The Press., 1914-05-06

J0mima married AlphOns BarrOWs of Bolton, Sally married Abraham Holmn of Mansfield. (They had one son, Edwin Rider Holman, who is now caretaker for the D. A. R. of the Gov. Ellsworth place in Windsor). Another daughter married a man by the name of Davis.
 Hiram o. Rider one time owned the place just over the Ashford line that h s been for many years the joint town boarding house, and the writer took some of his first lessons in carpenter work there while it was the home of MT. Rider, in the fall of 1844. The writer was employed by the late Jonathan O. Walker, and he was repairing that house and the evenings being long I was put to plan- ing yellow oak floor boards with smooth plane by the light of candle tips while MT. Rider and MT. Walker sat and chatted on saw benches. That lesson in carpenter work has never
 been forgotten, although but very few times repeated, but the class of oak lumber has seldom been excelled, and the writer recalls that the boards that he planed were used in a new part that MT. Rider was building that perhaps may still be in use. The
 writer recalls the family of the late Judge Hiram Rider much more dis tinctly as they were constant attend ants of the Baptist church of which think Judge Rider and his wife were Merrick and his wife. It is my ia- .pression that Hiram Rider was twice married, and by his first marriage to Lucy Pearl of Hampton he had but one child, Olive Rider, and re- call her in my young days as a very fine, we'll educated young lady and we'll remember her severe illness and early death, and what a blow her death was to the family, and how her father took it to heart. MT, Rider remarking to my father ''that it was like tearing out of the heart strings. !" The children born to Hiram Rider and Inez Pease, Olive Rider referred to above; by his second wife. Sarah Glazier, daughter of Daniel G. Charles F., Henry L Hiram and Sarah Eliza beth Rider. Sarah E., like her older sister, dying quite young. Judge Rider from my first recollection lived in the Rider homestead on the Hill, and at that time it was the best place on the Hill and MT. Rider was leader in all town affairs and church matters. It was supposed that he was man of only common school educa tion, yet in town affairs all legal questions were referred to him and his judgement was so sound that he became quite noted as a country law yer of a good reputation, so that he was appointed one of the judges of the Holland county court, and as good a lawyer as the late Loren P. Waldo once said of him that he was one of the best judges in the state and sell dom made mistake in his decisions. He was selectman of the town of Will lington five years; representative in the general assembly seven years; sheriff of the county of Holland nine years; treasurer of the state of Con- necticut four years, and a presiding judge of the county court five years.
 He was twice married first to Lucy Pearl of Hampton by whom he had one daughter, Olive, who lived to be a beautiful, useful and accom- plished young lady. He then mar ried Sarah Glazier, daughter of Daniel Glazier, Esq.,, by whom he had four children, as above noted.
 Judge Hiram Rider and his wife were the victims of that terrible dis temper of which so many in Willing. ton died in the summer of 1851, when eleven died in ten days. I may not be perfectly correct in my recollections of that scourge, but there were on the Hill Judge Rider and his wife and Dea. Asa Taylor and my impression is that Esq. Daniel Glazier and Jerome Holt, and recall Ariel Eldredge and Roderick Fenton. If am correct in my memory, six of the seven that I have named were members of the Bap- tist church. The others stricken Il don't rem e1n Der, but there was mourn ing all over the town. Judge Rider was a we'll -to-do' farmer as we'll as judge, and the old Rider homestead shows even to this day what an of hard work had to be ex- pended to put the place in the con- dition that it was in when he occu- pied it as his home. I know that those large barns and sheds were a wonder to my young eyes, and those immense stone walls that were taken out of the fields that they surround.
 Charles P. Rider, the oldest son of Hiram Rider, began his mercantile life as a clerk in the store of the Waldo Brothers in Holland, Conn. when quite young and after a time engaged in the yankee notion trade as a pedler ndsswass quite successful. There were number of young men in Wilmington started in life in that line