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S AI».^V s g ,^WE■UNIVER5•/A ,vV;lOSANCElfr.^ .^,.01 -:- Qc Men of Progress BiOGRAi'iiicAL Sketches and Portraits OF Leaders in Business and Professional Life IN AM) OF THK tate of QTcittnocticut COMPILED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF RICHARD HERNDON EDITED BY RICHARD BURTON BOSTON NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE 189S CorVRK.HT, 1897 uv RICHARD HERNDON ^ ALFRED MUOQE * SON, PRINTERS, BOSTON. stack Annex '^ac^ MEN OF PROGRESS. ALLEN, Isaac AliMakin, Jr., Architect, Hartford, was born in Enfield street, Enfield, Connecticut, May [22, 1859, son of Isaac Almarin and Harriet Jane (Carrier) Allen. He is an only son; of his four sisters, but one is now living — Elizabeth Ingraham (.^llen) Burns, wife of Louis Burns of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The other three sisters died while young. His father is a well-to-do farmer of Enfield, and his grandfather, Chauncey Allen, was an extensive farmer and dealer in leaf tobacco, who died at the age of eighty-nine, leaving a large property. Isaac Allen, brother of Chaun- cey, moved from Enfield to Clarkson, Monroe county, New York, and became an extensive farmer there. At the age of eighteen he was a Colonel in the War of 1812. The genealogy of the family is traced back many generations in the Allen gene- alogy, which has been published. On his mother's side he is descended from John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Her father was Omri Gates Carrier, son of Omri and Rebekah (Parsons) Carrier. Rebekah Parsons was the daughter of Major Joseph Parsons and Anne (Hancock) I'arsons. Anne Hancock, great-great- grandmother of the subject of this sketch, was a sister of the three brothers Hancocks, who came from England bringing a bushel of siher dollars. With a half bushel of these dollars, one of these brothers bought from the Indians what is now the township of Wethersfield, Connecticut, but owing to some flaw in the title, it was afterwards taken from him by the English. His greatgreat-grand- father. Major Joseph Parsons, was Major of the State Militia and a pensioner from the Rexolution- ary War. His son Luther Parsons was a Lieuten- ant of the War of 181 2, and Captain of the Port of New London. His mother's mother, Harriet A. (Potter) Carrier, wife of Omri Gates Carrier, was a descendant of Captain Ei)hraim Pease, who entertained General Washington at his house in PJnfield. His father's mother Mary (Pease) Allen was also a descendant of Captain F^ohraim Pease. A letter from General Washington referring to the hospitality of Captain Pease, is still preserved by ISAAC A. ALLEN, JR. the family. Captain Ephraim Pease was born Feb- ruary 4, 1720, and died June 29, 1801 ; he was a very wealthy and influential man in Enfield, Connecti- cut, owning most of the property on Enfield street. He was one of a committee of seven to consult with other towns of the colony, and to receive and for- ward money and provisions to those persons in Bos- 2G26ank, and Director (;f the Hartford iioard C. E. BILLINGS. of Trade. He has served for one year as Republi- can Councilman, and four years as Alderman of Hartford, and has been five years a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, nnd is at present President of the Board. He has been a private in the First Regiment of Connecticut National Guards. He is an enthusiastic Mason and has taken all of the thirty-three degrees, is a Past Grand Com- mander Knights Templar of Connecticut, also a member of the Royal Order of Scotland, and a member and past President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a mem- ber of the Hartford C'lub, the Home Market Club of Boston, and the .'\merican Protective Tariff lO MEN OF PROGRESS. League of New York. He has been twice married. His first wife was Frances M. Hey wood, by whom he had two children: Frederic C. and Harry l-:. Killings, both associated with their father in busi- ness. His second wife was Eva C. Holt, by whom he has had two children : Lucius H. and iMary R. Iiillings. BISHOP, Henry Maktin, Druggist, New Haven, was born in Woodbury, Connecticut, May 27, 1836, son of Harley and Mary Ann (Moody) HENRY M. BISHOP. Bishop. His grandparents on the paternal side were Calvin and Rebecca (Stillson) Bishop, and on the maternal side James and Lucy (Tomlinson) Moody. He was educated first at the district schools, then at Fort Edward Institute for one and a half terms, and for one term at the Albany Academy, his family having removed to New York state in 1847. For three years from 1853 he was clerk and salesman in a country store. He returned to Connecticut in 1859 ^'id entered a drug store at Woodbury, where he remained one year. He then moved to New Haven and on August i, i860, started in the drug business for himself, in which business he has continued for thirty-seven years. He has been continuously in the business the longest of any druggist in New Haven. He was appointed to the State Board of Pharmacy June i, 1893, and is now serving his second term of three years. He has been Secretary of the Board since his first appointment. He is a Democrat in poli- tics, belonging to the Gold Wing of the party, and has been an influential factor in city politics, although always declining to be a candidate for office. He is an Odd Fellow and Past Grand of City Lodge. He is a Mason, a Past High Priest of Franklin Chapter No. 2 and representative of the chapter in the building of a new Temple. He is also a member of the Order of United American Mechanics, a member of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and Past Chief of that order. He has been a member of the St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church, New Haven, for thirty-six years, for twenty years a vestryman and for ten years clerk of the parish. He was married May 11, 1864, to Mary Elisabeth Blackman of Woodbury. Their children have been : Mary Harriet, now teacher in the New Y'ork State Normal College, Albany ; George Her- bert, associated with his father in the drug busi- ness ; Edith Elisabeth ; Frederick Henry, who died in childhood ; and Charles Albert Bishop. BISHOP, James, Judge of the City Court, New Haven, was born in Westville, Connecticut, January 5, 1851, son of William and Charlotte (Love) Bishop. He was educated in the public schools and Commercial College of New Haven. After leaving the College he was for six years clerk in the employ of H. N. Whittelsey & Co., wholesale and retail crockery and glass dealers. New Haven. He left their service in September 1872, to enter the Law Department of Yale University, where he was graduated in 1874. He was admitted to the Bar on July I, of the same year, and began the practice of law in New Haven. At the age of twenty-two he was elected member of the Thirteenth Ward Republican Committee of Westville and in 1880 was Chairman of the same. He was Clerk of the Westville School Society from 1875 'o iS&i when he came to New Haven. On coming to New Haven he became actively engaged in political work and in 1887-88 was representative of the Young Men's Republican Club of New Haven in the State League of Republican Clubs. In the presidential election of 1888 he was a member of MEN OF PROGRESS. 