Norman White His Ancestors and His Descendants Qass. Book 6 Sol PRESENTED BY i87o. Norman White. Norman White HIS ANCESTORS AND HIS DESCENDANTS COMPILED AND EDITED BV ERSKINE NORMAN WHITE PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION > •> ) > 1 NEW YORK 1905 0^ n\ Gift '. vitlior (.Person) 2 05 Icr- -i V 1 CONTENTS. PAGE Prefatory Note 5 Ancestors of Norman White 7 Norman Whiti: 21 I Birthplace and Early Home 23 II Leaving Home 32 III Removal to New York 33 IV Marriage 35 V Early Married Life 41 VI Middle Life. 45 VII Avocations 48 VIII As a Citizen 55 IX Family Life 59 X Death of Mrs. White 69 XI Benevolent Activities 7j XII Removal to Thirty-sixth Street 79 XIII Second Marriage 82 XIV Later Years 84 XV Personal Characteristics 88 XVI Death and Funeral Services 92 XVII Resolutions, Tributes and Letters 100 Descendants of Norman White 107 PREFATORY NOTE. The following records are prepared simply for distribution among the descendants of Norman White. This will explain the introduction of many details that would be of little interest to a wider circle, and of incidents which might appear trivial to critical readers. In the third part, in order that the record may have additional interest and perhaps a permanent value to descendants bearing names other than White, brief records, so far as could be obtained, are given of the ancestral lines of those who have intermarried with Mr. White's children and grandchildren. The "Memorials of Elder John White and of His Descendants," a volume published in i860 by Allyii Stanley Kellogg, a descendant, has supplied much of the matter in regard to ancestry. The editor desires also to acknowledge his indebtedness to those members of the family who have furnished information concerning collateral lines of descent, and especially to Miss Frances Barnard Hawley and Mr. Frederick Morgan Johnson, for the use of their genealogical charts. In the hope that this account of their ancestors may. as years pass away, become increasingly valuable, especially to the younger members of the ever-widening family circle, the little volume is submitted to his kinsfolk, with the affectionate regards of the editor. E. N. W. New York, September, J905. Ancestors of Norman White 'Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust." — Shirley. Ancestors of Norman White. I. Elder John White. Norman White's first ancestor in this country was John White, Avho was a passenger in the ship Lyon, which sailed from England about the twenty-second of June, 1632, and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday, the sixteenth of September following. Since the "Memorials of Elder John White and of His Descendants:"' from which the statements in regard to Norman White's ancestry are. for the most part, taken, was published, it has been ascertained beyond any reasonable doubt, and largely through the investigations of Charles A. White, Esq., of New Haven, that Elder John White came from Shalford or Messing, in Essex County, England, and was the son of Robert White, who married, June 24th. ,1585, Bridget Algar. and removed from Shalford to Messing a few years before his death, in 161 7. Three of Robert White's daughters came with their husbands to New England ; namely: Mary, wife of Joseph Loomis, of Braintree; Elizabeth, wife of William Goodwin, of Bocking: and Anna, wife of John Porter, of Felsted. Mr. Charles A. White, in a paper published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for January, 1901, says: "It is very plausibly supposed that John White, who came over in the Lion in 1632, and settled first in Newtown, now Cambridge, in Massachusetts, and then came with the * Edited by Allyn S. Kellogg, and published in i860. lO Elder John White. Rev. Thomas Hooker and his church to Hartford. Connecticut, in T636, was the son of Robert White of Messing. The record of his baptism has not been found. He was not of age in 161 7, when his father made his will, in which it was provided that if he should marry without the approbation and consent of his mother, and of Joseph Loomis of Braintree, and William Goodwin of Bocking, his legacy of two hundred pounds should be reduced to one hundred pounds. In the list of thirty-three passengers of the Lion, his name follows next after the name of William Goodwin." The name of the wife of John, son of Robert, was Mary, and her family name was probably Levit; but the Parish Register of Messing, which records his marriage, December 26th. 1622. is defaced, so that the name cannot be clearly deciphered. The above facts, together with the further coincidences that the name of Elder John Whitens wife was Mary, that the names of two of his sons repeat the names of the brothers of John, son of Robert, and that John Porter, who married Anna, daughter of Robert, appointed as "supervisors" of his will "Mr. William Goodwin of Hartford, and Goodman White (Elder John) of Hartford," the former certainly and the latter presumably being his brother-in-law, complete the proof that John White of Hartford and John White, son of Robert White of Messing, were one and the same. Robert White, as is manifest from his will, was a man of wealth for his day, occupying a position of substantial influence. Of his ancestry nothing has as yet been certainly discovered. As a m.atter of curious interest, if nothing more, it may be noted, that there is extant in the family of one of John White's descendants an old coat-of-arms, engraved some time Coat of Arms Used as a bookplate in the eighteenth century by a descendant of Elder John White. The motto, ■•Maximum-prncli-impctum-ct-snstinerc" was not upon the original plate, but has been added from another coat of arms of somewhat similar design, also in possession of a descendant. ^ Elder John White. II in the eighteenth century, and used as a book plate, which is practically identical with the coat-of-arms of a John White who was a Mayor of London in 1563. This same coat-of-arms is also in possession of the descendants of William White, who settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1642. This John White of London had a son Robert, but as yet, beyond the above coincidences, there is no proof connecting his family with that of Robert White of Messing. Elder John White, the patriarch in this country of the family, was one of the first settlers of Cambridge, Massa- chusetts; of Hartford, Connecticut, and of Hatfield, Massa- chusetts. He was undoubtedly one of the main body of the company that, under the lead of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, their pastor, made the long journey in June, 1636, through the wilderness from Cambridge to the banks of the Connecticut, to found the City of Hartford. A vivid idea of what he and his companions experienced in this migration is best obtained from the graphic but simple narrative of the historian Trumbull: '"About the beginning of June, Mr. Hooker, Mr. Stone, and about a hundred men, women and children, took their departure from Cambridge, and travelled more than a hundred miles through a hideous and trackless wilderness to Hartford. They had no guide but their compass; made their way over mountains, through swamps, thickets and rivers which were not passable but with great difficulty. They had no cover but the heavens, nor any lodging but those which simple nature afforded them. They drove with them a hundred and sixty head of cattle, and by the way subsisted on the milk of their cows. Mrs. Hooker was borne through the wilderness upon a litter. The people generally carried their packs, arms and some utensils. They were nearly a fortnight on their journey. The adventure 12 Elder John White. was the more remarkable as many of this company were persons of figure, who had Hved in England in honor, affluence and delicacy, and were entire strangers to fatigue and danger." In the records of Hartford, John White appears as one of the original proprietors. His allotments of farm land were among the largest assigned to any settler. His home lot was on the east side of what is now called "Governor Street." "The famous Charter Oak, already past its maturity, and beginning in its decay to construct the hollow which preserved the Charter of Connecticut from the grasp of its enemies, stood on the neighboring lot of Governor Wyllys; and its lengthening shadows, as the evening sun went down, rested on John White's dwelling." "In each of the important towns in which he lived, his aid was required in the management of its prudential affairs. The capacity to discharge the duties of a townsman, as well as those of a representative to the colonial Legislature, was in that day an indispensable pre-requisite to the appointment. "The offlce of ruling elder in the church, which he held during the last ten or twelve years of his life, was one of great influence and importance. There was usually but one ruling elder in each church. His ofifice was designed to relieve the teaching elder or pastor of a considerable part of the labor, responsibility and anxiety attending the government and discipline of the church. It required a grave, discreet and reliable man, one who had earned a good report of those without and those within the church. Such a one, in all respects furnished for his work, was our John White."