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er of the i < > ii 1 11 1« «ti Council, the School
Committee and the Park Commission,
and has been identified with important
civic movements. He was for about
twent) years secretary of the Board of
Trade. He has been since iw-' a member
of the vestry of St. John's Church,
clerk of the parish, also serving as
clerk of St. John's Church House Corporation,
and filling other positions in church
work. He was secretary of the general
committee for the celebration of the
town's Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anni-
versar) in [892, and was chairman of the
general committee in charge of the Two
Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniversary
of the town in [916. He is a trustee of
the Ferguson Library, a director of the
Associated Charities, and a corporator of
the Stamford Hospital. For several years
he has been a member of the Republican
town committee, and has been a delegate
to various conventions. He made nomi-
nating speeches at two conventions at
which the Hon. Schuyler Merritt was
nominated for representative in Congress
for the Fourth District. He is a member
of Puritan Lodge. Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, the Knights of the Mac-
cabees, and several other societies.
Mr. Whittaker was married, October
12, 1882, to Emma, daughter of the late
John W. and Delia (Dixon) Parker.
Their surviving child is Dora, wife of
John Milton Stewart, of Andover, Massachusetts,
born August 5, 1883. Their
second child, Jean Parker, who was wife
of Charles Russell Waterbury, of Stam-
ford, died September 13, 1916, leaving a
daughter, Jean.
BARBER, George Harvey,
Educator. Agriculturist.
There has been a close connection between
the two strong Connecticut fami-
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lies. Barber and Stiles, Thomas Barber
coming at the age of twenty-one y<
from London in the ship "Christian," in
the part} fitted out by Rev. Richard Sal-
rancis Stiles, a master
tonstall under I
penter Thej sailed March 10, [835,
and arriving safety, settled in Windsor,
Connecticut; the same year Thomas Bar-
ber had land granted him and was a sergeant
in the Pequot War and distin-
guished himself for bravery. lb- was a
man of strong convictions, but liberal in
his views and read) to defend his opin-
ions, lie was impulsive and energetic,
but with an uprightness of character that
won bin; the respect of his neighbors. He
died September ii. [662, his wife dying
the preceding day. They were the parent-
of mui--: John, Thomas, Samuel, and
Josiah, all of whom married and reared
families. It was from this brave old Indian
fighter, Thomas Barber, that George
Harvey Barber, sprang, he a son of Harvey
and Hannah (Stiles) Barber, and
grandson of Wolcott Barber.
Harvey Barber, a farmer of South
Windsor, Connecticut, was there born,
July 30. 1792. He married, March S. 1S15,
Hannah Stiles, born December 24, 1792.
She was a descendant of John (1) Stiles,
who was baptized in St. Michael's Church,
Milbroke, Bedfordshire, England, December
25, 1595. John Stiles settled in Windsor.
Connecticut, at the age of forty wars,
and there died, June 4, 1662-63, aged sixty-
seven years. His widow, Rachel, died
September 3, 1674. The line of descent
from John (1) Stile- to Hannah I
Stiles
1
Barber is through the founder's second
son John (2) Stiles, born in .
England
about 1633. who was brought to Wind-
sor, Connecticut, and there resided until
his death about 1883. He married Dorcas
Hurt. The line continues through
their son, John (31 Stiles, an actual set-
tler and first of his name on the east side