Reed-Read Lineage (Capt. John Reed of Norwalk)

Allen Hollister (7), s. of Horace (6) and Julia (Calkins) Reed, b. Sept. 8, 1832, d. May 2, 1900, Mich. ; m. Nov. 28, 1854, Mary Smith, b. July 30, 1834. ISSUE. 2685. Ida E. (8), b. Feb. 26, 1862; m. Allen E. Gibson Oct. 13, 1881. He d. June 2, 1892; no issue; add. St. John, Mich. 1074. GENERATION VII. Descent: John (i), John (2), Daniel (3), Ehakim (4), Ezra (5), Horace (6), Geo. S. (7). Geo. S. (7), s. of Horace (6) and Julia (Calkins) Reed, b. May 4, 1836, Sharon. Conn. ; m. Sept. 19, 1861, Helen F. Huxford. ISSUE. 4-2686. Carrie Louise (8), b. Apr. 20, 1863; m. Robert R. Elliott. 2686a. Glennie Mae (8), b. Aug. 21, 1867; m. Chas. E. Dickinson Sept. 4, 1901.; add. Saint Joseph, Mich.; Geo. S. Reed, d. 1906, Detroit, Mich. 1076. GENERATION VII. Descent: John (i), John (2), Daniel (3), Ehakim (4), Ezra (5), Horace (6), James Calkin (7). James Calkix (7), s. of Horace (6) and JuHa (Calkins) Reed, b. .June 10, 1843, d. Jan. 11. 1893; m. Nov. 7, 1870, Frances E. Crane, b. Feb. 2, 1849, d. Sept. 3, 1899. 174 HISTORY AND GENEALOGY ISSUE. +2687. Marcus Crane (8), b. Feb. 19, 1879; "i- Florence M. Wilson. 1078. BARLOW. Helen Cythera, (add. So. Amenia, N. Y.), dau. of William Alfred and Betsey (Reed) pjenton, b. Dec. 5, 1828; m. June 5, 1856, Henry Barlow, who was b. Feb. 18, 1825, s. of Jesse and Julia (Knickerbocker) Barlow of Amenia, N. Y., d. Dec. 24, 1903. 2688 ISSUE BORN IN AMENIA, N. Y. Ruth, b. May 10, 1858, d. Aug. 29, 1872. 2689. Lucy, b. Aug. 25, 1859, d. Oot. 10, 1871. 2690. Alfred, b. Apr. 17, 1861 ; d. Aug. 25, 1862. -f-2691. William Benton, b. Oct. 25, 1862 ; m. Evangeline Smith. 2692. Elisha, b. Dec. 6, 1864, d. Dec. 6. 1879. +2693. Myron, b. Mar. 11, 1867; m. Emily Z. Storm. 4-2694. Julia, b. Apr. 15, 1869; m. Albert E. Cline. 2695. Jesse, b. Mar. 21, 1871, d. Apr. 6, 1871. 2695a. Prof. John, b. Nov. 28, 1872. 2695b. Jesse, b. Nov. 14, 1874. 1081. BENTON. Myron Beecher^ s. of William Alfred and Betsey (Reed) Benton, b. Aug. 26, 1834, d. Nov. 24, 1902; m. May 25, 1871, Mary Ann Adams; no issue. Myron Beecher Benton, author of the collection of poems arranged and published by his brother, Charles E. Benton, under the name of "Songs of the Webutuck," spent his whole life at the homestead where he was born, and where his father and grandfather had lived before him in the eastern part of the Town of Amenia, N. Y. His appreciation and love of their ancestral home are spoken in the poem "The Soul's Return," which I have permission to copy : There is one spot for which my soul will yearn, May it but come where breeze and sunlight play, And leaves are glad ; from the dark realm return ; A waif — a presence borne on kindly ray: — Even thus, if but beneath the same blue sky. The grazing kine not then will see me cross The pasture slope; the swallows will not shy, Nor brooding thrush ; blithe bees the flowers will toss. Not the faint thistle-down my breath may charm. Ah. me ! But I shall find the dear ways old, RBED-READ LINEAGE 175 If I have leave; that sheltered valley farm; It's climbing woods, its spring, the meadows gold. The creek path, dearest to my boyhood's feet : — Oh. God ! is there another world so sweet ? 1083. BENTOX. M. B. B. Ezra, (add. Wassaic, X. Y.) s. of William Alfred and Betsey (Reed) Benton, b. July 19, 1839; m. Oct. 18, 1865, Rebecca L. Hitchcock, b. Mar. 17, 1841, d. Apr. 5, 1901. ISSUE. 