Putnam patriot., 1915-08-13

q prominent literary man.
 Pameia Fuller, granddaughter was married first 10 John Colt, second to Rev. Thomas shipman of Norwich. Lydia Fuller became the wife of Prof. George Shepard of Bangor Theological Seminary, William, son of Gen. Dan. ieson, graduated from Yale and was tutor in the college. His sudden death was crashing blow to the family; Sarah Dantelson was the wife of Rev. Samuel Baefus- Other members of these families served their day and generation faithfully and honorably in more uneventful lives in the old home steads. The above data regarding the daughters Of Dr. Lord and their chil, dren were furnished by AIissKate Dam ielson, daughter of the late Elisha Lord Danielson of Kilungly. Rev Frank S, Fuller, minister of the Con- gregational church in Abingdon, is great grandson of Dr. Lord.
 In response to an invitation to an
 
 Huntington wrote, @I should like to meet my kindred among Dr. Elisha Lords descendants and learn more of the early history of Abingdon to which he came on horseback with his wife behind him on a billion, and in his saddlebags the drugs with which he killed or cured the townfolks." Dr. Nm. R. Huntington wrote, "I am very proud of my Connecticut ances- try and it was in virtue of my kinship to Dr. Elisha Lord and descent from him that 1 made my successful appli- cation for membership in the Society of Sons of the Revolution"
 Dr. Lords son, knowu as Captain Elisha, married in 1792 Lucy, sister 10 Gen. James DanielSon who had mar ried Sarah Lord. Mrs. Lord died 1796 in her thirty second year. Their daughter Alathea was the first librari- an Of the Ladies Library Of Abingdon formed in lS13, decades before the women clubs and societies of today She became the wife of Elliott Warner, son of Dr. Jared Warner of Abingdon and grandson ef Rev. David Ripley, whose sister was Dr. Lords first wife. la l7S9 Captain Lord married sophia, daughter of Rev. Josiah Whitney of Brooklyn Mrs Lord died in lsl6 leav. ing two sons, Elisha and Robert.
 The first record of church music in Abingdon k. "fn society meeting 17s5 voted that Elisha Lord be ehoris- ter to set the psalm lie was one of the committee Of the Social Library formed in l79S, one Of the oldest libra ries in the state. some are living who have heard of him as a kind neighbof, good company and capital story tel Ter Captain Elisha died in lS26. His third wife who WIS Mrs Mercy ~ha- ley Of Moutsille survived him until ls55, passing away at the age of ninety one years. Robert his son removed to Illinois. Elisha, known as Deacon Lotd, remained at the paternsl home snd married Doro- thy Dresser, a descendant Of Jonathan Dresser and James Ingalls, early set tiers Of Pomtret. Mrs. Lord died in 1858 aged thiEty-one years.
 A few years later he married Arthu- ss Jones of EasttoFd. Deacon Lord possessed a sensitive and refined ns- tuJe, moral courage, a studious turn of mind and the pen of ready writer. He was one of the organizers of the lo- cal Peace society in lsS6, was prom inent worker in the temperance cause and was interested in the anti slavery movement and chiefly through his ef forts the Abingdon Congregational church placed on record resolutions against the system of American slave.