The Newtown bee., 1905-06-23

plOyer. His death occurred June (, 1871, in his 6Sth year, and his wife, who was born October 5, 1908, died Septem- Der l, 1887, aged about 79. They had three children: I) Almira, CID Daniel B. (our subject), and GID Charles A. (D Almira was born August 17, 1856, in the town of Sherman, and received a good common-school education, which was supplemented with study in the Sherman Academy and the Nine Part ners boarding school, after which she taught school. In 1860 she married Dewitt c. Akin, a prominent farmer of Patterson, N. Y. On the maternal side our subject is great-grandson of Edward and Ann Chase Briggs, who came from Dartmouth, Mass, about 17sO, to Quaker Hill (then called Ob-- by his grandson, Homer Briggs. He had learned the blacksmith's trade, whi ch he followed during the greater portion of his life. Abraham Briggs, the grandfather of Daniel B. Mallory, was born February g, 17S0, at Quaker Hill, where he obtained common school education. At the age of 21 he married FreelOve Osborn, daughter of Stephen and Sarah Bourne Osborn, and in 1903 he purchased the home stead where he resided till his death, adding from time to time to his sur roundings. As prosperity came to him he invested largely in real estate, and at one time he had about 800 acres of land, which he divided among his chil- dren before his death, which occurred January 28, 1859, when he was aged 79 years. He also carried on blacksmith ing with his brother, Edward, for many years. In disposition he was remarkably cheerful, but in his later years he became quite deaf. He liked to tell stories, and was always fond of a joke. One instance, in his bOyhood days, he amused his grandchildren by repeating when he heard of certain acts of mischievous boys, which came near resulting fatally: ''During hol- iday he with other boys chanced to ing it rare sport they proceeded to fill the adjoining we'll with stones. Not many years after he purchased the same property and went to reside thereon; but in order to get water the stones which he had helped to throw into the we'll had to be removed at his expense. He had Jesse Sherman in the we'll filling large bucket, but on drawing it out the bail broke, so near the top of the we'll, however, that they saved it from going on the old mans uOdu, Ul0IcUy CdUdS UIoPuC,
 for the bucketful of stones would un- doubtedly have crushed him. When speaking of the incident in after years Jesse said he never dared tell his wife,
 Hannah, how near he came to being crushed through the work of thought less boys" Abraham Briggs was a birthright Quaker, and his faith was the rule of his daily life. Politically
 his support was given to the dem-
 ocratic party. Northrop Mallory, the father of our subject, had one sister,
 Hettie, who married Harvey Hill and lived in Newtown. Six children were born to them: Susan, John, George,
 William, Sinclair and Burtis. All but the last named married. They moved to Joliet, and from there to Centralia,
 Ill. Mrs Hill died at that place few years slnce at an advanced age. Mrs Olive (Canfeld) Mallory, the second
 wife of our subject, was born July 27.
 1945, in the town of Union, near Bing- hampton, N. Y., and attended school
 there and at the Academy in Kings
 vile, Ashtabula Co.,, O., receiving an excellent education. David Cantield,
 her father, was born March 4, 1910, in the town of New Fairfield, this coun- ty, and died April 27, 1899. He was the youngest in familysof five chil- dren. The father died while David