2696. Lillian Maria, b. Sept. 7, 1866; unm. 2697. Homer Hitchcock, b. May 30, 1868, d. July i, 1877. 2698. Betsey Reed, b. June 23, 1879, d. Jan. 30. 1880. -(-2699. William Alfred, b. Dec. 16, 1881 ; m. Delia P. Bassett. CHARLES EDWARD BENTON. The youngest child of William Alfred and Betsey (Reed) Benton, the subject of this sketch, was born September 11, 1841, on the farm to which his grandfather, Caleb Benton, came in 1794 from Guilford, Conn., where the paternal line had remained since the immigrant ancestor, Edward Benton, joined that colony at its settling in 1639. Though born in New York, Mr. Benton is a product of Connecticut ancestory, as all of his American born ancestors were Connecticut people, and the farm on which he was born was part of thait strip known as "The Oblong," which was ceded from Connecticut to New York in 1731. His childhood and youth were passed amidst the fortunate and genial surroundings of farm life, and such education as he had was obtained at the public schools, ait the Anienia (New York) Seminary, and at the Dutchess County Academy in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. When he had nearly reached his majority the country was suddenly convulsed by the Civil war, and, yielding to the impulse of patriotism, he enlisted in 1862 in the 150th New York Voluntary Infantry. Soon after his enlistement a regimental band was formed by detailing men from the ranks for that purpose, and as he was an amature musician Mr. Benton was included in that detail. Thereafter his service with the regiment was in that capacity, with the exception of three months during the sum- of 1864, when he was detailed for service at an army hospital at Kings- ton, Ga. When this hospital was discontinued he returned to his regi- ment, with which he served to the close of the war. His father died in 1865, and upon the settlement of his estate Mr. Benton purchased the home farm. This he afterward sold to his brother Myron, and for a year worked a leased farm. In 1870 he purchased a 1/6 HISTORY AND GENEALOGY dairy farm in Sharon, Conn., and made that his residence until 1891, when he retired from active business and removed to New Bedford, IMass. During his residence in Sharon he served the town in various pubHc offices, and was for many years a member of the town school board. He was a membei of the Sharon Congregational Church. He also be- came interested in the Grange movement, and it was through his efforts that Webutuck Grange, No. 86, of Sharon, Conn., was organized. This was the first grange to be formed in that vicinity, and he served as its jMaster until the year of his removal from the town. He is also an enthusiastic Grand Army man, and was Commander of John M. Gregory Post, No. 59, of Connecticut. In his later home he has served as Commander of R. A. Peirce Post, No. 190, of Massachusetts. Mr. Benton has sometimes found relaxation by turning from the plow to the pen, and has from time to time contrubuted to various peridoicals, and on a rather wide range of subjects. In 1902 G. P. Putnam's Sons, of New York and London, published a book from his pen, entitled, "As Seen From the Ranks : A Boy in The Civil War," which was favorably re- ceived, both in ithis country and in England. This book is in no wise a history, but is a sketch of personal