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Lewis, William, the progenitor of the Lewis family in Norwich, came from Windsor, Conn., and located in the town in 1731 or 1732. His family consisted of his wife, Naomi, five sons and three daughters. Mr. Lewis was a blacksmith, and carried on the business for a number of years. He was actively engaged in the management of town affairs; was chosen moderator and selectman ten years, between 1784 and 1796. He died December 15, 180G; his wife, April 28, 1803.
Lewis, Dr. Joseph, eldest son of William, was born in old Lyme, Conn., in November. 1746, and became a resident of Norwich in 1767. In early life he showed a fondness for medical study, and during the first years of his residence in Norwich made himself proficient in that science. For fifty-five years he was the leading physician in Norwich, During the Revolutionary War Dr. Lewis was appointed surgeon's mate, and was attached to the expedition against Quebec. During the winter of 1775-76 he was engaged in hospital practice with the army in Canada. He subsequently resigned and resumed his practice in Norwich. He was married in 1771 to Experience Burr, a lady
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eminently qualified to be a helpmate to a physician. They had eight children : Lyman and Enos, who became physicians in Norwich; Joseph also practiced medicine at Wa- terbury, Vt .; they were all graduates of Dartmouth College; Joel, an invalid from child- hood; Naomi, died in infancy ; Lucy, died at four years of age ; Naomi, married Dr. David Fiske; Alpa, married Abel Partridge. Dr. Lewis died June 18, 1833; his wife died January 18, 1819.
Lewis, Dr. Enos, the youngest son of Dr. Joseph, was born in Norwich, January 19, 1784. He fitted for college at Moore's Charity School and at sixteen entered Dart- . mouth College, graduating in 1804. He studied medicine with his father and Dr. Na- than Smith, professor in Dartmouth Medical College, and in 1808 received his diploma. In December, 1808, he was appointed surgeon's mate in a United States regiment of riflemen, stationed at Newport, R. I. In September of the next year he was obliged to resign on account of ill-health. In 1810 he formed a copartnership with his father, which continued seven years. From that time until his death. September 14, 1823. ow- ing to ill-health, he was not engaged in active practice. Dr. Lewis married June 28, 1812, Keturah Dennison, of Stonington, Conn. Owing to the early death of her hus- band, the education and support of her four children became her life-work. This duty she fulfilled, and when her mission was performed she returned to her native town, where she died August 6, 1855. The four children mentioned were William Enos ; Charles Dennison, born June 6, 1817, a physician of Grant county, Ky .; Ann Emerson, a resident of Connecticut; Lucy Mary (deceased), married B. F. Holmes.
Lewis, William Enos, eldest son of Dr. Enos, was born in Norwich, May 25, 1815- He was educated at Partridge's Literary, Scientific and Military Academy of Norwich. He has, in a general way, engaged in farming during most of his active life, but has filled many positions of political trust. He was deputy sheriff and constable for over twenty years, and at the annual town meeting, March, 1843, was elected town clerk, which office he has held ever since. He was a member of the Legislature for 1856-57, 1863, 1872, and 1878; assistant assessor of internal revenue for Third District of Ver- mont from 1863 to 1871. He has been actively engaged in military affairs; was made major of the Twenty-third Regiment of Vermont militia, and was afterwards promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and later to colonel. On October 30, 1874, having been elected by Legislature, he was commissioned by Governor Carlos Coolidge as brigadier-general of the Eighth Brigade, Second Division of the State militia. He married Ruby W., daugh- ter of Hezekiah Hazen, and their children were as follows : Lucy Ann, born February 19, 1847, wife of Joseph F. Foote, of Norwich, Conn., have one son, William Lewis Foote ; William Hazen, born January 25, 1849, married Stella L. Hubbard, has one child, Mabel Hazen, and is a resident of Ascutneyville, Vt .; Marie Louise, born September 15, 1851, wife of William W. Morrill, of Troy, N. Y .; Katie Denison, died when about one year old; Charles Franklin, born August 26, 1859, married Phebe E. Cook, has one child, Marion B., and resides in Norwich, Vt .; Mary Denison, died at three years of age.
