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Samuel Hine (4), son of Samuel (3) Hine, was born at Milford. He married, August 9, 1739, Rebecca Oviatt, who died February 4, 1748, in her twenty-seventh year, daughter of Samuel and Rebecca (Pritchard ) Oviatt. Chil- dren : Rebecca, Elizabeth, February 14, 1741-2 ; Samuel (5), November 9, 1743, mentioned below; Titus, February 9, 1744; Edward (or Ebenezer ) September 21, 1746.
Samuel Hine (5), son of Samuel (4) Hine, was born in Milford, November 9, 1743, and lived in Milford. Administration was granted on his estate June 21, 1805. He married Mary Harlequin (Second Society of Milford church record gives February 3. 1791), who marries ( second ) - Smith. October 15, 1797, reads: Baptized Samuel Hine, Jr .; the cove- nant was then pronounced to Samuel Hine and his wife ; baptized Polly Harlequin, Betsey and Samuel, the children of Samuel Hine. Chil- dren : Jonas, baptized May 21, 1798; James, May 21, 1798; Samuel, born at Derby, removed to Georgia; David, born at Derby, removed to New Haven ; Andrew (6), mentioned below.
Andrew Hine (6), son of Samuel Hine (5), was born and died at Milford, Connecticut. He married there, December 24, 1796, Abigail, daughter of Samuel Prince, of Milford. Chil- dren : Andrew ; Abner, born 1809, married Rebecca Hine; Charles, born December, 1811, married Mary Ann Prince, died July 13, 1877 ; Joab, married Mary Ann Munson; Job, born November, 1814; Joseph, married Salina Strat- ton; David, born 1819; Aseph, unmarried; Isaac, married ( first ) ( second ) Mary Ann Oviatt ; Maria, married David Churchill ; Betsey. married (first) Jackson, (sec- ond) - Schofield, (third) - - Som- ers : Sylvester (7), born April 18, 1804, mar- ried Sally (6) Churchill, December 31, 1824 ( see Churchill).
Sylvester Hine (7), son of Andrew Hine (6), was born at Milford, April 18, 1804, and died in Litchfield, 1845. He married Sally (6) Churchill, December 31, 1824, born April 26, 1802, at Northfield, died February 23, 1787 ( see Churchill). Children : Albert J., born May 12. 1832, married Jane ------ July 24, 1862 : Eliada O., born February 19, 1834. died
November 11, 1849; Polly Sarah, born August 26, 1836, married David A. Lounsbury, both deceased ; Julia Tyler (8), born June 21, 1839, married Charles Henry Young (see Young) ; Catherine Emily, born July 13, 1841, married James Lake, Hawleyville, Connecticut, Janu- ary 17, 1861, he was born November 12, 1841, died May 15, 1891, (second) married Depew Stratford; Adaline Clarinda, born June 15, 1844, married December 10, 1862, John Blakes- lee, Stratford, Connecticut, died November 16, 1902; Samuel David, born October 15, 1846, died March 27, 1902, married (first) Eliza Churchill, ( second) Eloweise White.
