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ufacturing Company. His clubs are: the
Hartford, Hartford Golf, Graduates' Club
of New Haven. University Club f New
York, and the University Club of Hart-
ford. Mr. Shipman derives much pleas-
ure in hunting and fishing and each sea-
son relaxes from his arduous legal duties
to enjoy a brief re-tiny spell, indulging in
these sports.
Mr. Shipman married. June , 27 [901,
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in
Poughkeepsie, New York, Melvina Van
Kleeck, and they are the parents f four
children: 1. Nathalie, born December
17, [902. 2. Anne Van Kleeek, bom May
21, 1904. 3. Arthur Leffingwell, Jr., born
July 4. 1906. 4. Mary Caroline, born December
23, 1910.
Mr. Shipman has upheld to a high de-
gree the record established by the Shipman
family in law practice in this city,
State and nation, and before many years is
destined to go still farther. He is a widely
known and respected citizen of Hartford.
Through his own personality he has made
many true and lasting friends. His farsightedness
and conservative methods
have made him invaluable as a public
official.
ERVING, Rollin King,
Business Man.
Following Mr. Frving's ancestry back
for several generations through the pater-
nal line, then through the maternal from
that point, we find him descended fr< in
some of the oldest settlers of New Eng-
land. Tom Gardner was born about 1592,
and came to America in 1624, sailing from
Weymouth, England. He settled on Cape
Ann. and became a freeman of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony, May 17, 1637. He
became a large landowner and a promi-
nent citizen, and died in 1677. His wife's
name was Margaret. Samuel Gardner,
his fifth son, was born in 1627, resided in
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Salem, and was often in the pub ice,
for year- selectman, and deputy in [I
He was a member of the church, and
owned much land. He married Mary
White, who died September [2, [675. Of
their children, Lieutenanl Abel Gardner,
a tanner of fur. i [e ••• as 1" irn £
tember 1. [673, and died November IO,
[739. He resided in the old homestead,
in the middle precinct of Salem, now Peabody,
Massachusetts. He was a promi-
nent man in the community, serving often
in public office. He married Sarah Por-
ter, daughter of Israel and Elizabeth
(Hawthorne) Porter, born August 24,
1675 and died September 24, 1728. Their
youngest child, Joseph Gardner, was
a goldsmith. He inherited the home-
stead on what is now Central street,
Peabody, and also other land. In 1747 he
bought a house on Cambridge street,
Salem, which he sold in 1758. and bought
in on what is now Hij reet, near
Mill street, where he resided until he died.
ut [779. He inherited, March 1; >,. 1;
He married, September 29, 17
Mehetible Pope, baptized May 13. 17 19.
daughter of Joseph and Mehetible (Put-
nam )
Pope. Joseph Pope was a cousin
of Benjamin Franklin, and a younger
daughter, Hannah, married Israel Putnam.
The eldest daughter of Joseph and
'letible (Pope) Gardner was baptized
Mehetible, January 13, 1748, and was mar-
ried, October 12, 1773, to George Erving.
George Erving was born about 1745 or
1750, of Scotch ancestry. He and his wife
resided in Salem in the homestead of her
father. They sold a store in 1812. The
inventory of his estate, dated October 2,
1817, included two houses and a wharf
valued at $1,250. His son, Joseph Erving,
was born December 8, 1780, in Salem,
Massachusetts, and came and settled in
West Hartford, Connecticut. The deaths
of several of his children are recorded in