Supplement to Norwalk, Conn., Volume One: Genealogy

Williamlst, 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 (Mrs. Thomas C. Hill), Joseph Lewis, died young, Julia (Mrs. Joseph Maber),2 William Henry," John W., Ellen Maria, Charles H.,1 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, D. D., the pastor for twenty-three years of the First Congregational Church in Nor- walk, in which town Dr. Storrs Hall established a private of school of high grade, and remained for a number of years its able and successful head. He subsequentiy studied medicine at Yale University, New Haven, and leaving the east established himself as a physician in Rosendale, Wis. In i860 he was elected a Trustee of Ripon 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 are Sidney Storrs, William Scribner, Charles Edwin, and Ira. Enoch, the next child of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, was an artisan, and afterward an xMary Elizabeth Scribner married Thomas Coop- er Hill and had Edith Cooper (unmarried) and Clar- ence. Clarence married Carrie Mendlik and had Clarence Donald. 2The children of Joseph Maber were Joseph, Charles, Herbert and Winifred. 3William Henry Scribner married Maggie Seery and had Lewis, Mary, Iva (Mrs. Arthur Brentner), and Alice. William H. Scribner married, second, Esther Anderson and had William and Lewis2nd. ^Charles H. Scribner, M.D., of Paterson, N. J., (1899) married Annie Doremus and had Elenor and Dorothy. sThe children of Storrs and Martha Elizabeth (Scribner) Hall were Sidney Storrs, a graduate of Harvard University and a physician of Ripon, Wis.; William Scribner of Denver, Col.; Charles Edwin of Russell, Kas., and Ira. Dr. Sidney Storrs Hall married Frances W. Pow- ell and had John Storr*?, Edwin Charles, Jennie, Mary Powell 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 Winfred R. Ira Hall married Emma Anderson and had Ber- tine Anderson, William Scribner and Susan Elizabeth. John Storrs Hall, M.D., married Ruth Nohl, and has no children. Edwin Charles Hall is a civil engineer, his sister Jennie is an instructress in Appleton, Wis., and his sister Mary P., and brother Roberts., are now in Ripon College, Wis. 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. He was a farmer and had, Frederick H.,2 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.,4Abbie L., Joseph, Kittie May, Harry C, Mabel W.,5 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. Harriet, youngest child of Joseph and Sarah Scribner, married John C. Cooley, a western railroad contractor. The home of the two was in Rosendale, Wis., where they had Sarah,7 Martha Elizabeth and John Scribner.8. When Norwalk parted with its Enoch Scribner blood and sent it to the west the town thence diffused an excellent emigration element. Years have flown and others till the Scrib- ner fields and fill the Saugatuck Scribner places. Their mother town proudly notes the fact that its children of this family occupied with honor to themselves, and with the approbation of their fellows, positions of trust in town, county, state and the church in the land of their adoption. 1 Arthur, son of Enoch and Catharine Scribner, married Kate Hall of Green Bay, Wis., and has a son and daughter. He is connected with the Union Paci- fic Railroad at Omaha, Neb. His brother Howard died young and his brother George is unmarried. His sister Harriet married Warren K. Anderson and had William, Kate and Howard, and his sister Carrie Bell married Samuel Lamont and has no children. 2Frederick H. Scribner married Vina Linsley of Lamartine, Wis., and had Roy Herbert and Erna. His brother Adelbert Eugene married Alice Johnson and had no children. His sister Sarah Josephine mar- ried William Stuart and had Nellie and Jennie. His youngest sister Angretta married her cousin John W., son of William Scribner, and had John Edwin, Bessie, Jessie and Edith Maria. sWinthrop Scribner married Nellie Potter and had Percy, Nellie, Louisa, and Harry Potter. Walter K., brother of Winthrop Scribner, married Gertrude Stuart and had Laura, Jennie, Abbie, Frederick and Wtilter. Jennie is the only child who is married. Her father, Walter K. Scribner, married; second, Emaline Boss, and has no children. ^Elizabeth M. Scribner married H. E. Blackburn of Minneapolis and had Winthrop and John. Her sister Abbie L. married C. R. Blackburn of Minneapolis and had Lester, Nina and Earl. Her brother Joseph mar- ried Carrie Steele and has no children, and her sister Kittie May married Bert Brown and had one child, Robert. 