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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the
Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding
of a Nation. Volume III

Lake

Thomas Lake, immigrant ancestor, was born in or near Portsmouth,
England, in 1734. When he was fourteen years old he came to Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, in 1748, removing afterward to Rye, New Hampshire. In
1785 he settled with his family in Chichester, New Hampshire, on the
farm afterward owned and occupied by his greatgrandson, Joseph T. Lake,
situated on the road leading from Pine Ground in Chichester to Pittsfield
Village. He married Eunice (Seavey) Davis, widow of Samuel Davis,
by whom she had two sons, Samuel Davis, of Epsom, and David Davis,
of Cornish, New Hampshire. She died July 16, 1804, and Thomas Lake died
March 6, 1815. Children: 1. James, born August 13, 1765. married Mehitable
Berry. 2. Thomas, June 10, 1767, married Rebecca C. Blake. 3. John, March
21, 1769, a sea captain of Portsmouth. 4. Anna, May 26, 1771; married
(first) Captain Morris; (second) Richard Rand. 5. Martha, March 21,
1773, married Jeremiah Sanborn. 6. Robert, May 8, 1775, married (first)
Hannah Blake; (second) Hannah Noyes. 7. Rebecca, December 23, 1776,
married Jonathan Leavitt. 8.  William, February 20, 1779, mentioned below.

(II) William, son of Thomas Lake, was born February 20, 1779. He
married (first) Hannah True, of Chichester, who died February 3, 1836,
and he married (second) Sally (Leavitt) Knox, widow of James Knox,
of Chichester.  Children, born at Chichester, by first wife: 1. True,
born January 27, 1802, married (first) Rhoda Hilyard, and (second) Abigail
Miller. 2. William, October 31, 1803, married Betsey Green. 3. Nancy, July
19, 1806, married Aaron Batchelder, of Chichester, and lived at Concord,
New Hampshire. 4.  Eunice, June 10, 1808, died unmarried. 5. Hannah,
April 26, 1810, married Daniel Warner. 6. John, August 11, 1812,
died young. 7. John, mentioned below. 8. Reuben, May 24, 1817, married
(first), August 15, 1838, Lois P.  Wallace, (second) November 25, 1868,
Marion Douglass, and lived at Concord, New Hampshire. 9. Sally T.,
February 15, 1820, married David Howe. 10. Mary Longfellow, August 4,
1822, married (first), June 17, 1841, Timothy Dunton Robinson, and
(second) John Morrill Prescott.

(III) John, son of William Lake, was born in Chichester, New Hampshire,
February 5, 1815. He settled at Woodstock, Connecticut, as early
as 1848.  He married (first) Mary Ann Batchelder; (second) Sarah Ann
Warner. Child of first wife: True, born 1842. Children of second wife,
born at Woodstock: 1. Thomas Alexander, mentioned below. 2. John, born
August 20, 1856. 3.  Sarah Jessie, March 25, 1859. 4. Charles, October
24, 1861.

(IV) Thomas Alexander, son of John Lake, was born in Woodstock,
Connecticut, June 3, 1848. He attended the public schools of his native
town. At the age of fourteen he ran away from home to join the Eighteenth
Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, and served as a waiter for the
company officers of Company G. He remained with the regiment through its
trying experiences to the time of the battle of Winchester, in June, 1863,
when he was captured with others, by the Confederate forces, June 15,
but during the excitement of surrender, he made his escape into the swamp
just beyond the lines, and, after six days of wearisome and hazardous
tramping, reached Pennsylvania. He received from Major Matthewson a
certificate to the effect that he was not an enlisted man, and commenced
his return journey without means, and, for want of fare, was put off
the trains at nearly every station between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and
Putnam, Connecticut. After his regiment was exchanged in the following
autumn, he returned to the front and enlisted, serving to the end of
the war. Soon afterward he engaged in business with varying fortunes
at Putnam and Woodstock, Connecticut, and Woonsocket, Rhode Island,
Worcester, Massachusetts, and Stromsburg, Nebraska. 1503 He removed to
Rockville, Connecticut, in 1887, and was for a time a lumber merchant,
with lumber yards in Rockville and Hartford, Connecticut.  In politics
he was a Republican, and for many years he was active in public life. He
represented his native town in the general assembly in 1885; in 1897 was
state senator and proved himself an able, conscientious and efficient
legislator; was also a member of the Republican State Central Committee;
was for a time collector of internal revenue in the Connecticut-Rhode
Island district. He was state auditor, member of the state board of
agriculture and secretary of the Tolland County Agricultural Society. He
was earnest, energetic and progressive, successful in business, and an
extremely useful and public-spirited citizen. He married, in Woodstock,
Martha A. Cocking. Children: Sarah Melissa, Everett John, mentioned below;
Margaret Bell.

(V) Everett John, son of Thomas Alexander Lake, was born in Woodstock,
Windham county, Connecticut, February 8, 1871. He received his early
education in the district school of his native town. In 1885 the family
removed to Stromsburg, Nebraska, and he graduated from the high school
of that town in 1887, at the age of sixteen. He entered the Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and was graduated in the class of 1890 with the
degree of Bachelor of Science. He took a postgraduate course at Harvard
University and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the class
of 1892. He then spent a year of study in the Harvard Law School. At
Harvard he devoted some attention to football and became a prominent
figure on the varsity eleven as player during his years at college,
and assisted in coaching for several years after his graduation.

Everett J. Lake became associated with his father in the Hartford Lumber
Company, and since 1896 has been treasurer of the company, and since
1901 president and treasurer. From 1903 to 1908 he was president and
treasurer of the Tunnel Coal Company. In 1900 he was elected a member of
the board of school visitors of Hartford; in 1902 he was elected a member
of the house of representatives of Connecticut from Hartford, serving
as chairman of the committee on appropriations; in 1904 he was elected
senator from the first senatorial district, serving as chairman of the
committee on incorporations; in 1906 he was elected lieutenant-governor of
the state of Connecticut. Mr.  Lake married, at Rockville, Connecticut,
September 5, 1895, Eva Louise, daughter of George Sykes, of Rockville,
Connecticut. Children: Harold Sykes, born September 4, 1896; Marjorie
Sykes, March 1, 1900.