been carried on by the
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son, in the store on Main Street built by his father in 1816. About 1820 the West India merchants began to take up special branches of the business, as flour, iron, etc., and Mr. Seymour, like Mr. Watkinson, selected the iron business. From 1830 until 1860 there were three iron-stores in the city, - David Watkinson & Co., afterward Ezra Clark & Co., and still continuing as L. L. Ensworth & Co., Charles Seymour & Co., and Ripley & Co., afterward Ripleys and Talcott, and later E. G. Ripley & Co. (Russell G. Talcott). Mr. Philip Ripley was mayor of the city, 1847-1851, and E. G. Ripley president of the Etna Insurance Company.
The well-known name of David Watkinson occurs among the West India merchants, and he entered that business in 1799. He was born in Lavenham, Co. Suffolk, Jan. 17, 1778, son of Samuel Watkinson, who emigrated to this country in 1795, settling in Middletown. David ac- quired a knowledge of business in the counting-room and store of Samuel Corpe, then one of the leading merchants of New York. The death of two brothers of Mr. Watkinson of yellow fever gave him a distaste to that city, and he removed to Hartford. He commenced business on his own account, but soon associated with himself his brother William, and a few years later his brother Edward, under the firm name of Watkinsons & Co. Before 1819 his business was changed from the West India to the hardware and iron business, and in that year Mr. Ezra Clark, who came to Hartford from Northampton, Mass., was admitted a partner, and later, in 1835, Alfred Gill and Ezra Clark, Jr., became members of the firm. In 1841 Mr. Watkinson retired from active mercantile pur- suits, having acquired a handsome fortune, and by his uprightness, public spirit, and liberality, won the universal respect of the community in which he lived. His name is found as original subscriber, and fre- quently as an office-bearer, in almost every association incorporated to open new or improve old avenues of travel, or to increase the facilities of business, - the Union Company, chartered in 1800 ; the Connecticut Steamboat Company, in 1818; the Enfield Canal Improvement Com- pany ; the New Haven and Springfield, and the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad Companies. He was a director in the Hartford Bank and the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, and a liberal subscriber to the funds of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, of which he was a director and vice-president ; to the Connecticut Retreat for the Insane, of which he was treasurer and director; to Trinity College, of which he was trustee ; to the Hartford Female Seminary ; to the Orphan Asylum; to the Young Men's Institute ; and to the Wadsworth Athenaeum. Mr. Wat- kinson was a member of the Centre Church, and one of the constant and liberal givers to the great religious enterprises of the day. His wife was Olivia, daughter of Barzillai Hudson, of Hartford. He died in his resi- dence on Prospect Street, Dec. 13, 1857. His beneficence did not cease with his life; for by the terms of his will he left $40,000 to the Hartford Hospital, and $100,000 for the foundation of a library of reference, now the valuable Watkinson Library. The Farm School (mentioned on page 533) was incorporated in 1862.
The two brothers Nathan and Denison Morgan were among the most prominent and successful of all the merchants engaged in the West India trade. They were not partners, but carried on business separately, each having a store on Commerce Street, although at one
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time Nathan Morgan was on Ferry Street. They were born in Groton, Conn. : Nathan, Oct. 10, 1786 ; Denison, Oct. 29, 1790. Nathan settled in Hebron as a merchant, but soon removed to Hartford. "He was a useful and prominent member of Christ Church," and a very active and efficient business man. He died Jan. 21, 1837, aged fifty. Denison Morgan was also a successful and substantial merchant, and an active member of Christ Church. He died May 7, 1855, aged sixty-four. These two brothers built, in 1824, the two substantial brick houses now stand- ing on the south side of Morgan Street, with the gable ends to the street.
Edwin Denison Morgan, afterward Governor of New York, was a nephew of the above, and began his business life as a clerk in his uncle Nathan's store. He was born, Feb. 8, 1811, in Washington, Mass., where his father resided for a short time ; but his boyhood was spent in Wind- sor. At the age of twenty, in 1831, he became his uncle's partner, and the firm was N. & E. D. Morgan. In 1836 his keen business foresight showed him the changes that would be wrought in the conditions of trade in Hartford by the building of the Boston and Albany Railroad, and others that would undoubtedly follow, and he removed to New York, where he amassed a princely fortune, and in the midst of his business cares served as an alderman of New York, as an Assemblyman, as the war governor, 1859-1863, and as United States Senator, besides holding other offices. His New York partners were also Hartford men, -first Morris Earle, who had been in business with Solomon Porter, and later John T. Terry (son of Roderick Terry ), and Solon Humphreys.
