an expert mechanic. .All of these .sons are employed
bv the 1. L. Stiles & Son Brick Co.
A Demix-rat in his )X)litical views, Mr. Halligan
COMMEMUKAI IIH. BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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votes for the man he thinks most fitted for the office
in local affairs, and does not desire any office for
himself. His three sons are members of Court Good
Will, Xo. 27, Foresters of America, Mt. Carmel. and
all the family are devout members of the Catholic
Church at Mt. Carmel. In the community the fam-
ily is respected highly, and Mr. Halligan is regarded
as one of the worthiest citizens, who deserves all the
succc?s which has attended his honest efforts.
D. BL'RTOX BROWN, one of the leading busi-
ness men of New Haven, and one who for a number
of years has been prominent in the municipal affairs
of the city, as well as in its fraternal orders, is looked
upon as one of the coming young men of his com-
munity. He was born in New Haven, May 10,
1869, a son of Anson K. and Emma (Brooks)
Brown.
Anson K. Brown for twenty years was one of the
active and successful business men of Xew Haven,
and a politician of local influence and power. As
a fish and oyster dealer, he was located first on the
corner of Chapel and Franklin streets, and later on
Grand avenue, where he remained until his death.
Aug. 5, 1894, at the age of fifty years, four months
and one day. His demise, caused by a street car
accident on Kimberly avenue, was a great shock to
his family and the community at large. For three
terms he had represented the Twelfth ward in the
city council.
D. Burton Brown received a good common-
school education in the public schools of Xew Haven,
after which he entered his father's business house,
and upon the latter's death, succeeded him not only
in the commercial house, but also in the line of pub-
lic affairs in which the father had been working, and
the son was soon recognized as a Democratic leader
in the Twelfth ward. In 1895 he was chosen a
member of the city council to succeed his father, and
ran well ahead of his ticket, and when he took his
seat, he was but twenty-five — the youngest member
of that body. At once, he became an active and coji-
spicuous working member of the council and w-as
very popular. Within a short time. Mr. Brown as-
sumed an aggressive attitude in all affairs pertain-
ing to his ward and the public welfare in general.
Through his efforts, the project of locating in the
Twelfth ward a hospital for contagious diseases, was
abandoned. He opposed what later became the
somewhat famous street sprinkling advertising con-
tracts, and with his colleague. Edward Rourke, of
the Finance committee, signed a minority report op-
posing the payment of $4,000 as proposed, and sug-
gested that $500 be paid each paper. The result of
this report was practically a victory for the minority,
as the Finance committee, after careful considera-
tion, finally recommended the sum of $600 be paid
the papers entitled to remuneration. The leader-
ship of young Brown in his ward was ably illus-
trated when, in a contest at the primaries a few years
ago,, he received an overwhelming victory.
Mr. Brown is prominent and active in various
orders and fraternities. He is a member of Delphi
Lodge No. 63, Pulaski Chapter and Crawford Coun-
cil, A. F. & A. M., and also of the Connecticut State
Firemen's Association with a record as volunteer
fireman for ten years. Mr. Brown is an honorary
member of the Aiuiex Fire Department. He is also
past grand master of Polar Star Lodge, No. 17,
1. O. O. F. and has represented the lodge at several
meetings of the Grand Lodge ; and belongs to Can-
ton Sassacus, No. i, of New Haven.
On Sept. 14, 1895, Mr. Brown was married to
Miss Jennie, daughter of George II. Currass. and to
this union have been born : William Morris, Ethel
May and Dora Ethel.
HON. JL'LICS COLTUX CABLE, judge
of the Court of Common Pleas of Xew Haven
county, is a representative of a sturdy New Eng-
land ancestry and of a kind, too, wdiose love of
liberty and freedom was beyond question. John
Cable, his emigrant ancestor came from England
to New England, settling at Ro.Kbury, Mass., early
in the seventeenth century. In 1636 he, in company
with Gov. Pynchon, removed to Springfield, ^lass.
Seven of his lineal descenilants served in the war
of the Revolution, two of whom were wounded and
were United States pensioners.
Judge Cable was born Oct. 11, 1849, i" New-
town. Conn., son of Nathaniel J. and Phoebe (Law-
rence) Cable, now of Avon, Conn. He attended the
schools of his native town, and later was a student
in Cornell L'niversity, Ithaca, X. Y. He taught
school in Newtown and L'nionville, Conn., and in
Ithaca. N. V. Subsequently he entered Yale Law
School, from which he was graduated in 1873. In
June of that same year he was admitted to the Bar
in New Haven county, settled in New Haven in the
practice of his profession, so continuing up to the
l)resent time. 1 wo years of his early practice were
in connection with the late Hon. Dexter R. Wright
and Hon. H. Lynde Harrison, and for nine years
he was associated with Wright & Harrison, of
New Haven, and subsequently four years with Mr.