* He died either in December, 1682, or early in January, 1683, at about the age of eighty. His children were six in * Memorials of Elder John White. Lieutenant Daniel White. 13 number: four sons, Nathaniel, John, Daniel and Jacob; and two daughters, Marv' and Sarah. 2. Lieutenant Daniel White. Daniel White, through whom the line of descent is traced, was probably born in Hartford as early as 1639. He removed to Hatfield, Massachusetts, about 1662. The records show that he was a farmer, and that he was frequently called into the service of the town. The earlier records are lost, but during the twenty years subsequent to 1678. he was eight times chosen as one of the Selectmen of the town. He occasionally held other offices, and was often appointed on committees, which called for the exercise of discretion and sound judgment. His name appears upon the records with the title "Lieutenant." He married. November ist. 1661. Sarah Crow, a granddaughter of Elder William Goodwin of Hartford, and of Elizabeth White, daughter of Robert White of Messing, and therefore her husband's second cousin. She was born March ist, 1647, and was but fourteen years and eight months old at the time of her marriage. She was one of seven sisters, who married into some of the best families in the valley of the Connecticut. A high authority in such matters has said: "Those Crow girls made smart women." Lieutenant Daniel White died July 27th, 171 3. 3. Captain Daniel White. Daniel White, only surviving son of Lieutenant Daniel, was born in Hatfield, Massachusetts, July 4th, 1671. He first settled in Hatfield, but in 1704 or 1765 removed to Windsor, Connecticut, where he was engaged in trade. His home was on the "north side of the rivulet" — Farmington River. He 14 Captain Joel White. was School Commissioner in 17 12- 13, and was on a number of important committees. He was the fourth captain (Conn. Rec, p. 553) in May, 1716, of the First Connecticut Troop, the oldest Company in the United States, succeeding in that office Simon Wolcott. His wife's grandfather, Major John Mason, the famous Indian fighter, had been its first captain when, in 1657, it was organized by the General Court. He was married three times, and had eleven children. His second wife, through whom the line descends, was Ann Bissell, daughter of John Bissell, Jr.. and Isabel Mason, a daughter of the Major John Mason above mentioned. 4. Captain Joel White. Joel White, the third son of Captain Daniel, and the child of his second wife, Ann Bissell. was born in Windsor, Connecticut, April 6th, 1705. He settled in Bolton, Connec- ticut, as early as 1725, on lands which were soon after bequeathed to him by his father. He was a merchant, engaged in an extensive business, and was a large landholder. At the time of his death he owned over five hundred acres of land, although he had a few years previously given a farm to each of his four surviving sons. He held many town offices, and represented the town of Bolton in the Legislature at twenty-six sessions. Though advanced in life at the time when the colonies were struggling for independence, he was an ardent and self-denying patriot. In 1777, he was twice chosen a member of the "Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety," and was once its chairman. From his will and the inventory of his estate, it appears that in the early part of the war he loaned over £3,000 to the State of Connecticut and to the United States. The nominal value of the "Public Securities" •«ll I II ] ;r» ^'l2^^| « ' S.I* ai f^ ill <; ^ S t> S;^ "^ Mi*^ b a u U V LI S- o 5 s s V o c C 9^ a.5 z < z o (A. O u — *fc»8Ril^ Captain Daniel White. 15 held by him at his death, with the interest thereon, was about £5,000, or nearly equal to the appraised value of the remainder of his estate. His inventory amounted to more than £10,000. He hved for more than forty years in a large house "fronting near the Meeting House," and it is said that the large elms still standing there were planted by his hands. He died June 28th. 1789, aged eighty-four. He married four times, and had twelve children, of whom five sons and four daughters lived to maturity and married. The social position of his family may be inferred from the fact that all of his children married into prominent families, the husbands of four of his daughters being college graduates, one of Harvard, two of Yale, and one of the College of New Jersey (Princeton). His second wife, through whom is the line of descent, was Ruth Dart, daughter of Daniel Dart and Elizabeth Douglas, granddaughter of the Honorable William Douglas, and great-granddaughter of the Honorable Hugh Caulkins, men prominent in the earlv historv of New Eneland 5. Captain Daniel White. Daniel, youngest son of Joel and his second wife, Ruth Dart, was born in Bolton, Connecticut. December 7th, 1749. He settled in Coventry, Andover Society, upon a farm given him by his father, and adjoining one occupied by his half- brother, Joel. He was well educated, intelligent and highly esteemed. He frequently held town offices; was five times chosen a Selectman of Coventry, and was a representative from that town at seven sessions of the Legislature. From the record of "Connecticut Men in the Revolution," we learn that he was on the "Lexington Alarm List," for the relief of Boston in May, 1775 (p. 8); Clerk in the First Company, Eleventh Regiment, at New York in 1776 (p. 461); and in Captain Hill's 1 6 Captain Daniel White. Company for the campaign at Fishkill in 1776 (p. 577). His commissions, from ''Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, Captain- General and Commander-in-Chief of the State of Connecticut" first as "Ensign of the Seventh Company or Trainband in the Twelfth Regiment of the State," dated "the 25th day of December Anno Domini 1776;" and second as Lieutenant in the same Company, dated May 9th, 1777, are still in the possession of his descendants; as also similar commissions, first as Ensign and then as Captain, to his son, Daniel White, Jr. He married, January ist, 1772, Sarah Hale, of Glasten- bury, Connecticut, born August 19th, 1749- She was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Hale, who died in the army at Jamaica Plains. Massachusetts, during the siege of Boston by the army of Washington. Her mother was Elizabeth Welles, a daughter of Colonel Thomas Welles, a prominent member of the "General Court," and its speaker for five years. This Daniel White built the large house which still stands upon the ancestral farm, about twenty miles east of Hartford, upon the post road to Providence. This house was afterwards occupied by his son, Daniel, and his grandson, Stanley, and is well remembered by some of his great grand- children. Another older house, in which he first resided, stood somewhat to the east of this house, and was the home of his son, Daniel, during the earlier years of his married life. The present writer has always understood that it was in the older house that the younger Daniel's children were born, and that it remained standing until, after the death of his father, he succeeded to the occupancy of the larger mansion. Captain Daniel White died September ist, 1816, aged sixty-three. His wife had died four years previously, December 30th, 181 2. Daniel White, Esquire. ij Their children were seven in number, three sons and four daughters, Daniel, Sarah, Samuel, Jerusha, Fanny, Electa and Calvin.