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Deacon Robert Page married Lucia and came from Ormsby, Yorkshire, England, or near by, to Massachusetts. Their daughter married in 1662. Francis Page, of Bedford, England, 1504-1678, had a son, Colonel John Page, of Williamsburg, Virginia, who was born
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at Bedford, 1627, and died in 1692. Colonel Page was a member of the Virginia colonial council. He married, 1656, Alice, daughter of Lucky, of Essex. He was created a baronet. The foregoing matter pertaining to the early history and heraldry of the family was furnish- ed for this work by Emmett D. Page, 274 Gates avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
(I) Asa Page, from one of the early Amer- ican immigrants of the Page family, settled in Litchfield county, Connecticut. According to the first federal census, taken in 1790, Asa Page, of Litchfield county, had three sons under sixteen and three females in his family. He was probably born as early as 1745. At the same time and in the same locality there was according to the same authority an Asa Page (2d). The fact that he was called 2d tends to show that there was a third Asa Page at some time, and that the father may have been Asa Jr. Asa Page married Eunice
Between 1790 and 1792 both Asa Page and his son Asa removed to Whitney Point, Broome county, New York. The old homestead there on Page Brook is now owned by Orlan T. Page. Dr. Page writes of Asa Page and Asa (2d) : "Both of these Asa Pages were buried just north of where the widow of Sherman Page now lives in a meadow above Whitney's Point, then used as a burial plot. It overlooks the valley of the Otselic river. This land is on what is now known as the David Allerton farm. About 1860 Allerton removed the stones and plowed up the plot, after asking Sherman Page, a son of Asa (2d) to share in the ex- pense of removing the bodies to the cemetery at Lisle, New York, two miles distant. The bodies were finally removed by Allerton and the stones are now scattered. Many of the Page family were buried there. On one of the old stones these words were inscribed :
"Afflictions sore long time I bore, Physicians were in vain; "Til God was pleased to give me ease, And free me from my Pain."
Asa Page ( Ist) desired to be buried there, so that when the last trumpet sounded "he could rise up and at the resurrection could overlook the river and meadows thereof." Dr. Page re- members seeing the graves when a child, and recalls the locations. Ile says the stones are piled up around the place of burial or used for doorsteps to a barn. ITis mother related to him much of the family history preserved here,
as written down at the time of her death in 1901.
Children of Asa and Eunice Page : Solomon, Calvin and Luther, died early ; John, mention- ed below ; Asa (2d), married Hannah L. Faulk- ner, a native of Scotland, and lived in Litch- field county, Connecticut, and Broome county, New York ; and earlier on Long Island Sound, in Connecticut. (Dr. Page writes that his mother's mother. Anna Page, a daugliter of Asa Page (2d), visited the old home in Con- necticut when she was seven years old, and she used to tell of her impressions and how she thought the Sound was the ocean. It was in the Leet or Leete district). Children of Asa (2d) : Rufus, of Olean, New York, father of State Senator Charles Page, of New York City ; Lewis : Sherman ; Lucy, married Thurston; Anna Page (grandmother of Dr. Page), and Clara Page. Polly Page was the third surviving child of Asa ( Ist ).
(II) John, son of Asa Page, was born in Connecticut, and came with his father to Broome county, New York, about 1792. Dr. Page says the remnants of the old log house that he built in 1792 are still visible, and he re- members John Page, who died in 1856, and i- buried at Upper Lisle, New York. Dr. Page says that about 1792-95 John used to go by canoe to Binghamton with the wheat for mak- ing flour, down the Otselic river to Chenango Forks, where it joined another stream, and while he was away on these long trips, his wife stayed at home to protect the live stock from wild beasts, herself living in a log cabin with a curtain in place of a door at first. He married, in Connecticut, Rachel Perrin. Chil- dren : 1. Laura, married Benjamin Hodges ; their only surviving son, Alexander, is still living on Page Brook, on the homestead, aged about eighty-two years. 2. Sally, married -
Ashley, of Chicago. 3. Solomon, mentioned below. 4. Irene. 5. Calvin. 6. Elmira, mar- ried Cyrus Coy. 7. Luther, father of Orlan Page, of Whitney's Point, New York. 8. Rhoda. 9. Asa, father of Dr. Emmett D. Page. of Brooklyn. 10. Lavinia. 11. John Orin.
