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GENEALOGY

OF THE

DURAND, WHALLEY, BARNES
AND YALE FAMILIES

GENEALOGY

OF THE

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DURAND. WHALLEY , BARNES
AND YALE FAMILIES

WITH THE CRESTS OF THE ,
DURAND AND YALE FAMILIES AND
A COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS
AND PHOTOGRAPHS

COMPILED BY

FRANCES BAILEY HEWITT

CHICAGO

PRIVATELY PRINTED AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS

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PREFATORY NOTE

SOME years ago, I began the work of genealogical research with
a desire to make the memory of our ancestors more enduring,
and with the hope of finding actual proof in regard to the
families of Durand, Whalley, Barnes, and Yale.

I have found it not an easy task to reconcile apparently truthful
statements, for surely the keeping of "records" was not a family
gift, and in some cases I can only give traditions. I have endeav-
ored to get historical facts by correspondence with town ofificials where
records have been kept and by research in reference books, town
histories, revolutionary records, family Bibles, church records, inscrip-
tions on tombstones, family letters and word of mouth testimony
when possible, and in many cases have been successful.

I greatly appreciate the kindness of all who have in any way
contributed information, and I am grateful to those of the immediate
family who have encouraged me by showing their interest in the
undertaking.

To Mr. R. H. Yale I am greatly indebted for much of the history
of the Yales, ancient and modern. At the Newberry Library, Chi-
cago, I have been most ably assisted in research work by Mrs. Harriet
Taylor, the efficient librarian of the Genealogical Department.

In compiling these records, I would add that this labor of love was
undertaken and so far completed in the hope that it may be useful and
of interest, especially to the younger generations. Other chapters wait
to be written of events past, present and future, and it should be a point
of honor with the younger generations as they come to bear their part
in developing the history of their ancestors, in recording the events
of their "present," and in verifying the traditions "which we have
heard and known and our fathers have told us."

FRANCES BAILEY HEWITT.
Lake Forest, Illinois., December, 191 1.

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"Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors do not
deserve to be remembered by posterity." — Sir Edmund Burke.

"The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: Thine eyes
are upon me, and I am not." — Job vii. 8.

"Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations:
ask thy father, and he will show thee: thy elders, and they will tell thee."
— Deut. xxxii. 7.

"Aye thus it is! One generation comes.
Another goes and mingles with the dust
And thus we come and go and come and go —
Each for a little moment, filling up some little space
And then we disappear
In quick succession, and it shall be so
Till time in one vast perpetuity
Be swallowed up."

" Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

"For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their
children:

"That the generation to come might know them, even the children which
should be born; who should arise, and declare them to their children." —
Psalms Ixxviii. 3, 5, 6.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I. Main Lines of Descent

The Durand Family 13

The Whalley Family 33

The Barnes Family 37

The Yale Family — Ancient Yales . . . . . . 49

Yales in America 51

PART II. Historical Paragraphs

The Durands 61

Durand Crest . . . .to follow 61

The Whalleys 71

The Barnes Family jt^

Charlotte, Vermont 81

The Yales 85

Yale Crest to follow 85

Elihu Yale 93

Calvin Durand 99

The ' ' Wayside Spring " 99

Jane Ann Durand 99

John M. Durand 103

Henry Clay Durand 105

Charles E. Durand 109

Joseph B. Durand Ill

Calvin Durand, Jr. ill

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PART I. GENEALOGICAL

EXPLANATORY

"B" stands for "Born." "M " stands for " Married." "D"
stands for "Died," when used with a date. Unknown names and
unknown dates are usually represented by ruled lines, .

Marginal references : Figures, reference number. Capital let-
ters designate direct descent: "D" for Durand, "W" for Whalley,
"B"for Barnes, and "Y" for Yale. Small letters designate the
generation.

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MAIN LINES OF DESCENT
THE DURAND FAMILY

1 D a Francois Joseph Durand.

B. Besangon, France, 1735 or 1740

D. June — , 1817 or 1818, Charlotte, Vt.

2 Married Patience Weed, December 22, 1762, in New Canaan,

Conn.
Children :

Joseph Francis B. » 1765. D. April lo, 1843.

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II

13
H

Alexandre

Simeon

Merari

Eleazor
Charlotte

Mary

Anna

B. February 25, 1767, Norwalk, Conn.
D. February i, 1836, Charlotte, Vt.
B. . D. . M. Elizabeth Ca-
ble, , Vt.

. D. . M. Susannah Grey,

■ -Vt.

-. D. — -
-. D. —

B.-
B.-

B.-

do.

M. ,

M. Charles Par-

, Conn.

D. . M., first.

Lewis; second,

B. — . D. . M.

Sherman.

, 1762. D. September

b Joseph Francis Durand.

Married Elizabeth Arnold. B. -

16, 1838.
Children:
c Milo B. December 12, 1801. D.April 7., 1866.

There where four other sons and four daughters: James,
Jesse, Simeon, Merari, Betsey, Sally, Polly and Lucy.

c Milo Durand.

Married Abigail Perry, December 26, 1826. B. October 16,
1804. D. May 9, 1870.

Children:
d Edgar M. B. May 26, 1828. D. November 14, 1881.

d Alonzo M. B. April 16, 1830.

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THE DURAND FAMILY

33 D c

34
35

Helen M. B. May 20, 1832. D. March 3, 1879.

Almeron M. B. June 6, 1834.

Albert A. B. July 28, 1836. D. January 7, 189I.

Alembert J. B. March 13, 1839.

Oliver H. B. April 4, 1841.

Sarah J. B. May 26, 1843. D. May 24, 1888.

Anderson K. B. November 21, 1846.

Achsa A. B. February 27, 1848.

d Alembert James Durand.

Married Mary Fields Wilcox, January i, 1870. B.June 19,

1849.
Children:

Edith May, B. April 29, 1874.

MiJo Alembert B. July 23, 1876.

Edith May Durand.

Married George L. Brown, November 6, 1895.
Children:

Edith Lovina B August 15, 1896.

Alexandre Durand.

Married Elizabeth Whalley, Norwalk, Conn., about 1787.

B. October 20, 1768. D. February 23, 1839.
Children:

B. July 23, 1788. D.June 16, 1803.
B. October 16, 1790. D. February 20,

1806.
B. November 17, 1792. D.October 25,

1852, Norwalk, Conn.
B. March 2, 1795. D. November 26,

1868, Aurora, 111.
B. March 7, 1797, in Charlotte, Vt. D.

November 3, i864,Clintonville,N.Y.
B. August 2, 1799. D. April 30, 1838.
B. January 30, 1802. D. August 19,

1866, Burlington, Vermont.
B. March 24, 1804. D. September 21,

1880.

B. October 21, 1806. D. .

B. August 21, 1809. D. December 2,

1809.
George Sandford B. May 26, 181 2, Charlotte, Vt. D.April

12, 1853, Cadyville, N. Y.

Milton Durand.

Married Louisa Clay Robbins, .

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John Whalley
Samuel

Milton

Alanson E.

Calvin

Elizabeth
Nancy Ann

Seneca

Samuel Whalley
Edwin

THE DURAND FAMILY

Children:

Charles

Elizabeth

Frances

-, Norwalk, Conn. D.

• D. . M. George R. Cowles,

. D. . M., first, Henry Hull;

second, Dr. Webster; third, Schenck.

Edward B. . D. , Norwalk, Conn.

Alanson E. Durand.

Married Charity Higley, January 2, 1817, Shoreham, Vt. B.

April 17, 1795. D. April 27, 1889.
Children:

Edgar A. B.April 19, 1820, Crown Point, N. Y. D.

November 16, 1846, Fairport, O.
James A. B. January 26, 1822, Crown Point, N. Y.

D. January, 1889, Chicago, 111.
Rollin B. March 28, 1826, Parishville, N. Y. D.

Elizabeth B. July 5, 1830, Parishville N. Y. D. Jan-
uary 31, 1891.

Helen B. October 14, 1832, Parishville, N. Y. D.

September, 1876, Ludlow, Mass.

George W. B. September 8, 1827, Parishville, N. Y. D.

d James A. Durand.

Married Currence Ann Beers, April 15, 1845, Charlotte, Vt.

Child:
e Cassius H. B. February 16, 1849, in Charlotte, Vt. D.

September 13, 1910, Chicago, 111.

e Cassius H. Durand.

Married Marguerite Bunn, April 12, 1871, Oswego, 111.

Child:
f Herbert Cassius B. February 24, 1876, Belle Plain, la.

c Calvin Durand.

f Married Lois Barnes, March 3, 1819, by Rev. Calvin Yale,

Charlotte, Vt.
Children:
d Jane Ann. B. January 22, 1820, Charlotte, Vt.

D. March 13, 1870, Milwaukee, Wis.
d John Milton B. December 17 1823, Charlotte, Vt.

D. November 13, 1907, Pasadena, Cal.

d Lucius B. March 28, 1826. D. , 1826.

d Henry Clay B. March I, 1827, Clintonville, N. Y.

D. September 2, 1901, at Moraine
Hotel, Highland Park, III.

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65

57
66

67
68

Charles Edward

Joseph Barnes
Calvin, Jr.

Augusta

B. May 27, 1832, Clintonville, N. Y.
D. April 9, 1894, Lake Forest, 111.
B. May i, 1838, Clintonville, N. Y.
B. May 7, 1840, Clintonville, N. Y.
D. October 31, 1911, Lake Forest, 111.
B. August, 1845. D. , 1845.

--, 1862, Clintonville,

Calvin Durand.

Married, second, Susan Beardsley,
N. Y.

Jane Ann Durand.

Married Van Rensselaer Bailey, March I, 1838, Clintonville,
N. Y. B. September 28, 1812, Ticonderoga, N. Y. D.
August 6, 1862.
Children:

Eliza Jane B. January 4, 1839, Clintonville, N. Y.

D. January ig, 1900, Chicago, 111.
Elizabeth Ann B. February 16, 1840, Clintonville, N. Y
D. February 16, 1843, Clintonville,
N. Y.
Frances Harriet B. February 15, 1842, Clintonville, N. Y.

Eliza Jane Bailey.

Married Henry Martyn Hooker, August 30, 1859, Chicago, 111.

B. March 2, 1829, Enfield, Mass.
Children:

B. November 4, i860, Chicago, 111.

B. July 29, 1862, Chicago, 111.

D. May 15, 1870

B. May 9, 1869, Chicago, 111.

B. November 4, 1877, Chicago, 111.

D. March 21, 1905, Chicago, 111.

Fannie Elizabeth
Charles Gilbert

Mary Durand
Florence Eliza

Fannie Elizabeth Hooker.

Married Francis White Forbes, January 7, 1886, Chicago, 111.
Children:

Henry Hooker B. November 19, 1886, Westboro, Mass.

Florence Eliza B. March 18, 1890, Westboro, Mass.

Mary Louise B. December 15, 1897, Westboro, Mass.

Florence Eliza Hooker.

Married William Wallace Cheney, Jr., September 11, 1901,

Chicago, 111. B. September 16, 1877, Chicago, 111.
Child:

Elizabeth Florence B. August 10, 1902, Chicago, 111.

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THE DURAND FAMILY

69 e Frances Harriet Bailey.

81 Married Alfred Button Hewitt, October 12, 1869, Chicago, 111.

B. August 6, 1819. D. February 13, 1886, Chicago, 111.
Children:

82 f Alfred Bailey B. June 29, 1874. D. July 3, 1874, Chi-

cago, 111.

83 f Norman Bailey B. May 14, 1876, Chicago, 111.

58 d John Milton Durand.

84 Married Almira Wood Stoddard, October 4, 1848, Milwaukee,

Wis. B. August 25, 1824, Upton, Mass.
Children:

85 e Charles Ward B. September 2, 1849, Milwaukee, Wis.

86 e Ella Frances B. November 29, 1851, Milwaukee, Wis.

87 e John Milton, Jr. B. February 6, 1856, Milwaukee, Wis.

86 e Ella Frances Durand.

88 Married Francis Julian Kennett, June 23, 1874, Chicago, 111.

B. December 10, 1847, St. Louis, Mo. D. December I,
1911, Coronado, Cal.
Children :

89 f John Durand B. February 21, 1875, Stuttgart, Ger-

many.
Agnes Florence B. January 15, 1876, Nice, France.
Edith Frances B. May 12, 1877, Geneva, Switzerland

Francis Julian B. July 15, 1878, Chicago, 111.

Luther Martin B. December 20, 1881, Chicago, 111.

90 f Agnes Florence Kennett.

94 Married Walter Hamlin Dupee, November 7, 1900, Chicago,

111.
Children:

Evelyn Waltei B. September 16, 1903, Chicago, 111.
Walter Hamlin B. January 25, 1906, Chicago, 111.

Edith Frances Kennett.

Married Frederic Holbrook Rawson, January 10, 1907, Chi-
cago, 111.
Children:

Frederic Holbrook, Jr. B. March 26, 1908, Chicago, 111.
Kennett Longley B. June I, 1911, Chicago, 111.