Harrison alone. In 1876 he served as a member of
the common council of New Haven. He has also
served as clerk of the City Court and from 1883
to 1887. ''s '^^^y attorney. He was appointed judge
of the City Court in 1893. a position he filled with
dignity and great acceptancy, and four years later
was appointed to the office of judge of the court of
Common Pleas of New Haven county. His long
experience and good repute as a lawyer, his fine
record as a wise and humane judge of the City
Court, his excellent work as a substitute judge in
the court of common pleas, his untarnished stand-
ing as a man. and his usefulness as a citizen are
all so well known that his appointment to his pres-
ent office for which he is so well fitted is but a just
recognization of merit and character.
Judge Cable's political affiliations are with the
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Republican party. He is a member of Hiram Lodge
F. & A. M., and New Haven Commandery, Knights
Templar. He also belongs to the I. O. O. F., and
the New Haven Colony Historical Society.
On Jan. i, 1874, Judge Cable was married to
Alathea B. Woodruff, of Avon. Conn., a tfeughter
of Horace Woodruff, and to them have come two
children : Nathaniel J. and William D.
HERBERT C. CLE\'ELAXD WARREN, of
the firm of H. C. W^arren & Co., bankers and brokers
of New Haven, is one of that city's widely and favor-
ably known business men, as well as one of its lead-
ing enterprising and public-spirited citizens. Born
Feb. 5, 1S43, in the town of Derby, Conn., son of
the late Henry and Mary A. (Clark) Warren, he is
a representative on both sides of sturdy New Eng-
land ancestry of the Colonial period. On his
mother's side he descends from George Clark, one
of the first settlers of Milford, Conn., 1639.
On the 250th anniversary of the settlement of
Milford there was erected in the town The Memor-
ial Bridge, in honor of the founders of the town.
This was dedicated Aug. 28, 1889. Two of the
stones of this bridge are inscribed to the memory of
the Clarks — one, No. 8, to "Deacon George Clark,
Obit 1690, Mary His wife." and the other. No. 18,
to "George Clark, Obit 1690, Sarah His wife."
Concerning these Clarks, as named respectively, the
writer of the Memorial Pamphlet remarks as fol-
lows:
"As there were two George Clarks among the
settlers of 1639, much error has grown out of it, as
to the correct line of descent of the Clarks, but the
writer is confident that from the Deacon descends
all of that name in Milford. and those that trace to
his son .Samuel, who married Mary, the daughter of
George the 'Farmer,' have of course the blood of
both Georges. There has sprung an unusually large
progeny from one man, and as a rule, they have been
thrifty. He probably died without a will, but the
probate records show that he left a large estate.
His three sons were prominent, especially Ensign
George, and his daughter Sarah was the mother of
Gov. Jonathan Law, although Lambert says it
was Farmer George's daughter.
"This George Clark (referring to the sec<)nd
mentioned) was brother to John Clark, of Say-
brook, who removed thence to Milford and was
made deacon of the First Church, and married he^e
the widow of Deacon John Fletcher. His brother
Daniel was one of the patentees under the famous
charter from Charles H. His only son, John, prob-
ably died without issue soon after his father. His
daughter Ruth married Thomas Fitch, of Norwalk,
and her grandson was assistant of the Colony of
Connecticut. Her daughter Lydia married John
Newton in 1680 ("probablv son of the Pastor), was
soon a widow, but evidently a smart business wo-
man, and reached a ripe old age."
Henry Warren, the father of Herbert C. C,
was descended from the old Wilcoxson family of
Derby, Conn., where he was born in 1810. At an
early age he began teaching in his native town, and
for nearly or quite half a century was the "Master"
in Derby and neighboring towns, and from the
schools over which he presided went forth many
youths who attained honorable distinction and note
in the Naugatuck \'alley and elsewhere in the coun-
try at large. Master ^Varren was especially fitted
and adapted to his profession, and was eminently
successful in it. He won and held the respect and
esteem not only of the scholars, but of their parents,
and died beloved by a host of friends and acquaint-
ances. For the last fifteen or more years of his life
he made his home in New Haven with his son
Herbert C. C. Warren, going thither after the death
of his wife. His own death occurred Nov. 17,
1896.
