Stephen was a blacksmith in Niantic Village until his father's

f death in 1772, at which time he took over his father's tavern and
V House of Public Entertainment, The Niantic Village Tavern.
On March 25, 1777 Stephen Stetson enlisted in the Second hhode
Island Regiment of the Continental Army, commanded by Colonel Israel
Angell, and was assigned as a private to Captain Thomas Hughes Company.
Upon enlistment at this time recruits v/ere sent to the army camp at
Morristown and then to Garrison Fort Constitution. Fort Contstitution
located on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, was soon renamed
Fort Lee. U^ring the remainder of the summer the regiment was doing
duty at various places in the New Jersey Highlands.
Upon Fort Mifflin, Colonel Angell sent a detachment of his troops to
repair the breeches on the walls, and erect a palisade at Fort Mifflin
on Mud Island.
Fort Mercer was attacked by the British on the afternoon of
October 2. The land element consisted of Colonel von Donop's Hessian
brigade, 2,000 men strong. The German's advanced from against the
I'ort under the cover of fire from an artillery battery, and an awe-
;;ojRO naval bombardment from a British squadron consisting of one ship of
. / . tJio line, three frigates, a sloop of war, and a large floating battery.
*V Tow Rhode Island regiments, commanded by Colonel Angell and Colonel
wrecno with a total strength of some- 400 men v/ere. defending the Fort.
Thoy were supported by long-range fire from the American fleet above
I iio I'ori. Undaunted by the bombardment, the Americans held their own fii
liutil the charging Hessians had forced their v;ay through a line of abatis
.iiui into the ditch aroung the land face of the Fort. Then a short range
r-.-pOiited murderous grap-short and musket volleys truned the ditch into a
bloody shambles. In a few minutes approximately 400 Hessians were
/ ^ kll'leci or woundad. Vainly trying to rally his troops, Donop was mortally
wouniU;d and captured.
American loss was trifling. Captain Sylvanus Shaw and four or
ve privates of Angell's regiment were killed; and a number were wounded
p; _A lliu defeated Hessians wore withdrawing the British naval squadron
P; p also suffered disaster. It was three weeks before the British were read
A ; I r^jiiow their attacks against the two staunch forts. The defense of
Forts Mifflin and Mercer are counted among the most notable and gallant
. . events of the whole war.
P.--'
time" in the mountains until they could secure nrovisiors
P: . '-'X preceded to the Schuylkill River at Gulph Mills near Mat son
night "laid down on their arms", come on the frozen ^Tound
;p,.p.>pv-/iLn no covering, others had blankets, but none had other coverina or
V' I: Tinuring tho night which was evidently that of of the 17 of
i;'. nearly 5 inches of snow fell.
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1 /.'O a a >' i> we r o ? po r. t i-,.
r.CT. cv.:".vcrcc severely ::.3 ~.-.e :-'*.reh
>.. e ir.iced by blood c r. eh? snov;,
eh? corners and wound ehe.e around their feet.
ir. location before resu.!ring th-.- rr^arch. The
v;ac continued and their nrogress co"''
oor;e of the r.en v/ho had blankets cut
> ^
of
eve - lable.
cuf foring.
Others usod any old raes
frozen ground, snov and ice, and wot feet caused intense
Wbm:
Stenhen Stetson
rriblo winter nearl
rv tion, exposure,
:h;incl'to:! v;rote a le
"ov; convinced beyc
iden 1 y Lakes ol<?co
.or of these three
obtdH subsistence
ot an crcdccorated mcrur
.nr i sav.
uru-son/ died on Decerr.ber 22, 1777. Durinc that
10 of Genera,! l/ashingtcn's army died from
isease. The day after Stephen's death General
ro the President of Congress. He wrote "I
coubt tnnt unless some great and canital change
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nevitably be reduced to one or tihe
s; srarve, gissoj.vg, or cUsperse, in order
ne best manner they can; rest assured Sir this
ure, out that I have abundent reason to sunoor
_Stonhen Stetson v;as ry Great Great Great Great Great Great Gr.ndfatr
nnn - .ir. oroud to knov* tnat he made the ultimate sacrifice to help make
cms great country whhr in is today
Karen Ellen Luce
8th. Grade Bethel-Tate Elem. School
Bethel, Ohio 1975
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e .stetson s (\ unit
I Provide(^,Loan
J For Business
I
1 By VANCE WHITFIELD
Thr rmUy New* Warren County Barnftu
209 Bank BIdf., Lebanon
5 LEBANON, Apr, 4Without
the generosity of a Waynesville
woman, tlie American cowboy
might never have worn the 10-
, gallon iiai and Uir> name John
B. Stetson might not be synoav-
' ntous witli hat making . , .
