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Francis Junius Huntington (publisher)

**Francis Junius Huntington** (December 3, 1802 - February 5, 1878) was a publisher in Hartford, Connecticut, and New York City.

Huntington was born on December 3, 1802 in Suffield, Connecticut, as the son of Hezekiah Huntington and Susan Kent. He grew up in the Hartford area and was early engaged in publishing, continuing to succeed in the business within the city. He later moved to New York City and engaged in publishing musical books in 1862. His family, which spent several years abroad, resided in Hartford, Connecticut.

Huntington died in New York on February 5, 1878.

## Family

Huntington married Stella Bradley Bull on September 1, 1833.

* William W. Huntington - m. Harriet Beach
* Edward Bouverie Huntington - m. Eleanora Tallmadge
* Archibald Dunbar Huntington - m. Alvina Nisson
* Margaret Kent Huntington - unmarried.
* Helen Huntington (Jan. 3, 1836 - Feb. 18, 1839) - died young.
* Francis Huntington (Nov. 2, 1837 - Sept. 3, 1838) - died young.
* Francis Huntington (Sept. 1, 1839 - Apr. 28, 1842) - died young.
Hattie Flora (Tourtellotte) Burke

**Hattie Flora Tourtellotte** (May 30, 1864 - December 13, 1934) was a resident of Manchester, Connecticut.

Tourtellotte was born on May 30, 1864 in Springfield, Massachusetts as the daughter of Rufus Bacon Tourtellotte and Sarah Jane Wood. She grew up in Massachusetts and removed to Manchester, Connecticut after her marriage. She lived at 90 School Street in Manchester for many years.

On December 13, 1934, she died at Hartford Hospital after a short illness.

## Family

Tourtellotte married William Edward Burke.

* Clarence Rufus Burke - m. Margaret Adam
* Esther Marie Burke - m. Arthur Johnson
* Eve Gertrude Burke - m. Charles Henry Albee
* Edna Carrie Burke - m. William Franklin Weeks
Barbara (Tourtellotte) Van Iderstine

**Barbara Tourtellotte** (--)

She was born \_\_\_\_\_, the daughter of Richard E. Tourtellotte, Sr. and Dorothy Lorentzen.

## Family

On October 27, 1956, she married David W. Van Iderstine, the son of Marjorie Van Iderstine of Oliver Stret in Hartford, Connecticut. 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.
Catherine Julia Goodwin

**Catherine Julia Goodwin** (September 7, 1812 - May 26, 1910) was a resident of Middletown and Hartford, Connecticut.

Goodwin was born on September 7, 1812 in Middletown, Connecticut as the daughter of Asa Goodwin and Parthenia Rogers. While she was born in Middletown, she lived most of her life in Hartford, Connecticut, where her family lived. She remained unmarried throughout her life, but retained many of her faculties through her older years. Up until a short time before her death, she took daily walks near her home at 752 Windsor Avenue, Hartford, and was well known to people in that part of the city. In spite of her advanced age, her faculties were well-preserved and with the aid of a cane, she could get around with little inconvenience and surprising agility.

In the spring of 1910, a general breaking down of her health, due to old age, began, and she was taken to the hospital, but she did not rally. On May 26, 1910, Goodwin died at the age of 97 at Hartford Hospital.
Anna (Goodwin) Goodwin (Hartford)

**Anna Goodwin** (August 28, 1784 - February 4, 1866) was a resident of Hartford, Connecticut.

Goodwin was born on August 28, 1784 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the daughter of Allyn Goodwin and Anna Marsh. She grew up and attended the local schools near the North End of Hartford, where her family lived south of her grandparents on the upper Windsor Avenue. She lived in Hartford, Connecticut after her marriage in 1804 and resided there for many years. After the death of her husband in 1830, she lived in the Bronx section of New York City, where she resided until her death.

Goodwin died on February 4, 1866 in Morrisania, Bronx, New York, at the age of 81.

## Family

Goodwin married her second cousin, John Goodwin, on November 11, 1804. The coupled resided in Hartford, Connecticut.

* Abigail Ann Goodwin - m. Joseph Wait, Jr.
* Esther Bull Goodwin - m. (1) James S. Ruggles (2) James M. Stedman
Ella M. Tourtellotte

**Ella Tourtellotte** (August 6, 1878 - July 23, 1961) was a practical nurse in her earlier years in Putnam, Connecticut. She was born in Griswold on August 6, 1878 to Marvin W. Tourtellotte, Jr. and Ada Green. She never married and lived with family members at 83 Connecticut Boulevard in East Hartford until her death on July 23, 1961 at East Hartford Hospital. She was buried at the Grove Street Cemetery in Putnam.
Gertrude M. Lorentzen

**Gertrude M. Lorentzen** (1911 - July 11, 2002) was a member of the West Hartford Board of Education for 50 years. She was born in 1911 to Thomas Lorentzen and Julia Schug. After graduating from high school in West Hartford, she became a secretary of Morley School and Alfred Plant Junior High School. She remained an elementary school secretary throughout the 1930's. A tragedy occurred on October 23, 1931, however, when her older sister, Lillian N. Lorentzen, was killed by a drunk driver while the two exited a trolley on Farmington Avenue at Trout Brook in West Hartford. At the age of 20, she witnessed the accident.

In September 1940, she was named as secretary for the Superintendent of Schools, Lloyd H. Bughee. By the late 1940's, she was a typing instructor for students in the town, which offered courses such as typing or Spanish for beginners.