* 6. Daniel White, Esquire. Daniel White, eldest son of the preceding and father of Norman White, was born in Andover, Connecticut, July 14th, 1773. He lived upon the ancestral farm and upon his father's death succeeded, as probably the fourth in possession, to the ownership. He held the military rank of Captain, and was also a Justice of the Peace, his ordinary title being "Squire." He frequently held town offices, and several times represented the town of Coventry in the Legislature. "Being highly esteemed for his integrity and sound judgment, he was much employed in the settlement of estates, and was very frequently .selected as an arbitrator to whom private dififerences were referred." His wife, the mother of Norman White, was Eunice Stanley, daughter of Moses Stanley and Eunice Strong. She was born April 25th, 1773, and was a descendant in the * For a full account of this Daniel White's descendants until i86c, see "Memorials of Elder John White," in loco; but a reference to two or three lines of converging descent may be of interest. His second son, Samuel, born February 23d, 1777, was a physician and surgeon of great eminence in Hudson, N. Y. ; Professor of Surgery in Berkshire Medical College, and several times Mayor of the city. His wife was Wealthy Pomeroy, of North Coventry, Connecticut. Dr. Samuel White's eldest son, Samuel Pomeroy, was also a prominent physician, practicing in New York City. A daughter of this second Dr. White, Frances Chester, married Marcellus Hartley, of New York, and her daughter married Norman White Dodge, son of William E. Dodge and nephew of Mrs. Norman White. Emehne, the eldest daughter of Dr. Samuel White, of Hudson, married Frederick J. Barnard, of Albany, N. Y., and was the mother of Anna Hale, who became the second wife of Norman White. Frances, an older daughter of Mr. Barnard, married Henry Q. Hawley, and was the mother of Frances Barnard and /\nna Barnard Hawley, in after years closely associated with the family of Norman White. 1 8 Darnel White, Esquire. sixth generation of Timothy Stanley, who was born in England about 1603. arrived in New England in 1634, settled first in Cambridge, and removed to Hartford in 1636. He was doubtless a companion in the journey thither through the wilderness of Elder John White, both of them being members of the colony which, under Parson Hooker, founded Hartford, and whose migration has been previously described. The mother of Eunice Stanley was Eunice Strong, an older daughter of whom married Deacon Richard Hale, and was the mother of Nathan Hale, the patriot spy, whose monument now stands in the City Hall Park in New York. He was, therefore, a first cousin of Eunice Stanley, the mother of Norman White. Daniel White and Eunice Stanley were married Febru- ary 19th, 1800, and lived in the family home until 1844, when they removed to Rockville, Connecticut, where they both died within a few months of each other in 1847. The present writer well remembers these grandparents, having visited them more than once in his childhood. The grandfather was a man above the medium height, and even in old age erect and stately, with a strongly marked, but benignant countenance, framed by silvery and somewhat long and flowing hair: the grandmother rather short and stout in figure, with a cheerful, smiling face, and always busy about her household duties. In closing" this record of the ancestors of Norman White, it may be said that it is interesting to note how the family lines of the early settlers of New England are so inter- laced that at the present time their descendants, in tracing back their pedigrees, will find that in almost every case they are in some measure related to each other through common r!L I 5 O ^ P ( — trt ;3 r-- rH- <-^ P ^** cr CO en TO CO <-+ p t 5~ ^ Q Hi t3D < — ^U y P rl- ^ Oo (>N IP ■a Si- Co St I—* ^ — \ ?=' s -^ p p- W"— Daaokss EUerJoln.WliilE mWari^Lfl/it Joliii- drouv in- . (ioociwin. ELi'c^Ufi lEi £t;,at(tl.WkiT<. Hun. 3i)kw DisselL '=' Cii^ttlijlitijyiasjn'^ HouW-Dua(5laSS---AiiMattLc DwllT^Hoii^li '■^SarulGaaU'ias SaimielHate. MuyweLtes HonSain'tWcltes'^'Elijt'.ttiiUter (o|it Sdft'lliLltoti'-Efliuiakiicljiob 3olw.HoLli.5tf r "SwakUodritU Hi'iuim.LIe Hon Smi L"W[[b '■'EliitHoLListt \ Houoruti* HoiLEAthli'R.ue-Mtrcu "H urd T)i05 Dtutee 5uwiiNiakija-ll. SttitT-u.E.1 Hii-l.e. '-JVlarif HiiiiW-l?tlta^iatiiittli(ihuUiiter Xu4i^h.W'-{ioo£lr(cL (...TlioiWelLes Hoi..3aWiiHulLiit^r Jooiiuc*. Treat . 'BuWp.TJl?! tf- -,rh~ nl!,.„„f.i Ji/\.ari,WuiiV«tLfd- JokixCoiwUs Jokn-Coivlfi-Huju..!. \U.ckBAr/.lett-/!h^ 3u.TOe>0Lin.bte(.cA- JiiielokLooiiii) t,.L.Srro,.<, iT,u,^r,„.T, Tku> ford g.j. ;>F»-y»^r^."<^-.r. i. Tko^Tcird- y ^ ^ Ancestors of Norman White. 19 ancestors. For example, in the veins of the descendants of Norman White runs the blood of at least twenty-eight of the pilgrims who early in the seventeenth century emigrated from England and as "founders" moulded what John Fiske happily terms "The Beginnings of New England'' and also of as many more who were prominent in later colonial history. Among the former may be mentioned William Pynchon, first Treasurer of Massachusetts colony, founder of Springfield, and author of the famous book: "The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption;" Thomas Welles, first Governor of Connec- ticut; Elisitr Holyoke, for whom the Massachusetts mountain and afterwards the famous wSeminary were named ; John Bissell, of an ancient Huguenot family, a founder of Windsor, Connec- ticut; John Talcott, one of the "Standing Council for Indian Affairs ;" Captain John Mason, the hero of the Pequot war, who in 1637 practically wiped out of existence, men, women and children, the tribe which had so terribly harried the first settlers of Rhode Island and Connecticut; Samuel Hale, a leader in the same Pequot war; William Douglas, a leading soldier in the King Philip war; William Pitkin, first Attorney-General of the King; and Richard Dart, one of the original patentees of New London. Of the worthies of later colonial days, may be mentioned several sons and grandsons of those above named, such as Samuel Welles, and his son, Colonel Thomas Welles, for five years Speaker of the General Court of Connecticut; the second William Pitkin. Chief Justice of Connecticut; and Captain John Bissell, of the Revolutionary Army. It is a lineage which may well call forth the respect of the present generation of descendants, and inspire them to worthv deeds and honorable lives. Norman White "The best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, itnremembered acts Of kindness and of love." — Wordsworth. Norman White. BIRTHPLACE AND EARLY HOME. Descended from such ancestry, Norman White was born in the home of his forefathers, Andover, Connecticut, August 8th, 1805. He was the third in age of his father's four children, the others being Eliza, born June loth, 1801; Stanley, born September i8th, 1802; and Fanny, born April 3d, 1810. Eliza, the elder daughter, married, January 9th, 1822, Allyn Kellogg, of Vernon, Connecticut, and was the mother of Allyn Stanley Kellogg and Martin Kellogg, the latter in after life the President of the University of California.* Stanley, elder son of Daniel and Eunice Stanley White, was twice married, first to Rosanna Reed, and after her death to Mrs. Anna R. Rose. He left no children. He removed in * Allyn Stanley Kellogg was born October 15th, 1824; graduated at Williams College in 1846, and at Yale Theological Seminary in 1850. He was the author of the "Memoirs of Elder John White," from which these records of ancestry are largely taken. He married Maria L. Avery, daughter of the Rev. Charles Avery, and died April 3d, 1893. He left one son, Charles Allyn, who is married and has children. Martin Kellogg was born March 15th, 1828; graduated as valedictorian at Yale College in 1850, and at Union Theological Seminary in 1854. He married, September 3d, 1863, Louise W. Brockway, daughter of the Hon. John H. Brockway of Ellington, Connecticut. They had two children, Grace Hall and Norman Brock- way, both of whom died in infancy. Dr. Kellogg was a pastor at Grasb Valley and Shasta, California. When the College of California was organized, in i860, he became Professor of Latin and Greek; in 1869 the College was merged in the University of California, and he continued in the same professorship. He was President of the Uni- versity from 1890 to 1899. In 1893 he received the degree of LL.D. from Yale College. In 1899, with Mrs. Kellogg, he journeyed around the world. He died August 23d. 1903. 24 Birthplace and Early Home. 1844 to Rockville, Connecticut, and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He died August 25th, 1865. Fanny, the younger daughter, remained unmarried, lived with her brother Stanley, and died October 17th, 1862. The farm upon which these children were born was a large one, near the village of Andover, upon the post road from Hartford to Providence, R. I., and about twenty miles east of the former city. A grandson of the head of the family, the Martin Kellogg above named, many years afterwards, when a resident of California, wrote a description of this New England farm as a contribution to the Overland Monthly, a widely circulated magazine. This description of Norman White's boyhood home gives so vivid a picture of New England life in the early days of the last century that it will be read with interest by the descendants of one born and nurtured under its intiuences. MY grandfather's FARM. In a quiet country town of New England is a farm which used to be my earthly paradise. My own father's place was very pleasant in its way, but it called for a little too much work from the time when a boy could ride a horse to plow out corn or follow the hay cart with a rake. My grandfather's farm, on the contrary, was a place for infinite leisure and sport. The standing invitation he gave me was to "Come down and do up the mischief." Then, too, there was the novelty of hidden nooks in homes and barns, of unexplored meadows and pastures. Far up the hillside, the woodland lost itself in an unbroken forest, where the small boy could easily imagine beasts of prey; and under the scattering trees that fringed it, foxes had their holes by the sheltering rocks. Great was my admiration for the larger boy who could entrap them. Back of the farm buildings was a famous echo rock, from which, as I stood and shouted, my shrill tones were returned with startling distinctness. A log aqueduct brought down from the mountain the most delicious water, which poured with constant music into the great tub in the kitchen porch. Wide spreading buttonwoods shaded the o ■n O Qi w < > O H C ■< W > o Q <; w X Birthplace and Early Home. 25 house in front, and offered pleasant loiteriiig to the travellers on the high road. The farm extended across the road down to and beyond the river. Below the street were a garden and a barn, and in the high stone wall a wide gateway, which gave entrance to the upper and the lower meadows. In the lower meadows, the patient swathman swung his scythe, knowing nothing of the modern mowing machine. Thither the boys carried the forenoon and the afternoon lunch, to be washed down with copious draughts of cold coffee or molasses and water. If the mowing was beyond the river, there was a "pole" to cross, long, swaying, and seemingly perilous, with flattened top, but with no hand rail. If the boy could not fare safely over, he must take his ducking in the shallow summer stream. The farm buildings were ample and well appointed. Three large barns were filled to the roof with hay and grain, allowing stable room for horses and cattle. The sheep found shelter in additional sheds. An extra cow shed, and a cider mill, helped, with the two upper barns, to form a hollow square and keep off the north-east storms. The poultry had the range of the upper premises, but were forbidden to cross the street. The squealing pigs had a distant house of their own, with a huge kettle for boiling potatoes and apples. Near this building was a ribbed corn-crib. Farther on in the row, and nearest the house, was a capacious woodshed, replenished from long piles of logs brought on sleds from the upper woodland; and behind it a big tool room, which was also a carpenter's shop. Here were fashioned ox-bows and yokes, ladders and gate-posts, bee-hives and barn door buttons. Few things were needed on the farm which could not be made or repaired in that shop. The cider mill challenged the boys' attention in the' autumn, when apples were brought by the cart load and dumped in huge piles on the ground, then carried in large baskets to the hopper, to be converted into pomace. The steady old horse turned the creaking mill. When the pomace was put into form and pressed, the sweet juice ran into tubs, which invited sampling. Cups and glasses were a barbarism; the only proper instrument for tasting and testing were the long bright straws. No sherry cobbler was ever so delicious as that new cider. It was good sport to hunt hens' eggs in obscure manger corners, on high haymows, or in the late outstanding grass; to see the swarming bees settle on a limb of the near peach tree, and watch the process of hiving them; to ride on the high loads of fragrant hay; to trap the shy woodchuck. and see his grit as a prisoner: to follow the harvester afield and stack the clean 26 Birthplace and Early Home. oat-sheaves in "shocks," and to see the same oats fly from under the ahernate flails. About the best of all were the huskin gs on the great barn floor. Here were at once activity and repose, individual excellence and social enjoyment. Every man had his stories to tell. The gray-haired grandfather recounted his early exploits, and told how his nimble feet used to trip those of heavier and stronger wrestlers. "Stand up a minute," he would say to his best hired man; and taking him by the collar and elbow, he would illustrate his youthful '"science," and send his man tottering across the floor. Hardly less was the sport of shearing time, when the boys were allowed to hold the shears and trim the sheep's fleecy legs. The shearing was preceded by a general sheep-washing at the bridge in the nearest cross road. It was "high- jinks" for the boys to stand waist deep in the water, pass along the swimming sheep, and give the larger lambs a useless bath by them- selves. I need not speak of the search for the delicious wild straw- berries, or the more profitable quest upon the stony hillsides for the genuine New England huckleberries. Peaches grew well in those past decades in the fertile back yard, and in many fields there were tempting crops of apples. In the corn fields grew fair broad pumpkins, pleasant to handle and a treat for the milch cows and fattening oxen. What sleek looking cows and oxen those were! All well cared for and carded down, with brass buttons to blunt and embellish their horns. My grandfather had some of the best oxen in the neighborhood. With his elder son to manage them, his "Bright" and "Buck" would well nigh outdraw a span of Norman horses. When two or three yokes were put together, all but the stoutest chains would snap. I have not spoken of the house. It was a large farmhouse, even for that region of houses. It was once a country inn, a cool resort for the tired summer traveller, a gathering place for rural recreations, a rendezvous for the militia men on training day. The owners of the house were successively "Captains." The great memory of the place was the sojourn of Rochambeau and his French troops in the Revolutionary war; how they acted the fine gentlemen, were as merry as became their nation, danced gaily with the ladies and made soft eyes at the eldest daughter of the house. She remained single through life, and in her later years was a helpless cripple; but her unbending dignity was graced and heightened by these youthful reminiscences. Her room, "Aunt Sarah's." was the pleasantest of the two great front rooms of the house. The other was the parlor, and A ^i,v?if- .'''■ '^'^*^-^^' f ■ ^aH- ••'v» V 'S*«f}i>jV*-^t3»- a < u o Ix -s^ m Lv.v iii'i, 'til II r ■^^^fe^ ti--'.„-'^-\J^.; o ^ 00 " z ■"I r« < f/1 > O « z o 5 ►J 3 m >i D O U (n n K z < !