1 1 the Republican Stale Central Committee, anil i88g to 189J was Chairman of the New Haven Town Committee. He was clerk of the City Court of New Haven for ten years beginning June 1, 1883, and was a member of the Board of Public Works from I'ebruary i, 1894, to February i, 1897, declining a re-nomination at the election of 1896. He was elected Judge of the City Court of New Haven by the Legislature of 1897. He is a ])romi- nent Odd F"ellow, a member of the (^uinnipiac Lodge No. I, and in 1889 was Crand ]\Laster of the Grand Lodge of Connecticut. He was representa- tive from Connecticut at the Sovereign Grand JAMES BISHOP. Lodge at Topeka, Kansas, in 1S90, and at St. Louis in 1891. He was a member of the Board of Trustees which had charge of the erection of the Odd Fellows Building in New Haven, and he was one of the active promoters of the Odd Fellows Home of Connecticut and from its foundation has been its Secretary. He is also a member of the Olive Branch Lodge of Masons of Westville and of the Israel Putnam Lodge of Ancient Order LInited Workmen. He was married November 20, 1879, to Carrie C. Andrews of Wallingford. They have three daughters : F'annie Charlotte, Cornelia Caro- line and Louise Eldridge Bishop. BISHOP, Nathan Lkk, twenty years Superin- tendent of Public Schools of the Central District, Norwich, was born Marcli 6, 1841, in Lisbon now Sprague, Connecticut, son of Nathan Perkins and Nancy (Lee) Bislio]). On both sides he traces his ancestry back to Revolutionary stock. His grand- liarcnts on the paternal side were Bar/.illai and Lucy Huntington Bishop, and through tliem the line is descended from Joshua Bishop and Wealthy Adams Bishop, his wife. Joshua Bishop was the son of Reuben Bishop who was killed in his early manhood while serving in Canada as an officer in the Frencli and Lidian War. Joshua Bishop at the age of six- teen was drafted for service in the Revolutionary War, but his mother, who was a widow and in need of his assistance, secured a substitute by giving a yoke of o.xen. His mother was the daughter of ^Villiam and Nancy Bingham Lee. William Lee was the son of Rev. Andrew Lee, D. D., and his wife Eunice Hall Lee. Andrew Lee, the son of John Lee, came from Saybrook, Connecticut, to Lisbon, Connecticut. He served as Chaplain during the Revolutionary War and was with the troops that crossed the Dela- ware river the night of the battle of Trenton. The subject of this sketch, Nathan Lee Bishop, received his early education at the district schools. This was supplemented by a year each at the Plainfield Academy, the Connecticut Normal School, New ]?ritain, and Williston Seminary, Northampton, Mas- sachusetts. For a time he worked on the farm with his father, then taught two years in the common schools. In August 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Twenty-first Regiment Connecticut Volun- teers. He was appointed First Lieutenant in the First Regiment United States Colored Troojjs, after an examination before General Casey's Board at Washington in November 1863, served as com- mander of a company for several months and was Adjutant of the regiment for more than a year. He refused the offer of a promotion to the captaincy. He was mustered out of service in November 1865. In the winter of 1865-66 he taught school in Ohio and in the following summer re-entered Willis- ton Seminary. But his health failed and he was obliged to devote the following summer to farming. In the winter of 1867-68 he was principal of the graded school at Baltic, Connecticut, and in the fol- lowing April he took a subordinate jjosition in the Greeneville Public .School at Norwich, of which school he became jirincipal in the fall of 1869. He held this position until January i, 1877, when he accepted the position he still holds. Superintendent 12 MEN OF PROGRESS. of the Public Schools of Central District, Norwich. His service in the Norwich public schools thus covers a period of more than twenty-nine years and is the strongest possible testimonial of the suc- cess and appreciation which his services have gained. NATHAN LEE BISHOP. He was for six years a member of the Board of School Visitors of the town and for thirteen years a member of a literary society known as The Round Table, serving as its President for the past nine years. He has been President of the Norwich Young Men's Christian Association since 1890. In 1892 he was President of the National Croquet Association, and is now its Secretary and Treasurer. In 1888 he was first prize-winner in the organiza- tion. He is a deacon in the Broadway Congre- gational Church, a teacher in its Bible Class and Assistant Superintendent in its Sunday School. He has previously served as Superintendent. He is a Republican and like his father was in his boy- hood an ardent member of the Free Soil Party. He was married November 15, 1869, to Julia Eliza- beth Armstrong of Mansfield Center, Connecti- cut. Two daughters have been born to them : Fannie Arnold Bishop, born October 20, 1873, and Katherine Trowbridge Bishop, born February "7 1877. BODENWEIN, Theodore, Proprietor of the New London Day, was born in Dusseldorf, Prussia, lanuary 25, 1864. His father was a shopkeeper and maker of shoes who came to America in 1868. One year later he was followed by his wife and five-year- old son Theodore. The son was sent to common and private schools until he was thirteen years old. He seemed to have an early bent towards printing and kindred pursuits, and at the age of sixteen he entered the office of The Day, as apprentice. He there passed through the different branches of the business, and from observation and work at the case in various establishments, obtained a practical knowledge of the newspaper business. By constant application he became a ready and forcible writer. In 1885 he was one of the founders of the New London Telegraph, with which paper he remained in various capacities for five years. In September 1 89 1 he purchased the New London Day, which had been founded in 1881 by John ■■\. Tibbets, a well- THEO. BODENWEIN. known politician. The Day had become moribund and was heavily encumbered with debt. The new proprietor galvanized it into a new being and caused it to grow in circulation and business far beyond any point of success which it has been deemed pos- sible for a New London paper to reach. The Day is now developed into a great business property. MEN OF FROCIRESS. 13 has been equi]>])ed with modern presses and type- setting machines, employs a lari,'e staff of editors and reporters, and is continually looking for an extension of its field. Mr. liodonwein has never held political office, but takes a keen interest in all matters political and local, and is a Republican in politics. He lives in a handsome new residence on Montaiik Avenue, one of the most sightly loca- tions in the city. He is a member of several clubs and societies. He was married February 21, 1S89, to Miss Jennie Muir, and has two children : (lordon, a bright youngster of five, and a little daughter of two years named Elizabeth 15odenwein. necticut, from whom also were descended three of Connecticut's governors, and from Delight Green, first cousin to General Nathaniel Green of Revolu- tionary fame. From Governor Matthew Griswold and his wife Ursula Wolcott, sister of Oliver Wol- cott, signer of the Declaration of Independence, many famous men have been descended, including sixteen go\ernors and forty-three judges, among them the late Chief Justice Waite. His great-great- grandfather was Samuel Hill who fell at the massacre of Fort Griswold during the Revolutionary War. Mr. BoUes passed his boyhood in New London, where he was graduated from the Rulkeley School. BOLLES, Joshua Augustus, Editor of the New Milford Gazette, was born in Waterford, Connecti- cut, May 26, 1856, son of Joshua and Theresa A. J. (Wheeler) Bolles. The Bolles family traces its ancestry back to the twelfth century in England when a member of the family was knighted for bravery. The name occurs in English history through several centuries, the successive holders of the title being owners of Thorp Hall, in the parish of Scampton, Lincolnshire. The first of the name in this country was Joseph Bolles, who settled at Welles, Maine, prior to 1640. His son Thomas Bolles at the invitation of Governor John Winthrop was induced to come to New London where he purchased a part of Bolles Hill from Owaneco, son of LTncas, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians. A part of the family was murdered by the Indians; John Bolles, the surviving son, became a distinguislied champion of religious liberty. Among his descend- ants were Frederick D. Bolles, founder of the Hart- ford Times, Judge David Bolles, and John R. Bolles who with William Bolles, the author of Bolles' Dictionary, and Joshua Bolles, the father of the sub- ject of this sketch, formed the famous publishing firm of New London. Tlie firm published Bolles' Dictionary, Bolles' Spelling Book, Walker's Diction- ary, Scott's Bible, Kirkham's Grammar and the English Reader, and their book store was the resort of many distinguished literary men. Through his father's mother Editor Bolles is descended from John Rogers, the famous defender of religious lib- erty of two centuries ago, and from Henry Wolcott of Windsor, the ancestor of three Connecticut gov- ernors and of Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and from Mat- thew Griswold, one of the first settlers of