Encyclopedia of Connecticut biography, genealogical-memorial ...

municant of the North Haven Congre-
gational Church, agent of the First Ec-
clesiastical Society, and chairman of the
building committee to replace the struc-
ture which burned in 191 1. He led an
active, healthy life and came to an untimely
end on December 9, 1913, from an
accidental gunshot wound from which he
never regained consciousness.
William E. Dickerman married in the
Hamden Plains Methodist Church, April
8, 1884, Lillian Alice Snow, born at Ham-
den, November 25, 1862, who survives her
husband. Mrs. Dickerman was the daugh-
ter of Albert R. Snow, a mason and con-
tractor, a descendant of the Adams family
of Suffield, Connecticut, and his wife,
Hulda (Warner) Snow, whose grand-
father, Samuel Warner, was a soldier in
the Revolution.
For a year or two after their mar-
riage Mr. and Mrs. Dickerman lived in
what is known as the center of North
Haven near the green and here their
first child. Grace Lillian, was born May
I, 1886. Towards fall of that year they
moved to New Haven, residing on Orange
Street, near Canner Street, not far from
East Rock. Their second child, Elihu
Elias, was born here November 18, 1887.
Early in the year 1888 they moved back
again to the old home town of North
Haven, purchasing the Fowler place be-
side the Quinnipiack River, where the
family has lived ever since. The old house
was torn down and a new one built in
1900 so that with the improvements that
have been made in the grounds this home-
stead of fourteen acres is regarded as the
most beautiful in town.
There were but two children, Grace
Lillian, who after completing the high
school course in Meriden attended St.
Lawrence University at Canton, New
York, and Elihu Elias, who attended
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
149
Boardman Manual Training High School
and New Haven High School, graduated
from Sheffield Scientific School of Yale
University in 1909, was in the insurance
business for four years, and, upon the
death of his father, assumed the management
of The Morgan & Humiston Com-
pany, of which he is now president.
A kindly man, modest, unassuming, but
full of good works, Mr. Dickerman was
known and loved throughout the town.
His party knew it could count on his
support for worthwhile legislation ; his
church could call on him in time of need
and be sure of generous aid. His friends
and the poor knew of his constant readi-
ness to help, and to his family he was the
wise guide, the ambitious provider, and
the faithful friend.
EDGERTON, Francis Daniels,
Pbysician and Surgeon.
Among the most successful and highly
honored physicians of Middlesex County,
the late Dr. Edgerton enjoyed a high rep-
utation as a citizen as well as a healer,
and was held in confidence and esteem by
all his contemporaries, professional or
non-professional. He was descended from
a very old Connecticut family, which was
founded by Richard Edgerton of Nor-
wich, where he was one of the founders.
He came from England and was located
first in Massachusetts, whence he removed
to Norwich among the early settlers.
He married, April 7, 1653, Mary
Sylvester, and their eldest son, John Edgerton,
was born June 12, 1662, in Nor-
wich, and died there in May, 1692, near
the close of his thirtieth year. He married
March 20, 1690, Mary Renalls (Reynolds)
born April, 1664, daughter of John
Renalls of Norwich. She manied (sec-
ond), December 30, 1697, Samuel Loth-