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Mrs. William Huntington Russell Album Many Famous People

Belonged to Mrs. William Huntington Russell, wife of Major General William Huntington Russell then it was passed to Sarah Jane Arms daughter of Rev. H.P. Arms.

1. Christ Church – Middletown CT

Christ Church, the Episcopal church on the corner of Broad and Court Streets.

When the Episcopalians built Church of the Holy Trinity on Main Street in the 1870’s, they sold this church building to Frances Russell who converted it into a library in memory of her husband Samuel Russell, a China trader and the founder of Russell Manufacturing.  The building’s facade was altered and the steeple taken off.  It is still the Russell Library, the public library of Middletown.  You can see a picture on the library’s website.

2.Unidentified Child – Middletown CT

3. Henry Champion Demming

Henry Champion Deming (May 23, 1815 – October 8, 1872) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Born in Colchester, Connecticut, the son of Gen. David and Abigail (Champion) Deming. Deming pursued classical studies. He graduated from Yale College in 1836 where he was an 1836 initiate into the Skull and Bones Society,[1]:112 and from the Harvard Law School in 1839.

He was admitted to the bar in 1839 and began practice in New York City but devoted his time chiefly to literary work. At this time he was engaged with Park Benjamin, Sr. in editing The New World, a literary weekly, and at this time also he published a translation of Eugène Sue’s The Wandering Jew.

He moved to Hartford, Connecticut in 1847, and opened a law office. In 1849, 1850, 1859 and 1860, he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. In 1854 he was elected Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut and served until 1858, and again from 1860 to 1862.

At the close of the year 1861, he was appointed Colonel of the 12th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, and accompanied Gen. Butler’s expedition to New Orleans. After the capture of that city he was detailed Mayor of New Orleans, and served with tact and ability until January 1863, when he resigned both military and civil position, on account of his own health and the health of his wife.

Deming was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1867). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress.

In 1868 he wrote a life of Ulysses S. Grant, The Life of Ulysses S. Grant, which had an extensive sale. In the following year he was appointed by the President, Collector of Internal Revenue, and this office he held until his death, which occurred at his residence in Hartford on October 9, 1872. He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery.

Besides his Congressional speeches, Col. Deming published a Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln, delivered before the General Assembly of Connecticut, in 1865; an Oration delivered at the completion of the Monument to Gen. Wooster, at Danbury, Connecticut in 1854, and many other public addresses. These with his unpublished writings abundantly attest his great fertility of intellect; his personal power as an orator was equally remarkable. He received an LL.D. from Trinity College in 1861.

4. Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney September 1, 1791 – June 10, 1865), née Lydia Howard Huntley, was an American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford”. Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney.

Mrs. Sigourney was born in Norwich, Connecticut to Ezekiel Huntley and Zerviah Wentworth. Their only child, she was named after her father’s first wife, Lydia Howard, who had died soon after marrying Ezekiel.

In her autobiography Letters of Life Sigourney describes her relation to her parents, her decision to care for them, and her intent to avoid marriage because it would interfere with this relationship.

She was educated in Norwich and Hartford. With her friend Nancy Maria Hyde, Sigourney opened a school for young ladies in Norwich in 1811. The school was forced to close when Hyde became ill and was no longer able to teach. After the close of the Norwich school, she conducted a similar school in Hartford in the home of Daniel Wadsworth from 1814 until 1819. Frances Manwaring Caulkins entered the Norwich school in September 1811, and remained a very warm friend and frequent correspondent with Sigourney thereafter.

When she was quite young, one of her neighbors, the Widow Lathrop, was friendly with her and encouraged her to develop. After her friend Madam Lathrop died, Lydia was sent to visit Mrs. Jeremiah Wadsworth, an acquaintance of the Widow Lathrop in [Hartford, Connecticut]. This visit put her in contact with Daniel Wadsworth. Daniel helped her set up a school for girls, arranging for daughters of his friends to attend. In 1815, he also helped her publish her first work, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, arranging the publishing and performing the initial editing himself. Sigourney described Wadsworth as her “kind patron” and says that he “took upon himself the whole responsibility of contracting publishers, gathering subscriptions, and even correcting the proof sheets”. She goes on to say that “He delighted in drawing a solitary mind from obscurity into a freer atmosphere and brighter sunbeam”.

On June 16, 1819, she married Charles Sigourney, and after her marriage chose to write anonymously in “leisure” time. It was not until her parents were in dire need and her husband had lost some of his former affluence that she began to write as an occupation. When she was referred to as the probable author of the anonymous Letters to Young Ladies, By a Lady she admitted authorship and began to write openly as Mrs. Sigourney.

The main themes of Sigourney’s writing include death, responsibility, religion — a strong belief in God and the Christian faith — and work. She often wrote elegies or poems for recently deceased neighbors, friends, and acquaintances. Her work is one example of Victorian-era death literature which views death as an escape to a better place, especially for children. A contemporary critic called her work, infused with morals, “more like the dew than the lightning”. She enjoyed substantial popularity in her lifetime and earned several nicknames, including “the American Hemans”, the “Sweet Singer of Hartford”, and the “female Milton”. Her influences included the work of Hannah More, William Wordsworth, and William Cowper.