Loveland, Hon. Aaron, was born in Norwich, Vt., August 10, 1780. He was educated at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1801, and during a part of his college course was a room-mate of Daniel Webster. He was acknowledged the best Greek scholar of his class, and after leaving college became proficient in the French, Spanish, and Italian languages. He was made Professor of Languages at Norwich University, which posi- tion he held a number of years. He first opened a law office at Strafford, Vt., where he remained only a short time, when he removed to Norwich, where he practiced his pro- fession until his death. January 3, 1870. In politics Judge Loveland was a Whig and later a Republican, and was honored with many positions of responsibility. He was As- sistant Judge of the County Court in 1823, and Chief Judge in the following year ; mem- ber of the Legislature from 1820 to 1824, and again in 1840. The Judge was never married.
Loveland, Joseph, was born in Weathersfield, Conn., April 14, 1747, and married Mercy Bigelow, November 12, 1772. She was born November 22, 1753. Joseph be- came a resident of Hanover, N. H., March 13, 1776, and removed to Norwich, Novem-
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ber 16,1779, settling on the farm now owned by his grandson, Aaron, which has ever since been in possession of his descendants. He had thirteen children: Joseph, died young; Joseph, born July 18, 1773, emigrated to Ohio, where he died; Prudence (de- ceased), married Ebenezer Percival; Aaron, died young; Aaron, died unmarried ; David; William; Mary (deceased), married Cyrus Partridge; Elijah, born February 5, 1788, died in Pennsylvania; Lydia (deceased), married Nathaniel Wheatley ; Susan (de- ceased), married John B. C. Burton ; Lucy (deceased), married Waterman Ensworth ; John and George, twins, born July 29, 1798, the former died in Ohio, in March, 1890, almost ninety-two years of age, and the latter died at nine years of age. Joseph died September 8, 1813; his wife August 3, 1833.
Loveland, David, son of Joseph, was born in Norwich, July 6, 1782, and married Eu- nice Wheatley, October 6, 1813. She was born in June 2, 1790. Their children were George (deceas-l) ; Albert, died aged one year ; Caroline F. (deceased), married Henry Hutchinson; and Jolin Wheatley. David died March 28, 1828; his wife July 10, 1861.
Loveland, William, son of Joseph, was born in Norwich, April 28, 1784, and married Sally Hutchinson ; she was born in Brookfield, Vt., April 25, 1793. Their children were Mercy Bigelow (deceased), married E. B. Brown; Joseph Talcott, born April 5, 1818, died unmarried in Norwich; Reuben S., born October 30, 1820, married Maria Hutch- inson, resides in Hartford, Vt .; William Jerome, born November 11, 1823, married Susan Briggs, has no children, and is a lawyer of Saginaw, Mich .; Aaron; Charles, born No- vember 1, 1828, resides in Norwich; Mary Content (deceased), married Charles L. Badger, of Quincy, Mass .; Sarah E., wife of William H. Hutchinson, of Norwich. Will- iam died October 8, 1862, his wife January 17, 1877.
Loveland, Aaron, son of William, was born in Norwich, April 10, 1826, and married March 2, 1854, Laura S. Goodell, who was born in Westminster, Vt., January 23, 1830. Aaron removed to Wisconsin, in 1848, where he was engaged in the nursery business. He was a resident of that State until 1866, when he returned to Norwich, and resides on the old Loveland homestead. His children are Frank E., born at Wauwatosa, Wis., March 13, 1855, married Fanny Strong, and has three children, Laura Abby, Grace Ellen, and Lena Clara; resides in his native town; Laura Ellen, resides in Norwich ; Joseph Henry, born at Wauwatosa, Wis., March 10, 1859, married Emma Healy, is a resident of Norwich; and Fanny Hutchinson. Mr. Loveland was a member of the Leg- islature of 1888.
