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Early in life Mr. Hart was interested in the instruction of children and youth, and taught school while fitting himself for college. When he graduated he had in view the gospel ministry, but Providence seemed to direct him to become an educator. After some years of hard and successful labor in the public academy of Farmington, having many applications from abroad to take pupils, he gave up his public school, and enlarged his operations by establishing a private boarding school for boys, and associating himself with his nephew and former pupil, Mr. Edward Lucas Hart, in the enterprise. This boarding school soon became popular and successful. Mr. Hart became a member of the Congregational Church at Farmington in 1825, his first wife in 1818, and his second wife in 1841. He was chosen deacon there in 1827, was a representative of Farmington to the General Assembly several times, was a magistrate, and a superintendent of the Sunday School, and thus made himself actively useful in every good work. He was town clerk after the decease of Horace Cowles, Esq. He originated the savings bank of the town, and was its first secretary. He originated this Memorial, and diligently labored on it to the end of his life, which occurred April 30th, 1853, aged 57 years. HIS CHILDREN BY HIS FIRST WIFE, BEING THE EIGHTH GENERATION.
1297. Adaline Fanny, born September 29th, 1825; married, September, 1853, Rufus C. Crampton. HIS CHILDREN BY HIS SECOND WIFE.
1298. Mary Elizabeth, born October 30th, 1840. She excels as a school teacher. DUTTON.
POLLY HART, Burlington, Conn., third daughter of Simeon Hart, of the same town, and his first wife, Mary (Warner), born April 18th, 1798, at Burlington; married November 17th, 1818, Joseph, son of Joseph Dutton, of Farmington. He is a farmer, and lives at Scot’s Swamp, a locality of that old town. They had four sons—one of whom was a soldier, and died in that infamous pen at Andersonville, Ga.— and two daughters.
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