of Southington, Conn.; Nathan W. is our subject;
Ellen L. (deceased)- was the wife of Samuel A.
Bayliss ; Charles A. died unmarried ; Imogene E.
is now the wife of Frederick A. Cook, mentioned
above.
In 1842. when two years old, Nathan W. Green-
man, our subject, was taken by his parents to Green-
ville, a suburb of Norwich, this state, and at the
public and high schools of that place received a
libera! education. On May 15, 1853, he came to
Waterbury, which has since been his home. Tak-
ing up the profession of dentistry, he in 1858 fol-
lowed same in Charleston, S. C, and while there
saw slaves sold by auction. During the year 1859
he for some time sold books throughout Michigan.
In 1862 he enlisted in the Union army, as will be
presentlv recorded; from 1865 to 1866 was a clerk
in the VVaterbury postoffice, and then embarked in
the coal business, in which line he is actively en-
gaged at the present time.
In November, 1875, Mr. Greenman married
Edith G. Webster, a daughter of Chauncey B.
\\'ebster, of Waterbury. No children have been
born to this union, ^ir. and Mrs. Greenman are
members of the Congregational Church. In politics
he is a Republican, and he has served his adopted
city as tax collector, also on the board of relief.
Socially he is affiliated with the F. & A. M., I. O.
O. F., Concordia Society and G. A. R.
On Aug. II, 1862, Mr. Greenman enlisted in
the service of the L'nited States in Company H,
20th Conn. \'. I., for three years, or during the
war. and the following succinct war record, written
by himself, will be of interest:
"I was mustered as corporal at New Haven,
Conn., Sept. 8, 1862. left the State Sept. 11, 1862,
served in the defence of Washington, D. C. : from
Oct. 2, 1862, 2d Brigade, ist Division, 12th Corps,
Army of the Potomac ; and Army of the Cumber-
land from June, 1863, ist Brigade, 1st Division,
20th Corps: from April, 1864, 2d Brigade, 3di Di-
vision, 20th Corps, Army of the Cumberland ; trans-
ferred to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, Armies of
the Cumberland and Georgia, May 29, 1864, re-
maining with last mentioned brigade, division and
corps, until the ending of the Civil war, April,
1865, holding the rank of sergeant until that event.
I was on duty with my regiment, in defence of
Washington. D. C. until Sept. 29, 1862: moved
to Sandy Hook, thence to Harper's Ferry, Mary-
land Heights, Loudon Heights, Keys and Manning
Fords, on the Shenandoah river, Va., then to Fair-
fax Station, \'a. Advanced on Fredericksburg,
during the cold and severe rains of December, 1862,
when, from the depth of the mud. it was impossible
for men and trains to move more than four or five
miles a day. Not an article of apparel, outside or
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
inside of the knapsack, but was tlioroug'hly soaked
with the icy rain. For ten consecutive days and
nights these conditions were the experiences of all
in the command. The cold, wet ground served for
a bed, and a wet knapsack for a pillow. With all
these discomforts- the men appeared to be cheerful
and in good spirits and health. I was with my
command during the Confederate Gen. Stuart's
raid, from Dec. 27 to Dec. 31, 1862, and in other
operations against the enemy, until ordered into
winter quarters at Stafford Court House, Va., Jan.
19, 1863, there remaining until April 27, 1863.
During the latter part of the month of January,
i8<)3, l)y order of Brig. Gen. Kane, commanding
our brigade, myself and a detail of six men from
my company (each with three days' rations) were
ordered to take possession of and occupy Aquia
Creek church, some four or five miles distant from
our camp, to prevent its defilement by scouting or
other parties of soldiers. * * * We carried
into the church several cords of wood, built a fire
in the center of the floor with which we cooked our
rations, and kept warm (the weather being very
cold), remaining there nearly five days, the last
thirty-six hours without food, headquarters having
forgotten or overlooked the fact that we were on
duty there. The church at that time was between
the lines, and we were liable to capture by the
enemy at any time during the period of our guard.
