History of Franklin, (New London County) Connecticut United States of America

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David Nevins Lord, editor and author, was born in Franklin, Conn., March 4, 1792; a brother to Eleazar Lord. He was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1817, A.M., 1820, and studied theology, but ill health prevented him from entering the ministry. He engaged as an importer of dry goods in New York city in 1823, and became interested with his brother in the management of the New York and Erie railway on its formation. He edited the Theological and Literary Journal, a quarterly founded by his brother, 1848-61, and contributed regularly to its columns. He is the author of: Exposition of the ApocaIypse (1847); Characteristics of Figurative Languages (1854); Louis Napoleons?is he to be the Imperial Chief of the Ten Kingdoms? (1866); Visions of paradise, an epic (1867). He died in New York, July 14, 1880.

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

Lafayette Sabine Foster, senator, was born in Franklin, Conn., Nov. 22, 1806; son of Capt. Daniel and Welthea (Ladd) Foster; and a direct descendant of Miles Standish through his grandmother, Hannah Standish; and of Dr. John Sabin. His father was an officer in the Continental army and fought at Saratoga, Stillwater and White Plains. Lafayette was graduated at Brown university in 1828, honor man of his class, after having paid his own way by teaching. He continued to teach, meanwhile studying law, and while in charge of an academy at Centerville, Md., 1829-30, was admitted to the bar. He returned to Connecticut, continued his study of law under Calvin Goddard at Norwich, and was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1831. He practised in Hampton, Conn., 1831-34, and then settled in Norwich, where, in 1835, he edited the Republican, a Whig paper. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1839-40, 1846-48, and 1854, and was speaker during the last three terms. He was twice defeated as a Whig candidate for governor of the state; was mayor of Norwich, 1851-52, and U.S. senator, 1855-61, and 1861-67. He was president of the senate pro tempore, from March 7, 1865, to March 2, 1867, and acting vice-president of the United States from April 15, 1865, to March 2, 1867. He was a conservative Republican, opposed the repeal of the fugitive slave act and the bill granting the franchise to colored men in the District of Columbia without an educational qualification. He also opposed the repeal of the Missouri compromise and the Lecompton constitution for Kansas. He withdrew from the canvass as a nominee for senator for a third term in 1866, returned to the practice of law, and in 1869 declined the chair of law in Yale college, but was lecturer on "Parliamentary law and legislation," 1875-80. He was state representative and speaker of the house in 1870, resigning in June of that year to take his seat as judge of the supreme court of the state. In 1872 he supported Horace Greeley for President and in 1874 was the defeated candidate for representative in congress. He was retired as supreme court judge, by age limit, in 1876, and resumed the practice of law. He was commissioner from Connecticut to settle state boundary with New York in 1878-79, and to purchase Fishers Island in 1878. He was vice-president of the American Bible society. He gave his library to the town of Norwich and his residence for the use of the Norwich free academy. He was married in 1858 to Kate Godfrey of Southport, Conn., and his widow and four children survived him. Brown conferred on him the degree of LL.D. in 1851. He died in Norwich, Conn., Sept. 19, 1880.

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

Samuel Nott, educator, was born in Franklin, Conn., Sept. 11, 1788; son of the Rev. Samuel Nott, D.D. (1754-1852), Yale, 1780, pastor of Congregational church. Franklin, Conn., 1781-1852, and known as the "Patriarch of the New England Clergy." Samuel Nott, Jr., was graduated at Union college in 1808, and at Andover Theological seminary in 1810. He was ordained, Feb. 6, 1812, and became one of the first missionaries of the A.B.C.F.M. sent to India, serving, 1812-16. His health becoming broken he returned to tim United States in 1816, and was a school-teacher in New York city, 1816-23; pastor at Galway, N.Y., 1823-29, and at Wareham, Mass., 1829-49, and founder and proprietor of a private academy at Wareham, 1849-66. In 1866 he returned from active labor and resided at Wareham and at Hartford, Conn. He is the author of: Sixteen Years' Preaching and Procedure at Wareham (1845); Slavery and the Remedy (1856); and various published sermons and addresses. He died in Hartford, Conn., June 1, 1869.

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

Orsamus Holmes Marshall, historian, was born in Franklin, Conn., Feb. 1, 1813; son of Dr. John Ellis and Ruth (Holmes) Marshall; grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Egerton) Marshall, of Norwich, Conn., and of erasmus and Ruth (Webb) Holmes, and a descendant of Edmund Marshall, who came from England to Massachusetts in 1636 and settled in New London, Conn., in 1648. Dr. John E. Marshall was a pioneer settler of Buffalo, N.Y., served as surgeon during the war of 1812 and practised medicine in Buffalo until his death in 1838. Orsamus was prepared for college at the Polytechnic school, Chittenango, N.Y., and the Partridge Military school, Buffalo, N.Y., and was graduated at Union college in 1831. He studied law in Buffalo, attended a course of law lectures at Yale in 1833-34; was admitted to the bar at Albany, N.Y., in October, 1834, and practised in Buffalo, 1834-67, when he retired. He was married, Feb. 20, 1838, to Millicent Ann, daughter of Pascal de Angelis, a pioneer settler of western New York. He declined the appointments by President Fillmore of commissioner to China and assistant postmaster-general. He was a founder and president of the Buffalo Historical society in 1862, a member and president of the board of trustees of the Grosvenor library, of the Buffalo Female academy, and of the University of Buffalo, and chancellor of the last, 1882-84. He was also a trustee of the Society of Natural Sciences of Buffalo; president of the Thomas Orphan Asylum for Indian Children, and U.S. commissioner for the northern district of New York, 1868-84. He gained a wide reputation as the historian of the Indians of western New York, receiving much of the data for his work from Red Jacket and other Indian chiefs. He contributed many important papers to magazines and to the proceedings of historical societies, which were collected by his son Charles D. Marshall and published as Historical Writings of Orsamus H. Marshall (1887). He died in Buffalo, N.Y., July 9, 1884.

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