><; m w J H HH tn U w Z S w o Ph < o Q Z Birthplace and Early Home. 27 between them was a wide, old-fashioned hall and stair-case. There were but two rooms also in the rear of the main part, a dining room of great length and a large bed room. The dining room had two fire places, and a stately, solemn clock, full of mysteries. The long table was always populous, espe- cially at Thanksgiving time. No cooking was like that of my grand- mother's kitchen. The kitchen was large, of course; large enough lor a wide fire place, with its long, swinging crane, its pot-hooks and huge andirons, and its high jamb, whereunder a pretty large boy could stand to see how much he had grown in the last twelve months. Big logs were laid on the fire, which, like the temple fires of old, never expired. Lucifer matches were unknown in those days; the coaJs of hard wood were carefully covered with ashes for the night. When we returned home, after a two-days' Thanksgiving visit, we repaired to the neighbors' to relight our household altar. My grandfather had a saw about the kinds of wood to burn that ran as follows: Chestnut wood is not so good As walnut wood or oak, But it will burn and serve its turn, And make a dreadful smoke. At the kitchen table, early and late, sat the harvesters, including the men of the family. It was my great treat to sit there, too, and eat a bowl of fresh milk and the matchless rye and Indian bread. It was no easy matter to provide for that little farming community in the busy summer months. The early breakfast of the men, then the more leisurely one of the family; the lunches to prepare and send to the field, forenoon and afternoon; the double dinner for out-door workers and in-door; the tea in the dining room, and the men's supper in the kitchen; all this was enough to task the strongest and most ingenious housekeeper. There never was quite such another housekeeper as my stout, laughing, unwearied grandmother. None fared ill in her house; but children had dainty delights of their own: luscious bread and butter, doughnuts just out of their savory bath, incomparable turnovers, draughts of fresh and creamy milk — these were but a tithe of the things by which she knew how to reach the childish heart. The home of these was the long roomy buttery, where dwelt essences ■a.nd odors as from Araby the blest. A second pantry held rows of mince pies and jelly tumblers and cheeses, not from Araby to my perverse taste. But I liked to watch the curds pressed into thin round boxes, and to see the rims hardened and laid away in bright yellow 28 Birthplace and Early Home. rows. Pleasanter to see were the rolls of delicious golden butter, quickly and deftly shaped. Out on the kitchen ''stoop" dropped the ever running pipe of water from the hills; in this cool nook the curds were cut, and the butter worked over. The second story of the house was rich in bed rooms: three had been made out of the long dancing hall of the former inn, the partitions originally made to swing from hinges in the ceiling, so that the rooms could be thrown together when occasion demanded. In one of these I was put to rest: and in the winter the cold sheets were made tropical by the long-handled warming pan — sweetest of dreams were those which visited that childish pillow. In the summer morning I looked out on the sunrise, the dewy clover, and the ripen- ing grain, heard the larks at their matins, and drank in the pure fresh air. Of course, there was a garret in this large house, not a mere incident to it, but to my boyish notion its chief and crowning glory. Untold treasures were stored there; heirlooms from the past, and disused inventions of the present. There was the old-fashioned spinning wheel, which could still whirl merrily around. There were the stately "fire-dogs" of a former generation. Great chests and boxes lined the sides of the room, and happy were the hours devoted to ransacking them. The garret was a boon inestimable for the children's rainy days. But there was a garret above the garret, a sort of third heaven, to which admittance was rare. It was reached by a steep ladder, and had a floor of loose boards, and its own little windows in the apex of the roof. There were stored the most secret possessions of the house: walnuts and butternuts, bunche's of seed, sweet corn, thyme and savory, and all "simples that have virtue" in domestic medicine. The cellar formed a fit foundation for so manifold activities. In it were the finer vegetables for the table. At the foot of the stair- way were rows of swinging shelves for the red and golden apples. Here were to be seen the base of the great stone chimneys, which were strong enough to anchor a leaning tower. These immense chimneys took up no small part of the interior of the old-time houses. Enough as to the farm and the farmhouse. They were but the setting for the precious jewels, the human hearts and lives that found there a home. The head of the house was born on the spot and was a genuine son of the soil. Modest, yet self-reliant, kind to all, but a sturdy supporter of justice, well-balanced, full of uncommon common-sense, of strictest integrity, respected and loved by his The Andover House. Friim Photographs i\ 1905. Birthplace and Early Home. 29 neighbors, often an arbiter in personal differences, called not infre- quently to places of public trust; this plain New England gentleman was the type of a class that grows ever smaller in New England. It was from the best blood of the Puritans, and had the Puritan stead- fastness and energy, blended with the old English heartiness and the new English devotion to the welfare of others. Of my grandmother it is enough to say that she was a help- meet for such a husband: self- forgetting, generous, lovable, sensible, beneficent. Her descendants rise up and call her blessed. In my humble opinion, it is hard to find a finer type of character than that of the farmer and the farmer's wife. But on the New England hills it is passing away. This very farm has been abandoned to another style of occupant. One of the sons, after some mercantile ventures and roamings, settled down at home and toiled hard to relieve the hard-working sire. The younger daughter wrought with equal energy to lighten the indoor care. But in time the burden grew too great for them all, and they removed to a distant village home. Another son, to the grief of his father, who had thought his farm "large enough for both his boys," early broke from the trammels of so narrow a life and found his vocation in our great metropolitan city, there to spend his life in active business and wide-reaching charities. I lately passed the old spot on the new railway skirting the hills. The house does not look so large as it used to; the trees are thinned and a little dwarfed; the whole valley is somewhat neglected and degenerate. So passes away the glory of the home of the oldest families. But though these may have been displaced, their influence is not spent. In other villages and hamlets of other States, in thriving country seats and bustling young cities, in the great centres of life and trade, the New England blood is vital still, and quicker than of old in its movement, responsive to the new demands of an age more alert, but hardly more happy than that of the old New England farms. In such a home Norman White was born, and amid such surroundings he passed his childhood and his early youth. His companions in the household were his brother, Stanley, three years his senior, and his orphan cousin. Flavel White Bingham, the son of his father's sister, Fanny, who, as also her husband, died when their only son was but a few months old. Tliis cousin was less than two vears older than Norman. 30 Birthplace and Early Home. That boyish sports in that day were much the same as now is evident from the fact that Norman bore through Hfe upon his forehead a small scar caused by the blow of a hatchet unintentionally dealt him by this cousin, who was storming a rock fortress defended by the recipient of the accidental blow. This playmate and kinsman became in after years, in Cleveland, Ohio, a prominent citizen, a well known lawyer, and an honored judge, and was twice elected Mayor of that thriving and beautiful city. Norman was doubtless early initiated in the routine of the farm work that falls to the lot of boys — taking his turn in such duties as his nephew, Martin Kellogg, described in the sketch of the home: riding a horse to plow out corn, following the hay cart with the rake, driving the cows to and from pasture, and helping in winter to care for the stock. That he was a trustworthy boy may be inferred from the fact that his children remember hearing him speak of the pride that he felt at being sent, when only about fourteen years old, with a pair of oxen and a load of farm produce to the market in Hartford, a journey of nearly twenty miles. His early schooling was doubtless at the district school house, a little red building, which some of his children remember nearly thirty years later as standing by the side of the road near the bridge crossing the river, about half a mile east of his father's house. In the possession of his family are two mementos of these early school days. One is a broad sheet of paper, now gray with age, covered with beautifully written letters in both script and German text, expressing the homely but pungent maxims of the day, and ornamented by perfectly drawn circles and segments of circles in colors, red, green and yellow, once bright, but now faded, while in each upper corner is a gorgeous "bird of paradise." This triumph Birthplace and Early Home. 31 of penmanship by the hand of a boy corresponded to the elaborate and