David Dudley Field I (May 20, 1781 – April 15, 1867) was an American Congregational clergyman and historical writer. He was born in East Guilford, now Madison, Connecticut on May 20, 1781, the son of Timothy Field, an officer during the American Revolution. He graduated from Yale in 1802, and received Doctorate in Divinity degree from Williams College. He held pastorates at Haddam, Connecticut, and

Stockbridge, Massachusetts Stockbridge is a town in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,018 at the 2020 census. A year-round resort area, Stockbridge is h ...

. He wrote ''A History of the Town of Pittsfield, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts'' (1814), ''A Statistical Account of the County of Middlesex in Connecticut'' (1819), ''The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family, in the United States, with Numerous Sketches of Individuals'' (1857), ''Centennial Address with Historical Sketches of Cromwell, Portland, Chatham, Middle-Haddam, Middletown and its Parishes'' (1853), among other works. He married Submit Dickinson (1782-1861) in 1803, daughter of Noah Dickinson, who was a veteran of the French and Indian War and served in the

Continental Army The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies (the Thirteen Colonies) in the Revolutionary-era United States. It was formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, and was establis ...

. They both raised nine children, four of whom achieved national prominence. He is buried at the Stockbridge Cemetery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress''
/ref> Their children were: * David Dudley Field, Jr. (1805–1894) was a US Congressman and law reformer. * Emilia Ann Field Brewer (1807–1861), who married missionary Rev. Josiah Brewer * Timothy Beals Field (1809–1836) * Mathew Dickinson Field (1811–1870) * Jonathan Edwards Field (1813–1868) * Stephen Johnson Field (1816–1899) was an associate justice of the US Supreme Court. *

Cyrus West Field Cyrus West Field (November 30, 1819July 12, 1892) was an American businessman and financier who, along with other entrepreneurs, created the Atlantic Telegraph Company and laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1858. Early ...

(1819–1892) was a business man and industrialist who led the effort to lay the first Atlantic telegraph cable. * Henry Martyn Field (1822–1907) carried on in the family tradition becoming a clergyman and author. * Mary Elizabeth Field (1823–1856)

References

* Hyamson, Albert Montefiore. ''A Dictionary of Universal Biography for All Ages and All People''. p. 210

External links

''Yale Obituary Record''
* 1781 births 1867 deaths Williams College alumni People from Madison, Connecticut American Congregationalist ministers 19th-century Congregationalist ministers Yale University alumni People from Stockbridge, Massachusetts Field family Historians from Massachusetts Historians from Connecticut {{US-historian-stub