Conduct literature

An advocate of gendered spheres of society, Sigourney followed the example of Hannah More in creating a gendered rhetorical theory. Sigourney wrote two conduct books. Her first, Letters to Young Ladies, was published in 1833 and was printed more than twenty-five times. This book argued that women should practice reading aloud, and also offered advice in letter writing and memorization. Sigourney promotes the importance of being agreeable throughout the book, and suggests ways to take notes, along with advice on how to paraphrase what one has read. Sigourney recommends that girls should form reading societies, and says that women should use their virtue to promote its appearance in others.

In 1835, Lydia Sigourney published Zinzendorff, and Other Poems which featured a notable poem entitled Garafilia Mohalbi. American painter and miniaturist Ann Hall also featured the same subject in a miniature portrait which later became a popular engraving by E. Gallaudet an engraver from Boston. A mazurka was written by Carl Gartner entitled Garafilia and a ship also bore the same name. Garafilia Mohalbi had been captured at the age of seven by the Turks during the Greek War of Independence. She was kidnapped and sold as a slave to an American Merchant Joseph Langdon. He freed her and adopted her as his daughter. Garafilia was sent to go live with his family in Boston. Three years later Mohalbi died in 1830 at the age of 13 and became the subject of an artistic movement.

Sigourney’s second conduct book, Letters to My Pupils, was published in 1837. In this book, Sigourney focuses on pronunciation and conversation, and claims that women should train in enunciation even if they are not going to be speaking publicly. According to Sigourney, women’s conversation should adhere to three rules: It should give pleasure; it should be instructive and it should be comforting. Sigourney also made a case for the value of silence at times, and argued that part of a woman’s role is to be a good listener.

In both of these books, Sigourney advocates traditional 19th century gendered spheres of society, but she also suggests that women can influence society through their teaching, conversation, and letter writing. Like Madeleine de Scudéry, Sigourney stresses the importance of being agreeable in conversation.

Since her death, her writings largely have been forgotten. When remembered, she has been criticized for being shallow or for catering to the society in which she lived where women were expected to avoid public lives. For example, much of her writing is referred to as “hack work” by Haight, her only biographer. Others have attributed her influence to her relationships with wealthy, powerful people of her day or to good business sense. Kolker points out that much of the criticism has come from modern ideas of finding a personal voice through poetry while Sigourney’s avowed intent was to benefit others . This purpose would mean that she had no need to find a personal voice.

However, according to Nineteenth Century Criticism, “recently… there has been a renewed interest in Sigourney, particularly among feminist literary scholars. Critics such as Annie Finch, Nina Baym, and Dorothy Z. Baker have studied Sigourney’s successful attempt to establish herself as a distinctly American and distinctly female poet.” Nina Baym writes about Sigourney’s construction of her own identity that through canny participation, it continued throughout her lifetime.

She was one of the most popular writers of her day, both in the United States and in England, and was called ‘the American Hemans.’ Her writings were characterized by fluency, grace and quiet reflection on nature, domestic and religious life, and philanthropic questions; but they were also often sentimental, didactic and commonplace. Some of her blank verse and pictures of nature suggest Bryant. Among her most successful poems are ‘Niagara’ and ‘Indian Names.’ The latter was set to music by Natalie Merchant for the 2010 album, Leave Your Sleep. Throughout her life, she took an active interest in philanthropic and educational work (1911 Encyclopædia Britannica). Some of her most popular work deals with Native American issues and injustices. An early advocate for social reform in slavery and emigration, as well, Sigourney felt obligated to use her position to help oppressed members of society. In her posthumously published autobiography, “Letters of Life”, Sigourney stated that she wrote with the hope of ‘being an instrument of good’.

Her influence was tremendous. She inspired many young women to attempt to become poets. According to Teed:

As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring women writers around the country an example of the possibilities of achieving both fame and economic reward .

Rev. E. B. Huntington wrote a small consideration of Mrs. Sigourney’s life shortly after her death. He thought that her success came “because with [her] gifts and [her] success, she had with singular kindliness of heart made her very life-work itself a constant source of blessing and joy to others. Her very goodness had made her great. Her genial goodwill had given her power. Her loving friendliness had made herself and her name everywhere a charm”. She wrote to inspire others, and Huntingdon felt that she had been successful.

She contributed more than two thousand articles to many (nearly 300) periodicals (1911 Encyclopædia Britannica) and some 67 books.

In 1844, Sigourney, Iowa, the county seat of Keokuk County, Iowa, was named in her honor. A large oil-paint portrait of Lydia still graces the foyer of the county courthouse.

Her poem “Sailor’s Hymn At Parting,” from her book Poems for the Sea (1850) is repeatedly quoted in the 2019 film The Lighthouse.

5. Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney – See Above

 6. Charles Sigourney  (July 21, 1778 – December 30, 1854) was an American businessman, banker, philanthropist, and founding trustee of Washington (later Trinity) College in Hartford, Connecticut. In addition to his myriad activities on behalf of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, Sigourney is notable for his marriage to American poet Lydia Huntley Sigourney. Charles Sigourney was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1778 to Charles Sigourney, a Boston merchant with “distinguished early-American forbears” of French Huguenot stock. Little is known about his mother, but the Sigourney entry in the 1790 Census indicated that four women lived in the household. After an elite education, including a short stint at an art school in Hamstead, England, Sigourney became apprentice to his father at the age of thirteen and was sent to Hartford in 1799 to make a career in the hardware business.

 7. Martha Washington

 8. Miss Lizzie Ford

9. Belle White – Hartford CT

10. Gertrude – Norwalk CT 1867

11. Phebe Hubbard – Rome NY

Phebe Hubbard Wife of Thomas Hill Hubbard  and sister Ruth Hubbard

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Hubbard pursued a classical education, graduating from Yale College in 1799. In New York he studied law under John Woodworth, was admitted to the bar in 1804, and commenced practice in Hamilton, New York. Hubbard was Surrogate of Madison County, New York from 1806 to 1816. In 1812, he was a presidential elector voting for the DeWitt Clinton ticket. Hubbard was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 15th United States Congress, serving from 1817 to 1819. He was Chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department. During his congressional term, he held concurrently the post of District Attorney of the Sixth District (1816–18) and of Madison County (1818–21). Hubbard was again elected to the 17th United States Congress, serving from 1821 to 1823. Afterward he removed to Utica, the seat of Oneida County, New York. He formed a partnership with Greene C. Bronson and was later appointed Clerk of the New York Supreme Court, a position he held from 1825 to 1835. He was one of the founders of Hamilton College and Hamilton Academy in Clinton, New York, was a trustee of Utica Free Academy and was the first President of the Board of Directors of the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, which opened in 1843. In 1844 and 1852, he was again a presidential elector, both times on the Democratic ticket, voting for James Knox Polk and Franklin Pierce. Thomas Hubbard died in Utica at the age of 75 and was interred in Forest Hill Cemetery. The Hubbard family was prominent in investing and developing of the Hudson River, Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad lines from the mid-1840s through the late 1860s and, in subsequent decades, Hubbard’s son, Frederick, served as Superintendent of Construction on various sections of the New York and Erie Railroad bridges, becoming assistant engineer of the Michigan Southern and Michigan Central Railroad. Hubbard’s son Bela moved to Detroit, Michigan and became a noted Michigan geologist, naturalist, explorer, writer and civic leader.

12. Miss Ruth Hubbard – Utica NY

A telegram was received in Rome. Friday, from Thomas H.Stryker, who is in Baltimore, announcing—the death of his mother Frances Hubbard,widow of the late John Stryker of Rome, and the daughter of the late Thomas H. Hubbard of Utica, at the residence of her nephew Lawrence Turnball of that city. The immediate cause of death was pneumonia. She was in her 74th year. The deceased was the daughter of the late Thomas H. Hubbard, former of Utica. He was a prominent man in early days. In 1886 , he was district attorney of the sixth district, composed of Chenango, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Otego, and Madison counties. Later he was a member of Congress, and during his life held various prominent offices.After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Stryker became residents of Rome. The deceased was an active and prominent member of Zion Episcopal Church. She leaves one son Thomas H. Stryker and these daughters, Miss Phebe Stryker of Rome, Mrs. Edward H. Butler of Detroit, Mrs. Smith of Troy; also three brothers, Bela Hubbard of Detroit, Frederick Hubbard of New York and Robert Hubbard of Casenovia.

STRYKER – In Rome, New York, April 30, 1885, Hon. JOHN STRYKER.

(RCMay01/1885)  (obit follows)

Death of Hon. John Stryker.