Lyman, Harry, son of David, was born in Norwich, April 4, 1797, and married April, 1821, Nancy Wheeler, who died in the following September. His second wife was Betsey King, and they were married April 29, 1822. They had six children, viz .: George H., died at Chelsea, Vt .; Orril K., wife of George Willis, of Rutland, Vt .; Eliza A. (deceased), married Alonzo Burton ; Augustus C .; Emiraett, wife of Joseph B. Cloud, of Norwich; Elizabeth Sophia (deceased), married J. N. Howard, of Rutland, Vt. Harry died June 15, 1882.
Lyman, Augustus C., son of Harry, was born in Washington, Vt., July 22, 1828, and married March 11, 1852, Roxanna Gove. Of their five children, one died in infancy. The others are Ella F., born May 25, 1826, wife of Charles S. Dutton, of Norwich ; John C., born December 7, 1863, resides in Norwich; Harry A., born August 12, 1866, married Mabel Johnson, and has one child, Bessie Mabel, lives in Norwich; and Mary R., born November 21, 1869.
Martin, Homer M., eldest son of Marshall and Abigail (Eaton) Martin, was born in Rochester, Vt., October 14, 1833. He resided in his native town and Granville until 1854, and since that time has lived in Thetford and Norwich. He lost his left hand in a threshing-machine September 10, 1873. He married, first, Lucia Wilmot, by whom he had two children : J. Dell, born August 4, 1861, a teacher in the public schools of Chicago, Ill .; and Lucia M., born July 18, 1865, wife of Will Ladd, of Strafford, Vt., who have two children, Ruth F. and Helen M. He married, second, Sylenda J. Seaver, and
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they have three children : Homer Bey, born in Norwich. January 30, 1867, resides at Duluth, Minn .; Linn Seaver, born in Thetford, May 11, 1870, attends school at Lyndon Institute, Vt .; and David Lee, born in Norwich, October 26, 1876.
Newton, Baxter B., was born in Norwich, Vt., September 4, 1799, and was the son of Baxter and Phebe (Howard) Newton. His father came from Paxton, Mass., to Nor - wich. Baxter B. married for his first wife Flora Newton, of Hartford, Vt., and of their family three are now living : George B., a resident at Tarrytown, N. Y .; Lizzie, widow of William Reed, resides at Tarrytown ; and Ellen F., wife of James C. Hayden. of Janesville, Pa. His second wife was Elizabeth Partridge. Their three children all died young. His third wife was Olive P. Wright, who still survives him. Mr. Newton was engaged in mercantile business at West Hartford, Vt., and came to Norwich in 1836, and continued in trade till 1854. when he retired from active business. He died March 11, 1881.
Nichols, Timothy, a descendant of Richard Nichols, of Ipswich, Mass., immigrant an- cestor, was born in Reading, Mass., February 16, 1756. His father, Timothy, died at the siege of Quebec, in 1759. He removed to Amherst, N. H., in 1772, and was mar- ried October 21, 1779, to Susannah Towne; she was born December 29, 1762. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and became a resident of Norwich, Vt., in 1838, and hinself and wife passed their last days with their sons Latin Morris and Robert. His wife died December 2, 1840; the death of Timothy occurred August 22, 1846. Their children were Susanna (deceased), married John Smith ; Grace Gardner (dereased), mar- ried William Low ; Sophia (deceased), married Benjamin Damon; Luther Weston, died at Amherst, N. H .; Leonard Towne, died at Amherst, N. H .; Latin Morris, resided and died in Norwich, March 17, 1870; John Perkins, resides at Boston, Mass .; Robert, died in Norwich; and Charles, died at Boston.
