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---+ Anna Louisa Benedict

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| :born: |Born   |17 Aug 1823|Norwalk, Fairfield co., Conn|
| :married: |Married|09 Jun 1842|LeGrand Lockwood|at Location|
| :died: |Died   |20 Mar 1882|NYC|

Parents:
   * Father:[[SethWillistonBenedict1803][Seth Williston Benedict]]; 1803-1869
   * Mother:[[FannyRoeBenedict1798][Fanny Roe Benedict]]; 1798-1854

Children:
   1. LeGrand Lockwood Jr 1844-1887
   1. William Benedict Lockwood 1846-
   1. Howell Ebenezer Lockwood 1847-
   1. Isabel Lockwood ca 1851-
   1. Henry Benedict Lockwood 1852-
   1. Arthur Augustus Lockwood 1856-
   1. Florence Mabel Lockwood 1860-
   1. Edwin Eugene Lockwood 1863-

---+++_LeGrand Lockwood_
Lockwood began his career on Wall street at the age of 18 as a clerk for a brokerage firm. By 1857 he had formed his own banking firm, Lockwood & Co., and was subsequently elected Treasurer of the New York Stock Exchange. He successfully promoted the sale of U.S. war bonds abroad and became involved in the railroad and steamship businesses which helped him to become one the country's first millionaires. <BR>
  In 1842, Lockwood married *Anna Louisa Benedict* of New York and Norwalk. They had 8 children, five of whom survived to adulthood. The three oldest sons, LeGrand, Jr., Henry Benedict and Williston joined their father in the brokerage and banking business. <BR>
  In 1863 LeGrand Lockwood returned to his boyhood home of Norwalk, CT to purchase 30 acres of land on which to build his country "cottage". At the time he purchased the land on West Ave, Norwalk, Lockwood had a new Horse Railroad running from the South Norwalk Station to the center of town. The tracks for the Norwalk-Danbury Railroad, in which Lockwood was controlling stockholder, ran parallel to the Norwalk River, bordering Lockwood's property. Designed by European- trained, New York-based architect Detlef Lienau, the mansion, which was completed in 1868, is considered his most significant work. American craftsmen, along with many immigrant artisans, were employed to execute construction of the grand castle which cost nearly $2 million to build. <BR>
  Work on Lockwood's Norwalk estate was almost finished when he moved into Elm Park in 1869. On September 24th that year (known as "Black Friday") the price of gold dropped tremendously, causing scores of brokerage houses to be ruined. Lockwood & Co. was unfortunately among them. Lockwood was forced to mortgage his estate in order to pay back his creditors. He was able to get his firm back on its feet, but in doing so he had to sell his $10 million worth of stock in the Lake Shore and Michigan Railroad to Commodore Vanderbilt. The mortgage on his new house was later transferred from the Union Trust Co. to the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad, then under Vanderbilt's control. <BR>
  Lockwood lived in his country home for only four years when he contracted pneumonia in 1872 and died within 10 days. He was only 52 years old. His widow sold off his vast art collection and "objects d'art" at auction in April. A year later, she advertised the Mansion for sale in the New York papers, but she was unable to meet the payments of the outstanding mortgage balance and in December 1874, the Lake Shore & Michigan Railroad foreclosed.

