Norwalk

Benjamin Scribner1", the head of the Norwalk Scribner family, came from Huntington, Long Island, to Norwalk. He here married, March 5, 1679-80, Hannah, daughter of John and Hannah (Andrews) Crampton, and his children, as birth-tabulated on page 106, were Thomas1*', Benjamin2"', John1*', Hannah, Ruth, Joseph1"', Lydia, Elizabeth and Abigail. Ben- jamin Scribner1" died while away from home in Danbury, October 15, 1704. The settlement of his estate was not made until some years later. Thomas1", his oldest son, had by his wife Sarah five sons, viz: Benjamin, Jr., Thomas2"'1, Philip, Zacheus and Uriah. Zacheus removed to Ballston, N. Y., and had son Daniel. The daughters of Thomas Scribner1" were Sarah (Mrs. Gershom Bradley), Ruth (Mrs. Phineas Hanford), Wait (Mrs. Nathaniel Disbrow), and Hannah. Benjamin Scribner2"" had sons Stephen, Matthew, Abraham, and daughters Hannah (Mrs. Gray), Rachel (Mrs. Fairchild), Lydia, Elizabeth, Isabel, Ruth and Abigail. John Scribner1-' married. March 9, 1709-10, Deborah, daughter of Lieutenant William and Mehitable (Rusco) Lee, and had Mary, born March, 1711, and Rebecca, born October 12, 1712. Joseph Scribner1*' married, Mary, daughter of John1" and Ruth (Rusco) Abbott. Matthew1", son of Benjamin Scribner2"'1, married Martha Smith, born 1720, and had: Nathaniel, born December 23, 1743, removed to Dutchess County, N. Y.; Matthew2"3 (Rev.), born February 7, 1746; Martha, born February 20, 1748, Mrs. Cable; Enoch, born August 29, 1750, died September 21, 1816; Elijah, born June 25, 1753 ; Jeremiah, born December 15, 1755; 'Eugene Leslie Boyer, born February 8, 1843, son of David H. and Esther (Scofield) Boyer, married Harriet Francis Quintard and had : Frederick Quintard, born April 14, 1888 ; Ruth Lounsbury. born November 13, 1890; Eugene Francis, born March 12, 1894. 42b NOR W ALK. Keziah, born January 20, 175S, Mrs. Thomas Hawley ;' Abigail, born November 9. 1 7<>> >. Mrs. Edmonds: Elizabeth, born December 10, 1763, Mrs. Dr. Spatilding. Nathaniel, son of Matthew'*1 and Martha (Smith) Scribner, had a daughter Martha, married Uriah Rogers, son of Rev. Matthew and Abigail (Rogers) Scribner. These had a daughter Matilda, who married, April, 1859. George \V. Schuyler of Ithaca, N. Y. Rev. Matthew, son of Matthew" and Martha (Smith) Scribner, married Abigail, daughter of Dr. Uriah and Hannah (Lockwood) Rogers of Norwalk (page 179) and had one son, Uriah Rogers. Uriah Rogers Scribner married twice. His first wile was the mother of Mrs. George \V Schuyler, before referred to, and his second wife gave birth to the founder (Charles Scribner) of the widely known Scribner publishing house of New York. Enoch, son of Matthew1" and Martha (Smith) Scribner, married, March 22, 1781, Betty Benedict of Norwalk. and had Jeremiah, born February iS, 1782, died by accident, William, born June 14. 17K3, died of fever, Mary, born September 15, 1785 (Mrs. Lewis Benedict), George, born March 14. 1786, Sally, born September 14, 1790 (Mrs. Czar Jones), Charles born March J4. 1793. died young, Joseph, born October 30, 1796. THE ENOCH SCRIBNER LINE. Gen. I, Benjamin and Hannah (Crampton) Scribner. Gen. II. Benjamin and Abigail Scribner. Gen. III. Matthew and Martha (Smith) Scribner. Gen. IV Enoch and Betty (Benedict) Scribner. The good name of Enoch Scribner of Saugatuck still lives, and the Scribner home is a grateful memory. Jeremiah and William died, one from injury and the other of yellow fever. Mary went with her Benedict husband to New York state, her children being Lewis, Eliza beth, Isaac, George. Sarah and Abby Jane. George, son of Enoch and Betty Scribner, married Deborah Benedict and occupied the old Westport homestead, where he died. His children were Mary Frances, Charles, James W'illiston, Sarah (Mrs. Rev. Isaac Cundall) and Louisa. 1 Keziah Scrilmcr, Imm 17.1k, was a daughter of and these were the parents of Hawlev Olnislead. farmer Matthew and Martha (Smith) Scribner, and LL. D., of Wilful. Mrs. Aaron Olmstead was a a sister of Rev. Matthew Scribner. She married, ' great granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Hawlev of March 10.177',), Thomas, born February 2S, 17,V), I Ridgefield. Mrs. Ezekiel Hawlev first, and second, s..a .if Captain Thomas and Elizabeth (Gold) Haw- I Mrs. Reuben Betts, was Elinor Olmstead. She was ley, and her husband was cousin of Ezekiel Hawley | married to Mr. Hawley January 4-, 177."i, and her of N01 walk, whose widow, Ellen or Elinor, married, 1 only Hawley child (Mrs Aaron Olmstead) was a very ml, March 2o, 177S, Reuben, son of Daniel Hulls, the oldest daughter of which Reuben Betts, Eunice, who was two mouths old to a day when Nor- walk was burned, married James White, son of Dan- iel*-' and Sarah (Pickett) Church. Mrs. Reuben Hells was mother of Sarah Esther, only daughter of Ezekiel and Ellen Hawley. Sarah Esther Hawlev married Aaron, son of James Olmstead (page 10o), young bride. Elinor Olmsted, daughter of Samuel and granddaughter ol'Nathan1" ancl Sarah (Keeler) Olm- sted (pages s.'l and M4) , was a niece of Mrs. Matthew Fitch, whose granddaughter Mercy married Adam Swan (page 2151) . Elinor Olmstead's father (Samuel) made his will March 10, 1761, wherein is intimated that some of the children were at that date under 427 Joseph, the youngest son of Enoch and Betty Scribner, married (see page 375) Sarah, born July 19, 1796, daughter of Jarvis and Mercie I Selleck) Kellogg of Norwalk. These excellent parents resided at the old Saugatuck home until 1851, when everything was sold out and parents and children left their native hills and removed to Rosendale, Wisconsin. Thcv carried their sterling New England character to their new home, where the father soon be- came an important factor church, college and citizenwise. The training on week-day at the upland Saugatuck shrine of integrity, and on Sunday in the old church on Norwalk Green, had done its happy work, and the family of Joseph, son of Enoch Scribner. was a valuable contribution to western society. The children were William1", Martha Elizabeth, Enoch. Joseph, James Kellogg, Lucia and Harriet. William1", son of Joseph Scribner, married Mary Eleanor Hill of Westport. He was a Rosendale farmer and held office in that town. His children were Mary Elizabeth1 (Mis Thomas C. Hill), Joseph Lewis, died young, Julia (Mrs. Joseph Maber),2 William Henry.8 John W., Ellen Maria, Charles H.,4 and Eliza Ruth. William Scribner1" married, second, Maria Elizabeth Vandenburgh, and had no issue. Martha Elizabeth, oldest daughter of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, married Storrs Hall, M. D.,5 of the state of New York. Dr. Hall graduated at Middlebury College, Vermont, and afterwards engaged in academic work m Connecticut. He was the brother of the learned Edwin Hall, I). 1)., the pastor for twenty-three years of the First Cone, relational Church in Xor- walk, in which town Dr. Storrs Hall established a private of school of high grade, and remained tor a number of years its able and successful head. He subsequently studied medicine at Yale Cniversity, New Haven, and leaving the east established himself as a physician in Rosendale, Wis. In 1S60 he was elected a Trustee of Ripou College, Wisconsin, and four years later chosen Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the same institution. His life has been spent along scholastic lines, and he is now , at the age of four and eighty, industriously engaged in professional work. His children arc Sidney Storrs, William Scribner, Charles Edwin, and Ira. Enoch, the next child of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, was an artisan, and afterward an VMary Elizabeth Scribner married Thomas Ct top- er Hill and had Edith Cooper (unmarried) and Clar- ence. Clarence married Carrie Mendlik and had Clarence Donald. -The children of Joseph Maber were Joseph, Charles, Herbert and Winifred. 3Willinin Henry Scribner married Macule Seeiy and had Lewis. Mary, Iva (Mrs. Arthur Brentner), and Alice. William H. Scribner married, second, Esther Anderson and had William and Lewis-11'1. ♦Charles H. Scribner, M.I)., of 1'aterson, N. J., (1899) married Annie Dorenius and had Elenor and Dorothy. 5The children of Stores and Martha Elizabeth (Scribner) Hall were Sidney Sturrs, a graduate of Harvard University and a physician of Ripon, Wis.; William Seriliner of Denver, Co!.; Charles Edwin (if Russell, Kits., and Ira. Dr. Sidney Storrs Hall married Frances W. Pow- ell and had John Storrs, Edwin Charles, Jennie, Mary I'owcll and Robert Sidney. William Scribner Hall married Mary D. Wheeler and had Carlos, Hiram Storrs, Kittie and Ira. Charles Edwin Hall married Emma Ackerman and had Henry Storrs and Whirred R. Ira Hall marrie d Emma Anderson and had Ber- tincAndcrson, William Seriliner and Susan Elizabeth. John Storrs Hall, M.D., married Ruth Kohl, ■and has no children. Edwin Charles Hall is a civil engineer, his sister Jennie is an instructress in Applcton, Wis., and his sister Mary P., and brother Robert S., are now in Ripon College, Wis. 428 NORWALK. agriculturist. He finally engaged in mercantile life in Eldorado, Wis., in which place he died. He married, first, Catherine Taylor of the old Westport family of that name and had, Fran- cis, Howard, George, Harriet, Carrie, Belle and Arthur.1 Enoch Scribner married, second, Anna Wilson of Norwalk. No issue. Joseph, son of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, married Olive White of Eldorado, Wis. lie was a farmer and had, Frederick H.y Adelbert Eugene, Sarah Josephine, and Angretta. James Kellogg, son of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, is a flour manufacturer in Eldora do, Wis., He married Laura M. Wheeler, and had Winthrop,3 Walter K., Elizabeth M., 4 Abbie L., Joseph, Kittie May, Harry C. Mabel W.,G James Clinton and Enoch Richard. Lucia, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, is pleasingly recalled in Norwalk to- day. She was a young lady when the family elected to go to Wisconsin. She married Henry M. Hill of Springvale. Wis., and had two children, Kate" and Minnie, who were many years ago bereaved of their mother. Mr. Henry M. Hill died and Mrs. Hill married, second, Wil- liam Crichton of Minneapolis. No issue.