The waning of the fifth day lirought to our ears
the sound of horses' hoofs upon the frozen ground,
and from our outlook within the church there
came into a view a regiment of cavalry which
proved to be the 8th New York, which not only
relieved our apprehension and anxiety, but also our
hunger. Through the dispatch of an orderly to
Gen. Kane's headquarters, we were ordered to re-
turn to our camp. * * On April 26, 1863,
came orders to break up camp and march to the
scenes of battle in the coming campaigns of the
spring and summer of 1863. Eight days' rations
and eighty rounds of ammunition is the order. A
forced march of three days brought the command
to Germania Ford on the Rapidan river. Order to
strip off all our clothing, put them in a roll, and
wade through the rapidly flowing stream, where we
found foothold difficult to maintain. Lined up to
roll-call on the opposite bank of the river, prepara-
tory to imminent battle at Chancellorsville. Virginia.
"This is to be my first important engagement,
and questions surge the mind, like the incoming
and receding waves of the ocean, that are un-
answerable until the conflict ends. Killed, wound-
ed or unscathed, and will you perform all of the
duties of a soldier, bravely and unflinchingly in the
coming contest, whatever the result? My fate
proved cajiture, the third day of the battle. Sun-
day, May 3, 1863. This was the only time I was
made a prisoner of war during my three years'
service. I was confined in Libby Prison, and on
Belle Isle, in and opposite Richmond, \'a. Follow-
ing my confinement at Camp Parole. Annapolis,
Md., and my exchange during the month of .Au-
gust, 1863, I joined my regiment and company at
Cowan, Tenn., and was promoted to the position
of sergeant April 22. 1864. performing duty along
the line of the Louisville & Nashville railroad and
Chattanooga line of coninnmications until the open-
ing of the Atlanta campaign. May 4, 18A4, partici-
pating in the following engagements : lUizzard
Roost Gap, May 8 and 9; holding Boyd's Trail,
May 10 and 11 ; battle of Resaca, Mav 13 and 15;
Cassville, May 19; advance to Etowah, May 20
and 23, 1864. At this date I was detached for
duty in the Ambulance Corps, a duty I found to be
arduous, tedious and compassionate, constantly
drawing upon my sympathy, because of the mutil-
ation and suffering I witnessed during a series of
engagements that consumed one hundred consecu-
tive days of time when fighting in one contingent
or other of those armies took place. It has been
designated by some, of those who endured the cam-
paign, the 'one hundred days' battle.'
"Entered Altanta, (ja., SejJt. 3, 1864, and was
assigned to duty at the headquarters of Gen. H. W.
Slocum, commandant, in charge of ten of the am-
bulances used to convey the citizens of that city to
Rough and Ready (Confederate line), in accord-
ance with the order issued by Gen. Sherman, mak-
ing it imperative that all non-combatants should
be removed from within our lines. Citizens had
the option of going North or South, and from my
observation comparatively few went North. Sept.
20, 1864, was relieved from duty in the Ambulance
Corps, and ordered to join my regiment, then in
camp on the outlying hills east of the city. Nov.
15, 1864, started and marched through the State
of Georgia with Gen. Sherman's army, wliich ar-
rived at Savannah, Ga.. Dec. 10. 1864. serving with
my company and regiment during the siege of that
city, entering it with our victorious army Dec. 21,
1864. I was on duty in that place until Jan. 3,
1865, crossed' the Savannah river Jan. 4, and
camped on the rice fields on South Carolina soil,
opposite the city, for a week : marched to Ilardee-
ville, S. C, helped in the leveling of that place
with the ground ; remained there some ten days,
marched to Sisters Ferrv. on the Savannah river,
then accompanied Gen. Sherman's army in its fam-
ous march through the Carolinas, from January
to April, 1865. I was in the skirmish near Law-
tonville, Feb. 2. 1865, with a reconnoissance to
Silver River, N. C, March 14-15; fought in the
battle of Averysboro, N. C. ; was in action, March
16, near Taylor's Hole creek, N. C. ; also in the
engagement at Bentonville, N. C, March 19-20,
1865; was with a detail of thirty men (Capt. Ezra
Sprague in command) who were foraging, when
lost amongst the pines of South Carolina, for three
days and nights, pursued by Gen. Joe Wheeler's
cavalry, when capture meant instant death, as no
quarter was given to our foragers, if taken prison-
COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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crs. The battle of Rcnton-ville. X. C, was the last
fought by Gen. Sherman's army in the Civil war.