Lyme, Con- J. A. BOLLES. He next entered Amherst College but was obliged to give up the course on account of a severe sick- ness. At the age of twenty he began his newspaper career in the office of the New York Mail, then edited by Mayor Bundy. William Henry F'orman, the literary editor, and Colonel Clifford Thompson, the well-known journalist, were of material assist- ance to him at this time. After this experience, Mr. Bolles learned to set type in the office of the New London Telegram, after which he went to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where he worked for the Berkshire Courier, the Paper World and other publications of Clark W. Bryan. He next came to New Milford, where in company with 14 MEN OF PROGRESS. F. H. Giddings, now Professor of Sociology in Co- lumbia College, he purchased and edited the New Milford Gazette. Mr. Giddings retired after one year, since which time Mr. Belles has been sole owner of the Gazette, one of the best country newspapers in the State. In 1891 Mr. Bolles erected a three-story block, the second story of which is occupied by his newspaper and job-printing business. He is well- known as a story writer, having been a contributor to the Boston Budget, Belford's Magazine, Boston Globe, the Yankee Blade, Frank Leslie's Monthly and the Syndicate Service of Kellogg's Newspaper Company. He is a member of the Connecticut Editorial Association and his essays read before that body, " Country Journalism as an Art " and " The Country Editor of To-day," have attracted much attention. In politics he is an Independent. He was married September 15, 1887, to Ella S., daughter of Robert Irwin of New Milford. They have one daughter : Gertrude E. Bolles, born December 19, 1888. BROWN, Revkrknd Herbert Stanley, Pastor of the Westfield Congregational Church of Daniel- son, was born in Poundridge, Westchester county, New York, August 2, 1859, son of Hiram S. and Sarah J. (Fancher) Brown. His ancestors on both sides were farmers. His paternal ancestor seven generations back came from England. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Vista and Lewiston, New York, and at South Nor- walk, Connecticut. He was aided in his prepara- tion for college by Reverend Homer N. Dunning of South Norwalk and by John S Seymour of Norwalk. He was graduated from Vale in 1881. After grad- uation he taught school for two years as Principal of the Academy at Easton, Connecticut. He then entered the Yale Theological Seminary where he was graduated in due course in 1886. In Novem- ber of the previous year he had accepted a call to the pastorate of the Congregational Church in Mystic, Connecticut, and was duly ordained June 23, 1886. In August 1890 he became pastor of the newly organized East Avenue Congregational Church of Lockport, New York, and there served until Sep- tember 1895. The church grew from sixty-seven to one hundred and seventy-six members. In the meanwhile a lot had been purchased, a chapel erected, and plans obtained for a church edifice. In November 1895 ^e became pastor of the West- field Congregational Church of Danielson, where he still remains. His ministry has been rewarded with usefulness and the maintenance of friendly relations between churches of different denominations. His work has been of value to the civic interests of his parish, and he has been a contributor to the local papers. In politics he is a Republican, but not a partisan, and always the uncompromising foe of the liquor traffic. He is a life member of the Congre- gational Home Missionary Society and a life mem- ber of the American Board of Foreign Missions. He was married June 9, 1886, to Emma Cornelia HERBERT STANLEY BROWN. Hall of New Haven. They have two children : Theodore Henry Brown, born October 5, 18S8, and Stanley Ernest Brown, born March 20, 1890. BROWN, Robert Kingsbury, Real Estate Owner and Capitalist, Waterbury, was born in Waterbury, December 6, 1833, son of William and Sarah Susan- nah ^ Kingsbury) Brown. His ancestors have been prominent in the history of Waterbury. He was educated in the private schools of his native place. In his early life he assisted in the care of Brown & Brothers brass mill, but afterwards turned his atten- tion entirely to his real estate interests. He is, however, a Director in several business corpora- MEN OF PROGRESS. 15 tions. For many years he has been the largest individual tax-payer in Waterbnry. In politics he is a Democrat. White a young man he served on the Board of Selectmen, and was a member of the ("itv Council. Mr. lirown was married [anuarv 22, R. K. BROWN. 1856, to Elizabeth Nichols Middlebrook, eldest daughter of Stiles Munson and Elizabeth Nash Middlebrook, of Bridgeport. BURRALL, Edward Mii.ton, Manufacturer, Waterbury, was born at Plymouth, Litchfield county, Connecticut, May 24, 1848, son of John Milton and Mary Louisa (Coley) Burrall. He is a grand- son of Charles Rurrall and I^ucy Beach Burrall, a great-grandson of Charles Burrall, Jr., and Anna Beebe, and a great-great-grandson of Colonel Charles Burrall of Revolutionary fame. The latter lived in Massachusetts and Connecticut and died at Canaan, Connecticut, October 7, 1803. He was made Captain in 1769, Major 1770, and commis- sioned Colonel by Governor Jonathan Trumbull January 19, 1776, on which date he received a like commission as colonel for the raising of a battalion of five hundred men by order of Congress signed by John Hancock. He was in command of Con- necticut Troops in the battle of Ticonderoga, New York, and was Colonel of the Fourteenth Regiment C'onnecticut Militia of 1 )anbury, which regiment served with General Gates in New York in 1777, and at Bennington, \'ermont. The subject of this sketch, iulward Milton Burrall, received his educa- tion at the [lublic and High schools of Waterbury. At the age of eighteen he left school and started as a clerk in a drygoods store in Waterbury, where he remained until 1871;. He then became a member of the furniture firm of J. M. Burrall & Son, and there continued until 1887. He then became con- nected with the American Ring Company, and was elected President of the company in 1888, which office he still fills. He has been a Director of the Plume Atwood Manufacturing Company since 1887 and of the American Pin Company since 1886. He is a Vice-President and trustee of the Dime E. M. BURRALL. Savings Bank of Waterbury. He is a member of the Waterbury Club and of the Hardware Club of New York. He was married May 17, 1877, to Mary Eunice Booth, daughter of John C. Booth of Waterbury. They have two children : John Booth Burrall, born October 14, 1879, '^'^d Eunice Booth Burrall, born September 14, 1883. i6 MEN OF PROGRESS. BUTLKR, ShTH HiNCKi-EV, President of the First National Hank, Middletown, was born in Chatham, Connecticut, March 5, 18^9, son of Stephen and Nancy (Higgins) Butler. Mis father was a descend- ant of the original Butler who came to this country two hundreil years ago, and his mother was the daughter of Seth Higgins, a worthy settler of Chat- ham. Young Butler received no other education than that afforded by the country district schools which he left at the age of fifteen in order to go to work. He was employed as clerk from the age of sixteen to twenty-one in Goodspeed's famous Gen- eral Merchandise store at East Haddam, Connecti- SETH H. BUTLER. cut. On March to, 1850, he engaged as bookkeeper and assistant in Gillett's Insurance office at Spring- field, Massachusetts, and in the fall of the following year he went to Philadelphia in the same capacity for Alfred S. Gillett, now President of the Girard Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia. There he continued until 1864, with the exception of two years spent in New York in connection with the same business. In 1864 he located at Middletown and organized a local company known as the Peo- ple's Fire Insurance Company. He was Manager of the business from 1865 to 1890, acting as Secre- tary and Treasurer of the Company for eighteen years, and then for eight years as President and Treasurer. The Company decided to go out of business, which was accomplished in 1891 without litigation, and after paying every obligation. The shareholders had received twenty per cent, divi- dends every year for twenty-five years and were returned three dollars for every one invested. Thus was completed forty-one years of successful insurance