(III) Solomon, son of John Page, was born in Triangle, or Whitney Point, New York, and died in Greene. New York, July 9, 1886. He married, July 8, 1828, Eliza Coy, who was born in Connecticut, December 28, 1805, and died at Whitney's Point, September 2, 1886. Chil- dren: 1. Cyrus, born January 10, 1830; died April 24. 1905. 2. Ransom D., mentioned
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below. 3. Almira C., born October 22, 1833 ; died October 15, 1863. 4. Maryette, born Sep- tember 23, 1838; died December 6, 1902. 5. Albert, born March 4, 1843; died May 9, 1910.
(IV) Ransom D., son of Solomon Page, was born in the town of Triangle, Broome county, New York, at the homestead on Page Brook, April 11, 1832, and died at Whitney Point, New York, April 20, 1886. He was a farmer and dealer in eggs, butter and other farm produce. During all his active life he resided in his native town, and took a keen interest in its affairs and welfare. In religion he was a Baptist, and a trustee of the church many years. In politics he was a Republican. He married. November 18, 1847, at Barker, New York, Lydia A. Boynton, born in Tri- angle. New York, died in Greene, New York. February 16, 1902, daughter of George and Eliza (Walworth) Boynton. Children: 1. Arthur W., born August II, 1860; died No- vember 24. 1904, a produce dealer, owning several creameries in Whitney's Point and vicinity ; married, August 26, 1890, Ida MI. Wright, of Maine, Broome county, and had one son, Rutherford E., born September 21, 1897. 2. Erford Lydell, mentioned below.
(IV) Erford Lydell, son of Ransom D. Page, was born in the town of Triangle, New York, May 8, 1865. He attended the public schools and Whitney Point Academy and Cornell University. In 1886 he engaged in business as a merchant in the town of Greene, where he has resided since then. He conducted a gen- eral store for fifteen years. In 1896 he found- ed the Page Seed Company, of which he is president and general manager. The business was incorporated in 1902. It has flourished from the first, and grown to large proportions. The first building of the new plant was erected in 1905, and since then several others have been built. Mr. Page is president of the Chen- ango Hotel Company ; secretary of the Board of Trade of Greene, and was formerly presi- dent of the American Seed Trade Association. In politics he is a Republican, and he has been president of the incorporated village of Greene. He is a trustee and a prominent member of the Congregational church of Greenc.
He married, May 9, 1889. Cornelia Jennette Russell, of Greene, daughter of William Fred- erick and Cornelia Juhel ( Juliand) Russell. Children : 1. Ethel, born May 9, 1894: died April 14, 1895. 2. Joseph Russell, born May 7. 1897. 3. Lyman Arthur, born June 4. 1902. 21-C
Edward Nash was born in Lancas-
VASHE ter, Lancashire, England, in 1592, during the reign of Queen Eliza- beth. He had sons Edward, mentioned below. and John.
(11) Edward (2), son of Edward ( 1) Nash, was the immigrant ancestor, and was born in Lancaster, England, in 1623. Ile came to .America about 1650 to Stratford, and within a year settled at Norwalk, Connecticut, on a lot which he bought of Mark St. John, situated where the present East Norwalk school now stands. He died here in 1699. He was a farmer, and a tanner, keeping his vat on Mill Brook. He married the widow of Thomas Barlow, of Fairfield: she was also widow of Thomas Rumble, of Stratford, and probably was the daughter of Thomas Sherwood, of Fairfield. She had a child, Bertha Rumble, by her first husband; by second husband, Mary and Phebe Barlow, and children by Edward Nash: John, mentioned below : Hannah, mar- ried Deliverance Wakeley, 1678.
(III) John, son of Edward (2) Nash, was born in Norwalk, in 1652, and is said to have been the first English male child born there. lle was a farmer in Norwalk. He married Mary Barlow, daughter of his stepmother, and she died September 2. 1711. Children : John, mentioned below : Nathan, born January 26. 1602-3.
(IV) John (2), son of John (1) Nash, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, December 25, 1688, and died there in 1769. He was a farmer. He married, May 14, 1709, Abigail Blakeley. Children: Edward; Mary; John; Nathan ; Abraham, mentioned below ; Micajah ; Sam- uel : Abigail ; Ebenezer : Merey.
