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FATHER
George Hine |
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MOTHER
Eliza J. Flinn |
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BIRTH: Jan 1865, Naugatuck, New Haven Co., CT
BAPTISM:
IMMIGRATION:
DEATH: Feb 1937, Naugatuck, New Haven, CT
BURIAL:
SPOUSE: John J. Lutze
MARRIAGE: 18 Jan 1888, St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Denver,
Arapahoe Co., CO
SPOUSE: Captain Edwards
MARRIAGE:
HINE DESCENDANT CHART
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Children
Jay Hine Lutze
James M. Lutze |
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SOURCES
Census
1900, Eliza Lutz, Naugatuck, New Haven Co., CT, ED335 [living with mother
Eliza J. Hine]
1910, Eliza J. Lutze, Naugatuck, New Haven, CT, ED365
Naugatuck Directory
1902, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1913
Teachers, Millville District: Eliza Lutz / Eliza H. Lutz
Autobiography of Gertrude Lutze, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study, Harvard University
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BIOGRAPHY
Eliza Jane Hine was born in January 1865, Naugatuck, Ct. At about age
23 or 24, Eliza left Connecticut, and headed west where she married Dr.
John
J. Lutze in Denver, Colorado, in 1888. They had five children, but
only Jay and James survived infancy. Her husband was 26 years her
senior, and after he died of tuberculosis, probably in 1899, Eliza returned
to Naugatuck, CT with her two young sons, where she stayed with her mother
Eliza Hine for a period of time before moving to a place of her own.
At the age of nineteen, Eliza's son Jay Lutze
was working as a draftsman in the Rubber Factory in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
Her young son James was still in school, but sold newspapers on the street.
Eliza was currently unemployed and the two boys helped bring in enough to
keep the family together.
The following is Courtesy of Gertrude Lutze, daughter of Jay and Margaret
Lutze
Eliza Jane Hine Lutze Edwards was the only grandparent who lived within the
memory of my lifetime that I can write about with first hand knowledge.
She was born in 1865 in Naugatuck, Conn. Her father, John Hine [George
Hine], was a well-to-do lawyer, and a one time President of the Seamless
Rubber Company in New Haven. Her mother, a second wife, was a Crawford
[or Flinn] from Ireland. The ancestry of the Hine family is written in
detail in a genealogy book given to my sister Anna. Briefly, Thomas
Hine, an Englishman, came to this country on the ship HECTOR which sailed
from Ireland and arrived in Boston on June 26, 1637. Within a year or
so, Thomas Hine settled permanently in Milford, Conn. Grandma's father
was one of his direct descendants.
The family home was on Church Street in Naugatuck, at the location of the
present St. Francis Church. The Whittemore's, who later became the
only millionaires in town, were their neighbors. |
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1877, Church Street, Naugatuck, Connecticut |
Grandma was educated at the
Cheshire Academy [Cheshire, CT], a finishing school in her day; her
earlier education is unknown to me.
Dr. Lutze wooed Grandma when he was a guest of her father's. She
married him, and they moved to Colorado. Grandma's countenance
came alive when she related to me her life in the West for fifteen
years. She traveled about the country side with Dr. Lutze in the
buggy. While her husband delivered the babies she played whist
with their husbands in the next room. Grandma loved the West, she
was there in the very early days of the State of Colorado. The sun
sets awed her. I regret I have no other memories of the stories
she told me of that era. She returned to Naugatuck at her
husband's death. |
Back in Naugatuck, Grandma earned her living teaching school in a little
red school house off Rubber Avenue on the outskirts of town, and lived
nearby. The boys shared their portion of the burden of housekeeping
but in time married and left home. At some point in her career Grandma
became the first Post-Mistress in town, and held that job for several years.
[Naugatuck Daily News, 1900, July 5 Thursday. Mrs. Eliza Lutz has
resigned her position as clerk at the post office. Miss Edith Trowbridge has
been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Mrs. Lutz’s resignation. Mrs.
Lutz was a most efficient and accommodating clerk and her resignation will
be greatly regretted by her acquaintances, who had occasion to meet her in
her official capacity every day.]
When Daddy [Jay Hine Lutze] died so suddenly, Grandma moved in with our
family to care for us children while Mother worked. After that she
married again, a Captain Edwards, a Sea Captain from Montauk Point, Long
Island. The marriage didn't last, and they legally separated.
Grandma came back to Naugatuck once more. She took a job as Matron of
the Naugatuck Day Nursery, lived on the premises, and remained at the
Nursery until her death in February 1937.
Grandma was tall and very thin. Her hair was yellowish white, worn in
a bun at the back of her head. Large brown eyes pierced through you
above [a] narrow straight nose. A thin firm mouth sometimes relaxed
into a smile and her deeply dimpled chin came as a surprise.
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