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Boston Post Road, see Post Road
Boston Store, 179, 180, 181, 329, 430 "Bottom Set," oysters, 345
Boughton, Joseph, 205 Boult, David, 86 Boult, Ruth, 213
Boundary Disputes, 71-78
Bouten, John, 231
Bouton, Esaias, 148, 216
Bouton, Isaac, 205
Bouton or Bowton, John, 37, 39, 84, 85, 100
Bouton, Joseph, 100
Bouton, Nathaniel, 444
Bouton, Seth, 206
Bouton, William, 169
Bowen, William, 233
Bowers, Robert Hood, 442
"Bowing" of hats, 272 Bowman, Shirley, 332
Boyer, Eugene, 381
Boylston, Francis, 386
Bradley, Thomas, 391, 397
Brady, Allen, 298
Brady, John, 230
Brady, Oliver, 293
Brady, Thomas, 205
Brandegee, Senator, 412
Bray, J. Randolph, 442
Bray, Stephen, 371
Bread saved, 164
Breese, Edmund, 441
Brehm, Worth, 437
Brendlinger, Margaret, 260, 420 Brennan, 230 Bresnen, Paul, 230
Brewer, Stephen, 244, 245
Brick, first brick house, 178
Bridge, Norwalk, 36; first, 79; arch bridge, 186, 187; stone, 187; wood, 187; new, 392; his- tory, 392; draw, 391 to 395 See also "The Bridge"
Bridgeport, 210; trains, 220; court- house squabble, 268, 269, 292; in Civil War, 298, 299; cars, 313
Brinley, D. Putnam, 436, 439 Brinley, Gorden, 438
British, burn Ridgefield and Dan- bury, 144; Tories in Norwalk, 146, 148; burn Fairfield, 151; in Norwalk, 152-160; losses, 162 Britto, Charles, 398 Broad River, 234, 235; school dis- trict, 247; school, 251, 256; club, 256; cars, 313
Broad River Comm. Club, 432
Broad River School, 251, 256
Brockway, Misses, 260
Brooks, Lemuel, 135, 170
Brookside; Chapel, 241; school, 254
Brookside School, 251, 254, 255
Brotherton, Sylvester, 311
Brown, Charles, 205
Brown, James, 100
Brown, Lewis, 206
Brown, Thomas, 292, 298
Brown, William, 400
Browne, Porter Emerson, 397, 441
Brown's Bus. College, 261
Brundage, James, 294
Brundage, John, 309
Brundage, Leeman, 382
Bryan, George, 375
Bryan, Harry, 375
Bryant, 38
Bucket Brigades, 306, 307, 309
Buckingham, Elder, 85
Buckingham Post, see G. A. R.
Buckingham, Stephen, Rev., 85, 86, 87, 97, 98, 164
Buckingham, William, 302
Buckley, Frederick, 443
Buesch, F. V., 408
Building permits, 425
Bull Run, 293 Bunce, Alan and Ruth, 441
Bundling, 110
Bunker Hill Races, 385
Burbank, John L., 233
Burgesses, House of, 244
Burke, John, 266
Burke, W. C., 408
Burnell, Francis, 288, 389
Burning of Norwalk, 156 to 157
Burns, Clement, 230 Burns, Francis, 430
Burns, Henry, 298
Burns, Peter, 430
Burns to death, 435
489
INDEX
Burr, Jerusha, 124 Burr, Samuel, 196, 197 Burrall, John, 245 Burritt, Francis, 418 Burton, Frederick, 442
Burwell, John, 402
Burwell, Nathan, 136
Bushnell, Francis, 40, 100
Bushnell, Richard, 38
Business and Prof. Women's Club, 421
Butler Is., 479 Butler, J. K., 337, 338
Butler, Thomas, 198, 405, 406, 407 Butterworth, 256
Buttery, Fred, 102 Buttery, Homer, Mrs., 235
Butterys, lots of 436
Buttery, Samuel, 206
Buxton, George, 297, 382
Byard, Dorothy, 437
Byard, John, 438 Byington, A. H., 292, 323, 324 Byington, C. Irving, 371
Byington, Homer, 445 Byxbee, John, 187, 293
Byxbee, Louisa, 265
Byxbee, Moses, 417 Byxbee, Stephen, 292
Cables, 340 Caffrey, Thomas, 402 Calf Islands, 77 Calf Pasture, 49, 153, 155; island, 414, 415 Callahan, Mary, 403 Cavalry Baptist Church, 233 Calvert Club, 422 Cameron, Robert, 244 Camp, Isaac, 130 Camp, Jonathan, 198, 268 Camp, Lemuel, 205 Camp Richard, 168, 244 Campbell, Thomas, 419 Campfield Island, 95, 264, 414, 478 Campfield, Mathew, 37, 40, 57, 265 Campfield, Nathaniel, 57 Campfield, Samuel, 38, 84 Caner, Henry, Rev., 98, 236 Canfield, Anthony, 294 Canfield Island, 49 Canfield, Thos., 100 Cannon, Commodore, 170, 216 Cannon dedications, 401; French, 401; German, 402