(\') Abraham, son of John (2) Nash, was born in Norwalk, October 10, 1718, and died at Ridgefield, Connecticut, June 24, 1801. He re- moved there in 1748, and owned a large farm in the southern part of the town. He was a member of the Presbyterian church at first. but later joined the Congregational church. He married. November 21, 1738, Rhoda Keel- er, granddaughter of John Keeler, who mar- ried, June 18, 1679, Mehitable, daughter of John Rockwell; their son, John Jr., born De- cember 26, 1682, married, April 19, 1710, Rhoda Hoyt. Children, resided at Ridgefield : Abigail; Abraham, mentioned below : Phebe : Isaac: John; Samuel; Jacob, married August 30. 1751, Freelove Keeler : Rhoda : Mehitable : Ezra : Jonathan : Riah.
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(VI) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (1) Nash, was born at Norwalk, November 7, 1740, and died at Ridgefield, November 18. 1821. He was eight years of age when he went to Ridgefield with his parents. He was a farmer. In religion he was a Congregation- alist. Ile married, November 17, 1792, a Miss Olmstead. Children : Daniel, mentioned below ; Sarah; Jared; Phebe ; Samuel O .; Abraham ; Abiel ; Abraham.
(VII) Daniel, son of Abraham (2) Nash, was born in Ridgefield, November 24, 1763. and died in Butternuts, Otsego county, New York, October 5, 1844. He removed there about 1805. He married, April 30, 1783, Olive, born April 5. 1766, died October 24, 1840, daughter of Eliakim Nash. Daniel Nash served in the revolution. Children : David, born November 10, 1783, died March 22, 1860, was a soldier in the war of 1812; Dorcas, born February 22, 1787, married Nathan Gray ; Sarah, born May 3, 1798, died August 10, 1801 ; Harvey O., mentioned below.
(VIII) Harvey Olmstead, son of Daniel Nash, was born in Ridgefield, January 1, 1804, and died January 11, 1875, at Harpersville, Broome county, New York. He was brought to New York state by his parents when a young child. He was a miller and a farmer. For many years he lived at Butternuts, where his children were all born, and he later re- moved to Guilford, New York, and then to Harpersville, where he died. He married, 1839, Eliza A., daughter of Lemuel Merchant ; she was born May 31, 1806, in Danbury, Con- necticut, and died July 16, 1886, in Guilford, New York. Children: Elizabeth O., born July 25, 1840, married ( first ) Joseph Thurs- ton, (second) W. S. Usher, of Kingston, On- tario; William O., born March 9, 1842, lives in Guilford; Martin M., mentioned below ; Ellen M., born May 31, 1845. married William B. llarvey, of Guilford : Gould, born February 23, 1847, merchant, lives in Eagle River, Wis- consin ; Phebe A., born August 30, 1848, mar- ried Oliver C. Bently, lives in Gilbertville, New York.
(IX) Martin Marvin, son of Harvey (). Nash, was born in Butternuts, New York, Octo- ber 9. 1843, and died in Kingston, New York, April 27, 1905. He was educated in the pub- lic schools, and learned the trade of wheel- wright and wagon builder and for many years was in business making wagons and carriages at Guilford, New York. He was a soldier in
the civil war, serving in Company F, Eighty- ninth Regiment New York Volunteer Militia, and took part in the battles of Antietam, Cold Harbor and Gettysburg, besides other less ini- portant actions. Through most of his three years and a half of service he was attached to the hospital corps. In politics he was a Re- publican. He was an active and faithful mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, October 17, 1867, Lucinda R. Bentley, a native of Guilford, daughter of Charles H. and llannah ( Main ) Bentley. Children : Charles Gould, mentioned below ; May Eliza- beth, died in childhood : Paschal .Andrew, born in the town of Guilford, married Susie Root, of Guilford, and had Luella and Harry.
