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Their son, Lewis McLaughlin, was
only two years old when they removed
to Stafford Springs, Connecticut, from
Palmer, Massachusetts, where he was
born. For primary instruction he at-
tended the public schools of Stafford
-
Springs, and was later sent to the Mon-
son Academy, in Massachusetts. He became
the junior partner of McLaughlin &
Son, publishers of "The Press," in 1885,
and soon became familiar with the print-
ing and publishing business in all the
phases covered by "The Press" com-
pany. Particularly, during the early
years of the business partnership with
his father, he devoted his time to the job
printing and business departments of the
firm, but upon the death of his father,
August 2, 1895, he became the sole owner
of "The Press."
In addition to the assistance Mr. Mc-
Laughlin's journal gives to all worthy
projects in the district, he has taken offi-
cial part in much organization work in
Stafford Springs ; he
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was one of the in-
corporators of the Stafford Library Asso-
ciation, and the Stafford Springs Agricul-
tural Society. He has also been an active
member of the Stafford Business Men's
Association. Politically he is a Republican,
and was a member of the State Leg-
islature for the session of 1909, the voters
of the Stafford Springs district having
elected him to that place of honor and
responsibility by a good majority in the
previous November. During 1914-15,
Mr. McLaughlin was a member of the
Board of Selectmen of Stafford Springs.
He is a supporter of the First Congrega-
tional church, and has been clerk of the
Ecclesiastical Society of the Congrega-
tional Church of Stafford Springs since
1895. Fraternally Mr. McLaughlin belongs
to the Masonic and Odd Fellows
Orders ;
and on the social side he belongs
to the Stafford Business Men's Associa-
tion and to the Stafford Country Club.
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Mr. McLaughlin married, October 7,
1891, Carrie B., daughter of William L.
and Jennie P. (Atwood) Bishop, of Hol-
yoke, Massachusetts. They have no chil-
dren.
ALLYN, Robert Joseph,
Hotel Proprietor.
For nearly a century the name of Allyn
has been identified with the hotel business
in Hartford. The family has been
resident in New England from a very
early period, and has been traced in England
prior to the settlement of New England.
Richard Allen or Allyn was born
in Braunton, Devonshire, England, and
died in 1662. His will was dated Novem-
ber 29, 1647, and proved May 10, 1662.
He married Margaret Wyatt.
Their fourth son, Matthew Allyn, was
baptized in April, 1604, at Braunton, and
came with the original Braintree company
in 1632 to Charlestown, Massachu-
setts, where he had forty-five acres of
land in 1633, and subsequently owned
many other parcels, including five houses
on the original town plot of Cambridge,
made in 1635. He resided near the meet-
ing house, and was the largest landholder
in Cambridge, a freeman of the Massa-
chusetts Colony, March 4, 1635, and rep-
resentative to the General Court in the
following year. In 1637 he removed to
Hartford, where he was one of the orig-
inal proprietors, and had a house lot on
what is now Windsor street, and one hundred
and ten acres of planting land. He
owned the first mill in Hartford, which
was at the foot of the present West Pearl
street ; was a proprietor of Windsor, Con-
necticut, in 1640; a large owner in Killing-worth
and Simsbury, Connecticut, and
a member of Rev. Thomas Hooker's
church of Hartford. Before 1648 he
removed to Windsor, which town he rep-
resented in the General Court from 1648