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Gordon H. Sterling, Jr.

**Gordon H. Sterling, Jr.** (June 30, 1919 - December 7, 1941) was a West Hartford citizen and a Second Lieutenant killed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

## Life and Death

He was born on June 30, 1919 in a small town near Utica, New York, to Gordon H. Sterling, Sr., who worked at a typewriter factory. During the Great Depression, his father lost his job and the family moved to West Hartford in 1932 after Sterling, Sr. took a job at Underwood Typewriter. Sterling grew up at 56 Argyle Avenue. During his boyhood, he was prominent in Boy Scout activities and was a member of Troop 12, sponsored by the First Church of Christ, Congregational, of West Hartford. He took private flying lessons in his spare time.

He graduated from Hall High School in the spring of 1937 and attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. After attending the school, he worked at Pratt & Whitney in East Hartford, Connecticut. After World War II broke out in 1939, he joined the Army in September 1940 and received his commission as second lieutenant at Maxwell Field in Alabama. After earning his wings, he was stationed in Hawaii at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu as a member of the Army Air Corps in June 1941. Soon after arriving on the base, he was engaged to an Army nurse who worked at the nearby Schofield Barracks hospital, named Ada Olsson, a woman from Kansas.

### **Attack on Pearl Harbor**

Sterling had scheduled an afternoon date with his fiancee, Ada Olsson, on December 7, 1941. But that morning, Japanese planes attacked the base at Pearl Harbor. Quietly watching the drama unfold, Sterling had passed his flight tests but had not progressed as rapidly as the other pilots had in formation and gunnery. He saw that other P-36s were beginning to taxi out; the immediate need for a complete formation spurred Sterling to action. He climbed into an idling plane, gave his watch to the crew chief, Staff Sergeant Turner, and said, "Give this to my mother! I'm not coming back!"

Sterling managed to shoot down one Japanese plane in the front, but he couldn't escape the fire from the rear. Sterling's plane was hit multiple times from the back and it began to smoke. Fire was streaming from the aircraft as it dove through the cloudbank straight into the bay. Sterling was given a victory credit over the Japanese plane. However, back at the Kaneohe Naval Air Station, American sailors saw Sterling's plane plunge into the ocean and cheered. Captain Joseph Powell watched Sterling get shot down from his fighter plane. They assumed it was a Japanese fighter. Ada Olsson was delivering babies at the hospital when she got the news. She returned to Kansas and never married.

In March 1942, the Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded posthumously to Sterling. Major General Sherman Miles, commander of the First Corps Area, presented the medal to the officer's father at exercises in the general's office attended by the flier's mother and brother.
Abraham Goodwin (Litchfield, Connecticut)

**Abraham Goodwin** (bapt. July 30, 1699 - January 6, 1771) was one of the first settlers of Litchfield, Connecticut.

Goodwin was born and baptized on July 30, 1699, in Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of Nathaniel Goodwin and Mehetable Porter. When he was nineteen, the General Court of Connecticut, at its session held in May 1719, granted permission for a settlement to be made at Bantam, and incorporated it as a town by the name of Litchfield, Connecticut. Goodwin was one of the first settlers of the new town, and by a deed dated March 17, 1723, he received from his father land lots within the town. The home lot he received was located on the east side of South Street. Abraham became one of the prominent men of the town, being chosen Assessor for two years from 1727; Grand Juror in 1731; Constable for two years, from 1742; Selectman in 1747, 1748, and 1749; and in 1736 was appointed Ensign of the Train Band.

In 1754, Goodwin conveyed to each of his sons a farm of fifty acres, beside leaving considerable estate at his death. He died on January 6, 1771, and was buried in the graveyard on West Street, where his gravestone remained after hundreds of years.

## Family

Goodwin married Mary Bird on April 13, 1726. She died on June 7, 1788, at the age of 77.

* Nathaniel Goodwin - m. Elizabeth Marsh
* Thomas Goodwin - m. Anna Kilbourn
* Charles Goodwin - m. Thankful Russell
* Ozias Goodwin - m. Hannah Vail
* Jesse Goodwin - m. Rachel Brace
* Mary Goodwin - m. Theodore Catlin
* Phineas Goodwin - unmarried.
* Ruth Goodwin - unmarried.
Elizabeth (Wilson) Weld (Medfield, Massachusetts)

**Elizabeth Wilson** (1656 - July 19, 1687) was a resident of Medfield, Massachusetts.

Wilson was born in 1656 in Medfield, Massachusetts, as the daughter of John Wilson, Jr. and Sarah Hooker. She grew up in the area and removed to Dunstable, Massachusetts after her marriage in 1681. She lived there for her remaining years.

Wilson died on July 19, 1687 in Massachusetts.

## Family

Wilson married Thomas Weld on November 9, 1681.

* Elizabeth Weld - m. (1) John Gardner
* Thomas Weld - died young.
* Eleazer Weld - died young.
* John Weld - died young.
Cornelia Jane (Goodwin) Mather

**Cornelia Jane Goodwin** (June 2, 1826 - October 16, 1916) was a resident of northern Hartford, Connecticut.

Goodwin was born on June 2, 1826 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the daughter of Asa Goodwin and Parthenia Rogers, in a house not far from that in which she died several decades later. She was the last of a family of several children. After her marriage in 1849, she moved into 762 Windsor Avenue in northern Hartford, Connecticut, where she lived for 67 years. She had always lived on upper Windsor Avenue as well.

On October 16, 1916, Goodwin died at 3:30 pm at her home of 762 Windsor Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. The funeral was held on October 18, 1916 and she was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery.

