The Newtown bee., 1905-06-23

ployer. His death occurred June ',
 1871, in his 68th year, ,'and his wife, who
 was born October 5, 1908, died Septem-
 Der l, 1887, aged about 79. They had
 three children: (D Almira, CID Daniel
 B. (our subject), and QII) Charles A..
 lD Almira was born August l7, 1856,
 in the town of Sherman, and received
 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 0. Akin, prominent farmer
 of Patterson, N. Y. On the maternal side our subject is a great-grandson of
 Edward and Ann Chase Briggs, who
 came from Dartmouth, Mass, about
 17s0, to Quaker Hill (then called Ob-
 long), purchasing the farm now owned
 by his grandson, Homer Briggs. He
 had learned the blacksmith's trade,
 whi ch he followed during the greater
 portion of his fife: Abraham Briggs,
 the grandfather of Daniel B. Mallory,
 was born February g, 17sO, at Quaker
 Hill, where he obtained a 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
 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 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: sDuring a 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 well filling a 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 uedu, GueTeDy dVertlng CaGaS StrOphe, 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 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, Hettfe, 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 since at an advanced age. Mrs | Olive (Cantield( Mallory, the second | wife of our subject, was born July 27, | l845, in the town of Union, near Bing- N. Y., and attended school there and at the Academy in Kings vile, Ashtabula Co.,, O., receiving an excellent education. David Canfield, 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 family of five chil- aren. The father died while David