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CHAPTER VI.

THE CITY OF BRIDGEPORT.
(continued).
UBLIC parks constitute a noticeable feature
|L of the city of Bridgeport. The extent of ter
ritory in them, with the public greens — three
in all — is about two hundred and forty acres,
—Seaside Park having about one hundred,
Beardsley Park about one hundred and
twenty-five, and Washington Park, Pem
broke avenue — Old Mill Green — and the
Parade Ground, over fifteen more. This
extent of park territory gives one acre to
every 170 persons of the city, if there are,
as supposed, 40,000 inhabitants in it, which
is, probably, a larger park area to the num
ber of inhabitants than in any city in the
United States, and hence the propriety of
the name " Park City." It is said that " the
park system of Chicago, 111.,1 is one of the most extensive in
the world." It has 1,850 acres of parks to 500,000 inhabitants,
or about one acre to 330 persons, and therefore Bridgeport
has nearly double the acreage of parks to the number of in
habitants that Chicago has, and is so far ahead of that city.
Seaside Parle lies along the shore of the Sound in the
southern part of the city, about one mile from the post office,
on State street. Public attention was first directed to the
shore of Long Island Sound, in front of the city of Bridgeport,
as an appropriate and picturesque place for a city park, by
the encampment of the seventeenth regiment upon it in the
summer of 1862, and the experiments of General Gillmore
with the Ames gun in the same locality two years later. On

1 The Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. v, 613,

Seaside Park. jjj
October i, 1863, an article in the "Standard" urged the
importance of one or more public parks for the city, and on
September 9, 1864, another article in the same journal rec
ommended the purchase of this tract of land for such a pur
pose, describing it in the following graphic terms:
" It is a beautiful piece of land, free from rocks, skirted
for a considerable part of the way on the north by fine forest
trees, and bounded on the south for its entire length by the
sparkling waters of the Sound. From this water-front, which
is cool and pleasant in the hottest days, a picturesque and
enchanting water view is obtained. On the left, as we stand
facing the harbor, is the city, with its tall spires and chimneys
pointing skyward from among the trees; the harbor, dotted
with its sailing craft, and the wooded point opposite, with its
cottages ; to the west the green, sloping shores of Black Rock
stretch far around to the lighthouse. Far away to the south,
across the Sound, rise the hills of Long Island in picturesque
beauty, while upon the intervening, placid waters, float a
constant panorama of white-sailed vessels, passing up and
down these blue waters of the Sound."
These articles attracted the attention of leading citizens,
who began to move in the matter, and Mr. Frederick Hurd
called on the owners of the land and secured their pledges to
give a number of acres for the purposes of a park. Messrs,
Phineas T. Barnum and James C. Loomis favored the enter
prise from the first, and the former, especially, pushed it with
his usual energy. Early in November, 1864, a survey of the
land was made by E. R. Lambert and George Beckwith, and
a map of it hung in the post office, showing the area of the
proposed park to be about thirty-five acres, thirteen of which
were located in the town of Bridgeport, and the remainder
within the territory since annexed, but at that time a part of
the township of Fairfield. Additions were made to this ter
ritory in 1868, for the purposes of a trotting park, so that there
were about seventy acres, and the whole was gradually im
proved from year to year until the autumn of 1884, when Mr.
P. T. Barnum gave nearly thirty acres more, by which the
area and boulevard are extended west to Black Rock Harbor.
This boulevard will eventually be one of the most beautiful

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and charming in the nation. The trotting course within this
park is one of the finest of the kind, being an amphitheatre
from eight to fifteen feet below the carriage bed of the boule
vard, and the track passing around a placid lake, the surface
of which is about on a level with the water of the Sound out
side the boulevard.
Two monuments already grace this park, very appropri
ately ; the one is the soldiers' monument and the other the
statue of Elias Howe, Jr., the inventor; the latter was a
present to the city upon condition that it should furnish an
appropriate pedestal, which it did, and the statue was placed
upon it, facing the ocean, in the autumn of 1884. The loca
tion of it is very fitting and advantageous in every respect.
The soldiers' monument is the pride of the city, for, while
it is not the most expensive of its kind, nor grand in magni
tude, it is beautiful, appropriate, elegant as a work of art, and
gives great satisfaction to all the people. It is a monument
to all the soldiers in the late war, although but the names of
those who died during the war are inscribed upon it. This
monument was secured by the ladies' Soldiers' Monument
Association, aided by a special appropriation by the town of
Bridgeport, and cost about $30,000. At the close of the late
war the Soldiers' Aid Society, composed of more than one
hundred and fifty women, which had done a great and noble
work during the war, resolved itself into the Soldiers' Mon
ument Association, and by a most successful career they
raised more than $10,000, to which was added by the town
about §18,500, and with this united sum the society placed in
the park the very satisfactory monument as it now stands.
The Beardsley Parle is located in the northeastern
part of the city, bordering on, the Pequonnock river and lake,
and 'contains in all over one hundred and twenty-five acres of
beautiful and appropriate territory, rich in soil and varied in
its scenery. The Housatonic railroad passes on the opposite
or western side of the lake, and there will eventually be a
station to accommodate picnic parties and others in visiting
the park, and soon the horse railroad will be extended north
ward to the southern end of the park, when all the city can
reach it with ready and easy facility.

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The land contained in this park was donated by Mr.
James W. Beardsley to the city upon certain conditions of
improvement within a certain number — a few only — of years,
which conditions have thus far been met, and there is not the
least fear of failure in completing the same. The land — every
acre of it — was purchased by Mr. Beardsley at different times
and was no part of the old homestead which descended to
him from his uncle, James Walker. The greater part of
this land now included in the park was laid out originally to
Robert Walker in 1715, and held in the Walker family nearly
one hundred years, when it was sold, and after some years
was purchased by Mr. Beardsley, and by him cultivated as a
part of his farm a number of years and then given to the city,
as above stated. The homestead which descended to him
through his mother, Betsey Walker, daughter of James Wal
ker, Jr., who married Elisha H. Beardsley, father of James
W., is now Mr. Beardsley's residence, kept very choicely as
the home of his ancestors for three generations, or since 1739.'
" The site of the Beardsley Park, compared with the
Seaside Park, is elevated, broad, of diversified surface,
and naturally of a pastoral, sylvan, and idyllic aspect. Al
though it commands a distant view of the sea, its best and
most characteristic outlook is over a great landscape in the
opposite direction. Except when broken by ledges of rock,
the modeling of its surface is large, simple, and graceful, and
the outcropping ledges present valuable elements and oppor
tunities for producing picturesque incidents. Fine views are
to be had from the upper part of Walker's Hill, especially to
the northward, eastward, and southward. At the north end
of Walker's Hill there is a prominent, smooth-topped ledge,
upon which people standing will have before them a rarely
beautiful prospect, the finest from the park.'"
Acceptance of the Park by the City.
"Office of the City Clerk, Bridgeport, April iS, 1S78.
James W. Beardsley, Esq.: —
Dear Sir.— At a meeting of the Common Council of Bridgeport, held on
Monday, March 25, 1S78, the following Resolutions, offered by Councilman Mid-
dlebrook, were adopted :
1 See page 91 of this book.
3 Extract from the Report of the Landscape Architects, F. L. and J. C. Olm-
stead, September, 1S84.

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Resolved, That the heartfelt thanks of the Cily of Bridgeport are due to and
are hereby, through their representatives, the Common Council of said City,
tendered to their fellow citizen, James W. Beardsley, for his magnificent gift to
the City of a public Park, and that the appreciation of this body and of the public
of his public spirit, may be perpetuated, it is further
Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the City Records, and a copy
thereof be presented to Mr. Beardsley.
Attest, Bernard Keating, Cily Clerk!'
Mr. James Walker Beardsley, son of Elisha H. and
Betsey (Walker) Beardsley, has been a farmer all his life, and
is still actively engaged in the same. He is a native of the
town of Monroe, where his father pursued the same occupa
tion, and is descended in regular line from William Beardsley,
one of the first settlers of Stratford ; and on his mother's
side from the Rev. Peter Prudden, of Milford, by his great
great great grandmother, Abigail Prudden ; also from the
Rev. Richardson Minor, of Unity, by her mother, Prudence
Minor, wife of Philip Benjamin, as also through his mother's
father, from Robert Walker, one of the founders of the Old
South Church, of Boston, in 1669. Mr. Beardsley is not only
interested in his ancestry, searching them out by diligent
inquiry, but has carefully preserved many old manuscripts
and books which have been of much assistance in presenting
a number of items in this history in a much more correct
form than they otherwise could have been.
It cannot be doubted that he takes great satisfaction in
seeing the improvements which the city is making from year
to year in the Beardsley Park, and to which he gives consid
erable attention by way of consultation by special request of
the Park Commissioners. Officers of the Bridgeport National Bank.*
Munson Hawlcy, President; F. N. Benham, Cashier; Directors: Munson
Hawley, Thomas B. Bartram, Plumb N. Fairchild, Carlos Curtis, Thomas B-
DeForest, David M. Read, John M. Wheeler, Rowland B. Lacey, Frank N.
Benham.

4 This list of officers should have appeared on page 142 of this book, in con
nection with the history of the bank to which they belong.

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The City Savings JirtH/c— The petition for the incorporation of the
City Savings Bank, of Bridgeport, was drawn up and presented to the legislature
by D. F. Hollister, and a charter was granted for the institution in May, 1859. At
the first meeting of the corporators, held at the city council rooms July 16, 1859,
the following officers were elected: President, Hanford Lyon; Vice-Presidents,
Russell Tomlinson, D. II. Sterling, Ira Gregory, D. W. Thompson ; Secretary and
Treasurer, S, M. Middlebrook ; Trustees, Sherman Hartwell, P.C.Calhoun, Hor
ace Nichols, D. F. Hollister, George P. Stockwell, Stephen Lounsbury, H. N.
Hayes, John Brooks, A. A. Pettengill, E. B. Goodsell, Burr Knapp, R. T. Clarke,
Thomas Hawley, Josiah Baylies, and S. C. Booth.
To commence business rooms were hired on Wall street, near the corner of
Water, and several of the trustees deposited one hundred dollars each in the new
bank. Two of these accounts, those of Horace Nichols and George P. Stockwell,
are still open. Two others, those of Hanford Lyon and Josiah Baylies, were
allowed to accumulate for about twenty-four years, and when closed amounted to
nearly $400 each, the increase being due to interest solely, no additional deposit
having been made. In this connection it may be mentioned that the sum total of
the fifty-three dividends declared by the bank from January, i860, to January,
1886, is about $1,700,000. Mr. Middlebrook continued to act as treasurer until his
death, in 1S83, and to his prudence and fidelity the success of the bank was largely
due. He was a man highly respected in this and adjoining communities. Soon
after the decease of Mr. Middlebrook the trustees made choice of William B.
Hincks as treasurer, and William N. Middlebrook as secretary.
Mr. Lyon died in 1879, and was succeeded as president by Ira Gregory, who
died in 1S83. Horace Nichols, who is now president of the bank, has been one of
its officers for nearly twenty-seven years, and has witnessed its increase until its
depositors number over 6,300, and its assets amount to about $2,400,000.
An interesting event in the history of the bank was the run, which took place
February 17th and 1S1I1, 1877, during which about $150,000 was drawn out by
depositors who had become alarmed without any apparent cause. AH calls were
promptly met by Mr. Middlebrook, the treasurer, the bank being kept open two
hours later than usual for the purpose. Offers of loans from individuals and
institutions to the amount of nearly a million dollars were declined, the help not
being needed.
About the beginning of the year 18S4 it was felt by the trustees that the rooms
on Wall street which had hitherto been rented for banking purposes, though
twice enlarged, had become entirely inadequate, and that the City Savings Bank
should possess a permanent home of its own. After careful deliberation it was
decided to purchase one-half the lot of the Bridgeport National Bank, on the
corner of Main and Bank streets, and that both institutions should unite in erecting
a structure to be known as the United Bank building, of Bridgeport. Messrs. Nich
ols, Hollister and Hincks were appointed a building committee on the part of the
City Savings Bank, to cooperate with Messrs. Read, Wheeler and DeForest, the
committee of the Bridgeport National Bank, and full powers were given to them by
the trustees. The utmost care was taken by the committee ; all the leading build
ings in New York City, and not a few in New England, were visited, with a view
of combining as many desirable features as possible in the new edifice. Plans
embodying these features were prepared by W. R. Briggs, architect, and on the
37th of August, 1884, contracts were signed. Sixteen months later, on December
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15, 1885, the building was fully completed and occupied for business. The cost
of the ncrjh half, which is owned and occupied by the City Savings Bank, includ
ing land, furniture and its massive fire and burglar proof vault, is some $43,000,
upon which amount the rentals received yield a return of about four and a half
per cent. The new banking rooms are well lighted, heated and ventilated, and
may safely be said to be second to none in New England in point of convenience
and beauty of fitting up, while their location is the best in the city.
Following are the officers of the City Savings Bank for the year 1886 : Presi
dent, Horace Nichols; Vice-Presidents, D. F. Hollister, David M. Read, Court-
land Kelsey, John M. Wheeler; Treasurer, William B. Hincks; Secretary, Wil
liam N. Middlebrook ; Trustees, Horace F. Hatch, F. W. Parrott, Burr Curtis,
C. K. Averill, Levi B. Booth, George P. Stockwell, D. F. Hollister, Horace
Nichols, George K. Birdsey, Edwin Banks, David M. Read, John M. Wheeler,
Edward A. Lewis, Courtland Kelsey, W. N. Middlebrook, William B. Hincks ;
Bookkeeper and Teller, Willard S. Plumb.

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Tlie People's Savings Bank, represented in the above cut was organ
ized in May, i860, under the laws of the Slate of Connecticut, with the following
persons as corporators, " by the name, style and title of the People's Savings Bank
of Bridgeport, Conn. :" Nathaniel Wheeler, James C. Loomis, Sherwood Sterling
Ira Sherman, P. C. Calhoun, George B. Waller, Frederick Wood, Samuel B
Ferguson, Robert T. Clarke, Abijah Hawley, Thomas Ransom, James Daskam'
Elbert E. Hubbell, William G. Lineburgh. William H. Perry, HenT Bur, and*
Bridgeport Banks. 339
Stephen Hawley. The action of the legislature was approved June 15, i860, and
on the secor.d day of July following, at four o'clock P. M., the following corpora
tors met at the office of Sherman and Marsh for the purpose of organization :
P. C. Calhoun, Ira Sherman, George B. Waller, Frederick Wood, Samuel B.
Ferguson, Robert C. Clarke, Abijah Hawley, Thomas Ransom, James Daskam,
Elbert E. Hubbell, William G. Lineburgh, Henry Burr and Stephen Hawley.
P. C. Calhoun was chosen chairman, and Stephen Hawley, secretary. Stephen S.
Booth and G. Bradley Sanford were voted in as corporators. The following offi
cers were elected for the ensuing year: Ira Sherman, President ; George B. Wal
ler, Vice-President ; Stephen Hawley, Treasurer ; and Abijah Hawley. Thomas
Ransom, Nathaniel Wheeler, S. B. Ferguson, James Daskam, Elbert E. Hubbell,
William G. Lineburgh, William H. Perry, G. Bradley Sanford, and Stephen S.
Booth, a Board of Trustees. A seal was adopted with the inscription. People's
Savings Bank, of Bridgeport.
Rooms over the Pequonnock Bank were rented and the first loan made July
g, i860, which was on a house and lot on Myrtle avenue, and on July I, 1861, the
first semi-annual dividend was declared, which was three per cent.
In addition to the above the following named persons have served as corpo
rators : Samuel W. Baldwin, Egbert Marsh, William E. Seeley, D. W. Kissam,
Edward W. Marsh, Stephen S. Booth (deceased), G, Bradley Sanford (deceased),
Russell Tomlinson (deceased), Philo H. Skidmore (removed), Salem H. Wales
(removed), Charles B. Hotchkiss, Francis W. Marsh, Eli C. Smith, John E. Pond,
William H.Rockwell. Ira Sherman, the first president, died in May, 1S69, and
was succeeded by George B. Waller, the first vice-president, and is still the presi
dent of the bank, having occupied that position nearly seventeen year?.
In July, 1869, William G. Lineburgh was elected first vice-president and
William E. Seeley, second vice-president. The former resigned his position as
vice-president and trustee in 187S, and Mr. Seeley was elected first vice-president,
which position he still holds, and James Daskam was elected second vice-presi
dent, and continued in that office until his decease, in November, 1S79. In the
December following Russell Tomlinson was elected second vice-president, and
served until his decease, in April, 1885. Mr. Egbert Marsh, the present incum
bent was elected second vice-president in July, 1885.
Mr. Stephen Hawley, the first secretary and treasurer, died in November, zS6i,
and Mr. Egbert Marsh was elected to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the year.
In January, 1862, Courtland Kelsey was elected secretary and treasurer, and
served until May, 1862, when he resigned, and Philip E. Lockwood was chosen
his successor. He resigned in June, 1864, and was succeeded by Mr. J. F. Han
ford, who served until 1S6S, when he resigned. At the January meeting Mr.
Egbert Marsh was elected secretary and treasurer, and served thirteen years,
when, in July, 1881, his resignation was reluctantly accepted. His successor was
Mr. Francis W. Marsh, who had been several years teller of the bank, and he
resigned, (o take effect June I, 1886, and Edward W. Marsh has been elected to
this position.
On January 1, 1872, Mr. Homer S. Curtis was appointed the first teller in this
bank, but found it necessary to resign in July, 1873, on account of ill health. He
was succeeded by Mr. Francis W. Marsh until July, 1S81, when he was elected
secretary and treasurer, and Mr. Orange Merwin succeeded him as teller. He
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appointed his successor. Messrs. F. W. Marsh and Orange Merwin retire from
this bank, having associated with them Mr. H. C. Lemmon, for the purpose of
doing a general insurance and banking business, with a safe deposit vault.
The present officers are: President, George B. Waller; first Vice-President,
William E. Seeley; second Vice-President, Egbert Marsh; Secretary and Treas
urer, Francis W. Marsh ; Teller, Orange Merwin.
The Board of Trustees are : Samuel W. Baldwin, Edward W. Marsh, D. W.
Kissam, Eli C. Smith, John E. Pond, Elbert E. Hubbell, C. B. Hotchkiss, William
H. Rockwell, Henry Alwaler, F. A. Bartram.
In December, 1864, this bank purchased the lot on the corner of Main and
Bank streets, and in 1870 erected the building on it which it now occupies, the
bank being located in the front rooms, on the second Moor. The First National
Bank have rented the first floor, and the remaining portion of the building is
rented lor various purposes.
The bank has 5,000 depositors. Its investments are carefully selected under
a conservative management, and its officers, to whom this trust is committed, and
upon whom the responsibility of its prosperity depends, represent many of the
important financial institutions and industries of the city.
The First National Sank, of Bridgeport, is located on the corner of
Main and Bank streets, and was organized March 18, 1864 ; being a successor to
the Farmer's Bank. At the organization Mr. Edmund S. Hawley was elected
president, and William E. Seeley, cashier, and they still occupy the same posi
tions. The following persons have served as directors, the terms indicated by
the dates, those with the dates 1886 are still in office : Edmund S. Hawley, March,
1864, to 1886 ; Asahel L. Lyon, March, 1864 to 1874 ; Henry Beers Glover, March,
1864, to March, 1870 ; Salem H. Wales, March, 1864, to August, 1867 ; Lewis W.
Burritt, March, 1864, to 1878 ; Allison A. Pettengill, March, r864, to 1867 ; Rus
sell Tomlinson, March, 1864, to 1885 ; Samuel B. Ferguson, March, 1864, to 1873 ;
Bartlett Dotcn, March, 1S64, to 1869 ; William E. Seeley, August, 1867, to 1886 ;
Horace Nichols, August, 1867, to 1886 ; Thomas Lord, January, 1868, to April 30,
1870; Egbert Marsh, January, 1871, to 1877; Edward Sterling, December, 1871,
to 1886; Charles K. Averill, January, 1877, to 1886; Stephen S. Booth, 1878 to
1880 ; Charles A. Granniss, January, 1880, to 1886 ; Horace L. Fairchild, January,
1880, to 1886; Alexander Hawley, January, 1881, to 1886; Enoch P. Hincks,
November, 1885, to 1886.
The bank organized with a capital of $210,000, and has accumulated a surplus
of $130,000, and has divided $531,300, an average dividend during the twenty-two
years of eleven and one-half per cent, per annum. The statement to the comp
troller of the currency, March 1, 1886, shows investments drawing interest of
$920,000, and deposits of $450,000. The present officers are : Edmund S. Hawley,
President; William E. Seeley, Cashier; O. H. Brothwell, Assistant Cashier;
Tracy B. Warren, General Bookkeeper ; Frank R. Sammis, Deposit Bookkeeper ;
Robert E. Wheeler, Clerk. This bank occupies the first story of the People's
Savings Bank building, on the southeast corner of Main and Bank streets.
Tlie Pequonnock Bank of Bridgeport was incorporated in May, 1851,
with a capital of $200,000. The subscription book was opened on the first Tues
day of August, 1851, under the supervision of three commissioners, Charles Adams"
John Gould and W. A. Judson. The first meeting of the stockholders was

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held at the Sterling House on Monday the nth of August, 1851. The following
were chosen directors : Hon. P. T. Barnum, Charles B. Hubbell, Samuel F. Hurd,
Monson Hawley, Scth B. Jones, Thomas Ransom, Philo F. Barnum, Joseph
Thompson and Samuel B. Peck. Hon. P. T. Barnum was elected President, and
held the office until Nov. 28, 1855, when removing to New York, he resigned, and
Mr. Charles B. Hubbell was elected to fill the vacancy and held the office until
May 22, i860, when he resigned and Mr. C. Spooner was appointed and held thai
office until August 15, 1865. During his administration the Pequonnock Bank
was reorganized into a National organization under the title of the Pequonnock
National Bank of Bridgeport. Mr. Monson Hawley was elected President
August 15, [865, and continued in office until January 12, 1869, when Mr. Charles
B. Hotchkiss was appointed, and he held the office until January 15, 1885. At
that time Mr. David Trubee was elected President and Mr. John L. Wessels,
Vice-President. William R. Higby was the first Cashier, appointed October 16,
1851, and held the office until February 20, 1869, when he resigned and Isaac B.
Prindle was appointed, and still holds the office. The bank has owned and
occupied the building on the corner of Main and State streets since the autumn
of 1853. While the building was being erected the business was conducted in
one of the stores in the Bailey Block on State street.
The Bridgeport Savings Banlc was chartered in May, 1842, and
began business at a store on Water street in July of the same year.
Of the twenty-two corporate members mentioned in the charter, but three are
now living, viz: Messrs. Gideon Thompson, William H. Noble and Thomas Ran
som. At the time the charter was granted there were but eight Savings Banks in
the State, some of them just organized, and none west of New Haven.
The Bank was afterward removed to No. 21 Wall street and in 1850 to a
building upon the site now occupied, on the corner of Main and State streets.
The present handsome Banking House was completed in 1878. The first Officers
and Trustees of the Bank were chosen July 16th, 1842, as follows: President,
Sherwood Sterling; Vice-Presidents, Josiah Hubbell and William B. Dyer:
Treasurer, Smith Tweedy; Secretary, William H. Noble; Trustees, Samuel
Simons, B. G. Noble, Henry Shelton, Elihu Beach, David Perry, Gideon Thomp
son, Schuyler Seeley, Starr Beach, W. Stillman, Mark Moore, Joshua Lord, Ben
jamin Wheeler, Lemuel Coleman and Thomas Ransom. The following gentlemen
have been Presidents of the Institution: Sherwood Sterling, elected in 184a;
Smith Tweedy, in 1843 ; Daniel O. Wheeler, in 1850 ; Lemuel Coleman, in 1851 ;
Sherwood Sterling again, in 1864 ; Hervey Higby, in 1870, and E. S. Hawley in
1875. The Bank has had five Treasurers, viz : Smith Tweedy, Sherwood Sterling,
George Sterling, Charles P. Porter and Alexander Hawley. The prosperity of
the Bank is owing in a large degree to the prudence, integrity and good manage-
ment of its former able and faithful Treasurer, Mr. George Sterling, who held the
position for twenty-seven years and until his death in 1871. The total number of
Deposit Accounts opened during the existence of the Bank, is 36,829. The
present number of Depositors, is 8,538, and the total amount of Deposits, $2,957,-
266.01. The Bank has a surplus of $150,000. Since its organization the Bank
has not failed to pay its regular Semi-annual dividends. The dividends for the
first year ending January, 1S44, amounted to $331,741 being at the rate of 5 per
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amounted to $124,673.45, 4# per cent.; and the aggregate of dividends paid to the
depositors, being $3,807,933.05, averaging s'A P<=r cent, per annum for the whole
period. The present Officers of the Institution are : President, Edmund S.
Hawley ; Vice-Presidents, Samuel C. Trubce and Luzon W. Clark ; Secretary
and Treasurer, Alexander Hawley ; Trustees, Ezekiel Birdsey, Philip Conrad,
Thomas B. DcForest, Curtis Thompson, Edward Sterling, F. B. Hawley, William
R. Higby, William H. Perry, F. W. Benham and Alexander Hawley.
The Bridgeport Citjf Bank, now the City National Bank, was organ
ized January 17, 1854, with a capital of $100,000, which was increased after five
years to $200,000, and nationalized with a capital of $250,000, March 15. 1865. It
now has a surplus of $125,000, an increase of §73,000 during the past seven years,
aside from other undivided profits. The bank paid its sixtieth dividend last
January and is now paying four per cent, semi-annually on a conservative basis ;
the market value of the stock is about $150 per share.
This City National Bank began business in the old post office building on
the north side ol Bank street ; removed thence to the southwest corner of Wall
and Water streets, and in 1861 completed and occupied its spacious building at
Nos. 17, 19 and 21 Wall street.
The following gentlemen have served as presidents of this institution : Adam
P. Houston, S. F. Hurd, Ira Sherman, Sherwood Sterling, George B. Waller, and
the present incumbent, Daniel N. Morgan, who has served since January, 1879.
The following have officiated as cashiers: G. H. Fairchild, E. Laccy, R. T.
Clarke, J. F. Fayerweather, and T. L. Bartholomew, the last having served since
December, 1880,
The present directors are: Nathaniel Wheeler, Elbert E. Hubbell, Miles
Beardsley, Edwin G. Sanford, T. L. Bartholomew, D. B. Booth, George Mallory,
Daniel N. Morgan, D. W. Kissam.
Hon. Daniel Wash Morgan, son of Ezra and Hannah
(Nash) Morgan, is a native of Newtown, Conn., and. was
educated in the common school, Newtown academy, and in
the Bethel high school. His ancestry runs back in every
line to the early settlers in New England. The Morgan
family came from Wales, England, and early established the
family at New London, Conn., and Springfield, Mass. In the
southern portion of Newtown, Conn., may still be seen the
site of the dwelling house of Captain Zedekiah Morgan, the
first of the family in this part of the country, which was in
the days of the Revolution the Captain's 690 acre farm, and
which is still known as the Morgan farm. His ancestral lines
run back through the Sanford family of Redding, and the
Nash and Camp families of Norwalk. His grand parents in
the Morgan family passed away in the 84th, 90th, 96th, and
80th year of their ages. His father, Ezra Morgan, was born
in Redding, February 21, 1801, but resided most of his life in

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Newtown. He married Hannah Nash, of Westport. During
a busy life as a merchant for forty years, a farmer on a large
scale, and president of the First National Bank of Bethel for
several years, he still found time to devote to politics, among
other positions being a Representative from Newtown in
1842, 1862, and 1868, and for a long time, until disqualified by
age, a justice of the peace. He died June 9, 1871, in his 71st
year. His widow died April 15, 1883, in her 68th year.
Daniel N. Morgan was born August 18, 1844. At the age
of sixteen years he became permanently a clerk in his father's
store, and was educated a merchant. Of his own volition he
was placed on a salary usually given for a five year's service,
namely, $50, $60, $75, §85, and $100; and with this sum for
all expenses except his board, came out at twenty-one years
of age with §50, saved from this and other sources, and with
this he commenced his business life. His recreations were
such as getting up with the sun in the summer, and far ahead
of it in the winter, and starting for Bridgeport with a load of
produce at six o'clock in the morning. The first year of his
majority he conducted the business of the store as proprietor.
After that for a few months he was clerk in the dry goods
house of Taylor and Joyce, of Bridgeport, then for about
three years, to September, 1869, was of the firm of Morgan
and Booth, of Newtown Centre, when he again came to
Bridgeport and was of the dry goods and carpet firm of
Birdsey and Morgan. In 1876 he took a trip to Europe, and
during 1877 ne was connected with the firm of Morgan, Hop-
son and Company, wholesale grocers. In 1873 and 1874 he
was a member of the Common Council of this city, a member
of the Board of Education in 1877, Mayor of the city in 1880
and 1884, a member of the Legislature in 1883. In 1884 he
was elected Senator for the fourteenth district for two years.
In January, 1879, he was elected president of the City Na
tional Bank, a position he continues to occupy. He is also
first vice-president of the Mechanic's and Farmer's Savings
Bank, and for years has been a member of the board of
directors and of the executive committee of the Bridgeport
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344 History of Bridgeport.
Judson, daughter of Hon. William A. Judson, of Bridgeport,
but formerly ol Huntington, a descendant of Colonel Agur
Judson, of Revolutionary fame, and also of the first Judson
family of Stratford. Their children now living are: Mary
Huntington and William Judson Morgan.
The Connecticut Bank was incorporated as a State bank in May, 1831.
Its original capital stock was raised by subscription, under the superintendency
of five commissioners: Cyrus H. Beardsley, Daniel Sterling, Jeremiah Sturges,
Jedediah Graves, and Enoch Foote. Within three months after the incorporation,
as required by the statute, a branch of the bank was established at Mill River, now
Southport, in the town of Fairfield. It is known to-day as the Southport National
Bank. The act of incorporation required that, within twelve months from the time
the bank should commence discounting, there should be paid by it to the treasurer
of Yale College, for the use of said college, $3,500, and to the treasurer of Wash
ington — now Trinity — College, $1,500. The act also stipulated that at the end of
two years a second $3,500 be paid to Yale, and a second $1,500 to Washington
Colleges. The bank proved a success from the start, and was able not only to
meet these requirements, but to declare regular dividends, and it has continued to
do so uninterruptedly ever since. In the history of the bank no such thing as a
dividend skip can be found. The bank's first president was Captain Ezckiel
Hubbell, who was elected in 1835; the second, Daniel Thatcher, in 1840; the
third, Hon. P. C. Calhoun, in 1848, who continued in that position until 18(14,
when he resigned to take the presidency of the Fourth National Bank of New
York City, which he held to the time of his death, in 1882. Hervey Higby was
his successor, in 1864, and at his decease, in 1875, Hon. Daniel H. Sterling was
chosen to fill the place. Upon his demise, in 1877, the present incumbent, Mr,
Samuel W. Baldwin, was elected president. A pleasant feature of the history of
the bank is the fact that during its fifty-four years of existence it has had but three
cashiers; the first, Hon. Charles Foote, who held the place until his death, in
1862 ; John T. Shelton, who succeeded him and resigned to become the treasurer
of the New York and New Haven Railroad Company, in 1868; and Mr. H. B.
Drew, who succeeded him and is cashier at the present lime. His association
with the bank covers a period of twenty-four years. The piesent directors of the
bank are: Samuel W. Baldwin, Samuel C. Trubee, Jarralt Morford, William D.
Bishop, Henry B. Drew, William R. Higby, Marshali E. Morris, Clapp Spoonerj
and Henry A. Bishop.
The bank was located at first on the corner of Wall and Water streets, where
it remained until the completion of their building, the site for which of sixty feet
front, was purchased January 28, 1834, on the northeast corner of Main and Wall
streets. In the autumn of 1885 this building was taken down and the new one,.to
be completed in the summer of 1886, commenced, the corner stone being laid
October 30, 1885. On this occasion the box was deposited in the place prepared
for it by Miss Kittie C. Drew, the little daughter of the cashier. She performed
her part well, using a silver trowel, with a handle of rosewood, which she keeps as
a memento of the occasion. The building is constructed of rock.faced Leete's
Inland red granite, with Springfield brown stone trimmings to the height of the
second .tory window sills; above this Philadelphia pressed brick are used with

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Springfield brown stone trimmings. On the filth story moulded brick and terra
cotta are used, forming a pleasing frieze. There are five full stories above the
sidewalk, one half story devoted to stores below grade, and a sub-cellar and
boiler-room under these stores.
The banking room is situated on the corner of Main and Wall streets, about
five feet above the sidewalk level, and is provided with every modern convenience.
There are eight offices on each floor, reached from the Main street entrance,
making thirty-two in all. These are easily accessible, either by stairs or elevator
— the latter being constructed on the hydraulic principle and is the first passenger
elevator to be used in the city.
A new material to this city has been introduced in the sidewalk, known as
Granolithic, and is considered a vast improvement on anything now in use in the
city. Since the organization of the bank the following gentlemen have been con
nected with the institution as directors: Daniel Thatcher, Hanford Lyon, Reuben
Twedy, Nathaniel Wade, Josiah Hubbell, Eli Mygalt, David Brooks, Seth B.
Jones, Daniel Sterling, Enoch Foote, Lyman Hine, David Fayerweather, Samuel
Stratton, Joseph Thompson, J. W. Sterling, Alexander Hamilton, Lemuel Cole
man, Josiah Gorham. E. J. Staples, L. H. Russell, Eben Fairchild, P. C. Calhoun,
John Gould, Charles Foote, Hervey Higby, Charles Bennett, George Keeler,
Thomas Lord, Samuel C. Trubee, Daniel H. Sterling, Marcus DeForest, Samuel
W. Baldwin, William D. Bishop, David F. Hollister, Jarratt Morford, Henry B.
Drew, William R. Higby, Marshall E. Morris, Clapp Spooner, Henry A. Bishop.
The Mechanic's and Farmer's Savings Hank was chartered in
1871, but was not organized until in July, 1873, when the incorporators held
their first meeting and elected a board of trustees: George W. Hayes, Presi
dent ; Andrew Burke and George Lewis, Vice-Presidents ; and Lyman S. Catlin,
Secretary and Treasurer. The bank was located, at first, in a small, one story
building on East Washington avenue, near East Main street. This building was
erected as a temporary place for the bank, by George Lewis and L. S. Catlin.
The books were opened October 1, 1873, and deposits were soon made, ten cents
being sufficient to open an account, and many who started with that small sum
have now a respectable bank account. The bank remained in that location, with
practically the same officers, until the summer of 1878. At the annual meeting of
that year Mr. Hayes declined a reelection and William G. Lineburgh was elected
president in his place. The bank was removed about September 1st of thai year
into the basement of the Connecticut Bank building, corner of Wall and Main
streets, where it remained until May 1, 1880, when it was removed into the
Barnum building, at 407 Main street. In July, 1883, some changes were made in
the board of trustees and Mr. Andrew Burke was elected President, and D. N.
Morgan and John L. Wessels, Vice-Presidents. These officers, with Mr. Catlin for
Secretary and Treasurer, have been reelected each year since that time. On
December 15, 1SS5, the bank was removed into the City Bank building in Wall
street, where it remains. It has grown steadily in public confidence and favor,
and is now firmly established, with assets of over $550,000.

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346 History of Bridgeport.

Additional Manufactories in Bridgeport.
George Doolittle occupies a part of the Coach Lace Company's building
in John street. He is a practical engineer and inventor, spending a large propor
tion of his time on experimental work.
Bridgeport Elastic Web Company is located on John street and has
the following officers: E. Sterling, President; F. B. Hawley, Treasurer; E. W.
Marsh, Secretary ; Joseph Bidmead, Superintendent ; E. D. Friswell, Salesman ;
with $50,000 of capital slock. The business was started by the Spring Perch
Company in 1879, commencing with seven looms, but this number was soon
increased, and then large additions to the buildings were made, extending them
to 135 feet by 40. They now run forty looms, but have just purchased twenty-five
more. They employ eighty hands, which number will soon be increased to 125.
The work requires skilled help, which has most of it been secured from
England, as well as the machinery; in fact, it might be said that an English
concern had been purchased and brought here. They, with four other companies,
make, at present, about seven-eighths of all the webbing used in this country, but
when they commenced nearly seven-eighths of all used was imported.
Besides the shoe goring, in many shades and qualities, they make some extra
elastic for corsets. The yarn used is of American and Egyptian stock, and the
silk, to a considerable extent, is imported. Their goods are all handled by one
jobbing house at the East, and arc sold in the West direct to the consumers.
Ansil II. Couch, minufacturer ol a fine grade of ladies' hand and
machine-sewed shoes. He was seventeen years engaged on Water street under
the firm name of Couch and Wisner, and in September, 1885, commenced his
present establishment as sole proprietor. He employs fifty hands, and keeps
several men as salesmen on the road.
Bridgeport Patent Leather Manufacturing Company is
located on Cannon street; as a previous account of this company shows. The
business was commenced by Mr. S. J. Patterson in 1848, and the next year a stock
company was formed, with a capital of $20,000; Mr. S. Tomlinson, being Presi-
dent, and S.J. Patterson, Secretary and Treasurer. Upon the decease of Mr.
Tomlinson in 1872, Mr. Patterson was elected President and Treasurer, which
position he still holds, and Mr. J. E. Pond was elected Secretary, in which he con.
tinues. In 1866 the stock was increased to $100,000, as it is at present. They
manufacture patent and enameled leather, employing about fifty hands.
The Wheel and Wood. Bending Company is located in John street ;
and the officers are : Horace Smith, President ; H. W. Smith, Secretary, and E. C
Smith, Treasurer. They manufacture wheels, hubs, spokes, and woodwork gener
ally, for carriages. The business was established as Smith and Barlow in 1854,
and continued thus until l8fio, when the present company was formed. They
employ from thirty to fifty hands.
Tlie If. D. Gates and Company are located in John street, corner of
Broad, and manufacture all kinds of fine carriages. The business started by Mr.
Gates in 1870, while he was running a livery stable on State street, and began it

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because of the heavy expenses in repairing carriages. The business so increased
in a short time that he sold the former interest and devoted his entire time to this.
He has a large repository in California, where he spends about half of his time,
and one at 184 State street in this city, keeping from 160 to 200 carriages on hand.
Also in the proper season here they keep a line of sleighs. The larger portion of
their work is upon orders from New York, making a specialty of the Bullsbead
wagon for exercising and (raining horses. They employ about forty hands.
The Bridgeport Electric Uglti Company occupy a part of the
Coach Lace company's building on John street. The officers are: J. A. Gilbert,
President; James English, Secretary and Treasurer; with a capital stock of
$100,000. The company was established in 1884 by J. Farrist, E. G. Burnham and
other citizens. In July, 1SS5, a consolidation was effected with the Brush Swan
company when the present officers were chosen. The Thompson Houston system
is used. This sketch is a correction of the one on page 767,
The Bridgeport Boiler Works, William Lowe, proprietor. They
were established by Humphrey, Watson and Company in 1866, and continued
until the death of Mr. Humphrey in 1872, when Mr. Lowe bought his interest and
the business was conducted under the name of Lowe and Watson until 1884,
and then Mr. Lowe became the sole proprietor. He manufactures boilers for pro
pelling steam engines; the specialties being the Lowe boiler and feed water
heater. Mr. Lowe is thoroughly educated to his business. He was indentured to the
firm of Fairbanks, Bancroft and Company, of Providence, R. I., steam engine
boiler makers, in 1844, and served under their successors, Bancroft, Nightingale
and Company ; and Corliss, Nightingale and Company. Mr. Lowe helped build
the first Corliss engine put into use, which was a horizontal one.
In 1851 Mr. Lowe took the forcmanship of the Woodruff and Beach Iron
Works at Hartford ; and in 1854 he took the forcmanship of the Pacific Iron
Works of Bridgeport, under Noble T. Green as superintendent, and on Mr.
Green's retiring in 1855 Mr. Lowe became superintendent, and In 1872 he became
proprietor in these works as above staled. In 1877 Mr. Lowe patented what is
called the Lowe steam superheating boiler, and also afterwards the Lowe feed
water heater, boih being improvements of great value. He has more recently
patented valuable improvements in boiler furnaces, and made improvements in
boiler fronts, so that the smoke nuisance is abated, whatever fuel may be used.
The Bridgeport Spring Company, located at the corner of Housa-
tonic and East Washington avenues, was established in 1864. They manufacture
to order carriage springs of every description, employing about fifty hands. The
officers are : Edwin Banks, President and Treasurer, and Wm. H. Rockwell, Sec
retary. Their building is of large dimensions, equipped with powerful engines,
and all the mechanical appliances which facilitate production of the best quality
and greatest quantity. The best of skilled workmen are employed, and the springs
are said to be tempered by a process known only to this concern ; and every
spring is tested before leaving the shop.
Greenwood and Arnold, located in Cannon street, are manufacturers
of tin cans of every description, making varnished cans a specialty. John H.
Greenwood and Thomas Arnold, the proprietors, are practical men in their

348 History of Bridgeport.
business^ They came from New York and established the copartnership in 1883,
and employ about ten men, and work on contracts, for all they produce the year
round. The Bridgeport Lumlter Company, located at the foot of Gold
street, was organized in 1S82, with these officers : C. H. Hawley, President ; R. S.
Ncithcrcut. Vice-President ; F. V. Hawley, Secretary and Treasurer. They are
successors to C. H. Hawley. The business was started about fifty years ago by
Charles Hawley, who, having several partners and changes, continued the same
until his death in 1850. Then Julius Hawley, who had been in the business with
his brother Charles a number of years, bought the enterprise, and, under the name
of Smith and Hawley, carried on the establishment until he was succeeded by his
son, C. H. Hawley, in 1876; and he continued it until May, 1882.
They manufacture moldings and house trimmings generally, and deal in all
kinds of lumber.
Tlve Granniss and Hurd Lumber Company, is located on
Simond's dock. They are successors to Lyon, Curtis and Company; the mill
having been established in 1846 by the latter company. In 1866 Mr. Granniss
purchased a portion of the stock, but the firm name continued the same until
1882, when Mr. Lyon having died in 1874 and Mr. Curtis in 1879 the new com
pany was organized. The present officers are : C. A. Granniss, President, and F,
W. Hurd, Secretary and Treasurer, with a capital stock of $75,000. They are
dealers in lumber, and manufacture a great variety of building material and
cabinet ware in all kinds of wood, employing about seventy-five men.
William F. Swords, lumber merchant and manufacturer of building
materia], is located on the corner of East Washington avenue and Water street.
The business was started in 1852 under the name of Swords and Stilson. The
latter died in 1874, and Mr. Swords continued the business. In 1879 ne built the
present buildings with all modern improvements. He employs from 75 to 100
hands and conducts a large business for this part of the country.
Tlie Pequonnock Manufacturing Company, located at North
Bridgeport, was conducted some years by William R. Bunnell and his brothers
James F. and Thomas F. Bunnell, and it was prominent among the first industries
in the city.
Win. JR. Bunnell had been for a time connected with the celebrated New
York Mills, near Utica, N. Y., where he had gained much practical knowledge in
the manufacture of muslins. So interested did he become in the business that he
sold a fine grazing (arm of 1,100 acres, stocked with 3,000 merino and Saxony
sheep, in the towns of Burns and Ossian, Alleghany Co., N. Y., and in 1834
bought the interest of his uncle, Dr. Thomas Fitch, of Philadelphia, in the woolen
mills at North Bridgeport. Subsequently the three Bunnell brothers greatly
enlarged the establishment, added another mill, imported many English and
Welch operatives, and introduced the most improved machinery of the time.
They made a high grade of broadcloth, as well as cotton goods. They conducted
the business with much success until under the Polk administration the repeal of
the tariff brought financial ruin upon them and hundreds of other manufacturers,
in 1846. Retiring to the city of Bridgeport Mr. Bunnell resided for many years

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afterwards in Lafayette street at the head of Liberty street. He was well known
as a man of strong religious principles, of strict integrity in all his business trans
actions, and of active Christian benevolence. For ten years he was a cily and
town assessor, and for eight years clerk of the First Congregational Church. He
died November 6, 1872, at the age of sixty-six years.
The Monumental Bronze Company was organized and established in
this cily in the early part of the year 1874, located on corner of Barnum and Hal-
lett streets, and has proved a successful enterprise. About the year 1S68 Mr. M.
A. Richardson was placed in charge of the Sherman cemetery grounds in Chautau
qua county, N. Y., and during several years of service there became impressed
with the need of something more durable than stone for monumental use. His
studies in the matter led him first to investigate the qualities of stone china as
an article for such use, but after three journeys to Trenton, N. J., and other
researches in the matter, turned his attention to the practicability of using
galvanized iron for this purpose. In testing this material he made at Buf
falo a small monument, placing stained glass tablets upon it with an inscrip
tion, but after three years he found the stained glass, which he had been told
would endure against the weather, pealed off, and hence was of no value in this
kind of work. During this lime his investigations, by a chance observation, were
directed to the qualities of cast or molded zinc, and soon after he came to the con
clusion that this was the article to meet his purposes, and with this he galvanized
his monument and took it to his home in Sherman and began to solicit capital, for
the purpose of producing this kind uf monument. He found Mr. O. J. Willard
willing to become partner in the business, and they went to Patterson, N. J., in
May, 1873, where they contracted with a firm to manufacture this kind of monu-

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330 History of Bridgeport.
ment. Mr. Willard made a trip into the country and obtained about thirty orders,
but at this point the work ended, because the contractors failed to produce good
castings. Another experiment was made in Brooklyn, N. J., to obtain the cast
ings, but it failed. After several other failures, these persevering men built a
shanty, put in a furnace, hired a moldcr, and at the end of three weeks produced
some very good castings for their purpose, which astonished the other parties who
failed, and had proclaimed that these castings could not be made. Some further
efforts being made to interest capital having failed, the matter was given up as
dead, and lo be buried without a monument. Soon, however, a contract was made
with Mr. Win. Waller Evans of Patterson, N. J., cashier of the great locomotive
works, giving him the exclusive right to manufacture for the United Slates and to
sell the same to Mr. Richardson's and Willard's agents at a stipulated price. He
proceeded with the business about a year when he sold his interest to Wilson,
Parsons and Company of Bridgeport, in the early part of the year 1874. When
the enterprise began in Bridgeport, it is said one man could do all the work then
to be done, and the full development of the present methods had not been
obtained, but by various experiments previous and afterward the system was per-
Iccted. Soon after the company came here Mr. Daniel Schuyler was admitted as a
partner, and the firm of Wilson, Schuyler and Company continued until the year
1877, when Mr. A. S. Parsons became a partner and the name was known as
Schuyler, Parsons, Landon and Company, and the business increased more
rapidly until 1879, when it was formed into a stock company with a full paid cash
capital of $300,000, under the tille of the Monumental Bronze Company. Since
then the business has rapidly increased, and the company are now able to produce
anything in the monumental or statuary line, however great the size. The com
pany have established manufactories in the following places : one at Chicago,
known as the American White Bronze Company; the Western While Bronze
Company at Des Moines, Iowa ; the St. Thomas White Bronze Monument Com
pany, at St. Thomas, Can.; and ihc New Orleans While Bronze Works, at New
Orleans. The one great claim of the company in favor of their work, is durability far
beyond any stone that can be obtained, and of this quality there is certainly great
need as exhibited by the decaying stones in all the cemeteries and burying-places
in the LTniicd States, The present officers of this company are : President, A. S.
Parsons, formerly contractor in the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Com
pany ; Vice-President, E. N. Sperry, of New Haven ; Treasurer, W. O. Corning,
from New York ; Secretary, R. E. Parsons, from Norwich, Ct.
lAeberum Brothers are cabinet makers, at 315 Water street. They com
menced their business here in 1865, occupying one floor, too leet by 25, where
their manufactory now stands, and now ihcy use the whole building, four stories,
for manufacturing, besides three stories of the building at 3 and 5 Slate street,
each floor being 120 by 54, as salesrooms. They produce all styles of goods in
their line, special attention being given ;o upholstering. A skillful undenaker is
also employed, and careful attention is given to this branch ol the business The
brothers came from Germany to this country about 1855 and resided in Birming
ham, Conn., for seven years, and came thence to this cily in 1861. William
Liebcrum has represented the First Ward, in which he resides, in the Common
Council, and is a mason and odd fellow. August Liebcrum, the junior brother,
is also a mason and a member of the knights templar.

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David Ginand, in the business of cutlery and edge tools at 43 Wall
street, established this enterprise here in 1868. He occupies a floor 15 by 50, the
front being the salesroom and the rear the manufactory. He produces to order
any style of knives and gives special attention to repairs on all kinds of goods in
his line. He is a native of Germany, but has resided in this country thirty-two
years. He has been a member of the board of education for the last eight years,
and is a member of the St. John's masonic lodge.
The Smith and Egge Manufacturing Company is located at 188
Lafayette street and was organized in the spring of 1874 and incorporated in
September, 1877, with the same officers as at present, namely. Friend W. Smith,
President, and W. H. Day, Secretary and Treasurer.
They employ from one to two hundred men, who are under the superiniend-
ency of Mr. Frederick Egge. There is probably no concern in this city so well
and favorably known to the United States Government as this establishment.
They have for several years past manufactured all the post office mail locks in
use in the United States, and in all probability will supply them for several years
to come. They also originated the system of carrying the mail key attached to
the person of the carrier or route agent by a length of chain, and also in like
manner fastening it to the mailing table in every post office in the country. For
this use they have supplied the government with over 300,000 feet of chain, and
the loss of keys is now very seldom reported. They have also supplied Mexico,
Hayti, Chili, and St. Domingo with mail locks and keys. Since every lock bears
on its face the imprint, "Manufactured by the Smith & Egge Co.," they have
given a wide-spread fame to Bridgeport, and the city has doubtless realized
material advantage from the celebrity. In addition to mail locks and keys they
have supplied the government with all the postal punches for use in connection
with the postal notes, and each of these also bears the name of Bridgeport, Conn.
They have also furnished the Post Office Department with all their cord fasteners
and label cases, numbering many hundred thousand. They have also had large
dealings with the Treasury and Navy Departments of the government.
For the general trade they manufacture a great variety of articles, prominent
among them are the giant padlock, giant drill check, and giant metal sash chains.
The giant metal sash chain is a noticeable article. About eight years ago they
conceived the idea of making a chain that could be sold at a popular price as a
substitute for cord for hanging weights to windows, and they filed out the first
samples by hand and were the originators of the chain represented in the accom
panying cut. It has been adopted by the United States for their public buildings

and is in general use in all parts of the country. To produce it cheap enough
and fast enough to meet the demand, Mr. Frederick Egge invented a machine,
into which the metal being fed, the links are cut out, put together, shaped, and the
completed chain drawn out under a strain that tests its tensile strength sufficiently
to discover any flaw in the metal, and at the rate of five feet a minute, without any
human hand touching it. It is a marvel of ingenuity and does the work of several
men. The firm keep several of these machines running continuously. Tbey are

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also sole pioprietors of the metal from which the chain is made, it being known in
the market as the giant metal, and is said to be superior to any other for the pur.
pose. Besides this and other chains they make special goods for large consumers,
and for years have manufactured in ihis line sewing machine hardware for the
Singer Machine Company, Wheeler and Wilson, Domestic, Estey Organ, and
other companies. They have also for several years made the universal button
hole attachment, and have lately put on the market a family button hole attach
ment that is capable of being applied to all the leading machines, enabling the
sewing machine to do what it has not heretofore done successfully, that is, to
make the button holes for the family without very much additional expense.
They have also much valuable and special machinery made by and for themselves,
not found in any other establishments in this or any country, and they employ
many highly skilled mechanics. The company have a representative in New
York and in Chicago, but their business is mainly conducted through their office
in this city, and both the president, secretary and treasurer give it their constant
and personal attention. The original firm was composed of Mr. Friend W. Smith
and Mr. Frederick Egge. Mr. Smith is well known as having been postmaster
of Bridgeport eight years, during both terms of President Lincoln's administra
tion. Mr. Egge has won for himself the reputation of being one of the best and
most ingenious mechanics in ihe country. Mr. Warner H. Day, who came into
the concern, bringing additional capital, in 1877, has twice been, and is its secre-
tary and treasurer. He is well known in Bridgeport and in New York City,
where he was engaged in the wholesale hardware trade for many years.
Joseph Keller and Company, manufactuiers of square and upright
pianos, are located in the building of the coach lace company. They established
their business here in 1884, employing fifteen hands and increasing them as they
were able to turn their own resources, being content with the daily production of
one piano until the natural increase of their business permitted them to further
enlarge their facilities. They make only one grade of instrument, the difference
being only in the style of the case. Already their instrument is being acknowl.
edged as most superior, and besides four awards of minor importance they
received the first premium at the New York State fair in 1885.
Mr. Keller's reputation as a practical musician and piano maker is the very
best, he being one of a family including the father and seven brothers, all either
manufacturing or employed in manufactories of pianos. He was in New York
City thirty years, commencing as an apprentice at the age of twelve years, and
worked in some of the leading manufactories until he established himself in
Bridgeport as above stated. He was also educated as a pianist and organist
which enables htm to study and perfect the tone of his instruments. Every part
of an instrument he has made hundreds of limes with his own hands, which has
qualified him for the personal inspection he gives to the smallest details of his
business. The company have met with success far beyond their most sanguine expecta
tions, so much so that their orders are greater than they can fill for months to
come. Although they have spacious rooms, yet enlargement has become neces.
sary and is soon to be secured. All this is owing to the manner of constructs
their instruments and the effect secured. All the wood parts of their instruments
are double, cross-grain veneered, both within and without, the material thoroughly
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are novels of taste and beauty; while possessing a beautiful finish, noth
ing in the whole work is neglected, but manufactured by skillful workmen
from the best material to be found, the principal aim being to make a first-class
piano in every respect with special attention to its durability. These pianos unite
every advantage produced, containing every valuable improvement science has
suggested, including a number of their own inventions. In each piano the plank,
or pin-block, is composed of five thicknesses of maple wood, the grain running in
different directions, through that (he turning-pin is held all round by endwood,
the advantage being that changes of temperature do not swell or contract. This
departure tends to keep the instrument in tune longer than by the ordinary
method,— a great point in piano economy, — and by this system of crossing the
grain of the wood all danger or liability of splitting the rest plank is removed.
Their tone combines the greatest possible volume and richness, together with
a beautiful and refined sweetness and purity, and remarkable for its extraordinary
prolongation and singing quality, as well as perfect evenness throughout the
entire scale ; touch of (he greatest lightness, elasticity, and pliancy, enabling the
performer t<> control the instrument perfectly, and to vary the tone from the softest
whisper to the most powerful fortissimo.
Hincks and Johnson, manufacturers of fine heavy carriages, such as
coaches, landaus, broughams, coupes, hansom cabs, established their business on
Broad street in May, 1879, as successors to Wood Brothers, who, with Stephen
and Russell Tomlinson, gained a well deserved reputation during seventeen
years of successful labors in the business. Mr. David Wood was among the first
to commence a manufactory of heavy carriages in this country, beginning in 1S2S,
under the firm name of Tomlinson, Wood and Company. Mr. Hincks is a native
of this city, and Mr. Johnson was engaged in New York for a term of years before
starting the business here. They occupy the original edifice built in 1 831, with
such additions as have been made from time to time, and now cover over two
acres of ground floor, giving employment to 100 or 150 hands. They turn out
complete about 200 of the larger carriages or coaches yearly, and of other styles
a greater number, being, in fact, the largest establishment of the kind in New
England and the second in this country. The departments for construction in
wood and iron work each in itself would make a large business. They were the
first to introduce recently the London hansom cabs, making some changes from
the English design, and have already sold a large number of them in the most
populous cities of the country. All their business is transacted at the office of
their manufactory.
The White Manufacturing Company is located at 95 Cannon street,
and produce coach lamps, carriage mountings and hardware. The officers are :
George H. Johnson, President; William B. Hincks, Treasurer; H. S. Wilmot,
Secretary; Thomas Boudren, Superintendent.
This enterprise was started in 1832 by Rippen and Sturgcs, who were suc
ceeded by George Rippen, and he was succeeded by White and Bradley, who in
turn were succeeded by Thomas P. White and Company, This firm was merged
into the present White Manufacturing Company, which was organized as a joint
stock company in 1861, with a capital of $40,000. They employ sixty hands in
the manufacture of the finest grade of carriage lamps and mountings, and hearse
trimmings. They have the reputation of making only the best class of goods,
which are sold in every State in the Union, and also in Mexico and Cuba.
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THE ATLANTIC HOUSE AT UR11JGEPORT.
27/e Atlantic House is located on the corner of Fairfield avenue and
Water street, and was erected about 1861, but has been enlarged since that time.
It stands across the street from the New York and New Haven railroad depot,
and is a first class hotel. The building, although plain in style, is an ornament to
that part of the city.
Mr. Peter Foland, the proprietor, is a native of Schoharie county, N. Y.,
where he married Miss Annie Eli/.a Kilmore. He resided in Albany about thirty
years, where he kept the Dunlap and the Mansion Houses on Broadway, and also
the Foland House on Washington avenue, where the State House now stands.
In Albany he served a term as alderman. He left Albany and was proprietor, for
a time, of the Nelson House at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and from that place came to
Bridgeport in 1880, where he has earned a high and honorable reputation as pro
prietor of the Atlantic House and as a public citizen. Many of the best class of
citizens reside in his house. He is efficiently assisted by his son, Mr. Worthing-
ton Foland, who has always resided with his father. His daughter, Ida, married
Mr. Holland H. Tcrriff, of Albany, and they reside with Mr. Foland.

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The Elm House is located at 36 John street, it having been a private
dwelling until within a few years. In 1884 it was enlarged and became decidedly
in public favor, and has been very prosperous since. It is conducted as a temper
ance house.
Mr, J". R. RocUfeller, the proprietor, is a native of New York State, a
member of the societies of odd fellows, royal arcanum and knights of pythias, and
is having success in this enterprise.
Recreation Hall is located at Main street; was erected by Hon. P. T.
Barnum for the purposes of recreation and amusement. It is 200 feet by 80, two
stories, built with brick, the front being Philadelphia brick with terra cotta finish,
ornamented with griffins and statuary. The arrangements in the interior of the
building are very complete on a large scale. Mr. H. G. Husted is the originator
of plan and equipments, and is the lessee of the building.
The Balloon Ascension of September 0, 1S52, was made at Bridgeport.
by the largest balloon ever used in the United States. It was made of French
flag silk, 100 feet in height, and 72 in diameter, and held 3500 feet of gas, half of
it being supplied by the Bridgeport Gas Company, and the rest manufactured in
a tank by Monsciur Petin. The balloon was one of three of the same size and
workmanship, and made for an aerial trip across the Atlantic ocean, but failed to
accomplish that journey. It ascended to an altitude of 23.500 feet, continued its
aerial journey one hour and a half when it landed in the ocean, off the village of
Bridgeh.impton, L. I., about six miles out. The persons who ascended in it, were:
Monseiur Petin, aeronaut; Gustave Reynaud, machinist; J. W, Dufour, inter
preter ; and Mr. Seetch, a school teacher of East Bridgeport. After hauling with
the waves for two hours, they were rescued by a life saving crew, thus narrowly
escaping a watery grave, and returned to Bridgeport four days from the time they
made the ascension. The cost of this balloon was $3500, and it was a total loss.
Monseiur Petin returned to Paris and engaged in ballooning in the interest of the
French government. Gustave Reynaud remained in Bridgeport for a time but
died while on a visit to his native country. The only survivor of the party is J.
W. Dufour who resides now in Stratford, Conn. But few old Bridgeporters but
that remember Pctin's signal when beginning his most grand ascension on that
occasion ; " Six inches let go." " Six inches let go." Mr. Dufour says that while
thousands of feet high in the air they could distinctly see the fish in the water of
the Sound.

The Newspapers of Bridgeport.
The Republican Farmer was started as a weekly newspaper in 1790
at Danbury, under the name of the Farmer's Miscellany. After various fortunes
and absorbing one or two rivals it was removed to Bridgeport in 1810, by Stiles
Nichols ; and has been consecutively published here since by Stiles Nichols,
Stiles Nichols and Son, Pomeroy and Nichols, William S. Pomeroy, Pomeroy and
Morse, W. S. Pomeroy again, Pomeroy, Gould and Company, and Gould and
Stiles, the present owners. The " Daily Farmer" was started January 1, 1750, by
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336 History of Bridgeport.
in the summer of 1S61, when the office was mobbed and sacked for alleged oppo
sition to the civil war. The present proprietors became sole owners in 1870. It
has always been a staunch Democratic paper, supporting Jefferson and his suc
cessors, and Jackson and all the later Democratic administrations; has steadily
grown with the increase of the population of the town and county, and is a wide
awake newspaper.
The American Telegraph was started here by Lazarus Beach, a printer,
bookseller and stationer, in 1795. It was issued weekly from the office at the
corner of Wall and Water streets, opposite the old Washington Hotel.
The Bridgeport Herald, a weekly paper, was commenced about the
year 1805 by Samuel Mallory. Copies of it are now extremely scarce, much more
so than those of its predecessor, the "Telegraph," of which quite a number have
been preserved,
Tlte Bridgeport Advertiser was started in 1806, by Hezekiah Ripley,
and published weekly for several years at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents per
annum. T/ie Connecticut Courier was commenced in 1810, by Nathaniel L.
Skinner, and continued by him for upwards of a dozen years.
The Connecticut Patriot was commenced in 1826, by L. Bradley and
Company, at their office on the corner of Main and State streets, opposite the
Steamboat Hotel, afterwards the Franklin House.
The Spirit of the Times was published and edited by George W.
Smith, Jr., at the corner of State and Water streets, which met with considerable
success. This paper was started in 1831, when public opinion ran high on
Masonry, soon after the disappearance of the unfortunate Morgan. It was devoted
to the cause of anti-Masonry, and for a while had a circulation of eight hundred
copies. It was afterwards sold to John Swaine.
The Bridgeport Chronicle was first published September 9, 1848, by
B. H. Munson, at the corner of Stale and Water streets. It was issued weekly, at
one dollar per annum, and enjoyed but a brief existence.
Tlte First Bridgeport Leader suspended after fifteen numbers. It
was edited by T. M. Clarke, subsequently editor of the Winsted "Herald," and
published by the Bridgeport Printing Company, The date upon its first number
is March 25, 1854.
The newspapers published in Bridgeport at the present time are the "Far
mer," Democratic; the "Standard," Republican; the "Morning News," Inde.
pendent ; the " Evening Post," and the " Sun."
Tlie Hepublican Standard was commenced in the year 1839, by A. A.
Pettengill, who was boih editor and proprietor. He purchased of Edmund
Fanton at that time the " Bridgeport Republican," a weekly paper commenced
by Mr. Fanton in 1830. In the spring of 1848, Julius S. Hanover was admitted
to an interest in the business. In 1853 a tri-weekly edition was begun, followed
in 1854 by the publication of a daily. In September, 1863, Mr. John D. Candee,
formerly of New Haven, became the successor of the firm of Pettengill and

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Hanover, and on January 1, 1867, the Standard Association was organized, with
a capital stock of thirty thousand dollars, which has since been largely increased.
At the time of the organization Mr. Candcc was President of the association and
J. W. Knowlton Secretary and Treasurer. Mr. Knowlton was also business
manager for about ten years. At the present time the paper is edited by
Messrs. John D. Candee and George C. Waldo, the business management
being under the direction of Mr. Alexander Wheeler. It has also a telegraphic
news editor, Mr, S. O. Canficld, a city editor, Mr. F. C. Smith, and three reporters,
Messrs. Frank A. Wood, F. H. Nash and Frank W. Boland. The job depart
ment is under the charge of Mr. Patrick Wade, Jr., and Mr. George B. Whitney is
foreman of the newspaper composing department. Wm. H. Parroit is bookkeeper
and accountant; and the entire force numbers from twenty-five to thirty men.
Large daily and weekly editions arc published and the paper has a wide circula
tion and influence. It has always been decidedly republican in politics. The fine
brick building on the corner of Fairfield avenue and Middle street, owned and
occupied by the Standard Association, was erected in 1870, at a cost of over
$30,000. John Dutton Candee, son of Benjamin and Almira C.
(Dutton) Candee, was born in Pompey, Onondaga county,
N. Y., June 12, 1819. His parents were natives of Oxford,
Connecticut. He had four sisters and one brother. His
ancestors in both lines were descendants from the earliest
settlers in the country who were of pure English blood,
except one on the paternal side who came from France and
settled in England.
Mr. Candee's parents removed from Pompey to Connec
ticut about 1825, and the following year his father died at
Cheshire, leaving a widow, and six children from six weeks to
fifteen years of age, without property. His mother removed
to New Haven, where by great skill and hard labor she suc
ceeded in maintaining her family, but her struggles left a
vivid impression on the mind of her son.
When nine years of age young Candee walked to Oxford
to work on a farm with his great-uncle, Capt. Job Candee,
and since that day he has supported himself without aid from
any friend or relative. He regards the three years spent on
that farm as among the most valuable of his life. Captain
Candee was a soldier in the Revolution who never tired of
telling stories of that war, and from these the boy imbibed
those sentiments of patriotism which fire his spirit, and some
times blaze out in the Bridgeport "Standard." When about
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of slavery, and he so instinctively felt the supreme wrong of
that institution that he has ever been an intense opponent of
all oppression and slavery all over the world.
When thirteen years of age he engaged in a printing
office as a " roller boy " and continued at that trade ten
years, and thereby mastered every detail of the business.
Thirsting for knowledge and living in sight of Yale Col
lege he became imbued with a strong desire to go through
that institution, and although without means he accomplished
his object and was graduated in 1847. Still he went on, and
spent the next two years in the Yale Law School, under the
tuition of Governors Bissell and Dutton. After graduating
he went to Iowa to practice his profession, but returned the
following year to New Haven and opened a law office. For
five years he was the prosecuting attorney or grand juror of
that town, and it fell to his lot to enforce the so-called Maine
law, which he did successfully. After that he followed his pro
fession for seven years in New Haven, being the city attorney
for two years. While the profession of law secured satisfac
tory remuneration, yet by his peculiar sensitiveness and per
sonal tastes he did not like it, and hence accepted the
editorial department of the New Haven "Journal and Cou
rier" for three months, and, finding that occupation congenial
he purchased a two-thirds interest in the Bridgeport daily
and weekly " Standard," and entered upon his new duties
September 12, 1863.
On the 29th of October following, he married Miss
Sarah Bryant Smith, daughter of the Rev. Samuel F. Smith,
D.D., of Newton Centre, Mass. They have had three daugh
ters, of whom two, Almira Louise and Hattie Kate are living.
When Mr. Candee assumed control of the " Standard "
it was a small paper and in a very precarious condition, but
it soon began to grow, and this prosperity has continued so
that the paper has been enlarged several times. For a time
he did all the editorial work himself, but gradually was able
to add one assistant after another until it requires the work
of six men to conduct it editorially, while the business depart
ment, which formerly afforded but light work for one man,
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ingly increased. Determining to avoid certain errors ol
journalism, and to pursue a line of general progress for the
public good, his paper has become a great success. This
prosperity Mr. Candee does not attribute wholly to himself
but much to his associates, with whom he has maintained
very pleasant relations. Mr. George C. Waldo, associate
editor, has been on the " Standard " for nineteen years ; Mr.
Alexander Wheeler, the business manager, seventeen years,
and the type setters on an average twenty years. The public
career of the paper for nearly twenty-three years renders
useless any effort to describe its principles, or those of its
chief editor, and his associates. The prosperity of the paper
in a commonly moral and intelligent community reveals its
high moral tone and public spirit. In politics Mr. Candee is
Republican, solely from a conviction that the principles of
that party are right. He thoroughly believes in universal
education and works with perseverance for that end and for
public progress in all directions. He has asked for no office
and has held none in Bridgeport except three years in the
Common Council, but he accepted the nomination for Lieut-
Governor in 1882, and was defeated.
In person he is six feet and one inch in height, weighs
about 260 pounds, stands erect, and moves with dignity and
self-possession ; and in the most literal meaning as to his
acquirements, is a self-made man.
George Curtis Waldo was born in Lynn, Mass., in
1837, and is the eldest son of the Rev. J. C. Waldo, a promi
nent Universalist clergyman, now for many years retired at
New London, Conn. Deacon Cornelius Waldo was the first
of the name to come to this country (1654), and from him the
entire family with all its branches has sprung. The family is
of ancient date, Deacon Cornelius tracing his descent back
to Thomas, brother of Peter Waldo, founder of the Wal-
denses (1170). On his mother's side Mr. Waldo is related to
the old Huguenot family of Ballou, his mother being Elmina,
daughter of the Rev. Hosea Ballou of Boston, and cousin of
Eliza Ballou the mother of James A. Garfield. Mr. Waldo
was graduated at Tufts College, Mass., in i860, and studied
law in the office of the Hon. Andrew C. Lippitt of New Lon-

360 History of Bridgeport.
don, Conn., with T. M. Waller. Both he and Gov. Waller
enlisted as privates in the first company raised in New Lon
don for the Civil War, and served through the campaign of
1861. After his discharge from the army, his health being
poor, Mr. Waldo abandoned the study of the law and entered
more active business in New London and Bridgeport from
the years 1862 to 1867, and, in the latter year he engaged as
city editor of the Bridgeport " Daily Standard." He occu
pied this position for two years and in 1869 he bought the
interest of Major L. N. Middlebrook in that journal and
became associate editor of the paper with the Hon. John D.
Candee, a position which he has occupied ever since. In
1874 he married at New Orleans, Annie, daughter of Major
Frederick Frye, formerly of Bridgeport, and their children
are Selden Connor, Rosalie Hillman and Maturin Ballou.
For eight years Mr. Waldo has been a member of the vestry
of Christ Episcopal Church Parish and for four years was its
Junior Warden. He was, with the Rev. Dr. H. N. Powers,
one of the founders of the Scientific Society and for five years
its secretary. He was among the founders of the Historical
Society and is one of its Vice-Presidents. For five years he
was a member of the Board of Education, was a member of
the Building Committees of the Board and the Town in the
construction of the New High School, and for two years
was chairman of the Committee on Schools. He has never
sought political office, the duties of his business being all that
he has had time to undertake. He was the first President of
the old Eclectic Club, is one of the vice-presidents of the Sea
Side Club, is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut, was a charter
member of the first lodge of the Knights of Pythias, and has
belonged to other similar organizations. He is a connoisseur
in art and literature, has many works of art and a fine miscel
laneous library. In 1882 he built the residence No. 85 Golden
Hill, where he now resides.
Tlte Evening Post.— Strangers who visit the busy establishments of the
" Evening Post " are often surprised to hear old citizens who are conducting visi
tors through it say : " Now show us the press you first started wilh." And when,
in response, a forlorn and battered three-dollar card-press is produced, they feel
that the story of the "Post" is indeed one of small beginnings. Starting with
this small press, George W. Hills, the founder of the " Evening Post," worked his

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way on until, though still a boy, he carried on a small but thriving job printing
business in a little frame building at 304 East Main street. Several business men
of East Bridgeport, who had been his earliest patrons, used to urge him, half-jest-
ingly, to issue a daily one-cent paper. February 7th, 1883, saw the first number
of the " Post," a neatly printed four-column sheet, 15x22, aptly described by a big

contemporary as "handkerchief size." It received a hearty welcome from the
public, and in May, 1883, it was enlarged to 5 columns. September, of the same
year saw its expansion to six columns, and in July, 18S4, it attained its present
dimensions, being now a handsomely-printed 7-coIumn daily, exactly the same
size as the " New York Sun." From the first it found cordial supporters among
wealthy and influential advertisers, who were quick to perceive the advantages of
a penny paper with its wide circulation among people who usually spend their
money in their own city. The profits of the paper were steadily devoted to its
improvement, and Hoe presses and other machinery of the best description speed
ily took the place of the first primitive contrivances. In January, 1SS5, George
W. Hills associated with him his brother Henry M. Hills, thus forming the
present firm of Hills Brothers. In September, 1885, the "Post" migrated from
the little frame building which it had long outgrown, to the stately brick block
erected on Middle street, by A. L. Winton, Esq. Here increased prosperity has
followed it. Its sworn circulation is 4,000 daily, and it has an immense advertis
ing patronage. Visitors receive a hearty welcome, and it is one of the sights of
Bridgeport to see the " Post" printed and delivered to its waiting army of boys.
Politically the "Post" is independent, and always ready to lend its support to
"honest men and honest measures."
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362 History of Bridgeport.
The Morning News, as a daily paper, was first published on September
7, 1874, by Major Henry M. Iloyt, L. C. Prindle and John Beardsley. The office
was under the Atlantic House from which it was issued just thirty days and dis
continued. It had been fairly patronized, but it neither made nor lost a dollar.
On October 27, 1879, the "News" was started again by Major Hoyt, who con
ducted it with ihc assistance of A. W. French as cily editor, and T. W. Wood as
night editor, until February 1, 1885, when it was purchased by Rufus A. Lyon and
L. C. Prindle. This firm continued until December 9, 1885, when by mutual con
sent Mr. Prindle purchased Mr. Lyon's imcicsi, and became proprietor and editor,
and thus it continues with good success. On December 27, 1885, Arthur W.
French became the night editor.
The Bridgeport Sun, originally known as the " Budgci," was established
in 1867, by William H. May, at 21 Wall street. It is democratic in its principles
and independent in character, and is now published in Hawes' Opera House
Block, on Fairfield avenue, every Saturday morning.
W. H. May, the editor of the "Sun," was the editor of the " Boneville
Trumpet," which acquired considerable fame as a comical monthly soon after the
war, and displayed at its "mast-head" the motto:
" Independent, like it or lump it,
We'll tell the Truth in the Boneville Trumpet."
During a period of fourteen months in Rebel prisons pens, at Camp Ford,
Tyler, Texas, he printed with a pen in imitation of types, a paper called "The
Old Flag," which was lithographed after his exchange and fac-simile copies
furnished to old ex-prisoners. This is the only instance in the war of '61-5 when
a newspaper was ever successfully published by prisoners in the hands of the
enemy. The First Universalist Society' was organized in April, 1844, and
they built their fiist church edifice the following summer on Cannon street, the
Rev. Samuel B. Britain, formerly an Episcopal clergyman, being their minister.
The church was organized January 12, 1845, with 'he following members : Aminon
Williams, Charles M.Marvin, Richard Thompson, William Gould, Oliva Williams,
Lucy A. Landon, Mary A. Davis, Maria Thompson, Thomas Lewis, S. S. Lyon,
Sarah W. Lyon, Elizabeth C. Britain, Henry Edwards, Amanda Wells, Harvey
K. Knight, Samantha Mettlcr, Francis Marshall, Amy Edwards, Lewis B. Edwards,
Alba Briggs, Susan Robinson, Ann E. Pollard and F. P. Ambler.
Previous to the organization of the society Rev. Menzies Raynor and Rev.
Forbyce Hitchcock preached here as missionaries. Mr. Britain left about 1846,
and the Rev. F. S. Fletcher succeeded him, remaining two years. The Rev.
Hosea Ballou preached here a number of limes before 1850. The Rev. Moses
Ballou was settled here September 1, 1848, and remained six years. The church
edifice was burned in May, 1850, and the present one built on Fairfield avenue,
near Broad street, thai year. The Rev. Edwin C. Boll was ordained pastor here
July 30, 1855, and remained about one year. He was educated in Trinity College
in Hartford. The Rev. Thomas Lathrop was sealed pastor here several years,
beginning in 1861. The next pastor was the Rev. Selden Gilbert, commencing in
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May, 1868, who remained about one year. In 1869, Miss Olympia Brown, after.
wards Mrs. Olympia Willis, became the pastor of this church, and labored with
success until in 1875 when she resigned, and the present pastor, the Rev. John
Lyon succeeded her.
The addition to the church edifice, securing a comfortable Sunday school
room and parlor, was built in 1880, and the church debt was paid in spring of
1886, by the special and persistant labors, of the pastor.
Rev. John Lyon, the present pastor of the Church of
the Redeemer, was born in the city of Glasgow, Scotland,
December 31, 1844. He received his early education in the
excellent national schools of Glasgow, and when about four
teen years of age became attached to the Bridgeton public
school as a pupil teacher, remaining there some four years,
attending at the same time the Glasgow University, which he
entered in his sixteenth year. Soon after entering the univer
sity he opened a private school, which was successful during
the four years he directed it.
Determining to come to this country he left Glasgow,
and after a stormy passage of fifteen days arrived in New
York on Washington's birthday in 1867. Proceeding West
he taught school in Michigan for nearly three years, and
married in Detroit, Carrie C, youngest daughter of Mr.
Henry Barnum, formerly a citizen of Bridgeport, Conn.
Removing to Nebraska, he followed teaching, at the same
time studying for the ministry. On January 22, 1871, he was
admitted to Orders in the Episcopal Church, and on April 6,
1873, ordained to the priesthood. Withdrawing from the
ministry of the Episcopal Church he received in July and
August, 1874, calls from the Liberal Churches in Bolton and
Ware, Mass. He accepted the latter and was duly installed.
On November 16, 1876, he received a unanimous call to the
First Universalist parish of Bridgeport, and accepting it,
entered upon the duties of pastor on the first Sunday in
December of the same year, now nearly ten years since. His
labors have been very earnest, steady and influential, espe
cially in regard to the great questions of moral reform of the
present day. In 1882 he visited Scotland, to secure rest and
revive old memories. In 1886 he received the honorary
degree of Master of Arts from Tufts College, Mass.
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364 History of Bridgeport.
essays and sermons, he has published " What I Believe Con
cerning Endless Punishment," and the reply to it by the Rev
R. G. S. McNeille, "What I Believe Concerning Endless
Punishment," with " Replies thereto by the Rev. John Lyon,"
82 pages, i2mo. He has also nearly ready for the press
" Vergilia, a Tale of the Primitive Church," 300 pages, i2mo
Iiev. Edwin Johnson,' the seventh pastor of the Sec-
ond Congregational Church, was born in Plymouth, Ct.
December 1, 1826, and died in Morrisania, New York City
December 26, 1883, aged 57 years. Mr. Johnson was grad
uated at Yale College in 1846, being the class poet, and after
two years' study at Union Theological Seminary, New York,
graduated there in 1850. He married Miss Sarah K., daughter
of James and Lucy Bartlett of Portsmouth, N. H., who with
three daughters survives him.
He was acting pastor at Milford, Conn., one year during
1850 to 185 1 ; was ordained pastor of the Congregational
Church at Jacksonville, 111., beginning June 6, 1851, where he
remained about seven years; was installed pastor of the Bow-
doin street Church, Boston, Mass., June 29, 1859. O" Octo
ber 16, 1861, he commenced labors at the Hammond street
Church, Bangor, Me., where he remained until late in the
year 1865. He was pastor of the Congregational Church in
Baltimore, Md., from 1867 to 1869, and was installed pastor
of the Second Congregational Church in Bridgeport, Conn.,
November 8, 1870, and continued its pastor until November
2, 1876. After this he preached regularly, until his death, in
the Congregational Church at Morrisania, N. Y., where he
had charge of a school for young ladies.
During his successful labors with the Second Church in
Bridgeport, there were 202 persons added to the membership
— 107 on profession of faith and 95 by letter, and therefore
left the church in a good state of prosperity. He was a ready
writer, and contributed articles to religious press and various
magazines, and in 1873 published the " Mouth of Gold," a
series of dramatic sketches illustrating the life and times of
Chrysostom. ' See page 182.

