D. W. C. SKILTON
HARTFORD: President Phoenix Insurance Company
DeWitt Clinton Skilton was born in that portion of the present town of Thomaston which was then known as Plymouth Hollow, on the 11th of January, 1839. His first American ancestor was Doctor Henry Skilton, who was born in the parish of St. Michael, Coventry, England, November 19, 1718, and sailed for America in a "gun ship," April 1, 1735, in his seventeenth year. He left the ship the same year on its arrival in Boston, boarded ahwile in Roxbury, and is next heard of in Preston, Conn., where he was married in 1741 to the daughter of Joseph Avery of Norwich. He removed to Southington in 1750, ten years later to Woodbury, and finally in his old age to Eatertown, where he died in 1802 at the age of eighty-four. Henry Skilton was the first physician to commence the practice of medicine in Southington. He built a house in Southington which is still standing. Mr. Skilton's ancestors were among the early and most distinguished settlers of Hartford county, including such historical names Hon. John Steel (who came to Hartford with Rev. Thomas Hooker from Massachusetts in June of the year 1636), Hon. John Wadsworth (the half brother of Captain Wadsworth who is said to have remoed and concealed the Connecticut charter in the old charer oak), Sir William Southmayd, Hon. Matthew Allyn (one of the original parties to the royal charter), and Hon. John Allyn (who is called in the "History of Connecticut" "the great secretary"), William Pynchon, Esq., Governor Thomas Welles, Catain William Judd, and Timothy Judd, Esq., the last two the representatives of Waterbury in the colonial government almost continuously for forty years - and many others of equal prominence in colonial and state history.
The subject of this sketch removed from Plymouth Hollow to Hartford in 1855, and began his business career in the dry-goods trade. In October, 1861, he first entered the insurance business as a clerk in the office of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. In 1862 he joined Company B, of the Twenty-second regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and was lected second lieutenant, serving with distinction in the army until he was mustered out, having been promoted in the mean time to first lieutenant. On his return from the army he resumed his old position with the insurance company. In November, 1867, he was elected secretary of the Phoenix Insurance Company, and remained in that capacity until August 1, 1888, when he was elected vice-president and acting president; and February 2, 1891, was elected president of the company. He ranks unquestionably among the expert underwriters of the country, and the Phoenix owes much of its success to his able management.
Mr. Skilton was married, August 8, 1865, to Miss Ann J. Andrews, daughter of Lyman Andrews of Hartford. They have had two children, a son and daughter, neither of whom is now living. In addition to his official connection with the Phoenix Insurance Company, Mr. Skilton is a director in the Hartford National Bank, a corporator and trustee of the State Savings Bank, president of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Hartford Club. He held the office of committeeman of the West Middle school district in Hartford for several years. He is a republican in politics, and his religious connections are with the Asylum Avenue Congregational church, of which he has long been an active member.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
HARTFORD: President Phoenix Insurance Company
DeWitt Clinton Skilton was born in that portion of the present town of Thomaston which was then known as Plymouth Hollow, on the 11th of January, 1839. His first American ancestor was Doctor Henry Skilton, who was born in the parish of St. Michael, Coventry, England, November 19, 1718, and sailed for America in a "gun ship," April 1, 1735, in his seventeenth year. He left the ship the same year on its arrival in Boston, boarded ahwile in Roxbury, and is next heard of in Preston, Conn., where he was married in 1741 to the daughter of Joseph Avery of Norwich. He removed to Southington in 1750, ten years later to Woodbury, and finally in his old age to Eatertown, where he died in 1802 at the age of eighty-four. Henry Skilton was the first physician to commence the practice of medicine in Southington. He built a house in Southington which is still standing. Mr. Skilton's ancestors were among the early and most distinguished settlers of Hartford county, including such historical names Hon. John Steel (who came to Hartford with Rev. Thomas Hooker from Massachusetts in June of the year 1636), Hon. John Wadsworth (the half brother of Captain Wadsworth who is said to have remoed and concealed the Connecticut charter in the old charer oak), Sir William Southmayd, Hon. Matthew Allyn (one of the original parties to the royal charter), and Hon. John Allyn (who is called in the "History of Connecticut" "the great secretary"), William Pynchon, Esq., Governor Thomas Welles, Catain William Judd, and Timothy Judd, Esq., the last two the representatives of Waterbury in the colonial government almost continuously for forty years - and many others of equal prominence in colonial and state history.
The subject of this sketch removed from Plymouth Hollow to Hartford in 1855, and began his business career in the dry-goods trade. In October, 1861, he first entered the insurance business as a clerk in the office of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. In 1862 he joined Company B, of the Twenty-second regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and was lected second lieutenant, serving with distinction in the army until he was mustered out, having been promoted in the mean time to first lieutenant. On his return from the army he resumed his old position with the insurance company. In November, 1867, he was elected secretary of the Phoenix Insurance Company, and remained in that capacity until August 1, 1888, when he was elected vice-president and acting president; and February 2, 1891, was elected president of the company. He ranks unquestionably among the expert underwriters of the country, and the Phoenix owes much of its success to his able management.