Cannon, James, home, 176 Cannon, John, 134, 137, 163; Jr., house, 176; War of 1812, 205, 216 Cannon, Samuel, home, 176 Canonicus, Indian chieftain, 10 Cantoni, James, 402 Canty, Thos., 433 Carnegie Committee, 328, 330 Carroll, Richard, 258
Cars, horse, 311; electric, 313 Carter, Josiah, 268, 405, 406, 407 Casenave, M., 401
Cash, J. and J., 428 Cash, Sidney, 428 Cash System Introduced, 274 Caspler, Morris, 428
Cassel, John, 437 Caswell, E. C., 379
Catholic Women, 422
Catholics, first, 229; churches, 229 to 231; community house, 231; retreat, 420 Catonah, 64, 100 Cavanagh, Dobbs, 275, 444 "Cavanagh Edge" hats, 275 Cavanagh, John, 275; back on bench, 286; gets help, 287, 328; mayor, 382; 428, 433, 434, 444; Ltd., 444; Cavanagh, John, Mrs., 287, 417 Cavanagh, Willis, 366
Cavanaugh, Mae, 403 Cedar Hammock, 414, 479 - Ceed, Roswell, 205
Cellar, first in Norwalk, 87
Cemeteries, 96, 255 Center School Dist., 247, 251; school, 251, 258
Central Fairfield Trust Co., 227, 228
Central Fire Station, 307
Central National Bank, 227, 228 Central Trust Co., 227, 228 Chachoamer, 65 Chancellorsville, 298, 299, 300 Chandler, Elsie W., 444 Chandler, Jean, 330 Charash, Jack, 442 Charleston, 293 Charnok Market, 339 Chashenoes or Cockenoe, 25 Chernitzky, Stephen, 239 Chichester, Mary, 181 Child, C. G., 337
490
INDEX
Children; restless in church, 68;
in school, 87, 88; at home, 88, 89; on Sabbath, 95
Children, Mary, 422
Children's Home, Ffd. Cty., 435
Chimney Viewers, 38, 42, 64
Chimons Island, 25, 95, 265, 414, 415, 416
China, Norwalker in, 382
Chinaman invents silk hat, 273
Chinnery, Alfred, 293, 381
Chiropodists, 466
Chiropractic phys., 466
Christ Church, 238
Christian Science Church, 241
Christmas, 106, 107
Church, Ebenezer, 136, 270, 271
Church, Edward, 31, 32, 38
Church, Isaac, 205
Church of Nazarenes, 243
Churches 229; Methodist, 189; Catholic, Congrega- tional, 231, 232; Baptist, 232- 234; Mormon, 234, 235; Episco- pal, 235 to 238; Hungarian, 238; Advent Christian, 240; German Lutheran, 240; Swed. Beth., 241; Christian Science, 241; Brook- side Chapel, 242; West Nor- walk, 242; Jewish, 242; Swed. Luth., 243; Nazarenes, 243
Cifatte, Stephen, 402 "Citizen," 217
City Council, 325
City National Bank, 227
Civic League, 330
Civil War, School here, 260; war, 291-305; "Fighting Seven - teenth," 297; Chancellorsville,
298 to 300; Gettsburg, 298 to 302; monument, 305; route, 480 Clark, A. N., 384, 386
Clark, .D. H., 337, 338
Clark, Elbert, 371
Clark, Frank, 26
Clark, George, 439, 440
Clark, Levi, 244, 349
Clark, Samuel, 294
Clark, Theodore, 398 Clarke, E. C., 408
Clarke, William, 296
Clarkson, Lieut., 404
Cleveland, William, 244 Clock, James, 205
Clock, John, 171
"Closed season," oysters, 348, 349, 355
Clubs, Norwalk Country, 267; various, 420 to 423; recreational, 431; others, 470
Cluett, Peabody & Co., 428
Coaches, see Stage Coach
Coburn, J. Milton, 389
Coburn, Ralph, 366
Cockefer, John, 294
Cockefer, William, 297
Cockefur, Caroline Birch, 176
Cockenoe-de-Long-Island, 32, 33, 66
Cockenoe Island, 25, 95, 266, 479
Coffin, Floyd, 397
Coffin, Hurlbutt & Co., 279, 283
"Cold Stomack," 91
"Cold Summer," 206
Cole, George, 402
Cole, James, 439, 440; and Thomas, 440 Coleman, James, 402
Collins, J. W., 356
Collins, Mary, 403