Churches. 363
Upon receiving the intelligence of his decease the Second
Congregational Church, passed the following:
" Whereas, the sad intelligence was received yesterday
of the death of Rev. Edwin Johnson, formerly pastor of this
church, therefore
"Resolved, That we have heard with sincere sorrow of
this affliction which has befallen his family, and that we take
this means of conveying to them our sympathy, and assuring
them that their grief is also ours, and that we share with
them the sad feelings of loss and bereavement which they
now suffer.
"Resolved, That this church desire to place once more on
record its high esteem for Rev. Mr. Johnson as a consistent
and eminently faithful pastor, and as a sincere and unselfish
friend whose loss we deeply lament.
"Resolved, That as an expression of our feeling, a com
mittee be appointed to attend the funeral in our behalf,
and convey these assurances to his sorrow stricken family;
the following persons being the committee: Rev. R. G. S.
McNeille, the pastor, Deacons Edward Sterling, Edward W.
Marsh and Thomas Calef ; and Messrs. S. W. Baldwin, L. D.
Sanford, M. Neville and E. A. Lewis.
Deacon Blakeslee, of this church, was chosen February 3,
1874. Rev. Robert O. S. McNeille was born in the city of
Philadelphia, April 1, 1841, and was the second son of Perry
R. McNeille, a merchant of that city, and of Hannah (Shep-
herdson) McNeille. His early education was obtained prin
cipally in the public schools of the city and he graduated at
eighteen from the high school with the degree of A.B. He
subsequently graduated at Yale College in the class of 1863,
and after a course of law in the office of G. M. Wharton, Esq.,
and in the University of Pennsylvania, he followed for two
years the practice of that profession. He then graduated
from the Yale Theological Seminary in New Haven and after
a term of travel in Europe became, in 1870, the first pastor of
the East Church, now the Humphrey Street Church, which
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366 History of Bridgeport.
He accepted a call to the Porter Church, in Brockton, in
1872, and subsequently became pastor of the South Congre
gational Church in Bridgeport in December, 1877.
St. John's Episcopal Church closed on page 627 with a sketch of the
Rev. Dr. Maxcy's labors in it. Since the writing of that article work has been
commenced on the new chapel at the nonh end of the church. This chapel will
be 86 by 67 feet, one story high and basement. The cost is estimated at S30.000,
and the expense is defrayed by the legacy of the late Catharine A. Pettengill, the
material being the same as the church edifice — blue sione. The chapel will con
tain a lecture room, two parlors, library, kitchen, pastor's study, and retiring
rooms. The building will be called the " Burroughs Memorial Chapel."
The Rev. Edgar A. Enos, of Towanda, Pa., became reclor of this church in
December, 1SS5.
Private Schools'1 were well sustained in Bridgeport from about 1830
until the consolidation of the public schools in 1876, and the establishment of the
high school grade.
Rev. Samuel Blatchford and Rev. Elijah Waterman had private schools, not
only for candidates for the ministry but for others ; and Rev. Birdsey G. Noble
had one, also, on Fairfield avenue in 1834. Amos A. Pettengill kept such a
school in 1838. Also the following: Mr. Abbott, in the basement of the South
Church in 1835-6; Mr. Isaac H. Johnson, in the same place in 1837 ; Mr. Warren
W. Selleck, on the corner of Main and Stale streets in 1835 and continued for
twenty-five years, with several changes of location; Rev. Henry Jones, Collage
Classical School, already spoken of; Rev. Guy B. Day, a classical and English
school ; George W. Yates, at 89 Counland streel in 1845. Mr. Yates removed to
Bennington, Vt., and the school was continued by Mr. Day for many years;
Emory F. Strong had a select school and military institute ; and Scth B. Jones
one of the same kind at 176 Park avenue, which is still continued.
Young Ladies' Seminaries have been as follows : Mrs. M. M. Mallapar,
daughter of William Eaton, Esq., first located at the foot of Toilsome Hill — Park
avenue — about 1837, removed to 89 Counland streel, where the institution
flourished as a popular boarding school a number of years. Mrs. Mallapar was
the organist at St. John's Church, also, many years.
Misses Lydia R. and Susan C. Ward conducted a very popular select school
for young ladies from about 1835, in the basement of the South Church, and later
for many years at 307 Lafayette streel, to about 1870. In the later period they
educated many of the daughters of their earlier pupils. The Misses Hinsdale
succeeded the Misses Ward for a few years.
Miss Emily Nelson conducted a select boarding and day school for young
ladies at 23 Harrison street, known then and since as Golden Hill Seminary, and
after some years removed to her present elegant location, 107 Golden Hill street,
as heretofore noticed.
Miss Whiting commenced the Hillside Seminary which has been continued
by others at 235 East Washington avenue,
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Education. 367
Hillside Seminary, a boarding and day school for young ladies and
children, is advantageously located on Golden Hill in Bridgeport. In 1856 or '57
Miss E. B. Whiting opened, on Gilbert street, with four children the school now
known as Hillside Seminary. It soon became too large for ils accommodations.
The room was enlarged, but proving, then, insufficient, Miss Whiting, in 1867,
secured the present location on Washington avenue, known as the "Old Bost-
wick Place." In 1868 the building was enlarged and improvements made. The
school was prosperous, when in r87r, Miss Whiting married Mr. T. James Rundel,
and Miss Wolcoit look her place for three years. Then Mrs. Whiiing-Rundel
renewed her connection with the school, remaining as its principal and owner
until her final withdrawal in 1876. During these years the school was particularly
known as a French and English institution, and earned for itself the highest
reputation. In 1876, Miss A.J. Stone, Miss Knowles— afierwards Mrs. F. E. Fitch— and
Miss Slade — afierwards Mrs. W. R. Hopson — succeeded Mrs. Rundel, continuing
the line of studies much the same as it had been, but gradually bringing science
and classics to the front. In 1881, Mrs. Knowles-Fitch removed from the city,
and Miss Stone and Mrs. Sladc-Hopson continued the institution. Extensive
additions and alterations were then made in the building, which under successive
improvements has been most excellently arranged for school purposes. Under
ils present principals the school has maintained its previous creditable reputation
and high standing, and laid the foundation for increased estimation. Its grad
uating courses have been made more and more systematic and thorough, and the
Alumnae of Hillside Seminary have maintained creditable standing compared
with similar institutions.
Tlte First School in the Bridgeport school district was located on the
north side of State street at what is now No. 200. The building was built
of brick in octagonal form, and the teachers were changed every year.
Among ihem were Rev.  Bronson, .1 Baptist clergyman, who served the
Stratfield and Siepney churches ; and James Seeley of Easton, father of Mr.
William K. and Fred. O. Seeley, of Bridgeport,
About the year 1S26, the old brick building was removed and another, three
stories high, buill of wood, was erected, which was dignified with the name of the
" High-School house," but which was really " high " only in the eminence of
the structure. The public school occupied the first and second stories of this
building while the upper story was the room of St, John's Lodge. Up to 1S40,
the town and other meetings were held at this house. Here the late Eben French
of North avenue — Fresh Pond— -wielded the rod a number of years. He was an
excellent penman and left his mark as a teacher of that art, in the hand-writing
of many of the citizens of this town.
In 1827, in a spasmodic attempt to improve the schools, Miss Lydia R.
Ward, a native of Salem, Mass., was secured as a teacher, to introduce the moni
torial or Lancasterian system. But little success attended this effort. On the
erection of the Second Congregational Church in 1830, Miss Ward with her sister
Sarah C. Ward, opened a select school for Misses and young ladies and achieved
therein great success. These ladies afterwards purchased a fine lot on Lafayette
street and erected on it their ample residence, No. 309. In 1846 they erected on
the same lot their Gothic school building and occupied it until 1876, when their

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History of Bridgeport.

personal supervision was relinquished. Few teachers have made a longer, more
successful or honorable record. It must be a matter of great satisfaction to
look over the long and distinguished list of the Alumni, including the wives
and daughters of many of the best citizens of this region of country. It has been
Miss Ward's rare fortune to educate the daughters of many of her former pupils.
Miss Ward excelled in penmanship and was very successful in impaiting her
own style and quality of writing to her pupils, which were in decided contrast
with the angular scrawls which characterized other schools then and since.
These qualities she still retains in a remarkable degree, even at the advanced age
of more than four score years, although the lines give unmistakable evidence of
the trembling hand, as appears in the following fac-simile of a note of a recent
date, here inserted by permission, and which will introduce Miss Ward in another
role as the President and Patron of the Bridgeport Protestant Orphan Asylum :

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The Public Library.— In the beginning of the sketch of the Bridgeport
Public Library and Reading Room, on page 688, some erroneous statements are
made and some items ar*? left out, which are here corrected and supplied from the
records of the old library association. After many fruitless efforts to render the
library self-supporting, the Directors of the Library Association at a meeting held
May 27th, 1881, resolved: "That the Library be closed on and after June 15th,
i88t, until further notice." Mrs. Hills, the Librarian, signified her willingness
to serve as librarian without charge on Thursdays during the enforced closure,
which offer was accepted. No further action was taken by this meeting, as Mr.
D, B. Lockwood, president of the Library brought copies of the law passed at
the last session of the State Legislature in regard to public libraries, and it was
thought best to see what action the citizens of Bridgeport would take towards
availing themselves of the Act.
On the 28th of May an article by Judge D. B. Lockwood appeared in the
Bridgeport "Standard," explaining to the public the provisions of the Con
necticut Public Libraries Act, and suggesting that the city should found a public
Library provided the directors of the Bridgeport Library Association would
transfer their property as a nucleus for it. A letter signed H. (Mrs. Hills) sug
gesting a petition to the Common Council was published in the "Standard" of
June 3d. The following day Rev. Dr. Powers circulated a petition among the
most prominent tax-payers, and on June 5th Mr. W. J. Hills had 1,000 petitions
printed from Rev. Dr. Powers' copy, which, with the aid of Mr. Clarence Sterling
and others were circulated in stores and factories.
On the evening of June 6th. Alderman Charles Sherwood presented petitions
bearing 1,963 signatures (this was afterwards increased to over 3,000), headed by
the petition circulated by Rev. Dr. Powers, to the Common Council. Under
the rules the hearing went over to the next meeting, Monday, June 20th, when
Judge D. B. Lockwood explained the legal aspects of the case, and speeches in
favor of the library were made by Alderman Charles Sherwood, Councilmen J. J.
Phelan, Clarence Sterling, G. W. Warner and others. Only one speech opposing
it was made. The establishment of a Free Library was passed by a vote of 20
to t — three members of the council being absent.
After many efforts to get a quorum of the Directors of the Library Associa
tion together, and many legal technicalities of the law unravelled by Judge D. B.
Lockwood, the formal transfer of the properly of the old library to the Free
Public Library took place August 1st, 1S81.
The Bridgeport Hospital was incorporated by the Legislature in
January, 1878, and is probably as complete in its adaptation and appointments
as any institution of the kind in the country. The marble tablet in the spacious
corridor of the main building has inscribed the name of Mrs. Susan Hubbell as
the first donor towards founding a hospital. Her bequest was originally about
$13,500, with an acre of ground on Mill Hill avenue. The fund accumulated,
and by donations and collections from churches, societies, and other sources, the
amount was increased to over twenty thousand dollars. Upon an appeal to the
Legislature, it appropriated $50,000 for this object, when the corporation had
$50,000 subscribed and paid in, besides the site. This was accomplished through
the indefatigable efforts of Dr. George F. Lewis of the soliciting committee,
assisted by the other members, Robert J. White, William B. Hincks and D. N.
Morgan. /

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The following were the first officers of the corporation : P. T. Barnum, Presi
dent ; E. F. Bishop, Vice-President ; George F. Lewis, Secretary and Treasurer ;
Jarrati Morford, Wm. B. Hincks and Robert White, Executive Committee; P. T.
Barnum, Samuel W. Baldwin, George F. Lewis, F. B. Hall, R. W. Bunnell, E. F.
Bishop, Robert J. While, Amos S. Treat, William B. Hincks, Charles B. Hotch.
kiss, Jarralt Morford, Samuel C. Trubee, Directors. The building was erected
under the direction of the executive committee at the time consisting of Samuel
W. Baldwin, Wm. B. Hincks and D. N. Morgan, at an expense of over $100,000.
It was opened to the public November 11, 1884, and since that date to June 28,
1886, 290 patients have been received.
The present officers of the corpontion are : P. T. Barnum, President ; Jarratt
Morford, Vice-President ; Dr. W. H. Bunnell, Secretary ; S. C. Kingman, Treas
urer ; Samuel W. Baldwin, Wm. B. Hincks and D. N. Morgan, Executive Com
mittee ; Wm. H. Rockwell, Auditor ; P. T. Barnum, R. W. Bunnell, S. W.
Baldwin, David W. Plumb, D. A. Morgan, Joel Farist, Wm. B. Hincks, Charles
B. I lotchkiss, Jarrait Morford and Samuel C. Trubee, Amos S. Treat (deceased),
Directors. The physician in charge is George F. Lewis, M.D., and the House
physician George V. Price, M.D. The consulting and visiting physicians
and surgeons, also the specialists, have taken the deepest interest in the success
of the institution since its formal opening. This hospital, although now finely
equipped, will, in the future, need additional facilities, but it is believed that an
institution so grand and humane in its object, cannot fail to meet with generous
remembrances by those who may be able to render such aid as it shall need.
A Young Men's Christian Association was organized in Bridgeport
in 1868, with a constitution and by-laws. In 1869-70 the officers were : Dabney
Carr, President; Henry Sterling, Emery F. Strong, and R. P. Chapman, Vice-
Presidents ; C. P. Porter, Treasurer ; and William F. Fosket, Secretary. This
society continued its work with much effort and success, held regular meetings,
maintaining a free reading-room and doing much work by committees, in the idea
of evangelical Christian work, until 1S72, when the efforts were discontinued.
The Young Men's Christian Association of Bridgeport now in
operation, was organized June 4, 1883, and incorporated in February, 1884. Dur
ing the summer of 1883 the association employed Mr. W, E. Colley, then general
secretary of the Salem, Mass., association, as general secretary, and he entered
upon his work September r, 1883. The next November the association took
possession of (heir present rooms, which were fitted by the proprietor with special
view to the needs of the association, and the work has gone forward with decided
success to the present time, so much so that they are in need of much more ample
quarters for the accommodation of their work.
The public services are held regularly in their hall at four o'clock on Sunday
afternoon, consisting of addresses and singing, accompanied by an effective and
pleasing orchestra, and devotional exercises. Besides this service and other
meetings during the week, they have an educational department, consisting of
classes in vocal music, penmanship, educational studies, and the reading-room,
all free to the members of the association. They have, also, the social department,
physical culture, employment and boarding house, and boy's department, each of
which is placed in charge of a special committee. Under this generous arrange
ment much very valuable work has been accomplished.

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The officers of the association are : President, Doctor I. DeVer Warner ; Vice-
Presidents, Daniel W. Kissam, Daniel E. Marsh, Marshall E. Morris ; Treasurer,
Francis W. Marsh; Recording Secretary, Doctor W. H. Donaldson; General
Secretary, W. E. Collcy ; Auditor, George Munger.
The Philomathean Society.— The society which was well known in
Bridgeport by this name twenty years ago, was a literary association of unusual
excellence, dignity and tenacity of life. It was the successor of a society formed
about 1854, of which James L. Gould, Lemuel J. Beardsley, John Coggswell,
Curtis Thompson, Luther R, Riggs, John B. Dunning, and others were members.
The Philomathean society was probably organized in 1855 and continued in active
operation most of the lime till the latter part of 1866, It had at one period over
seventy members and many will remember its public debates and entertainments,
noiably those of January 11 and April 19, 1858. The following annotated list of
members is interesting and shows concisely the make-up of the society.
Note. — Those marked f died in the service of their country in the war of the
rebellion, c, became clergyman. /, lawyers, p, physicians.
George W. Banks. William H. Hawley. \
John A. J. Barnes. Edward Y. Hincks. c
John Samuel Beers, c Enoch P. Hincks.
George K. Birdsey. John 11. Hincks. c
Charles K. Bishop. William B. Hincks.
Robert C. Booth, c Charles E. Hubbell.
James S. Bunnell. William L. Hubbell.
Samuel R. Calthrop. c Peter Hughes.
Oscar Chamberlain. / O. S. Jennings.
H. W. Chatfield. f Charles N. Judson. /
Thomas Connor. Frederick N. Judson. /
R. R. Crawford, f Pixlce Judson.
Heman Crosby. Waller Judson.
Frederick L. Curtis, t Counland Kelsey.
Wright Curtis. S. Clayton Kingman.
Charles F. Daniels. Charles F. Lemon.
L. W. Eaton. Benjamin B. Lewis.
Waller Fletcher. George F. Lewis. /
William H. Foote. Philip E. Lockwood.
G. Fredericks. Roger II. Lyon. /
John S. G.ilTney. Brainard W. Maples.
L. Gannon. Edward W. Marsh.
Frederick Giraud. J. H. Osborn.
James L. Gould. / John Ogle, Jr.
Henry S. Gregory. Albert M. Palmer.
Andrew Grogan. J. Wilbur Parroli. /
Henry T. Hanford. Jewctt Peck.
Chauncey M. Hatch. Nathan F. Peck.
Alexander Hawley. Thaddeus E. Peck.
Marcus C. Hawley. Giiead S. Peet. /
The society gave to the Bridgeport library association at different times $150.
It was succeeded by the Pliilologean Society, composed of younger members
which existed but a short time.

H. P. Pelton.
Benjamin P. Pcnfield.
Noel B. Sanborn.
L. A. Sanchez.
C. E. Sanford. p
William E. Seeley.
Henry M. Sherman, c
Lucuis Sherwood.
E. Silliman.
Lewis B. Silliman.
Frederick W. Simmons.
John B. Snow.
Henry S. Sterling.
Sherwood Sterling, Jr.
H. Stevens.
E. A. St. John.
E. A. Thayer.
Curtis Thompson. /
Frederick H. Thompson.
C. Edward Toncey.
Joshua G. Towne.
Morris Tuitle. /
Daniel H. Wardwell.
Clarence H. Waugh.
Charles B. Wheeler.
Alva E. Wilcox, f
Henry T. Winslow.
Augustus N. Wood.
N. Eugene Wordin. />

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Delightful reunions were held in the summers of 1875 and 1876; several
numbers of an interesting and able manuscript paper called the "Philomathean
Review," were at different limes prepared and read. These, with the records of
the society, were carefully preserved by William B. Hincks, Esq. A large num
ber of the former members of this society are among our foremost citizens, and it
is not too much to say that they owe much of their success to the practical train
ing which they received at its meetings.
Tlte Cemeteries of Bridgeport are six in number ; two having been
removed to the later ones.
Mountain Grove Cemetery contains about 80 acres and is located in
the northwestern part of the cily, and is bounded on the west by the beautiful,
meandering stream called Ash Creek, but in early limes TJncoway River. The
Association, for ils construction and care, was organized in 1849, and opened
with appropriate ceremonies on June 7, 1850. In 1852, Miss Hayes — a celebrated
singer — while the guest of Mr. P. T. Barnum, preparatory to a professional tour
in California, was induced to give a concert for the benefit of this cemetery, and
the proceeds were devoted to the erection of the beautiful stone tower and
gateway at the entrance of these grounds.
In 1878, a fair held by the citizens ol Bridgeport, at St. John's Hall, realized
eleven thousand dollars profits, which were expended in grading and beautifying
the grounds of this cemetery.
The grave stones with a large proportion of the remains of the old Division
street or Park avenue burying ground were removed to this cemetery in 1873.
Pembroke Cemetery is situated in the northeastern part of the city.
north of Old Mill Green, and bordering on Stillman's Pond. It was chartered in
October, 1811, and originally contained but one acre of ground, 10 which 77 rods
were added in 1844. From 1862 to 1872, the old ground being full, it became
overgrown with brush, and burials in it ceased. In 1872, the charter of the
association was amended, permission being given to purchase one hundred acres
of land, to sell the old ground, and 10 remove the dead to the new inclosure.
Sixteen acres were accordingly purchased at the above described place, and fitted
in good style, and the place is fast being filled with monumental stones.
Park Cemetery is located in the northern portion of the cily territory,
and was organized in 1S78. It contains about 44 acres, and many interments
have already been made in it.
Tlte Stratfleld Cemetery is located in the northwestern part of the
city, and is described on page 77 of this book.
Two Catholic Cemeteries arc located within the city limits ; one
between Arctic and Shelton streets in the eastern part of the city, fronting on
Pembroke Lnkc, and tho olher on Grove street— formerly Cook's lane— in the
western part of the city. In 1885, another Catholic cemetery was secured and
the grading of the grounds commenced, in West Stratford. It is extensive and
very fine in location, and sandy soil.
The Sea-side Club was organized at a meeting held at the Sterling House
on April 30th, 1884. The following is a copy of the original call for this meeting,
issued in circular form :

374- History of Bridgeport. " Bridgeport. Conn., April 26, 1884.
"Dear Sir;— There has been for a long time an expressed desire among many
gentlemen in this cily owning and interested in ' Road Driving Horses,' that an
association be organized and have for ils purpose of meeting a suitable room or
rooms, where pleasant 'Horse Sense' may be indulged in and anything per
taining thereto discussed. To this end the following named gentlemen have
been invited to meet at the Sterling House parlor, on Wednesday. April 30, 1884,
at S o'clock, i\ M., to have an expression of opinion. As your name appears in
the list, it is hoped that you have an interest sufficient to be present and help
organize, as a charter member, what is thought will be a pleasant and most desir
able association. Nathaniel Wheeler, Wm. H. Perry, E. G. Burnham, Clapp
Spooner, D. M, Read, Francis Ives, Thos. DeForest, Joel Farist, Chas. F. Wood,
E. R. Ives, Dr. I. DeVer Warner, Col. T. L. Watson, E. C. Bessick, David Trubee,
D. E. Marsh, Eleazcr Parmly, J. C. Tallman, C. G. Lyon, Frank Miller, Edward
Downs, Saml. T. Banks, Wm. T. Hubbell, Edwin Banks, Zalmon Goodsell, Chas.
R. Willett, Frank H. Whiting, W. Minor Smith, Erwin Strickland, Chas. A. Ives,
Geo. Bushnell, Henry Setzur. Jr., B. F. Lasher, S. T. Cate, O. C. Smith, S. M.
Cate, Jr., Henry B. Drew, L. W. Besse, Tracey B.Warren, Geo. E. Botsford,
Chas. Wilson, Alex. Leverty, Chas. F. Williams, and F. J. Naramore. Making a
total ol forty-three names." In response to this call twenty-eight gentlemen were
in attendance at (his meeting and completed the organization with E. R. Ives as
President, Chas. F. Williams, Treasurer, and F.J. Naramore, Secretary. At a sub
sequent meeting Mr. Ives resigned and Mr. Nathaniel Wheeler was elected in his
place, and Mr. E.G. Burnham 1st Vice-President, Francis Ives, 2d Vice-President.
The following named gentlemen were chosen as the Executive Committee: E. G.
Burnham, Francis Ives, D. M. Read, Erwin Strickland. B. F. Lasher, W. R.
Briggs, E. R. Ives, and the President, Secretary and Treasurer, as members
ex-offido. The present rooms in the Bishop building were selected and some
$8,000 expended in filling up and furnishing. This money was realized from the
membership fees and yearly dues without any assessment, and was entirely paid
for the first year. Every gentleman in the original call became a member, and
after several meetings had been held, there were 50 many who expressed a desire
to become members, and yet were not owners of horses nor particularly interested
in them, it was voted to drop the word "Driving" and make the club name
"The Sea-side Club," and under (his cognomen make it a social or business
men's club. From this time the membership constantly increased, and at the
present time the membership roll is two hundred and eighty. Nothing can speak
louder in terms of praise for the character and stability of this club than the fact
that in many cases fathers have proposed their sons for membership into this club
to become acquainted and associated with sound conservative business men, men
who represent the large manufacturing and mercantile interests of our city. On
many occasions the club have extended to out-of-town bodies the use of their
rooms for meetings, which has been highly appreciated, and these handsome
rooms have reflected great credit not only upon the club, but upon our city and
its citizens. The constitution and by-laws of this club are very conservative and
quite different from those generally governing organizations of this kind.
The Bridgeport Board of Trade was organized at a meeting of
citizens in the Mayor's office, January 15, 1875, and the following officers elected :
Hon. Robert T. Clarke, President; Nathaniel Wheeler, P. T. Barnum, Jarratt
Morford, E. V. Hawcs and J. D. Alvord, Vice-Presidents ; T. R. Crutlenden,

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Secretary; Thomas L.Watson, Treasurer. The following Directors were also
elected ; Robert T. Clarke, N. Wheeler, J. Morford, E. V. Hawes, B. Soules, M.
W. Seymour, D. W. Sherwood, C. B. Hotchkiss, Handford Lyon, P. T. Barnum,
J. D. Alvord, James Staples, George Mallory, D. M. Read, Wm. H. Noble,
Frederick Hurd, S. C. Kingman, E. S. Burnham, Charles Hough, E. G. Westcott,
S. W. Baldwin, R. Kost, Z. Goodsell, G. W. Bacon, W. H. Wessels, S. C. Nicker-
son, E. Parmly, N. Buckingham, A. C. Hobbs, E. L. Gaylord, R. B. Lacey, N. G.
Miller. The scope and objects of the Board are set forth in the following extract from
the original articles :
" It shall be the duty of the Board of Directors to encourage and stimulate in
every suitable way the business interests of the city. They may appoint com
mittees from the members of the association to examine all plans and suggestions
that may seem important to the general interests of our city, to investigate
mechanical inventions, and manufacturing and other enterprises, and report to
the association the value of the same and what steps, if any, may be necessary to
procure their development and location in our midst. Also to receive applica
tions in behalf of meritorious inventions and enterprises and bring them to the
attention of capital seeking investment."
At the end of the first year the secretary reported 144 names on the roll of
membership. The Board was incorporated by act of the Legislature at its May
session in 1876, which was accepted ; a new code of by-laws adopted and the old
organization merged into the new one. On due application the Board became
associated with the National Board of Trade, in which it holds an honorable
position. The first annual banquet of the Board was held at the Sterling House
February 3, 1876, and these annual gatherings have been a marked feature of this
successful organization ever since.
David M. Read, Esq., is serving his eleventh year as President and R. B.
Lacey his tenth as Secretary. A large share of the real labor of the association
devolves upon the officers and Mr. James Staples of the executive committee, and
while a hearty cooperation is rendered by others, a large measure of the efficiency
attributed to the Board is due to their efTorts. In prosecuting its work a map of
the city, with accompanying descriptions was published, but is now out of print.
A reduced fac-simile has been secured for this book, and is herewith inserted.
P. T. Jtarmtm's Greatest Show on MavtW has a
home in Bridgeport, where it quietly rests about five months
in each year. It is a collection resulting from the skill and
experience of many years in this line of business, by Messrs.
P. T. Barnum, J. A. Bailey, J. L. Hutchinson and others,
as an instructive exhibition of trained animals and human
beings. In the exhibitions made under one or other of these
gentlemen during the last forty years there have been
various specialties presented to the admiration and wonder
' The author is indebted to the Courier Printing Company, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
for the use of the full page illustrations, accompanying this article, which they use
as publishers of " P. T. Barnum's Life, written by Himself."

3j6 History of Bridgeport.
of the people, but during the last sixteen years the special
ties have culminated in one monster or mammoth show
which defies delineation, and is only approximately repre
sented by the unequaled posters seen in large cities a month
in advance of the progress of the exhibition itself. The
buildings which provide " Winter Quarters" for the animals
and carriages during the winter months, cover several acres
of ground, and, instead of being unsightly and unwelcome,
are so constructed and kept' as to be rather picturesque
and agreeable, and are welcomed by the people of the city.
Mr. Barnum and his great show with their world-wide
reputation, having been portrayed by a million or more
copies of his book, " Struggles and Triumphs," as well as
having been seen by tens of millions of people, need no
eulogy nor publication in this book, but it is equally evident
that any work purporting to be a history of Bridgeport,
without a careful review of his life career, would be a mis
nomer, and unworthy to be read under such a title. As
with all the actors on the present stage of life, so with Mr.
Barnum, he will soon be known only to history, and any
work of this character on Bridgeport that did not approx
imately represent the relations to it of the most celebrated
man who ever lived in it — if not in America — would be a
dishonor to its author and the citizens of the celebrated
Park City. The difficulty of the task of making such a
representation within the limited space possible, is appre
ciated by the present author, not for the want of any moral
qualities in the subject — those being high above any ques
tion whatever — but because of the varied, unusual and
almost marvelous relations of the subject to this city, as
well as to the whole world for more than half a century ;
relations made and effected by the most intensely active,
energetic and successful life, clouded by such mammoth
financial misfortunes under the highest moral rectitude
as defy description, and would have crushed, seemingly,
anybody but P. T. Barnum. His book — the autobiography
— is well named, giving as it does the actual facts, " Strug
gles and Triumphs," but fortunately for him and the world
it can be emphatically said, in the words of the often repeated
announcement of a popular vote — the Triumphs "have it."

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Biography. 3jj
Hon. P. T. Jiamuni was born in Bethel, Conn., July
5, 1810, and named Phineas Taylor Barnum by his mother's
father, Phineas Taylor. Having passed his boyhood and
youth, his start as a showman began in 1835 by the purchase
and exhibition of Joyce Heth, a colored woman said to have
been the nurse of Gen. George Washington and 161 years of
age. His next venture was the exhibition of " Signor Anto
nio" and "a Mr. Roberts." In 1836, he connected himself
with Aaron Turner's traveling circus, going south, and the
year following he organized a new company and went west,
reaching the Missouri river where he purchased a steamer
and sailed down the river to New Orleans. There he sold
his steamer for sugar and molasses and arrived at New York
June 4th, 1838. The year 1840, he spent in the mercantile
business, selling shoe blacking, and on a minstrel tour
through the west, returning again to New York in the
Spring of 1841. That year he bought the American Museum,
and commenced a series of improvements by way of attrac
tive exhibitions. One of these was the model of Niagara
Falls, illustrated with real water ; another was the cele
brated mermaid, which in a short time became the topic for
talk and joke, all over the United States ; another was free
music by a band at his museum, and the powerful Drum-
mond Lights, which lighted Broadway as it had never been
before. He introduced the Lecture Room, a reform of the
stage or theater. Then were added paintings all over the
museum and a zoological garden outside of the building.
When crowds of people gathered on holidays, the cry of
humbug was started, but this only made the people talk and
go the more to the museum. Following these, came the
baby shows, with premiums for the prettiest baby, or the
fattest, or the most beautiful twins or triplets; and a free
buffalo hunt in the Jerseys' a good joke for advertising. In
1843, came the Woolly Horse, a truly curious appearing
animal but really a horse, followed by the Indians from the
west, and then the purchase of Peale's Museum, a pretended
rival institution, having a valuable collection of articles.
The museum now became almost a mania with Mr.
Barnum. He was constantly searching for and obtaining
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something new, amusing or wonderful, and all the exhibi
tions he made were instructive to the people — moral and
elevating. His methods of bringing his institution constantly
before the minds of the people and the success thereby
secured, first impressed the American mind with the advan
tages of advertising. His odd or striking, yet appropriate
names, startled the people and kept them talking about his
"Mermaid," " Woolly Horse," "Sea Lion," "Tom Thumb,"
and "What is it?" All over the country, the boys who
never saw Barnum nor a ticket to his museum or show,
learned these names, and laughed and joked about them, and
then at the earliest opportunity, went to the show.
General Tom Thumb was secured for exhibition by
Mr. Barnum in 1842. His first name was Charles S. Stratton,
son of Sherwood E. Stratton of Bridgeport. He was very
small, not two feet in height, weighed less than sixteen
pounds, perfectly formed, bright-eyed, light haired, with
ruddy cheeks, possessing the best of health, but exceedingly
bashful. An engagement was made with his parents, and the
child with the mother arrived at Mr. Barnum's Museum on
Thanksgiving day, December 8, 1842, and he was announced
on the museum bills as "General Tom Thumb." This name,
like those of all the other specialties of Mr. Barnum, was the
most fitting and captivating of any that could have been
chosen. " What is in a name?" A hundred thousand dollars,
sometimes. Great success attended the exhibition of Tom
Thumb for nearly two years, and then on January 18, 1844,
Mr. Barnum sailed with him and his parents for Liverpool,
where, on arrival, the exhibitions were renewed. They went
to London and soon to the presence of the Queen at Buck
ingham Palace, and afterwards two other visits were made to
the same place by her royal commands. From London the
party went to Paris where the General received great atten
tion and won golden crowns, in great numbers. He was
invited to the presence of the King and Queen and the royal
family, and his visits to King Louis Philippe, of France, were
repeated twice by invitation. For the first day's exhibition
to the general public in Paris, Mr. Barnum received 5,500
francs. The accompanying cut represents General Tom

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Biography. j7p
Thumb in his carriage, occupying, by royal permission, a
place in the avenue, reserved only for the Court and diplo
matic corps, on a great day of parade. The General's stay
in Paris was a triumph rather than a success. From that
place the party traveled through France and Belgium and
back to England, where the profitable exhibition continued
until the return to New York in February, 1847.
The General's father, on returning from England with a
handsome fortune, placed a portion of it at interest for the
General, and more for himself, and with thirty thousand dol
lars built a substantial dwelling on the corner of North
avenue and Main street, at Bridgeport, where he resided
until his decease.
After returning to America, Mr. Barnum made a tour
with his little General through the United States and Cuba.
It was during this tour in 1847-8 that he had his beautiful
dwelling built at Bridgeport, which he called "Iranistan" —
the word signifying " Oriental Villa ;" — and on November
14, 1848, nearly one thousand invited guests were present at
an old-fashioned " housewarming." It stood a little tack
from the northwest corner of the present Fairfield and Iran
istan avenues, and some years after it accidentally took fire
and was consumed. This beautiful and very remarkable
structure, built in Oriental style, was the first great boom for
the celebrity of Bridgeport. The picture of it went over the
country in the illustrated newspapers, as "a thing of beauty,"
a marvel of wonder, and an honor to all America. Mr.
Barnum says in his book that he did not care to know "how
much it did cost to build it," but as a fact it finally cost him
nothing, since by it his museum receipts were probably
enough more than to pay the cost. This picture was cut
out of the newspapers, framed and hung in the houses, put
in scrap books, and in many ways preserved and admired by
the people all over the country.
The Jenny Lind enterprise was the next great undertak
ing of Mr. Barnum. It was conceived by him in October,
1849, the engagement made with the great singer January 9,
1850, by which $187,500 were to be deposited by Mr. Barnum
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Lind arrived in New York September 1, 1850, and the first
concert occurred September 11 following, the proceeds of
which amounted to $17,864.05." Ninety-three concerts were'
given under Mr. Barnum's contract, terminating in May, 185 1,
the receipts for which amounted to $712,161.34. It was the
greatest project of the kind ever introduced into America,
unto that day, and probably to the present, unless it be
" Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth ;" and was successfully,
even grandly carried through. Such was the immense cele
brity of the enterprise and the singer that it was Jenny Lind
everything; — the clothes worn, the food eaten, the songs
sang, the carriages the people rode in — everything of any
particular consequence offered for sale, or elegant at home,
had the name Jenny Lind; the only secondary thing in
America, was P. T. Barnum.
During this time the American Museum was running
finely, with Tom Thumb in attendance, and many other
entertainments added every year.
After fitting out his "Great Asiatic Caravan, Museum
and Menagerie," at an expense of over $100,000, and exhibit
ing it four years, Mr. Barnum sold the same, excepting one
elephant, which he brought to Bridgeport and used for
ploughing on his farm land at this place. This ploughing
was done precisely on the old Indian field, where the Indians
had for scores of years planted their corn before a white
man's face had been seen by them ; along close to the side of
the railroad. The elephant, as well as his keeper, in Turkish
dress, were regularly at work with the plough while the rail
road trains were passing, at other times they had occasion to
rest or tie-up at the barn. Soon this great agricultural enter
prise appeared in the papers and went the entire rounds ol
the press in this country and very much in Europe. Hund
reds of people came many miles to witness the spectacle, and
hundreds of letters came, with the questions : " Is the ele
phant a profitable agricultural animal? How much can he
plough in a day? How much can he draw? How much

9 The accompanying illustrations — the portrait of Jenny Lind and her appear
ance at Castle Garden — are secured from A. Nichols & Co., of Springfield, Mass.,
the publishers of the work entitled "Our First Century."

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does he eat ? What is the price of an elephant? Where can
elephants be purchased?" For a long time, but few persons
suspected that the ploughing was all done for the American
Museum on Broadway in New York.
But the illustrated papers were full of the pictures of
Barnum's elephant ploughing at Bridgeport, and thousands
of people became familiar with that representation of this
city. In 1851, Mr. Barnum purchased of Mr. William H. Noble
of Bridgeport, the undivided half of his late father's estate,
consisting of fifty acres of land lying on the east side of the
river, opposite the city of Bridgeport. They intended this
as the nucleus of a new city, which they concluded could
soon be built, in consequence of the many natural advantages
it possessed. In view of securing this end a clock company
in which Mr. Barnum was a stockholder was prevailed upon
to transfer its establishment from the town of Litchfield to
this new city. In addition to this it was proposed to transfer
the entire business of the Jerome Clock Company, of New
Haven, to East Bridgeport, and for this purpose Mr. Barnum
lent that company money and notes to the amount of $110,-
000, with the positive assurance that this would be the
fartherest extent of the company's call on him, but by pecu
liar management by the company they soon had Mr. Barnum
involved to the amount of over half a million dollars. Then
they failed, and after absorbing all ol Mr. Barnum's fortune
they paid but from twelve to fifteen per cent, of the company's
obligations, while, in the end, they never removed to East
Bridgeport, although this was the sole reason why Mr.
Barnum was prompted to lend a dollar to their rotten con
cern. Mr. Barnum's extrication of himself from this gulf of
obligation by paying such a per centage on the whole as
could be met by the sale of all his property at the time was
a financial feat of the highest genius, energy and honor.
Early in 1857, Mr. Barnum again went to Europe, taking
with him General Tom Thumb, and also little Cordelia
Howard and her parents, and traveled through England,
Germany and Holland, experiencing with his little folks a
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382 History of Bridgeport.
ing which time he amused himself (!) by remitting money as
fast as secured, to pay the claims of the creditors of the
abominable old clock company.
Not long after his return to New York, another great
calamity befell him, as also Bridgeport and America, in the
burning of the marvelously beautiful Iranistan, in December,
1857, the only building in this peculiar style of architecture of
any pretensions in America. Many persons, every year,
some from a great distance, visited Bridgeport to see this
celebrated building and home of the great showman. Some
workmen had been repairing it for some weeks, and it was
supposed to have taken fire from a lighted pipe left in the
dome of the building.
Early in 1858, Mr. Barnum returned to England, taking
Tom Thumb, and with some help to manage the exhibition
through Scotland and Wales, as well as elsewhere, he devoted
himself to the "lecture field," taking for his theme "The Art
of Making money," and by it he made money, hand over
hand, and sent it home to apply on the clock enterprise. In
1859 he returned to the United States, and pushing on his
museum found himself in i860 within $20,000 of extinguish
ing the last claim from the old clock business. This he pro
vided for and resumed the full control of his old museum.
In i860 he built a new house in Bridgeport on Fairfield
avenue about one hundred rods west of the site of Iranistan
which was named Lindencroft, in honor of Jenny Lind, and
gave his attention anew to the building of his pet city, East
Bridgeport. This had already made great progress. In
1856, the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company
had purchased the old clock shop, greatly enlarged it, and
were employing something like a thousand hands. Churches,
dwellings, and other manufactories, including that of the Howe
Sewing Machine Company, had been built and the place had
become quite a city. It now constitutes a large proportion
of the city of Bridgeport, and is rapidly growing by the erec
tion of elegant dwellings, large churches, and immense manu
factories. From i860, to the present time, Mr. Barnum, although en
gaged with the New York Museum for years, and since that,

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Biography. 383
with his great show, has not ceased to give much attention and
energetic effort to the building, prosperity and success of the
city of Bridgeport, and like others has made money by the
growth of the city in the increase of the value of property.
This growth has not been an accident resulting particularly
from natural causes, but because Mr. Barnum and many other
citizens, particularly such men as Nathaniel Wheeler, William
H. Noble, Elias Howe, Jr., and many others determined, at
the expense of great effort and much money, to make it grow;
and more recently this effort has been combined under the
control of the Bridgeport Board of Trade with very great
success. The increase of manufacturing enterprises in the
city since the organization of this Board has been surprising
to all the people.
In 1861, Mr. Barnum introduced into his museum Com
modore Nutt, a dwarf, of most perfect form and bright intel
lect ; and in consequence of whom there was another great
run of visitors at the museum.
Then in 1862, he secured another dwarf in the person of
a most perfectly formed, well educated young lady, Miss
Lavinia Warren. This young lady and the then celebrated
citizen of Bridgeport, General Tom Thumb, became inter
ested in each other — a genuine love-match — and were mar
ried in Grace Church, New York City, on February 10, 1863,
creating a most remarkable sensation throughout America
and Europe, and during their lives thereafter the appearances
were that they were among the happiest of married people
in the United States.
General Tom Thumb — or more correctly, Charles S.
Stratton — was a native of Bridgeport — his ancestors having
resided within this territory over a hundred years — and after
his marriage he and his wife continued the exhibition life to
which they both had been introduced by Mr. Barnum. They
traveled over the civilized world, were successful in accumu
lating money, established a beautiful home in Middleboro,
Mass., where he died July 15, 1883, in the 46th year of his
age, and was buried in Bridgeport. His was a remarkable
life. He became a good business manager ; took care of his
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On the 13th day of July, 1865, the American Museum in
New York was burned, with great loss; but Mr. Barnum
built another, which was also burned on March 3, 1868.
Therefore about a million dollars worth of Mr. Barnum's prop
erty in one dwelling and two museums, had been destroyed
by fire. In 1867 he sold his home, Lindencroft, on Fairfield avenue,
and removed to the locality where he now resides, where, in
1868 he commenced the erection of his present residence,
which was completed the next year. This he named Walde-
mere, the word meaning " Woods-by-the-sea." When he
purchased this land, it lay adjoining the west end of Seaside
Park — being a considerable portion of an old farm — and
extended from Atlantic street to the shore of the Sound. Be
lieving as he did then that Seaside Park would be of very
great advantage to the people of the city, he gave seven
acres lying in front of his residence, extending to the shore
and from near the old Division street line to what is now
Iranistan avenue to the city for enlargement of the park.
This portion of the park is now largely occupied by the
" Trotting Course." In 1884, he gave thirty acres more, ex
tending the park westward toward Black Rock harbor. The
park is ornamented conspicuously by his residence, and a
number of others, on its northern border, and it is also true
that the residences are ornamented by the park.'
In the autumn of 1870, Mr. Barnum commenced prepara
tion for a great show and enterprise, comprising a museum,
menagerie, caravan, hippodrome and circus, and to this show
he has devoted a great proportion of his untiring energies
since that day, and which he calls " The Greatest Show on
Earth," and in this name as well as many others his genius
seems to have hit the mark.
Mr. Barnum's " Show " opens for a few weeks every
spring in the large Madison Square Garden, in New York,
and during each summer it visits the principal cities in the
9 It should be stated that, whoever originated the idea of the park, it was Mr.
Barnum that first moved in the matter to have the work done. He caused the
article on the subject to be written for the " Standard " on October I, 1863 ; and
he gave at first one thousand dollars for beginning the improvements; and hence
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Biography. 383
United States and Canadas, from Quebec and Montreal on
the East to Omaha in Nebraska, West; exhibiting under im
mense tents in one of which can be seated 20,000 persons. It
consists of a large menagerie of rare wild beasts, a museum
of human phenomena and living specimens of savage and
strange tribes and nations, including without regard to cost
everything rare and marvelous which the wealth, energy and
perseverance, and half a century's experience as a public
manager could gather. Much of this is accomplished by his
agents who traverse nearly every part of the globe; some
times expending as much as $200,000 in a single year. Added
to this is his reproduction of the ancient Roman Hippodrome
with its chariot and other races, and various descriptions of
equestrian and athletic performances, by Japanese, Chinese,
Arabs and other nations.
The " Ethnological Congress" of this show contained the
greatest collection of different types of strange and savage
tribes, gathered from the remotest corners of the earth
ever seen together. Among them were Nubian warriors,
Australian Cannibals, Boomerang Casters, fierce Afghans,
devotional Burmese, Syrians, Aztecs, Malays, Nautch danc
ing girls from India, Hottentots, Caffres, Hindoos, Patago-
nians, Bushmen, high and low caste Indians, Asiatics, dwarfs
from India, giants from China, Todas people from the Niliqui
mountains of India, Guatemalians, wild Zulus, Quiche people,
Hungarian Gypsies, Sioux Indians, Siamese, Hawaian Island
ers, Ceylonese, and a dozen other types, numbering in all 200
men, women and children, arrayed in the costumes of their
various countries. Among them were worshipers of Bud
dha, of Mahomet, of Joss, of idols, and of the Sun. Some of
them would eat no meat, others would slay and drink the
blood of animals and cook the carcass. Still others con
sidered roasted snakes, lizards, and dried worms and insects
the most delicate food.
The great elephant, Jumbo, purchased by Mr. Barnum
from the Royal Zoological Garden in London, being the
largest land animal seen for centuries, and 40 other African
and Indian elephants, including two baby elephants, one of
which was born in Bridgeport, Conn., and named Bridgeport
 the only elephant ever born in captivity — these and scores
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of trained animals transported on nearly a hundred railway
cars belonging to Mr. Barnum, created an expense of $5,000
to $6,000 each day, and brought in over a million dollars in a
single season.
Mr. Barnum has taken three experienced partners, Messrs.
W. W. Cole, J. C. Hutchinson and J. E. Cooper. The con
tract of copartnership extends to 1899, and arrangements are
made for its continuance after that time by their successors.
Another item of Mr. Barnum's business is book making
and selling. Each year he adds an appendix to his Autobi
ography, and sells the books, under the tents to his show pat
rons only, at the exact cost — fifty cents — but at the book stores
it sells for one dollar. It has over 350 pages, 40 full page illus
trations, well bound, is printed in editions of 20,000 copies,
and over a million copies have been sold. It has been printed
in London, Paris, and Leipzig in Germany.
Mr. Barnum has been Mayor of Bridgeport, a member of
the Legislature four times, president of the Pequonnock
National Bank of Bridgeport, president of the Bridgeport
hospital, president of the Bridgeport Water Company, and
Commissioner of Seaside Park.
He gave nearly one hundred thousand dollars to Tufts
College, Mass., with which was erected and stocked " The
Barnum Museum " of Natural History. He has been a total
abstainer from intoxicating drinks for forty years, and from
tobacco twenty years. Hence he is a very active man, attend
ing to a great amount of labor, retaining a marvelous memory
of the details of his whole business life. Scarcely a fact, or
joke, or anecdote has escaped ; and all arc ready in his mind
at a moment's call.
East Bridgeport by Personal Observation"
Bridgeport, about 1830, was a very aboriginal town, just creeping out of its
small beginnings, after being cut loose from old Stratford. The old salt works
and their plant were then visible, and the old pottery works, located souili ol
what_is now Lumber street, were then in full blast. The saddlery business of

10 This history of East Bridgeport is by permission taken from the manuscript
of General William H. Noble, contributed to the Historical Society, and although
containing considerable detail in the description is for that reason the more
valuable.

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East Bridgeport. 38-7
Lyon and Company and the carriage works of Tomlinson and Company were
about Ihc only industries in the place of any consequence. All Golden Hill north
of Golden Hill street was farm land, and the whole territory west of Main streel
and north of Golden Hill street was the same, much of it being wooded land.
Where Washington avenue now is was a narrow road, running most of the way in
a dilch. When General William 11. Noble first became acquainted with Bridgeport he
came lo the place for ihc purpose of taking passage for New York on the little
steamboat John Marshall, commanded by Captain Benson, of Fairfield. The size
of that boat Can best be estimated by ils inability to cope with the tide at Hurl
Gate, for when she arrived at Hallclt's Point she essayed three times to go out of
the eddy, but each time as she struck the current was nearly upset by its force,
and was finally compelled to lay up until ihe tide had flowed in from the Sound.
In 1S33 General Noble came lo reside in Bridgeport with his father, the Rev.
Birdsey G. Noble, who look, for a private school, Ihe house on Counland slreet
which is now occupied by the Rev. G. B. Day. Al that time the only houses in
that part of ihe cily were the one just spoken of, the old red house of the Kirlland
family on Ihe southwest corner of Washington avenue and Counland street, the
house on the opposite corner, which was then owned by Isaac Sherman. Sen.,
afterwards the lirst mayor of the city of Bridgeport, the house now occupied by
Mr. Horace Nichols, and the front part of the house now occupied by Major Wil
liam L. Hubbell, but at that time belonging to Caplain E. Rossiter. The streel
now called Counland street should be called Kirlland street, since it was laid out
by Samuel C. Kirlland, one of the most enterprising citizens of Bridgeport, who,
from his personal resemblance, was often taken for the Hon. Daniel Webster.
The house on this streel occupied by the late Russell Tomlinson, was then
called the Van Polanen place, and was occupied by the widow of a Mr. Van
Polancn, who had been Belgian or Dutch Consul to this country. The old lady
was remarkably fond of cats. She subsequently built with Colonel O. B. Hall,
the house on Slate street now occupied by the Misses Hunt and David C. Peck,
Esq. All the space then between Counland street, Stale slreet down as far as the
residence of Doctor Nash, and Fairfield avenue to within about fifty feet of Broad
street, was essentially a swamp, and the major part of it was offered some years
afterward for a very small sum lo ihe cily by David B. Nichols for a public square,
but was not accepted, although such a statement is almost beyond belief at the
present lime. The old brewery, in which much of the enterprise and money of
Bridgeport was sunk, still stood and was operated by a gentleman named Samuel
Swan, where now stands the hotel and ihe block of buildings on Harrison street
owned by the estate of the late George Keeler.
The first enterprise in real estate in Biidgcport was commenced about that
dale by Lemuel Cblcman, who bought a big stone-walled orchard and meadow
lying between Pequonnock street, Washington avenue and ihe residence of the
Hon. William D. Bishop. He removed the stone wall, built a nice picket fence
further from the street, making the place desirable for residences. The first house
on this improvement was built by Jesse Sterling, and is that now occupied by bis
daughter, Mrs. P. C. Calhoun.
While the Rev. Mr. Noble was occupying the Day place on the hill and
looking around 10 find a site for a large private school, he decided on the property
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388 History of Bridgeport.
to Old Mill, open farm land, with the exception of two dwellings and some woods.
From a point on Nichols street, about two hundred feet east of Kossuth street,
there was a high wooded bank, extending up (o Sterling street with but one angle.
At about Sterling streel it met a line of woods running through Granny's Hollow
— now occupied by Noble avenue — including Washington Park, and sweeping
thence below Sterling slreet, consisting mostly of large, beautiful forest trees.
From this Granny's Hollow, at about the junction of Sterling street and Noble
avenue, there ran a high, partially wooded bank, following up the line of the
harbor. The .area essentially between Barnum avenue and a line about one hundred
feel south of Sterling street, East Main street and the harbor, of about fifty acres,
belonged, at that time, to William Wright, United States Senator from New Jersey.
Benjamin Brooks owned about seventeen acres just north of it, and Isaac Kceler,
an old Revolutionary soldier, a like tract just north of Mr. Brooks. From this
were taken — just north of Maple street — the stone with which was built the old
Bridgeport bank. Judge Joseph Wood owned about twelve acres near the south
west corner of the above described fifty acres. Soulh of this Ihe late Isaac Bur
roughs, from whose daughter, Mrs. Catharine Pettengill. the Bridgeport library
received so munificent a donation, owned about fifteen acres upon the harbor,
running back lo East Main sirjei, in ihc locality of the present Burroughs and
Howe streets. This whole territory was, in 1834, one of the loveliest pieces of
country that could be found. Its girdle of woodland along ihe harbor running
northward to the old Berkshire Bridge, and that of which Washington Park is a
part, extending to about Burroughs street, were line pieces of forest, furnished
with all the apparel and undergrowth of such territory. The channel of the
Pequonnock river washing at high tide as far back as Knowllon street, quietly
flowed from Noble's bridge around a sharp point much inside of the present
position of the dock at the elbow of Knowlton street. From the bank above it of
about twenty feel in height, the slopes of which were covered by a thin growth of
evergreen and deciduous trees, there was an unobstructed outlook over ihe
harbor, Golden Hill, the Sound and the Point, which formed a most charming
view of land and water. At that lime everything was quiet and still as if it were
twenty miles from any habitation of man. The channel along this bluff, and
especially at the elbow below the railroad bridge, was a famous fishing ground.
North of Cedar street there was no dwelling between that street and Old Mill,
except a small cottage now standing on the corner of Pembroke and Hamilton
streets. About 1835 the Rev. Birdsey G. Noble bought the fifty acres of Senator
Wright and the year after he applied 10 the General Assembly for a bridge charter
across the harbor from this property. It was originally intended to put the bridge
across where now the Centre bridge stands, but such was the determined opposi
tion by the people, kindled by the fear of creating uptown and downtown com-
munilies, like Norwalk and Old Well— now South Noiwalk— on a promise of
aid from the then owners of the properly now occupied by the Grannis and
Hurd lumber company, it was concluded to build the bridge at its present loca
tion. The promise of aid was never fulfilled, but Noble's bridge was built on its
present site as a toll bridge and so continued for many years. The next 3'ear
and for a year or two afterwards, an effort was made by the Rev, Mr. Noble and
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avenue through nearly on the line of Barnum avenue, to Washington bridge, on
the Housatonic river. This effort was bitterly and successfully opposed at every
trial by the town of Bridgeport, the town of Siratford and the oid or lower bridge
company, that bridge being a loll bridge. This opposition isolated that district
from commercial connections and no improvement was made upon it until in 1836
William P. Green, of Norwich, ihrough the agency of his brother abolitionist. Mr.
Jocclyn, of New Haven, made a purchase of some seventy acres belonging to
Benjamin Brooks. On this he commenced the improvement lhat is known as
Waller and Green streets, building a few small houses. He .ilso buill a dwelling
for his agent, George Waller, whom he placed on the property just north of Arctic
street on Pembroke,
After this no improvements were made in East Bridgeport until the death of
the Rev. B. G. Noble, in 1849, when the above mentioned fifty acres and the bridge
property came into the hands of William H. Noble as creditor of his father's estate.
On taking the title of ihis properly he applied to ihe nexl Legislature for a font
bridge charter, to follow the line of the railroad across the harbor, and after great
opposition from the town of Bridgeport and the old bridge company, secured the
same and permission fiom the railroad company 10 attach this bridge along the
line of their track. He built the bridge in 1850. This was the first advance
towards all the improvements that have taken place in that part of the city of
Bridgeport. It opened a short and easy route for laborers and those who wanted
dwellings in any part of that district. Lewis Curtis, Ali Andrews and others
owning property on the uppet borders of the Yellow Mill Pond at dice cut their
fields into streets and building lots and offered them for sale, thus laying the
foundations (or their fortunes. William H. Noble had mapped all his land into
streets and building lots as they now stand, with the exceptions of a few altera
tions. A few lots were sold from the map, and among the rest a piece lo Carmi
Hart of nearly an acre, which now forms a part of the triangle between Sterling
street and Crescent avenue, where he built a foundry for the manufacture of rail
road car wheels. This was the first industry established upon that side of the
harbor, bul it was from that time an obstruction to all improvements in that part
of the town until the foundry was torn down.
The Hon. P. T, Barnum saw Mr. Noble's advertisements and decided to join
him in the development of that real estate district. He purchased an undivided
half of the property, and agreed to furnish the money to buy as much more land
as might be deemed expedient, he lo own three-quarters and Mr. Noble one-
quarter of all lhat should be purchased. This bargain occupied about fifteen
minutes at the Museum in New York, and it was put into writing, occupying
about half a letter sheet, and Mr. Noble came home with about $20,000 in his
pocket, and with it was purchased eventually nearly the whole arei between
Berkshire road and Sheldon street, Pembroke Lake, Church street and ils exten
sion, and Bui roughs street. A new map of this property was made. Washington
Park was laid out into ils present shape and devoted to public use, the ground
now occupied by the M. E. Church at the northwest corner of the park was given
to that society with a donation in money, lor a church. At that time sites were
offered 10 any denomination that would erect a church, bul the above was the only
one that embraced the offer. Crescent avenue to the mill-pond and all the other
streets were graded, trees were planted on all the streets as they now stand
throughout East Bridgeport ; houses, stores and manufactories were built. Id

390 History of Bridgeport.
1852 a charier was obtained for the center bridge, running from Ihe foot of William
street across the harbor and over the Housatonic railroad 10 where Middle street
now extends. The bridge — which was a draw bridge with a covered foot-way, as
indicated in the accompanying cut, was built by Messrs. Barnum and Noble at a
cost of $16,000, being a toll bridge until bought by the cily.
The first building put up by Barnum and Noble was the coach factory on
William street, which was recently torn down. It was a very conspicuous object
on the landscape in its day. The next was a sash and blind factory, the chimney
of which — the uriginal structure having been burned — is now used by Mr. James
House in his manufactory. About a dozen houses were located on different parts
of the property, and all ihis was dune in about a year. Soon after a clock com
pany was organized and a building erected for ihem on ground given by Barnum
and Noble, on the site where the present eastern building of lire Wheeler and
Wilson company stands. The company not meeting with success, Mr. Barnum
was induced by fraudulent representations, to replace them by the Jerome Clock
Company of New Haven, 10 whom he gave, in his effort 10 sustain them, his
endorsements to ihc amount of $400,000. This, lor a lime, put an end to Mr.
Barnum's improvements in Bridgeport, but soon after the Wheeler and Wilson
company finding liiis great empty building, purchased and fitted it for their use.
From this lime dates ihc great prosperity and growth of Hridgcport. Ii not only
brought new business to the toilers of lire city, but also a lot of new inhabitants,
men of vigorous mind and liberal enterprise, and a class of educated, skilled
mechanics, unequaled anywhere in ihe country. Through the iiillucncc of this
manufactory upon the fortunes of Bridgeport, the cily has been enabled 10 lake
the lead in all enterprises of an indusuial character, and to constantly enlarge
and multiply the structures occupied by their workers. It brought in such men
as Nathaniel Wheeler, J. D. Alvord, William H. Perry, George W. Bacon, S. C.
Kingman, Frederick Hind, Albert Eames, Isaac Holden and a number of others,
later, who have been intimately associated, not only with the Wheeler and Wilson
industry, bul with the enterprise and improvements of Bridgeport, and ihc advent
of new industries. They have been a power, pushing Bridgeport into prominence
and prosperity and giving it fame throughout the land.
The entanglement of Mr. Barnum with the Jerome Clock company compelled
a division of the property held in partnership by him and Gen. Noble, and Mr.
Barnum's portion was immedialely mortgaged 10 cover Ids liabilities. His
struggle to rid himself of this trouble is a memorable financial feal, surpassed by
few persons in the country. During the lime he was accomplishing this Mr.
Noble continued 10 work for Ihe advance of East Bridgeport. In one way and
another two hotels were built; one which was burned and ihe Staples House
now the Pequonnock Hotel, in ihe place of it, and the brick block opposite to it
and many oilier houses. The crisis of 1S57, and the agitations of ihe public mind
previous to Ihe war pul an end, for ihc lime, to progress in East Bridgcporl, except
thai which resulted from the great industry of the Wheeler and Wilson company
which rapidly increased in every direction. Then Mr. Barnum recovered the
control of his properly, and even during the war of ihe rebellion there was no
retrograde tendency.
Elias Howe, Jr., was brought to Bridgeport through ihe Wheeler and Wilson
company, and before Ihe war, had purchased Mr. Barnum's " Iranistan." Full of
patriotism, he became a soldier in the 171I1 Conn.— the regiment that was com-