1 was on duty at Goldsboro, X. C, from March 31
to April 10, 1865; at Raleigh, the State capital,
.\pril 13-22; guarding supply trains to Jones'
Cross Roads, X. C, April 22-24 ; ^nd at the sur-
render of Gen. Johnston's army to Gen. Sheniian,
April 26, 1865. Then left my company and regi-
ment, by order of the regimental surgeon. Dr.
Jewett, proceeded by rail to Beaufort, N. C, thence
by steamer to Fort Schuyler, X. Y., there detailed
as chief clerk in the muster-out department, by
Major Thicman of the United States Army, and
was honorably discharged from the United States
service July 6, 1865. I never was wounded, ex-
perienced hut little sickness (none of a serious
nature), an inmate of the hospital one week, at
Parole Camp, Annapolis, Md., from hip injury that
])roved slight, acted as assistant steward in tiiat
hospital after my recovery during the term of my
parole, returned to my citizenship July 8, 1865, in
a better i)hysica! comlitiim than when I joined the
service."
COL. JOHX r.. DOilKRTV was born at
Hard Ledge, Westmoreland Co., Xew Brunswick,
Sept. 10, 1853, a son of William A. and Matilda
G. Doherty. The mother died in 1895, aged sev-
enty-six years, and the father, who was bom in
England in 1820, died in Waterbury in June, 1900,
aged eighty years. James G. Doherty, the grand-
father of Col. John B., was horn in Colerain, Ire-
land, and was a farmer.
William A. Doherty when a boy left England
with his parents, and went to Xew Brunswick,
where he engaged in shipbuilding after reaching
nianho
quarters. He located for a time in \\'estmoreIand
countv, Xew Brunswick, engaged as a shipbuilder,
and then, returning to .St. John's, was for a long
term of years superintendent in the shipyards of
Jewett & Scammel, a very large concern at that
time. About 1865 he came to Waterbury for a
time. He went back to Xew Brunswick, but his
home was in Waterbury after 1890. Mr.<. Matilda
(Gallaway) Doherty was born in Colerain, Ireland,
a (laughter of James Gallaway. who removed to
'I lu)ni]5sonville. Conn., when she was very youiTg.
To Mr. and Mrs. William A. Doherty was born
a family of ten children, seven of whom lived to
maturity: James G., William A., Eliza, John B.,
.\nna, Rebecca and Mary J. James G. lives in
Waterbury, and William .\. in Green Bay, Wis.
Anna married Leonard Bnrr, and has her home in
Bridgeport, Conn. The other members of the fam-
ily live in Waterburv.
Col. John B. Doherty spent hi.^ l)oyhood da\s
in St. John's, Xew Brunswick, and attended school
there. In 1865 he came to Waterbury, where he
has continued to live up to the present time. He
coninK'nced to learn the machinist's and toolmak-
er's trades, but did not finisli his apprenticeshii),
preferring to take a position as clerk in the jewelry
store of C. H. Perkins & Co. In 1872 young
Doherty became entry clerk for Benedict, Meriman
& Co., and remained with them until they went
{ out of business, in 1875, when he bought the gentlc-
' men's furnishing store at the corner (jf Bank street
and Exchange place, and conducted it until 1878.
