The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut, from the aboriginal period to the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five. Volume III, Part 88

Author: Anderson, Joseph, 1836-1916 ed; Prichard, Sarah J. (Sarah Johnson), 1830-1909; Ward, Anna Lydia, 1850?-1933, joint ed
Publication date: 1896
Publisher: New Haven, The Price and Lee company
Number of Pages: 946


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St. Andrew, Brotherhood of, III. 662.


St. Borromaeus society. III. 770.


St. Cecilia's Dramatic society, III. 770.


St. Cecilia's Drum corps, III. 770.


St. Elizabeth society, III. 770.


St. George, The Sons of, Hawthorne lodge, No. 123, III. 1163.


St. Jean Baptiste society, The, III. 1162. St. Joseph's Catholic Total Abstinence society, organized. III. 919.


St. Louis, Joseph, III. 1152.


St. Mary's convent, III. 750, 751.


St. Patrick's hall, II. 499; site of, III.652, 973; mentioned. 748. 749, 750.


St. Patrick's Total Abstinence and Benev- olent society, organized, III. 920; offi- cers, 1895, 920.


St. Thomas's cadets, III. 759, 1109.


St. Vincent de Paul society, III. 887.


Salem, tax-payers in 1774, I. 415.


Salem bridge, II. 59.


Salem society, I. iv .; a winter parish, 640; bounds, 640; first meeting, 642; original members, 643; site of meeting-house, 643, 644; bell, 644; Gideon Hickox do- nates land, 644; Daniel Beecher's gift of land, 645; first settled pastor, 645; pastors to 1844, 646; deacons to 1844,646. Salvation Army, Waterbury corps or- ganized, III. 565 note; established, 783; officers, 784;wood yard, 784; Gen. Wil- liam Booth visits Waterbury, 784.


Sampson, Mrs. Frederick, of Hartford, mentioned, II. 31.


Sampson, Philip, negro, II. 192.


Samson, Eaton, military service, III. 1182. Sanborn, Kate, II. 304.


Sanders, Clara D. (Mrs. Frederick A. Mason), II. 314.


Sanderson, Edward C., III. 1144, 1145.


Sandiford, Joseph E., III. 1172.


Sandland, E. J., III. 1064, 1152.


Sandland, Edward, II. 292.


Sandland, Elizabeth H. (Mrs. Roderick S. Woodruff), II. 294.


Sandland, Frances A. (Mrs. George Tomkins), II. 292, 294.


Sandland, James, III. 1072, 1147.


Sandland, John, Sr., manufacturer. I. 587. Sandland, John H., sketch of, II. 294; connection with Scovill Manufacturing Co., 294; as a musician, 294; III. 662, 1065, 1066, 1071, 1077, 1079, 1082.


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Sandland, Mrs. J. H., II. 1065.


Sandland, Joseph, III. 1072.


Sandland, William H., III. 1074, 123I.


Sandland, William, II. 113, 114.


Sands, J., III. 907. Sandy hill, location, I. 246.


Sandy hollow, location, I. 708.


Sanford, settles in Waterbury about 1735, I. 333.


Sanford, Amos, military service, I.429,465. Sanford, Archibald, military service, I.465. Sanford. Charles, removes to Massachu- setts, II. 395.


Sanford, Lieut. Daniel, military, service, I. 442, 465; his house, 563.


Sanford, Edward T., III. 1205.


Sanford, Col. Elihu, III. 118I.


Sanford, Elizabeth, III. 1206.


Sanford, Ephraim, I. 364.


Sanford, Ezekiel, his house, I. 563; mili- tary service, 417, 465; his "poor child," 446; mentioned, 563.


Sanford, Rev. Frederick R., II. 553; III. 661; his book, 965.


Sanford, Joel, military service, I. 465.


Sanford, Jonah, military service, I.429,465.


Sanford, Joseph W., almshouse keeper, III. 885.


