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NORWMGAZETTE.
- Truth above all things.’ '

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[Entered in the Post-Oflice as a Newspaper]

A Gobd Man’s House.

. D. L. _Moody and Northfield are
synonymous terms. Loyal to the town
of his birthrthe evangelist has made
the fame of the beautiful New England
village coextensive with his own. The
Northfield schools and the Northdeld
conferences have a world-wide reputa-
tion. Nearly a thousand young people
there receive annually an education fit.
ting them for college and business and
for domestic life, which few of them
could obtain were it not for these schools
During the summer the buildings are
used for religious meetings. This year
a large auditorium has been erected,
and nearly filled at meetings of the Bi-
‘ ble Conference. Mr. Moody well de~

serves the generous support which he
has received. The world is better be-
cause of his life, and friends of educa-
iion and religion alike, unitein the hope
iuat he may long carry on his success-
l~.. i ;work. “>__ ,
Diphtheria Germs in Cheese. ,
Assistant Chemist Beebe, of. the di-
vision of bacteriology of the New York
'. Health department, has made a report
to Sanitary Superintendent Roberts, of
the examination made by him of speci-
mens of cheese seized last week by In-
spector Fuller, and which .the State

Board of Health report-ed contained

germs of diphtheria. Dr. Beebe found

the truq. bacillus of diphtheria in the

cheese. * The cheese was made at _t e

dairy of the Star Creamery at Afton,

New York. .

Fifty-one packages, each weighing
sixty pounds, were shipped to a com-
mission house in New York City.
The entire lot was seized by Inspector
Fullgr. Dr. Roberts, after receiving
the r‘eport of Assistant Chemist Beebe,
ordered all of it to be immediately de-
stroyed, This is the first time that the
germ of a contagious disease has been
found in cheese. Assistant Chemist
Beebe grew cultures from specimens of
the cheese and demonstrated that it
contained the true bacillus of diphthe-
ria. The germs were alive in the cheese.

In the case of the cheese from the
Slar Creamery, the farmer who sup-

' plied the milk to the dairy from which
. the cheese was made had a fatal case of
diphtheria in his family. He milked
the cows during tin: time that the dis-
case was prevalent, and in that way the
germs of the contagion were communi-
cated to the milk, and they lived in the
cheese after it had been manufactured.

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‘ Exports of Gold.

From the way that some writers talk.
about the exportation of gold it might
be supposed that this is something that
, has never happened before. They
seem to forget that in twenty-one out
of the lastjthirty years the exports of
gold from the United States have large.
1y exceeded the imports, the total ex-
cess in that period being $461,622,000.
They also forget that this country is a
very large producer of gold, the pro-
duct of our mines during this period
having aggregated some $1,100,000,000.
Allowing one-third of this to be used in
the arts, and deducting the net exports,
we have still a handsome addition to
our domestic stock. ‘

It is true that the net exports for the
closing months of the last fiscal year
were much in excess of the average.
They amounted during May and June
. to $45,500,000. But then, during May

and J one of 1891 they were $45,900,000,
and this was after the McKinley bill
had been passed and there was no tar-.
ifi‘ agitation on which to lay the blame.

These told figures taken by them- ‘
selves areghotglway plainly significant.
Thus it would puz' 9,2,. mere party or-
gan to explain why'durii‘ig the years
1887 and 1888 the imports of gold ex-
ceeded the exports by $58,000,000, while
in the" years 1889 and 1890 the exports
exceeded the imports by $54,000,000.
These were the first two years of the
Harrison administration, before the
tarifi' had been changed; yet in the next
two years, 1891 and 1892, under the
McKinley act. the exports of gold ex-
ceeded the imports by $63,500,000.
Most of this excess, however, was in.
1891, the balance in 1892 being nearly
even. Then came the scare of 1893,
when the net exports rose to $87,500,000,
dropping in 1894 to $4,500,000, just the
figures of 1890'.

