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on Main street, Wethersfield, where
George Washington stopped in 1776 on
his way to take command of the army at
Boston. About 1874 this property was
purchased by Mrs. Edward Hart Fenn,
St., and since 1889 Edward Hart Fenn,
Jr., has occupied it. Mr. Fenn was long
in the service in the National Guard,
being a member of Company F, Fifth
Regiment, known as the Hartford City
Guard, in which he served five years; he
is an ex-major of the Veteran Association
of this regiment. He is a member of the
Republican Club of Hartford, vice-president
of the Association for the Improvement
of the Lower Connecticut River, a
commissioner of the Wethersfield fire dis-
trict, and a director of the State Business
Men's Association. He is also connected
with several patriotic and social organizations
; is the secretary of the Connec-
ticut Society Sons of the Revolution, a
member of the Society of Founders and
Patriots, of the Connecticut Historical
Society, Wethersfield Grange, Hartford
Club, Hartford Yacht Club, and Farm-
ington Country Club. Mr. Fenn takes a
very deep interest in the progress and
prosperity of his native State, and is ever
ready to perform any public service which
may further those objects.
Mr. Fenn married (second) June 30,
1902, Mary Bacon Clark, of Old Lyme,
Connecticut, daughter of Erastus and
Emily (Bacon) Clark. Mrs. Fenn is
descended from two signers of the Declaration
of Independence, John Hancock
and Abraham Clark. She is a member of
the Daughters of the American Revolution,
prominent in Red Cross work, and
active in many ways in promoting the
social and moral development of modern
life. Her ancestor, Abraham Clark, born
February 15, 1726, in Elizabethtown, Essex
county, New Jersey, served in many
civil capacities, was sheriff, a delegate to
the Continental Congress from June,
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1776, to November, 1783, except in 1779,
signed the Declaration of Independence
in 1776, was a member of the State Legislature,
and in 1790 was elected to Congress,
serving until his death, September
15, 1794, at Rahway, New Jersey. In
1743 he married Sarah Hapfield, of Elizabethtown.
By his first wife Mr. Fenn
had three children : Hart Conklin, Fran-
cis Talcott, and Isabel Shepard.
FAXON, Walter Collyer,
Insurance Actuary.
Of the ninth American generation of
his family, Walter Collyer Faxon is by
right of ancestry a member of the Society
of Mayflower Descendants in the State
of Connecticut, of which society he is an
ex-governor, and is also deputy governor
general for Connecticut of the General
Society of Mayflower Descendants.
His ancestry traces to Governor William
Bradford, of the "Mayflower" company,
through the Adams, Collins, Terry
and Olcott families, and to Richard War-
ren through the Church and Olcott families.
Through these collateral lines he
traces a connection with many New Eng-
land notables, namely: Francis Elliott,
John Whitman, Edmund Hobart, Rev.
Solomon Stoddard, Rev. John Wareham,
John Pantry, John Norton, John Stanley,
George Stocking, William Sprague, Anthony
Earns, Thomas Bunce and Thomas
Wells, all being in his ancestral line.
In direct paternal line he traces to
Thomas Faxon, born in England, about
1601, who came to Massachusetts prior
to 1647, locating at Dedham, later at
Braintree, where he died November 23,
1680. He was a man of prominence, inti-
mately concerned in the transaction of a
vast amount of public business. His wife,
Joane Faxon, died between the years 1663
and 1670.
Richard Faxon, son of Thomas and