The Romance of Norwalk

Clubs, Norwalk Country, 267; various, 420 to 423; recreational, 431; others, 470 Cluett, Peabody & Co., 428 Coaches, see Stage Coach Coburn, J. Milton, 389 Coburn, Ralph, 366 Cockefer, John, 294 Cockefer, William, 297 Cockefur, Caroline Birch, 176 Cockenoe-de-Long-Island, 32, 33, 66 Cockenoe Island, 25, 95, 266, 479 Coffin,, Floyd, 397 Coffin, Hurlbutt & Co., 279, 283 “Cold Stomack,” 91 “Cold Summer,” 206 Cole, George, 402 Cole, James, 439, 440; and Thomas, 440 Coleman, James, 402 Collins, J. W., 356 Collins, Mary, 403 Colonial wedding, 130, 131, 132, 133 Colored Churches, 233, 234 Community halls, 432 Commuter, expelled, 322; number here, 425 Companies, oyster, Norwalk, 366 to 368 Compo ; compow, 65 ; compoe, 72 ; British land, 141; 144, 145; oyster set, 364 Comstock Brothers, 429 Comstock, Christopher, 38, 40, 48 ; David, 138, 168, 205; G. S., 408; John, 195 ; Moses, 135 ; Phoebe, 98; Samuel, 150 Comstock, Is., see Keyser Concord Coaches, 214 Concord School, 251, 253 Concuskenow, 32, 33 Congregational Churches, 98 ; So. Norwalk, 231 ; Norwalk, 232. Connecticut, Indian tribes here, 4; “Discovered,” 7 ; boundary dispute with New York, 71 and 74-78, 81 ; in French and Indian War, 111; gives bonus for salt, 138; wars on profiteers, 139; helps Norwalk, 172, 173, 174; slaves in, 189; and school societies, 247; in hatting association, 284; oyster laws, 348, • 349 INDEX 49 1 Connecticut, oyster planting, 349; problems in oysters, 353, 354 ; negligent in oyster indus., 360 ; sanitary rules for oyster indus., 362; sewage pollution, 362, 363, 364; shares bridge expense, 394 Connecticut Co., 313, 394, 427 Connecticut House, see Hotels Conn. Light and Power Co., 377, 379 Conn. Shellfish Comm., 350, 354, 355, 360 Conoughey, N. J., 427 Conservative, 126; Norwalk is, 128, 129, 134 Consol. R. R. Co., 379 Consolidation, 387 to 389 Constable, 57, 58; Norwalk has three, 282 Contentment Island, 331, 479 Cook, Cornelius, 190' Cook, Oliver, 375 Coolidge, Clarence, 381 Coolidge, Louise, 47 Cooney, Michael, 230 Cooperative Hat Co., 282 Copp, John, 408, 415 Copper, hurts oysters, 360 Copps Island, 414, 415 Corby, Robert, 417 Corn Mill, see Mills Cornish, Mr.,. 84 Coulter, Ernest, 402 County Almshouse, 197-198 County Courtshouse, see Courthouse County home, see Children’s County Club, Norwalk, 267 Court Cecile, 422 Court Laurel, 401, 422 Courthouse, squabble, 268, 269; Bridgeport wins, 269 Courting in Norwalk, 55, 110 Cove, Wilson Point, 27, 148, 150, 347 “Covered Wagons,” 213 Cow Pasture Point, 124 Cowing, Walter, 405 Cowley, Alanson, 205 Cram, George, 403 Crampton, John, 38, 40, 82 Crampton, Joseph, 100 Cranbury, cars, 313; school, 251, 258 Crauford, Robert, 307 Craw, John, 299 Craw, W‘. J., Mrs., 331, 332 Crawford, W. D., 264 Creagh, Alice, 404 Crockett, Marion, 403 Crockett, William, 218, 389 Crofut and Knapp Co., 28, 270, 274, 275; capacity, 276; making hats, 276 to 278 ; strike of 1884, 279-283 ; factory blown up, 280; end of strike, 283; strike of 1909, 284 to 289; 428, 444 Crofut, Andrew, 275 Croal, William, 400 Croix de Guerre, 403, 404 Crosby, Justus, 294 Crotty, William, 402 Crow Is., 414, 478 Crowe, Edmund, 373, 386 Crowe, James, 391 Crowley, James, 170 Crown Quality Co., 444 Crume, Camilla, 441 Cuba, Nor walkers there, 382 “Cultch,” oysters, 342 Cultivation oysters, 344 Cunningham, P. L., 294 