The eldest child of Abner Field, a merchant and banker of Chester and Springfield, Windsor County, Vt. , who married on Feb. 16, 1832, Louisa, daughter of David Griswold, he was born at Springfield, where his youth was spent, his primary education being received in the common schools.
Continuing his studies successively at the Perkinsville Academy, the Springfield Wesleyan Seminary, and Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. , in September 1851 he entered Dartmouth College, where “he held through his whole course the standard of abso-
FIELD, WALBRIDGE ABNER, jurist, was a descendant of John Field, an English astronomer, through his great-grandson Thomas Field of Yorkshire, who, c. 1667, settled in Providence, R. I. Through his grandmother, Elizabeth Williams, wife of Pardon Field of Chester, Vt., Walbridge A. Field was also a lineal descendant of Roger Williams q.v..