Hon. John Stryker, one of Rome’s oldest and most respected citizens died at half past eight o’clock last evening (April 30, 1885), at his residence in this city, corner of Liberty and Spring streets.  He was in the 77th year of his age, having been born  December 8, 1808.  In the fall of 1867 — nearly eighteen years ago — he was the Democratic nominee for Congress in this district against Hon. A.H. Bailey, and while standing at the polls election day he was stricken with paralysis, and was taken to his home in an apparently dying condition. Slowly, however, he recovered from that attack, and regained the use of his limbs so far as to be able to walk about the street; but the shock to his physical system was so great that he continued much enfeebled, though his mental faculties appear to have been clear as ever.  His health has been very good during the past winter till about a month ago, since which time he has been quite feeble.  His sudden death, however, was unexpected to his family and friends. Deceased came to Rome in 1829, when about 21 years of age.  He had just been admitted to practice in the county court, and at once formed a law partnership with Alanson Bennett, then a prominent lawyer of this county.  Later he formed partnerships with Henry A. Foster, Charles Tracy, Calvert Comstock and B.J. Beach, the firms being Foster, Stryker & Tracy; Foster, Stryker & Comstock; and Stryker, Comstock & Beach. In 1835 Mr. Stryker was elected a member of the Assembly, and while in that body he obtained a charter for the Utica & Syracuse Railroad, of which corporation he was the first attorney.   He also a few years later procured the charter for the old Bank of Rome, of which he was for many years president.  In 1837 he was appointed by the Governor Surrogate of Oneida County, a position he continued to hold for ten years, till his successor was elected under the constitution of 1846. He then withdrew from legal practice, and has never since taken it up again. Deceased was an ardent Democrat and a prominent member of the Democratic party, having been a delegate to four national conventions, and twelve State conventions, and for ten years a leading member of the Democratic State Committee.  He has long been an influential member of the Zion Episcopal Church.  He was elected a vestryman in 1840, and held that position until 1866, when he was elected a warden, which position he has since held. Mr. Stryker was married in 1839 to the daughter of Hon Thomas H. Hubbard, of Utica, who survives him.  He leaves two sons and three daughters, Captain John Stryker, Thomas H. Stryker and Miss Phebe H. Stryker of this city, Mrs. Edward Butler, of Detroit, Michigan, and Mrs. F. Bayard Smith of West Troy.     (RCMay01/1885)

http://www.strykerahc.org/html/john_stryker.htm

13. Phebe and Hattie Stryker – Rome NY – See Above For More Info
14. Harriet Stryker – Rome NY – See Above  Daniel Stryker was a frail man who died in 1815 after becoming seriously ill while crossing the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York. In 1819 Harriet Stryker moved her family to Whitesboro in Oneida County, N. Y., to live with her widowed sister who had no children.
15. Mrs. William Arms (Miranda Havens – Sherbrook, CE Canada)
16. 16. Mrs. Lemuel Farwell (Calista Arms – Sherbrook, CE Canada)

Rev. H.P. Arms

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17.Mrs. Lemuel Farwell – Troy NY (Calista Arms – Sherbrook, CE Canada)

18. Charles, Albert or William Farwell, Son Of Mrs. Farwell – Sherbrook, CE Canada

19. POSSIBLE Colonel George Henry Arms – Boston MA

George was born in 1833. George is the child of Hiram Arms and Lucy Wadhams. During the Civil War, three of the Arms boys fought for the North: Col. Charles J. Arms, Frank T. Arms, and Theodore Arms. A forth son, Col. George H. Arms, fought for the Confederate army and, an engineer, was known as “bridge builder” Arms. George died in 1878. His wife, Henrietta, was obliged to support herself. As a nurse, she became associated with Harriet Beecher Stowe, and as nurse, companion and closest friend continued with her until her death. Master Draughtsman Locomotive Works, Louisville, Ky. Born 15 Apr 1833 in Torrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA map Son of Hiram Phelps Arms D. D. and Lucy A. (Wadhams) Arms Brother of Catherine Lewis Arms, Catherine Bruyn (Arms) Fisher, William Frederic Arms, Francis Hiram Arms, Lucy Ann (Arms) Berry, Sarah Jane (Arms) Clarke [half], Charles Jessup Arms [half] and Theodore Winthrop Arms [half] Husband of Henrietta (Mackay) Arms — married 26 Dec 1853 [location unknown] Father of Hiram Phelps Arms, Sophia Norris Arms, Lorelie Wyeth (Arms) Scranton, Frederick William Arms and Charles Arms

20. Unidentified – Norwich CT

21. Unidentified – Norwich C

22. Unidentified – Norwich CT

23. Unidentified – Hartford CT

24. Unidentified – Middletown CT

25. Unidentified – Middletown CT

26. Unidentified – Middletown CT

27. Unidentified – Norwich CT

28. Unidentified – Lowell MA

 29. John Breed – Norwich CT

John Breed, the son of the second mayor of the city, was a hardware merchant in Norwich. Breed had himself served as mayor of the city 1840-1842 and was re-elected in 1845. He diligently attended all public meetings. In 1850, a series of crowded, contentious, noisy debates had been held in the Town Hall before opponents managed to indefinitely postpone any action about a public high school for the area’s young people.