According to Mrs. Mazcl Phil
lips, dii-ector of t h e \Van*eli
county Historical society, an
put Stetson in business
with n loan of $fiO. She was
!" Mrs. Ixtui^ Stetson l,^rrick.
^ MRS. Plinjjps, said Stet
son. a New Jersey native, went
West because of ill health. On
, his journey he stopped^ in
Wayne.tvllJe to visit his
!S
G Affor a short visit, he eon-
r tinned to St, Joseph, Mo.,
%Kiiere he eventually established
il a brickyard busines.s. A flood,
t however, wiped him out.
Rejected for military service
i. during the Civil War, Stetson
.joined a group of wildcat gold
c' prospector.s.
DIUECTOR PHILLIPS SCANS STETSON PAPERS
H. S. Larrick, t^lanff On, Kin of Hat Maker
URBA.ISA POSTMASTER
THE HISTORIC.\L director j By BILL FOX. Daily News Sta Writer
'k'an'rt'spr' v" ' ' URBANA, Apr. 4Very few women follow in their Peak and .Stetson, I.v,ng the :fgtlier's footsteps.
Waynesviile. 11. was during that
visit Mrs. Larrick made the
loan.
Stetson parlayed h i b .siuhII
griibslake into the inulli - mil
lion-dollar hat einpirf.
Stet-s'-n .sdll lias if^lafivcs in
Warren county, one of u+iom is
pa.st three
years,
.She is one
of five I'emfile
p 0 -imasi.ci'.s
Uhry're nni
called ..p O.S I-
rrorhort
himed for Ihc fanied' 'h'fttrJir3''^('rhe only other one in the Mi-
maker. said his great-uncle has ;" ami Valley is Elsie Biiner in Van-
been discussed many times at dalia),
family gatherings. i . ,
I MRS. KERNS s.'^ld itMs not
LARRICK said lie recalls his tuiuisual tii have leniale postmai^
father speaking of Stel.son many : fourth-class offices, '
1 [ times. Larrick .said that until
>; a few years ago. he was in pos-
T! ses.ion of m a n y of Stetson's
tt personui effects, among which
ei are letter.?, picture.? and a will.
He said the mementos "have
-j been nii.spiaccd, liou-ever.
1 The tvobanon man said that
|i while .Stetson lived, he ahvay.s
remembered his aunt in
Ti is a mailer of econo'mii*
she e.xplained. In the small'
communitic.s all the biusiness c:'
be handled by one person.
pay i.sn't enough lo altrart^
Chiuniiaign county 'has
remembered his aunt in ; fourth-class officc.s with wof
Waynesviile: 'T'm told he sent '
her maiiv gifts, Larrick said. : ..
....... , I THE tiaVEAROfjb UrV'*
I^AKKICK said liis great-un- ...he
cle always remembered llie j ^'"1
men in the family, ukj, -was apprnached Siy Ihc.
He s-nl Uiom istelsons.
1acting postmaster in-Apnl..
The Warrpii county Hisiorical -phc appoinimont la.sled unt"^
society ha.s fit documents con- Eisenhower administration.