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roanded by Col. Wm. H. Noble— as long as his weak legs could carry him. When
he returned he purchased of Mr. Barnum a large tract of what was called the Bur
roughs property, and on it erected the Howe Sewing Machine Factory, and after
ward bought additional land of Mr. Noble upon which he erected the present
main shop, as illustrated on page 273.
Since the war great additions have been made to the original layout of East
Bridgeport by the purchase of the town property, where the old Alms House stood
on William streel, by Mr. Barnum ; and of the Siillman, Lathrop and Stewart
estates by Messrs. N. Wheeler and W. H. Perry, extending the area to the
Huntington road and Old Mill Green. This had been laid in streets by those
proprietors. The Old Mill Green — now Pembroke Green — is being constructed into a
public park including about 20 acres. Noble slreet has been changed to Noble
avenue and extended 10 Beardsley Park. This tract ol about 150 acres was
accepted by the city on the gift of Mr. James W. Beardsley, the title to the whole
being conditioned upon the outlay of $30,000 upon it by Ihe city within ten years.
An expenditure of about $12,000 has already shaped its fields and knolls into a
picturesque landscape and is fast becoming one of the famous parks of this
Park City.
In addition to the industries already mentioned as located in East Bridgeport,
there have been established, the great Union Metallic Cartridge Company, the
Bridgeport Brass Company, the Winchester Arms Company, the Hotchkiss
Manufacturing Company, and later, the Glover Sanford Sons Hat Company, the
Silver Steel, now the Farist Steel Works, ihc Armstrong Factory, and various
cutlery works and several smaller enlerprises. which make East Bridgeport,
alone, a great manufacturing city. Then, also, West Stratford, a borough adjoin
ing East Bridgeport, is the result of these industries, and will soon become a part
of the city of Bridgeport.
About 1870, the old " Point Burying Ground " as it was called — quite an old
place of burial — made way for the march of improvements and the relics were
transferred to the Pembroke Cemetery. This old ground was located between
Maple and Arctic, and East Main and Pembroke streets.
The highways, named Barnum and Noble avenues, were named after the
original proprietors. Noble avenue has recently been extended to Beardsley
Park, and Barnum avenue will eventually be extended direct to Washington
bridge on the Housatonic river. William, Harriet, Clarence, Ogdcn and Sheldon
streets were named for General Noble and his family, and Brooks street for the
General's father-in-law, Benjamin Brooks, who at one time owned nearly all the
land between Pembroke Lake and Pembroke street. East Washington avenue and
Sheldon street, which was called by him Cow Park. Caroline, Helen and Pauline
streets were named for Mr. Barnum's daughters, and Hallel slreet for their
mother's maiden name. Sterling street was named for Charles F. Sterling, the
brolher-in-law and law partner of General Noble, a Bridgeport man of marked
talent and literary ability. Jane streel should be Jayncs street as it was named
after Bishop Jaynes of the M. E. Church, at the wish of a gentlemen who bought
the first lots on that streel. Kossulh street was named in honor of the Hungarian
patriot, who about lhat time was in this country. Knowlton street was named in
honor of Wm. S. Knowlton, the builder of the original and present Center bridge,
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392 History of Bridgeport.
Howes. Walter and Green streets were named for Mr. Green and his agent,
George Waller, who established a small colony on those streets. From Mr,
Walter the Walierville district lakes its name. Burroughs and Howe streets were
named for Isaac Burroughs and Elias Howe, Jr., the successive proprietors of the
contiguous land.
The first church established in East Bridgeport was the old St. Mary's Church,
in 1852, the wooden structure still standing on Crescent avenue, and now used as
a patish school. On October 14, 1877, the new St. Mary's, on Pembroke street,
was dedicated. Nexl, on September 12, 1853, the Washington Park M, E. Church
was organized, and the edifice built, lhat year, aided by a donation of the lot and
$500, from Messrs. Barnum and Noble. It was rebuilt in 1867, and again in 1883.
St. Paul's Church was organized at the house of General Noble, June 4, 1858, and
named by Mrs. Noble. Worship was held for a time in various places, and the
corner stone of ihe present edifice was laid October 6, 1868, by Bishop Williams-
The Park Street Congregational Church was organized January 15, 1868, and
held its services in Bethesda chapel unlil October 17, 1871, when its present
place of worship was erected. The East Washington avenue Baptist Church was
organized January 30, 1S74, and bought the Bethesda chapel which it has used
since, for a place of worship. The Advent Christian Church, organized in 1849,
holds it services in East Bridgeport ; and the West Stratford churches and mis
sions owe iheir existence to the growth of '' New Pasture Point."
Of ihc older-portion of New Pasture Point, but little is said here, because ils
settlement antedates that of the town of Bridgeport, and has been particularly
described heretofore in this book.
The beauty of this whole region, of old and East Bridgeport, was admirably
described by Dr. Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College in his "Travels in
New England," in 1815. He sajs: "There is not in the State (of Connecticut) a
prettier village than the borough of Bridgeport. In the year 1783, there were
scarcely half a dozen houses in ihis place. It now contains probably more than
one hundred, built on both sides of Pughquonnuck river, a beautiful mill stream
forming at its mouth the harbor of Bridgeport. The situation of ihis village is
very handsome, particularly on the eastern side of the river. A more cheerful
and elegant piece of ground can scarcely be imagined than Ihc point which
stretches between the Pughquonnuck and the old mill brook, and the prospects
presented by ihe harbors at the mouth of ihesc streams, ihc sound and the sur
rounding country are, in a fine season, gay and brilliant, perhaps, without a
parallel." Gen. William Henry Nohle, son of the Rev. Birdsey
Glover and Charlotte (Sanford) Noble, was born in the home
stead of his grandfather, John Sanford, Esq., of Newtown,
Conn., on the 18th of August, 1813. His father was then,
and for fifteen years after, rector of Christ Church, Middle-
town, having been graduated at Yale in the class of 1810, and
studied theology at the General Seminary of the Episcopal
Church in New York City. On his father's side Wm. H.
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through John, the pioneer of New Milford, and seven genera
tions of his family lie side by side in the old burial ground in
the southern part of New Milford ; on his mother's side, from
the Sanfords of Newtown, descended from the pioneers of
Connecticut. His early education was completed at the celebrated
military school of Capt. Alden Partridge, U. S. A., formerly
a superintendent at West Point, which stood at Middletown,
Conn., on the grounds now occupied by the Wesleyan Uni
versity. There during four years he received general literary
and scientific instruction with the rudiments of a military
education. As a boy, with the cadets of this school he carried
his musket in the ranks of the procession which celebrated in
New York city the 50th Anniversary of American Independ
ence. His father having become one of the founders and trus
tees of Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, he
entered the freshman class there at the age of 15, remained
until the springtime of the sophomore year and left to join
the sophomore class of Yale, from which college he was grad
uated in the class of 1832 with honors. After a short interval
he took the school of the Rev. Ambrose Todd, of Stamford,
and there remained for a year and a half, an inmate of his
family. He came to Bridgeport early in 1834 as a teacher of
French and Spanish in the School of his father, who occupied
for that purpose the house on Golden Hill, now owned by
the Rev. G. B. Day — but very soon entered the law office ot
Judge Joseph Wood as a student, and was admitted to the
bar of Fairfield county in 1836. In that year he was instru
mental in securing the charter of the city of Bridgeport and
the charter of the Housatonic Railroad Company, and was
Secretary of that company for a number of years.
For several years he was Clerk of the Courts in Fairfield
county, and in 1839 married Harriet Jones, daughter of Ben
jamin Brooks, Esq., of Bridgeport. In 1846 he was State's
Attorney for Fairfield county. In 1850 he was nominated by
the Democratic party for Congress, but his large majority in
Fairfield county was offset by the adverse vote of Litchfield
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3p4 History of Bridgeport.
At about this date he began the laying-out of East Bridge
port, a fuller account of which is given in the history of that
enterprise in this volume. In this work he was actively em
ployed for the next ten years, building, or assisting to build
houses, hotels and factories, and laying out and grading the
streets, and setting the trees which line them, throughout.
Sharing in the expense of building or repairing all the bridges
which connect it with the city proper — and aiding with
money, or land, or influence, the first churches which estab
lished themselves there. He purchased and rebuilt the old
Bridgeport Bridge, erecting the first covered foot-way on
the same, and built, at his own expense, the first railroad foot
bridge in 185 1. In 1852, with Hon. P. T. Barnum he dedi
cated Washington Park to public use.
During this period in 1853 he purchased the charter of the
Bridgeport Water Company in behalf of Nathaniel Greene
and his associates, who carried out the undertaking. This
enterprise, becoming complicated with Mr. Greene's other
affairs, fell into the hands of its bond-holders, for whom in
1857 Mr. Noble obtained a grant of incorporation under the
name of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company, under which
charter the water supply of the city is now procured. He
was a commissioner of both companies and sanctioned their
bonds issued.
In 1856 he was instrumental, with Francis Ives, Esq., in
disentangling the affairs of the Jerome Clock Company and
Mr. Barnum, to admit of the Wheeler and Wilson Manufac
turing Company getting possession of, and title to, the prop
erty of the Clock Company, and their subsequent removal
from Watertown to Bridgeport. The effort was resisted
through the timidity of those who had interest in the Clock
Company's property, and who were, only after the greatest
difficulty, convinced that their own interests and the interests
of the public were all concerned in risking a great deal to bring
the greater industry to Bridgeport.
In i860, as a Douglas Democrat, he took a prominent
part in the organization of the Union Party in Connecticut,
the election of Gov. Buckingham, and the support of all war
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loyal men of Fairfield county, he was commissioned by Gov.
Buckingham as Colonel of the 17th Conn. Vols. Gov. Buck
ingham was persuaded to allow it to be distinctively a Fair
field county regiment, and to rendezvous at Bridgeport,
where it occupied the grounds now constituting the promi
nent and main portion of Seaside Park, which was called
Camp Aiken, after Gen. Wm. A. Aiken, then Quartermaster-
General of the State.
Colonel Noble received his commission on the 22d of
July, 1862. Within thirty days a thousand men were ready
for the front. They were mustered into the United States
service on the 28th of August and left for the front on the 3d
of September, with directions to report to General Wool at
Baltimore for further orders. This period was that, follow
ing the second Bull Run disaster, when Lee was threaten
ing the communications with Washington. Colonel Noble's
regiment was therefore detained and put into Fort Marshall,
defenses of Baltimore. About the 15th of October they were
sent to Fort Kearney, defenses of Washington, and on the 5th
of November ordered into the field at Gainesville, Va., with
Sigel's Corps, with which in December they were sent as a
reserve to support Burnside at Fredericksburg. During the
winter the regiment was severely taxed by marches and
counter-marches, but finally settled down into winter quar
ters at Brooks' Station, Va., until the Chancellorsville cam
paign. At the battle of Chancellorsville Colonel Noble's regi
ment, with the rest of the corps under General O. O. Howard,
formed the extreme right wing of the army under General
Hooker, in the battle of May 2d, 1863. The resolution with
which they withstood the terrible onslaught of Stonewall
Jackson on that day has gone into history ; Horace Greeley,
in his "American Conflict," mentions their brave and hope
less rally in the face of defeat and retreat all about them.
Just after this rally Colonel Noble was wounded, having the
main artery of his left arm cut off by a minie ball, being
struck on the left knee by a fragment of shell, and having his
horse shot under him. He was led fainting from the field ;
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to death, but circulation having stopped in the lower arm he
only saved his arm from immediate amputation, at the field
hospital where he was taken, by insisting upon waiting to see
Surgeon Robert Hubbard of his own regiment. Surgeon
Hubbard found a slight pulse, said the arm could be saved
but ordered him immediately to Washington, whence he re
ceived a furlough home for twenty days. At the end of this
time, not having recovered sufficiently to go into the field,
his furlough was extended for a like term. About five days
before its termination, hearing of the threatened invasion
of Lee which terminated at Gettysburg, he reported at
Washington for directions to reach his regiment; none could
be given and he was ordered to report daily for instructions,
which he did for some ten days before any direction was
given by which he might reach his command, such was the
ignorance at Washington concerning the relative position of
the two armies. Having procured a horse to replace that
killed at Chancellorsville, through an order of Quartermaster-
General Meigs, and the wagon train which he anticipated
joining having been captured just out of Washington, he was
finally directed by the authorities there to report to General
Schenck, at Baltimore, for instructions as to his chances of
reaching the army. On reporting to General Schenck, who
knew, apparently, as little of the exact position of the two
armies as was known at Washington, he was directed to take
train for Westminster the next morning. The train was two
days reaching Westminster, only twenty-two miles, so block
aded was the railroad with the transportation of government
stores. On the way the officers who were striving to reach
their commands found that the battle had commenced, for by
putting their ears to the ground or rock the thud of a heavy
cannonading was heard. At Westminster Colonel Noble
started on his ride to Gettysburg with General Hayes, of the
brigade in which was the fourteenth Connecticut, Captain,
afterwards General, Graham, of the artillery, and an assistant
surgeon of the 144th N. Y. They rode most of the day to the
sound of cannon and reached the battle-field about five o'clock
in the afternoon. On arrival Colonel Noble found himself in
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taken command of the division in place of General Francis
Barlow, severely wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel Fowler, of
his regiment, had been killed, Major Brady wounded and
many of its rank and file killed, wounded or captured, but a
brave remnant remained guarding the declivity of Cemetery
Hill. The battle was then nearing its close, there being only
one severe engagement that night. Early the next morning
the brigade commanded by Colonel Noble was advanced into
the town of Gettysburg to clear out the enemy's sharp
shooters and was afterwards stationed at the foot of Cemetery
Hill until the commencement of the march after Lee, which
was continued into Virginia.
At Catlett's station Colonel Noble's regiment with the
rest of the brigade was ordered to South Carolina to reinforce
the troops under General Gilmore at the siege of Charleston
and Wagner, and took transport for Folly Island, S. C, in
August, 1863. On the day of his arrival Colonel Noble was
ordered to take command of a thousand men in the trenches
before. Wagner, while his regiment, with the rest of the
brigade, immediately went into camp on Folly Island as a
reserve force in case of a sally from Wagner upon the siege
approaches. Colonel Noble, in command of his regiment or
other forces, was several times in the trenches during the
siege and found his duty, under fire night and day, the most
trying of his military life.
He volunteered, with the other colonels of Ames' brigade,
to make a night assault upon Fort Sumter, which was never
ordered because the navy claimed the honor of making the
attack as their right. An account of this is given in General
George H. Gordon's War Diary.
After the fall of Fort Wagner the regiment was ordered
to Florida and stationed first at Jacksonville, where Colonel
Noble commanded a brigade, and was then sent to relieve the
10th Connecticut, at St. Augustine, which post the regiment
held during its after service, garrisoning the town and the
old Spanish fort of San Marco.
In Florida Colonel Noble was placed in command of the
district comprising all of Florida east of the St. John's River,
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position he was in command of brigades in various raids in
different parts of Florida, breaking up Confederate recruiting
stations and drilling camps, and on various expeditions under
Generals Birney, Gordon, Hatch, and others. On December
24, 1864, he was captured by rebel guerillas while crossing to
St. Augustine from Jacksonville, where he had been sum
moned as a witness on a court martial, and although every
effort was made by the forces in East Florida to recapture
him, he was taken first to Tallahassee, imprisoned fora while at
Macon, Ga., and about the middle of February sent to Ander-
sonville and confined in the officers' prison. They were
making every effort to effect their escape when the order for
a general exchange of prisoners brought about their release
about the middle of April.
Colonel Noble came out with a thousand men fresh from
the horrors of the prison pen of Andersonville. They went
first to Vicksburg, whence he was ordered east in charge of a
thousand of the released Union troops to Annapolis, Md., in
June, 1865, and was about that time, by recommendation of
General Grant, commissioned by Congress as brigadier-
general by brevet. He then returned to Florida to look after
his ordnance account, and was mustered out of service with
his regiment on the 19th of July, 1865, at Hilton Head, S. C.
Thus closed the service of a regiment in whose field, staff and
line, or in whose ranks were many of Bridgeport's most
honored citizens and of which the Adjutant General of Con
necticut in his final report says: " the superior of which in
intelligence, morale, courage and endurance was not found in
the army." Every year since its service one or another town of
Fairfield County has entertained its veterans at their annual
reunions, and in 1884 the regiment erected at Gettysburg a
memorial tablet to those of its number who fell in that battle.
As chairman of its executive committee General Noble re
ceived the monument and submitted it to the care of the
Gettysburg Memorial Association, through the vice-president,
Judge D. A. Buchler, in the presence of a large concourse of
people who had assembled on Barlow's Knoll to witness the
unveiling of the monument.

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Since the war, although much reduced in health by his
three years of hard service, General Noble has followed his
profession and filled various public trusts. Has been an
alderman or common councilman of the city at various peri
ods, chairman of the board of park commissioners for many
years, and member of the Legislature in 1884, in which he
was chairman of the military committee of the House and one
of the committee of the ceremonies at the unveiling of the
statue of Governor Buckingham in the Capitol. In the midst
of a busy life he has found time to devote a great deal of
attention to horticulture and fruit-growing, having, probably,
the largest variety of pears in the State. At the request of
the State Pomologist he exhibited specimens of his fruit in
the Connecticut collection at the Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia, and in the New Orleans Exposition of 1884-85.
Rev. Ethan Ferris M'tshoj}, son of Alfred and Mary
(Ferris) Bishop, was born in Madison, N. J., March 27, 1825,
and died in Bridgeport, Conn., December 7, 1883. He entered
Yale College in 1845 in the same class with his brother, now
the Hon, William D. Bishop, who was some years his junior;
but soon relinquished study on account of impaired sight,
caused by an accident in his early youth. He acted with his
brother in closing the accounts relating to the New York and
New Haven, the Naugatuck, and the Washington and Sara
toga Railroads, with which their father had been connected.
Ethan Ferris Bishop was president of the Naugatuck Rail
road from 185 1 to 1855, when he resigned and became inter
ested in Western railroads, chiefly the Milwaukee and Chi
cago, Milwaukee and Watertown, and the Dubuque and
Sioux City. At first Hon. William D. Bishop was associated
with him in these enterprises, but taking a wide interest in
politics he withdrew and became representative of his district
in the National Congress, then Commissioner of Patents,
while still quite young; was president of the Naugatuck
railroad for some time and president of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Consolidated road, being quite distin
guished in business and political circles.
Ethan Ferris Bishop was admitted to the Connecticut bar
in 1851, but never practiced that profession. He then pur-

400 History of Bridgeport.
sued the study of theology, for which he had a natural apti
tude. Although of Presbyterian parentage he was advanced
in his ideas of churchmanship and showed the bent of his mind
in this direction as early as 1843 or 4, when eighteen years of
age, he then being a member of the Bridgeport Lyceum, took
part in a discussion of Catholicity against Protestantism, on
the side of Catholicity, with such earnestness as to leave no
doubt in the minds of the audience — made up partly of ladies,
who were admitted at that time — what his true opinions were.
Among the speakers who took the side of Protestantism were
the Rev. Bronson B. Beardsley, of Bridgeport, and Hon.
Henry B. Graves, of Litchfield, Conn.
Mr. E. F. Bishop was president of the Naugatuck railroad
at the time of his death and had just resigned that of the
Bridgeport Steamboat Company, which he had held for many
years. He was a member of Hamilton Commandery, St.
John's Lodge of F. and A. M., Jerusalem Council and Jerusa
lem Chapter, R. A. M.
Rev. Nathaniel Ronton, an apprentice to Stiles Nich
ols, a printer of Bridgeport. He was converted under the
labors of Mr. Peter Lockwood, then a student at Yale.
Through the efforts of Mr. Lockwood and his father, Lambert
Lockwood, the time of Mr. Bouton was bought of his em
ployer and he, by the help of friends and great perseverance,
fitted for college. During vacations he, like Mr. P. Lockwood,
engaged in holding meetings and aiding ministers in the
neighboring towns. " Upon leaving the theological seminary
he accepted a call to the first church of Concord, N. H., and
continued the faithful and beloved pastor of that church for
forty-two years. His influence was widely spread and his
labors abundantly blessed, and it may be said that the Rev.
J. P. Gulliver. D.D., ascribes his conversion to a sermon of
Dr. Bouton's, preached from the text, ' Choose ye this day
whom ye will serve.' " This sermon was known by Dr. Bou
ton to have been the direct means of the conversion of no
less than eighty-three persons.1'
Captain John Brooks, of Bridgeport, was induced to
attend the meetings held by Peter Lockwood, a student in
11 Memorial of Rev. Peter Lockwood, 21.

Biography. 401
theology, by which his life was changed and he became a
different man, zealous for the interests of the church. He
was firm and resolute in his adherence to evangelical doc
trines, giving liberally of his increasing wealth, and in the
latter part of his life he aided much in building a church in a
new part of the city of Bridgeport. Upon-this building being
destroyed by fire he rebuilt it largely at his own expense."
Major Frederick Fri/e was. the son of Daniel M.
Frye, Esq., of New York City, grandson of Capt. Frederick
Frye and great-grandson of Colonel James Frye of Andover,
Mass., who died from wounds received at the battle of
Bunker Hill ; and he was thus the last of a race of citizen
soldiers who had taken active and honorable part in the wars
of the last century and a half in this country. At the break
ing out of the late war Major Frye was practicing law in
Bridgeport in company with General W. H. Noble. He
immediately enlisted, serving as a Captain in the Third Con
necticut Volunteers through the first campaign and after- •
wards raised a company for the Ninth regiment with which
he served as Captain and Major. He served with honor
through the war and at its close settled in New Orleans
where he resumed the practice of the law, being at one time
Justice of the Sixth District of that city. Failing health at
length compelled him to abandon the profession, and he took
a clerkship in the Custom House, which he filled at the time
of his death, June 22d, 1881. Major Frye was graduated at
Columbia college, New York, was a man of culture and
attainments, of manly character and genial disposition and
was greatly beloved by his mtny friends. He was a member
of the Society of the Cincinnati and preserved unsullied the
enviable record of his ancestors." He married Matilda, daugh-
18 Memorial of Rev. Peter Lockwood, 22.
13 The following article from ihe Bridgeport "Standard" of April 30th, 1S61,
gives an account of an affair in which Major Frye was an important actor:
One of the most inu-rcsiing occasions which we have ever known in Bridge
port, occurred last evening at Washington Hall. Company D, 3d Regiment,
Conn. Volunteers, were marched into the crowded hall at 7.^ o'clock, and a
public prcscniation took place of the following articles from the ladies of Bridge
port : A sword and belt and pair of epaulets to Captain Frye, and Lieutenant's
epaulets to the two Lieutenants of the Compan) — from Samuel Baldwin. Esq., a
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#02 History of Bridgeport.
ter of the late Benjamin Brooks of Bridgeport, who survived
him, with two daughters, Mrs. George C. Waldo of Bridge
port, and Mrs. J. VV. Hillman of Hope Villa, Louisiana. He
was fifty-seven years of age at the time of his death. Major
Frye left no brother but he had three sisters, Mrs. J. E. Rock
well of Staten Island, Mrs. Geo. K. Sistare of New York
City, and Mrs. Hanford Lyon of Bridgeport.
The Ancient Commissions granted to James Frye'4 under
George the 2d and George the 3d, by Phipps, Shirley and
revolver to Captain Frye. A revolver was also presented to Orderly Sergeant
Doane and some other articles to other members of the Company. The presen
tation address was made by H. T. Blake, Esq., and Captain Frye and his oflicers
happily responded, after which Rev. Mr. Thompson addressed the Volunteers in
some appropriate and eloquent remarks. Captain Frye who leaves a large and
excellent law practice in this cily, and a most interesting family, in order to serve
his country, comes of a gallant and distinguished lineage, his ancestors for five
generations back having served as oflicers in the various wars of our country's
history. In 1698, James Frye served as Captain in ihe Massachusetts troops against
the Indians. In 1744, his son, James Frye, was present as a Lieutenant from
Massachusetts at the capture of Louisburg, and was afterwards Colonel in the
"Old French Wars." An original draft of the terms of the capitulation of Louis
burg is still in the possession of the family. In 1775, his son, James Frye, was
present aS Colonel at the battle of Bunker Hill, and with him there was his son,
Frederick Frye (then 18 years of age), who afierwards received a Lieutenant's
commission in the Revolutionary Army. The latter was in command at Gover
nor's Island during the War of 1812, and his son, Daniel M. Frye, father of the
present Captain Frye, served as captain in the same war. We had the pleasure of
examining last evening the original commissions that were issued to these gallant
men bearing the autographs of Wm. Stoughton, Wm. Shirley, John Hancock,
Joseph Warren, Geo. Washington and others. We were also shown the badge
and certificate of the Order of Cincinnati, received by Lieutenant Frye in 1784, and
of which order Captain Frye is at present a member. This certificate is signed by
Geo. Washington, who was president of the society at the time it was issued.
One of the epaulets worn by Colonel Frye at the battle of Bunker H ill" was also
exhibited. Captain Frye has raised his company by his own exertions, and left
with them this morning for Hartford. He is followed by the warm regards of a
host of friends, and from our own knowledge of his many noble and manly qual
ities, we feel assured that he will approve himself a worthy representative of his
illustrious ancestry.
14 The Salem, Mass., "Gazette," in an issue during 1875 makes the following
allusion to the Frye family :
Colonel James Frye. — One of the Heroes of Bunker Hill.
Among the notices which have been made of the recent celebration in Boston
the name of Colonel Frye is simply given, while many who bore a far less impor-

Biography. 403
Harrison Gray, his commission as Colonel of Continental
Troops, signed by Joseph Warren just before the battle of
Bunker Hill, and another signed by John Hancock the week
after the battle, the epaulet worn at the battle by Colonel
Frye, the draft of the capitulation of Louisburg, the certifi
cate of membership in the Order of the Cincinnati signed by
Washington and Knox, Major Frederick Frye's service sword,
the sword presented to him by the ladies of Bridgeport, as
related below, his commissions in the Federal army, etc., etc.,
are, with many other family documents and relics, in posses
sion of George C. Waldo, of Bridgeport, son-in-law of Major
Frye.
Hon. Epaphras Burr Goodsell was born in Brook-
field, Conn., near the close of the year 1817, and his early
education was obtained in the schools of that town. At the
age of thirteen he left home to make his own way in the

tant part in the first great battle of the Revolution have been made the subject of
special and extended notice.
In Alden Bradford's account of the battle of Bunker Hill, referring to the offi
cers who particularly distinguished themselves by their activity, zeal and courage,
he says : "We may justly name General Israel Putnam, Colonel William Pres-
cott, Ebenezer Bridge, James Frye, and Moses Little," etc. Why the name of
Colonel Frye should have been wholly omitted in the historical notices and
orations of the present celebration can only be accounted for by the fact lhat none
of his family arc now around Boston to call attention to his history.
He was the fourth in his line who had held office and done service in the old
Continental armies during the French and Indian wars. His ancestors had settled
in New England early in the 17th century and Ihe family lived in Salem and after
wards in Andover, where was a famous elm which stood near the mansion,
long known as the Frye tree. When the war of the Revolution began, Colonel
Frye at once placed himself and his soldiers at the service of his country, and was
called into action at the battle of Bunker Hill. Here he received a wound which
resulted in his death about three months after. But although his career was thus
early terminated his name and family continued to be represented in the army.
On the night before the battle, his son, Frederick Frye, then a mere youth, accom
panied him to the field as a volunteer, and for his bravery was shortly after pro-
moled to a captaincy, in which capacity he served during the war. Captain Frye
afterwards had command at Governor's Island in New York harbor, and at Fort
Mifflin. He died in the cily of New York at the residence of his son, D. M. Frye,
Esq., about the year 1830. His grandson, Frederick Frye, named after him,
enlisted in the army at the first call for volunteers during the late civil war, served
as captain in ihe batile of Bull Run, and during the rest of the war was major of
the 9th Connecticut regiment. He was the sixth in his line who had been in the
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404 History of Bridgeport.
world. He became a merchant and was a manufacturer of
iron furnaces, in the town of Kent, was interested in the fur
nace at Bull's Bridge, and at one time was postmaster. About
1848 he came to Bridgeport and soon his interest in public
affairs brought him prominently forward as a politician, and
he was appointed in 1852 postmaster of this city by President
Franklin Pierce, serving four years, and again in 1856 by
President Buchanan, holding the office until the accession of
President Lincoln — eight years in all. He was popular and
efficient, and his office was excellently conducted. He was
mayor of the city in 1871-72-73, and filled many minor city
offices. He was one of the founders of Trinity Episcopal
Church, was long a Vestryman, and at the time of his death
was its Junior Warden. Mr. Goodsell died October 10th,
1884, at Brookfield Center, in the house in which he was
born. Through life he had manifested a strong attachment
for his birthplace, and seemed happiest while among the
objects which brought to his mind memories of it. In matur
ity this feeling grew stronger and he decided to improve and
embellish the place, which he did, afterwards repairing there
each successive season. It became known as the Goodsell
House, and many a city-seeker for pleasure has been charmed
by its situation and natural beauties.
Mr. Goodsell was a man of genial temperament, kind,
considerate and hospitable, and possessed a host of friends.
He had seen Bridgeport grow from a little village to a large
city and had taken an active and honorable part in its develop
ment. A self-made man, working up from small beginnings
and limited opportunities, he secured the respect and esteem
of his fellow-citizens and was honored for his excellent char
acter as a man, his fidelity in every public trust, and his con
sistent illustration of the faith which he professed. His family
consisted of his wife, four sons, Zalmon, Granville W., Perry
S. and E. B. Goodsell, Jr., and one daughter, Mrs. Samuel S.
Banks, all of Bridgeport.11
16 The Goodsell family.— R. B. Lacey, Esq., President of the Fairfield County
Historical Society, furnishes the following record of the family of the Hon. E. B.
Goodsell : Epaphras Burr Goodsell was fifth in descent from the first or original
settler of ihe Goodsell name in this country, from whom a very numerous and
worthy family has descended. Thomas Goodsell, of Wales, emigrated from Liver-

Biography. 404a
Robert Hubbard, M.D., was born in upper Middle-
town, now the town of Cromwell, Conn., April 27, 1826, being
the son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth Hubbard. His father was
a sea captain for many years in the West India trade, but
finally left the sea and gave his whole time to the cultiva
tion of his farm. He was descended from a prominent line
of the Hubbard family which came to Boston about 1634, and
afterwards removed to the vicinity of Hartford or Middle-
town. The mother of Robert Hubbard was Elizabeth
Roberts, whose father was a farmer of Middletown, Conn.,
and whose land possessions included the beautiful site now
occupied by the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane.
Robert Hubbard was reared on the farm, attending public
school winters, as was the custom at the time, until he was
seventeen years of age, when he entered the academy at
Cromwell, Conn., Mr. Jared O. Knapp — afterwards a clergy
man — being principal, and whose special favor was of great
value to the young student, who gave every energy to the
improvement of his opportunities for education, during the
two succeeding years, employing his vacations on the farm
and in other ways to replenish the continued depleted treasury.
At the end of three years he had prepared himself, and
entered Yale College in 1846. At the end of the Freshman
year he was offered the position of principal in the Durham
Academy, which he accepted intending to return to college
after securing funds for that purpose. During the first year
in the academy he continued his college studies, but was then
induced by Doct. Benjamin Fowler to enter upon a course of
medical study, and at the end of the second year in the
academy he entered Doctor Fowler's office as a medical stu
dent. From the first he manifested peculiar aptness in this
study, and hence success in it was no difficult attainment.
At the end of one year with Doctor Fowler, he removed to
New Haven and entered the office of Doct. Nathan B. Ives,
where he continued his studies, and also attended Medical
lectures at Yale College, where he was graduated in 1851, as
Valedictorian of his class.
In the autumn of 185 1 he settled in Bridgeport as a physi
cian and hung his sign in the shutter of a drug store in Wall

404b History of Bridgeport.
street and boarded with Capt. Hinman, then proprieto
the City Hotel. He rapidly secured friends and an establii
practice and in May, 1854, formed a co-partnership with D
David H. Nash, which continued successfully for seven
years. On April 25, 1855, he married Cornelia Boardr
youngest daughter of Sherman and Sophia Hartwell,
they have one son and two daughters, all residents of Brii
port. In 1861, upon recommendation of the State Mec
Society, he was appointed by Governor Buckingham on
the eight Medical Examiners of Surgeons and assistant
geons for regiments raised in this State. In 1862 he
commissioned Surgeon of the 17th Regiment, Conn. Volun
Infantry. After a few months service in this capacity he
promoted to be Surgeon of brigade under General Hov
and shortly before the battle of Chancellorsville was
moted to be Surgeon of General Devon's division.
meritorious conduct at Chancellorsville he was again
moted to Medical Inspector — assistant medical director-
his staff. At the battle of Gettysburg he served as Met
Director in charge of the nth corps, after which he jo
his regiment at Collett's Station, Va. When the nth c
was ordered to Lookout Mountain he again served a
Medical Director under General Hooker and in that capa
took part in the battles of Lookout Mountain, Missioi
Ridge and Ringold. Shortly after this campaign he
forced, on account of ill health, to resign his commission
return to his practice at Bridgeport. In 1870 a severe at
of sciatica impelled him to spend some months in Germ
In 1871, his wife, Mrs. Hubbard, died, and the same yeai
partnership with Doctor Nash was dissolved. In 1874
also in 1876 he represented the city of Bridgeport in
General Assembly, and twice he was nominated on the re]
lican ticket for the 4th Congressional district. In 1879 ne
elected president of the Connecticut Medical Society.
1883, he spent the summer in European travel, and agai
1885 he went abroad for a short time. Doctor Hubb
notwithstanding his thirty-five years of constant labor in
profession is still engaged in active labor as a physician.

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Biography. 403
William B. Hall, son of Wm. Stewart Hall, for
merly of Wallingford, is a native of Springfield, Mass. He
began his mercantile life as clerk in the store of T. P. Chap
man of New Haven, on the 15th day of July, 1846, which
gives him just forty years of experience in business life. Mr.
T. P. Chapman's wife was the daughter of Sherman Hart-
well, of Bridgeport, and hence began Mr. Hall's acquaint
ance in this city, to which he came after serving four years at
— _
pool, Eng., to this country about 1678. His name first appears in the records of
Branford, or East Haven, Conn., 1679. In 1705 he was taxed on £ui estate. In
1708-9 on /J157 — the highest on the list of that town. He was a prominent and
influential man. In 1679, at the age of thirty-three years, he married Sarah
Hemingway. Their sons were Samuel, born r68s ; Rev. Thomas, born 1702, and
Rev. John, born December 2r, 1705. John was educated at Yale College, mar
ried in 1724 Mary Lewis, of Stratford (Old Mill) and was settled as the first
minister of the Church of Christ on Greenfield Hill (Fairfield) at its organization
in May, 1726. This was his only settlement. His ashes repose in the Greenfield
Cemetery under the slab with this simple inscription :
" Here lies buried the body
of the Rev. Mr.
John Goodsell,
who departed this life
December 26th, 1763,
Aged 57 years."
Rev. John and Mary (Lewis) Goodsell had ten children, of whom Epaphras
was the fifth, or of the sons the second. He married  Burr and had six
children, three of whom were sons and of whom Zalmon was the youngest.
Zalmon married Eliza Cornwall, of Brookfield, Conn., where he spent most of his
life and raised a family of two sons and five daughters. Hon. E. B. Goodsell was
the second son of Zalmon and was born in 1817, as has been stated, in the same
house in which he died.
Captain William Goodsell of Bridgeport was an older brother of Zalmon.
He was in the butchering business here in the early part of this century and the pio
neer in thai line. He lived on Main slreet where Congress street enters it. His
slaughter house stood on the bank in ihe rear of the present C. W. Fox property
extending over tide waier supported by high posts. In later years we have heard
a great deal about Captain Goodsell's " old slaughter house yard " in the contro
versies of Mr. Benjamin Ray vs. others as to title of land in that vicinity.
Captain William Goodsell married Prudence Nichols. They had sons — Burr
(born 1803), George of New Haven, Conn., William and Henry — and daughters.
Jane married Nathaniel Paddock Crosby.
Elizabeth married William H. Bissett.
Maria married Slarr Sherwood.
None survive except Burr, the oldest, who now resides in Hartford.
Burr Goodsell and Pad. Crosby were famous saddlers in the palmy days of
that industry, and William H. Bissett a well known harness maker.

406 History of Bridgeport.
New Haven. He engaged in the employ of Messrs. E.
Birdsey and Company of Bridgeport, dry goods merchants,
where he remained seven years, and then formed a partner
ship with Mr. David M. Read under the name of Hall and
Read, which continued twenty years, and was then dissolved
in 1877. In 1878 Mr. Hall had erected, fitted and arranged spe
cially for his business, the building where he is now located,
under the firm name of W. B. Hall and Company, corner
of Main and Cannon streets, and although ample at first
he has had it twice enlarged, and has a contract made for
a third and spacious addition. At present the floor space
for the retail department is 130 feet by 90, or including a por
tion of the basement, 10,500 square feet, in actual use every
day. The arrangement of each and every department is very
complete, business-like and convenient; but the need of more
room is evident on any day of middling favor for shopping.
The proprietors' office and the book-keeper's desk are favor
able for consultation at any moment required, the well
ordered business arrangements being such that it is not neces
sary for the proprietor to hide out of sight at a distance in
order to secure quiet sufficient to conduct the work of the
establishment. This is a first-class dry goods house; the sale of im
ported goods — specially silks of various styles and qual
ities — being a large department of the house. Also the
sales by mail and express has grown into surprising pro
portions. It is a matter of credit to Bridgeport that a
dry goods house of only eight years standing is now deliv
ering goods in every State in the Union amounting to tens
of thousands of dollars ; it being a matter of actual history,
that Bridgeport, through one of its leading dry goods
stores, as well as by its score of mammoth manufacturing
houses, is being published in fame all over the great States of
the nation, and that the riches of the Republic of America are
flowing into it. This may well be called a family dry goods
house, because of the great number of families it regularly
supplies with merchandise, thousands of dollars' worth of
goods being sent to each of a score or more cities in this fam-

Biography. 40J
ily trade ; Chicago, the Queen of the West in commerce, being
one of them. The department of ready made ladies goods,
especially cloaks and dresses, is very large, two cutters of these
goods being constantly employed ; and their custom-made
work keeps a number of the most thoroughly practiced hands
employed steadily. The storage department of the house is
a wonder. Here, in the basement of the building, goods, hav
ing been bought in large quantities, are kept in stock until
wanted in the salesrooms; and each morning the clerks go
down and select such goods as they need for sale that day.
To build up such a house is a fitting reward, and well worth
the steady efforts of any man for forty years, as has been the
case with Mr. Hall.
Rev. Gideon Hawley" son of Gideon and Eunice
(Jackson) Hawley, was born in Stratfield, November 5, 1727.
His mother died when he was three days old, and his father
about three years after. He was graduated at Yale College
in 1749, and having early in life resolved to be a missionary
to the Indians, was licensed to preach by the Fairfield East
Association May 23, 1750, and commenced his missionary
career at Stockbridge, Mass., in 1752, under the patronage of
the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, then pastor at that place. Here
he labored until the next spring when he was sent by " the
Commissioners of Indian affairs" at Boston to establish a mis
sion on the Susquehanna among the Iroquois nation. He re
turned to the East the next year and was ordained as mis
sionary to the Indians, at the Old South meeting house in
Boston, Shortly after, he returned to his field of labor on the
Susquehanna, at the place called Oughquanga, where he
continued until May, 1756, when he was obliged to withdraw
from that country on account of the French war.
In 1757, the Commissioners of the society for propagating
the Gospel, persuaded him to visit the tribe of Indians at Marsh-
pee. Here he was installed April 10, 1758, and here he
passed the residue of his life— nearly half a century — in the
most benevolent and self-denying labors for the salvation of
the Indians. He died October 3, 1807, aged 80 years.

'" Sprague's Annals I, 497.

408 History of Bridgeport.
Alfred, Charles Hobbs," the third son of John L. Hobbs,
was born in Boston, Mass., October 7, 1812. His father, a
carpenter and joiner by trade, came from London, England,
to Charleston, South Carolina, to do the work on a dwelling
house for the governor of that State. His mother came from
Welch Pool, a town in Wales, and was living with her brother
on Sullivan's Island, near Charleston, where she became ac
quainted with Mr. Hobbs, and they were married. After the
work on this house was completed they removed to Boston,
Mass., where he established a shop on Water street, on a part
of the land now covered by the Boston post office. The son
well remembers, when about three years old, that his father
left Boston with a party to settle in Florida, leaving his family
to follow as soon as a house could be built. The party landed
at Mobile, the father went up the river to St. Stevens, pur
chased a place and commenced building a house, but died
very suddenly before it was finished, leaving his family in
Boston destitute. Ycung Hobbs lived with his mother until
ten years of age, going to school occasionally, playing truant
quite often, and in many ways trying to earn a few pennies,
which went into the grand fund for family support.
In the month of February, 1822, he left Boston with
James Fowler, of Westfield, Mass., then a member of the
legislature, to do chores and work on the farm, where he
found that a Boston boy 100 miles from home was a fit sub
ject for training by all the other boys, but within a month he
had tried titles with so many and came off the best that he
soon led the van in the frolics and fun of the place. In
accomplishing the work he had to do — rising with the sun
and milking the cows often after dark — he had learned, at the
end of the four years, all he desired lo know of farming, and
returned to Boston to find another occupation. He obtained
a place in a dry goods store in.Cornhill, but soon went to
learn the trade of wood carving, having an older brother over
him. This place did not suit and he tried next a carriage
11 At a regular mcetingof the Fairfield County Historical Society held February
12, 1886, it was, on motion,
"Resolved, That Mr. A. C. Hobbs be and is hereby requested to furnish a sketch
of his prolessional career as an expert with locks, and to furnish his portrait, both
to be in the History of Stratford and Bridgeport."

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Biography. 409
body maker, but the owner, Mr. Willard, in a short time
failed, and this caused another change to the rudiments of
carriage painting, which consisted in rubbing off the paint
from old carriages with pumice stone and cold water. This
employment did not suit and the next proposition was to be
a sailor. He secured a position on board the ship Leonidas,
bound for Charleston, S. C, and thence to Havre, France,
but on arriving at Charleston it was decided to return to
Boston, which was pleasing news to the would be sailor, as
he had enjoyed sufficient of that sort of life before the mast.
He then tried tin plate work, and then coach trimming and
harness making, which also failed to satisfy, and having ar
rived at the age of sixteen years he resolved to leave Boston,
and therefore went to Sandwich, Mass., and finished an ap
prenticeship at glass cutting at the Boston and Sandwich
glass works. After remaining in that place about eight years
he returned to Boston and established the glass cutting busi
ness for himself, occupying a part of a building on Brom-
field street. One part of this work, the cutting of glass
door knobs, and a new method of fastening the knobs into the
socket by which they were attached to the locks, was in
vented and patented by Mr. Hobbs, and this business brought
him for the first time in contact with some of the lock makers,
and he was finally induced to enter partnership in that busi
ness under the name of Jones and Hobbs, but a very short
time satisfied him with that enterprise. During this time
spent in Boston, which was about five years, he had joined
the fire department at the time that the volunteers disbanded
because the mayor would not allow them to have their own
way, and he assisted in forming the first paid fire department
in Boston. The first position he held was clerk of company
No. 13, but in consequence of change of residence he left that
and joined No. 7, and from that was appointed foreman of
No. 1. He was also a member of the Washington Light
Guard, doing both fire and military duty. He was also pres
ident of the Boston Musical Education Society, and a member
of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association.
After giving up the firm of Jones and Hobbs an arrange
ment was made with Edwards and Holman, lock and safe
makers, to open a store in New York and sell their locks and
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fire proof safes. This arrangement did not prove satisfactory
to Mr. Hobbs, but during the time thus employed the con
struction of locks was carefully studied and those locks that
others valued seemed worth but little to him. He soon
became acquainted with Day and Newell, the prominent
bank lock makers, and made an arrangement with them to
take the entire charge of selling their bank locks. In order
to succeed in this line it was necessary to prove to bankers
that the locks they were using were not secure. Therefore
he made a very fine set of tools by which he could demon
strate the proposition that their vaults and safes could be
opened. Equipped with a lock and his box of suspicious
implements, he made his first call on a bank at Stamford,
Conn. They had on their doors what was known as a Jones
padlock, which was considered invulnerable. It held an iron
strap over the key hole of an Andrew's bank lock, which had
cost the bank $150. In addition they had what is known as a
Warded lock, making three locks, any one of which was
considered quite secure against being opened without the
proper key. Also a supposed secure lock was placed on the
outside door of the bank. After a long conversation with the
bank directors it was decided that if the lock on the outside
of the door and the vault could be opened in two hours with
out injuring the locks, they would purchase a new lock. Mr.
Hobbs then, after examining the key holes, selected a few
instruments from his assortment, opened the outside door and
the three locks on the vault in twenty-three minutes. No
further argument was needed, the new lock was purchased
and their vault made secure. This occurred in January, 1847.
From that time until 185 1 his whole attention and time was
occupied in visiting banks, including nearly all in the United
States. The following letter is of interest.
"Treasury of the United States.
Washington, 22 February, 1850.
"We hereby certify that Mr. H. C. Jones sold to the Department one of his
best, large, patent combination locks, which was placed on one of the doors of the
money vault in this office. Mr. Jones seemed confident that it was impossible for
his said lock lo be picked, and said many things to prove his confidence in its
perfect security. Having become satisfied that Mr. Jones's combination lock had
been picked in New York and elsewhere, we lost confidence in the one of his on
the vault door, which we reported to the treasurer. The department authorized

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the purchase of a lock exhibited by Mr. A. C. Hobbs, agent for ' Day and Newell's
Parantoptic Bank Lock.' After the same had been carefully examined by some
of our most skillful and competent mechanics it was put upon the vault door in
the place before occupied by Mr. Jones's combination lock.
"We further certify that Mr. Hobbs did, without having seen the key or
interior, pick and open the said Jones lock without the least injury to the same.
Wm. D. Nutt."
In the year 1848 Mr. Hobbs was at the bank of Lancaster,
Pa., putting on a lock that he had sold them. As the cashier
came in the bank with his morning paper, he said, "Mr.
Hobbs, there is something for you," throwing down his New
York paper, in which was an advertisement from a Mr.
Woodbridge, of Perth Amboy, offering $500 to any one who
would open his lock then on one of Herring's safes in the
Merchant's Exchange reading room in New York. Mr.
Hobbs said to the cashier, " That is my money." " What,"
said he, "do you think you can open it?" " Yes," said Mr.
Hobbs, "and I leave for New York as soon as I have finished
putting on this lock." Away went Mr. Hobbs to New York,
found Mr. Woodbridge, saw the lock and safe with a card on
the door offering the reward of $500 to any one who would
open the lock in thirty days by any instrument of their own,
or he would let them have the use of the key for one dollar
per hour, first having the movable bits taken out and dis
tributed. There being twelve bits to the key would give
479,001,600 changes, or different ways of putting the bits
together, leaving but one way only that would open the lock.
In order to have the test fairly conducted, there were three
arbitrators appointed to attend and decide upon the arrange
ment for the trial. Mr. Woodbridge had unlimited confidence
in his lock and thought he knew all about making and opening
it. The arbitrators agreed that if Mr. Hobbs did not open
the safe he should write a certificate that " He had access to
the lock for thirty days and could not open it, and therefore
considered it perfectly safe and recommended it to the pub
lic." Mr. Woodbridge had a check on the Mechanics' Bank
of New York for $500, signed by his father. This was put in
an envelope and placed in the safe, to be the property of the
one opening the safe.,
Mr. Hobbs then said to Mr. Woodbridge, "You don't
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want it under such circumstances. Let the arbitrators open
the safe, take your check out and give me my certificate,
withdraw your advertisement, and call it square. But if you
leave it there I will surely take it." Mr. Woodbridge, with
a derisive laugh, said, " Go ahead, 1 will risk it." Mr. Hobbs,
knowing the general construction of the lock, had his instru
ments all made, and arranged with the janitor of the room to
have the use of it at night. Mr. Woodbridge had so con
structed the lock that if any attempt was made to withdraw
the bolt before the tumblers were all in their proper position,
any key or instrument that might then be in the key hole
could not be withdrawn, and by that means the opening of
the lock would be made impossible. After the room was
cleared at nine o'clock in the evening Mr. Hobbs began his
work on the lock, and at half past eleven had the measure
ments of the required position of the tumblers all marked out
and the bolt ready to be withdrawn. Instead of having any
thing that could be held in the key hole he had a piece of
bent wire with which he could withdraw the bolt, and left
the safe in that condition through the night. He called on
Mr. Woodbridge quite early in the morning and told him
there was some trouble with the lock, and requested him to
be at the room by ten o'clock sure. Mr. Woodbridge
seemed quite happy and evidently thought his trap had
caught something in the lock. Mr. Hobbs also notified the
arbitrators to be there at ten o'clock and then returned and
sat down by the safe, with the piece of wire hanging out of
the key hole, to prevent any one touching it. Sometime
before ten o'clock the room began to fill up, and all were
wondering about the result of the night's work. Some
thought it must be a failure and others expressed doubts.
The arbitrators came, but Mr. Hobbs answered no questions.
Soon after ten o'clock Mr. Woodbridge came and there being
quite a crowd around, he called from a distance: " Hallo, Mr.
Hobbs, what is the trouble?" "There is something the mat
ter with the lock," said Mr. Hobbs. " What is it?" said Mr.
Woodbridge. Mr. Hobbs then carefully moving the wire,
pulled the door of the safe open and said, " Your lock wont
keep the door shut."
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Hobbs, who went immediately to the Mechanics' Bank, ob
tained the $500, and destroyed the certificate, leaving Mr.
Woodbridge in charge of his lock and safe, a wiser man than
he was the day before.
Mr. Hobbs continued traveling and selling bank locks,
and as it was important that he should carry his box of what
might have been called a set of burglars' tools to demonstrate
the insecurity of the locks in use, it was also advisable to
have with him letters and documents which would secure
him from trouble or difficulties of suspicion while among
strangers. On proposing to go to Europe he received the
following: "Office of the Chief of Police.
New York, April 18th, 1851.
"Alfred C. Hobus, Esq.,
"Dear Sir: — Understanding lhat you are about to go to Europe on profes
sional business, and that it is your intention to attend the World's Fair to be
holden at the city of London, I thought it would be acceptable to you to have in
your possession a few lines from me by way of recommendation.
" I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance since my first connection with
the police of this cily, and I can unhesitatingly bear ample testimony to your
character as a gentleman and a citizen. Having been for many years connected
with the manufacture of the most celebrated locks in this country, I know that
your knowledge of their structure is unsurpassed, and would highly recommend
you to the authorities and police of whatever European city you may visit. Wish
ing you much success, I have the honor to be
Your friend, George W. Matsell,
Chief of Police."
Mr. Hobbs had often heard of a wonderful lock that was
placed in the window of the celebrated lock maker, Bramah,
of London, and the offer of 200 guineas reward to any one who
should open it without the key, and having seen several of
the Bramah locks he felt quite sure he could open this one
for which the reward was offered. Therefore he left New
York in April, 185 1, on the steamship Washington, for South
ampton, with the lock of Day and Newell to exhibit, and also
his small chest of tools to test the locks of European make.
While landing at Southampton the custom officer requested
him to open the small box, which he did, but the expression
of the face of that official when he saw the contents cannot
well be described. However, handing a letter to Mr. Croskey,
the American consul, who stood by, an explanation of the
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the mischievous box was passed. This box or trunk was
fifteen inches long, eight wide, and eight deep, having six
trays in which the tools and instruments were carried. Dur
ing a few hours spent with Mr. Croskey he desired to know
what was to be done, and after hearing the explanation, and
Mr. Hobb's binding him to say nothing about it, Mr. Croskey
said that for the first time he had heard an American express
a desire to have anything he knew kept quiet, and if anything
could be done to raise the comparative standard of the Amer
icans he would be delighted, for their show at the Crystal
Palace was very poor, consisting as it did of a few barrels of
shoe pegs, some bunches of brooms and a few American car
riages. A few days after Mr. Hobbs arrived in London he called
on the American minister, Mr. Abbott Lawrence, with whom
he had been acquainted in Boston, and informed him some
what with the object of his visit. The locks of Day and
" Newell had not been on exhibition long before they attracted
considerable attention, especially by many of the exhibitors
of locks, and much to the annoyance of Mr. Hobbs. His
reputation as an expert on locks having gone before him, he
was asked many questions which did not receive direct
answers, since he carefully avoided saying anything about
what he intended to do or what he had done. He visited and
examined the great variety of English locks, and having
several times stopped at the window of Bramah, where the
prize lock was exhibited, became more satisfied about opening
it, but said nothing to any one about opening or picking locks.
A short distance from the Day and Newell show case, in the
Crystal Palace, was a case that contained a very good assort
ment of Colt's revolving breech rifles and pistols. One day
there was quite a crowd gathered around it and presently one
of the guards came and said to Mr. Hobbs that His Grace,
the Duke of Wellington had come to see Colt's revolvers, but
the attendant was not there, and asked if he could open the
case and explain them to the duke. Knowing where the key
was kept he complied with the request. Being through with
this exhibition the duke said: "Now, Mr. Hobbs, what have
you to show me?" His Grace was then led to the case con
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much pleasure, taking Mr. Hobbs by the hand he said, " With
your permission I shall come and see you again." The next
morning about ten o'clock he came with the Marchioness of
Dufo and another lady, and said : " I am so much pleased
with your wonderful lock that when I told the ladies they
immediately desired to see it, so I have brought them." After
having seen the lock the duke wanted to re-examine the rifles
and pistols, and Mr. Hobbs explained them as before. The
duke, taking Mr. Hobbs by the hand, said : " I shall want to
see you and talk about America." In about ten days he came,
and taking a seat near the lock case with Mr. Hobbs, the
conversation lasted some time. Then the duke said: "Now,
Mr. Hobbs, I want you to explain that model of Ni-a-gsi-ra
Falls" (that stood near by). After this explanation His Grace
again shook Mr. Hobbs' hand and thanked him for his atten
tion. A short time after this, at one of the queen's drawing-
rooms, as the American minister was passing, the Duke of
Wellington (who was standing near the queen) said: "Mr.
Lawrence, I am pleased to see you. I have seen the great
American lock. It is one of the finest things in the exhibi
tion, and Mr. Hobbs is one of the cleverest of men." A few
days after, Her Majesty, the Queen, with Prince Albert, sev
eral ladies in waiting, the Prince of Wales, with attendants,
came to see the locks, having the day before notified Mr.
Hobbs that they were coming.' From that time to the close
of the exhibition Mr. Hobbs was favored with visits from
many of the Royalty to see the great American lock.
The remembrance of these visits and conversations from
the great persons of England is very pleasant, after more than
thirty years have passed, and especially as he drew some
little attention and credit, to the genius of America.
During this time spent in the exhibition Mr. Hobbs had
carefully examined all the locks that Bramah had in the exhi
bition, stopped and looked at the lock hanging in the window,
and made himself fully prepared before making any attempt
upon the Bramah lock. This lock and the 200 guineas filled
his eye exactly. During this time, also, many rumors had
been floating about that he could open all the locks in the
exhibition, and there were several gentlemen who were
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a Chubb's lock. Mr. Chubb had also given several challenges
to get Mr. Hobbs to make a trial. Therefore he informed
several gentlemen that if he got a chance to test a lock in use
on some door, he would show them whether or not it could be
opened. The following letter was sent to Mr. Chubb so that
he could be present, — taken from the London "Observer."
"Gentlemen: An attempt will be made to open a lock of your manufacture
on the door of a Strong-room at 34, Great George-street, Westminster, to-morrow,
Tuesday, at n o'clock A. M. You are respectfully invited to be present, to wit
ness the operation. Yours respectfully, A. C. Hobbs.
"American Department, Crystal Palace, July 21.
"To Messrs. Chubb and Son, St. Paul's Churchyard."
Although Mr. Chubb took no notice of the communica
tion he sent a man to look on. The following extract from
the London " Observer" gives the result of the operation:
" London, July 22, 1851.
"We, the undersigned, hereby certify that we attended, with the permission of
Mr. Bell, of 34, Great George-street, Westminster, an invitation sent to us by A. C.
Hobbs, of the city of New York, to witness an attempt to open a lock throwing
three bolts, and having six tumblers, affixed to the iron door of a strong room or
vault, built for the depository of valuable papers, and formerly occupied by the
agents of the South Eastern Railway Company ; that we severally witnessed the
operation, which Mr. Hobbs commenced at 35 minutes past n o'clock, a. m., and
opened the lock within 25 minutes. Mr. Hobbs, having been requested to lock it
again with his instruments, accomplished it in the short space of seven minutes,
without the slightest injury to the lock or door. We minutely examined the lock
and door (having previously had the assurance of Mr. Bell that the keys had
never been accessible to Mr. Hobbs, he having had permission to examine the
keyhole only). We found a plate at the back of the door with the following in
scription : — 'Chubb's new patent (No. 161,461), St. Paul's Churchyard, London,
maker, to her Majesty.' " Mr. Hardley, 26, Great Earl-street.
Mr. William N. Marshall, 42, Charing-cross.
Mr. W. Armstead, 35, Belitha-villas, Barnsbury Park.
Mr. G. R. Porter, Putney Heath.
Mr. F. W. Wenham, Effra-vale Lodge, Brixton.
Mr. A. Shanks, Robert-street, Adelphi.
Mr. T. Shanks. Robert-street, Adelphi.
Colonel W. Clifton, Morley's Hotel.
Mr. Elijah Galloway, 42, Southampton-buildings.
Mr. Paul R. Hodge, 9, Adam-street, Adelphi.
Mr. Charles H. Peahody, 1, Norfolk-street, Strand."
Notwithstanding the above testimony Mr. Chubb con
tinued to deny that his lock had been fairly opened.

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Mr. Hobbs, having disposed of Chubb's lock, thought it
about time to give his attention to the challenge lock of Mr.
Bramah, and hence went into the shop where the lock was
hanging in the window and asked the shopman if that was a
real lock. "Of course it is," said the man. "Then I would
like to see it," said Mr. Hobbs. The man, not knowing who
he was speaking with, asked if he were a locksmith, to which
the reply was, no; but that he was very curious about locks
and would like to see it. Placing the lock in Mr. Hobbs'
hands the man turned to wait on a customer. Mr. Hobbs,
taking his pen-knife and feeling of the points of the lock, the
man became very much annoyed, and said: " What are you
doing?" " I was only feeling of those pieces to see if they
would move," said Mr. Hobbs, for he had been told they
would not, and that the lock was a trap. But the examina
tion assured him that it was not. The man seemed very
much excited and took the lock. Presently one of the pro
prietors came in and Mr. Hobbs told him he desired to try to
open the lock, and also told who he was. In reply he called
Mr. Hobb's attention to the challenge, which read: "The
artist that will produce an instrument that will pick this lock
shall receive 200 guineas reward the instant it is produced."
Mr. Hobbs then said that it was generally understood that
the offer was to anyone that would pick the lock without
injuring it, regardless of how it was done, and that if they
would not submit it to a fair test they must take it out of the
window or he would make it known to the public as a fraud.
The gentleman said he would consult the proprietor and give
an answer. It so happened on the following morning that the London
"Times" had an article giving a description of a case of
jewels, a collection of great value belonging to Hope, the
banker, and saying, that "the case was secured by one of
Bramah's locks; that it was also understood that an Ameri
can gentleman had thrown down the gauntlet and offered to
pick both Chubb's and Bramah's locks. Is it safe?"
The following morning a letter was published in the
"Times" from both Chubb and Bramah saying; " If the
American gentleman or any other person will pick our lock
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he shall have the 200 guineas reward." Mr. Hobbs went
direct to Bramah and said he was satisfied he intended to do
what was right, and in order to have a fair test they would
have three arbitrators to make the arrangements and see that
the test was fairly made. The arbitrators were chosen, the
lock fastened to a door, and Mr. Hobbs was notified that all
was ready.
He first took measurements of the keyhole. The follow
ing from the London "Observer" gives the method of pro
cedure in opening the lock :
We next come to the mode in which Mr. Hobbs felt out the notches in the
sliders for the purpose of adjusting them to their proper places. For this purpose
he used a plain steel needle, with u. moderately line point, and another with a
small crook at the end, and something like a crochet needle ; the former for push
ing in the slider, and the latter for drawing it back when it had been pushed in too
far. By feeling along the edge of the slider delicately the notch was found and
adjusted, and its exact position was then accurately measured by means of a thin
and narrow plate of brass for future reference, and marked upon (he brass slider,
by way of a record; so that when the operator left the lock at night everything was
in its usual normal position, and lo all intents and purposes as if nothing had been
done to it, but he meantime carried away with him the results of his day's
progress, and began on the succeeding day from the point where he left off*. The
lock which was the subject of Mr. Hobbs' operations had no less than 18 sliders,
each of which had to be adjusted to its proper place, and the reader will be able
from this to appreciate the lime, and labor, and patience required. Independently
of the two small instruments we have described, Mr. Hobbs used a third bent one
as a substitute for the small lever or projection at the end of the key by which the
boll is shot and withdrawn. This was also permanently fixed in the lock during
his operations, and by a simple piece of mechanism so arranged as to exert a con
tinual pressure on the cylinder. The two hands of ihe operator being thus at
liberty, he was enabled to use both in feeling out the notches in the slides, com
mencing with those that offered the greatest resistance, and moving them up and
down until he felt that the resistance had ceased, by the notch being adjusted to
the steel plate. He thus proceeded through the entire eighteen, and then the
barrel moved a little round, and he by ihis means ascertained that he had got
the sliders adjusted to ihc false notches, and had to commence de novo. By
repeated trials in this way he succeded in finally adjusting the whole of the sliders
to their proper places; the cylinder ihen revolved, and the lock was opened.
Although the operation was performed by steps, and although different instru
ments and different steps were taken to accomplish it — the spring being held
down by one piece of mechanism, the sliders adjusted by another, and the cylinder
turned by a third, the committee have, on a full consideration of all the circum
stances, come to ihe decision that Mr. Hobbs has fairly picked the lock, and have
decreed that he should obtain the two hundred guineas.
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"Report of the Arbitrators to whom the Bramah Lock Controversy has been Referred.
" Whereas for many years past a padlock has been exhibited in the window
of Messrs. Bramah's shop, in Piccadilly, to which was appended a label with these
words ¦. ' The artist who can make an instrument that will pick or open this lock
shall receive 200 guineas the moment it is produced ;' and Mr. Hobbs, of America,
having obtained permission of Messrs. Bramah to make trial of his skill in open
ing ihe said lock.
" Messrs. Bramah and Mr. Hobbs severally agreed that George Rennie, Esq.,
F.R.S., of London, and Professor Cowper, of King's College, London, and Dr.
Black, of Kentucky, should act as arbitrators between the said parties.
" That the trial should be conducted according to the rules laid down by the
arbitrators, and the award of 200 guineas be decided by them ; in fine, that they
should see ' fair play ' between the parties.
" On July 23d it was agreed that the lock should be enclosed in a block of
wood and screwed to a door, and the screws sealed, the keyhole and the hasp only
being accessible to Mr. Hobbs, and when he was not operating the keyhole was
to be covered with a band of iron, lind sealed by Mr. Hobbs, lhat no other person
should have access to the keyhole. The key was also sealed up, and was not to
be used until Mr, Hobbs had finished his operations. If Mr. Hobbs succeeded
in picking or opening the lock, the key was to be tried, and if it locked and
unlocked the padlock it should be considered as a proof lhat Mr. Hobbs had not
injured the lock, but had fairly picked or opened it, and was entitled to the 200
guineas. " On the same day (July 23d) Messrs. Bramah gave notice to Mr. Hobbs that
the lock was ready for his operations.
"On July 24th Mr. Hobbs commenced his operations, and on August 23d
Mr. Hobbs exhibited the lock opened to Dr. Black and Professor Cowper (Mr.
Rennie being outof town). Dr. Black and Mr. Cowper then called in Mr. Edward
Bramah and Mr. Brazalgette, and showed them the lock opened. They then with
drew, and Mr. Hobbs locked and unlocked the padlock in presence of Dr. Black
and Mr. Cowper.
" Between July 24th and August 23d Mr. Hobbs' operations were for a time
suspended, so that the number of days occupied by Mr. Hobbs was 16, and the
number of hours he was actually in the room with the lock was 51.
" On Friday, August 29th, Mr. Hobbs again locked and unlocked the padlock,
in presence of Mr. G. Rennie, Professor Cowper, Dr. Black, Mr. Edward Bramah,
Mr. Brazalgette and Mr. Abrahart.
"On Saturday, August 30th, the key was tried, and the padlock was locked
and unlocked with the key by Professor Cowper, Mr. Rennie, and Mr. Gilbertson,
thus proving that Mr. Hobbs had fairly picked the lock without injuring it. Mr.
Hobbs then formally produced the instruments with which he had opened the lock.
" We are therefore unanimously of opinion that Messrs. Bramah have given
Mr. Hobbs a fair opportunity of trying his skill, and that Mr. Hobbs has fairly
picked or opened the lock, and we award lhat Messrs. Bramah and Company do
now pay to Mr. Hobbs the 200 guineas. " George Rennie, Chairman,
Edwd. Cowper,
J. R. Black.
" Holland street, Blackfriars, September 2d, 1851."