Sanford, Moses, military service, I. 396,465. Sanford, Peter J., III. 1147, 1206.


Sanford, Philemon, I. 402.


Sanford, Ruel F., II. 115; military ser- vice, III. 1186.


Sanford, Truman L., and additional water supply, II. 100; mentioned, III. 672.


Sanford, Zachariah, I. 362; military ser- vice, 387.


Sanford, Zacheus, military service, I. 465. Sanger, Mary (Mrs. Willard Welton), III. 826.


Santis, Anges, III. 768. Sartain, Amy, III. 865.


Sartain, Edward J., III. 865.


Sartain, Dr. Harriet J., sketch of, III. 864; member of various medical socie- eties, 865; founder and president of Women's Medical club, 865.


Sartain, Dr. Paul J., III. 865.


Satan's Meditation, location, I. 708.


Satchwell, Henry W. H., connection with the American, III. 982; with The Brooklyn Observer, 994.


Saturday Gazette, III. 995.


Saunders, Susanna (Mrs. Daniel Hop- kins), I. 638.


Savage, Rev. E., pastor First Baptist church, III. 676.


Savage, Enoch L., III. 1129, II36.


Savings bank, Waterbury, chartered, 1850, II. 177; first officers, 177; men- tioned, 451, 452.


Savings bank, Dime, mentioned, I. 178; II. 451. Savings bank, West Side, I. 178.


Savings Bank and Building associations, II. 177, 179.


Savings Society of Connecticut, Co-op- erative, Waterbury branch, III. 1170. Sawmill hill, location, I. 708.


Sawmill plain, mentioned, I. 218, 574; . change of name, 708; II. 489 note.


Sawn, C. H., III. 1066.


Sawyer, Asa, military service, I. 465.


Sawyer, Frederick, III. 1145.


Sawyer, V. L., president Connecticut Indemnity association, II. 184; men- tioned, 186, 486.


Sawyer, W. A., manager American Dis- trict Telegraph and Messenger Co., II. I49; mentioned, 148; manager Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Co., 167; manager Mutual Union Telegraph Co., I67.


Saxe, John L., II. 126; III. 768, 1156, I205, 1227; his inventions, II. 482.


Saxe, Julius, III. 1199.


Saxston, Ebenezer, military service, I.391. Saxton, Abigail (Mrs. Francis Baxter), I. 406.


Saxton, Eben, military service, I. 396.


Saxton, Mrs. Jane, I. 513.


Saxton, Jehiel, military service, I. 396.


Saxton, John, military service, I. 443, 466. Saxton, Ransom, military service, III. II82.


Saxton, Stebbins, military service, III. II82.


Scarrett, Nathaniel, military service, I.466. Scarrit (Scarret), James, military service, I. 391, 396.


Scarritt, George C., II. 115.


Scarritt, John, II. 115.


Scarritt, James, and the fire department II. 116; holds municipal office, 37.


Scapular society, III. 751, 759, 765.


Schell, Franz, III. 768.


Schick, Louis, III. 1108.


Schildgen, Henry, III. 768, IIII.


Schingler, L. H., III. 1205.


Schlag, Christian, III. 1158.


Schlipp, Frederick, III. 1108, 1I60.


Schmidt, Charles, III. 1144, 1145, 1205.


Schmidt, Charles, Jr., III, 1151.


Schmidt, Magdalene, III. 1206.


Schmitz, William, his invention, II. 482; mentioned, III. 1108, 1158.


Schneider, Albert, III. 1158.


Schneider, Ferdinand, III. 1158.


Schoen, Rev. William A., II. 555; sketch of, III. 692; pastor German Baptist church, 692.


Schoenmehl, Charles, II. 441.


Scholfield, Methodist preacher, III. 697. School Association, The Waterbury, II. 451, 522; F. J. Kingsbury, president, 522 note; directors, 522 note; organize Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, 522 note.


