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of its executive committee. Both he and
his family were members of the Second
Baptist Church of Sufheld, and all took
active interest in matters pertaining to
the church.
On November 12, 1879, Mr. Halladay
married Eloise L. Warner, daughter of
Charles C. and Jane E. (Holcomb) War-
ner, born in Suffield, November 9, 1855.
Mrs. Eloise L. (Warner) Halladay is a
descendant of John Warner, the first
member of the family in Suffield, about
1690. His wife was Elizabeth (Mighel)
Warner, and they were the parents of
John Warner, Jr., born May 1, 1694. He
married, in 1722, Elizabeth French, and
their son, John Warner, was born August
9, 1723 ; he married, in 1754, Mary ,
and they were the parents of Isaac War-
ner, born August 24, 1760. The latter
engaged in farming and the raising of
cattle in Suffield, in which he was very
successful. He was a Democrat, and a
faithful member of the Baptist church.
He married Adah Phelps, March 8, 1786,
and she died on the homestead in Warner-
town, July 29, 1824. Their son, Curtis
Warner, was born June 5, 1793, in War-
nertown, and was educated in the public
schools. Afterwards he engaged in teach-
ing for a number of years. Previous to
his marriage, he was engaged in the ped-
dling of tinware and Yankee notions in
the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts
and New York. On November 2, 1824,
he married Parmelia Cushman, a native
of Southwick, Massachusetts, a daughter
of Simeon Merritt and Zibah (Moore)
Cushman. She was descended from Robert
Cushman, who chartered the "May-
flower" and attended to the business of
the emigrants on the other side, but did
not come over to this country on that
ship. Mr. Warner was a Whig in poli-
tics of the old line, a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church, and he died
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in 1856, and his wife in 1884. Their eld-
est son, Charles C. Warner, was born in
Suffield, October 7, 1826, died July 6,
1898; married, October 11, 1854, Jane E.
Holcomb, born in Southwick, Massachu-
setts, December 15, 1830, died in Suffield,
September 16, 1892, and they were the
parents of Eloise L. Warner, who became
the wife of Edmund Halladay, as previ-
ously noted. There were three children
born to Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Halladay:
1. Clarissa Jane, born June 21, 1882; married,
September 1, 1909, Benjamin Judah
Phelps, of Suffield. Mr. Phelps is at
the present time the superintendent of
schools at High Bridge, New Jersey. 2.
Marjorie Eloise, born September 9, 1884,
and is living at home with her mother. 3.
Helen Kendall, born October 29, 1887,
and also lives at home.
The entire life of Mr. Halladay was de-
voted to the progress and improvement of
the town which gave him birth, and
despite the many demands upon his time,
he was always ready to make any sacri-
fice in order that something or some one
might be better for it.
STRONG, Harry Barnard,
Merchant, Financier.
The Strong family has been one of the
largest and best of the original families
of New England. In "its widely ramified
history we have a picture, on a broad
scale, of men founding families in the fear
of God, and training them to His service
from generation to generation, according
to the best typical forms in church and
State of our ever-expanding home growth.
They have ever been among the foremost
in the land to found and to favor those
great bulwarks of our civilization, the
church and the school. Many have been
the towns, the territories and the States
into whose initial forms and processes of