Cunningham, Peter, 378 Curtis, Fanniebelle, 403 Curtis, George, 385 Curtis, Seymour, 403 Curtis, Stiles, 244 Cushing, Edward, 438 Czabo, Nicholas, 240 D. S. C., 403, 404 Daggys, 439 Dan, Audubon, 340 Danbury, 69, 92, 99, 141, 142; burned, 144; 190, 210, 214, 215; trains, 218, 219, 220, 221, 232; courthouse squabble, 268 ; hatting, 272, 289 ; in Civil War, 298; in blizzard, 369 Danbury-Norwalk R. R., 218 to 221, 314 Danenberg, Leigh, 322 Dann, Horace, 335 Dann, Wallace, 382, 389, 391, 393 Darien, 76, 92, 99, 100; Tories in, 146, 148, 149; struggles to be town, 195, 196 ; 247, 254 ; school, 260; in Civil War, 294, 297, 298; telephones, 337 Darrow, John, Mrs., 163, 252 Daskam, Is., 414, 478 Daskam, Samuel, 194 INDEX 492 Daughters American Revolution, 36, 130, 143, 169, 170, 178, 271 Davenport, Charles, 402 Davenport, Richard, 14 Davis, D. L., 289; Edward, Mrs., 334; Joseph, 329, 430; Leo, Mrs., 421, 435; Madison, 303 David, Marvin, 169 Dawson, Aaron, 382 Day, Absalam, 190, 264, 265, 418 Day Farm,, 321 Day, Israel, 430 Day, John, 156 Day Nursery, 435 Dean, Charles, 378 Decker, David, 351, 367 Decker, Peter, 351, 352, 353, 367 Decker, Sylvester, 367 Deforest, Samuel, 150 Degnan, Joseph, 240 De Klyn, Benjamin, 309 DeLapp, Ambrose, 232 Deming, Joseph, 419 Democratic Women, 421 Dennis, Dexter, 289 Dentists, 466 Depletion, oyster beds, 358, 359, 360, 362 to 364 Deputy Governors, 21, 62 Derby hats, 275 De Waters, Beatrice, 332 Dibble Block, 390 Dickerman, Nelson, 326 Dickinson, Rev. Moses, 98, 99, 129 Diesel engines, 377 Dimond, Charles, 428 Dinkowitz, Samuel, 427 Disbrow, Justis, 297 Dispensary, Norwalk, 434 Districts, School, 245, 247, 248, 250 Dobbs and Co., 444 Doctors, see physicians Dog Hammock, 414, 478 Dokus, Gabriel, 239 Dokus,, Stephen, 398 Doman, Joseph, 400 “Domestic,” 216 Donahoe, William, 230 Donnelly, James, 322; bldg., 325 Donovan, Jeremiah, 389, 407, 432 Dorlon,, Philetus, 267 Dorlon’s Point, 265, 266, 267, 335, 336, 385 Dorn, Leo, 437 Dorney, Jeremiah, 391 Dorney, Thomas, 391 Doty, C., 282, 299, 326, 373 Doty, L., 297, 379 Dougherty, Father, 240 Douglas, Harold, Mrs., 332, 333 Douglass Fowler Post, see G. A. R. Doulens, Charles, 176, 295, 296 Doulens, Edward, 295 Doulens, Humphrey, 176 Dowd, Thomas, 295 Down Town School, 245, 247 Downes, Edith, 403 Downs, Leroy D., 400 Drawbridge, catastrophe, 222 ; new, 391 Dredging, oysters, 344, 352 Dress, early, 54; in 1750, 105; in 1769, 130,' 131, 132; in 1819, 209 “Drolls,” 186 Drowning, near to, 295 Duck Is., 479 Duck Pond, 50 Dugan’s Pottery, 13 Duke of York, 75, 76 Dunbar Field, 426 Dunbar, Jesse, 397 Duncan, Walter, 191 Dunning, Joseph, 372 Durney, H. N., 321 Dutch Settle in Conn, 7 ; in Fair- field, 59; boundary dispute, 75 Dwight, Timothy, 124 Dynamite in C and K, 280 Earle Hill, 48, 252 “Early Bird,” Norwalk oyster steamboat, 351, 352 Early Settlers, see Settlers East Avenue, 48, 49, 155 East Norwalk, 36, 37, 63, 90, 92, 115, 146,, 153; M. E. Church, 192, 224; Christ church, 238, 241 ; school, 251, 258; hat company, 289; fire Co., 309; cars, 313; water, 317, 319; post office, 371 ; electric light, 379; bridge, 391, East Norwalk Elec. Light plant, 379 East Norwalk Library, 333; invalid petitions, 333 ; librarians, 334 East Norwalk Methodist Church, 192 East Norwalk Post Office, 371 East Nor. Yacht Club, 431 East Rocks, 165 INDEX 493 Education, see Schools ; education