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department, and the value of his service
is best attested by the rapid growth of
that department. In 1902 he was chosen
to fill the office of secretary, and in 1905
promoted to the office of vice-president of
the accident department, which office he
most efficiently fills at the present time
(1917). In 1908 he became a director of
the /Etna Casualty and Surety Company.
Mr. Faxon has been president of the
International Association of Accident
Underwriters, which later became the
International Association of Casualty and
Surety Underwriters. In 1915 he was
chairman of the Bureau of Personal Accident
and Health Underwriters. He is an
ex-governor of the Order of Mayflower
Descendants in the State of Connecticut
member of the Society of Colonial Wars
Sons of the American Revolution, of
which he is treasurer; and ex-registrar
general of the General Court of the Order
of Founders and Patriots of America, of
which he is an ex-governor of the Connecticut
Society ; member of the Order of
Colonial Governors, the Connecticut His-
torical Society, the Hartford Club and the
Hartford Golf Club. Mr. Faxon has
proved the worthy twentieth century rep-
resentative of those courageous spirits
who from the first awful winter at Plymouth
down through the generations
fought the wild foes of the forest, human
and animal, endured the privations of the
pioneer in many localities, and through
great tribulation established the colony
upon which was erected the Common-
wealth and later the Nation. In all these
experiences his ancestors bore a part, and
while his part has been to preserve that
which was committed to him, he has
borne a full share in the commercial development
of his city and in increasing
the usefulness of the great financial cor-
porations with which he is connected.
Mr. Faxon married. May 23, 1877, Nel-
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lie A. White, born in Somers, Connecticut,
June 25, 1857, daughter of Josiah and
Hannah (Pease) White (see White).
Her lines of Revolutionary ancestors
entitle her to eight bars upon her emblem
worn as a Daughter of the American Revolution,
an order in which she is very
active. She was one of the earliest mem-
bers of the Ruth Wyllys Chapter, of that
order, was a member of its board of man-
agers for many years, and was a delegate
to its convention held in Washington, D.
C. She is an ex-president of the Connecticut
Society of Daughters of Founders
and Patriots, and has been a prominent
member of the Civic Club of Hartford. In
the spring of 1917 Mrs. Faxon was
appointed chairman of the comforts com-
mittee of the Admiral Bunce Section at
Hartford of the Navy League of the
United States. She at once began to
organize relief work for the navy and
soon had over five hundred women knit-
ting to add comfort to the boys of the
navy. Many thousand articles, helmets,
mufflers, wristlets and sleeveless jackets,
are the result of their labor. These
articles have gone to those serving in our
navy. Mrs. Faxon gave all of her time to
the management of this work at the Hartford
headquarters. Mr. and Mrs. Faxon
are members of the Asylum Hill Congre-
gational Church.
(The White Line).
Mrs. Nellie A. Faxon is a lineal de-
scendant of Robert White, who was a
yeoman, appears to have lived in Shalford,
Essex, from the time of his marriage,
June 24, 1585, to Bridget, daugh-
ter of William Allgar. He was a
wealthy man. The death of Robert
White occurred in the year 1617. Elder
John White, youngest child of Robert and
Bridget (Allgar) White, was a passenger
in the ship '"Lyon" which left Eng-