lows : Mary, Johanna, Robert and William, all de-
ceased; James J., whose life record may be found
elsewhere in this volume; Bridget is married to
James Henebry, a molder residing in \\'aterbury;
Margaret is the widow of Charles Hayes, of the
..same city; Anna is married to Edward McGratIi,
inspector of school buildings in \\'aterbury ; and
John H. William Fruin, the father of this family,
came from Ireland to Waterbury in 1854, and died
here in 1884, his wife surviving him until 1892.

John H. Fruin was educated and reared to man-
hood in Waterbury. In 1880 he engaged in the
grocery and liquor trade at No. 455 West Main
street, and of this he made a complete success, as
he retired in 1892, and has since turned all his at-
tention to his tenements, of which he owns a large
number.

In May, 1883, Mr. Fruin was united in the holy
bonds of matrimony with Miss Margaret Condon,
who was born in Bethlehem, Conn., a daughter of
Thomas Condon, a native of Ireland. ThVte chil-
dren were born of this marriage : William, who
died in 1898; Frank; and Robert. Mrs. Margaret
Fruin was called to the home of the blessed in 1887,
and in July, 1891, Mr. Fruin married Miss Nellie
Gibson, a native of W'atorbury, and a daughter of
Cornelieus Gibson. In politics Mr. Fruin is a Dem-
ocrat, and as a prime favorite with his party, has
served on the 'board of council t\\-o years and two
years as street commissioner, but has served more
through a sense of public duty than for reward or
glory. He is a member of the Knights of Colum-
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the Catholic Legion. A Roman Catholic, he is a
communicant of the Immaculate Conception
Church, and is liberal in contributing to its support.
The social position of himself, wife and children is
quite enviable.

ESTELLA A. HUBBELL was for some time
a successful and popular teacher of Bethany and
Woodbridge, but now devotes her time and atten-
tion to the management of her farm in the latter
town. She is a woman of excellent business and
executive ability, and has met with marked success
in her undertakings. At the age of seventeen years
she commenced teaching school in Hamden, and
continued to follow that profession until iSyj, since
which time she has personally su])crintendcd the
operation of her farm in \\'(K)dbri(lge.

Silas Hubbell, her grandfather, the eldest son of
Silas Hubbell, Sr., an officer in the Revolutionary,
war under Gen. Putnam, was born in Newtown,
Fairfield Co., Conn., Feb. 22, 1772, and died in New
Haven May 31, 1856. On April 20, 1820, he mar-
ried Abiah Churchill, of Southampton, Mass., who
was born in 1781, and died in W estfield, Conn., Dec.
27, 1855. To them were born three children, one
son and two daughters.

Silas Churchill Hubbell, the only son of this
worthy couple, was born in Montgomery, Mass.,
Sept. 17, 1826, and was married in Ballston Spa,
Saratoga Co., N. Y., to Angelinc Jones, who was
born Aug. 26, 1827, daughter of Ebenezer and
Angeline (Sear) Jones. Her father was born Aug.
10, 1798, her mother Sept. 11, 1798. In their fam-
ily were the following children : Almira, born
Dec. 14, 1820, a resident of New York State; Ma-
tilda, born Aug. 22, 1822, a resident of Saratoga
county; Rufus, Ixjrn Feb. lo, 1824, deceased;
Angeline, mother of our subject; Juliette, born June
13, 1831, residing in Hop City, N. Y. ; Wesley,
born Nov. 23, 1832, deceased; Catherine, born Aug.
19, 1834, who makes her home in Amsterdam,
N. Y. ; Emeline, bom Aug. 20, 1836, deceased ;
Ebenezer, born I'eb. 8, 1841, living in Plymouth,
Mass. : and Isaac, born May 10, 1842, and Mary L.,
bom Feb. 15, 1846. Ixnh deceased.

To Silas C. and Angeline (Jones) Hubbell came
four children, namely: Edward S., born Dec. 12,
1854, a meat buyer of Woodbridge; Charles J.,
born Sept. 2, 1861, who died in infancy; Estella
Angeline. bom Aug. 3, 1863; and George R., bom
Dec. 4, 1868, a progressive farmer of Woodbridge.

Soon after their marriage the parents of our
subject came to Westville, Conn., and the father
successfully engaged in the practice of medicine
there and in the surrounding towns for forty years.
Both in professional and private life he was widely
and favorably known, and is certainly deserving of
honfjirable mc-ntion in the history, of his adopted
county. He died in W'oodbridge May 24, 1895,
and his wife passed away Sept. 7, 1898, honored
and respected by all who knew them.