costs, 245, 250 Edwards, Otto, 241 Eells, Captain, >2, 161 Electricity, in cars, 313; electric light, 376 to 380 “Elegant Eighties,” 439 Ellenwood, James Lee, 422 Elliot, John, 66 Ells, George and Joseph, 324 Ellwood, Milton, 429 Ely, Dudley, 321, 378 Ely, or Eli Nathaniel, 30, 32, 37, 40, 47, 57 Emerson-Elwood Co., 429 Emerson, Mark, 429 Eminent Men, 407, 444 Endicott, Gov., 20 English, settle in Conn., 8 ; trouble with Indians, 8; Pequot war 9 “Ensign Andrews,” 176 Ent. Century Underwear, 427 “Enterprise,” 353 Ells, popular in homes, 178 Elwood, George, 206 Elwood, Shu Bael, 206 Episcopal Academy, 259 Episcopal Churches, 98 Equal Franchise Society, Conn., 412 Equalization, Oyster Inves. Comm., 357, 358 “Equivalent Tract,” see Oblong. Erskine, John, 438, 442, 443 Espenscheid Hat Co., 289 Europe, oysters sent to, 355, 356 Evans, Greek* 441, 442 Evening Schools, 251 Evening Sentinel, see Sentinel Eversley, Daniel, 168 Eversley, John, 168, 197 Everyman’s Bible Class, 422 Explosion in C and K., 280 to 282 ; “Adelphi,” 334 Factories, here in 1819, 209 ; in Hartford, 210; in Norwalk in 1850, 263; hat factories, early, 271, 272, 282 ; later, 289 ; present hat factories, 290; in 1901, 386; in 1929, 426 to 428 and 473 “Fairfield,” 217 Fairfield, 4, 12;- purchase, 21; in trouble, 58, 59 ; boundary dispute with Norwalk, 71-72, 100, 124; nullifiers, 135, 142; burned, 151, 173, 174; new road to, 187, 190, 196, 198; trains, 219; courthouse squabble, 268, 269 Fairfield County Bank, 226, 227, 228 Fairfield County National Bank, 227, 228 Fairfield County Savings Bank, 227 Fairfield Ins. Co., 324, 325 Fairfield to Stamford Path, 49 Fairweather, Thomas, 136 Farrell, James A., 432, 433, 445 Farren, Abigail, 328 Farrington, W. M., 303 Fashion Dolls, 106 Fashions, see dress Fast Day, 106, 109 Fawcett, George, 385 Fearhake, John, 438 Feeney, Bernard, 381 Feet attract Shot, 302 Fenn, Joseph, 38, 40 Ferris, Frank, 229, 377, 402 Ferris, J. H., 377, 432 Ferris, Stephen, 231, 294 Ferry, Orris S., 268, 292, 293, 405, 406, 407 Fickett, Samuel, 218 Field, Frank, 373 Field, H. C., 428 Fielding, Philip, 400 “Fighting Seventeenth,” 297-301 ; Route, 299 ; commended, 300 ; mus¬ tered out, 301 Fillio, James, 136 Filtering Water, 318 Finch, Bud, 205 Finn, Thomas, 231 Finn, Vincent, 231 Finnegan, E. J., 382 Finney, George, 256 Fire, at Country Club, 267 ; early fire fighting, 306, 307 ; alarm sys¬ tem, 308; in Rowayton, 309; in South Norwalk, 324 Fire Companies, 306; early fire fight¬ ing, 306, 307 ; names, 306 to 311 “Fire Lands,” 174 First Baptist Church Divine Heal¬ ing, 232 First National Bank of South Nor¬ walk, 227 First Settlers, see Settlers Fish Island, 350, 479 “Fish Tail” Lights, 378 Fishers’ Island, 77 494 INDEX Fitch, Cyrus, 205; Daniel, 113; D. H., 393 ; Ebenezer, 123'; Edward, 297; Elbirt, 163; Elizabeth, 116, 124; Esther, 124; Giles, 124; Han¬ nah, 123; Hezekiah, 124; James, 122, 168; John, 122, 216; Jonathan, 123, 163; Joseph, 32, 38, 122; Lydia, 123; Mary, 124; Nathan, 136; Phoebe, 123; Rachael, 123; Roscoe, 119; Ruth, 122; Samuel, 122, 130, 163; Sarah, 122, 123, 124, 162; Stephen, 205; Thomas, Cap¬ tain or Mr., 122, 123; Thomas, Colonel, 114 to 119, 120, 134, 444; Thomas, 32, 37, 40, 47, 57, 64, 72, 73, 85, 135, 444; also see Thomas, Gov.; Thomas, Jr., 38, 84, 85, 123; Thomas, Mrs., 271 ; Thomas, Sr., 122, 123; Timothy, 124, 135