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School, Collegiate Institute for Young Ladies, II. 522 and note; Rev. and Mrs. R. G. Williams, principals, 522; Eliza- beth E. Earle, principal, 522; Ellen J. Smith, principal, 522; Lucy S. Winston, principal, 522.


School. St. Margaret's, for girls, succeeds the Collegiate Institute, 522 and note; chartered II. 522; Rev. Francis T. Russell, rector, 522; site of, I. 300; II. 522, 562; III. 1234; donations to, II. 523; Mary R. Hillard, principal, 524; gym- nasium fund, III. 110I.


School, Convent of Notre Dame, see Nôtre Dame.


School, Waterbury English and Classical, II. 529; first building, 529; masters. 529; first executive board, 529; students during Professor Jennings' term of ser- vice, 530; reminiscences, 529.


Schools, teachers and principals of small- er private, Phœbe Hotchkiss, II. 533; Rev. Virgil H. Barber, 533; David Wood, 533; Rev. Daniel A. Clark. 533, Rev. Joseph Davis Welton, 533; Miss More, 533; Mary A. Porter, 533, Misses Pitkin and Moore, 533; Anna Bronson, 533; Mrs. Chloe Taylor, 533; Harriet Powell, 533; Mary A. Hotchkiss, 533; Mr. Burnham, 533; Margaret Field, 533; Margaget Marshall and Elizabeth Crafts, William C. DeForest and Rev. O. Hopson promoters, 534; Ann Frisbie, 534; Esther Humiston, 534; Caroline Burnham, 534; Mary Ann Clark, 534; Katharine A. Prichard, 534, 535; Misses Hotchkiss, 534; Sarah Holmes, 534; Charles Leffingwell, 534; Misses Twin- ing, 534; Mrs. Perry, 534; H. F. Bassett, 534; Mary Sperry, 535; Ida M. Lawton, 535; Caroline Bishop, 535; Mrs. Harriet E. Griffin, 535; Mrs. A. M. Carrington, 535; Mrs. Helen I. Goodrich, 535; Rev. I. Perley Smith, 535; Caroline Peck, 535; Harriet Peck, 535: Lucy Pierpont, 535; Mrs. Minnie D. Rich, 535. Adaline Welton, 535; Fanny Abbott, 535.


School, The Home, Mrs. E. P. Treadway. principal, II. 535; Misses Lawton and Katherine L. Maltby, principals, 535; Ida M. Lawton, principal, 535.


School, The Gerard, II. 535; Isabel C. Lawton, principal, 535.


School, Rev. S. Kornmeyer's free Ger- man, II. 535.


School, St. Bartholomew's, J. Gunn, prin- cipal, II. 535.


School. Hillside, corporation, mentioned, II. 452, 501; incorporated, 532; build- ings, 531, 532; Mrs. James H. Yerkes and Mary M. Abbott, principals, I. 531; Kindergarten department, Eliza- beth O. Robinson, teacher, II. 536; dis continued, 532; building hired by Cen- tre school district, 532.


Schools and instructors for stenography


and typewriting, III.1030;C. W. Loomis, 1030; John F. Gaffey, 1030; Helen L. Matoon, 1030; Alice J. Knight, 1030; M. L. Fitzsimons and B. H. Clark, 1030; Harrington Business college, 1030; W. I. Munroe, 1030; at the Young Women's Friendly League, 1030.


School, first allusion to a, 1698, I. 248 Schools, standard of early education, II. 200; early financial support, I. 595; earli- est schoolmaster, 212; early school- houses, 302, 310, 333, 367, 400, 488, 594, 708; school lands, 248, 333, 334, 361, 596; division of school money, 302, 340, 406; earliest schools and districts, 593, 594; at Wooster swamp, 595; at Judds mead- ow, 595, 708; at Bucks hill, 595; and the First church society, 596 and note; societies, 594; first academy, 598, 600; controlled by school society, II. 489; first book of records, 489 and note; records destroyed by fire, 502; history of society, 489; societies vested in town and school districts, 493 note; extracts from reminiscences of Horace Hotchkiss, 490, 491; F. J. Kingsbury quoted, 491, 492; districts located, 489; Bucks hill, 489; action regarding im- provement, 492, 493; Centre, 6, 490, 493 and note, 494, 495, 498, 499, 504. 505; West Centre, 489, 518; East Cen- tre, 489; Long hill, 505; East Gaylord, 505; Brooklyn, 499, 505; Sawmill plain, 489; East Farms, 489; East mountain, 489; Horse pasture, 489; Plattsville, 489; Town Plot, 489, 499, 505; Clark, 489; Oronoke, 489 505; Bunker hill, 489; Pine hole, 489; Gaylord's plain, 489; Pond hill, I. 707; Bridge district, II. 498; Dublin street, 75; West side hill, 498, 499, 50I, 505; two charters 495 and note; duties of the boards, 495; lot purchased on Mill Plain, 498; Grove and Cooke streets building, 498; Burnt hill, 498; North Main street discon- tinued, 498; below Scovill's factory, 498; the Abrigador, 498, 500; East Main street, 498, 504; Bishop street, 499, 505; Locust street, 499, 501; in Gothic hall, 499; West Gaylord Plain, 499; Washington street, 499, 501, 505; Sperry street, 499, 501. 505; addition to the Ridge street building, 500, 505; Elm street building, 499, 500, 501; Porter and Leonard streets, 500; Welton street, 500, 505; Clay street, 501, 505; Bank street, 501; regulations in 1853, 502; free, considered, 502; boards, members of, in 1859, 503; systematic visiting, 505; music study, 505; truant officer ap- pointed, 505; night, 503; bounds of Cen- tre district, 505; summary of annual re- port, 1894, 506, 507; manual training, 506; sewing classes, 506; evolution of,


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5, 508; superintendent, 506; chairmen of District committee, 508; chairmen of Board of Education, 508; High, princi- pals, 506, 510; High, buildings, 129, 496, 497, 498, 564; flag, 506; sketch of 508; reminiscences, 509, 510; the denomina- tional problem, 504, 505; Jewish, 786; kindergarten, Elizabeth O. Robinson, II. 536; Emma S. Kelsey, 536; Harriet J. Dutton, 536; Gertrude Neale, 536; parochial, 529 note; St. Mary's parochial school, 747, 748; first Roman Catholic girl educated out of Waterbury, III. 842; first college graduate of Roman Catholic parentage, 827.


Schultze, Paul G. Jr., III. II7I.


Schupp, Theodore, III. 1150.


Schurmann, Gustav, III. 1144.


Schuyler, Alice E., III. 1147.


Schuyler, Edwin J., III. 1147, 1175.


Schuyler, Mrs. E. J., III. 1147.


Schuyler, Mrs. L. H., III. 900, 918.


Schwartz, Henry A., III. 1169.


Schwartz, John, III. 1156.


Schwartz, Philip, III. 1108.


Schweizer, Marie S. (Mrs. Truman S. Lewis), II. 414.


Scorpione, R., III. 1164. Scott, - -, quartermaster 1777, I. 439. Scott, Abel, I. 688.


Scott, Abner, military service, III. 1185. Scott, Alanson J., III. 1146, II47.


Scott, Amasa. military service, I. 466.


Scott Amos, I. 399, 688.


Scott, Anna, III. 1147.


Scott, Ashley, teaches school, I. 600; mentioned, 167 Ap .: II. 489. 1 Scott, B., I. 180.


Scott, B. L., photographer, III. 1042.


Scott, Barnabas, military service, I. 396. Scott, Benjamin, military service, I. 391; mentioned, 703.


Scott, Caleb, military service, I. 446; mentioned, 466.