Wilbur Fenelon (8) Young, son of Charles and Julia Tyler (8) (Hine) Young, the subject of this sketch, whose genealogy traces back to sixty- eight immigrant ancestors that were in New England before 1670, was born at Wallingford, Connecticut, November 18, 1863. He attended the public schools of Yalesville, Connecticut, and worked for his father during his boyhood. At the age of twenty he left home and became a salesman for the Loomis Temple of Music in New Haven, Connecticut, and a year later be- came manager for the concern at Meriden, Connecticut. He was with this company for seven years, and salesman for Wilcox & White, organ manufacturers. He introduced to the trade the automatic player now universally known as the Self-Playing Symphony and Angelus Player. He was always fond of horses, and a student of medical, pharma- ceutical and pathalogical subjects associated with experimental work, and interested in veterinarian subjects. He discovered an efficacious remedy for reducing swellings on horses, formerly treated by blistering. This specific is known as "Absorbine," and Mr. Young has developed a flourishing business in the manufacture and sale of this article. His factory is at Springfield, Massachusetts, where he resides. His place of business is at 273 State and 75 Temple streets. He purchased the Elisha Morgan estate, January 4, 1909, and immediately afterward built a laboratory and office building upon the site. The "Absorbine" is manufactured in this building. An admir- ably equipped plant has been installed and ample facilities provided for the rapidly grow- ing business. He also manufactures this pro- duct in Montreal, Canada, for the Canadian trade. He has agencies in London, Vienna, Berlin, Rotterdam and Moscow. In 1901 he began the manufacture of "Absorbine" for the animal kingdom, and in 1903 he began the manufacture and sale of "Absorbine Jr." for
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mankind, which has proven of more benefit than he ever dreamed of. In 1909 Mr. Young has valuable real estate holdings, and is among the fifteen largest tax payers in Springfield, Massachusetts. Mr. Young is a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, and a Repub- lican in politics. He is a member of Hampden Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Morning Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons ; Springfield Council, Royal and Select Masters ; Springfield Commandery. Knights Templar ; Melha Tem- ple, Order of the Mystic Shrine; Evening Star Lodge of Perfection; Massasoit Council, Princes of Jerusalem; Springfield Chapter, Rose Croix, 18° ; Boston Consistory, 32° ; the Young Men's Christian Association ; Spring- field Board of Trade, and the Economic Club.
Mr. Young married (first) at Meriden, Con- necticut, June 24, 1887, Sadie Wilcox Peck, who died November 22, 1891. He married (second) November 16, 1892, at Bristol, Con- necticut, Mary Ida Stephenson, born June 29, 1865, at Washington, D. C., daughter of Thomas B. and Amelia Francis (Stone) Ste- phenson.
Stephenson .- Thomas B. Stephenson was born at Poughkeepsie, New York, November 9, 1843, son of Robert and Mary ( Yeomans ) Stephenson, who immigrated to this country from Darlington, England. Thomas B. mar- ried Amelia Francis Stone, at Washington, D. C., February 10, 1864. She was daughter of Francis and Harriet (Davis) Stone, born in Washington, September 27, 1849, a descendant of the old Maryland Stone family. Children : Mary Ida, born Washington, June 29, 1865, married Wilbur Fenelon Young ; Arthur F .. born Bristol, Connecticut, December 8, 1867, married Mary Olive Rice, October 16, 1901 ; Thomas B., Jr., born Bristol, Connecticut, Oc- tober 8, 1869, married Lelia Hubbel; George L., born Bristol, Connecticut, March 8, 1871, married Mary Gleason Pease, March 18, 1896; John Garnett, born Bristol, Connecticut, Oc- tober 18, 1879.
Children of Wilbur Fenelon (8) and Mary Ida (Stephenson) Young: Sadie Stephenson, born at Meriden, Connecticut, October 26, 1893 ; Wilbur Fenelon, Jr., born at Springfield. Massachusetts, February 13, 1898.
NEWCOMB The New England New- combs are descended from the older English family of the same name which for many generations previous to the immigration to America in the first half of the seventeenth century were
seated in Devonshire and other localities in the west of England.
(I) Captain Andrew Newcomb, immigrant ancestor of the family here intended to be treated, is believed to have been of the Devon- shire branch of the English family of New- combs, and while there is abundant ground for the belief that he came to this country before 1650 the first reliable account of him is the mention of his marriage in Boston in 1663 .- He was a mariner and master of a vessel in the sea service, hence his title of captain. So near as can be determined he was born about 1618, in England, and died in 1685 or 1686. He married twice, but the name of his first wife and the date of their marriage are un- known, although it must have been previous to 1640, about which time he had a son born. He married (second) in Boston, in 1663, Grace Ricks (or Rix, as sometimes written), widow of William Ricks. He had at least two chil- dren by his first wife and one child by his second wife: I. Lieutenant Andrew, born about 1640. 2. Susannah, born before 1650; married Philip Blake, of Boston. 3. Grace, born October 20, 1664; married (first) James Butler, (second) Andrew Rankin.