In the summer of 1959, her brother, Thomas, died at the age of 51 in North Woodstock, Connecticut, leaving his wife, Dorothy Kelley. On January 19, 1964, Lorentzen represented the secretarial staff at the Career Night at Hall High School in West Hartford. In June 1965, her father, Thomas, died at the age of 82 in West Hartford, leaving her mother, Julia, who died in February 1968 at the age of 89. In the latter half of the 1970's, Lorentzen retired from service in the Board of Education. In October 1980, her brother, John Edward Lorentzen, died at the age of 66, having lived in the Hartford area all his life prior to moving to Florida.

Lorentzen lived for decades in her home at 79 Somerset Street until she died at Manchester Memorial Hospital on July 11, 2002, at the age of 91.
Daniel Bissell (general)

**Daniel Bissell** (1768 - December 14, 1833) was an American soldier and administrator. He was also a fifer in the Connecticut militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Bissell was born in 1768 in Bolton, Connecticut as the son of Ozias Bissell and Mabel Roberts. As a boy of nine years, he enlisted in the Connecticut militia as a fifer during the Revolutionary War. He returned to the military when he enlisted in the United States Army in 1788, and quickly rose through the ranks.

His career as a commissioned officer in the United States Army began when he was made an ensign in the First Infantry Regiment on April 11, 1792, and was promoted to lieutenant on January 3, 1794. He was then promoted to captain in January 1799. With the expansion of the United States Army in 1808, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the First Infantry Regiment on August 18, 1808. On May 20, 1809, he took command of Fort Belle Fontaine, the first military fort west of the Mississippi River. On August 15, 1812, he was appointedto command the 5th Infantry Regiment with the rank of colonel.

Bissell then served with distinction during the War of 1812 and was promoted to Brigadier General on March 9, 1814. He commanded U.S. forces at the Battle of Cook's Mills on October 19, 1814. This minor battle was one of the few American land victories of the war. After the war, there were large reductions in the strength of the Army. As a result, Bissell was reverted to the rank of colonel and assigned to command of the 1st Infantry Regiment. In recognition of his wartime service, he was given an honorary promotion to the rank of Brigadier General, and was honorably discharged from the Army on June 1, 1821 after 29 years of continuous military service.

Bissell died on December 14, 1833 at the age of 65 in St. Louis, Missouri.

## Family

Bissell married Deborah Sebor on May 21, 1794.

* Elizabeth Sebor Bissell - m. William Morrison
* Mary Green Bissell - m. Risdon Hutchins Price
* Cornelia Richmond Bissell - m. Thompson Douglass
Herbert R. Bates

**Herbert Roswell Bates** (April 20, 1870 - July 16, 1913) was a clergyman in New York and the husband of Edith Talcott, the daughter of James Talcott, a Hartford descendant.

## Life and Death

Herbert Roswell Bates was born in Potsdam, New York on April 20, 1870, the son of Charles Carroll Bates and Charlotte Clark. His father was a physician who enjoyed a large practice there. Bates graduated from the Auburn high school in 1890 and passed the entrance examinations for the scientific school of Cornell University. However, the death of his mother, followed by that of his father, changed his plans. He became principal of the high school at Elba, Nebraska for one year, during which he occupied his spare moments in organizing and conducting prayer meetings and Bible clubs in neighboring towns. This service created a desire to become a clergyman instead of a physician as he had originally intended in his family. He entered Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and graduated in 1895. He then took the regular course at Auburn Seminary in Auburn, at which he was graduated in 1898.

He was ordained to the ministry at Auburn by the presbytery of Cayuga, New York, on April 24, 1898, and in the following autumn, he became assistant to Dr. John Dennison of the Church of the Sea and Land, in one of New York City's slum districts. He remained there for two years, shrinking from no service by which he felt he could help the poor of the flock. He then went to the Fourth Presbyterian Church, New York City, located in an atmosphere of refinement and wealth, as assistant to Dr. Wilbur Chapman. At the close of his first year, he accompanied Dr. Chapman on a tour of the Holy Land, and on his return in 1901 was called to the Spring Street Presbyterian Church in New York, where he labored for twelve years.

In that period, the membershi was increased from a scattered few to 600, schools and missions were organized, and the Spring Street settlement in the United States, as opposed to those engaged in humanitarian work alone, was established. The work of this settlement was said to be one of the most effective combinations of evangelism and social service ever attempted. He made two trips abroad, one through Europe, and the other through the Far East. He exercised a strong influence over others, especially among the young, and while in New York gave frequent lectures at colleges and other institutions of learning. He loved the world of nature and the summer hours he spent in the Canadian woods were among his happiest.

On June 1, 1909, he married Edith Talcott, the daughter of the wealthy New York City merchant, James Talcott. Together, they had two children. On July 16, 1913, he died in Cuzco, Peru while studying missionary work. After his death, a volume entitled, "THe Life of H. Roswell Bates" by S. Ralph Harlow was published, the proceeds of its sale being devoted to the support of the Spring Street Settlement House.

### **Children**

* Charlotte Bates
* Talcott Bates (Jul. 2, 1912 - Dec. 14, 1985) - m. Margaret Monterey (Jul. 22, 1918 - Sept. 14, 2010)
Chauncey Goodrich

**Chauncey Goodrich** (October 20, 1759 - August 18, 1815) was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who represented that state in the United States Congress as both a senator and a representative.

