1st of 9 children of CHESTER CHATFIELD & CLARISSA BUCKINGHAM
Occupation: Wagon maker, sash and blind manufacturer, mason builder
Married: May 25, 1841, MARY ELIZABETH LINES, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
One child:
1. Sarah Clarissa CHATFIELD
1843 – 1939
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PHILO CHATFIELD was born in Oxford, New Haven County, Conn., September 22, 1816. a son of Chester and Clarissa (Buckingham) Chatfield. His father was a farmer, and he was early taught the value of time in the economy of life. He received his education in the public and private schools of Oxford and New Haven; and in his seventeenth year began the struggle of life as an apprentice to S.P. Perkins, of Woodbridge, to learn the mason's trade. At the age of twenty-one years he may be said to have graduated as an expert in the art of stone and brick construction.
He worked as a journeyman until 1841, when he began business on his own account as a building contractor in New Haven, which held out no false promise as a profitable field for the outlay of his capital and his energies, for, after more than fifty years' successful experience, he ranks as the leading, as well as the oldest, builder in New Haven in active business.
In all parts of the city are monuments to his enterprise and industry, and some of them are of a character well calculated to link his name with the history of the city and county and their leading institutions. During his long career he has been identified not only with the erection of numerous fine business blocks and private residences, but with the construction of the most important public buildings of the city and county.
In 1852, Mr. Chatfield formed a partnership with Mr. S.P. Perkins, and upon the latter's retirement, associated with himself Mr. George M. Grant, since which time the firm has been known as Chatfield & Grant.
It must be apparent that Mr. Chatfield has been in no slight degree identified with the growth and prosperity of the city, as well as with its general improvement and the extension of its visible limits. In no relation has he left a more lasting record perhaps than in his connection with the Board of Public Works, extending through several years, during which he was prominent among those instrumental in laying out and beginning the improvement of East Rock Park. He has also served the city as a member of the Common Council and Board of Aldermen, and as Police Commissioner.
He is a life Director of the Connecticut Slate Hospital, in which he has long taken a generous interest, and a Director in both the Merchants' National and the Connecticut Savings Banks. He is a Republican in politics.
He was married March 25, 1841, to Mary E. Lines, of Woodbridge, and has one daughter, the wife of Enos S. Kimberly, of New Haven.
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Source: History of the City of New Haven, by Edward E. Atwater
Occupation: Wagon maker, sash and blind manufacturer, mason builder
Married: May 25, 1841, MARY ELIZABETH LINES, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
One child:
1. Sarah Clarissa CHATFIELD
1843 – 1939
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PHILO CHATFIELD was born in Oxford, New Haven County, Conn., September 22, 1816. a son of Chester and Clarissa (Buckingham) Chatfield. His father was a farmer, and he was early taught the value of time in the economy of life. He received his education in the public and private schools of Oxford and New Haven; and in his seventeenth year began the struggle of life as an apprentice to S.P. Perkins, of Woodbridge, to learn the mason's trade. At the age of twenty-one years he may be said to have graduated as an expert in the art of stone and brick construction.
He worked as a journeyman until 1841, when he began business on his own account as a building contractor in New Haven, which held out no false promise as a profitable field for the outlay of his capital and his energies, for, after more than fifty years' successful experience, he ranks as the leading, as well as the oldest, builder in New Haven in active business.
In all parts of the city are monuments to his enterprise and industry, and some of them are of a character well calculated to link his name with the history of the city and county and their leading institutions. During his long career he has been identified not only with the erection of numerous fine business blocks and private residences, but with the construction of the most important public buildings of the city and county.
In 1852, Mr. Chatfield formed a partnership with Mr. S.P. Perkins, and upon the latter's retirement, associated with himself Mr. George M. Grant, since which time the firm has been known as Chatfield & Grant.
It must be apparent that Mr. Chatfield has been in no slight degree identified with the growth and prosperity of the city, as well as with its general improvement and the extension of its visible limits. In no relation has he left a more lasting record perhaps than in his connection with the Board of Public Works, extending through several years, during which he was prominent among those instrumental in laying out and beginning the improvement of East Rock Park. He has also served the city as a member of the Common Council and Board of Aldermen, and as Police Commissioner.
He is a life Director of the Connecticut Slate Hospital, in which he has long taken a generous interest, and a Director in both the Merchants' National and the Connecticut Savings Banks. He is a Republican in politics.
He was married March 25, 1841, to Mary E. Lines, of Woodbridge, and has one daughter, the wife of Enos S. Kimberly, of New Haven.