Mr. Skilton was married, August 8, 1865, to Miss Ann J. Andrews, daughter of Lyman Andrews of Hartford. They have had two children, a son and daughter, neither of whom is now living. In addition to his official connection with the Phoenix Insurance Company, Mr. Skilton is a director in the Hartford National Bank, a corporator and trustee of the State Savings Bank, president of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Hartford Club. He held the office of committeeman of the West Middle school district in Hartford for several years. He is a republican in politics, and his religious connections are with the Asylum Avenue Congregational church, of which he has long been an active member.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
D. W. C. SKILTON
HARTFORD: President Phoenix Insurance Company
DeWitt Clinton Skilton was born in that portion of the present town of Thomaston which was then known as Plymouth Hollow, on the 11th of January, 1839. His first American ancestor was Doctor Henry Skilton, who was born in the parish of St. Michael, Coventry, England, November 19, 1718, and sailed for America in a "gun ship," April 1, 1735, in his seventeenth year. He left the ship the same year on its arrival in Boston, boarded ahwile in Roxbury, and is next heard of in Preston, Conn., where he was married in 1741 to the daughter of Joseph Avery of Norwich. He removed to Southington in 1750, ten years later to Woodbury, and finally in his old age to Eatertown, where he died in 1802 at the age of eighty-four. Henry Skilton was the first physician to commence the practice of medicine in Southington. He built a house in Southington which is still standing. Mr. Skilton's ancestors were among the early and most distinguished settlers of Hartford county, including such historical names Hon. John Steel (who came to Hartford with Rev. Thomas Hooker from Massachusetts in June of the year 1636), Hon. John Wadsworth (the half brother of Captain Wadsworth who is said to have remoed and concealed the Connecticut charter in the old charer oak), Sir William Southmayd, Hon. Matthew Allyn (one of the original parties to the royal charter), and Hon. John Allyn (who is called in the "History of Connecticut" "the great secretary"), William Pynchon, Esq., Governor Thomas Welles, Catain William Judd, and Timothy Judd, Esq., the last two the representatives of Waterbury in the colonial government almost continuously for forty years - and many others of equal prominence in colonial and state history.
The subject of this sketch removed from Plymouth Hollow to Hartford in 1855, and began his business career in the dry-goods trade. In October, 1861, he first entered the insurance business as a clerk in the office of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. In 1862 he joined Company B, of the Twenty-second regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and was lected second lieutenant, serving with distinction in the army until he was mustered out, having been promoted in the mean time to first lieutenant. On his return from the army he resumed his old position with the insurance company. In November, 1867, he was elected secretary of the Phoenix Insurance Company, and remained in that capacity until August 1, 1888, when he was elected vice-president and acting president; and February 2, 1891, was elected president of the company. He ranks unquestionably among the expert underwriters of the country, and the Phoenix owes much of its success to his able management.
Mr. Skilton was married, August 8, 1865, to Miss Ann J. Andrews, daughter of Lyman Andrews of Hartford. They have had two children, a son and daughter, neither of whom is now living. In addition to his official connection with the Phoenix Insurance Company, Mr. Skilton is a director in the Hartford National Bank, a corporator and trustee of the State Savings Bank, president of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Hartford Club. He held the office of committeeman of the West Middle school district in Hartford for several years. He is a republican in politics, and his religious connections are with the Asylum Avenue Congregational church, of which he has long been an active member.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
HARTFORD: President Phoenix Insurance Company
DeWitt Clinton Skilton was born in that portion of the present town of Thomaston which was then known as Plymouth Hollow, on the 11th of January, 1839. His first American ancestor was Doctor Henry Skilton, who was born in the parish of St. Michael, Coventry, England, November 19, 1718, and sailed for America in a "gun ship," April 1, 1735, in his seventeenth year. He left the ship the same year on its arrival in Boston, boarded ahwile in Roxbury, and is next heard of in Preston, Conn., where he was married in 1741 to the daughter of Joseph Avery of Norwich. He removed to Southington in 1750, ten years later to Woodbury, and finally in his old age to Eatertown, where he died in 1802 at the age of eighty-four. Henry Skilton was the first physician to commence the practice of medicine in Southington. He built a house in Southington which is still standing. Mr. Skilton's ancestors were among the early and most distinguished settlers of Hartford county, including such historical names Hon. John Steel (who came to Hartford with Rev. Thomas Hooker from Massachusetts in June of the year 1636), Hon. John Wadsworth (the half brother of Captain Wadsworth who is said to have remoed and concealed the Connecticut charter in the old charer oak), Sir William Southmayd, Hon. Matthew Allyn (one of the original parties to the royal charter), and Hon. John Allyn (who is called in the "History of Connecticut" "the great secretary"), William Pynchon, Esq., Governor Thomas Welles, Catain William Judd, and Timothy Judd, Esq., the last two the representatives of Waterbury in the colonial government almost continuously for forty years - and many others of equal prominence in colonial and state history.
The subject of this sketch removed from Plymouth Hollow to Hartford in 1855, and began his business career in the dry-goods trade. In October, 1861, he first entered the insurance business as a clerk in the office of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company. In 1862 he joined Company B, of the Twenty-second regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and was lected second lieutenant, serving with distinction in the army until he was mustered out, having been promoted in the mean time to first lieutenant. On his return from the army he resumed his old position with the insurance company. In November, 1867, he was elected secretary of the Phoenix Insurance Company, and remained in that capacity until August 1, 1888, when he was elected vice-president and acting president; and February 2, 1891, was elected president of the company. He ranks unquestionably among the expert underwriters of the country, and the Phoenix owes much of its success to his able management.
Mr. Skilton was married, August 8, 1865, to Miss Ann J. Andrews, daughter of Lyman Andrews of Hartford. They have had two children, a son and daughter, neither of whom is now living. In addition to his official connection with the Phoenix Insurance Company, Mr. Skilton is a director in the Hartford National Bank, a corporator and trustee of the State Savings Bank, president of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Hartford Club. He held the office of committeeman of the West Middle school district in Hartford for several years. He is a republican in politics, and his religious connections are with the Asylum Avenue Congregational church, of which he has long been an active member.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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