Goodrich was born on October 20, 1759 in Durham, Connecticut, as the son of Elizur Goodrich and Catherine Chauncey. He graduated from Yale in 1776 and taught school afterward from 1779 to 1781. After studying law, he was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1781, practicing in the city of Hartford. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1793 to 1794, when he was elected as a Federalist to the Fourth Congress from the Second District of Connecticut. He was re-elected to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1795 to March 3, 1801.

Returning to Connecticut, he resumed his law practice and was on the Governor's Council from 1802 to 1807. The Connecticut General Assembly elected him to the United States Senate to complete the term of Uriah Tracy, who died, and re-elected him to a full term. On June 17, 1812, he voted against the war with Britain, but the vote for war was 19 to 13. He served in the United States Senate in the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses from October 25, 1807 to May 13, 1813, when he resigned to become Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut. He was elected to that office that year, having also been elected Mayor of Hartford in 1812. He served as both Mayor and Lieutenant Governor. In 1814-15, he was a Connecticut delegate to the Hartford Convention.

Goodrich died on August 18, 1815.

## Family

Goodrich married first to Abigail Smith in 1780. She died on September 11, 1788. The couple had no children.

Goodrich married second to Mary Ann Wolcott on October 13, 1789. The couple had no children.
Henry Franklin Corning (Hartford merchant)

**Henry Franklin Corning** (July 28, 1849 - December 10, 1926) was a well-known Hartford businessman and head of the firm of H. F. Corning and Company. He was also a resident of West Hartford, Connecticut.

Corning was born on July 28, 1849 in Hartford, Connecticut as the son of Henry Corning and Mary Jane Goodwin. He attended the public schools of his native city, and completed his education in boarding schools at Windham and Cheshire, Connecticut. He began business life on February 22, 1865, as clerk in the leather goods store of Corning Brothers, having previously served in that capacity during his school vacation in the year 1864. He received for his services for the first year $150, the second $175, and the third year $200. He had never been engaged in any other line of business nor connected with any other enterprise than the one he entered as a lad of sixteen.

In 1874, the firm name changed to H. F. Corning and Company, allowing him to become senior member and controlling head. The store was located at 83 Asylum Street in Hartford and later removed to Church Street.

Corning was also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Society of Founders and Patriots, the City Club, and Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church. For many years, he spent his winters abroad. Indeed, on December 10, 1926, suffering from heart trouble for some time, Corning died in Coca, Florida, where he had been for two months on vacation.

## Family

Corning married for a first time to Mary Ellen Keney on November 12, 1873, in Trinity Church, Hartford, Connecticut. After her death, he planned to remarry.

Corning married for a second time to Delia F. Howard on February 15, 1909. The couple had no children.
Frances Washington Hunter

**Frances Washington Hunter** (May 1, 1818 - August 1876) was a resident of St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.

Hunter was born on May 1, 1818 in Virginia as the daughter of Moses T. Hunter and Mary Snickers. She grew up in the area and later removed to St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, with her sister, Anne Stephens Hunter, after her marriage to a sugar planter. She lived unmarried with them at their plantation home of "Belle Grove" for many years. She assumed the sole care of her three younger brothers in the 1840s and never was a sister more devoted. It was she who signed the matriculation papers for her two brothers - Henry St. George Tucker Hunter and Beverley T. Hunter - when they both entered the Virginia Military Institute in the early 1840's.

Hunter died in August 1876.
Frank Woodbridge Cheney

**Frank Woodbridge Cheney** (June 5, 1832 - May 26, 1909) was a Civil War veteran in the 16th Connecticut Volunteers and the treasurer of the Cheney Brothers Silk Company at Hartford and Manchester, Connecticut.

Cheney was born on June 5, 1832 in Providence, Rhode Island as the son of Charles Cheney and Waitstill Dexter Shaw. After graduating from Brown University in 1854, he joined the Cheney Brothers Silk Company operations in Hartford, Connecticut. He volunteered for the American Civil War in 1862, and became lieutenant-colonel of the 16th Connecticut Volunteers. The regiment went to the battle front on August 29, 1862, with 1,010 soldiers, who were strong but undisciplined and almost wholly ignorant of drill. The Confederates were beginning the invasion of Maryland that ended in the repulse at Antietam, and all available troops were hurried forward to meet them, irrespective of experience. On September 12, 1862, Cheney led his regiment of recruits in a skirmish that proved preliminary to the Battle of Antietam, in which engagement he was severely wounded late in the afternoon. His wound proved so serious that he was obliged to retire from the service on December 24, 1862.

After the Civil War, he traveled in Europe, China, and Japan, studying the silk industries of those countries, and joined Cheney Brothers as its treasurer. He had no liking for office-holding, but was persuaded in 1892 to let his name be used as a candidate on the Republican ticket for lieutenant governor. In 1902, he also served as representative in the Constitutional Convention. That same year, he was elected a director of the New York, New Haven, & Hartford road, and served industriously on that board until his death.

## Family

Cheney married Mary Bushnell in November 1863.

