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Joane Faxon, was born in England, in
1630, was brought to this country by his
parents, and his death occurred December
20, 1674. His wife, Elizabeth Faxon,
born in 1633, died August 9, 1704.
Thomas (2) Faxon, son of Richard and
Elizabeth Faxon, was born in Braintree,
Massachusetts, August 2, 1662, died in
the year 1690, and his remains were
interred at Weymouth, Massachusetts.
He was a prosperous farmer of Braintree.
He married Mary Blanchard, born December
1, 1662.
Richard (2) Faxon, son of Thomas (2)
and Mary (Blanchard) Faxon, was born
in Braintree, Massachusetts, September
4, 1686, and died May 5, 1768. He mar-
ried, December 29, 1709, Ann Brackett,
born July 18, 1687, and died October 16,
1769.
Thomas (3) Faxon, son of Richard (2)
and Ann (Brackett) Faxon, was born in
Braintree, Massachusetts, October 29,
1710, and died in the year 1801. He mar-
ried (first) September 22, 1746, Elizabeth
Hobart, who died April 5, 1752.
Ebenezer Faxon, son of Thomas (3)
and Elizabeth (Hobart) Faxon, was born
in Braintree, Massachusetts, December
12, 1749, and died in West Hartford, Connecticut,
January 11, 181 1. He removed
to West Hartford, January 6, 1772, and
there engaged in the manufacture of
earthenware. He married, February 8,
1776, Eleanor Whitman, born in 1755, and
died November 30, 1827.
Elihu Faxon, son of Ebenezer and
Eleanor (Whitman) Faxon, was born in
West Hartford, Connecticut, November
6, 1779, and died June 30, 1847. He married,
July 8, 1807, Elizabeth Olcott, born
April 22, 1784, and died December 21,
1854, daughter of James and Lucy
(Terry) Olcott.
Hiram Faxon, son of Elihu and Eliza-
beth (Olcott) Faxon, was born in Nas-
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sau, New York, August 11, 1817. Later
in life he moved to Buffalo, New York,
thence to Brooklyn, New York, then to
Hartford, Connecticut, where his death
occurred, October 30, 1883. He married,
March 31, 1842, Margaret Maria Collyer,
born October 2, 1822, died January 2,
i860, daughter of William and Margaret
(Powers) Collyer, of Marblehead, Massachusetts,
and granddaughter of Isaac and
Sarah (Courlis) Collyer, of Marblehead,
the former named a lieutenant in the Revolutionary
Army.
From such ancestry comes Walter Collyer
Faxon, son of Hiram and Margaret
Maria (Collyer) Faxon. He was born in
Hartford, Connecticut, July 18, 1856. He
was graduated from the Hartford public
high school in April, 1874. His first employment
was with the Travelers' Insur-
ance Company, where he remained for
nearly seventeen years in its accident de-
partment. At that time the liability busi-
ness was only beginning and the health
insurance business untouched. When the
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