beautiful samplers toilfully embroidered by the girl of that period. It is signed at the bottom, "Norman White, Andover, Age 9." The other relic is a number of pages from a large copy book, covered with arithmetical problems and their solutions. As these range from "Tare and Trett" to "Geometrical Progression," and are in a handwriting as fine and clear as copper plate engraving, they indicate an age somewhat more advanced, and probably the advantages of some academy of higher character than the little country school house. Born of Christian parents, and trained under such family influences, he early acknowledged his religious respon- sibilities and became in his boyhood a member of the local church. It was a day in which it was assumed that a certain distinct phase of religious awakening must be experienced, indicating a conscious and almost instantaneous revolution in the spiritual nature, before one could be assured of having entered upon the Christian life; and it was not strange that, under such conviction, such experience was almost universal, even with children of the covenant, thoughtful and God-fearing froiu their earliest conscious years. In after life, Mr. White occasionally referred to a certain season of special interest, such as is termed a revival, as seeming to him to mark the turning point in his religious experience, saying, indeed, that he could remember just the hour when, as he supposed, he entered upon a truly Christian life. 2f2 Leaving Honw. II. LEAVING HOME. Happy as was his honie in that secluded farm hfe, he early felt dissatisfied with its limitations, and determined to seek a wider field of action. He was in his eighteenth year when, with the consent, if not the approbation of his parents, he left home to seek his own support and a knowledge of business and of the world. Hartford was the nearest city of any importance, and was familiar to him from frequent visits, either to dispose of the surplus products of his father's farm, or to obtain needed supplies. There he found a position as a clerk, but in what business or in whose employ, if ever known by his children, is not now remembered. There are recalled, however, refer- ences which he made to his employing his leisure evenings with a view to perfect his education, in a regular course of reading, and to his connection for a short period at least with a class for the study of French, which attempt was brought to an untimely end by the discovery of various small peculations of their Gallic teacher. From Hartford he soon removed to Providence, R. I., where he found a place in a retail book store ; and not long after, and before he was of age, he was from time to time left in entire control of the business. Removal to New York. 33 III REMOVAL TO NEW YORK. In 1827, when he was twenty-two years of age, he was invited by a cousin of his father's, Elihii White, to come to New York and assist him in his business. Mr. Elihu White was of the same age as Norman's father, and as he was born in Bolton, only a few miles from Andover, the cousins were doubtless intimate friends, which naturally resulted in his watching with interest the entrance of his young kinsman upon a business life, and in soon recognizing his ability and trust- worthiness. At this time, Mr. Elihu White had been settled in New York for about seventeen years. He was a man of marked ability and of inventive genius. He made valuable improvements in the art of type making, and in 1810 estab- lished a type foundry in New York, which, under different names, is still, after nearly a century, in existence. Later he engaged also in the book and publishing business, and it was to aid him in this latter undertaking that he invited his cousin's son to become his associate. It is interesting to note that these two branches of the family were, many years later, again united by the marriage of a grandson of the elder partner with a daughter of the younger. The place of business was No. 7 Wall Street, and the newcomer found a boarding place a few blocks away, at No. 4 Dey Street. The firm name was, at first, "White, Gallagher & White," but after the senior partner's elder son, John Trumbull White, became of age and entered the business, his father and Mr. Gallagher apparently withdrew from active participation, the firm continuing under the name of N. & J. 34 Removal to New York. White, and the business being- removed to io8 Pearl Street, where it was carried on successfully until, in 1837, the firm was dissolved. In those days, when New York was a comparatively small and somewhat homogeneous community, it was far easier than now for a young man coming to the city to form acquaintances, and, if his character and bearing commanded respect, to secure a circle of friends. This was the more certainly the case if, as in the present instance, the newcomer took an interest in social, philanthropic and religious matters, and became identified with one of the churches. Norman White appears very soon to have become a member of the Cedar Street Presbyterian Church, which in after years removing uptown, is now known as the Fifth Avenue Church. It is evident from his early identification with the Young Men's Bible Society that he soon became well known in connection with the religious activities of the day, especially those under the direction of the Presbyterian churches. David Low Dodge. Marriage. 35 IV. MARRIAGE. Mrs. White's Ancestry. It was doubtless through the interests above mentioned, as well as in connection with his business, that he made the acquaintance of the family of our grandfather. David Low Dodge. As through his wife the descendants of Norman White are also the descendants of Mr. Dodge, a few words as to his ancestry may properly enter into this record. We find in the "Memorials" of the late William E. Dodge, Senior, the brother of Mrs. Norman White, the following account of the family of their father: "David Low Dodge was descended from a Congregational minister, a man of some learning and wealth. His great-grandfather, David Dodge, received a Hberal education, apparently in England, and IS described as a man of large size, fine form and unusual strength. He married Anna Low, a lady of piety and accomplishments. They settled in Beverly, Massachusetts; but extravagant living exhausted an ample estate, and a commission in the army had to be obtained. Before leaving to take part in the old French war, when the British and American armies invaded Canada, the father apprenticed one of his two sons, then fifteen years of age, and the third David Dodge, to a respectable landholder, who was also a carpenter by trade. Later in life, this son, by the advice of his friend, old General Israel Putnam, became a manufacturer of army wagons in the Revolutionary War. He was paid in State and Continental paper-money, which afterwards depreciated and finally lost all value. He then devoted himself to farming. This was the grandfather of William E. Dodge.* His grandmother, when a girl, was known as Mary Stuart, her father being a refugee from Scotland. Ho is represented as 'a tall man, with light * And of Mary Abiah Dodge. 36 Marriage. complexion, sandy hair and black eyes, of gentlemanly manners and remarkable for the richness of his dress. He spoke French more fluently than English. Before his marriage he declared to the clergy- man that he was connected with the royal family of Stuarts, and that he and his friends were associated with those who claimed the crown.' No further information in this direction has been handed down. It is known, however, that about this time Cavaliers attached to the interests of the Stuarts visited the colonies, and that some settled here. During a happj' married life of several years, this gentleman visited France once or twice. From his last voyage he did not return, and his wife died from grief.