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He then completed his education at Shef-
field Scientific school, of Yale University,
graduating with the class of 1887. Most
of his business life was connected with
farming and fruit growing. He was a
member of the General Association, 1899
member of the State Board of Agricul-
ture ; of the State Pomological Society ; of
the State Dairy Association. Later he
was first selectman, and town agent for
twenty-five years. For one term also he
was representative and clerk of the
committee of incorporations. Mr. Pat-
ten was a Mason, a member of the
Republican Club, a charter member of the
North Haven Grange. Like most of his
family, he is of the Congregationalist
faith, being a member of the First Congregational
Church, of North Haven.
D. Walter Patten married, October 16,
1889, in North Haven, Erminie I. Emley,
born in East Haddam, Connecticut, February
I, 1867, who survives her husband.
She is the daughter of George I. and
Martha (Chapman) Emley. Her father,
born July 14, 1841, died February 28, 1921,
and fought for four years during the Civil
War with the Tenth Connecticut Volun-
teers. Her mother died May 20, 1908, at
the age of fifty-two. Mr. and Mrs. Patton
were the parents of children: i. Edna I.,
born October 23, 1890, educated in the
North Haven public and high schools,
with normal training at New Britain
Normal School, who taught at the Patton
School in Middletown for three years
now married to Ivan H. Bradley. 2. Mabel
S., born October 30, 1893, "ow Mrs. Dan
Edward Parmlee. 3. Martha A. Patten,
born December 13, 1899, educated in the
North Haven public and high schools,
employed by the Security Insurance Company
of New Haven, married, June 7,
1924, to Mr. Erik A. Hillborn of Walling-
ford, Connecticut, assistant cashier of the
First National Bank of Wallingford.
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Mr. Patten died November 19, 1921. A
man well-informed in his chosen field of
scientific agriculture and its allied sub-
jects, he devoted all his ability and train-
ing to the public, and much of the pros-
perity of the Connecticut farmer today
is due to his eflforts. A kindly, generous,
man, he was loved by all with whom he
came in contact, and he left a host of
devoted friends and fellow citizens.
STODDARD, Orrin Edwin,
Grain Merchant.
A descendant of Revolutionary ancestry
and a veteran of the Civil War, Orrin E.
Stoddard embodied the best elements of
American citizenship. The family of
Stoddard has been traced to the time of
William the Conqueror, and was ancient-
ly written "de la Standard." When the
Normans invaded England, under Wil-
liam, his cousin, William Stoddard, accompanied
him. The coat-of-arms of
the family are:
Arms—Sable, three estoiles and bordure gules.
Crest—Out of a ducal coronet a demi-horse
salient ermine.
Motto—Festina lente.
As early as 1490 the family had
an estate of about four hundred acres
near Elthan in Kent about seven miles
from London Bridge, and continued to
hold it until the death of Nicholas Stod-
dard, a bachelor, in 1765. The first of the
name in America was Anthony Stoddard,
who came from England to Boston about
1639, was admitted freeman the following
year and was representative twenty-
three years, twenty years successively,
from 1665 to 1684.
John Stoddard, born 1612, came to Hingham,
Massachusetts, in 1638, was at New
London, Connecticut, as early as 1650, and
died 1676, leaving a widow (who later