## Family

Goodwin married Charles Mather on January 4, 1849.

* Sarah Mather - m. Frank A. Lane
* Henrietta Mather - m. Lewis B. Herrick
* Laura Matilda Mather - unmarried.
* Alice C. Mather - unmarried.
* Cornelia Jane Mather (Jan. 15, 1851 - Apr. 5, 1851) - died young.
* Edward Goodwin Mather (Feb. 10, 1852 - Aug. 25, 1876) - died young.
* Charles Minor Mather (Apr. 27, 1856 - Jan. 13, 1869) - died young.
* Hattie Eva Mather (Feb. 23, 1859 - Sept. 9, 1876) - died young.
* Martha Adelaide Mather (Feb. 13, 1865 - Oct. 10, 1876) - died young.
* Kitty Mather (Dec. 25, 1872 - Jul. 13, 1873) - died young.
Clarence F. Nichols (murderer)

**Clarence F. Nichols** (-----) was a and the killer of his brother-in-law, William J. Brandon in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Nichols was born on \_\_\_\_\_ as the son of Harriet L. Griswold.

On November 13, 1909, his brother-in-law, William J. Brandon went to Hartford in the afternoon to a dentist and took supper at his mother's home on Charter Oak Avenue. In the evening, he took his sisters to the Eagles' Fair in Hartford, meeting his wife there. They all remained together until 11:40 pm, when the others left for home and Brandon went up the street. Both families lived in a double house on Seyms Street in West Hartford.

   Brandon was on the last trolley car of the night under the influence of alcohol. They got off at the center, where they stood talking when his Nichols came by. As Nichols turned to go, Brandon, who was leaning against the telegraph pole at the Congregational Church in West Hartford, Connecticut, asked him, "What have you got against me?" and Nichols replied, "It's you that's got something against me, and you know what it is." At this, Brandon took off his coat and started for Nichols. He missed him twice in trying to swing at him, and then Nichols landed a blow on Brandon's face that knocked him over, which struck the flagstone.

   All three men, when they found that Brandon could not get up, picked him up and took him over on the church lawn. He appeared to revive for an instant and he sat up to vomit, but almost immediately sank back again as if in sleep. They decided to drag him down to the church shed, and Nichols said he would stay with him during the night. He stayed in the shed dying all night and was finally attended to by a caretaker the next morning when he was found unconscious and in a very grave condition. He was lying on his side, his hat on the ground close by and a blood-smeared handkerchief lying close to his head. There was a cut two inches across his right cheekbone and his right eye gave evidence of being blackened from a hard blow. He was received at St. Francis Hospital, but he died at the hospital at 1:30 pm from the injuries.

Nichols evaded the authorities all day and went with his lawyer, Benedict M. Holden, to give himself up, but Constable James Livingstone put him under arrest before he got a chance to surrender. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of manslaughter and the case was heard just before Thanksgiving. He was put on trial on December 14, 1909, and he was sentenced to jail for six months.
Brooke Hunter Weeks

**Brooke Hunter Weeks** (August 2, 1855 - December 31, 1924) was a clerk of the federal government in Washington, D.C.

Weeks was born on August 2, 1855 in Louisiana as the son of Alfred Conrad Weeks and Anne Stephens Hunter. He grew up in the area and moved to Washington, D.C., where he became a clerk for the Federal Government there in 1900. He also lived with his older sister, Frances, at 1920 Sunderland Place in Washington.

Weeks died unmarried on December 31, 1924.
Charles Frederick Beach (Vine Hill)

**Charles Frederick Beach** (October 11, 1896 - August 10, 1972) was a manager of Beach and Company, Incorporated, and a member of the West Hartford Board of Finance. He was also a cousin of James G. Batterson, the founder of Travelers Insurance Company.

Beach was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1897 as the son of Charles Edward Beach and Catherine Harriet Coffing. After growing up in West Hartford, Connecticut, he graduated from St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and attended Yale University. He was a junior there and roommate of Archibald G. Mcllwaine of Albany, New York, when he enlisted in the Navy in 1917 during World War I. At the time, he was a member of the varsity crew. He was sent to an aviation school in France and later acted as a staff officer in the U.S. Naval Aviation School at Manche, France. He was discharged and returned to his home in December 1918; only a few years later, he became engaged in 1921. The couple lived at 438 South Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut.

In October 1934, Beach was charged with operating an automobile under the influence of liquor at midnight following an automobile crash on Albany Avenue near Ledyard Road in West Hartford, injuring two people. In 1940, Beach slipped and fell on deck while cruising with a group of Boston businessmen at Bar Harbor. He was taken to a hotel with a dislocated knee, but was able to return home to West Hartford, where he lived at 438 South Main Street.

In 1948, Beach sold the last piece of farmland that surrounded the Vine HIll Farm that his father and grandfather owned. Smaller houses, built on the subdivided land, were built to surround the Beach homestead. In his later life, he was a member of the Farmington Zoning Board, the Farmington Country Club, and the Yale Club of New York City. He was also a member of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Connecticut Historical Society, and the Dauntless Club of Essex.

On August 10, 1972, Beach died at the age of 75 at his home on Ely Road in Farmington, Connecticut.

## Family

Beach married Dorothy Caldwell were engaged in September 1921. The couple was married in Chicago in October 1921. The couple had no children.
George Wells Williams (Lebanon, Connecticut deacon)

**George Wells Williams** (October 18, 1819 - July 25, 1889) was a resident of Lebanon, Connecticut, and a deacon of the church there.