business, and Mr. Butler had anticipated a well-earned repose. But further honor and business success awaited him. For many years he had been a Director and Vice-president of the First National Bank of Middletown, Connecticut, and in 1893 he was called to the Presidency which position he con- tinues to hold. In January 1897 the old Pump Manufacturing firm of W. & B. Douglas was found in peril. Mr. Butler was elected to the Treasury- ship. With an empty treasury and many debts he set about the task of restoring its credit and liqui- dating its debts. In a short time one hundred thou- sand dollars of the bonds of the company were taken up by his friends, an additional cash capital of forty thousand dollars paid in, and with their credit restored a famous enterprise thus insured its continu- ance in Middletown. In this instance and in many others in which Mr. Butler has given his financial assistance and wise counsel his fellow citizens and the First National Bank have reason to thank him. Yet he is emphatically a self-made man, and all that he has gained has been through honest intelligent ef- forts, an unfailing courtesy and a sound business ability and good judgment. In politics he is a Republican but has never sought office and has always been content to serve in the ranks. He belongs to no societies nor clubs but joined the South Congregational Church in 1865, and for twenty-five years has been clerk of the Church and one of its Society's Committee. He was married October 6, 185 1, to Emily Maria Cooper of Springfield, Massa- chusetts, a niece of David Bush of that city, and who died October 25, 1894. The union was blessed with the birth of three sons, all holding positions of trust and influence : Abbott Goodspeed Butler, of the firm of Butler & Hatch, Insurance, New Brit- ain, Connecticut ; Earle Cooper Butler, for the last fourteen years Teller of the First National Bank ; and Dale Dudley Buder, Insurance Agent at Mid- dletown, and at present one of Middletown's Repre- sentatives in the Legislature. .mI':n ok i'Rt)i;RKSS. '7 CALEF, Arihl'r Benjamin, Senior Member of the Middletown Bar, was born in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, June 30, iiS25, son of Jeremiah ami Sarah (Eastman) Calef. He is a descentiant of Robert Calef, who came to Boston some time pre- vious to 16S8, and later became conspicuous through controversy with (\5tton and Increase Mather, in which he emphatically denounced their witchcraft theories. Through his father Judge Calef is connected with General \\'arren who was killed at Bunker Hill, and tlirough his mother with Daniel Webster, and Ebene/.er Eastman a Revolu- tionary officer. ITntil 1S40 he worked on his father's farm, and attended the district schools in their sessions. The fall of 1840 he attended Wood- man Sanbornton Academy, the fall of 1841 and spring of 1S43 Gilmanton Academy, and from 1843 to 1S46 he taught district schools in Sanbornton in winter, attended Woodman Academy in autumn, and worked on the farm the rest of the season. He prepared for college at the New Hampshire Confer- ence Seminary, then located at Northfield, New Hampshire, but now in Tilton, and entered Wes- leyan University in the fall of 1847. During his college course he taught district schools three win- ters, was preceptor of Woodman Sanbornton Acad- demy in the fall of 1848, and also taught private scholars. He graduated from Wesleyan in August 185 1, and in September 1851 entered on the study of law in the office of Judge Charles Whittlesey in Middletown, and also accepted classes in the High School. He was admitted to the Bar in October 1852. During the autumn of 1852 he was employed as a regular teacher in the High School, but resigned in December and opened a law office in Middletown. He served as Clerk of the Courts for Middlesex county from February 1853 until June 1861, in the meantime building up a considerable practice in the law. He was elected to the Common Council in 1854 and again in 1855 ; was elected Treasurer of the State when only twenty-nine years old, in 1855, and City Attorney in 1858. With him originated the system of bi-partisan Registrars of elections, and in i860 he drafted and got through the Legislature the present system of registration of voters. He was a delegate to the National Republican Conventions of i860 and 1864; was Postmaster of Middletown from 1861 to 1869; Alderman in 1875, and Judge of the City Court from 1884 to April 1895, when he retired through age limitation. Judge Calef is thus, not only the Senior Member of the Middletown Bar, but the oldest living survivor who has held the office of Postmaster of Middletown, or Clerk of the Superior ('ourl. lie is also the oldest surviving State Treasurer of Connecticut, and has an added distinction in that he is the youngest man ever elected to that office. He founded the Calef Ora- torical prize in ^V■esleyan in 1S62 ; was President of the Alumni .Association of Wesleyan I'niversity from 1862 to 1866 ; Trustee of that instilulion from 1862 to 1880; lecturer on Constitutional l.aw in Wesleyan in 187S, and was President of the Incor- porated .Association of Chi ChaiHcr of Psi Upsilon for ten vears following its foundation in 1S67. A. B. CALEF. Judge Calef lias had a large practice in the Slate and United States Couits. In 187 1 he took into partnership Hon. D. Ward Northro[), and this part- nership continued until 1885, when Mr. Northrop was appointed Postmaster. Aside from his law business he has been for some years past President of the Middletown Gas Eight Company, and a Director in several financial institutions. As a Mason, Judge ("alef is well and familiarly known, having served as Grand Junior Warden of the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Connecticut. In all matters pertaining to the interests of the city, and in business affairs he has been prominent, enjoying, meanwhile, a large and iS MEN OF PROGRESS. lucrative practice. Judge Calef married Miss Hanna F. Woodman on March 21, 1853. Their four sons include Dr. J. F. Calef of Middletown, and Arthur B. Calef, Jr., one of the leading lawyers of Middletown. CAMP, DAviri Nelson, Educator, New Britain, was bom in Durham, Connecticut, October 3, 1820, son of Elah and Orit (Lee) Camp. He is the seventh in line from Nicholas Camp of Naseby, England, whose son Samuel was one of the early DAVID N. CAMP. settlers at Milford, Connecticut. From the latter the line descends to his son Nathan, of Milford and Durham, to Elah, son of Nathan of Durham, to Nathan Ozias, son of Elah, of Durham, and the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. His mother was a direct descendant of Theophilus Eaton, the first Governor of the New Haven Colony. His early education was obtained in public and private schools. He prepared for college, but a long sickness prevented his taking the course. He studied however with private tutors, and received the degree of A. M. from Vale in 1853. He is widely known as an educator and lecturer, but was obliged to give up teaching on account of ill health. Since 1880 he has been in active business as bank director and president of manufacturing corpora- tions. His first occupation as teacher was in the public schools of Guilford, Branford and Upper Middletown. In 1848-50 he taught in the academy at Meriden. On the opening of the Connecti- cut State Normal School in 1850,116 became Pro- fessor of Mathematics, Natural and Moral Philosophy and Geography. In 1S55 he became Associate- Principal of the school with the Professorship of English Language and Literature, and of Mental Philosophy and of Theory and Practice of Teaching. In January 1857 he was appointed Principal of the School and State Superintendent of Schools of Con- necticut. He held these two offices until 1865, when on account of failing health he resigned and at once went to Europe. He spent the summer and autumn in travel and in visiting the educational institutions of Great Britain. While in Europe he was appointed Professor in St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, when Henry Barnard, LL. D., was President. He returned from Europe in time to assist in the reopening of the college after the Civil War, and there remained during 1866 and 1867. On the establishment of the National Bureau of Education and appointment of Dr. Barn- ard as Commissioner, he resigned from the college and was employed by Dr. Barnard in obtaining information for the Bureau. On the death of his father in 1 868 he returned to Connecticut in order to settle the estate. During a part of the time, from 1870 to 1880, as his health permitted, he taught in a seminary in New Britain. Mr. Camp has not taught since 1880, when he gave up teaching. He has been a Director in the New Britain National Bank since 1874, and its Vice-President since 1883 ; has been President of the Skinner Chuck Manufac- turing Company since 1887, and of the Atkins Printing Company since 1875, and has been a Director of the Co-operative Savings Society of Connecticut since 1893. He was Councilman of the city of New Britain in 1871, Alderman in 1872- 76 and Mayor in 1877-79, and was a member of the General Assembly of Connecticut in 1879, and Chairman of its Committee on Education. He has served as Director in the Missionary Society of Connecticut in 1875-97, and as Auditor of the same society in 1882-97. He has also been Auditor of the National Council of Congregational Churches from 1883 to 1897 ; was one of the organizers of the National Council of Education, and still retains his membership. He is also a member of MFA' OF PROCrRESS. 