(X) Charles Gould, son of Martin Marvin Nash, was born in Guilford, Chenango county, New York, February 8, 1869. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town, and learned the trade of tinsmith. After working ten years as apprentice and journey- man at his trade, in 1896 he engaged in busi- ness as partner in the firm of King & Nash, tinsmiths and plumbers. At the end of three years the firm was dissolved and Mr. Nash continued the business alone for the next eleven years. In 1910 he admitted a partner, and since then the business has been carried on by the firm of Nash & Robinson. Mr. Nash is a director of the Chenango Agricultural So- ciety. He has taken a keen interest in public affairs, and has been trustee of the incorpo- rated village of Norwich, and is at the present time supervisor of the town. In politics he is a Republican, and was the choice of his party as candidate for county treasurer of Chenango county at the fall election (1911), taking seat of office January 1, 1912. He is vice- president of the Alert Hose Company, and an influential member of the Norwich Fire De- partment, He is a member of Norwich Lodge, No. 302, Free Masons ; of Harmony Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 151 ; Norwich Com- mandery, No. 146, Knights Templar ; Ziyara Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Utica, New York : of Canasawacta Lodge, Odd Fellows; Nor- wich Castle, Knights of Pythias, of Norwich ; Perlee Camp, Sons of Veterans, of Norwich, and Norwich Lodge, Benevolent and Protect- ive Order of Elks.
lle married, July 6, 1893. Jennie Davis, born at Crossville, Tennessee, daughter of William and Rachel (Collins) Davis. Her father was born in Frankfort-on-Main, Germany, son of
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Hans Von Debis, an officer in the German army, afterward a noted physician, who came to America about 1849 and located at Little Falls, New York, afterward in Utica, New York, where he died. The name was angli- cized in spelling to Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Nash have one son, Edward, born July 26, 1897, and one adopted son, John Nash.
Captain Thomas Brooks, the im-
BROOKS migrant ancestor, is said to have come from Suffolk, England, and settled first at Watertown, Massachusetts, where he had a lot assigned him in 1631. He was made a freeman December 7, 1636, and soon after this moved to Concord, Massachu- setts. In Watertown he had grants of land along Beaver Brook in 1636. At Concord he was elected constable by the general court, De- cember 4, 1638, and was deputy to the general court for six years. He was captain of the Concord company, and held other offices, as assessor, or "appraiser of horses, cattle, etc., for the purpose of taxing." He was also ap- pointed a special officer to prevent drunken- ness among Indians. He was granted the right of carrying on fur trade at Concord, for the sum of five pounds. He was a leading citizen of his time. His wife, Grace, died May 12, 1664, and he died intestate, May 21, 1667. An agreement among his heirs was signed at the probate office, June 17, 1667, by Joshua Brooks, Captain Timothy Wheeler, husband of Mary Brooks, Caleb and Gershom Brooks. Children : Mary, died October 4, 1693; Han- nah, Joshua, mentioned below; Caleb, born 1632; Gershom. Perhaps other children.
(II) Joshua, son of Captain Thomas Brooks, was born about 1630, probably in England. He married, October 17. 1653, Han- nah, daughter of Captain Hugh Mason. He was a tanner by trade, and settled in that part of Concord which was later Lincoln. He was ancestor of nearly all of the name in Con- cord and Lincoln, and three generations have in succession held the office of deacon in the church at Lincoln. He inherited half of the Medford property. He learned his trade of furrier and tanner from Captain Mason, whose (laughter he married. He was made a freeman May 26, 1652. Children : Hannah, John, died May 18, 1697; Noah, born 1657; Grace. born at Concord, March IO, 1660-1; Daniel. men- tioned below ; Thomas, May 5, 1666, died Sep- tember 9. 1671 ; Esther, July 4, 1668; Joseph,
September 16, 1671; Elizabeth, December 16, 1672; Job, July 26, 1675; llugh, January 1, 1677-8; Thomas ( perhaps).
(111) Daniel, son of Joshua Brooks, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, November 15, 1663. He was known as Daniel, Sr., or as Ensign Daniel. He died October 18, 1733. He married, August 9, 1690, Ann, who (lied January 24, 1757, daughter of John and Mary (Cooper ) Meriam. His will, dated Jan- uary 6, 1728-9, mentioned brother Joseph, wife Anna, daughters Anna Jones and Mary Wheeler, sons Samuel and Job. Children : Daniel, born June 5. 1693, died young ; Samuel. May 5, 1694; Hannah or Anna, February 21. 1695-6; Job, baptized 1698; Mary, March 2, 1699-1700; John, mentioned below.