* Emily Cheney - m. Barrett Learned
* Charles Cheney - m. (1) Mary Lydia Brainard (2) Mary Bell
* Horace Bushnell Cheney - m. Mary Caroline Pierson
* John Davenport Cheney - m. Mary Wilcox Russell
* Howell Cheney - m.
* Seth Leslie Cheney - m. Katherine Bell
* Ward Cheney - m.
* Austin Cheney - m.
* Frank Dexter Cheney - m.
* Marjorie Cheney - m. ?
* Dorothy Cheney - m.
* Ruth Cheney - m.
Dorothy (Caldwell) Beach

**Dorothy Caldwell** (July 14, 1896 - July 7, 1979) was a West Hartford socialite and a worldwide perfume collector.

Caldwell was born in Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont on July 14, 1896, the daughter of Colonel Frank Merrill Caldwell and Mary Hay. She grew up in Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Caldwell was known for her unique hobby collecting perfume bottles, which started in 1928 when she visited Cannes on the French Riviera. Prior to her visit, she had twice been around the world. By 1934, she had 766 perfume bottles that came from all parts of the world. Indeed, she had an entire room of her house on South Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut, dedicated to the bottles.

Caldwell was also very active in Hartford County public life. In February 1947, she was appointed chairman of the reception committee of the Hartford County Republican Woman's Association; she resigned a few months later. She donated numerous antique farm implements to museums, including a corn sheller, sausage press, an iron and a wooden hay fork, ice plow and guard, grain thresher, knives, and carpenter's brace and bit.

On July 7, 1979, Caldwell died at her home on Ely Road in Farmington, Connecticut.

## Family

Caldwell married Charles Frederick Beach in October 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, after having been engaged for a month. The couple had no children.
Chloe (Hooker) Crosby (West Hartford, Connecticut)

**Chloe Hooker** (March 19, 1742 - February 10, 1832) was a resident of West Hartford, Connecticut.

Hooker was born on March 19, 1742 in West Hartford, Connecticut, as the daughter of Daniel Hooker, Jr. and Sarah Webster. After her marriage in 1763, she settled down in West Hartford and started a family in their homestead. She resided there even after the death of her husband in 1807.

Hooker died in West Hartford, Connecticut, on February 10, 1832.

## Family

Hooker married Ebenezer Crosby on July 15, 1763.

* Chloe Crosby - m. Elisha Gilbert
* Lucy Crosby - m. (1) Silas Curtis (2) FirstName Peake
* Sarah Crosby - m. FirstName Bugbee
* Mary Crosby - m. Gypson L. Whiting
* Abigail Crosby - m. FirstName Bishop
* William Crosby - m. Rachel Hubbard
* Ebenezer Crosby, Jr. - m. Britta Steele
* Chloe Crosby - died young.
* Asaph Crosby - died young.
* Job Crosby - died young.
* Ebenezer Crosby - died young.
Elizabeth (Stoughton) Wolcott

**Elizabeth Stoughton** (October 27, 1766 - September 25, 1805) was a resident of Litchfield, Connecticut.

Stoughton was born on October 27, 1766 as the daughter of Capt. John Stoughton and Ruth Belden. She grew up in Connecticut and lived in Litchfield, Connecticut, with her husband after her marriage in 1785. Stoughton was known for hosting parties whose fame reached as far as Washington D.C. and England. The couple had many children, though several died in infancy.

The couple had been married twenty years when Stoughton died of tuberculosis on September 24, 1805 at the age of 38.

## Family

Stoughton married Oliver Wolcott, Jr. on June 1, 1785.
Ella (Waters) Goodwin

**Ella J. Waters** (March 4, 1852 - January 15, 1937) was the wife of Wilbur E. Goodwin and a resident of West Hartford, Connecticut. Waters was born on March 4, 1852 to Henry Waters and Emily Fairbanks in Hartford, Connecticut. On September 24, 1874, she married Wilbur E. Goodwin, the son of Harvey Goodwin and Frances Elmore, and a member of the firm of Goodwin Pottery in Elmwood, West Hartford. After her husband's death from nephritis in October 1905, she moved to Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford. She died on January 15, 1937 at Hartford Hospital.

### **Childre**

* Maud Elmore Goodwin - m. September 27, 1899 - Thomas E. Waghorn
* Herman Wilbur Goodwin (Oct. 24, 1877 - Mar. 17, 1878) - infant.
* Roy Wilbur Goodwin - m. October 20, 1909 - Ethel C. Fitch
* Florence Ella Goodwin - m. Newton W. Beckett
Harriet (Beach) Huntington

**Harriet Beach** (died February 18, 1926) was one of the founders of the Visiting Nurses' Association.

Beach was born in Hartford, Connecticut as the daughter of Charles Mason Beach and Frances Belknap. She graduated from the Hartford Female Seminary and was an active member of St. John's Church in West Hartford. She was also one of the founders of the Visiting Nurses' Association and lived on Prospect Hill on the eastern edge of West Hartford, Connecticut.

On February 18, 1926, Beach died at her winter home in Miami, Florida. Her will was admitted on March 17, 1926, to allow her husband to have the life use of their homestead on Prospect Avenue and a one-half interest in property in Miami, Florida, as well as the income of the residuary estate.

## Family

Beach married William W. Huntington and the couple lived on Prospect Hill in West Hartford, Connecticut. The couple had no children.
Henry Augustus Wolcott (West Hartford)

**Henry Augustus Wolcott** (1866 - July 12, 1941) was a selectman of West Hartford, Connecticut, and a member of the town's school and finance boards.

Wolcott was born in 1866 in Lynn, Massachusetts, and grew up there. He removed to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1898, where he became a civil engineer and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Connecticut Society of Civil Engineers. He belonged to the Elmwood Community Church and served on the Board of Selectmen in West Hartford, Connecticut. Besides his participation on the board, Wolcott held positions on the town's school and finance boards, making him a particularly important figure in West Hartford politics.

On July 12, 1941, Wolcott died at Hartford Hospital at the age of 75.