30. Amie F. Larrabee – Wife Of John Breed – Norwich CT

 31. Unidentified

32. POSSIBLE Poet Alice Cary – NYC New York

Alice Cary was born on April 26, 1820, in Mount Healthy, Ohio, off the Miami River near Cincinnati. Her parents lived on a farm bought by Robert Cary in 1813 in what is now North College Hill, Ohio. He called the 27 acres (110,000 m2) Clovernook Farm. The farm was 10 miles (16 km) north of Cincinnati, a good distance from schools, and the father could not afford to give their large family of nine children a very good education. But Alice and her sister Phoebe were fond of reading and studied all they could. While the sisters were raised in a Universalist household and held political and religious views that were liberal and reformist, they often attended Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist services and were friendly with ministers of all these denominations and others. According to Phoebe,  When Alice was 17 and Phoebe 13, they began to write verses, which were printed in newspapers. Their mother had died in 1835, and two years afterward their father married again. Their stepmother was wholly unsympathetic regarding the literary aspirations of Alice and Phoebe. For their part, while the sisters were ready and while willing to aid to the full extent of their strength in household labor, they persisted in a determination to study and write when the day’s work was done. Sometimes they were refused the use of candles to the extent of their wishes, and the device of a saucer of lard with a bit of rag for a wick was their only light after the rest of the family had retired. Alice’s first major poem, “The Child of Sorrow”, was published in 1838 and was praised by influential critics including Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, and Horace Greeley. Alice and her sister were included in the influential anthology The Female Poets of America prepared by Rufus Griswold. Griswold encouraged publishers to put forth a collection of the sisters’ poetry, even asking John Greenleaf Whittier to provide a preface. Whittier refused, believing their poetry did not need his endorsement, and also noting a general dislike for prefaces as a method to “pass off by aid of a known name, what otherwise would not pass current”. In 1849, a Philadelphia publisher accepted the book, Poems of Alice and Phoebe Cary, and Griswold wrote the preface, left unsigned. By the spring of 1850, Alice and Griswold were often corresponding through letters which were often flirtatious. This correspondence ended by the summer of that year. The anthology made Alice and Phoebe well-known, and in 1850 they moved to New York City, where they devoted themselves to writing, and garnered much fame. There, they also hosted receptions on Sunday evenings which drew notable figures including P. T. Barnum, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and his wife, Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard, Robert Dale Owen, Oliver Johnson, Mary Mapes Dodge, Mrs. Croly, Mrs. Victor, Edwin H. Chapin, Henry M. Field, Charles F. Deems, Samuel Bowles, Thomas B. Aldrich, Anna E. Dickinson, George Ripley, Madame Le Vert, Henry Wilson, Justin McCarthy; in short, all the noted contemporary names in the different departments of literature and art might fairly be added to the list. Alice wrote for the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Putnam’s Magazine, the New York Ledger, the Independent, and other literary periodicals. Her articles, whether prose or poetry, were gathered subsequently into volumes which were received well in the United States and abroad. She also wrote novels and poems which did not make their first appearance in periodicals. Among her prose works were The Clovernook Children and Snow Berries, a Book for Young Folks. Alice died of tuberculosis in 1871 in New York at age 51. The pallbearers at her funeral included P. T. Barnum and Horace Greeley. Alice Cary is buried alongside her sister Phoebe in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

33. Major General William Huntington Russell – Hartford CT

(12 August 1809 – 19 May 1885) was an American businessman, educator, and politician. Notably, he was a co-founder (along with Alphonso Taft) of the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones. Russell was born in Middletown, Connecticut on 12 August 1809. He was the eighth of thirteen children born to Mary (née Huntington) Russell (1769–1857) and Matthew Talcott Russell (1761–1828), a Justice of the Peace who served as the State’s Attorney for Middlesex County and the treasurer of the Middletown. Among his siblings were sisters Mary Huntington Russell and Harriet Russell (the wife of George Larned). He was a descendant of several old New England families, including those of Huntington, Pierpont, Hooker, Willett, Bingham, and Russell. His ancestor, Rev. Noadiah Russell, was a founder and original trustee of Yale College. William’s older cousin, Samuel Russell, founded the successful merchant trading firm Russell & Co. in 1823, but William was never associated with this firm. Russell was a cadet at the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy (later Norwich University) from 1826 until graduation in 1828, where he was taught under strict military discipline. In 1828, William’s father died. Despite being under severe financial restraints, he entered Yale College, graduating in 1833. Russell had planned on entering the ministry, but his financial problems forced him to obtain an immediate income through teaching. Therefore, from September 1833 to May 1835, he taught in Princeton, New Jersey before entering a tutorship at Yale. In September 1836, he opened a private prep school for boys in a small dwelling house. The school would become known as the New Haven Collegiate and Commercial Institute. To begin with, the school was only attended by a small number of boys, but by the time of Russell’s death the school had become well known and had graduated around 4,000 boys. While running the Institute, Russell returned to Yale where graduated from the Yale School of Medicine in 1828 with a M.D. degree. In about 1840, Russell introduced a very thorough military drill and discipline into his school. He foresaw a Civil War in the future, and wanted to make sure his boys were prepared to fight for the Union. His students were so well schooled in military affairs that on the outbreak of Civil War some were enlisted as drill instructors. He also served on the Board of Visitors appointed by the Secretary of War in 1863 to inspect and produce a report on West Point. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Barnard also served on this committee. He not only gave his students to the Union army, but also his own services. Governor William Alfred Buckingham realized that Russell was one of the most knowledgeable men in military affairs. For this reason, Russell was hired to organize the Connecticut militia. He was later made a major-general by act of the legislature in April 1862. From 1846 to 1847, Russell served as a Whig in the Connecticut state legislature, representing New Haven. Upon the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in 1854, he became active as one of the leaders of the movement which resulted in the organization of the Republican Party. Russell served as Collector of Internal Revenue for New Haven and Middlesex Counties from December 1868 to 1873. He was a strong abolitionist and a friend of John Brown. Russell was named as a trustee in the will of John Brown. He was also the Connecticut representative on the National Kansas Committee. On 19 August 1836, Russell was married to Mary Elizabeth Hubbard (1816–1890). Mary was a daughter of Lucy Hubbard and Dr. Thomas Hubbard, a professor of Surgery at the Yale Medical School. Together, they were the parents of ten children, six of whom survived him. In May 1885, Russell saw some boys throwing stones at birds in the park in New Haven, Connecticut. Russell sought to protect the birds from the boys. The activity was too much for him and he fell unconscious from a fatal rupture of a blood vessel and died several days later.