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HK
In April. 1961- she hgait.,T
came acting postmaster.
job wH.s made permiahen
ccrning Uk; life uf Slcison, .. ^
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from H 1ram Larrick Jr., i-e- job wa.s
questing funds to complete gept, 1963.
payment on a farm near
Waynesviile. BEFORI
MRS. KATHRYN S. KERNS
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r'tT" . t dOt 17 family furoiturc store and j the poat-'
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Larrick
The 1850 Federal Census for Warren County, Ohio, Wayne Township
lists the following Larrick names:
Hiram Larrick-age 40-farmer-born Virginia
Louisa Larrick-age 31- born Connecticut
Elizabeth A,. Larick-age 10-born Ohio
Sarah J. Larrick-age 8-born Ohio
Lucy J. Larrick-age A-born Ohio
Mary M. Larrick-age 3-born Ohio
Martha E. Larrick-age 1-born Ohio
S LARRICK
D.Dalton-December 1981
transcribed from files
Warren County Historical
Society Museum-1981
Hiram Larrick married Louisa Stetson, August 26, 1838-Vol. II, Page
Groom's Index Warren County Marriage Record (183^-1853).
Hiram Larrick, born May 11, 1809, Rockingham County, Virginia, was the
son of Calib (Caleb) Larrick and Elizabeth Turley. He married Louisa Stetson
August 26, 1838. He died December 30, 1886 and was buried on Ds Section D
Lot # 38 in Miami Cemetery. The Larricks were married in Warren County
and he is listed as having died in Wayne Township.
Louisa Stetson was born March 2, I8I9 in Connecticuttf and died of "consumption"
on July 18, 1879 and is listed as having died in Wayne Township. She was
buried July 20, I879 in Dection D. lot #38 Miami Cemetery. She was the
daughter of Stephan Stetson III and Susan Batterson who were both Connecticul^
natives.
Susan E. Larrick, born April 25 1851# daughter of Hiram and Louisa Larrick,
died November 7, 1885 and was buried on Dection D. Lot # 38 Miami Cemetery.
John H. Larrick born June 4, 1853, son of Hiram and Louisa Stetson Larrick,
died April 3, 1873 aged 19 years years and 10 months, buried Section D. #38
Miami Cemetery.
Lucy J., daughter of Hiram and Louisa Larrick, was born in 1846 and died
October 2, 1854 and was buried on Section D # Lot # 38 with her parents and
brother. The Larrick monument at Miami Cemetery has Lucy spelled Xia "Loucy".
NOTE* Hiram Caleb Larrick, Louisa Stetson Larrick, Jo^ H., Susan and Lucy
are the only Larrick family members buried on the larrick Lot #38.
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re. C. Jhilt, "Memoria! of I'rancis Lvnde Sletsnn".
J lie /Isso. of the Bar of the Ct/y of N. Y y.^ir Book
^ <>ifrin. "Francis f.ynde Slctson," in Ohir'
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-7",'" I030-JI : Who\K Whoin N Y igr8-
i/'/io,r w J'inance (1911); Outlook. Dec 1?'
1920 ; AT. Clearwater^ in Prac. .V. Y. Stale Bar As.so.',
''i-n; Allan Nevin.s, Grovcr Clevelaiul (igii)- N Y
Junes. Dec. 6. igjo.J |,.\1 Sn;
STETSON. JOHN BATTERSON (May 5,
18. n;o6), hat niamifardireir, philan-
lliropist, vva.s horn af Orantrc. N. j.. om- of ilic
Ivvdvc; chiMrcii of Stephen and Susan (liallcr-
-son) Stet.son, who were I)oth of New ICnglaiid
descent. His father and several of his brothers
wore Itatters, Iiaving acquired the trade in Con
necticut, llieir native state. After the family's
removal to New Jersey shortly before John's
birth, the Stetsons helped build up a new ccnlcr
of the hat industry and the boy's school days
were cut short that he might serve an early ap
prenticeship to the trade. John proved an apt
worker, but after reaching his majority his busi-
iiess prospects as a junior partner in the family
(irm did not seem alluring and he decided to
silike out for himself. Ill health, however, com
pelled him to ([uit work for a time and in an ef
fort to recuperate he went to lllinoi.s, Mi.s.souri,
and later, during the gold-seeking period of the
sixties, to Colorado. Outdoor life on the plains
and in the foothills restored his health, and he
returned to the East robust andenergetic.