## Family

Wolcott married Suzanne Lawrence (February 1971) on February 22, 1891.

* Henry F. Wolcott - m. ??
* Richard Breed Wolcott (March 21, 1953) - m. ???
* Lawrence Wolcott - m. ???
* Ruth Wolcott - unmarried.
Frank A. Lane (Hartford tobacco grower)

**Frank A. Lane** (February 8, 1850 - November 25, 1917) was a resident of the North End of Hartford, Connecticut, and a well-known tobacco grower.

Lane was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on February 8, 1850, as the son of Adolphus Lane and Helen Evans. In 1852, the family moved to Hartford, Connecticut, where he attended the Northwest School and graduated from Hannum's Business College at 870 Asylum Street in Hartford. Soon after his marriage in 1872, he became interested in Southern real estate, trading orange and grapefruit plantations. He owned a large hotel on Captiva Island in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Florida coast. He also owned a large tobacco plantation in Hartford, Connecticut, making him a prominent businessman in the tobacco fields.

In early September 1898, Lane traveled to Cuba as one of the passengers on the first steamer to leave for Cuba after the blockade was raised after the Spanish-American War. He was there for four months, inspecting the different provinces for their agricultural potential in the interest of the Cuban-American Tobacco Growing Company. While there, he helped raise tobacco there on a large scale. "As for the country," Lane said, "I believe Cuba is the garden of the world, or could easily be made so." After he returned to the United States in late January 1899 and gave an interesting account on his impressions of Cuba to the Hartford Courant.

The family suffered a great tragedy in late May 1903 when their son, Frank A. Lane, Jr., committed suicide in the Connecticut River at Rocky Hill, Connecticut. The family sued to recover money two years later, but the wound was still very open. On November 25, 1917, Lane died at Fort Myers, Florida, where he had made his summer home for the prior 24 years, at the age of 67. He was transported back to Hartford, where he was buried.

## Family

Lane married Sarah Mather on October 23, 1872.

* Sara Ella Lane - m. Ernest Newton Way
* Charles Mather Lane - m. Isabel Fairfield
* Richard Evans Lane - m. Gladys Dunbar
* Harold E. Lane
* Frank A. Lane, Jr. - unmarried
Conrad I of Germany

**Conrad I** (c. 881 - December 23, 918) was the King of East Francia from 911 to 918. He was the first elected German king and also the first to be anointed. He was chosen as kings by the rulers of the stem duchies after the death of King Louis the Child. Prior to his election, he was the duke of Franconia from 906.

Conrad was born around 881 as the son of Duke Conrad, Duke of Thuringia and his wife, Glismut, probably akin to Ota. The Conradines, counts in the Franconian Lahngau region, had been loyal supporters of the Carolingians; they competed vigorously for predominance in Franconia. In February 906, after his father was killed in battle, he became undisputed Duke of all Franconia after this. Upon the death of King Louis the Child, Conrad was elected King of the East Frankish kingdom on November 10, 911, by the rulers of Saxony, Swabia, and Bavaria. In 913, to patch up relations, Conrad married the sister of a Swabian count.

Conrad's reign was a continuous and generally unsuccessful struggle to uphold the power of the kingship against the growing power of the German dukes. He clashed often with Hungarian riads and the internal rivalries among the dukes. On December 23, 918, Conrad died at his residence at Weilburg Castle and was buried in Fulda Cathedral.

## Family

Conrad married Cunigunda in 913.

* Cunigunda
* Herman
Charles Edward Beach (Vine Hill)

**Charles Edward Beach** (September 2, 1862 - January 12, 1940) was President of Beach and Company, Incorporated, of West Hartford, Connecticut, and chairman of the board of the Whitlock Coil Pipe Company. He was also in charge of the Vine Hill Farm in the Elmwood section of West Hartford.

Beach was born on September 2, 1862 in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Charles Mason Beach and Frances Belknap, the couple that established the Beach homestead in West Hartford in 1859, five years after the town became independent from Hartford. He attended West Middle School, Hartford Public High School, and Massachusetts Agricultural College, from which he graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1882. After returning home from college, he took over the Vine Hill Farm in the Elmwood section of West Hartford from his parents, which he ran until the end of his life. He also served as a town official, in charge of surveying and engineering work. Building on his work for the town, he served several terms as a member of the Board of Selectmen, and was president of the West Hartford War Bureau during World War I.

Running on the Democratic ticket, Beach was elected a member of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1907. He was appointed director of the Whitlock Coil Pipe Company in 1899 and served as vice-president from 1903 to 1910, and president from 1910 to 1925, when he became chairman of the board. In this time, he also became a member of the Farmington Country Club, after which point he retired from public life. After his retirement, he remained in charge of the Vine Hill Farm until his death.

Beach died on January 12, 1940, at the age of 77 at his home on the farm.

## Family

Beach married Catherine Harriet Coffing on October 8, 1895. The ceremony was followed by an elaborate reception at the Coffing residence. The couple took a honeymoon to many places, as far north as Montreal, for two weeks, before settling in West Hartford, Connecticut.

* Charles Frederick Beach - m. Dorothy Caldwell
* Thomas Coffing Beach - m. (1) Ethel Murray (2) Katherine Woods (3) Sylvia Skerrett
Augustine Warner, Jr. (House of Burgesses)

**Augustine Warner, Jr.** (June 3, 1642 - June 19, 1681) was a Virginia politician and landowner. He served in the House of Burgesses from 1666-67, and was its Speaker in two separate sessions in 1676 and 1677, before and after Bacon's Rebellion. He then served on the Governor's Council from about October 1677 until his death. He was the last common ancestor of George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II.