Williams was born on October 18, 1819 in Lebanon, Connecticut as the son of Solomon Williams and Martha Baker. He inherited in a large degree the characteristics of his Puritan ancestry. He grew up in Lebanon and remained there for his whole life. He became well-known in Lebanon over the course of thirty years for his work in Christian services, and many young men were influenced by him to lead a temperate and Christian life. He was for a number of years a deacon in the Pearl Street Church, but he held that office in the Asylum Hill Church in the 1880s.

On July 25, 1889, Williams died in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 69.

## Family

Williams married Martha Woodbridge on September 1, 1842 in Manchester, Connecticut.

* Charles Stuart Williams - m. (1) Emma Frances Keeny (2) Marion Keeny
David W. Van Iderstine

**David W. Van Iderstine** (March 24, 1934 - ) is a Detective for the Hartford Police Department.

On October 27, 1956, he married Barbara Tourtellotte, the daughter of Richard E. Tourtellotte, Sr. and Dorothy Lorentzen. The wedding took place at 2 pm in the Burlington Congregational Church. She was gowned in Chantilly lace and tulle fashioned with a fitted bodice with a stand-up collar, long sleeves, and a full skirt paneled in lace and extending into a chapel-length train. Her brother, Richard E. Tourtellotte, Jr., gave her in marriage. A reception was held at the Farmington River Inn. After November 15, 1956, the couple made their home at 267 Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut.
Adolph Fahl

**Adolph Fahl** (1868 - February 6, 1939) was a German immigrant to the United States, and a resident of Middletown, Connecticut.

Fahl was born in 1868 in Germany and grew up in the area. After his marriage, he raised his first child in the country and then removed to Poland for years. By the turn of the century, he removed with his family to the United States and settled in Middletown, Connecticut, where he lived at 29 Walnut Street. In mid-May 1938, electric and telephone service was interrupted in some sections of Middletown after a major storm. The chimney of his home was knocked over by two falling limbs during the rain and wind storm.

On February 6, 1939, Fahl died in Middlesex Hospital.

## Family

Fahl married Pauline Wildermann.

* Rudolph Fahl - m. Myrtle Felton Sawyer
* Harry G. Fahl - m. ???
* Elsie May Fahl - m. Walter K. Howe, Jr.
* Mary Fahl - m. John J. McDonough
George E. Bollerer

**George Bollerer** (1885 - October 30, 1973) was a resident of Elmwood, West Hartford, Connecticut, and a member of the Federated Church of Hyannis, Massachusetts.

Bollerer was born in 1885 in New Britain, Connecticut. He lived in Elmwood, West Hartford from 1933 to 1961, before moving to Barnstable, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. After marrying Clara Sears, the couple moved into their home at 19 Newington Road, West Hartford, where his sister-in-law, Sarah E. Sears, was living. In November 1953, plans called for the erection of an addition to the Elmwood Branch building of the Hartford Federal Savings and Loan Association at the southeast corner of New Britain Avenue and Newington Road. In order to do this, more parking area was needed, so the property was put under contract for sale by Bollerer and his sister-in-law, Sarah.

On October 30, 1973, Bollerer died at the age of 88 in Barnstable County Hospital in Pocassett, Massachusetts.

## Family

Bollerer married Clara Sears on July 14, 1934, at Nassau, New York. The couple resided at 19 Newington Road in Elmwood, West Hartford, Connecticut.

He had a daughter from a previous marriage.

* Maude B. Ryder
Edmund D. Armstrong (Waterbury)

**Edmund D. Armstrong** was a resident of Waterbury and notable for an accident in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1931 that killed 22-year-old Lillian N. Lorentzen.

On October 23, 1931, Armstrong was driving a heavy vehicle from Springfield to Hartford, on his way to Waterbury, Connecticut, and hit Lillian N. Lorentzen, a 22-year-old who was stepping off the trolley on Farmington Avenue at Trout Brook in West Hartford, Connecticut. He was under the influence of alcohol at the time and continued into West Hartford Center after the accident until he was overtaken by police. He was sentenced to six months in jail for criminal negligence until the spring of 1932.
Henry I, Duke of Bavaria

**Henry I** (919/921 - November 1, 955) was a member of the Ottonian dynasty and Duke of Bavaria from 948 until his death.

Henry was born in either 919 or 921 as the second son of the German King Henry the Fowler and his wife Matilda of Ringelheim. After the death of his father, the royal title passed to Henry's elder brother, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, who immediately had to face the indignation of several Saxon nobles. His half-brother revolted in alliance with other dukes and had Henry captured and arrested when he was just a child. While the half-brother was killed by his own henchmen in 938, Henry, in custody, chose to join the insurgents. He attempted a revolt against his elder brother King Otto in 938, believing he had a claim on the throne as firstborn son after Henry's coronation in 919. In 939, Henry's forces were defeated and he was forced to leave Germany. When Otto's troops invaded Lorraine (Lotharingia) and marched against France, Henry returned and submitted to his elder brother - they were reconciled in 940, and Henry was awarded the Lotharingian duchy. Over the years, the relationship between the brothers improved. He was appointed the Duke of Bavaria in 948. In 951, he accompanied King Otto on his Italian campaign and acted as matchmaker for his brother.

While his brother gained a glorious victory over the Hungarians in the Battle of Lechfeld, Henry fell ill in 955 and died on November 1 in Pohlde Abbey.

## Family

Henry married Judith of Bavaria around 950, giving him family ties to Bavaria.

* Henry II, Duke of Bavaria  - m. Gisela of Burgundy
* Hadwig - m. Burchard III, Duke of Swabia
* Gerberga II, Abbess of Gandersheim - unmarried.
Cyprian Nichols Beach (coal businessman)

**Cyprian Nichols Beach** (September 9, 1828 - February 8, 1887) was a coal businessman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and an associate in Hartford, Connecticut.