WILLIAM H. WRIGHT, merchant, W^ater-
bury, where for over thirty years he has been a resi-
dent, is a native of England, born April 3, 1857,
near Manchester.

Edward Wright, father of William H., of the
same nativity, born in 1832, was a woolen manu-
facturer in England, and also followed the same line
of business in W'aterbury, Conn. In his native land
he married a Miss Hall, who died there when our
subject was an infant ; he died in Waterbury. Seven
childiren were born to this union, a brief record of
whom is as follows : James E. is a mechanic in
Waterbury ; John W. is foreman with the American
Pin Co., Watcrvillc, Conn. ; Sarah A., unmarried,
lives in Waterbury; William H. is our subject;
twins died in infancy; and Lewis N. is engineer on
the Naugatuck branch of the N. Y., N. H. & H.
Railroad.

William II. Wright received his education in
the schools of his native land, and when ten years
old,- in 1867, he with his father and brothers and
sisters came to .Vmerica. For one year the family
lived in Glcnham, Dutchess Co., N. Y., and from
there removing to Waterbury, where our subject
attended private school for a time. His first busi-
ness experience was in the Holmes, Booth & Hay-
dens Mfg. Co"s works, where for three or four years
he w'as employed in the plating de])artnient, and
afterward for some three years was shipping clerk
for the same firm. He then, in 1879, entered the
employ of the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., and was
with that firm twelve years, or until 1891 , in which
year he bought out the American Tea Co. From
that time until 1899 he was associated with John
E. Weible, but buying out his partner's interest, he
has since been conducting the business alone.

In October, 1884, Mr. Wright married Jennie
E. Wright (no blood relation), who was born in
Waterbury, and five children have blessed their
union: Walter W., Frank E., Lewis N., Edith H.
and Howard W., all living. Mr. Wright is a Re-
publican in politics, and has served his adopted city
in various offices of trust ; was aldemian of the
third ward 1896-97, and being re-elected served in
1898-99. He was a member of the town committee
about ten years, and for some twenty years has
been connected with the Phoenix Fire Department
of Waterbury, being one of its most enthusiastic
members. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Ma-
sons, and he also belongs to the Red Men and the
Ancient Order of United Workmen.

BERNARD F. KIVLAN, a well-known citizen
of Branford, was bom in East Haven. Conn., in
August, 1865, and is a son of Bernard and Ann
(McGinness) Kivlan, natives of County Leitrim,
Ireland, and who came to the United States prior
to i860. The parents located at East Haven, where
the father engaged in contract grading, excavating
and teaming to the time of his death, in 1892. The
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Michael Burns ; Mary, the wife of Dennis Freeman ;
John ; Lizzie, who married Henry Donnelly ; Ber-
nard F. ; Maggie, the wife of Edward Priest; and
Jennie.

Bernard F. Kivlan was reared in East Ilaven,
where he secured his education priiicii)ally in the
night schools At the age of nineteen he went on
the road as a traveling dealer in bakers' goods, teas,
coffees, butter and groceries, and followed this busi-
ness in East Haven until 1889. That year he came
to Jjranford and continued in the same business.
In i8yi he went into the liquor business, in which
he is still engaged.

Mr. Kivlan has been twice married, his first
wife being Margaret, a daughter of John and Mary
(Williams) Sullivan, of Branford, by whom he had
one son, John, who is now dead. His second wife,
Mary, a daughter of William and Mary (Woods)
Hartley, is the mother of four children : Anna J. ;
Bernard B. F. ; Marian T. ; and William H. The
family are members of the Catholic Church, and
Mr. Kivlan is a Democrat in politics. He is con-
nected with the United States and the Connecticut
Bottlers' Associations.

JERE.NHAH H. DUNN is a leading con-
Jtractor and prominent business man of Naugatuck,
where on all sides may be seen evidences of his
handiwork. Thoroughly reliable in all things, the
quality of his work is a convincing test of his own
personal worth, and the same admirable trait is
shown in his conscientious discharge of the duties
of different positions of trust and responsibility to
which he has been chosen in business and political
life.

.Mr. Dunn was born in Queens County, Ireland,
March 15. 1857, and is a son of Thomas Dunn, who
is still living in that countrv at the advanced age
of ninety-four years. The paternal grandfather of
our subject was Cornelius Dunn, a carpenter by
trade. The father has been a farmer and also a
public contractor, building bridges, etc. He erected
the house on the farm which has been his home for
almost eighty years. His wife, who bore the
maiden name of Mary Phalan. was also born in
Queens County, and died about twenty years ago.
To them were born four children : Cornelius, who
was sergeant of the p>olice in Ireland, and died in
1895 ; Maria ; Jeremiah H. ; and Grace. The
daughters are both unmarried.