19 the Connecticut Historical Society and of many other scientific and educational societies. He lias lectured more than four luindrcd tinu's on educa- tional tojiics. He was married June 25, 1X44, to Sarah Adaline Howd. 'Iheir children have been : Fllen R. and F.nnna Jane Camp. CH.M'M.AN, Mako Sru i.dinx;, Superintendent of tlie United States Stamped Knvelope Works, Hartford, and Ex-State Senator, was horn in I';ast Haddam, Connecticut, February 13, 1839, ■''"" o' M. S. CHAPMAN. Nathaniel Chapman, and a descendant of Robert Chapman who settled in Saybrook, Connecticut, in 1636. His education was obtained in the common schools of East Haddam and in a two-years course at a private school in the same place. At the age of eighteen he entered business as clerk in a store at Manchester Creen, Connecticut, where he remained for three years. He enlisted in 1S62 as private in Company C, Twelfth Connecticut, and served for one year and si.x months. After his return from the war in 1865 he became connected with the J'limpton Manufacturing Company which connec- tion has continued until the present time. He became stockholder in the company in 1892, and when the I'limpton Company received the govern- ment contrai:t in 1874, ^[r. Chapman became Supci iiucndent of the United States Stamped Envelope Works in Hartford, in which position he has shown great e.xecutive ability and decision of character. He was tlie principal projector of the Hartford, Manchester & Rockville Tramway and ])ersonally built and financed the whole road before it was turned over to the company in 1895. He is a Republican in politics and represented the town of Manchester in the Legislature of 1882, and was Senator from the Second Senatorial District in 1884-85. While a member of the House he was Chairman of the Committee on Cities and Bor- oughs, and in the Senate was Chairman of the Committee on Railroads. He has been a member of the Town Committee for thirty years and its Chairman for twelve years. He has been Chairman of the Road and Bridge Commission for ten years. He is a member of tlie Masonic and Odd Fellow Lodges of Manchester and has been Commander for ten years of the Crand Army of the Republic, Drake Post, at Manchester. He is a liberal sup- porter of the Congregational Church. He w-as married in 1861 to Lucy W. Woodbridge of Man- chester, wlio died in 1869. Their child, Jennie Percival Chai)man, was born in 1863. He was again married in 1871 to Ellen W. Robbins of Man- chester. They have two children : Ellen G., born in 1877, and Mary O. Chapman, born in iSSo. CLEAV ELAND, Livingston Warner, Judge of I he Probate Court for the District of New Haven, was born in South Egremont, Massachusetts, Janu- ary 31, i860, son of Rev. James Bradford Cleave- land and Elizabeth H. (Jocelyn) Cleaveland. His father, whose death occurred May 21, 1889, was a well known Connecticut Congregational clergyman. His mother is a poetess, her poem " No Sects in Heaven " having been widely read in this country and in England. His maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Jocelyn, was a noted portrait painter, an engraver and founder of the National Bank Note Engraving Company. Referring to Mr. Jocelyn's death, w-hich occurred at his home in New Haven in 1881, the New York Journal of Commerce said : " Fifty years ago the name of 'Jocelyn ' was better known on the face of a bank note than the name of the bank itself. His portrnits were among the cleverest works of the kind produc ed in the coun- 20 MEN OF PROGRESS. try. He was the founder of the most celebrated of the bank note companies, and was a leader of the highest style of art for more than two generations." In 1844 Mr. Jocelyn won the gold palette as a prize for the best picture by a Connecticut artist. He was a cordial sympathizer with the slave, and his house was one of the " Stations " of the " under- ground railway." The earliest known Cleaveland to migrate to this country was Moses Cleaveland, who came to Woburn, Massachusetts, from England, in the seventeenth century, from whom Judge Cleave- land is directly descended. He is also a descend- ant of at least five Mayflower pilgrims, being a LIVINGSTON W. CLEAVELAND. lineal descendant on his father's side of Governor Bradford, and on his mother's side of John How- land and Elizabeth Tilley and her parents, all of whom were passengers on the Mayflower. On the paternal side he is related by common ancestry to three presidents: John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Grover Clevel md, and to one Connec- ticut Governor, Governor Chauncey F. Cleaveland. On the maternal side he is related by common ancestry to the illustrious Trumbull family which gave Connecticut three governors, among them the celebrated war governor, Washington's " Brother Jonathan." Judge Cleaveland was graduated with the degree of LL. B. from the Law Department of Vale College in 1881, and in 1888 received the degree of M. L. from Yale University. He was admitted to the Bar in New Haven in 1881, and was engaged in the general practice of law until his election to the bench. He is, and for a number of years has been, the only Commissioner of Deeds for all the states and territories and the principal Canadian Provinces in New England, outside of Boston. In politics he is a Republican. He served as a member of the Common Council in 1891 and again in 1892. In 1891 he was elected by the Board of Councilmen as a member of the Board of Finance for the city. In 1894 he was nominated by the Republican Probate Convention as Judge of Probate for the District of New Haven, a district comprising the city and six adjoining towns, the most important probate district in the state. In this Democratic stronghold he was elected by over one thousand majority. His popu- lar competitor had held the ofifice for eight years, carrying the previous election by about five thou- sand majority. The Hon. Francis Wayland, who occupied the same position for two years, just after the close of the war, was the only Republican who had previously held the office. Judge Cleaveland is still Judge of Probate, having been re-elected in the election of 1896 by a majority of between three and four thousand. He is a member of the Massachu- setts Society of Mayflower descendants, was one of the Supreme Committee on Laws of the Improved Order Heptasophs in 1894-96, and has been for many years a member of the New Haven Young Men's Republican Club. He has been for about ten years one of the directors of the local Young Men's Christian Association, is also a member of the Executive Committee of the State Association, and has been Superintendent of English Hal! Sun- day School since 18S9. He is unmarried. COBURN, Reverend George Litchfield, Meth- odist Minister and Superintendent of the Connec- ticut School for Boys, Meriden, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, October 15, 1833, son of William and Julia Ann (Albee) Coburn, and comes from a long line of honorable ancestry which has been traced back to the eleventh century. He traces his lineage through English and Scotch history through a long list of statesmen, jurists, military and naval men of high rank. The name appears in English history as Cockburn, pronounced Coburn, MEN OV PROGRESS. 