Joseph A Doane

Other Events:

• Education: common-school education
• Education: Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut; Plainfield Academy
• Political Party: Republican
• Occupation: Preston City, New London County, Connecticut; Postmaster of Preston City
• Occupation: Connecticut; State legislature
• Religion: Member of Baptist Church
• Occupation: Abt 1836, Connecticut; Clerk in father's store
• Military: Abt 1863; Sixteenth Connecticut Regiment
• Prisoner of War: 20 Apr 1863, Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina
• Resided: 1898, Preston City, New London County, Connecticut

Notes:

Education:
with the additional advantage of six months' study at the Plainfield Academy.

Occupation:
served several terms in legislature

Occupation:
Entering his father's store at the age of sixteen, for many years he led an active mercantile life.

Military:
When the war broke out, he went to the front as sutler in the Sixteenth Connecticut
Regiment.

Prisoner of War:
He was captured by the Confederates at Plymouth, N.C., April 20, 1863. The garrison was marched to Tarboro, N.C., and thence went by rail to Atlanta Prison. From that place he was taken to Savannah, and then to Charleston, and from that city to the race course and the stockade. He was held a prisoner five months.

Resided:
He now lives retired on the farm which his father settled in 1825. It was
here that the Rev. Samuel Treat, his ancestor, was ordained in 1698.

Joseph married L.L. Chase [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Clerk
• Occupation: Merchant and manufacturer
• Resided: 1825, Preston City, New London County, Connecticut

Notes:

Joseph H. Doane, the second son, started
in life as a clerk in the store of James Treat, and became a prominent
merchant and manufacturer, the firm name of Treat & Doane, afterward
Doane & Treat, being long well known in this section. He married Frances
Treat, born in Preston City, January 13, 1799, daughter of James and Polly
(Stanton) Treat. She was descended from Richard Treat, born, it is said,
in Pitminster, Somerset County, England, in 1584, who died soon after his
arrival in Wethersfield, Conn., October n, 1669. He left three sons: Richard,
Jr.; Robert Treat, who became the Governor of Connecticut; and James Treat,
whose son, the Rev. Salmon, was the father of the Rev. Samuel Treat, the
grandfather of Mrs. Doane. The eight children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H.
Doane were: Joseph, James, John, Emily, William, Eunice, Henry, Juliet.
The only members of the family now living are: William, who resides in
Cincinnati; Juliet, who is in Cincinnati with her brother; Henry, who resides
in Brooklyn, and is in business in New York City; and Joseph A., the subject
of this sketch. The father died October 22, 1854; and the mother died April
15, 1881, in the eighty-third year of her age.

Occupation:
started in life as a clerk in the store of James Treat

Occupation:
became a prominent merchant and manufacturer, the firm name of Treat & Doane, afterward Doane & Treat, being long well known in this section.

Resided:
on the farm settled in 1825. It was here that the Rev. Samuel Treat, his ancestor, was ordained in 1698.

Joseph married Frances Treat. Frances (daughter of J. Treat and P. Stanton) was born on 13 Jan 1799 in Preston City, New London County, Connecticut; died on 15 Apr 1881. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
83rd year of her age

Notes:

Captain Doane was a seafaring man, and sailed to foreign ports. His ship was sunk off Charleston by the British. He was at one time a man of wealth, and built the first steamboat of Norwich; but he met with heavy reverses, and left only a moderate fortune at his decease.

John married Eunice Howes in 1805. Eunice was born about 1776 in Chatham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; died on 09 Aug 1855 in Massachusetts; was buried in Old Norwich Town Cemetery, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
died at 79

J. married P. Stanton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]