Herbert C. C. Warren attended the schools of
his native town and was prepared for business as
clerk in a store and banking house. At the age
of tvventy-five years, in 1868, he established the
present banking and brokerage house bearing his
name. In 1878 Alexander McAlister became a
partner, and so continued until his death, in 1885,
since which time Mr. W^arren has continued the
business alone. To the business of this house Mr.
Warren has given close application and attention,
until he has developed an extensive and successful
trade which extends throughout New England, in
which section the establishment is well and favor-
ably known. Mr. Warren has successfully handled
many issues of trolley railroad and other invest-
ment bonds, and has the confidence of a large
clientele. The house does a general banking and
investment brokerage business.
Mr. Warren is identified with a number of cor-
porations and enterprises. He is a director of the
Merchants Bank and the New Haven Electric Co.,
and is treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce. He
has been a member of the New Haven city govern-
ment. Socially he belongs to the Quinnipiac Club
and the Union League. In politics he is a Repub-
lican.
On Oct. 9, 1867. Mr. Warren was married to
Helen L. Perkins, daughter of Charles Perkins, of
Meriden, a representative of an old Connecticut
family, and to them came two children, namely:-
Louise and Harold P. The mother of these died
March 23, 1896. On June 14, 1900, Mr. Warren
married Mrs. Alice G. Bristol, who had a daughter,
Naita.
MORSE. For about eighty years past the late
Gardner Morse and his descendants have been close-
ly identified with the history of New Haven, and
have figured conspicuously in its business growth
and development. The Alorse family is one of the
oldest among the early settlers of New England.
COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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Gardner Morse was a direct descendant of Joseph
Morse, who came to this country from England in
1635, setthng at Ipswich, ilassachusetts.
Gardner Morse was born at Marlboro, Mass.,
April II, 1809. When sixteen years old he came
to New Haven to enter the employ of Timothy
and Stephen Bishop, prominent merchants of the
city. After six years' service with these gentlemen
he engaged in the wholesale drug and oil business
with the late Charles Peterson, under the firm name
of Morse & Peterson, and founded the establish-
ment now conducted by the well-known firm of
Spencer & Matthews. At an early age Mr. Morse
entered the State militia service, and soon became
colnnel of the Second Connecticut Regiment. Un-
der his command the service was reorganized and
brought to a state of high discipline and efficiency,
which that admired organization has since well
maintained. In this duty he had the good fortune
to have the assistance on his stall of Alajor Alinott
E. Osborn, the late editor and proprietor of the New
Haven Register, and attributed much of his success
as a commander to the valued co-operation of that
greatly beloved and esteemed fellow citizen and
soldier. Col. Morse was also later honored with
the commission of major of the Second Company
of the Governor's Foot Guards, a command of his-
toric renown for its participation in the war of the
Revolution. In 1837 he retired from mercantile
business, and thereafter during his long life was
continuously and actively engaged in the discharge
of many public official duties, and in the manage-
ment of private trusts of considerable importance,
for both individuals and corporations. Among the
public offices filled by him may be mentioned the
collectorship of taxes of the city, town and school
district, which position he filled with marked ability
for twenty years, from 1S37 to 1857. He was also
for about forty years trustee of the town deposit
fund and the old Almshouse Farm corporation of
New Haven. He was identified with the manage-
ment of the afi^airs of the New Haven Savings
Bank, of which he was a vice-president and trustee
until his decease. His business connections as a
real-estate and fire insurance agent were early es-
tablished, and grew in extent and importance from
year to year, and his knowledge and experience in
all matters pertaining to real property were es-
pecially well known and valued.
Mr. Morse was accurate in judgment, quick in
perception and prompt in acts of sympathy. His
character presented a rare combination of dignity,
firmness and gentleness, such as engaged to a
marked degree the confidence, esteem and afifection
of all who knew him. His religious convictions
were deep and strong. He was a lifelong member
of Trinity Episcopal Church, and served that so-
ciety as vestryman and treasurer for many years.
In his political associations Col. Morse was first a
Whig and later an unfaltering adherent of the Re-
publican party. He was deeply interested in all
that pertained to the history and welfare of the
town, and retained his activity in all social and
business relations until nearly the end of his life,
which came suddenly, in May, 1896, from an apo-
plectic stroke.