Warner was born on June 3, 1642 as the only son of Augustine Warner and Mary Cant Towneley in Virginia. His father had patented the plantation called Austin's Desire in Gloucestor County, building Warner Hall on the property. The younger Warner went to London in 1658 and attended the Merchant Taylors' School. He returned to Virginia after finishing his education and married. They settled on a farm in Gloucester County, living there until he inherited Warner Hall in 1674. In March 1676, the General Assembly called by Governor Sir William Berkeley in 1661 held its last session. As the Nathaniel Bacon crisis was building, Berkeley dissolved the House of Burgesses and called new elections. It is not known if Warner served in the new House that met in June 1676.

Fighting in Bacon's Rebellion began in late July 1676. Warner remained loyal to Berkeley, joining his forces. Bacon captured Jamestown and burned it on September 19, then crossed the York River and seized Warner Hall. Bacon died in October, but the rebellion continued until early 1677. Warner served on a court-martial headed by Berkeley on January 11, 1677. Berkeley called for new elections, and Warner was elected Speaker of the new House when it convened in February. The Assembly met until early April. In late September - early October 1677, Warner was appointed to the Council. He sued William Byrd I, a sometime ally of Bacon, for the damage the rebels had done to Warner Hall.

Warner died on June 19, 1681, and was buried at Warner Hall.

## Family

Warner married Mildred Reade some time before 1671.

* Elizabeth Warner - m. John Lewis
* Mildred Warner - m. (1) Lawrence Washington (2) George Gale
* Mary Warner - m. John Smith
* Augustine Warner III (1667-c. 1687) - died young.
* George Warner - unmarried.
* Robert Warner - unmarried.
Godfrey M. Day (Connecticut General Life Insurance)

**Godfrey M. Day** (1898 - October 14, 1961) was the vice-president of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company.

Day was born in Hartford, Connecticut as the son of George Herbert Day, Sr. and Katherine Beach. He was a graduate of the Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut, and attended Yale University. He served in World War I in 1917 and became associated with the American Tube and Stamping Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He joined Connecticut General Life Insurance Company in 1923 after his service there. He was associated with the company's claim department and was named assistant manager in 1925, as well as assistant secretary in 1943 and secretary in 1949. In 1954, he was promoted to second vice president, a position he held until the time of his death.

He was also active in West Hartford, Connecticut government as well - he served 10 years on the Town Council, eight of them as president. During his service, he became known as a staunch believer in a non-political council administration. He originated the motion adopted by the Town Council in 1934 to institute a town manager government in West Hartford, Connecticut. He also served on the Street Board of the Community Chest, and was a former president of the Greater Hartford Community Chest, and a member of the Bachelors and the Drama Society.

## Family

Day married Sheila Wilson.

* Richard Putnam Day
Edward Bouverie Huntington

**Edward Bouverie Huntington** (February 5, 1844 - ?) was a farmer in Napa County, California, and a resident of West Hartford, Connecticut.

Huntington was born on February 5, 1844 in West Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of Francis Junius Huntington and Stella Bradley Bull. He grew up in the area and lived abroad in Europe from 1855 to 1860. During the years that he came back, he became a farmer and removed to California in 1879, where he lived at Oakville in Napa County for many years as an Episcopalian.

## Family

Huntington married Eleanora Vonallayne Tallmadge on May 6, 1869.

* Edward Tallmadge Huntington - m. Marie Elizabeth Alstrom
* Helen Russell Huntington - m. John Lafayette McCarty
* Francis William Huntington - m. Bessie Gertrude Woodham
* Alice Esther - m. Walter David Walker
* Stella Huntington - unmarried.
Captain Ebenezer Clark

**Captain Ebenezer Clark** (July 12, 1711 - April 5, 1800) was a soldier in the American Revolution and a Deacon of the Church in Connecticut.

Clark was born on July 12, 1711 in Middletown, Connecticut, as the son of John Clark and Sarah Goodwin. He served for 45 years as the Deacon of the Church in Middletown, Connecticut as well. When the American Revolution broke out, he joined the ranks and served with the Continental Army against the British. After the war, he moved to Washington in Litchfield County, Connecticut, where he remained for the rest of his life.

On April 5, 1800, Clark died at the age of 88.

## Family

Clark married 1st. Abigail Whitmore/Wetmore on 21 Jun 1733.

* Abigail Clark - m. Oliver Parmalee
* Jedidiah Clark - m. Susannah Smith

Clark married 2nd. Ann Warner on 20 Sep 1739.

* Tabitha Clark - m. John Calhoun
* Ebenezer Clark, Jr. - m. Hannah Tenny
* Ann Clark - m. Abner Moseley
* Jerusha Clark - m. Thomas Parker
* Sarah Clark - unmarried.
* Joseph Clark - m. Mabel Bartholomew.
Beverley Warner Weeks

**Beverley Warner Weeks** (April 14, 1862 - ?)

Weeks was born on April 14, 1862 as the son of Alfred Conrad Weeks and Anne Stephens Hunter. He worked as a farmer in Fernandina, Nassau County, Florida, after his marriage in 1889.