(II) Lieutenant Andrew (2), son of Cap- tain Andrew (1) Newcomb, was born about the year 1640, and first appears at a meeting of merchants at the Isle of Shoals, near Ports- mouth, New Hampshire, in 1666, for the pur- pose of fixing a price at which fish were to be sold. In 1669 he bought of Daniel Moore, blacksmith, of Portsmouth, for fifty-eight pounds, a dwelling house at Kittery, Maine, where he lived for a time and where he was a man of considerable importance. In 1671 he was constable and it is evident that he ex- ercised authority in accordance with the im- portance and dignity of his office. In 1673 he was brought to court on the complaint of Francis Small on the charge of "withholding the Hull of a ffishing shallop of sd Smalls re- ceived of Thomas Trickie by virtue of sd Small's order." About 1675 Lieutenant New- comb removed from the Isle of Shoals and set- tled at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, where he continued to live until the time of his death, which occurred before October 22, 1708. He was one of the proprietors of Edgartown and one of the most important men there, serving as juror, foreman of the jury, grand juror, constable in 1681, commissioner to make the rate, townsman in 1693, overseer in 1693-94. lieutenant in 1691 and afterward, and in 1691 was chosen to command at the fortification
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erected in the town as protection against In- dians. He was a merchant and became pos- sessed of considerable property. He married (first ) about 1661, Sarah who died about 1674 ; married (second) in 1676, in Ed- gartown, Anna, daughter of Captain Thomas and Anna ( Baker) Bayes. She was born about 1658 and died in September, 1731. Lieutenant Andrew Newcomb had in all fif- teen children, seven by his first and eight by his second marriage: I. Simeon, born about 1662. 2. Andrew, about 1664, died 1687. 3. Simon, 1666. 4. Thomas, about 1668. 5. Sarah, about 1670; married Joshua Conant. 6. Mary, or Mercy, about 1672; married Cap- tain Thomas Lumbert (Lambert). 7. Peter. about 1674; married Mary Smith. 8. Anna, 1677 ; married Lieutenant Matthew Mayhew. 9. Elizabeth, about 1681; married Captain John Atkins. 10. Joseph, 1683; married Joyce Butler. II. Emblem, about 1685; married Samuel Atkins. 12. Tabitha, about 1688; married Peter Ray. 13. Hannah, about 1694; married Thomas Dumary. 14. Zerviah, 1698- 99; married Josiah Bearse. 15. Mary, about 1700; married Jonathan Pease.
(III) Simon, son of Lieutenant Andrew (2) and Sarah Newcomb, was born about 1666, probably at Kittery, Maine, and went with his father to Martha's Vineyard, lived there until the latter part of 1713 and then re- moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, and became founder of a prominent branch of the New- comb family in that colony and subsequent state. He died in Lebanon, January 20, 1744- 45. He became possessed of a considerable estate in lands and other property, and gave farms to each of his sons, except Simon. He appears to have been something of a public man and discharged the duties of various town offices; was field driver, 1710; surveyor of highways, 1714; grand juror, 1718; fence viewer, 1741. He also was a member of sev- eral committees and was given full power "and order for ye ordering of ye sheep & cattle," in 1693; was chosen to settle the bounds of lands in 1704; found a record of the town's bounds, 1705-06, and in 1714 was one of a "comity" of three persons for building the meeting house in the town of Hebron. Both he and his wife were members of the churches in Edgartown and Lebanon. He married, about 1687, Deborah , who died in Leb- anon in 1756, aged ninety-two years. They lived together fifty-eight years, had twelve children baptized, and of these we have a defi- nite record of nine,as follows: I. John, born
about 1688-89; married Alice Lambert. 2. Thomas, 1691-92; married (first) Eunice Manning; (second) Judith Woodworth. 3. Hezekiah, 1693-94. 4. Obadiah, 1695; mar . ried (first) Abigail ; (second) Mrs. Mary Post. 5. Deborah, 1696-97; married Captain Timothy Hatch. 6. Sarah, about 1698: married Ebenezer Nye. 7. Benjamin, about 1700; married Hannah Clark. 8. Eliza- beth, 1701-02; married Ebenezer Wright. 9. Simon, about 1705; married (first) Jerusha Lathrop; (second) Jane Worth.