Beach was born in Hartford, Connecticut on September 9, 1828, as the son of George Beach, Sr. and Maria Nichols. He was educated in Hartford and was for a time educated in the Trinity college class of 1848, although he did not graduate. Most of his life was spent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a merchant in the coal business there. He worked as a coal businessman for many years and retired from the active business life in the 1870s. Since his retirement, he and his family divided their time between Newport, Rhode Island, where they had their summer home, Hartford, Connecticut, and the continent of Europe. Most of their winters were spent abroad.

While he was not technically a resident of Hartford, he held large interests in Hartford concerns and had invested considerable sums of money to aid lines of business that promised to be of benefit to the city. He was a considerable shareholder in the Broad Brook Company, the Phoenix Insurance Company, and others.

On the first of January in 1887, he sailed for Europe with his wife and daughter to spend the winter in Nice, France. In early February, he fell ill and his condition was so critical that his brother set out for London, sailing from New York. On February 8, 1887, Beach died in London, England.

## Family

Beach married first to Helen Tyler.

Beach married second to Hettie Hart Jarvis in 1867.

* Elizabeth Beach - m. Charles L. F. Robinson
George Herbert Day, Jr. (Hartford judge)

**George Herbert Day, Jr.** (September 22, 1891 - March 4, 1978) was a senior partner in the law firm of Shipman & Goodwin and a judge of the Hartford, Connecticut police court.

Day was born on September 22, 1891 in Brooklyn, Connecticut, as the son of George Herbert Day, Sr. and Katherine Beach. He graduated from Yale University in 1913 and Harvard Law School in 1916, and practiced law in Connecticut all his life, specializing in trusts, estates, and contracts. From 1920-1927, he served as a prosecutor and judge of the Hartford court and in 1930 was elected chairman of the Police Board. He also served as trustee and treasurer of the Pomfret School, where he was graduated, and the Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut.

He was elected a director of the Phoenix State Bank and Trust Company in 1950. His great-grandfather, George Beach, Sr., was the first cashier and third president of Phoenix Bank. Day was a director of the Aetna Insurance Company, the Connecticut Bank and Trust Company, the former Niles-Bement-Pond Company, Riverside Trust Company of Hartford, Landers, Frary and Clark Company in New Britain, Connecticut, Potter and Johnson of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the former Hotel Bond Company, the Hartford Public Library, the Greater Hartford Community Chest, and was on the distribution committee of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving from 1954 to 1956. He retired from his law practice and various professional positions in 1967.

On March 4, 1978, Day died at John Dempsey Hospital after a long illness at the age of 86.

## Family

Day married Grace Phelps Allen.

* Jean Allen Day - m. Thomas C. F. Lowry
* Mary Phelps - m. Jack Pilcher Williams
* George Herbert Day III - m. Georgia Herbert
Caroline (Tourtellotte) Allison

**Caroline Gertrude Tourtellotte** (March 31, 1878 - 1943) was a resident of Manchester, Connecticut.

Tourtellotte was born on March 31, 1878 in New Haven, Connecticut, as the daughter of Rufus Bacon Tourtellotte and Sarah Jane Wood. She grew up in New Haven and removed to Manchester, Connecticut after her marriage in 1899. She spent her years raising her two children in the early 1900s. In February 1916, her brother George Lyman Tourtellotte was killed in a triple trainwreck in Milford, Connecticut, and she was located as one of his sisters.

In 1943, Tourtellotte died in Manchester, Connecticut at the age of 55.

## Family

Tourtellotte married William Clayton Allison in 1899.

* Clayton Tourtellotte Allison - m. Hilda Callis
* Raymond Griswold Allison - unmarried.
Ann (Goodwin) Burnham

**Ann Amelia Goodwin** (May 5, 1834 - January 28, 1921) was a resident of Elmwood, West Hartford, Connecticut, and East Hartford, Connecticut. She was also a member of the First Congregational Church as well. She was born on May 5, 1834 in Elmwood, the daughter of Harvey Goodwin and Mary Sedgwick, his first wife. She grew up there until the 1860s when she moved to East Hartford, where her husband was a farmer. They lived in the oldest Burnham home in East Hartford by the next decade. Upon her husband's death in October 1901, she was appointed the executrix of his will and estate. She lived out the remainder of her years cheerful to the end.

On January 28, 1921, she died at the family home at the age of 86 in East Hartford, Connecticut.

## Family

Goodwin married Samuel Porter Burnham on February 17, 1863.

* Wilbur Samuel Burnham
* Mary Sedgwick Burnham
* Willie Porter Burnham - died young.
Harvey Gordon Goodwin

**Harvey Gordon Goodwin** (March 4, 1923 - May 1, 2012) was a computer science professor at Southeastern Community College in Whiteville, North Carolina and a direct descendant of Ozias Goodwin, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. A history enthusiast and avid reader of any material on the American Civil War, Goodwin was proud of his ancestry as one of the founding families of Hartford, Connecticut.

## Life and Death

Harvey Goodwin was born in 1923 as the son of Harvey Goodwin and Helen Case in Hartford, Connecticut. He was the great-grandson of Harvey Goodwin, the founder of the Goodwin Pottery Company in West Hartford, Connecticut. He was raised in West Hartford and graduated from Hall High School in 1941. Goodwin served during World War II as a gunnery officer with the United States Navy during World War II aboard the U.S.S. Henrico and the U.S.S. Rutland in the Asiatic Pacific Theater including Okinawa, Japan. In 1945, after being discharged from war service, he graduated from Yale University in New Haven and worked for several insurance companies in Hartford. He also worked for the Paul Revere Life Insurance Company in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1969 to 1981. Additionally, he taught computer science for ten years at Southeastern Community College in Whiteville, North Carolina.