Luther Martin Kennet.

Married Isabella Smith, July 5, 1910, Evanston, 111.
Child :
412 g Luther Martin, Jr. B. November li, 1911, Pasadena Cal.

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102

103

104

107

108

109

John Milton Durand,Jr.

Married Mary Agnes Addoms, January 23, 1896, Denver, Col.
Children:

John Milton, 3rd B. January 7, 1902, Denver, Col.

Celeste Addoms B. October 22, 1906, Denver, Col.

Henry Clay Durand.

Married Annie Woodward Burdsal, September 2g, 1855, Chi-
cago, 111. B. August — , 1834, Cincinnati, O.
Children: None
105 e Daisy (adopted) B. October 10, 1871, Chicago, 111.

105 e Daisy Durand.

106 Married, first, Shirley Vance Martin, Lake Forest, 111. No

children.
Married, second, Franklin Pratt Smith, February 7, 19OI, Pasa-
dena, Cal.
Children:

Henry Durand B. August 19, 1902, Lake Forest, 111.
Daisiana B. September 26, 1905, Lake Forest, 111.

Hoyt B. June 24, 1909, Lake Forest, 111.

Charles Edward Durand.

Married Anna Clarence Hill, December I, 1862, Burlington,
Vt. B. September 20,'l839. D. September 4, 1908, Lake
Forest, 111.
Children: None.

Henry Zelotes (adopted) B. March 28, 1870.
Martha Estelle (adopted) B. April 27, 1869.

Martha Estelle Durand.

Married James Denniston, May II, 1892, Lake Forest, 111.

Child: jz?u..*..X

Martha EsteHe- B. March 23, 1902, Evanston, 111.

Henry Zelotes Durand.

Married Mary Whitehead, May 12, 1897, Chicago, 111.
Child:

George Laflin B. March 28, 1898, Chicago, 111.

d Joseph Barnes Durand.

Married Florence Helen Sloan, September 19, 1866, Beaver
Dam, Wis. B. January 8, 1844. D. September 24, 1899,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Children:

B. July 15, 1867, Milwaukee, Wis,
B. May 29, 1859, Milwaukee, Wis.
B. November 26, 1870, Milwaukee, Wis.

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113

114

III

116

117

118

Mary Lois

119

Scott Sloan

120

Kathryn Helen

THE DURAND FAMILY

121 e Florence B. June 3, 1872, Milwaukee, Wis.

122 e Charles Edward B. June 10, 1874, Milwaukee, Wis.

123 e Paul Barnes B. December 3, 1881, Lake Forest, 111.

D.January 6, 1885, Lake Forest, 111.

62 d Joseph Barnes Durand.

124 Married, second. May Louise Burt, June 11, 1903, Gardiner,

Me. B. May 9, 1867.

118 e Mary Lois Durand.

125 Married William Scheerer, of Newark, N. J., April 2, 1891,

Lake Forest, 111.
Children :

126 f Lois B. February 9, 1892, Newark, N. J.

127 f Paul Renner B. August 9, 1893, Orange, N. J.

128 f William, Jr. B. December 25, 1895, Orange, N. J.

129 f Joseph Durand B. February 18, 1900, Orange, N.J.

119 e Scott Sloan Durand.

130 Married Grace Denise Garrett, April 5, 1894, Burlington, la.
Child :

131 f Jack Garrett (adopted) B. August 25, 1903.

120 e Kathryn Helen Durand.

132 Married Alfred Farragut James, September 11, 1894, Lake

Forest, 111. B. October 26, 1868, New York, N. Y.
Children:

133 f Kathryn B. November 14, 189b, Milwaukee, Wis.

134 f Alfred Farragut, Jr. B. August 17, 1899, Milwaukee, Wis.

135 f Charles Durand B. April 23, 1905, Milwaukee, Wis.

121 e Florence Durand.

136 Married Ludington Patton, October 29, 1896, Lake Forest, 111.

B. November25, 1871, Milwaukee, Wis.
Children:

137 f Florence B. September 23, 1898, Milwaukee, Wis.

138 f Joseph Durand B. April 29, 1900, Milwaukee, Wis.

139 f Mary Lois B. July 24, 1902, Milwaukee, Wis.

D. January 31, 1910, Milwaukee, Wis.

140 f Ludington, Jr. B. December 20, 1909, Milwaukee, Wis.

122 e Charles Edward Durand.

141 Married Edith Rice, February II, 1911, Bath, Me.

63 d Calvin Durand, Jr.

142 Married Sarah Gould Downs, January 17, 1867, Chicago, 111.

B.March 20, 1841. D.August 26, 1911, Lake Forest,
111.

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THE DURAND FAMILY

Children:

143 e Jane Elizabeth B. December 15, 1867, Chicago, 111.

144 e Henry Calvin B. April 23, 1869, Chicago, 111.

145 e Harriet Allen B. February 20, 1872, Chicago, 111.

146 e Mabel Edna B. April 5, 1874, Chicago, 111.

147 e Bertha Josephine B. June 15, 1880, Lake Forest, 111.

148 e Ruth B. November 16, 1884, Lake Forest, 111.

143 e Jane Elizabeth Durand.

149 Married Elisha Hubert Allen, September 19, 1889, Lake For-

est, 111. B. March 20, 1857, Hanover, Conn.
Children:

150 f Calvin Durand B. November 24, 1890, Orange, N. J.

151 f Waldo Morgan B. February 17, 1893, Orange, N. J.

152 f Ruth B. November 30, 1894.

D. April 9, 1896, Orange, N. J.

153 f Henry Elisha B. June 13, 1902, Orange, N. J.

144 e Henry Calvin Durand.

154 Married Mary Alice Piatt, June 20, 189s, Lake Forest, 111. B.

February 4, 1871.
Child :

155 f Carolyn B. March 18, igo8. Lake Forest, 111.

Harriet Allen Durand.

Married Cornelius Miller Trowbridge, September 14, 1897,
Lake Forest, 111. B. January 21, 1869, at Hudson, N. Y.
Children :

Calvin Durand B. August 24, 1898, Evanston, 111.

Cornelius Miller, Jr. B. September 8, 1901, Evanston,

111.
Katherine Van Wagenen B. September 16, 1903, Lake For-
est, 111.
Jane Durand B. March 25, 1910, Lake Forest,

111.

Mabel Edna Durand.

Married Frank Woodworth Pine, July 9, 1901, Lake Forest,

111. B. October 11, 1869, Detroit, Mich.
Children :

James Cone B. May 18, 1904, Pottstowrn, Pa.

Calvin Durand B. December 27, 1905, Pcittstown, Pa.

Harriet Durand B. January 15, 1909, Pottstown, Pa.

Bertha Josephine Durand.

Married Arthur Frederic Yaggy, June i, 1905, Lake Forest,
111. B. January 2, 1880.
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156

157

158

159

160

146

I6l

162

163

164

147

165

THE DURAND FAMILY

Children:
f Arthur Frederic, Jr. B. September 2, 1906, Hutchinson,

Kas.
f Bradford B. March 21, 1908, Chicago, 111.

e Ruth Durand.

Married William Mather Lewis, December 20, 1906, Lake
Forest, 111. B. March 24, 1878.

Child:
f Sarah Durand B. December 28, 1907, Lake Forest, 111.

c Elizabeth Durand.

Married, first, John Allen Packard, May b, 1819, Charlotte,

Vt., by Rev. Calvin Yale.
Children:
d Edson A. B.August- — ,1820.

D. October 16, 1891, Milton, Vt.
d Giles C. B. February — ,1824.

D. , Syracuse, N. Y.

d George W. B.July, 1826. D. , Canton, N. Y.

d Milton B. November, 1828.

d Hiram Hobart B. December, 1830.

D. January, 1888, Elmira, N. Y.
c Elizabeth Durand Packard.

Married, second, Mr. Tupper.

c Nancy Ann Durand.

Married Birdsey Clarke, , Charlotte, Vermont.

Child:
d An infant son B. . D. , Charlotte, Vt.

c Seneca Durand.

Married, first, —
Child:
d Edward B .

Barnes. B.

Married, second, Eliza Everett, Wallingford, Conn.

c Samuel Whalley Durand.

Married , .

Children:

Elizabeth B.

George B.

Seneca B.

Guy B.

Frances B.

c George Sandford Durand.

Married Betsey Ann Powell, October 21, 1831, Charlotte, Vt.

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THE DURAND FAMILY

B. February 24, 1810, Charlotte, Vt. D. November, i{
New Haven, Conn.

Children:

Martha Elizabeth
Jane Catherine

Samuel Ziba Durkee
Frances Mary (Fannie)
Calvin Edgar
Ellen Augusta
William Niles
Lizzie Louise

B. June 20, 1832, Charlotte, Vt.
B. February 5, 1835. D. July 23,

1890, Chicago, 111.
B. March 13, 1838. D. Septem-
ber II, 1901, Derby,Conn.
B. March 5, 1840. D. January

17, 1857, Charlotte, Vt.
B. October 17, 1842. D.Mays,

1847, Charlotte, Vt.
B. February 14, 1844. D. April,

14, 1847.
B. July 21, 1847. D. January 2,

1876, New Haven, Conn.
B. August 20, 1849. D. February
24, 1853, Cadyville, N. Y.
Martha Elizabeth Durand.

Married Albert Melvill Fuller, October 8, i860, Burlington, Vt.
B. October 8, 1836, Walpole, N. H. D. August 16, 1908,
Chicago, 111.
Children:

Clarence Durand B. August 4, 1861, Titusville, Pa.

Frederick Hungerford B. April 18, 1863, Titusville, Pa.
D. November 30, 1895, Chicago,

111.
B. June 25, 1864, Chicago, 111.
D. April 24, 1868, Chicago, 111.
B. April 7, 1869, Chicago, 111.
D. February 13, 1910, Warren, Pa.
B. February i, 1871, Chicago, 111.

Florence Louise

Albert Henry

Carlotta

e Clarence Durand Fuller.

Married Anna Charlotte Johnson, September 17, 1895.

d Jane Catherine Durand,

Married William A. Hungerford, New Haven, Conn.

Children:

e George Durand B. , .

e William Fuller B. , .

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THE WHALLEY FAMILY

202 W a John Whalley.

203 Married Ann Magee.
Children:

28 W b Elizabeth B. October 20, 1768 .D. February 23, 1839.

204 b Eleanor B. April 12, 1775. D. April 5, 1863.

205 b Jane B. August — , 1808. D. February 24, 1855.

B. . D. . Married Thomas Nor-

28 W b Elizabeth Whalley.
4 D 6 Married Alexandre Durand about 1787, Norwalk, Conn.

Children:

(See Ref. Nos. 29 c to 39 c.)

204
20b

207

207
208

209

210

211

205
212

213

b Eleanor Whalley.

Married Samuel Prindle, Norwalk, Conn. B.

Children :

c Midas B. 1799. D. .

And others.

Benjamin went to Iowa.

c Midas Prindle.

Married Sarah V. Higbie, May 20, 1834.
Children:

Henry W. B. . D. —

abeth Squier.
B. . D.

Ellen M.
Mary H.

lotte, Vt.
B. . D.

lotte, Vt.

, Charlotte, Vt. M. Eliz-
. M. Abel Palmer, Char-
. M. Thomas Hill, Char-

b Jane Whalley.

Married Thomas Kennett,
Child:
c Ann B. August

, 1808.
New York City.

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D. February 24, 1855,

THE WHALLEY FAMILY

213

Ann Kennett.

214

Married Gabriel A. Arnoux, , son of Jean Baptiste Ar-

noux.
Children :

215

William Henry (Judge Arnoux) B. . D

216

Annie B D

Brooklyn, N. Y.

216

Annie Arnoux.

217

Married Captain Milton Haxtun, U. S. N. B. 1826. D.

, 1898.

Children :

218

Adelaide

219

Sutherland

220

Sophia Kennett

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221 B a Thomas Barnes.

b
b
b
b
b
b
b
B b

230 B b
231:

c
c
c
c
c
c
B c

238 B c
239

240 d

241 d

242 B d

243 d

Came to New Haven, Conn., 1638. B. 1623,
D. 1693, Middletown, Conn.

Married Elizabeth , , 1647.

Children :

John

Elizabeth

Thomas

Mercy

Abigail

Daniel

Martha

Maybee B. June 25, 1663. D.

Maybee Barnes.

Married Elizabeth Stowe, November 19, 1691,
Children:

Nathaniel

Elizabeth

Samuel

Ebenezer

Thomas

Joseph

Gersham

England.

-, North

B. September 13, 1705. D.
Haven, Conn.
Gersham Barnes.

Married Mehitable Sanford, October 19, 1727, North Haven,

Conn.
Children:
Abner
Lois
Asa

B. May 9, 1736, New Haven, Conn.
D. March 21, 1802, Charlotte, Vt.

Hezekiah
And others.