(IV) Deacon John Brooks, son of Daniel Brooks, was born February 12, 1701-2, in Con- cord. He married Lydia, born June 18, 1711, daughter of John and Elizabeth Barker. He was deacon of the First Church at Acton, where he died March 6, 1777. Children, four recorded at Concord, others at Acton: John, born December 17, 1728; Samuel, mentioned below ; Charles, April 6, 1732; Lydia, May 7, 1734; Ephraim, August 5, 1736 : Daniel, Octo- ber 24, 1738: Nathaniel, February 17, 1740-1; Jonas, March 18, 1742-3, died March 15, 1746; Peter, March 29, 1745; Jonas, July 31, 1747-
(V) Captain Samuel Brooks, son of Deacon John Brooks, was born in Concord, Massa- chusetts, March 16, 1730. He married, March 14, 1754, widow Hannah Brown, of Carlisle, Massachusetts, daughter of Simon and Han- nah ( Brown) Davis, of Concord. Captain Samuel Brooks settled in Worcester, Massa- chusetts, about 1752, where many of his de- scendants now live. He was on the jury list as early as 1760. In 1762 he was elected field driver ; highway surveyor in 1764; town war- den in 1766; tythingman in 1768; juror of the superior court; highway surveyor in 1770; surveyor of boards, shingles, etc. ; special com- mittee to draw the town line between Shrews- bury and Worcester in 1771; juror in 1772; tythingman, school and special committees in 1773. In 1774 he was among many of those most wealthy and influential men who signed a protest against the acts and agitation of the committee of safety and correspondence. Al- though he seemed to wish no war, when it came he fought hard for our rights. He was sent to the general court in 1786 and 1787. and was selectman from 1783 to 1793. Ile
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was captain in the militia. He died in Worces- ter, June 29, 1817, aged eighty-seven, and his widow died there December 6, 1819, aged ninety-five. Child : Samuel, mentioned below.
(VI) Deacon Samuel Brooks, son of Cap- tain Samuel Brooks, was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, June 10, 1755, and removed from there to Haverhill, New Hampshire, at about the close of the revolution. He opened a store at the "Corners" there, and also owned an oil mill on the brook, but he was not very successful. Later he went to Quebec, Canada, where he contracted with the governor of the provinces for a tract of land in the town of Chester, then a wilderness, and he and two of his brothers began the lumbering business. In 1812, a year or two later, he removed his fam- ily there, but on account of a change of gov- ernors his plans were defeated, and he re- moved again to Stanstead, Canada, where he lived the rest of his life. While in Haver- hill he was very influential and took part in all public affairs. He was a representative of the general court, selectman of the town, and also hell other public positions. For many years he was register of deeds for Crafton county, New Hampshire. He was a man of genial manners, very ingenious and skillful. He married, March 8, 1779, Ann Bedel Butler, daughter of Colonel Timothy Bedel, who was prominent in the revolution, and widow of Dr. Thaddeus Butler. Children, probably not given in order of birth: 1. Hannah, married (first ) Captain William Trotter, of Bradford, Vermont ; (second) Colonel William Barron, of Bradford. 2. Calvin, mentioned below. 3. Daughter, married Asa Low, of Bradford. 4. Daughter, married Judge Nesmith, of Frank- lin, New Hampshire. 5. Samuel, born in Hav- erhill, 1793; married Eliza Towle, prominent merchant at Stanstead, Canada; a farmer and trader at Lennoxville : in 1837 was a delegate to London to interest capital in developing Canada ; formed and became manager of Brit- ish Land Company ; removed to Sherbrooke, where he was manager of a branch of Mont- real Bank; was a promoter of Grand Trunk Railroad. 6. Nathaniel, born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, October 3, 1797. 7. Edwin, lawyer in New York, removed to California. 8. George Washington.
(VII) Calvin, son of Deacon Samuel Brooks, was born probably in Haverhill, New Hampshire, April 9, 1782, and died at Phar-
salia, Chenango county, New York, December 7, 1848. He came to Chenango county about 1812 and settled among the first in the wilder- ness. He was a farmer. He married, in 1805. Betsey Bartlett, born December 17, 1785, died April 1, 1846. Children; Luther, mentioned below; son, died in infancy; Mary H., born July 22, 1810, died April 7, 1842 ; Calvin, June 30, 1812; Lucy, June 22, 1817, died February 9, 1897, married Franklin Holmes; John, June 2, 1818; Artemas, May 5, 1820; Prentice, March 17, 1822; Charles, February 23, 1824 ; Betsey, February 22, 1826, died February 25, 1829; Eliza Ann, May 19, 1830, died July 31, 1844; Almira, August 8, 1832.
