The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-01
WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY.

moved to Skaneateles Onondaga coun- ty. New York, his household effects were shipped by water to Albany, thence by the Erie canal; he and his family took passage on the canal to their new home. He did not stay long in Skaneateles but returned to New Haven. As a boy I well remember his giving a vivid description of his journey on the Erie canal and what glowing accounts he gave of the great apple crops of that locality MT. Red field was very entertaining man quiet and gentle in his ways; fine penman and a good accountant.
 First street retained it's name up to 1850: it was then changed to Howard and in 1871 it was called Audubon from Whitney avenue to Orange street. Veto street from Orange to State derived it's name from the fact every attempt to open that street was vetoed until about 1896; in 1901 Veto appears to be dropped and the street is now called Audubon At the time my father bought this house (then No. 13S) there were but five houses above 1t on Orange street.
 The first house southwest corner of Audubon, belonged to Henry Peck of the old established firm of Durine X Peck, booksellers and publishers, who occupied the store on Chapel street now the Apothecaries hall; the next house was Philo Blake's, which stood on the northwest corner of Orange and Audubon and relegated to the rear of the synagogue recently built on that corner; the old framed Mans ard roof cottage which till recently stood on the northeast corner of Au- dubon and Orange Occupied many years by Marcus Merriman) was nov ed here from State street, where the l County bank stands; the next was g | one-story hut in which old Milly My CTS, a colored woman lived, who was noted for her good Methodist pro. clivities and manufactures and dispens. or of "Emptins" now yeast, She had practically the trade of the city unti one Samuel Cleeton took up the trad, with horse and wagon and drove "Old Milly" out of business; but poo Cleeton had his troubles, the boys bothered the life out of him by mock ing him when he perambulated th' town crying out Fresh Yeast; h, couldn't stand it and used to jump ou of his cart and chase the boys witl his whip, but the boys then coulC cheese it. as well as the boys of to day. I guess, I was one of Cleeton' tormentors
 In 1s40 the New Haven Grays am their guests. the Hartford City Guar encamped on the vacant lot at the cor ner of Trumbull street, and it was a this encampment that I first imbibe a love for a military life. I, a nine year-old boy, was allowed to sit i one of the tents. and when ha reached my majority l enrolled m name as a member of the New Have Grays-the same year Sherman Pres land now occupied by Prof Brewe and the late Governor Merwin fam fly, the same year Everard Benjami erected the cottage on the corner ( Bradley street, which in the latte part of the sixties or early seventie was removed to the corner of Lincol and Bradley street In 1889 tn last house on the street wa
 formerly owned by Walter Ot born and latterly by Mrs. Newton 4 the time my father purchased til
 Redfeld home 1t was all post an railed fences to Humphrey street frol
 the Philos Blake lot, corner of Audi
 bon street. In the early forties Tin othy Lester built the house Ion Il
 northwest corner of Trumbull stre, and Rev. Dr Cleaveland pastor the Third Congregational churc
 built the house now owned by Mir
 Willis E. Miller on the northeast co
 her of Trumbull.
 The name of "Coeyville" was gi-
 en to that portion of Orange stre
 northerly from the old Canal bridge
 the then First street. now Audubo hy the late Henry Peck, on, , Mayor Peck MT Peck. was : genial. witty, droll and kindhear . ed old school type of a gentl man. He always had an encouragir | word for the boys and took espeei , pains to speak to them when he m
 them, generally with joke for the