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THE BARNES FAMILY

Asa Barnes.

Married Lois Yale, June 21, 1759, Wallingford, Conn.

Children :
Hezekiah

Lois and Esther
Asa, Jr.

Abner
Yale

Abner
Esther
Lois

Joseph

-, 1760, Wallingford, Conn.

Hezekiah Barnes.

Married Anna Wheeler.
Children:
Samuel H.

B.-

D. March 20, 1813, Charlotte, Vt.

B. September 4, 1762. D. .

B. January 8, 1765. D. , 1809,

Lansingburgh, N. Y.

B. October 29, 1767. D. .

B. July 8, 1769. D. July 22, 1788, Char-
lotte, Vt.

B.July 22, 1771. D. .

B. July 24, 1773. D. .

B. March 23, 1775. D. . M.

Aaron Yale, Jr.

B. September 13, 1778. D. July 31,
1839, Charlotte, Vt.

George Yale

Hezekiah Jr.

Etta

Anna

Mary Ann

John

Minerva
Wheeler

Minerva Barnes.

Married

Children:
Mary Ann
And others.

B.
B.
B.

B.
B.

-, 1796. D. July 24, 1847, Chai-

lotte, Vt.
, 1798. D. August 3, 1829, New

York City.

. D.

-,1785. D. September 7,1802,

Charlotte, Vt.
, 1807. D. June 14, 1809, Char-

lotte, Vt.
, 1794. D. July 14, 1799, Char-

lotte, Vt.

. D.

. D.-

-, 1858, Rome, N. Y.

Williams,

g Mary Ann Williams.

Married S. L. Herrick, , Burlington, Vt.

Children:
h Mary M. Horace P. Clark, September 8, 1869, Bur-

Fannie

lington, Vt.
M. Charles Catlin.

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THE BARNES FAMILY

George
Albert

B.
B.

-, in London, England.

Asa Barnes, Jr.

Married Anna Yale, 1790, daughter of Aaron Yale, Wallingford,
Conn.

Children:
Lois

Alexander
Henry Yale

Narcissa A.

B. February 15, 1791. D. May 17, 1792,
Charlotte, Vt.

B. August 23, 1793. D. October 10, 1814.

B. April 17, 1795. D. . M. Caro-
line Yale, , 1827.

D. January 8, i{

Joseph Asa B.

-, 1829, Waitsfield, Vt. B. April

November 14, 1799
M. John Barney.

May 14, 1805, Plaltsburgii\N. Y.
March 19, 1881, Elk Grove, 111.

Joseph Asa Barnes.

Married Eliza Wilder, -

20, 1809. D. April 22, 1899, Irving Park, 111.
Children:

Mary Lovina B. 1831. D. at Elk Grove, 111., in 1838.

Ann Eliza B. April 6, 1835, the first white child

born in Elk Grove township.
D. March 31, 1873, at Elk Grove.
Adeline Amelia B. June 15, 1837, Elk Grove, 111.
D. May 8, 1903, Chicago, 111.

Ann Eliza Barnes.

Married William A. Russell, of Wakefield, N. H., January 17,
1855.
Children:

William Barnes B. April 22, 1856, Elk Grove, 111.
Frank Wilder B. January 4, 1859, Elk Grove, 111.

Mary Alice B. June 21, 1861, Elk Grove, 111.

George A. B. March 2J , 1873, Elk Grove, 111.

D. August 15, 1873, Elk Grove, 111.

Adeline Amelia Barnes.

Married Frederic A. Roziene, January 3, 1866. B. in Sweden,

August 7, 1835.
Children:

Frederic Barnes B. August 27, 1867, Elk Grove, 111.
Addie Eliza B. April 10, 1870, Charles City, la.

Frederic Barnes Roziene.

Married Lucy K. Clemens, October II, 1900. B. at Mc-
Gregor, Iowa, February 8, 1870.

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THE BARNES FAMILY

406

407

408

409

410

411

253 B e

288

289 f

290 B f

291 f

292 f

Child:

Josephine Winefred

B. March 21, 1909, Chicago, 111.

Lois Barnes.

Married Aaron Yale, Jr., Charlotte, Vt., son of Aaron Yale,

Wallingford, Conn. D. June 26, 1850, aged 87 years.
Children:

Harriet B. June 28, 1794.

Sally B. August 6, 1796.

Laura B. August 7, 1798.

Lois B. July 17, 1800.

Minerva B. July 27, 1802.

George H. B. June 30, 1805.

Joseph Barnes.

Married Lucretia Gillette, about 1797. B.August 19, 1777.

D. August 31, 1828.
Children:

Brinthia B, March 13, 1798. D.

M., first,
-. Lived

Catlin ; second,

near Dunkirk.
B. July 6, 1799, Charlotte, Vt.
D. May 26, i86i,Clintonville, N. Y.
B. October 19, 1800, Charlotte, Vt.
D, January 31, 1873, Charlotte, Vt.
B. August I, 1802. D. May 13, 1873, Char-
lotte, Vt. M. Augustus Newell, May 28,
1823.

B. February 5, 1804. D. . M. Arza

Gillette, September, 1823.
B. August 30, 1806. D. April I, 1807.
B. January 3, 1808. D. April 13, 1833.

B. October 16, 1809. D. , in Ohio.

M. Hollis, January 4, 1831.

Emma B. February 10, 181 1. D. November 13, 1836.

M. W. E. Griffin.
Delia Ann B. September 13, 1814. D. December 31,

1864. M. James W. Williams.
Caroline B. March 24, 1817. D. April 17, 1887 in Wis-
consin. M. Chas. Grant Beach, Septem-
ber 21, 1835.
Colonel Asa Barnes, his son, Asa, Jr., and daughter, Lois,
married into the Yale family.

Lois Barnes.

Married Calvin Durand, March 3, 1819, Charlotte, Vt.

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Lois

Polly

Lucretia

John

Julia Ann
Joseph, Jr.
Julia Ann

THE BARNES FAMILY

Children:

(See Ref. Nos. 57 ^/to 64 J.)

291 f Polly Barnes.

300 Married William Hubbell, October 8, 1817.
Child:

301 g Luther R. B. . D. .

301 g Luther R. Hubbell.

302 Married Mary Barton, Charlotte, Vt. B. . D. .

Children:

303 h Louise B. . D. . M., first, Lucius Bar-

ton. D. . M., second, Alonzo Bald-
win. Their children: Minnie, Luther H.,
Alonzo, Roy.

304 h Elizabeth B. . D. . M. George Rowley,

Charlotte, Vt. D. . M., second,

White. Their child: Stella.

292 f Lucretia Barnes.

305 Married Augustus Newell, May 28, 1823.
Children:

30b g Martha B. April 15,1824. D. , Charlotte, Vt.

M., first, Rider; second, Jas. W.

Williams.
Helen B. — . M. Benjamin Harrington, Shel-

burne, Vt.
Marietta B. . D. .

Delia Ann Barnes.

Married Jas. Wilson Williams, June 5, 1833, grandson of Col-
onel William Williams, Lanesboro, Mass.
Children:

Caroline B. . D. .

Wilson John B. January 17, 1836. D. May 6, 1881.

James Barnes (Known in early days as Theodore.) B.

. D. .

Minnie E. B. 1858. D. October 22, 1865.

g Wilson John Williams.

Married Sophia J. Isaacs, January 17, i860. B. September 25,

1840. D. March 29, 1895.
Children:

315 h Adelia Sophia B. December 5, i860. Terra Haute,

Ind. D. June4, 1878, Vincennes,
Ind.

316 h Charles Warren B. March il, 1863.

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307

308

298

309

310

311

312

313

311

THE BARNES FAMILY

317

318

319
320

321
322

299
323

324
325
326

327
328

Clara Ross

Margaret Eastham

Wilson Tyler
Robert Jessup

James Barnes
Harry Ross

B. September 25, 1865, Vincennes,
Ind. M. Herbert J. Ullman.

B. November 12, 1867, Vincennes,
Ind.

B. June 26, 1869, Vincennes, Ind.

B. September 10, 1872, Vincennes,
Ind.

B. August 22, 1875, Vincennes, Ind.

B. October 11, 1878, Vincennes, Ind

Caroline Barnes.

Married Charles Grant Beach, September 21, 1835.
Children:

Charles Grant

Zachary Taylor

Jane Lucretia

Joseph Barnes

Frederic Emerson

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I ^ L "^ '^'

ANCIENT YALES— DIRECT MALE LINE

a Dominus Otho.

Went to England in 1057. Married .

330 Y b Walter Fitz Otho.

Married Gladys, the daughter of Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn, Prince
of North Wales. Was living in 1078.

331 Y c Gerald Fitz Walter.

Married Nesta, the daughter of Rhys ab Tewdyr, Prince of
South Wales (Gerald de Windsor). Died about 1 140.

332 Y d Maurice Fitz Gerald.

Married Alice, the daughter of Arnulf de Montgomery, Earl
of Pembroke (son of Roger de Montgomery), a great
Norman Lord. Commander of first Norman invasion of
Ireland. Died 1177.

e Thomas Fitz Maurice.

Married .

f John Fitz Thomas.

Married ., Lord of Decies and Desmond and a Count

Palatine, in 1259.

g Osbwrn Wyddel.

333 Y

334 Y

335 Y

336 Y

337 Y

338 Y

339 Y

Married

(Osborn Fitz Gerald). Was living in 1293.

h Cynrik ap Osborn.

Married .

i Llewelyn ap Cynrik.

Married Nesta. Was living in 1344.

j Griffith ap Llewelyn.

Married Efa. Died about 1398.

k Einion ap Griffith.

Married Tangwystl. Captain of Archers for the King. Was
living in 1397.

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THE YALE FAMILY

340 Y / Griffith ap Einion.

Married Lowrie, the daughter of Tudor ap Griffith Vychan
(Tudor Glyndwr).

341 Y m Ellis ap Griffith.

Married Margaret, heiress of Plas yn Yale. Died in 1489.

342 Y n David Lloyd,

Married Gwenwhyfar.

343 Y o John Yale.

Married Agnes. One of his sons, Thomas, continued the line
of Yales of Plas yn Yale.

344 Y p Dr. David Yale.

Married Frances Lloyd, of Erddig House and Plas Grono,
' Chancellor of Chester. Died in 1626.

345 Y q Thomas Yale.

Married about 1612, Ann (daughter of Lord Bishop George

Lloyd of Chester). He died in 1619.
Children:

346 r David Came to America in 1637.

347 Y r Thomas Came to America in 1637.

348 r Ann Came to America in 1637.

THE YALES IN AMERICA

346 r David Yale.

Born 1613. Died January 14, 1690, Plas Grono. Married Ur-

349 sula , about 1641. Born ,1624. Died Feb-

urary 7, 1698.

Children:

350 s Elizabeth B. May, 1644, Boston. D. August, 1644,

Boston.

351 s David B. 1645, Boston. D. January 26, 1690,

Plas Grono.

352 s Elihu (Governor) B. April 5, 1649, probably in or near

Boston. D.July 8, 1721, London.

353 s Theophilus B. January, 1652, Boston. D. young.

354 s Thomas B. 1660, London, England. D.October

12, 1697.

355 s Valentine B. about 1666. D. November 8, 1698,

Plas Grono.

352 s Elihu Yale (Governor).

356 Married Catherine, widow of Mr. Joseph Hymmers, at St.

Marys, Fort St. George, Madras, India.

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357

358
359

360

358
3&I

362
363

364

3(55
359

367
368

Children :

David B. Fort St. George, Madras, India. D. 1657

in infancy.
Catherine M. Dudley North.

Ann M. Lord James Cavendish. Lady Cavendish

died June 27, 1734. Lord Cavendish died
December 14, 1751.

Ursula B. , London, England, Queen's Square,

Great Ormond Street. D. July, 1721.
Governor Elihu Yale also had a son, Charles, by Mrs. Pavia
in Madras, India, who died at the Cape of Good Hope
in 1711 or 1712.
Catherine Yale.

Married Dudley North.
Children:
Dudley
Ann

B.
B.

Mary

D.
D.

. D.

of Suffolk.

bert.

before 1789.
. M.Hon.

Nicholas Her-

Long, Esq.

Elihu
Ann Yale.

Married Lord James Cavendish.

Children:

William B.- . D. June 30, 1757. Married Bar-

bara, daughter of Edwin Chandler, Lord
Bishop of Durham.

Elizabeth B. . D. . Married Richard

Chandler, the son of the bishop, Febru-
ary, 1732. Richard Chandler changed
his name to Cavendish by act of Par-
liament in 1752. Elizabeth Yale Caven-
dish died without issue, and left her
personal estate to her cousin, Dudley
Long, Esq., of Suffolk, who assumed the
name of Dudley Long North and who
reached some distinction as a member of
Parliament and friend and companion of
Dr. Johnson, and was therefore enbalmed
in the pages of Boswell. Dudley Long
North was the donor to Yale College, in
1789, of the portrait of Governor Elihu
Yale, which is still preserved in the Col-
lege. Mr. North died in 1829. He was
Elihu Yale's great-grandson.