To any one who will take the trouble
to reflect over the conditions existing
at these several periods it will be evi-
dent that no one cause is sufficient to
explain the movements of gold. It will
be also evident that an outward move-
ment from a gold producing country
\ like our‘own is not in itself a cause for
alarm, though it is often a significant
index that ought to be carefully stud-
ied, in connection with a great number
21f other statistics without which the
gold figures alone may be misleading.

One cause, if not the chief cause of

Europe, is a growing apprehension
' abroad, and particularly in Great Brit-

part of leading public men in this

' country to force us from a gold and
upon a silver commercial basis, and
this feeling of fear no doubt greatly

of our American securities to force
their sale upon the market while they,
are sure of realizing gold payments.

 

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. A Historical Address Delivered. by

Rev. C. M. Selleck,.on the 00.-
cvasion of the 244th Anni-
Tversaliy of the Found-

ing of Norwalk; .

Tuesday Evenlng..lun~e 19. 1894-.

God of the Fathers, Glory, Fellow
Citizens and Friends of this Ancient
Plantation—GREETING: There were
three already well established, settle-
ments in Connecticut, Windsor, Weth-
ersfield and Hartford ;, the foundations
of the New Haven colony had recently
been laid; Fairfield had just treated
with the Aborigines, and Stratford and
Stamfbrd were in birth throes, when,
on February 26th, 1640, Regentheson
of Thomas and Jane Ludlow, of Wilts
county, England, penned the firstlines
of N orwalk history by his purchase, on
that date, of the “eastern part” of the
town. which purchase was withintwo
months afterward crowned by that of
Daniel Partrick of, as the instrument
runs, “Meadows and uplands adjoin-
ing, lying on the west side of the Nor-
walk river;” the territory thus acquired
by the two Indian “sales” being the
expansive one butted twelve miles to
the north by the “Mohawk country: ”
bounded east by the Saugatuck and
west by the “Noewanton’? rivers, and
the whole bordered on the south “by
the sea.” .

This instant day is the anniversary
of an after, rather than of the original
“acquirement” transaction. On June
19th. 1650, Ludlow for himself, and
Nathaniel Ely and Richard Olmstead,
of Hartford. as principals and agents,
came to an “agreement.” the former to
sell and the latter to buy the territory
theretofore and thenceforth‘ denomi-
nated N orwalk.

At the start three initiatory topics,..

namely the new. settlement’s situatmn,
its. appellation, and its unusual ‘owner-
ship and occupancy interim, present
themselves for discussion. The even-
ing’s necessarily restricted treatment
of the subject, however, will not permit
of this, but compels us under these
several heads to content ourselves with
the remark first that the major portion
of prehistoric Norwalk'appears to have
been less an Indian residence than a
sort of Indian reserve._.' Only‘a small
percentage of the ”estimated sixteen
thousand Connecticut red children, in
1640, was found in this vicinitv, and the
“mills,” “ovens,” and “hurrying
places” belonging to‘ them' lay mainly
along the grant’s ,‘distant confines.
hence it may reasonably bepresumed
that what in 1894 is, the town’s :i-oentre
was in 1640 more of a hunting andfish-
iug haunt than of a llVing,_;b1d1ng
Indian home. 1 . . .

As pertaining, secondly. to the settle-
ment’s name, it must snfiiceto.allege‘
that the designation. Norwalk, is be:
cause of its antiquity, justice and ,dig—
nity, one, theretentipn of which, is to
be recalled with ' sincere satisfaction.
Beyond, it is believed, successful
gainsay, the appelative is, if not purely
yet principallv, aboriginal, and‘ hence a
respectful and rightful reccgnltion of
the primal lords of the sorl. Monake-
wego has been supplanted by Green-
wich. Rippowam by Stamford, Sangu-
tuck by Westport, Uncowa by Falrfield,
Cupheag by Stratford, Wepawaug by
Milford, Pahquioque by Danbury,
Quinnipiac by N ew-Haven, and Uncas
by Norwich, but Norwalk, to. our
fathers’ good sense-and sense of fairness
be it credited, has, with the exception
of the dropping of a single letter been
allowed to remain uniquely unchanged.
While in relation, thirdly, to the plan-
tation’s peopling pendency we stop not
to-day to argue nor to suggest an argu-
ment why or wherefore. but merely. to
passingly say that as Ludlow was busted
in other directions, and the attention
of immigrants drawn to other districts
the grave Mamackemon, and the lord ly
‘Mahackemo, and the brave Noramake
were, mid our ancient wilderlng forests
and grand pulpit rocks, andsmuous
silvery streams, sagely making the
most of their fortunate ten years’. grace.
Ponus warfare was over, Stlilh it may
be imagined that the‘ idol of his heart,
the bronzed but beaming faced Powa-
hag, princely attired and decorated
With belt of beads and diadem of feath-
ers ever and anon, darted down‘ his
grandsire’s sylvan path from Canaan
hither, standing sponsorjfor his sachem
ancestor at the council camp-fire possi-
bly, but more probably "engaged in