He married Elizabeth Barrows on September 16, 1950 at the Church of the Redeemer in West Hartford. Following a trip to Cape Cod, the couple made their home at 30F Picotte Drive in Albany, New York, where they had their first daughter in December 1951. In Albany, he worked as a special agent for the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company there. In 1969, he moved to Holden, Massachusetts with his family. In 1985, Goodwin moved to Carolina Shores, North Carolina. In 2010, he moved into the Briarwood Continuing Care Community in North Carolina. On May 1, 2012, he died peacefully in the presence of the presence of his family in St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. He enjoyed playing golf, singing, playing bridge, hot weather, and his dog, Kendall.

In May 2012, at the time of his death, he was also survived by five grandchildren.

### **Children**

* Harvey Clayton Goodwin - m. Marie Ann Boccuzzi
* Amy Goodwin - m. Donald Weymouth
* Laura Case Goodwin - m. Robert Blaise Lynch
George A. Tourtellotte

**George A. Tourtellotte** (- December 1, 1948) was a musician in Unionville, Connecticut. He was born in Sutton, Massachusetts and moved to Unionville, where he lived for many years. He married Mary Hurley, who died in April 1939.

During the latter half of his life, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he lived at 107 Spruce Street. His sisters all lived in Rhode Island upon his sudden death on December 1, 1948. He was survived by a son and four sisters - Carrie Lockwood, L. Olson, Ida Miller, and Myrtle Collins.

### **Children**

* Richard E. Tourtellotte, Sr. - m. (1) Dorothy Lorentzen (2) Beulah Shelton
Endicott Peabody (Massachusetts educator)

**Endicott Peabody** (May 30, 1857 - November 17, 1944) was the American Episcopal priest who founded the Groton School for Boys in Groton, Massachusetts, in 1884, as well as the Brooks School.

Peabody was born on May 30, 1887 in Salem, Massachusetts, as the son of Samuel Endicott Peabody and Marianne Cabot Lee. When he was thirteen, the family moved to England and he prepared for university at Cheltenham College, a secondary school in Gloucestershire, finishing in 1876. In 1882, after his first semester at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Peabody was invited to take charge of a little Episcopal congregation in Tombstone, Arizona, which he arrived at on January 29, 1882, just three months after the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral." Over a few months, he succeeded in getting St. Paul's Episcopal Church built for approximately $5,000. He grew quite homesick during his time in Arizona though and left after six months. He returned to the East Coast and completed his studies at the Episcopalian Theological School, graduating in the spring of 1884.

Peabody's primary mission was to replicate for American schoolboys the type of education he had experienced in England. He founded the Groton School, which received early support from the Roosevelt family, and filled quickly. He served as its headmaster until 1940. Its students included Theodore Roosevelt's four sons as well as future President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Peabody was a strict headmaster; despite many of the students being from wealthy families, he refused to allow any student to receive more than 25 cents per week in allowance. In 1926, Peabody also founded the Brooks School. A 1944 Time magazine article described him as "the most famed U.S. headmaster of his generation."

On November 17, 1944, Peabody died in Groton, Massachusetts, during a nap at the wheel of his parked automobile.

## Family

Peabody married his first cousin, Fannie Peabody, on June 18, 1885 in Salem, Massachusetts.

* Malcolm Endicott Peabody - m. Mary Parkman
* Helen Peabody - m. Robert Minturn Sedgwick
* Rose Saltonstall Peabody - m. William Barclay Parsons, Jr.
* Dorothy Peabody - m. Frederick Trubee Davison
* Elizabeth Rogers Peabody - unmarried.
* Marjorie Peabody - unmarried.
Elizabeth (Shepard) Goodwin

**Elizabeth Shepard** (bapt. July 29, 1660 - 1742) was a resident of Hartford, Connecticut. Shepard was born and baptized on July 29, 1660 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the daughter of John Shepard and Rebecca Greenhill. Before 1680, she moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where she married and remained to raise a family. Her husband was a significant public figure in Hartford politics in the early 1700s. Shepard died in 1742 in Hartford, Connecticut.

## Family

Shepard married William Goodwin in July 1680.

* Sarah Goodwin - m. John Clark (d. 1743)
* Mary Goodwin - m. Thomas Savage (1684-1755)
* Rebecca Goodwin - m. William Cadwell (Aug. 24, 1684 - bur. Jun. 11, 1775)
* William Goodwin - m. Elizabeth Collier
* Violet Goodwin (Oct. 18, 1696 - bur. Nov. 28, 1776) - unmarried.
* Susanna Goodwin (Aug. 12, 1704 - bur. Feb. 25, 1793) - unmarried.
* Elizabeth Goodwin (Apr. 24, 1681 - Aug. 21, 1702) - died young.
* Susanna Goodwin (Feb. 24, 1689 - Nov. 12, 1703) - died young.
* Hannah Goodwin (Apr. 10, 1695 - May 12, 1695) - infant
* Rachel Goodwin (Jan. 18, 1702 - Jan. 25, 1702) - infant
Grace Addie Goodwin

**Grace Addie Goodwin** (February 8, 1856 - November 1, 1940) was a resident of Hartford, Connecticut.

Goodwin was born on February 8, 1856 in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, as the daughter of John Goodwin and Mary J. Gibson. She lived there through her childhood and moved to Hartford, Connecticut in the 1890s in her early adulthood. She lived in the city for about 50 years, living out the remainder of her years at 370 Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford. She was an active member of the Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford.