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Comments of the London newspapers :
Since the opening of Messrs. Bramah's lock, Mr. Hobbs and his lock have
become the objects of much interest and curiosity to the visitors of the Great Exhi
bition. Hard-handed and intelligent mechanics and delicate ladies, scientific
men and savans, with dandies and dilettanti, crowd round him whenever he makes
his appearance in the United Slates department, and listen with an eagerness
which at limes threatens serious consequences; for lie is almost overwhelmed by
the numbers and the pressure to hear his explanations and illustrations of the
principle on which the parantoptic lock is constructed. Whatever may be thought
of the vauntings of some of his countrymen, we must say lhat Mr. Hobbs has
invariably referred to himself and his performances with much modesty, and never
makes any allusion to them until questioned and pressed by those around him,
and then treats them, not as something wonderful to boast of, but the natural
result of his intimate acquaintance with the mechanism of locks.
We confess lhai the Americans in the two public contests in which they have
recently been engaged with us, have shown a propriety and good feeling which is
calculated to shake our preconceived notions of the American character. Commo
dore Stevens, in his conduct of the yacht challenge, exhibited throughout a gentle
manly courtesy and a disposition to accede to the wishes of his opponents, which
must produce a favorable impression upon the minds of all who have read the
correspondence and the details of the contest. Mr. Hobbs, flushed with victory,
and looked upon by three-fourths of the public as little else than a wizard, has been
snubbed and sneered at by some of his opponents ; but yet there is not a line or a
word in any of his published letters at which ihe most captious could lake offence.
He has a very humble opinion of his own merits, and believes that there are a
hundred men in London, who, if they set themselves seriously to work, could do
what he has done.
Mr. Hobbs always takes great pleasure in referring to the
kind treatment and attention he received in the several con
tests he had with his many competitors during the time of
the World's Fair in London, and well he might, for they
made of him a lion, and for once he received his merited
deserts. The excitement caused by the complete overthrow of
the locks in general use in England brought out many new
inventions, and some, although the parties had reason to
believe to the contrary, still held to their old ideas. Mr.
Hobbs had been in London but a short time when he received
a letter from William Brown of Liverpool, the head of the
House of Brown, Shipley and Company, bankers, requesting
him to call at St. James Hotel. Complying with this request]
he found Mr. Brown was the inventor of a lock, which was
then in use on the bank of the company. This lock he
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making sketches of some of its parts, and showing how many
thousand and million combinations it had, the various ways
it could be locked, with only one way to open it, he asked
Mr. Hobbs how it was possible to open it without knowing
the word on which it was locked? Mr. Hobbs replied that
he thought the lock very much like the Letter Pad Lock in
point of security, and if so, it could easily be opened. Mr.
Brown in much surprise said, " you certainly do not under
stand me.'' Mr. Hobbs requested him to explain it again,
which he did, very carefully pointing out the impossibility of
opening it with its many obstructions, and then asked again,
" Do you really think it could be opened?" Mr. Hobbs saw
that he was well satisfied with the lock as his own invention,
and on his repeating the question a third time concluded to
let him enjoy his own opinion and said he could not give an
opinion without seeing the lock itself. Mr. Brown seemed
well pleased at this and requested Mr. Hobbs to call at their
Banking House whenever in Liverpool.
About five months after, Mr. Hobbs received a copy of
the proceedings of the Archeological Society of Liverpool,
which contained a paper on locks by William Brown, M.P.,
in which the same lock was described, and it wound up as
follows : " During the time of the exhibition in London, I saw
Mr. Hobbs and described this lock to him. "At first he
seemed to think he could open it, but after a more thorough
explanation was made to him, so that he more fully under
stood the lock, I again asked him, and his answer was so
evasive that I concluded he could not open it, and I am hav
ing another like it put on a new safe that is now being made
for our bank."
Mr. Hobbs, thinking it now time to give Mr. Brown a
call, went to Liverpool and met him at his Banking House.
Mr. Brown was very glad to see him, and said his new safe
was just coming in, therefore he could not show the new lock
but that the old one would do as well. Calling his cashier
he directed him to lock the safe, which he did. Mr. Hobbs
then began to explain what he should do if ho should attempt
to pick the lock. There was no key, but there was a T
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422 History of Bridgeport.
on the dial were in their proper position. Mr. Hobbs said,
" you do not think anything of that wrench, do you ?" " No,"
he said, " we put that on the top of the safe at night." Mr.
Hobbs then said, " if I wanted to open the safe I should take
the wrench and put it in, so that I could feel the bolts while
turning the pointers on the outer dials." Presently the cash
ier called Mr. Brown, saying a gentleman wished to speak
to him. Mr. Brown asked to be excused and turned to go
away, but before he reached the door, the bolts went back,
and the safe door came open. Mr. Hobbs then called to Mr.
Brown saying, " Don't leave me here with this safe open."
Mr. Brown, in great surprise said, " How did you open it?"
" I don't know," said Mr. Hobbs, " I was turning the pointers
round and it came open ; perhaps it was not properly locked,
have it locked again. The cashier locked it again, and Mr.
Hobbs said, " I will now show you how easy it is to open this
lock." Then turning his back to the door, and without look-"
ing at the lock opened it in less than ten minutes, showing
Mr. Brown that his lock was worthless. Mr. Brown seemed
very well satisfied, but not much pleased by the information
he had received.
This success of Mr. Hobbs in showing the failings of the
locks then in use in England, and the want of proper machin
ery in the business, suggested the idea of starting a lock factory
with the view of getting it fairly running within three years
and then disposing of it. Hence a partnership was formed
and a building hired in Cheapside, London, and the securing
of machinery to take the place of hand labor was begun. The
progress was so slow that during the first year but little head
way was made. Being then convinced that the time required
would be much longer than at first supposed, Mr. Hobbs sent
for his family, being determined to carry out what had been
started. The second year began to make some show, and at
the end of the third year a new building was required for the
factory, which was built outside of the city, retaining the one
at Cheapside for a store.
Mr. Hobbs was soon convinced that there was a great
difference between the English and American way of doing
business, and while pushing matters as fast as possible, he

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began to think about returning to the United States, although
he had formed acquaintances and associations that he did not
like to give up. The character and notoriety gained during
the exhibition held on, and he received much attention from
many in high position. He became a member of the Society
of Arts, and by request gave a lecture before it on the subject
of ancient and modern locks. Afterward he was called on for
the same by many corresponding societies. He was also an
associate of the institution of Civil Engineers, and wrote a
paper on the principles and construction of locks. From this
society he was awarded the Telford Medal, the highest
premium ever given by it, and this was the third one brought
to the United States, a representation of which is herewith
presented in illustration. It is a most beautiful thing in -itself
and as an honor bestowed as it was, is well worth the price
less estimate placed upon it by its owner.
As time went on the business of lock-making increased
and the addition of machinery suited for that special purpose
was almost daily obtained. A new store was added, and a
large portion of the business of the Government and Bank of
England were given the firm, which added very much to
their position and standing. In August, i860, Mr. Ashly, one
of the firm, died, and Mr. Hobbs then saw an opportunity
to sell out and go home. A very satisfactory bargain was
made on one condition, which was that the name of Hobbs
should be continued on the sign, for which a premium was
paid ; and the name of Hobbs, Ashley and Company was
changed to Hobbs, Hart and Company, 76 Cheapside. If any
one should go there and ask for Mr. Hobbs they would proba
bly be informed that he had stepped out.
Mr. Hobbs and his family left London in October, i860,
and arrived in New York November 1st. He has visited
London several times since, and there is no business more
flourishing in that city than Hobbs, Hart and Company.
During the nine and a half years Mr. Hobbs had been in
London great changes had occurred in New York, so that he
found it not easy to enter into satisfactory business arrange
ments. He went to Boston, but finding nothing there more
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There he soon met Elias Howe, Jr., with whom he had an
intimate acquaintance before he went to England. Mr. Howe
proposed that he should go to Bridgeport and take charge of
a factory that was being built for making sewing machines.
This position he accepted, after a few visits of inspection, and
took charge of the completion of the building and the fitting
up of the machinery. Although he had no knowledge of
sewing machines, yet the business was started entirely
under his supervision, and this continued until Mr. Howe's
interference with the details ot the running of the factory
and giving and contracting orders, made it advisable for him
to resign his place, which he did about 1865.
While engaged in the Howe shop the Metallic Cartridge
Works were built by the firm of Schuyler, Hartley and Gra
ham of New York. They purchased two small concerns of
this character, one in Springfield, Mass., and the other in
South Coventry, Conn. In looking for a suitable place to
build a manufactory they fixed upon Bridgeport, and pur
chased a lot of land between East Washington avenue and
Barnum street, and bounded on the east by Pembroke Lake
which gave them the advantage of a water front. They built
a main building of 120 feet by 40, three stories in height, and
a few small wooden buildings around the yard.
When this was ended there was but little use for metallic
cartridges. The breech-loading pistols and guns were not
largely upon the market, and for some time the business
looked rather doubtful. Mr. Hobbs had been out of employ
ment for a few months, when on his way to Washington he
went to the store of this firm in New York, and inquired if
they desired any one to take charge of their cartridge works,
when the reply being in the negative he went on to Washing
ton. The next morning he received a telegram from Mr
Schuyler requesting him to return to New York at once. On
meeting the firm he made arrangements to take charge of the
cartridge shop for one year. This was in 1866. Things
looked very blue. But little could be done excepting putting
up machinery and trying experiments. The next year, how
ever, made quite a different showing. Soon their buildings
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employed. From that time — 1868 — great progress has been
made. Cartridges have been made in great numbers, machinery
been constructed for making them, and a very large home
trade established. More land has been purchased, new build
ings erected, and a large number of hands employed. The
manufacturing department has been under the charge of Mr.
A. C. Hobbs, it being considered one of the largest and most
successful enterprises of the city of Bridgeport.
Philo Hurd was born in Brookfield, Conn., July 25,
1795. He was the son of Jabez and Lucy (Blackman) Hurd,
and attended school from an early age until his fourteenth year,
assisting his father in the work of the farm, more particularly
in the summer months, and gaining thereby a vigorous con
stitution and industrious habits. He had a great desire for a
thorough education, and for a time attended the private
school of the Rev. Dr. Williams, but from lack of means he
was compelled to relinquish his studies, and at the age of
fifteen he entered the store of Oliver Warner in New Milford.
Here he remained several years, during which Mr. Warner
presented him with the uniform and accoutrements of a
cavalry soldier at an expense of more than $100. This was
during the war of 1812, but he was too far from the seaboard
to see active service. Mr. Warner meeting with reverses
young Hurd spent the summer in farming and afterward
found a position as clerk in Woodbury. In 1816, in connec
tion with Frank Taylor of Danbury, he opened a dry goods
store at Augusta, Ga. They landed at Savannah during a
most severe prevalence of yellow fever, October 3, 1816.
They were quite prosperous, but great inducements having
been offered from Darien, Georgia, Mr. Hurd went there the
following year, remaining several years, during which his
brother Samuel Ferris Hurd joined him. In 1823, with his
brother, he opened a dry goods store on the corner of Wall
and Middle streets under the firm name of P. and S. F. Hurd.
On the 6th of October, 1823, he married Melinda, daughter
of Agur Tomlinson of Brookfield, Conn. After several years
he united with Isaac and William DeForest in the Boston
coasting trade, after that, with Stephen Burroughs in the West
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He was sheriff during a period of ten years, and while occupy
ing this position was invited by Alfred Bishop to engage in the
railroad business, then in its infancy. This was about the' year
1838. He bought the right of way for a portion of the Housa
tonic railroad, then was engaged on the N. Y. and N. H. rail
road in the same business. He located the line of the Nauga
tuck railroad, bought the right of way, superintended the
construction of the road until its completion and in the mean
time was made superintendent of the road, which position he
held for seven years, and on resigning received a handsome
silver salver and pitcher from the employees of the road in
token of their regard. He then took charge of the Madison
and Indianapolis railroad and its extension then building to
Peru, as Vice-President and Superintendent, but receiving in
less than a year a handsome offer, he came to New York and
accepted the Vice-Presidency of the Hudson River railroad,
remaining a few years until he was offered the presidency of
the N. Y. and Harlem railroad. He brought that road and its
affairs into a prosperous condition, but at the expense of his
own health, and after partially recovering from a severe ill
ness, he resigned his position and went to Florida and the
Western States, and the following year to Europe, taking the
" grand tour " and spending the winter in Italy. He returned
in good health and engaged in a few business enterprises, but
for the last twenty or more years of his life he has enjoyed a
quiet leisure, often passing his winters in Florida or some
other genial clime and his summers in Saratoga Springs and
at Bridgeport with his daughter Mrs. J. E. Dunham.
In appearance he was very like his mother, having all the
Blackman traits, slender form, active temperament, black hair
and eyes. He possessed great energy of character, industry
and perseverance. In his late years his loveliness of charac
ter outshone all other traits. He was a superior conversa
tionalist, polite in his manners and a great favorite.
On the 6th of October, 1873, he and Mrs. Hurd celebrated
their golden wedding in Bridgeport, gathering together a
number of their old friends for the occasion. Mrs. Hurd died
on the 3d of October, 1882, having lived with her husband 59
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prises ; was alderman of the city, recorder for many years,
clerk of the Court of Probate; vestryman and treasurer of
St. John's Church ; and director of the Connecticut State
Prison. He died August 14, 1885, aged 90 years and 20 days.
He left three children, twelve grandchildren and three great
grandchildren. William S. Knowlton.— Prominent among the men
who were identified with Bridgeport's growth and pros
perity is the name of William S. Knowlton, who was
born September 27th, 1S10, at Shrewsbury, Worcester Co.,
Mass. He early learned the trade of a cutler but did not
follow it long, devoting himself to the study of music and
graduating at a then famous musical institute. From 1838 to
1842 he composed many pieces of sacred music, a number of
which now rank among the most solid and popular of devo
tional compositions, and although, without his name in modern
reprints, are recognized by many as enduring monuments of
his musical taste and remarkable skill in harmony. In 1848
he formed a co-partnership for the prosecution of railroad
contract work, and the firm soon had heavy contracts in the
construction of the New York and New Haven railroad,
which work ultimately led him to this city. On the com
pletion of that road he decided to make Bridgeport his home,
and continued to reside here till the time of his death. Many
of the public works of the city were built by him as con
tractor, the last being the Congress street bridge, after the
completion of which he retired from active business life.
Mr. Knowlton was widely known and universally respected
among the business men of the community and throughout
the State. He was a man of sterling integrity, genial, kindly
feeling, quick to sympathize in the misfortunes of others and
ever ready to do his share in every good work. He was
thrice married, and at his death left one son, Colonel Julius
W. Knowlton, at present (1886) Postmaster of Bridgeport.
Rowland Bradley Lacey, only son of Jesse and Edna
(Munson) Lacey, was born at Easton, Conn., April 6, 1818.
His early years were spent on his father's farm. After the
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between farm work and attendance upon the common district
school. Later he had the advantages of Mr. Eli Gilbert's
select school in Redding and of the Easton academy. Before
he reached the age of sixteen years he commenced teaching
school, which work he pursued for several terms in his native
town and in Redding, " boarding around," as was the custom.
Mr. Henry Sanford, of this city, and his brother Aaron, long
a resident of Newtown, and Henry B. Fanton, of Danbury,
Conn., were among his pupils. In April, 1836, at the age of
eighteen years, he took up his residence in Bridgeport, occu
pying the position of assistant postmaster with Stephen
Lounsbury and his immediate successor, Smith Tweedy, for
nearly four years. Bridgeport was then a borough with less
than three thousand inhabitants, and everything, including
the mail service, was in marked contrast with the present. It
was incorporated as a city in 1836. Mr. Lacey having been a
continuous resident from that period and closely identified
with its various interests, is specially conversant with its
entire municipal history.
Upon the opening of the Housatonic railroad in Decem
ber, 1839, he secured the position of agent at Bridgeport,
which involved a large share of the responsibility of operating
the road. For several years during the winter season this
was the only steam line between New York and Albany, and
hence the traffic was very heavy, taxing to the utmost the
resources of the road. In March, 1844, he resigned this posi
tion with the railroad, not without the remonstrances of
Alfred Bishop and other leading men connected with the
road, to accept a position offered him by Messrs. Harral and
Calhoun as book-keeper in their saddle manufactory. This
was at the time one of the leading manufactories in the State
of Connecticut, doing a large southern trade, having a ware
house in New York and branch establishments in Charleston,
S. C, and Saint Louis, Mo. Mr. Lacey soon became assistant
manager of the manufactory, and in 1853 became a member
of the firm of Harral, Calhoun and Company. In 1858, after
the death of Mr. Harral, the firm was reorganized under the
name of Calhoun, Lacey and Company, and in 1863 the title
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of the saddlery business being chiefly in the south, the late
war involved heavy losses to them and caused this firm, with
others, to withdraw and close up the business.
Between the years 1840 and 1850 Mr. Lacey was con
nected with the old volunteer fire department as private
member, as foreman of Company No. 1, and as assistant
engineer. In 1848 he drew and procured the adoption of a
city by-law for a better organization of the fire department,
which continued in force until the adoption of the paid system
in 1870. He was a member of the common council in 1848, 1852,
1853, and 1864. In 1870 he was requested by Mayor Morford
and others to visit neighboring cities and ascertain their
methods of keeping public accounts, and he then drew the
plan of the present financial system, which, upon some revis
ion by Francis Ives, Esq., was adopted by the common coun
cil February 20, 1871. At the same time he was appointed
city auditor for three years, and to this office he was reelected
in 1874, 1877, and 1880. He was also connected almost con
stantly during the above period with the street and sewer
departments, as the clerk of the board of road and bridge
commissioners and secretary of the park commissioners, and
in the adjustment of damages and benefits for street and sewer
improvements. He introduced system into the accounts of
the town of Bridgeport and since 1876 has had the sole charge
and management of the Town Sinking Fund — involving a
heavy responsibility.
The Bridgeport Annual " Municipal Register'' originated
with him in 1873, and for ten successive years he prepared
and supervised its publication. It was fully appreciated from
the first and is regarded as an invaluable work of reference.
His services have been much sought for on important
committees, and as trustee, executor or administrator on
numerous estates.
One of the earliest fields of usefulness aside from his
regular employment was in the public schools of Bridgeport,
which he found at a very low ebb. His efforts resulted in
marked improvement of the central school. Other pressing
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taken by him in the more recent measures was in the adjust
ment of the intricate financial questions and interests between
the town and the former school districts in connection with
consolidation. He has always been interested in local history, and this,
in fact, might be styled his hobby, or his field of recreation,
since in the house and by the way he lightens every work and
enterprise with inquiry and anecdote of history.
It was at his suggestion that his father-in-law, Deacon
Isaac Sherman, wrote a valuable series of articles, embody
ing his own early recollections together with many facts
handed down from the first settlers. These sketches, revised
and corrected by Mr. Lacey, are published in this work, much
to the honor of the early settlers of the locality. He has
also written, at the expense of much time, research and
labor, many papers, articles and obituary notices, which have
been published in various forms — in the " Municipal Regis
ter " and public journals of the city, and read before the His
torical Society, which have added very greatly to the remem
brance of the early inhabitants of the place, and to the pleas
ure and satisfaction of the present generation. A very busy
man with present, living issues, he has yet found time to
rescue the graves of the fathers and mothers of the early set
tlement from disgraceful neglect. Those who have ancestors
or friends buried in the ancient Stratfield burial ground owe
him a lasting debt of gratitude for his liberal expenditure of
time, labor and money for the accomplishment of this end.
In the whirl, excitement and cares of an intensely busy
life, he never lost sight of his moral and religious obligations.
He began life a total abstainer from intoxicants and man
fully adhered to the principle through many temptations.
Very soon after he took up his residence here he identified
himself with the First Congregational Church, then under
the pastoral care of Rev. John Blatchford and entered the
choir and Sabbath school. In July, 1837, he became a mem
ber of that church by the removal of his relations from the
Congregational Church in Redding, Conn. How thoroughly
he has been identified with the First Church all these years
since, few now on the stage can know or appreciate. The
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Society best reveal it. He was elected deacon of the church
August 30, 1850, and has served continuously since — also a
number of years as clerk and treasurer. For nearly fifty years
he has served in one or more of the following capacities:
society's treasurer, chairman of the society's committee,' Sun
day school teacher, librarian, teacher of the Bible class and
superintendent. Rev. Peter EocJewood, son of Lambert and Elizabeth
Lockwood, was born in Bridgeport, Conn., February 8, 1798,
and was the third of a family of five children, one of whom was
Roe Lockwood, a well known book seller in New York. He
was descended from Puritan ancestry, who stoutly resisted the
encroachments of the Romanists in the days of Charles I.
He often related the story told by his mother of the escape
from Ireland in 1641 of one of her ancestors by the name of
John Roe. "This John Roe and his brother, in endeavoring
to reach the sea shore as they fled from persecution, took
refuge in the house of a wealthy lady whom they knew, and
while receiving refreshment were alarmed by the arrival of
officers in search of them. The good housewife hastily hid
them in a closet filled with soiled clothes. The officers
demanded, and she delivered her bunch of keys to them,
having previously removed the key of the closet where the
men were hidden, but when the officers had searched the
house they asked if she had delivered all her keys to them.
She replied ' There is the key of the closet where I keep 'my
dirty clothes, if you want to look in there,' at which they
were so disconcerted that they took their departure."
Peter Lockwood's youth was passed in his native place
learning the art of printing and book-binding.
In 1813, at the age of fifteen years, he entered Yale Col
lege, where, in the midst of a successful scholarship, " he,
with many others, publicly professed Christ in the college
chapel, on April 2, 1815, and where he graduated in his
college course in 1817." He at once entered the theological
seminary at Andover, where he was graduated in 1820; and
in 1 82 1 was ordained an evangelist, which work he pursued
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On the second day of October, 1822, he married Matilda,
the daughter of the Hon. John Davenport, of Stamford, Conn.
In 1824 he was settled as pastor at Peekskill, on the Hudson,
where he labored two years, after which, for a time, he pur
sued his evangelistic labors in Western New York.
On Sunday, August 5, 1827, he preached his first sermon
in the first Presbyterian church of Binghamton, N. Y.,
where he became pastor and labored as such with great
success six years. From 1834 he continued a classical school
in Binghamton for two or three years. From October, 1837,
he served as pastor of the Presbyterian church at Cortland,
N. Y., for five years. From this place he removed, in 1842,
to Berkshire, Tioga county, where he labored as pastor
another five years, after which he made his residence in
Binghamton until his decease, which occurred November
16, 1882, in the 85th year of his age.
The Rev. J. P. Gulliver, D.D., one of the successors of
Mr. Lockwood in the Binghamton church, wrote of him:
"1 have always regarded Mr. Lockwood, since I knew him,
as a very remarkable man. His force of character seemed to
press up into view on all occasions and in all directions, as if
from an inexhaustible fountain. His simplicity and artless-
ness were even more remarkable, as it seemed to me. Happy
shall we be if we can leave such a record.
Hon. James C. Eoomis was born in Windsor, Conn.,
April 24, 1807. He prepared for college at the grammar
school in Hartford, entered Yale College in 1824, at the age
of seventeen, and graduated with honor in the class of 1828.
Among his classmates were the Rev. P. T. Holly, for a time
of this city, ex-Governor Hoppin, of Rhode Island, Judge
William Strong, of the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Loomis read law first at Charlotteville, Va., and
finished his law studies with Judge Clark Bissell, of Norwalk.
He was admitted to the bar of Fairfield county in 1832, and
settled in his profession with the Hon. Samuel B. Sherwood,
at Saugatuck, now Westport. He took from the first a very
respectable stand as a lawyer, but regarding Bridgeport as a
more promising field for his profession, he removed thither in
1840, and soon became actively interested in public matters.

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In 1848 he formed a law partnership with George W. Warner,
which continued several years. He was city attorney for a
number of years, and mayor of the city in 1843. He twice
represented this town in the lower house of the State Legis
lature, and once or twice the tenth district as State Senator,
and by virtue of this position became a member of the corpo
ration of Yale College.
He married Miss Eliza Mitchell in 1833, who, with her
young son, departed this life in 1841, which was a very afflic
tive occurrence to him.
In 1844 he married Mary B., daughter of Ira. Sherman,
Esq., and immediately settled in his beautiful home on Golden
Hill. His two children deceased while he was living, the
daughter in early childhood, his son, of great promise, when
a member of the senior class in Yale College.
Mr. Loomis was successful in business and financial en
terprises, and was a public spirited citizen. Upon the con
solidation of the city schools he was made the first president
of the board and had a very active part in the organization of
the schools. He was one of the first projectors of the Seaside
Park, and as one of the commissioners of it was very active
and influential in its early improvement. He was president
of the stockholders' association for the erection of the present
edifice of the first Congregational society from 1849 until
about 1860. At his decease, September 16, 1877, he was
president of the following boards and associations : Bar Asso
ciation of Fairfield County, the Board of Education, the
Mountain Grove Cemetery Association, the Bridgeport Li
brary Association. He was also an active director in the
City National Bank and trustee of the People's Savings Bank.
Henry R. Parroit was born January 4, 1829. At
that time his parents, Frederick W. and Lucelia (Remer)
Parrott, resided on the corner of Main and Wall streets. Mr.
H. R. Parrott's education was obtained in the private schools
of Ebenezer French and Warren W. Selleck of Bridgeport,
and three years' course at the Danbury Academy under the
instruction of Rev. John W. Irwin. His business life began
in the dry goods store of Beers and Oviatt, where he remained
until they closed their business. After that he was in the
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employ of James W. Beach for a few years, and then for
about eight years in the store of E. Birdsey and Company.
In 1855, he entered as agent the service of the Adams Express
Company, which had just been organized. He left that com
pany in 1869 and organized the present Parrott Varnish Com
pany, the products of which have now a world-wide reputa
tion, Mr. Parrott being the manufacturer and general man
ager. While not having any desire for political office, he.has
nevertheless strong, pronounced views, and is a thorough
Republican, and as such during the late war by his fearless
expressions and activity did much service in the cause. In
recognition of his loyalty and business ability, the Adams
Express Company in 1861, after the battle of Bull Run,
selected him to reorganize and place upon a proper footing
their extensive business in Washington, D. C.
In his own city he has been a member of the Board of
Aldermen, twice a member of the Common Council, and six
years a member of the Board of Police Commissioners. In
1873 he was elected a director of the New York and Eastern
Railroad Company, the first organization looking to the build
ing of a parallel road from New York to New Haven. For
thirteen years he has steadily advocated the project, and the
present favorable condition of the New York and Connecti
cut Air Line Railway Company, of which he is the president,
is largely due to his labors in that direction.
Henry Seymour Sanford, only son of David C. San
ford, Judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, was born
in 1832, graduated with honor at Yale College in 1852,
admitted to the bar in 1854, practiced at New Milford until
1864, when he removed to Bridgeport where he has since
resided. Mr. Sanford is noted for great energy and activity under
a very great misfortune. In 1861, in consequence of an acci
dental injury he was rendered totally unable to walk or even
to stand, by paralysis, which also seriously affected his arms
and hands. But with constant effort he has exercised his
strength to recover from this misfortune ; and since 1864, has
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steadily, and has now a practice as extensive as any lawyer
in his county.
In 1863, while temporarily living in New York, he wit
nessed an instance of gross cruelty to a horse, which led him
to write a letter to the New York "Daily Times," proposing
the formation of a society for the prevention of cruelty to ani
mals. This letter was conspicuously published in that paper,
and is believed to have been the first suggestion for such a
society published in New York or the United States. This
letter attracted much attention ; the suggestion was adopted,
and as is well known, successfully carried out by Mr. Bergh.
H. B. Claflin, an uncle of Mr. Sanford's wife, bequeathed
$25,000 to this New York society, and like societies have been
organized throughout the country."
Mr. Sanford spends considerable time in the summers at
New Milford, and in the spring of 1871 he proposed the
scheme and drew the papers for the " Village Improvement
Society," of that place, which has had very decided success,
and become quite celebrated throughout the country, through
lectures by the Rev. B. G. Northrop on thissubject, in which,
taking for his text the New Milford Society, he was influen
tial in forming more than three hundred similar societies.
'• January 4, 1864, New York Daily Times.
After describing the exposure and terrible suffering of the horse so cruelly
abandoned by its owner and left uncared for by the authorities of the city, Mr.
Sanford concludes his letter as follows :
"Where the fault lies in the neglect of this terrible case, I do not know, but
in the name of humanity I beg that it may be ascertained and an< effective remedy
applied. The country has but lately rung with eloquent denunciation of the
brutality of a prize fight perpetrated by lawless men, contrary to law, but in some
measure palliated by public opinion. This brutality was perpetrated by officers
of the law, according to law, though outraging every type of public opinion.
" Such instances of brutality to the helpless animals who serve us are becom
ing very common. They should be stopped. If the law is defective, amend it.
If the police are remiss, punish them. Good men should interest themselves in
this matter. In Great Britain there is a rich and powerlul society for the preven
tion of cruelty to animals. There is need enough, heaven knows, for such an
agency here. Let us all remember
" ' He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small,
For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all.' " H. S. S."

436 History of Bridgeport.
Judge Lucius Myron Slade, son of Joel and Clarissa
(French) Slade, was born in the town of Hartland, Hartford
county, Conn., June 19, 1828. His ancestors in both lines
were of the good old New England type and character.
Abner Slade, his grandfather, served through the seven
years' war of the Revolution. Joel Slade, the father, married
Clarissa, daughter of William French, and spent the early
part of his married life in Hartland. Having improved the
advantages of the district school, Lucius M. Slade entered
upon an academic course and was fitted for college. He then
engaged as a teacher, and for ten years pursued this work in
private and public schools.
He entered the law office of Hon. Hiram Goodwin of
Riverton, and completed his legal course with the late F. A.
Palmer of Stonington, and was admitted to the New London
county bar, September 13, i860. The first three years of his
professional life were spent in Mystic. Having attained to a
successful professional standing, he looked about for a more
advantageous location, and as such fixed upon Bridgeport.
Here he established his law office in 1863, and soon after was
elected Chief Judge of the City Court; and in 1866 was
elected to the office of Judge of the Probate Court for the
district of Bridgeport, which office he held for six consecu
tive years, with great acceptance to the public. Declining a
reelection, he resumed the practice of his profession, which
he has continued since that time. In 1885, he was elected to
the Legislature, where he distinguished himself as a success
ful worker and debater, and was one of the leaders of the
House. He was appointed on the Judiciary Committee, and
also chairman of the committee on "Revision of Rules."
He did considerable towards shaping the action of that
body, especially in the line of advanced legislation. One of
these items was the adoption of the " Homestead Bill," by
which a certain amount of property as a homestead was
exempted from execution. Another item was the bill which
was passed effecting important changes in the Municipal
Charter of the city of Bridgeport, securing particularly the
division of the Common Council into two bodies, the alder
men and the councilmen, and establishing a board of public
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Another bill of interest to the whole State was drafted
and advocated by him. It was the bill passed to regulate the
observance of the Fourth of July, confining the celebration to
the daytime and relieving the night before the Fourth of the
customary disturbances of this kind, which had become such
a nuisance as to be almost unbearable by well people, saying
nothing of the sick, and the great injury frequently done to
public and private property.
Judge Slade never married, but has a pleasant home on
Fairfield avenue where he resides, continuing the practice of
his profession. The Judge frequently delivers public lectures
on commercial law as connected with business life. He has
always been found interested in the growth and prosperity of
the city of his adoption.
Sidney B. Beardsley, son of Cyrus H. and Maria
(Burr) Beardsley, was born in Monroe, Conn., August 20,
1822. He was educated at Wilton Academy and Yale Col
lege ; studied law with Reuben Booth, of Danbury, and
was admitted to the bar in August, 1843. He commenced
practice in Norwalk, where he remained until 1846, during
which period he was Judge of Probate. In 1846 he removed
to Bridgeport, where he has since resided. In 1858 he was
elected State Senator and has been a candidate for Congress.
In 1874 he was elected by the Legislature Judge of the Supe
rior Court.
Hon. Philo Clark Calhoun, born in Danbury Decem
ber 4, 1810, was the son of Philo Calhoun, whose father had
for many years been a practicing physician at Washington,
Conn., and of Sally J., daughter of John McLean of Dan
bury. Mr. McLean was an old resident of Danbury, hav
ing held a position of trust under the government during
the Revolutionary War, and whose losses at the burning of
Danbury were such that large grants of land were afterwards
o-iven him in the Western Reserve. Mr. Calhoun was re
lated to the Hon. John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.
He came to Bridgeport about 1826 to learn the saddle
and harness business with Lyon, Wright and Company.
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43S History of Bridgeport.
Charleston, S. C, with Lemuel Coleman to assist in the store.
In 1833-4, he returned to Bridgeport and became assistant to
Hanford Lyon in tho saddlery business, with an interest in the
profits of the establishment, which relation continued until
1838, when the firm of Lyon, Calhoun and Company was
formed. In 1843, another change was made to Harral arid
Calhoun, which continued ten years, Mr. Harral having been
at the head of the house in Charleston. In 1853, the firm be
came Harral, Calhoun and Company by the addition of Mr.
R. B. Lacey. In 1858, a change to Calhoun, Lacey and Com
pany occurred, which lasted until 1863. In the mean time
Mr. Calhoun had largely withdrawn from the details of the
business and devoted himself to the management of the Con
necticut National Bank, of which institution he became Presi
dent in March, 1847. He continued in this position until 1864,
when he resigned and accepted the Vice-Presidency of the
Fourth National Bank of New York City, organized that year,
Morris Ketcham being President, and in the same year he
was elected President. Upon his taking control, the deposits
of the bank quadrupled in a short time, and it was owing
largely to his management that this became one of the largest
deposit banks in the country. In 1875, upon the dissolution
of the firm of Hoover, Calhoun and Company, Mr. Calhoun
established in Newark, N. J., a stock company for the manu
facture of saddlery, in which he owned a controlling interest
at the time of his death.
During his Presidency in New York the bank was en
gaged in several large transactions, among which were the
purchase of United States bonds, the bank taking $5,000,000
worth at a time. One of his greatest efforts was during the
panic of 1873, when in a little over two days more than $13,-
000,000 in cash were paid out through the Paying Teller's
window. In Bridgeport Mr. Calhoun held many prominent offices.
He entered the Common Council in the year 1845, and con
tinued in that body during that and five successive years. In
1852, he was elected Alderman, and in October, 1855, was
elected Mayor, which office he held for three years afterward.
He was one of the originators of the town and sinking funds,
and the manager of them for a number of years. He was one

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of the original stockholders of the Bridgeport Gas Light Com
pany ; also one of the first to subscribe liberally towards the
public library, and was very prominent in the Common
Council when the water question was under consideration,
being of great aid in furthering the enterprise. He repre
sented the town in the Legislature and also the 10th district
in the Senate. But very few men have exerted more influ
ence in official circles that Mr. Calhoun. He was originally
a Whig, but when that party broke up he united with the
Democrats, and as such was elected to the various offices
which he held.
He was a straight-forward business man, not afraid to
take responsibility, always true to his engagements, and
hence his character was beyond reproach. A prominent
feature of his character was the interest he took in young
men, whom he was always ready to assist. He was at the
time of his death President of the Fourth National Bank of
New York, and director of the Connecticut United Bank, a
director in the Farragut Fire Insurance Company, treasurer
of the New Central Coal Company, and trustee of the mort
gages of several railroad companies. He also held member
ship in the Union League and Union Clubs. Socially he was
very genial, and all who came in contact with him, whether
of high or low degree, loved him and delighted to be his friends.
He had a most remarkable memory, being able to repeat
on the spur of the moment long pieces of poetry. His
memory was even more retentive in regard to matters of im
portance. On financial, mercantile or political questions, he
was ever ready with the item, and page of the book which
sustained his proposition.
Mr. Calhoun, after a short illness with pneumonia, died
March 14, 1882, leaving a widow and five adult children. His
wife, Caroline, was the daughter of Jesse Sterling, who was a
prominent dry goods merchant here many years and Post
master of Bridgeport during four administrations. His son,
Edward S. Calhoun, married Alice Hersey, and his son
Charles M. is unmarried. His daughter, Louisa C, married
G. W. Latham of Lynchburg, Va., now deceased ; Julia E.
married W. B. Cragin of New York City, and Mamie S. mar
ried J. S. Burke of Brooklyn, N. Y.

440 History of Bridgeport.
The following lines were written by a citizen of Bridge
port on the decease of Mr. Calhoun :
I saw him, as he lay in state,
And, with abated breath,
I noted with what courage great,
He had confronted death.
Old statues were recalled to me
Of heroes passed away,
And in those features I could see
A masterpiece of clay.
Three score and ten of active years
Were represented there,
With all their hopes, achievements, fears,
And lines of thought and care.
But ; over and encircling all,
A grandeur was expressed
Which change of worlds could ne'er appal,
As there he lay at rest.
This cannot be the whole of life ;
There must be broader sphere,
Where chieftains in this mortal strife,
With vision sure and clear,
May act some nobler, higher part,
In enterprise above,
And satisfy the yearning heart
With stores of endless love.
Peter Foland, a native of Scoharie County, N. Y.,
established a grocery store with Riley Peck in the city of
Albany in the year 1850. In 1852 he sold his interest in this
store and rented the Peck Hotel in Albany, which interest he
sold in 1857 and went to Burlington, Iowa, where, with a Mr.
Brown, he opened a wholesale stove store. This he continued
two years when he sold it in 1859, returned to Albany, and
with Mr. Van Dewerken bought the Frisby livery. In i860
he sold this and bought the lease and furniture of the Gallup
Hotel in Albany. In 1864 he leased the Beardsley Hotel of
Albany, and in 1867 he bought the lease and furniture of the
Mansion House, on Broadway, Albany. Having sold this
interest he went on his farm, one mile from the capital, and
in the fall of the same year returned to Albany and bought
the lease and furniture of the City Hotel, which he sold in
1876 and removed to Poughkeepsie, where he leased the
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Biography. 441
and bought the lease and furniture of the Atlantic Hotel.
, This is a first class hotel and is illustrated on page 818 of this
book, where there is some further account of Mr. Foland and
his family. Hon. Civilion Fones, the present mayor of the city of
Bridgeport, is a descendant of two French Huguenot families.
His paternal great-grandfather, Daniel Fones, was one of the
exiles to England during the reign of Louis the XIV, and
afterward became an officer in the English navy, and when
retired was given a tract of land embracing 1,500 acres in the
State of Rhode Island, where the old town of Wickford now
stands and on which he located. His son Daniel the grand
father, and Christopher the father of Civilion, were born on
the ancestral acres, and the latter married Sarah A. Marigold,
of South Carolina, who was also a descendant of French
Huguenots. While his father was temporarily residing in
Toronto, Canada, superintending work in the line of his occu
pation as architect and builder, Civilion was born October 1,
1836, the year of the incorporation of the city of which he is
now the mayor. He resided during his youth in Canada and
the State of New York, and came from New York City to
Bridgeport in the year 1858, where he has since resided.
He was educated to the occupation of his father and
engaged in it for a short time, but then became identified
with the pioneer dental manufacturing establishment of the
late Doctor D. H. Porter, whose works and residence were
located on the corner of Park and Fairfield avenues, the
present site of St. John's Church, where he commenced to
learn his profession as dentist, but subsequently graduated
from the Maryland College of Dentistry, and also the Balti
more Dental College. He has been engaged in the practice
of his profession on the northwest corner of Main and Bank
streets for about twenty-five years, and the appreciation of
his professional brethren has been expressed by electing him
president of the Connecticut Valley Dental Association for an
annual term.
He has been identified with the republican party since its
organization, but never held political office until the year
1884, when he was elected to represent his ward as council
man. The following year he was elected alderman, and at
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442 History of Bridgeport.
the April election in 1886 was elected mayor of the city,
overcoming an opposition party majority of about 800, and
hence received an unusual support from both political parties.
He married, October 21, 1863, Phebe E., daughter of
Alfred S. Wright, of New York City, and they have had
three children : George, who died in early childhood ; Grace,
and Alfred C, who are now living with their parents.
Jacob Kiefer was born in a small town of Rhenish
Bavaria, near the border of France, in the year 1829. His
father, Jacob Kiefer, was the master builder and cabinet
maker of the place. His mother died when he was about
one year old. In 1833 his father concluded to go to America,
taking young Jacob with him, arriving in New York after a
two months passage by a sailing vessel, and settled at first in
Maryland, then coming to New York City where he carried
on the business of cabinet making until his death in 1849.
Young Jacob received his education at public school No. 7,
in Christie street, New York City. At the age of ten years
he entered the service of Benjamin Mooney and Company,
wholesale hardware merchants at 82 Pine street, as an ap
prentice, where he remained about four years, when, having
more mechanical than mercantile ideas, he commenced the
manufacture of guitars in his father's cabinet shop, under the
direction of Signor Bini, the finest guitarist then in this
country. The superiority of workmanship and tone of his
instruments attracted the attention of the musical public, and
at the American Institute fair held at Castle Garden in 1846,
he received the first premium, his competitors being the best
makers in the United States. His father consenting, he came
to Bridgeport at the solicitation of Mr. Fenelon Hubbell, to
work as a journeyman cabinet maker, where, after a time, con
ceiving the idea of manufacturing furniture by the aid of ma
chinery, he, in 1850, commenced business on his own account in
a small building, and by the aid of steam power manufactured
furniture for his old employers. In 1852, in connection with
several business men of Bridgeport, he organized the Furni
ture Manufacturing Company, and for several years he acted
as superintendent and built up the largest furniture business
in the eastern States, employing over four hundred hands.
Since 1868 he has been the president and treasurer of this

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immense establishment, the goods produced being known
throughout the country as the standard of excellence.
Mr. Kiefer is a public spirited and enterprising citizen.
Having been a member of the old volunteer fire department
for about fifteen years, he was one of the first to suggest the
use of steam and the organization of the present efficient paid
fire department, but which at the time made him many ene
mies in the old department. He was one of the first sub
scribers to a fund for laying out Seaside Park, and for several
years one of the park commissioners. For a number of years
successively he was a member of the common council, and in
April, 1886, was elected president of the board of aldermen of
this city. In politics he is republican in practice, and was
raised in the old Dutch Reformed Church.
In 1850 he married Effie Jane, daughter of Gabriel Decker,
of Pompton Plains, N. J., and they have three children : Emma
Louisa, who married W. Henry Wilson; Hattie J., who married
W. E. Burnham ; and Frank W., who married Leota Saladee,
daughter of George L. Weed of Stamford.
David Benjamin Lockwood was born at Weston,
Conn., January 7, 1827. His father, David Lockwood, was
born at Weston, Conn., April 27, 1791, and his mother, Abi
gail (Gray) Lockwood, was born at Westport, Conn., January
2, 1802. His grandfather, Reuben Lockwood (son of John),
was born April 17, 1762, at Fairfield, Conn., and served in the
Revolutionary war. The family is descended from Robert
Lockwood, who settled in Fairfield in 1649. David B.
has one sister, Rhoda Ann Lockwood, and one brother,
Wakeman D. Lockwood. He prepared for college at Staples'
Academy in Easton, Conn., and entered the Wesleyan Uni
versity at Middletown, Conn., in 1844, and was graduated
there in 1849. He received the degree of B.A. upon his grad
uation, and three years later the degree of M.A. He com
menced the study of law with Hon. Thomas B. Osborne,
of Fairfield, and concluded it in the office of Hon. Sidney B.
Beardsley, of Bridgeport. He was admitted to practice in
1 85 1 and opened an office at Bridgeport where he continued
in his profession until 1856, when he removed to New York
City. He continued his practice there until the breaking out
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444 History of Bridgeport.
In 1862 he enlisted in the 2d Connecticut Light Battery and
served as first sergeant until the close of the war, participat
ing in the battle of Gettysburg, the siege of Fort Gaines and
Fort Morgan, and the battle of Blakeley in the war at Mobile.
After the close of the war he was for a while local editor of
the " Daily Standard," and in 1866 was assistant editor of the
Waterbury "Daily American." In 1867 he resumed the
practice of his profession in Bridgeport which he has contin
ued until the present time. From 1869 to 1871 he was judge
of the City Court of Bridgeport. In 1875 and 1883 he was
representative in the General Assembly. He was city attor
ney of the city of Bridgeport in 1880 and 1885. He drew the
act conferring upon the city court criminal jurisdiction and
was the first judge of that court after its jurisdiction extended
to the trial of criminal cases. He was president of the Bridge
port Library Association in 1880 and 1881 and was largely
instrumental in reorganizing that institution into the present
Bridgeport Public Library and Reading Room, under the act
of the General Assembly of 1881. He was appointed one of
the directors of the library and has been continued until the
present time. He drew the act of incorporation of the
Mechanics' and Farmers' Savings Bank of Bridgeport and
procured its passage through the General Assembly in 1871,
and has since been one of its directors. He drew the amend
ment to the city charter dividing the common council into
two separate boards. He drew the act relating to county
law libraries and organized the Fairfield County Law Library
Association and has been a member of its library committee
from its organization to the present time. When he took
hold of this library it consisted only of a few books given by
Roger M. Sherman and Judge Butler, but it now contains the
reports of twelve States complete, besides the United States
Supreme Court and English common law.
He married Caroline Amelia Redfield, of Clinton, Conn.,
January 11, 1856, by whom he had two children: Alice Red-
field, born October 2, 1856, and Lester Burchard, born Sep
tember 25, i860. His wife, Caroline A., died November 5,
1865. He married Lydia Ellen Nelson October 1, 1868, and
their children are: Harriet Eugenia, born August 8, 1869
Lucy Bettie Josephine, born November 19, 1870, and Sidney
Nelson, born November 14, 1872.

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Judge Lockwood is of commanding presence, being six
feet three inches in height and weighing nearly three hundred
pounds. He is ranked as one of the leading members of the
Fairfield county bar. Hon. Alfred B. Beers studied law with
him and upon his admission to the bar in 1871 entered into
copartnership with his instructor, the name of the firm being
Lockwood and Beers, which has continued to the present time.
Frederick J. Lockivood is the owner of one of the
model residences in the city of Bridgeport, and has granted
the use of the accompanying cut as a representation of it. It
is located on West avenue, one of the finest in the city. Mr.
Lockwood is a young man, a native of Bridgeport, and has
been connected with the Bridgeport Savings Bank for a num
ber of years, being a successful business man. He is the son
of Mr. Frederick Lockwood, who was in former years engaged
in the furniture business with Nicholas Northrop and later
with Nathan Buckingham.
Frederick J. Lockwood is a descendant, through his
mother, of Robert McEwen, who came to Stratford, from
Dundee, Scotland, in 1686, and whose descendants have occu
pied very honorable positions in this country. He married
in 1884 Miss Elizabeth C, daughter of Thomas Cook Warden,
Jr. They have occupied their residence since it was com
pleted in 1885.
David 31. Read, merchant and manufacturer in Bridge
port, was born at Hoosac Falls, N. Y., and soon after removed .
with his parents to North Adams, Mass., where he was edu
cated. His father, Moses Farnam Read, was born in Smith-
field, R. I., and his ancestors in this country in a direct line
were as follows: i. Col. Thomas Read, from Hertfordshire,
England, came to America in 1630 with Winthrop and settled
at Salem, Mass.; ii. Thomas, son of Col. Thomas, lived in
Salem, was a captain of the militia ; iii. Jacob, son of Capt.
Thomas, born September 7, 1663, married Elizabeth Green,
and lived in Salem ; iv. Jonathan, the second son of Jacob and
Elizabeth, was born in Salem, January 12, 1701, and married
a Hanson ; v. John, son of Jonathan, married also a Hanson ;
vi. David, son of John, settled in Smithfield, R. I., where his
son, vii. Moses Farrand Read, was born and where he resided
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446 History of Bridgeport.
after he removed to North Adams, Mass. He married Sally
Hopkins and their children were: Charles A., Caroline M.,
Rhoda A. and David M.
David M. Read became a merchant and manufacturer, as
described on pages 752 and 53 of this book, having attained as
a merchant, as well as a manufacturer, the position of the first
class as to the extent and success of his business. Besides the
public positions filled by him as indicated on page 753, he was
a member of the Legislature in 1882 and is vice-president of
the City Savings Bank and a director in the Bridgeport
National Bank. His residence is on Park avenue and his store,
occupying the first floors and basement of two buildings in the
Wheeler block, corner of Fairfield avenue and Main street.
Mr. James Staples, son of Capt. Hezekiah and Eliza
beth Staples, was born in Swanville, Maine, January 19, 1824.
He worked on his father's farm until seventeen years of age,
when he commenced teaching school, and continued in the
same much of the time until he came to Bridgeport in 1854.
He engaged first as a lumber merchant, which he pursued
until 1858, when he changed to the Real Estate business;
beginning at first in a small way, but with a steady purpose
of successful work. Soon he added to this Insurance, and in
1874 the Banking business. He has been a very active officer
of the Board of Trade from its organization and done much in
securing and locating many of the manufacturing concerns in
this city. He has been for many years an active and useful
member of the Board of Education, giving his time and atten
tion freely to the public interests in this important department.
He is a very busy man, but as such is not an exceptional
character in the city of Bridgeport, where nearly all, how
ever much favored with earthly goods, even in advanced
years, attend to business and public interest with much faithful
attention and perseverance. Hence Bridgeport is not an old
fogy city.
Mr. Staples married Harriet H. daughter of Hugh Shirley,
January 19, 1851, who died April 2, 1852. He married 2d, on
September 21, 1858, Sarah E. only daughter of Andrew and
Sarah (Turney) Truby of Bridgeport. They have one child,
Frank T. Staples, who, with his wife and son, lives in the house
with his parents, and where his mother was born.

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Hon. Daniel H. Sterling was born July 10, 1819,
and departed this life March 1, 1877." He belonged to one
of the families most thoroughly identified with Bridgeport
and the surrounding communities. Jacob Sterling, the first
of the name in this country, came from England, not far from
the beginning of the eighteenth century, and located at Haver
hill, Mass. That settlement suffered a terrible experience by
massacre from the French and Indians on the night of the
29th of August, 1708, by which all but a thirteenth part of the
population were slaughtered and their village burned. From
that desolated village young Jacob removed to Lyme, Conn.,
and thence to Stratford, bringing all his worldly wealth with
him — his axe — upon his shoulder.
He was the son of Daniel and Hannah (Judson) Sterling.
His mother was the daughter of Col. Agur Judson, of Hunt
ington. He was descended from Jacob Sterling, through
Stephen, Abijah and Daniel. He was fitted for college in the
school of Rev. Birdsey G. Noble and entered Yale in the class
of 1839, but changed to Union College, at Schenectady, N. Y.,
and was honorably graduated in 1840. Soon after he entered
the firm of P. C. Wheeler and Company, wholesale grocers,
consisting of Mr. Wheeler and Woolsey G. Sterling. In this
house Daniel H. became a partner, and upon the decease of
Mr. Wheeler, in May, 1841, the firm became D. H. Sterling
and Company. The place of business was on Water at the
foot of Wall street. It was at the time the leading grocery
house of the place. In 1849 his brother retired and D. H.
Sterling, left alone, engaged in the flour trade. On September
7, 1854, he was elected a director of the Connecticut Bank and
continued such until June 5, 1875, when he was elected presi
dent of that institution, which position he held at his decease.
He was also a corporator of the City Savings Bank and one
of its vice-presidents.
He was elected mayor of Bridgeport in i860, and reelected
in 1861 and 1862, and during that time was a thorough Union
man, sustaining the efforts of the model war governor— Buck
ingham, by whom he was highly appreciated. The first steam

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448 History of Bridgeport.
fire engine was introduced during his administration, and is
yet doing good service, bearing his name — The D. H. Sterling,
No. i. He was also vice-president of the Board of Education
and chairman of the finance committee. In the years 1848-51,
in 1853, 1858, 1870 and 1871, he was in the common council,
and in 1855 and 1859 '" ihe board of aldermen.
He was a valued member of the First Congregational
Society, acting as committeeman and treasurer for a number
of years. As a public citizen he was a model man in all the
walks of life.
In 1842 he married Miss Maria M. Beck, granddaughter
of Paul Beck, Jr., of Philadelphia, who still survives him.
Colonel William H. Stevenson was born in Bridge
port in 1847. He is the son of William G. and Lucy T.
Stevenson. In 1869 he married Mary H., daughter of Wm.
J. and Mary H. Shelton, and their children are, William
Shelton, Henry Cogswell, Louis Shelton, and Mary Bell.
Colonel Stevenson received a good education and was
fitted for college but did not enter, going into business
instead. He graduated at Eastman's National Business Col
lege, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., with the degree Master of Ac
counts, and entered in 1864 the Housatonic Railroad office at
Bridgeport, where he remained several years, and in 1872 was
appointed Special Agent of the New York and New Haven
Railroad, remaining until 1874, when he was appointed Pay
master of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroads'.
Here he served for a portion of the year, and in July, 1874, he
received the appointment of Superintendent of the Shore
Line Road, one of the leased lines of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Road. This road he continued to man
age, bringing it to a high state of efficiency and popularity
till October, 1882, at which time he was appointed Superin
tendent of the New York Division of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad. This position he now holds.
This road is one of the best for its length in the United States,
and the traffic over it has immensely increased in the last
quarter of a century. In April, 1875, he was elected a member
of the Common Council and served upon the Finance Commit
tee ; in 1876 he was elected Alderman from his ward and served
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Ways and Means; he was reelected Alderman in 1877 and
acted as chairman of the same committees. In the same year
he was nominated for Representative to the Legislature on
the democratic ticket, but was defeated by P. T. Barnum,
republican. In 1878 he was again reelected Alderman and
chairman of the Finance and Ways and Means Committees.
In this year, having passed the required examination, he was
admitted a member of the Fairfield county bar. In 1881 he
was nominated by the democratic party for Mayor of the
city, but was defeated. In 1884 he was President of the
Young Men's Democratic Cleveland and Hendricks Club,
and took an active part in the campaign. Colonel Stevenson
was appointed Aid-de-Camp, with rank of Captain, on the
staff of Brigadier-General S. R. Smith, of Connecticut
National Guard in 1879. He served as Captain till 1884,
when he was promoted to be Brigade Commissary with the
rank of Major, on the staff of General Smith. In 1884 he was
appointed Aid-de-Camp, with rank of Colonel, on the staff of
Governor Thomas M. Waller.
Colonel Stevenson is an active and prominent member of
several societies. He was the third President of the old
Eclectic Club of Bridgeport, for ten years one of the most
successful and popular social institutions in the city, and was
its last President at the time that it wound up its affairs, paying
every debt and declaring a dividend to members. In 1884,
after serving in all the lower offices, he was elected Grand
Master (of the Grand Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows) of the State of Connecticut. In 1885 he was elected
by the Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Connecticut, as Repre
sentative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge. In 1886 he was
appointed General Aid with the rank of Colonel on the staff
of Lieutenant-General Underwood of the Military Branch,
" Patriarchs Militant," of the Order of Odd Fellows. He is
also a member of the Masonic Order, having joined St. John's
Lodge, F. and A. M., of this city.
In 1885 Colonel Stevenson was elected President of the
Association of "American Railroad Superintendents," and in
1885 was elected a member of the "Old Guard" of New
York City. In 1885 he was chosen "Exalted Ruler" of the
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Director in the Railway Telegraph Company, also Director
in the New York and New England Railroad Company, and in
the Bridgeport Board of Trade. He was appointed at the last
meeting of the Order in Boston— 1886— Grand Marshal of
the Sovereign Grand Lodge, I. O. O.F., of the United States.
Colonel Stevenson resides on Golden Hill in the brick
block recently erected on the site of the residence of the late
Wm. J. Shelton. He has been connected with St. John's
Episcopal Church, and a member of its vestry for many years
and has been active in its affairs.
Rev. Thomas J. Synnott was born in the county of
Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1818. After the ordinary preliminary
education, he entered Carlow College, a well known institu
tion of- Ireland, and there studied for nine years completing
his theological course. As a student he was noted for the
thoroughness with which he mastered his subject, and always
stood high in his class, among whose members was the dis
tinguished prelate, Most Rev. Archbishop Ryan, who at
present so ably governs the Archepiscopal See of Philadel
phia, Penn., and between whom and Father Synnott a warm
friendship sprang up which lasted through life.
He came to the United States, arriving in Philadelphia
in the year 1850. Soon after this he was received into the
diocese of Hartford which at that time included what are now
the dioceses of Hartford and Providence, and in 185 1 was
elevated to the priesthood by the Right Rev. Doctor O'Reilly,
Bishop of Hartford.
Immediately after his ordination he was attached to St.
Patrick's Church, Providence, as assistant to Rev. Father
Wiley, whom, after about one year, he succeeded as Rector.
St. Patrick's parish did not long enjoy his rectorship.
Bishop O'Reilly recognized in the young and zealous priest
qualities that eminently fitted him for the building up of an
other portion of his diocese, and in the month of August, 1852,
he was transferred to Bridgeport, succeeding Rev. Father
Lynch as pastor of St. James' Church, which at that time was
the only Catholic church in this vicinity. It was a brick
structure situated at the corner of Washington avenue and
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about 500. His new field of labor was a place that required
hard work, and much tact, in the exercise of authority, and
the reverend gentleman fulfilled the duties of his position to
the entire satisfaction of his superiors.
There are some yet living who remember the noble and
commanding presence of the young priest who then came to
dwell among them, and who lately, after over thirty years of
service, beheld him laid to rest within the shadow of the
noble edifice reared by his untiring zeal and energy.
Not only the Catholics of Bridgeport, but also those of
the surrounding country looked to him for religious instruc
tion, and the administration of the Sacraments. East Bridge
port, Fairfield, Stratford, Stepney, and other towns enjoyed
the fruits of his labors, and he was often obliged to travel
long distances on errands of mercy. Within a short time after
his arrival he found it necessary to enlarge St. James' Church
to accommodate his growing flock, and also establish a mission
church in East Bridgeport, where he erected the building
known as St. Mary's, situated at the junction of Crescent
avenue and Church street, and now used as an academy by
the Sisters of Mercy.
All this was accomplished within three years. About
the year 1855 St. Mary's became an independent parish.
Father Synnott then turned his attention to the building
of a mission church in the town of Fairfield, and, in a short
time St. Thomas' was completed. Thus, with rapid strides
did his energy push forward.
St. James' Church, although enlarged, had now become
inadequate for the wants of the parish and the reverend gen
tleman directed his efforts to the erection of a suitable edifice,
and the result of his labors is the beautiful church of St.
Augustine which now adorns the city, situated on Washing
ton avenue. The corner stone of the church was laid August
28th, 1866, and was dedicated by Right. Rev. Bishop McFar-
land in June, 1868.
His next work was the erection of the magnificent struc
ture now known as St. Agnes' Convent and situated at the
rear of the church, which for style of architecture and beauty
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Although not entirely finished at the time of his death,
the work was completed in a most thorough manner by his
worthy successor, the Rev. M. F. Kelly, and opened as a
school under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy December
21st, 1884.
When prostrated by his last illness he was engaged in
laying out a tract of land, some forty acres in extent, situated
in the northern part of the city, which he had donated to the
church corporation, and which in time will prove a valuable
acquisition to the parish.
One of the latest acts of his life was the purchase of the
Billings homestead, now the pastoral residence. He always
claimed that the property would not be complete without it,
and it had long been his desire to secure it.
Now that he is gone, his judgment is manifest, for, he has
left a church property which, for worth, beauty and excellence
of location is unsurpassed by any in the country.
A more universally respected and dearly beloved pastor
is seldom found. He had the faculty of attracting to him
everybody with whom he came in contact, being possessed of
abundant personal magnetism, whereby, as well as by his
deeds of charity and sympathy, he endeared himself to many
outside his congregation.
On March 17th, 1884, a short time previous to his death,
he was presented by his parishioners, in token of their esteem,
with a beautiful gold chalice, accompanied by a handsomely
engrossed set of resolutions.
As a citizen, he was upright, honest, and sincere; as a
priest, he was a firm upholder of the doctrines of the church
and always solicitous for the spiritual welfare of his flock.
The cause of education found in him an earnest champion.
He was a member of the Board of Education for several
years, and during that time not only maintained kindly rela
tions with his colleagues, but endeared himself alike to teach
ers and pupils.
To meet him socially was a pleasure. A keen observer of
human character, a gentleman well informed on the leading
topics of the day, possessing a correct knowledge of the
affairs of his adopted country, and with a mind enriched by
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entertainment and instruction, to all those who enjoyed his
acquaintance. He was also a wise counselor, and his advice
was frequently sought on matters of importance, and always
cheerfully given.
In April, 1883, Father Synnott was taken with a very
severe attack of pneumonia, from which he never fully recov
ered. In April of the following year, he was again taken
sick, this time with chronic diarrhoea, which resulted in his
death on Wednesday, April 30th, 1884, aged 66 years. His
remains, dressed in priestly robe, and enclosed in an elegant
casket, reposed on a catafalque in the church at the head of
the main aisle. There, surrounded by beautiful floral offer
ings, with the chalice lately presented to him, clasped in his
hands, lay the body of the dead priest. During the day and
night the church was visited by thousands who called to pay
their last sad respects to one whom they loved and esteemed.
The funeral service took place on Saturday, May 3d. At
ten o'clock the church doors were opened, and the vast edifice
was soon filled. Many persons of note were present, includ
ing clergymen of other denominations. The Board of Educa
tion attended in a body. At the conclusion of the Mass, the
Rev. Augustine F. Hewit, C. S. P., of New York, ascended
the pulpit and delivered the eulogy, in which he paid an
eloquent tribute to the memory of his departed friend, whom
he had known since he came to Bridgeport; he spoke of his
exemplary public life, of his stainless character both as a priest
and citizen, and of the great work he had done for the cause
of Catholicity and education, — work that will probably stand
till the end of time. He said : " When we look around us and
see the great work he has done, we can say it is enough for
one man, his church will be his monument, with his record
engraven on marble or stone, it will stand while generation
after generation passes away, and will be handed down to the
latest posterity."
In compliance with a wish expressed by the deceased he
was buried in the church yard to the right of the main
entrance. This is only a brief outline of the life and labors of the Rev.
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plete history of the Catholic Church will be written, when
fustice will be done to the memory of one who has done more
than any other man to promote the cause of Catholicity in
this part of the country.
Curtis Thompson, M.A., was born October 30, 1835,
in Trumbull, Conn., where his parents, George and Lucy
Ann (Curtis) Thompson, resided a short time.
They were both of Stratford birth and the descendants
respectively of John and Mirable Thompson, and William and
Elizabeth Curtis, and were related through the intermediate
ancestors to the Wells, Peck, Blakeman, Booth, Judson, Lewis
and other old families.
George was the son of David Thompson and Phebe
Wells. David was lost at sea in the Brig William of Bridge
port in 1810. Phebe was a descendant of Thomas Wells, an
early governor of Connecticut.
Lucy Ann was the daughter of Truman and Anna (Peck)
Curtis. Curtis Thompson attended the public and private schools
of Stratford, and after reaching the age of sixteen worked at
mechanical pursuits and taught school while still pursuing
his studies with private instructors, and at the Stratford
academy. While thus engaged he attended the Debating
Society in Stratford, and with Seymour Wells, Abijah Mc-
Ewen, Walter Wilcoxson, Oliver Beardslee, Lemuel J.
Beardsley and others became an active participant in the
debates. There was in the days of his youth at Stratford a
library of about 400 volumes of well selected books. John
Bruce was for a long time the librarian. To this library for
a small fee he had access, and the opportunity was most dili
gently improved for many years.
The school teachers of that generation in Stratford, as he
remembers them, were Dr. Lewis, Frederick Sedgwick,
Hamilton Burton, Peter P. Curtis, George Judson, Miss Jane
Stillson, Oliver Beardslee, Albert Wilcoxson and others, and
they will long be remembered for their faithful and intelligent
work. Oliver Beardslee was a young man of great worth
and promise; an enthusiastic student and eloquent debater,
and of great learning, whose untimely and sudden death cast
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Mr. Thompson afterwards became actively engaged in
the Bridgeport Debating Society and the Philomathean
Society, and studied law, with George W. Warner, Esq., and
D. F. Hollister, Esq., and at the Law Institution of Harvard
University. He was admitted to the Middlesex county,
Mass., bar, December 14th, 1863, and to the Fairfield county,
Conn., bar, April 28th, 1864, and to the United States Courts
November 21st, 1870.
Dr. J. T. Denison, having been elected Judge of Probate
for the Fairfield District in 1864, he appointed Curtis Thomp
son the Clerk of that Court, and for the next four years
the clerk did most of the Probate business in the dis
trict. In 1865, 1866 and 1867, he represented the town of
Stratford in the General Assembly, serving on the Judiciary
Committee in 1865, and as chairman thereof in 1866, and as
chairman of the Committee of Incorporation in 1867.
Since August, 1865, he has had an office in Bridgeport,
Conn., and practiced law. In 1868, 1869 and 1872, he was
Deputy Judge of the City Court of Bridgeport. In 1871
Yale College conferred on him the degree of Master of Arts.
In 1872 he was elected Corporator and Trustee of the
Bridgeport Savings Bank, and ever since has held the same
positions. In 1874, 1875 and 1876 he was Councilman and Alderman;
in 1879, 1882 and 1886, City Attorney; in 1883, Town Attor
ney. He was for many years a director of the old Bridge
port Library. He is member of South Congregational Church
and society (committee for many years).
In 1867 he was married to Marie Louise Willcox, daugh
ter of James and Catharine (Barry) Willcox, of New York
City. Mr. Willcox was then president of the Willcox and
Gibbs Sewing Machine Company. Three surviving children
are: James Willcox, Lucy Curtis and Catharine Barry
Thompson. Hon. Russell Tomlinson, son of William and Amy
(Curtiss) Tomlinson, was born in Southbury, Conn., April 5,
1807, and died April 23, 1885. His father died when he was
twelve years of age and Russell worked for neighboring
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where he worked on a farm in the summer and in a black
smith shop during the winter. From that place he went to
Salisbury and worked at blacksmithing for two years. About
the year 1827 he came to Bridgeport and was employed for a
time by his brother, Stephen Tomlinson, in a small carriage
shop, for $1.25 a day. Afterwards he was in Columbia, S. C,
through one winter as foreman of the blacksmith carriage
shop of I. and L. Shuman. Upon returning to Bridgeport he
opened a blacksmith shop, where he turned his energies
chiefly to the making of carriage springs. This was the
beginning of the extensive manufactory which in late years
has been known as the Tomlinson Spring and Axle Company.
When he had accumulated $450 — quite a sum for a young
mechanic in those days — he removed to Derby and began the
manufacture of carriages, which he continued three years,
when on selling his interests there he found himself in pos
session of $1,450. He then returned to Bridgeport, purchased
a steam engine and worked for a year or two making axles
and sawing timber, when he bought half of his brother's inter
est in the carriage manufacturing firm of Tomlinson, Wood
and Company. Here he continued about fifteen years, during
which the business largely increased and established a name
all over the country for manufacturing all descriptions of car
riages. From this company he retired, and in the year 1852
organized the Tomlinson Spring and Axle Company, which
had a run of great success.
He was elected president of the Naugatuck railroad
company in i860, which office he held until 1867, when he
resigned. In 1863 he was elected representative to the Gen
eral Assembly and in 1878 to the State Senate, where he was
chairman of the State prison committee. He was director of
the First National Bank of Bridgeport, twenty-one years,
and vice-president of the People's Savings Bank from 1879
until his decease, and president of the Mountain Grove Cem
etery several years. He was also agent for the Golden Hill
Indians twenty-four years, or from 1861 until his death. He
has at different times filled nearly all the offices in the town
and city government of Bridgeport. He was a thoroughly
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energy. His character was intensely practical and his tem
perament calm and genial. Few men relished better a good
story, or took more quiet pleasure in cheerful, social conver
sation. In politics he was first a Whig, then a very decided
and earnest Republican.
He continued active in business to the close of life, and
his ability, integrity and popularity placed him in the first
rank of the successful manufacturers and valued citizens of
New England.
Mr. Tomlinson married Feb. 10, 1831, Martha M., daughter
of Capt. Lent M. Hitchcock, who died June 26, 188 1. He mar
ried, second, MissMahalah Bell, in 1882, who still survives him.
He had three children: Mrs. William D. Bishop, of this
city, Munson H. Tomlinson, deceased, and Stephen Tomlin
son, also of this city. The sons were associated with their
father in the Tomlinson Spring and Axle Company.
Hon. Amos Sherman Treat, son of Daniel A. and
Almira (Sherman) Treat, was born in Bridgewater, Conn.,
February 5, 1816, being a lineal descendant of Richard Treat,
one of the patentees in the Colonial charter, and of his son,
Robert Treat, who was Governor of Connecticut. On the
maternal side he was descended from Henry Shearman of
England, who was born about 1490, and whose grandson
Edmund came to America and was the father of Mr. Samuel
Sherman, one of the first settlers at Stratford, Conn.
Gov. Robert Treat was one of the patentees of the town
ship of New Milford, and his right of land there descended to
his grandson, Joseph Treat, Jr., who gave the inheritance to
his sons, John and Gideon, who settled upon it. Amos S.
Treat was the grandson of this Gideon, and was raised on the
old homestead of his grandfather. He prepared for college
at Hudson, Ohio, and entered Yale College. Afterward he
taught school in South Carolina, and then in New Jersey.
He studied law with Hon. Jacob W. Miller of Norristown,
N. J., and with C. R. Butler of Plymouth, Conn., and was
admitted to the Litchfield county bar in 1843. He followed
his profession ten years in Newtown, Conn., where he was a
member of the Board of Education and took an active part in
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two years, and then, in July, 1854, he came to Bridgeport,
where he resided, with the exception of the time from May,
1871, to November, 1874, when he lived in Woodbridge, Conn.
He was clerk of the Fairfield county court from 1854 to 1859;
member of the Peace Congress of 1861 ; represented Bridge
port in the Legislature in 1858, 1862, 1869 and 1879, and
Woodbridge in the same body in 1871, 1872 and 1873. He
was Speaker of the House in 1872, chosen to that position by
the republican party, of which he was a member from its
organization. At the close of this session the House presented
him with a valuable watch and chain as a token of their high
appreciation of the courteous, proper and impartial manner
in which he discharged the duties of Speaker.
In the Masonic fraternity Mr. Treat had taken a promi
nent position. He was made a Mason in 1855, and had held
nearly all the offices of the order, including master. He also
held nearly all the offices in Hamilton Commandery, in which
he was created a Knight in 1858, and has been its Eminent
Commander. He was Grand Commander of the State in 1868
and 1869, He was a thirty-third degree Mason, which is the
highest rank in the order, and took an active part in Masonic
matters to the last. Until his decease Mr. Treat was actively
engaged in his profession, his later associate being Mr.
Charles Sherwood of Bridgeport. He was president of the
Bridgeport Gas Light Company, treasurer of the Bridgeport
Hydraulic Company, president of the Compressed Paper
Box Company, a director in the "Standard Association"
since its organization, and a stockholder in several other in
dustrial concerns. He possessed considerable wealth, and
with his family took every opportunity for social enjoyment.
Mr. Treat was a man of fine judicial mind ; was an able
lawyer and counselor, and his advice was widely sought. He
was a republican and an astute politician, with views which
were far-reaching and nearly always based upon sound prem
ises. He was a strong and persistent opponent and a firm
and reliable friend, and although shunning everything like
ostentatious charity, he did many good works. He assisted
many young business men at a time when their need was
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Congregational Society and a regular attendant for many
years at that church.
He married Miss Mary Clark, daughter of Treat Clark,
of Woodbridge, Conn., December 15, 1869, who survives
him with a daughter, Mary Clark Treat. He died April
24, 1886. Colonel Thomas Lansdell Watson was born at
Bridgeport, Conn., December 13th, 1847. His father was
William Lansdell Watson, M.D., a graduate of the University
of Baltimore, Md. His mother was Jeannette Nichols of
Bridgeport, descended from the Nicholses of Greenfield
Hill. Thomas L. Watson was educated at Bridgeport and
at the Military Institute at New Milford, with a view to
West Point, which, owing to a temporary incapacity, was
given up. His business career began as a clerk in the Far
mer's Bank of Bridgeport; from there he went to the City
Bational Bank, and left this to become a partner in the pri
vate banking and brokerage business with the late Daniel
Hatch. The firm began Nov. 1st, 1866, as Hatch and Watson,
and has been continued since the death of Mr. Hatch by Col.
Watson as T. L. Watson & Co. Col. Watson extended his
business to New York City in 1879 and became head of the
firm of Watson & Gibson, which firm is in successful opera
tion. Col. Watson has held positions of responsibility and
trust both in Bridgeport and New York. He was treasurer
of the Building Fund of the new St. John's Church, and for
many years has been a member of the vestry of that church.
He has been a director in the City National Bank, Auditor of
the City Savings Bank and treasurer of the Board of Trade.
Since the completion of the Boston and New York Air Line
Railroad he has been a director and secretary of that road.
He is also a director of the American Loan and Trust Com
pany of New York City.
Col. Watson has for several years been a director in the
Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange of New York,
and its predecessors, Chairman of its Finance Committee,
and one of its Vice-Presidents. Since Jan. 1885, he has been
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is President of a Gas Company, and a Water Company, in
Illinois, and of a Gas Co. in New York. He accepted the
position of paymaster on the staff of R. B. Fairchild, Colonel
of the 4th Reg. Conn. National Guard, and was commissioned
Lieutenant in that position, May 28th, 1877. He was pro
moted Aid-de-Camp to Gen. S. R. Smith, commanding the
C. N. G., and commissioned Captain, July 6th, 1878. He was
promoted to be Brigade Quartermaster with rank of Major,
Jan. 30th, 1879, ai,d elected Colonel of the 4th Regiment,
C. N. G., which commission bears date April 23d, 1884. He
is senior Colonel in the Connecticut National Guard, and was
specially active in securing the present fine armory accom
modations in Bridgeport. Col. Watson was tendered the
position of Adjutant General of Connecticut by Governor
Lounsbury, but declined the honor, preferring his earnest
work of maintaining the high standard of excellence in his
regiment. In politics he is a republican and has declined
nominations to public office on several occasions. He is a
member of the Union League and other leading New York
Clubs. He lives in his handsome residence at Black Rock, and
although having business connections in New York, is thor
oughly identified with Connecticut interests.
Colonel Watson married May 4th, 1874, Alice Cheever
Lyon, youngest daughter of the late Hanford Lyon, Esq., of
Bridgeport. They have two children, Alice Lyon and Arthur
Kent Watson.
Andrew L. Winton was born in Bridgeport, Conn.,
November 20, 1822, from which place he went to Weston in
1836 and remained on a farm, working summers and attending
school at Weston academy winters. At the age of nineteen
he taught school and two winter seasons afterwards. When
twenty-two he engaged in a store with his brother at Easton
and the next spring started a store for himself, on temperance
principles, at a place called the "Devil's Den," on account of
the intemperance in the place, and succeeded in business,
leaving the place at the end of eight years without a grog
shop in it, and went to Saugatuck, where, in 1853, he built a
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years sold out and left Saugatuck with about $25,000. While
at that place he was induced to take charge of a flouring mill
about two miles above Westport, which he run successfully
for three years. In 1863 he came to Bridgeport and pur
chased the Berkshire Mills, which were then very much in
want of repairs. He at once commenced the work of im
provement and is still at it, with good success in several
directions. A custom grist-mill was built in 1783 by William Pixlee
and James French on the east side of the river, and in 1792
secured to them by charter, but that was afterwards bought
by a Mr. Penny, who built the present mill on the west side
and did a large trade in kiln dried meal for the West Indies.
The mill then passed into the hands of General Enoch Foote,
who continued the same business for a number of years.
Then James Porter bought the property and while he owned
it the dam and the east side mill went off in a flood. The
dam was rebuilt but not the east side mill. The mill was
afterward owned by Anson Ryan, then Wasson and Craft,
then Ryan and Wells, and in 1863 passed into the hands of
the present owner.
Mr. Winton has been a member of the Congregational
church since 1842, and served as deacon at Westport. He
has two sons: the eldest, David Terry Winton, is now the
editor and publisher of a local newspaper at Hanover, Michi
gan, and Andrew Lincoln Winton, who was graduated at the
high school in Bridgeport and at the Sheffield Scientific
School of Yale College in 1884, and at once received an
appointment at the State Agricultural Experiment Station in
New Haven, where he is now engaged, having been promoted.
Nathaniel Sherwood Wordin, son of Thomas C. and
Ann (Sherwood) Wordin, was born July 12, 1813, in the house
now standing on the corner of State street and West avenue,
then the old Wordin homestead. He attended the district
school; the house, then an octagonal building, stood where is
now the harness manufactory of Wills and French ; the Rev.
Asa Bronson being the teacher, and also the pastor of the
Stratfield Baptist Church, who drove from his home every
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462 History of Bridgeport.
•used during the day ; and taking his dinner at the " Bull's
Head Hotel" across the way from the school house. Though
severe in discipline he frequently gave certificates of credit to
his pupils. The following is one given to young Wordin :
" The bearer of this humble scroll
For good behavior while at schooll
Must have that praise which is his due
From Parents, friends and Teacher, too. Asa Bronson."
It was while young Wordin was at school that the brick
structure was taken down, and the wooden building, remem
bered by many, built in its place ; and this enlarged school
had the dignity of two departments ; that of the boys taught
by Rev. Mr. Wilcox, and the girls by Miss Lydia Ward.
Mr. Wordin next attended the Easton Academy, taught by
the Rev. Nathaniel Freeman, pastor of the Congregational
Church. He then, at the age of fifteen, became a clerk in his
father's drug store, on State street, which store was used in
that business by different parties until 1879, when Mr. F. S.
Stevens removed from it to Main street.
At the age of twenty-one Mr. Wordin became partner
with his father in the store, and soon after assumed full con-.
trol of it, the father giving his attention to his farm and his
Norwalk flouring mills. On May 29, 1839, he married Fanny
Augusta, youngest daughter of Doctor Frederick Leaven
worth of Waterbury. They have had five children, one of
whom died at the age of three years.
Mr. Wordin's drug store was the focal point for calls by
physicians out of town, and sea-faring men needing medicines.
He prepared medicine chests, with a little book, giving, the
name, dose and purpose of each drug, v/hich earned 'for the
druggist quite a reputation and the title " Doctor." Needing
more room he contracted for the erection of a building on
Water street, a portion of which is now occupied by Liebrum
Brothers for a salesroom, and the upper part of it was used
as a ball-room, called Wordin's Hall.
About 1850, he retired from active business, leaving the
interests of the store to his brother, Thomas C. Wording and
since that time has enjoyed the quietness of his home, yet by
no means an inactive man.