observa- tions and impressions, aiming to give faithful pen pictures df the scenes of the war as those scenes appeared to a youth who was serving in the ranks. A later publication of his is a piece of family history ; — "Caleb Benton and Sarah Bishop : Their Ancestors and Their Descendants ;" — issued from the press of the A. V. Haight Company, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1907 The Officers' Association of his regiment issued the regi- mental history, entitled, "The 'Dutchess County Regiment' in the Civil War," to which he contributed some of the chapters. It is pleasant also to note in the preface to the history of this home regiment the tribute paid to him for his assistance in editing the volume. His daughter, Harriet Jackson Benton, received her early education in New Bedford. Preparing for college at Friends' Academy of that city, she entered Vassar College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., graduating in the class of 1907 with the degree of A. B. 1084. IJENTOX. Charles Edward, (add. New Bedford, Mass., 765 County Street,) s. of William Alfred and Betsey (Reed) Benton, b. Sept. 11, 1841, in Amenia, N. Y. ; m. first, Oct. 6, 1870, Clara Rogers Fositer of South- hampton, N. Y., who was b. July 26, 1849, ^- J"ne 13. 1872, Sharon, Conn.; m. second, June 3, 1875, Harriet Maria Drown of New Bedford, Mass.. b. Mar. 17, 1847. Charles E. Benton. 1084. REED -RE AD LINEAGE 177 ISSUE — BY WIFE CLARA. 2700. Clara Foster, b. June 11, 1872, d. Nov. i, 1872. ISSUE — BY WIEE HARRIET. 2700a. Harriet Jackson, b. Dec. 8, 1885, in Sharon, Conn. 1087. GENERATION VII. Descent: John (ij, John (2), Daniel (3), Eliakim (4), Ezra (5), Newton (6), Henry Van Dyck (7). Henry Van Dyck (7), (add. Amenia Union, N. Y.) s. of Newton (6) and Ann (Van Dyck) Reed, b. Mar. 21, 1841 ; m. Oct. 17, 1866, Helen Bird, dau. of Edwin and Maria (Paine) Bird. Henry V. D. Reed bought the home farm at South Amenia, after the death of his father, Newton Reed. ISSUE BORN IN AMENIA, N. Y. 2701. Anna Maria (8), b. Aug. 5, 1867, d. Oct. 11, 1867. -I-2702. Fanny Thomson (8), b. Oct. 9, 1869 ; m. Frank Rundall. -j-2703. George B'orcst (8), b. May 15, 1872. 2704. Charles Paine (8), b. Aug. 4, 1875, d. Feb. 24, 1894; unm. 1088 Frances Adam Reed (7). Cline Branch. Descent: John (i), John (2), Daniel (3), Eliakim (4), Ezra (5), Newton (6), Frances Adam (7). Frances Adam (7), (add. Ruthford, N. J.,) dau. of Newton (6) and Ann (Van Dyck) Reed, b. Sept. 20, 1842; m. Jan. i, 1862, Edward E. Cline, b. Aug. 8, 1839, ^^- J^"- 21, 1905, Millerton, N. Y. 2705 2706 +2707 +2708 2709 ISSUE. Emily H., b. Mar. 16, 1863; unm. Elizabeth V. D., b. June 7, 1864, d. Aug. 19, 1864. Albert Edward, b. Mar. 7, 1867 ; m. Julia Barlow. Harry R., b. July 21, 1872; m. Frances Scott. Anna Van Allen, b. May 3, 1877. 1090. GENERATION VII. Descent: John (i), John (2), Daniel (3), Eliakim (4), Ezra (5), Newton (6), John Plorace (7). John Horace (7), (add. Amenia, N. D.), s. of Newton (6) and Ann (Van Dyck) Reed. b. Sept. 24, 1846; m. first, Sept. 22, 1870, Florence A. Chaffee, b. Feb. 4, 1849, d. Apr. 9, 18S1 ; m. second, Feb. 18, 1891,* Cor- nelia F. Lawrence, b. Aug. 1855, d. May 12, 1892. ISSUE — BY WIFE FLORENCE A. 4-2710. Walter R. (8), b. July 2, 1871 ; m. Inette Gowland. +2711. Robert B. (8), b. July 23, 1874; m. Edith Varnum. 178 HISTORY AND GENEALOGY