34. Mary Elizabeth Hubbard wife of Major General William Huntington Russell

35. Unidentified – Hartford CT

36. Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney – See Above

37. Miss Rebecca Bull Southmayd and Juliet White Garber – Norwalk CT

Born 27 September 1801 – Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT

Parents:       Timothy Southmayd 1767-ca 1821        Rebecca Walker Bull 1778-1824

38. Unidentified – Norwalk CT

39. Unidentified – Norwalk CT

40. Bell Garber Daughter of Juliet White Garber – Oakland CA

41. Unidentified – Norwich CT

42. Alfred Perkins Rockwell – NYC New York

Born into a prominent Connecticut family, the geologist, educator, and industrialist Alfred Perkins Rockwell (1834-1903) was at turns a war hero, a professor, and a corporate executive. The son of a two-term Whig congressman, Rockwell received his AB from Yale in 1855, and remained in New Haven for his MA and PhB (1858) at the Sheffield Scientific School. Looking to build a foundation for a career in geology, he furthered his education by taking the standard European tour, spending time at the Museum of Practical Geology in London and at the prestigious Bergakademie at Freiberg, Saxony, where he studied metallurgy and coal geology. During his European sojourn, Rockwell also visited a succession of collieries in Northern England and Germany, familiarizing himself with advanced mining technology and with the economics of the industry.

At the outset of the Civil War, Rockwell returned to the United States and accepted a commission as Captain of the 1st Connecticut Light Artillery. After extensive service in South Carolina, he was named Chief of Artillery on the staff of Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry. Finally, he was named as Colonel of the 6th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the Petersburg Campaign of 1864 and finally a brevet to Brigadier General on March 13, 1865 for “gallant and distinguished services in the field during the campaign of 1864.”

He married Katharine Virginia Foote (1839-1902) after mustering out of the service in June 1865. She was the daughter of Samuel E. (1787-1858) and Elizabeth (Elliott) Foote (1807-1878) of New Haven. He then served briefly on the Board of Visitors at the U.S. Military Academy before returning to his alma mater as professor of mining at the Sheffield School. Barely three years later, he moved to a similar position at MIT, however by 1873, he made the decision to leave academia for other opportunities. In the aftermath of the devastating fire of 1872 that consumed much of downtown Boston, Rockwell was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Fire Commissioners in Boston, after which he served president of the Eastern Railroad (1876-1879) and from 1879 until his retirement in 1886, as treasurer of the Great Falls (N.H.) Manufacturing Co., a textile firm. Rockwell also earned income from land and other investments, including stock in the Minas Nuevas Mining Company, a lead and silver mining company in Mexico.

Never a prolific scholar, Rockwell wrote two books, Great Fires and Fire Extinction (Boston: Little, Brown, 1878) and Roads and Pavements in France (NY: Wiley, 1896). He and his wife had four children, of whom only one survived to adulthood: Mary Foote (1868-1868), Frances Beatrice (1872-1886), Samuel Edmund Foote (1873-1884), and Diana Ward (b. 1873). Rockwell died at his home in New Haven on Dec. 24, 1903.

43. Lt. Charles Jessup Arms – Baltimore MD

Charles Jesup Arms [1841-1901] was the son of Rev. Hiram Arms of Norwich, CT. Charles entered Yale with the freshman class of 1859, and was only a fair student, earning enough “marks” in 1862 to be suspended. At the news, young Arms contacted the commander of the 20th Connecticut Volunteers and enlisted as adjutant. In June of 1863 he was promoted to Captain and transferred to the staff of Brigadier General Edward Harland, serving with him in Virginia and North Carolina until June of 1865. Arms saw action near Fredricksburg and also at Portsmouth and Norfolk before moving on to New Bern and suffering through the fever epidemic of 1864-5. He was wounded on May 3, 1863 at Chancellorsville, Va. He married Alice Avery. They had five children. Charles died March 9, 1901 in Providence, R.I.