Scott, Charles, and the fire department, II. 114; biography, 247; town clerk, I. 167 Ap .; II. 247; various places of resi- dence, 247; his bequests, 247; III. 890; mentioned, 1079; military service, 1186. Scott, Daniel (Ist), location of house lot, I. 324; at Westbury, 326, 340, 704.


Scott, Daniel (2d), early resident of Waterville, II. 27; mentioned, 247; memorial to, III. 657.


Scott, David (Ist), bachelor proprietor, I. 236; mentioned, 258; fence viewer, 275; at Woster Swamp, 303, 323; on tax list for 1730, 307; lister of taxes, 316; his lands on Hikcox hill (Scott's mountain), 325; his saw mill, 591.


Scott, David (2d), military service, I. 383; mentioned, 664.


Scott, David (3d), drowned (?) at David's bottom, II. 28.


Scott, Ebenezer, military service, I. 396, 466; his grist mill, 581.


Scott, Edmund (Ist), signs petition for plantation, I. 123; family of, 165; deed of gift to his sons, 181, 182, 258; pro- prietor inhabitant, 197; his lands, 206, 208, 213, 239; death of, 236; builds a fence, 267, 268.


Scott, Edmund, Jr., I. 166, 179, 180, 225, 252, 280, 281, 292. 694; site of house, 224; bachelor proprietor, 236; town of- ficer in 1700, 248; family of, receive personal injuries at hands of Indians, 257; his lands, 258, 346; votes to extend town fence, 271; on tax list for 1730; 307; grave-digger, 666.


Scott, Edmund (3d) (son of Samuel), on tax list for 1730, I. 307; at Great hill in 1730, 349, 697.


Scott, Edmund (4th) (son of George), at Judd's meadow, I. 303; on tax list for 1730, 307.


Scott, Edward, Sr. (Adward, Edman, Edmund), I. 181, 209, 225.


Scott, Edward, Jr. (Edman), I. 181; 224. 225.


Scott, Edwin, his carding mill, I. 582.


Scott, Eleazer, of Westbury, I. 323; loca-


tion of house, 324; mentioned, 329, 377. Scott, Elijah, military service, I. 459, 466. Scott, Eliphalet, military service, I. 391. Scott, Elizabeth (Mrs. Zebulon), heroism, I. 456.


Scott, Ellen S.(Mrs Earl A.Smith), II. 377. Scott, Enoch numbers the people, I. 449;


measures the town, 449; mentioned, 643. Scott, Enos, military service, I. 466.


Scott, Eri, II. II2.


Scott, Ethiel, military service, I. 466.


Scott, Ezekiel (Ist), military service, I. 391, 392, 396, 416, 466.


Scott, Ezekiel (2d), military service, I. 443, 466.


Scott, Fanny T., II. 247.


Scott, Frances J. (Mrs. George Pritch- ard). II. 422.


Scott, George (Ist), bachelor proprietor, I. 236; his lands, 258, 353, 355; men- tioned, 263.


Scott, George, Jr., his lands, I. 358, 698; mentioned, 687.


Scott, George (3d), his lands, I. 339 note; mentioned, 696, 712.


Scott, Gershom, at Woster swamp. I. 303; on tax list for 1730. 307; of West- bury, 322; location of house, 324.


Scott, Gershom, Jr., military service, I. 417, 466.


Scott, Gideon, first (?) resident on Great hill, I. 697.


Scott, Hannah (Hawks), sorrows of, I. 254, 258; grave of, 257.


Scott, Heman, II. 29.


Scott, Horace B., II. 553.


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Scott, Isaac, finds Indian relics, I. 61.


Scott, Jesse, blacksmith, I. 569; men- tioned, III. 1184.


Scott, Mrs. Joel, and the Indians, II. 28. Scott, John, early inhabitant, I. 260: mil-


itary service, 260, 261, 391, 399; at Me- shadock, 360, 708; and Hannah, 360. Scott, Jonathan, his lands, I. 222, 258, 293, 325, 704; bachelor proprietor, 236; fence viewer in 1709, 260; captured by Indians, 260, 262; mentioned, 281, 290; at Woster swamp, 303, 323, 325; on tax list for 1730, 307; location of house, 324; his saw mill, 591; and his sons, II. 26 note, and Hannah, graves of, I. 257.


