History of Wallingford, (New Haven County) Connecticut United States of America

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Arthur Henry Dutton, soldier, was born in Wallingford, Conn., Nov. 15, 1838. He was graduated at the U.S. military academy in 1861, and was commissioned lieutenant in the engineer corps. He was assigned to duty on the staff of General Mansfield, commanding the defences of Washington, D.C., in 1861, and he commanded the defences of Fernandina, Fla., in 1862. He was made colonel of the 21st Connecticut regiment, Sept. 5, 1862, and while in North Carolina served as chief of staff to General Peck, and subsequently to Gen. W. F. Smith, He distinguished himself at Drewry's Bluff, Va., gaining by his bravery command of the 3d brigade. He was wounded at Bermuda Hundred, Va., June 5, 1864, and died in Baltimore, Md., July 2, 1864.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Henry Beebee Carrington, soldier, was born at Wallingford, Conn., March 2, 1824; son of Miles M. and Mary (Beebee) Carrington, and grandson of James Carrington, a partner of Eli Whitney. He was graduated from Yale in 1845. During 1846-47 he was professor of natural science and Greek at the Irving institute, Tarrytown, N. Y. In 1847 he studied at Yale law school, and the following year removed to Columbus, Ohio, where he practised his profession in partnership with William Dennison. He was an active anti-slavery Whig, and helped in organizing the Republican party in 1854. He was appointed judge-advocate-general by Governor Chase in 1857. As adjutant-general he placed ten regiments of Ohio militia in West Virginia before volunteers could be mustered; organized the first twenty-six Ohio regiments. He was commissioned colonel of the 18th U. S. infantry, May, 1861; established Camp Thomas, Ohio; commanded a brigade at Lebanon, Ky., and in 1862 mustered 100,000 Indiana troops. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers Nov. 29, 1862, commanded the district of Indiana, exposed the Sons of liberty, raised the siege of Frankfort, Ky., and was mustered out of the volunteer service in 1865. In 1866 he was in command of Fort Kearny, Neb., and was in charge of the military operations in Colorado during 1869. In 1870 he was retired from active service on account of wounds, and was professor of military science at Wabash college, Ind., from 1870 to 1878, after which he made his home in Hyde Park, Boston, Mass. He received the degree of LL. D. from Wabash college in 1873. He published: The Scourge of the Alps (1847); Russia Among the Nations and American Classics (1849); Ab-sa-ra-ka, Land of Massacre (1868); Battles of the American Revolution, 1775-81 (1876); Crisis Thoughts (1878); Battle Maps and Charts of the American Revolution (1881); The Indian Question (1884); Battles of the Bible and Boston and New York, 1775 and 1776 (1885); The Exodus of the Flat Head Indians (1902).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Jared Potter Kirtland, educator, was born in Wallingford, Conn., Nov. 10, 1793; son of Tarhand and Mary (Potter) Kirtland, and a grandson of Jared Potter, of Walllngford, Conn. He was educated at the academies of Wallingford and Cheshire, Conn., became a student of botany, and engaged in the cultivation of fruit and flowers, and of mulberry trees for the rearing of silkworms. He studied medicine with Dr. John Andrews of Wallingford, and Dr. Sylvester Wells of Hartford; studied at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated from Yale, M.D., 1815. He settled in practice at Wallingford, Conn., removing in 1818 to Durham, Conn., and in 1823 to Poland, Ohio. He was married in 1815 to Caroline Atwater, of Wallingford; and secondly, about 1825, to Hannah Fitch Toucey, of Newtown, Conn. He was a representative in the Ohio legislature, 1829-32 and 1834-35; was professor of the theory and practice of medicine at the Ohio Medical college, Cincinnati, 1837-42, and was assistant on the geological survey of Ohio in 1837, under William W. Mather. He lectured on the theory and practice of medicine and physical diagnosis in Willoughby Medical school, 1841-43. He was a trustee of Western Reserve university, 1833-35; one of the founders of the medical department of that institution in 1843; professor of the theory and practice of medicine there, 1843-64, and professor emeritus, 1864-77. He was examining surgeon of recruits for Ohio during the civil war, and gave his pay to the bounty fund and the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio. He was a member of the National Academy of Science; president of the Ohio Medical society, and one of the founders of the Cleveland Academy of Sciences in 1845, and its first and only president. This society became the Kirtland Society of Natural History in 1865, and he presented to it his collection of natural history specimens. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Williams college in 1861. He contributed to the American Journal of Science and the Journal of the Boston Society of Natural History. He died in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1877.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Wallingford, Conn., April 12, 1724; son of John and Mary (Street) Hall, and a descendant in the fifth generation from John Hall the immigrant, who came to Boston about 1630, removed to New Haven colony and finally settled ,in Wallingford, Conn. Lyman was graduated at Yale in 1747, received his M.A. degree in 1750; studied theology under the tuition of his uncle, the Rev. Samuel Hall, but changed his purpose and became a doctor of medicine practising in Wallingford. He was married to Mary Osborne. In 1752 he joined a colony of Congregationalists who had immigrated from Massachusetts and settled at Dorchester and Beech Hill on the Ashley river, S.C., in 1679. About the time of his arrival the colony were changing their locality to Midway, Ga., where they had obtained a grant of 22,400 acres of rich land in what became Liberty county. About 350 whites and 1500 negro slaves made up the new settlement. In 1758 the town of Sunbury, St. John's parish, was laid out to provide summer homes for the settlers who found that the swamp lands were producing fatal sickness. Here Dr. Hall built a residence, practised medicine, and was a friend and distant neighbor of Button Gwinnett who resided on St. Catharine's Island. He joined the committee of correspondence of the sons of Liberty or "Liberty Boys," and the people of St. John's parish, the only representative body in the colony of Georgia united on the question of separation, sent him to the Continental congress as a delegate, March 21, 1775. He reached Philadelphia, May 13, 1775, "was admitted as a delegate from the Parish of St. John in the Colony of Georgia," but could not be credited to the colony and while he shared in the debates of congress he did not vote. On July 6, 1775, when the colonial congress of Georgia voted to join the other colonies, Dr. Hall was elected a delegate from Georgia and with Button Gwinnett, also of St. John Parish, and George Walton of Augusta, represented the colony, 1775-79, and signed the Declaration of Independence. Upon the fall of Savannah in December, 1778, Sunbury was captured and Georgia passed into the possession of the king's forces and the property of all rebels was destroyed. Dr. Hall, with most of the other settlers loyal to the Revolutionary party, took refuge in the north and resided there till the evacuation of Savannah in 1782, when he took up his residence in that city, and resumed the practice of his profession. He was elected governor of Georgia in January, 1783, and at the conclusion of his term of service was elected judge of the inferior Court of Chatham county, which position he resigned in 1790 and removed to Burke county, where he owned a plantation at Shell Bluff on the banks of the Savannah river. He died in Burke county, Ga., Oct. 19, 1790, and his remains were subsequently removed to Augusta, Ga., and placed with those of George Walton, beneath the monument erected to the memory of Hall, Walton and Gwinnett, on Greene street.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor