HISTORY & BIOGRAPHIES

Source:  
History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642 - 1880
with Biographies and Genealogies
by Samuel Orcutt & Ambrose Beardsley, M. D. -
Publ. Press of Springfield Printing Company, Springfield, Mass. 
1880

Source:   History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642 - 1880 with Biographies and Genealogies by Samuel Orcutt & Ambrose Beardsley, M. D. - Publ. Press of Springfield Printing Company, Springfield, Mass.  1880. CONTENTS: Chapter VIII - The Town of Oxford   ...........................................  228 Chapter IX - Commercial Enterprises  .......................................  245 Chapter X - The First Church of Derby and the war of 1812 .......... 282 Chapter XI - Roads, Bridges and Floods ..................................... 304 Chapter XII - Birmingham .......................................................... 343 Chapter XIII - The Dam and Shelton ..........................................  391 Chapter XIV - Ansonia ............................................................   413 Chapter XV - The Town of Seymour .........................................   442 Chapter XVI - The War of the Rebellion .....................................  486 Biographies ................................................................... 523 Genealogies -                                                                            693 Appendix -                                                                                785   BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX: NOTE:  If you want a biography transcribed, please contact me ~ ~ Sharon Wick ~ ~ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ARNOLD, Joseph ATWATER, Henry BACON, William T. - 676 BAKER, Scott R. BALDWIN, LEONIDAS BRADLEY - 676\ BARNES, Lewis - 525 BARTHOLOMEW, J. H. - 525 BASSETT, Amos, Rev. - 676 BASSETT, Archibald - 527 BASSETT, Benjamin - 677 BASSETT, Ebenezer D. - 677 BASSETT, Martin Bull, Doct. - 678 BASSETT, William Elliott, Rev. - 678 BASSETT, Royal M - 528 BEARDSLEY, Ambrose - 528 BEARDSLEY, George Lucius - 531 BEACH, Benjamin - 532 BEACH, Sharon Yale - 533 BIRDSEYE, Thaddeus G. - 678 BLACKMAN, Alfred - 534 BLODGETT, Frederick P. - 538 BOWERS, John - 539 BRAINARD, John - 540 BURLOCK, Thomas - 540 CANFIELD, Abiel - 541 CASTON, Adam - 541 CHEESEMAN, George W. - 541 COE, John - 542 COE, Trueman - 542 COLBURN, Brothers - 543 COLBURN, Josiah M. - 543 DeFOREST, John W. - 544 DOWNS, Sidney A. - 545 DOWNES, William E. - 545 DURAND, Charles - 546 DUTTON, Hosea - 546 FARRELL, Almon - 547 FARRELL, Franklin - 547 FREEMAN, Roswell - 548 FRENCH, David, Esq. - 551 GARDNER, Samuel M. - 551 GILBERT, Isaac J. - 552 GILBERT, Truman - 553 GUION, Thomas - 553 HALLOCK, Zephaniah - 554 HALL, FREDERICK - 555 HAWKINS, ABRAM - 555 HAWKINS, WILLIAM - 556 HODGE, BENJAMIN - 556 HOLBROOK, Josiah - 557 HOLBROOK, Alfred - 560 HOLBROOK, Dwight - 562 HOLBROOK, Zephania Swift - 563 HOTCHKISS, Lewis - 564 HOTCHKISS, Willis - 564 HOTCHKISS, Willis - 564 HOWE, John I. - 566 HULL, Isaac, Commodore - 568 HULL, Joseph, Lt. - 573 HULL, William, Gen. - 577 HUMPHRIES,  Daniel, Rev. - 590 HUMPHREYS, Lady - 592 HUMPHREYS, David, Gen. 592 HUMPHREYS, Elijah, Maj. - 599 HUMPHREYS, Elijah, Jun. - 599 JAMES, John, Rev. - 601 JENNINGS, Isaac - 601 JENNINGS, Isaac, Rev. - 604 JEWETT, Stephen, Rev. - 605 JEWETT, Pliny Adams, M. D. - 607 JEWETT, Thomas B., M. D. - 608 JEWETT, Ebenezer, Col. - 608 JOHNSON, Harvey - 611 JOHNSON, Sheldon C., M. D. - 611 JOHNSON, William, M. D. - 612 JUDSON, Donald - 612 KEENEY, Ithiel - 612 KELLOGG, Elisha Strong, Col. - 613 KENDALL, Joshua, M. D. - 614 LEAVENWORTH, Edmund - 614 LEWIS, John - 616 LINDLEY, John - 616 LOMER, Lyman L. - 618 MANSFIELD, Richard, Rev. - 618 MILLS, Sarah, Mrs. - 625 MOSS, Joseph, Rev. - 625 MUNSON, H. B. - 627 NEWSON, Thomas M., Maj. - 627 NICHOLS, Charles, Rev. - 628 ORCUTT, Samuel - 678 O'SULLIVAN, Thomas J. - 629 PARSONS, Catharine (Parsons), Mrs. - 604 PECK, Eleazer - 629 PECK, George Hobart - 629 PECK, Robert - 630 PERRY, Joseph, Doct. - 630 PHELPS, Anson Green - 631 PHILLIPS, Albert W., M. D. - 632 PINNEY, Charles Hitchcock - 633 PLUMB, David W. - 636 PORTER, Amasa, Rev. - 637 PRITCHARD, Jabez, Lt. - 638 REMER, Lewis, Capt. - 639 REMER, Simon - 639 RUSSELL, Charles L., Col. - 640 SANFORD, Henry S., Hon. - 643 SCOTT, Joseph, Rev. - 643 SHARP, Lugrand - 644 SHEFFREY, Charles W. - 645 SHELTON, Edward N. - 645 SHELTON, G. A., M. D. - 646 SMITH, John D., Rev. - 646 SHEPARD, Horace M. - 647 SMITH, Sheldon - 647 STEELE, Bradford - 647 STEPHENS, Ann S., Mrs. - 648 STODDARD, Abiram, M. D. - 651 STODDARD, Thomas, M. D. - 654 STONE, Leman - 654 STONE, Noah, Doct. - 655 STORRS, John W. - 655 SUMMERS, Stephen N. - 656 SWIFT, Zephaniah, Rev. - 657 TERRY, William, M. D. - 661 THATCHER, George, Rev. D. D. - 661 TOMLINSON, John L. - 662 TORRANCE, David, Hon. - 662 UFFORD, Ira L. - 663 VORSE, J. Howe, Rev. - 663 WALLACE, Thomas - 663 WEBB, Joseph, Rev. - 665 WHITCOMB, Cyrus Baxter, Rev. - 665 WILCOXSON, N. J. - 666 WIRE, Samuel - 666 WOOSTER, David, Gen. - 667 WOOSTER, William B., Col. - 674