Scott, Jonathan, Jr., at Woster swamp, I. 303, 323, 325; on tax list for 1730, 307; mentioned, 314, 376, 442; location of house, 324; removes to Reynolds bridge, 326; his lands, 707.


Scott, Jonathan (3d), grave-digger, I. 666. Scott, Jordan, III. 114I.


Scott, Joseph, murdered by Indians, I. 118 note, 259; his, the oldest known Waterbury grave, 165 note, 259, 262, 716; tradition about, 259, 260, 261, 262; mentioned, 214; his lands, 258.


Scott, L. W., III. 1184.


Scott, Mark, III. 1184.


Scott, Minnie A., memorial to, III. 657. Scott, Noah, I. 459.


Scott, Obadiah, on tax list for 1730, I.307; mentioned, 323, 328, 359, 702; location of house, 324; at Judd's meadows, 303, 348, 349.


Scott, Obadiah, I. 653 note.


Scott, Owen E., II. 32.


Scott, Robert, bachelor proprietor, I. 236; town officer in 1700, 248; mentioned, 258. Scott, Roxy, memorial to, III. 657.


Scott, Samuel, bachelor proprietor, I.236; house lot of, 268; on tax list for 1730, 307; mentioned, 360, 369, 698.


Scott, Samuel, Jr., on tax list for 1730, I. 307; military service, 383; mentioned, 643.


Scott, Samuel, Jr., I. 453.


Scott, Samuel, I. 361.


Scott, Samuel, collector of colony tax, I. 406.


Scott, Samuel P., III. 1036.


Scott, Sarah (Mrs. David), on tax list for 1730, I. 307.


Scott, Simeon, I. 703.


Scott, Stephen, location of house. I. 324; mentioned, 325, 329, 417, 466.


Scott, Thaddeus, I. 646.


Scott, Thomas, will of, I. 257.


Scott, Uri, military service, I. 466. mal- ster, 487.


Scott, W., military service, I. 393.


Scott, W. C., III. 913.


Scott, Walter H., his invention, II. 482; mentioned, III. 1154.


Scott, William, at Bucks hill, I. 303; on


tax list for 1730, 307; his lands, 358.


Scott, William, military service. III. 1190. Scott, Woolsey (Wolsey), military ser- vice, I. 397, 417, 466.


Scott, Zebulon, I. 456, 703.


Scott family, I. 324; death of six mem- bers of, 37I.


Scott & Beebe, button makers, I. 569.


Scott's brook, location, I. 708.


Scott's grave, place name, location, I. 708. Scott's hill, location, I. 712.


Scott's meadow, origin of name, .I. 239; location, 344.


Scott's mill, carding, I. 582; grist and saw, I. 325, 580, 581, 591.


Scott's mountain, origin of name, I. 325,


708; location, 246,325; first house on, 325. Scott's plain, location, I. 239.


Scott's sugar works, location, I. 708.


Scove, John, I. 180.


Scovil, Mrs. Edward, dies of small-pox, I. 437.


Scovil, Maria, III. 702 (Mrs. Joel Hin- man), III. 799.


Scovill, Alathea (Mrs. Frederick J. King's- bury), II. 282, 290; III. 1203.


Scovill, Amasa, military service, I. 466; his saw mill, 581.


Scovill, Annis, I. 694.


Scovill, Asa, military service, III. 1182.


Scovill, Benjamin, I. 169.


Scovill, Bethel, I. 676.


Scovill, Betsy (Mrs. John Buckingham), II. 285.


Scovill, Edward (Ist), I. 326, 362, 373, 664, 676, 705; military service, 387, 388; selectman, 402.