William Ely, another well-known Hartford citizen, was born in Guil- ford, in 1767, the son of the Rev. Richard Ely ; he was graduated from Yale College in 1787, and then studied medicine under Dr. Noyes, of Lyme. Seeing the opportunity that the times offered, he entered upon commercial pursuits, and building a ship of the largest class then em- ployed, sailed in her, as owner and supercargo, to the East Indies. He fully mastered the art of navigation, and once saved the ship when the captain had given up hope. He was complete master of the Dutch language ; so that during his residence in Holland and the East Indies he conversed with the fluency of the native Hollanders, and was thus especially able to conduct business there. It was while he was in Hol- land that the portrait was painted of which an engraving is given in this work. Mr. Ely's enterprises brought him a fortune with which he retired to Hartford, where in 1811 he married Clarissa May Davis, daughter of Major Robert Davis, of Boston, a member of the Boston tea-party. During his nearly forty years' residence in Hartford Mr. Ely was prominent in the city's affairs, and fulfilled numerous important trusts, among which was the responsible duty of locating the lands in Alabama granted by Congress to the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.1 About 1832 he built the spacious mansion on Main Street, still occupied by his family. He died Feb. 21, 1847, aged eighty years.
Daniel and Dudley Buck, from Wethersfield, were merchants on a large scale, dealing in groceries at wholesale; they added a paper stock department to their business, and were the first to import linen rags from Leghorn. Their line of propellers to New York has been already mentioned. Mr. Daniel Buck lived in the fine old house on Grove Street, built by Barnabas Deane. The business operations of his sons involved
1 See page 427.
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him so much that he failed, and removed to Poquonnock, where he died, Jan. 19, 1860, aged eighty. Mr. Dudley Buck, who died May 8, 1867, was the father of Dudley Buck the composer, who was born in Hartford, March 10, 1839. This is not the place to dwell upon his musical career, but it may be remarked in passing that he is a man of whom Hartford may well be proud.
In 1832 William H. Imlay was considered, with the exception of Daniel Wadsworth, the wealthiest man in Hartford. He was born in 1780, the son of William Imlay, of Hartford, who held the office of Commissioner of Loans at the time of his death in 1807. The younger Imlay began his business career in 1799, dealing in West India goods and iron, with Charles Seymour (firm name, Charles Seymour & Co.), both being young men, and Mr. Imlay still under age. After two years they separated, and cach carried on the same business alone, but Mr. Imlay went largely into paints and dye-stuffs. Later he engaged in the flouring business, and bought the upper grist-mills on the present Park, opposite the railroad shops, long known as Imlay's Mills. He was a man of tremendous activity, but made the mistake of attending too much to details, and thus wore himself out. He engaged in large enterprises outside of his legitimate business, having an interest in timber lands in Michigan, with saw-mills, etc. He had a large interest ($200,000, probably) in the Atlantic Dock Company in Brooklyn, and advanced considerable sums of money to push forward that work at a time when his aid was essential to its success ; but this outlay brought on his downfall. His subscription of $50,000 to the Hartford and Willi- mantic Railroad was one of the largest original subscriptions made in this country up to that time. The first brown-stone front on Main Street was erected by him about 1850, - the present State Bank build- ing. Oct 9, 1851, he stopped payment, but with tremendous energy gathered himself up again, and started business anew in a paper-mill at Poquonnock. The tract of land called Nook Farm, comprising one hun- dred and forty acres, was owned by him, and sold about 1855 to Francis Gillette and John Hooker, who cut it up into building lots, and improved it by running streets through. Mr. Imlay's residence for many years was on Pearl Street, where the Pearl Street Church now stands. He failed again in 1857, and died in Hartford, Sept. 4, 1858.
