Norwich bulletin., 1909-09-28
Generations Of Almanac Makers
Beginning in 1772 the Dabolls Have Turned Out an
 Annual Publication Of Forecasts.

May IT. In June che worried pastor told the people that they need not pc afraid. For he'd make good what he had said" They craved his pardon in July "and still in him put confidence" In November the pastor, after long meeting for the adjustment of the weather difficulties, said to the peo- pie:
 Be pleased, then, to let me know
 How you would have the weather
 blow.
 Thanksgiving in 1775 occurred Nov. IS. There had been great signs of foul weather.r The last of December the pastor. in reply to all the fault fiji ders that he had endured through tne twelve months. gave this advice to the people:
 Be of one mind and then I shall
 Give weather that will please you all.
 In the almanac for 1793 is given "a method of making currant wine An ecdotes. epigrams and valuable re cipes" for farmers and their wives make up good part of subsequent almanacs. An "omnium gatherum" appears for the first time in the issue of 1924. In the 1874 almanac piece of advice is given from Benjamin Franklin. That New Sngland sags says: "Stoop as you go through the thumps." A farmers calendar is in troduced in the almanac for 1872. Lamb shearing is treated of In the sal- manac of 1895. There is also given in that number a method of preserv- ing eggs. Cold storage had not been dreamed of at that time, but running water was the correct thing. The song sung at Philadelphia July f, 17s9, in honor of Washington, is year. The Masonic song composed by Brother Moore for St.. Johns day at Poultney. Vt" is also contained in the 1799 almanac. The appearance of this song in the almanac is reason able proof that the original Nathan Daboll was member of the Masonic fraternity.
 Nathan Daboll,~ the originator of the almanac, was noted educator, par ticularly in mathematics and naviga- tion. His treatise on arithmetic was published in New London in 1799 un- der the name of "The Schoolmaster's Assistant" He was also the author of The Practical Navigator" He was born in 1750 and died in Groton, May g. 1918. at the age of 6S. Nathan Da boil, Pr, was born in Groton in 17S2 anu QlcQ III ll4al lOnil III LcOo- 11C " oo a member of the Connecticut house of representatives in 1882 and of the sen- ate in 1885. He was judge of probate in the Groton district from 1S43 until 1S45. He was connected with the pro- auction of Daboll's New Arithmetic and compiled the New England AL manac from the time of his father'h death, in ISIS. until his oown death. in 1863 He was a careful laborer in ha fynld in 1ifo xnhfrH ha nan11pfnd
 David Austin Daboll, son of Nathan Daboil, Jr., was born in Groton in 1913. He was member of the house of representatives from Groton from 1S46 until 1871, a period of twenty five years and was a member of the senate from the old Seventh district in 1873. His term in the house is history of the state. He was a survey or by profession and was 59 years of age when he became senator. He was a democrat in politics. He as sisted his father, Nathan Daboll, Jr., in the preparation of the New Arith- metic and continued the publication of the New England Almanac after his fathers death, in 1863. Celadron Leeds Daboll, also grandson of Nathan Daboll Sr.. was born in Groton Gen. ter, July IS, 1918. and died in New London, October 13, 1866. He was a merchant in New London. From 1854 until 1861 he was employed in the department. of the interior. He in vented the fog signal or the fog horn for mariners. Charles Miner Daboll. grandson of the originator of Daboll's Almanac, was born in Groton, October IA, 1923. He was a practical me- chanic and invented the jackscrew for raising buildings. He was the Unit ed States government inspector for Connecticut and Rhode Island of boil CTS on steam vessels.
 The family has been noted in New London county interests through a period of 125 years. In invention, edu- cation and politics, it has left it's im- press upon the town and county. In the civil war Henry W. Daboll of Gro ton was colonel in. the. Fifth Connecti- cut, rising from an officer of the line to the highest position in the regi- ment.