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County Essex, England, to Hartford,
where he bought land in 1674. He died
December 20, 1694. About 1690, he married
Hepzibah, widow of John Pratt, and
their eldest child, Thomas Sadd, born
1691, married Hannah Grant, and was the
father of John Sadd, born November 28,
1734, married Content Elmore. They had
Elijah Sadd, born March 3, 1766, married,
November 8, 1786, Chloe Barber. Their
second daughter, Chloe, became the wife
of Charles Clark, as previously noted, and
was the mother of Charles Wells Clark,
born January 30, 1820, baptized June 25,
1832. His home was in Windsorville, and
he died November 2, 1871, in West Hart-
ford. He married, February 11, 1847,
Mary Ann Craw, and their eldest child,
Mary Ann, born August 24, 1848, was
married to Newton Osborn, as previously
noted.
PERKINS, Clifford Delmar,
Popular Hotel Proprietor.
The qualities which make for success
are possessed in abundance in the char-
acter of Clifford D. Perkins, one of the
best known hotel men of Connecticut.
He was born at Colchester, Connecti-
cut, July 14, 1866, son of Octavius Harrison
and Ellen (Niles) Perkins, grandson
of Hezekiah and Elizabeth H. (Dodge)
Perkins, and great-grandson of William
and Rhoda (Davis) Perkins, members of
an old distinguished Mansfield family.
The elementary education of Mr. Per-
kins was received in the schools of Titus-
ville, Pennsylvania, and subsequently he
was a student at the Bacon Academy of
Colchester, Connecticut. After finishing
his schooling, he was employed as a clerk
in the wholesale store of J. B. Merrow
& Sons Company, of Merrow, Connecti-
cut. Previous to 1893, the year he engaged
in the hotel business, he was iden-
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tified with the silk industry, located suc-
cessively at Springfield, Massachusetts,
and Norfolk, Connecticut. It was in the
latter city that he first made his entrance
in the business of hotel manager, and he
was associated with E. C. Stevens, pro-
prietor of the Stevens House of that city.
Mr. Perkins possesses the qualities of the
ideal hotel man, and his rise in this work
has been a rapid one. From Norfolk he
removed to New Haven, where he was
connected with the management of the
well-known Hotel Garde of that city. In
New York City he was connected with
the Grenoble, under the Lelan management.
Hence removed to New London,
Connecticut, where for four years he was
manager of the Mohican Hotel, one of
the handsomest and best equipped hotels
in Connecticut, and numbered among its
guests are many people of note and prominence
throughout the country. Follow-
ing the time he left the whaling city, he
was in the South as manager of several of
Florida's leading resorts. In the fall of
1904, he came to Hartford to accept the
managership of the Highland Court Hotel
upon request of the owner, G. W. Merrow,
who was a son of the merchant
whom Mr. Perkins had first been employed
by. This hotel was successfully
managed by him for many years, and
attained high standing among the travel-
ing public for the excellence of its service
in every respect. He resigned in 1914 to
become associated with the leading hotel
of Hartford, "The Heublein," of which
he became proprietor the following
year and to which he has brought the
same efficiency and satisfaction that has
marked his entire career.
He is a popular and well-known citizen
of the city of Hartford, and takes a
keen interest in its civic affairs. He was
nominated by his party to the office of
State Senator from the Third District.