Another of our wealthy citizens who received his early business training in the West India trade was Charles H. Northam, who was born in Colchester in December, 1797. He came to this city in 1812, as a clerk for Nathan Morgan. Later he formed a partnership with Mr. Morgan, which lasted only five years, and he then entered into partnership with M. W. Chapin in the shipping, forwarding, and com- mission business. This firm was dissolved in 1832, each continuing separately ; Mr. Chapin taking the Philadelphia packets, and Mr. Northam the Norfolk and Richmond line. He was prompt to see the advantages of steam navigation, and became president and treasurer of the old Connecticut River Steamboat Company, owning the boats "Oliver Ellsworth," "Bunker Hill," "New England," etc. He was president of the Mercantile Bank from 1862 until his death in 1881.
Isaac D. Bull was the son of Isaac Bull, who was a druggist in Hartford for about thirty years, and died in 1824. The son was prob- ably the first wholesale druggist in Hartford, and dealt also in paints,
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oils, and window-glass. His first store was on Ferry Street ; but he built in 1825 the store now standing on the northeast corner of Front and State streets. He was succeeded in 1844 by George M. Welch, who sold out to George W. Williams and Horace Hall in 1854, and the building is now occupied by their successors, D. G. Stoughton and Co. Mr. Bull died Feb. 13, 1849, aged seventy-five. His sons, Eben- ezer Watson Bull and Albert H. Bull, were also in the drug business. E. W. Bull was a noted druggist at the stand of the "Good Samaritan," on State Street, which was the leading prescription store in town. He was the owner of " Bull's Garden," on High Street, beautifully laid out with rare shrubs and trees. He died Dec. 27, 1845, aged forty-six.
The present firm of T. Sisson & Co. represents the old house of Lee & Hopkins, subsequently Lee & Butler, wholesale druggists, on Main Street, since 1829. The members of the firm were William T. Lee, who came here from Saybrook, Daniel P. Hopkins, and Albert W. Butler, a native of West Hartford.
The house of Beach & Co., dealers in paints and general dye-stuffs, dates back to 1832, when Messrs. George Beach, Sr., Walter Phelps, and George Beach, Jr., were the partners. The elder George Beach was born in Litchfield, Nov. 29, 1788. He came to Hartford in his boyhood, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was for fifty years cashier and president of the Phoenix Bank. He was a prominent member of Christ Church, and gave to the church the land on Market Street upon which St. Paul's Church and the Widows' Home now stand. He died May 3, 1860. In 1849 the present firm of Beach & Co. was formed, composed of the brothers George Beach (then Jr.), J. Watson Beach, and Charles M. Beach.
Few persons have been more closely associated with the progress and prosperity of Hartford than James Goodwin.1 He was born March 2, 1803, son of James Goodwin, and a descendant of Ozias Goodwin, one of the first settlers of Hartford. He received his education at the then well-known school of John J. White. At the age of sixteen he became a clerk for Joseph Morgan, whose daughter, Lucy, he married in 1832. Before he had completed his twenty-first year he had become the proprietor of the principal line of mail stages running to the east of Hartford. This business he conducted with such energy and judgment that in a few years he and his associates controlled all the more impor- tant lines leading out of Hartford. He saw early the coming power of railroads, and between 1835 and 1840 disposed of his stage interests, and in 1839 he became a director in the Hartford and New Haven Rail- road Company. He was one of the original incorporators in 1847 of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, and his name will always be closely identified with it. In 1848 he was elected its presi- dent, which position he retained until the time of his death, with the exception of three years when Dr. Guy R. Phelps was president. He was a director in the Hartford Fire Insurance Company for nearly forty years, and was active in the management of the Collins Company, the Hart- ford Carpet Company, Holyoke Water Power Company, Gatling Gun Company, Connecticut Trust Company, and many other business enter- prises. He was a director of the Hospital, a trustee of Trinity College, a vestryman of Christ Church, and connected with a large number of
1 For a portrait of Mr. Goodwin, see page 512.
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benevolent and religious societies and institutions. His courage, self- reliance, and foresight made him a leader ; and he had the full confidence of the community alike in his judgment and in his integrity. His shap- ing hand is manifest in all the affairs with which he was connected. His life was marked by constant usefulness and benevolence. He died March 15, 1878.