In his native land Jeremiah H. Dunn grew to
manhood, working during the day and attending
school in the evening. Under his father, who was
then a contractor, he learned the mason's trade. It
was in 1879 that he crossed the broad Atlantic and
landed in Boston. Before coming to Naugatuck
he spent some time in Lowell. Mass., Clinton ajid
in Southbury, Conn., where he spent two years,
being foreman of the gang which built the large
mill there. Subsequently he was foreman for Chat-
field & Chatfield, large contractors of Waterburv,



Conn., and remained with them for four years. In
1887 he came to Naugatuck with a gang of men,,
and as a contractor has since engaged in business
on his own account. He built the large factory for
the Goodyear India Rubuer Co., and then took
charge of the Parish House, which he built and
which is a fine piece oi workmanship. As a con-
tractor and builder he has since erected perhaps
one hundred houses a year, built walls for ceme-
teries and constructed bridges, etc. He also does
concrete work, and in 1898 built four miles of side-
walk in Naugatuck, besides three miles of sewers.
He owns twenty-five acres of land in the city, which
he has platted, and to which he has given the name
of Fairview. As a business man he is prompt and
notaWy reliable, and the success that he has achieved
is due entirely to his own well-directed and ener-
getic efforts.

In November, 1890, ^Ir. Dunn married Miss
Margaret McVoy, a native of Naugatuck and a
daughter of Thomas McVoy, and to them have been
born five children: Thomas, Jeremiah, Arthur^
Philip and Margaret. Politically Mr. Dunn is a
stanch Democrat, and has been called upon to serve
as a member of the board of burgesses and as as-
sessor of his town. He is president of the Salem.
Spring Lake Ice Co., and a director in the Board
of Trade. Religiously he is a member of St. Fran-
cis Catholic Church, and socially is connected with
the Hibernians, the Foresters of America, the
Ancient Order of United Workmen, and Water-
bury Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. F. As a citizen and
business man he stands high in public esteem, and
wherever known is highly respected.

N. JAY WELTON, a well-to-do agriculturist
of O.xford, New Haven county, is a typical self-
made man, and in the following record of his career
there is much to arouse respect and esteem. He
has placed his reliance ujx)n industry and perse-
verance rather than on "luck," and by making the
most of circumstances, however discouraging, has
made his way to a substantial success, his fine fami
being a tangible evidence of prosperity.

Mr. Welton was bom in East Haven, Jan. i,
1841. and remained there until his father's death,
which occurred when he was but seven years old.
He then lived with an uncle for two years, and the
following year worked for his board and clothes
on the farm of another uncle in Bristol, Conn.
From there he went to Wolcott, where he worked
for his board and attended tne public schools for a
time. Subsequently he was employed as a farm
hand in Plymouth, Conn., and from there went to
Waterbury. where' he worked for the City Manu-
facturing Company three years, and later for the
American Mask & Cap Company.

Mr. Welton next went to Mcriden, Conn., and
while there he entered his country's service during
the war of the Rebellion, enlisting as a private, Aug.
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years or during the war. His first engagement was
the battle of Fredericksburg. He then took part in
the siege of Suffolk, and later was sent to Xewbern,
N. C, where the regiment did provost guard duty
for some time. As a part of the Ninth Corps,
Army of the Potomac, he took part in the battle of
Wise's Fork, and was at Kinston, N. C, at the
time of Lee's surrender.

After being discliarged at New Haven, Mr. Wel-
ton located in Derby, this county, where he worked
in the mills for one year, and then went to .^eymourj
where he was employed in the Douglas auger fac-
tory for seventen years. He was subsequently con-
nected with the New Haven Copper Co., located at
Seymour, for seven years, and at the end of that
time came to Oxford, where he has since made his
home, and where he owns a well-improved farm.
He carries on general farming, but makes a speci-
alty of dairying and the raising of small fruits. In
this undertaking he has met with well-merited suc-
cess, and he ranks to-day among the leading agri-
<:ulturists of the community.

On Aug. 7, 1862, Mr. Welton married Miss
Laura Beers, and to them were born four children :
Annie; David J.; and two who died in infancy.
In political sentiment our subject is a Republican,
and in his social relations is an Odd Fellow. He
served as grand juror five years, and was assistant
postmaster of Oxford for a time. He has the best
interests of his town and county at heart, and never
withholds his support from any enterprise which
he believes calculated to prove of public benefit.