«drawing the arrow to its head in the

eager chase, within the weird and wel-
come wilds of his Norwalk forest broth-
ers‘ Pemenante and Pokesake.

This would be the " prOper_ place
whereat to refer also to the Virginial
conditions that confronted the Norwalk
founders ; to the surveybr’S" toflsome
trampings, and the axemen’s laborious
felling that quickly followed; to the
log framer’s heavy lifting and the drain
builder’s hard digging; to the sound
from mom to night of Ralph '. Keeler’s
saw', and Walter 'Hoyt’s hammer, and
Jonathan Marsh’s mill wheel, and John
Nash’s tannery pounder ;‘ to" the" diffi-
cult task of laying out; across the
swamps, and“ through the" bogs, and
round the Cronin, he cow path to “the
Neck.” and the bridle path to “the
Mill,” and the cart path ;to “the Pas-
turc;" to the trying task of converting
Indian trails into travel ways. and. of
preventing the live stock from stnaying
over unfenced wastes, or mirlng luthe
salt water marshes; to the laborious
work of “burning the woods,” and the
vigorous work of building the bridges,
and the risky work of killing the wolves
and keeping the savages ofi' ; all of

which, and the half has not been, hinted, '

invites and would reward attention, but
reference to all of which as well as to
our French and Indian wars‘ contribu-
tions and to the. foreign _governments’
threatened changes which disturbed,»
the settlers’ tranquility,_ and to olden
customs, politics, society, education
and religion must needs be dispensed
with, that time may be-gained formak-
ing allusion to the fathers, themselves;
destitute of which allusion a founders’
day address would be an inconsistent
and imcomplete performance. ‘
Although the echo of our gratulations
at this commemorative tideimay not
reach the dulled ears of thede‘ad, we do
notwithstanding regardfully salute and
do homage to the memor of our plain,
in numerous instances oubtless, but
because plain by no means potentless
parents. In that little band, reckoned
a hundred strong, that ' forded “ the
Saugatuck, and . providence-piloted,
came first it is thought, upon aclearing
near the present town’s, territorial core,
and then to the coast level where it

 

finally halted, were rise—time pt}:

.of commonplace adventurers that the
old settlement was to' a.noteworthv
extent made up of distinction-charact’
armed men ;' of the serviceable kind of
men. who, more than adequate to any
strait into which their jeopard environ-
ments inevitably threw them, were

masters not alone of emergencies, but.

of eventualities ; of men‘ in the case of
some of whom the quality of mental.
weight was conspicuous and in many of
whom there wasno lack of the moral
weight indispensable to first water
excellence; ofmen to whom the kind-
ling vision of this triumph-epoch in
their successors’ historymay not have
been vouchsafed, but who by their
right and righteous principles underly-
ing indomitable courage and persever-
ance, laid' two hundred and fifty years
ago, the'foundation's of their children’s
weal, and not only invoked but com-
manded it, thereby entitling said child-
ren to the pardonable claim of good
and great birth.