Scovill, Edward (2d), site of house, II. 16 note; mentioned, 179, 498; III. 629; bi- ography, II. 283.


Scovill, Mrs. Edward, Jr., I. 627.


Scovill, Edward E., II. 283.


Scovill, Rev. Elias, III. 660.


Scovill, Eunice R., memorial to, III. 657.


Scovill, George B., II. 440.


Scovill, Hannah (Mrs. Julius Morris), II. 293.


Scovill, Henry W., homestead of, I. 359, 36I, 368; mentioned, II. 59, 281; III. 572, 90I, 912; gift to Young Men's Christian association, 571.


Scovill, Hubert, II. 56.


Scovill (Scovil), Rev. James, sketch of, I. 652; mentioned, 330; II. 237; pastorate in 1775, I. 424; first resident Episcopal rector in Waterbury, 652; III. 668; removes to New Brunswick, I. 654 and note; rector Christ's Episcopal church, Watertown, 664.


Scovill (Scovil), James, his woolen fac- tory, I. 585; at Long hill, II. 14; site of house, 16 note; sketch of, 237; men- tioned, 278, 545; III. 705, 1120.


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Scovill, James C., I. 705; II. 283.


Scovill, James M. L., I. 671; II. 70 note, 275 note, 276, 280 and note, 281, 282; III. 667; first burgess, II. 15; alderman, 37; biography, 278 and note; pioneer manufacturer, 279; presi- dent Lane Manufacturing Co., 373; gift to Trinity college, 545; memorial to. III. 657; military service, 118I.


Scovill (Scovel, Scovil). John (Ist), I. 150, 179,225,250, 652; family, 169; his lot, 206, 208, 210; bachelor proprietor, 236; town officer in 1700, 248, 270; builds a fence, 268; death of, 296; military service, 383. Scovill, Lieut. John, Jr., land given to, I. 222; on tax list for 1730, 307; men- tioned, 309, 363, 373, 377, 564; lands of, 313; on school committee, 367; military service, 384, 397, 429, 466; tavern- keeper. II. 218.


Scovill, John (3d), buys land in 1745, I. 580, 687; mentioned, 694.


Scovill, John M., III. 1174.


Scovill, Joseph, military service, III. II82.


icovill, Julia L. (Mrs. Theodore L. Sny- der), II. 285.


covill, Lucius A., II. 494.


covill, Marenda, III. 702.


- Scovill, Mary A. (Mrs. William E. Cur- tis), II. 282.


Scovill, Mary I. (Mrs. John E. Wayland), II. 283, 360.


covill, Mary T. (Mrs. Jacob L. Clark), III. 650.


icovill, Obadiah, III. 702.


Scovill, Mrs. Obadiah, III. 702.


covill, Samuel, military service, I. 414, 418, 430, 442, 466.


covill, Sarah A. (Mrs. Joseph T. Whit- tlesey) II. 281.


covill, Selah (Sela), military service, I. 430, 466; tavern-keeper, 568.


covill, Stella M. (Mrs. Lemuel S. Da- vies), II. 283; III. 82I.


covill, Stephen, military service, I. 397, 452, 466.


covill, Stephen, III. 1184.


covill, Thomas L., II. 283.


covill, Timothy, military service, I. 452, 459, 466 ..


covill, William, I., 169, 322, 363, 383, " 652; on tax list for 1730, 308.


covill, Mrs. William, burial of, I. 329, 330.


covill, William H., and the annual bor- ough meetings, II. 16; mentioned, 20, 70 note, 87, 276, 280, 443; III. 657, 787, 883, warden, II. 21; gift to First church, 61; site of homestead, II note, 49; and the fire department, 114; incorporator of Naugatuck railroad, 157; biography, 281; connection with Leavenworth, Hayden & Scovill; J. M. L. & W. H.


Scovill, 281, 282; philanthropist, 282; donation to Trinity college, 545; an in- corporator of the Waterbury and Cheshire Plank Road Co , I. 570; me- morial to, III. 657.


