gational faith, and is a man whose good qualities
command the respect and confidence of those among
whom his industrious and useful life is passed.
JOHN LARKIN, the proprietor of a popular
summer resort at Bums' Point, Milford, is the
second of a family of eleven children, born to Ed-
ward and Anna S. (Callahan) Larkin, of County
Kilkenny, Ireland, where he himself was born, Jan.
9, 1842. The elder Larkin, who was a stone mason,
emigrated from Ireland when John was an infant,
coming to America and settling first at Quebec.
From Canada he soon crossed the line to the United
States, and after a short residence in \'ermont lo-
cated in Norwich. Conn. In 1865 he removed to
Minnesota, where he engaged in farming and where
ht died in 1886, his wife having passed away five
vears before. Their eldest son. who was also named
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John, died in infancy. The other children, not in-
cluding the gentleman who is the subject of this
brief sketch, were Nicholas, William, Michael,
Mary, Lawrence, Thomas, Richard, Martin and
Augustine. Nicholas is a stone mason in Shclton ;
William is a horse and cattle breeder in Oregon;
Michael enlisted in the L'nion army, and died in
Maryland during the Civil war ; Mary is the wife
of a Mr. Clcary, an engineer, and lives in Minne-
sota ; Lawrence, Thomas, Martin and Augustine
became farmers in Minnesota, Lawrence dying
there in 1896; and Richard died when a lad of
fourteen years.
Until John Larkin reached the age of seven,
liis father, Edward, resided in the city of Norwich,
but then removed to a farm near by, where the boy
lived until he was fifteen years old. Then he took
the responsibilities of life upon his own shoulders,
and began, single handed, the struggle with the
world in which he was destined to achieve success.
His first employment was in the woolen and cotton
mills of Franklin (now Sprague), Conn., where
he remained for sixteen years. In 1874 he went
from Sprague to Derby, where he opened a meat
market. The venture prospered, and he soon
added to his business the sale of groceries and
liquors, his place of business being at the corner
of Anson and Seth streets. He continued in these
combined lines of trade until 1891, when he
opened his present summer hotel at Burns' Point.
Mr. Larkin is a man of high character and es-
tablished business repute. Starting in life with but
little education, and beginning near the bottom of
the ladder as a mill operative, he has conquered
one obstacle after another through ceaseless en-
ergy and stubborn, unwearied perseverance. For
him there has been no such word as fail. His fel-
low citizens have attested their confidence in his
intelligence and probity by electing him burgess
of the borough of Rinningham, and assessor of
the city of Derby. In politics he is a Democrat,
and in religious faith a Catholic. He is a member
of the Knights of Columbus.
His wife, whose maiden name was Jane Mur-
ray, was born in County Cork, Ireland, a daughter
of Jeremiah Murray, of County Cork, Ireland. Mr.
and Mrs. Larkin have three children living: John
W., Edmund J., and Jennie E. The oldest son is
at attorney at law, and holds the office of city clerk
of Derby. Edmund J. is a successful dentist in the
same city. Jennie is the wife of Ira F. Hoyet, of
Derby, manager of the opera house there.
JAMES P. LANDERS, superintendent of the
Thomas Coady Brick Co., and one of the police
commissioners of the city of New Haven, is a na-
tive of Ireland, and was born in County Cork, Sept.
29, 1851. Michael Landers, his father, was born
in the same locality and came from there to New
Haven in 1859, and died here in 1864. His an-
cestors were farmers, all of whom remained in the
old country. The mother of James P. was
also born in County Cork, and survived until
1881. She was the devoted mother of five children:
Mary, who married Patrick Consandine and lives
in New Haven ; James P. ; Margaret, who is Sister
Superior in a convent in Stamford, Conn.; Alice;
and Hannah L.
James P. Landers was about eight years of age
when he came with his parents to New Haven, and
he attended the primary schools and St. Patrick's
parochial school, on Hamilton street. His first
means of livelihood was the oyster business, and
from a comparatively small beginning he built up
a large' trade, and successfully followed his chosen
occupation for twenty-three years. April 10, 1891,
he entered the employ of the Thomas Coady Brick
Company, as superintendent, and since that time
has rendered faithful and efficient service. In 1899
he was made a police commissioner, and performs
the duties of the position with characteristic energy
and ability.