Our Colonial in memoriam, fitly has
for its first subject Thomas Hanford. the
town’s earliest Hanford and earliest
minister, who was of eminent worth as
a scholar. His preceptor had been Dr.
Charles Chauncey; the second president
of Harvard college, who himself had
fitted for Trinity college, Cambridge,
at. the famous London school. next door
to the Parliament House of 1605. Dr.
Chauncey’s pet science was theology
and his promising pupil, the future
pioneer pastor of the prime ancient
society of Norwalk, shared largely his
tutor’s pridelections and like hifn was
of rare theological erudition.

Thomas Fitch was, annals "rated, the
wealthiest and it is equally true that. he
was one of the worthiest and WluCSi) men
in the old settlement. Of the three
original 'Fitch brothers, two, Thomas
and Joseph, chose this town for a resi-
dence. Thomas remained here for
life. and was a life power. Joseph.
made eligible acreage investment but
subsequently sold out his entire Nor-
walk interest and purchased about one-
twentieth of Windsor. James, the
youngest of the trio, decided to make
his home in the eastern part of the
colony, where he married the daughter
of. Oliver Cromwell’s nominee to the
Major Generalship of the English army.
Descent from such solid brethren as
were Thomas, Joseph and James Fitch,
is, in the language of Lord Macauley,
“to be remembered with pride.”

The head of the long line of Norwalk
Marvins, Matthew Marvin, Sr., has dis-
tinct record as “assistant magistrate”
in the colony Himself and Elizabeth,
his wife, established themselves in this
town and here established an influen-
tial lineage. Before coming to Nor-
walk they had married their oldest
daughter to the founder of Norwich,
and their next daughter to William
Goodrich, the father of the Durham,

~Wethersfield and Ridgefield Goodrich

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families. They had been no great time:
in Norwalk before was given their next
daughter of twenty summers, to the
young Thomas Seymour, and three
years afterward their y oungest daughter
but one to John Bouton, in wedlock;
from which last two unions all of the
Norwalk Seymours and a large proper.
tion of the Norwalk Boutons, a double
column of worthies, have sprung.
These sisters had two brothers, Matthew
Marvin, J r., and Samuel. _

' There is documentary evidence that
previous to his arrival in this plaCe,
Nathaniel Richards’ closest intimates
were the most celebrated New England-
ers of the period, and that his pro-Nor-
walk home was upon one of the fairest
sites in the vicinity of Boston. Samuel
Richards sleeps upon the eastern edge
of the oldest “God’s acre” in Norwalk,
and his grave is morning-gilded in that
its occupant gave to science and to
humanity such an emiment great-grand-
son as the late Dr. Samuel St. J ohn, of
New Canaan. ’The Darien and Troy
Richards and Dauchys also are from
this same ancestor. .

Henry Whitney was a live man. As

a capable millwright his adopted Nor-
walk was benefited by his critical judg-
ment, which was at once deferred to,
and Whitney’s mill built at the “Great
Bridge.” He rendered—himself remark-
able by his practical sense, and his
memory has a firm hold upon descend-
ants who are found in every portion of
the land.
. Richard Seymour and Richard Webb,
close neighbors and fellow townsmen,»
and Richard Raymond, a tentative resi-
dent. with Nathaniel Ely, Matthew
Canfield, a Connecticut charterer, John
Platt, John Bouton, Ephraim Lock-
wood, John Belden, Christopher Com-
stock, Ralph Keeler, Thomas Taylor,
George Abbott, J osethetchum, Ed-
ward Church, Edward Nash, Thomas
Betts. Thomas Barnum, John Reed.
Eliakim Warren, Nathaniel Street, and
James Brown, were no cyphers.

