Exerpt from "Portrait & Biographical Album of Fulton County 1890"; pages 355-357 About Spencer Cone
"When members of the Cone family emigrated from England, Haddam, Conn., was chosen as their home, and continued to be the center of the family influence several hundred years.
Joseph Cone, the father of our subject, was born there and reared amid all the influences which pertain to an old New England settlement. He became a blacksmith, farmer and merchant, gaining considerable wealth in pursuit of the latter calling and was led to invest in Western lands, visiting Illinois in 1832 for the purpose of viewing property for which he had traded. He made a second visit prior to 1834, at which time he removed with his family to what was then known as Marchants' Settlement, in this county. After having reached Cleveland, Ohio, passing through the Empire State, on the Erie Canal, the family journeyed to Portsmouth on the Ohio Canal, completing their travels by means of the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, and reaching their destination on the 1st of June, having been one month on the way.
In Connecticut Mr. Cone was rated as a very wealthy man, and became the owner of large landed estates. The year of his arrival in Fulton County, he, in connection with Hiram Palmer and Squire George W. Little, laid out the village of Farmington. Sharp and shrewd in business, he was yet most generous and public-spirited, and liberally gave for the good of the city which owes to him much of the honor of being the third in Fulton County. Great credit is due him also for the high standard of morality here, as he not only contributed very liberally to the building and support of the churches and all elevating enterprises, but he would never sell lots to persons of questionable of bad character. To such a stand on the part of its founders is due the fact that Farmington to-day has the finest class of citizens to be found anywhere in the State. Mr. Cone was an ardent advocate of temperance and of the abolition of slavery. A desire that Mr. Cone had much at heart was to see trains running into Farmington, and to that end he gave liberal donations and exerted all his personal influence. Like Moses of old, who was denied admission to the Promised Land, whose glory he could only see form afar off, after having done all that he could to aid in the building of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, on which he was promised a life pass, he died ere the road was completed. Two of the personal characteristics of Mr. Cone were the pride which he took in driving fast horses and in wearing fancy velvet vests.
He was related to Gen. Cone of Revolutionary fame, an intimate personal friend of Gen. Washington. The wife of Joseph Cone was Elizabeth Candee, whose parental family was a leading one in Connecticut. Mrs. Cone was one in a family of twelve children whose average age was eighty-one years. She lived to the age of sixty-five years only, while Mr. Cone was eighty-two when called hence. They had six sons who grew to maturity, and who are named respectively Henry, Joseph, Spencer, David C., George W., and Charles."
"When members of the Cone family emigrated from England, Haddam, Conn., was chosen as their home, and continued to be the center of the family influence several hundred years.
Joseph Cone, the father of our subject, was born there and reared amid all the influences which pertain to an old New England settlement. He became a blacksmith, farmer and merchant, gaining considerable wealth in pursuit of the latter calling and was led to invest in Western lands, visiting Illinois in 1832 for the purpose of viewing property for which he had traded. He made a second visit prior to 1834, at which time he removed with his family to what was then known as Marchants' Settlement, in this county. After having reached Cleveland, Ohio, passing through the Empire State, on the Erie Canal, the family journeyed to Portsmouth on the Ohio Canal, completing their travels by means of the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, and reaching their destination on the 1st of June, having been one month on the way.
In Connecticut Mr. Cone was rated as a very wealthy man, and became the owner of large landed estates. The year of his arrival in Fulton County, he, in connection with Hiram Palmer and Squire George W. Little, laid out the village of Farmington. Sharp and shrewd in business, he was yet most generous and public-spirited, and liberally gave for the good of the city which owes to him much of the honor of being the third in Fulton County. Great credit is due him also for the high standard of morality here, as he not only contributed very liberally to the building and support of the churches and all elevating enterprises, but he would never sell lots to persons of questionable of bad character. To such a stand on the part of its founders is due the fact that Farmington to-day has the finest class of citizens to be found anywhere in the State. Mr. Cone was an ardent advocate of temperance and of the abolition of slavery. A desire that Mr. Cone had much at heart was to see trains running into Farmington, and to that end he gave liberal donations and exerted all his personal influence. Like Moses of old, who was denied admission to the Promised Land, whose glory he could only see form afar off, after having done all that he could to aid in the building of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, on which he was promised a life pass, he died ere the road was completed. Two of the personal characteristics of Mr. Cone were the pride which he took in driving fast horses and in wearing fancy velvet vests.
He was related to Gen. Cone of Revolutionary fame, an intimate personal friend of Gen. Washington. The wife of Joseph Cone was Elizabeth Candee, whose parental family was a leading one in Connecticut. Mrs. Cone was one in a family of twelve children whose average age was eighty-one years. She lived to the age of sixty-five years only, while Mr. Cone was eighty-two when called hence. They had six sons who grew to maturity, and who are named respectively Henry, Joseph, Spencer, David C., George W., and Charles."
Exerpt from "Portrait & Biographical Album of Fulton County 1890"; pages 355-357 About Spencer Cone
"When members of the Cone family emigrated from England, Haddam, Conn., was chosen as their home, and continued to be the center of the family influence several hundred years.
Joseph Cone, the father of our subject, was born there and reared amid all the influences which pertain to an old New England settlement. He became a blacksmith, farmer and merchant, gaining considerable wealth in pursuit of the latter calling and was led to invest in Western lands, visiting Illinois in 1832 for the purpose of viewing property for which he had traded. He made a second visit prior to 1834, at which time he removed with his family to what was then known as Marchants' Settlement, in this county. After having reached Cleveland, Ohio, passing through the Empire State, on the Erie Canal, the family journeyed to Portsmouth on the Ohio Canal, completing their travels by means of the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, and reaching their destination on the 1st of June, having been one month on the way.
In Connecticut Mr. Cone was rated as a very wealthy man, and became the owner of large landed estates. The year of his arrival in Fulton County, he, in connection with Hiram Palmer and Squire George W. Little, laid out the village of Farmington. Sharp and shrewd in business, he was yet most generous and public-spirited, and liberally gave for the good of the city which owes to him much of the honor of being the third in Fulton County. Great credit is due him also for the high standard of morality here, as he not only contributed very liberally to the building and support of the churches and all elevating enterprises, but he would never sell lots to persons of questionable of bad character. To such a stand on the part of its founders is due the fact that Farmington to-day has the finest class of citizens to be found anywhere in the State. Mr. Cone was an ardent advocate of temperance and of the abolition of slavery. A desire that Mr. Cone had much at heart was to see trains running into Farmington, and to that end he gave liberal donations and exerted all his personal influence. Like Moses of old, who was denied admission to the Promised Land, whose glory he could only see form afar off, after having done all that he could to aid in the building of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, on which he was promised a life pass, he died ere the road was completed. Two of the personal characteristics of Mr. Cone were the pride which he took in driving fast horses and in wearing fancy velvet vests.
He was related to Gen. Cone of Revolutionary fame, an intimate personal friend of Gen. Washington. The wife of Joseph Cone was Elizabeth Candee, whose parental family was a leading one in Connecticut. Mrs. Cone was one in a family of twelve children whose average age was eighty-one years. She lived to the age of sixty-five years only, while Mr. Cone was eighty-two when called hence. They had six sons who grew to maturity, and who are named respectively Henry, Joseph, Spencer, David C., George W., and Charles."
"When members of the Cone family emigrated from England, Haddam, Conn., was chosen as their home, and continued to be the center of the family influence several hundred years.
Joseph Cone, the father of our subject, was born there and reared amid all the influences which pertain to an old New England settlement. He became a blacksmith, farmer and merchant, gaining considerable wealth in pursuit of the latter calling and was led to invest in Western lands, visiting Illinois in 1832 for the purpose of viewing property for which he had traded. He made a second visit prior to 1834, at which time he removed with his family to what was then known as Marchants' Settlement, in this county. After having reached Cleveland, Ohio, passing through the Empire State, on the Erie Canal, the family journeyed to Portsmouth on the Ohio Canal, completing their travels by means of the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, and reaching their destination on the 1st of June, having been one month on the way.
In Connecticut Mr. Cone was rated as a very wealthy man, and became the owner of large landed estates. The year of his arrival in Fulton County, he, in connection with Hiram Palmer and Squire George W. Little, laid out the village of Farmington. Sharp and shrewd in business, he was yet most generous and public-spirited, and liberally gave for the good of the city which owes to him much of the honor of being the third in Fulton County. Great credit is due him also for the high standard of morality here, as he not only contributed very liberally to the building and support of the churches and all elevating enterprises, but he would never sell lots to persons of questionable of bad character. To such a stand on the part of its founders is due the fact that Farmington to-day has the finest class of citizens to be found anywhere in the State. Mr. Cone was an ardent advocate of temperance and of the abolition of slavery. A desire that Mr. Cone had much at heart was to see trains running into Farmington, and to that end he gave liberal donations and exerted all his personal influence. Like Moses of old, who was denied admission to the Promised Land, whose glory he could only see form afar off, after having done all that he could to aid in the building of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, on which he was promised a life pass, he died ere the road was completed. Two of the personal characteristics of Mr. Cone were the pride which he took in driving fast horses and in wearing fancy velvet vests.
He was related to Gen. Cone of Revolutionary fame, an intimate personal friend of Gen. Washington. The wife of Joseph Cone was Elizabeth Candee, whose parental family was a leading one in Connecticut. Mrs. Cone was one in a family of twelve children whose average age was eighty-one years. She lived to the age of sixty-five years only, while Mr. Cone was eighty-two when called hence. They had six sons who grew to maturity, and who are named respectively Henry, Joseph, Spencer, David C., George W., and Charles."
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