Sept. 10, i88r, Mr. Landers married Catherine
J. Fay, a native of East Haven, and daughter of
Patrick Fay, a native of Ireland. Mr. Landers
has always been a Democrat and- has filled
miany of the local offices, including that of
alderman of the Twelfth ward during 1880 and
1881. Socially he is connected with the Foresters
of America, the Ancient Order of United Work-
men, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the
Total Abstinence Society of America. Mr. Landers
is a consistent member of the Roman Catholic
Church, and in his civic, business and private life is
a citizen of whom any city might be proud.
REV. IGNATIUS KOST, who is the beloved
and revered pastor of St. Mary's German Catholic
Church, was born in the village of Hoefen, near
Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany, June 16, 1866, and
since his location in Meridcn, has impressed him-
self upon the public as a bold and outspoken advo-
cate of the faith he loves, and a devoted and loyal
pastor of the people to whom he is a comfort and
guide.
Ignatius Kost, the father of Rev. Ignatius,
though an ardent member of the Catholic Church,
had no thought of the present vocation of his son.
The elder man spent his youth and middle life in
industriously tilling the soil, as had his forefathers,
and his thrift and enterprise earned the life of re-
tirement which he is now enjoying in Bamberg.
His wife, Kunigunda, who also is still living, is the
mother of five children, two of whom died in in-
fancy. Of the surviving children, John is living
on the old homestead with his parents; Mary is
married and lives in Passau, Bavaria; and Rev.
Ignatius, of Meridcn.
The education of Father Kost received its pre-
liminary impulse in the mind of a boy of six, at
which expanding age he was placed for three years
at the parish scliool, under the supervision of the
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government. This practical training was followed
by a year at the Bamberg high school, after which
a streak of gtwd fortune came his way through his
selection, because of meritorious scholarship, with
four other boys, for higher education without cost
to his parents. Thus young Kost soon found him-
self a student at the Academy of Munnersbadt,
Germany, in the full tiijoymcnt of the advantages
of that excellent seat of learning, and with ready
aptilu le hi,s keen intelligence grasped the various
branches of a classical course, as well as an ex-
haustive knowledge of French. This school, taught
by the Augustinian Fathers, became his. Alma
Mater in 1886, and for the following year his activ-
ities were widely diverse, and centered in the inev-
itable military duty to his country. In connection
with this vigorous training he studied also philoso-
phy, and so with a pronounced appreciation of its
utility, continued to add to his education.
Father Kost's first inspiration to the priesthood
came while he was still in college through Father
De Bruycker, pastor of St. Joseph Parish, at Willi-
mantic, who visited Germany, and made known the
need of a German priest to minister to the spiritual
needs of the German Catholics in his parish. Fa-
ther Kost volunteered to study theology and pre-
pare himself for the priesthood, in order that he
might come to America and minister to the spir-
itual needs of his countrymen. At first his parents
were greatly opposed to his plans, but at last con-
sented to what seemed a divine guidance. Having
gained the desired permission. Father Kost went to
Louvain, Belgium, where he graduated in philos-
ophy and French at St. Michael's Seminary, and at
the American Seminary studied English and the-
ology under Monseigneur DeNeve, finishing the
course when twenty-two years of age. Too young
to receive Holy Orders, consent had to be obtained
from his Bishop and from the authorities at Rome,
and when these were forthcoming he was ordained
to the priesthood June 24, 1889, by the Bishop of
Covington, Ky., who was visiting Belgium at that
time.
Singularly appropriate seemed the fact that the
young priest celebrated his first mass, July 7, 1889,
in his native town, and for a short time thereafter
ministered to a parish whose pulpit was tempor-
arily vacant. In September of the same year he
left the fatherland to engage in the work in Amer-
ica to which he had been dedicated, and upon ar-
riving in the United States reported to Bishop Mc-
Mahon, then in charge of the Diocese, at Hartford.
For a time the young i)riest was sent to Willi-
mantic to assist Father DeBruycker, and upon the
death of Father Eugene J. Vygen, had charge of
his parish until December, when he was sent to
assist Father Van Oppen, of the French Catholic
Church, in charge of St. Laurent, at Mcridcn. The
congregation of this church also included many
German Catholics. Having become thoroughly
familiar with the needs of his people, Father Kost
organized, in 1891, the German Church of St. Mary's
parish, a building planned by David Bloomtield
being erected, which served the combined uses of
church and school, the latter including thirty chil-
dren. With the increase of school attendance other
arrangements were necessary, and a school-house
was built and placed in charge of two Sisters of
Notre Dame from Baltimore. Under the supervi-
sion of Sister Helena 225 children wcr^e taught in
1900, and the original plans of church and school
have been lost in subsequent improvements. A
tower to the church was put up in 1894, the bell
being a donation of Mr. Frank Yokel. The
grounds, buildings, and general additions have cost
over $40,000, and there now remains an indebted-
ness of but $9,000, with every indication of a speedy
cancellation. In 1895 Father Kost gave up his
residence to the Sisters and bought a home for
himself on the opposite side of the street.