Colonial wedding, 130, 131, 132, 133
Colored Churches, 233, 234
Community halls, 432
Commuter, expelled, 322; number here, 425
Companies, oyster, Norwalk, 366 to 368
Compo; compow, 65; compoe, 72; British land, 141; 144, 145; oyster set, 364
Comstock Brothers, 429
Comstock, Christopher, 38, 40, 48; David, 138, 168, 205; G. S., 408; John, 195; Moses, 135; Phoebe, 98; Samuel, 150
Comstock, Is., see Keyser
Concord Coaches, 214 Concord School, 251, 253
Concuskenow, 32, 33
Congregational Churches, 98; So. Norwalk, 231; Norwalk, 232.
Connecticut, Indian tribes here, 4; "Discovered," 7; boundary dispute with New York, 71 and 74-78, 81 ; in French and Indian War, 111; gives bonus for salt, 138; wars on profiteers, 139; helps Norwalk, 172, 173, 174; slaves in, 189; and school societies, 247; in hatting association, 284; oyster laws, 348, · 349
491
INDEX
Connecticut, oyster planting, 349; problems in oysters, 353, 354; negligent in oyster indus., 360; sanitary rules for oyster indus., 362; sewage pollution, 362, 363, 364; shares bridge expense, 394 Connecticut Co., 313, 394, 427 Connecticut House, see Hotels
Conn. Light and Power Co., 377, 379
Conn. Shellfish Comm., 350, 354, 355, 360
Conoughey, N. J., 427
Conservative, 126; Norwalk is, 128, 129, 134 Consol. R. R. Co., 379
Consolidation, 387 to 389
Constable, 57, 58; Norwalk has three, 282
Contentment Island, 331, 479
Cook, Cornelius, 190
Cook, Oliver, 375
Coolidge, Clarence, 381
Coolidge, Louise, 47
Cooney, Michael, 230
Cooperative Hat Co., 282 Copp, John, 408, 415 Copper, hurts oysters, 360
Copps Island, 414, 415
Corby, Robert, 417 Corn Mill, see Mills Cornish, Mr., 84 Coulter, Ernest, 402 County Almshouse, 197-198
County Courtshouse, see Courthouse
County home, see Children's
County Club, Norwalk, 267
Court Cecile, 422 Court Laurel, 401, 422 Courthouse, squabble, 268, 269;
Bridgeport wins, 269 Courting in Norwalk, 55, 110
Cove, Wilson Point, 27, 148, 150, 347 "Covered Wagons," 213 Cow Pasture Point, 124 Cowing, Walter, 405 Cowley, Alanson, 205 Cram, George, 403 Crampton, John, 38, 40, 82 Crampton, Joseph, 100 Cranbury, cars, 313; school, 251, 258 Crauford, Robert, 307 Craw, John, 299 Craw, W. J., Mrs., 331, 332
Crawford, W. D., 264 Creagh, Alice, 404 Crockett, Marion, 403
Crockett, William, 218, 389
Crofut and Knapp Co., 28, 270, 274, 275; capacity, 276; making hats, 276 to 278; strike of 1884, 279-283 ; factory blown up, 280; end of strike, 283; strike of 1909, 284 to 289; 428, 444 Crofut, Andrew, 275 Croal, William, 400
Croix de Guerre, 403, 404
Crosby, Justus, 294
Crotty, William, 402
Crow Is., 414, 478
Crowe, Edmund, 373, 386
Crowe, James, 391
Crowley, James, 170
Crown Quality Co., 444
Crume, Camilla, 441
Cuba, Norwalkers there, 382
"Cultch," oysters, 342 Cultivation oysters, 344
Cunningham, P. L., 294
Cunningham, Peter, 378
Curtis, Fanniebelle, 403
Curtis, George, 385
Curtis, Seymour, 403
Curtis, Stiles, 244
Cushing, Edward, 438
Czabo, Nicholas, 240
D. S. C., 403, 404 Daggys, 439
Dan, Audubon, 340
Danbury, 69, 92, 99, 141, 142; burned, 144; 190, 210, 214, 215 ; trains, 218, 219, 220, 221, 232; courthouse squabble, 268; hatting, 272, 289 ; in Civil War, 298; in blizzard, 369 Danbury-Norwalk R. R., 218 to 221, 314
Danenberg, Leigh, 322 Dann, Horace, 335 Dann, Wallace, 382, 389, 391, 393 Darien, 76, 92, 99, 100; Tories in, 146, 148, 149; struggles to be town, 195, 196; 247, 254; school, 260; in Civil War, 294, 297, 298; telephones, 337 Darrow, John, Mrs., 163, 252.