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THE YALE FAMILY

347
369

370
371

372

373

374

375
376

377

387
390

391

371 Y s
378

379
380

381
382
384
385
386

387
388

389

Y t

Thomas Yale.

Born 1616, Plas Grono. D. March 27, 1683. M. Mary Tur-
ner, 1645, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Turner of New
Haven, Conn. Mary Turner Yale died October 15,
1704.

Children:
John
Thomas
Mary

Nathaniel
Martha

Abigail
Hannah

Elizabeth

B. about 1646, New Haven, Conn. D. .

B. about 1647, New Haven, Conn. D. .

B. October 26, 1650, New Haven, Conn. D.

B. January 3, 1652, New Haven, Conn.

B. May 6, 1655, New Haven, Conn. D. Jan-
uary 15, 1670.

B. May 5, 1660.

B. July 6, 1662. M. Enos Talmage May 9,
1682.

B. January 29, 1667. D. September 19, 1701.
Married Joseph Pardee, of East Haven,
July 30, 1688. Joseph Pardee was the son
of George Pardee, who was the son of
Faith Brewster (a descendant of Elder
William Brewster and Samuel Pardee).

Thomas Yale (Captain).

Born about 1647. First of New Haven, Conn.; afterward of
Wallingford. D. January 26, 1736, at Wallingford, Conn.
M., first, Rebecca Gibbards, December il, 1667, daughter
of William Gibbards, Esq. She was born at New Haven,

February 26, 1650. D. , at Wallingford, Conn.

M., second, Sarah Nash. There were no children. M.,
third, Mary Beach, of Wallingford. There were no
children.
Children of Thomas and Rebecca Gibbards Yale :

Hannah B. July 27, 1669. D. .

Rebecca B. October, 2, 1671. D. .

Elizabeth B. July 25, 1673. M. Joseph Chittenden.

Theophilus B. November 13, 1675. D. .

Thomas B. March 20, 1678 or 1679.

Nathaniel B. July 12, 1681. D. December il, 1711.

Mary B. August 27, 1684. D. July 4, 1703.

John B. December 8, 1687.

Nathaniel Yale, of Wallingford.

Married Anna Peck.
Children:

Moses B. July 10, 1705.

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D. September II, 1748. M.

THE YALE FAMILY

Abigail Yale, daughter of Thomas and
Mary Yale, August li, 1729.

392 Y u Abel B. March 9, 1707. D. April 8, 1784.

393 u Asa B. February 23, 1709.

394 u Ezra B. March 13, 1711.

392 Y u Abel Yale, of Wallingford, Conn.

395 Married, first, Esther Cook, July 22, 1730. B. . D.

396 May 2, 1740; M., second, Sarah Atkins, Middletown
Conn. June 3, 1742.

Children of Abel and Esther Cook Yale:

397 V Thomas B, May 30, 1731. D. During the Revolution-

ary War.

B.April 13, 1733. D. .

B. February 17, 1737. D. .

398 V

Abel

399 V

David

400 Y V

Lois

B. September 3, 1739. D. March 10, 1807.
Children by second wife, Sarah Atkins:
Esther
Sarah
Jonathan
David
Nathaniel

400 Y V Lois Yale.

242 B d Married Asa Barnes (known as Colonel Asa), June 21, 1759,

Wallingford, Conn.
Children:

(See Ref. Nos. 245 t- to 253 c.)

348 r Ann Yale.

Married, Edward Hopkins, Esq., who was born at Shrewsbury,
England, 1600; a prominent merchant and politician of
London. He came to America in 1637 and was made
Governor of Connecticut in 1640, which office he held
each alternate year, until 1654, and conducted the affairs
of the government with great ability. Governor Hopkins
was the founder of the grammar school at New Haven,
Conn. He gave in his will lOOO pounds for the sup-
port of grammar schools in Hartford and New Haven;
also 500 pounds to Harvard College, and the grammar
school of Cambridge. He died in London, March, 1657,
aged about 58 years. Ann Yale Hopkins, his wife, died
December 14, 1698, aged 83 years, at Plas Grano, near
Wrexham, Wales.

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PART II. HISTORICAL PARAGRAPHS

HISTORICAL PARAGRAPHS

Besancon, France — Besancon is one of the oldest towns of
France. The town was the capital of the department of Doubs in
the old province Franche-Comti, bounded on the east by Switzerland.
The town is situated on the Doubs River, which rises in the Jura
Mountains. Besanyon presents many attractions. It abounds in
remains of the Roman occupation of Gaul. It was at Besangon that
the cross suspended in the heavens, bearing the legend "in hoc signo
vinces," appeared to the Roman emperor Constantine as he made his
triumphant invasion of the country. A vast Roman amphitheatre
has recently been excavated there. It is a walled town. One object
of great interest is the ancient palace of Cardinal Granville, once
Archbishop of Besampon. Victor Hugo was born in Besancon. The
valley of the Doubs, in which the town is situated, is very beautiful,
with its swift river of clear, cold water coming from the mountains.
The valley was a scene of husbandry, with fields and vineyards contain-
ing luscious fruit, and the "fleur-de-lis" was the flower of the valley.

The Name Durand — Durant, Durand, Durrant. An ancient
personal name, in Latin Durandus, under which form it occurs in Domes-
day. An early Norman proprietor of this name founded Duranville,
called in charters Durand's Villa, near Bernai, in or before the eleventh
century. The name of the immortal author of the Inferno was by bap-
tism Durante — afterward shortened by his familiar friends into Dante.

Crests are designated by suitable emblems to exhibit the
achievements of valor, the descent of hereditary honors, and the dis-
tinctions appertaining to nobility. A right to bear arms was the true
criterion of nobility.

Durand Coat of Arms ^ Description: Sky-blue shield, golden
fess, three trefoils of silver.

Motto: Endiirant J'esph-e (Enduring, I hope).

f6il

ill

FRANCOIS JOSEPH DURAND

I Francois Joseph Durand (I D «)— The earliest record of
the Durand hne who settled in America was of Francois Joseph
Durand, who we are told was the son of a nobleman, resident in
Besanfon, in the east of France.

Francois Joseph Durand ran away from his home in France,
came to America about 1755, first stopping in the West Indies. He
finally settled in Norwalk, Connecticut, and there married Patience
Weed. They had five sons and three daughters. He told his
children that he was heir to a large estate in France, and if it was
ever necessary to prove his identity, that his skull had been tre-
panned before leaving France, and a silver piece inserted. One
tradition is that he came from France some time between 1755 and
1759, that he was about sixteen years of age when he left home and
that be enUsted on board of a French ship-of-war. His father came
on the dock, after the ship had cast her fines, just too late to get his
boy. At one time he started to go to France to claim his inheritance,
but on reaching New York found that the boat that he was expecting
to take had gone, and as some time would elapse before another boat
would sail, he returned to his home.

The name Joseph Durand seems to be the one he used after
coming to America. From the New Canaan, Connecticut, town
records, we find that Joseph Durand married Patience Weed, December
22, 1762. In Bailey's " Connecticut Marriages," volume 4, page 23,
Newberry Library, "Joseph Durand married Patience Weed (2) De-
cember 22, 1762." The Congregational Church of New Canaan was
organized in 1733 from the churches of Norwalk and New Canaan.

In the land records of Norwalk, Connecticut, there appears the
name of Joseph Durand. He was a property-holder and bought and
sold land.

Of Patience Weed Durand (2) I would be glad to record more
than the notice of her marriage with Joseph Durand. The story
of their five sons and three daughters is told in part, and in bring-
ing her name down to the memory of the living, we can only read
between the lines, and believe her to have been a mother filled with
pitty and good works.

There are various stories told of Fran<;ois Joseph — one is, that
in 1 80 1, he started for France to establish his inheritance claim, which
could have been done at that time, but he was obliged to return home

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FRANCOIS JOSEPH DURAND

on account of ill health, and the time soon expired in which it was
possible for the heirs to establish a legal claim.

Another story is told of a Frenchman, whose name was Durand,
who came to America in 1858 or 1859, to find the heirs of Franyois
Joseph, saying that he and his sister v;ere heirs also, and they could
not get their share unless the heirs of Fran(;ois Joseph were found.
They came to Wakeman, Ohio, talked with Merari (6 /;),a member
of the family of Franpois Joseph Durand. They had much to say
about a General Durand.

Francois Joseph died in June, 18 17 or 18 18, at the home of his
son, Alexandre Durand (4 D />), in Charlotte, Vermont, and was
buried there.

A letter from Mrs. A. J. Durand (23) Elizabethtown, N. Y.,
says that "Many years ago, when something was being done to get
the fortune, Frangois Joseph's body, which was buried in Charlotte,
Vermont, was taken up, the piece of silver found (which he had told
his children of), and the remains buried in another place. This must
have been done by the family of one of his daughters." Martha
Durand Fuller (185 d), daughter of George Durand (39 c), tells us
that at one time Seneca Durand (36 c), Milo Durand (12 c), and some
others searched for the body of Francois Joseph in the cemetery at
Charlotte, but could not find the remains. She well remembers
hearing the family say that while Fi^angois Joseph was living with his
son Alexandre (4 D (^), in Charlotte, he at first was discontented with
his surroundings, knowing of his beautiful home in France, his own
country, for which he longed, but that in the later years of his life
he became more reconciled. He was remembered by those who
knew him as somewhat small in stature, but a genuine Frenchman
in politeness. He was polished, courteous and scholarly.

It is a matter for regret that substantial proof of the story of
his life in his home in France, and also personal records of his
parents, cannot be given. Diligent search has been made, but the
written story has not yet been found. In times past, word of mouth
communication is said to have had a real value, and was thought to
be secure in the truth, and so could be handed down to posterity,
without a thought of its being questioned.

It was with delight that I listened to the story of Francois Joseph
Durand, as told me by my grandfather, Calvin Durand (33 D r),

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JOSEPH FRANCIS DURAND

when I was a child, and often repeated when I was older. To my
childish ears it was like a romance, and there never was a thought
that the story would ever have to be verified, "but the spirit of the
present times demands authorities for everything."

John M. Durand, Jr. (87 e), writing from Besanyon, France,
January lO, 1898, says in part as follows:

"I have been busy searching the records here for the past two days, for
the name of Frangois Joseph Durand, supposed to have been born in 1740, but
as yet have been unsuccessful. Have found the record of Fran5ois Victor
Durand, born in 1733, son of Charles Durand, and apparently corrected later by
another hand, to Charles Mainboeuf Durand. I also called on Mr. Hector
Durand de Gevigney to get what information I could from him. They are the
only surviving noble family living here, and changed to de Gevigney, female
line, to distinguish themselves from the other branches.

"There were, originally, two noble families, Antoine Joseph Durand,
married in 1685, and Charles Emanuel Durand, married in 1698. The descend-
ants of the first family still exist, and I have been looking over their family
records with them. The records of the Charles Emanuel Durand family have
mysteriously disappeared, abruptly breaking off all chance of discovering their
descendants. The two families were originally one, and came from Baumeles-
Dames, near here, early in 1600, as near as I can judge. Right after the
marriage of Charles Emanuel Durand, in 1698, the book containing the record
of descendants was destroyed, which seems to me very strange, but they say
it must have been done during the time of the first French Revolution. If we
descended from Charles Emanuel's branch, why, Francois Joseph must have
been a grandson of the same."

Joseph Francis Durand (3 b), son of Frangois Joseph,
brother of Alexandre, was an early settler in Elizabethtown, N. Y.
He was of French descent, and is said to have been directly con-
nected with the nobility. He is remembered as a man who was
much liked and respected by all who knew him. One of his sons,
Milo, left a large family, of whom Alonzo M. (14 d) and Alembert J.
(18 d) are still (1890) residents of the town. Joseph Francis
Durand served in the Revolutionary War.

Reference— "History of Essex County, New York." E. P. Smith, Edhor.

Military Record of Joseph Francis Durand. Copy of letter
from Commissioner of Pensions:

L. M. 13 Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions,

^■1289 Washington, D. C, March 2, 1898.

Mad'.iin : — Replying to your request for information concerning Joseph
Durand, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are advised that he made an

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ALEXANDRE DURAND

application for pension on September 28, 1832, at which time he was sixty-
eight years of age, and residing in Elizabethtown, N. Y., and his pension was
allowed for six months' actual service as a private in the New York troops
Revolutionary War. A part of the time he served under Captain Lewis and
Colonel Canfield. He enlisted in Bedford, N. Y.

Very respectfully,
(Signed) H. Clay Evans,

Commissioner of Pensions.
Mrs. A. B. Hewitt, Lake Forest, 111.