2 I the American branch of the family spelling the name in the latter style. .Admiral Cieorge Cock- burn commanded the f^nglish shij) of War which carried Napoleon to St. Helena in 1S15. In the feudal days the houses of Lord Cockburn and Lord Bruce were allied by marriage and the great estates contained the formidable castles of these two powerful lords. It is related that Lord Bruce once dispatched a messenger in great haste to Lord Cockburn to summon his assistance. An enemy had laid siege to his castle and threatened to destroy him. Lord Cockburn immediately went to the relief of Lord Bruce with five hundred armed GEO. L. COBURN. men from his own castle, showing something of the regal power those lords of old possessed. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common and High Schools of Southbridge, Massachusetts. He also studied with private tutors and at the Seminary at Smithfield, Rhode Island. In early life he learned the printing trade and graduated from the well known establishment of Case, Lock- wood & Brainerd Company, formerly Case, Tiffany & Co. of Hartford, where he was employed for nearly twelve years. He was afterwards senior member of the printing firm of Coburn & Clark, Hartford, and later in business alone under the firm style of George L. Coburn. He became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and entered the pastorate in 1875. He thus continued for sixteen and a half years, serving very acceptably several churches in Connecticut and New York. In the spring of 1892 he was called to take charge of the jjrinting and editing of the Dawn, tlie official ])aper of the Connecticut School for Hoys at Moridcn, wliere he remained for four years. On .March 3, 1896, he was called to the position of Acting Superintendent of the School, and on May 20, following, he was appointed Superintendent of the institution, one of the most important in tiic state. He is an Independent in politics and has uniformly declined to hold office. He is a Royal Arch Mason and devotedly attached to the princi- ples of the order, but always watchful lest he appear over-assuming ; never doing alms to have it published, but acting on the Scripture teaching, is ever careful that his deeds of mercy are not seen of men. He was married October 16, 1856, to Eliza Jane Waterhouse. Their children have been : Mary Elizabeth, George Louis, Mary E. (now Mrs. William H. Wilde of Hartford), and two children who died in infancy: George Louis ist, and Charles Coburn. COLE, Ira, Manufacturer, Norwalk, was born in Wilton, Connecticut, May 4, 1836, son of Sherman and Susan (Hurlbutt) Cole. His father, a native of Wilton, was for twenty-five years associated with his nephews William and George S. Nichols in the manufacture of carriages and carriage hubs. In 1854 he sold out the business and moved to Nor- walk where he resided until his death in 1879. While in Wilton he was Selectman for a long term of years, and Representative of the town in the Legislature, having been elected by the unanimous vote of both parties. He was the son of Thomas Cole, a Revolutionary soldier, who was with the American Army when they occupied Manhattan Island. The grandfather of Ira Cole, was married to Mary, daughter of Alexander Ressequie, a direct descendant of Pierre Bontecou, one of the original Huguenots who came to this country in 1689. The mother of the subject of this sketch is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-four years. Her ances- tors were among the early settlers of the country. Young Cole commenced his education in the public school and was graduated from the private academy of George M. (iodfrey in 1852 at the age of sixteen. In the fall of the same year he went to New York MRN OK PROGRESS. city anil was employeil as bookkeeper in the clothing house of Hrooks Brothers. His father had a large family and was not rich in this world's goods. The young clerk was thrown entirely on his own re- sources, but with a strong constitution, and the counsel of Christian jiarents, he was enabled to withstand the temptations of city life, and although receiving a salary of but five dollars a week (three of which was paid for board), there was never a time he did not have money in his pocket. In starting in life he niade it a rule never to make a purchase until he had money to pay for it. He had a great desire to have books he could call his a jiartncr in the business which was continued as a copartnership for ten years under the names of Hutchinson, Pierce & Company and Hutchin- son, Cole & Company, with factories at Norwalk and Bridgeport, and salesroom at 836 Broadway, New York city. In 1893 the business was reorgan- ized as a joint stock company under the title of Hutchinson, Pierce & Company. Mr. Pierce is President of the Company and Manager of the New York office ; Mr. Cole is Vice-President and in charge of the Norwalk and Bridgeport factories. The firm manufactures the well-known Star Shirts, boys' and ladies' waists and underwear, which have an extensive sale throughout the country. Mr. Cole has never held political office, preferring to devote his time to his large business interests. He has always been a Republican, and voted for Gen- eral Grant on the day of his marriage November 3, 1868. He is a Director in the Fairfield County National Bank, the Norwalk Savings Society, a Charter Member of the Norwalk Club, and a mem- ber of the Knob Outing Club and the Pine Ledge Club ; belongs to the St. John's Lodge of Masons and Our Brothers Lodge of Odd Fellows ; is a mem- ber of the First Congregational Church of Norwalk, and has served for several years on its Society's Committee. His wife Rebecca Isaacs Hill is the daughter of Asa Hill, D. D. S., a prominent dentist, inventor and editor of a dental magazine, and grand- daughter of Charles Isaacs, formerly President of the Fairfield County National Bank. Three daugh- ters are the fruit of this marriage : Edalena Hill, Annie Louise and Alice Isaacs Cole. IRA COLE. own and from his small salary bought each month Harper's Monthly Magazine which he carefully pre- served and had neatly bound. These volumes are a valuable part of his library today. At the age of twenty-five he was the owner of several fine pictures and quite a respectable library. He remained in New York but one year, removing to Norwalk to accept a position as bookkeeper in the Shirt Manu- factory of T. A. Morrison & Hoyt, the founders of the business in which he is now engaged. Mr. Mor- rison died many years ago and Mr. Henry I. Hoyt retired from business but is still living in Norwalk. From bookkeeper Mr. Cole was advanced to the position of Superintendent, and in 1883 he became COLES, George Augustus, Merchant, Middle- town, was born in Middletown October 20, 1836, son of Augustus and Nancy (Hubbard) Coles. On his father's side he is descended from William Coles who died at Dorchester, Massachusetts, October 26, 1810. William Coles, his son, married Lois Miller, daughter of William and Chloe Miller of Middle- field, Connecticut, and Augustus Coles, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Middlefield, July 16, 1810. His mother was the daughter of Captain Enoch Hubbard, who was engaged in the West India trade and who was lost at sea off the coast of the Islands in August 1825. He was edu- cated in the public schools and at the Chase Acad- emy, Middletown, where he was graduated in 1856. He first entered business as a clerk and bookkeeper MEN OK PROGRESS. 23 in a grocery store, first at Springfield, Massachusetts, and then in Middlctown. In 1859 he became Sec- retary anil 'I'reasurer of the Balilwin Tool Company whiih position he rclimiiiishcil in 1S62 to become Secretary of the Union Mills. He thus continued until 1S7S when in connection with his brother-in- law Charles S. Atkins he formed a partnership under the firm name of Coles iS: Atkins. Mr. Atkins after- wards sold out his interest and was succeeded by Frank B. \\'eeks, the firm becoming Coles iv: Weeks. In March 1.S95 the Weeks interest was purchased bv Mr. Coles, antl taking his son Charles H. Coles into partnership with him, the firm took its present the Middletown 'lotal .Abstinence Society and of the Citizens' League, lie was married October 11, i860, to ,'\ugusta Atkins. 