(IV) Hezekiah, son of Simon and Deborah Newcomb, was born in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, about 1693-94, and was about ten years old when his father moved to Lebanon, Connecticut. He was a carpenter and joiner by principal occupation, owner of consider- able property and it is said that he was a dea- con of the church. This, however, is not defi- nitely known, although he was a very devout man and is said never to have spoken a harsh word. In addition to working at his trade he engaged quite extensively in farming pur- suits, and he also was one of the proprietors of Falltown (now Bernardstown) although it is not understood that he ever lived there. He married (first) November 14, 1716, Je- rusha Bradford, who died November 4, 1739. He married (second) in 1741, Hannah
Jerusha Bradford was a daughter of Thomas and Anne (Smith) Bradford, granddaughter of Major William and Alice (Richards) Brad- ford, and great-granddaughter of William Bradford, who came in the "Mayflower" in 1620, and who for many years was governor of the Plymouth colony. All descendants of Hezekiah Newcomb are also descendants of Governor William Bradford. Anne Smith. who married Thomas Bradford, was a daugh- ter of Nehemiah Smith, whose wife Anne was a daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Bourn, early settlers of Marshfield, Massachusetts. Alice Richards, who married Major William Bradford, was a daughter of Thomas and Welthian Richards, immigrants. William Bradford issued the first proclamation for Thanksgiving, and in that year he issued three. Major Bradford's mother, Widow Alice (Carpenter ) Southworth, was the sec- ond wife of Governor Bradford. Jerusha Brad- ford, wife of Hezekiah Newcomb, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and baptized there May 28, 1693. Immediately after his marriage Mr. Newcomb settled in Lebanon and died there. He was admitted to the church in 1719, and his wife became a member in 1720. They had
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ten children : 1. Silas, born September 2, 1717; married Submit Pineo. 2. Peter, November 28, 1718; married Hannah English. 3. Anna, March 4, 1720; married Smith. 4. Hezekiah, December 27, 1722, died young. 5. Thomas, September 3, 1724. 6. Jerusha, March 24, 1726; married Ezra Cleveland. 7. Elizabeth, December 19, 1727 ; married, April 21, 1747. John Barstow. 8. Samuel, Septem- ber 22, 1729, died September 9, 1748. 9. Je- mima, December 14, 1730; married (first) Lamb, (second) June 12, 1755, Jo- seph Kinne. 10. James, February 7, 1732-33 ; married Mrs. Submit (Downer) Davis.
(V) Thomas, son of Hezekiah and Jerusha (Bradford) Newcomb, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, September 3. 1724, died there August 26, 1753. He was a farmer. In De- cember, 1748, he and his brother Silas bought of their uncle, Captain Obadiah Newcomb, for four hundred and twenty pounds, a tract of seventy-one acres in the village of Lebanon. He married, March 26, 1751, Ann Hibbard, of Windham, Connecticut. She survived him and afterward married Francis Fenton, of Willington, Connecticut.
Thomas and Ann ( Hibbard) Newcomb had one child, Joseph. who inherited all of his father's property.
(VI) Joseph, only son and child of Thomas and Ann (Hibbard) Newcomb, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, August 21, 1752, diedi in Willington, February 24, 1812. He was a farmer and settled in Willington soon after his marriage. He married, August 19, 1779. Rhoda Scripture, born Willington, April 1757. died June 24. 1828. They had eleven chil- dren : 1. Hannah, born April 19, 1780; mar- ried Alfred Ball and removed to Sharon, Ver- mont, and died there, 1814-15. 2. Abner, Jan- uary 23. 1782; married Lois Knapp. 3. Cor- cial, October 24. 1783; married Mary Dem- ing. 4. Royal, September 1, 1785; married (first) Rachel Dimmock, (second) Mary May- nard. 5. Lurinda, August 17, 1786-87. died about 1852; married Daniel Parker. 6. Juli- ana (twin), August 6, 1788, died about 1830; married Thomas T. Walbridge. 7. Jabez (twin), August 6, 1788. 8. Grace, 1790 ; mar- ried Moses Bacon. 9. Leonard, June 30, 1793, died in the service during the war of 1812-15. IO. Walter, September II, 1795; married, November 29, 1827, Caroline Waldo. 11. Hope, January 20, 1798; married, Decem- ber 23. 1822, Philena Turner.