That year he closed the store and began keeping
books for the A. Burrctt Hardware Co., a concern
very extensively engaged in the manufacture of
gas and waterpipe fittings. Mr. Doherty became
secretary of the company, disposed of the retail
store, built new factories, and started out on a
very ambitious career, but was caught by the panic
of 1884 and crowded to the wail. After the failure
of the Burrctt Hardware Co. he secured a posi-
tion as corresponding clerk with the Holmes, Booth
& Hayden Manufacturing Co., which he held until
the reorganization of Brown & Brothers, when he
went with them a.s: chief bookkeeper, remaining
with them until they went into liquidation.
Mr. Doherty was elected second selectman in
1885, and at that time was tlie only Repuljlican
on the board. The next year he was made first
selectman, and on the meeting of the board be-
came its chairman. The Democrat who had held
the chairmanship was defeated by an adverse vote
of twelve hundred, and lost everv ward in the city
to Mr. Doherty. In October, 1887, the same ticket
was renominated and elected. In 1888 Mr. Doherty
declined a renomination, and announced himself as
a candidate for the po.^ition of postmaster. He
was appointed to the postmastership in 1889 by
President Harrison, and officiated in that capacity
four years and four months. From time to time
other tiattering political honors have been extended
to Mr. Doherty. In 1888 and again in 1892 he
was asked to take the nomination for Congress.
He has been requested to become candiclate for
sheriff of the county, but his^ business relations did
not admit of his acceptance. In 1890 he was of-
fered the nomination for the position of mayor of
Waterbury. hut, much as he would like to serve
the people, his business relations again compelled
him to decline.
Mr. Doherty was chosen secretary of the Con-
necticut Indenmity Life Insurance Co. in l'"ebruarv,
1893. This company was not in good condition,
and its business had become very much run down,
hut under the new management — of which Mr.
Doherty was secretary and a director — it was in-
tended to change the basis of the company's busi-
ness from that of asses>ment to the legal reserve,
or so-called "old line." During his management the
business increased from four and a half million dol-
lars to more than twelve millions of insurance up
to July, 1898, when he resigned his office, and de-
voted himself to the real-estate, insurance and
brokerage business, with the same gratifying suc-
cess.
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
Col. Doherty has been associated with the State
National Guard for manv years. He became a pri-
vate in Company A. 2d Kcsiment, C. N. G., in Feb-
ruary, 1872, and gradually rose from one position
to another until July i, 1892, when ho was elected
colonel of the reg;iment. He served in that office
six years, and then asked to be |)Iaced on the retired
list. Col. Doherty is a Mason of hijjh degree, be-
longing to the blue lodge, the chapter, the con-
sistory and the Temple. He takes an active part in
the Odd T'ellows, the Knights of Pythias and the
Red Men, and wherever he is encountered he is
always the same genial and polished gentleman.
The Colonel has always taken a leading part in the
affairs of the Republican party, and his is a fa-
miliar presence at county and ' State Conventions.
He was acting alternate delegate at the Chicago
convention which nominated President Harrison,
and a regular alternate at the Minneapolis conven-
tion which renominated President Harrison.
Col. Doherty has been twice married. His first
marriage was to Miss Jennie M. Barton, of Win-
chester, Conn., in 1875. Mrs. Doherty had very
delicate health, and spent much of her married life
in the balmy South ; she died in 1882. There were
no children by that union. In September, 1892, our
subject married Katherine Sedgwick Buel, of
Waterbury, daughter of Mrs. Cornelia A. Buel and
the late Theodore S. Buel, and niece of the late
Judge Xorton J. Buel. To this union has come one
child, Cornelia Buel, born Aug. 15, 1896.
FREDERICK A. LINES, secretary and treas-
urer of the Ansonia Lumber Co., at Ansonia, is one
of the leading business men of that town, and his
energy and sound judgment have been recognized
factors in carrying manv enter[)rises to success. In
addition to attending to his lumber business he
served as president of the Ansonia Board of Trade,
vice-president of the Connecticut State Board of
Trade, and a director in the Ansonia Savings Bank
and the An.sonia Flour & Grain Co. As a citizen
he takes an active part in local affairs.