Alexandre Durand (4 D />) — Military History: "He was a
loyal lad, who at the age of fifteen years, enlisted at Norwalk, Con-
necticut, 1782, and served one year in the Connecticut Continental
line, Revolutionary War. He made application for pension May 11,
1818, at which time he was residing in Charlotte, Vermont."

Above is the description of service found in " Revolutionary Pension
Rolls, Rhode Island, Vermont and Connecticut," page 38. "Connecticut in the
Revolution," page 639. "Index to the records of Revolutionary Service," page
700. — Newberry Library.

Copy of letter from Commissioner of Pensions:

O. W. & N. Division Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions,

Revolutionary Washington, D. C, July 9, 1897.

Madam: — Replying to your request for information concerning Alexandre
Durand, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you are are advised that he made
an application for pension on May 11, 1818, at which time he was fifty years
of age, and residing at Charlotte, Vermont, and his pension was allowed for
one year actual service as a private in the Connecticut troops. Revolutionary
War. A part of the time he served under Captain Betts and Colonel Webb.
He enlisted at Norwalk, Connecticut.

His widow, Elizabeth, made application and received a pension for the

service of her husband as above set forth.

Very respectfully,
(Signed) H. Clay Evans,

Commissioner.
Mrs. A. B. Hewitt, Lake Forest, 111.

Alexandre Durand (4 D /') married Elizabeth Whalley (28
W b). They lived in Norwalk, Connecticut, and removed to Char-
lotte, Vermont, where they resided the remainder of their lives.
The old "Homestead," in the east part of the town, is still standing.

Elizabeth Whalley Durand, after the death of her husband
(1836), lived for awhile at the "Homestead," with her son Alanson
(32 r). From there she went to live with her son George (39 c), at

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MILTON DURAND

his home in Charlotte, and then returned to her old home. From
the church record, we find that she united with the Congregational
Church, Charlotte, in 1807.

On February 23, 1839, Elizabeth Whalley Durand passed
away. She was a loving wife, a devoted mother, a woman of sweet
and gentle spirit, of sincere piety, and greatly beloved by her family
and all who knew her.

The following is an extract from a letter written in 1893 by
Milton Packard (401 d), a grandson of Alexandre and Elizabeth
Durand. He speaks of her as "that dear and revered grandmother,"
and says that "for two years, at least, as I remember it, I lived
almost constantly in the benign light of that dear grandmother's
presence. It was when I was sitting on a stool at her feet that she
taught me my first Sunday school lesson." He says, "how proud I
was when I was allowed to carry from the sleigh into the church her
foot-stove and place it for her in the great square pew."

Milton Durand (31 c) married Louisa Robbins (40) and
their home was in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was said to be "a
gentleman in the highest sense of the word, a student and a recluse,
or exclusive, as one views it." The daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth
Durand Cowles (42 d) and her husband, George R. Cowles, occupied
the old home after the death of her father and mother. Elizabeth
Durand Cowles, at her death, left her beautiful house to the Congre-
gational Church, in Norwalk, for a parsonage, plentifully furnished,
even to bedding, china and table linen.

Nancy Durand Clarke (35 c), daughter of Alexandre Du-
rand (4 D l>), was a great reader, an accomplished scholar and a
fine conversationalist. She was also a most dainty cook, as all the
family remember. She received a yearly allowance from her brother,
Milton Durand.

John Whalley (202 W a) and Anne Magee Whalley
(203) came to America from the north of Ireland in 1774 or 1775,
and settled in Norwalk, Connecticut. Their daughter Elizabeth was
then about six years old. Anne Whalley joined the church in
New Canaan, Connecticut, on profession of faith. John Whalley
was drowned or killed in a naval engagement.

Eleanor Whalley Prindle (204 /;), sister of Elizabeth
Whalley Durand (28 W h).

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NANCY ANN DURAND CLARKE, YEAR 1858

ANNIE ARNOUX HAXTUN

The following extract is from a letter of Henry Prindle (209 d),
a member of the Legislature of Vermont:

"Now, as to Grandmother Prindle, why did we not put on paper some
of the history which she gave with such pleasure to us children, while seated
around that ever-to-be remembered fireplace, with its glorious pine-knot
light? Those stories are now like a happy but vague memory, not cleai
enough to be a matter of history or record. Norwalk, Connecticut, was the
burden of her thought when speaking of the early home. The quinces,
chestnuts, peaches, and the everything there. Then how her husband (or
intended) came up to Ferrisburg, Vermont, a year or two before her, cleaned
a little spot, sowed apple seeds, which were up and growing nicely when they
came; how they rode on horseback and were guided by marked trees. "

They afterward removed to Charlotte, Vermont.

Annie Arnoux Haxtan (216 d), daughter of Gabriel A.
Arnoux and Ann Kennett Arnoux and grand-daughter of Jane
Whalley Kennett, was a well-known writer on genealogy. She was
for eleven years the genealogical editor of the New York Evening
Mail. She was prominent for years in charitable work in Brooklyn,
and was one of the managers of the Home for Destitute Children
and the Brooklyn Homeopathic Hospital. At her death, Mrs. Haxtun
left her genealogical library to the Columbia University, New York.

The Name Barnes — Name derived from the Norse bjorne,
a warrior.

The patronymic Barnes was originally spelled Bainers, probably
from the Saxon beoon, or the Norse bjorne.

Barn — a pre-Domesday name, Barne-Bern. Siward Barn, the
patriot rebel against William the Conqueror.

Reference — "Sax. Chron. Ingram," page 2jb.

Barnes — Barn, the same as Berners. Dame Juliana Berners,
the author of the well-known treatise on sporting and heraldry,
called the Boke of St. Albans, wrote herself Bernes.

Barnes, from residence near a monastic or manorial barn. Atte
Berne is the fourteenth century orthography.

Barnes — A parish in County Surrey.

Barnes Family — The earliest traces of the Barnes race are
found in the southeast part of England, and indicate a Dano-Norman
origin, probably coming to England at the time England was under
Norman kings, lOOO to 1154.

Reference — "American Ancestry."

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THOMAS BARNES

Records of the Church in Surrey, England, show that Barnes
famiHes hved there some five hundred years prior to the present
century.

The first Barnes people who emigrated to America from Eng-
land came from Surrey, Middlesex and Norfolk counties.

There were three Thomas Barnes that came from England to
America, previous to 1638, known as Thomas Barnes of Hartford,
Thomas Barnes of New Haven, and Thomas Barnes of Hingham, who
were ancestors of three large branches of Barnes families in America.

Thomas Barnes (221 B a), of New Haven, was born about
1623, in England, and died at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1693. He
served in the Pequod War, 1637, was at New Haven before 1639,
removed to Middletown, Connecticut, soon after 1660, married about
1647.

Gersham Barnes (238 Be), youngest son of Maybee Barnes
(230 B /^), lived and died in North Haven, Connecticut. He was a very
prominent man ; was captain ; served in the French and Indian War.

Asa Barnes (242 B d), Lanesborough, Massachusetts. "Asa
Barnes, captain of a company in Colonel Paterson's regiment, which
marched April 22, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775,
service seven days ; also Colonel Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge,
Hampshire County Regiment; muster roll dated August i, 1775;
enlisted April 29, 1775, service three months and six days; also
company return dated September 28, 1775; also pay-roll for fifteen
days' service from July 13, 1777; marched to Manchester, on an
alarm; also Fourth Company Colonel Simonds' Second (Berkshire
county) Regiment. List of officers of Massachusetts militia, com-
missioned October 8, 1779; also First Company Colonel Chapin's
Third Regiment; roll made out from October 15, 1779; discharged
November 21, 1779; service one month eleven days, enlisted three
months; company raised to reinforce Continental Army; also pay-
roll for service from October 14 to October 21, 1 780, seven days
at the northward; also colonel; warrant to pay officers and men for
service from October to November, 1781, dated June 15, 1785. He
served in Captain Lewis' Company, Colonial Wars, as sentinel, near
Lake George, in 1756."

Reference— "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the
Revolution," pages 638 and 654 and 658, Newberry Library, Chicago, 111.

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HEZEKIAH BARNES

Hezekiah Barnes, (245 e) — Hezekiah Barnes, private, Captain
Asa Barnes' Company, Colonel Simonds' Berkshire County Regi-
ment, marched to northward October 14, 1780; also sergeant Captain
Timothy Read's Company, Colonel Asa Barnes' Regiment, marched
from LanesboroLigh to Stillwater, October 13, 1781; also Captain
David Wheeler's Company, Colonel Barnes' Regiment, marched from
Lanesborough to Saratoga, October 29, 178 1, on an alarm.

Reference — "Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the
Revolution," page 658, Newberry Library, Chicago, 111.

In the year 1810 Hezekiah Barnes held the office of Major-
General in the Vermont Militia. He was a representative of Chit-
tenden County in the years 1798-1809, 1816-1817.

Reference — "Denning's Vermont Officers."

Joseph Asa Barnes (276 /) left Vermont writh his wife in
1833, in company with ten other persons, six of whom were children
under twelve years of age. They traveled with a team the entire
distance to Chicago, from Waitsfield, being six weeks on the road.
Subsequently, they removed to Elk Grove, then occupied by the
Indians. Of this company of Vermonters, Rush B. Miner of Ar-
lington Heights (1899) is the only surving member.

The Records of the Congregational Church, Lanes-
borough, Massachusetts, found in the "History of Berkshire
County" — The records of the Church of Christ in Lanesborough,
from the settlement of the church in that town in the year of Our
Lord 1764 — The Church of Christ was first gathered in the town of
Lanesborough on Wednesday, the second of March, 1764, by the
assistance of the Rev. Messrs. Samuel Hopkins, of Great Barrington,
and Stephen West, of Stockbridge. The controversy over the build-
ng of a meeting house was aggravated by the fact that a portion
of the town people were members of the Church of England, who
were paying, as required by law, their assessments for public worship
and supporting a Congregational minister, and waiting for an oppor-
tunity to have the services of a clergyman of an English church and
build a church for themselves. March lO, 1766, the question of
building a meeting house was put and passed in the negative. April
II, 1768, the sum of twenty shillings was levied on each right to
build a meeting house, and Messrs. Nathaniel Williams, Miles Powel,
Jedediah Hubbell, Ambrose Hall, and Joseph Keeler, Jr., were

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SAINT LUKE'S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH

appointed a committee to build it. Its dimensions were ordered to
be sixty feet in length, forty-three feet wide, and with twenty-seven
foot posts. In October the dimensions were altered to fifty-eight feet
in length, forty in width and twenty-five foot posts. It was also
voted not to build a porch to the meeting house. On the second
of November Peter Curtis, James Goodrich, Alvira Hill, Benjamin
Foreman, WiUiam Bradley, Jacob Bacon, Daniel Harrington, Ambrose
Hall, Asa Barnes (242 B d) and Abraham Bristol signed a call to
reconsider the sight and all action concerning it. The majority of
the gentlemen were perhaps of the Church of England, and the pros-
pect of having regularly the services they loved, and building a church
for themselves, led to this action.

[ Saint Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Lanes-
borough, Massachusetts — By reference to the history of the
Congregational Church, it will be seen that among the early settlers
there were members of the Church of England, who did not wish to
be taxed for the building of a meeting house, in which the services
would be conducted after methods they could not approve. William
Bradley, Joel Sherman, Asa Barnes (242 B d), Ashael Beach, Reuben
Garlick, Abraham Bristol, William Jervies, and others, who thought
that the Church of Eugland was nearest the Apostolic model, were
accustomed to assemble for divine worship in the house of Mr.
Bradley, who said the service and a sermon. Soon afterward they
met in a school house in the northeast corner of Mr. Bradley's farm,
and previous to 1769 a small church had been erected on a plot of
land a little to the south of the present Episcopal parsonage. The
first recorded visit of a clergyman of the Church of England was in
October, 1767, when the Rev. Samuel Andrews, of Wallingford,
Connecticut, in a journey that he made "to the northward" at the
request of his brethren of the Connecticut clergy, remained in the
town for several days, and on October 2, 1767, presided at the organi-
zation of a parish, where Messrs. William Bradley and Joel Sherman
were chosen wardens, and Abraham Bristol, clerk, and two days
afterward baptized Hezekiah (245 e), son of Asa (242 B d), and
Lois Yale Barnes (400 Y r-) and Abel, Elinor, Elisha, Roger and
Sybil Pettibone. The little flock in the wilderness was warmly com-
mended by Mr. Andrews to the English Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which in 1770 made it one of the

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four stations of a new mission, with its center at Great Barrington,
under the pastoral care of the Rev. Gideon Bostwick, who had been
ordained priest in London March ii, 1 770, and actively took up his
missionary work on his return in May. His first visit after his ordi-
nation was June 24, 1770, when he presided at the election of church
ofificers. His extensive circuit allowed him to give but one Sunday
in each month to Lanesborough. In September, 1 770, he reported
thirty families of the church there. His labor for twenty-three years
was fruitful, as an inspection of his register, preserved among the
archives of St. James church, of Great Barrington, will show. His
salary, after some controversy in the town meetings, was paid from
the tax levied for the support of a learned orthodox and settled min-
ister, Mr. Collins receiving two-thirds and Mr. Bostwick one-third.
In 1769 Mr. Bostwick went to England to receive holy orders and
immediately upon his return he was made the rector of the church
at Great Barrington, and at the same time was placed in charge of
missions in other towns of Berkshire County and adjoining sections
of Vermont, New York and Connecticut. He is said to have bap-
tized 81 adults and 2,274 children during his twenty-three years of
ministry. He died on the 13th of June, 1793.