Mr. Morse was three times married, and was
the father of twelve children. Six of his sons grew
to manhood in New Haven and attained consider-
able prominence in business. The eldest son,
Algernon Hull Morse, whose lamented death
preceded that of his father by a few months, was
a man of marked character and ability. He was
born in 1835, and received an excellent common-
school education in the schools of New Haven, and
at Oxford, Conn., and began his business career at
the age of fourteen in the ofifice of Hooker & Os-
born, a leading firm of carriage makers in New
Haven. He early showed unu.^ual skill as an ac-
countant, and enjoyed an extensive experience and
practice in that employment in various large es-
tablishments, in Cambridge, New York and New
Haven, until the year 1870, when he established
himself as a public accountant in his native city
and there remained in the practice of his calling
for the remainder of his life. Algernon Morse was
a thorough master and progressive student of his
chosen profession and acquired a national reputa-
tion, not only for the marvelous rapidity and ac-
curacy and beauty of his work, but also for its prac-
tical results, and the lasting value of the direction
and advice given by him. He was ever ready to
instruct and assist others ambitious to excel in the
same line of work, and many were encouraged and
stimulated to success by the example of his remark-
able powers of appplication. ?ilr. Morse closely
resembled his father in personal appearance, and
was of large and powerful form. Socially he was
extremely and deservedly popular, and his genial
nature found its best expression in the work of the
various fraternal societies with which he was con-
nected. He was a lifelong and well-known mem-
ber of Hiram Lodge, F. & A. M., and was es-
pecially noted for his work in the order of the
Sons of Temperance. Of this body he was grand
scribe for several years, and labored eflfectively for
twenty years in the cause of temperance, as a mem-
ber of Harmony Lodge, New Haven. He was a
fine reader and dramatic critic. His sudden death,
from heart disease, in December, 1895, while ap-
parently in the fullest vigor, closed an honored
career full of promise of future usefulness.
WiLLi.AM Wilson Morse, the second son of
Gardner Morse, was born in New Haven, and was
educated chiefly in the schools of that city, and,
like his brother Algernon, acquired considerable
skill and reputation as an accountant. In this oc-
cupation he passed his youth and early manhood,
but during his middle life was for several years en-
gaged in various business enterprises in the Western
States. In youth he particularly excelled in all
manly sports and exercises, and was the life of
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
every social gatliering. At the breaking out of the
war William Morse, then twenty-four years of age.
was a sergeant of the New Haven Grays, and en-
listed with that company for three months' service.
At the end of that term he raised a company and ]
returned to the field as a captain in the Twentieth
Connecticut N'olunteers. During the war his com-
mand saw much hard service anil many battles un-
der the command of Gen. Sherman, and he returned
at its close with the rank of brevet major. Major
Morse was a most excellent soldier and officer,
very popular with his command, and highly esi-
teemed by his superior officers. But his tastes and
ambition were not inclined to military affairs, and
he preferred and sought the qdiet joys of social
and civil life. He was much interested in instru-
mental music and a superior amateur upon the
flute. In political affairs he exerted considerable
influence, and was ever an active and zealous ad-
herent of the Republican party and a loyal supporter
of the best men and measures. He was for several
terms a member of the court of common council
and also of tiie board of police commissioners.
Major Morse died at New Haven in 1898, leaving
a widow and two sons. William Austin Morse and
Herbert Townsend ^lorse. both rising young busi-
ness men of New Haven.
G.\RDXKR Morse, the third son of the late Col.
Gardner Morse, and the eldest of his three surviving
sons, were born at Xew Haven in i83(). He was
educated in the Hopkins Grammar School, and
spent a portion of his early years roughing it in
what was then the far Western country of Ohio.
He began business at an early age in the employ
successively of several local mercantile houses, and
in a short time, following the footsteps of his elder
brothers, became a valued and trusted accountant.
For a few years after the war he was engaged with
C S. Maltby & Co., in the oyster canning business,
at Baltimore and in St. Louis, but returned to New
Haven to resume his work as an accountant in i86g.
About the year 1870 he assumed a position with
the New Haven Gas Co., where as secretary and
treasurer he has for nearly thirty years ably directed
the oflice work of that large establishment. Mr.
Morse has been noted for many years for his com-
plete knowledge and proficiency in the gentle sport
of angling, and in particular for his interest and
efforts in the propagation of trout and the culti-
vating and protection of trout streams. The well-
known Waltonian Club of New Haven county was
founded chiefly through the efforts of the brothers
Gardner and William W. Morse.
Gardner Morse was married in 1870 to Mary
Hamilton, of Northampton, Mass., a lady much
admired and esteemed for her personal beauty and
charming social qualities. Mrs. Morse has to her
credit, in addition, the distinction of having engaged
in historical and genealogical research with much
diligence and success. She is an active member of
the patriotic order of the Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution. Mrs. Morse is herself of dis-
tinguished lineage. She is a daughter of Luther W.