Many discouragements have come the way of
Father Kost in his effort to build up his parish, but
his natural patience and perseverance, tact and in-
tense kindliness have prevailed, and won not only
devoted members to the church, but gratifying per-
sonal regard. His influence is noticeable in many
channels of activity, and his counsel and general
worth is by no means confined in its appreciation to
the members of his own church. Among the soci-
eties founded in connection with his work, and
which supply vitality and continued interest for
hundreds, may be mentioned that of St. Boniface,
with 165 members, the Young Men's Club, St.
Elizabeth Society, Children of Mary, and several
others. During the nine years of his pastorate he
has had four missions in the church, and his zeal
and indefatigable energy have stimulated to a
higher moral and intellectual plane of life.
ADAM FABER, a well-known farmer and
worthy citizen of Waterville, town of Waterbury,
New Haven county, is a native of Hessen-Casscl,
Germany, a son of Adam and Anna Elizabeth
(Nieumann) Faber, and a brother of George Fa-
ber of Bucks Hill, Waterbury, and of the late Lud-
wig Faber, a railroad engineer, who served in the
Engineering Corps during the Civil war. He re-
ceived a limited education in his native tongue, and
when a young man learned the shoemaker's trade.
After completing his apprenticeship he left home
and went to London, England, where he found em-
ployment at his trade, and worked at the same for
four years.
Being of an adventurous disposition Mr. Faber
resolved to see more of the world, and shipped as a
sailor before the mast on a bark bound from Lon-
don to Africa, and was shipwrecked on this voyage.
On his return to London, he shipped as able sea-
man for the West Indies, and while returning was
shipwrecked off the American coast, was picked
up by an American vessel, and taken to New Or-
leans. All of his possessions were sunk with the
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ship in the Atlantic. With other members of the
crew, he was finally sent back to England, and from
there went to Queenstown, Ireland, where he
shipped on an American vessel. He sailed out of
American ports for some time, and continued to
follow the sea for nine years. At the end of that .
period Mr. Faber came to Watcrbury, Conn., where
his brother George was living, and found employ-
ment at farm work with Gill>ert Prichard on Buck's
Hill, at $5 per month. Subsequently he was sim-
ilarly employed by Stephen S. Camp, and then, in
1865, took contracts for chopping wood. From
Waterbury he moved) to Aliddlebury, Conn.,
where he engaged in teaming and working in a
brickyard for a time, and then rented the Clinton
farm which he operated for one year. Returning
to Watcrville, he rented the Brown farm, and from
there worked for Joseph W'elton for two years. He
ne.xt worked with his brother George for Brown
Brothers, in their casting department, for eleven
years, and later spent four years in the casting de-
partment of the Scovill factory. At the end of that
time he again turned his attention to agricultural
pursuits, having purchased the Daniel Cook fann
on Faber avenue, W'aterville, in 1872, upon which
he has made many improvements. He has since
engaged in agricultural pursuits, and has met with
marked success in that undertaking. He is noted
for his industry, enterprise and upright dealings.
At Bucks Hill, Waterbury, in 1866, Mr. Faber
was united in marriage with Mrs. Christina
(Wichardt) Cook, also a native of Hessen-Cassel,
Germany, and w'idow of Henry Cook, by whom she
had three children: (i) Henry C, a machinist at
Flatt's shop, married Kate W. Frey, daughter of
Philip Frey, and they have four children, Clarence,
Gcorgiana, Harold E. and Gertrude; he is a mem-
ber of the Episcopal Church, the Independent Or-
der of Foresters, and the Improved Order of Red
Men, while politically he is a Republican. (2)
William H., a caster in the Scovill factory, married
Mrs. Kate Kirk, widow of Robert Kirk, and the
mother of three children, Julia, Lucy and Louis ;
he is a thirty-second-degree Mason, and a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the
Improved Order of Red Men. (3) Anna C. is a
dressmaker, residing at home ; she is a member of
the Eastern Star Chapter of the Masonic fraternity.