LeGrand Lockwood (1820 – February 24, 1872), was a businessman and financier in New York City in the late 19h century. He built the Lockwood-Mathews mansion in Norwalk, Connecticut. <BR>
Lockwood was born in Norwalk. He began his career on Wall Street as a clerk for Shipman, Coming & Co. and later worked for T. Ketchum & Co. In 1843 he became junior partner at Genin & Lockwood[1] before founding Lockwood & Company, one of Wall Street's leading brokerage houses, and was a longtime ally of Cornelius Vanderbilt .[2] <BR>
Lockwood was a director of the New York Central Railroad and treasurer of the New York Stock Exchange.[1] <BR>
In the summer of 1869, Jay Gould, attempting to create a railroad empire with a connection from New York City to the Pacific coast, negotiated with Lockwood, the treasurer and, according to author Kenneth D. Ackerman, the "dominant figure" of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway." After hours of haggling over a dinner of oysters, wine and steak at Delmonico's late one August night", Ackerman wrote, Gould came to an agreement with Lockwood that Gould's railroad would build a line into New York City for the narrow-gauge cars used by Lockwood's company in return for westward connections. Lockwood agreed to the deal despite opposition from Vanderbilt, who was simultaneously trying to gain control of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern by electing proxies to the board of directors.[2] <BR>
Learning of the deal, Vanderbilt launched a raid on Lakeshore's stock, which sunk the price from $120 a share to $95 and put Lockwood in danger of personal bankruptcy. Lockwood began making plans to scuttle the deal with Fiske.[2] He managed to sell his shares in Lakeshore to Vanderbilt for the bargain price o $10 million, turning over control of the company to him. [3] <BR>
In 1867, Lockwood commissioned Albert Bierstadt's The Domes of the Yosemite, the artist's second great, monumental Yosemite work, for $25,000. It was the artist's largest canvas and sparked a critical debate when it first appeared at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. Lockwood hung the painting in the octagonal rotunda of his Norwalk, Connecticut, mansion.[4] After Lockwood's death in 1872, the painting sold at auction for $5,100.[5] Lockwood also bought works by Frederic Church, William Bradford, and Asher B. Durand.[6]<BR>
Lockwood died in his Fifth-Avenue home in New York City on February 24, 1872. At his death he was a director of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the principal owner of the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad .[1] <BR>

Notes and references <BR>
^ a b c Obituary, New York Times, February 25, 1872 <BR>
^ a b c Ackerman, Kenneth D., The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869  Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2005, ISBN <=8078671442<BR>wiki/Special:BookSources/9780786714421> via Google Books, retrieved December 22, 2008 <BR>
^ Schlichting, Kurt C., Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City JHU Press, 2001, ISBN 9780801865107, via Google Books, retrieved December 22, 2008 <BR>
^ Scott, Amy, Yosemite: Art of an American Icon, University of California Press, 2006, ISBN 9780520249226 , retrieved via Google Books, December 22, 2008 
^ Web page titled "This Week from the Gallery Archives"  at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum website, retrieved December 22, 2008 <BR>
^ Charles, Eleanor, "The Guide"  "A Tycoon's Taste", notice of an art exhibit at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum, The New York Times, February 24, 1991, retrieved December 22, 20087 

*SEVENTEENTH CONNECTICUT* - The Record of a Yankee Regiment In the War for the Union
From the Journal of William H. Warren, Private, of Co. C <BR>
The Norwalk Gazette of August 9th published the following: <BR>
*LeGrand Lockwood* has donated the magnificent sum of $1000 for the enlistment of another company of volunteers from Norwalk. Yesterday, Captain Fowler's company was filled to its maximum number, and today large numbers of volunteers presented themselves for enlistment into his company, only to be disappointed. Lieutenant Enoch Wood has been commissioned by the adjutant general to recruit a second company. He is a military man of energy and character and proposes to take command, and he with is co-laborers in his recruiting service, Allen, Knapp, Kellogg, Lewis and others, are vigorously pushing ahead enlistments, and over fifty men are already enrolled. Ten dollars per man of the Lockwood fund is paid down as fast as sworn in." <BR>
On the 23rd of August, a number of ladies of Norwalk came into camp in a special car. They brought with them a number of baskets of provisions, and after the two Norwalk companies were supplied there were many baskets of fragments, which were dealt to the other companies. Late in the day *Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood* and Messrs. Rev. Diosey and Anderson presented each member of Company F (Lockwood Guards) with a gilt-edge testament, a gift from LeGrand Lockwood.

*Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum* <BR>
This mansion was built by Civil War banker-railroad tycoon LeGrand Lockwood. The partially restored 60-room chateau contains stenciled walls, inlaid woodwork and a skylit rotunda. Displays include a collection of 19th century music boxes.
The mansion was completed in 1868 at a cost of $2 million. Lockwood's financial reversals in 1869 and his untimely death in 1872 resulted in the loss of the estate, and its sale to Charles Mathews, a New York importer, in 1876 for $90,000. In 1941 the family sold it to the City of Norwalk for $170,000. It is now a public park.