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Source: History of the City of New Haven, by Edward E. Atwater
1st of 9 children of CHESTER CHATFIELD & CLARISSA BUCKINGHAM
Occupation: Wagon maker, sash and blind manufacturer, mason builder
Married: May 25, 1841, MARY ELIZABETH LINES, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
One child:
1. Sarah Clarissa CHATFIELD
1843 – 1939
===========
PHILO CHATFIELD was born in Oxford, New Haven County, Conn., September 22, 1816. a son of Chester and Clarissa (Buckingham) Chatfield. His father was a farmer, and he was early taught the value of time in the economy of life. He received his education in the public and private schools of Oxford and New Haven; and in his seventeenth year began the struggle of life as an apprentice to S.P. Perkins, of Woodbridge, to learn the mason's trade. At the age of twenty-one years he may be said to have graduated as an expert in the art of stone and brick construction.
He worked as a journeyman until 1841, when he began business on his own account as a building contractor in New Haven, which held out no false promise as a profitable field for the outlay of his capital and his energies, for, after more than fifty years' successful experience, he ranks as the leading, as well as the oldest, builder in New Haven in active business.
In all parts of the city are monuments to his enterprise and industry, and some of them are of a character well calculated to link his name with the history of the city and county and their leading institutions. During his long career he has been identified not only with the erection of numerous fine business blocks and private residences, but with the construction of the most important public buildings of the city and county.
In 1852, Mr. Chatfield formed a partnership with Mr. S.P. Perkins, and upon the latter's retirement, associated with himself Mr. George M. Grant, since which time the firm has been known as Chatfield & Grant.
It must be apparent that Mr. Chatfield has been in no slight degree identified with the growth and prosperity of the city, as well as with its general improvement and the extension of its visible limits. In no relation has he left a more lasting record perhaps than in his connection with the Board of Public Works, extending through several years, during which he was prominent among those instrumental in laying out and beginning the improvement of East Rock Park. He has also served the city as a member of the Common Council and Board of Aldermen, and as Police Commissioner.
He is a life Director of the Connecticut Slate Hospital, in which he has long taken a generous interest, and a Director in both the Merchants' National and the Connecticut Savings Banks. He is a Republican in politics.
He was married March 25, 1841, to Mary E. Lines, of Woodbridge, and has one daughter, the wife of Enos S. Kimberly, of New Haven.
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Source: History of the City of New Haven, by Edward E. Atwater
Occupation: Wagon maker, sash and blind manufacturer, mason builder
Married: May 25, 1841, MARY ELIZABETH LINES, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
One child:
1. Sarah Clarissa CHATFIELD
1843 – 1939
===========
PHILO CHATFIELD was born in Oxford, New Haven County, Conn., September 22, 1816. a son of Chester and Clarissa (Buckingham) Chatfield. His father was a farmer, and he was early taught the value of time in the economy of life. He received his education in the public and private schools of Oxford and New Haven; and in his seventeenth year began the struggle of life as an apprentice to S.P. Perkins, of Woodbridge, to learn the mason's trade. At the age of twenty-one years he may be said to have graduated as an expert in the art of stone and brick construction.
He worked as a journeyman until 1841, when he began business on his own account as a building contractor in New Haven, which held out no false promise as a profitable field for the outlay of his capital and his energies, for, after more than fifty years' successful experience, he ranks as the leading, as well as the oldest, builder in New Haven in active business.
In all parts of the city are monuments to his enterprise and industry, and some of them are of a character well calculated to link his name with the history of the city and county and their leading institutions. During his long career he has been identified not only with the erection of numerous fine business blocks and private residences, but with the construction of the most important public buildings of the city and county.
In 1852, Mr. Chatfield formed a partnership with Mr. S.P. Perkins, and upon the latter's retirement, associated with himself Mr. George M. Grant, since which time the firm has been known as Chatfield & Grant.
It must be apparent that Mr. Chatfield has been in no slight degree identified with the growth and prosperity of the city, as well as with its general improvement and the extension of its visible limits. In no relation has he left a more lasting record perhaps than in his connection with the Board of Public Works, extending through several years, during which he was prominent among those instrumental in laying out and beginning the improvement of East Rock Park. He has also served the city as a member of the Common Council and Board of Aldermen, and as Police Commissioner.
He is a life Director of the Connecticut Slate Hospital, in which he has long taken a generous interest, and a Director in both the Merchants' National and the Connecticut Savings Banks. He is a Republican in politics.
He was married March 25, 1841, to Mary E. Lines, of Woodbridge, and has one daughter, the wife of Enos S. Kimberly, of New Haven.
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Source: History of the City of New Haven, by Edward E. Atwater
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