Mr. and Mrs. Faber have had five children, as fol-
lows : (i) George Adam is a physician of Water-
bury, whose sketch appears elsewhere. (2) Carrie
is the wife of Frank Fenton, and has had three
children, Wilfred (now deceased). Ward and Guy
H. (3) Elizabeth, also a member of the Eastern
Star Chapter, is the wife of William Harper and
has one child, Edwin. (4) Edward N. married
Bertha Feld, and has three children, Louis, Ed-
ward and ; he is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. (5) Louis
F., now deceased, was a caster in the Scovill fac-
tory : he married Sarah Brown and was a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The
family hold membership in the Episcopal Church,
and Mr. Faber is connected with the Gemian Or-
der of Red Men. In politics he was first a Demo-
crat, and later a Republican.
ISRAEL ANDREWS. The Andrews family,
to which this gentleman and Alfred H. Andrews,
of Meriden, belong, is one of the old "historic fam-
ilies of New Haven county, and its first representa-
tive in the Colony of New Haven was William An-
drews, a native of Hampsworth, Eng., where he had
learned the carpenter trade. In 1635 he came
to New England, with a colony from Hampton, near
London, making the voyage in the ship "James" of
London, and under the command of William Coop-
er. They landed in Boston, and there William An-
drews was made a freeman in 1635. With the Rev.
John Davenport, Mr. Andrews removed to New
Haven, where he built the first meeting house in
1644. In this section his life was spent, and here
he died at East Haven, March 4, 1676. He was
twice married, and his second wife, whom he married
Dec. 7, 1665, was Anna Gibbons, daughter of Will-
iam Gibbons, Colonial Secretary in 1657. She
died in 1701. To his first marriage were born:
William, born in England, died Jan. 3, 1663 ; Sam-
uel, also born in England, in 1632, died in 1704;
Nathan, born in Boston in 1638. To this marriage
were also two or three daughters, but their names
are not now a matter of record.
Samuel Andrews, of the above family, came to
the New^ World with his parents, and located at
New Haven, where he married Elizabeth, the
daughter of William Peck, of New Haven. In
1670 he removed to the new settlement of Walling-
ford, where he died Oct. 6, 1704, at the age of
seventy-three. There his wife also died. Mr. An-
drews was the owner of much property at his death.
To him and his wife were born: '\\'illiam and Sam-
uel, who both died young; Samuel; William, who
married Hannah Parker; John; Nathaniel, who
married Susannah Tyler ; twins, who died when they
were a day old; Elizabeth, who married Benjamin
Hall ; Mary ; Joseph, who married Abigail Paine ;
Margery; and Dinah.
Samuel Andrews, son of Samuel, was born in
Wallingford, April 30, 1663, where he engaged in
farming, and si)ent his life. On Aug. 27, 1686, he
was married to Ann Hall, by whom he became the
father of the following children : Thomas ; John,
who died young; John, who married Hannah Mer-
riman ; Elizabeth ; Samuel ; Elisha ; William, who
married Mary Foster; and Ann, who married Jo-
seph Royce.
Thomas Andrews, a member of the above fam-
ily, was born in Wallingford, March 11, 1687,
where he spent his life engaged in farming, and
where he died and was buried in 1756. Mr. An-
drews was twice married, his first wife being Felix,
and his second, Elizabeth. To these marriages
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
were bom : Elizabeth, who married R. Strong, of
Waterbury; Benjamin; Enos; Sarah; Lois, who
married Severius Carrington ; Martha; Thankful,
who married Jason Hitchcock.
Enos Andrews, the son of Thomas, was born
April 13, 1719, in the town of Wallingford, and
there he was engaged in general farming and stock
raising. His wife. Content, bore him the follow-
ing children: Thomas, Bede, Asahel, Huldah,
Thankful and Enos.
Thomas Andrews, the eldest son of Enos, was
bom Aug. 8, 1744, on the old homestead, which is
now in Cheshire, where he followed farming all his
life. He married Sarah Brooks, and they had a
family of six children : Thomas ; Joab ; Albert ;
Phoebe, who had two husbands, Mark Tuttle and
Jared Ives; Amarilla, who married J. C. Lee; and
Hiram.
Hiram Andrews, the sixth chilJ of Thomas,
and the father of Israel Adams, was bom Oct.
16, 1796, on the farm which has been in the pos-
session of the family for many generations, and
was reared and educated in his native town. After
his marriage he made his home on the old home-
stead. In 1824 he was married to Miss Martha
M. Hotchkiss, a native of Cheshire, where her
parents, Israel and Martha (Royce) Hotchkiss,
spent their lives. Hiram Andrews died on the old
homestead in 1869, and his widow at the home
of her son, Israel, in 1890. To this union were
born : Celia, widow of Miles Hotchkiss, of Plants-
ville, Conn. ; Martha, widow of Steven Parker, of
Meriden; Thomas, who died in Meriden, leaving
one daughter, Martha, now a resident of that city ;
Caroline M., widow of Horace Yale, of Meriden;
Israel, whose name introduces this article ; and Al-
fred, who has a son, Leightcn.