---+++_Census Records_
*1850 US Federal Census:* New York Ward 8 District 1, New York, New York; Roll: M432_541; Page: 145; Image: 296. 28Aug1850. All in same household:

   * Benedict, Seth W, male, age 46, printer, b CT
   * Benedict, Fanny R, female, age 51, b CT
   * Benedict, Chas W, male, age 24, clerk, b CT
   * Benedict, Jane, female, age 26, b NJ
   * Benedict, James, male, age 20, clerk, b CT
   * Benedict, Frances, female, age 14, b CT, attended school
   * Benedict, Emily, female, age 8, b NY, attended school
   * Benedict, Fanny L, female, age 2, b NY
   * Lockwood, Legrand, male, age 30, broker, b CT
   * Lockwood, Ann L, female, age 27, b CT (dau of Seth?)
   * Lockwood, Legrand, male, age 6, b NY, attended school
   * Lockwood, Williston, male, age 4, b NY, attended school
   * 3 servants, all born ireland

*1870 US Federal Cenus:* Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut; Roll: M593_98; Page: 820; Image: 412. 9Jul1870

   * Lockwood, LeGrande, male, white, age 50, banker, value of Real Estate: 500,000, personal: 200,000, b CT
   * Lockwood, Ann L, female, white, age 47, keeping house, b CT
   * Lockwood, LeGrande Jr, male, white, age 26, banker, value of Real Estate: 35,000, personal: 20,000, b NY
   * Lockwood, Kate Hu..., female, white, age 25, b CT
   * Lockwood, Fanny, female, white, age 2, b NY
   * Lockwood, Williston B, male, white, age 24, banker, personal: 1,000, b NY
   * Lockwood, Isabel, female, white, age 19, b NY (cb dau-in-law)
   * Lockwood, Henry B, male, white, age 18, b NY
   * Lockwood, Arthur A, male, white, age 14, b NY
   * Lockwood, Florence J, female, white, age 10, b NY
   * Lockwood, Edwin E, male, white, age 7, b NY
   * 7 servants

*1880 US Federal Census:* Riverside, San Bernardino County, California; Roll: T9_72; Family History Film: 1254072; Page: 437.3000; Enumeration District: 63; Image: 0096. 9Jun1880

   * *Lockwood, Annie L,* white, female, age 50, widow, proprietress, b CT, parents b CT
   * Lockwood, Arthur A, white, male, age 24, single, son, horticulturist, b NY, parents b CT
   * Lockwood, Edwin E, white, male, age 17, single, age 17, horticulturist, b NY, parents b CT
   * Lockwood, Florence I, white, female, age 20, single, at home, b NY, parents b CT
   * 2 servants/helpers
   * ........NEXT DOOR........
   * Benedict, James H, white, male, age 48, married, horticulturist, b CT, parents b CT (_brother of Anne_) (1832)
   * Benedict, Isabella, wife, white, female, age 36, keeping home, b MI, father b MI, mother b NY (2nd wife?) (1844)
   * Benedict, Elida,dau, white, female, age 26, single, b NY, father b CT, mother b MI (1854)
   * Benedict, James H, son, white, male, age 21, single, horticulturist, b NY, father b CT, mother b MI (1859)
   * Benedict, Charles W, son, white, male, age 15, attended school, b NY, father b CT, mother b MI (1865)
   * Benedict, Howard  R, son, white, male, age 12, attended school, b NY, father b CT., mother b MI (1868)
   * Benedict, Elliot S, son, white, male, age 6, b NY, father b CT, mother b MI (1874)
   * 2 servants, one b china
   * Benedict, E, sister, white, female, age 27, single, b NY, parents b Mass (1853)
   * 2 boarders