On November 1, 1940, Goodwin died at her home following a long illness. She left no relatives at the time of her death. In May 1941, her will bequeathed her entire estate, except for personal effects, to Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford for its Poor Fund.
Ellen (Shaw) Lord (West Hartford, Connecticut)

**Ellen Shaw** (1873 - March 24, 1934) was a resident of West Hartford, Connecticut, and a prominent figure in the Elmwood Community Church.

Shaw was born in 1873 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the daughter of John M. Shaw and Hattie Dan. In 1876, when she was three years old, her family moved to West Hartford, Connecticut, where she remained for many years. She attended the Elmwood schools and was a member of the Elmwood Community Church, having been a long time president of the Ladies Aid Society of the church. She was also a member of Ivanhoe Chapter, No. 10, OES, Hartford; Robert O. Tyler, No. 6, WRO, Hartford; and Lizbeth Turner Tent, DUVCW, Hartford.

On March 24, 1934, Shaw died at her home at 1061 New Britain Avenue in Elmwood, West Hartford, after being ill for 10 months.

## Family

Shaw married Charles Edward Lord.

* Edith Lord - m. Warner Brown
* Charles Edward Lord, Jr. - unmarried.
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Hannah (Stanley) Porter

**Hannah Stanley** (June 2, 1635 - December 18, 1708) was the wife of Samuel Porter and the mother-in-law of Nathaniel Goodwin, the grandson of Ozias Goodwin, one of the founders of Hartford. She was born in Hartford on June 2, 1635 as the daughter of Thomas Stanley, a Hartford founder, and Benedicta Tritton. She received her primary education in Hartford and married Samuel Porter in 1659. That same year, the couple removed to Hadley, Massachusetts, to settle the new territory with other dissenting Hartford settlers. From 1660 to 1673, the couple had several children. After her husband died on September 6, 1989, she remained in Hadley, Massachusetts until her death on December 18, 1708.

### **Children**

* Samuel Porter - m. Joanna Cooke
* Thomas Porter (1663-1668) - died young.
* Hezekiah Porter - m. (1) Hannah Coles (2) Esther Dickinson
* John Porter - m. (1) Mary Butler (2) Sarah Church
* Hannah Porter - m. John Brown
* Mehetable Porter - m. Nathaniel Goodwin
* Experience Porter - m. Abigail Williams
* Ichabod Porter - m. Dorcas Marsh
* Nathaniel Porter - m. Mehetable Buell
* Thomas S. Porter - m. Thankful Babcock
Dennis Albert Blakeslee (Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut)

**Dennis Albert Blakeslee** (March 11, 1856 - April 5, 1933) was an American politician who was the 54th Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut from 1911 to 1913.

Blakeslee was born on March 11, 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, as the son of Charles W. Blakeslee and Martha J. Waters. He was educated in the public schools of New Haven and became a contractor, being a memebr of the firm of C. W. Blakeslee & Sons. He was a Republican and was councilman in 1881 and 1882, and fire commissioner from 1887 to 1893. He served 25 years with the Second Company Governor's Horse Guard and was in command for eight years. He was also a member of the Society's Committee of the Dwight Place Congregational Church, a director in Mechanics Bank and the Security Insurance Company, secretary and treasurer of Seymour Water Company, president of New Haven Congregational Club, president of Connecticut Hassam Pavement Company, president of New Haven Mercantile Safe Deposit Company, president of Saybrook and Lyme Connecticut River Bridge Commission, and secretary and treasurer of New Haven Street Sprinkling Company. He was also a member of the Committee in charge of erecting the new county courthouse in New Haven, Connecticut.

Blakeslee became the 54th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, and served from 1911 to 1913, after serving as the Republican Senator from the 9th District for two consecutive sessions in 1907 and 1909. During his tenure, a public utilities commission was founded, and a workmen's compensation bill was enacted, the Corrupt Practices Act, and a civil service law was passed.

On April 5, 1933, Blakeslee died at St. Raphael's Hospital after a short illness.

## Family

Blakeslee married Lizzie Finette Law on December 4, 1878.

* Harriet F. Blakeslee - m. George Elisha Hall
* Martha L. Blakeslee - m. Hugh McCollum Beugler
* Albert D. Blakeslee - m.
* Harold L. Blakeslee - m.
* Miles Grant Blakeslee - m.
* Dorothy Blakeslee - m. William Gilbert
Dwight M. Lane (Pratt & Whitney)

**Dwight M. Lane** (1926 - October 5, 1969) was a veteran of the United States Navy in World War II and an inspector at Pratt & Whitney in Southington, Connecticut.

Lane was born in 1926 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of Richard Evans Lane, Sr. and Gladys Dunbar. He graduated from East Hampton High School and was set to attend the University of Connecticut. He served in World War II in the Pacific theater in the United States Navy. After he returned home in 1945, he attended the University of Connecticut and became an inspector at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in Southington, Connecticut, where he worked for many years. In the late 1960s, he came down with a serious illness.

On October 5, 1969, Lane died at Middlesex Memorial Hospital after his long illness.

## Family

Lane married June Buckman.