* Frances Washington Hunter Weeks - unmarried.
* Nancy Hunter Weeks - unmarried.
* Brooke Hunter Weeks - infant.
Henry Bruce Beach (Hartford businessman)

**Henry Bruce Beach** (November 3, 1817 - June 18, 1907) was a prominent Hartford businessman and the head of the firm of H. B. Beach & Son.

Beach was born on November 3, 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of George Beach, Sr. and Harriet Bradley. He attended school in Hartford and Granby and when he was 16 years old, he went to the sea on a two-years' voyage on a sailing vessel. Upon his return in 1835, he spent two years in a store at Cazenovia, New York. In 1839, he became a bookkeeper for Beach & Company in Hartford, importers of and dealers of dyes and chemicals, owned at the time by his brother, Charles Mason Beach. Three years later, he began his first connection with the iron business, in which he remained until the time of his death, for more than sixty years, starting with his appointment in 1842 as agent for the firm of Hanks & Woodruff. At the head of this firm was his father-in-law, Truman Hanks, whose interest he bought in 1844 when he associated himself with Woodruff in the formation of the Woodruff & Beach Iron Works. In 1871, the firm of H. B. Beach & Son was formed, whose chief business was the manufacture of boilers.

Many years into his business connections, Beach was connected with the volunteer fire department before the organization of Hartford's paid fire departmnet. He was at one time foreman of the Sack and Bucket Company, which was located on Pearl Street. He was also connected with the old Hartford Light Guard in the 1840s and was an officer of the company. Beach was a Mason, having joined St. John's Lodge in his middle years.

Beach was an incredibly active businessman, one who gave close attention to the details of his business, of which he had a thorough understanding. He was a familiar figure on the streets of Hartford. His life was devoted to his business and he neither sought nor accepted public office.

In 1904, he was struck with a three-year-long illness that kept him confined to the home at 21 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford. On June 18, 1907, Beach died at his home at the age of 89.

## Family

Beach married Mary Hanks.

* Henry L. Beach

Beach married for a second time to Frances A. Tomlinson. The couple had no children.

Beach married for a third time to Georgeanna Smith. The couple had no children.
Charles Cheney (Manchester, Connecticut silk manufacturer)

**Charles Cheney** (June 7, 1866 - April 11, 1942) was a silk manufacturer in Manchester, Connecticut, and the president of Cheney Brothers Silk.

Cheney was born on June 7, 1866 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of Frank Woodbridge Cheney and Mary Bushnell. He received his early education there and attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, for his preparatory study before going to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also broadened his education by travel. Soon after, he entered the silk business as an apprentice and steadily rose in position until he became president and finally chairman of the board. He was made chairman in 1923 of a conference under auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers at a time when that association had decided to take a more active part in governmental affairs and give its assistance to the solving of economic problems.

Cheney was interested at one time in promoting a magnetic device for detection of submarines and raised $10,000 to assist its inventor with whom he became acquainted on a trip to the West Coast. He served on various committees and commissions in Manchester and Hartford, in addition to those which were national in scope. He was known throughout the country in industrial circles, having been president of the Silk Association of America for eight years and chairman of the National Industrial Conference Board for three years. He had also been a director of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, National Fire Insurance Company, and the Chemical National Bank of New York, retiring from his business in 1932.

On April 11, 1942, Cheney died at his home in Manchester, Connecticut, after a short illness.

## Family

Cheney married first to Mary Lydia Brainard on June 5, 1894. She died on January 11, 1900.

* Marion Cheney - m. Rodney Gove Dennis
* Ward Cheney - m. Frances Davison

Cheney married second to Mary Bell on December 23, 1902 in San Francisco, California.

* Barbara Cheney - m. Harry Ashton Watkins
* Maribel Cheney - m. John Harvey Humpstone
Benjamin Colton (West Hartford, Connecticut pastor)

**Benjamin Colton** (1690 - February 28, 1759) was the first ordained pastor in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Colton was born in 1690 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, as the son of Ephraim Colton and Esther Marshfield. He graduated from Yale College in 1710 and removed to West Hartford, Connecticut, where he became the first minister of the Fourth Church of the West Division on February 24, 1713. He served the position for 46 years from 1713 to 1759 until his death.

On February 28, 1759, Colton died in West Hartford, Connecticut.

## Family

Colton married first to Ruth Taylor on December 3, 1713 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She died on May 30, 1725.

* Eli Colton
* Ruth Colton
* Theodosia Colton
* Benjamin Colton, Jr.

Colton married second to Elizabeth Pitkin in 1726.

* Lucina Colton
* Elizabeth Colton
* Abijah Colton - m. Mary Gaylor
* Esther Colton
* George Colton
Allyn Goodwin

**Allyn Goodwin**(December 26, 1756 - May 21, 1825) was the great-great-great-grandson of Ozias Goodwin, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Born to William Goodwin, he was a farmer and resided south of his father on the Windsor Road. He married Anna Marsh, the daughter of Moses Marsh and Sarah Merrill of New Hartford, on July 11, 1782. She was born April 12, 1762 and died December 30, 1826. Allyn Goodwin died on May 21, 1825.