44. Frank Hiram Arms – Hartford CT

Pay Master, U.S. Navy

Died at Apia, Samoa in the wreck of the USS Vandalia.

Name: Frank H Arms

Rank Information: Acting Assistant Paymaster, Passed Assistant Paymaster, Paymaster, Drowned

Service Dates: 14 Apr 1864, 23 Jul 1866, 14 Oct 1871

Military Branch: US Navy Officers (1798-1900)

The second USS Vandalia was a screw sloop in the U.S. Navy. She was laid down at the Massachusetts Boston Navy Yard in 1872 and was commissioned there on 10 January 1876. She was wrecked in a cyclone, 16 March 1889.

While Vandalia lay at Mare Island, relations between American and German officials at Apia, Samoa, became increasingly strained. Late in the winter of 1889, at the behest of the American consul in Samoa. Vandalia, Trenton, and Nipsic sailed for Samoa and reached Apia Harbor early in March to balance the presence of the German vessels Adler, Olga, and Eber. The British were ably represented by HMS Calliope. On 15 and 16 March 1889, each of these vessels suddenly became trapped in the harbor when violent, hurricane-force winds roared out of the northeast, driving mountainous waves before them in the 1889 Apia cyclone. Adler, Olga, and Eber were all either sunk or hopelessly grounded and torn apart on the sharp reef, and together lost a total of 150 officers and crew killed. The powerful engines of Calliope barely enabled the vessel to get to sea in a dramatic performance that drew cheers from the crews of the American vessels. However, despite heroic efforts by the officers and crews of Vandalia and Trenton, the two vessels tore their bottoms out upon the reef on 16 March. Vandalia struck at about noon and sank until her decks were completely awash, forcing her crew to scramble into the rigging. Trenton grounded alongside Vandalia at 2200 that evening, but enough of her main deck remained above water to allow Vandalia’s crew to climb on board. After the hurricane began, Nipsic was driven ashore on a sandy beach and was later salvaged.

American casualties totalled 52 killed, 43 from Vandalia alone. The survivors from Vandalia, Trenton, and Nipsic soon sailed for Mare Island on board a chartered steamer, but Vandalia and Trenton themselves were so battered that they were soon dismantled and their scrap donated to the Samoans.

45. Unidentified New York NY

46. Unidentified New York, NY

47. Unidentified – Norwich CT

48. Unidentified – Norwich CT

49. Kate Godfrey Child – Norwich CT – See #48

50. Calvin Goddard Child – Norwich CT

Calvin Goddard Child was born in Norwich, Connecticut on April 6, 1834.[3] His father was Asa Child a former United States attorney for the district of Connecticut under President Andrew Jackson, and his mother was Alice H. Goddard the daughter of Judge Calvin Goddard for whom he was named. He was also a great grandson of Dr. Joseph Bellamy. He began practicing law in Norwich, Connecticut from his residence and continued to do so until June 1864. For two years starting in May 1862, he was the private secretary to Governor Buckingham, being named Lieutenant and helping the governor with Connecticut’s role in the Civil War. During his last year in Norwich he was also Judge of the City Court. In 1864 he opened an office in New York City, his residence being in Southport, Connecticut at the time. In 1867, he relocated both his office and his home to Stamford, Connecticut, where he formed a partnership with Joshua B. Ferris a fellow Yale graduate. He was appointed District Attorney for Connecticut on March 1, 1870, and held that position until his death.

51. Calvin and Kate Child’s Children – Norwich CT

52. Calvin and Kate Child’s Children – Norwich CT

 53. Unidentified

54. Unidentified

55. Unidentified

56. Unidentified – Probably Son Of Mrs. Lemuel Farwell – Sherbrook CE Canada

57. Benjamin Ogle Tayloe – NYC New York

(May 21, 1796 — February 25, 1868) was an American businessman, bon vivant, diplomat, and influential political activist in Washington, D.C. during the first half of the 19th century. Although he never held elective office, he was a prominent Whig and influential in presidential electoral politics in the 1840s and 1850s. His home, the Tayloe House, became a salon for politically powerful people in the federal government and socially influential individuals in the United States and abroad. Tayloe was also a party in the important 1869 contract law case, Willard v. Tayloe.

58. Unidentified – NYC New York

59. Unidentified – NYC New York

60. Phoebe Cary – NYC New York

(September 4, 1824 – July 31, 1871) was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871). The sisters co-published poems in 1849, and then each went on to publish volumes of their own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters’ unpublished poems were also compiled.