ADAM J. DAUCH, late of the firm of Dauch
& Farr, meat dealers at No. 600 South Main street,
Waterbury, Conn., but who is now living at Smith's
farm, Oakville, Litchfield Co., Conn., was bom in
Ellenville, N. Y., July 13, 1861.

Adam Dauch, father of Adam J., was born in
Bavaria, Germany, March 17, 1823, came to Amer-
ica when a young man, and found employment as a
cigar maker in Newark, N. J. ; later he removed to
Ellenville, Ulster Co., N. Y., and there met and
married Miss Mary Disler, who was also a native
of Bavaria. This union was crowned with eight
children, as follows: Nicholas, now a prosperous
farmer in Sullivan county, N. Y. ; Frank, a distiller
of witch-hazel in Ulster county ; Sophia, who first
married John Teller, and after his death Har-
rison Ammell, who is also deceased, and she is now
living in Waterbury, Conn. ; Adam J., the subject
of this sketch; Mary, wife of Ellsworth Van
Buren. of Ulster county, N. Y. ; Elizalx;th, mar-
ried to John P. Geisler, a butcher in Waterbury,
Conn. ; Johanna, married to Adam Williams, a
farmer in Ulster county, N. Y. ; and John, who has
been a farmer and butcher, and now lives in Water-
bury. The father of these children was called from
eanh Oct. 5. 1890. and the mother in August, 1898,
both in the faith of the Lutheran Church.

The boyhood days of Adam J. Dauch were



passed in the town of Wawarsing, Ulster Co.,
N. Y., where his school attendance was at the little
old district'school house. He afterward helped to
improve the home farm, and while tluis engaged
met and married Miss Anna W'anzer, who v.as born
in Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y., a daughter of
Alfred Waiizer, a native-born American and a
farmer. Shortly after marriage Mr. and Mrs.
Dauch came to Waterbury, in May, 1889, and Mr.
JDauch went to work for the Hall & Upson Ice Co.
for a short time, and then for another short period
worked for his brother-in-law, John P. Geisler, in
the meat business. In 1889 ^\v. Dauch ojx'ned a
meat noarket on his own account, conducted it about
si.x months, and then formed a partnership with his
brother-in-law, under the firm name of Geisler &
Dauch, which firm was maintained for about three
years, when Mr. Dauch again embarked alone, and
so continued until the winter of 1899, when he
united with Charles Farr, under the firm style of
Dauch & Farr, at No. 600 South Main street, where
they found a lucrative trade, both the partners being
{X)lite and acconunodating salesman, and both thor-
oughly familiar with all the details of the business.
To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Adam J.
Dauch have been born five children in the follow-
ing order: Elizabeth, Frederick, Winnifred, Eve-
line and Rowland, and these are being reared with
the utmost care, and promise to be, in due course of
time, ornaments to society as well as useful citi-
zens. Politicallv Mr. Dauch has always been a
Democrat, but has never sought public office. Fra-
ternally he is a member of the Union Club, and so-
cially his standing is all that could be desired.

RICHARD B. LEWIS, a well-known and
highly respected business man of Waterbury, is a
native of England, and was born in the city of
Manchester, April 3, 1850.

Evan Lewis, father of our subject, was bom in
Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales, and in De-
cember, 1850, came to America, locating in Nauga-
tuck. Conn., where, in one of the mills, he followed
his trade of spinner. He finally removed to Water-
bury, and there died in 1888. He married Margaret
Evans, a native of the same locality in Wales, and
seven children were bom to them, to-wit : Evan is
deceased; Annie married Ira Webster, and thev live
in Binghamton, N. Y. ; Margaret married t). L.
Dickinson, and they live in Waterbury; David is
deceased ; Richard B. ; Susan married A. H. Koon,
and they live in W'aterbury; and Charles, Jr., is de-
ceased. The mother of this family is still living in
Waterbury.

Richard B. Lewis was seven years old when the
family came to Waterbury, and here at the district
scbools he received his education. At an early age
he entered the works of Brown Brothers and
learned the trade of burnisher, and then worked for
Holmes, Booth & Haydens for two years. Subse-
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beer business, after which he was in the employ of
the Waterbiiry Button Co. for about twenty-five
years. Since this long and honorable association he
has resumed his former bottling and grocery busi-
ness, and has repeated the success characteristic of
all his business undertakings.

On Jan. 6, 1875, Air. Lewis married Jane
Carmody, who was born in Waterbury, in 1855, a
daughter of Michael and Ann (Day) Carmody,
the latter of whom was a native of Ireland,
whence she emigrated to her present home in Water-
bury, Conn, about 1850. Two children have been
born to Air. and Airs. Lewis: Charles J. and George
R. The parents attend the services of the Episcopal
Church. In politics Air. Lewis is a Republican, and
he is socially a member of the A. O. U. W.,
K. of P. and Sons of St. George, in which latter
order he has been treasurer of the Grand Lodge four
years, and treasurer of the local lodge twelve years.