(VIII) Luther, son of Calvin Brooks, was born December 4, 1806, probably in Haverhill, New Hampshire, and died in Norwich, New York, January 9, 1892. He came with his parents to New York state when about six years old, and settled with them at Pharsalia, Chenango county. In this town he lived dur- ing his boyhood and attended the public schools there. He followed farming there afterward. His later years were spent in Norwich, New York, where he was also a farmer. In poli- ties he was an earnest and active Republican. In religion a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church. He married, January 1. 1827, Ann Bosworth, born in Pharsalia, New York, July 25. 1807, died August 18, 1869. daughter of Timothy and Nancy ( Monroe) Bosworth. Children: Addison B., mentioned below ; Luther Sherman, born March 1, 1830, (lied January 22, 1909; Amelia Ann, born March 29, 1834, died June 24. 1904, married William S. Scarruth; Freeman Novello, born March 5, 1837, died July 7, 1904; John Mor- ell, born September 26, 1840, died January, 1854; Harriet Elizabeth, born June 17, 1843, widow of Frank H. Brown ; Carroll Costello. born June 1, 1846, died March 27, 1902 : Lun- etta Adella, born February 6, 1852, married Augustus E. Race, of Norwich, New York.
(IX) Addison Bifield, son of Luther Brooks, was born in Pharsalia, New York, December 31, 1827, and died at Norwich, June 1, 1907. He was educated in the common schools of his native town and in early life worked on his father's farm and at the trade of shoemaking. In 1865 he came to Norwich, New York, and after working at his trade several years, retired from active labor. In politics he was a Republican. He married
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(first) Lydia Evans; (second) Maria Hall, born in Plymouth, New York, August 4, 1836, daughter of Lyman and Harriet ( Olin) Hall. Children by first wife: 1. Addison C., born April 8, 1853, resides in Norwich ; Daughter, died in infancy. Children by second wife: 2. Ransom D., mentioned below. 3. Elmer Bi- field, born April 8, 1861, died July 24, 1905: married Kate E. Hartness ; children : Clarence Ransom, deceased; Archibald, died in infancy ; Leroy Homer, Ethel May. 4. Casson Morell, born October 10, 1862, a traveling salesman, living in Springfield, Massachusetts ; children : Morell V., Isabelle. 5. Minetta Maria, born June 28, 1869; married George A. Stacy, of Norwich, and has children : Ruth M., Vera M., John Harold Stacy.
(X) Ransom D., son of Addison Bifield Brooks, was born in Pitcher, New York, July 21, 1859. He attended the public schools of Plymouth and Norwich, New York, and the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, from which he was graduated in 1881. Immediately after graduation he en- tered the employ of Lord & Taylor, New York City, dry goods merchants, as correspondent, and continued for two years. He had prior to entering business college worked at the shoemaking trade for several years. In 1883 he returned to Norwich and entered the em- ploy of David Maydole & Company, manufac- turers of hammers, in the capacity of book- keeper, and in 1886 he became general mana- ger of the David Maydole Hammer Company, a position he has since occupied. He is also a director of the Norwich Hospital Associa- tion. In politics he is a Prohibitionist and a strong supporter of the temperance movement in politics and elsewhere. He is a faithful member and one of the trustees of the Meth- odist Episcopal church of Norwich. He mar- ried, March 10, 1886, Kate Randall Barnard. of Norwich, born in Chicago, August 27, 1857. daughter of Thaddeus W. and Caroline ( Ran- dall) Barnard. Children, born in Norwich: I. Edith Kate, born December 24, 1886, a school teacher in Norwich. 2. Philip Olin Elmer, born January 26, 1889, stenographer ; married, March 26, 1910, Virginia Lucretia Frink, of Norwich. 3. Marian Virginia, born September 20, 1890; married September 21, 1910, Rev. Arthur John Green, a Methodist clergyman. 4. Caroline Rose, born December 17, 1893. 5. Laurence Addison, born October 5. 1897.
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