That he should almost constantly have
been in public office is testimony in
support of Richard Olmstead’s acknowl-
edged cleverness. Matthias St. John
and John Gregory were, traditionally,
lineage noted; and whatever import-
ance may be attached to the matter,
John Ruscoe, the Huguenot, and
Thomas Benedict, Walter Hoyt, Na-
thaniel Hayes, and Daniel, the parent
of the Norwalk Kellogg’s as well as
Thomas Seymour, were “nominated in
the bond; ” were Lord Charles’ Nor-
walk patentees, and there was, some-
what later, a vital influx by the access.
ion to the new settlement of John
Copp, Samuel Carter, William Jarvis,
Peter White, Hezekiah Jarvis, J ona-
than Camp, Samuel Grumman, Ralph

Isaaos, E benezer Carter, Matthew
Reed, Ebenezer Church, Josiah
Thatcher, John Cannon, Eliakim

Smith, John Eversley, Peter Quintard,
Jacob Jennings, William Cornwell,
James Rogers Moses Byxbee and Rob-
ert Smith.

Coming down from these, other most
familiar names, such as Gould Hoyt,
Peter and Eliphalet Lockwood, 'John,
the father ofJohn, J r., Isaac and Henry
Belden, and Uriah Selleck, arrest at.
tention. . Our limits debar us from the
consideration of such, and we conclude
this paragraph bya few testimony words
relative to some of the fore-mothers of
Norwalk. . -

_ The country was rough, the habita-
tions quaint, the surroundings primi-
tive ; elegant libraries, choice paint-
ings, and curious old coin. collections?
were .rare, nevertheless culture and
colonial social supremacy were not-
entire strangers within our ante-revo~
lutmnary precincts. .

' One of the best names in Massachu.
setts and Connecticut was that of Ban-
nah Newberry. . Well descended, as
one historian adduces, of ample means,
and highly connected, her N orwalk

home was one of refinement and prom.-.

inence. She was the first wife of Rev.

Thomas Hartford, and her mother, one”.

of the renowned women of the land,

chance—who had been titled-born, and
yet it was so far from being). companyfi.

 

‘ was a tenant at Mr. Ha nfbrd’s Norwalk

fireside and there closed her e es in
death long before her learned’irreat-
grandson,,';.President Aaron Burr, as-
sumed' the headship of the college of
New Jersey. and her heroic great
grandson, Roger Newberry, having

stormed Carthage-nu, retired below deck .

and gloriously departed, leavin a
child who bore by marriage, the n§mo
of and became kin to His Excellency,
Hon. Clark Bissell, of later Norwalk.
-Mary, daughter of Richard Miles, of
New Haven, and the widow of New
England s astute mathematician, and
annt of Theophllus Yale, was the second
Wife of Rev. Thomas Hanford, thus
perpetuating the Hanford family im-
portance and becoming the mother of
all of Norwalk Hanford blood to-day.
Mrs. Stephen Buckingham is reported
to have been "the most accomplished
lady that ever came to N ortvalk.” Her
sister was mother-in-law of President
Jonathan Edwards ; her father a fellow

of~Harvard college, and of her granfath-,

er, Rev..Thomas Hooker, of Hartford,
it_has_been said that he “could put a
king into his pocket.” He prompted if
not actually penned, the first Magna
Charta ever submitted to the. votes of a
free people. A Hooker monument has
recently been most appropriately put
in place in our first cemetery. '

Mrs. Ruth Fitch, the grandmother of
Governor Thomas Fitch, was of a
broadly known Colonial family. She
was a sister-in-law of Abraham Pierson
the first rector of Yale cbllege, and an
ancestress of, besides the Norwalk and
Wilton Fitchs, the N orwalk Wood-
wards,‘Coleses, Hills, Benedicts, Das-
kams and Mallorys. After her son, the
father of Governor Fitch, had grown
to young manhood, she was bereaved
or her partner, and married, secondly,
Robert Plumb, the head of the family
..l": the late Hon. Preston B. Plumb, of
Kansas and Washington.

The widow of Richard Seymour, and
mother of the Fairfield and Litchfield
county Seymours, wedded for her
second husband, the Hon. John Steele,
first secretary of the Connecticut gov-
crnment and one of the legislators, ac—
cording to Dr. Allen, who gave the
name ofHartford to that capital city.

Mrs. Christopher Comstock was bare-
ly twenty years of age when she mar-
ried and-came to N orwalk. A sentence
between quotation marks, certifies to
the estimation in which herself and
husband were held.