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He was for a time treasurer and one of the directors of
the Bridgeport Mutual Savings Bank and Building Associa
tion ; and also, director in the Farmer's Bank, now the First
National, from 1854 to 1859. He was an incorporator and
one of the first depositors of the Bridgeport Savings Bank,
his deposit book being No. 10. He was also an incorporator
of the Farmer's and Mechanics Savings Bank. He held the
position of City Treasurer during the years 1841 to 1845, ar>d
of Assessor from 1859 t0 '862, and from 1867 to 1868. In 1848,
he numbered the houses of the city in obedience to the Com
mon Council. In the militia he was commissioned, Septem
ber 6, 1836, Surgeon's Mate in the 4th Regiment Light Artil
lery, by Colonel George Robbins. In music, his talent was
largely, and advantageously to the public, exercised in the
organization, November 11, 1852, and continuation of the
Bridgeport Musical Society, of which he was the secretary.
He had a fine tenor voice, played the flute and violin,
and double bass-viol, and was for many years the leader of
the choir of the First Congregational Church, and made for
their use a choice collection of sacred music, transcribed from
the best authors with his own hand. He still holds the fol
lowing: "Mr. Daniel Sterling, Treasurer of the Siraificld Congregational Society, we
hereby recommend that you pay to Mr. Nathaniel S. Wordin the sum of Twenty
Dollars out of Ihe money collected by contributions in aid of the Choir, it being
for a Balance due him in the purchase of the Double Bass-Viol.
I. Sherman,
Isaac M. Conklin,
" Sept. 25, 1839. Society's Committee."
He united with the First Congregational Church in 1831,
and is the oldest male member now living. He was chosen
clerk of the Society in 1834, and filled that office with great
faithfulness over fifty years, and in more than fifty meetings
during that time he did not fail of being present to call the
assembly to order, while his penmanship, in elegance and cor
rectness for that length of time, is probably unequaled in the
county. But, having been seriously affected with apoplexy
in February, 1885, he resigned this place of benevdlent service.
Few men are more skillful with the pen and brush than he.

464 History of Bridgeport.
Drawing with India ink and a crayon was a favorite amuse
ment to him, and the walls of his house are ornamented with
oil paintings of his own execution. For one of these paintings
he was awarded a prize at the State fair held in this city.
The monument which he has erected in Mountain Grove
Cemetery was modeled by himself and was one of the first
erected there.
Thomas Cook Wordin, son of William, Jr., and
Dorcas (Cook) Wordin, was born in 1787, in a house that
stood on the northeast corner of State street and Park
avenue ; the whole square running north to Fairfield avenue
and east to the eastern boundary of Mr. N. S. Wordin's
present residence on State street, being owned by his grand
father, Capt. William Wordin, who was a soldier in the Revo
lution, and which land he purchased in 1772, it being the first
he bought in the town of Stratford.
When quite a lad Thomas C. became a clerk in the drug
store of Samuel Darling of New Haven, and when twenty-one
years of age he commenced the same business in this city
occupying during all his active life a store located just west
of the post office on State street, Samuel Kirtland's tailor
establishment being next door west of him and Jesse Ster
ling's dry goods store the second. Some persons will remem
ber the quaint business sign over the door — a female figure
holding the scales, weighing the drugs.
This store was built by Mr. Wordin about 1816. The
entire block, extending to the corner of Main street, was
erected by a company, each one of five paying for his own
portion. The land was hired from Squire Peet who lived on
the site of the present post office. The leases were renewed
every ten years, and when the occupant desired no lono-er to
renew, Mr. Peet was, by the terms arranged, obliged to take
the building at an appraised value.
In an advertisement in an old Bridgeport "Advertiser "
dated October 13, 1808, "notice" is give that "Samuel Dar
ling having entered into partnership with Thomas C. Wordin,"
the latter would attend to the business in Bridgeport and the
former in New York, by which "it is expected they will be
able to afford articles in their line much lower than can be

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sold by any other in the place, or in Connecticut ;" and that
they " are now opening, and offer for sale, a fresh assortment
of Medicine and Paints." He was successful in business,
but always attributed this success to " his strictly upright
and honest intentions," yet it is freely reported by those who
knew him well that he was one of the most far-sighted and
prompt business men of his day. Some very interesting
anecdotes are told of him in the purchasing of goods just
before the price went up to a high figure. He made no osten
tatious appearance, any more than some of his descendants.
Being in Boston at a large sale of opium, when that drug was
scarce, the other buyers on consultation agreed to let him
bid off the article rather than run it up to a high figure, as he
would want — as they supposed from his appearance — only a
little of it, and then they would take the greater part of it, to
relieve him and so purchase for less money. After the sale
one approached " the little country Doctor" with the inquiry,
"how much will you take of the drug?" " I will take the
whole," said he.
He married Ann, daughter of Philemon Sherwood, in 1812.
About the close of the War of 18 12-14, he left his wife and infant
son for a trip to Boston on the sloop Othello commanded by
Capt. Joel Thorp. They were captured by the British, and
he had much difficulty in being released and returning home.
His money, in notes, which he had concealed in his stockings,
was ground into pieces. While he was gone, his wife becom
ing alarmed at the frequent reports that the British had landed
to pillage Bridgeport, took her infant son before the morning
dawn and walked to her father's house, a distance of nearly
three miles. That infant is now Mr, Nathaniel S. Wordin of
State street.
Thomas C Wordin was trained up in, and believed in
Puritanical ideas, and his integrity, high personal honor, and
unpretending life, were the consequences.
He was the owner of the Norwalk flouring mills, and
after some years he remodeled them for grinding spices, and
the first ground spices in the market in this vicinity were from
his mills. He offered two thousand dollars towards establish
ing a green or public square west of Courtland street, but the
59

466 History of Bridgeport.
offer was not acted upon. He died November 20, 1852, aged
65 years. His children were: Nathaniel Sherwood; Susan,
who married Charles Kelsey ; Lucy, who married E. S. Haw
ley ; Ann B., who married Deacon John W. Hincks; Caro
line, who married W. W. Naramore ; Thomas C, who married
Betsey A. Plumb; Elizabeth; and four that died in child
hood. Peter W. Wren was born in New York City August
20th, 1847. By trade a printer, he became a resident ot
Bridgeport in 1870, organizing the firm of McMahon and
Wren, wholesale Wine and Whisky Merchants. Starting in
a small way and with limited capital, the firm by fair dealing,
strict attention to business, and rare business qualifications,
has built up a trade second to none in our State. Mr.
Wren was elected a member of the Bridgeport Board of
Education in 1881, and is still a member of the same body,
having served as chairman of the Committee on Schools for
several years to the entire satisfaction of the Board and of our
citizens. In 1882 he was elected Representative to the
General Assembly, and served with credit on the Finance
Committee of the House. In 1885 he was elected President
of the Board of Public Works, a new organization taking the
place of the former board known as the Road and Bridge
Commission, and the work of the new board, for complete
ness, efficiency and economy, merited and received the com
mendations of every citizen. He is a director of the Pequon
nock National Bank. In politics he is a democrat and in
religion is a member of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
Church. In public, as well as private business, Mr. Wren
merits the reputation which he has gained of sound judgment,
capacity and enlightened public spirit.
In 1869 he married Hannah M. Carey, of New Haven,
Conn., and they have five children : Marion, George, Fred
erick, Sarah and Peter W. His residence is 322 State street.

Col. Samuel B. Sumner is a native of Great Barrine-
ton, Mass His father was increase Sumner, for a long time
a leading lawyer in Western Massachusetts, for many years
District Attorney for the District comprising the four western
counties, several times a member of the Legislature in both
branches, and once the Democratic candidate for Congress.
At his decease he was Judge of the District Court for South
ern Berkshire. Col. Sumner's maternal grandfather was Hon. Samuel
Barstow, M.D., a prominent physician in Great Barrington,
after whom he was named.
After preparatory studies at Great Barrington and Lenox
Academies, he entered Wiliiams College where he was grad
uated in 1849, a"d in 1852 he was admitted to the bar in Berk
shire County, where he commenced law practice in company
with his father.
He was Postmaster at Great Barrington during the Pierce
and Buchanan administrations, and in i860 was State Senator
from the South Berkshire District, comprising the seventeen
towns south of Pittsfield.
In 1862 he enlisted in the 49th Regiment, Mass. Volun
teers; was Captain of a company ?nd afterwards promoted to
the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Regiment. He was wounded
by a bullet in the shoulder at the assault on Port Hudson, La.,
on May 27, 1863.
Returning from the war he removed to Bridgeport where
he had married his wife, and resumed practice of the law.
He has been several times City Attorney, once City Judge,
and for four years Judge of Probate. For six years he was
law-partner of Judge Sidney B. Beardsley, the firm being
Beardsley & Sumner.
He was appointed Clerk of the Courts, Supreme and
Superior, for Fairfield County in 1884, which office he now
holds. Col. Sumner is widely known as a poetic orator on pub
lic occasions, and in conjunction with his brother, Ex-Con
gressman Charles A. Sumner, of California, published a vol
ume of poems in 1877, which has, since that time, passed

through enlarged editions. Some of these poems have been
delivered on special occasions of such interest as to become
of historical value in the future.
He is a member of the Elias Howe, Jr. Post of the Grand
Army, and honorary member of the Society of the Army of
Potomac, before which he delivered the poem at the Annual
Re-union at Hartford in 1881. He has been Noble Grand of
Arcanum Lodge, I. O. O. F., and has been W. M. of Cincin-
natus Lodge of the F. and A. M. of Great Barrington three
years, and three years Eminent Commander of Hamilton
Commandery of the Knights Templars.
Col. Sumner married in 1855, Georgiana Davis of Bridge
port, recently deceased. He has a son, Edward Stewart
Sumner, a lawyer, and three daughters, one the wife of C. C.
Godfrey, M.D., and all are residents of Bridgeport.

Military Records.

467

Old Militia Records, 1817 to 1847.
From the Orderly Book for the Fifth Company, First Regiment,
Light Artillery, Bridgeport, Conn., in possession of the Fairfield County
Historical Society, we extract the following muster roll for September i, 1817:
John Fayerweather  Captain

Stephen Hawley  1st Lieut.
Vacant,  2d "
Charles Foote,  1st Sergt.
Albert E. Sherwood  2d "
James French. Jr  3d
Philip P. Porter  4th " Privates.

Alanson F. Lewis   1st Corpl.
Solomon Curtis, Jr.,  2d "
Starr Peck  3d ¦•
Peter C. Pixley  4th ••
Arnold Hurd,  Fifer.
David Hubbell,  Drummer.

Ephraim French, Jr.
Lewis W. Hubbell.
Wakeman Hull.
Mitchel C. Peet.
Sterling Hull.
Lemuel Hubbell.
Joel Mitchel.
Judcon Curtis, Jr.
Johnson Tuttle.
Joseph E. Mallet.
David Mallet, 3d.
Asa French.

Josiah M. Nichols.
Henry Judson.
David Judson.
Philo Nichols.
Anson Beardslee.
Morriss Piatt.
Roswell S. Nichols.
Eli Curtis.
Ezra Wheeler.
David Fayerweather.
Bill W. Peet.
Charles Sherwood.

Samuel Peet.
Plumb Nichols.
Burton Gray.
Joseph Silliman.
Daniel Bulkley.
Levi Turney.
Abijah Morehouse.
Alvin Curtis.
Oliver L. Beardslee.
Elijah Peet, Jr.
Daniel O. Wheeler.

From the same record under date of May 5, 1823, we find the following roll ot
officers and men :
Charles Foote  Captain.
Albert E.Sherwood  1st Lieut.
Philip P. Porter  2d
Peter C. Pixley,  1st Sergt.
James A. Clifford,  2d "

Isaac E. Beach  3d Sergt.
William B. Thomas  4th "
Beard Blackman,   Fifer.
Elias Hodge,  Drummer.
Nathaniel B. Booth, 

Alpha Carrier.
Alfred Turney.
Asa French.
Alvin Curtis.
Anson Hawley.
Agur Pixlee.
Bill W. Peet.
Charles Sherwood.
Charles Wakley.
Charles L. Nichols.
Charles Hubbelh
Charles Crocker.
Chauncey Lum.
David Mallctt, 3d.
David C. Booth.
Daniel O. Wheeler.

Privates.
David I. Hawley.
Ezra Peet.
Elijah Peet.
Epraim Middlebrook.
Epraim French, Jr.
Ezra Wheeler.
Ezra Morehouse.
Fitch Taylor.
Gideon Thompson.
George W. Lewis.
Henry Judson.
Hanford Lyon.
Halpin Blake.
Ira Curtis.
Ira Bliss.
Joel Mitchel,

John Lyon.
John W. Beardsley.
Josiah Hubbell.
Lewis Turney.
Lewis W. Hubbell.
Lewis Fitch (removed).
Moses Piatt.
Monson Seeley.
Mitchel C. Peel.
Roswell Seeley.
Stephen Hull, Jr.
Wakeman Hull.
Wm. H. Youngs (removed).
Lemuel Hubbell \ Rem. to
David Hubbell ,' other
Sterling Hull ) conip'y.

468

History of Bridgeport.

With September 17, 1825, the Orderly Book for the Fifth Company, First
Regiment, Light Artillery, ceases, and that of the Second Company, Fourth
Regiment, Lit/lit Artillery, Bridgeport, commences.
The first entries are May 24, 1826, and Peter C. Pixley is Captain, Daniel B.
Oviatt, 1st Lieutenant, and Elias A. Hall, 2d Lieutenant.
In 1830, September II, we find the following full muster roll of Second Com
pany, Fourth Regiment :

Nelson Burroughs,  Captain.
George Robbins,  1st Lieut.
Shelton B. Stratton,  2d
Henry W. Siillman,  1st Sergt.
Ira Bartram,  -  2d "
Harry Bray   3d "
Charles A. Turney  4th "
John Tucker  1st Corpl.

Divine Chatfield  2d Corpl.
Bard Blakeman,  Fifer.
William Thompson  "
Frederick W. Parrott,  Drummer.
Frederick Lathrop,..  - "
David Beach,  Bass drummer.
Madison A. Treat,  " "

Asa French.
Anson Hawley.
Alfred Hawley.
Benjamin Lewis.
Charles W. Lewis.
Caleb Tomlinson.
Charles H. Wakley.
David Middlebrooks.
David Meeker.
Ezra Peet.
Elijah Peet.
Ezra Wheeler.

Privates.
Harpin Blake.
John W. Beardsley.
John Hall.
James H. Winlon.
Justus Allen.
John Hayes.
James Downs.
Jcduthan Thompson.
John Barton.
Lewis Turney.
Lewis Burr.
Lorrin Nichols.
Ezra D. Smith.

Monson Smith.
Robert Turney.
Sidney N. Lewis.
Seth L. Stratton.
William E. Ells.
George Crawford.
Elbert Hawley.
Burton Gray.
Charles H. Peck.
EI am Nichols.
William M. Dunning.
John E. Chatfield.

Absentees.
Roswell Seeley. | Munson Seeley. | William Ward.
Ten years later, September 7, 1840, we find the following muster roll of the
Second Company, Fourth Regiment, Light Artillery, of Bridgeport :
Officers and Men.

Aaron B. B. Downs  1st Lieut.
Ira W. Peet  2d
Fenelon Hubbell  1st Sergt.
Thomas Stillman,  2d "

Sheldon Beach  3d Sergt.
Moses O. Banks  1st Corpl.
John J. Stillman,  2d "
Bryant Parroit  Drummer.

Elbert Hawley.
Henry Hurd.
Johnson Hayes.
Roswell Whiting.

Privates.
Sherwood Stratton.
George B. Smith.
William G. Nichols.
Abija L. Peet.

Matthew Lord.
Payton R. Bishop.
William Blake.
James Robertson.

Military Rolls.

460

Benjamin W, Ward
(not warned),
Stephen S. Sterling "
Morris Crawford "
Frederick N. Hurd "
Benjamin Lewis (sick).
Charles N. Olmslead (not warned).
David Middlebrook "
Ephraim C. Young (fined),
James Downs(not warned).
John Stevenson "

Absentees.
Robert J. Mills (not warned),
George M. Benjamin "
Chauncey Keeler "
Wm. M. Dunning "
Sillick Nichols "
Sidney N. Lewis (fined).
Benjamin Stillman (not warned).
James H. Winton "
Jarvis Polly "
Edward Jones "

Abijah Taylor (not warned).
Sheldon H. Nichols "
John Parrott "
William Squires "
John G. Taylor "
Christopher Beardsley"
William L. Wheeler "
Nathan B. Abbott "
John W.Beardsley(fincd 35)
Alanson Beardsley "
Charles W. Lewis "

Passing down to 1843, on May 1st we find the following roll of officers and
men who " appeared at the usual place of parade and were inspected :"

Fenelon Hubbell,.-.   Captain.
Thomas U. Stillman,  1st Lieut.
George B. Smith,  -.  2d "

William B.Johnson,  3d Sergt.
John F. Bartlett  —4th "
George Goulden   1st Corpl.

Matthew Lord.
Hezakiah Lockwood.
Peyton R. Bishop.

Privates.
John Stevenson.
William G. Nichols.
Bryant Parrott.
Abraham Couch.

Cimis Ritch.
Thomas Lewis.
Fred. G. Schutz.

On May 5, 1845, the following is the entry for the parade of that date:

Fenelon Hubbell,  Captain.
Thomas U. Stellman  1st Lieut.
G.B.Smith,  2d

Frederick Stillman  2d Sergt.
John F. Bartlett  3d "

Hezekiah Lockwood.
Abraham Couch.
Thomas Lewis.
Rodney N. Burrett.
Burritt W. Humiston.

Wilson Beardsley.
Elias N. Plumb.

Curtis Ritch.

James Parkerton.
Frederick G. Schultz.

Privates.
Andrew Holste.
William E. Johnson.
Edgar Blake.
Levi Silliman.
Levi H. Hubbell. Gunners.
I Clark Seeley.
I William Seeley.
Musicians.
| Henry B. Seeley.
Absentees.
| Lemuel B. Sherman.
| Wakeman W. Wells.
Bryant Parrott (drummer),

Barzila Banks.
Wheeler Beers.
Abraham Hendrickson.
William N. Bartrom.
George Goulden. -
I Lewis M. Seeley.

| Peyton R. Bishop.

Lemuel Wilkins.
Henry Kimball.

470

History of Bridgeport.

The last muster roll is in 1847, under date of October 19th, and is as follows
1S47.

Silas D. Baldwin  Captain.
John F. Bartlett  1st Lieut.
Levi G. Silliman,  2d
Wheeler Beers,  3d "

Wakeman W. Wells  1st Sergt.
Lyman B. Munson,  2d "
Theodore Skidmore,  3d "
Samuel W. Reemer,  4th "

Barzila Banks.
Abraham Couch.
Levi H. Hubbell.
Henry Hubbell.

Privates.
Henry Kimball.
Thomas Lewis.
Clark Seeley.
Lewis N. Seeley.
Wilson Beardsley.

William Seeley.
Elias N. Plumb.
George N. Morehouse.
William Bartram.

We cannot leave this very valuable old military relic and interesting historical
record without transcribing from the last page the following, which tells the story
of its rescue and preservation :
"This book was purchased from a dealer in paper stock by J. S. Hanover in
the year 1866, and preserved by him until its presentation to the Fairfield Histor
ical Society, August 8, 1882.— J. S. H."
From the " Inspection Return" of the " Republican Grays," the Third Flank
Company of the Fourth Regiment of Infantry, Bridgeport, 1839," we make the
following abstract : Officers and Men — Names and Rank.

William E. Booth,  Sergt.
David Hull,  Corpl.
Charles B. Nichols,   "
A. C. Higgins  "
Henry Hinman  "

James Sacket,  Captain.
Monson H. Hyde,   --Lieut.
Charles B. Hubbell,.  .-Ensign.
Stiles Hurd,  Sergt.
David Falconer,    "
Seymour Whiting  _. "
Charles Edwards. William Beebe. Edward Taylor.
Charles Waterbury. William Shelton. Charles Spinning.
Charles Wordin. George Hyde. Edward Crocker.
Jesse Bradley. Jacob Gurnsey. Edward Nichols.
Sherman Wood. Theodore Burr. Edward Smith.
Henry Hill. Henry Booth. Henry Hall.
James Pennoyer.
The abstract of the return shows 1 captain, 1 lieutenant, 1 ensign, 4 sergeants,
4 corporals, 1 drummer, 1 fifer, 1 bugler, and 20 privates, in all 34 (present and
absent). Also, 18 uniforms, 3 swords, 20 muskets, 20 bayonets, 20 cartridge
boxes, 20 bayonet scabbards and belts, no spare Hints, 20 priming wires, no
powder horns, loose balls, pouches or knapsacks. A most formidable showing.
Elias Howe, Jr., Post, Xo. 3, G. A. R.,m Department of Con
necticut,— From records compiled by George W. Keeler, of Elias Howe, Jr.,
10 No correct list of the soldiers in ihe late Rebellion is 10 be had. A list
corrected and. published by the Slate will soon be given to the public. In view
of these facts only the record of the Grand Army of the Republic in the Post at
Bridgeport is given.

Officers of the G. A. R. Post. 47I
Post, No. 3, G. A. R., it is shown that a convention of the delegates representing
Ihe Posts of the Grand Army of ihe Republic organized in the Slate of Connect!-

„ -  -, —  , vjing t,.L„
Orand Commander. The department was divided into four districts, similar i
extent with the Congressional districts of the State. District No. 4 was placed
under command 01 Gen. Wm. H. Noble, of Post No. 3, who appointed .is his
assistant Adjutant General Captain William L. Hubbell. and as A. O. M. G.
S. M. Nichols, also members of Post No. 3.
The charier of Post No. 3 was grained and dated April 15, 1867, with the
following named veterans as charter members : William H. Noble, James E. Dun
ham, Albert W. Peck, J. R. Cumming, William H. Lacev, E. A. Stebbins,
S. M. Nichols, Samuel E. Blinn, Wheeler Hawley, II. L. Cowles. On April 25,
1867, the above named comrades met in Gen. William H. Noble's office (Sturde-
vant building), and post No. 3 was duly organized by Gen. William H.Noble,
commanding the fourth district of '.he department.
At this meeting the following officers were elected to serve until election, to
take place in July, 1867: James E. Dunham, Post Commander; William H.
Lacey, S. V. Commander; J. R. Cumming, M.D., J. V. Commander; Albert W.
Peck, Adjutant; Philip B. Segee, Quartermaster; J. R. Cumming, M.D., Surgeon.
S. M. Nichols was appointed Officer of the Day; Samuel E. Blinn was ap
pointed Officer of the Guard ; S. W. Hawley, sentinel at the outpost ; J. V. Com
mander, sentinel on duty at ihe reserve.
July, 1867, following comrades were elecied officers for ensuing six months:
James E. Dunham, P. C; William H. Lacey, S. V. C; Henry L. Coles, J. V. C;
Albert W. Peck," Adj.; Philip B. Segee, Q. M.: J. R. Cumming, M.D., Surgeon-
William H. May, Chaplain.
January, 1868, following comrades were elected officers for ensuing six months :
Samuel E. Blinn, P. C; Alfred B. Beers, S. V. C; John M. Speidel, J. V. C; John
G. Stephens, Adj.; George A. Staples, Q. M.; A. D. Powers, Surgeon ;  ,
Chaplain. W. W. Pardee was appointed Officer of the Day ; C. F. Hall was appointed
Officer of the Guard.
June 25, 1868, following comrades were elected officers for ensuing six months :
Samuel E. Blinn, P. C; Alfred B. Beers, S. V. C: John M. Speidel," J. V. C;
John G. Stevens, Adj.; George A. Staples, Q. M.; Gustave Ohnesorg, M.D., Sur
geon ; George A. Parkington, Chaplain ; William F. Daly, Sergt. Major ; William
H. Bowman, Q. M. Sergt.
December, 1868, following comrades were elected officers for six months
ensuing: Alfred B. Beers, P. C; Henry L. .Sturges, S. V. C; George A. Staples,
J. V. C; Rod S. Beers, Adj.; C. F. Hale, Q. M.; A. H. Abernathy, Surgeon ;
George A. Parkington, Chaplain; William E. Disbrow, Sergt. Major; L. M.
Louvelle, Q. M. Sergt.
" A, W, Peck resigned as Adjutant and J. G. Stevens appointed in place.
11 J. M. Speidel resigned as J. V. C. July 23, 1868, and H. L, Sturges elecied
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472 History of Bridgeport.
Janier Bozwonh was appointed Officer of the Day;  Stolpher was ap
pointed Officer of the Guard.
June 24, 1S69, the following comrades were elecied officers for six months
ensuing: Alfred B. Beers, P. C; George A. Staples, S. V. C; Thomas Boudren,
J. V. C; Rod S. Beers, Adj.; C. F. Hale, Q. M.; George A. Parkington, Chaplain ;
A. H. Abernathy, M.D., Surgeon ; Russ Glenn, Sergt. Major ; F, W. Wales, Q. M.
Sergt. W. W. Walker was appointed Officer ol the Day ; John A. Ludford18 was ap
pointed Officer of the Guard.
December 30, 1869, the following comrades were elected officers for six months
ensuing : George A. Staples, P. C; William F. Dailey, S. V. C; Rod S. Beers,
J. V. C; Henry M. Capper," Adj.; F. N. Cox, O. M.; W. B. Nichols, Surgeon ;
George A. Parkington, Chaplain ; Fred Goodrich, O. of D.; Russ Glenn,'5 O. of
G.; William Finncmore, Sergl. Major ; Norval Green, Q. M. Sergt.
June 30, 1870, ihe following comrades were elected officers for six months
ensuing : George A. Parkington, P. C; David B. Lockwood, S. V. C; Reuben
Blake, J. V. C.j Lyman L, Rose, Adj.; Frederick N. Cox, Q. M.; Charles S.
Wells, Surgeon ; Charles W. Scarriti, Chaplain ; James Cahill, O. of D.; Stephen
Weaver, O. of G.; William C. Geddes, Sergt. Major; Norval Green, Q. M. Sergl.;
Frederick M. Wilmot, Drum Major.
January 5, 1871, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing year
(1871): George A. Parkington," P. C; Reuben Blake," S. V. C; John Cahill,
J. V. C; Lyman L. Rose,'8 Adj.; Dwight H. Cowles," Q. M.; Charles H. Wells,30
Surgeon ; Charles W. Scarriti, Chaplain ; D. H. Jennings, O. of D.; Stephen
Weaver, O. of G.; William C. Geddes, Sergt. Major; F. A. King,*' Q. M. Sergt.;
Fred Wilmot, Drum Major.
December 21, 1871, the following comrades were elected officers for ensu
ing year (1872): Rod S. Beers, P. C; Thomas C. Coats, S. V. C; William R.

93 }¦ A. Ludford resigned October 21, 1869, and S, C. Paul elected to fill
vacancy. "J. T. Piatt appointed adjutant February 3, 1870, vice Capper resigned, and
served to end of term,
" A. DeForest elected O. G. March 10, 1870, vice Glen, resigned. A. DeForest
elected O. D. April 7, 1870, vice Goodrich, resigned. James Cahill elected O. G.
April 7, 1870, vice DeForest, promoted.
'• William F. Dailey elected P. C. March 16, 1871, vice Parkington, resigned.
George A. Staples elecied P. C. August 24, 1871, vice Dailey, resigned, and served
to end 01 term.
" S. V. C. Blake and J. V. C. Cahill boih resigned before expiration of their
term. Rod S. Beers was elected S. V. C. and Fred N. Cox J. V. C, and served to
end of term.
88 L. L. Rose resigned as Adjutant July 20, 1871, and Henry W. Stevens was
elecied to serve balance of term.
'* William E. Disbrow elecied, but declined to serve. June 15, 1871, D. H.
Cowles resigned as Q. M. and comrade Disbrow was elected 10 fill Ihe vacancy.
90 A. H. Abernathy elected Sutgeon November 9, 1871, vice Wells, resigned.
" C. B. Downs appointed Q. M. S.. vice King, resigned.

Officers of the G. A. R. Post. 473
Palmer, J. V. C; Henry W. Stevens,3' Adj. (appointed); William E. Disbrow,
Q. M.; George F. Lewis, M.D., Surgeon ; Charles W. Scarrilt, Chaplain ; T. P.
Callahan, O. of D.; Charles Shailer, O. of G.; Henry C. Larramie, Sergt.' Major
(appointed); John R. Kimball, Q. M. Sergl. (appointed).
January 2, 1873, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing year:
James Bozworth, P. O; Charles Rawlings, S. V. C; Charles M. Shailer, J. V. C;
Chauncey B. Downs,33 Adj. (appointed); William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; F.J.Young,'
M.D., Surgeon ; Charles W. Scarriti, Chaplain ; T. P. Callahan, O. of D.; Henry
W. Stevens,34 O. of G.; Edward Ward, Sergt. Major (appointed); John R. Kimball,
Q. M. Sergt. (appointed); J. G. Cornell, Drum Major.
December 18, 1873, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1874): William E. Disbrow, P. C, T. P. Callahan, S. V. C; Norval Green."
J. V. C; Harry C. Isard, Adj. (appointed); John R. Kimball, Q. M.; A. H. Aber
nathy, M.D., Surgeon; George Hill, Chaplain; James H. Burnes, O. of D.;
Charles Dimond, O. of G.;  , Sergt. Major;  , Q. M.
Sergt.;  , Drum Major.
December 30, 1874, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1875): William E. Disbrow, P. C; T. P. Callahan,"" S, V. C; John Oliver,
J. V. C; Henry W. Stevens, Adj. (appointed); John R. Kimball, Q. M.; Robert
Landen, M.D., Surgeon ; George Hill, Chaplain ; Charles Dimond," O. of D,;
George C. Carpenter, O. of G.; Charles E. Moore, Sergt. Major (appointed);
Moses Mills, Q. M. Sergt. (appointed).
December 30, 1875, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1876): William E. Disbrow, P. C; John Oliver, S. V. C; Charles E. Moore,
J. V. C; John S. Caroli,39 Adj.; John R. Kimball,38 Q. M.; A. H. Abernathy, M.D.,
Surgeon ; Rev. Daniel O. Fenis, Chaplain ; John A. Ludford, O, of D.; George
E. Belts, O. of G.; William H. Downs, Sergt. Major; Joseph Kiley, Q. M.
Sergt. December 7, 1876, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing

31 Henry W. Stevens resigned as Adjutant July I, 1872, and Chauncey B.
Downs appointed to fill the position,
33 0. B. Downs resigned as Adjutant September 11, 1873, and H. C. Isard
appointed to fill vacancy.
84 H. W. Stevens resigned as O. G. January 16, 1873. W. C. Geddes elected
January 23, 1873.
3S N. Green resigned J. V. C. May 14, 1874. John Oliver elected to fill
vacancy May 21, 1874.
36 T. P. Callahan resigned September 9, 1875, and John Oliver elecied Sep
tember 16, 1875, to fill vacancy. Oliver Treadwell elected to J. V. C„ vice Oliver,
promoted. 3' Charles Dimond resigned O. D. October 7, 1875, and George C. Carpenter
elecied October 14, 1875, to fill vacancy. John A. Ludford elected O. G., vice
Carpenter, promoted.
38 J. S. Caroli resigned as Adjutant August 10, 1876, and George W. Keeler
was appointed to position August 24, 1876.
» J. R. Kimball resigned as Q. M. September 14, 1876, and Ansil H. Couch
elected to fill vacancy September 21, 1876.
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474 History of Bridgeport.
year (1877): William E. Disbrow,40 P. C; Henry W. Stevens, S. V. C; George E.
Beits, J. V. C; George W. Keeler, Adj.; Ansil H. Couch,41 Q. M.; A. A. Holmes,
M.D., Surgeon ; Rev. D. O. Ferris, Chaplain ; John A. Ludford, O. of D.; Richard'
A. Clancey, O. of G.; Will H. Weicht.41 Sergt. Major ; Fred. L. Warren,43 Q. M.
Sergl. December 6, 1S77, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1878): George A. Staples,44 P. C; John Oliver,45 S. V. C; E J. Sherwood,43
J. V. C; George W. Keeler, Adj.; William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; A. A. Holmes,
Surgeon ; Lewis G. Logan, Chaplain ; Richard A. Clancey, O. of D.; Charles E.
Williams,4' O. of G.; John Hurke,49 Sergt. Major ; Frederick A. Booth, Q. M. Sergt.
December 5, 1878, the (ollowing comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1870): Julius W. Knowlton,45 P. C; John A. Ludford, S. V. C; Terrance
O'Brien, j. V. C; George W. Keeler, Adj.; William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; A. A.
Holmes, M.D., Surgeon ; Lewis G. Logan, Chaplain ; Richard A. Clancey, O. of D.;
Joseph Tyler, O. of G.; Will H. Weicht, Sergt. Major ; Frederick A. Booth, Q. M.
Sergt. December 4, 1879, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1880): Lewis G. Logan, P. C; Richard A. Clancey,50 S. V. C; Terrance
O'Brien, J. V. C; George W. Keeler, Adj.; William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; Byron
40 W. E. Disbrow resigned as P. C. October 11, 1877. Henry W. Stevens was
elecied October 18, 1877, to fill the vacancy, and November 1, 1877, George E.
Belts. J. V. C, was elected S. V. C, vice Stevens, promoted, and November 8,
1877, E. J. Sherwood was elecied J. V. C, vice Bells, promoted.
41 A. H. Couch resigned as O. M. August 2, 1877, and Birdsey L. Sherman
was elected to fill vacancy August 9, 1877, and resigned same October 11, 1877.
W. E. Disbrow was elecied October S, 1877, to fill vacancy.
4! W. H. Weicht resigned as S. M. August 16, 1877, and Charles E. Williams
appointed 10 fill vacancy September 6, 1877.
43 F. L. Warren resigned as Q. M. S. September 6, 1877, and L. L. Rose
appointed to fill position same date, bul declined the honor.
44 First ballot Alfred B. Beers received nearly every vole, but declined to
accept position.
45 John Oliver died July 5, 1878. John A. Ludford elecied July 25, 1878, to
fill vacancy. 48 E. J. Sherwood resigned July 18, 1878, as J. V. C. George E. Luinscoe
elected July 25, 1878, to fill vacancy.
41 C. E. Williams resigned position O. G. March 28, 1878. Joseph Tyler
elected April 4, 1878, to fill vacancy.
"John Burke resigned August 15, 1878, and W. H. Lyon appointed to fill
position. 49 J. W. Knowlton declined to accept position of P. C, and Lewis G. Logan
was elected to position, W. H. Lyon being elected as Chaplain, vice Logan,
promoted. 50 R. A. Clancey declined to serve as S. V. C, and Christian Quicn was
elected December 18, 1879, to fill position, and R. A. Clancey was elected O. D.
at same time and resigned same April 29, 1880, when Will H. Weicht was elected
to fill position. William H. Downs was elected O. G., vice Weicht, promoted.

Officers of the G. A. R. Post. 475
W. Munson, Surgeon ; William H. Lyon, Chaplain ; Christian Quien, O. of D.;
Will H. Weicht, O. of G.; Edward F. Clark, Sergt. Major; Frederick A. Booth,
Q. M. Sergt.
December 2, 1880, the following comrades were elecied officers for ensuing
year (1881): Lewis G. Logan,51 P. C; Christian Quien,5' S. V. C; William H.
Hine, J. V. C; George W. Keeler, Adj.; William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; Byron W.
Munson, Surgeon ; William H. Gray, Chaplain; Joseph Tyler, O. of D.; Marcus
E. Comstock, O. of G.; John P. Jaquith, Sergt. Major; Bradley Banks,58 Q. M.
Sergt. December 1, 1881, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1882): George W. Keeler, P. C; Richard A. Clancey,54 S. V. C; Joseph
Tyler, J. V. C; Will H. Weicht. Adj.; William E. Disbrow. Q. M.; Byron W.
Munson, Surgeon ; Daniel Worcester, Chaplain ; Marcus E. Comstock,55 O. of D.;
William Derringer, O. of G.; John P. Jaquith, Sergt. Major; Charles E. Moore,
Q. M. Sergt.
December 7, 1882, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1883): Daniel Worcester, P. C; Joseph Tyler, S. V. C; William Derringer,
J. V. C; John P. Jaquiih,55 Adj.; William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; Byron W. Munson,
Surgeon ; James L. Green, Chaplain ; William H. Lyon, O. of D.; Henry H.
Smith, O. of G.; David R. Waters," Sergt. Major ; George W. Keeler, Q. M. Sergt.
December 6, 1883, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1884); Daniel Worcester,58 P. C; Joseph Tyler,59 S. V. C; William Derrin
ger, J. V. C; Charles E. Moore, Adj.; William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; Byron W.
Munson, Surgeon; Henry Stephens, Chaplain; Henry H. Smith,80 O. of D.;
51 L. G. Logan resigned as P. C. October 13, 1881. October 20, 1881, George
W. Keeler was elecied for unexpired term.
51 C. Quien resigned as S. V. C. July 14, 1881. July 21, 1881, William H.
Hine was elecied to fill position, F. L. Warren being elected J. V. C, vice Hine,
promoted. Will H. Weicht was appointed Adjutant by Commander Keeler.
53 B. Banks resigned as Q. M. S. October 27, 1881, and C. E. Moore was
appointed to fill vacancy.
54 R. A. Clancey refused to accept position S. V. C. January 19, 1882, Lewis
G. Logan was elecied to fill vacancy.
55 M. E. Comstock resigned position O. D. June 29, 1882. July 6, 1S82, Wil
liam Derringer was elected O. D. to fill vacancy. W. H. Lyon was elected O. G.
vice Derringer, promoted.
58 J. P. Jaquith resigned position Adjutant September 20, 18S3, and C. E.
Moore was appointed to fill vacancy. George C. Stewart was appointed S. M„
vice Moore, resigned.
51 D. R. Waters resigned position S. M. January 18, 1883, and C. E. Moore
was appointed to position.
58 D. Worcester resigned position P. C. September 25, 1884. W. Derringer
elected to fill vacancy October 2, 1884.
59 J. Tyler resigned position S. V. C. June 5. 1884. June 12, 1884, W. Derrin
ger elected to fill vacancy. Thomas Boudren was elected J. V. C, vice Derringer,
promoted. When Derringer promoted P. C. promoted S. V. C. James P. Smith,
promoted J. V. C.
80 H. H. Smith resigned position O. D. August 14, 1884. James P. Smith was

476 History of Bridgeport.
James P. Smith, O. of G.; George C. Stewart, Sergt. Major ; George W. Keeler,
Q. M. Sergt.
December 4, 1884, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year(iS85): William H. Lyon, P. C; Thomas Boudren, S. V. C; Eugene Ward,
j. V. C; William H. Hine, Adj.; William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; Byron W. Munson,
M.D., Surgeon ; Henry Stephens, Chaplain ; George C. Stewart, O. of D.. Stephen
Wright, O. of G; Fred L. Warren, Sergt. Major ; George W. Keeler, Q. M. Sergt.
December 3, 1885, the following comrades were elected officers for ensuing
year (1886): Thomas Boudren, P. C; Eugene Ward, S. V. C; George C. Stewart,
J. V. C; George W. Keeler, Adj.; William E. Disbrow, Q. M.; George L. Porter,
M.D., Surgeon ; Warren W. Porter,81 Chaplain ; Henry A. North, O. of D.; Henry
Crofutt, O. of G.
Members of Post No. 3 who have been honored with Department and National
office: William H. Noble, Commander Fourth District, Depart Conn., 1867.
William L. Hubbell, A. A. G., Fourth District, Dept. Conn., 1867.
S. M. Nichols, A. Q. M. G., Fourth District, Dept. Conn., 1867.
William H. Mallory, J, V. Grand Commander, Dept. Conn., 1868 ; S. V.
Grand Commander, Dept. Conn., 1S691 Grand Commander, Dept. Conn., 1870
and 1 87 1.
Louis N. Middlebrook, C. of A„ Dept. Conn., 1869 and 1871 ; Judge Advo
cate, Dept. Conn., 1870, 1872 and 1873.
Alfred B. Beers, Asst. Inspector, Dept. Conn., 1869 and 1872: C. of A., Dept.
Conn., 1873 ; J. V. Commander, Dept. Conn., 1878 and 1879 ; S. V. Commander,
mander, Dept. Conn., 18S0 ; Commander, Dept. Conn., 1881 ; Commander Fitch's
Home, 1882.
George A. Staples, Delegate National Encampment, 1871 ; Asst. Inspector,
Dept. Conn., 1871 ; A. Q. M. G., Dept. Conn., 1876, 1877 and 1881.
Rod S. Beers, C. of A., Dept. Conn., 1872 ; Asst. Inspector, Dept. Conn., 1873.
William E. Disbrow, J. V. Commander, Dept. Conn., 1873; S. V. Com
mander, Dept. Conn., 1874 and 1875 ; Commander, Depl. Conn., 1876 and 1877.
John Oliver, Asst. Inspector General (National), 1875.
T. P. Callahan, Asst. Inspector, Dept. Conn., 1875.
Rev. D. O. Ferris, Chaplain, Dept. Conn., 1876 and 1877.
Julius W. Knowlton, A. A. G., Depl. Conn., 1876 and 1877; C. of A. (Na
tional), 1878 ; Delegate National Encampment, 1880.
Charles E. Moore, Assi. Inspector, Depl. Conn., 1876 and 1877; C. of A.,
Dept. Conn., 1878 and 1879.
Lewis G. Logan, C. M. O., Dept. Conn., 1879 ; C. of A., Depl. Conn., Dele-
gate National Encampment, A. D. C. (National), 1882 ; Asst. Inspecior, Dept.
Conn., 1883.
Joseph Tyler, A. D. C. (National), 1882.
Will H. Weicht, A. D. C. (Naiional), 1S82.

elecied to fill vacancy. Ulrich Burghardl being elected O. G., vice Smith pro
moted, was elected O. D., vice Smith, promoted J. V. C. Philo A. Morris elected
O. G., vice Burghardl, elected O. D.
" W. W. Poricr declined to be installed as Chaplain and Henry Stephens was
elected to the position.

Officers of the G. A. R. Post. 47
Henry Huss, C. of A. (National), 1876 and 1877.
George W. Keeler, A. A. G„ Dept. Conn., 1881 ; C. M. O., Dept. Conn
1883 ; Inspector, Dept. Conn., 1884 ; Commander Fitch's Home, 1885 and 1886
George E. Bells. A. A. A. G., Dept. Conn., 1881.
Henry M. Hoyt, A. D. C. (National), 1881.
John C. Copcland, A. D. C, Dept. Conn., 1882 ; A. D. C. (National), 1886.
Fred L. Warren, C. of A., Dept. Copn., 1883, 1884, 1885 and 1886.
Daniel Worcesler, Asst. Inspector, Dept. Conn., 1884 ; A. D. C. (National
1885. William H. Lyon, Asst. Inspector, Dept. Conn., 1S84.
Byron W. Munson, Med. Director, Dept. Conn., 1885.
Thomas Boudren, Delegate National Encampment, 1869 and 18S6.
Samuel J. Chaffee, A. D. C. (National), 1885.
George C. Stewart, Asst. Inspector, 1886.
Historical Notes.
The Post was organized in the office of Gen. William H. Noble, in Sturdevan
building, April 25, 1867, and it continued lo hold ils meetings there until June 29
1867, when Lafayette Hall was secured and meetings were held there unti
December 19, 1867, when it removed to Good Templars' Hall. March 19, 1868
removed to Odd Fellows' Hall, as then known, on Water street ; March 4, 1S69
to hall known as Harral's Hall ; April i, 1870, 10 hall in Sturdevant building, and
thence to hall in Waller's building. In May, 1874, removed to Lafayette Hall, and
thence, September 1, 1883, 10 hall over the post office, where they are at present
located. Wilh one exception the halls occupied by Post have been known as
Grand Army Mall while occupied by them.
August 17, 1876, the soldiers' monument was dedicated.
The Post, since ils organization, has held each year some kind of an entertain
ment or enterlainments for the purpose of raising lunds to assist the broken down
comrades, the widow and Ihe orphan of comrades mustered into the Grand En
campment above. Willi very few exceptions their efforts have been crowned with
success, the nei proceeds running from $50 10 $1,200; this, of course, could not
enable them to be very liberal, and therefore many comrades' widows and orphans
have been assisted by contributions from the comrades' pockets. In 1S83, under
Commander Worcester, the Post held a fair, and il was ihen that the veteran found
out, if he never knew it before, that the people were his friends indeed, the fair
netting the organization $10,000. This gratifying result was largely due to the
persistent and judicious efforts of comrades A. B. Beers, George Keeler and Wil
liam E. Disbrow, of the executive committee.
In 1884 the Post was incorporated by act of the Legislature.
Memorial Day. — Each year is this national day observed, each grave of a
departed comrade is decorated with a wreath of green and the first flowers of
spring, and his resting place marked by the flag he helped to save. This year
(1886) for the first lime the comrades were assisted in the pleasing duly by a detail
from the Sons of Veterans (William H. Mallory Camp, No. n). This Camp was
named after a comrade who, when living, was a Grand Army man, and the sons
did well in honoring their Camp with his name as when living he was always
honored by his comrades. The sons are an organization which, if kept up, will.
in time place a wreath and a flag over ihe grave of the last veteran of Ihe Grand
Army of the Republic.

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History of Bridgeport.

The following veterans were members of the Post during its first year's exist

ence. William H. Noble, Col. 17th C V.; Bvt. Brig.
Gen. U. S. A.
E. N. Stebbens
James E. Dunham, Capl. Co. G, 17th C. V.
Samuel E. Winn, 1st Lt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
J. R. Cumming, M.D., Surgeon, 12th C. V.
Wheeler Hawley, 1st Conn. Cav.
William H. Lacey, Capt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
Henry L. Cuwlcs.
Albert W. I'eck, 1st Lt. Co. D, i7lh C. V.
L. M. Nichols.
John M. Andrews, Co. M, 1st C. H. A.
Anthony Aigellinger, Corp. Co. E, 41st N. Y.V.
Charles F. Anderson, Lt. Co. H, ad C. H. A.
Alfred B. Beers, Capt. Co. H. 6th C. V.
Henry Biebel, Capt. Co. H, 6th C. V.
George I'. Blinn, Co. M, 1st C. H. A.
Theo. F. Bradley.
Frederick A. Booth, 2d Conn. Lt. Bat.
John Beck, Co. M, 1st C. H. A.
Wesley H. Botsford.
Eugene N. Botsford, U. S. N.
S. G. Bailey.
Charles Bailey.
James Bozworth, Sergt. Co. D, 17II1 C. V.
James Burton.
Frederick C. Bowman.
Allen G. Brady.
Roderick S. Beers, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Charles H. Brolhcrton, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Cyrus T. Bachelder, Sergt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
John H. Beck.
John C. Bayles, Co. 1, gin C. V.
Waller Baxter, Co I, mh N. Y. Cav.
John K. llartlelt, Co. D, 17II1 C. V.
Garrett D. Bonne, Sergt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
Hiram II. illish. Band, 1st and 17th C. V.
Reuben Blake, Mus. Co. F, 1st C. H. A.
Samuel Burr, Sergt. Co. G, nth R. 1. V.
Oscar R. Beers, Co. A, 14th C. V.
Charles E. Beers, Co. M, 1st C. H. A.
Philo M. Beers, Co. II, 1st C. V.
Frederick H. Carpenter, Corp. Co. D, 17th C.V.
Homer S. Curtiss.
H. B. Chamberlain.
George S. Crofutt.
Elliott M. Curtiss, Major 4th U. S. Vet. V.
Marcus Coon. Capt. 1st Squad C. Cav.
Pierce D. Colburn, Sergt. Co. D, 9th C. V.
James Caffrey, Co. D, gth C. V.
Lyman S. Catlin, Lt. and Q. M. 5th (J. S. C. C.
Henry L. Crampton, Co. D, 1st N. Y. V.
Henry R. Chaffee, Lt. ad C. Lt. Bat.
Frederick N. Cox, Serg. Co. E, 38th N. Y. V.
Dwlght H. Cowles, Co. I, 9th C. V.
John B, Clark, 1st Lt. Co. B. Sth U. S. C. H. A.
William E. Disbrow, Corp. Co. H, ad C. V.

Alexander Doran, 1st C. L. Bat.
Jacob Dietrich.
William F. Daily, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Charles Dimon, Co. D, 9th C. V.
Andrew J. Davis, Mus. Co. I, 2sth C. V.
Montgomery Egbert, Co. M, 1st C. H. A.
Huir Jl. French.
William Finnemore, Co. D, 13th C. V.
Wilson French, Capt. Co. G, 17th C. V.
E. D. S. Goodyear, Lt. Col. 10th C. V. and Bvt.
Brig. Gen.
E. N. Goodwin, 1st Lt. Co. K, 24th C. V.
William Geilner, Mus. Co. H, 6th C. V.
Russell Glenn, 1st Serg. Co. A, 14th C. V.
R. Charles Gotschalk, ad C. L. Bat.
James G. Goodwin, U. S. N.
Steadman Greenwood, TJ. S. N.
Miles W. Gray, 1st Lt. 2d C. L. Bat.
James L. Green, Co. I, 15th C. V.
William C. Geddes, Co. I, 90th N. Y. V.
Robert Hubbard, M.D., Med. Director nth
Army Corps.
William L. Hubbell, Capt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
James Hanford, Co. K, 1st C. H. A.
George Hill, Serg. Co. E, 9th C. V.
H. K. Hall, Chaplain 17th C. V.
Justus B. Hawley, 2d Lt. 2d C. H. A.
Charles W. Hall, Capt. Co. D, 33d C. H. A.
Samuel O. Hodges.
Walter S. HoUhkiss, Capt. 2d C. L. Bat.
T. M. Holcomb.
O. H. Hibbard.
John R. Hull, A rlilicer 1st C. L. Bat.
Charles F. Hall.
John Harvey, 1st Lt. Co. B, 17th C. V.
Charles Hurd, Co. H, ad C. H. A.
Charles Hull, Wagoner Co. I, 6lh C. V.
Peter Haefner, 2d C. L. Bat.
Franklin II. Hull, Serg. Co. D, 1st C. Cav.
Alvin S. Hunt, Co. A, 21st C. V.
Orris S. Jennings, Corp. Co. A, 8th C. V.
D. Homer Jennings, Co. D, 5th N. Y. Cav.
John Johnson, 2d C. L. Bat.
Thomas Knablin.
Michael Kelley.
Justin S. Keeler, Mus. Co. C, 17th C. V.
Rudolph Kost, ad Lt. Co. H, 6th C. V.
Michael Kelley, Capt. and Bvt.Major ad C.H.A.
Henry K rouse, Co. B, 1st C. Cav.
Robert Lander, M.D., Corp. Co. K, nth R.I. V
Edward H. Lyon, Co. I, 6lh C. V.
John Laurie.
David B. Lockwood, 1st Serg. ad C. L. Bat.
Bennett L. Lewis, Capt. Co. B, 6th C. V.
Moses Lonsclla, Co. K, 8th C. V.
Stephen C. Lewis, Co. D, 17th C. V.
William H. May, Capt. Co. I, 23d C. V.

Members of the G. A.R. Post.

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Moses M. Mills.
George N. Munger, Lt. ad C. L: Bat.
Robert H. Marvin, Serg. Co. D, ist C. Cav.
Louis N. Middlebrook, Capt. Co. D, ist C. Cav.
William H. Mallory, Major Harris L. Cav.
Rufus Mead, Jr., Coin. Serg. 5th C. V.
George C. Morris, Co. H, i«lh C. V.
Jesse S. Nash, Hospital Steward 17th C. V.
William B. Nichols, Wagoner Co. A, 14th C. V.
Joseph W. North, Band, 5th and 17th C. V.
Isaac Northrop, Serg. Co. I, 2d C. H. A.
G. Ohnesorg, Asst. Surg., 46U1 N. Y. V.
Charles H. Orchard, Co. C, 30th Mass. H. A.
Charles E. Plumb. 2d Lt. Co. — , 23d C. V.
Otis F. Porter, Co. — , 5th C. V.
A. D. Powers, Co. I, 6lh C. V.
John T. Piatt, Serg. Co. K, 9th C. V.
William W. Pardee, Lt. Co. U, 1st C. H. A.
George Piatt, Mus. Co. I, 23d C. V.
Henry W. Pettitt, Co. G, 17th C. V.
Jacob Powlouich, Co. I, 6th C. V.
George A. Parkington, 2d C. L. Bat.
Addis E. Payne, Capt. Co. H, 9th C. V.
Ashael Porter, Co. F, ist C. H. A.
George S. Quinn.
William Rexinger, 2d C. L. Bat.
Darwin S. Reade, Co. C, 31st Mass. V.
Lyman L. Rose, Serg. Co. E, 46lh N. Y. V.
John M. Speidel, LI. Col. 6th C. V.
Veterans who have belonged to the organization since its first year and not ai
present members. This list includes those who have died, been honorably dis
charged, received transfers lo other Posts of the G. A. R., and who have been
dropped from the rolls for various causes.

Lorenzo E. Snow, Co. A, 14th C. V.
John G. Stevens, 1st Lt. Co. I, 33d C. V.
Charles E. Shelton, Corp. Co. I, 23d C. V.
Samuel B. Spinning, ad C. L. Bat.
Henry L. Sturges.
Henry Stagg, Co. A, 7th N. Y. V.
John H. Stratton, Co. 1, 6th C. V.
George E. St" well, Serg. Co. E. 13th N.Y.H.A
George D. Squires, Co. A, 5th C. V.
George A. Staples, ist Serg. Co. I, 6th C. V.
Frederick Smedel, Co. 1, 9th C. V.
Joseph N. Shailer, Co. B, 14th C. V.
William H. Smith, Co. A, 8th C. V.
Legrand Stratton, Co. D, 17th C. V.
Horace E. Sherwood, Co. A. 3d N. H. V.
William H. Smith, Co. G, 17th C. V.
William R. Spencer, Co. K, 35th C. V.
George H. Spall, ad C. L. Bat.
J. F. Tuppcr.
James A. Thompson. Co. B, ist C. H. A.
Benjamin H. Toquet.
John W. Thompson, Co. E, 48th N. Y. V.
George E. Underbill, Co. D, 17th C. V.
Myron H. White, 2d C. L. Bat-
Robert Wilson, Co. D, 6th C. V.
Joseph F. Wales, Co. L, ist C. Cav.
David R. Waters, Co. A, 10th C. V.
Lyman F. Warner, Co. K, 10th C. V.

Elbert B. Ayres, Co. B, 17th C. V.
Jesse Atherton, Co. H, 15th C. V.
Charles H. Andrews, Corp. Co. D, r44th N. Y.V.
E. A. Atwater, Co. A, 3d Mich. V.
Edwin II. Allen, Co. K, 16th C. V.
William F. Alexander, Co. D, ist C. V.
Byron M. Atherton, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Augustus A. Abernathy, M.D., Asst. Surgeon
U. S. N.
H. W. Aldrich, Serg. Co. D, 34th Mass. V.
George F. Abbey, Artihccr Co. M, ist C.H.A.
Frederick Allstreet, Co. G, 5th N. Y. V.
Henry E. Batchclder, Co. A, 14th C. V.
James E. Bennett. Corp. Co. I, ist C. H. A.
W. E. Briggs, ist Serg. Co. B, 10th Mass. V.
Samuel B. Barnum, Hos. Steward, 17th C. V.
John W. Bennett, Act. Eng. U. S. N.
John B. Boughton, Corp. 2d C. Lt. Bat.
Gcrshom 1). Bulkly, Co. D, 23d C. V.
William Butterworth, Co. G, 15th C. V.
Edgar Beers, Co. B, 17th U. S, Inft.
Robert Byers, Co. I, 5th U. S. Art.
Richard Bennett, Co. B, 9th C. V.
Robert S. Brownell.
William M. Blake, Q. M. S. Co. M, ist C.H.A.
H. R. Brown, Bugler Co. 8, N. Y. Cav.

William Bestlck, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Henry C. Beers, Co. C, 15th C. V.
Horace N. Banks.
Thomas A. Brown, Co. C, ad N. Y. Cav.
Robert Buntcn, Corp. Co. A, 28th C. V.
Charles C. Baldwin, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Herbert C. Bccchcr, ad C. L. Bat,
Patrick Burns, U. S. N.
Horace C. Bronson, Mus. 14th U. S. Inf.
James A. Bailey, Co. D, 28th C. V.
George H. llaichclder, Co. A, 14th C. V.
H. L. W. Burrilt, M.D., Surgeon U. S. V.
Walter P. Bryan, Co. G, aolh C. V.
Frederick Butler, Co. G, ad C. H. A.
James M. Porter, Mus. Co. A, 57th III. V.
Lucicn J. lleebee, Corp. Co. C, 20th C. V.
John Browne, Co. E, 17th C. V.
Michael Blake, ist Serg. Co. F, ad N. Y. V.
John Burton, Co. E, 48th N. V. V.
John Burke, Co. D, ad N. Y. Cav.
Theo. Birdsell, Co. A, 6th N. Y. Art.
E. P. Blakeman, Co. A, 10th C. V.
Legrand E. Booth, Co. F, 6th C. V.
Oliver Brower, Co. 1, 13th N. Y. H. A.
Frank P. Burton, Co. D, 17th C. V.
James Birmingham, Co. E, 17th C. V.

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History of Bridgeport.

Willis N". Benham, Serg. ad C. L. Bat.
William F. Brown, Co. E, 23d C. V.
Thomas Burns, U. S. N.
Michael llrecklcnbcrg, Co. B, 45th N. Y. V.
John F. Beardsley, Co. 1, 6th C. V.
Samuel T. Bradley.
Lambart Becker, Co. II, 6th C. V.
Lewis Bisscll, Corp. Co. A, 2d C. V.
Ashbcl J. Carrier, Serg. Co. F, 22d C. V.
Timothy W. Crowthcr, U. S. N.
George H. Carpenter, Co. B, 2d Cav.
James X. Coe, Capt. Co. II, 2d C. 11. A.
George C. Carpenter, Co. B, 15th C. V.
John Conlcy, Co. — , 4th C. V.
George S. Cooley, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
William Connelly, Co. — , 17th C. V.
Thomas R. Colbey, Co. B, ist C. H. A.
James Cahill, ist Lt. Co. D, 9th C. V.
Gustave Class, Artificer Co. B, ist N. Y. Cav.
A. II. Clark, Co. E, 1st N. V. Drag.
James H. Cowan, 2d C. L. Bat.
Michael Conway, Co. I, 7th C. V.
Frederick Curtis, Serg. Co. D, ist C. Cav.
George A. Chatfield, Corp. Co. E, 7th C. V.
W. M. Conley.
J. A. Cross, Co. C, 16th Me. V.
William E. Canfield, Serg. Co. M, ad C. H. A.
Henry M. Capper.
James W. Conley, Serg. Co. I, 8th C. V.
William Callahan, Corp. Co. F, 159th N. Y. V.
John H. Cogswell, Q. M. Serg. 23d C. V.
Thomas Carroll, U.S. N.
Henry L. Cutis, Co. A, lolh C. Vi
John Gallon, Co. K, 24th C. V.
Thomas Carroll, U. S. N.
John Cogan, Mus. Co. K, 7th Ind. Cav.
Patrick Carley, Co. G, 49th Mass. V.
Ed. F. Clark, U. 3. N.
James W. Curry, Corp. Co. E, 20th N. Y. V.
H. K. Cooley, Capt. Co. K, 27th Mass. V.
Marcus E. Comstock, Co. A, 17th C. V.
E. J. Crossman, Co. F, ist N. Y. Cav.
Fred F. Callender, Co. I. 5th C. V.
Rufus W. Carley, Mus. 5th C. V.
George A. Campana, Co. E, 7II1 C. V.
J. P. Commel, Co. E, 3d N. Y. V.
Lawrence Cummcford, Co. 1, 14th U, S. Inf.
Timothy P. Callahan, Corp. Co. G, 16th Ms. V.
Charles W. Cooley, Co. K, 17th C. V.
John C. Coventry, Co. E, 5th N. Y. V.
John G. Cornell, Serg. Co. D, 2d C. V.
James W. Conley, 1st Serg. Co. A, 8th C. V.
John Curliss, Serg. Co. H, 1st C. H. A.
August Courtright, Corp. Co. B, 8th Moss. V.
Michael Curley, Co. G, 2d C. H. A.
Michael Carey, Co. I, 7H1 C. V.
James Cullen, Co. F, 3ad Mass, V
James E. Clark.
John Dunn, Co. E, 17th C. V.
Hosmer C. Dowd, Co. F, 24th C, V.

Sylvanus H. Deels, U. S. N.
Alfred DeForest, Lt. Co. A, 14th C. V.
George W. Dimond, Corp. Co. A, 2d Vt. V.
Nathaniel Dayton, Co. D, ist C. Cav.
Levi Dart.
John Daly, Co. C, 108th N. Y. V.
Thomas L. Dennis, Co. B, i5lh C. V.
William II. Doolittle, Co. K, ist C. H. A.
William H. Downs, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Charles 1-1. Dailey. Co. E, i8lh C. V.
Warren T. DeCrcnney, Serg. Co. D, 15th Me. V.
George E. Durfce, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Owen Dennenney, Co. D, 7th C. V.
Chauncey B. Downs, ist Serg. Co. H, 7th U. S.
Inf. and Co. F, 17th C. V.
Matthew Deilz, Serg. Co. C, 156th N. Y. V.
Charles H. Ensign, Co. 1), ia8lh N. Y. V.
Byron Eddy, Co. C, nth R. I. V.
Simeon M. Eldridge, Capt. Co. D, 61st Ms. V.
Edward T. English.
Patrick Eagan, Corp. Co. K, 24th C. V.
Charles Englehardt, Co. D, 35th N. Y. V.
George M. Euolc, Co. I, 23d C. V.
Isaac L. Eldcrd, Co. M, ist C. V.
F. W. Fox, Co. I, ad N. J. V.
William H. Foote, U. S. N.
John C. Fowler, Co. I, 4th Me. V.
Creighton B. French, Co. C, 5th Vt. V.
Rev. Daniel O. Ferris, Chap. 133d N. Y. V.
Aaron Fox, Co. H, 8th C. V.
William Fisher, Co. A, 8th C. V.
John J. Ford, Co, E, 49th Mass. V.
Joseph Kit/pair ick, U. S. N.
Henry L. Ferry, Co. C, 31st Mass. V.
John Fitzpatrlck, Corp. Co. E, 14th C. V.
Charles H. Finnemore.
Maltlieas Govean, Co. D, 9th N. Y. V.
William H. Gray, Serg. Co. A, 17th C. V.
Frederick Gretze, U. S. N.
William Grciscngcr, Co. — , 103d N. Y. V,
Charles E. Gilbert, Co. D, ist C. V.
William H. Gundlock, Co. A, 193d Pa, V.
J. J. Gorham.
Zepheniah L. Gilbert, Co. I, ist C. Cav.
W. A. Gates, Co. A, 1st C. Cav.
Augustus Gray, Corp. Co. C, 12th C. V.
George H. Gregory, Co. D, i7lh C. V.
Frederick Goodrich, Drum Major 12th U.S. Inf.
Joseph Gerard, Co. I, 2d N. Y. Art.
Robert Geisler, Serg. Co. C, nth C. V.
Elijah Gregory, M.D., Asst. Surg. 17th C. V.
George Greim, ist Serg. Co. E, 41st N. Y. V.
Charles W. Gleason, ist Lt. Co. M, ist C.H.A.
Harry Grealarex, Mus. Co. — , 6th C. V.
John Geatlcy, Serg. Co. A, 14th C. V.
Norval Green, Serg. Co. I, 10th C. V.
John Gorman, Serg. Co. D, 9th C. V.
William J. Gould, Serg. 2d C. L. Bat.
George S. Gorgas, Co. D, 17th C. V.
Frederick P. Godfrey, Corp. Co. M, 1st C.H.A.

Members of the G. A. R. Post.

481

Henry M. Hoyt, Capt. Co. A, 8th C. V.
Ashbel E. Hunt, Co. A, 10th C. V.
John Haglcy, Corp. Co. G, 10th C. V.
George Hatter, Co, H, 48th N. Y. V.
Lewis Holmes, Co. K, 48th Mass. V.
John D. Hall, Corp. Co. D, 25th Mass. V.
Park Hill, Co. D, a3d C. V.
Geo. A. Hall, Sergt, Co. F, ist C. Cav.
Wm. H. Hubbell, Co. M, istC. H. A.
Henry T. Hawley, Co. C, 17th C. V.
Frank Houge, Sergt. Co. I, 6th C. V.
Wm. Harty, Capt. Co. G, 91st N. Y. V.
C. H. Hayes, Co. K, ist C. Cav.
George Hunt, Co. E, aoth Ohio V.
Seth W. Hunge'rford, Mus. Co. A, 14th C. V.
Albert Hermes, Co. D, 20th C. V.
Wm. B. Hill, Sergt. Co. D, 4th U. S. Art.
L. F. Hurd, U. S. N.
F. L. Hearson, Eng. U. S. N.
Robert Hayes, Corp. Co. D, 46th Mass. V.
John Hagle, Corp. Co. G. roth C. V.
Alfred Hoyt, U. S. N.
Henry Hoffman, Co. H, ist Pa. Reserves.
Adam Hagerty, Co. H, 17th U. S. Inf.
John S. Hall, Corp. Co. I, 2d C. H. A.
Henry Houpt, Sergt. Co. H, 6th C. V.
Eugene Hyatt, Co. C, ad C. H. A.
Erskine ri. Holmes, Co. G, ist C. V.
Wm. T. Hawes, Capt. Co. B, 28II1 N. Y. V.
Abel L. Hall, Co. D, 33d C. V.
J. S. Hanford, Co. M, 1st C. H. A.
John H. Halligan, Sergt. Co. H. 28th C. V.
J. C. Hall, U. S. Navy.
Edward Hope. Sergt, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Cornelius Heron, Corp. Co. K, 124th N. Y. V.
Philip Hairier, Corp. Co. I, 1st C. V.
Chas. W. Hurst, Co. H, 8th C. V.
Philip Hurdbolt, Co. A, 8th N. Y. V.
Wni. H. Harrison, Co. D, ad C. H. A.
Wm. B. Hayes, Sergt. Co. D, 150th N. Y. V,
S. S. Hooker, Co. A, 27th Mass. V.
Henry C. Isard, Co. G, 8th N. J. V.
W. H. Ingalls, Co. G, 18th N. H. V.
Joseph Jacobs, Co. I, 1561I1 N. Y. V.
Wm. Jahn, Corp. Co. F, 45th N. Y. V.
J. Jenkinson, Co. B, ist N. J. Cav.
James H. Jerinan, Co. D, 6th C. V.
Wm. P. Jessup, Co. G, 127th N. Y. V.
George H. Josslyn, Co. G, 18th Mass. V.
Charles Johnson.
Wm. A. Johnson, Co. E, 5th C. V.
Chas. Jensen.
Geo. F. Jennings.
H. Q. Judd, Corp. Co. G, 17th C. V.
Geo. W. Johnson, Mus. Co. 1), i6ad N. Y. V.
William H. Keeler, (J. M. S. 17th C. V.
Ambrose Klrkllam, Co. A, 115th N. Y. V,
William Krapp, Corp. Co. I, 23d C. V.
Henry F. Kcyes, Band 9th and 17th C. V.
John R. Kimball, Sergt. Co. B, 4th N. H. V.
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Jas. Kiley, ist Lieut. Co. H, 28th C. V.
Frank A. King, Co. A, 14th C. V.
Jas. Kiley, U. S. N.
Joseph B. King, 1st Sergt. Co. D, ist C. Car.
Wm. Kringle, Co. D, 6ad N. Y. V.
George Kurtz, Mus. Co. — , 14th C. V.
Chas. B. Keeler, Co. H. 4th C. V.
Chas. Krapp, 2d C. L. Bat.
Thos. Kelley, Co. M, 14th N. Y. H. A.
Robert D. Kelley, Mus. Co. I, 6th C. V.
William Keen, Co. B, 16th C. V.
Jos. Killenbeck, Sergt. Co. B, 20th C. V.
G. S. Keeler, Brig. Band. U. S. A.
John Kounlzman, Co. D, 79th N. Y. V.
Wm. C. Keller, 2d C. L. Bat.
Patrick Kelley, Sergt. Co. K, 9th U. S. V.
Lewis King.
Henry Kmicler,
Sevil Knight, Co. G, 4th Mass. V.
Geo. E. Lover, Co. H, 14th C. V.
James P. Lockwood, Co. F, Pa. Reserves.
Henry Landivcg, Co. G, 56th N. Y. V.
Calvin J. Lathrop, Co. D, ist C. Cav.
W. H. Langdon, Co. A, 5th C. V.
Dennis Leary, Mus. ist Brig, 2d Div.
James R. Lockwood, Corp. Co. E. 33d C. V.
John Lotty, Co. A, 14th C. V.
Philip B. Lever, Mus. Co. A, 3d C. V.
Geo. F. Lewis, M.D.
Henry Lintenmyer, Co. F, 56th N. Y. VoL
R. La Fontain, Co. — , 12th N. Y. Cav.
William Lien, Co. K, 17th C. V.
John Laurie, Co. D, 9th C. V.
John H. Logan, iat Sergt. Co. D, 28th C. V.
Henry C. Laramie, Corp. Co. D, 137th N.Y.V.
W. H. Lee, U.S. N.
Peter Lynch, Corp. Co. G, ist U. S. Int; Co.
' H, 7II1 Kan. Cav.
Samuel Lloyd, Co. I, 10th C. V.
Geo. Laughlin, Co. A, 34th C. V.
James R. Middlebrook, Corp. Co. D, 17U1 C. V.
Samuel Moore, Co, B, 20th C. V.
Hazen B. Martin, Corp. Co. I, ad N. H. V.
Wm. H. Marshall, ist Lt. Co. I, 10th C. V.
Julian Manchester, Co. E, ist C. V.
James McDcrmott, U. S. N.
Harry Mohan, Co. I, 5th N. Y. Vols.
Robert McManus, Co, A, ist C. V.
John McConnell, U. S. Navy.
Lewis E. McLaughlin, Corp. Co. A, 83 N. Y. V.
Daniel Morrell, Co. G, 153d 111. V.
John Mullen, Co. L, ad P. A. H. A.
George W. Mycr, ad C. L. B»L
George E. Mitchel, Co. E, 34th Mass. V.
Chas. McElroy, Co. K, 17th C. V.
Walter L. Murphy, Co. G, 17th C. V.
James A. Morris, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Charles E. Marlton, Co. H, 19th C. V.
Wm. McNeil, Sergt. Co. G, aoth C. V.
Charles Mayer, Sergt Co. B, 13th N. Y. V.