* Their only child, Mary Stuart, married as her second husband in 1768 David Dodge, and became the mother of David Low Dodge." Mr. Dodge, at the time that Nomian White made the acquaintance of his family, was a merchant in New York, with a store in Maiden Lane. He was an elder in the Laight Street Presbyterian Church, of which the well known Dr. Samuel Hanson Cox was the pastor. He was a man of unusual force of character, and of a high order of intelligence. Although engaged constantly in active business, either as a manufacturer or a merchant, he was the author of several books, which at the time attracted much attention. One of these, entitled, ''War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ," was the earliest publication on that topic issued in this country, excepting such as may have come from the Society of Friends. His wife, Sarah * 'Of this marriage, there was only one child. She was born in the homestead in Killingly. Her father named her 'Mary,' after Mary, Queen of Scotland, as being her descendant. The fact was well known that she was named for Mary of Scotland, whose descend- ants were the legitimate heirs of the throne. Stuart was tall and stout, of light complexion and a commanding countenance; the sandy trait in your grandmother's family was doubtless derived from him. For myself, one-half of the evidence would command belief that the person was of a prominent branch of that .Scottish family, heirs of the British throne. Mary was a beautiful child and a great favorite." — From a letter written in 1832 by Rev. Joshua Spalding, a grandson of Mary Stuart's mother. ^w p P < P- < r- ■ U Sl- UQ '^ 3 c 5 1 1 ci.Vi lt.li ' John Uoct^e/ji t. , idch. Dodge S^'S '""'7" , 5 c? 1- a. 1 "^ II I 1 -J r-, c C5 'I ^ , t3> -" i= CA ''a-:S":^ §' LI f § CA 1 ,jR i;3- 1 -c- ^ •a .1 O 3 ^ Oci ' r:^. ., \^a.../lLJ......A^.'W:,.^ P> 2. 1 ^ ^av^nru. \)Jini- - '^ 0-" T/.i-'M/'A-^ .. i>.u»Z VVo.lrt^ ■T3- c-t- C» r ^^ 55 o 1 P3 i 5^ e. .,-n +. 'f /D^ A.Mh./. John. rar/>/-a^. "i^ rtvi.-s ^3tn. OoiKirarTir '^i* 3^a,llr^J-^,.'DruTl — '"1 p i^ Jok<-"-Coa.k Aaron ^cM^-5iB«iTffi7»J»-^ d^.Acrc^Cc,iL.M. lrS:'WeJji'o.A_r~ LS Tn,,,.H,„., !V\'rirUll ^ >*- 3 3 5 5 [—, -- -■ ^•-■.■. ' ^ -- 1: ^ 5' f- jQh<. Lee IJtOi.Jjee-XneDt D>-o»n. Morg.jpoit Jonnioir-Beirer n^a-e. Src^u.'-P.it'^ ^'H- A'^Hi'^f.-^ rc ^ Ui Hi If p a. 5- /I Tin , -r,T ZJ. 1 c,^! P.i^,.., 'EdiMtra Hai-qk Ca^Jokr'no*• < Pi Q o Grace Stanley White. 147 Connecticut, November 7th, 1783; (5) Samuel, born in Green- wich, Connecticut, January 22(1, 1739, died there Alarch 21st, 1798; (6) Jared, born February 27th, 1773, died May, 1842: (7) James Hervey, born February 20th, 1800, died at Port Chester, New York, April 22d, 1872, who was the father of Mrs. Jeanette E. (Peck) Davis, and grandfather of Henr>' Brooks Davis. Henry Brooks Davis is the head of the firm of Davis & Robinson, Real Estate Brokers, of New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have three children: (i) Helen Arthur, born August 19th, 1896. (2) Daniel Hamilton Brooks (second), born January 9th, 1898. (3) Wellesley Parsons (a daughter), born June 22d, 1905. VH. GRACE STANLEY WHITE. Grace Stanley, tenth child and sixth daughter of Norman and Mary Abiah (Dodge) White, was born at No. 4 Gramercy Park, New York, April 4th, 1845. She married, October 17th, 1866, Henry Gaylord Starin, of Auburn, New York. Henry Gaylord Starin was born in Auburn, July 8th, 1844, and is of Dutch descent. His father, Josiah Nelson Starin, was the son of Henry Wemple and Chloe (Gaylord) Starin, and was the fifth in line from Nicholas Ster, who came from the Province of Guelderland, Holland, in Y6g6, and settled in the Mohawk A'alley. where he bought a large tract of land. Henry Wemple Starin's maternal grandfather, Hendrick Wemple, also from Holland, was one of the twelve original proprietors of the Alanor of Schenectady. Josiah Nelson 148 Grace Stanley White. Starin's mother, Chloe Gaylord, belonged to the old New England family of that name, who were among the first settlers of Dorchester and Windsor, Connecticut. Through Anna Porter, who in 1643 o^ 1644 married William Gaylord, an ancestor, Chloe Gaylord was descended from John Porter of Windsor, who married Anna, daughter of Robert White of Messing. England, and doubly descended through William and Chloe's son, William, who married Ruth Crow, daughter of John Crow and Elizabeth Goodwin, who was a great-granddaughter of the same Robert White. In this way, Henry Gaylord Starin and Grace Stanley White had in Robert White of Messing a common ancestor. Chloe Gay- lord also numbered among her progenitors the Rev. John Davenport, one of the original colonists of New Haven, Connecticut, and one of the founders of Yale College, whose granddaughter, Elizabeth Davenport, married the fifth William Gaylord, Ruth Crow's grandson and Chloe's great-grandfather. Henry Gaylord Starin's mother was Andalucia Henry, for whose family he was named. She was the daughter of Nicholas and Esther (Candee) Henry, and belonged to a branch of the same family as Patrick Henry, of Revolutionary fame. Her mother, Esther Candee, claimed descent from Jean de Conde, a friend and follower of Admiral Coligny, with whom he was associated at the time of the St. Bartholomew massacre. Escaping to England, and being provided for by Queen Elizabeth, his grandson, John Candee, came to New England in 1639, and settling in Boston, became the founder of the American family. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gaylord Starin, after their mar- riage, lived for five years in Auburn, in the home of Mr. Starin's parents, he being connected with a bank in that city. In December, 1871, they came to New York, where Mr. Starin Grace Stanley White. 149 became associated in business with his brother-in-law, Charles Trumbull White. Later, this firm was dissolved, and in 1883 he entered into business relations with John Wyeth & Brother, Manufacturing Chemists, in Philadelphia, with which firm he is still connected as Secretary of the company. For a number of years, the home of Mr. and Mrs. Starin has been in Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia. Children of Henry Gaylord and Grace Stanley (White^ Starin. 1. Helen Clement, born September 6th, 1867. 2. Georgiana Gaylord, born October ist, 1872. 3. Arthur Nelson, born September 29th, 1875. 4. Mary Beatrice, born July 5th, 1883.* 2. Georgiana Gaylord, second daughter of Henry Gaylord and Grace Stanley (White) Starin, married, June 19th, 1894, Dr. Robert Lucas Pitfield. Dr. Pitfield was born in Germantown, Pa., February 28th, 1870, and is the son of Benjamin Henry and Francis (Pleasants) Pitfield, both of whom were birthright members of the Society of Orthodox Friends, Benjamin's mother, Elizabeth, being a well known preacher in the old Twelfth Street Meeting of Philadelphia. The following romantic incident is related in the family history: "A pretty story is told of Benjamin's grandparents, Benjamin Pitfield and Grace Lucas. Benjamin was an officer in His Majesty George the Third's army during the Revolutionary War, and while stationed in the suburbs of Philadelphia, he used to see Grace ride in from the country on a pillion behmd her father. The gay young * The engagement of Mary Beatrice Starin to Thomas Wistar, son of Edward Morris Wistar, of Philadelphia, has been (1905) announced. 150 Grace Stanley White. officer lost his heart to the demure Httle Quaker maiden, but his suit was frowned upon by the stern old father, who did not wish so worldly a son-in-law. Whereupon an elopement was planned and carried out, with the aid of a rope ladder from Grace's window and a fleet steed, the runaway couple securing the aid of a dominie before they were caught by father Lucas, who then had nothing to do but to give them his blessing, which he did, adding tlie household silver, which is still in the family. It is said that, of the sons, all followed in their mother's footsteps, and became strict Friends, while the daughters preferred the Church of England, to which their father belonged." Robert Lvicas Pitfield graduated from the Friends School at Westover, Pennsylvania, and from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, taking his degree of M. D. in May, 1892. He served a year as "Intern" in the German Hospital in Philadelphia, and in May, 1893, entered upon the practice of medicine in Germantown, Penn- sylvania, where, with his family, he still resides. Dr. and Mrs. Pitfield have had five children: (i) An infant son, born April 25th, 1895; died April 26th, 1895. (2) Georgiana Gaylord, born April 21st, 1896. (3) Dorothy Peniberton, born September 9th, 1897; died January 6th, 1898. (4) Helen Clement, born October 15th, 1899. (5) Robert Lucas, Jr., born June 9th, 1902. Although their father has never resigned his member- ship in the Society of }^>iends, the children have all been baptized in the Presbyterian Church. 3. Arthur Nelsoji, third child and only son of Henry Gaylord and Grace Stanley (White) Starin, entered Princeton University in 1893, but, owing to temporary ill health, with- drew the following spring. In October, 1894, he entered the Penn National Bank of Philadelphia, where he remained until FRF.nERicK Barnard White. Frederick Barnard White. 