'I'hey have one son: Charles 1 1. Coles. GEO A, COLES. Style, Coles & Company. The firm is widely known as dealers in flour and grain. The manufacture of flour was carried on by Mr. Coles and his associates from 1862 to 1875, when the "new process" changed the conditions in New England so com- pletely that the grinding of wheat was abandoned. The mill is now used for grinding corn and oats and is supplied with ship elevator and rail connections. Mr. Coles has been President of the Middletown Savings Bank since 1887, and is a Director in the W. & B. Douglas Company. He was elected Presi- dent of the Middletown Board of Education in 1875 and was a member qi the Common Council in that year and in 1872. He is the present President of CORBIN, I.KWis .^NCEi,, Manufacturer, Rock- ville, was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, Septem- ber iS, 1822, son of Lewis and Mary (Sayles) Corbin. His grandfather was Joshua Corbin, born July 16, 1757. His great-grandfather Elisha Cor- bin, l)orn June 30, 1713, was of English descent and the son of James Corbin, the latter the son of Clement Corbin, the earliest known ancestor. The subject of this sketch received only such education as was afforded by the common school. In 1840, at the age of eighteen, he was thrown upon his own resources through the death of his father. For two years he worked upon farms here and there as he could find opportunity. In the fall of 1842 he went into New York state in pursuit of work, applying in Albany, Troy, Watertown and Glen Falls without success. Finally he reached Warrenburgh when he hired out by the month to take care of stock and horses, working each day from 4 a. m. to g p. m. There he remained until the spring of 1843, when he returned to Dudley and hired himself out for eight months to work for his uncle at stone cutting. For three years he worked on mills that were build- ing in Webster, Southbridge, Charlton and O.xford, Massachusetts, and Thompson, Connecticut. He then worked for Ebenezer Rich for the Rock Manu- facturing Company. He first came to Rockville October 19, 1846, moving to the town in the spring of 1847. At this time he had charge of the build- ing of the American Mills, and in the following year of the Hockanum Mills, meantime doing most of the stone work then being done in the neighboring towns. On January 8, 185 1, he started for Cali- fornia where he was engaged in mining for nearly two years. In 1853 he returned east and built the house in which he now li\es. In 1854 he rebuilt the Ellington Mills, and in tlie same year bought out for one hundred dollars the interest of Milton G. Puffer, in the envelope machinery, at the same time J. N. Stickney's interest was purchased in con- nection with Cyrus G. AVhite, and the firm of White & Corl)in was formed for the manufacture of envel- opes. So as far as is known this was the first com- pany of the kind in this country. The business rapidly increased ; the water power was bought of 24 MEN OF PROGRESS. All)ert Dart, and in 1S56 tlie mill now owned by J. J. Regan was built. In connection with the cnxelope business milling, a large flour and grain business was carried on. The New England Mill was purchased at auction, and in iSSi the Florence Mill, the largest brick building in Rockville, was purchased by the firm. This mill was further enlarged by a four-story one hundred by fifty feet addition, the whole forming the largest manufactur- ing establishment in the county. Mr. Corbin has now retired from active business, devoting much of his time to his large real estate interests, which include investments not only in Connecticut, but in L. A. CORBIN Florida, Colorado, Indiana and Illinois. His pros- perity has been well earned, and he has probably done more to build uj) the business interests of Rockville than any other resident of the town. He has been President of the Board of Trustees of the Methodist Church for over thirty years, and has given thousands of dollars for the cause of the church. He was first Selectman of the town of Vernon in 1867, and has also served as Assessor, but in general he has endeavored to avoid political honors. In politics he is a Republican. In addi- tion to his duties as President of White & Corbin Company, he is Director in the Rockville Branch Railroad, and is also a Director in several other business enterprises. He was married September 18, 1S45, to Mary H. Upham. Three children have been born to them : Louisa M., wife of Sidney A. Grant, of Springfield, Massachusetts ; Imogene, wife of Jonathan Morey, of Rockville; and Mary A., wife of Walter E. Payne, of Rockville. COUDERT, Frank Edmonds, M. D., Middle- town, was born in South Orange, New Jersey, July 4, T862, son of Louis Leonce and Nora (Edmonds) Coudert. His grandfather Coudert was second in command of the First Guard of Honor of Napoleon I. and served through the German and Italian wars. Twice sentenced to be shot, he finally escaped to this country where he lived for over fifty years, dying a true Frenchman at the age of eighty-seven. Up to the day of his death French was the only language spoken in his house. On the maternal side his grandfather was Judge Edmonds of New York. He was educated at Stevens High School, Hoboken, New Jersey, and at St. John's College, F"ordhani, New York. He then spent three years in Germany taking the degree of Ph. D. in 1887 at Heidelberg University. While at the University he joined one of the fighting clubs and had some experience with the sword. Returning to America he entered the New York University Medical School where he was graduated with the degree of M. D. In the spring of 1890 he shipped as sur- geon on the United States and Brazil Mail Steam- ship, Finance, plying between Rio Janeiro and New York. Here he had many trying experiences. His life was twice attempted by native emigrants on the ship, and on another voyage he suffered from a dangerous attack of yellow fever. In Janu- ary 189 1 he took examination for the position of Resident House Physician at the Norwegian Hospi- tal, Brooklyn. After serving his time at the Hospital he went to Augusta, Georgia, where the position of Lecturer on Diseases of the Skin was offered him. But just as he was about to enter upon the duties of his position he was taken with typhoid fever. This sickness lasted fourteen weeks. As soon as he was able he returned North and settled at 108 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York city. A few months after his arrival he became a member of the staff of the " Evening World Sick Baby Fund." In March 1892 he was appointed assistant in skin diseases to Professor E. B. Bronson of the New York Polyclinic in East Thirty-fourth Street, MEN OI" PROGRESS. 25 and he was also assistant in the New \'ork Hospi- tal, out-door department. Just as he was getting well started in his profession his health broke down and he was compelled to gi\e u|) city life. He moved to W:)lliiigf^>rtl, Connecticut, and tlicre FKANK E. COUDERT. remained three years. He moved to Middletown in 1895 and there took the practice of Dr. D. A. Cleveland and Dr. Frank B. Look. He is now the Town Health Officer and Visiting Physician to the Orphans' Home. He speaks fluently French, Ger- man and Spanish and with the exception of the extreme Eastern countries has travelled all over the world. He is a member of St. John's Lodge of Masons No. 2, and Washington Chapter No. 6. While a student at the New York University Medical School he served three years in the National Guard of New York. He was married October 10, 1S94, to Clarisa Ingersol Perkins, of Wallingford. DE FOREST, Thomas Bartram, President of the Bridgeport National Bank, and Insurance .Agent, was born in Bridgeport April 22, 1831, son of Isaac and Sarah .Ann (Bartram) De Forest. His paternal grandfather was William De l''orest, and his mater- nal grandfather was 'I'homas Bartram, for whom he was named. His education was confined to such training as the public schools of his native town afforded. On leaving school he went to sea for three years. On his return lie went to Charleston, South Carolina, as a clerk for the firm of Pierson & Jennings, wholesale clothing. From Charleston he returned to New York. Thence he went to Chi- cago, and from Chicago he moved to Minnesota. Finally in 1858 at the age of twenty-seven having tried his fortunes on land and sea, in the South and in the West, he returned to his native town and entered the insurance business which he still carries on. He is also President of the Bridgeport National Bank, Vice-President of the Bridgeport Savings I^ank, Vice-President of the Consolidated Rolling Stock Company, and Treasurer of the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company. He has served as Alderman, % .