---+++_Son Edwin Eugene Lockwood_
April 6, 1895, Wednesday, New York Times, Page 14 ,BR>
A PENNILESS HEIR'S SUIT; E. E. Lockwood Asks for an Accounting of His Father's Estate. HE DECLARES IT HAS DISAPPEARED Says He Received Nothing from Le Grand Lockwood's Millions -- Answers of J.H. Benedict and Mrs. Lockwood.
Edward Eugene Lockwood declares that his father, Le Grand Lockwood, left an estate worth millions of dollars, all of which has disappeared in the administration of the property. <BR>
 Young Lockwood is now in Austin, Texas, penniless, and he says he has never been able to get anything from the great fortune alleged to have been left by his father.
 To trace this money, an action for an accounting was begun yesterday before Surrogate Fitzgerald by Albert T Patrick, acting as council for Mr Lockwood. The persons from whom Mr Lockwood seeks the accounting are Mr James H Benedict, his uncle and Kate H Lockwood, widow of LeGrand Lockwood Jr, his brother. <BR>
 LeGrand Lockwood, the elder, died twenty four years ago, and his wife followed eleven years afterward. Although the son who now seeks the accounting was named as legatee under the wills of his father and mother,  Mr Patrick declared yesterday, that his client never received a penny, and that there has never been an accounting from any of the many executors who have held the estate since the death of the elder Le Grand Lockwood. <BR>
 Mr Patrick stated that when the elder Lockwood died, in 1871 he left a very large estate so large, in fact, that he paid a tax on $1,000,000 of income. His widow, Ann Louise, who was appointed the executrix of the estate, and the testamentary trustee of the petitioner, who was then of very tender years. No inventory of the estate, it is alleged, was ever filed. Mrs Lockwood died in 1882 and she appointed her brother, James H Benedict, and her son, LeGrand Lockwood Jr, as her executors. Mr Benedict did not qualify at that time, and the son took the executorship. He, it is alleged, never filed an inventory, and when he died on 1Apr1887, his widow, Kate H Lockwood, became the executrix. Mr benedict qualified as an executor in 1888, stating in his petition that there were assets yet to be passed on. No inventory was filed in this instance, and here the matter rested until the proceedings yesterday. <BR>
 Mr Patrick said his client, in spite of the fact that he had an undenied interest in the estate, in penniless in Texas, and has not enough money to come here to attend the action. This he stated, was in contradistrinction to the fact that his brothers are all rich men, well known in the commercial world. "We want an examination in each case." said the attorney. "We want to search on consciences of these people and to find out what has become of this vast estate." <BR>
 The answer put in by Mr Benedict in the case in which he qualified as the executor in 1888 embraces the accounting asked for. He says there is nothing to account for, as there was never anything that passed into his hands. In the accounting asked for in his executorship in the estate of Ann Louise Lockwood, the widow, where she was the executrix of the estate of her husband, Mr Benedict pleads the statute of limitations and says the accounting was not asked for within seven years, at the coming of age of the petitioner. Kate H Lockwood who is asked to account as the executrix of the executor of the executrix of the estate of LeGrand Lockwood, also pleads the statute of limitations in her case. <BR>
 Mr Patrick then called attention to the fact that, whereas Mr Benedict now says that nothing ever came into his hands as the executor of his sisters estate, he nevertheless said at the time of qualifing in 1888, that there were yet assets to be administered. <BR>
 Council for Mr Benedict said that there was no objection on the part of his client to submit to an examination if one should be ordered before a referee as to his executorship of 1888, but he wanted the petitioner to file some sort of security for the cost of the examination. <BR>
 This, the Surrogate said, , he had not the power to order, and he reserved decision on the whole matter, stating that he would take the plea of the statute of limitations under especial consideration. <BR>
 One of the petitioner's brothers, William B Lockwood of the firm R P Flower and Company, and the other is Henry B Lockwood, a wealthy resident of California. LeGrand Lockwood the elder built, a short time before his death, what at the time was the finest residence in this country. It was at Norwalk, Conn and cost over $1,000,000. It is claimed also that the elder Lockwood was caught in the panic prior to his death and left nothing but debts.

---+++_Son William LeGrand Lockwood_
Changed his name to Williston Lockwood

---+++_Son Henry Benedict Lockwood_
*U.S. Passport Applications,* 1795-1925 N0 17429, Issued 9 Feb1872. Issued State and County of Washington <BR>
Name: Henry B Lockwood Birth Date: 23 Apr 1852 Birth Place: City of New York Passport Issue Date: 9 Feb 1872 Passport Includes a Photo: N Source: Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372)<BR>
Henry B Lockwood, b City of New York 23Apr1852 swear that I am a native and loyal citizen of the United States and plan to travel abroad. Notary: N Benedict
Age: 20, 5'8" tall, forehead, medium, eyes: hazel, Nose, Mouth, Chin: ordinary, Hair: brown, Complexion: florid, Face: oval

