Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . dJan. 28, 1865. His wife, who was born in 1799,died five years previously. She was of the seventhgeneration from John Arnold, the emigrant ancestor,who came from England, and in 1640 had a twelve-acre tract of land south of Little River, in Hartford;and in the division of lots on the east side of theConnecticut river, in 1664, there was set off to hisson, Joseph Arnold, one of the three-mile lots inthat part o
Commemorative biographical record of Hartford County, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and of many of the early settled families . dJan. 28, 1865. His wife, who was born in 1799,died five years previously. She was of the seventhgeneration from John Arnold, the emigrant ancestor,who came from England, and in 1640 had a twelve-acre tract of land south of Little River, in Hartford;and in the division of lots on the east side of theConnecticut river, in 1664, there was set off to hisson, Joseph Arnold, one of the three-mile lots inthat part of East Hartford now the Hockanum Dis-trict, and running east. The line of Ann (Arnold)Griswolds descent was through Joseph, John (2),John (3), Samuel, and Samuel Arnold (2). Ofthese, John Arnold (2) married Hannah, daughterof Rev. John Makin. John Arnold (3) marriedLucy, daughter of Thomas Wads worth. SamuelArnold married Lucy, daughter of Eliab Arnold (2) married Ruth Kennedy. (VIII) Rufus White Griswold, our subject, wentto the southeast district of East Hartford when aboy, and was educated in the public schools. Atthe age of seventeen he began a four-years appren-. (jUiJi4s> ^tLlwj^cidifj)^ COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 769 ticeship to the printers trade, in the office of theHartford Times. He remained in the office twoyears longer, the last year as foreman in the print-ing department. In March, 1848, he embarked injournalism on his own account, starting a newspa-per known as the New England Weekly Gazette,having his office in the east wing of the old Univer-salist church at Hartford. The venture was suc-cessful so far as the circulation of the paper wasconcerned, but financially it did not prove profitable,for the reason that his business was conducted almostwholly on the credit system. In consequence, hediscontinued the publication after two years, andin April, 1850, went to New York and began thestudy of medicine, in the office of a personal friend,Dr
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