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28, 1748-49. In October, 1731, he was
lieutenant of the company in West Haven,
and later became captain. He married,
April 28, 1703, Abigail Pineon, of New
Haven, daughter of Thomas Pineon, of
New Haven, and she died January 9, 1743.
(III) Caleb Candee, son of Samuel and
Abigail (Pineon) Candee, was born about
1722, in West Haven; he settled in Oxford,
about 1730, and died in 1764. He
married Lois Mallory, and they were the
parents of Samuel (2) Candee, of whom
further.
(IV) Samuel (2) Candee, son of Caleb
and Lois (Mallory) Candee, was baptized
March 17, 1754, and died about 1840, aged
eighty-seven. He married, March 20,
1777, Mabel Bradley, of Derby, Connecticut,
and they joined the church in Ox-
ford, April 5, 1778. He was a lieutenant
in 1786, and captain in 1789. in the Revolutionary
War, and was a pensioner. He
also took part in the battle of Bunker
Hill. In private life he was a farmer, and
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also made scythes.
(V) Amos Candee, son of Samuel (2)
and Mabel (Bradley) Candee, was baptized
April 5, 1778; he died in 1855. He
removed to Easton, Connecticut, in 1836,
and was a farmer. He served as selectman
of the town of Easton for several
years. He married (first) Lydia Taylor
Dike, and (second) July 26, 1828, Lydia
Piatt, daughter of Amos Piatt, who was
a school teacher before her marriage.
was the mother of two children.
She
(VI) Jason Candee, son of Amos and
Lydia (Piatt) Candee, was born June 13,
1829, in Southbury, Connecticut, and died
in May, 1915. He was but a small lad
when his parents removed to Easton, and
there he went to school. After completing
his schooling he took up farming, which he
followed for the rest of his life. He married,
February 24, 1850, Caroline Amelia
Canfield, daughter of David Canfield.
The latter was of that part of Redding
bordering on the Ridgefield line; he left
there and enlisted in the Seminole War,
and was killed by the Indians, one of his
fellow-soldiers reporting his death to the
family. Of the children of Jason and
Caroline A. (Canfield) Candee the following
grew to maturity: William J.,
deceased ; Lafayette, deceased ; Nehemiah,
of further mention ; and Anna A., wife of
P. G. McCullom, of Richmond, Virginia.
The family were members of the Baptist
church at Easton.
(VII) Nehemiah Candee, son of Jason
and Caroline A. (Canfield) Candee, was
born in Easton, Connecticut, August 9,
1870. He was educated in the public
schools there and at Staples Academy. He
graduated from Yale College in 1893 with
the degree of B. A., and from Yale Law
School, four years later, with the degree
of LL. B. He went to Chicago, where he
was admitted to the bar of Illinois, and
engaged in practice there for a year. In
the winter of 1907 he returned to Norwalk
and formed a partnership with John
Keogh, on January' ist, following, under
the firm name of Keogh & Candee, which
has continued to the present time. Mr.
Keogh has recently been appointed ref-
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eree in bankruptcy.
In June, 1917, Mr. Candee was made
judge of the City Court of Norwalk, and
is now serving his second term. He is a
Republican, and served in the Legislature
in 1917 and 1919. During his first term
he served on the Committee on Forfeited
Rights, and the Committee on Banks and
Federal Relations. In his last term he
served as a member of the Judiciary Committee.
In the fall of 1920 Judge Candee
was a candidate for Senator from the
Twenty-sixth Senatorial District.
Mr. Candee is a member of several fra-
ternities, and is otherwise active in the
social life of Norwalk. He is a member