* Dwight M. Lane, Jr.
* James C. Lane
* Judy Lane - m. (1) Robert Warner (2) Paul Bushka
Grace (Tourtellotte) Stone

**Grace Ethel Tourtellotte** (June 4, 1891 - June 22, 1962) was a resident of Ellington, Connecticut, and the wife of John G. Stone. She was born on June 4, 1891 in Middletown, Connecticut to William Ford Tourtellotte and Mary Scully. She lived in Hartford for most of her life. In September 1959, her husband, John, died at McCook Memorial Hospital. She lived at Egypt Road in Ellington, Connecticut until her death on June 22, 1962 at a local convalescent home.

### **Children**

* George W. Stone
* Marjorie Stone - m. Howard N. Jensen
* Jean Stone - Charles Fontanella
* Marion Stone
George Herbert Day, Sr. (Hartford businessman)

**George Herbert Day, Sr.** (April 3, 1851 - November 22, 1907) was a prominent automobile businessman in Hartford, Connecticut.

Day was born on April 3, 1851 in Brooklyn, Connecticut, as the son of Willard Day and Catherine Brown. He received his education in the public schools of his native town, and entered Hobart College at Geneva, New York, in 1869, but left toward the end of his first year on account of trouble with his eyes. In October 1870, he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and was engaged as clerk with the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, remaining in that position seven years.

He resigned to enter the employ of the Weed Sewing Machine Company on October 1, 1877. He also became an early promoter of bicycling in Hartford, and he was one of the founders of the Connecticut Bicycle Club, the first wheel club in the city. He became secretary of the company on March 17, 1879 and then president and treasurer on March 25, 1887. In 1890, the Pope Manufacturing Company purchased the Weed stock, and became sole manager of the concern. In the reorganization, Day remained in charge of the manufacturing department in Hartford, as vice-president and general manager. Day became interested early in the automobile and made trips to Europe in 1897 to 1899 to study the French vehicles propelled by electricity. Early in the spring of 1899, steps were taken towards the combination of electric automobile interests. He severed his relations with the Pope Manufacturing Company in 1900 and became president of the Electric Vehicle Company. After three years of service, he retired a few years later.

On November 21, 1907, Day died in Daytona, Florida, where he had been for two weeks trying to regain his health and strength, as he had suffered from heart trouble for several years.

## Family

Day married Katherine Beach on October 13, 1877.

* Josephine Day - m. (1) Martin Toscan Bennett (2) Ricard Brooks
* George Herbert Day, Jr. - m. Grace Phelps Allen
* Godfrey M. Day - m. Sheila Wilson
* Watson Beach Day - m. Cora Towne
* Frank P. Day - m. Marjorie Munsill
Cordelia I. (Baker) Goodwin

**Cordelia I. Baker** (1826 - March 18, 1873) was a resident of Hazardville in the town of Enfield, Connecticut.

Baker was born in 1826 in Windsor, Connecticut, where she grew up during her childhood. After her marriage in 1845, she moved to the Hazardville section of Enfield, Connecticut, where she remained for the rest of her life. She lived as a widow for almost ten years after the death of her husband in September 1862. Baker died on March 18, 1873 at the age of 46 in Enfield.

## Family

Baker married Moses Goodwin on October 9, 1845.

* John Goodwin - died young.
* Moses Goodwin, Jr. (Apr. 13, 1855 - May 12, 1858) - died young.
* Merton E. Goodwin (May 30, 1861 - Apr. 21, 1864) - died young.
* Infant son - died young.
Allyn Goodwin Smith

**Allyn Goodwin Smith** (June 4, 1893 - August 18, 1976) was an Administrative Superintendent of Personnel for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, and a malacologist for the California Academy of Sciences.

Smith was born on June 4, 1893 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of Major Thomas M. Smith and Harriette Batterson. His family moved shortly thereafter to Redlands, California, in 1908. As a teenager, while on vacation with his parents, Smith attended a lecture given by Professor Josiah Keep on the topic of mollusks. This lecture, along with collecting trips he would subsequently complete, inspired him in the field of conchology. In Redlands, Smith met S. Stillman Berry, who would become his mentor and inspire Smith's interests in chitons and land snails. Despite his early interests in malacology, Smith graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1916 with a degree in electrical engineering.

After serving as a radio operator and as an observer of Army planes for the United States Army, Smith launched his career with the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company (P.T.&T.C.), the first of two successful careers. At this company, Smith served as the Administrative Superintendent of Personnel, a position that lasted 32 years. He retired in 1955, after which he began his second fruitful career.

Throughout his time at P.T.&T.C., Smith maintained his interests in malacology with annual publications beginning in 1931. Consequently, after his retirement, Smith took up a full time position with the California Academy of Sciences as a Research Malacologist and Executive Assistant to the Director. By 1960, Smith became the Associate Curator of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology and by 1963, served as chairman of the department. Among his many accomplishments at the California Academy of Sciences, Smith was primarily responsible for assembling one of the largest wet preserved invertebrate collections in the United States.

Smith retired from his second career in 1972, but remained active as a research associate in malacology in association with the Department of Geology. In 1976, Smith died at his home in Berkeley, California, after a brief illness.

## Family

Smith married Katherine Isabel Tapscott on July 2, 1921 in Berkeley, California.

* Leslie Jean Smith - David Brown
* Allyn Goodwin Smith, Jr.
* Shirley Batterson Smith - m. James P. Dow
Decius Latimer Pierson (Meriden, Connecticut)

**Decius Latimer Pierson** (December 8, 1871 - January 19, 1897) was a resident of Meriden, Connecticut, and a Son of the American Revolution.

Pierson was born on December 8, 1871 in Meriden, Connecticut, as the son of Stephen Condit Pierson and Hannah Latimer. He grew up in Meriden and was fitted for college at the Hartford Public High School. He was a member of Psi Upsilon at Yale College and graduated in 1894. He was the secretary of the Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution for several years.

