NOBLE E. LORD BIOGRAPHY AS RECORDED IN: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF
TOLLAND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS AND OF MANY PUBLISHER: J.H.BEERS & CO., CHICAGO; 1903 P. 256 NOBLE E. LORD, one of the most extensive farmers of Tolland county, and the largest land holder in Hebron, resides in the northern portion of the town, and dates his ancestry back to colonial times. The first American ancestor was Thomas Lord, who came from England and was one of the earliest settlers of Hartford. Both he and his wife, Dorothy, whom he had married in England, died in Hartford, the wife in 1687 at the ripe age of eighty-seven. All of their eight children were born in England, and came to America with their parents, while a later generation of the family located in Marlborough, Conn., where the Lord name is one of the oldest in the town. George Lord, grandfather of our subject,
was a farmer and large land holder in the town of Marlborough, Conn., his
residence being in the southern part of the place. There he lived his entire
life, and died in 1852, at the age of seventy-five, in the faith of the
Congregational Church. His first wife, Caroline Crocker, bore him one child,
Sherman C., who married Ophelia T. Buell, was a farmer and died in Marlborough.
The second wife of George Lord was Abigail Everett of Ware, Mass., who
survived him until 1861. Their Noble Everett Lord, the father of the
subject of this sketch, was born in 1804, in Marlborough, Conn., where he
resided on the home farm until his marriage, having been reared to farm
work. After his marriage, he removed to Hebron and rented the Perk
Mann farm in the eastern part of the town, where he resided for a
little over a year, and he then purchased a farm nearby, where he live the
remainder of his life, dying Oct. 11, 1892. Noble E. Lord was a quiet,
hard-working man, who reared a large and creditable family and left to them
the heritage of a good name. As he was in moderate circumstances, the rearing
of his large family was a heavy expense. In politics he was a Republican,
and held many of the minor offices of the town, while in religious matters,
he adhered to the tenets of the Congregational faith, being a member of
the church of that denomination at Hebron. Noble E. Lord married Betsey
F. Buckley, who was born in 1816, a native of Colchester, Conn., daughter
of William Buckley, and she died Aug. 12, 1861. To them were born: Joshua
B., who married Eunice Otis, was engaged in various kinds of business and
was an undertaker of Hartford at the time of his death; George R., who
married Mary Boud, was a real estate dealer and resides at Asbury Park,
N.J.; Daniel B., who was a graduate of Amherst College, became a Congregational
minister and died at West Hartford, Conn.; Fedora E., widow of Edwin Perry,
resides in New Haven, Conn.; Sophia J. resides in East Hartford, Conn.,
unmarried; Noble E.; Prudence A. died young; David died young, and his
twin brother died at the age of three days; Lucy died young; Loren M.,
who married Anna Strong, resides in Noble E. Lord, the immediate subject
of this biography, was born Nov. 14, 1844, in the northeastern part of Hebron,
and attended the district school as well as one term at the select school
kept by Henry T. Bowles in Andover. He remained upon the farm until 1865,
when he went to Marlborough, and there operated a farm for an uncle for
a season. His father needing him at home the other brothers having left),
Noble returned to the homestead, where he remained until after his marriage,
when he purchased the Skinner farm, in On April 21, 1869, Noble E. Lord was
married for the first time, to Miss Addie Griswold, a native of Rocky Hill,
Conn., daughter of Albro Griswold, a farmer of that locality, and she died
Oct. 11, 1891, aged forty-four. To them were born: Herbert J., a joiner
residing in Springfield, Mass., was born Jan. 28, 1870, married Bessie E.
Vining, and has one child, Noble E.; Everett G., a farmer of Hebron, was
born Oct. 25, 1871, married Grace Pendleton, and has two children, Eleanor
P. and Mary A.; Flora E., was born Reproduced by: Linda D. Pingel great-great granddaughter of Cyrus White of Rockville, Ct. Biographies of Tolland County |