*U.S. Passport Applications,* 1795-1925 No 22117. Issued by County and State of New York <BR>
Name: Henry B Lockwood Birth Date: 23 Apr 1852 Birth Place: New York City CO & New York, New York RESIDENCE: New York City, New York Passport Issue Date: 26 Apr 1900 Passport Includes a Photo: N Source: Passport Applications, 1795-1905 (M1372)
I, Henry B Benedict, native and loyal citizen of the United States, apply for a passport for myself, wife, and daughter, that I was born in New York City 23Apr1852. I follow the occupation of banker broker, and am about to go abroad temporsarily for about 2 years. <BR>
Age: 48y, 5'8 1/2" tall, high forehead, brown eyes, nose proportionate, large mouth, round chin, brownish grey hair, florid complexion, oval face.
forward passport to Henry B Lockwood, c/o Messers Lockwood, Hurd ? 44 Broadway, New York City

*1910 US Federal Census:* Manhattan Ward 19, New York, New York; Roll: T624_1043; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 1181; Image: 620. 19Apr1910

   * Lockwood, Henry B, head, male, white, age 57, married1, married 24y, b NY,    * Lockwood, Rosa M, wife, female, white, age 47, married1, married 124y, b MD, parents b MD
   * Lockwood, Violette M, dau, female, white, age 23, single, b MD, father b NY, mother b MD
   * 2 servants

---+++_This and That_
*California State Capital Museum* <BR>
Larkin Goldsmith Meade, an American artist, in his studio near Florence, Italy, carved the Carrara marble statue. Legrand Lockwood commissioned the sculpture for his Norwalk, Connecticut mansion. Meade began the project in 1868 and completed it six years later. Mrs. Lockwood, after the death of her husband, sold the sculpture to Mills for $30,000. Shipped from the east coast, the statue arrived in Sacramento in the summer of 1883, and is now in the State Capital rotunda.

*The movie The Stepford Wives*<BR>
The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk, Connecticut became the center of all Stepford wives activity. The museum, which had housed the Stepford Men’s Organization in the original 1975 film, was the only former location site revisited by the current production. <BR>
Built in the 1860s by financier LeGrand Lockwood, the 62-room mansion is one of the finest Second Empire-style country houses surviving today and was one of the grandest houses in the country during the seventeenth century. It was said to have cost $1,500,000 to build, but sold for a mere $90,000 when Lockwood died three years after moving in. The city of Norwalk bought the home in 1941 and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971. <BR>
As part of the arrangement to close the museum and film inside, the production team agreed to do extensive renovation work on the 140-year old building. <BR>
“ For several months prior to the actual shoot, our art department worked diligently to restore and renovate the home’s opulent entry and rotunda,” remembers production designer Jackson De Govia. “After carefully researching the original building, artists and craftsmen repaired the wood floors, filled cracks, stained the woodwork on a magnificent stairway and painted the walls with colors appropriate to the time. They even painted replicas of enormous Hudson River School paintings, which had once hung in the home, so what you see in the film is a pretty good take on the original structure.” 

---+++_ Their Final Years_
DEATH: <BR>
City. Mon. 20th, Anna Louisa wid. late LeGrand Lockwood. 59y. Interment Norwalk Conn. <BR>
Source: Death Notice, 21 Mar. 1882, New York Evening Post, New York NY, p. 96. Barber Collection. 

Le Grand and Anna are buried in Union Cemetery in Norwalk, Fairfield County, CT

 An address was delivered at his funeral at the South Reformed Church on Tuesday, 27Feb1872 by the Rev E.P. Rogers, D.D. A feeling tribute by his pastor, who had been on intimate terms with the deceased for ten years. He spoke of his great business capacity, his intellectual and poetical tastes, enlarged by extensive foreign travel, and his crowning qualities as a Christian gentleman, and his great liberality. <BR>
 This funeral address of twelve pages was printedfor private circulation togethe,r with the following resolutions of condolence passed by several corporations of which Mr Lockwood was a member, regretting the loss of so valuable and useful an associate, and extending their sympathies to the familyof the deceased in their great bereavement.