The following is a copy of letter from the Rector of St. Luke's
Episcopal Church, Lanesborough, Massachusetts, March 24, 1893:

Dear Madam: — A letter from you was placed in my hands inquiring
about Asa Barnes.

I have the military record of Colonel Barnes and the baptismal record
of his children (who happened to be the first ones baptized in my church).

I could ascertain the town offices that he held, but they were only minor
ones. He was born before the town was settled, and I have no means of
knowing where he came from. Yours truly,

(Signed) Charles J. Palmer.

Mrs. A. B. Hewitt, Lake Forest, 111.

Charlotte, Vermont, has its own place in the history of the
Durand, Barnes and Yale families. Settled as it is in the foothills of
the Green Mountains, it will always be deservedly dear, for it is
full of precious memories, and has to-day a sweetness of its own
because of hallowed remembrances.

"Charlotte was given its charter June 14, 1762. The town was
organized March 13, 1787. Most of the settlers were from Con-

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CHARLOTTE. VERMONT

necticut and Massachusetts. In the year 1806 only ten towns in
the state surpassed this; even BurHngton did not equal it until 1824.
During the war of 1812-1815 there were five military companies
in town. In the year 1 8 10 Hezekiah Barnes (245 e) held the office
of major-general; Lyman Yale, captain; Joseph Barnes (253 B e),
captain ; Hezekiah Barnes, Jr. (257 /), lieutenant.

First postmaster, William Barnes, who received his appointment
before 1804. He was followed by Hezekiah Barnes Jr. (257 /),
who retained the office until 1825. From 1844 to 1848 Samuel H.
Barnes, Hezekiah's son, held the office."

Reference — "Vermont Historical Gazetteer."

In Charlotte, on the 17th of March, 1787, Asa Barnes (242 B
d), David Hubbell, and others were appointed a committee to set a
stake for the meeting house. They were empowered to purchase
land. The building was not commenced until April 17, 1 791. The
Congregational Church was organized January 3, 1792, with four
members. Rev. D. O. Gillette was the first pastor, and remained
such until 1799. Rev. Calvin Yale was ordained pastor October 15,
18 17, and remained until March, 1833. Rev. Calvin Yale was a
man of high attainments, was an accomplished linguist and classical
scholar, and was especially proficient in Greek, Latin and French.
His daughter, Mrs. C. C. King, and grand-daughter Mrs. Cora K.
Adams, now reside in Chicago. Calvin Durand and Lois Barnes
were married by the Rev. Calvin Yale in 18 19.

The following list contains the names of nearly all the freemen
in Charlotte in 1 800, obtained from the town records:

Col. Asa Barnes (242 B i/).
Hezekiah Barnes (245 (■).
Asa Barnes, Jr. (247 t).
Moses Yale (son of 391 ti).
Joseph Barnes (253 B f).
Eliphalet Gillette.

Many of the children of the Durand, Barnes and Yale families
were born in Charlotte. "Birthplace is said to be a secondary parent-
age and to transmit character."

The Charlotte Female Seminary was opened May I, 1835; Jane
A. Durand (57 d), at that time living in Clintonville, N. Y., was one
of the first pupils. Kate Newell was also a pupil. She afterward

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THE OLD BURYING GROUND, CHARLOTTE, VERMONT

THE ARMS AND CREST OF YALE

became Mrs. Kate Newell Doggett, and was the founder of "The
Fortnightly," a literary society in Chicago.

"Beautiful for situation" is the old burying ground in Charlotte,
which has a place of its own in the family history, and as one gazes
at the long rows of weather-beaten monuments and slabs of marble
and slate, with the family inscriptions, they are reminded that

"As life goes on, the road grows strange;
The milestones into headstones change, —
'Neath every one a friend."

The Arms and Crest of Yale are said to be almost as
ancient as heraldry itself. They were derived from the Fitz Geralds
and handed down thi'ough the direct male line, from Osborn Fitz Ger-
ald (Osbwrn Wyddel). They are technically described as follows:

Arms: Erm (ermine) a Saltire Gu. (A red St. Andrew's
cross.)

Crest: A mount (hillock) vert (green), thereon a boar az. (blue),
within a net or. (gold), in the mouth an acorn slipped ppr. (natural
colors) .

The ermine represents the fur of a small white animal, a native
of Armenia, and the marks on same are supposed to represent the
tails of the animals, sewed to the fur for its enrichment. Ermine
is an especial mark of dignity and has long been associated with
royalty and the nobility.

The St. Andrew's cross is a symbol of resolution, while the red
denotes military fortitude and magnanimity.

The wild boar is a fierce combatant and may be considered to
represent a valiant warrior. Blue may have a religious significance
and possibly originated in the Crusades. The acorn slip signifies
strength and antiquity ; while the golden net indicates that a great
warrior finally succumbed to pacific influences.

The chapeau denotes military authority.

Reference — ^" Burke's Peerage."

Yale Name — The name of Yale is of Welsh derivation and
was originally spelled "lal," "Yal," "Yell," and comes from the
district of Yale in Powys Fadog, Wales. The district of Yale,
together with Bromfield, have formed, since the end of the thirteenth
century, a lordship known as the lordship of Bromfield and Yale.

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EARLY HISTORY

Surnames in Wales did not pass from father to son until the
latter part of the sixteenth century, and were not definitely settled for
a long time afterward. "Surnames were first used by men of rank
in the eleventh century, and by the common people in the thirteenth
century after Christ."

Early History— The Yales, although natives of Wales, were
of Italian and Norman as well as British blood. The first ancestor
recorded in pedigree, in the direct male line, is Dominus Otho
(329 Y a), a nobleman from Florence, Italy (a Florentine), but he
was not the only ancestor of Italian blood, as Cuneda, the head of
the long line of British kings and princes, from whom the Yales are
descended on the maternal side of the house, was, no doubt, partly
of Roman parentage; through Alice de Montgomery (wife of 332 Y d)
came the connection with the Normans.

As regards the personality and rank of these early ancestors, it
can be properly stated that their political and social standing was on
an equality with the great nobles and rulers of the times. There are
but few, if any, families among the nobility of any land that can
point to a more honorable and noble lineage than that of the Yales;
descended as they are from the ancient kings and princes of Britain
and from the greatest of all the Norman lords, Roger de Mont-
gomery (grand- father of Alice, wife of 332 Y //), who was of the
same family as William the Conqueror, as well as from Maurice
Fitzgerald (332 Yd) the commander of the first expedition in the
Norman Conquest of Ireland.

The antiquity of the Yale pedigree is eminent, dating back as it
does, in the direct male line, to Dominus Otho (329 Y a), the Flor-
entine noble, who came to England in 1057, nine years before the
Norman Conquest ; and on the maternal side to Cuneda, the first
ruler of the Cymric nation, about the year 415 A. D. But few
noble, or in fact royal, families can claim greater antiquity.

The Yales are connected with the house of Cuneda, and the
succeeding kings and princes, through three distinct maternal lines,
one of these maternal ancestors being Lowrie (wife of 340 Y /),
daughter of Tudor Glyndwr, and niece of the memorable Owen
Glyndwr. Her great-grand-father, Thomas ap Llewelyn, was also
the ancestor of the five Tudor kings and queens of England, and
King Edward VII as well. Another one of the Welsh princesses

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THOMAS YALE

referred to was Nesta (wife of 337 Y ;-), the "Helen of Wales"
who was not only great in herself and in her ancestry, but great in
her posterity as well. The third maternal ancestor referred to was
Gladys (wife of 330 Y l>), daughter of the Prince of North Wales.

Thomas Yale (345 Y ^)— The eldest son of Dr. David
Yale (344 Y p) chancellor of Chester, lived at Chester, England,
and at Plas Grono, the family estate at Wrexham, Wales. He
married, about the year 1612, Ann Lloyd, daughter of George Lloyd,
Bishop of Chester (1604-1615). Lord Bishop George Lloyd was
born in the year 1 5 60 at Carnarvonshire, Wales. He died August I,
161 5, aged fifty-five years, and was interred in Chester Cathedral.
Dr. David Yale was one of the great men of his time and country.
The following tribute is paid to him: "A man famous in himself and
famous in his connections and descendants, not the least of whom
was Elihu Yale (352 s), the founder of Yale College."

The estate of old Plas Grono was owned by Dr. David Yale
about the year 1590. The "New Plas Grono" was built by Dr.
David Yale, for his son, Thomas Yale, the father of David (346 r),
Ann (348 /') and Thomas (347 Y r), the first Yales in America.

In the will of Dr. David Yale, dated August 15, 1625, he gives
"to David Yale, Thomas Yale and Ann Yale, children of my eldest
son, Thomas, late deceased, twenty pounds a year." Thomas Yale,
who married Ann Lloyd, died August 27, 1619.

About the year 1625 Ann Lloyd Yale, the widow of Thomas Yale,
married Theophilus Eaton, a wealthy merchant of London, who was
the eldest son of the Rev. Richard Eaton, A. B., vicar of Great
Budworth, Cheshire. Mr. Eaton was born about 1591, at Stony
Stratford, Buckinghamshire, England. He, together with his wife,
Ann, and his three step-children, David, Ann, and Thomas Yale,
sailed for New England, in America, in the year 1637, in company
with Rev John Davenport, a celebrated London clergyman. They
landed at Boston, Massachusetts, and preferring to go into the wilder-
ness, Eaton with a few men, after exploring the coast of the Sound,
spent the following winter at a desirable place in that region. As
soon as spring opened the company sailed from Boston and, in due
time, they arrived at the place where Eaton had spent the winter.
There (in April, 1638), under a large tree, on the Sabbath after their
arrival, Davenport preached his first sermon in the wilderness. A

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THE RESIDENCE OR PALACE OF LORD BISHOP GEORGE LLOYD,
CHESTER, ENGLAND

Was erected early in the seventeenth century. Along the front was carved a set of panels
representing Bible historv. It was purchased in the year 1899 in order to preserve it to the
city of Chester. At this time extensive renovations were made. Now (1911) a part of the
building, including the Council Chamber, is occupied by the Y. \V. C. A.

DAVID YALE

day of fasting and prayer for direction was observed, and they formed
a government, pledging themselves "to be governed in all things by
the rules which the Scripture held forth to them." Such was the
settlement of New Haven. They purchased from the Indians the
right to the land (Quinipiak) and Eaton was elected the first govern-
or of New Haven Colony in 1639, which office he held for more than
twenty years, until his death, having been re-elected annually. Mr.
Eaton was prominent in the organization of the New England Con-
federation in 1643. In 1655, assisted by Davenport, he drew up the
so-called Connecticut "Blue Laws." Governor Eaton died at New
Haven, January 7, 1658.

As every bit of information about this family is of general
interest, it is well to state that Cotton Mather, in his life of Eaton,
describes the wife of the Governor as "a prudent and pious widow,
the daughter of the Bishop of Chester." Cotton Mather was
undoubtedly personally well acquainted with the governor and his
wife, hence his statement, as to the character and parentage of Ann
Lloyd- Yale-Eaton, is of the highest authority.

It is claimed that Mrs. Eaton returned to England with her son,
David Yale, in 1659. The date or place of her death has not been
learned, but she probably died in London, where David resided until
the year 1665.

David Yale (346 ;) was born in 1613. He went with his
mother and step-father to America, in 1637, and settled with them
at New Haven in 1638. On January 4, 1640, in a list of the
personal property possessed by the founders of New Haven, David
Yale is said to have had a personal estate valued at three hundred
pounds. The value of his estate was exceeded only by those of Mr.
Eaton and his mother and brother.

David Yale at that time was unmarried, but he probably married
about the year 164 1. His wife's first name was Ursula, but her
surname has not been learned. He no doubt removed to Boston, Mas-
sachusetts, about the year 1641, as there is nothing on record about
him at New Haven later than March, 1 641. It seems that he dis-
posed of his landed estate in New Haven to his brother, and, at any
rate, he must have gone to Boston before May, 1644, as the Boston
registry shows the birth of Elizabeth, "the daughter of David and Ur-
sula Yale," in May, 1644, and her death in August of the same year.

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ELTHU YALE

Mr. Yale was an active and thriving merchant in Boston, and
August 23, 1645, purchased from Edward Bendall a house and gar-
den, with lands appurtenant, said to be the most splendid in the city,
on the site of the present Pemberton Square. He was also attorney
for the Earl of Warwick in 1646.