HARRY ALFRED ELCOCK, Al. D., one of
the leading physicians of Branford, was born in
Enfield, Hartford Co., Conn., June 2, 1870, and is
a son of Alfred and Alary (Kerr) Elcock, natives
respectively of England and Scotland.

Albert Elcock, the paternal grandfather of Dr.
Harry A., came to the United States about 1846,
and located at Bennington, Vt., where he was sup-
erintendent of the Powder Works. From there he
moved to Pottsville, Penn., and in the early fifties
located at Hazardville, Conn., where he filled the
position of superintendent of the Hazard Powder
Works for about twenty years, when he retired from
active business life and made his home in Hartford,
where he died in February, 1899, at the ripe old
age of eighty-three. His wife was formerly Alary
Silver.

Alfred Elcock, the father of the Branford
physician, who was the only child of his parents,
was brought to this country when about three years
old, and practically his entire life has been spent
in this state. While still very young he found di-
version and interest in the Hazard Powder factorV;
of which his father was manager, and in time ac-
quired a thorough knowledge of the business,
eventually having charge of the charcoal depart-
ment for nearly twenty years. At the present time
he is a contractor for the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company, at New Haven, where he has re-
sided since 1887. His wife, formerly Alary Kerr,
was a daughter of Thomas and Alary (Stewart)
Kerr, natives of Scotland, Presbyterians, and prom-
inent and respected people in Enfield. Two chil-
dren were born to Alfred and Alary Elcock: Harry
A. and Alary S.

Harry Alfred Elcock was educated in the Hart-
ford city schools, and in the high 5chool at Wor-
cester, Alass. In 1886 he entered Yale College, tak-
ing the Academic Course, and two years later en-
tered the Aledical Department of that famous in-
stitution, from which he was graduated in 1891.



For a year and a half he achieved commendable
results as house surgeon of the State Hospital at
New Haven, and then studied six months in the
Manhattan Eye and Ear Infirmary in New York
City. 1894 and 1895 were spent in the University
of Berlin, Germany, and in Guy's Hospital Rotunda,
Dublin, and upon returning home in 1895 he opened
his office in New Haven and spent the winter in
practice. The following spring he removed to
Boston, where he was employed by the United
States Government as a pathologist after he had
practiced a year and a half in that city.

In February, 1899, Dr. Elcock came to Bran-
ford, to pursue the practice of his profession, and
here his success has been immediate and marked.
His polished and, courtly wayi, his well stored
mind, his vast fund of professional information, and
his manifest ability as a practitioner, have brought
him a host of patrons and friends.

Dr. Elcock was married Nov. 22, 1899, to
Alargaret, a daughter of Patrick and Rosanna
(Plunkett) AIcKiernan, of Norwich, Conn., and a
niece of Ex-Senator J. D. Plunkett.

ATathew Elcock, the great-grandfather of Dr.
Elcock, was in the English army at Waterloo,
where he was wounded, and where he was given
the Victoria Cross for bravery. He died in En-
field, Conn.

Dr. Elcock is a member of the Catholic Church,
and is enrolled in the K. of C, the C. B. L., the
A. O. U. W., and the I. O. H. In politics he is in-
dependent, taking thought for the good of the com-
munity, and seeking the best men for the various
official positions.

TERENCE F. COUGHLAN, of Waterbury, is
one of those Irish^Americans, who, by their own
intrinsic worth and industry, have won a firm place
in the estimation of their fellow townsmen. Mr.
Coughlan was born in Kings County, Ireland, Alarch
4, 1849, where his father, Terence F. Coughlan,
Sr., engaged in farming. The latter died when
our subject was nine months old, and the mother,
Alary Condon, also a native of Kings County, was
left with four children — James T., Patrick, John
and Terence F. Of these, JamesT. owns a market
and drug store on Baldwin St., Waterbury; Patrick
is a painter, and resides in Waterbury ; and John
died about 1852. The mother died in Waterbury.

Terence F. Coughlan was but one year old when
his widowed mother located in Hartford, Conn., and
in 1852 came to Waterbury where young Terence
passed his boyhood days. After finishing his
schooling, he found work in diflferent factories, his
first wages being twenty-five cents per day. For
a short time he worked in Hartford, and then re-
turned to Waterbury, where for some time he was
employed in a spoon factory. He next began to
learn the butcher's trade, being employed in the
market owned by his brother, James T. About
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