New York Stock Exchange <BR>
New York, 26Feb1872 <BR>

Mrs. LeGrand Lockwood, <BR>

Madam, - At the First Session of the New York Stock Exchange, held this day, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: <BR>
 Resolved, That the members of the New York Stock Exchange have heard, with unaffected sorrow, of the death of their late associate, LeGrand Lockwood. <BR>
 Resolved, That by the death of Mr Lockwood, the Stock Exchange loses one, who, for a quarter of a century, has been prominently identified with its history; and, who, by unfaltering integrity, enterprise, and tireless energy, has won for himself a name inferior to none. Generous in his impulses, devoted  in his friendships, kindly and charatable in his nature, he gave freely and in secret. A devoted father and husband, we mourn with inexpressible sorrow, his death. <BR>
 Resolved, that we heartily sympathize with the family of the deceased in their great bereavement; and as a tribute of respect for the memory of our late associate, , we will hold no session of the Board on the date of his burial. <BR>
 Resolved, that a copy of these Resolutions be transmitted to the family of the deceased. <BR>
With great respect,<BR>
B Ogden White, Secretary <BR>
Committee: Edmund H Miller; Alex. Taylor; E.S. Munroe, J.H. Brownell, J.M. Hartshorne

Danbury and Norwalk Railroad <BR>
Danbury, Conn 27Feb1872 <BR>
 Resolutions of the of the Directors of Danbury and Norwalk Railroad Company, on the death of LeGrand Lockwood, Vice President of the Road. <BR>
 Resolved, That as a Board of Directors, we hereby express our sense of the great loss we have sustained in the death of our associate and Vice President, LeGrand Lockwood, Esq., both to the interest of the Railroad Company, in a business relation, and also as individuals, as a gentleman of the most engaging social qualities, of the hightest integrity and unblemished reputation. <BR>
 Resolved, That our sympathies are hereby extended to his bereaved family in their great loss, and can only offer to them those consolations that are found in Him, who does not willingly afflict nor grieve the children of men. <BR>
 Resolved, That this Board attend the funeral of the deceased in a body, and that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted , to the family of the deceased, as a token of our sorrowful respect, and published in the Norwalk Gazette and the Danbury News <BR>
H Williams, Secretary

Office of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company <BR>
59 & 61 Wall Street <BR>
New York 28Feb1872 <BR>
 At a special meeting of the Board of Directorsof the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, held at the Company's office this day, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: <BR>
 Whereas, in the previdence of God, the death of LeGrand Lockwood has deprived us of one of our most valued and esteemed members; and whereas, in the loss thus sustained, our hearts go out in sympathy to the bereaved family, and the may friends who are called to mourn his loss. Therefore; <BR>
 Resolved, That the character of our deceased associate, marked as it was by so many virtues and so few faults, is a worthy example of concientious fidelity, pure motives and generous impulses, both in public and private life. <BR>
 Resolved, That the death of such a man the community, as well as private individuals, have suffered the loss of one who, in his daily walk and conversation, gave encouragement to those with whom he associated, and strengthened them in the course of duty and those goodly virtues so manifest in him. <BR>
 Resolved, That while we, as directors, mourn our loss, and as individuals are filled with sorrow, , at this great affliction, we offer our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family. <BR>
 Resolved, That the foregoing preamble and resolutions be spread on the minutes, and that a copy be sent to the family of the deceased. <BR>
Theo. T Johnson, Secretary