Scovill, William H., Jr., of Hudson, N. Y., II. 282.


Scovill & Adams, photographic business, II. 278, 44I.


Scovills & Buckingham at Oakville, I. 590; II. 277.


Scovill house The. II. 41 note, 224, 225.


Scovill, J. M. L. & W. H., succeed Leaven- worth. Hayden & Scovill, I. 276; men- tioned, 575; II. 250, 282; and the "flag- staff " fund, 64; burning of factory, 128; build the Scovill house, 225; manufac- turers, 276; III. 1041; erects the first brick building, 1044; established in 1830, II. 277; Scovills & Buckingham, 277; and Scovills & Co., 277; issue Hard Times Tokens, III. 1059.


Scovill, Lampson & Co., woollen factory, I. 569.


Scovill Manufacturing Co., site of plant,


I. 573, 584; mentioned, 575, 585; II. 435; organize first manufacturing company's fire company, 119; make post office lock boxes, 170; losses by fire, 112, 129, 277, 278; succeeds J. M. L. & W. H. Scovill, 277; half century employees, 278; organize Scovill & Adams, I. 278; and United States coinage, III. 1059; manufactures award medals of Colum- bian Exposition, 1060.


Scovill's boggy meadow, location, I. 354. Scovill's meadow, location, I. 708.


Scovill's island, location, I, 245.


Scovill's saw mill, I. 581.


Scovill street, the name, II. 70 note.


Scowering grass swamp and Bad swamp, location, I. 708.


Scrag field, location, I. 708.


Scribner, Mrs. H. H., III. 1964.


Scudder, John H., III. 1174.


Scudder, Rev. Moses L., II. 550; III. 708.


Scudder, Moses L., Jr., II. 551; III. 1203;


connection with the American, 9,6, 983 note.


Scully, Martin, connection with the Democrat, III. 985.


Seager, Shadrach, I. 362.


Seamor (Seamer), Richard, leaves Water- bury before 1677, I. 151; lot of, 172.


Searle, Roger, III. 697.


Sears, Arza W., III. 1144.


Sears, Simeon, military service, I. 466.


Seautreau, Jean, III. 1152.


Second mount, location, I. 708.


Sedgwick, George B., almshouse keeper, III. 885.


Seeley, Chauncey, III. 1147, 1153, 1170.


Seeley, John, III. 1147.


Seeley, W. R., III. 1019.


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HISTORY OF WATERBURY.


Seeley, Mrs. W. R. (Fannie A. Foote), III. 940, 948.


Seeley, William, I. 459.


Seelye, N. M., his invention, II. 482.


Seery, Edward L., II. 556.


Seery, Peter H., his invention, II. 482; mentioned, III. 1176.


Seery, Thomas H., II. 87.


Seiter, Theodore, III. 1175.


Selectmen, the first, I. 156, 402; their allowance of pay, 497; duties of, 500.


Selkirk, Edward, II. 551.


Selkrig, Jeremiah, military service, I. 466.


Selkrig. Nathaniel, military service, I. 397. Selkrigg (Silkrigg, Silkrig, Silkriggs), William, I. 336, 368. 377.


Sellew, George E., III. 1169.


Senesac, Rev. J. E., assistant pastor St. Anne's Roman Catholic church, III. 768. Senglaub, Louis, III. 1073.


Severy, Ernest E., II. 555.


Seward, Nathan, military service, I, 466. Sewer system, the first sewer, II. 40;


bond issues, 47, 103; first board of com- missioners, 103; Rudolph Hering, con- sulting engineer, 103; and house-drain- age, 105; F. Floyd Weld and Frank W. Whitlock, assistant engineers, 105, 107; constructing sewers, 106; assess- ments, 106; cost of, in 1893, 107; N. J. Welton, engineer, 105 109; Robert A. Cairns, engineer, I. 107.




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