Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . nized and public philanthropy and assisted worthyneed in ways known to few. He was a man of positive opinion and firm in his was public-spirited and pronouncedly Eepublican, but repeatedlyrefused political office. His fraternal ties were with ShepherdsLodge, No. 78, A. F. and A. M., Naugatuck, and the Clark Com-mandery, Knights Templar, Waterbury. Mr. Warner married in 1864, Julia M., daughter of his partner,Thomas Lewis. Six children were born to them, of wh
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . nized and public philanthropy and assisted worthyneed in ways known to few. He was a man of positive opinion and firm in his was public-spirited and pronouncedly Eepublican, but repeatedlyrefused political office. His fraternal ties were with ShepherdsLodge, No. 78, A. F. and A. M., Naugatuck, and the Clark Com-mandery, Knights Templar, Waterbury. Mr. Warner married in 1864, Julia M., daughter of his partner,Thomas Lewis. Six children were born to them, of whom five are nowliving: Lewis C, Carleton S., Frederick A., George D., and LuciaE., now Mrs. Harry C. Burnett, of Hartford, Connecticut. Two and a half years after the death of his first wife, Mr. Warnermarried on November 10th, 1892, Miss Anna B. Eowe, the daughterof Dr. Eufus J. Eowe, of Whitehall, New York, who died November28th, 1905. Mr. Warners death removes one of Naugatucks most substantialcitizens and one who will be sadly missed and yet pleasantly remem-bered in his home, his commercial and his church JAMES PARSONS WOODRUFF -r-jr^^OODEUFF, JAMES PARSONS, , , lawyer, treas-\\ Tirer of the Litchfield Mutual Fire Insurance Company, anda man of prominence in the political and business life ofLitchfield, Connecticut, was born in that town on the 30th of October,1868. He is of English descent and traces his paternal ancestry inAmerica to Matthew Woodruff, who came from England to Hartfordin 1638, and to Eichard Seymour, who came from England to Hart-ford in 1635. On his mothers side, Mr. Woodruff is descended fromThomas Parsons, who came from Somersetshire, England, toPhiladelphia in 1685, and from John Bowne, who came from Derby-shire, England, to Boston in 1649. Mr. Woodruff is the son of George Morris and Elizabeth Ferris(Parsons) Woodruff. His father is a lawyer and president of theLitchfield Fire Insurance Company and of the Litchfield SavingsSociety, tow
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