History of Attleboro, (Bristol County) Massachusetts United States of America

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David Daggett, senator, was born in Attleboro, Mass., Dec. 31, 1764; son of Thomas Daggett; grandson of Thomas Daggett; great-grandson of Deacon John Daggett; great great grandson of Thomas and Hannah (Mayhew) Daggett; and great great great grandson of John Daggett, who came from England with the Winthrop company in 1630 and settled at Watertown, Mass. He was graduated at Yale in 1783, was admitted to the bar in 1788, and practised law in New Haven, Conn. He was married to Wealthy Ann, daughter of Dr. ?neas Munson of New Haven and they had nineteen children. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1791-97, and 1805-09; speaker in 1794; state senator, 1797-1804 and 1809-13; state's attorney, 1811-13; mayor of New Haven in 1828; and a Federalist presidential elector in 1804, 1808 and 1812. He was a United States senator, 1813-19; associate judge of the superior court of the state, 1826-32, and chief justice of the supreme court. 1832-34, when he was retired He was an instructor in the New Haven law school, 1824-26, Kent professor of law in Yale college, 1826-48, and a fellow of the corporation of Yale, ex officio, 1809-13. He received from Yale the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1827. See his life by the Rev. Dr. Dutton (1851). He died in New Haven, Conn., April 12, 1851.

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

Samuel Hunt, author, was born in Attleboro, Mass., March 18, 1810; son of Richard and Ann (Humphrey) Hunt; grandson of John Hunt and a descendant of Enoch Hunt. He was graduated at Amherst in 1832; taught in Southampton, Mass., and Southampt n, L.I., N.Y.; was a student of theology at Princeton, 1836-37, and at Andover, 1838-39; was ordained, July 17, 1839, and was pastor at Natick, Mass., 1839-50, and at Franklin, Mass., 1850-64. He was superintendent of freedmen, educational department, American Missionary association, N.Y., 1865-67; clerk of the committee on military affairs, U.S. senate, 1868-73, and secretary to Vice-President Wilson, 1873-75. He assisted Mr. Wilson in writing Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, and completed the work after Mr. Wilson's death; and also prepared his papers for publication. He published Letters to the Avowed Friends of Missions; Political Duties of Christians; Puritan Hymn and Tune Book; and left unpublished Religion in Politics. He died in Boston, Mass., July 23, 1878.

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

Imogene Robinson Morrell, artist, was born in Attleboro, Mass.; daughter of Otis and Sarah Dean (Raymond) Robinson; granddaughter of Col. Obed Robinson, of the Revolutionary army, and of Ephriam Raymond, of Norton, Mass.; great-granddaughter of Josiah Dean (1748-1818), representative from Massachusetts in the 10th congress, and a descendant from Elder Robinson. She studied painting at Newark, N.J., and subsequently in New York city; taught the art at Charletown and Auburndale, Mass., and in 1856 studied in D?sseldorf, Germany, under Adolf Schroedter and Camphausen. She also studied in Paris under Fran?ois Louis Fran?ais and Thomas Couture, 1864-74. As Imogene Robinson she had twelve medals for art works. She was married in 1869 to Col. Abram Morrell. She established the National Academy of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C., in 1879, and was a teacher in Washington for several years. Her more famous paintings are: "The First Battle of the Puritans" and "Washington Welcoming the Provision Trains at Newburg, N.Y., in 1778," on canvas nine feet long (1874), awarded medals at the Centennial in Philadelphia, 1876, exhibited at the Minneapolis exposition in 1889, and insured by the exposition for $100,000. Her portraits include: John A. Dix, Howell Cobb and John C. Spencer, cabinet officers, painted for the capitol at Washington, in 1882. She also painted portraits of Mrs. Cleveland, Collie P. Huntington, Thomas Pierce of Massachusetts, William W. Corcoran; President Garfield and many others, which portraits, with 200 other works of her brush, valued at $225,000, were burned in a storage warehouse in 1896. She had in progress in 1902 The Triumphant Entrance of Washington info Boston, 1776. Goupil paid Mrs. Morrell $2,000 for the right to engrave her Washington.

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

Naphtali Daggett, educator, was born in Attleboro, Mass., Sept. 8, 1727; son of Ebenezer, and grandson of Deacon John Daggett, who removed in 1707 from Martha's Vineyard to Attleboro and built a "garrison house" for protection against the Indians. His first ancestor in America, John Daggett, came with Winthrop's company in 1630 and settled in Watertown, Mass. John's son, Thomas, father of Deacon John, resided in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, removing thither probably with Governor Mayhew when he settled the island in 1644, and he was married to Governor Mayhew's eldest daughter, Hannah. Naphtali was graduated from Yale in 1748 and became a Presbyterian clergyman, preaching at Smithtown, N.Y., 1751-55. In the latter year he was called to the chair of theology in Yale college, which he held until his death. He was elected president pro tempore of Yale, Oct. 22, 1766, to succeed President Thomas Clap, and remained in office until March 25, 1777, when he resumed the chair of theology. In 1779 he aided in defending New Haven against the British, was captured by the enemy, and was forced by repeated pricks of the bayonet to guide them. The injuries thus received hastened his death. Harvard conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1771, and the College of New Jersey that of D.D. in 1774. He published several of his sermons and an account of The Dark Day in New England, May 19, 1780. He died in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 25, 1780.

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