Daskam, Is., 414, 478 Daskam, Samuel, 194
492
INDEX
Daughters American Revolution, 36, 130, 143, 169, 170, 178, 271
Davenport, Charles, 402
Davenport, Richard, 14
Davis, D. L., 289; Edward, Mrs., 334; Joseph, 329, 430; Leo, Mrs., 421, 435; Madison, 303 David, Marvin, 169 Dawson, Aaron, 382 Day, Absalam, 190, 264, 265, 418
Day Farm, 321
Day, Israel, 430
Day, John, 156
Day Nursery, 435
Dean, Charles, 378
Decker, David, 351, 367
Decker, Peter, 351, 352, 353, 367
Decker, Sylvester, 367
Deforest, Samuel, 150
Degnan, Joseph, 240
De Klyn, Benjamin, 309
DeLapp, Ambrose, 232
Deming, Joseph, 419
Democratic Women, 421
Dennis, Dexter, 289
Dentists, 466 Depletion, oyster beds, 358, 359, 360, 362 to 364
Deputy Governors, 21, 62
Derby hats, 275
De Waters, Beatrice, 332
Dibble Block, 390
Dickerman, Nelson, 326
Dickinson, Rev. Moses, 98, 99, 129 Diesel engines, 377
Dimond, Charles, 428
Dinkowitz, Samuel, 427
Disbrow, Justis, 297
Dispensary, Norwalk, 434
Districts, School, 245, 247, 248, 250 Dobbs and Co., 444
Doctors, see physicians
Dog Hammock, 414, 478
Dokus, Gabriel, 239
Dokus, Stephen, 398 Doman, Joseph, 400 "Domestic," 216 Donahoe, William, 230
Donnelly, James, 322; bldg., 325
Donovan, Jeremiah, 389, 407, 432
Dorlon, Philetus, 267
Dorlon's Point, 265, 266, 267, 335, 336, 385 Dorn, Leo, 437 Dorney, Jeremiah, 391
Dorney, Thomas, 391
Doty, C., 282, 299, 326, 373 Doty, L., 297, 379 Dougherty, Father, 240
Douglas, Harold, Mrs., 332, 333
Douglass Fowler Post, see G. A. R.
Doulens, Charles, 176, 295, 296
Doulens, Edward, 295
Doulens, Humphrey, 176
Dowd, Thomas, 295
Down Town School, 245, 247
Downes, Edith, 403
Downs, Leroy D., 400
Drawbridge, catastrophe, 222; new, 391
Dredging, oysters, 344, 352
Dress, early, 54; in 1750, 105; in
1769, 130, 131, 132; in 1819, 209 "Drolls," 186
Drowning, near to, 295
Duck Is., 479
Duck Pond, 50
Dugan's Pottery, 13
Duke of York, 75, 76
Dunbar Field, 426
Dunbar, Jesse, 397
Duncan, Walter, 191
Dunning, Joseph, 372
Durney, H. N., 321
Dutch Settle in Conn, 7; in Fair- field, 59; boundary dispute, 75
Dwight, Timothy, 124
Dynamite in C and K, 280
Earle Hill, 48, 252 "Early Bird," Norwalk oyster steamboat, 351, 352
Early Settlers, see Settlers
East Avenue, 48, 49, 155
East Norwalk, 36, 37, 63, 90, 92, 115, 146, 153; M. E. Church, 192, 224; Christ church, 238, 241; school, 251, 258; hat company, 289; fire Co., 309; cars, 313; water, 317, 319; post office, 371; electric light, 379; bridge, 391
East Norwalk Elec. Light plant, 379 East Norwalk Library, 333; invalid petitions, 333; librarians, 334
East Norwalk Methodist Church, 192
East Norwalk Post Office, 371
East Nor. Yacht Club, 431 East Rocks, 165
493
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Education, see Schools; education costs, 245, 250
Edwards, Otto, 241
Eells, Captain, /2, 161
Electricity, in cars, 313; electric light, 376 to 380
"Elegant Eighties," 439 Ellenwood, James Lee, 422
Elliot, John, 66
Ells, George and Joseph, 324
Ellwood, Milton, 429
Ely, Dudley, 321, 378
Ely, or Eli Nathaniel, 30, 32, 37, 40, 47,57
Emerson-Elwood Co., 429
Emerson, Mark, 429
Eminent Mẹn, 407, 444
Endicott, Gov., 20
English, settle in Conn., 8; trouble with Indians, 8; Pequot war 9 "Ensign Andrews," 176 Ent. Century Underwear, 427 "Enterprise," 353
Ells, popular in homes, 178 Elwood, George, 206
Elwood, Shu Bael, 206
Episcopal Academy, 259 Episcopal Churches, 98
Equal Franchise Society, Conn., 412 Equalization, Oyster Inves. Comm., 357, 358
"Equivalent Tract," see Oblong. Erskine, John, 438, 442, 443 Espenscheid Hat Co., 289 Europe, oysters sent to, 355, 356 Evans, Greek, 441, 442 Evening Schools, 251 Evening Sentinel, see Sentinel
Eversley, Daniel, 168 Eversley, John, 168, 197
Everyman's Bible Class, 422 Explosion in C and K., 280 to 282; 'Adelphi," 334
Factories, here in 1819, 209; in Hartford, 210; in Norwalk in 1850, 263 ; hat factories, early, 271, . 272, 282; later, 289; present hat factories, 290; in 1901, 386; in 1929, 426 to 428 and 473 "Fairfield," 217
Fairfield, 4, 12; purchase, 21; in trouble, 58, 59; boundary dispute with Norwalk, 71-72, 100, 124; nullifiers, 135, 142; burned, 151,
173, 174; new road to, 187, 190, 196, 198; trains, 219; courthouse squabble, 268, 269
Fairfield County Bank, 226, 227, 228 Fairfield County National Bank, 227, 228
Fairfield County Savings Bank, 227
Fairfield Ins. Co., 324, 325
Fairfield to Stamford Path, 49
Fairweather, Thomas, 136
Farrell, James A., 432, 433, 445
Farren, Abigail, 328 Farrington, W. M., 303 Fashion Dolls, 106 Fashions, see dress
Fast Day, 106, 109
Fawcett, George, 385
Fearhake, John, 438
Feeney, Bernard, 381
Feet attract Shot, 302
Fenn, Joseph, 38, 40
Ferris, Frank, 229, 377, 402
Ferris, J. H., 377, 432
Ferris, Stephen, 231, 294
Ferry, Orris S., 268, 292, 293, 405, 406, 407 Fickett, Samuel, 218
Field, Frank, 373