Mrs. Edward Nash had been the wid-
ow of Thomas Barlow, a kinsman of
J phn Barlow, the great-grandfather of
Hon. Joel Barlow, poet, patriot and
minister plenipotentiary to France. .

Mrs. Ralph Isaacs was the daughter
of Benjamin and Mary Rumse’y, the
latter of whom was a grand-daughter of
Humphrey Hyde, forefather of the
“staunch, sterling and thrifty” Hyde
family of Windsor and Fairlield.

Mrs. Phebe Bouton, wife of Esaias,
was the fifth generation from assistant
governor Stephen Hopkins, of Massa.
chusetts Bay. The record of her
mother’s marriage and the will of her
grandfather, both of which documents
have recently been found, settle a long-
standing Norwalk genealogical claim.
She was the mother of the excellent
Mrs. Phebe Warren, of Troy, whose

pious-~Jmemory children’s children, the'

Warrens, Thompsons, Paines McKeans
Goslets, Trotts, Bories, Ingersolls,
Aldous, and Millers of to-day, revere
and' bless.

Mrs. Gould Hoyt and Mrs. John
Cannonwere from old Fairfield fami-
lies. EMIS."E0yt’3 magnanimity and

,Mrs. Cannon’s notable family connect-

ion are matters of tradition and fact.
Both these fore-mothers have influen:
tial representatives among, in addition
to,-those of their own names, the Sheafs
Scotts and Browns, and the Betts,
Birds, Camps, Cramers, Greens, Og-
dens and Tibbetts of to-day. -

Mrs. Mercy, Widow of Jabez Gregory,
and Mrs. Mary Esther, wife of William
St. John, were connecting. links be-
tween colonial and current times.
Mrs. Gregory was .a grand-daughter of
James, who was a grandson of Mat-
thias, the Norwalk St: John settler,
and her home premises in upper Nor.
walk, as were those of her sister in
lower Norwalk, were” premises of bo-
tanical beauty. She was the grand-
mother of Commodore Francis H.
Gregory, and the ancestress of profess<
ional sons. One of 'her nephews mar-
tied the neice of Bishop Abraham
Jarvis, and a grandneice married Sam-
uel Carter, of Carter street preferment.
Mrs. St. John was a daughter of John
Belden, of repute, anda great grand-
daughter of one surmised to have been
of conspicuous connection. The time
may come when William Haynes’ sus-
pected rank will be discovered. He is
the subject of pedigree research and an
“all revealing”. clue is industriously
sought for. A successdr to his elegant
property, Rev. Justus Mitchell, was
one to whose high reputation our ancient
town has not been indifferent, and the
morthary historic hillside at, as the
fathers so poetically, if not pathetically
expressed it, “the homeward end,”
of Haynes’ Ridge. the original burial
site of this revered progenitor of the
White Plains Mitchells, the Norwalk
Matthews, and the imperial Dr. Chaun-
cey Mitchell Depew, is a memory
shrine. William Haynes’ life tide red-
dens the veins of the Norwalk and New
York Lookwoods, St. Johns, Hoyts,
Treadwe‘lls, Sherrys, Skiddys, Lynes
and Fishers.

Finally, Mrs. Nehemiah Rogers was
a N orwalk born woman of unchallenged
position and prestige, and mother of
an honored posterity, embracing as a
portion of its line the Austins, Duers,
Gracies, Hopkins, Lawrences, am-
berts, VauRenssel'aers and Winthrops
of the present day. One grand-daugh-
ter married, as her second husband,
the father of the late Rev. Dr. Henry
Eglinton Montgomery, of New York;
another married the late Dr. Pyne, of
Washington, and a great-grandson
married a daughter of Bishop Wain-
wright. . Could Elizabeth Fitch have
seen herself as others of a later genera-
tion see her, self-complaisance would
have been excusable. Her funeral
cortege, in years agone, extending in
length from the old Bowling Green
mansion through a goodly portion of
lower Broadway, was only one attesta-
tion to the veneration in which her
memory was held.