(VII) Jabez, son of Joseph and Rhoda (Scripture) Newcomb, was born in Willing- ton, Connecticut, August 6, 1788. died in Tol-
land, Connecticut, July 22, 1835. He was a carpenter and joiner and removed to Tolland after his marriage. He married Betsey Bax- ter. born July 16, 1786, died October 12, 1859, having borne her husband eight children: I. Hiram, born July 11, 1810. 2. Esther, Au- gust 17, 1812, died 1872, unmarried. 3. Han- nah, September 11, 1813, died June 1, 1863; married Jedadiah Ford. 4. Jabez, October 25, 1816, died 1861 ; married Cordelia Darling. 5. Joseph, September 10, 1818; removed to Wisconsin. 6. Joel C., January 17, 1821 ; mar- ried twice, and lived in South Wilbraham, Massachusetts. 7. Jason, January 26, 1823. 8. Wealthy Jane, April 15, 1825 ; married, De- cember 25. 1848, Noah Bartlett.
(VIII) Hiram, son of Jabez and Betsey ( Baxter ) Newcomb, was born in Willington, Connecticut, July 11, 1810, and was a farmer, mason and quarrier. He quarried foundation stone somewhat extensively for use in his own work and the work of other contractors as well, and he came to his death by accident, caused by an explosion in the quarry. He married, January 1, 1831, Almira, daughter of Simeon Baxter, and by her had six children : I. Charles Leonard, born September 22, 1832. 2. George Hiram, July 31, 1834, died April IO, 1838. 3. Norman Simeon, November 4, 1836; married Ellen Henderson. 4. Lucius H., November 29, 1839 ; married, July 4, 1860, Julia O. Edgarton. 5. Martha A., December 9. 1842; married Joseph Ford. 8. Julia A., March 13, 1845; married, May 5, 1861, Wol- cott Waldo.
(IX) Charles Leonard, eldest son and child of Hiram and Almira ( Baxter) Newcomb. was born September 22, 1832, died September 3. 1871. He spent the greater part of his young life in the family of his grandfather. by whom he was educated in the common schools of the town. Simeon Baxter, his grandfather, was a farmer and cooper, an in- dustrious and provident man, and who in his commendable desire to have his grandson started aright in life apprenticed him to a Mr. Clark. of Coventry, Connecticut, to the trade of carpenter and joiner. He served out his time and afterward worked as a journeyman in the towns of Willington, Hartford and Rockville. From a practical day workman he became a contractor and builder, and it was he who erected the Corey Opera House in Rock- ville ; but soon afterward while at work on a dwelling house an unfortunate accident inca- pacitated him for further hard work and caused his death about three years later. Mr.
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Newcomb was a reliable and moderately suc- cessful business man, a carpenter and joiner ; was upright, honest and faithful; a Republi- can in politics and a Baptist in religious pref- erence. He was an Odd Fellow and for many years a volunteer fireman in the Neptune En- gine Company, No. 2, of Hartford, Connecti- cut. He also was a soldier of the civil war, a private in the First Connecticut Cavalry (Harris Light Cavalry) and made a good war record. He married Martha Jane Hudson, whose grandfather, tradition says, came with his brother Robert from the Isle of Wight and remained in this country until all of his chil- dren were grown up and able to maintain themselves. He then started to return to Eng- land and took passage on board the ship, but never afterward was heard of. His wife was Harriet Tyrell, of New Hampshire, and among their children were Martha, William, Thomas, Francis and Elizabeth Hudson.