Nichols, Latin Morris, son of Timothy, was born at Merrimack, N. H., October 31, 1794. He served his apprenticeship as chairmaker at Concord, N H1 ., with his brother- in-law, Benjamin Damon, and William Low. While thus engaged he accepted an offer to go to Montpelier, Vt., but subsequently removed to Norwich. He married June 19. 1824, Clarrissa Safford. Her father, Johnson Safford, was born in Preston, Conn., and became a resident of Norwich in 1790. He married June 16, 1785, Clarissa Ensworth, of Canterbury, Conn. Their family were Betsey, who married Jacob Burton; Henry. (lied young ; Polly, died single ; and Clarrissa, who married Latin Morris Nichols, June 24, 1824. Johnson Safford was a clothier by trade, and did a thriving business; he was a man of sterling integrity and a member of the Congregational Church at Norwich Plains. Latin Morris was a rugged, thick-set man, below medium height, of benevolent, self- sacrificing character, and courteous manners. He died March 17, 1870; his wife died January 6, 1863. Their children were Edward, born April 7, 1825, died September 21, 1826; Susan Eliza, born March 18, 1827, died July 5, 1832; Grace Gardner, born July 3. 1829. died June 10, 1830 ; Mary Safford, born May 27, 1831, died April 23, 1866; Lucy Bailey, born January 3, 1833, resides in Norwich; Timothy Morris, born January 8, 1835, lives in Taunton, Mass .; an infant son died February 8, 1837; Charles Low, born April 19, 1838, died August 5, 1846; and Henry Burton, born April 12, 1840, resides at Norwich, Vt.
Nichols, Robert, son of Timothy, was born at Amherst, N. H., December 13, 1802. While a lad he went to Boston and learned the cabinet-maker's trade. He settled in Norwich and built a brick cottage previous to his marriage, which occurred December 7, 1826, to Betsey, daughter of Hezekiah and Erepta (Pike) Ensworth. He died Novem- ber 11, 1845; his wife in Boston, February 16, 1884. They had seven children : William Low, born December 7, 1827, died June 25, 1832; Francis Hezekiah, born December 2, 1829; Herbert Allen, born December 14, 1831, died July 17, 1851; Amos Ensworth, born October 9, 1833, died February 13, 1834; Susan Ann, born March 19, 1837, died December 2, 1841; Annette Eliza, born February 16, 1840, died December 12, 1841 ; Horace Hatch, born January 29, 1842.
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Seaver .- This family was the first previous to 1790 that settled in Norwich from any other State than Connecticut. Captain Nathaniel Seaver came from Petersham, Mass., and his name appears in the town records as holding office as early as 1779. Half brothers of Nathaniel also settled in the town, viz .: Luther, Calvin, and Dr. Richard Crafts Seaver. The latter practiced medicine a short time in Norwich and Thetford, then removed to Chelsea, Vt., and finally to Wayne, Me.
Seaver, Calvin, mentioned above, married Mary Hovey, and had the following family : Calvin; Luther, a captain on the Mississippi River, died of yellow fever at New Orleans, La .; Aaron, died in Michigan; Otis, died in Norwich; Olive (deceased), married Lyman Baldwin; Eliza (deceased), married Daniel Yarrington ; and Mary (deceased), married Dyer Waterman.
Seaver, Calvin, son of Calvin, born in Norwich, January 6, 1787, married, first, Sylenda Waterman, second, Sophia Eastman. Children by second wife, viz .: Livia A., wife of Mills A. Lord, of Norwich; Calvin F., lives in Thetford, Vt .; Luther P., died at two and one-half years; Mary S., died at seventeen months; A. Jeanette, died at three and one-half years; Sylenda J., wife of Homer M. Martin, of Norwich; and C. Treadwell, died at St. Paul, Minn., April 2, 1889, was a machinist, and injured in a railway acci- dent. Calvin died April 10, 1853.
Stimson, Joel, was born August 10, 1751. He was a soldier of the Revolution, and a fifer in Captain Solomon Hill's company. He married at Tolland, Conn., April 15, 1779, Susanna Growe. His wife was born June 16, 1760. Soon after his marriage Joel set- tled in Norwich. He had a family of thirteen children, four of whom died in infancy. The others were Seba; Alba, born May 10, 1783, died in Thetford, Vt., and left no issue ; Sarepta, married Augustus Hayward; Anna, married, first, Pierce Burton, jr., and second, Alpha Warren; Clarissa, died single ; Joel, died in the West; Enos, died at Montpelier, Vt .; Horace, died in Michigan; Jason, died in Ohio. Joel died April 15, 1813, in Norwich.