151 April, 1899, when he became connected with the Philadelphia National Bank. He remained there until March, 1904, when he accepted a position in the treasurer's office of "The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company," which he still (1905) holds. He married, June 2d, 1900, Laura Corse Pitfield, a sister of his brother-in-law, Dr. Pitfield. Mrs. Starin was born November 30th, 1873, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She was brought up in the Society of Friends, but after her marriasre united with the Presbyterian Church. Her mother, Frances Pleasants Pitfield, was the daughter of Caleb and Martha (Reeve) Pleasants, both of whose ancestors had been Friends for many generations. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur N. Starin have one son : Henry Gaylord, Jr., born November nth, 1902. VHL FREDERICK BARNARD WHITE. Frederick Barnard, fifth son and eleventh child of Norman White and only child of Anna Hale (Barnard) White, was born at No. 2 West Thirty-sixth Street, New York, February nth, 1862. He prepared for college in New York and graduated at Princeton University in 1883. Early in his college course, he became interested in the study of architecture, and spent all of his spare hours in reading upon the subject. Having, as it proved, great natural ability in the direction of this branch of art, coupled with a practical and forceful character, he commenced, while still an under- graduate, to practice in what soon proved to be his chosen profession. Sundry small commissions in connection with altera- tions and improvements of buildings at Princeton came to his 152 Frederick Barnard White. hand, and by the knowledge he had acquired, not only from books, but practically from all sorts of manufacturers and artizans, he was able to carry these out satisfactorily, and to open a way to larger work. In his junior year he received his first actual commission, involving the enlargement of a hotel, and the building of a cottage. Upon graduating, he became a pupil of Professor Ware of Columbia College, and also entered the office of Potter, Robertson & Lord, to perfect himself in the routine of his professional work. He soon opened an office of his own, and almost immediately obtained commissions which fully occupied all of his time. In October, 1884, he was elected a member of the American Institute of Architects, probably the youngest candidate ever admitted. During the following year, commissions were constant, and work pressed heavily upon him. His strength and vital energy were too heavily taxed, but, like many another ambitious and conscientious youth, he did not recognize the fact that his health was being surely and rapidly undermined. In December, 1885, he was prostrated with an attack of pneumonia, and from that date he rapidly failed, until May 22d, 1886, when he passed away, at the early age of twenty- four. Few young men have made such rapid progress in professional work as was permitted to him. Not only had he designed and built a large number of cottages and several more pretentious buildings, but his work from its artistic merit had attracted the attention of men prominent in his profession. His drawings were exhibited at the Salmagundi, the Frederick Barnard IVliite. 153 Academy and the Architectural League exhibitions, and the winter before his death the Boston Art Ckib had requested the loan of his Academy pictures for the spring exhibition, when they were noticed with commendation. The following record upon the minutes of the Architectural League indicates the esteem in which he was held: "The Architectural League of New York is, with sorrow, called upon to record the loss of a gifted and promising member, Frederick B. White, whose high ideals and singularly bright and attractive nature had earned for him the respect and atYection of those who knew him. While yet a student at Princeton College, and without any special architectural training, he gave indications of unusual fitness for the profession he chose, and into the independent practice of which circumstances forced him at an earlier age than he would himself, perhaps, ha\e chosen. At the age of twenty-five, and only three years after he had bid adieu to his Alma Mater, he had already designed and executed, besides many smaller buildings, a number of important works, the excellent qualities of which seemed to promise a brilliant future. In his death the profession loses a practitioner who took a serious and lofty view of his art, and the League a brilliant member." In another notice of his death, the following words are used: "To the manual dexterity of the draughtsman and the inven- tiveness of the designer, he added the judgment of the man of culture and the organizing ability of the man of afYairs, and so seemed to possess most of the qualities which the true architect should have. His professional enthusiasms were justly balanced, and the standard by which he measured his own work a high one. "flis remarkable success in the practice of his profession was due partly to his amiability and winning manners, which won for him a host of friends and clients, and also to his indefatigable industry, natural taste and special aptitude for construction. "So far as he had gone, he was master of his profession, and the self-confidence that this gave, united with a naturally decisive temper, nispired in his clients the great personal confidence and respect which lay at the bottom of his success. This was enhanced by the 154 Descendants of Norman White. orderly way he conducted his affairs and the carefully elaborated system upon which his office was carried on. "His ability and force, and the capacity for enjoyment that made it delightful to have to do with him in any of the relations of life, admirable as they were, are hardly to be held up for imitation, for these things are gifts of nature. But in his modesty, high- mindedness, perfect truthfulness and sincerity, and in the generous pursuit of every means of self-improvement, he was a model and an example." Reviewing this account of the descendants of Norman White, we find that to the present time (1905) they have ntimbered eiglity- three, viz., eleven children, thirty-two grand- children, and forty great-grandchildren. If to this number we add the names of those who have married descendants — viz., twenty-one — the total is one hundred and four. As illustrative of the interweaving of the ancestral lines of New England families, to which reference has been previously made, it is interesting to notice that in at least seven different instances of marriages above recorded, the husband and wife find themselves descended from a common ancestor. 1. Norman White's fir.st wife, Mary Abiah Dodge, through her mother was the great-great-granddaughter of the Rev. Aaron Porter, who was directly descended from John Porter of Windsor, Connecticut, whose wife was Anna White, daughter of Robert White of Messing, England. 2. Benjamin Lee and Emma Hale White were both, through different lines, great-great-grandchildren of Joel White, of Bolton, Connecticut. 3. Charles Coit Johnson, through his great-great- grandmother, Lydia Cleveland, was descended from Moses Cleveland, who was an ancestor in the same degree of Julia Cleveland White, his wife. Descendants of A'orman JJliitc. 155 4. Georgiana Starin, wife of Charles Trumbull White, through her grandmother, Chloe Gaylord, was descended, through both William Gaylord and John Crow, from Robert White, both of them having married granddaughters of his. 5. Henry Gaylord Starin, who married Grace Stanley White, held to her the same relationship. 6. In the next generation, Sophie Douglass Young, who married Gaylord S. White, was, through her father, descended from James Hyde, who was also, as a great-grand- father of Mary Abiah Dodge, an ancester of Gaylord's. 7. Frank Gardner Moore, who married Anna Barnard White, was, through his mother, descended from William Gaylord, who married Anna Porter, a daughter of John Porter, who married Anna, daughter of Robert White. In closing this record of ancestral lines, the Editor may be permitted to express the hope, which he is confident wall be echoed by all of his kinsmen and kinswomen, that it may not be without value as an encouragement and incentive in the lives of those who now are, or who may be hereafter, numbered among the descendants of XoRMAN White. ^ COFV I NOV 27 909