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History of Bridgeport.

Harvey Meekin, Sergt. Co. f, 5th N. Y. Cav.
Richard Marshall. Drum Major, 5th C. V.
Nicholas Muth, Co. 1), 98th Penn. V.
John H. Murphy, Co. F, 1st C. V.
C. Andrew Morehouse, Sergt. Co. C, 33d C. V.
Frank Marshall, Corp. Co. K, 7th C. V.
George A. Mayne, Co. H, 1st C. V.
Timothy Murphy, Co. M, ist N. Y. Cav.
Charles Morgan, Co. A, 4th N. Y. H. A.
Chandler McCarty, Hosp. Steward, U. S. A.
Chas. D. Miller, Co. G, a7th Mass. V.
W. H. Miller, Co. I, nth C. V.
Chas. D. Millikin.
A. A. Murray, Co. I, 6th C. V.
John H. Mills, Corp. Co. A, 17th N. Y. V.
James H. Nash, Co. D, 6th N. Y. V.
George E. Nickerson, Co. H, 71st N. Y. V.
Chas. H. Newton, Co. F, 43d Mass. V.
John Nichols, Corp. Co. F, ist C. H. A.
David Northrop, Co. G, 17th C. V.
Edward Olden, Jr., Co. H, 137th N, Y. V.
James S. Olmstead, Co. I, 9th C. V.
Thomas R, O'Hara, Co. E, 4th Mass. Cav.
James Owens, Co. E, 33d C. V.
John Oliver, ist Sergt. Co. A, 178th N. Y. V.
and 1st U. S. Cav.
Isaac E. Osborn, Co. I, 33d Penn. V,
John Osborn, Co. E, 33d C. V.
J. C. Oatley, Co. L, 2d R. I. V.
Gilbert Oakley, Co. K, ist Wis. Cav.
Norman Provost, Lieut. Co. I, 6th C. V.
Jacob Penn, Co. D, 17th C. V.
Joseph Peoria.
Benj. B. Penfield, Adj. 6th C. V.
James H. Porter, Act. Comdr. U. S. N.
Myron Purdy, Co. C, 20th C. V.
James Parks, ist Sergt. Co. B, ad C. H. A,
Geo. A. Parkington, 2d C. L. Bat.
C. B. Payne, Co. F, 7lh Me. V.
Patrick Purden, Co. F, 17th C. V.
Thaddeus E. Peck, Serg. Lt. U. S. N.
Joseph Perry, Co. F, 133d N. Y. V.
S. C. Paul, Co. I, 9th N. Y. V.
C. T. Piatt, Co. A, lolh N. Y. V.
Albert M. Porter. Com. Serg. 12th C. V.
Robert E. Paddock, ist Lt. Co. I, aoth C. V.
Conrad Pullis, Co. L, ist C. H. A.
Charles W. Peet, Co. D, 23d C. V.
George C. Potter, Co. M, 12th N. Y. Cav.
Lewis F. Pelton, Co. G, 16th C. V.
C. L. Paddock, Mus. 3d Vt. V.
Abram T. Peck, Co. A, 5th C. V.
James B. Prescott, ist Serg. Co. F, 9th C. V.
James M. Prindle, Co. A, 2d C. H. A.
John Prindle, U. S. Navy.
Willard W. Pettingell, Co. A, Lt. Anil.
Christian Quinn, 2d Lt. Co. F, nth C. V.
Chester B. Russell, Corp. Co. I, 1st C. H. A.
Angevine Rogers, sd C. Lt, Bat,
Geo. W. Raymond, ist Lt, Co. I, 5th C. V.

W. H. Romer, Jr., Co. E, 6th C. V.
Chas. H. Rowe, 2d C. Lt. Bat.
Alfred Rich, Co. G, 17th C. V.
Wm. Rebstock, Co. H, 6th C. V.
Henry Roscoe, Co. B, 28th C. V.
Chas. Rinaldi, Co. I, 23d C. V.
Henry A. Root, Co. K, aad C. V.
Nathan H. Root, ist Serg. Co. M, 2d C. H. A.
James. P. Reed, U. S. Navy.
Henry C. RolT, Mus. Co. H, 10th N. Y. V.
Chas. Rawlins.
Benj. F. Ross, Co. F, 15th C. V.
Thomas Russell, Master-at-Arms, U. S. N.
J. Wilbur Range, Mus. Co. K, 8th C. V.
Simeon C. Rosenberg, Band, 5th C. V.
Philip B. Segee, ist Lt. C. Lt. Bat.
Chas. W. Shailer, ist Lt. Co. K, 7th C. V.
Thcophilus T. Smith, Co. B, 6th C. V.
Jacob Spagle, Co. H, 7th C. V.
Thomas H. Sterling, Co. H, 150th N. Y. V.
Walter F. Sage, Co. G, 1st Conn. H. A.
D. G. Silliman, 2d C. Lt. Battery.
Birdsey L. Sherman, Co. A, 9th N. Y. V.
Wm. Sheriden, Co. K, 1st N. Y. Cav.
Geo. W. Smith, Co, A, 14th C. V.
David G. Sheriden, Co. C, 9th C. V,
Nicholas Sanger, Co. B, ist C. V.
Patrick W. Seevey, Co. G, 51st N. Y. V.
August \Y. Stotpcr.
Michael Schneider, Co. F, 20th N. Y. V.
P. Joseph Schonberger, Co. C, 40th N. Y. V.
Alonzo Scranton, Co, D, 17th C. V.
P. Shonenberger.
Jos. Sanger, Co, D, 4th U. S. Infantry.
Peter Seman, Serg. Co. C, ist C. Cav.
Horace B. Stoddard, Co. D, 13th C. V.
E. G. Sherwood, Co. B, 1st C. H. A.
U. D. H. Smith, Co. G, 17th C. V.
Solomon C. Shumway, Lt. Co. H, 21 Mass. V.
Chas. Scarritt, 2d C. Lt. Battery.
Michael Snyder, Co, F, 51st N. Y. V.
Chas. W. Speer,'ad C. Lt. Battery.
George E. Swinscoe, Captain and Mustering
Officer, U. S. V.
Joseph Strange, Co, A, 79th N. Y. V.
John Slattery, Co. D, 173d N. Y. V.
John Simpson, Co. I, ist C. H. A.
W. H, Smith, Co. A, Dili C. V.
Gilbert L. Slreet, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Maurice Smend, Co. G, ist N. Y. Art.
Theodore Smith, Co. A, 8th C. V.
L. W. Sherman, Corp. Co. I, 43d N. Y. V.
Benjamin St. John, Co. I, 23d C. V.'
Ernest Schultz, Co. A, 9th Ohio V..
Edgar Squires, Co. G, 17th C. V.
Bennett Smith, Co. E, 8th C. V.
Barney Shanley, Co. F, ist U. S. Art.
J. L. Selden, Co. B, 6th Mass. V.
Frederick Speer, Co. H, 6th C, V.
Samuel N. Smith, Lt. Col. 7th Mich. V.

Members of the G. A. R. Post.

483

Oliver W. Treadwell, Co. D, ist C. Cav.
Albert Tilton.
J. M. Turney, Co. H, 1st C. Cav.
Oliver k. Tomlinson, Co. A, 14th C. V.
Horatio Tyrrell, 3d C. Lt. Bat,
John Thornton, Co. C, ist C. H. A.
Isaac S. Taylor, Co. I, 6th C. V.
St. Clair Techner, Lt. Co. E, 9II1 Ohio V.
James R. Vans, ad C. Lt. Bat.
George Valentine, Co. K, 1st Vol. Eng.
Odel B. Vredenburgh, Co. E, 19th N. Y. V.
Richard Wallace, Co. A, 14th C. V.
Alexander Weed, Co. A, a8th C. V.
Thomas K. Wood, ist Lt. Co. K, 51st N. Y. V.
Edwin S. Witherall, Co. E, 20th Me. V.
Marlin V. Willoughby, Co. F, 23d C. V.
Daniel J. West, ist LI. Co. I, 6th C. V.
James W. Waterbury, U. S. N.
James Wheeler, Capt. Co. H, ist C. Cav.
W. L. Wentworth, Mus. Co. B, ist C. V.
Chas. S. Wells, Co. D, 17th C. V.
Fred M. Wilmott, Mus. Co. D, 17th C. V.
W. H. Wales, Co. I, 6th C. V.
H. Walschilger, Co. A, 1st U. S. S. S.

W. W. Walker, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Jos. E. Wells, Co. G, 10th C. V.
Thos. N . Wheeler, Corp. Co. H, 4th N. Y. Art.
Thomas Wood, 2d Lt. Co. E, 51st N. Y. V.
G. W. Wright, Co. D, ist C. Cav.
A. A. Watrous, Co. G, 185th N. Y. V.
Edward Ward, Co. K, ist Mass. H. A.
P. D. Warner, Mus. 14th U. S. Inf.
Benjamin E. Watrous, Corp. Co. — , 103d Vet,
R. C.
L. F. Warner, Co. K, ioth C. V.
David S. Walker, ad C. Lt. Bat,
C. H. Whitney.
Stephen Weaver, Co. C, 40th N. Y. V.
David R. Waters, Co. A, ioth C. V.
Charles F. Wurtz, Co. G, 17th C. V.
Henry Werner, Co. — , ist C. V.
Mark D. Wilbur, Lt, Co. 159th N. Y. V.
N. L. Wentworth, Co. F, ist Mass. Cav.
Frank A. Wood, Q. M. ist C. Cav.
Daniel Weslrick, Co. G, 45th N. Y. V.
Edward J. Watson, Corp. ad C. Lt, Bat.
John B. Young, Lt. Co. I, 7th C. V.

Present Members, 1886.

Wm. C. Aumack, Serg. Co. B, 29th N. J. V.
Jacob Arnald, Co. B, ist C. V.
Alfred C. Arnald, Co. G, ioth C. V.
Stephen P. Almy, 15th unattached Co., Mass. V.
Aaron S. Abbott, Co. A, 14th C. V.
James H. Angevine.
Antone Aitengeltinger, Corporal Co. E, 41st
N. Y. V.
Gustavus A. Abbott, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Alfred B. Beers, Capt. Co. B, 6th C. V.
Charles E. Beers, Corp. Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Lathrope Beers, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Bradley Banks, 2d C. Lt. Bat.
James H. Burns, Co. I, ioth C. V.
George E. Betts, 2d Lt. Co. I, 19th C. V.
Thomas Boudren, Major 25th U. S. C. T., and
Capt. Co. I, 6th C. V.
George W. Babcock, Co. G, 4th R. I. V.
Thomas Burke, Serg. Co. A, 5th N. Y. Cav.
Thomas J. Bartley, Co. K, 20th N. Y. Cav.
Ashbcl E. Bartram, Corp. Co. I, 8th C. V.
Wm. C. Blush, Co. F, 46th Mass. V.
Wm. P. Burroughs, ad C. Lt. Bat.
Rollin C. Baker.
Sylvester Blinn, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Alexander Bend, Co. H, 119th N. Y. V.
James H. Blakeman, Co. D, 17th C. V.
E. C. Blakeman, Co. A, ioth C. V.
Wm. H. Burr, Co. D, 33d C. V.
Luther S. Broclous, Co. H, 93d Penn. V.
August S. Bodlne, 1st Lt. Co. B, 127th N. Y. V.
Thomas L. Bartholomew, Adj. 9th N. Y. V.
John B. Beardsley.

Ulrlch Burghardl, Corp. Co. B, 13th C. V.
Alfred P. Buss.
Lyman S. Catlin, ist Lt. and Q. M. 5th U.S. C.
Cav.
John S. Caroli, Mus. Co. I, 25th N. J. V.
George F. Cook, Co. D, 9th C. V.
Thomas C. Coats, Capt. Co. D, 9th C. V.
James G. Clark, Co. K, ad C. H. A.
George H. Conch, ad LL Co. F, ist C. H. A.
Ansil H. Conch, ad Lt. Co. K, istC. H. A.
John C. Curtis, ist Lt. Co. I, 9th C. V.
Wm. H. Curtis, Co. C, 17th C. V.
Henry B. Curtis, Co. A, 5th C. V.
Henry Crofult, U. S. N.
Theo. A. Crofutt, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Henry R. Chaffee, ad Lt. ad C. Lt Bat
Samuel J. Chaffee, Capt. 49th Mass. V.
John C. Copeland, Lt Co. A, 13th N. Y. V.
Joseph P. Grossman, ad LL Co. E, lath C. V.
John J. Cavanaugh, Corp. Co. C, 133d N. Y. V.
Richard A. Clancey, ist Lt. Co. D, 9th C. V.
William E. Disbrow, Corp. Co. H, 3d C. H. A.
Charles L. Derrick, Corp. Co. I, 33d C. V.
Jacob Dietrich, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Patrick Donovan, Serg. Co. H, 37th Mass. V.
Charles C. Drew, Co. C, 16th C. V.
Edwin L. Downs, Co. H, aoth C. V.
William Derringer, Corp. Co. G, 137111 N. Y. V.
Edgar A. Dean,
Hugh Dunn.
John B. Earl, Co. K, ist N Y. Eng.
Charles H. Frank, Corp. Co. K, a3d C. V.
Philip Flynn, Corp. Co. G, 73d N. Y. V.

4*4

History of Bridgeport.

Henry J. Flint, Co. D, ist C. Cav.
Anson II. Field. Co. G, 7th C. Cav.
George II. Fox, Co. I, 6th C. Cav.
John Fox, Co. A, 14II1 C. V.
Michael Frawley, Co. D, ioth C. V.
Richard FitxGibbons, Co. H, ist C. V., Lt. Col.
9U1 C. V.
William Finnemore, Serg. Co. D, 13th C. V.
Edwin Freeman, Mus. Co, I, 39th C. V.
Russell Glenn, ist Serg. Co. A, 14th C. V.
Isaac W. Gilbert, Co. A, 17th C. V.
Wellington II. Gibbs, Co. E, 7th C. V.
Peter O. Gregory, Co. D, 33d C. V.
Wm. C. Geddes, ist Serg. Co. I, 70th N. Y. V.
James L. Green, Serg. Co. I, 15th C. V.
Wra. H. Green,
James G. Goodwin, Co. D, 99th N. Y. V.
Peter Gabler.
Augustine Harlow, Capt. Co. D, 13th Mass. V.
Joseph Hammond, Mus. Co. F, 33d C. V.
Charles W. Hall, Capt. Co. D, 33d C. V.
James Haugh, Co. E, 17th C. V.
Justus B. Hawley, ad Lt. 2d C. Lt. Bat.
Rechus Harming, Co. H, 6th C. V.
Charles C. Hoyt, Capt. Co. D, 8lh N. H. V.
A. A. Holmes, Ass't Surg. 15th Me. V.
Sylvester S. Hooper, Corp. Co. A, 27th C. V.
Louis Held, Co. B, ist C. V.
Henry A. Hurd, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Henry Huss, Mus. Co. D, 17th C. V.
William L. Hubbell, Capt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
Alvin S. Hunt, Co. A, aist C. V.
John W. Hunt.
William H. Hine, Corp. Co. H, 23d C. V.
Thomas F. Hickey, Co. M, ist N. Y. Cav.
John R. Hull, Artificer, ist ('.. Lt. Bat.
Samuel S. Hunter.
John Holier.
George Heisler.
John P. Jaquith, Corp. Co. C, 131st Ohio V.
Oris S. Jennings, Corp. Co. A, 8th C. V.
Silas D. Johnson, Corp. Co. F, 14th R. I. H. A,
Wm. M. Jones, Band, 17th C. V.
Henry Jaquet.
Jno. U. Kable, Co. K, 17th C. V.
George W. Keeler, Co. D, 17th C. V.
John Keppy, ist Serg. Co. C, 23d C. V.
Fred C. Keller, Artificer, Co. B, ist U. S. Artil.,
and Co. H, 6th C. V.
Thomas Knablin, Co. D, 9th C. V.
Julius W. Knowlton, ad Lt. Co — , 14th C. V.
Rudolph Kost, ad Lt. Co. H, 6th C. V.
Christian Kohlus, Co. H, 6th C. V.
Michael Kelly, Bvt. Major 2d C. H. A.
William H. Lacey, Capt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
William H. Lattimer, U. S. N.
Robert Lauder, Corp. Co. K, nth R. I. V.
Patrick Layden, Co. B, 9th C. V.
Charles P. Lewis, Co. I, 7U1 C. V.
George M. Lewis, Co. I, 5th C. V.

David B. Lockwood, Serg. ad C. Lt. Bat.
Lewis G. Logan, ist Lt. Co. I, ist C. H. A.
George W. Lovcjoy, Corp. Co. M, ist C. H. A.
Wm. H. Longdon, Co. A, 51I1 C. V.
John A. Leonard, Co. E, 95th N. Y. V.
John A. Ludford, Corp. Co. K, 2d C. H. A.
William H. Lyon, Serg. Co. D, 37th Penn. V.
George W. Lawmaster.
Joseph Lavoy.
Edward W. Marsh, Capt. Co. M, 2d C. H. A.
Wm. H. Maby, Co. D, 171I1 C. V.
Barney Marshall, Co. D, 17th C. V.
John Marshall, ist Lt. ioth U. S. C. A.
Albert M cuius, Co. B, ist C. V.
Moses M. Mills, Co. I, 9th C. V.
Frank Miller, Co. I, ist C. H. A.
Wm. U. Mitchell, Mus. Co. A, 52d Mass. V.
Philo A. Morris, Co. E, ist C. H. A.
Charles E. Moore, ist Serg. Co. B, 6th C. V.
Michael McCormick, Serg. Co. G. 6lh N. Y.
H. A.
Chas. T. Moody, Drummer, Co. H, 5th N.H.V.
Wm. H. McNeill.
Byron W. Munsen, Com. Surg. Co. G, ist C.
Cav.
George Mungcr, ist Lt, 2d C. I.t. Bat.
Joseph Molt, Co. D, 17th C. V.
Fred C. Nicholas, Co. C, aad C. V.
Sylvester Nichols, ad C. Lt. Bat.
Chas. H. Nichols, Capt. Co. D. 6th C. V.
John Nunheimer, Serg. Co. A, 103d Battery,
N. Y. V.
Henry North, ist Lt. Co. D, 17th C. V.
Wm. H. Nordaby, Co. K, 14th N. V. V.
Wm. H. Noble, Col. 17th C. V., Bvt. Brig. Gen.
Terrance O'Brien, Corp. Co. I, ioth C. V.
Thomas W. Oatley, Co. F, 2d R. I. V.
John O'Conner, Co. I, 27th Mass. V.
Charles O'Neil, Co. E, ad Mass. V.
Albert W. Overton, Co. M, ist C. H. A.
William R. Palmer, 2d C. Lt. Bat.
Stephen T. Palmer, Co. C, 5th C. V.
William C. Peck, Seaman, U. S. N.
Edward Peel, Corp. Co. I, lath C. V.
George L. Porter, Ass't Surgeon, U. S. A.
Warren W. Porter, ist Lt. Co. L", 7th 111. Cav.
Michael Pickett, Co. K, 17th C. V.
Edward M. Presbrey, Co. A, 13th C. V.
Granville Plait, Co. I, 6th C. V.
Horace Plumb, Co. D, 17th C. V.
W. E. Parker.
John H. Porter, Serg. Co. K, 17th C. V.
Charles W. Phipps.
Lyman L. Rose, Serg. Co. E, 46 Mass. V.
Benj. F. Remington, Co. F, 10th Mass. V.
Charles Rohrback, Corp. Co. B, i3t C. V.
Wm. H. Robertson, Co, A, ist Cal.
Michael Rock, Co. C, 7th C. V.
Elbert Ruggles.
Harlan P. Rugg, Capt. Co. I, 5th C. V.

Physicians of Bridgeport.

485

William Ryan, Co. I, 33d C. V.
L. H. Russell.
Charles H. Russell, Major, ist Md. Cav.
James Rcddy.
Walter L. Savage, 3d Lt. ioth C. V.
Frcd'k O. Seeley, 3d C. Lt, Bat.
Henry J. Seeley, ioth Indep. Lt. Bat.
George A. Staples, islScrg. Co. I, C. V.
Henry W. S'.evens, Co. C, 14th C. V.
Henry G. Stevens, Co. E,3ist N. Y. V.
Charles W. Stevens, ist Serg. Co. I, 7th C. V.
Henry Stephens, Co. H, 25th N. Y. V.
Win. W. Stevens, Corp. 2d C. Lt. Bat,
George C. Stewart, Co. C, 2d C. H. A.
Joseph Strasburger, Co. I, 33d C. V.
Henry Shadt, Serg. Co. G, ad C. H. A.
John S. Selden, Co, B, 6th Mass. V.
Charles E. Shelton, Corp. Co. I, 33d C. V.
John M. Speidel, Lt. Col. ist and 6th C. V.
John H. Sweet, Co. G, 7th C. V.
Barnum Slccum, ist Serg. Co. G, N. Y. V.
Samuel B. Sumner, Lt. Col. 49th Mass. V.
Henry Stagg.
James H. Smith, 1st Lt. Co. H, 43d N. Y. V.
Frederick Smith. Co. K, 6th C. V.
James P. Smith, Co. K, 15th C. V.
Henry H. Smith, Corp. Co. I, 27th C. V.
Charles L. Smith, Co. F, 17th C. V.
Thomas P. Smith, Co. D, 193d N. Y. V.
Seaman Hicks, Mus, Co. C, 2d C. H. A.
Samuel Thorpe, Serg, Co. K, 17th C. V.
Joseph Tyler, 1st Serg. Co. A, ioth C. V.
Frank B. Taylor, Co. E, N. Y. V.
Lyman M. Turney, Serg. U. S. Marines.

Frederick D. Tomlinson, Co. E, ist C. H. A.
Elam M. Tongue,
Jno. W. Thompson.
Horace Treat.
Geo. S. Thompson.
John L. Thomas.
Edmund Thompson, Corp. 2d C. Lt. Bat
Frederick Uschman, Serg. Co. B, 68th N. Y. V.
William Van Gasbeck, Co. D, 23d C. V.
George C. Waldo, Co. E, 2d C. V.
Patrick Wade, Jr., Serg. Co. K, 17th C. V.
Fred L. Warren, Co. A, 23d C. V.
Frank J. Warner, Corp. Co. H, 3d C. H. A.
Henry E. Waitc, Co. K, 17th C. V.
Eugene Ward, Lt. Co. B, Louisiana Engineers.
Wm. N. Walsh, Co. K, 14th Mass. V.
Frank M. Welch, ist Lt. Co. F. 54th Mass. V.
Will H. Weicht, Co. L, 3d Pa. Cav.
Osmer B. Wells.
Wm. Wellington, Artificer, 34th Indep. Battery,
N. Y. V.
Frank H. Whiting, ist Lt ad C. Lt Bat
Wm. H. Whiting.
Chas. E. Williams, Com. Serg. ad N. Y. Car.
Geo. E. Williams, Co. A, ad C. V.
Stephen H. Wright, Co. B, 75th N. Y. V.
Daniel Worcester.
Myron H. White, Corp. ad C. LL Bat
L. Whittaker.
Wm. H. Wheeler.
Sylvanus Wordin, Co. C, ioth N. Y. V.
Wm. B. Wilcoxson.
Frank J. Young, A. A. Surgeon, U. S. N.

List of Physicians in Bridgeport.

Daniel Clifford, was
drowned June, 1781.
James Eaton Beach, 1778,
d. 1838.
Dr. Tisdalc.
Thomas Holman.63
Samuel Simons.
William B. Nash.
Samuel Beach.
David H. Nash.
Frederick J, Judson.
Hanford N. Bennett.
Robert Hubbard.
Joseph S. French.

J. R. Cumming.
Elijah Gregory.
G. Ohnesorg.
A. E. Barber.
H. L. W. Burrilt.
George L. Beers.
L. H. Norton.
Ed. W. Winslow.
G. F. Lewis.
A, H. Abernelhy.
Seth Hill.
William H. Hine.
A. J. Smith.
Richard W. Bull.

- Brown.

Henry H. Davidson.
C. E. Sanford.
Curtis H. Bill.
Francis J. Young.
Robert Lauder.
George L. Porter.
N. E. Wordin.
Charles W. Sheffrey.
A. A. Holmes.
George M. Tceple.
Sidney Bishop.
Stanley P. Warren.
Edward T. Ward.

e'' Doctor Holman, the first missionary physician to the Sandwich Islands,
returned to Bridgeport in 1822 and died here in 1816.

486

History of Bridgeport.

Martin J. Buesch.
Byron W, Munson.
F. M. Wilson.
John Becker.
William J. Wakeman.
T. F. Marlin.
J. W. King.
F. A. Rice.
B. F. Bronson.

Mary J. Rising.
W. B. Beebe.
W. H. Bunnell.
J. W. Wright.
F. B. Downs.
C. S. Hoag.
W. C. Bowers.
H. P. Cole.
W. T. Dclamater.

A. M. Lyons.
A. N. Phillips.
Jacob May.
C. C. Godfrey.
W. H. Donaldson.
Samuel Garlick.
Andrew Gilroy.
Henry Blodget.
John E. Kelly.

Lint of the Lawyers who have
their admittance to the bar, so far as cou
Thaddeus Benedict, Stratford, 1797 ;
died here Oct. 6, 1799.
Benjamin Hall.
Pierreponi Edwards, New Haven about
i77i.M
Charles Winton.
Joseph Backus.
Alanson Hamlin.
Joseph Wood.
Fitch Wheeler.
Mark Moore.
Henry Dutton.
James C. Loomis, 1832.
Elisha S. Abernethy.
'Richard C. Ambler, 1878.
Oswald P. Backus, 1883,
Frank E. Baldwin.
Sidney B. Beardsley, 1843.
Morris B. Beardsley, 1872.
Alfred B. Beers, 1871.
William D. Bishop, 1875.
William D. Bishop, Jr., 1886.

practiced in Bridgeport, with the date of
Id be ascertained, at the lime.
Henry T. Blake, 1851, Fairfield Co.;
Hartford Co. 1850.
John A. Boughton. ¦
Stephen S. Blake, N. H. Co., 1872.
Ebenezer Burr, 1874, N. H. Co.; 1874,
Fairfield Co.
Israel M. Bullock, 1866 ; died Oct.,
1879.
Charles S. Canfield, 1875.
Frank M. Canfield.
Frederick Chittenden,
John C. Chamberlain, Olmstead Co.,
Minn., 1874 ; Fairfield Co., 1876,
James H. Cooney.
Joseph H. Collins,
William H. Comley, 1884,
Howard J. Curtis, 1883.
Daniel Davenpdrt, 1875.
Robert E. DeForest. N. H. Co., 1869.
Charles A. Doten, 1872.
Theodore W. Downs, Litchfield Co, to
Fairfield Co., 1874.

63 Judge Pierreponi Edwards, son of ihe meiaphysician, born at Northampton,
Mass., April 8, 1750; died at Bridgeport, Conn., April 14, 1826, was graduated at
Princeton College in 1768. His father being a missionary to ihe Stockbridge
Indians, his youth was passed among them, and he acquired their language per
fectly. He commenced the practice of law in New Haven in 1771 ; took an early
and efficient part in the councils of Connecticut in favor of Independence ; served
in the Revolutionary army, and was in two hard fought battles, including that of
Danbury, He was a member of the old Congress, 1787-8, and an able advocate
for the Constitution of the United States, in the convention held to ratify it. He
was judge of the United States district court of Connecticut at the time of his
decease. He was the founder of the "Toleration party" in Connecticut, and by
his ability and perseverance drew upon himself ihc animosity of the Calvinists.
He was the first Grand Master of Masons in Connecticut, and was the father of
H. W. and Ogden Edwards.

Lawyers of Bridgeport.

487

Frederick J. Fox.
VanRensselaer C. Giddings, Litchfield
Co., 1861 ; Fairfield Co., 1869.
Louis K. Gould, 1882.
Frederick B. Hall, 1871.
Edwin F. Hall, 1881.
William T. Haviland, 1882.
David F. Hollister, 1S51, Litchfield Co.;
Fairfield Co., 1854.
Gideon H. Hollister.
Henry Hugins.
William H. Kelsey, 1880.
Frank L. Holt, 1877.
Sherman H. Hubbard, 1881.
Frank J. Hughes.
Francis Ives, 1848.
Joseph A. Joyce, 1878.
Bernard Keating, 1880,
Jacob B. Klein, 1883.
Howard H. Knapp.
Frank G. Lewis.
David B. Lockwood, 1851.
Michael C. McGuinness, 1878.
Hugh D. McGee.
Edward F. Meeker, 1877.
Louis N. Middlebrook.
Eugene Morehouse, 18S2,
Dwight Morris, 1841.
William H. Noble.
Frank P. Norman, 1S79.
Wilfred E. Norton, N. H. Co., 1867.
J. Wilbur Parrott.
Eugene B. Peck, 1875. —
John J. Phelan, 1878.
Charles Bostwick."

Patrick Phelan, 1886.
Frank L. Rodgers, 1881.
Joseph J. Rose, 1885.
Henry S. Sanford, Litchfield Co., 1854.
William K. Seeley, 1852.
Morris W. Seymour.
Edward W. Seymour, 1856; Fairfield
Co., 1876.
Cyrus M. Shelton, 1886.
Henry T. Shelton, Jr.
William R. Shelton, 1872.
Charles Sherwood, 1875.
Lucius M. Slade, N. Lond Co., 1861 ;
Fairfield Co., 1863.
Friend W. Smith, Jr., 1882.
Ernest L. Staples, 1883.
William H. Stevenson, 1878.
Goodwin Stoddard, 1868.
Isaac M. Sturges, 1837.
E. Stewart Summer, 1878.
Samuel B. Sumner, Mass., 1852 ; Fair
field Co., 1863.
Albert M. Tallmadge, 1877.
Curtis Thompson. Middlesex Co., 1864;
Fairfield Co., 1864.
Amos S. Treat, 1843 ; died 1886.
Morris Tullle.
George W. Warner, 1848.
Levi Warner.
George W. Wheeler, Jr., 1883.
Mark D. Wilbur, Fairfield Co., 1877.
William C. Wildman.
James A. Wilson, 1865 ; N. H., 1674.
Albert M. Woosier, 1883.

64 Hon. Charles ISosfwicIc was graduated at Yale College in 1796,
studied law under Judge Reeve at Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to the bar
of Fairfield county in 1799. He continued in the practice of the law at Bridge
port until 1810, when he removed to the city of New York, where he was exten
sively engaged in mercantile business until 1837, when he retired from business
and resumed his residence at Bridgeport.
In 1840 he was elected mayor of ihe cily and chief judge of the Cily Court.

SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS

[A sermon, written in 1799, by the Rev. Philo Shelton.]

"A History of the Church of Fairfield?
On the 26th day of August, 1722, the Rev. Mr. Picket,'
from Stratford, came to Fairfield and preached at the house
of Mr. Thomas Hanford to about six families. This was the
first time that divine service was performed in the town
agreeable to the rites and usages of the Church of England.
After this the people met and read prayers among themselves,
and the Rev. Mr. Johnson, from Stratford, occasionally
preached for them. On the 22d of June, 1725, a church was
raised at Fairfield about one and a half miles west from the
meeting house, and on the 10th of November following, it
being a public thanksgiving day, the Rev. Doctor Johnson
opened the new church with a sermon suitable to the occasion.
Somewhere about this time there was a law obliging
people of all denominations to be taxed for the support of
the Presbyterian worship. This the Episcopalians looked
upon as a great grievance, and some had the resolution to
refuse paying this tax and were committed to gaol. Of this
number were Mr. Ward, of Fairfield, Glover and Hard, of
Newtown.8 Upon this a memorial was presented to the
General Assembly, signed by the church wardens, of Fair
field, viz: praying to be excused from supporting worship in
which they did not believe nor profess. Their prayer was
' This is intended to be a literal copy of Mr. Shelton's sermon, except the
abbreviated words in the original are here spelled at length.
' This was the Rev. George Piggot.
* It may be seen from these statements that but one person is named of Fair
field and two of Newtown as sent to jail, although there may have been others,
and these all, probably, attended the church at Fairfield. The language "had the
resolution to refuse paying this tax," and " upon this a memorial was presented to
the General Assembly," suggests thai they went 10 jail for the purpose of making
a case In order to appeal 10 the Assembly with greater force, and thus secure a
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402 History of Bridgeport.
heard and the taxes of the Episcopalians might in future be
applied to the support of their own profession in obliging
them to be taxed in the same proportion by the Presbyterian
committee and collected by their collectors and then paid
over to the church clergyman or to the wardens, which law
continued in existence until the American Independence.
The church people at Fairfield increasing some, they
were very desirous to have a clergyman settled among them.
They purchased a lot of land, about half an acre, with a house,
for his accommodation and sent the deed by the hands of a
certain Mr. Henry Canner to the society in England, praying
that he might be clothed with Priest's Orders and settled
over them. Their petition was heard and the Rev. Mr.
Canner received to Fairfield in October, 1727, with a salary
of fifty pounds sterling, per annum, and the people were very
happy in his admistrations and the church flourished under
his ministry. The principal people that composed the church
were Messrs. Ward, Adams, Wilson, Hanford, Jinnings, Lyon,
Barlow, Beers, Sturges and others. The church that was first
built was small, not sufficient now to contain the numbers.
On the 9th of August, 1738, they raised another of fifty-four
feet by thirty-six, with a steeple,' and with the charitable
donations from New York and the society in England, the
house was finished very decently with a bell. The Rev. Mr.
Canner continued at Fairfield as their minister until the year
1744. He was then, by the Missionaries' Society, removed to
Boston, to the great grief of the Episcopalians of Fairfield, he
being a man of eminent talents, a great preacher and an able
defender of the doctrines of the church, and a very agreeable,
engaging companion and neighbor. While he was at Fair
field the church flourished, her numbers increased, and all
appeared to be happy. He was born in England, came to
America in his youth, was educated at Yale College, studied
divinity under Doctor Johnson, married a Miss McKinsey,
daughter of Mr.  McKinsey. He continued a preacher
in the church at Boston until the war broke out between
Great Britain and America. When the British troops came
there he left the town and returned to England and lived to
be a very aged man, and finally died in peace and was gath-

Church of Fairfield. 403
ered to his Fathers, the Lord having prospered him in his
work of the ministry, by which many souls were converted
from the error of their ways, established in the faith, and
rested in hope.
In the year 1745 the Rev. Mr. Joseph Lamson was
ordained to the ministry and placed by the society in the
church at Fairfield vacated by the Rev. Mr. Canner, with a
salary equal to his predecessor. The members of the church
having increased considerably, those who resided in the
parish of Stratfield thought it too far to attend at Fairfield,
exerted themselves, and in the year 1748 raised a church in
the parish, and the next year it was opened and dedicated
by the Rev. Doct. Johnson. The principal proprietors in
building this church were Col. John Burr, Messrs. John
Holberton, Timothy Wheeler, Joseph Seeley, John Nichols,
Richard Hall, Samuel Beardsley, and others. This Colonel
Burr was a man of singular abilities, of large property and a
warm advocate for the church, having received his education
in the Presbyterian profession, but when he arrived to mature
age, he changed his profession. About this lime Whitfield,
Tenant, and other zealous preachers came' through the
country, fired the people with enthusiasm and an over-heated
zeal for religion, which the Colonel looked upon as incon
sistent with the true spirit of the gospel, which teaches order
and good government to her children. He turned his atten
tion to the study of the gospel and embraced the Church of
England as being the most agreeable to the rules of our
Blessed Saviour and his apostles. He spent the remainder
of his days in the church and died in a good old age.
By this time the church people in the parishes of North-
fairfieldand Northfield having increased considerably and being
at the distance of eight or ten miles from Fairfield church,
they thought it best to build a church to accommodate those
two societies. They accordingly in the year 1762 erected a
frame and closed it, but soon after this, the Rev. Mr. Lamson
being in a poor state of health, unable to officiate much in the
out parishes, the church was not finished before the American
war commenced, which seemed to stagnate all business. In
the year 1773 Mr. Lamson sickened and died. He was born

4P4 History of Bridgeport.
at Stratford, educated at Yale College, conformed to the
Church of England in the time of the Whitfieldian stir. He
supported an honorable character, was much improved4 and
esteemed as a physician as well as a divine. He left at his
death a widow and five children — three daughters and two
sons. In the time of his ministry, the liberal Mr. Talbart, of
New York, made a visit to Fairfield and left as a benefit for
the church a very handsome present, to the amount of at least
one hundred pounds L. M.* With some of this money the
trustees of the church purchased a piece of land at a place
called the Round Hill, about nine acres. One hundred dol
lars was put out to use in the hands of Mr. Jonathan Coley,
which since has been collected and applied to the building of
the new church, and another hundred dollars was put to use
in the hands of Filer Dibble, who in the troublesome Ameri
can war went to Novascotia, forfeited his estate and the
church lost the debt., Mr. Talbart also furnished the Com
munion table with a set of plate, which in the time of the
burning of the town by the British was either consumed or
plundered, the latter 1 think is most probable.
In the year 1774 the Rev. Mr. John Say re, from Freder-
icksburgh, was invited by the parish to take charge of the
churches. He wrote to the society, acquainted them of the
death of their missionary, Mr. Lamson, and informed them of
the invitation ol the people and should wait their approbation
of acceptance. The society appointed him, agreeable to the
request of the people, and fixed his salary at twenty-five
pounds sterling per annum. Mr. Sayre was a man of supe
rior abilities, a great preacher. He was rather inclining to
the Calvinistic principles, but a high Tory. Soon after he
settled at Fairfield the colonies revolted from Great Britain,
which produced a bloody war, and in the contest in the year
1779, a party of the King's troops, under the command of
Governor Tryon, came to Fairfield, took possession of the
tow: , plundered it and then burnt it, without any distinction
to friend or foe. In the general conflagration the church was
consumed and the parsonage house, together with the library,

4 This means he was much called for as a minister.
* L. M. — lawful money.

Church of Fairfield. 403
which was kept in the parsonage. The library contained
some hundreds of volumes. The church records shared the
same fate. This was a most fatal blow to the Episcopal
society of Fairfield — losing the church, the parsonage, the
library, the plate ; and at this time Mr. Sayre with his family
left the town and never returned again, together with a num
ber of the principal inhabitants.
The remainder thought it not best to hang their harps
upon the willows and give up the church for lost, but relying
on the promises of God that the church should never be
extinct, they called a meeting of the three several churches,
viz: Fairfield, Stratfield and Northfairfield, to take into con
sideration what was best to be done. They were unanimously
of opinion that it was their duty to keep the church together
and have divine service performed among them until they
could be supplied with a clergyman. They appointed a
committee to look out for some candidate to read prayers for
them, and upon inquiry they heard of Mr. Philo Shelton, of
Ripton, to whom they applied and he engaged to open church
for them until they should be otherwise supplied. He con
tinued their reader until Bishop Seabury returned from
Europe clothed with Episcopal authority to ordain and
govern the church, and in August, 1785, Mr. Shelton was
admitted to the order of Deacon in Christ Church, Middle-
town, by the Right Rev. Bishop Seabury, and to Priest's
Orders in Trinity Church, New Haven, in September fol
lowing, by the same prelate, and settled over the churches of
Fairfield, Stratfield and Weston, with a living of one hundred
pounds L. M. per annum, with the use of what lands belonged
to said church.
In the year 1790 the Episcopalians thought it best to
exert their abilities and see if they could not get them
another house. They went to work and in June raised a
frame of fifty-six feet by thirty-four, with a steeple, and by
September following they closed it so as we were able to
meet in it. The church stands about one mile west from
where the last stood, at a place called Millplain.
There is belonging to this church a piece of land laying
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half acre where the parsonage house formerly stood, both of
which pieces are in the possession of the present incumbent.
There is no other property belonging to either of the three
churches. The church at Stratfield was not finished until the year
1789, and then it was consecrated by the Right Rev. Doctor
Seabury. The one at Fairfield was consecrated by the Right
Rev. Doctor Jarvis, the 18th of October, 1798.
The number of families belonging to the three churches
is about 200; communicants, 150 (only one of color). All
those of proper age have been confirmed. There have been
baptized by the Rev. Mr. Shelton since August, 1785, until
February, 1799, 800 souls, 25 of which, adults.
The borough at Stratfield populating much faster than
the other parts of the parish, the greatest number of Episco
palians living in that part of the society, it was thought best
by many that the church should be placed there. A meeting
was called to take the minds of the members and it was
thought advisable to pull the old church down and build a
new one out of the materials, as far as they would go. The
vote was taken and [was] almost unanimous so to do, and in
March, 1801, the church was razed* to the ground, and on the
2d of July following another frame was erected in the bor
ough at Bridgeport, 58 feet by 38, closed, glazed and floored,
so as to meet in on the 29th of November following. While
the church was in building they met sometimes in the school
house and sometimes in the meeting house, where they were
invited by the Presbyterians."
Bridgeport Ladies' Charitable Society. — In the year
1813 a voluntary association was formed in Bridgeport under
the name of the Bridgeport Female Benevolent Society, for
the purpose of assisting persons and families needing aid ;
and consequently it has been actively engaged in its charita
ble work for about seventy-three years. The name of the
association was afterwards changed to the Bridgeport Ladies'
Charitable Society.
0 This word is not Mr. Shelton's; some one has erased the original, which
apparently, was another word.

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At the January session of the General Assembly of 1884,
a charter was granted authorizing it to hold property, real
and personal, free from taxation, not exceeding fifty thousand
dollars, to have and use a common seal, to adopt constitution
and by-laws, and to do and perform all acts proper and neces
sary to accomplish the objects of the association.
At the time of the organization of this society in 1813,
there was want and poverty among families whose husbands
were in the war, and great destitution among those Indians
who still hung around their old hunting and fishing grounds.
Several ladies meeting with Mrs. Capt. Abijah Hawley to
sew and make garments for these poor people, it was sug
gested to form a society, and Mrs. Polly Hawley was chosen
president. Rev. Elijah Waterman, at that time pastor of the
North Congregational Church, wrote the constitution, the
same as in use to-day, the only written record we have of the
society until the past twenty years. Mrs. S. B. Furgeson,
who died in 1886, was eighteen years of age when this society
was organized, and she was in some way connected with it
until her death. The names following were the first man
agers: Mrs. Abijah Hawley, Mrs. William Peet, Mrs. Isaac
Hinman, Mrs. Sylvanus Sterling, Mrs. Isaac Burroughs, Mrs.
Reuben Tweedy, Mrs. Capt. Daniel Sterling. They worked
earnestly, made over old garments, and with membership
fees bought new cloth for sheets and pillow cases, lent them
to the sick and poor as circumstances required, and when the
emergency was over gathered the soiled linen, cleansed it by
washing, for next applicant. Mrs. Hawley was president for
a number of years, it then had monthly meetings, as now,
with sociability, and it is a remarkable fact, that to the pres
ent time they have been of nearly regular occurrence. The
following persons have filled successively the office of presi
dent: Mrs. William Peet, Mrs. Isaac Hinman, Mrs. Sylvanus
Sterling, then her sister, Mrs. Ira Sherman, Mrs. Capt. David
Sterling, Mrs. S. B. Furgeson, Mrs. P. T. Barnum, Mrs.
Gasford Sterling, Mrs. D. B. Nichols, Mrs. Q. H. Whiting
(who is still a manager), Mrs. H. L. Sturdevant, who filled
the office for about twenty years, with the exception of one
year, when Mrs. E. A. Lewis filled the office ; Mrs. Sturde-
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408 History of Bridgeport.
vant died in the spring of 1886, when Mrs. Russell Tomlinson,
who was vice-president, was elected president.
The following ladies, who have done their work so nobly
and left their influence to cheer the generation of to-day,
many of them were managers d<>m twenty to forty and more
years: Mrs. Abijah Hawley, Mrs. William Peet, Mrs. H. K.
Harral, Mrs. Lopgworth, Mrs. Dr. Simons, Mrs. L. H. Cole
man, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Reuben Tweedy, Mrs. Henry Shelton,
Mrs. Russell Tomlinson, Mrs. W. S. Knowlton, Mrs. Matilda
Hawley, Mrs. S. F. Hurd, Mrs. Sherman Hartwell, Mrs. Ira
B. Wheeler, Mrs. Isaac Hinman, Mrs. Capt. Daniel Sterling,
Mrs. Alfred Bishop, Mrs. Jessie Sterling, Mrs. Dr. William
B. Nash, Mrs. Kirtland, Mrs. Joseph Thompson, Mrs. Ezra
Curtis, Mrs. P. T. Barnum, Mrs. Gideon Thompson, Mrs.
Tallman Perry, Mrs. G. B. Waller, Mrs. James Moore, Mrs.
Henry Wheeler, Mrs. S. B. Furgeson, Mrs. Capt. John
Brooks, Mrs. H. L. Sturdevant.
Ex-managers now living: Mrs. Dr. David Nash, Mrs. P.
C. Calhoun, Mrs. D. B. Nichols, Mrs. James C. Loomis, Mrs.
Henry Thompson, Mrs. S. J. Patterson, Mrs. Frederic Lyon,
Mrs. William Sherman, Mrs. James Moore, Mrs. Thomas
Cruttenden, Mrs. George Burroughs, Mrs. Stephen Silliman,
Mrs. Gasford Sterling, Mrs. John Knowles, Mrs. Edward
Sterling, Mrs. D. C. Peck, Mrs. Benjamin Ray, Mrs. S. M.
Middlebrook, Mrs. Legrand Sterling, Mrs. William H. Noble,
Mrs. Samuel Baldwin, Mrs. Levi Parrott.
The present officers are : President, Mrs. Russell Tomlin
son; Vice-President, Mrs. Friend W. Smith; Secretary, Mrs.
L. H. Norton; Treasurer, Mis. George W. Barker; Direc
tresses: Mrs. Frederic W. Parrott, Mrs. E. L. Gaylord, Mrs.
E.A.Lewis. Advisory Committee : Hon. William D. Bishop,
Mr. James Staples, and Henry R. Parrott. The present
Board of Managers: Mrs. Bronson Hawley, Mrs. I. H. Whit
ing, Mrs. M. A. Garland, Mrs. Munson Hawley, Mrs. F. W.
Parrott, Mrs. C. B. Hotchkiss, Mrs. James Staples, Mrs.
Russell Tomlinson, Mrs. Friend W. Smith, Mrs. L. H. Nor
ton, Mrs. G. W. Barker, Mrs. E. L. Gaylord, Mrs. E. A.
Lewis, Mrs. C. R. Hay ward, Mrs. George Somers.
The work of the managers has materially changed since

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the organization of this society. The community in the early
days was comparatively small, there was no risk of harming
the poor and degrading them to the condition of paupers;
the giver and receiver of alms did not loose sight of each
other, so that gifts were made with moral benefit to both.
But such a state of things could not last: as the population
increased the classes became more widely separated, and at
this day it is found necessary to thoroughly investigate all
cases— through the kindness of the city officers, who give the
society the use of rooms in Wheeler's Block, where its execu
tive meetings are held weekly, where the poor make known
their wants ; a detailed account of all applications are made,
and after thorough investigation, in order that all cases of
real distress may at all times be reached, and those who are
in health and not in need of assistance may receive no further
support from this society, but are directed to the care of the
Industrial Relief Society, where they are taught to help
themselves. Mr. Alfred Bishop endowed this society with the interest
of five thousand dollars, and the following legacies have been
received: Mrs. Fayerweather, $500; Mrs. Lorenzo B. Ster
ling, $1000; Mrs. A. A. Pettengill, $2000; Mrs. William S.
Pomeroy, $500.
The Associated Charities for Industrial Relief,
organized in March, 1886, has far exceeded the expectations
of the faithful women who have for so many years been
engaged in the various charities of Bridgeport, and discussed
the great question : How are we to prevent the pauperization
of our poor? How are we to be loving and yet wise in our
charity ? By thorough investigation it has been proved that
other methods must be devised ; that nine-tenths of the desti
tution and suffering of the poor has its origin in the home, the
ignorance and improvidence of themselves, and unless the
homes are reached and the poor can be weaned from habits of
dependence by pointing out, in a kindly spirit, the disgrace it
entails, no permanent good can be obtained.
About forty ladies met at the house of Mrs. L. H. Norton
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300 History of Bridgeport.
Mrs. Russell Tomlinson, Mrs. Henry H. Pyle was made pre
siding officer, and Mrs. L. H. Norton, Secretary. The follow
ing Saturday, in a room in Wheeler's Block, provided by the
mayor of the city, a committee of five or six ladies met those
poor women who would show a disposition to help themselves,
and finding much interest manifested, continued to do so for
several months, teaching the mothers and children to make
garments and paying them for the time in garments or gro
ceries. The growth of the work necessitated a change and
the residence of the late Capt. John Brooks, corner Main and
Gilbert streets, was rented, a matron secured, and with the
noble women who compose the board of managers, the work
will grow to be an example of true charity.
The leading idea of the society is to help the poor ulti
mately to do without help ; in case of those already pauper
ized to induce them to rely more upon themselves and less
upon others— the first object is to interest the children, who
meet at the " home" every Saturday afternoon, where they
are taught to sew, and some of the little girls have made such
progress that they from the overhand seam, are now able to
make a garment, and some are in advance of their mothers,
who meet every Thursday afternoon.
The department of domestic service includes the training
of young women in all branches of household work, with a
view to better meet the requirements of domestic service;
the aim is to inculcate the right estimate of the dignity of
household service, to encourage a class of girls to choose the
family as a means of support. Cooking classes have been
arranged covering all grades of family cooking, giving young
women opportunity for practical instruction; in many homes
where the food is not properly prepared, there is much waste,
and the husband and father become discouraged and resort to
the saloons for the free lunch to satisfy their appetites, when
if the table at home was supplied with properly prepared,
nutritious, though not expensive food, it would soon wean
him from such resorts and the family would be united and
happy. The laundry gives work to those who wish to be
taught in that department. The day nursery, an interesting
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dependent can leave their children through the day, while
they are providing for themselves rather than asking charity.
This work was commenced with small contributions of
the ladies at the first meeting and used for material to work
with at the first Saturday meeting. Other amounts were
generously contributed by charitably disposed ladies; with
the fees of the managers and members the work went on.
July 13, 1886, a '.awn party was suggested. Mr. E. C.
Bassick very kindly opened his house and grounds, corner of
Hancock and Fairfield avenues, the grounds were brilliantly
lighted and the public manifested by their contributions and
attendance a great interest in the work, and the sum of three
hundred and seven dollars and twelve cents ($307.12) was
realized. After having assumed the rent of a house, matron,
etc., more funds were needed and the "Feast of the New
Moon," a very successful entertainment, both socially and
financially, was given in the Armory building for five suc
cessive nights, the first week in December, realizing about
five thousand six hundred dollars,
A meeting of the executive committee is held weekly and
the result is submitted at the monthly meetings of the board
of managers ; also, each department has a standing committee
and meet as circumstances require and report either to the
executive or board of managers.
The payment of one dollar per year will entitle to mem
bership and a vote in the annual meetings.
Officers: President, Mrs. Henry H. Pyle; Vice-Presi
dents, Mrs. Henry R. Parrott, Mrs. David M. Read; Corre
sponding Secretary, Mrs. Curtiss H. Bill; Recording Secre
tary, Mrs. Lucian H. Norton; Treasurer, Mrs. William B.
Hincks. Executive Committee with the above: Mrs. E. C.
Bassick, Mrs. J. P. Omans, Mrs. D. B. Lockwood, Mrs. W.
H. Perry, Mrs. F. W. Smith, Mrs. T. B. Warren, Mrs. A.
Steward. Board of Managers: Mrs. P. T. Barnum, Mrs. E.
F. Bishop, Mrs, N. Wheeler, Mrs. L. H. Norton, Mrs. A.
Wheeler, Mrs. J. A. Joyce, Mrs. Conrad Becker, Mrs. E.
Sterling, Mrs. J. P. Omans, Mrs. D. B. Lockwood, Mrs. E.
A. Lewis, Mrs. H. R. Parrott, Mrs. W. H. Perry, Mrs. F. W.
Smith, Mrs. E. C. Bassick, Mrs. A. A. Howes, Mrs. Edwin

302 History of Bridgeport.
Sanford, Mrs. E. L. Gaylord, Mrs. R. Tomlinson, Mrs. D. M.
Read, Mrs. S. Grumman, Mrs. J. S. Atkinson, Mrs. S. W.
Baldwin, Mrs. W. Piatt, Mrs. G. W. Barker, Mrs. Susan Olds,
Mrs. C. E. Wilmot, Mrs. H. H. Pyle, Mrs. J. C. Loomis, Mrs.
E. W. Marsh, Mrs. Julia Nichols, Mrs. J. Whitney, Mrs. A.
Steward, Mrs. Godfrey Veit, Mrs. C. H. Bill, Mrs. Henry
Sanford, Mrs. H. M. Harrington, Mrs. William E. Seeley,
Mrs. C. K. Averill, Mrs. I. DeVer Warner, Mrs. W. B. Hincks,
Mrs. T. B. Warren, Mrs. W. F. Oilman, Mrs G. B. Richard
son, Miss Matilda Lewis, Miss Julia Sanford, Miss Fannie
Lewis. Advisory Committee: Hon. P. T. Barnum, Hon.
Nathaniel Wheeler, Hon. Henry H. Pyle, Hon. C. Fones,
Hon. William D. Bishop, G. C. Waldo, Edward Sterling,
D. M. Read, H. R. Parrott, James L. Gould, I. DeVer War
ner, D. B. Lockwood, E. F. Strong, James Staples.
Beside the board of managers there are about five hun
dred members.
Benjamin Brooks was son of Capt. Benjamin Brooks.
son of John Brooks, Esq., of Stratford, Conn. His mother
was Rebecca Sherman, da jghter of James and Sarah (Cooke)
Sherman, of New Haven. Sarah Sherman was a descendant
of Governor William Leete, of the Colony of Connecticut,
and daughter of the Rev. Samuel Cooke, Congregational
minister of Stratfield. James Sherman was a grandson of
Mr. Samuel Sherman, of Stratford, Assistant 1662 to 1664,
Deputy to the General Court, etc. Benjamin Brooks was
born in East Bridgeport (New Pasture Point), March 3, 1778.
At an early age he went many voyages to sea with his father,
and having relatives at Berlice — his father's sister had mar
ried Governor Van Battenburg of that province — he was
induced to enter mercantile life at Nassau, New Providence.
He was married in 1810, to Harriet Jones, daughter of Isaac
Jones, Esq., of New Haven, and Sibyl Benjamin, of Stratford.
Isaac Jones, her father, was a great-grandson of Deputy-Gov
ernor William Jones, who married Hannah, the daughter of
Governor Theophilus Eaton, first governor of the Colony of
New Haven — from 1638 to 1657. Sibyl Benjamin was a
daughter of Colonel John Benjamin, of Stratford, and Lucre-

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tia (Backus) Benjamin, who came, through a line of notable
ancestors, from William Backus, of Saybrook and Norwich,
and William Bradford, of the Mayflower.
Three children were born to Mr. Brooks at Nassau, New
Providence, and in 18 16 he returned with his family to his
native place, East Bridgeport, and purchased the house, now
nearly one Tiundred ycai-s old and occupied by his daughter,
Mrs. William H. Noble. He made many improvements in
the house and grounds and added some 300 acres from this
homestead to Old Mill. This, as he had been lame from
youth with rheumatism, he put under the charge of an over
seer. The land was highly cultivated, 300 sheep besides
cattle raised thereon, and this interested and engaged his
attention for many years, until from ill health it became a
burden, and was sold in 1837.
After his return from the West Indies he took great
interest in his native place, entering into all its improvements,
sometimes, as his health would allow, filling public offices of
the town, and until his death an honored member of the
masonic fraternity. He was for many years vestryman of
old St. John's Church, giving freely of his means for its
support, and a silver christening bowl and ewer for its ser
vice, which are still used. Never did he absent himself from
church or allow his children to do so except on account of
illness. His wife died at the age of 39, leaving him with nine
young children ; of these, seven daughters were all confirmed
in the old St. John's Church.
He was a man of the most hospitable and generous nature,
always keeping a room and bed in the basement of his house
for any wayfarers, never turning his face from any poor man,
and not one was known to abuse his hospitality. Every
Thanksgiving and Christmas he sent a feast to the inmates of
the Poor House, and one of his daughters with a purse to
divide its contents among the aged and infirm.
He was a man of high honor and good integrity, a gen
tleman of the old school of politeness, was of great independ
ence and originality of character, but very genial in his
nature, drawing around him a host of friends and beloved by
the poor whom he assisted, not alone with money, but with

304 History of Bridgeport.
good advice and interest in their welfare. He always enter
tained a most humble opinion of his own merits and was most
charitable in his judgment of others, speaking kindly of them
or keeping silent. A man of intelligence and something of a
philosopher, he was beloved and respected by every one,
many of those he had befriended following his remains to the
grave, April 7, 1847.
Charles Theophilus Nicholls, son of Philip and Mary
(Prince) Nicholls, was born at Newfield, now Bridgeport,
July 21, 1771, and was educated at the celebrated Dwight
Academy at Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County, Conn. As
early as 1794 he began as a merchant, in connection with his
father's coasting vessels, in his native village, in the first store
in that locality, which store was built by his father. Not long
after he sailed as supercargo from New York to New Orleans,
West Indies and foreign ports. When about thirty-five years
of age his brig was wrecked near Key West, and he being
exposed for forty-eight hours on the waters, passed through
a severe sickness with fever, from which he suffered greatly
at times through the remainder of his life. Returning home
he again engaged as a merchant under the firm name of Foote
and Nicholls. At that time he became engaged in military
matters and held the position for some years of paymaster on
the staff of Colonel Enoch Foote, of the 4th regiment of
cavalry of the 4th brigade of Connecticut cavalry,' from
which he received an honorable discharge from General
Joseph Walker.
In 1815 he purchased the house and land on the corner
of what is now Stratford avenue and Pembroke street, East
Bridgeport, of Hon. R. G. Van Polanen, which house had
been built about the year 1800, and occupied some years by
General Enoch Foote. He also purchased considerable land
property at that time and engaged in farming enterprises.
In 1817 he was a member of a copartnership under the name
of Hyde, Nichols and Company, for general trade, on the
corner of Main and State streets. In 1828 he became a silent
partner with Hyde and Shelton, M;\ Henry Shelton, his
nephew and faithful friend, assuming his position in the old

Biographical Sketches. 505
company and afterwards conducting the business in his own
name many years.
Mr. Nicholls for twenty-five years preceding his decease,
was debarred from all active business by ceaseless suffering,
which he endured with calm and patient fortitude, and for
the last ten years of his life was unable to leave his house.
He was confirmed by Bishop Seabury and became a
communicant in St. John's Church in 1788, of which his
brother-in-law, Rev. Philo Shelton, was the rector for forty
years from 1785. He was for years warden of this church,
but resigned because of illness, and hence inability to serve.
In the ecclesiastical designation of those days he was called a
high churchman and sympathised with the views of Bishop
Hobart, of whom he was a great admirer.
On February 17, 1808, Charles T. Nichojls married
Sarah Lewis Tomlinson, daughter of Jabez H. Tomlinson,
of Oronoque, in Stratford, born February 27, 1789. They
had two children : Ann Eliza, who married William Sumner
Johnson, of New York, and George Huntington Nicholls,
D.D., now of Hoosac Falls, N. Y.
Mrs. Sarah L. Nicholls, the devoted wife, departed this
life April 3, 1821, aged 32 years.
Mr. Nicholls married for his second wife Mrs. Harriet
(Heller) Morris, widow of David Morris, of New York. Her
father, the Rev. James Heller, was chaplain of one of the
Hessian regiments serving in the English army during the
war of the Revolution. She died at Yonkers, N. Y., about
i860, where she spent the later years of her life.
Mr. Charles T. Nichols died October 9, 1849, aged 78 years.
George Kneeland Nichols, the great-grandson of Capt.
Joseph Nichols and son of Hezekiah Nichols and Avis Peet,
was born in the old Nichols house at Nichols' Farms, January
23, 1818. He married Armina deLyon Seeley, eldest daugh
ter of Munson Seeley, of Easton, Conn., who was descended
from John deLyon and the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorn.
Mrs. Nichols, through both of her grandmothers, who were
cousins, is a lineal descendant of Lady Jane Stuart. On her
father's side she is in direct line from Colonel Seeley, who
64

306 History of Bridgeport.
held the military occupancy of Long Island under the British
crown. She is distantly related to ex-Governor Seeley, of
New Jersey, and through the Osborne-Seeleys connected
with Albert Bierstadt, the celebrated painter.
With the patrimony inherited from the Nichols estate
George K. Nichols embarked with his brother, David Stiles^
Nichols, in the manufacture of coaches at Nichols' Farms,
their business relations being mostly in Texas and the South
ern States. David S. Nichols was succeeded by James K.
Nichols, a brother of George K. Nichols, and who married
Elizabeth Seeley, the sister of Mrs. George K. Nichols. The
firm of Nichols and Brother, whose business was of large
proportions and of wide repute, encountered heavy losses in
the war of the rebellion. Before the war Mr. George K.
Nichols, who had successfully conducted a carriage repository
in Broadway, New York, in the interest of the firm, had to
return to Nichols' Farms to help supply the demand for car
riages from the South. The Mexican coaches made by the
firm were of high repute.
After the financial losses at the outbreak of the war, the
business was revived on a much smaller scale, the present
stock company being formed under the name of Nichols,
Peck and Company, but Mr. Peck soon died, since which
time the business has been chiefly owned by the Nichols
brothers. In 1862 George K. Nichols went to Rochester,
N. Y., remaining through the war in charge of the repository
of the firm in that city, and while there was president of a
paint manufacturing company formed in that city. Nichols,
Peck and Company had all along received orders for carri
ages from Australia, and a large and lucrative trade with that
country ensued for years. In 1873 the Nichols Brothers
removed their business to Bridgeport, of which city Mr.
George K. Nichols remains a resident. His brother James
K. Nichols, died about 1883, and since then the business has
been chiefly owned and managed by Mr. George K. Nichols,
the trade being almost exclusively with New York City.
Mr. Nichols was in former years somewhat active in gold and
silver mining stocks, and also the invention of a spring perch
for carriages.

Biographical Sketches. 307
The children of George K. and Armina (Seeley) Nichols
are : Charles Wilber deLyon Nichols and Lavinia Armina
Nichols; the latter deceased in 1872.
The children of James K. and Elizabeth (Seeley) Nichols
were: Harriet, deceased ; Eliza, who married Walter Nichols,
of New York; Frances S. ; Mary L., who married J. V. Sin
gleton, of Waterbury : and Carrie Josephine.
Eden Burroughs, D.D., son of Stephen Burroughs,
the first, and Ruth (Nichols) Burroughs, was born in what is
now North Bridgeport, Conn., in January, 1738. He was
graduated at Yale College in 1757; licensed by Fairfield East
Association, May 30, 1759, and was ordained pastor of the
South Church, Killingly, in January, 1760. He was dismissed
Irom this church in 1771, and installed pastor of the church in
Hanover, New Hampshire, September 1, 1772, and died May
22. 1 81 3, aged 75 years. He was honored with the degree of
Doctor of Divinity from Dartmouth College in 1773, and was
one of its overseers from that year until his death.
Stephen Burroughs, son of the above Dr. Eden Bur
roughs, was born in 1765 and became a notorious imposter
and counterfeiter. He published an autobiography, partly in
justification of his course of life, in 1811, and a reprint of it
was issued in New York in 1852. The copies are seldom met
with, but are still extant. In 1799, and for a few years, he and
his family resided with his father in Hanover, New Hamp
shire. He afterwards removed to Canada and died in that
country at Three Rivers, January 28, 1840. He visited his
relatives in Stratford several times, and is said to have been
an intelligent, fine appearing person. He had an only son,
who went to England and became a member of Parliament,
and a daughter, who became Mother Superior in a convent at
Three Rivers.
Fayerweather.— The husband of Abigail (Curtis) Fay
erweather lived at Long Hill, on the Newtown road, about
four miles north of Bridgeport. He was killed in the French
war about 1760, on or near Lake Champlain. The family
afterwards removed to the northwestern part of the present

So8

History of Bridgeport.

town of Easton, known as the Blanket Meadow District. The
mind of the widow was greatly unsettled, which impaired her
usefulness, but she lived to a great age. Her children were :
b. in 1761 ; d. in 1848,

I. Joseph. +
3. Zalmon. +

3. Samuel,
aged 87.

1. Joseph Fayerweather, son of

and Abigarr

(Curtis) Fayerweather, married Rachel Beers in March, 1789,
and had :

. Gurtis, who married Sally John
son, and had John, Julia, William
and Walter.
. Eunice, who married Eben Sher
man, son of Ebenezer, of New
town, and lived in Redding,
¦¦ Lucretia, who married Elias San
ford, of Sandy Hook.
. Anna , died young.
. Ruth Ann ; married William

Hayes, of Stepney and Sandy
Hook.
9. Phebe ; died young.
10. Abigail ; married David Beach,
of Trumbull.
II. Sally; married Seth Andrews,
of Bethel, Conn.
12. Peter, who married Eliza Green,
and had John and a Daughter.
13. Polly, who married Hiram Par-
melee.

2. Zalmon Fayerweather, son of  and Abigail
(Curtis) Fayerweather, married ist, Jerusha Adams, Jan. 25,
1787. He married 2d, Eunice Turney. His children by his
first wife were :
14. Anna, who married William 15. Elnathan, who went West.
Curtis, of Trumbull, and had 16. Ransom, who went West.
Carlos Curtis, of Bridgeport, and 17. Roswell, who married Alonzo
Spencer Curtis, of Trumbull, Gilbert, of Birmingham, Conn.

3. Samuel Fayerweather, son of  and Abigail
(Curtis) Fayerweather, married Charity Burton, daughter of
Joseph Burton, of Long Hill. She was born April 12, 1760.

18. Lucius, b. Jan, 17, 1793, and
died June 30, 1828. He mar
ried Amelia, daughter of Aaron
Beardsley, Nov. 9. 1814. and had
Charles Beardsley, b. Feb. 15,
1816, and died May 21, 1828 ;
William, b. May 4, 1818 ; Daniel
Burton, b. Mar. 12, 1822 ; Aaron
B., b. July 12, 1825, died July 4,
1824.

19. Stephen, who married Almy,
daughter of Thomas Lyon, of
Easton, and had Samuel, of Mich
igan, Rebecca, Jane, George, Jos
eph, Stephen, Eliza and James.
20. Daniel Burton, who married Na
omi, daughter of Aaron Beards
ley, Dec. 22, 1819, and had Mar
cus, who died young.

The Scientia Club. 309
The Old Fort of 1812, at Bridgeport, was located, on
Welles' Tongue, it being still visible at the east end of the
Seaside Park pavilion, at Bridgeport outer harbor. In its
construction an embankment was raised several feet high,
oval shaped, and about ninety feet by fifty. Within was a
magazine and places for two cannon. The testimony of all
persons who have been consulted is that it was a fort made
irl J812. The Scientia Club, a new society in Bridgeport, has
for its general object the acquirement and dissemination of
knowledge, and for its utilization or application all methods
which may seem best to subserve the interests of society at
large. It was, however, specially organized for the "Pre
vention of premature burial, or burial alive," and to teach
" Giving, first aid to the injured, to provide for the training
of nurses, who shall render skilled service for humane reasons,
gratuitously, or at economical rates; to give instruction in
the culinary art, household management and domestic econ
omy, hygiene and sanitary conditions, and lo otherwise seek
to ameliorate and improve the conditions of the living." The
society dates its existence from August 18, 1886. Its organ
izers and promoters are: T. E. Peck, H. E. Bowser, F.
Hindsley, and others.
The Fourth Regiment, C. N. G., Headquarters at Bridgeport.
List of the Field and Staff Officers, Fourth Regiment, Connecticut National
Guard, since the change from Eighth Regiment, August I, 1871.
Colonel Heusted W. R. Hoyt, Greenwich, Aug. 21, 1871, resigned March 24, 1877.
Lt. Col. William E. Seeley, Bridgeport, Aug. 21, 1871, resigned Sepi. 5, 1872.
Major Robert B. Fairchild, Bridgeport, Aug. 21, 1871, promoted Lt. Col. Sepl. 2,
1872.
1st Lieut. David T. Hubbell, Adjutant, Bethel, Aug. 21, 1871, rank changed to
Captain Aug. 1, 1874. [See below.]
Major James E. Barbour, Surgeon, Norwalk, Aug. 21, 1871, resigned July 15, 1876.
ist Lieut. George F. Lewis, Asst. Surgeon, Bridgeport, Aug. 21, 1871, promoted
Surgeon Aug. 15, 1876.
ist Lieut. Charles Olmstead, Quartermaster, Norwalk, Aug. 21, 1871, resigned
May 28, 1877.
ist Lieut. Joseph C. Randle, Paymaster, Norwalk, Aug. 21, 1871, resigned May
38, 1877.