Anson G. Phelps,1 the philanthropist, was for a time in the saddlery business in Hartford, when quite a young man, and in Hartford mar- ried Olive Eggleston. He was born in Simsbury in 1781, and was a descendant on his mother's side of the Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, for nearly fifty years pastor of the First Church in Hartford. He went to New York in 1815. Four years later he took into partnership Mr. Elisha Peck, who had been in the West India trade in Hartford, and the firm became large importers of metals. They established a packet- line, and soon became the leading concern in that business in the coun- try. In 1831-1832 they built on the corner of Fulton and Cliff streets the largest store in the city. It fell May 4, 1832, and seven persons were killed. Later Mr. Peek left the firm, and William E. Dodge and D. Willis James, sons-in-law of Mr. Phelps, went in, and the firm be- came Phelps, Dodge, & Co. He died Nov. 30, 1853, leaving $581,000 for benevolent and philanthropic purposes. He was a Sunday-school worker, and largely engaged in missionary and Christian work.
William E. Dodge,2 his son-in-law, partner, and co-worker in benevo- lent enterprises, was born in Hartford, Sept. 4, 1805, son of Dr. David Dodge. He removed with his father to Norwich, then at the age of thirteen to New York, where he became an errand-boy in a dry-goods store on Pearl Street. After a few years in this business on his own account he joined his father-in-law in 1833. He was one of the early directors of the Erie Railroad, and was largely interested in other rail- roads, in manufactures, and in insurance and banking companies. He was a member of Congress in 1865, and President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, 1867-1875, after which he declined a re-election. During the war he gave hearty support to the Government; he was a member of the Union Defence Committee, and Chairman of the Com- mittee of Conference with other cities to aid in organizing troops, equip- ping regiments, and forwarding supplies. He took part in the formation of the Loyal League, organized to strengthen the Government in 1863. Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, in his speech at the unveiling of the statue of Mr. Dodge in New York, Oet. 22, 1885, described him as " in all respects a model citizen." He died in New York, Feb. 9, 1883.
Two other very wealthy New York merchants were Simsbury boys, and received their early business training in Hartford, - Amos R. Eno and John J. Phelps. They were clerks in the dry-goods store of Caleb Goodwin, on Main Street, near Christ Church, and went into partner- ship together in New York.
A representative of Hartford who has won wealth and eminence abroad is Junius Spencer Morgan, son of Joseph Morgan, and a descend- ant of Miles Morgan, one of the first settlers of Springfield. Although not a native of Hartford, having been born in West Springfield, now Holyoke, April 14, 1813, he came here with his father in 1817. After attending several schools, Mr. Morgan began his business career with
1 For portrait, see p. 656. 2 For portrait, see p. 658.
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Alfred Welles in Boston, April 7, 1829; there he remained until he was twenty-one, - April 14, 1834. In July of that year he entered the New York banking-house of Morgan, Ketchum, & Co. ; but after eighteen months he decided to return to Hartford. On the 1st of February, 1836, he became the junior partner in the firm of Howe, Mather, & Co., which did a large and successful dry-goods business when Hartford was the centre of a large trade of that sort. The firm became Mather, Morgan, & Co. Feb. 1, 1850, but was dissolved just a year later, when Mr. Morgan, at a very urgent invitation, went to Boston to join James M. Beebe in the same business, in the house of J. M. Beebe, Morgan, & Co., which became one of the largest in the country. In 1850 he went to Europe for the first time, and there met George Peabody, who later offered him a partnership, which he ac- cepted. He entered the firm of George Peabody & Co. Oct. 1, 1854, and ten years later Mr. Peabody retired, and the firm of J. S. Morgan & Co. took the place of the older one. Under his name the house has increased in strength and influence, until it stands among the great banking-houses of the world. During the war Mr. Morgan at frequent opportunities rendered valuable assistance in England to the govern- ment of this country. He married in Boston, May 2, 1836, Juliet, daughter of the Rev. John Pierpont, of the Hollis Street Church. His father built for him in 1840 the house on Farmington Avenue, in Hartford, now the residence of Mr. H. K. Morgan. While in Hart- ford Mr. Morgan entered actively into social and public affairs. He was vestryman in Christ Church (1845-1849), adviser of the Orphan Asylum (1849-1853), a corporator of the Young Men's Institute, and a trustee for two years (1838-1840), and vice-president 1839. He was a member of the Governor's Foot Guard from 1838 to 1841. He has always maintained his interest in the city and its institutions, and has lately (1886) made generous gifts to Trinity College and to the Hart- ford Orphan Asylum, -to the latter a sum of money to be called the Sarah Morgan fund, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Sarah Spencer Morgan.
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