Stimson, Seba, of the above family, was born in Tolland, Conn., August 8, 1781, and married January 3, 1805, Phylabe Allen, a native of Craftsbury, Vt. He removed to Greensboro, Vt., in 1802, where his children were born, but he died in Waterbury, Vt., February 23, 1862. His children were William A., died at Lowell, Mass .; Hamilton, died at Greensboro, Vt .; Joel Growe; Samuel Payson, died at Barton, Vt .; Susan, wife of H. Conant, of Oxford, N. H .; Phylabe (deceased), married Arthur Marston ; Emily (deceased), married Mr. Emerson, of Reading, Mass.
Stimson, Joel Growe, son of Seba, was born in Greensboro, Vt., July 23, 1812, and married, first, Juliet Walker. Their children were William H., engaged in the dry goods business in New York city. His second wife was Cynthia R. Stone, of Cabot, Vt. Their children are Edward Payson, a practicing physician at West Randolph, Vt .; Charles W., a farmer living in Norwich; Martin Luther, a Congregational minister, was for eight years missionary to China, but owing to ill-health was obliged to return to this country in 1889, and now resides in Brooklyn; Juliet W., a graduate of Holyoke Ladies' Semi- nary, resides at home. Joel G., at the age of nineteen, engaged in mercantile business, and in 1838 opened a store at Strafford, Vt., where he remained until 1844, when he removed to Waterbury, Vt. At the latter place he was in the wholesale and retail trade until 1868, when, owing to the early settlement made by his grandfather in Norwich, he became a resident of that town. While engaged in business in Waterbury he built two of the prominent business blocks in that village. During the time of his residence in Norwich he has been engaged in farming and carrying on wholesale business in flour and feed.
Williston, Rev. David H., studied for the ministry at Dartmouth College, and gradu- ated in 1787 from Yale College. He received the degree of A. M. from Dartmouth in 1793. He settled in Tunbridge, Vt., June 26, 1793, where he died in 1845, at the age of seventy-seven. He married Susanne Bancroft, a cousin of the historian, George Ban-
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croft. Their youngest son, Professor Ebenezer Bancroft Williston, was born in Tun- bridge, Vt., in 1801. He was a student at Dartmouth, but graduated from the University of Vermont. From 1822 to 1828 he was a member of the faculty of A. L., S. and M. Academy, being professor of Greek Language and Rhetoric. He was the compiler of " Eloquence of the United States," in six volumes, and also edited a Tacitus. Owing to ill-health, Professor Williston was obliged to relinquish his duties, and he passed the last years of his life in the South. While there he was for a short time president of Jeffer- son College in Mississippi. He died at Norwich, December 27, 1837. He married Mrs. Almira, widow of Major O. B. Burton, nee Partridge, and had two children. Ellen Will- iston married Rev. Henry Steele Clarke, late pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Clarke has always resided in Norwich excepting the seven years of her married life. She is the authoress of "The Marble Preacher," "Their Chil- dren," " At Edgeware," etc. Edward Bancroft Williston, Prof. Williston's other child, was born at Norwich, July 15, 1836, was a graduate from Norwich University, and dur- ing the late war was captain in the Second U. S. A. Light Artillery, and is now major in the Third Light Artillery, U. S. A., and stationed at Fort Riley, Texas.
Wright, John, youngest son of John and Olive (Partridge) Wright, was born in Nor- wich, Vt., June 8, 1792. He graduated from West Point, March 29, 1814, in a class of thirty, and on the following day was appointed second lieutenant of a corps of engineers, being the only one of his class assigned to that arm of the service. He was assistant professor of mathematics at West Point from April 1, 1814, to December 1, 1816, but resigned from the army July 23, 1818. After his resignation Mr. Wright removed to Pennsylvania and studied law with his brother, Ebenezer, and was examined for the bar by the late President Buchanan. He returned to his native town and practiced his pro- fession until his death September 10, 1860. Mr. Wright was a life-long Democrat, and though he was honored by his party associates with various nominations, owing to the minority of his party he was defeated. He was a member of the Constitutional Conven- tions of 1836, 1843 and 1857 ; was for many years president of the Windsor County Mut- nal Fire Insurance Company ; postmaster of Norwich from 1836 to 1839 and from 1853 to 1855. He married for his first wife Susan, daughter of Dr. Phineas Parkhurst, of Lebanon, N. H., by whom he had one child, Susan Ann, who married C. C. Benton, and died May 29, 1889. His second wife was Almira Kidder Greene, and of their five chil- dren, two died young. The others were Leonard Jarvis, who died at Newtown, Conn., March 20, 1889; Mary Jarvis, died single ; and Thomas Kidder Greene, born February 1, 1838, and is a civil engineer residing in New York city.