---+++_Sources_
*Benedicts to America,* Vol I, Pg 208 <br>
264. SETH WILLISTON7 (Nathaniel,6 Nathaniel,5 Nathaniel,4 John,3 John,2 Thomas1)
b. Nov. 16, 1803; m. Nov. 7, 1822, Fanny Roe, dau. William, son of Nathaniel4 (10) Benedict, b. Dec. 30, 1798, and d. Jan. 8, 1854; m. 2d, June 19, 1856, Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Farnsworth, dau. James and Nancy Russell, formerly of Boston. He was a native of Norwalk, Ct., and early distinguished for his intelligent energy in business. Being an apprentice to the printing business in the office of the Norwalk Gazette, at the age of nineteen he bought his time and became the proprietor, editor and publisher of the paper, which he continued until Jan., 1833, when he removed to New York and became the proprietor and publisher of the New York Evangelist, in connection with Rev. Joshua Leavitt. He disposed of the Evangelist in 1837, and soon after became the publisher of the Emancipator and other publications of the American and the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, while at the same time carrying on his printing and publishing business. In 1848 he projected the publication of a new Evangelical religious newspaper, to be devoted to the interest and cause of congregationalism. This plan was subsequently modified, and in Dec. of that year he commenced the publication of the Independent, under the auspices of Rev. Drs. Bacon, Thompson and Storrs, as editors, Dr. Leavitt, as assistant, and Messrs S. B. Hunt, S. B. Chittenden, Bowen and McNamee, as proprietors. In Dec., 1853, he relinquished his connection with the paper, and continued his printing and publishing business until March, 1854, when his office was totally destroyed by fire. Latterly, he has conducted an extensive real estate agency. Mr. B. was for some years clerk of the Congregational church at Norwalk. On his removal to N. Y., he joined what is now Thirteenth street Presbyterian church, of which he became a trustee and an elder. Leaving this church, to aid in the organization of the Broadway Tabernacle church, he became a trustee and Deacon, and so remained till it was changed into a Presbyterian church. He died Nov. 10, 1869. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. J. P. Thompson, from the text "diligent in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." (See Hall's Hist. Norwalk, Ct., p. 319.) Ch. <BR>
1) - *ANN LOUISA,* b. Aug. 17, 1823; m. June 9, 1842, Le Grand Lockwood, banker, of New York city. <BR>
2) (559).) CHARLES WILLISTON, b. Aug. 2, 1825; m. Sept. 9, 1846, Jane, dau. James and Jane McAlpine; paper manufacturer, N. Y. Ch. <BR>
a) - Fanny Louisa, b. March 22, 1848. b) Williston Hunter, b. Nov. 22, 1851. c) Emily Augusta, b. Sept. 29, 1856. <BR>
d) - Anna Coe, b. Sept. 23, 1862. <BR>
3) JAMES HOYT, b. Aug. 1, 1830; m. Nov. 15, 1851, Mary Elizabeth, dau. Samuel and Mary Andrews, who d. April 2, 1858; m. 2d, Sept. 16, 1864, Isabel Pilsbury, dau. William Robinson of Mich. Banker; res. New York city. Ch. <BR>
a) Alida Andrews, b. Aug. 23, 1852. b) Le Grand Lockwood, b. Aug. 24, 1855. c) James Henry, b. April 17, 1858. <BR>
d) (560.) Charles Williston, b. Sept. 14, 1865. e) Howard Robinson, b. Jan. 25, 1868, d 21Aug1896. f) Elliott Stuart b 22Mar1874. Res 144 E 56th NYC <BR>
4) - SARAH ESTHER, b. Aug. 13, 1834; d. Oct. 13, 1836. <BR>
5) - SARAH FRANCES, b. July 31, 1836; m. July 12, 1860, Rev. Arthur Tappan Pierson, graduate of Hamilton College, and Union Theological Seminary in N. Y.; pastor, of Presbyterian church, at Waterford. <BR>
6) - EMMA JANE, b. Nov. 14, 1841. <BR>
7) (561.) GEORGE RUSSELL, b. Nov. 25, 1859.

