Commemorative Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Connecticut

John [4), eldest son of John (3), was born February 11, 1732, and died July 2, 1802. He married Elizabeth Curtis, and they had the fol- lowing children: John, who never married; COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 307 Birdsey, Salmon, Josiah, Benjamin Curtis, and Betsey or Elizabeth, who are all mentioned in the next paragraph, devoted to the sixth genera- tion; and Phcebe, who married Samuel Wheeler, of Oxford, Conn., and died in 1848. James, sec- ond son of John (3), was born August 3, 1735, and married (first) Eunice Booth, (second) Mabel, widow of Dr. Washlow, and (third) Sarah, widow of Amos Peck. He had no issue by his second marriage, but six children survived him, as follows: Naomi, who married Daniel Beers, son of Daniel and Naomi Booth Beers; Bathia, wife of Abel Skidmore; Anna, wife of Abijah Curtis; James, who died in September, 1832; Ezra and Bennett, who are mentioned in the next paragraph. Of the sons of Henry (2) and his wife, Prudence (Stoddard), the eldest, Henry, was born February 29, 1736, and was married May 24, 1759, to Julia I^assett, who died March 20, 1762. On November 14, 1762, he married (second) Anna Sanford. By the first marriage he had one daughter, Esther, born August 18, 1760, who married Abel Toucey, of Newtown. By his second marriage he had seven children: Sarah; Anna, born October 27, 1765; Rhoda, born February 25, 1769; Simeon, born May 14, 1772; Prudence, born November 3, 1774; Henry, born April 7, 1779, and I^ucy, born July II, 1782. The youngest son of Henry (2) and Prudence (Stoddard), I^ev. Solomon Glover, was born December i, 1750, and died July 26, 1842, at the advanced age of ninety-two years. He was married February 2, 1773, to Mary Northrop, by whom he had the following chil- dren: Joanna, born October 28, 1774, was married March 18, 1794, to Henry Botsford, and died December 26, 1832; Mary Ann, born November 19, 1776, wasmarried August 3, 1794, to James Glover; Annadine, born April 8, 1779, married Josiah Beardsley, ofWatertown, Conn.; Huldah, born July 24, 1781, married Russell Canfield; Silas Norman, born September 30, 1783, married Nancy Morris (aunt of Luzon Morris, governor of Connecticut) ;Volusia, born July 9, 1785, died February 19, 1788; Isaac, born 1787, died in infancy; Isaac (2), born December 10, i788;Ziba, born June 17, 1791, married Mar- inda Griswold; Maria, born May 2, 1794, mar- ried Ambrose Beach, of Monroe, this county; and Heman, born June 26, 1796, died in 1816. VI. Of the children of John (4), Birdsey, Sal- mon, Josiah, Benjamin Curtis and Betsey or Eliza- beth left descendants who are here mentioned. Birdsey, who was born in 1757 and died Sep- tember 8, 1825, married (first) Anna Baldwin, who died August 26, 1811, and (second) Esther Gregory; he had two children, both by his first wife, their names being Andrew B. and Polly, of whom the latter, born in 1786, married Stephen Merwin, and died September 23, 1824. Salmon, son of John (4), was born May 3, 1760, and died October 21, 1827; his wife, Phcebe (Beach), a granddaughter of Rev. John Beach, was born in 1760, and died in 1835. They had the follow- ing children; Lucy Ann, born June 22, 1783; John, born November 1, 1787, married Esther Beers, and died May 10, 1828; Sarah (i), born April 15, 1790, died April 25, 1790; Villeroy, born June 17, 1794, married Susan Hard, and died October 2, 1841; Sarah (2), born May i, 1799, died June 3, 1823. Josiah, son of John (4), was born November 27, 1762, and died No- vember I, 1S40; he was married September 4, 1792, to Rebecca, daughter of Abel Booth, and the following children were born to their union: Betsey, born October 22, 1794, married Henry Beers on January 2, 18 17, and died November 4, 1835; Abiel Booth, born January 16, 1797, is mentioned in the next paragraph, his descend- ants being traced through the seventh and eighth generations; Wheeler, born April 6, 1799, died September 2, 1821. Benjamin Curtis Glover, son of John (4), died June 27, 1841, aged seventy years, and his wife, Clara Peck, died October 2, 1832, aged sixty years. They had five children, viz.: Samuel, born in 1796, died December 7, 1824; Marcia, who married Hezekiah Curtis, is mentioned in the next paragraph; John Birdsey, born September 11, 1803, is deceased; Walter and Benjamin N. are mentioned in the following paragraph. Betsey or Elizabeth Glover, daugh- ter of John (4), was born February 28, 1767, and died January 27, 1825; she was married, July II, 1790, to Sylvanus Noble, who was born July II, 1756, and died March 26, 1837; they had three children, viz.: Birdsey G., born April 26, I 79 1, was married January 17, 1813, to Char- lotte Sanford; John G., born