These were some of our native’town’s
colonial mothers, amid the society of
whom the poet’s prayer could have had
but poor application :—

“We‘ hope the plant of grace may thrive,
1n forests where civility can’t live.”

In addition to all which'the Norwalk
planters, among whom as we have seen
were ‘substantial,- skillful men, and

'women of desert and destiny, were the
bone and sinew progenitors of not a few
of the noble and-notable of the nation
since their day. We dispute with- no
sister settlement the palm of constitu-
ency merit, and it may, as another

says, be but an ounce of historical
truth; f_or_modesty’s sake we will grant
it ; but it is an ounce nevertheless of
grateful fact that N orwalk has contri-
buted at least its quota to the roster of
the eighteenth and nineteenth centur-
ies men of renown.

J ohn_ Fitch, .the inventor of steam-
boats. is a particular star in the world’s
genius constellation. His grandfather
was but one remove from the N orwalk
Joseph Fitch, of 1652. Peter Parley,
whose sun noAmerican youth will per-
mit to set, descended directly from one
of the best of the town’s early dwellers.
Moses Stuart, the eminent biblical
critic and parent of sacred literature in

7*

‘Stratford, Rumbell and Norwalk Nash
and Barlow registration. ,‘The Seymour

to NorWalk, wasion’e of the earliest to
be touched bythe frost of death. ”The
father, Richard, was removed and left
four lads .and one, older son. The
Widowed mother married again, but
herself and husband Were loyal to the
Seymour offspring. From Thomas. the
eldest, have originated all of the Nor-
walk-Seymour names, while the Sey-
mour daughters have been the mothers
of our Beards, and Mallorys, and Sam-
1sses; and from John, the senior of the
younger quartette, .Which accompanied

have proceede Horatio Se mour
Doctor of Laws, and Judge "Origeri
'Storrs Seymour, of the Superior court,
and Governor Thomas H. Seymour,
head of the Connecticut bar, and Hon.
Horatio Seymour, a candidate in 1869
for ;the presidency of the United
States. _'1'he able Hon. Thomas Fitch,
His Majesty’s Connecticut executive,
and his soldier son, Col Thomas Fitch.
of the» Continental army, were born,
bredand buriedin Norwalk. The world
famed, Chancellor, James Kent, the
Blackstone of America, issued from the
solid Norwalk Lockwood stock, as did
also the finished classical scholar, Rev.
James LockWood, who declined the
pres1dency of Princeton College after
the death of Jonathan Edwards, and
eight years later the call to the same
office from Yale College, after the re-
tirement of President Clapp. Major
General William Tecumseh Sherman,
U. S; A., and Hon. John Sherman, U.
S. Senate, emanated from a Norwalk
planter, who himself emanated from a
graduate of the University of Oxford,
and from a fore-mother to a member of
whose family citizens of Massachusetts
have dedicated a public monument.
Hon. Ralph I. Ingersoll, U. S. Minister
to Russia ; ex‘Governor Collin
Ingersoll ; President Timothy Dwight,
2d. of Yale College ; Nehemiah Rogers,
the founder of the city of St. John, in
the provrnce _of New Brunswrck ; James

rown, barrister of the, hon‘se, Genea-
logical science intimates of the Browns
of Lincolnshire, England, “a house of
no small repute.” Elizur Goodrich, D.
D.; Hon. Chauncey Goodrich, U. S
Senate, .and Lieutenant-Governor of
- Connecticut ; the three Warren broth-
ers. Esalas, Na%an, and Stephen,
founders of Troy; on. Thaddeus Betts,

. S. Senate; James Gore King ; Hon.
Henr§ J.‘ Raymond, founder of the
New ork Times; Hon. William H.
Barnum ; Captain Moses Rogers, com-
mander of the first steamship that
crossed the Atlantic; Hon. Phineas
'I‘. Barnum; Madame Grace Grellet,
Wife of one of Bonaparte’s generals,
Mrs. Colonel Colt, of Hartford; the