On January 16, 1897, Pierson went to Simsbury, Connecticut, to spend Sunday with friends, but was taken suddenly ill that night, and the next day underwent an operation for appendicitis. The operation was successful, but complications arose from kidney inflammation, and he died on January 19, 1897. Upon his death, the Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution adopted a resolution that stated: "Though the cutting short of his life so early in his career makes our loss particularly sad, our remembrance of him will, for the same reason, all the more deeply impress us, and will remain a tenderly cherished and beneficient influence among us."
Charles Stuart Williams (Carlton & Williams)

**Charles Stuart Williams** (November 4, 1844 - March 20, 1926) was the president of the Carlton & Williams Company in Hartford, Connecticut.

Williams was born on November 4, 1844 in Manchester, Connecticut, as the son of George Wells Williams and Martha Woodbridge. He attended the Hartford Public High School, which he left in 1862, and entered the drug business with his father at 204 State Street in Hartford. After his father's retirement from the drug business, he started in business with another partner and was actively engaged in that partnership until 1921. In the 1920s, he was also a member of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, serving as deacon. In 1864, he had joined the Hartford City Guard and was a major in the Veteran City Guard in 1904. He was also a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution for many years.

On March 20, 1926, Williams died at the age of 81 at his home of 120 North Whitney Street in Hartford, Connecticut of pneumonia.

## Family

Williams married first to Emma Frances Keeny in October 1868. She died in July 1889.

* Philip Keeny Williams - m. Isabel Douglas Seelye
* Samuel P. Williams
* Marion Williams

Williams married second to Marion Keeny in 1892. She died in 1913.
Charles West (Virginia soldier)

**Charles West** (1699 - 1734) was a Virginia resident who inherited the West Point land in Virginia, adjoining Delaware.

West was born in Virginia as the son of John West III and Judith Armistead. He grew up on 4,000 acres in Pamunkey Neck, adjoining Delaware, commonly called West Point, which was land that he inherited from his father. He died in 1734 and left his estate of West Point to his cousin, Thomas West. He was unmarried and had no children.
Beverley T. Hunter (Virginia)

**Beverley T. Hunter** (June 18, 1826 - August 18, 1851) was a Second Lieutenant in the Mexican-American War.

Hunter was born in Martinsburg, Virginia, as the son of Moses T. Hunter and Mary Snickers. He was by nature ardent and enthusiastic; in character, brave, gallant, generous, and true. After his parents died when he was in his 20's, he went to live with his aunt and uncle, Judge Henry St. George Tucker, who was a professor of law at the University of Virginia. In this happy home, they remained until the marriage of his sister, Anne Stephens Hunter to Alfred Conrad Weeks, a large sugar planter on the Bayou Teche in Louisiana.

On July 18, 1845, Hunter was matriculated into the Virginia Military Institute with his brother, Henry St. George Hunter. Beverley had spent only a year at the Institute when the Mexican-American War broke out. His home being in Louisiana, he volunteered as a Second Lieutenant in the Louisiana Mounted Volunteers. On his return to Louisiana, he began the study of law, and was engaged in this business when the misguided patriot, Narciso Lopez, organized his ill-fated expedition to free Cuba in 1850. Hunter joined Lopez and served under Saunders in Crittenden's command, as Second Liutenant, until his tragic death.

Sailing from New Orleans on August 4, 1851, Lopez had assembled a force whose core was 420 American volunteers. After landing on the northwestern coast of Cuba on August 12, the invasion force displayed considerable elan and personal valor, but very little military discipline and cohesion. Lopez's small army was divided into several isolated fragments in clashes with Spanish troops. The anticipated uprising by local Cubans never materialized and within a week, Spanish forces crushed the "filibusters."

While Lopea, Crittenden, and many others were captured and executed, Hunter reporedly fought to the end as the commander of a small band of about eighteen men. On August 18, 1851, Hunter was shot and killed instantly by the Spanish. He was unmarried and had no children.
Charles Edward Lord, Jr. (West Hartford, Connecticut)

**Charles Edward Lord, Jr.** (1895 - March 2, 1911) was a resident of West Hartford, Connecticut.

Lord was born in around 1895 as the son of Charles Edward Lord and Ellen Shaw. He was educated at the Elmwood grammar school located on New Britain Avenue in the Elmwood neighborhood of West Hartford, Connecticut.

In the summer of 1910, he developed cerebral meningitis and died on March 2, 1911 after his illness at the age of 15.
Henry Antz (Hartford, Connecticut barber)

**Henry Antz** (c. 1863 - April 4, 1919) was a German immigrant to the United States and a barber in Hartford, Connecticut.

Antz was born in either late 1863 or early 1864 in Germany and immigrated to the United States before the turn of the 20th century. After his marriage in the 1890s, he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, where he became president of the Hartford Saengerbund to promote German-American cultural heritage in 1898. He also opened a barber shop. His first advertisement was posted in the Hartford Courant on July 9, 1902, advertising 6 modern chairs at 27 Pearl Street in Hartford. He was listed often in the city directory. He worked there for many years until his death. In 1917, he appeared before the Board of Street Commissioners in Hartford to appeal the movement of his illuminated barber pole four feet above the sidewalk.

On April 4, 1919, Antz died in Hartford, Connecticut. His store, which he had operated for two decades, was bought within the entire Pearl Street block by the Fidelity Trust Company in 1920.

## Family

Antz married Rosalie Breckle in the 1890s.

* Christina Antz - m. Charles Edward Shaw