Israel Andrews was born Oct. 15, 1836, in
Cheshire, a son of Hiram and Martha M. Andrews,
noted above, and he was reared on the homestead.
The boyhood of this honored old resident of
Cheshire was spent after the fashion of the times,
he working on the farm in summer and attending
school in the winter. His entire life has been spent
in agricultural pursuits, with the exception of fif-
teen years, when he was employed as traveling
salesman for a silverware firm. A farm of twenty-
eight acres was bought by him, where he gives
attention to the milk business in connection with his
farming operations.
Mr. Andrews married Helen C. Powell, who
was bom in France, but her parents, Joseph and
Elizabeth Powell, were natives of England. The
mother died in France, but the father, Joseph
Powell, and his four daughters came to this coun-
try, and had their first home in Waterbury. Conn.
In 1854 they removed to Meriden, where he died
when over eighty years of age. Mrs. Andrews
passed away at her home in Cheshire, May 24,
1900. Three of her children are living: Edgar
.Thomas, in the employ of the Winchester Repeat- .
ing Arms Co., at New Haven ; Genevieve, the wife
of Archer Bradley, station agent at Plantsville;
Hiram A., who is married, resides with his father,
and has one child, Edgar. Mr. Andrews is a Re-
publican, and is one of the leading men of his
community, and the family to which he belongs has
been prominent in this section since its first intro-
duction here early in the seventeenth century.
MILO L. JUDD, one of the representative cit-
izens of Ansonia, has been successfully engaged in
business there for many years, during which time
the population of the city has about doubled. He
is descended from pioneer stock in both paternal
and maiernal lines, and was born Aug. 15, 1844,
in Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn., son of Lyman
and Caroline (Gillette) Judd.
Reuben Judd, our subject's grandfather, was a
native of Canaan, and spent his life there engaged
as a shoemaker and farmer, dying at the age of
seventy. His wife, whose maiden name was Allen,
was a native of Ilamden, and attained the advanced
age of ninety-six years. Both were Methodists
in religion. Their family consisted of five chil-
dren.
Lyman Judd was born and reared on the home-
stead in Canaan, receiving a district-school edu-
cation. In early manhood he engaged in farming,
and after leaving the homestead was in various
j)laces — farming one year in Norfolk, one in Tor-
rington and one in Goshen. He then purchased a
fami in Sharon, where he remained six years. The
,next eight years he spent in Morris, and then re-
moved to Ansonia, where he passed his declining
years, dying at the age of seventy-four. In pol-
itics he was first a Whig and later a Republican.
While he belonged to no church he maintained the
strictest principles in his daily life. He married
Caroline Gillette, and they had seven children, of
whom four are living, viz : Mary E., wife of H.
Martin Jackson, of Ansonia; Milo L., our subject;
Samuel, a resident of Stamford ; and Nancy I.,
who married Charles Wesley Cook, of Morris,
Conn. Of the others, Moses died aged twenty-
seven ; Charlotte A. died at the age of fifty ; and
Caroline, who married Adam White, a farmer of
Sharon, died aged forty. The mother died at the
age of fifty.
Mrs. Caroline (Gillette) Judd was born in
Canaan, daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Harris)
Gillette, and a descendant of Benjamin Gillette, who
settled in Milford, Conn., early in the seventeenth
century. He endured all the hardships of pioneer
life in the days when it was necessary to keep a
watch night and day, the settlers being obliged
to guard against the Indians. His home, located
near what is now known as the "Gulf" mills, is
owned and occupied by a descendant. Joseph Gil-
lette, our subject's grandfather, was born in Guil-
ford, and there spent his early jxars. He afterward
removed to Canaan, where he became a well-known
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citizen, engaging in business for many years as
a carpenter and joiner; he also made coffins. He
and his wife were members of the M. E. Church.
Both reached the age of seventy-five years. Their
family consisted of eight cliildren, of whom two
arc living: Gibson, a resident of Salisbury; and
Elisha B., who resides on the old Harris home-
stead in Canaan. Mrs. Nancy (Harris) Judd was
a daughter of Capt. Harris, a large land owner in
Canaan, who gave the land upon which Joseph Gil-
lette built his house.
Our subject grew to manhood in his native
town , acquiring his education in the common
schools. Until he reached the age of twenty-nine