Deacon Elisha Case (1755-1839) built the house at 45 Lawton Road in Canton in 1805-1806. Elisha Case is one of the founding fathers of the town of Canton because he signed the petition to make Canton a separate town from Simsbury in 1806. His house was later owned by George Mills, Newell Minor (c. 1855) and by 1869 by Wells Lawton (1830-1898), who married Eliza Higley. It was then the home of Wells’ son, Fred Lawton, who was born c. 1870. Lawton’s widow, Helen Gilbert Lawton, lived in the house for many years after his death. In 1919, Fred Lawton urged his friend, James Lowell, Sr., to purchase the Higley farm. Lowell would build the Canton Public Golf Course there in 1931.
Elisha Case House (1806)