Field, H. C., 428
Fielding, Philip, 400
"Fighting Seventeenth," 297-301;
Route, 299 ; commended, 300 ; mus- tered out, 301
Fillio, James, 136
Filtering Water, 318
Finch, Bud, 205
Finn, Thomas, 231
Finn, Vincent, 231
Finnegan, E. J., 382
Finney, George, 256
Fire, at Country Club, 267; early fire fighting, 306, 307; alarm sys- tem, 308; in Rowayton, 309; in South Norwalk, 324
Fire Companies, 306; early fire fight- ing, 306, 307 ; names, 306 to 311 "Fire Lands," 174 First Baptist Church Divine Heal- ing, 232
First National Bank of South Nor- walk, 227 First Settlers, see Settlers Fish Island, 350, 479 "Fish Tail" Lights, 378 Fishers' Island, 77
494
INDEX
Fitch, Cyrus, 205; Daniel, 113; D. H., 393; Ebenezer, 123; Edward, 297; Elbirt, 163; Elizabeth, 116, 124; Esther, 124; Giles, 124; Han- nah, 123; Hezekiah, 124; James, 122, 168; John, 122, 216; Jonathan, 123, 163; Joseph, 32, 38, 122; Lydia, 123; Mary, 124; Nathan, 136; Phoebe, 123; Rachael, 123; Roscoe, 119; Ruth, 122; Samuel, 122, 130, 163; Sarah, 122, 123, 124, 162; Stephen, 205; Thomas, Cap- tain or Mr., 122, 123; Thomas, Colonel, 114 to 119, 120, 134, 444; Thomas, 32, 37, 40, 47, 57, 64, 72, 73, 85, 135, 444; also see Thomas, Gov .; Thomas, Jr., 38, 84, 85, 123; Thomas, Mrs., 271; Thomas, Sr., 122, 123; Timothy, 124, 135
Fitch Document, 126
Fitch Home, 124; burned, 162
Fitch School, 251, 252, 260
Fitch relics, 162, 163, 166
Fitch, Thomas of Bocking, 122, 123 Fitch, Thomas, Governor, 111, 114, 119; in high office, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125; rise, 126; fall, 127, 128; tombstone, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133; home burned, 162 ; relics, 163, 166; 407, 444
Fitch's Point, 124, 133, 153, 155, 158; Mormons, 234
Five Mile River, Landing, 27, 64, 73, 83, 95, 187; school districts, 247, 254; post office, 373, 374 Flaherty, Robert, 438
Flaxhill, 147, 149, 153, 154, 158, 162; monument, 170; school, 245, 252 Fleischer, 242
Flint, John, Mrs., 332
Flynn, G. Fred, 372 Flynn, James, 382 Flynn, John, 391
Flynn, Margy, 404
Foley, John, 230
Foley, Peter, 431 Foot Bridge, 392 Foote, Joseph, 406 Foote, Robert B. B., 238; Mrs. Foote, 334
Ford, Charles, 335 Forks, in style, 90 Fort Cralo, see Rensselaer
Fort Point, 28, 37, 83, 90, 124, 215, 392
Foster, Charles, 303
Foster, Warren, Wm., 445
Foster, William, 249, 391
Founders Stone, 36
Fountain, Matthew, 103
Fowler, Douglass, 292, 294, 298, 299, 302
Fox Cycle and Hardware Co., 327
France Street, 36, 151, 157, 158; monument, 169
Francis, Abram, 191
Francis, Vida Hunt, 260
Frank C. Godfrey, post and aux., 404
Frank, Charles, 234
Franklin, Benjamin, 124
Franklin Schools, 251, 252, 253, 254
Fraser, Albert, 391
French and Indian War, 111, 112, 113, 114, 126
French Refugees, 38, 39, 42, 44
Frost, Daniel, 99
Frost, Russell, Jr., 177
Frost, Russell, Sr., 177, 227, 377, 385, 388, 402, 434, 445
Fulton, Robert, boat here, 216
Funerals, gifts at, 109
G. A. R. posts and auxiliaries, 302, 303 Gallaher, Edward, 434
Gardner, Amelia, 442
Garth, General, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 162
Garvey, Andrew, 418
Gas Works, 377; gas consumed, 379
Gasoline launch, 218
Gazette, 193, 323
Geddes, Andrew, 303, 304
Geer, Erastus, 337
Geist, Aloysius, 240
"General Lafayette," 215, 217 Genuth, David, 242
George's Bakery, 309