January 14, 1793, was married, February 4, 182 i, to Abigail S. Mygatt,and died November 16, 1848; Phebe Marietta, born November i, 1795, was married December 24, 1820, to D. A. p-oster. Of the sons of James (4), the second son of John (3), Ezra was born October 18, 1772, and died September 4, 1826. He was married September 28, 1794, to Anna Bennett, who died February 3, 18 12, and on De- cember I, 1814, Ezra married (second) Charlotte Beers, the widow of Thomas Beers. He had three children, all by the first union: Ira, born October 4, 1796, died in 181 i; 13ennett, born December 20, 1798; and James Edson, born October 4, 1801, who married Minerva Prindle, and died in December, 1850, leaving one daugh- ter, Susan, who died about December, 1854. Rev. 308 COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. Bennett Glover, son of James (4), became a min- ister in the Episcopal Church. His death (Oc- curred at Erie, Penn., March 25, 1828. He had two sons, who died in childhood, and two dauf<h- ters, one of whom married a Mr. Call, of Chicaj^o, Illinois. VH. Of the descendants of John (4) in this generation we will mention, first, James Glover, who was born November IQ, 1776, and died September 19, 1836. He was married August 5, 1794, to Anna Glover, by whom he had the fol- lowing children: Flora, born October 18, 1795, was married March 31, 18 13, to Alonzo Beers; Granville Stoddard, born April 17, 1797, was jnarried January 16, 1821, to Mary Hawley; Charlotte, born February 6, 1799, was married May 17, 1817, to S(iuire Van Smith; Sophia, born November 16, 1800, was married December I, 1820, to Botsford Terrill; Koswell, born De- cember 28, 1802, married (first) Polly Ann Fer- ris, and (second), on March 18, 1836, Esther Bradley; Julia, born October 16, 1804, was married September 24, 1832, to Botsford Terrill; Norman Booth, born January 22, 1807, was married March 20, 1833, to Esther Hawley, and on May 10, 1843, to Amelia Gilbert; Volusia, born January 26, 1809, was married Feb- ruary 28. 1827, to Austin N. Botsford, and died in December, 1893; Mary Ann, born October 20, 18 10, died May 18, 1833; Em- ma, born February i, 18 13, was married June 28, 1836, to George Foote, of Hobart, N. Y.; James Nelson, born August 15, 1817, was married December 24, 1840, to Sally D. Wet- more; and George Heman, born July 4, 1820, was married December 30, 1841, to Elmira Page. Of the children of Josiah, son of John (4), Abiel Booth Glover was born January i6, 1797, and died October 13, 1825; he was married May 2, 1822, to Maria Nichols, daughter of David Nichols, and had two children: Mary Eliza, born May 5, 1823, died September 5, 1825; and Henry Beers, who is mentioned more fully in the next paragraph. Of the children of Benjamin Curtis Glover, son of John (4), Marcia, who married Hezekiah Curtis, had three children: Betsey, who married (first) Daniel Hin- man and (second) Samuel Curtis; Benjamin, who married Laura Lewis, atid Mary, who married (first) a Mr. Wheeler and (second) Samuel Curtis. Walter, son of Benjamin Curtis Glover, was born in 1800, and died September 3, 1847; he was married January 13, 1829, to Marcia Botsford, by whom he had five children: Samuel Curtis, born December 29, 1831; John Birdsey, born September 18, 1833, is unmarried, and resides in Dubuque, Iowa; Henry Botsford, born July 24, 1835, niarried Sarah E. Curtis; Sophia, born July 29, 1837, married Jason Haynes, and died in early womanhood; and Betsey, born July 2, 1839, married Ezra Meeker. Benjamin N. Glover, son of Benjamin Curtis Glover, was born in 1812, and died June 2, i860. He was mar- ried on February 12, 1845, to Harriet A. Lake, daughter of Ziba Lake, of Brookfield, and they had three children, viz.: Birdsey, born April 30, 1846; Walter Henry, born October 16, 1848; and Lemuel, born December 3, 1852. VIII. Henry Beers Glover, son of Abiel Booth Glover, and great-grandson of John (4), was born December 8, 1824, and was married July 30, 1848, to Eliza Maria Blakeslee, daughter of William Blakeslee. She died in May, 1S75. They had four children, viz. : William Booth, born September 15, 1850, died September 9, 1851; Florence Stanley, born July 28, 1854, married Abel Clark, and died April 3, 1891; Mary Blakes- lee, born October 31, 1856, married William Beecher; and Maria Nichols, born May 7, 1859, died May 15, 1859. P)HILO NICHOLS is a successful business man of Newtown, and as the only lumber dealer of his locality has enjoyed for many years a large and profitable trade. While he has never sought prominence in any way, his excellent qualities have secured for him the esteem and confidence of his fellow citizens, and his influ- ence, though quietly exerted, is recognized as a force in various lines of local progress.