Right Reverend Abraham 'Jarvi‘s, second
bishop of the diocese of Connecticut;
Colonel Grand Cannon, of the Union
League; on. Joseph Mabbett War-
ren and Dr. Nathan Bouton Warren,
01 Troy ;the late George Henry Warren
of NewYork; George B. Bouton, M. D.,
Westport ; General Joseph P. Cook,
of the Revolution; Captain Benjamin
Marvm, who was picked out with sixty-
slx comrades from Lafayette’s regi-
ment, to storm the enemy’s works near
Yorktown, Virginia, and wind up the
Revolutionary war ; Profs. Ha wley and
Edward Olmstead; Captain Stephen
Bette, who did his best when Norwalk
was burning, and his cousin, Captain
Hezekiah Betts, whose patriotic soul
bled when Independence Day, in after
time failed to be duly celebrated; the
brave Captain Daniel Ketchum, of the
war of 1812; Captain Raymond
H. J. Perry, U.-S. N., who commanded
under McDonough, but whose growth,
In fast gaining honors was cut short by
death at the early age of 32 ; Gen . Rufus
King, and Brigadier General E. F.
Ballard, of the Civil war, who honors
us With his presence on this occasion ;
Colonel Woolsey R. Hopkins, U. S. A.;
Prof, Samuel M. Hopkins, of Auburn
Seminary; Rear Admiral—we say it
with enthusiasm—Rear Admiral Fran-
018 H. Gregory,‘ United States Navy;
the old United States Commodore—we
say it With increasing enthusiasm—and
every Norwalk Raymond has a share
in .the honor—the old Commodore
Christopher Raymond Perry, of the
United States navy; and Commodore
Oliver.HaZard Perry, of Lake Erie
celebrity; and Commodore Matthew
0. Perry, who opened the empire of
Japan to the commerce of the world ;
and last, the young Lieutenant James
Alexander Perry, U. S. .N., who was
his brother’s aid in the battle of Lake
Erie, and because of his bravery re-
served from Congress a sword, being it
is believed, the youngest recipient of
such a distinction on the face of the
globe, these all were of N orwalk fore-
fatherage; and their names it is safe
to predict Wlll grow in favor as the
centuries sweep on, and heighten and
brighten the renown that shall forever
halo the memory. of this old town’s
primeval sons and daughters.

At this point Mr. Selleck found that
he was trenching upon the time allotted
to the other speakers, and consequently
read hastily and desultorily from his
revolutionary period notes, closingias
follows ': a

Our time is exhausted but our theme
is inexhaustible. The first Olympiad
mortgaged none of its magnificence to
any succeeding era. but as looking
down through New England’s less daz-
zling history, Norwalk’s colonial story,
if not pageant-invested, is enriched
with the quality of sturdy excellence.
We therefore and as, we began : *-

God of our Fathers, Glory: Fellow
citizens _and friends of this ancient
plantation. salutaticn.

 

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The Lewisboro Ladies'. Summer Bazar will
be upon the grounds 01' Mrs. Gould Rockwell.
m Ridgefleld on Saturday next. the 11th inst.
Excursion tickets we .Danbury. an Norwalk

ilroa . Will be issued at Fifty Cents for the
the round trip. thus sfi'ording a

ortunity for an outing to one o .

cw England resorts. The train Will leave
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Enough to read it, for we want your aid

To help dispose of our stock in trade.

You buy the goods and we’ll deliver

Anywhere in town, both sides the river.

We keep all kinds of meat that ever grew,

Both salt and fresh, for roast and stew.

Then do you know (but we don’t wish to
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We have fine table salt, 4 cents a bag.

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Iust come around, drop in and see

What we are doing; all are welcome,
either sex,

At Water street Market, No. 6.

BUY

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and save money, at his market
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Shoulder Steak. 100
Round ' " 12m
Sirloin " 160
Porterhouse 18c '
Rib Roast “ 12Mc
Pot “ 4. 5 and 60

Corned beef very cheap. All goods warranted
the best and sold for cash only.

.5U'Orders by mail receive prompt attention.

E. F. BALDWIN,

No. 8 Henry street, City.

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