Elihu Yale (352 s), son of David Yale, was born April 5,
1649, undoubtedly in or near Boston, according to some authorities
on Pemberton Square. In the year 1652, when EHhu was three
years of age, David Yales's family left Boston and went to England,
where David had already gone, settled finally in London, where Elihu
went to school, and lived during many interesting public events in
English history. He was old enough to have seen Cromwell riding
in the London streets with his guards, to have joined in the silent
concourse at his funeral, and the shouts of joy at the Restoration. It
was about 1670, when just passed his majority, that he emigrated to
Madras, India, to make his fortune as a merchant. The details of his
rise there are all wanting, but he probably began in the lowest grade
of the service, as an apprentice, rising from that to the successive
ranks from clerk to merchant. It appears that he spent twenty years
of diligent service in India, but the first notice of him in print is in
describing the solemnity of proclaiming, at Madras, in August, 1685,
James II, King. He had reached, as appears by the record, the
rank of second member of council, and less than two years later had
become the senior or first member — only subordinate to the governor or
president himself. Regular promotion was the principle of the service,
and accordingly the directors in London, acting by their governor, Sir
Josiah Child, the eminent writer on finance, sent out orders which were
received at Madras on the 23rd of July, 1 687, retiring President Gif-
ford, and appointing Elihu Yale his successor. History tells of his
rule while in power at Madras. In 1 699, at the age of fifty-one, he
sailed for England. Soon after his return he built in London a stately
residence in Queen's Square, Great Ormond street, a little to the east
of the present British Museum, the site of which is now probably occu-
pied by a hospital built in later years. That his was a palatial establish-
ment and filled with works of art and curiosities of great value,
appears from the fire insurance records of the Sun fire office.

It was on May 11, 171 1, that Mr. Jeremiah Dummer, the agent
at London for the Province of Massachusetts Bay, as also later for

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GOVERNOR ELIHU VALE

(Founder of Yale University)

Reproduced from a photograph of his portrait in Yale University. This portrait was
painted in June, 1717, bv Enoch Zeeman, a Dutch painter, then settled in London, and
was presented to the college bv Dudley Long North, a great-grandson of Governor
Elihu Yale, in 1789. The written name is an exact reproduction of his signature, in
one of the church warden's books at Wrexham, Wales.

ELIHU YALE

the Colony of Connecticut, first mentions in a letter to the Rev.
James Pierpont of New Haven, the principal founder of the Colle-
giate School of Saybrook, that "Mr. Yale, formerly governor of Fort
St. George, India, who has a prodigious estate," having no son, is
sending to Connecticut for a relation to make him his heir; that is
to secure the descent of the landed property in Wales to one of the
Yale name. "He told me lately," adds Dummer, "that he intended
to bestow a charity upon some college in Oxford, under certain
restrictions, which he mentioned, but I think he should rather do it
to your college, seeing he is a New England, and I think, a Connec-
ticut man. If, therefore, when his kinsman comes over, you will write
him a proper letter on that subject, I will take care to press it home."

Reference — "Bacon's Historical Discourses."

Pierpont was not a man to neglect such an opportunity, and no
doubt when young David Yale, a boy of fifteen, son of the oldest
cousin of the governor, was sent over, in the year 1714, he carried a
proper letter, describing the achievements and aspirations of the col-
lege at Saybrook.

[ About the same time Dummer was collecting from all his friends

a gift of books for the college library, and when these (upwards of
700 volumes in all) were received, in 1714, between thirty and forty
volumes (the most from any single donor except the collector him-
self) were marked as given by Governor Yale. The selection, which
was presumably his own, was an uncommonly broad one ; there were
good representatives of theology, history, chronology, polite literature,
classics, metaphysics, natural science, medicine, political science,
commerce, agriculture, military science, and architecture - providing,
we may say, some foundation for every one of the present depart-
ments in the university which was then so completely in embryo.

In October, 1 7 16, the majority of the trustees of the Collegiate
School voted to remove it from Saybrook to New Haven, and in the
same month instruction was actually begun in temporary quarters
there; and a year later the first college house was raised — that stu-
pendous architectural monstrosity, which stood till the Revolution in
front of the present South College. We may form a good idea of its
appearance by imagining a wooden building the length of Durfee
College, and of three quarters in height, but of only one half the
width, and painted, moreover, a beautiful cerulean color.

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JOSEPH BARNES DURAND AND CALVIN DURAND, JR.
At the age of eleven and nine years

THE FARM OF CALVIN UURAXU, NFAR CLINTONVILLE, N. V,

TliL' home after the year 1852. From a near hill to the east can be seen Lake Cliamplain and
the Green Mountains of Vermont, and a little way to tlie west are the Adirondacks.
Here in the summer of each year were held happy family reunions, tiie children with
their families cominy from their homes in the west.

ELIHU YALE

The trustees were utterly without resources to finish so elegant
a building; and in their extremity one good friend of the college,
Mr. Cotton Mather, of Boston, was appealed to. On the fourteenth
of January, 1718, he wrote to Governor Yale a remarkable letter, in
which he praised skillfully the governor's well-known charity, and
solicited his favor toward the college at New Haven. "Sir," said
he, "though you have felicities in your family, which I pray, God
continue and multiply, yet certainly, if what is forming at New Haven
might wear the name of Yale College, it would be better than a name
of sons and daughters. And your munificence might easily obtain
for you a commemoration and perpetuation of your valuable name,
which would indeed be much better than an Egyptian pyramid."

Mr. Dummer was endeavoring to get a present from Mr. Yale
for finishing the college, and his interviews, seconded by such letters
as Mather's, resulted in what was really for those times a munificent
gift; and the giver remained for a full century the largest individual
donor to the college funds, until the receipt of $10,000 in 1837 from
the estate of Dr. Alfred E. Perkins, for the library.

The reason for giving the numerous details as to Elihu Yale and
his gifts, is on account of their general interest to those of the
family, related to him, who are alumni or students of Yale Uni-
versity.

On Saturday, July 8, 1 72 1, the Weekly Journal and British Ga-
zetteer, of London, announced that "Elihu Yale, Esq., commonly
called Governor Yale, a gentleman eminently known for his extensive
charity, lies at the point of death at his house in Queen's Square,
Great Ormond street." He died before the close of that day, aged
seventy-two years three months and three days.

He was buried in the churchyard of the famous Wrexham
church, in Wales. On his tomb is found this quaint epitaph :

"Born in America, in Europe bred.
In Africa travell'd and in Asia wed,
Where long he liv'd and thriv'd; in London dead.
Much good, some ill, he did ; so hope all's even,
And that his soul thro' mercy's gone to heaven.
You that survive and read this tale take care,
For this most certain exit to prepare,
Where blest in peace, the actions of the just
Smell sweet, and blossom in the silent dust."

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CALVIN DURAND

Thomas Yale (347 Y >) married Mary Turner, daughter of
Captain Nathaniel Turner, New Haven, Connecticut, 1645. Captain
Turner was of Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1 630, and removed to New
Haven in 1638, and was lost at sea with all his crew, January, 1646,

Thomas Yale came to America in 1637, with his step-father,
Governor Eaton, and settled in New Haven as a merchant in 1638.
He later became one of the principal men in the colony, a signer of
the Plantation Covenant of New Haven, and filled with honor many
offices of trust, with credit to himself, and to the satisfaction of his
friends and fellow colonists.

Calvin Durand (33 D c), with his wife, Lois Barnes Durand
(290 B /), and their two little children, Jane Ann and John Milton
Durand, moved from Charlotte, Vermont, to Clintonville, New York,
which is situated on the Au Sable River, about twelve miles from
Lake Champlain. Into their home, in Clintonville, came other
children (Henry C, Charles E., Joseph B., Calvin, Jr., and two who
died in infancy). Clintonville deserves a large place in memory,
for it was not only the home of Calvin and Lois Barnes Durand,
but it was in Clintonville that their daughter married and lived, and
there that her children were born. And from there their sons
started out at different periods to make their homes in the West.

In 1852 Calvin Durand moved from the village onto his farm,
which is beautifully situated about half a mile from the town. Be-
fore this, his business had been mercantile and contract work. Mr.
Durand was captain of the Clintonville militia. It was in this home
that Mr. Durand and his wife spent the rest of their lives. He was
a man strong in character and of sincere Christian faith. Their
remains are resting in the old home burying ground in Charlotte,
Vermont.

The "Wayside Spring," which is near the side of the
road that leads from Clintonville to Keeseville should be held in fond
remembrance by all who have been refreshed by drinking of its cold,
pure water, always fresh from its mountain home, and all should say
of this "Wayside Spring:"

"Dear dweller by the dusty way,
The tribute of our hearts to-day is thine."

Jane Ann Durand (57 rt'),the first child of Calvin and Lois
Barnes Durand, was born in Charlotte, Vermont.

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HENRY C. DURAND DRINI^ING AT THE "WAYSIUE h<FKh\G
On the road between Clintonville and Keeseville, N. Y.

JANE ANN DURAND

She was about six years old when with her parents she came
from Charlotte, Vermont, to Chntonville, New York.

In 1836 she attended the Charlotte Female Seminary, where, by
her gentleness and unselfish thought for others, she won many friends.

At the age of eighteen she married Rensselaer Bailey, of Chn-
tonville. There they made their home until 1851, when they came
west, going first to Milwaukee and then by boat to Chicago, stopping
at the old Tremont House.

Their first home was on Jefferson street between Randolph and
Washington streets, which was then a residential part of the city.

Mrs. Bailey was one of the early members of the Third Pres-
byterian Church, which was situated on Union street, between
Randolph and Washington streets.

From Jefferson street they moved, in 1856, to Warren avenue,
near Robey street. Their house was said to be the first brick house
built west of Union Park. Some time after the death of Mr. Bailey,
which occurred in 1 862,- Mrs. Bailey and her daughter moved to Wash-
ington boulevard, near Wood street, where she lived until the
marriage of her daughter Frances, when she went with her daughter
to Milwaukee. In her latter years Mrs. Bailey was very frail, but her
illness was borne with Christian resignation. All through her life she
was strong in character and gentle in spirit. On March 13, 1870, she
peacefully entered into the dwelling place of God, and a beautiful life
passed away from the home. In the family circles she was beloved,
and her influence will continue to live on through the years.

Rensselaer Bailey (66), who married Jane A. Durand, left his
home in Chntonville, New York, March 1 849, for California (another
world it seemed to the family circle he left). He sailed from New
York on the steamship Falcon, March 8, 1849, reached New Orleans
March 19, Panama May 20, and San Francisco August 30, 1849.

Mr. Bailey's letters, written in California, and his "Log Book"
are still preserved. He returned to his home in Chntonville, New
York, by way of Cape Horn, in November, 1 850, having been quite
successful. In April, 185 1, he came to Chicago and started in the
wholesale grocery business on Market street. Number 4 Lind's Block.

The article "To California in 1849," written by Juhus H. Pratt
in the Century Magazine of April, 1891, is one of interest. Mr.
Bailey was a fellow passenger of Mr. Pratt on the ship Humboldt,

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JANE DUKAND BAILEY, YEAR 1849

JOHN M. DURAND

which left Panama May 20th, and mention is made in Mr. Bailey's
"Log Book" of Mr. Pratt and others who are referred to in the article.
In a letter, dated November, 1849, from the South American fork
of the Sacramento River, Mr. Bailey says: "We expect to have
a governor for the state of California, the constitution is made out,
and the election takes place on Tuesday next, to elect officers to the
state and adopt the constitution." Some of the word pictures and
accumulation of facts of life in California at that time, as given in his
letters, are most thrilling. Mr. Bailey died on August 6, 1 862.

Henry Martyn Hooker (70) married Eliza J. Bailey in 1859.
He came from Enfield, Massachusetts, in 1855, and started in the
drug business with his brother, at 56 West Randolph street, Chicago,
the firm being F. & H. M. Hooker. Later Mr. H. M. Hooker left
the drug business to his brother and engaged in the wholesale paint
and glass business, at 59 West Randolph street. The H. M. Hooker
Company was formed later. Mr. Hooker's many benevolent gifts,
whether large or small, are made in a very unostentatious way.

John M. Durand (58 d) was the first of the sons to leave the
home in Clintonville, going, in 1846, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where
he was employed as clerk for Bradley & Metcalf. After remaining
a year he was offered a partnership, but, not liking the boot and shoe
business, he did not accept. He afterward became engaged in the
wholesale grocery business, the firm being Durand & Lawrence.

In a letter written January 25, 1847, from Milwaukee, to his
sister, Mrs. Jane Durand Bailey, who was then living in Clintonville,
he says: "I was quite sick about two weeks ago, and I thought of
my mother during this short sickness, for there is nobody that can
care for a child when sick like a mother. Tell mother that I have
attended church every Sunday with one or two exceptions." He
told of having a letter from Joseph E. Gary from Springfield, Mis-
souri. (The Joseph E. Gary referred to was the late Judge Gary, of
Chicago, Illinois.)