Mr. Lines was born Oct. 25, 1849, at New Mil-
ford, Litchfield Co., Conn., where his family has
been prominent from pioneer times. Joseph Lines,
his great-grandfather, came from New Haven in
1750, and settled at New Milford, and Philo Lines,
his grandfather, was born there in 1769, and fol-
lowed farming in that vicini'tv throughout all his
life.
William A. Lines, our subject's father, was born
in New Milford in 1809, and died there in 1885.
He was a substantial farmer and respected citizen,
and he and his wife were devout members of the
Congregational Church. In politics he was a Dem-
ocrat. He married Betsy A. Sullivan, who was
horn in New Milford, daughter of Henry Sulli-
van, and died aged forty-five years. They had
four children, of whom three are living: George,
who is in the lumber business in New Milford ;
Frederick A., our subject; and Charles, who con-
ducts a flour and grain business in New Britain.
The common schools near his home afforded
our subject an education, and at eighteen he went
to South Norvvalk to learn the carpenter's trade.
When twenty-one years old he located in Ansonia,
pnd after following his trade three years as a jour-
j neyman began contracting, many of the best dwell-
ings and other buildings in the town having been
I built by him. In 1883 he became a member of the
I Ansonia Lumber Co., and in February, 1888, when
I Mr. Smith was chosen president, our subject was
made secretary and treasurer. The yard is the larg-
, est in this section, and is the only one in the locality
having first-class railroad facilities, and carrying
a full stock of all kinds of rough and dressed lum-
ber. They order directly from the manufacturers,
?nd have an extensive business in all lines.
Mr. Lines is a Republican in politics, and was
assessor and one of the burgesses of Ansonia for
a number of years. He was also president of the
first board of aldermen of the city of Ansonia, and
took an active part in organizing the first city gov-
ernment. Socially he and his familv are prominent,
and he is a member of George Washington Lodge,
F. & A. M., of Ansonia; ^Iount Vernon Chapter,
R A. M. ; L'nion Council, of Derby ; New Haven
Commandery, Knights Templar, of New Haven ;
Pyramid Temple, of the Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine, of Bridgeport ; the Heptasophs, of Ansonia;
the A. O. U. W. ; and the New England Order of
Protection.
In 1874 Mr. Lines married Miss Lottie A.
Hotchkiss, and they have two children : Miss Bes-
sie A., a graduate of Fort Edward Collegiate In-
stimtc. and later a teacher there : and William H.
The family attend the Congregational Church, of
which Mrs. Lines and Miss Bcjsie are members.
Mrs. Lines was born in Ansonia, daughter of Lock-
wood and Augusta Hotchkiss, both of whom sur-
vive. Mr. Hotchkiss is a well-known hardware
dealer and capitalist of Ansonia. This worthy
couple had six children, of whom five are living:
Lottie A. (Mrs. Lines'). Albert, Nettie, Lockwood,
Jr.. and Frederick D. Hotchkiss.
HERBERT :M. ROSE, a well-known miller of
the town of Milford, is a native of North Branford,
this county, born May 9, 1842. His family has
been identified with North Branford for many
.years, and his great-grandfather, Solomon Rose,
was among the first settlers in that locality.
David Rose, our subject's grandfather, was born
and reared in North P.ranford, and became a farm-
er there. He married Anna Russell, and they had
five children, as follows: Major (deceased), who
took charge of the homestead, never married; Re-
becca married Eloyda Harrison, a farmer in North
Branford; Joshua is mentioned more fully below;
Laura married a Mr. Loper, and subsequently be-
i came the wife of Russell Rose, and resided in
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD.
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North Guilford, this county; Dainaris (deceased)
never married.