310 History of Bridgeport.
Captain Seneca Howland, Chaplain, Greenwich, Aug. 21, 1871, reappointed with
out rank of Captain, May 4, 1875. [See below.]
Li. Col. Robert B. Fairchild, Bridgeport, Sept. 2, 1872, promoted Colonel April
19, 1877.
Major George S. Crofut, Bethel, Sept. 2, 1872, promoted Lt. Col. April 19, 1877.
Captain David T. Hubbell, Adjutant, Bethel, July 25, 1874, resigned May 13, 1884.
Seneca Howland, Chaplain.Greenwicli, January 2, 1875, resigned May 28, 1877.
*Major George F. Lewis, Surgeon, Bridgeport, July 31, 1876.
ist Lieut. Charles P. Uhle, Asst. Surgeon, Norwalk, July 31, 1S76. honorably die.
charged June 8, 1877.
*Capiain Samuel C. Kingman, I. R. P., Bridgeport, July 31, 1876.
Colonel Robert B. Fairchild, Bridgeport, April 6, 1877, died Sept. 12, 1878.
Lt. Col. George S. Crofut, Bethel. April 6, 1877, promoted Colonel Oct. 25, 1878.
Major Henry Skinner, West Winsted, April 6, 1877, promoted Lt. Col. Oct. 25,
1878.
ist Lieut. Daniel E. Marsh, Quartermaster, Bridgeport, May 28, 1877, resigned
December 6, 1879.
1st Lieut. Thomas L. Watson, Paymaster, Bridgeport, May 28, 1877, appointed
A. D. C. to Brig.-Gen. Aug. 14, 1878.
1st. Lieut. William C. Burke, Jr., Asst. Surgeon, So. Norwalk, May 28, 1877, re-
signed May 16, 1884,
George A. Parkington, Chaplain, New Haven, May 28, 1877, died Feb, II, 1881.
Colonel George S. Crofut, Bethel, Oct. 12, 1878, died April I, 1884.
*Lt. Col. Henry Skinner, Winsted, Oct. 12, 1878.
"ist Lieut. George S. Rowe, Paymaster, Winsted, Nov. 2, 1878,
Major Charles E. Doty, Norwalk, Jan. 8, 1879, resigned July 28, 1880.
1st Lieut. Henry N. Fanton, Quartermaster, Danbury, Feb. 15, 1880, resigned
May 16, 1884.
•Major James C. Crowe, So. Norwalk, Aug. 18, 1880.
Samuel Scoville, Chaplain, Stamford, March 19, 1SS1. resigned May 16, 1884.
1st Lieut. Sherman H. Hubbard, Signal Officer, Bridgeport, June 7, 1883, resigned
July 26, 1883.
ist Lieut. David F. Read, Signal Officer, Bridgeport, Aug. 1, 1883, resigned Feb.
12, 1885.
•Colonel Thomas L. Watson, Bridgeport, April 23, 1884.
Captain Tracy B. Warren, Adjutant, Bridgeport, May 16, 1884, appointed Col. and
A. D. C. on Staff of Gov. Harrison.
*ist Lieut. Howard G. Hubbell, Quartermaster, Bridgeport, May 16, 1884.
•Robert G. S. McNeille, Chaplain, Bridgeport, May 30, 1884.
•Captain Louis N. VanKeuren, Adjutant, Bridgeport, January 10, 1885.
"ISt Lieut. William W. Starr, Jr., Signal Officer, Bridgeport, March 4, 1885.
•lit Lieut. Charles S. Murray, Asst. Surgeon, Norwalk, August 16, 1885.
• In service September 20, 1886,

INDEX.

Abbott, L. A  304
Abbott, A. S  483
Abboit, G. A  483
Abbott, Mary  321
-lobT^cy"-.::::;;; t7l
Abbe, Shubael  170
Abbey, G. F  479
Abel, Elijah  316
Abell, Henry  1.38
Abernalhy, A. A  479
Abernethy. A. H. 216, 219,
327. 47L 472. 473. 485
Abernathy, E. S  486
Abraharl, Mr  419
Acme Shear Co  296
Adams, Alvin  329
Adams, Chas  340
Adams, J. H  326
Advertiser  356
Aigeltinger, Anthony 478
Aiken, Wm. A  395
A i te ngelti lifter. A nlone 483
Aldrich, H. W  479
Alexander, W. F,... 479
Allen, E. H  479
Allen, Ebenezer  88
Allen, Justin  468
Allen Nehemiah
sketch  90
Allis, William  179
Allstreet, Frederick.. 479
Almy, S. P  483
Alvord, J. D.216, 374, 375; 390
Alvord, W.I  295
Ambler, F. P  362
Ambler, R. C  * 486
American Hand Sew
ing Machine Co.. __ 274
Ames, Adelbert  396
Anderson, C. F  478
Anderson, J  315
Andress, A. C. .  280
Andrews, Ali  389
Andrews, C. H  479
Andrews, J. M  478
Angevine, J. H  483
Angevine, Lewis  49
Anson, William  198
Armstrong Mfg. Co. - 297
Arnald, A. C  483 [

Arnald, Jacob  483
Arnold, Thomas  347
Ashcroft Mfg. Co.... 287
Ashly, Mr  423
Atherlon, B. M;  479
Atherton, Jesse  479
"lVllaTilto House.,.,.. 354
Aiwater, Caleb  134
Atwater, E. A.  479
Aiwater, H.-.290, 329,340
Atwater, L. H„ Rev.. 186
Austin, Belhia  26
Austin, John P.. .168, 176
Aumack, W. C  483
Averill, C. K. ...233, 324.
338, 340
Ayres, E, B  479
Babcock, G. W  483
Babcock, Job  146
Babcock, Mercy  52
Bacon, Geo. W.._2i6, 327,
375, 39°
Bachelder, C. T  478
Baichelder, G. H  479
Batchelder, H. E  479
Bachelor, John  261
Backus, Jos._i23, 326, 48b
Backus, O. P  486
Backus, Simon  168
Bailey, Chas  478
Bailey, J. A  375.479
Bailey, S. G  478
Baillie, W. E  287
Baker, B  238
Baker, Fied  238
Baker, Jonathan  30
Baker, L. H  324
Baker, R. C  483
Baker. T. D  29S
Baker's Pond  124
Baldwin, Ashbel .134, 159
Baldwin, C. C  479
Baldwin, D. M  280
Baldwin, Eli  92
Baldwin, F. E  486
Baldwin, Josiah B. .. 176,
179, 180, 183
Baldwin, Lyman  92
Baldwin, Mary  200
Baldwin S. W  314, 329,
339. 340, 344. 345, 365.
37', 375

Baldwin, Nathan  T79
Baldwin, S. D  470
Baldwin, Samuel  401
Baldwin, Sarah L. ... 183
Balloon Ascension  355
Ballou, Eliza  359
Ballou, Elmina  359
Ballou, Hosea  359,362
Ballou, Moses  362
Bancroft, L. W„ Rev. 189
Bangs, Heman  83, 199
Bangs, Lemuel  84
sketch  83
Bangs, Nathan  83, 198
Bank, The Bridgeport 133
Bank, B'pt. City (City
Nat.)  342
Bank, B'pt. Savings . .341
Bank Building, The
United  143
Bank, City Savings.. 337
Bank, Connecticut... 344
Bank, Farmer's  340
Bank, First Nat  - 34c
Bank, Mechanic's and
Farmer's  345
Bank, Oflicers of the
Bridgeport.  336
Ban k.Pco pie's SavingS338
Bank, Pequonnock __ 340
Bank, Southport Nat. 344
Bank, Barzila  470
Banks, Bradley ..475, 483
Banks, Edwin 303,338, 347
Banks, Geo. W.  372
Banks, H. N.  479
Banks, J. F   250
Banks, Joseph  76, 78
Banks. M.0  468
Banks, N. P  271
Banks, Mrs, S. S  404
Banks, S.T  374
Baram, E. T  29X
Barber, A. E  485
Barber, A. M  274, 275
Bardsle, Daniel .. .. 9
Bardsley, William ... 200
Barlow, David  .. 53
Barlow, Francis  397
Barnes, A. S  178
Barnes, |.A.J  372
Barnes, Mary C  17S

512

History of Bridgeport.

Barnes, Thaddeus ... 243
Barnett, Eli  198
Barnelt, W. E  326
Barnum, Carrie C  363
Barnum, Helen A,... 289
Barnum, Henry  363
Barnum, J. B  256
Barnum, Joseph C. .. 36
Barnum, P. F. 289, 310, 341
Barnum, P. T...35, 44. 86,
214, 221, 226, 314, 325,
327. 33L 333. 34L 355.
37i, 373. 374. 389. 39°.
394, 449, sketch 377, his
show 375
Barnum, Rachel  52
Barnum. S. B  479
Barnum. Wm, H  233
Barns. Amos  261, 262
Barn, W. H  322
Barsley, William  9
Bartholonicw.T. L. 342, 483
Barllei, H. C  322
Barllett, H  199
Bartlett. J. F. 469, 470, 478
Bartlett, James  364
Banletl, Louisa  169
Bartlett, Lucy  364
Bartlett, Sarah K  364
Bartlcy, T. J  483
Barton. John  468
Bartram, A. E  483
Bariram, Ebenezer  164
Bartram, Eulilia  164
Bartram, F. A  340
Bartram, Frank N. ._ 137
Bartram, Ira  468
Bartram, T. B  336
Bartram, Thomas  169
Bartram, Thomas B. _ 137
Battram, Wm  470
Bassett, Agur  201
Basscit, Freeman C._ 174
Bassett, R. M  235
Battel!, William  134
Baxter, Walter  478
Baylcs, J. C  478
Bayles, W. L  321
Baylies, Josiah  337
Beach, Agur..  45
Beach, Anna  83
Beach, David  468
Beach, Elihu ..  341
Beach, Everett  45
Beach, G. W  235
sketch  236
Beach, Isaac E....73, 169,
'77, 467
Beach, James E....31, 43,
128, 129, 131, 133, 169,
175, 170, 485, sketch 50
Beach, James W  434

Beach, John H  50
Beach, Lazarus 31, 58, 356
Beach, S   198
Beach, S. Y  236
Beach, Samuel ...176, 485
Beach, Sheldon  468
Beach, Starr  341
Beck, J. H  47S
Beck. John .....  478
Beck, Maria M  448
Beck. Paul  448
Becker, John  486
Becker. Lambart  480
Beckwith, George ... 333
Beardsley, A. J  331
Beardsley, Aaron T._ 188
Beardsley, Abigail-13, 53,
63, 169
Beardsley, Alanson.. 469
Beardsley, Alonzo... 37
Beardsley, Andrew
sketch  52
Beardsley, Anson 168, 467
Beardsley, Betsey ... 336
Beardsley, B. B...207, 400
Beardsley, C. H. .344, 437
Beardsley, Christopher 469
Beardsley. Daniel ... 38
Beardsley, David  38
Beardsley, E. H. .335, 336
Beardsley, Ebenezer . 38
Beardsley, H. N.--37, 331
Beardsley, J. B  4S3
Beardsley, 1. F.  480
Beardslee, Jabez  78
Beardsley, Jeremiah W. 230
Beardsley, John ..6, 9, 10.
12, 38, 76, 158, 200, 362
Beardsley. T.W, 52,91, 200,
! 335, 39'.' 467, 468, 469
sketch  336
1 Bca.-dslcy, L. J. ..372, 454
Beardsley,Maria(Burr)437
j Beardsley, Mary  13
! Beardsley, Miles  342
! Beardsley, Nathan... 38
Bcaidsley, Nichols . . 169
Beardsley, O. L.  467
Beardsley, Obadiah.. 38
Beardsley, Oliver ... 454
Beardsley, M. B..217. 219.
326, 486
Beardsley, S. B._l8g, 330,
443, 486, sketch 437
Beardsley, Samuel 6, 9, 13,
60, 84, 157, 158
Beardsley, William 38, 336
Beardsley, Wilson 469, 470
Beebe, James, Rev... 45
Bebee, L. J   479
Beebe, W. B  486
Beebe, William  470

Beecher, H. C  479
Beecher.Thos. K., Rev. 228
Beers, A. B. 189, 226, 227,
325. 445, 47L 472, 474,
476, 477. 478, 483, 486
sketch  237
Beers, A. S  237
Beers, C. E  478,483
Beers, C. W  213, 237
Beere, ISdgnr  .  4.70
Beers, G. L  485
Beers, H. C  479
Beers, J. S  .189, 372
Beers, Jonathan  237
Beers, L. J  237
Beers, Lathrop  483
Beers, O. R  478
Beers, P. M.  478
Beers, R. S.-471, 472, 476, 478
Beers, Wheeler  470
Belding, Hezekiah  134
Belding, W. A., Rev.. 204
Bell, Mahala  457
Bend, Alexander  483
Benedict, Plait  170
Benedicl, Thaddeus 30, 486
Benedict, William ... 168
Benham, F. N  336
Benham, F. W  342
Benham, Frank N. 136, 137
Benham, W. N..-.1.. 480
Benjamin, Asai22, 123,308
Benjamin, Barzillai ._ 168
Benjamin, Geo. M.  469
Benjamin, Philip  336
Bennett, Ann  26
Bennett, Anson  ._ 81
Bennett, Benjamin  203
Bennett, Charles  345
Bennell, H. N  485
Bennelt, Isaac  38
Bennett, J. E  479
Bennett, J. W  479
Bennett, Jas. 12, 13, 15, 38, 76
Bennett, John  9
Bennett, Joseph  8,9
Bennett, Mary  13
Bennett, Richard  479
Bennett, Stephen  38
Bennelt, Thaddcus-55, 62
sketch  . .--__ 49
Bennelt, Thomas  9
Bennett, Wm..,38, 8i, 175
Benson, Capt  387
Berdan, Colonel  162
Bergh, Mr  435
Berkshire Mills  67
Berkshire Pond  144
Besse, L. W  374
Bessick, E. C  374

Index.

513

Bestick.Wm  479
Bethesda Chapel. 207, 208
Belts, Coley E  169
Belts, G. E..473, 474, 477,
Belts, James  169
Bidmead, Joseph  346
Bicbel, Henry  478
Bierce, Peter  233
Bill, C. H  485
Bin,. Signer  ..... 442
Birdsell, Theo.  479
Bira-seTv-CeUei  342
Birdsey, G. K  330r37z
Birdsey, I. W  279
Birdsey & Morgan  343
Birmingham, James.. 479
Birney, Gen'l..  398
Bishop, Alfred  181,232,
234, 236, 238, 399, 425,
428, sketch 233
Bishop, C. K  372
Bishop, E. F. 193, 371,399, 400
Bishop, H. A. 325, 327, 344, 345
Bishop, James P  208
Bishop, Mary (Ferris) 399
Bishop, P, R  468, 469
Bishop, Robert  9
Bishop, Sidney  485
Bishop, Susannah  233
Bishop, Wm  233
Bishop, W. D  226, 227,
233, 235. 239> 323. 327
344, 345. 387, 399, 486
sketch  236
Bishop, Mrs. W. D... 457
Bishop, W. F  245
Bissell, Clark  432
Bissell, Governor  358
Bissell, Lewis  480
Bissell, W. H  257
Bissett, R. D  260
Bissett, W. H  405
Black, Alexander  169
Black, Dr  419
Black, P.J  213
Black, W.T  241
Black, William  194
Blackman, Beard  467
Blackman, Hannah.. 200
Blake, Edwin G  202
Blake, H. T  402,486
Blake, Halpin  467
Blake, Harpin ...200,468
Blake, John F  189
Blake, Michael  479
Blake, Reuben. ..472, 473
Blake, S. S...226, 326, 486
Blake, Wm  468
Blake, W. M  479
65

Blakeman, Bard  468
Blakeman, C. W  247
Blakeman, E. C  483
Blakeman, E. P.  479
Blakeman, J. H  _ 483
Blakeman, Samuel  67
sketch  70
Blakeslee, Cornelius. 281
Blakestec, Deacon  365
Blakeslee, Joel  183
Blatchlord, rie-ury .. «&6
Blatchford, John 169, 172,
175,251,430, sketch 173
Bhuuhford. Mary  166
Blatchford, Sanf I, Rev. Co,
173,175.366, sketch 166
Blinn, G. F  478
Blinn, S. E  471, 478
Blinn, Silvester  483
Blish, H. H  478
Bliss, Ira   467
Blodget, Henry-  480
Bloom, J. C.  301
Blush, W. C  483
Board of Trade  374
Boardman, Dan'I, Rev. 141
Boardman, David S, . 141
Boardman, Elijah  133
sketch  ' — 141
Boardman, Jerusha.. 141
Boardman, William.. 142
Bobolin, Gustave, Rev. 203
Bodine, A. S  483
Bogardus, C  322
Boiler Works  37,347
Boland, F. W  357
Boll, E. C  362
Bonaparte, Louis  152
Bonne, G. D  47S
Booth, Abel  246
Booth, Abigail  87
Booth, Charles M  188
Booth, D. B  342
Booth, D. C  467
Booth, Eben, sketch. 92
Booth, F. A..474, 475, 478
Booth, Henry  470
Booth, James  87
Bocth, J0S..25, 38, 62, 175
Booth, L. B  338
Booth, L.E  479
Booth, Mary A  246
Booth, N. B  467
Booth, R. C  372
Booth, Reuben  437
Booth, Robert C  189
Booth, S. B  326
Booth, S. C  325, 337
Booth, S. S  339, 340
Booth, Sylvina  200
Boolh, W. E....  470
Borough of B'dgp't 121, 123

Borroughs, Isaac  . 307
Borroughs, Nelson __ 468
Borroughs, Stephens. 425
Borstleman, Jacob  331
Boston Coasting .126, 128
Bostwick, Benj. ..307, 310
Bostwick, Chas.. 131, 188,
189, 307, 310, 325, 487
Bostwick, W. B. & Co. 291
Botsford. Cyrus  J*»-
Dmsrord, E. M....... 478
Botslord, Geo. E  374
Botsford, Moss. K. .. 34
Botsford, W. H  478
Bottome, Frank  202
Boudren. Thos.. .353, 472,
475. 470. 477. 483
Boughton, J. A  486
Boughton, J. B.  479
Bounds, James  .. 331
Bouton, Nathaniel
sketch   400
Bowen, Wm. S..  185
Bowers, W. C  486
Bowman, F. C  478
Bowman, Sam'l, Rev. 190
Bowman, W. H  471
Bowser, H. E  331
Boyd, John  198
Bozworth, James 473, 478
Bozworth, Janier  . 472
Bradley, Anson  203
Bradley, F. B  '._ 286
Bradley, Jesse  470
Bradley, L. & Co  356
Bradley, Philip  79
Bradley, S. T  480
Bradley, T. F  478
Bradshaw, J. A  263
Brady, A. G  478
Brady, Major  397
Bramah, Mr  418, 419
Brass Co  282
Bray, F. L  321
Bray, Harry   468
Bray, Judson  169
Brazalgette, Mr.  419
Brecklenbcrg, Michael 480
Brennan, A   27
Brewer,    203
Bridge, Benjamin's 122,123
Bridge, Center  35
Bridge, Ebenezer  403
Bridge, Lottery ..123, 128
Bridge, Newfield  122
B'dgp't, Boroughof 121,123
Bridgeport, City of... 229
Bridgeport, first sett
lers  1, 2, 5, 6, 29
Bridgeport, first streets 31
Bridgep't Pub. Library 224
Bridgep't, its populau 230

5H

History of Bridgeport.

Bridgep't, its territory I, 3 I Bruce, John  454
Bridgep't Whaling Co. 145 1 Biyan, W. P  479
Briggs, Alba  362 j Bryant  191
Briggs, I. G  240 Brunner, Caspar.Rev. 188,
Briggs, N. L  189: 219
Briggs, M„ Rev  189 Brush, Jacob  197
Briggs, W. E  479 I Buchler, D. A  398
Briggs, W. R  337, 374 Buck, David  197
Brinsmade, Samuel Buckingham, C. B. .. 245
sketch  53 1 Buckingham. N._ 304, 375,
Brinlnall, William — 134 445, sketch 245
Brisco, Charles G. — 200 Buckley and Austin _ 133
Briiain, Elizabeth C. 362 Buesch, M. J  486
Britain, S. B  362 ' Buckley, Daniel...
Briitain. A. B  234' Buckly, G. B 
Broadhead, E. H  231 1 Bulkley, Jonathan.

Brocious, L. S  483
Bronson,   367
Bronson, Asa .^..461, 462
Bronson, B. F  486
Bronson, H. C.  479
Bronson, Isaac  134, 135
sketch  137
Brooks, Ashbel L., Rev. 181
Brooks, Benj. 388, 391, 393
Brooks, David ...134, 345
Brooks, John. .30, 41, 128,
132, 138, 147, 179. 184,
186, 187, 314, 325, 337,
400
Brooks, Matilda  401
Brotherton, C. H  478
Brothwell, Benjamin. 80
sketch  83
Brothwell, Charles R. 86
Brothwell, C. R...189. 325
Brothwell, Joseph.. 41, 82,
86, sketch 80
Brothwell, Joseph F. 80.
81, 82
Brothwell, O. H  340
Brothwell, Roswell. 83, 86
Brothwell, Thomas 80, 203
Brothwell, William 80
Brower, Oliver  479
Brown, David  197
Brown, Ebenezer.. 53, 200
Brown, G, J  292,324
Brown, George  199
Brown, H. R  479
Brown, Olympia. .214, 363
Brown, Sally  200
Brown, T. A  479
Brown, William  420
Brown, William E. .. 183
Brown, W. F  480
Browne, John  479
Brownell, Bishop  188
Brownell, R. S  479
Brownell, T. C, Rl. Rev. 193

Bull, E. D..
Bull, R. W 
Bullard, E. P 
Bullard, W. H....
Bullock, I. M 

467
- 479
. 3'6
• 179
- 485
. 281
. 2814S6

Bunlen, Robert  479
Burghardl, Ulrich 476, 483
Burial-Ground, Strat
field  77
Bunnell, J. S.  372
Bunnell, James F  348
Bunnell, R. W  371
Bunnell, Thomas F. . 348
Bunnell, W. H.--331, 171,
' 4S6
Bunnell, W. R.49, 169, 230
sketch  348
Burke, Andrew ..216, 345
Burke, J. S   439
Burke, John  474, 479
Burke, Thomas  483
Burkmans, Mary  207
Bnrlock, Thomas  234
Burnes, J. H   473
Burnham, E. G.__30i, 303,
325. 347, 374
Burnham, E. S  375
Burnham, W. E  443
Burns, J. H  483
Burns, Patrick  479
Burns, Thomas  480
Burns, Wilson  238
Burr, Aaron   46
Burr, Amos  57
Burr, David  121
Burr, Ebenezer  486
Burr, Elijah  168
Burr, Esther  23
Burr, Henry  338, 339
Burr, Hepzibah  :.. 53
Burr, Jehu  15
Burr, John. .15, 17, 18, 19,
38,46,58,60,74,157, 158
Burr, Col. John  3, 53
sketch  73, 76
Burr, Josiah  74

Burr, John, Capt., sketch 76
Burr, Justus  53
sketch  .- 46
Burr, Lewis  468
Burr, Nathaniel  23
Burr, Nicholas  88
Burr, Ozias  74. 89
Burr, Poll'-  73
Burr, Rufus  52
Burr, Samuel .30, 168, 478
Burr. Sarah  15
Burr, Thnddcuo ..... 163
Burr, Theodore  470
Burr, W. H  483
Burr. William  58, 74
Burr. Mrs. William.. 179
Burrall, W. P  233, 234,
238, 325, 330
Burritt, Charles  64, 72
Burritt, Elihu  72
Burriit, Elijah.-54, 65, 76,
89, 91, 130
Burriit, H. L. W..479, 485
Buriiti, John  38
Burritt, L. W  340
Burriit, Philena  73
Burriti, R. N  469
Burritt, Sarah  200
Burriit, Stephen  71
Burroughs, Edward.. 20,
62, 75, 179
Burroughs, George . . 135,
137, sketch 136
Burroughs' Grist Mill 05
Burroughs, Isaac .31, 388,
392, sketch 155
Burroughs, Stephen. 29,
38, 127, 132, 134. 155, 168
sketch, 64 ; store. 126
Burroughs, W. P  483
Burton, Alice  72
Burton, F. P  479
Burlon, Hamilton  454
Burton, James  478
Burton. John  479
Burying-Ground, Strat
field    43
Burying-Place, Strat
field  93-120
Bushnell, George ... 374
Bushnell, S   198
Business Firms, sketch 125
Buss, A. P  483
Butler, C. R  157
Butler, Frederick  479
Butlerworth, William 479
Button Works  ¦„. 301
Byers, Robert  479
Cable, A. J  189
Cables, Ann  200

Index.

5*5

Cable, Eliza  200
Cable, Samuel  38, 74
sketch  ni
Caesar, Julius  126
Caflrey, James  478
Cahill, James  472, 480
Calef, Thomas  166, 365
Calhoun, Mr  428
Calhoun, C. M  439
Calhoun, E. S  439
Calhoun, J, C  437
Calhoun, Julia E  439
Calhoun, Louisa C... 439
Calhoun, Mamie S. ._ 439
Calhoun, P. C. ..253,254,
255. 325. 326, 330, 337,
338. 339. 344, 345. 387
sketch  252, 437
Callahan, T. P. -.473, 476, 480
Callahan, William  480
Callender, F. F  4&0
Gallon, John   480
Calthrop, S. R  372
Campana, G. A.  480
Campbell, James  197
Candee, Almira C.
(Dulton)  357, 358
Candee, Benjamin  357
Candee, Hailie K  358
Candee. Isaic  197, 198
Candee, Job  357
Candee, John D., sketch
357; 226, 227, 331, 356,
360
Candill, David P  203
Caner Rev. Mr..-I56, 157
Canfield. C  303
Canfield, C. S  48(1
Canfield, F. M  486
Canfield, H. O  2S0
Canfield, Ransom C._ 146, 179
Canfield Rubber Co.. 280
Canfield. S. 0  357
Canfield, W. E  480
Cannon, Arnout.  315
Cannon, John S.--30, 128,
134, '35, 137, '39, 242
sketch  138
Capper, H. M  472. 480
Carey, Hannah M  466
Carey. Michael."  480
Carley, Patrick  480
Carley, R. W  -' 480
Carlos, Curtis  336
Caroli, J. S  473,483
Carroll, Thomas..... 480
Carpenter, Charles W. 199
Carpenter, F, H  478
Carpenter, G,C... 473, 480
Carpenter, G. H  480

Carpet Manufacturing 28S
Carr, Dabney  371
Carriage Manfg.. 246-248
Carrier, A. J  480
Carrier, Alpha  467
Carroll, James M.  202
Carroll, Thomas  480
Cart Co...  301
Cassady H  255
Casivcll, Alanson  169
Cate, S. M  374
Cate, S. T  374
Catlin, L. S..2S8, 345, 478, 483
CauRhlin. Patrick ... 226
Cavanaugh, J, J  483
Cemetery, Ml. Grove. 44
Cemeteries  373
Chaffee, H. R  478,483
Chaffee, S. J  477,483
Chamhcrlain, J. C  325
Chape], Colorado St.. 210
Chaplain Manl'g Co.. 295
Chapin, J. N  263
Chapman, R. P.. .371, 405
Chase. W. K  290
Chatfield  37
Chatfield, Divine  468
Chatfield, G. A  480
Chatfield, H. W  372
Chatfield, J. E  46S
Chamberlain, Oscar.. 372
Chamberlain, H. B... 478
Chamberlain, J. C  4S6
Chauncey, Charles, Rev.
7, 8, 13, '4,2',4',48,77.
79, '75, sketch 15
Chauncey, Israel 15,38,48
Chauncey, Robert  38
Chauncey, Wolcott -- 315
Cheney, Laban C  199
Chervenhill, Henrv _. 321
Chittenden, Frederick 486
Chronicle   356
Chubb, Mr  416
Churches : —
Advent Christian.. 204
First Baptist  210
Baptist, Washington
Ave.  213
Bapiist of Straifield 84
of Christ  13,204
history  1S8
Colorado Street ... 210
First Cong  125
History of  163
Removal to Brpt. 167
Pew Holders. 168, 169
List of Deacons . 175
Memorial Windows "75
Silver Service ... 176

first organized  xo
First Presbyterian,
History  183
German Catholic. 207
German Reformed 187
Hebrew   204
Lane  J57
M. E. African  203
M. E. First  194
M. E. German  203
M. E. Tabernacle.. 202
M. E. Washington
Park   _ 202
of the Nativity  193
Olivet  209
Park Street  207
Presb. List of Elders 187
Sacred Heart.. ... 205
Second Cong. Hist. 179
Stillwel' Methodist 203
Trinity Memorial.. 192
Trinity, History  192
St. Augustine's  204
St. John's  125, 366
History  156
St. Mary's -  205
St. Paul's  213
Universalis!.. - 214,362
Cily of Bridgeport -I, 229, 332
Claflin, H. B  435
Clancey, R. A  474, 475, 483
Clapp, Mrs. M. L.  323
Clapp, S. S  --189. 325
Clark, A. H  480
Clark, Allen, Rev  209
Clark, E. F  475,480
Clark, H. L  330
Clark. J. B  478
Clark, J. E  480
Clark, J. G  483
Clark, Laban  19S, 199
Clark, L. W  189, 342
Clark, M. Rev  214
Clark, Mary   459
Clark, R. T.-189, 325,337,
338. 342, 374, 375
Clarke, Sylvester, Rev. 192
Clarke, T. M  356
Clark, Treat  459
Clark, W. W  - 202
Class. Gustave  4S0
Clifford, J. A  467
Clifford, Daniel ...89, 485
Clinton, DeWiu  .- 26
Club, Seaside  373
Coach Lace Co.  304
Coats, T. C  472, 483
Coe, C. P  32
Coe, J. N  480
Cogan, John  480

5*6

History, of Bridgeport.

Cogswell, J. H  480
Cogswell, John .. .179, 372
Cogswell, R. B  325
Coit, G. S. Rev. ..193, 213
sketch  162
Coke, Dr  194
Colbey, T. R  480
Colburn, P. D  478
Cole, E. H  301
Cole, H. P  486
Cole, W. W  386
Coleman, Chas. Rev.. 213
Coleman, James.. 197, 19S
Coleman, Lemuel 169, 250,
34'. 345, 387, 438
Colgan, John H  219
Colley, W. E  371, 372
Collins, J. H  486
Collins, Sheldon  241
Collins, William F... 200
Comb Making  34
Comley, W. H  486
Commander, J. V  471
Commander, S. V. 471, 476
Commet, J. P  480
Company, Canfield
Rubber  280
Company, Thomson,
Langdon  279
Comstock, Charles .. 321
Comstock, Daniel  38
Comstock, M. E. .475, 480
Concord, Martin  319
Confession of Faith..
Conger, Mrs. C. M... 321
Conger, S. L.  321
Conklin, Isaac M, 169, 463
Conley, J. W  480
Conley, John  480
Connor, Thomas .... 372
Conley, W. M  480
Connelley, William.. 480
Conrad, Philip  342
Convent  205, 206
Conway, Michael  480
Cook, Cornelius, Rev. 195
Cook, George F  483
Cooke, Samuel. 16, 18, 38,
47, 49, 57, 75. 84, 163
sketch  20
Cooke, Thomas  52
Cooley, C. W  480
Cooley, G. S  480
Cooley, H. K  480
Coon, Marcus  478
Cooney, J. H/  486
Cooper, J. E  386
Cooperage  34
Copeland, J. C, ..477, 483
Copper Company  304
Corinthian Lodge.... 318
Cornell, J. G  473, 4S0

Corning, W. 0  350
Cornwall, Eliza  405
Cornwall, John  330
Cornwall and Patterson
Manufacturing Co.. 292
Corset Manfg  274-280
Cottrell, Mrs. Electra 321
Couch, Abraham-469, 470
Couch, Ansil H..346, 473, |
474, 483
Couch, G. H  483
Couch, William  325
Couch and Wisncr 298, 346
Coulter and McKenzie
Machine Company. 295
Courier, Connecticut. 356
Courtright, August.. 480
Coventry, J. C  4S0
Cow Hill  60
Cowan, J. H  480
Cowd, Henry  219
Cowles, D. H  472,478
Cowles, Elijah  134
Cowles, G. R  240
Cowles, H. L  471, 478
Cowles, Martin  288
Cowles, Solomon  134
Cowles, Zenas  134
Cowper, Prof.  419
Cox, F. N  472, 478
Cragin, W. B  439
Crampton, H. L  478
Crane, Elijah  38
Crane and Hurd  330
Crane, Theodore F... 227
Crawford, George  468
Crawford, Joseph  197
Crawford, Morris  469
Crawford, R. R  372
Cremin, Dennis J. Rev, 205
Crocker, Charles .... 467
Crocker, Edward  470
Crofutt, George S,  478
Crofutt, Henry. ..476, 483
Crofut, J. A  296
Crofutt, T. A  483
Crosby, Heman  372
Crosby, J. F..257, 259, 326
Crosby, N. P  258, 405
Cross, J. A  480
Cross, E. J  480
Crossman, J. P  483
Crowley, Edward  23S
Crowther, T. W  480
Crultenden, T. R. ... 374
Crystal Fount Temple 322
Cullcn, James  480
Cullen, Patrick  206
Cummeford, Lawrence 480
Cumming, J. R...471, 478, 485

Curley, Michael  480
Curran, John  322
Curry, J. W  480
Curtis, Alvin.. ..  467
Curtis, Anna (Peck) . 454
Curtiss, Burr  245, 338
Curtis, Carlos ... 1 37. 244,
345, 325, 327
Curtis, Daniel  169
Cuniss, E. M  478
Curtiss, Ebenezer  69
Curtis, Eli  467
Curtis, Elizabeth  454
Curtis, Ezekiel  133
Curlis, F. L  372
Curtis, Frederick  480
Curtis, H. B  483
Curlis, H. C.  339
Curtis, H. J  486
Cuniss, H. S  478
Curlis, Ira  91, 467
Curtiss, J. C  329,483
i Curtis, John  480
Curtiss, Jonah  38
Curlis, Judson  _ 467
Curlis, L. F  89
Curlis, Levi.  133
Curlis, Lewis  91, 389
Curlis, Lucy A  454
Curtis, Matthew  79
Curlis, P. B  454
Cuniss, Sally S  _ 200
Curtiss, Sarah  69
Curtis, Sheldon  259
Curtis, Solomon  467
Curlis, Truman  454
Curtis, Victory  .. 179
Curlis, W. H  483
Curtis, William  454
Curlis, Wright  372
Cutlery Company  292
Culls, H. L  480
Daggett, William  200
Dailey, C. H  480
Dailey, W. F  472-478
Daily, T  238
Daly, John  480
Dalv, W. F  471
Daniels, C. F  372
Daniels' Farm  68
Darby, Henry  193
Darling, Samuel  464
Dart, Levi  .  480
Daskam, James -.33S, 339
Davenport, Daniel... 466
Davenport, H. A. Rev. 186
sketch  187
Davenport, John.. 23, 208,
209, 432
Davenport. Matilda.. 432
Davidson, H. H.  485
Davis, A. J.....  478

Index.

5*7

Davis, Mary A  362
Davis, R. W  322
Davol.John   282
Davol, W. H  282
Dayton, Nathaniel  480
Day, Daniel J  228
Day, Guy B..176, 324, 366,
387, 393
Day, Jeremiah  133
Day, Robert W  228
Day, W. H  351, 352
Decker, Effie J  443
Decker, Gabriel  443
Dea. Thomas, Rev. _. 206
Dean, E. A...  483
DeCreaney, W. T  480
DeForest, A  472, 480
DeForest, Benjamin _ 179
DeForest, Charles 179, 233
DeForest, David. ..30, 55,
130
DeForest, DeLuzern. 31
DeForest, Isaac  425
DeForest, John. 30, 54, 130
DeForest, Lockwood 179
DeForcsl, Marcus  345
DeForest, Philo  31
DcForesI, R. £...325,327
DeForest. Robert ... 486
DeForest, T. B... 137. 314,
336, 342
DeForest, Thos  374
DeForest, William. ..126,
127, 141, 168, 176, 180,
183, 326, 425
DeForest & Co.  133
DePuv, C. M  324
DeWilt ClintonLodge 318
Deets, S. H  480
Deitz, Matthew  480
Dclamatcr. W. T  486
Deming, Chauncey.. 134
Deming, John.  134
Dennenney, Owen — 480
Dennis, A. L  235
Dennis, T. L.  480
Dennison,   134
Dennison, Diniel ... 197
Denison, J.T  455
Dermott, Father, Rev. 204
Derrick, C. L  4S3
Derringer. Wm..-475, 483
Dewhurst, Eli  329
Dewy, Timothy  197
Dexier, F. B  20
Diamond, C. H  297
Diamond Saw Co  286
Dibble, S.J. B  329
Dickenson, John  202
Dickinson, Jonathan 23, 24
Dickerman, F. E  238
Dietrich, Jacob.. .478, 483

Dimond, Chas.  473, 478 I
Dimond, G. W  480 |
Dinsmore, W. B.  459 1
Disbrow, W. E...230, 471, !
472, 473, 474. 475, 476, j
477, 478, 483
Dixon. Thomas  174;
Doane, Capt. E.  1791
Doane, Sergeant  402
Dodge, DeF. B., Rev. 209 ]
Donaldson. W. H. 372, 486 !
Donnelly, J. E  301 ]
Donovan, Patrick  483
Doolittle, A. H...189, 346, |
480
Doran, Alexander  478
Doius, J. H  325 |
Doten, Bartlett  340 1
Doten, C. A  325, 486
Douglas, W. W  241
Dow, Lorenzo  203
Dowd. H. C  480
Dowd, Wm. A  174
Downer, M. M. ... ._ 246
Downs, A. B. B.  468
Downs, Betsey  200
Downs, C. B-472,473,480
Downs, E. L  238,483
f)oi?ns, Edward  374
Downs, F. B  486
Downs, James  |68, 469
Downs, T. W  486
Downs, W. E  233
Downs, W. H.473, 474. 480
Drew, Abel  34, 37
Drew, C. C.  483
Drew, H. B..331, 344,345. 374
Drew, Kiitie C  344
Drum, James O. Rev. 214
Dufour, J. W.  355
Dumble.'Joseph R„ Rev, 203
Duncombe, John  76
Dunham, J. E  310, 426,
471.478
Dunn, Hush  483
Dunn, John,  480
Dunning, J. B  372
Dunning, W. M. .468, 469
Duprey, C. M  292
Durand, Esther . ... 200
Durand, Stephen. 200, 201
Durbin, Dr  202
Durfee, G. E  4S0
Dutton, Henry. ..326, 486
Dutton. Governor  358
Dwight, Timothy-137, 169, 234
Dyer, Wm. B. ...179, 242,
3°8, 341
Eagan, Patrick  480

Er-mes. Albert  325, 331
Eames, H. L  325
Eames, Henry  198
Earl, J. B  483
East Bridgeport  387
Easlburn, Bishop  178
Eaton, Cole & Burn.
ham Co  - 300
Eaton, James W.f Rev. 211
Eaton. L. W  372
Eaton. William  59, 366
Eddy, Byron  480
Edwards, Amy,  362
Edwards, Charles,  470
Edwards, H. W.  486
Edwards, Henry.. 230, 362
Edwards, J. D  286
Edwards. J. S  30, 31
Edwards, John 38, 176,200
sketch  55
Edwards, Jonathan.. 170. 407
Edwards, Joseph S._. 65
Edwards, Lewis B. .. 362
Edwards, Mary  200
Edwards, Ogden  486
Edwards, Pierrepont- 316,
486, sketch  91
Edwards, Ruth  200
Edwards, Samuel
sketch  54
Edwards, Shelton  130
Edwards, Thomas  38, 53
Edwards, W. S  286
Edgerton, Eleazer  169
Egbert, Montgomery. 478
Egge, Frederick. .351. 352
Elastic Web Co.. .304. 346
Elderd, I. L  480
Elderd. S. L  319
Eldridge, S. M  480
Electric Light Co. 303.347
Elevator, Grain  330
Elliott, Andiew  316
Elliott, Rev  316
Eliot, Susan  1S5
Elliot. William.  133
Ellis, Baruch  138
Ells, W. E  468
Elm House  - 355
Ely, S. W  189
Emmons, Mrs. E. G._ 321
Emory, Nathan.. — 198
Emory, S. H.. Rev. .. 209
Englehardt, Charles . 480
English, Benoni— 198,201
English, E. T  ._ 480
English, James  347
Enos, E. A  366
Ensign, C. H. ....... 480
Enole, G. M  480
Evans, Wm. Walter.. 350

5*8

History of Bridgeport.

Evans, Wm. W„ Rev. 211
Evening Post ...  360
Evitis, Eliza  200
Ewing, John  297
Express Co., Adams. 329
Fairchild, Deborah .. 3S
Fairchild, Eben..i45, 202,
293, 345
Fairchild, Eliud  256
Fairchild, G. II  342
Faiichild. H. C  189
Fainhild, H. L  340
Fairchild,- Hannah  13
Fairchild, James  38
Fairchild, Jennie E... 312
Fairchild, Lynn & Co. 250
Fairchild, Nathan  49
Fairchild, P. W...137, 336
Fairchild, R. B  460
Fairchild, Reuben... 293
Fairchild, Robert. 133, 134
Fairchild, Stephen... 81
Fairfield Village. 7, 10, 12
Fairman, A. B  306, 310
Faith, Conlession of . 15
Falconer, David  470
Falkner, John B  189
Fanton, Edmund  356
Fanton, H. B  428
Farmer, The  355
Farisi, Joel. 303, 347,371, 374
Farist Sieel Co  299
Farrcl,   37
Farreli. Mi...  204
Father Matthew T. A.
B. Society  322
Fayerweather, Abigail 38
Fayerweather, Benj... 17,
19, 214, sketch 58
Fayerweather. Daniel 128, 169
Fayerweather, David. 345, 467
Fayerweather, Hannah 80
Fayerwcalher's Island 59
Fayerweaihur, J. F... 342
Fayerweather, J. S, . 179
Fayerwcaiher, John 38,467
Fayerweather, Nathan'l 59
Fayerweather, Sarah. 38
Fee ley, John  200
Feeley, Zi'pha  200
Fetch, Nalhan  197
Fenn, Gershom  134
Fennemore, Wm. 472, 478, 484
Fenwick, Bishop  204
Ferguson, Chas. B. iSS.iSg
Ferguson, S. B 333,339340
Ferris, D. O. 202, 473. 474,
476, 480

Ferris, E. F  236
skelch  399
Ferris, Eihan  234
Ferris, Mary  234
Ferris, Thomas  259
Ferris, Xachariah .... 14
Ferry, H. L  480
Ferrv, at Newfield... 122
Field, A. B  484
Finnemore, C. H.  480
Fire Commissioners. 329
Fire of 1845  305
Fire Department  327
Fi>her, Geo  272
Fisher, Win  480
Fitch, Mrs. F. E  367
Filch, James  326
Filch, Lewis  467
Filch, Thomas  348
Fitzgerald. W. E  2S6
Fitzgibbons, Rich. 325, 484
Filzpairick, John  480
Firzpatrick, Joseph.. 480
Fleicher, Benj  214,304
Fletcher, Charles  199
Fletcher, F. S..  362
Fletcher, Waller  372
Flint, H. J  484
Flood, John  206
Flynn, Philip  483
Fogg, Dr  42, 43
Foland, Ida  354
Foland, Peter  354
sketch  _ 440
Foland, Worthington 354
1 Follansbee Machine
j Works  295
i-Folsoin, John  70
I Fones, Alfred C  442
| Fones, Christopher _. 441
Fones, Civilian  324
sketch  441
Fones, Daniel  441
Fones, Geo  442
Fones, Grace ...  442
Fooie, Chas. 318, 325, 344,
345, 467
Foote, Enoch 146,318,326,
344. 345, 46'
Foot & Nichols  133
Foote, Wm. H  372, 3S0
Ford, D. M   325
Ford, J. J  480
Forge Co  304
Forge, Francis  316
Fosket, W. H  321,371
Foster, Sylvester . 197
Fowler, Daniel G  78
Fowler, J. C  480
Fowler, James  40S
Fowler, Lieut..Col. ._ 397
Fox, Aaron  480

Fox, Annie E  321
Fox, F. J  487
Fox, F. VV  480
Fox, G. H..  484
Fox, John  484
Frank, C. H  483
Franklin, Benjamin.. 57
Frawley. Michael. 325, 4S4
Fredericks, G  372
Freeman, Edwin  484
Freeman, EITa  200
Freeman, Nathaniel.. 462
Freeman, Tracy  200
French, A. W  362
French, Asa  467,468
French, B. H  478
French, Benoni  63
French, C. B  480
French, Eben  367
French, Ebenezer.. 38, 433
French, Ephraim  467
French. Henry N.  169
French, J. S  485
French, James ...461, 467
French, John  56
French, Rebecca  131
French, Samuel 6, 9, 38, 63
French, Wheeler  169
French, Wm  .'.. 436
French, Wilson ..260, 478
Fresh Pond  - 53
Friar, Drucillia  321
Friswell, E. D  346
Frye, Ann B  253
Frye, Annie  _ 360
Frye. Annie M  253
Frye, D. M.. 253, 401, 402, 403
Frye, Frederick  360
Frye, Frederick  253
Frye, Frederick  403
skelch  401
Frye, James. .401, 402, 403
Fuller, Alpheus  233
Fuller, Richard  201
Furniture Mfg. .244 to 246
Gabler, Peier  484
Gaffney, J. S  372
Galburg, Bishop  206
Gannon, L..  372
Garfield, James A  359
Garlick, Samuel  486
Garner, Wm. V., Rev. 212
Garretson, Freeborn . 197
Gas Co  _ 330
Gaspin's Point  69
Gates, H. D. & Co... 346
Gates. W. A  480
Gay, Mrs. S. P  322
Gaylord, E. L  ._ 375
Gaylord, Mrs. E. L... 323
Gaylord, H.S  321

Index.

5*9

Gaylord, S. D„ Rev... 209
Geatley, Juhn  480
Geddes, W. 0.472,478,484
Geilner,Wm  478
Geisler, Robert  480
Gerard, Joseph  480
Gerdcnier, C. A. .328, 329, 330
Cibbs, W. 11  484
Giddings, V. C. ..331, 487
Gilbert, C. E. ,  480
Gilbert. Eli  428
Gilbert, I. W  484
Gilbert, J. A.  347
Gilbert, Selden  362
Gilbert, Z. L  4S0
Gilbenson, Mr  _ 419
Gilder, John L  199
Giles & Clancey  295
Gilman, Eli  45
Gilmnrlin, Patrick  206
Gilmore. Gen'l  397
Gilroy, Andrew  . 486
Ginand. David. .. 216, 351
Giraud, Frederick... 372
Gle.ison, C. W  480
Glenn, Russell.. 472, 478, 484
Glover, H. B  340
Godlrey, C. C  486
Gonfrey, F. P  480
Godfrey, Jonathan  287
Goodman, B., Mfg. Co. 297
Goodrich, A. R  295
Goodrich, Fred. ..472, 480
Goodsell, Burr  405
Goodsell, E. B...192, 310,
325, 337. 404. 405
sketch  403
Goodsell, Ezra  258
Goodsell, G. W  404
Goodsell, George  405
Goodsell, Henry  405
Goodsell, Joel  258
Goodsell, John  405
Goodsell, Perry S..._ 404
Goodsell, Samuel ... 405
Goodsell, Thomas 404,405
Goodsell, Wm._32, 33, 405
Goodsell, Zalmon  374,
375, 404, 4°5
Goodwin, E. N  478
Goodwin, Hiram  436
Goodwin, J. G  478,484
Goodwin, Joseph  134
Goodyear, E. D. S. .. 478
Gordon, Alexander S. 90
Gordon, Gen'l  398
Gorgas, G. S  480
Gorham, A. S  256
Gorham, J. J  480
Gorham, Josiah  345

Gorman, John  480
Gorman, Richard O.. 206
Gostin, Harmon D,_. 199
Gossling, Miss Geor-
giana   323
Goischalk, R. C  478
Gouge, Thos. . 30, 168, 241
Gould, Bradley  179
Gould, Harriet  200
Gould, J. L   372
Gould, John  .340, 345
Gould, L. K  487
Gould, W. J  480
Gould. William  362
Goulden, Gen.  469
Gourand, Francis F.. 190
Govean, Matthias  480
Gowdy, E  286
Graham, Gen'l  _ 396
Grayham, James  133
Grand, M. W  317
Granger, S. E  238
Granniss, C. A... 340, 348
GrannisiSt Hurd Lum
ber Co  348
Gray, Augustus  480
Gray, Burton ....467, 468
Gray, Harrison  403
Gray, M. W  478
Gray, W. H  475.480
Graves, Jedediah  344
Graves, H. B  400
Greatarex, Harry  480
Green, Elizabeth  445
Green, J. L...475, 478, 484
Green, N  473
Green, N. T  347
Green, Naihan... 312, 313
Greene, Nathaniel... 394
Green, Norval.. 472, 473, 480
Green, Sally  200
Green, W, H  484
Green, W. P  3S9
Greenwood & Arnold 347
Greenwood, John H.. 347
Greenwood, Stead man 478
Gregory, Abel  133
Gregory, Benjamin .. 38
Gregory, E   233
Gregory, E. B. 90, 179, 256
Gregory, Ebenezer  38
Gregory, Elijah -.480, 485
Gregory, Enoch  38
skelch   52
Gregory, Eunice  50
Gregory, Ezra 30. 134, 168, 169
sketch  141
Gregory, Frederick.. 237
Gregory, G. H  480
Gregory, H. S  372

Gregory, Ira. 192, 193, 337
Gregory, James  73
Gregory, P. A.  259
Gregory, P. 0  484
Gregory, Rebecca  13
Gregory, Samuel .2. 3, 6, 9,
13. 18, 38
Gregory, Seth  19
Gregory, Thaddeus .. 38
sketch  47
Greim. Geo.  480
Greisenger, William . 4S0
Greninger, J. W.  325
Greize, Frederick. .- 480
Griffin, F. R  238
Griffin, Thomas  9
Griffin, W. A  290
Gristmill, Burroughs' 65
Griswold, E. E  200
Grogan, Andrew  . 372
Grumman, Sam'l  356
Gulliver, J. P. ... 400, 432
Gumpel, Gnsiav, Rev. 204
Gundlock, W. H  480
Gunn, J. H  213
Guraud, Clemence
Emma  190
Gurnsey, Jacob ...... 470
Haefner, Peter  478
Hafner, Philip  481
Hagerty, Adam  481
Haggeny. J. J  322
Hagle, John  481
Hagley, John  481
Hale, C. F  471,472
Halfway Covenant  14
Hall, A. L  481
Hall, Abigail  163
Hall, Alice  200
Hall, Benj  486
Hall, Burgess  - 38
Hall, C. F  471.478
Hall, C. W  478.484
Hall, E. A  468
Hall, E. F  487
Hall, Ebenezer, sketch 55
Hall, Elias A  200, 201
Hall, Elnaihan  38
Hall, Eunice  133
Hall, F. B  37'.487
Hall, Francis  38
Hall, G. A  4S1
Hall, H. K  478
Hall, Henry  470
Hall, Isaac  9
Hall, J. C  .. 481
Hall, J. D  481
Hall, J. S  481
Hall, John ....38,65,468
skelch  52
Hall, Joseph, sketch. 53
Hall, Josiah B  179

320

History of Bridgeport.

Hall, Julia A  83
Hall, Lyman  84
skelch  163
Hall. O. B  387
Hall, Richard ..38, 60, 81,
157
Hall, Ruth  196, 200
Hall, Samuel  9. 38
Hall, W. B  2S8
sketch  405
Hall, W. S  405
Hall. Win., Lieut  126
Halligan, J. H  481
Hamerlon, Philip G._ 191
Hamilton, Alexander 259,
326, 345
Hamilton, C. A  282
Hamilton Commandery 318
Hamilton. John  296
Hamlin, Alanson ... 169,
325. 486
Hammond, E. P. Rev. 182
Hammond, Jos  484
Hancock, John 79,402,403
Hand, Joseph H  32
Hands, T  322
Hanford, H. T  372
Hanford, I. F  339
Hanford, J. S  481
Hanford, James  478
Hanley, Edward  322
Hanover, J. S  216, 217,
219,356,470
Harden, W. F  329
Hare, R. W.  252
harland, Edward  471
Harlem, James L.  210
Harlow, Augustine -. 484
Harrall. Francis  254
Harrall, George  251
Harral, Henry K. 140, 252,
253, 254, 325, 330
sketch  261
Harral, Mr  428,438
Harrall, William  252
Harrington, Daniel, Rev. 211
Harrington, Henry M. 216
Harris, Charles E  202
Harris, Reuben  198
Harrison, George  315
Harrison, J. J. Rev... 189
Harrison, W. H  481
Manly, M  303
Harming, Rechus ... 484
Hartwell, S  337
Hartwell, Sherman .. 137,
'74, '75,405, sketch 135
Hartwell, Sophia T.. . 175
Hart, Carmi   389
H any, William  481

Harvey, John  478
Hal Manufacturing.. 285
Hatch Brothers Co... 294
Hatch, C. M. ...  372
Hatch, Chauncy M... 188
Haich, Daniel  189,459
HalchGenl  398
Hatch, H. F  338
Hauer, George  4B1
Haugh, James  484
Havens, Mrs. H. E... 321
Haviland, W. T  487
Hawes, E. V  374. 375
Hawes, Jennie G.  321
Hawes, Minnie  321
Hawes' Opera House 324
Hawes, W. T  481
Hawkins, Phebe  200
Hawley, A  338, 339
Hawley, Aaron. 19, 27, 60,
64, 79, 88, 122, 126, 148
Hawley, Abigail  89
llawley, Abijah43,6o, 126,
'34. '79. 3'8, 326
skelch 90, 142, 143
Hawley. Alexander ..340.
34', 342, 372
Hawley, Alfred  468
Hawley, Anson  73. 169,
467, 468
Hawley, Bessie  253
Hawley, Bronson  I7g
Hawley, C. H  348
Hawley, Charles .169, 348
Hawley, D. 1  467
Hawley, D. W  256
Hawley, David. ..154, 255
skelch  89
Hawley, E. S. ...323. 340,
341, 342. 466
Hawley, Ebenezer  38
Hawley, Elbeit  468
Hawley. Elijali 26, 27, 130,
176, 196, sketch 88, 89
Hawley, Eunice (Jack-
son)  407
Hawley, Ezra  72, 90
Hawley, F. B. 304. 342, 346
Hawley, F. V  348
Hawley, George B. .. 72
Hawley, Gideon  26
sketch  407
Hawley, Gurdon  169
skelch  72
Hawley, H. T. .-.325, 481
Hawley, J. B  478, 484
Hawley, James  26, 38
sketch  62
Hawley, Jesse  88
Hawley, Joseph  26, 62
Hawley, [ulius ...37,348
Hawley, Levi, sketch. 257

Hawley, Marcus C._. 90
Hawley, Munson .90, 137,
'79. 325.336, 341, 372
sketch  136, 137
Hawley, S. W  471
Hawley, Samuel — 63, 88,
164, 241
Hawley, Sarah  164
Hawley,- Silas _  57
Hawley, Stephen .62, 176,
179, 180, 183, 184, 187,
312, 326, 339, 467
Hawley, Thomas ..13, 17,
18, 19, 89, 90, 175, 184,
¦87, 337. sketch 72, 90
Hawley, W. H  372
Hawley, Wheeler. 471, 478
Hawley, Wilson ..60, 126,
142, 168, 179, 318
Hawley, Wolcolt 19, 20, 27
Hawley, Zachariah.24, 25, 26
Hawley, Zalmon  41, go
Hay, J.B  189
Hayden, Peter  92
Haywood, William .. 133
Hayes, C. H  481
Hayes, G. W  345
Hayes, General  .. 396
Hayes, H, N  337
Hayes, Hanford  331
Hayes, John .....  468
Hayes, Johnson  468
Hayes, Robert  481
Hayes, W. B  481
Hayt. James, skelch . 89
Herald  356
Hearan, T. E   322
Hearson, F, L.  481
Heisler, George  484
Held, Louis  484
Hemingway, Sarah ... 405
Hepburn, H. C  241
Hermance, Mr  180
Hermes, Albert  481
Heron, Cornelius  481
Hersey. Alice  439
Heth, Joyce   377
Hewii, A. F. Rev. 185, 453
Hewii, Dr  184,234
Hewii, Henry S  185
Hewit, Nathaniel, Rev.
sketch  180, 184
Hibbard, Billy  198
Hibbard, O. H  478
Hickey, T. F  484
Hickok, H. S  323
Hicks, Raicliff  280
Hicks, Seaman  4S5
Higby, Harvey  _ 183
Higby, Hervey —341, 344, 345

Index.

5"

Higby, Henry  256
Higby, Seth  86
Higby, W. R  330, 341,
342, 344. 345
Higgins, A  .259, 470
Highways of Bridgeport 124
Hildroup, Mary  200
Hill, Charles  135, 137
Hill, George  473, 478
Hill, Henry  .  470
Hill, J. W. Rev  193
Hill, Park  481
Hill, Seth  485
Hill, W. B  481
Hillhouse, Rebecca.. 185
Hillman, Mrs. J. W. _ 402
Hills, Agnes  227
Hills, George W..36o, 361
Hills, Henry M  361
Hills, Moses  473
Hills, Mrs  36g
Hills, William J. -227, 369
Hinckley, C. W  321
Hinckley, R. P.  321
Hincks, E. P. 304, 340, 372
Hincks, E. Y  372
Hincks, J. H  372
Hincks, John W..176, 177, 466
Hincks and Johnston 353
Hincks, Wm. B...6, 7, 11,
154, 176, 226, 227. 330,
337, 338, 353, 369, 37',
372, 373
Hine, Allan  233
Hine, Ann  233
Hine, Henry M...184, 187
Hine, Lyman  _. 345
Hine, W. H..475, 476, 484, 485
Hinman, Geo  293
Hinman, Henry  470
Hinman, Isaac 30, 127, T34,
317, skelch  139
Hinman, Munson ... 139
Hinsdale, H.G., Rev. 784,
185, 186
Historic Oak  4
Hilchcock, Forbyce.. 362
Hitchcock, L. M  457
Hitchcock, Lent M... 127, 132
Hitchcock, MarihaM. 457
Hitchcock, W. R  301
Hoadley. C. J  8
Hoag, C. S  324.486
Hobbs, A. C  303,330,
375, sketch  408
Hobbs, J. L  408
Hobbs, W. F  292
Hodgeden, William.. 38
66

Hodge, Elias  467
Hodge, J. L., Rev., .. 212
Hodges, S. O  478
Hodges, Samuel  203
Hoffman, Henry,  481
Holburton, John  157
skelch  60
Holburton, Sarah  86
Holburton, Wm  76
Holcomb, T. M  478
Holden, Daniel  329
Holden, E. R., Rev. . 209
Holden, Isaac  324, 390
Hollister, David F... 187,
33L 337. 338, 345. 455,
487.
Hollister, G. H  487
Holly, P. T  432
Holman, Thomas. 259, 485
Holmes, A. A  474,484, 485
Holmes, E. H  481
Holmes & Edwards.. 298
Holmes, Lewis  481
Holt, F. L  487
Holzer, John  484
Hooker, General  395
Hooker, S. S.  481
Hooper, S. S.  484
Hoover, J. B.  254
Hope, Edward .-  481
Hopkins, F. E., Rev.. 209
Hopkins, Sally  446
Hopper,A.McG.,Rev. 212
Hopkins, John
skelch  86,87
Hopkins, Lemuel  137
Hopkins, Mary Ann. 200
Hopson, L. F  256
Hopson, Mrs. W. R.. 367
Horn, Matthew  38
Hospital  - 369 |
Hotchkiss, C. A  331 :
Hotchkiss, C. B.-lSg, 339,
340. 341. 371, 375
Hotchkiss, Joseph  325
Hotchkiss & Malli.
band  296
Holchkiss, T. C  297
Holchkiss, W. S  478
Houge, Frank  481
Hough, Chas  375
Hough, Eliakim  63
Hough, Yale E  41
Houpt, Henry  481
Honqua  152
Housatonic Railroad. 34
House, Corset Mach.
Co  297
House, James  390
Houston, Adam P. .. 342
Howard, J. A  325

Howard, Cordelia  381
Howard. O. O  395
Howel, Edward  146
Howe, Elias, Jr.. 261, 273,
390, 392, 424
sketch  270
Howe Mach. Co.  270
Hoyt, Alfred  481
Hoyt, C. C  484
Hoyt, George  133, 134,
'35. '37. sketch — 142
Hoyt, Henry M. .362, 477, 481
Hoyt, Josiah S.  135, 137
Hoyt, Priscilla  . 62
Hoyt, Wm. C  200
Hubbard, Elijah  133
Hubbard, Robert. 138, 327,
396, 478, 485
Hubbard, S. H  487
Hubbell, Abigail  13, 71
Hubbell, Abel  89
Hubbell, Abiah  89
Hubbell, Abraham-30, 126
Hubbell, Alexander. 169
Hubbell, Amos, ..48, 126,
127, 148, sketch  74
Hubbell, Andrew  38
Hubbell, Anson  75
Hubbell, Benj  19
sketch  41
Hubbell, C. B..-.128, 169,
325. 34L 47o
Hubbell, C. E  372
Hubbell, Catharine.. 75
Hubbell, Chas  467.
Hubbell, Charles B._- 75
Hubbell, Daniel  38, 79
Hubbell, David, ...38, 74,
169, 179,293,467
Hubbell, E. E  338, 339,
340, 342
Hubbell, Ebenezer — 38
H ubbell, Elbert E..._ 176
Hubbell, Eleanor.131.14S
Hubbell, Eleazer  315
Hubbell, Elisha  26
Hubbell, Eunice  - 121
Hubbell, Ezekiel -.30, 75,
318, 344, sketch  148
Hubbell, Fenelon 244,442, 468, 469
Hubbell, Frank ..238, 339
Hubbell, George  74
Hubbell, George A... 202
Hubbell, George \V.. 152,
'53. '54
Hubbell, GershomE. 32, 74
Hubbell, Gedson...io, 20
Hubbell, Harriet  200
Hubbell, H. G  3»S
Hubbell, Hezekiah .. 19

5'*

History of Bridgeport.

Hubbell, Henry .153, 154, 470
Hubbell, Jabez  19
Hubbell, James  38
Hubbell, John. .38. 41, So,
148
Hubbell, Joseph  38
Hubbell, Josiah,. 179, 293,
341, 345, 467
Hubbell, L. H  469, 470
Hubbell, L. W  467
Hubbell, Lemuel .30, 244, 467
Hubbell, Onesimus.. 86
Hubbell, Richard 9, 13, 17,
18, 38, 48, 126, 141, 148,
'75. 176,315
skelch  75,76
Hubbell, Sally  200
Hubbell, Salmon .30, 130,
134, 176, 230, sketch 139
Hubbell, Samuel. 8, 9, 214
Hubbell. Stephen  38
Hubbell, Susan  369
Hubbell, Temperance 13
Hubbell, Thaddeus, 30, 87,
'39
Hubbell, W. H  481
Hubbell, W. L...329, 372,
387. 47', 476, 478, 484
Hubbell, W.T  374
Hubbell, Walter  74
Hubbell, Wm  44
Hubbell, Wm. M  193
Hubbell, Wilson ...74, 75
Hubbell, Zechariah .. 38
Huggins, H. F  326
Hugins, Henry  487
Hughes, F, J  487
Hughes, Peter  372
Hull, Charles  478
Hull, David  470
Hull, F. H  478
Hull, Geo  238
Hull, J. R  478,484
Hull, Stephen 30, 168, 293, 467
Hull, Sterling  467
Hull, Wakeman  467
Humiston, B. W  469
Humiston, Nathaniel. 169
Humphrey   37
Humphreys, Humphrey 198
Humphrey, Watson & Co. 347
Humphrey & Whitney 134
Hungerford, S. W.... 481
Hunter, John H., Rev,
sketch  173
Hunter, S. S  484
Hunt, A. E  481

Hunt, A. S  478, 484
Hunt, Aaron  197, 198
Hunt, Geo  481
Hunt, Isaac   19
Hum, J. W  4S4
Hum, Waller.  261
Huntington, Gen  79
Huntington, Mary — 344
Hurd, Arnold  467
Hurd, Asa  76
Hurd, Charles  478
Hurd, Ebenezer  68,72
sketch  71
Hurd, Edwin  189
Hurd, Elizabeth  72
Hurd, F. N  469
Hurd, F. W  348
Hurd, Frederick. 219, 227,
33'. 333, 375, 390
Hurd, H. A  484
Hurd, Henry  468
Hurd, Jabez  425
Hurd, John 67, 68, 71, 143,
'93, 330
Hurd, L. F  481
Hurd, Lucy (Blackman)425
Hurd, Nathan..  38
Hurd, Philo .234, 318, 330
sketch  425
Hurd Place  71
Hurd, Rebecca  155
Hurd, Samuel F.. 145, 341,
342, 425
Hurd, S. F. &Co  259
Hurd, Stiles  470
Hurdboli. Philip  481
Hurst, C. W  481
Huss, Henry  477,484
Husted, H. G  355
Hutchins, Thomas  27
Hutchinson, J. C  386
Hutchinson, J. L  375
Hutchinson, S. B  291
Hutchinson, Sylvanus 197
Hyatt, Eugene  481
Hyde, George  470
Hyde, M. H  470
Hyde, Richard  30, 140
Hydraulic Co  312
Indian wigwam  88
Indian wigwams  3
Indian path  3
Indians, fear of  3
Indians, Golden Hill 88
Indians, Pequonnocks 1
Ingalls, G.  ... .. 322
Ingalls, W. H  481
Ingersoll, C. D  241
Ingersol, W. M„ Rev. 213
Inscriptions, Stratfield
Burying place. ..93-120
Iranistan   379

reland's brook  .6, 68
ron, Malleable, Co. - 290
ron Mfg. 290, 294, 295, 296
ron Works  35
rwin, John W  433
sard, H. C  473, 481
ves, Blakeslee & Co. 281
ves, C. A  374
ves. E. R  292, 325, 374
ves, Francis 323, 374, 394,
429, 487
ackson, Andrew  307
ackson, David  38,57
ackson, Gabriel. -.38, 57
ackson, General  138
ackson, Henry  56
ackson, John  38,57
ackson, Mary  13, 56
ackson, Molly  89
ackson, Moses 9, 38, 56, 57
ackson, Samuel  9
ackson, Sarah F  321
ackson, Stonewall .- 395
acobs, A., Rev  204
acobs, Elisha P  198
acobs, Joseph  - 481
alin, Wm  481
ancs, Edwin L  199
aquet, Henry  484
aquiih, J. P.  475, 484
arvis, Isaac   316
arvis, S. S  189, 259
aynes, Bishop ..... 891
offers, F  322
cnkinson.J  481
ennings, D. H...472, 478
ennings, David  259
ennings, Eiiphalet.. 164
sketch   62
ennings, G. F.  481
ennings, James.  179
ennings, O.S. 372,478,484
ennings, Sarah  164
ensen, Charles  481
erman, J. H.  481
erome Clock Co  381
crusalem Chapter  318
erusalem Council  318
essup, Ebenezer 134, 135, '37
essup, W. P  481
eweit, Wm   199
ocelyn, Augustus... 197
ocelyn, Mr  389
ohnson, Charles  481
ohnson, Edwin  182
sketch  364
ohnson, G. H  319,353
.ohnson G. W  481
Johnston, I. H  366
Johnston, John  478
Johnson, S. D  484

Index.

5^3

Johnson, Samuel__23, '4'
Johnson, Sam. W. 133 134, 141
Johnson, W. A  481
Johnson, W. B  ._ 469
Johnson, Wm. Sam'l. 141
Jones, Mrs. E. S. W._ 323
Jones, Edward  469
Jones, H. C  410
Jones, Harriet  393
Jones, Henry 175, 176, 177,
227, 228, 366
Jones, Ira  58
Jones, John  ..... 38
Jones, Judge  155
Jones, S. B.. 312, 341, 345, 366
Jones, S. B. & Co  255
Jones, Samuel  326
Jones, Seth B  179
[ones, Thomas  90
Jones, W. M  484
[osslyn, G. H  481
Joy, Jacob  9
Joy, Joseph  9
Joyce, J. A  487
Judah, H. R  162,318
Judd, H. Q  202, 481
Judson, Agur  344,447
Judson, C. N  372
Judson, Caroline  242
Judson, David 134, 242,467
Judson. F. J   485
Judson, F.N   372
Judson, George  454
Judson, Harry  179
Judson, Henry  -. 467
Judson, I. N  242
Judson, Jeremiah  247
|udson,John   69
Judson, Mcdora H... 343
Judson, Pixlee  372
Judson, Samuel  68
Judson, W. A. ...340, 344
Judson, Walter  372
Kable, J. W  484
Kane, Patrick  322
Kankey, Zebulon  197
Kearney, John  322
Keating, Bernard 325, 326. 487
Keeler, C. B  481
Keeler, Chauncey ... 469
Keeler, G. S  4S1
Keeler, G. W.... 470. 473,
475, 476, 477. 484
Keeler, George.. 190, 247, 345
Keeler.Isaac  388
Keeler, J. S  478
Keeler, Patrick .... 86
Keeler, W. H  481

Keen, Wm  _. 481
Keinsella, J, A.  322
Keller, F. C  484
Keller, Joseph & Co.. 352
Keller, W. C  481
Kelley, Patrick  481
Kelley, R. D.'.  481
Kelley, Thomas  481
Kelley, Geo. T  322
Kelly, J. E.  486
Kelly, M. F  452
Kelly, Michael... 478, 484
Kelly, P.J  325
Kelsey, Chas.  466
Kelsey. Counland 37, 338,
339. 372
Kelsey. H  286
Kelsey, W. H  487
Kendrick, Green  234
Keppy, John  484
Ketchum, Morris_238, 438
Keyes, H. F  481
Keys, D. A  287
Kiefer, Emma L. ... 443
Kiefer, Frank W  443
Kiefer, Hatlie J  443
Kiefer, Jacob  246
skelch  442
Kiley, James  481
Kiley, Joseph  473
Killenbeck, Jos  481
Kilmore, Annie E. -. 354
Kimball, Henry  470
Kimball, J. R  473,481
King, F. A  481
King, J. B  329, 481
King, J. W  486
King, James  217, 326
King, Lewis  481
Kingman, S. C... 371, 372
375, 390
King's Highway  3
Kingsbury, F. J  235
Kinsella, Rosa  321
Kippen, George. .169, 312
Kirkham, Ambrose.. 4S1
Kirlland, Ezra  46, 130
Kirtland, Samuel 131, 133. 387
Kissam, D. W... 1S9, 282,
324, 339. 340, 342, 372
Kimball, Henry  469
Kline, A. P  263
Klein. J. B  325,487
Kmieter, Henry  48r
Knablin, Thomas 478, 484
Knapp, Burr.41, 179, 184, 337
Knapp & Cowles Mfg.
Co  287
Knapp, Ephraim .... 317
Knapp, G. S  288

Knapp, H. H  487
Knapp, Jacob, Rev... 212
Knapp, Joseph  169, 315
sketch  47
Knapp, N. B  255, 256
Knapp, Nathaniel  9
Knife Mfg  263
Knigfi't, Harvey K. .. 362
Knight. Sevil  481
Knowlton, J. W..310, 357,
427, 474. 476, 484
Knowlton, W. S. 310, 313, 39'
sketch  427
Knowles, Miss  367
Kohlus, Christian  484
Kost, R  375.478.484
Kounlzman, John  481
Krapp, Charles  481
Krapp. Wm  481
Kringle, Wm  — . 481
Krouse, Henry  478
Kurtz, Geo',   481
La Fontain, R.  481
Lacey, Albert R  214
Lacey, Benjamin  81
sketch  82
Lacey, Daniel, skelch 80
Lacey, E  342
Lacey, Ebenezer  38
Lacey, Edna (Munson) 427
Lacey, Edward. -38, 79, 82
sketch  81
Lacey, Jesse  82, 427
Lacey, John   38
sketch   79
Lacey, Josiah 82, 121, 168, 3'7
skelch  79
Lacey, Mary  80
Lacey, Michael  80
Lacey, R. B  40. 41, 54,
78, 82, 137, 175. 176, 177,
197, 217, 253, 254, 309.
328, 336, 375, 404, 438
Lacey. Sarah  79, 80
Lacey, Squire  52, 80
Lacey, W. H. 319, 471, 478, 484
Lacey, Zachariah  S2
Lafayette Consistory. 318
Lafayette, General — 57
Lamb, Martha J,  71
Lamb, P., Rev  206
Lambert, E. R  333
Lamson, Joseph, Rev.
81, 156, 157
Landen, Robert  473
Landiveg, Henry  481
Landon, A. H  294
Landon, Gilson.. 3x9. 242
Landon, Lucy A..... 362

5H

History of Bridgeport.