61. Anna Abbott – Hartford CT – Anna O. Watkinson – See Below

Born 1820 Norwalk, CT

Died 1895 Oct 22 Hartford, CT or Ivekskill, VT

Married 1863 Jun 18 NY NYLucius Abbott

62. Dr. Lucius Abbott M.D. – Hartford CT

Birth     10 Jul 1797

Tolland County, Connecticut, USA

Death   29 Oct 1863 (aged 66)

63. Unidentified – Middletown CT

64. Unidentified – Middletown CT

65. Unidentified – Middletown CT

66. Unidentified – Hartford CT

67. Unidentified – Milwaukee WI

68. Edward Woolsey Bacon – San Francisco CA

Bacon was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He came from a family of preachers: he was the son of Leonard Bacon and the brother of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Thomas Rutherford Bacon of New Haven, and George B. Bacon, all Congregational preachers. In 1861, eighteen-year-old Bacon left home and served in the United States Navy in the Caribbean and on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War. He contracted dengue fever and suffered from defective vision; still, after his stint in the Navy he signed up as an infantry officer and led the 29th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry (Colored)—possibly influenced by his father, a staunch abolitionist. His attitudes toward African-Americans was described as “patronizing … at best,” a common view among white officers in charge of colored regiments. He saw severe action in Petersburg, Virginia, and led his troops into Richmond on April 3, 1865. He was part of the occupying force of Texas, and in June 1865 was promoted to major of the 117th Colored Infantry Regiment, after which he resigned. On his return to civil life, Bacon studied theology at Yale Divinity School and preached in a few different places before settling in 1877 at the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut. In 1880, he was a pastor at First Church in New London. He was active in the American Missionary Association, serving on the education committee in 1883; he also served on the board of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and was appointed Assisted Recording Secretary. In 1885, while on a vacation for his health in California, he abruptly resigned his ministry in Connecticut, to the surprise of his congregation in New London; The New York Times reported his sudden appearance in Santa Barbara, where a sermon of his in the Congregational church was received with approbation and judged to inspire “new ideas, fresh thoughts, and high resolve.” Health problems caused by tuberculosis continued to plague him. After his return from Santa Barbara he again resumed the ministry but was forced to resign; he took up a position in Berkeley, California and died in Santa Clara County, California. A service was held in New Haven. Son of Leonard Bacon and Lucy Johnson. Bacon genealogy : Michael Bacon of Dedham, 1640 and his descendants by Thomas Baldwin 1915, pages 278, 279, 280, 327

Edward Woolsey Bacon (1843-1887) was born in New Haven, Conn., the son of the Reverend Dr. Leonard Bacon (1802-1881), prominent Congregational minister and opponent of slavery. Edward Bacon left Yale University at the age of seventeen and joined the U.S. Navy as a captain’s clerk during the Civil War. By 1864, however, Bacon had switched to the army and served with distinction as a captain with the 29th Connecticut Volunteers, Colored Regiment, Army of the James, and later as major of the 117th U.S. Colored Troops. After the war his troops were assigned to Brownsville, Tex., where he sat with the General Court Martial. Soon, however, Bacon resigned from the army, returned to Yale, and in 1877 became minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Conn. Ill-health forced him to travel to California several times, where he died at the age of forty-four. He was married in 1869 to Mary Elizabeth Staples ( – ), granddaughter of Jonathan Knight (1789-1864), a founder of Yale Medical School.

69. Mrs. Edward Woolsey Bacon (Mary Elizabeth Staples) – San Francisco CA

Birth     3 Jan 1845

Death   19 Oct 1904 (aged 59)

Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA

Burial Cedar Grove Cemetery New London, New London County, Connecticut, USA

70. Unidentified – NYC New York

71. POSSIBLE Rev John R. Crane – NYC New York

Birth     16 Apr 1787

Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, USA

Death   17 Aug 1853 (aged 66)

Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA

Burial

Indian Hill Cemetery

Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA

72. Mrs. Rev John R. Crane (Harriet Burnett)

Wife of Rev John R. Crane – Children Below

Harriet Burnett Crane

William David Crane

Edward Crane

George W Crane

James B Crane

73. Mrs. Anne C. Carpenter nee Osborn – Middletown CT
Dau. of John & Ruth Osborn.

74. Unidentified – Norwich CT

75. Unidentified

76. Unidentified

77. Rev William Barker Clarke – Hartford CT

Birth     27 Dec 1829 Cuba

Death   18 Sep 1905 (aged 75)

Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA

Burial

Yantic Cemetery

Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA

Married Sarah Jane Arms

78. Sarah Jane Arms – Hartford CT

Wife of Rev William Barker Clarke

Birth     14 Aug 1839

Death   9 Nov 1898 (aged 59)

Durham, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA

Burial

Yantic Cemetery

Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA

79. Mrs. Hiram Phelps Arms (Abby Jane Baker or Lucy Ann Wadhams)

80. Miss Sarah Jane Arms – NYC New York – See Above

81. Miss M. Hillard – Middletown CT (Norwich CT)

82. Mary Elizabeth Ford Wife of Rev Edward Newman Packard – Winona MN

83. Dr. Aaron Lucius Chapin – Boston MA

AARON LUCIUS CHAPIN

HARTFORD, FEB. 6, 1817.

BELOIT, JULY 22, 1892.

FIRST PRESIDENT OF BELOIT COLLEGE

84. Unidentified – Norwich CT

85. Unidentified – Norwich CT