### **Children**

* Anna Goodwin - m. John Goodwin
* Horace Goodwin - m. (1) Mary Ramsey (2) Phebe C. Hayman
* Elizabeth Goodwin - m. Horace Steele
* Allyn Goodwin - m. Emily Fenn (Apr. 4, 1798 - Apr. 5, 1878)
* Elizabeth Goodwin (Feb. 16, 1783 - Sept. 15, 1784) - infant.
* Nabby Goodwin (Jun. 2, 1802 - Feb. 5, 1803) - infant.
Charles Frederick Coffing (West Hartford, CT)

**Charles Frederick Coffing** (March 11, 1841 - July 30, 1887) was a prominent farmer in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Coffing was born on March 11, 1841 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts as the son of Charles Fitch Coffing and Catherine Eldridge. He was educated in his hometown until 1864 when he joined the family in West Hartford, Connecticut. During his residence there, he operated the farm, which his father had purchased, and as an agriculturist, he met with excellent success, becoming one of the most prosperous citizens of his community.

On July 30, 1887, Coffing died in West Hartford, Connecticut, and was laid to rest in the cemetery at Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

## Family

Cofffing married Julia Hall Perkins on March 5, 1867.

* Catherine Harriet Coffing - m. Charles Edward Beach
Prealpha1Open

Our game opens on a small, dumpy transport ship as it approaches an older military supply carrier - the sort of ship a wannabe warlord or low budget shipping company might purchase when it's decommissioned from a better-funded fleet, outdated but well-kept. You're getting final orders from a vid screen in the cargo bay as you prepare for EVA. The woman giving your orders has a band of neuro implants ringing her scalp, and faintly visible scaling on her cheeks and neck. With the volume turned up so you can hear her over the noise of your preparations and the somewhat discomfiting rattling of the ship, this is what you hear:

"Remember, folks, your first goal is redirection. Our client would like this ship and its cargo delivered intact if possible. And this is the first field trip for most of you, so don't fuck up. The corps has a lot at stake here, and that means each of you does, too, if you get my meaning. I'm told you should be intercepting the target shortly, so if you have any questions, make them brief."

After any questions the players may ask, they are to jump unassisted from the cargo door of their ship to the hull of the military transport.
Ross 780

http://www.solstation.com/stars/gl876.htm

The Celestar colonies in Ross 780 were the first founded with the express intention of being outside of Earth control, launched by the privately funded conglomerate for which they were named. Starting with a large station and later expanding onto the planets and moons of the system, they have become a thriving economy, second only to the Sol system in volume of trade, and quickly outpacing all other societies in terms of quality of life. a few nearby systems and several outersystem stations now look to Nebula Station, the original settlement and seat of government for the system, for regional governance.

## History

### The Celestar Corporation

Celestar was founded and funded by a group of visionaries, including some of the greatest economic and industrial giants of the time. Taking the profits from their other enterprises and sustaining their efforts through the sale of patents from their labs, Celestar wasted no time hiring a team of all-star scientist, economists, and political experts to build the technological and social infrastructure they would need to create an entirely new civilization. The corporation and its founders were heavily sanctioned and persecuted by the Earth governments, and while none of its founders ever saw firsthand the fruits of their labor, the seat of the corporation eventually moved to the Ross 780 system. Several of the founders were charged and jailed on charges of treason or breach of research laws, some lived in exile offworld, and a few disappeared into hiding. Not all are accounted for.

## Astronomy

### Stations and Structures

#### Nebula Station

Placed in an independent orbit between the second and third planets of the system, Nebula station started as a moderately sized outpost designed for research and development of technologies that the Sol Central government was unwilling to openly pursue. It was here that much of the early progress in human genetic engineering happened, ultimately allowing the long term adaptation of human life to the many worlds that were encountered and created. Though little research is done at the station anymore, it is still a Mecca for scientific progressives and serves as a nexus for collaboration among the research community throughout the colonized galaxy.

Through the centuries since its origin, almost all of the original structure of Nebula station was consumed, destroyed, or cannibalized. The current station is one of the largest ever built, housing over a million permanent residents and with an emergency capacity nearing 3 million. The remaining parts from the original structure are housed in a museum onboard the station.
George Watson Beach (Saybrook manufacturer)

**George Watson Beach** (February 1, 1858 - October 26, 1931) was a manufacturer in Cornfield Point, Saybrook, Connecticut.

Beach was born on February 1, 1858 in Hartford, Connecticut, as the son of Joseph Watson Beach and Josephine Elizabeth Coffing. He was educated at the South School and later at Cheshire Academy and Trinity College, where he graduated in the class of 1880. While at Trinity, he was a member of the old I.K.T. fraternity, now the Sigma Chapter of the Delta Phi fraternity. He was also a member of the Alumnus Association of the college, and a Knights Templar of New York City.

His business career started soon after he left college when he became connected with Beach & Company in Hartford, dealers of chemical dyes, of which his father was a founder. He later went into the woolen business in Beacon Falls, where he was head of the Beacon Falls Woolen Mills for several years. Beach later moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became president of the Scandinavian Belting Company. He remained in Boston for some time and then went to New York, where he was a member of the firm of Beach and Barnard, manufacturing agents. In 1907, Beach built his residence in Saybrook, Connecticut, and retired from active business soon after.

On October 26, 1931, Beach died at the Hartford Hospital at the age of 73.

## Family

Beach married Elizabeth Colt Jarvis on October 3, 1883.

* Hart Jarvis Beach
* John S. J. Beach
* George Beach
Edwin C. Tracy

**Edwin C. Tracy** (1911-?) was born in Elmwood, West Hartford, Connecticut to Reverend Charles K. Tracy. He lived at 28 Newington Road in Elmwood and graduated from Hall High School in West Hartford in June 1929. On November 18, 1937, he was elected President of the Student Council at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.

In early May 1941, he married Dolores V. Kramer, the daughter of Henry Kramer of Rockville Center, Long Island.