In 1848 he married Almira Wood Stoddard (84), of Milwaukee.
Three children came into the home, Charles Ward, Ella Frances and
John M., Jr.

Mr. Durand was greatly prospered in busmess. In 1867 he
retired from active business and spent many years with his family
traveling abroad, going to Egypt in 1 870.

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JOHN MILTON DURAND, YEAR 1895 YEAR 1867

HENRY CLAY DURAND

He was in Paris when the Franco-Prussian War broke out and
Emperor Napoleon HI was taken prisoner. Mr. Durand thought of
leaving Paris, but the American ambassador, Mr. Washburne, who
was a warm friend, prevailed upon him to remain. He was only
able to communicate with his wife, who was in Geneva (Switzerland),
by letters sent out of Paris by General Burnside in balloons.

Mr. Durand remained the five months until the siege was lifted,
and his family, who came from Geneva, were among the first to
enter Paris, where all were at the time of the Commune, March i8,
1 87 1. The fighting became so serious that he and his family,
although they had an American flag, had to remain for two days in
the cellar on account of the cannon-balls falling and setting fire to
the houses around them ; the exitement was intense and the peril
great, for no one knew what would happen next. Thus they remained
until the Commune was defeated, May 28, 1871.

The setting on fire of the Tuileries and many other palaces, and
the terrible deeds committed by the communists, when they saw that
they would be beaten, were scenes leaving vivid memories of horror
and peril.

Mr. Durand received a complimentary appointment as special
minister to Italy, and he went to Rome with his family. In the
year 1872 he returned to America and became a member of the firm
of Durand Brothers in Chicago. He was a Mason, a member of the
Union League Club, of New York City, a member of the Chicago
Club, the Washington Park Club, and an active member of the Chic-
ago Commercial Club.

In 1901 Mr. Durand, with his wife and son, Charles Ward
Durand, went to Pasadena, California, and there built a beautiful
home, at 275 Arlington Drive, where he lived until his death, No-
vember 13, 1907. His wife and son, Charles, are now living in the
home.

Henry Clay Durand (60 d) left his home in Clintonville,
September, 1850. He went to Milwaukee, and was clerk in the
grocery house of Durand & Lawrence. In May, 185 1, he went to
Chicago, and was given an interest in the wholesale grocery busi-
ness which in April, 185 1, had been started by Rensselaer Bailey
(66), his brother-in-law, on Market street. No. 4 Lind's Block, the
firm being Bailey & Durand. From this pioneer firm evolved the

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HENRY CLAY DURAND

firms, Durand Brothers and Durand Brothers & Powers. After this
there were other changes, the last being Durand & Kasper Company.

' Henry C. Durand married Annie W. Burdsal (104). They Hved
in Chicago until 1872, when they removed to Lake Forest, Illinois.
Mr. Durand was president of the board of trustees of the Lake Forest
University and during his life made the gifts of the University Art
Institute building, Alice Home Hospital, Annie Durand Cottage (a
dormitory for boys of the academy), and Lois Durand Hall, a home
for the young women of the college.

Henry C. Durand died suddenly of apoplexy at the Moraine
Hotel, Highland Park, Illinois, where he had gone from his residence
in Lake Forest, Illinois, to remain until his new house in Lake Forest,
upon which work had been just begun, was completed.

Upon request, the following was contributed by the writer to
the Stentor, the Lake Forest College paper:

"LOIS DURAND HALL"

This building was given and named by Mr. Henry C. Durand,
in honor of his mother, Lois Barnes Durand, who was born July 6,
1799, in Charlotte, Vermont. She was the daughter of Joseph and
Lucretia Barnes, and grand-daughter of Colonel Asa Barnes, a Revo-
lutionary soldier, and Lois Yale Barnes, who was of the same family
as Elihu Yale, a founder of Yale College. On March 3, 1819, she
was married, in Charlotte, Vermont, to Calvin Durand, a grandson
of Francois Joseph Durand, of Besancon, France.

After living in Charlotte for a few years they left the home by
the Green Mountains, crossed Lake Champlain, and made their home
by the foothills of the Adirondacks, in Clintonville, N. Y.

In her early youth she became a member of the Congregational
Church. Her religion was so full of joy that it made her character
strong but gentle and tender. She was an earnest student of the
Bible, and her home was made beautiful by her steadfast and unos-
tentatious piety and habitual cheerfulness.

Into this home, came two daughters and six sons (one of the
daughters and one of the sons died in infancy). To her family she
gave her heart's devotion. "Her children arise up and call her
blessed," and her grand-children love to think "of the unfeigned faith
which dwelt in Grandmother Lois."

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HENRY CLAY DURAND, YEAR 1900

YEAR 1864

CHARLES E. DURAND

While her life was not always one of ease, yet she accepted her
work cheerfully, and was happy in doing not only for her own home,
but for other homes, as many would testify.

In after years, when her children were located in Milwaukee and
Chicago, she, with her husband, made frequent visits to their homes,
the last visit being in i860, when they both entered so heartily into
the spirit of the convention which nominated Abraham Lincoln for
President. Not long after this visit she became ill. On Sabbath
morning, at sunrise, May 26, 1861, after saying "good morning" to
the members of her family, and speaking a word of comfort to each
one, she peacefully "entered into rest," and her going away "opened
wider the gates" to the land that is better.

Her remains are resting in Charlotte, Vermont. On the monument
are the words of the hymn she loved to sing, "I Know That My Re-
deemer Liveth." ,,T,, . , , ,
"This song to us descendeth;

The Spirit, who in her did sing.
To us His music lendeth.
We raise it high, we send it on,
The song that never endeth!"

Such a life, though long ago ended here, touches the heart, and
every thought of her, by those who knew her best, is a summons to
nobler living.

One vivid memory, which is cherished by the family circle, is of
her own room with the door so often closed when she went aside
for prayer. Her children came to understand her source of strength
and peace, and why she could " sing over the humblest service as
though it was the highest joy."

This is but a meager sketch of the mother whose name her son,
Henry C. Durand, wished to honor by giving it to the home for the
young women of Lake Forest College. It is most fitting, for she
loved young people.

"In her tongue is the law of kindness." She would gladly
speak a word of cheer and encouragement that would be a benedic-
tion to each young woman as she comes in and as she goes out of
Lois Durand Hall.

Charles E. Durand (61 d) went from his home in Clinton-
ville to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1852, and was for a time clerk for
Durand & Lawrence. In 1 853 he removed to Chicago and was a

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CHARLES EDWARD DURAND
YEAR 1890

YEAR 1861

JOSEPH B. DURAND

clerk for P.ailey & Durand until 1856. Afterward he was a member
of tlT- " Durand Brothers, which was founded in 1856. In 1 86 1

he V from that firm and started in the wholesale grocery

businc . Hiram Hyde (who also came from Clintonville), the

firm being Durand & Hyde. Later this firm, after the great Chicago
fire, was changed to Durand Brothers, the firm consisting of Charles
E. Durand and Joseph B. Durand. He married Anna Clarence
Hill, December i, 1862, Burlington, Vermont. Mr. C. E. Durand
resided in Lake Forest for many years. He was the first of the five
brothers to pass away. His death occurred April 9, 1894.

Joseph B. Durand (62 d) in 1857 came from his boyhood
home in Clintonville to Milwaukee, and was clerk for Durand &
Lawrence. Later he was one of the firm of J. M. Durand & Com-
pany. After the great Chicago fire of 1 871 he moved his business to
Chicago and joined his brother, Charles E. Durand, the firm being
Durand Brothers. Upon the retirement of C. E. Durand (61 a) the
firm name was changed to J. B. Durand & Co. When, in 1903, he
retired from active business, his interest was purchased by his son
and the sugar business continued under the name S. S. Durand & Co.
In 1866 he married Helen Florence Sloan, daughter of Hon. A. Scott
Sloan, of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Six children came into their home.

He removed with his family from Milwaukee to Lake Forest
Illinois, in 1 877. The youngest of the children, "Little Paul," died
in 1885. Florence Sloan Durand died September 24, 1899.

On June 1 1, 1903, Joseph Barnes Durand was married to May
Louise Burt (124) at Gardiner, Maine. Their home is now in Pasa-
dena, California.

Calvin Durand, Jr. (63 d) was the last of the five brothers to
leave the old home in Clintonville, and with his going the father and
mother were left alone.

It was in i860 that he came to Chicago and clerked in his
brother's store. On July 2 1, 1862, at the age of twenty-two years, he
enlisted in the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, which joined the
"Army of the Cumberland," and was with it in its great battles.
The foUownig is an extract from one of Mr. Durand 's letters, dated
March 8, 1863, Murfreesboro, Tennessee:

"1 really wish myself that this wicked Rebellion might soon be crushed
and put down so that I could return to my kind friends again, but as much as I

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YEAR 1861

JOSEPH BARNES DURAND, YEAR ic^

CALVIN DURAND, JR.

dislike the service, I hate Rebellion worse and desire to use the little strength I
have in crushing it and it cannot be crushed any too soon for me. I believe
that, although the end can be seen only through a heavy mist, that the veil will
soon be lifted and that the people of this country are destined to be happier,
freer and more peaceful than ever before, because it will have freedom for its
foundation.

"God is afflicting us sorely, but I believe only to refine us and make us
purer and better as a people."

In July, 1864. he was taken prisoner by the Confederates, near
Atlanta, Georgia.

The following letter is of interest:

Headquarters for Chicago Board of Trade Battery,

Near Atlanta, Georgia, August 11, 1864.
H. C. DuRAND, Esq.

Dear Sir: — I am in receipt of your favor of the 1st inst., the same
coming to hand yesterday p. M. In reply I would say that I have been unable
to learn anything in relation to where "Cam" (Calvin) was taken, after capture,
but suppose to Atlanta and thence to Andersonville or Americus, in this
state, where there are said to be about thirty thousand of our men.

There is no regular channel for communication with these men at this
point, but I think thert is by the way of Old Point Comfort, Virginia, by which
route and flag of truce I heard from one of my battery boys that was captured
previous to "Cam."

There is no flag of truce correspondence at this point. I have thought
that when we went upon another raid to the rear of Atlanta, or at some railroad
station in the enemy's lines, I might be able to forward some letters and money
to him, although the conveyance might not be altogether reliable. Be assured
that I will not let an opportunity to help him pass by unimproved.

If you are drafted I will give you a chance in the Battery.

We are still thundering away at the gates of Atlanta, but the rebels are
getting so that they don't drive worth a cent. We are getting up some siege
guns that will soon demolish the town and make it pretty warm for them, but
they are strongly fortified and defend them very stubbornly.

If we had a handsome reinforcement we could make short work of this
campaign and make it the last campaign in this department. " If we don't get
them, it may wear along for some time, but you can rest assured that this
army don't let go its hold here very easily. The enemy is now known to be
largely reinforced by the militia of various states, and now number equal to us.
Although this militia is not like veteran troops, still behind the fortification that
they have they will make a pretty good fight.

With kind regards for your firm and families.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

Geo. I. Robinson,

First Lieut. Commander.

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CALVIN DURAND, YEAR 1908

CALVIN DURAND, JR.
YEAR 1862

The picture was taken just after

he enlisted in the Chicago

Board ol Trade battery

CALVIN DURAND, JR.

Mr. Durand was taken to Andersonville, where he remained
three months; thence to Charleston for six weeks. At Charleston,
he has told us, they were "visited almost daily by Sisters of
Charity, the only ladies who ever entered any of the prisons. They
came as angels of mercy, bringing with them such little delicacies
and medicine for the sick as they could obtain. Their very presence
was a tonic to us all, and we could only say of them, 'God bless the
Sisters of Charity.'"

From Charleston he was taken to Florence, South Carolina, was
there three months, and then to Libby Prison, where he was kept two
weeks, and then exchanged. His treatment in each of these prisons
was cruel and brutal to the extreme. He says that history is unable
to record the brutal treatment accorded to the prisoners in those
southern prison pens.

At the close of the war he was discharged in Chicago. Soon
after he was admitted into the firm of Durand Brothers & Powers,
the present firm name being Durand & Kasper Company.

In 1867 he married Sarah Gould Downs (who was a descendant
of Governor Bradford). They removed from Chicago to Lake
Forest in 1875. There are six children in the home. Mr. Durand
has lately given to the Lake Forest University the building known as
the Calvin Durand Commons.

Calvin Durand died, October 31, 191 1, at his home in Lake
Forest, Illinois.

* • * * * * * *

Thus the story of the families is written in part, and we believe
with Hon. Edward Everett, that

"The sacred tie of family, which reaching backward and forward binds
the generations of men together, and draws out the plaintive music of their
being from the solemn alternation of cradle and grave.

"Forefather, parent, child, posterity, native land; these all teach us, not
blindly to worship but duly to honor 'the past, to study lessons of experience,
to scan the high counsels of man in his great associations."

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