Georgetown, 211, 212; school boys saved, 336, 384 Georgetown Wire Mill, 211
German Lutheran Church, 240
Gettysburg, 298, 300, 301, 302
Gewner, J. F., 335 Gibson, Harry, 390 Gifts to libraries, 463
Gilbert and Bennett Mfg. Co., 211
Gilbert, Benjamin, 211 Gilhooly, 230
495
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Gills, Horace, 205 Girls' Friendly, 422 Glendening, Percy, 370 Glover, Charles, 249, 382 Glover, John, 403 Godfrey, Frank, 402, 405 Godfrey, Lieut., 398 Goeppinger, Eva, 328, 334 Gold Rush, 266 Goldberg, Max, 427 Golden, James, 322, 393
Golden, John, 322
Golden, R. H., 228, 322, 326, 328, 431
Golding, A., 199, 249, 371 Golding, Ruth, 199 Goldman, H. Co., 290 Goldstein, Peter, 402 Goodchild, Frank, 428 Good Hope Trading Post, 7
Goodrich, Camilla, 178 Goodrich, Charles, 441 Goodrow, Willis, 402 Goodsell, D. A., 192 Goold, Major, 84 Goose Island, 77, 266, 480 Gordon, Roy, 441 · Gorham, A. B., 408 Gorham, E. E., 380, 415
Gorham, John, 389 Gorham, Leslie, 380 Gorman, John, 382
Government of Norwalk, 468 Governors; Fitch, 121-133; Bissell, 407 Gowen, L. D., 233 Grace Baptist Church, 234 Grace Episcopal Church, 237
Grade Crossings, 224 Grand Central, 221 Grassy Hammock, 414, 478 Grassy Island, 414, 415 Graves, Isacke, 31 Gray, Ethel, 403 Gray, Henry, 99 Great Hammock, see Wood. Great Marsh, 50 Great Swamp Fight, 13, 14, 15, 16 Gred, Isaac, 205 Greeley, Horace, 333 Green, J. W., 283 Green, John, 99 Green, William, 297
Greenberg, David, 243 Greens Farms, 13, 92, 99; burned, 151
Greenstein, Samuel, 430 Greenwich, 76 Greggorie, Jakin, 38, 84 Gregory, Alyse, 443; Ezra, 135; Francis, 444; Frank, 388; Henry, 199, 388, 427; Ira, 408, 409; J. G., 227, 249, 330, 331, 407, 408, 409, 434, 443, 445; Jabez, 135, 168; John, 37, 41, 49, 72, 83, 84, 85; Jr., 38, 84, 205, 264, 265; Sr., 265, 418; Judah, 84, 100, 418; Lewis, 198; Mathew, 150; Moses, 245; Nancy, 265; Nathan, 136; Ralph, 385; Thomas, 82, 83 Gregory's Point, 48, 49, 96, 124, 265, 266, 267 Griffith, John, 205 Griffiths, Lizzie, 439 Grist Mill, see Mills. Groetzinger, Adolph, 328
Gros, Francis, 239
Groton, 17 Gruelle, Johnny, 436, 437, 442; Jus- tin, 436; R. B., 436
Grumman Hill, 155, 157, 165 Grumman House, 165
Grumman, Samuel, 187
Guards, in meeting house, 79; against Tories, 149; mobilize, 153 ; in Rev. War, 170 Guarnieri, Charles, 398
Guerillas, 304
Guider, Charles, Mrs., 331, 332
Guider's Corner, 331 Gumbart, E. H., 379
Gunther, William, 385
Guthrie, Ada, Mrs., 437
Guthrie, Henry, 266
Gutmann, Bernhard, 437
Guyer Hat Co., 284, 285
Guyer, William, 418
Hackley, Charles, 331, 332; Mary, 331, 332 Hadassah, 423 Haies, Nathaniel, 32, 37, 41, 84, 85 Haies, Samuel, 38, 84
Hair cutting, 94
Hait, Daniel, 100
Haite, Walter, 37, 67; Mr. Haite, 85
Hale Memorial Fountain, 143 Hale, Nathan, 141, 142, 143; monu- ment, 170 Hales, Samuel, 37, 41
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Hales, Thomas, 31, 32, 37
Half Mile Island, 49, 264, 265, 414, 478
Hall, Edwin, 232, 259; Hannah, 123; Kenneth, 402 Hall, Storrs, 259
Hallock, C. F., 167, 291, 292, 293, 328; William, 349
Hamilton, Hamilton, 437; Helen, 437
Hammonassetts, 4 Hancock, John, 124 Hand, Molly, 403
Hanford, Benjamin, 295; Daniel, 168; Edwin, 371; Fred, 385; Heze- kiah, 168; John, 187, 196; Levi, 378; Moses, 187; Mrs., 90; R. G., 434; Samuel, 113, 265; Sarah, 41; Thomas, 136, 205, 392. See Thomas, Rev.