In 1865 he opened a one-man hat factory in
Philadelphia. The hats, made by hand, he ped
dled among the local retailers. During the first
six months henever sold as many as a dozen hats
in a single order. Concluding that hi.s product
lacked di.stinclion of style, he proceeded to make
his own models instead of slavi.shly following the
prescrilied fa.shions of the period. Continuing
as salesman-producer, he took and filled orders
for larger and larger quantities nnfil his fame
as a hatter began tospread beyond the city. Be
sides renewing his health and strength. Stet
son's journey to the Rocky Mountains bad ex
tended his knowledge of Americans and their
ways. Having noted with interest thehead gear
then in vogue intheWest, hewas able tosupply ,
a type of hat that quickly became popular there.
'To build up his business he relied not on advcr- j
tising; but wholly on the quality of his goods, j
The hats, he felt, must advertise tlieinselves; in
looks and wear they must appeal tohiiycrs. With 1
llie increase In .sales, Slrlson never defiarlecl \
fromthe fixed-priee policy witli whichhe .started.
As the deiiiantj for his priHliict grew his inanii- j-
^f'lelnring facilities kept pace; niacliinery was in- ^
liodiTcecl, and gradually a great industrial plant I:
Stetson
I' was organized on the outskirts of Piiiladelphia.
later to be surrounded by the growing city. Pv
. igob (he .Stetson works, equipped for evci vproc-
V CSS involved in the making of higii-grade fnr-
; felt lials, employed 3500 hands and turned out
, 2,000,000 hats a year, which were distributed
throughout the civilized world. An apprentice
system with bonus was early established, to be
> followed in hater years l.iy annual gift distribu
tions at C.linstma.s, Iionus awards for continuous
scrvicc.s, .slock nlloliiiciit.s to cmployce.s, a home-
btnlding association, savings and benefit funds,
and otiier welfare features. An auditorium was
liuilt primarily for Sundriy-school purposes. A
- hospital with acapacity of 20,000 patients a year,
served by a large permanent staff, was erected!
The company was opposed to organized labor,
and these paternalistic activities broiiglit against
it the charge of "benevolent feudalism" and the
destruction of "the spirit of independence and
liberty' (Atncnran Fedcrationist, May 1916
pp. 383-55).
In 1888 Stetson, who had long been a gener-
OU.S giver to Baptist churclics andbenevolences,
became interc.sted in an academy at Dcl-and,
Fla., where for many years he pa.s.se(l his win
ters. Thename of the in.stitution was changed to
John B. Stet.son University and Stetson gave
liberally to it in money and buildings. He died
ofapoplexy at his DeLand home, leaving his ep-
tire estate, of approximately $5,000,000 to his
family. He was twice married; by his first wife
he had a daughter, andbyIiis second, SarahEliz
abeth Shindler, two sons.
[Henry Whttlemore, The Founders and Builders of
(1^96); Hat Review, Mar. 1906; Elbert
Hubiiard. A Little Journey to the Home of John li
Stetson ; E. p. Oberhollzer, Phil., a Hist, of the
Ctty and Its People (n.<l.), vol, IV; Moody's Mag., Feb.
1914: A. T, Ii"rccinan, in Annals Am. Acad. Pol. and
00c. Set., Nov. 1903: Profit-sharing by Am. Emplov-
ers (1916). pill). ])y Welfare Dcp( Nat. Civic Fcikva-
^ ritncrica. 1906-07; Pub. J..cdgcr
(Phila.), I'eb. 19, 1906,J W. B. S
STETSON, WILLIAM WALLACE (June
17, 1849-JuIy I, 1910), educator, was born in
Gieene, Mc., the son of Reuben and Christiana
(Thompson) Stetson, and a descendant of Rob
ert Stetson who settled in Scituate, Mass., in
1634. The boy's early years were spent on his
father's farm. He attended the local school and
academy, and at the age of fifteen was appoint
ed teacher in a district school. For some years
he taught wiiiter.s and worked for his father
when not so eiigageii.
Deciding to use his savings in .search of np-
porlunitles in tlie .WesI, lie left home in jHbH,
and in 1870 lonk a [insitioii as iderk in a coiu-
hination drug and book stoic in Pcoria, 111, At
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