3Mabel W. Scribner married F. A. Jackson of Ash- kosk and had no issue. Her brother Harry married Maud Monroe and had Howard. Her brother James C. is unmarried and her brother Enoch Richard is still a school boy. 6Kate Hill married Charles Rice and had Flora. Her sister Minnie married, first, Edwin Barbour, and had Lulu, Lullah and Alyma. Mrs. Barbour married, second, a Mr. Butler, and has no issue. 7Sarah Cooley married George A. Stuart and had Edna, Robert and Norma. Mary Elizabeth, sister of Mrs. George A. Stew- art, married Marshall Chase and had Harry, Hattie, Louisa, Carlton and Donald. 8John Scribner Cooley married Katheryn Reeves and had Doris. NORWALK. 429 SCRIBNER NOTES. The Andrews family from which Mrs. Benjamin Scribnerlst sprang was the old Hart- ford and Fairfield Francis and Anna (Smith) Andrews household. In his will, executed June 6, 1662, of which instrument he appointed Dr. Thomas Pell "overseer," Mr. Andrews men- tions his daughter Hannah (Mrs. John Crampton), and remembers his "granddaughter Hannah Crampton" (Mrs. Benjamin Scribner1*'). Five of the Norwalk Scribners, viz: Hezekiah, born 1759, Elias, Thaddeus, John, Thomas born 1760, settled in 1783 in New Brunswick. The mother of Rev. Matthew Scribner (Mrs. Matthew Scribnerlst), lived to a good age, and died March 11, 1813. Her son Enoch overlived her between three and four years and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Enoch Scribner (Betty Benedict), lived until April 19, 1835. Benjamin15' and Hannah Scribner cradled their children on the exact spot where now stands the old Joseph Scribner Saugatuck home, a little to the eastward of "Boston Bridge" and "Indian Brook," and not remote from "Indian Field." The elevation is gentle and its southeast slope towards the present Saugatuck is beautiful. On September 21, 1741, Benja- min Scribner, the ancestor, deeded the hearthstone to his son Matthew Scribner1"'. The children of Mary (Mrs. Lewis Benedict), daughter of Enoch and Betty Scribner, were William, Lewis, Elizabeth, Isaac, George, Sarah and Abby Jane. Charles, son of George and Deborah Scribner, married Mary Ann Jesup and removed to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Their children were Erna (Mrs. Dr. James Barnet), Charles, Jesup who married Mary Avery. James Williston, son of George and Deborah Scribner, married Gertrude Van Hoosen and had Charles Henry (unmarried), Edward (married Ada Hammond, no children), Nellie (unmarried). James W. Scribner married, second, Rhoda White, and had Sarah (Mrs. Sey- mour Hammond), and Vernon (unmarried). Seymour and Sarah Hammond have Bulah, Hattie, and a young son. Sarah, daughter of George and Deborah Scribner, married Rev. Isaac Cundall, pastor of the First Congregational Church of Rosendale, Wis., and had several children who died in infancy. Their son Walter was a soldier in the Spanish-Cuban war. Mrs. Sarah Cundall deceased and her husband married, second, her sister Louisa. The children by the second marriage are William and Jessie. William married Mary Lewis, and his sister Jessie is unmarried. SCRIBNER PUBLIC MARRIAGE REGISTRATION. NORWALK. Benjamin Scribner and Hannah Crampton. married March 5, 1679 John . t Deborah Lee 9, 1709 Abraham " ti Sarah " October abt. J744 Matthew Martha Smith '■ November 19, 1742 Mary a Micajah Nash '• October 9, !744 43Q NORWALK. Hannah Scribner and Thomas Hyatt married April 3, 1748 X-j 11U Oil tt tt .oeiiy DciicuiLL t i 1\/T o ivi arcn T T I /O I Benjamin i t a Phebe Fillow a November 28, 1797 WESTPORT. Stephen Scribner and Deborah Allen married March 22, 1768 John " Lydia Lyon September 6, I770 Thomas tt Elizabeth Webb May 3- I780 WILTON. Abigail Scribner and John St. John married August 24» 1749 Widow Sarah " John St. John November 1 h !749 Mindwell Ebenezer Hickox April _ r 2D, 1 751 Samuel i t tt Mary Boulton (or Bouton) " 26, 1755 Ruth a Daniel Whitlock tt May 19, 1772 Keziah t t a Thomas Hawley tt M arch 10, 1779 Levi a i . Ruth Bunts March 3°, 1779 Molly i ( tt Lewis Hurlbutt December T4> 1796 Martha it Stephen Olmsted, November