*Benedicts to America,* Vol I, Pg 58 *(Family of Sarah Roe Benedict)* <BR>
10. NATHANIEL4 (John,3 John,2 Thomas1 <BR>
b. 1716, and m. Mary, dau. Deacon Lockwood, who d. Jan. 12, 1763, aged 42. He m. 2d, Jan., 1764, Hannah, dau. Rev. Thomas Hawley, who d. Jan. 31, 1795, aged 67. Fence viewer, surveyor, lister, constable, and collector, between 1739 and 1757; selectman, 1755, '61, '62, '66-'72, '75, '76, and '78; called "Lieut.," 1762; representative in Gen. Assembly, Oct., 1762 His house and barn were burned by the British in 1779. The following obituary notice of him was written by Hon. Roger Minot Sherman: "He died at Norwalk on the morning of the 2d of April, 1806, after a shock of the palsy, with which he lingered about twelve days, in the 90th year of his age. On the 3d his remains were followed to the grave by a large concourse of friends and relatives, among whom were his twelve(?) surviving children, and many of his more remote posterity. He has left ninety-one grandchildren and eighty-eight great-grandchildren, the whole number of his descendants, now living, being 191. For about thirty-two years he sustained the office of Deacon of the First Congregational church in that town. Deacon Benedict was one of those venerable personages by whom what remains of the pious habits of our forefathers, have been transmitted to the present generation. His long life has been eminently exemplary, and years to come will feel its happy influence. Every morning and evening witnessed his devotion. His sabbaths were faithfully appropriated to public worship and religious family instructions. An amiable, cheerful disposition, a sound mind, improved by a good degree of reading, and much reflection, and adorned with a bright constellation of Christian graces, comprised his character. At his funeral an appropriate sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. Burnett, from Prov. xiv, 32. "The wicked is driven away in his wickedness; but the righteous hath hope in his death." Ch. <BR>
1) - ANNA, b. 1740; m. Seth Seymour. <BR>
2) - MOLLY, b. 1741-2; m. Deliverance Bennet; removed to Saugatuck; d. April 23, 1835. <BR>
3) (37.) NATHANIEL, b. March 26, 1744; d. Feb. 24, 1833. <BR>
4) JOSEPH, b. June 29, 1746; m. Hannah Hoyt; removed to Danbury, where he d. Dec. 9, 1835. His wife was b. Dec. 6, 1759, and d. Jan. 3, 1836. Ch. a) Hannah, b. Oct. 4, 1777; m. March 26, 1796, Elijah Gregory; d. June 17, 1836. b) Luther, b. Aug. 20, 1780; d. Oct. 15, 1807. c) Sally, b. April 28, 1783; m. Nov. 25, 1802, Ephraim G. Stevens;  d)  Lucinda, b. April 27, 1785; d. April 21, 1857. e) Phila, b. June 9, 1787; m. Sept. 28, 1806, Ezra Peck, son of Peter5 (52) Benedict of Danbury; d. Nov., 1868. f) Fanny, b. Sept. 7, 1790; m. Nov. 2, 1813, Augustus Wilcox; d. June 7, 1849. g) Mary, b. Sept. 7, 1790; res. Danbury. <BR>
5) - ESTHER, b. 1748; m. Jan. 20, 1766, Uriah Raymond; d. July 27, 1806. (Hall, p. 292.) <BR>
6) (38). ISAAC, b. July 6, 1751; d. May 17, 1841. <BR>
7) WILLIAM, b. 1753; m. Feb. 20, 1782, Nancy Fitch, who d. Sept. 11, 1836. He d. Sept. 2, 1821, Norwalk. Ch. <BR>
a) Anna, b. July 31, 1783; m. N. Lockwood. b) Charlotte, b. Sept. 29, 1785; m. Jer. Camp.  c) Charles, b. Sept. 29, 1785; d. about 1810. d) Sukey, b. Jan. 30, 1788; m. James I. Hoyt. e) Sally, b. Nov. 17, 1790; m. Daniel Smith. f) Esther, b. May 10, 1793; m. Edward Smith. g) Mary, b. April 4, 1796; m. George Brown. h) Fanny R., b. Dec. 30, 1798; m. Seth Williston7 (264.) Benedict. i) Deborah, b. Dec. 30, 1798; m. George Scribner. <BR>
8) - SALLY, b. 1756; m. Nathan Hoyt; removed to New Milford. <BR>
9) BETTY, b. Feb. 20, 1759; m. March 22, 1781, Enoch Scribner (Hall, p. 298); d. April 19, 1835. <BR>
10) (39.) NATHAN, b. Dec. 10, 1765; d. Feb. 3, 1832. <BR>
11) - HANNAH, b. 1766; m. April 3, 1782, Deacon Stephen Wood; d. Nov. 28, 1826. (Hall, p. 289.) <BR>
12) - LYDIA, b. 1768; m. Capt. Lemuel Brooks; d. Feb. 18, 1828. <lBR>
13) (40.)  JOHN, b. Feb. 3, 1770; d. 1839.


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