Hamilton and granddaughter of Loomis, who was
a great-grandson of Duke Hamilton of Scotland.
Ruth Waldo, her grandmother was the daughter
of Schulen Waldo, a prominent man of North-
ampton and colonel in the Revolutionary war; he
served also in the war of 1812.
Mr. and Mrs. Morse have two daughters liv-
ing. Miss Edith Hamilton" Morse and Mrs. Re
bekah How Corbin, of New Britain, and two
grandchildren. Gardner Morse Corbin and .
Elliott How Morse, the fourth son of Gard-
ner Morse, was born in New Haven in July, 1846.
After his graduation from the Hillhouse High
School he entered at once upon his apprenticeship
as a banker's clerk with the late John W. Mans-
field, in the Connecticut Savings Bank. In 1880
he succeeded that gentleman as treasurer of the in-
stitution, and since that date has continued to dis-
charge the duties of that position and trusts of' a
similar character with conspicuous ability and fi-
delity.
Joseph Bulkeley ;\Iorse, the fifth son of the
late Gardner Morse, born in 1850, was educated in
the New Haven public schools and in the academic
and law departments of Yale L'niversity. He suc-
ceeded to and still conducts the business founded by
the late Gardner Morse.
Ch.arles Theodore Morse was the sixth and
youngest of the adult sons of Gardner Morse. He
was born in 1853, and graduated from the Yale
Scientific School in 1872, and from the Yale Law
School in 1876. He soon became prominent as an
able and brilliant member of the Bar, and was par-
ticularly active and efficient as a leading Repub- ,
lican politician. He was chairman of the Repub-
lican Town Committee for several years, and also
served in the court of common council, and as city
clerk of New Haven with Mayor (afterward Go\'.)
Hobart B. Bigelow, by whom he was honored with
a staff appointment as lieutenant-colonel in 1880.
Col. Charles T. Morse was most affectionately
beloved by the companions of his youth in college,
and retained their esteem throughout his short life,
and was especially active in the management of his
college fraternal society. \'ery early he was
obliged to give up business and political affairs by
reason of failing health, which all treatment and
change of climate and travel failed to restore. He ^
died of consumption, at Pasadena, Cal., in 1889.
hXDEX.
Brcnnan, Andrew C 1174
Brennan, 'Joseph 1479
Brei-.nan, Patrick J 1067
Rrcimaii, T. .1 1532
Brenner, R inliold 1502
Bret, E'lw.-inl P 978
Brett Family 978
Brett, Y\rn. Frank P 1199
Brett V .[riok 1199
P.rcwcr, Aiva G 1242
Brewer, Charles 1503
Bright. Mrs. Jean 374
Bright. Thomas 374
Brill, F. B 1472
Brin-made, Daniel S 800
Brinsmade Family 800
Bristol, Alfred 1353
Bristol Family 1352
Bristol, Henry J 152
Bristol, Jehial 964
Bristol. Johnson 964
Bristol, Johnson 152
Bristol. Theodore 964
Bristol, Warren P 1352
Bristol. William B 144
Brockett Families 650, 909
Brockett. Frederick H 650
Brocksieper, Frederick W 888
Bronncke, William F 1065
Bronneke, Mrs. William F. . . . 1065
Bronson, Benjamin L 1032
Bronson. Charles H 881
Bronson, Edward L 98
Fronson Families
20, 98, 382, 881, 1032, 1391
' ronson. Dr. Henry 21
,3ronson, I. P 775
Bronson, Leonard 98
Bronson, Lester 775
Bronson, Robert A 1391
Bronson, Samuel B 721
Bronson, Judge Samuel L 21
Bronson, Stillman 1033
Bronson, Walter 721
Bronson, William K 1391
Bronson, Walter W 382
Brookcr. Hon. Charles F 258
Brooker Family 258
T )oker, Samuel 625
''brooks. Mrs. Arthur M 751
Brooks. Rev. David 791
Brooks, David 790
Brooks Families 59, 790
Brooks, Friend E 678
Brooks, Isaac R 678
Brooks. James S 31
Brooks. Nathan 982
Brocks. Capt. Oliver N 982
Brown, .^nlon 272
Brown. Anson 323
Brown. Benjamin B 973
Brown. Maj. Benjamin E 1306
Brown. Charles H., M. D 1212
Brown. Charles P 324