Lane, Alexander  187
Lane, Bruce  238
Lane, Harmon  - 208
Lang, S. R.  254
Langdon, Chas. H. -. 279
Langdon.W. H  481
Laramie, H. C  4S1
Larkin, Samuel  327
Larramie. H. C  473
Lasher, B. F  33', 374
Lalhrop, C.J  481
Lathrop, F  293
Lalhrop, Frederick .. 468
Latham, G. W  439
Lathrop, Thomas  362
Lattimer, W. H  484
Lauder, Robi.478,484,485
Laubscher, Rudolph. 325
Laughlin, Geo  481
Laurie, John  478,481
Lavoy, Joseph  484
Lawmaster, G. W  484
Lawrence, Abbott . . 414
Lawrence, Zechariah. 38
Layden, Patrick  484
Leader  35&
Leary, Dennis  481
Leather Mlg  243
Leavenworth, F  462
Leavenworth, Fannie A. 462
Leavitt, Edward  233
Lee, Edward  263
Lee, Jesse 194, 195, 196, 197
Lee, Martin  206
Lee, W. H  481
Leete, Governor  21
Leeds, Robert  197
Lefevre, J. W  199
Lehman, Edward  325
Lemmon, H. C  340
Lemon, C. F  372
Lenihan. Francis J„ Rev. 206
Leonard, J. A.  484
Lever, P. B  481
Levcrty, Alex  374
Lewis, A. S  467
Lewis, Abel, sketch _ 6i
Lewis, Alanson  63
Lewis B. B  372
Lewis, B. L  478
Lewis, Benj.  468,469
Lewis, C. P  484
Lewis, C. W  468, 469
Lewis, Dana  200
Lewis, Dr  454
Lewis, E. A  338, 365
Lewis, F. G  487
Lewis, Freeman  63
Lewis, G. F..473, 481, 485
Lewis, G. M  484

Lewis, Geo  345
Lewis, Geo. F. 369, 371, 372
Lewis, Geo. W. ..230, 467
Lewis, Harry  127
Lewis. James  133
Lewis, John  146
Lewis, Joseph C  169
Lewis, Mary  405
Lewis, Roswell... 35, 179
Lewis. S. C  478
Lewis, S. N.  468, 469
Lewis, Stiles  70
Lewis, Thomas -.469, 470
Lewis, Thompson ... 362
Licberum, August... 350
Licberum Bros  350
Licberum, William .. 350
Library, Public. 224, 369
Lien, Wm  jSi
Light House  314
Lind, Jenny  379, 380
Lindencroft   382
Lineburgh, W. G. 338, 339, 345
Linsley, Joel H„ Rev. 207, 211
Lintenmyer, Henry.- 481
Linus, Robert  30
Lippett, A. C.  359
Little, Moses  403
Lloyd, Samuel  481
Lockwood, Abigail
(Gray)  443
Lockwood, Alice R. . 444
Lockwood, D. B. 226,325,
326, 327, 369, 472, 478
484, 487
sketch  443
Lockwood, E. R  240
Lockwood, Elizabeth 431
Lockwood, F. J., skelch 445
J Lobdell, Francis, Rev. 182
. Lockwood, Frederick 245
Lockwood, Harriet E, 444
Lockwood, Hezekiah 469
! Lockwood, J. P  481
Lockwood, J. R  481
¦ Locktvood, Lambert.. 30,
43, '28, 133, 134, 138,
168, 317, 400, 431
sketch  138
. Lockwood, Lester B._ 444
Lockwood, Lucy B. C. 444
I Lockwood, P. E.-339, 372
] Lockwood, Peter- 139, 400
| skelch  431
1 Lockwood, Reuben.. 443
Lockwood, Rhoda A. 443
' Lockwood, Robert .. 443
I Lockwood, Roe. .139, 431
I Lockwood, Sidney N..444

Lockwood, W. D. ... 443
Lodge, Corinthian — 318
Lodge of Perfection . 318
Lodge, Nonpareil — 321
Lodge, Pequonnock. 321
Log-Book, ship At
lantic   146
Log House  2
Logan, J. T  325
Logan, J. H  481
Logan, L. G. 474, 475, 476, 484
Longdon, W. H  484
Longstaff, G. W  214
Looiuis, James C..51, 175,
216, 217, 325, 326, 327,
333, 338, 486
skelch  432
Lord, Daniel, Rev. .. 182
Lord, Joshua. go, 255, 256,
257. 258, 259, 326, 341
j Lord, Maithew...468, 469
; Lord, Thomas. .-183, 207,
340, 345
; Lord, Willys  259
' Loring, Captain  152
Lolly, John  481
Lounsbury  203
Lounsbury, D„ Rev.. 194
Lounsbury, G. E  298
Lounsbury. Stephen. 253,
308, 309, 310, 337, 428
Lousella, Moses  478
Louvelle, L, M  471
Lover, G. E   481
Lovejoy, G, W  484
Lovcjoy, John  199
Lowe & Watson  347
Lowe, Wm  --325, 347
Luckey, Samuel  198
Ludford, J. A  472, 473,
474. 484
Luinscoe, G. E.  474
Lum, Chauncey  467
Lumber Co   348
Lupton, C. S  189
Luscomb, Martin  287
Lynch, Michael, Rev. 204
Lynch, Patrick  325
Lynch, Peter  481
Lyon. A. A  340
Lyon, Alice C.  460
Lyon, C. G   374
Lyon, Curtis & Co... 348
Lyon and Curtis  33
Lyon, David  252
Lyon. Hanford  37, 137,
169, 170, 174, 175. 177,
255, 288, 318, 324, 330,
337, 345. 375. 402. 438, 460
skelch  249, 252

Index.

5^5

Lyon, E. H  478
Lyon, G  198
Lyon, H. W  280
Lyon. J  198
Lyon, Jarvis  252
Lyon, John  214,467
_ sketch. -._.-.„.. .363
Lyon, N. W. ....  252
Lyon, R, H  372
Lyon, Rufus A  362
Lyon, S. S  362
Lyon, Samuel.. _-  252
Lyon, Sarah W  362
Lyon, W. H. 280, 474,-475,
476, 477, 484
Lyon, Walker  252
Lyon, Willys  252, 326
Lyon, Zalmon  197
Lyons, A, M  486
Maby, W. H._  484
Machine, Mfg  2S3, 295
Machine Tool Works 281
Maffitt, J. M. Rev. 52, 198,
200, 201
Maher, John  322
Main, S. M  203
Mallapar, M. M  366
Mallapar. Mrs. M, M. 366
Malleti, David  38.467
Mallell, J. E  467
Mallei!. John  38
sketch   41
Mallory, D  179
Mallory, Geo  323, 327,
342, 375
Mallory, Samuel  356
Mallory, W. H.. .476, 479 i
Man, John..  39
Manchester. Julian __ 481
Manning, H. F  287
Mfg. Co., Ashcrolt... 287
Manufacturing : —
Hal  .-  241, 285
Pewter Ware  242
Shirt  242
Leather  243, 296
Furniture  244 to 246
Carriage  246 to 248
Saddlery  248, 260
Sewing Machine 260 10 275
Corset  274. 280
Rubber  280
Paper Box 281, 286, 303
Machine Tool  281
Brass  282
Tool and Machine. 283
Knife  283
Tacks  286
Button Hooks, etc. 286
Saw  286
Hardware  287

Carpet  .. 288
Iron.. 290, 292, 294, 295,
296, 299
Organ  290, 292
Button  291, 301
Card and Paper  291
Silk   20i
Piano  292
Cutlery  292
Saddle Trees  292
Machine  295, 297
Shear  296
Silver  298
Shoe  298
Steel.  299
Carriage Spring _ 303
Cartridge  303
Wheel  304
Coach Lace.  304
Elastic Web  304
Manufactories, addi
tional  346
Maples, B. W  372
Marigold, Sarah A. .. 441
Marlton, C. E  481
Marsh, D. E.  372, 374
Marsh, E. W  217, 219,
304. 339. 340, 346, 372, 484
Marsh. Edward W. .. 183
Marsh, Egbert. ..187, 339, 340
Marsh, Elihu  84
Marsh, F. VV..45, 339, 340, 372
Marshall, Barney  484
Marshall, Francis  362
Marshall, Frank  482
Marshall, John  387
Marshall, Richard ... 482
Marshall, W. [1  481
Marlin, H. B  481
Martin, Samuel  39
Marlin. T. F. .. .219,486
Marvin, Charles M... 362
Marvin, J. J  274
Marvin, Mallhew  134
Marvin, R. H  479
Marvin, S  197
Masons : —
St. John's Lodge .. 315
Jerusalem Chapter. 318
Jerusalem Council. 318
DeWiti Clinton Lodge 3'8
Pequonnock chapter 318
Washington Council 318
Lafayette Consistory 318
Hamilton Commandery 3'8

Mason, R. B..234, 239, 330
Mason, T. A  282
Masters, Nicholas  39
Mather, Titus C. ..90, 169
Mather's Point  go
Matsell, George W... 413
ifMariinflalc, S.  i«
Maxcy, Dr  366
Maxcy, E. W. Rev.,
sketch   162
May, C. P  257
May, Henry  168
May, Jacob  486
May, S. S  259
May, W. H..257, 260, 362,
47'. 478
Mayer, Charles  481
Maynard. L.J.  322
Mayne, G. A  482
McCarthy, John  322
McCarty. Chandler .. 482
McCaughalty, Hugh. 322
McConnell, John  481
McCord, C. W  189
McCord, John  189
McCormick, Michael 4S4
McDermott, James .. 481
McDermitt, L  238
McEIroy, Charles  481
McEwen, Abijah  454
McEwen, Harriet  200
McEwen, John P. 200 201
McEwen, Robert  445
McFarland, Bishop.. 451
McGec. H. D  487
McGovern, B  283
McGuinness, Michael 4S7
McHard, Matthew  38
McKennie, Hector  295
McLaughlin, L. E  481
McLean, John  437
McLean, Sally J. ... . 437
McManus, Robert ... 481
McNaughton, Sadie.. 321
McNeil, Abraham ... 314
McNeil, S. A  314
McNeil, William  481
McNeill, W. H  484
McNeille, Hannah
(Shepherdson)  365
McNeille, Perry R... 365
McNeille, R. G. S  183,
364, 365
Mead, Rufus  479
Mead, W. C  295
Mead, Zechariah  39, 84
Meeker, David  86,468
Meeker, E. F  487
Meeker, G. H  254
Meeker, J. B  254
Meeker, N. Seeley... 86
Meekin, Harvey  . 48a

326

History of Bridgeport.

Mietinghouse : —
First  10,47
Second  16, 17, 18, 48 |
Struck by lightning 19 '
First Pew  17 |
Mehan, Harry  481 1
Meigs, General  396 I
Mjllen, F. W  321
Merrick, Jonalh. Rev. 164
Merrick, Sarah  164
Merriman, Amos, sketch 83
Mcnius, Albert  4S4
Merwin, Orange. .339, 340
Merwin, S  197, 198
Meltler, Samantha... 362
Middlebrook, C. B... 179. 259
Middlebrook, David. 468, 469
Middlebrook, Eph. 30. 467
Middlebrook, Fanny. 200
Middlebrook, Hiram. 257, 260
Middlebrook, John .. 39
Middlebrook, Mills.. 203
Middlebrook, L. N... 360,
476, 479, 487
Middlebrook, J. R. .. 481
Middlebrook, S. M... 337
Middlebrook, Stephen 41
Middlebrook, Stiles M.
184, 187
Middlebrook, W. St.. 337, 338
Migeon, A. F  304
Mile Stone  57
Miles, Alfred  87
Miles, Lewis  87
Milcy, John .... — 202
Mill, Fairfield  56
Mill, Old Yellow  91
Mill, Jackson's  56
Mill, Yellow  145
Miller, C. D  4S2
Miller, A. G  238
Miller, Frank  374,484
Miller, J. W  457
Miller, .il. G  375
Miller and Strickland 37
Miller, W. H  482
Milliken, C. D  482
Mills, G.J  321
Mills, J. H  482
Mills, M. M  479,484
Mills, Nathaniel B. .. 197
Mills, Pequonnock .. 145
Mills, Robert J  469
Milne, Robert  169
Minor, Charles M  20S
Minor, Prudence  336
Minor, Richardson .. 336

Minor, W. T  240
Minot, David 126, 134, 145
sketch  141
Mitchell, C. L  3S2
Mitchell, C. M  282
Mitchell, Mrs. C. M.. 253
Mitchell, David  66
Mitchell, Eliza  433
Mitchel, G. E  4S1
Mitchell, Grace  66
Mitchell, Ida  253
Mitchell, Joel  203, 467
Mitchell, Patience.. . 200
Mitchell, W. W  484
Monument, Soldiers'. 334
Monumem'1 BronzcCo.349
Moody, OT...  484
Moody, J. T  239
Moody, Zenas R. .... 179
Mnoney, C. A. -..325. 326
Moore, C. A  287
Moore, C. E  473' 475,
476, 484
Moore, Mark 30S, 341, 486
Moore, Samuel  481
Morehouse, Abijah .. 16S, 467
Morehouse. C. A  482
Morehouse, Eugene . 487
Morehouse, Ezra  467
Morehouse, G. N  470
Morehouse, Noah ... 39
Morehouse, Samuel.. 9
Morehouse, Thomas .9, 56
! Morford, Jarratt .325, 344,
345. 37'. 374. 375
| Morford, Mayor  429
I Morgan and Booth .. 343
j Morgan, Charles  482
Morgan, D. A  371
j Morgan, D. N  192, 217,
i 325. 327, 343, 345. 369.
371, sketch 342
I Morgan, Ezra  342
Morgan, Mrs. Hannah
(Nash)  342
Morgan, Hopson and Co. 343
Morgan, William J... 344
Morgan, Zedekiah  342
Moriarty, P  197
Morning News  362
Morrell, Daniel  481
Morris, Daniel  78
Morris, Dwight.. 310, 326,
327, 487
Morris, Elliot  179
Morris, Ezra  200
Morris, G. C  479
Morris, Hannah  200
Morris, J, A  481
Morris, James, sketch 78

Morris, M. E  213,344, 345, 372
Morris, Marshall E.._ 219
Morris, P. A  476,484
Morrison, Wm..~258,-259 -
Morse, Ira  319
Morse, Samuel  179
Moses, Isaac and son 149
Moss, Joshua, Rev. .. 84
Mosure, Samantha — 200
Molt, Joseph. .52, 169, 484
Muldoon, j. A  322
Mullen, John  481
Munger, G. N  479
Munger, George. 189, 372, 484
Munson, B. H  356
Munson, B. W... 475, 476,
477. 484-486
Munson. L. B  470
Murdock, John  178
Murphy, J. H  482
Murphy, Timothy.... 482
Murphy, W. L  481
Murrv, A. A  482
Muih', Nicholas  482
Million Lane  195
Mygait, A. B  233
Mygalt, Eli  345
Myer, G. W  481
Naale, John  322
Naramore, F. J. -.304, 374
Naramore, W. W. ... 466
Nash, Albert  200
Nash, Cap!  80
Nash, Daniel  134
Nash, David H. -.138, 485
Nash, F. H  357
Nash, Hannah  343
Nash, J. H  482
Nash, J. S  479
Nash, William B. 179, 31S, 485
Neal, J  296
Near, J. N  325
Ned, negro  42
Neithercut, R. S  348
Nelson, Emily  366
Nelson, Lydia E  444
Nelson, Robert B.  227
Nettleion, W. A  279
Neville, M  365
Nevine, Henry  133
New Lights  ..22, Si
Newcomb, C. B  286
Newfield  121, 125
Newfield Harbor. 122, 145
Newman, 1  280
Newpasture Point.. 65, 90
Newton, C. H  482
Newton, Christopher,
Rev  72

Nichols, B. T. 250, 252, 258
Nichols, C. B  470
Nichols, C. H  484
NioKnlo, C. 1_  4t;
Nichols, C. TV. deL.,
sketch  191
Nichols, Catharine... 200
Nichols, Charles T... 128
Nichols, D. S  247
Nichols, David B. ... 387
Nichols, Edwaid  470
Nichols, Elam  468
Nichols, Eli.  87
Nicholas, F. C  484
Nichols, Francis  67
Nichols, G. K. ...247, 248
Nichols, Hannah  211
Nichols, Horace -233, 234,
235. 330, 337, 338, 340,
387
Nichols, Isaac  ... 67
Nichols, J. M  467
Nichols, James K. 247,248
Nichols, Jeanette  459
Nichols, John... 57, 58,60
157,482
Nichols, Joseph  68
Nichols, L. M  478
Nichols. Lorrin  _ 468
Nichols, Lucy  159
Nichols, Maria  200
Nichols, Nathaniel  68
Nichols, Peck & Co.. 247
Nichols, Philip 65, gi, 145,
159, first store 125
Nichols, Philo  467
Nicho's, Phoebe  200
Nichols, Plumb  467
Nichols, Prudence... 405
Nichols, R. S  4<>7
Nichols, Richard. 125, 144
skelch  67, 68
Nichols, S. H  46g
Nichols, S. M. ...471, 476
Nichols, Sellick  46g
Nichols, Stephen .169, 327
Nichols, Stiles 31, 200, 201
Nichols, Stiles and Son 355
Nichols, Sylvester ... 484
Nichol's Tavern . .. 81
N'chols, Theophilus 29,68
sketch ..65, 66, 69, 70
Nichols, W. B.... 331, 472. 479
Nichols, W. G  468, 469
Nichols, Walter  325
Nickerson, G, E  482
Nickerson, S. C  375
Niles, Samuel  169
Noah, M. M  308
Noble, CM  37

Index.
Noble, B. G. 341, 366, 387,
388, 389, 392, 477
Noble, Charlotte (San-
iaidX^--  -39°
Noble, Miss H. M. .. 323
Noble, Rev. Dr  183
Noble, Thomas  --392
Noble, W. H..35, 189,213,
233. 325. 327, 34', 375.
381. 383, 387. 388, 389.
39°. 401, 47', 476, 477,
478. 484. 487
sketch  3g2
Nonpariel Lodge  321
Noonan, James  322
Noonan, Patrick  322
Nordaby, W. H  484
Norman, F. P  487
Norris, William H. .. 199
North, H. A  476
North, Henry  _. 484
North, J. W  ... 479
North, John  r8g
Nonhrop, B. G  435
Northrop, David  482
Northrop, G. A  325
Northrop, Isaac.  47g
Northrop, Nicholas.. 89,
3'2, 445
Nonhrop. Nichols 179, 245
Nonhrop, Ziba  312
Norton, Birdsey  134
Norton, L. H  4S5
Norton, Reuben S,  134
Norton, W. E. ...326,487
Nothnagle, G, E. and
Son  246
Noyes, Joseph  21
Nunheimer, John  484
Nutt, Commodore  383
Null, William D  411
Oak, Historic  4
Oakley, Gilbert  482
Oakley, T. S  326
Oatley, J. C  482
Oalley, T. W  484
O'Brien, Terrance 474, 484
O'Connell, J. O, Rev. 206
O'Connor, John  484
Odd Fellows  319
Odell, Griswold  200
Odell, Hannah  81
Odell, Hezekiah  39
Odell, Isaac  203
Odell, John 6, 9, 13, 18, 39
Odell, Mary  13
Odell, Maline  42
Odell, Nehemiah S... 19
Odell, Samuel  39,79
sketch  42
Odell, Sarah  13
Odell, William  39

5V
Ogle, John   372
0'Hara,John  322
O'Hara, T. R  482
-°*Hlir£ins.JGen  149
Ohnesorg, M rs, Gustav 323
Onesorg, Gustave 471, 479, 485
Olcolt, Thomas  137
Old Fort  25,28
Old Lights  22
Old Mill Green  3
widened   68
Old Mill Site  72
Old Red House  26
Old Well  25
Olden, Edward  482
Oliver, John. 473, 474, 476, 482
Olmstead, C. N  469
Olmstead. Henry  63
Olmstead, J. S  4S2
Olmstead, S.E  240
O'Neil, Charles  484
O'Neil, Rev  206
Opera House, Hawes 324
Orchard, C. H  479
Orcutl, Jerome  214, 324
Organ Mfg.  2c,o
Orphan Asylum 1  322
Osborn, David, Rev.. 202
Osborne. I. E  482
Osborne, J. H  372
Osborne, John  482
Osborne, Thos. B  443
Osborn, Thos. G  199
Ostrander, Samuel  199
Overton, A. W  484
Oviatt, Dan'l B. -.179, 468
Owens, James  482
Pacific Iron Works.. 299
Paddock, C. L  4S2
Paddock, R. E  482
Page, Benj. St. John,
Rev., sketch  174
Palmer, A. G., Rev... 212
Palmer, A. M  372
Palmer, C. R., Rev.— 163,
174, 210, sketch  178
Palmer. F. A  436
Palmer, Rav, Rev  17*
Palmer, S. t  484
Palmer, W. R. 325,473.484
Paper Box M fg. 28 1 . 286,303
Paper and Card Mfg. 291
Pardee, W. W  471,479
Parish, Joel  64
Park, Beardsley  334
Park City  1
Park, Seaside  332
Parker, W. E  484
Parkerlon, James.... 469

528

History of Bridgeport.

Parkington, G. A. 47'. 472,
479, 4S2
Parmly, Eleazcr.-374, 375
Parks, James  4S2
Parrotl, Abraham  87
Porrnii. Bryant. ..468, 469
Pariou, E Allen  63
Parroit, F. W.87. 175, 244,
246, 338, 433, 463
sketch  302
Parroit, H. R. .78, 87, 175,
240, 325. sketch... 433
Parrott, J. W  372, 487
Parroit, John  87,469
Pariou, Mrs. L. A. .. 246
Barron, Lucelia (Reiner) 433
Parrott Varnish Co... 301
Pariou, W. H  357
Parroit, William  88
Parsonage Lot  61
Parsonage, Siratfield
Bapt  86
Parsons, A. S  350
Parsons, R. E. ...294, 350
Partridge, Alden  393
Paichen, Samuel  39
Patchin, Mary Ann.. 200
Pateut Leather Co. .. 346
Patriot, Connecticut . 356
Patterson, J. T.  290
Patterson, M. C  . 291
Patterson, S. J  243, 346
Patterson, Win., Rev. 189
Paul, Chas. ..325, 472, 482
Payne, A. E.  479
Payne. C. B  482
Payson. W. E  213
Peabody, Wm. H..30, 244
Pearsali, E. R  274
Pease, John M  igg
Pease, Wm. 1  19S
Peck, A. T  482
Peck, A. W  471,478
Peck, C. H  468
Peck, David C  387
Peck, E. B  487
Peck, Ira  30, 169
Peck, J. B  233
Peck, Jewell  372
Peck. N. F  372
Peck, Riley  440
Peck, S. B  341
Peck, Starr  467
Peck, T. E...323, 372, 482
Peck, W. A  293
Peck.W. C  484
Peet, A. L  468
Peet, B. W  467
Peet, C. W  482
Peel, Edward  484
Peet, Elijah. ..56, 467, 468

Peet, Ezra  467,468
Peel, G. S  372
Peet, 1. W  468
Peet, Isaac  293
Peet, John 67, sketch 66
Peel, M. C  4*7
Peei. Samuel .89, 179, 467
Peel, Sarah A  251
Peet, Squire  464
Peel, Wm. -.129, 134. 251,
3'7, 3'8, 326
sketch  140, 248
Peel, Wm. L  200
Pclton, Charles F  199
Pcllon, H. P  372
Pehon. L. F  4S2
Penfield, B. B  482
Pcnfield, Benj. P  372
Penfield, Burr  200,201
Penfield, Hannah  200
Penfield, James  200
Penfield, Mary  200
Penfield, Mr  55, 195
Penfield, Mrs...  195
Penn, Jacob  482
Penney, Sam'l  31, 131
Pennoyer, James .. 470
Penny, Mr  461
Peoria, Joseph  482
Pequonnock Chapter 318
Pequonnock Lodge.. 321
Pequonnock Mfg. Co. 348
Pequonnock Village.7, 10
Perry, David_I45, 17g, 341
Perry, F. L  301
Perry, J. H  199, 325
Perry, Joseph  482
Perry, Salmon C  199
Perry, Mrs. Talman.. 179
Perrv, Wm. H . 37, 269, 314,
325. 330, 338, 339, 342,
374, 390. 391, sketch 270
Penn, Monsieur  355
Pcltinglll, A. A.. 155, 327,
337. 340, 356, 366
Peinngill, Catharine A.
'55. 227, 366, 3S8
Peningell, W. W  482
Petiitt, H. W  479
Pcniit, 1. 0  259
Pewter-Ware Mfg  242
Phelan, J. J. .327, 369. 487
Phelan, Patrick  487
Phelps, A. G  238, 248
Phillips, A. N  486
Phippeny, Benjamin. 3g
Phipps, C. W  484
Picked, Asa  233
Pickett, Michael  484
Pierce, B. D  325
Pierce, C. H._.  304
Pierpont, James, Rev. 21

Pilgrim, Benjamin ... 179
Pine, Geo. S., Rev  214
Pinkham, W. F...304, 325
Pixley, Agur  467
Pinlev, P. C.  467,468
Pixlee, Peter  68
Pixlee, Wm  461
sketch  66, 69
Piatt, C T..  .. 482
Plan, Elizabeth  23
Plait. Geo  479
Plan. Granville  484
Plait, J. T  472,479
Plait, Joseph  23
I'latt, Morriss  467
Plan, Moses  467
Plan, S. H  202
Plait, Samuel ...  23
Plait, William  23
Plumb, B. A  466
Plumb, C. E  479
Plumb, Charles  86
Plumb, D. W. 233,235, 371
Plumb, E. N  469, 470
Plumb, John  63
Plumb, Horace  484
Plumb, Noah  125, 326
Plumb Place  29
Plumb, Sophia  200
Plumb, Willard S.... 338
Pogson, M. H., Rev.. 212
Point, Ncwpasturego, 121,
122, 123
Point, Mather's  90
Point, Sherwood's  90
Polanna Chapel  188
Polk, J. K  310
Pollard, Ann E  362
Polly, Jarvis  469
Pomeroy, W.S. 309,326,355
Pond, J. E. 243,339,340,346
Poole, George  44
Popula. of Bridgeport 230
Porter, A. M  482
Porter, Ashael  479
Porter, Betsey  200
Porter, C. P  341, 371
Porter, D. H  253,441
Porter, David  67
Porier, Mrs. E. C  322
Porter, Edwin 179.233, 312
Porter, Ellen .-35, 36, 177
Porter, G. L.. 476, 484, 485
Porier. J. M..479, 482, 4S4
Porier, James  461
Porier, Jessie  .. _ 253
Poner.John  39
Porier, Mary  61
Porter, O. F  479
Porter, P. P  467
Porier properly. . 24, 25, 26
Porter's Rocks  25, 28

Index.

5^9

Porter, Samuel. 24, 26, 27,
3', 32, 33,35, sketch 89
Porter, W. W. 219, 476, 484
Post Office  306
Post, William  146
Potter, G. C  482
Potter, Samuel  169
Potts, Geo. H._  459
Powers, A. D  471, 479
Power Company  285
Powers, Dr  369
Powers, H. N  189, 323,
324, 360, skelch ... 190
Powlonich, Jacob  479
Prosbrey, E. M  484
Prescott, J. B  482
Prescott, O. L„ Rev.. 193
Prescott, William  403
Price, Geo. E  371
Prime, Nathaniel  134
Prindle, I. B  341
Prindle, Miss, J. E... 322
Prindle, J. M  482
Prindle, John  482
Prindle, Joseph H. .. 31
Prindle, Joseph P  129
Prindle, Josiah  3r, 129
Prindle, L. C  362
Prindle, Mordeca..3i, 129
Provost, Norman  482
Prudden, Abigail  336
Prudden, Peter  336
Pullis, Conrad  482
Pulsifer, R. M  303
Purden, Patrick  482
Purdy, Myron  482
Putnam, Israel  403
Pyle, H. H...189, 324, 325
Quien, Christian.. 474,475
Quinlan, Martin. .206, 322
Buinn, Christian  482
uinn, G. S  479
Railroads : —
Co., Bpt. Horse ... 330
Housatonic  34, 231
Naugatuck  234
Parallel  240
Co., W. Stratford
Horse  331
N. Y. &N. H  238
Range, J. W  482
Ray, Benjamin 33, 190,405
Ray, C. W., Rev  2:3
Raymond, Geo. W.... 482
Raymond, S. F  189
Raynolds, David  9
Raynor, Menzies  362
Ransom, Thos. 338,339.341
Rawlings, Chas.. .473, 482
Read, D. M. 137, 217, 327,
336. 338, 374, 375, 406
sketch  289, 445
67

Read, D. M. & Co. .. 288
Read, Jonathan  445
Read, Moses F  445
Read, D. S  479
Rebsto^k, Wm  482
Recreation Hall..... 355
Rcddy, James  485
Rcdfield, Caroline A. 444
Reed, J. P  482
Reemcr, S. W  470
Reid, John M  200
Reid, William, Rev... 212
Remer, Lucelia A  303
Remington, B. F  484
Rennie, Geo  419
Rexington.Wm  479
Reynaud, Gustave  355
Reynolds, J  198
Rhodes, J  322
Rice, F. A  486
Rich, Alfred  482
Richards, George, Rev.
skelch  178
Richards, W. C, Rev. 212
Richardson, G. W  287
Richardson, Geo.. 189, 314
Richardson, J0S.-I93, 313, 3'4
Richardson, M. A. 349, 350
Richardson, Marvin.. 198
Richardson, N. S. Rev. 213
Rielly, John  322
Riggs, L. R  372
Rinaldi, Charles  482
Ring, Peter  329
Ripley, Hezekiah .31, 158, 356
Rippen, George  353
Rippen and Sturges . 353
Rising, Mary J  486
Risley, Mrs  196
Risley, Timothy  41
Ritch, Curtis  469
Ritch, Ralph  321
Robbins, George  468
Roberts, George  197
Roberts, J. L  319
Robertson, J. B  235
Robertson, James  468
Robertson, W. H  484
Robinson, James  179
Robinson, Susan  362
Robinson, W. W  325
Rock, Michael  484
Rockfeller, J. R  355
Rockwell, Charles... 259
Rockwell, Mrs. J. E.. 402
Rockwell, W. H..303, 339,
340, 347, 371
Rodgers, F. L  487
Roe, John  431
Roff, H. C  482

Rogers, Angevine — 482
Rogers, John F„ Rev. 206
Rogers, William.  214
Rohrback, Charles... 484
Romer, James H.  199
Romcr, W. H  482
Ronan, Thomas  324
Root, H, A  . 482
Root, N. H  482
Rope Walk  63, 122
Roscoe, Henry...... 482
Rose, J. J  487
Rose, L. L...472, 479, 484
Rose, William, sketch 42
Rosenberg, S. C.  482
Ross, B. F  482
Ross, Robert  61, 75,81
skelch  58, 164
Rossiler, E...  387
Roth, E. H  297
Rowe, C. H  482
Rowell, S  198
Rowell, Valentine  39
Rowland, Betty  82
Rowland, D. S  54
Rowland, Edward  19
Rowland, Henry -.39, 175
sketch  54
Royce, Elder  83,86
Rubber Manufacturing 280
Rugg, H. P.  484
Ruggles, Elbert  484
Ruggles, Julia  200
Ruggles, Nathaniel.. 52,
200. 201
Rumsey, Abigail  157
Rumsey, Benjamin .. 157
Rumsey, Rebecca.... 157
Rundel, T.J  367
Russell, C. B.  482
Russell, C. H. ...210,485
Russell, Chester..... 259
Russell, John  198
Russell, L. H  345,485
Russell, Rev. Samuel 23
Russell, Thomas  4S2
Ryan, Anson  461
Ryan, Archbishop... 450
Ryan, William  4S5
Sacket, James  470
Saddle Boxes  33
Saddle Tree Manfg.- 292
Saddlery  ..248-260
Sage, W. F  482
Saint, Thomas  260
Saladee, Leota  443
Salt Works  25, 32, 33
Sammis, F. R  .. 340
Sanborne, N. B  372
Sanchez, L.A  372
Sanford, Aaron  42S
Sanford, C. E.  373, 385

Jjo

History of Bridgeport.

Sanford, Mrs. C. E... 322
Sanford, C. G  325
Sanford, D. C  434
Sanford, E. G  342
Sanford, E. 1  253
Sanford, Ebenezer  84
Sanford, Elijah  249
Sanford, Ezekiel  39
Sanford. G. B  339
Sanford, G. S  331
Sanford, Glover and
Sons  285
Sanford, H.J  238
Sanford, H. S  487
sketch  434
Sanford, Henry .-329, 428
Sanford, John  - 392
Sanford, L. D  365
Sanford, Thomas  39
Sanford. Zechariah __ 39
Sanger, Joseph  482
Sanger, Nicholas  482
Savage, W. L  485
Sawyer, J  322
Saybrook Platform .. 15
Sayre, John, Rev.  157
Scarriti, Charles  482
Scarriti, C. W  213, 472, 473
Schaele, Joseph A. Rev. 207
Schenck, General  396
Schneider, Michael _. 482
Scientific Society  323
Scofield, H. G.  325
Sco field, Silas  192
Schonberger, P. J.__- 482
School, First  367
School House  48,63
School, Private -.227, 366
Schools, Public  214
School-house, Toilsome 53
Schrocder, Andrew, Rev, 187
Schultz, Ernest  - 482
Schutz, F. G  469
Schuyler, Daniel ..... 350
Schuyler, G. L  234
Schuyler, Parsons, Lan
don & Co  350
Schuyler, Robert .238, 239
Scott, Frank  238
Scranton, Alonzo  482
Seabury, Bishop.. .60, 158
Seagears, Edward  . 238
Seman, Peter  482
Secor, Jerome B. Man-
ufacturingCo..  280
Sedgwick, Frederick. 454
Segee, B. M  259
Segee, L. C  '__ 312
Segee, L. M  189

Segee, P. B._i88, 189, 471, 482
Seeley, Abel  56, 175
Seeley, Clark  469, 470
Seeley, David V  169
Seeley, Fred. O.--367, 485
Seeley, II. H  469
Seeley, H. J  4S5
Seeley, Hannah  61
Seeley, James-_I7, 39, 367
Seeley, Jesse  168
Seeley, Joseph  9, 39, 53,
60, 157
Seeley, L. M  469
Seeley, L. N  470
Seeley, Munson_-467, 46S
Seeley, Nathan  78, 121,
131, 241
Seeley, Nathaniel  84
Seeley, Roswell -.467, 468
Seeley, Schuyler  341
Seeley, Seth  78, 175
sketch  79
Seeley, W. E  329, 339.
340. 372
Seeley, Wm. K..-367, 469,
470, 487
Seetch, Mr.  355
Seevcy, P. W  482
Seldcn, J. L  482
Selden, J. S  485
Selleck, W. B  366
Seminary, Hillside  367
Settlers, early, in Strat
field  40
Setzcr, Henry  374
Sewing Mac/tint Co's : —
Howe  270
Wheeler and Wilson 260
American Hand... 274
Secor..  280
Sexton, John  327
Seymour, E. W.  487
Seymour, M. W..298, 326, 487
Seymour, W  375
Shadt, Henry  485
Shailer, C. M  473
Shailer, C. W  482
Shailer, Charles  473
Shailer, J. N  479
Shanahan, Timothy .. 322
Shanley, Barney  482
Sharpe, Robert W  210
Shaylor, Timothy  90
Sheffield, J. E  238
Sheffield, Joseph  238
Sheffrey, C. W  485
Shelton, C. E  479, 485
Shelton, CM  487
Shelton, George A. .. 161
Shelton, H. T.  487

Shelton, Henry ..188, 216,
253. 254. 341
Shelton, J. T  326, 344
Shelton, Mary H  448
Shelton, Philo, Rev. 60, 74,
86, 158, 316, sketch 159
Shelton, W. J  448, 449
Shelton, W. R  487
Shelton, Wm. 160, 161,470
Shepard, L. C  319
Shepard, Nathan  179
Sheridan, D. G  482
Sheridan, William  482
Sherman, Abijah  . 168
Sherman, B. L  482
Sherman, Benjamin 67, 68
Sherman, Charles 179, 199, 293
Sherman, Comfort ... 67
Sherman, David -9, 13, 15,
I/. >8, 19. 39- 50, 53. 54.
61, 62, 63. 76, 131, 158,
175, 244, sketch 49, 54
Sherman, Elnathan .. 19
sketch  53
Sherman, Ellen  89
Sherman, Enos  39
Sherman, Ephraim W. 130
Sherman, Henry. .91, 193,
372, 457
Sherman, 1  463
Sherman, I. &L  256
Sherman, Ira_5i, 130, 174,
175. 177, 234, 326, 338,
339, 342, 433
Sherman, Isaac. 26, 28, 31,
32, 38, 50, 56, 78, go, 125,
127, 128, 138, 142, 146,
169, 175, 177, 254. 309.
310, 325, 387, 43<>
Recollections of. 40
sketch...  131
Sherman, Jabez  52
Sherman, L. B  469
Sherman, L. W  _ 482
Sherman, Lewis  .-. 319
I Sherman, Mar}'  168
! Sherman, Mary B  433
J Sherman, Matthew 6, 9, 13,
49. x3'
- Sherman, Mercy  13
| Sherman, Nathan  242
sketch  91
! Sherman, Nathaniel 68, 69
Sherman, O. W  91
Sherman, R. M. _ _ 138, 444
Sherman, Roger M.._ 147
Sherman, Sam'J_54, 67, 68,
71, 457, sketch  70
Sherman, Seth  130, 175
sketch  _!. 62
Sherman, Sterling 128, 256

Index.

53*

Sherman, Silas 43, 89, 130, 168
Sherman, Theophilus 67
Sherman, Timothy  68
Sherman, Tom 
Sherman, Wilbur  238
Sherman, William. 91, 130
Sherwood, A. E  _ 467
Sherwood, Andrew .. 48
Sherwood, Ann...  465
Sherwood, Capt,  128
Sherwood, Chas._226, 227,
369, 457, 467, 487
Sherwood, David -.44, 73,
169, 176, 196, 197, 375
sketch  73
Sherwood, E, G..._._ 482
Sherwood, E. J  474
Sherwood, Elizabeth
Sherwood, Fanny 
Sherwood, Gurdon..
Sherwood, H. E 
Sherwood, John 9. 39,84, 85
and Indian Cham p'n 77
sketch  86
Sherwood, Lemuel
sketch. 
Sherwood, Lucius
Sherwood, Mary..
Sherwood, Matthew 77. 1/6
Sherwood, Nathaniel. 39
sketch  55
Sherwood, Philemon. 465
Sherwi-od's Point.... 90
Sherwood, S. B  432
Sherwood, Sam'l 17, 18,90
skelch  53
Sherwood, Seeley  80
Sherwood, Starr  405
Sherwood. W. C. ..
Sherwood, W. L. ..
Shipman,  
Shipping&Shipmast'rs 144
Shipyard  29
Shipyard, S, Burroughs' 65
Shipyard, Nichols'... 69
Shirley, Harriet  - 446
Shirley, Hugh  446
Shirley, Wm  402
Shonenberger, P  482
Shultz, F. G  469
Shumwav, S. C  482
Sidell, C'.V  241
Silk Co  291

16
73
55
479

-- 175
-- 73
-- 372
.13,87 -9. 39

279323 134

Silliman, Cyrus __ig8, 243
Silliman, D. G  4S2
Silliman, E  372
Silliman, Gen. G. S... 90
Silliman, Joseph  467
Silliman, L. B  372
Silliman, L. G  470

Silliman, Levi  ._ 168
Silliman, Nathaniel.. 79
Silliman, Robert, Rev. 23
Simmons, F. W  372
Simmons, Ichabod  202
Simons Sam'l ...233, 308,
326, 341,485
Simpson, John  482
Singer, I. M  265
Sistare, Mrs. Geo. K. 402
Sizer, F. W  198
Skidmore, J. W.  300
Skidmore, P. H..189, 299,
324.339
Skidmore, Theodore. 470
Skinner, Louis .  213
Skinner, N. L,  356
Slade, Abner  _ 436
Slade, Clarissa(Fiench) 436
Slade, Joel   436
Slade, L. M  327, 487
sketch  436
Slade, Miss  367
Slattery, John  482
Slaughter House  33
Slocum, Barnum  485
Sloss, John  23
Smedel, Frederick  479
Smedley, Sam'l .134, 155, 316
Smend, Maurice  482
Smith, A. J  485
Smith, Abram S  201
Smith & Barlow  346
Smith. Bela  19S
Smith, Bennett  . 482
Smith, C. L  485
Smith, Daniel  199
Smith, E. C.-303, 339, 340, 346
Smith, E. W  261
Smith, E. D  468
Smith, Edward  470
Smith & Egge Mfg. Co. 351
Smith, F. C  357
Smith, F. W, 306, 310, 351, 352
Smith, Filch  258
Smith, Frederick  485
Smith, Friend W„ Jr. 4S7
Smith, G. B  468,469
Smith, Geo. W  356, 482
Smith, H. B  300
Smith, H. H  475. 485
Smith, H. M  259
Smith, H. W  303, 346
Smith & Hawley  348
Smith, Horace  303.346
Smith, J. H  4S5
Smith. ]. M  ,- 197
Smith,]. P..-475. 476»485
Smith, James, Rev. .. 204

Smith, John  39
Smith, John S  r8S, 189
Smith, Josiah  . 65
Smith, Justin, sketch. 44
Smith. Matson M„, Rev.
sketch   177
Smith, Mehitable  87
Smith, Monson  468
Smith, O. C  374
Smith, Peter A., Rev. 206
Smith, S. F._...  358
Smith, S. H   202
Smith, S. N  482
Smith, S. R   449
Smith, Sarah B  __ 358
Smith, Sheldon -.129, 140,
24S, 25S
Smith & Stratton  33
Smith, T. P  485
Smith. T. T  482
Smith, Theodore  4S2
Smith, W. D. H  482
Smith, W. E  207
Smith, W. H  .479,482
Smith. W. J  321
Smith, W. M  292, 374
Smith, William  39, 212
Sneathan, Nicholas.. 197
Snow, J. B.  372
Snow, L. E.   479
Snyder, Michael  4S2
Societies : —
St. Mary's T. A. B._ 322
Father Matthew T.
A. B   322
St. Patrick's T. A. B. 322
Scientific  323
Philomathean  372
Soldiers' Aid  334
Stratfield 1, 6, 7, 8, xo, ix, 12
Petition for  8
Signers to  g
Somers, G. E  282,325
Sons of Temperance . 321
Soules, B  189, 375
Southmayd, Mr.  250
Southward, Robert... x6S
Southworth, Robert.. 63
Spagle, Jacob  4S2
Spall, G. H  479
Spaulding, Asa  133
Speer, C. W  482
Speer, Frederick  482
Speidle, J. M. 47 1, 479, 485
Spencer, W. R.  479
Sperry, E. N  350
Sperry, J. B  235
Spinning, Charles  470
Spinning. Elijah C... 169
Spinning, S. B.  479
Spirit of the Times .. 356

53*

History of Bridgeport.

Spooner, Clapp.. 189, 323,
3=5. 3=9. 34'. 345. 374
Spring Co  303, 347
Spring, Dr  59
Sproulls, S. E  254,255
Squires, Edgar  482
Squires, G. D  479
Squires, Samuel  131
Squires, Wm.  469
St. John, Benj  482
St. John, E. A  372
St. John's Lodge  315
St. Mary's T. A. B.
Society  3"
St. Patrick's T. A. B.
Society  322
Stagg, Henry  479, 485
Standard Card & Paper
Co  291
Standard, Republican 356
Stanley, H. D  303
Staples, E. J  345
Staples, Elizabeth  446
Staples, Earnest L. .. 487
Staples, Frank T  446
Staples, G. A  471, 472.
474, 476, 479, 485
Staples, Hezekiah — 446
Staples, Jas.. 214, 216, 331,
375. 446
Staples, Seth P  134
Starling, Jacob  39
Statue of E. Howe, Jr. 334
Stead, Henry  igg
Steamboat Co.'s..i46, 147
Slebbins, E. A  471
Stebbins, E. N  478
Slebbins, Rev  316
Steele, Allen, Rev.... 202
Sterling, Jesse  30, 31
Sterling, Sherwood-. 338,
34'. 342
Sterling, Miss Annie. 323
Sterling, C. F  391
Sterling, Clarence  323
Sterling, Abijah  55, 447
sketch  61
Sterling, Clarence 225, 369
Sterling, Daniel. 83, 146,
169, 216, 217, 325, 337,
344. 345. 447. 463
sketch  88
Sterling, David 50, 58, 128,
130, 139, 168, 169, 293
Sterling, E  346
Sterling, E.J  254
Sterling, E. W  365
Sterling Edward.. 90. 216,
304. 323. 34<>. 342, 365
Sterling, Mrs. Edw'd. 323
Sterling, Geo  143, 179,
183. 34'

Sterling, H. S  372
Sterling, Hannah (J ud-
son)  447
Sterling, Henry  371
Sterling, J. W  345
Sterling, Jacob  447
sketch  61, 64
Sterling, Jesse. 34, 50, 141,
'79. 233, 307, 310, 312,
387
Sterling. Legrand  169
Sterling, Leonard  323
Sterling, Mary  50
Sterling, S. S  469
Sterling, Sherwood.sS, 78,
179. 183. 325, 326, 372
Sterling, Stephen.. 53/447
Sterling, Sylvanus .30, 63,
'35. '69- '75. 176, 177.
256
Sterling, Sylvester. .50, 51
Sterling, T. H  482
Sterling, Thomas  1S3
Sterling, W. G  447
Stevens, Benj  259
Stevens, C. W  485
Stevens, F. H  259, 319
Stevens, F. S.  462
Stevens, F. W  288
Stevens, H  372
Stevens, H. G  485
Slcvens, H. W. ..473, 474, 485
Stevens, Henry. ..39, 475,
476, 485
Slevens, J. G.  471
Stevens, J. G. ..  479
Slevens, Peter  39
Stevens, W. W. .. ... 485
Stevenson, H. C.  448
Stevenson, John  469
Stevenson, L. S  448
Stevenson, Lucy T.._ 448
Stevenson, M. B.  448
Stevenson, W. G  448
Stevenson, W. H. 239, 448, 487
Stevenson, W. S  448
Steward, Aurelius  324
Stewart, G. C  475, 476,
477, 485
Stewart, H, M., Rev.. 189
Stillman, Benj. 70, 242, 469
Stillman, H.W  468
Stillman, J. J  468
Siillman, T. W.  469
Stillman, Thomas  468
Stillman, W  341
Stillman, W, M  243
Stillman, Wyllys_l6g, 242, 243

Stillson, Miss Jane .. 454
Siocking,C.H.W.,Rev.i93Stocking, Davis  199
Stockwell, G. P.-.337, 338
Stoddard, Goodwin327.487
Stoddard, H. B.  482
Stoddard, Thomas ... 39
Sionc, Miss A. J  367
Stone, J. E  303
Store, Old Yellow... 128
Storrs, Dann  172
Storrs, Delia  172
Storrs, R. S., Rev. 182,212
Stoiper, A. W  482
Sloughton, Wm  402
Slowe, David  245
Stowe, Jerah  245
Stowell, G. E  479
Stowell, H. C, Rev. . 193
Strange, Joseph  482
Strasburger, Joseph.. 485
Stralfield, early settlers 40
Stratfield Society 1, 6, 7, 8,
10, 11
Stratton, C. S  378
Strailon, J. H  479
Stratton, Legrand  479
Stratton, S. B  468
Stratton, S. E  378
Stratton, S. L  468
Stratton, Samuel. 188, 345
Stratton, Sherwood __ 468
Street, G. L  482
Slreet, State  121
Streets of Bridgeport- 124
Strickland, Erwin  374
Strong, Emory F. 219, 366, 37'
Strong, Joseph  20
sketch  58
Stony Point  139
Strong, Win,  432
Sturges, Albert  27
Sturges, H. L  471,479
Sturges, Isaac. .26, 27, 89,
487
Sturges, Jeremiah  344
Sturges, Jonathan  133
Sturges, Joseph P.. 26, 27,
89, 169
Sturges, Lewis. 26, 89, 168
Sturges, Mary  27
Sturges, Porter. ....27, 34
Sturges & Smith  169
Sturges, T. B., Rev.. 27, 89
Sullivan, John B.. 206, 325
Summers, Charity ... 59
i Summers, Daniel  73
Summers, David  39
Summers, Hannah  81
Summers, Henry  2, 39
Summers, Jabez, sketch 61

Index.

533

Summers, John  39
Summers, Nathan  39
Summers, Samuel  9, 39
Summers, Stephen 60, 126,
141, 143, sketch  73
Sumner, E. Stewart.. 487
Sumner, S. B  485, 487
Sumner, Mrs. S. B. .. 323
Sun    362
Sutphen,   _ 256
Suiter, Jacob  32
Swain, John  356
Swan, Benj, L., Rev. . 181
Swan, Samuel  387
Swan, W. B.  259
Sweet, J. H  485
Swinscoe, G. E  482
Swords & Siillson  348
Swords, Wm. F  348
Sykes, Oliver  197, 198
Synnolt.T. J., Rev... 205,
217, 219, sketch — 450
Tack Mfg  286
Tackerburg, J  199
Talcott, Lucy  170
Tallmadge, A. M. 327,467
¦ Tallman. J. C  374
Taylor, Abijah  469
Taylor, Bayard  191
Taylor, Edward  470
Taylor, F. B  485
Taylor, Filch  467
Tailor, I. S  483
Taylor, J. G  469
Taylor, Joshua  197
Taylor & Jovce  343
Techner, Si. Clair.... 483
Teeple, G. M  485
Telegraph, American 356
Tertiff. Holland H... 354
Terry. Captain  33
Thatcher, Daniel 169, 344, 345
Thatcher, William. .. 197
Thayer, E. A  372
'Ihimonnier, Barthol-
omy  261
Thomas, J. L  485
Thomas, 'Noble W.... 197
Thomas, W. B...-244, 467
Thompson,   133
Thompson, Alexander,
Rev  182
Thompson, Curlis. .. 342,
372, 4S7, skeich... 454
Thompson, D. W. 213.337
Thompson, David ... 454
Thompson, Dwigiit.. 325
Thompson, Edmund. 485
Thompson, Eli 33, 63, 193,
257. 259. 3'8
Thompson, F. H  372

Thompson, G. S  _ 485
Thompson, George .. 454
Thompson, Gideon 33,42,
169, 318, 341, 467
Thompson, Hettie A. 252
Thompson, Isaac . . 133
Thompson, J. A  479
Thompson, J. M. 128, 169. 253
Thompson, J. W..479, 485
Thompson, Jeduthan 468
Thompson, John  454
Thompson, Joseph 253, 326,
34'. 345
Thompson, Langdon
&Co  27c
Thompson, Lucy A.
(Curlis)  454
Thompson, Maria  362
Thompson, Mirable.. 454
Thompson, Mrs. Neliie 321
Thompson. Rev  402
Thompson, Richard.. 362
Thompson, Wm.  46S
Thorborne, R  179
Thornton, John  .. 483
Thorp, C. H  314
Thorp, Joel  119,465
Thorp, Levi  87
Thorp, Nalhaniel ... 87
Thorpe. Samuel  485
Thrall, Geo. E., Rev.. 189
Thrall, Geo. S„ Rev.. 209
Thumb, Tom, skelch. 37S
Tilton, Albert  482
Tisdale, Dr  485
Titus. Samuel  190
Toby's Wharf  122
Todd, Ambrose  393
Toilsome Hill Road . 3
Tolles, A. A  237
Tomlin, Charles  238
Tomlinson, Agur  425
Tomlinson. Amy (Cur-
lis)  455
Tomlinson, Caleb  468
Tomlinson, Daniel — 145
Tomlinson, F. D. ... 485
Tomlinson, Gideon.. 233
Tomlinson, M. H  189
Tomlinson, Melinda. 425
Tomlinsun, O. R  482
Tomlinson, Russell.. 16S,
189. 327. 337. 339. 340,
333, skelch  455
Tomlinson, Mrs. Rus
sell  323
Tomlinson, S  346
Tomlinson, S. R  189
Tomlinson, Stephen. 238,
243. 246, 353. 456
Tomlinson, William . 455

Tomlinson,Wood&Co.353Tompkins, N. W  197
Tongue, E. M  485
Toquei, B. H.  479
Toucey C. E   372
Towne, J. G..  372
Towne, Jos. H„ Rev.
skelch  177
Townsend,   133
Townsend. Elihu  238
Townsend, Richard H. 187
Tracy, G. F  310, 326
Training Ground
sketch  76
Treadwell, Abigail __ 13
Tredwell, Benjamin. 39
Tredwell, Deborah.. 39
Treadwell, Edward. .9, 39
Treadwell, Hezekiah. 39
Tredwell, Jacob  39
Treadwell, Josiah
sketch   52
Treadwell, O. W  482
Treadwell, Oliver  473
Treadwell, Prof.  271
Treadwell. Robert ... 45
Treadwell, Ruth  13
Tredwell, Samuel  39
sketch  52
Tredwell. Zechariah.. 39
Treat, A. S.-287, 314, 327;
330,371,487, skeich 457
Treat, Almira (Sher
man)  - 457
Treat, Daniel A.  457
Treat, Gideon  457
Treat, Horace  485
Treat, John  457
Treat, Joseph  457
Treat, M. A   468
Treat, Mary C.  459
Treat, Richard  457
Treat, Robert  457
Tree, O. F„ Rev  203
Trowbridge, Anne — 21
Trowbridge, John — 21
Trowbridge, Joseph . 17
Trowbridge, Samuel . 39
Trubee, David ...341. 374
Trubee, Sam'l C .330. 342.
344 345. 371
Trubee, Andrew  446
Truby, Sarah (Turney) 446
Truck Slreet  57. 76, 80
Trueman. Thos  238
Tucker, John  468
Tuckerman, Mr.. Rev. 203
Tupler, Susannah  200
Tupper, J. F  479
Turner, Aaron  377
Turney, Alfred  467
Turney, Ann  200

534

History of Bridgeport.

Turney, C. A  468
Turney, J. M  4S2
Turnev, lonnh  - 39
Turney, L. M  4S5
Turney, Levi  467
Turney, Lewis .. -467, 46S
Turney. Mr  52
Turney, Polly  200
Turney. Robert  39,468
Turney, Ruth  200
Turney, Seih  200
Turney, Silas  200
Tutile. Asahel  133
Tutile, Johnston  467
Tunic, Morris  372, 487
Tweedy, Reuben -.30, 146,
24'. 345
Tweedy, Samuel.  341
Tweedy, Smith 31, 241, 309,
310, 326, 341, 428
Twilling, A. C  23S
Tyler. Jos.. ..475. 476, 4S5
Tyrrell, Horatio  4S2
Underbill, G, E  479
UfTord, Catharine  200
Ufford, David  42
UfTord, Elijah  133
Union Metallic Cart
ridge Co  303
Universalist Sucicty . 362
Uschman, Frederick. 485
Vail, Franklin Y.
sketch...  - 172
Valentine, Geo  4S3
Van Antwerp, Edwin 258
Van Dewerkcn  440
Van Gasbeck. Wm... 4S5
Van Keuren, L. N. 189,330
Van Yoik, W. T  324
Vandcrvorl, Peier  25S
Vans, J. R.  '. 483
Varnish Co  301
Vessels, Coasting  126
View, Peter  123
Vrcdcnbi-ig, O. B  483
Wade, Crosby & Co.. 257
Wade, Geo... 169, 241, 242, 310
Wade, Munson  256
Wade, Nathaniel  30,60,
169, 345
Wade. Patrick -..357, 485
Waiie, H. E  485
Wakely, Abigail  13
Wakelec, Abel, Capt. 42
Wakley, C. H....201, 468
Wakelec, Charles. 42, 467
Wakelce, Charles G.. 200
Wakelee, Henry  21
Wakely, Israel  39
Wakeley, Jacob  9
Wakely, Jonathan ... 39

Wakely, Joseph  39
Wakely, Nathaniel... 39
Wakelee, Sam'l, sketch 46
Waklee, Susan  200
Wakelee, Walker  42
Wakelee, Zebulon.-. 46
skelch  47
Wakeman, Benjamin 211
Wakeman, Jcssup _.- 134
Wakeman, Sam'l, Rev, 7
Wakeman. W. J  486
Waldeinetc  3S4
Waldo, Cornelius — 359
Waldo, Geo. C...189, 217,
219, 323. 357, 359. 403.
485, sketch  359
Waldo, Mrs. Geo. C._ 402
Waldo. J. C  359
Waldo, Maturin B  360
Waldo, Peter  359
Waldo, Rosalie H.... 360
Waldo, Selden C  360
Waldo, Thomas  359
Wales, F. W  472
W.iles, J. F..  479
Wales, S. H  339, 340
Wales, W. H  483
| Wales Wheel Co  304
Walker, Betsey ..335, 336
Walker, D. S.  483
Walker, Jacob  70
Walker, James  335
sketch   91
Walker, Mildridge, Rev. 214
Walker, Robert 67, 91, 92,
122, 123, 335, 336
Walker, Thomas  321
Walker, W. W...-472, 483
Walker, Zechariah  it
Wallace, Dr  206
Wallace, Richard  483
Waller, G. B  330,339, 340, 342
Waller, T. M. ...360, 449
Walschilger, H  483
Walsh, W. N  485
Walters, Geo  319, 389
Ward, Benj. W  469
Ward, Chauncey_200, 250,
257, 258
Ward, E. T  485
Ward, Edward  473, 483
Ward. Eugene ...476, 485
Ward, Henry  134
Ward, Lydia 323, 366, 367,
368, 462
Ward, S. C...323, 366, 367
Ward, Thomas  63
Ward, Wm.  46S
Wardwell, D. H  372
Ware, Thomas  197

Warner, A. H  183
Warner, B. E., Rev... 189
Warner Bros  275
Warner, F. J  485
Warner, G. W  369, 433,
455. 487
Warner, I. De Ver go, 276,
277. 372, 374
Warner, L. C  277
Warner, L. F  479, 483
Warner, Levi  487
Warner, P. D.._  483
Warren, Alanson  zOg
Warren, E. C  179
Warren, F. L. ---474. 475.
476, 477. 485
Warren, Joseph--402, 403
Warren, Lavinia  383
Warren, S. P  485
Warren, T. B. 325, 340, 374
Washburn, E  198
Washburn, J H  3'3
Washington Council- 318
Washington, General 57
Washington, Geo. 137,402
Waterbury, Chas. 237, 259, 470
Waterburv, }¦ W. ... 4S3
Waierman, Elijah 133, 171.
'75. 3'2. 366, skeich 169-
Waierman, Nehemiah 169
Waterman, Rev. .-170, 171
Waterman, Thos. T..
Rev., sketch.. .171, '72
Waters, D. R. 475. 479. 4^3
Waikins. Ephraim... 123
Watkinson, Samuel.. 133
Watrous, A. A  483
Watrous, B. E  483
Watson,   37
Watson, E.J  483
Watson Iron Works.. 296
Watson, T. L. ---253, 374.
375, sketch  459
Walson, W. L  459
Waud, Ann M  178
Waud, Marmaduke.. 178
Waugh, C. H  372
Wavne, General  139
Weaver. Stephen 472, 483
We.tver's Shop  32
Webster, Eliza S  228
Webster. Noah  228
Weed, Alexander  483
Weed, Geo. L  443
Weeks, Smith  197
Weicht, W. 11  474, 475,
476, 4=5
Welch, F. M  485
Wellington, Wm  485
Wells, A. S  290
Wells, Abigail  13

Index.

535

Wells, Amanda  362
Wells, C. H  472
Wells, C. S  472,483
Wells. Chas  259
Welles, D. W  41
Wells, E. H  25g, 260
Wells, J. E  483
Wells, J. F  302
Welles, Jedediah
skelch  87
Welles, Juhn  41
Wells, L. W., Rev.... 194
Wells, Marietta  200
Wells, Mary  200
Wells, Mrs  195, 196
Wells, O. B  485
Wells, Phebe  454
Wells, Sam'l.. _6, 9, 21, 39
sketch  41
Wells, Sarah  26
Wells, Seymour  454
Wells, Stephen  53, 200
Welles, Thos. .41, 87, 133, 454
Welles' Tongue  29, 41
Wells, W. W  469, 470
Wentworth, A. J  307
Wentworth, N. L  483
Wentworth, W. L  483
Werner, Henry  483
Wcssels, John L. 226, 325,
34L 345
Wessels.W. H  375
West, D. J  483
West India trade 126, 127,
129, 130
Weslcolt, E. G  375
Westrick, Daniel  483
Weimore, J. G  235
Wetmore, Prosper  30
skeich  129
Weimore, Robert  30
Whaling Co  145
Wharf  144-5
Wharf, Lockwood's.. 122
Wharf, Toby's  122, 123
Wharfs  125
Wharton, G. M  365
Wheel & Wood Bend
ing Co  303, 346
Wheeler, Alexander. 187,
357. 359
Wheeler, Ann... — 200
Wheeler, Anne  .. 13
Wheeler, Benj. -..19, 168,
169, 341, sketch ... 42
Wheeler, C. B  372
Wheeler, D. C  296
Wheeler, D. O. ..326, 341, 467
Wheeler, David  34, 35.
169, 247, 315

Wheeler, Dwight  296
Wheeler, Ebenezer 39, 247, 3'9
Wheeler, Ephraim — g
Whenljr, Ezra 43, 467, 468
Wheeler, Filch 179,308,486
Wheeler, George  179
Wheeler, Geo. W  487
Wheeler, Hezekiah
sketch...  43
Wheeler, Isaac 6, 9, 13, 39,
42,43, sketch  41
Wheeler, J. M  336, 338
Wheeler, James  483
Wheeler, John  g, 39. 52,
189, 214
Wheeler, John M. ... 137
Wheeler, Joseph  13
Wheeler, Julia  42
Wheeler, Mastet  53, 63
Wheeler, Mercy  13
Wheeler, Mr   447
Wheeler, Mrs.  195, 196
Wheeler, Nathaniel.. 26,
133, 217, 219, 239, 251,
3'4. 323. 327. 33'. 33s.
339. 342, 374. 375. 3»3.
390, sketch  263
Wheeler. Philo C. ... 169
Wheeler, R. E  340
Wheeler, T. N  483
Wheeler, Thomas  9
Wheeler, Timothy ..9, 39,
42, 60, 157, 158
Wheeler, W. H  485
Wheeler, W. L  469
Wheeler & Wilson
Mfg. Co   260
Whilacus, Sarah  14
White & Bradley  353
White, Dyer  134
White, E. L.  281
While, M. H  479, 485
White Mfg. Co  353
White, Nicholas  199
White, Norman  177
White, Robert J. -369, 371
While, Thos. P. & Co. 353
Whiieneld, Geo., Rev. 84
Whitfield, Geo., Rev.. 24
Whiting, Miss E. B. . 366
Whiiing, F. H..--374, 485
Whiting, I. H  190, 323
Whiting, R. T  189
Whiting, Roswell  468
Whiting, Seymour... 470
Whiting, W. H  485
Whitmore, Capt  76
Whitmore, Prosper ._ 128
Whitmore, Robert... 128
Whitney Brothers ... an
Whitney, C, H  483

Whitney, G. B  325, 357
Whitney, J. D  302
Whitny, Richard  39
Whittaker, L.  '.. 485
Whittemore, J. H.  290
Wilbur, M. D....483. 487
Wicks, E  169
Widows' Relief Soc. . 51
Wigwams  3
Wilcox, A. E  — . 372
Wilcox, Catharine
(Barry)  455
Wilcox, Ephraim
sketch  91
Wilcox, James  455
Wilcox. Mary L.  455
Wilcox, Rev  462
Wilcoxson, Albert  454
Wilcoxson, Ephraim J. 134
Wilcoxson, W. B  485
Wilcoxson, Walter -. 454
Wildman, Wm. C... 487
Wiley. Father  450
Wilkins, Lemuel  469
Will, Charles  257
Willard, O. J  349
Willeit, C. R  374
Willey, Junius M„Rev. 162
Williams, Amnion  362
Williams, Bishop  213.
Williams, C. E...474. 485
Williams, C. F  374
Williams, E. G  281
Williams, Dr  425
Williams, G. E  485
Williams, L.C  322
Williams, Oliva  362
Williams, Rt. Rev. J. 192, r93
Williams, W.H  319
Willis, O. B., Rev.... 214
Willis, Olympia  363
Wilmot, F. M  472, 483
Wilmot, H. S  353
Wilmot & Hobbs Mfg.
Co    292
Willoughby, M.V.... 483
Wilmot, Sam'l 235, 314,331
Wilmot, S. R. 176,282,292
Wilmot, Mrs. S. R. .. 322
Wilson, A. B  260
sketch  268
Wilson, Albert  78
Wilson, Chas  374
Wilson, F. M  180,486
Wilson,!, M. ...319, 326
Wilson, James  331
Wilson, [antes A. ... 4S7
Wilson, ' ohn S.. Rev. 209
Wilson, Parsons & Co. 350
Wilson, Robert  479
Wilson, Sarah  87

536

History of Bridgeport.

Wilson, Schuyler& Co. 350
Wilson, W. H  443
Winchester, O. F  265
Windsor, George  299
Windsor, J. B  299
Wing, Chas  90
Winghofer, Bernard 226
Winslow, E. W  485
Winslow, H.T  372
Winion, A. L. 208.240.361
sketch  460
Winton, Chas  486
Winton, J. H  468, 46g
Wisner, Albert  213
Wiiherall, E. S  483
Wilherill, Catharine . 200
Woblsey, Elijah  197
Wolcotl, Henry  16
Wolcolt, Miss  367
Wolcott, Sarah  16
Wolsey, E....  198
Woman's C. T. U  322
Wood, A. N   373
Wood Bros   353
Wood, C. F..189, 304, 374
Wood, D. A  247
Wood, David  353
Wood, F. A  357, 483
Wood, Frederick 190, 338, 339
Wood, Jos.. .179, 388, 393, 486

Wood, Leonard  183
Wood, Sherman  470
Wood, T. K  483
Wood, T. W  362
Wood. Thomas  4S3
Woodbridge, Mr. 411, 412
Woodbridge, John, Rev.
skeich  173
Woodruff, G. P  269
Woods, Dr  180
Woodward, Thos. .31, 168
Woolly Horse  377
Wooster, Albert M... 487
Wooster, David  208
Wooster, Miss  55
Wooten, Mrs. Sarah . 321
Worcesier.Command'r 477
Worcester, Dan'l 475, 476, 485
Word, Samuel  134
Wordin, Ann (Sher
wood)  461
Wordin, Chas  470
Wordin, Dorcas(Cook)404
Worden, Elizabeth C. 445
Wordin, Levi  169, 258
Wordin, N. E  372, 485
Wordin, N. S„ sketch 169,
461, 466
Wordin, Thos. C. 146, 109,
175, 326, 445. 461, 462
sketch  464

Wordin, Samuel.. 168, 169
Wordin, Sylvanus ... 485
Wordin. Wm  167, 464
sketch  46
Wren, P. W.. 217, 325, 327
sketch  466
Wrighi, A.S  442
i Wright, G. W  483
Wright, I. W  486
I Wrighi, Phebe E  442
Wright. S. H  485
1 Wright, Stephen  476
Wright, Wm..go, I2g, 140,
250, 256, 258, 388
skeich  249
Wurlz. C. F  483
Yaies, Geo. W  366
Y. M. C. A  371
Young, Betsey  60
Yellow Mill.,  91
Young, Dan'l. 30, 126, 317
Young, E. C  469
Young. F. J. .325. 473, 4S5
Young, George  35
Young, Isaac  315
Young.J. B  483
Young, J. R  35
Youngs, James  199
Youngs, Joseph  322
Youngs, W. H  467
Zingsen, Frederic W. 216, 317

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