Wright, John, son of Aaron, was born in Hebron, Conn., in 1744. He was married September 27, 1768, to Olive Partridge, in which year he became a resident of Norwich. Of his eleven children, three died in infancy. The others were Anna, married Don J. Brigham ; Ruby, married Norman Cloud; Roswell; Ebenezer, born January 23, 1783, was a student at Dartmouth College, became a distinguished lawyer, practiced his pro- fession at Lebanon and Lancaster, Pa., and died at the latter place ; Mary, married Daniel Durkee, a lawyer, of York, Pa., who was also a judge in the courts of that State; Olive, married John F. Hutchinson, who removed to the West ; John ; Betsey, married Elisha Hutchinson. John, sr., was instantly killed in Norwich, September 9, 1799, by a log rolling over him. The place is marked by a monument erected by his son, John.
Wright, Roswell, son of John, was born in Norwich, February 17, 1781, and married, February 20, 1803, Jemina C. Rose, of Lisbon, Conn. They had three children who ar- rived at maturity ; George, born October 22, 1803, graduated from West Point in 1822; was at the battle of Molino del Rey in the Mexican war; Major Wright then connected with the Eighth United States Infantry, and commanded a storming party of 500 picked men. The assault was successful, and pronounced by historians as the bloodiest engagement of the war. During the Mexcan campaign of 1847 General Wright was three times breveted for meritorious services. He was a famous Indian fighter, and actively participated in the Black Hawk and Florida wars, He was promoted to briga-
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dier general during the war of the Rebellion and was in command of the Department of the Pacific. In company with his wife he was drowned in the wreck of the steamer Brother Jonathan, July 30, 1865. He is buried at Sacramento, Cal. General Wright left three children : Thomas Foster, a colonel of the Fifth California Cavalry, and cap- tain in the regular army, was killed during the Modoc war, and is buried with his father ; John Montgomery, who was on General Buell's staff during the war, a lawyer by pro- fession, and is at present United States Marshal of the Supreme Court, and located at Washington, D. C .; and Eliza, widow of Captain Philip Owen, died in Norwich, Vt., August 19, 1890. Mercy R. resides in Norwich; and Olive P., widow of Baxter B. Newton, also resides in Norwich. Roswell died October 9, 1866.
CHAPTER XXIII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CAVENDISH.
T HIS town is located in the southern part of Windsor county, in lati- tude forty- three degrees, twenty- three minutes, and longitude four degrees, and twenty-five minutes. It is bounded on the north by Read- ing; east by Weathersfield ; southeast by the Hawks Mountains, which divide it from Baltimore ; south by Chester; and west by Ludlow. Its original area was about seven miles square, but by the incorporation of the town of Baltimore about three thousand acres were taken from its territory.
The surface of the town, while rather uneven, excepting in certain localities, does not retard cultivation. Black River, which flows across the town from west to east, and Twenty-Mile stream, which flows in a southerly direction, and joins the Black River about a mile and a half north of Cavendish village, are the principal streams of the town, though they have many small tributaries.
The Original Proprietors .- The worthy Benning Wentworth, esq., colonial governor of the province of New Hampshire, on behalf of his master, George III. of England, did on October 12, 1761, convey, grant and deed (subject to the usual restrictions) to Amos Kimball, and his associates, the original territory embraced in the town of Cavendish. The grant was to be divided into seventy-two shares, and a number of proprietors in 1762 visited the town, surveyed it, allotted the shares in severalty, and according to their own account " were in great forward-
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