(X) Charles Leonard (2), son of Charles Leonard (I) and Martha Jane (Hudson) Newcomb, was born at West Willington, Con- necticut, August 7, 1854, and by reason of the untimely death of his father was early com- pelled to depend upon his own exertions for his own and his mother's support. He began work at the age of seven years in a glass factory lo- cated at Willington, working there during the winter months and on a farm during the sum- mer months. This early work cultivated a habit of industry and developed a strong and everlasting ambition to advance. When nine years old he went to work for the Hall Thread Company, South Willington, earning from three to four dollars a week. Tiring of the factory he again worked on a farm, and later found employment in the Murless factory at Rockville, Connecticut, serving as an ap- prentice : subsequently he served as a machin- ist's apprentice in the Seinor machine shop, Rockville : as stationary engineer in Florence Mills. Rockville, under proprietorship of Pratt & Whitney Company, manufacturers of machine tools: as machinist in Rock Mill Manufacturing Company. Rockville; as ma- chinist with the American Clutch Company, Middletown. He found himself sadly de- ficient in the theoretical knowledge of me- chanics, and feeling the need of education in that direction he laid plans to gain the neces- sary instruction at the Worcester Free Insti- tute of Industrial Science, now known as the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Worcester, Massachusetts, and to this end he sent his wife to Worcester for the purpose of gaining a
residence in that city, that he might later avail himself of the course offered in that institution. At the same time he turned his own attention to work as a machinist and devoted every leisure hour to the study of mechanics. For six months during the year 1876 he attended private school, in the following year went to Worcester and took the course in technology, graduating in 1880. During this time, however, he was obliged to do some kind of work in order to maintain himself and his wife, and this he did by turning his hand to whatever could be found to do, at one time acting as night watchman in the school at which he was a student, again by working in a machine shop and on one occasion he went out on the high- way and broke stone for a dollar a day.
From what is here stated it must be seen that there was in Mr. Newcomb at the time indi- cated an abundant endowment of the quality called rugged determination of character, an honest ambition to achieve something sub- stantial in business life; but whatever this quality may have been it stood him in good stead. carried him through more than a single period of adversity and eventually placed him in a position in which he could command some- thing more than a mechanic's daily wage and in which in fact he could direct the operations of large business enterprises. Soon after he had graduated from the School of Technology he was engaged to go to Russia as representa- tive of the Globe Horseshoe Nail Company. of Boston, Massachusetts, but on account of some disturbing influence in the iron market the company's plans were changed, and soon afterward he entered the service of the Amer- ican Electric Lighting Company, of New Brit- ain. Connecticut, out of which company grew the Thompson-Houston Electric Company, of Lynn, Massachusetts, which was merged into what is now known as the General Electric Company. Mr. Newcomb during his employ- ment with the American Electric Lighting Company was closely associated with Professor Elihu Thomson, one of the world's greatest electricians. Mr. Newcomb remained with the American Electric Lighting Company until 1881, and then entered the employ of The Deane Steam Pump Company, of Holyoke, Massachusetts, as superintendent, which posi- tion he held until the said Deane Steam Pump was acquired in 1899 by the International Steam Pump Company, at which time he was made general manager of the Deane Steam Pump Company, which has grown from em- ploying about a hundred men when he entered
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its employ in 1881, to employing at the present time seven hundred and fifty men. The works have been greatly extended, and at the present time he has under construction new buildings to the extent of $350,000. He now holds the position of general manager of the Deane Steam Pump Company and the further official position of president. Also he has become general manager of the Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works, located at East Cambridge, an- other of the allied companies of the Inter- national Steam Pump Company, said works employing two thousand men. Mr. Newcomb is a mechanical engineer, having specialized as a steam and hydraulic engineer, and is a consulting engineer, employed at times in a consulting capacity as an expert in various lines of engineering. As an expert and me- chanic he ranks with the foremost men of his profession in the entire country. As an ex- pert he was engaged in fixing the valuation of the Holyoke Water Power Company's gas and electric plant which was taken over as a municipal plant by the city of Holyoke, and he has figured in similar capacities on various other occasions. Mainly due to his efforts, the Deane Steam Pump Company has grown to its present large proportions. He is the inventor and patentee of several important mechanical devices and appliances.
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