Joshua Rose, our subject's father, was bom
Jan. 9, 1797, and was a lifeIon
Branford. In connection with farming he operated
a sawmill. As a citizen he was much esteemed, and,
while not active in politics, he affiliated with the
Democratic party. His death occurred at his farm
Oct. 8, 1878, when he was aged eighty-one. In
1838 Mr. Rose married Harriet \V. Smith, who
•died Feb. 4, 1883. at the age of seventy-five. She
was a native of West Haven, this county, and her
father, Laban Smitli, was a wheelwright of that
town. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs.
Rose, viz. : Russell M., who operates the home-
stead ; Herbert M., our subject; George H., a mer-
chant in Douglas. Kans. ; Charles J., a farmer and
truckman in Xorth 15 ran ford ; and David S., who
Avas in mercantile liusiness in Douglas, Kans., at
the time of his death, in 1892.
Herbert M. Rose remained at the old homestead
aintil he reached the age of eighteen, and for one
year taught school in a country district. He then
learned the carpenter's trade, winch he followed in
New Haven for some time, and has occasionally
â– engaged in it since, but his attention has been given
â– chiefly to the millwright's trade. His services were
in demand for setting up water-wheels and ma-
chinery in different places, and in i8r)8 he located
in the town of Milford, two and a half miles from
the village of that name. His homestead com-
prises twentv acres, and on settling there he put up
substantial buildings, including a saw and grist-
Tiiill, which he conducts. He also owns and oper-
ates a gasoline launch, carrying about twenty-five
])eople. and takes parties cruising down the Sound
and up the Hudson river. Pnliticallv our subject
is a stanch Re]niblican, but he is not an office-
seeker.
On Nov. \C), iHOg, Mr. Rose married Miss
I'lorence E. Treat, who was born in W'oodmont,
this county, daughter of Richard Treat, a promi-
nent farmer and a descendant of Gov. Robert Treat.
The only child of this union, I'lorence E.. died
at the age of seventeen years. Mr.'^. Rose is a mem-
ber of the First Congregational Church of Mil-
fnrd.
HENRY FRANCIS WANNING, president
and general manager of the Birmingham Iron
houndry, of Derby. Conn., was born in Massa-
ciuKetts. March 30. 184'). .Vfter receiving his
earlier education in the public schools of his na-
tive town, he entered the high school of Taunton,
Mass., where he graduated in 1862.
Soon after laying aside his text books Mr.
Wanning began work in the office of the woolen-
mills of Samuel Slater's Sons at Webster, ]\Iass.,
but after a time he removed to New York City,
where he entered the employ of the New York
1 City Steel ^^'orks, and while there becaine ac-
quainted with the proprietors of the Birmingham
Iron Foundry, of Derby, Conn. Subsequently he
was induced by that company to accept the jxjsi-
tion of bookkeeper for their cstablishmeiU, and ever
since 1865 he has been identified with that firm in
different ca])acities. In 1879 he was electetl their
secretary; in 1888 he became treasurer; and in
1891 having acquired a larger interest in the cor-
poration, he succeeded Royal M. Bassett as its
president and general manager. He has served
as a director of the Birmingham National Bank
since 1888.
Ill 1S70 Mr. Wanning was married to Miss Plar-
riet Wallace, eldest daughter of the late Nelson H.
Downs, of Shelton, Conn., a lady of marked re-
finement and charming personality. Since his mar-
riage Mr. Wanning has resided in Shelton, having
previously, from 1865, made his home in Derby.
He and his wife have three living children : Grace
Elizabeth, born in 1871, who was married in 1896,
to Julius (i. Day : h'rancis Downs, secretary of the
Birmingham Iron Foundry, born in 1873; ^"^
Harriet Downs, born in 1879. Though not a mem-
ber, Mr. Wanning is interested in the Second Con-
gregational Church of Derby, of which he has
been a regular attendant and cheerful supporter
since settling at his i)resent locality.
CHARLES CLIFFORD FENN, one of the
successful dairymen and fruit growers of Walling-
ford, was born in Waterbury, this county, Nov.