Hanford, Rev. Thomas, settler, 37; ancestors, 41; homelot, 47 ; home, 50, 56; given island, 65; died, 83, 86; children, 84, 90, 416 Hanlon, John, 230
Hardenbrook, Philip, 266
Harford, William, 223, 309
Hards, Ira, 442
Harris, Charles H., 428; glass works, 428; Commodore, 431 ; va- cation lodge, 434 Harris, Edwin, 379
Harrold, Orville, 442
Harstrom, Carl, 261 ; his school, 261, 400; 389, 397
Hartford, 8, 9, 10, 20, 35, 172, 173, 208; social center, 210 Hason, Seeley, 205 Hat Forming Co., 289
Hathaway, Esther, 241
Hatting, 270 to 290; early, 271, 272 ; beavers, 271; progress, 273; silk hat, 273 ; panic, 274 ; soft hat, 274; derby, 275; yachting, 275; C. and K., 276; process, 276-278; strike of 1884, 279-283; hat makers as- soc., 283; strike of 1909, 284 to 289 ; old hat companies, 289 ; pres- ent, 290 Hawes, H. C., 337 Hawley, Mathew, 403 Hawthorne, Ruth, 438, 442 Hay Is., see Grassy. Hayes, Arthur, 402 Haynes, Gov. John, 21
Hayt, Justus, 150 Hayward, 188 Hazzard, Norman, 403
Healy, John F., 370 Hebbard, Elijah, 191 Hebrew School, 243
Hein, A. G., 228 Heinic, Albert, 308
Hemming, Emile, 228, 391, 407, 431 Hempstead, John, 142 Henderson, Martha, 403
Hendrick, Elmer, 117
Hendrick, George, 298
Hendrick, Marcia, 334 Herb growing, 90
Herman, Albert, 403, 404
Hewnompom, 24
Hibernians, Order of, 421
Hickock, Benjamin, 100
Higgins, R. L., 408
High School, Norwalk, 247; strug- gles, 247 to 250, 251, Hildebrant, Howard, 436
Hill, Asa, 192; Clara, 165, 190, 410, 411, 412; E., 326; E. J., 165, 312, 330, 397; Eben, 226, 291; Jr., 291;
384; Ebenezer, 227, 378, 393, 407,
444; Elsie, see Levitt; John, 408; Moses, 190, 293 Hillside School, 260
Hipson, Anna, 403
Hipson, Henry, 389
"Hiram Bender," 336
Hitchcock, Dexter, 408
Hockanums, 4 Hodges, Fred, 382
Hodshon, A. A., 289
Hodshon-Berg Co., 290, 444
Hoelscher, Frederick, Mrs., 421
Hoffman, Joseph, 303
Holcolm, Maybelle D., 438
Holley, Edward, 297 Holloway, George, 417; John, 31
Holmes or Homes, Richard, 37, 41, 83, 84 Holmes, William, 8
Holmstead, Richard, 32
Holston, Ansley, 402
Holton, George, 336
Home Guard, 398
Home Lawn School, 260
Homelots, 46, 47, 48 Homeopaths, 408
Homes, early Norwalk, 52, 53; in 1750, 104; burned, 157, 162;
497
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some escape, 164; new, after Rev., 176; first brick, 178; in 1929, 425 Home spun, 131 Hoof and Horn Creek, 27, 146
Hooker, Rev. Thomas, 62
Hooper, George, 267
Hooton, James, 293; Thomas, 292
Hope Hose, 307, 310, 381
Hopkins, George, 382
"Horse Path," 219 Horse Railway Co., 312 Horton, E. A., 321, 322
Hospital, none here, 408; Norwalk, 409, 432
Hospital sewing, 433 Hotchkiss, E. H. Co., 427 Hotchkiss, Mrs., 316
Hotels, see Inns for early hotels; Norwalk Hotel and Connecticut House, 179, 180, 181, 184, 185; other hotels, 180; interior of Nor- walk hotel, 184; hotel keeper's, importance, 184, 185; meals, 185; recreation, 186; lotteries, 187
Hour Publishing Co., 323 Housatonic River, 7 How, John, 24 Howard, M. J., 371 Howe, Benjamin, 303 Howell, Louis, 236 Howland, Edward, 335; James, 335, 336
Hoyt, Asa, 168, 170; Bouton, 95; Charles, 265, 431; Daniel, 169, 349; Danny, 353; Eben, 216; Ezra, 392; Goold, 136, 165; Gabriel, 335; Henry, 378; Ira, 205; James, 297, 323, 380; John, 84, 100, 169, 419; John Sherman, 331; Nathan, 169; Philo, 206; Ralph, 205; Samuel, 205; Stephen, 168, 205 ; Walter, 37, 41, 206, 371; William, 169, 265; William F., 400 Hoyt's Is., 414, 478 Hubbell, Abel, 206; Carmi, 371; George, Mrs., 421; Harry, 373; Henry, 437; James, 382; Joseph, 244; Matthias, 244; Nathan, 103; W. B., 377 ; Wilbur, 371 ; William, 289
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