^' -•■ 1 '^^H ? T. B. DEFOREST, member of the Common Council, and the Board of Public Works. He belongs to the Seaside and Brooklawn clubs. He was married October 20, 1857, to Martha 13. Crocker. Their children are: Marion, Thomas and William De Forest; Jidia, wife of D. B. Pierce, Junior ; and Sarah, wife of Justus B. Entz. 26 Mi;\ OF PROGRESS. DKWELL, James Dudley, Lieutenant dovernor of Connecticut, and member of the firm of J. D. Dewell & Co., wholesale grocers. New Haven, was born in Norfolk, Connecticut, September 3, 1837, son of John and Mary (Humphrey) Dewell. His father was of Scotch descent, a native of Dutchess county, New York, and a prominent merchant and manufacturer of Norfolk. His mother was the sev- enth in line from Michael Hum])hrey, who settled in Windsor, in 1640. His early education was obtained at the common schools. After a preliminary busi- ness training on a peddler's wagon and in a coun- try store, he became salesman for the firm of Bush- JAMES D. DEWELL. opment of New Haven by means of its Chamber of Commerce Mr. Dewell has devoted much time and for many years has served as its President. He is largely responsible for the organization of the State Board of Trade. He was elected its President in 1891, and by unanimous consent is still filling that position. He has devoted a great deal of time to increasing the influence of that organization, and under his guidance it has accomplished a great deal of good work. It was Mr. Dewell who was at the head of the movement in favor of good roads in Connecticut. The Young Men's Institute of New Haven has always held a tender spot in Mr. Dewell's heart, and for twenty years he has been a Director and contributor to its needs. He is a member and takes particular interest in the New Haven Colony Historical Society. He has been for twenty-seven years a Director of the Evergreen Cemetery Associa- tion, and for many years a Director m the New Haven Hospital. He was First Lieutenant of the New Haven Grays from 1865 to 1867, and in 1868 was Worshipful Master of Hiram Lodge No. i Free and Accepted Masons. He was among the charter members of the Republican League, and as its Pres- ident from 1892 to 1895 was exceedingly popular with all the members. He has always been a Repub- lican, and voted for Buckingham for Governor in 1859 3nd Lincoln for President. Lentil his election as Lieutenant Governor in November 1896 he had never held a political office, although always taking a great interest in legislative matters both national and state. He was married July 2, i860, to Mary Elizabeth Keyes of Norfolk. Six children have blessed the union, of whom five are living : Jessie Keyes, Charles Keyes, James Dudley, Robert Peck ; Edward Humphrey, who died in 1878, aged one year, and Franklin Whittemore Dewell. nell & Company, wholesale grocers. Two years afterwards he was admitted to the firm, and in 1864 the firm name was changed to Bushnell & Dewell, and in 1877 it was altered to J. D. Dewell & Com- pany, in which form it has become prominent in the mercantile world. He is Vice-President of the Security Insurance Company, a Director of the New Haven Water Company and of the City Bank of New Haven, and Trustee of the National Savings Bank. Mr. Dewell is widely known as a public- spirited citizen, and no sincere effort for the public advancement of New Haven or the social im- provement of its citizens has failed to enlist his warm interest and generous support. To the devel- DIBBLE, Samuel Elmer, Plumber, and President of the State Association of Master Plumbers, New Haven, was born in Newtown, Connecticut, January 16, 1842, son of Frederick B. and Sarah Ann (Botsford) Dibble. His grandfather was John Dibble, whose father was Samuel Dibble, the latter son of Captain John Dibble who came from Eng- land in 1630. His mother's family were early settlers of Newtown. Young Dibble received his education at the public schools of Newtown and through private tuition. Until he was sixteen he lived upon the farm in Newtown. He then went to MEN OF I>R(H;RESS. 27 Woodbury, Connecticut, and learned the tinning and plumbing business. After a five-years service he came to New Haven with his uncle I'^verett H. Dibble and there completed his trade. Owing to the death of his uncle he decided to enter business for himself, which he did on April 14, 11S64, tiie same day that President Lincoln was shot. For thirty-three years he has thus successfully carried on his business which includes tinning, steam, hot air and hot water heating, and every branch of plumbing business, and is a strong believer in sani- tary science. He has been President of the State Association of Master Plumbers, is President of the Builders Exchange of New Haven, lias been four times President of the New Haven Master Plumb- ers Association and an officer for several times in the National Association, Commissioner of the S. E. DIBBLE. New Haven Board of Health for three years, and was reappointed on July i, 1897, for four years more. He is a Mason, and for thirty years has been a mem- ber of the Odd Fellows. He was married September 16, 1874, to Elizabeth Davis. Ten children have been born to them : Clarence Elmer, Samuel Edward, Lewis Acker, Albert Baldwin, Donald Alvin, Ethel Gould, Eleanor F^lizabeth, Marguerite, Ruth and John Mansfield Dibble. DOWNS, NicHois Curtis, Judge of the City Court of Stamford, was born at Newtown, Connecti- cut, December 12, 1S61, son of Monroe D. and Cliarlotte Nichols (Curtis) Downs. Lie received his education at the common schools and at New- NICHOLS C. DOWNS. town Academy. He was admitted to the Bar May 15, 1884. He held the office of Borough Attorney for the Borough of Stamford from 1887 to 1891, and has been corporation counsel of the city of Stamford since its incorporation, in 1893. He was Deputy Judge of the Borough Court of Stamford from 1887 to 1893, when he was appointed as the first judge of the City Court of Stamford, to which position he was reappointed in 1895, and again in 1897. He is also Vice-President of the Stamford Board of Trade. In politics he has always been a Republican. He was married September 5, 1885, to Jessie MacDonald of Brooklyn, New York. EMERSON, James Marion, Editor of the Even- ing Sentinel, Ansonia, Connecticut, was born at Denton, Maryland, December 14, 1845, son of John H. and Sarah (Whitby) Emerson. His parents were of Quaker descent. After attending the usual village school he entered Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland, at the early age of fourteen, 2S MKN OF PROGRESS. and was graiUiated at eighteen years of age. From college he went immeiiiately into his father's print- ing office. Three years later, he succeeded him as Kditor and Business Manager of the Denton Union. After four and a half years experience on the Den- ton Union, he accepted the City F.ditorship of the Daily Commercial, published in Wilmington, Dela- ware. In 1876 he left the Daily Commercial, hav- ing bought out the Sentinel, a weekly publication issued at .\nsonia, Connecticut. In 1884 the Sen- tinel under his management grew to a daily, and the name was changed to the Evening Sentinel. Mr. Em- erson is a member of the Ansonia Board of Trade, J. M. EMERSON and a member of its Board of Directors. In politics he has always been a staunch Republican. He was first married in May 1867 to Lizzie N. Steward, of Gloucester county, New Jersey, who died five years later. There are no children living from this union. His second marriage, December 3, 1874, was to Julia B. Foord, of Wilmington, Delaware, by whom were born the following children : Howard F , John Ralph, Lillian May and Marion Estelle Emerson. FONES, CiviLiON, Dentist and Ex-Mayor of Bridgeport, was born in Toronto, Canada, October I, 1836, the year of the incorporation of the city of which he was twice elected Mayor. His father, at the time of the son's birth, was temporarily a resi- dent of Ontario, superintending work in the line of his occupation as architect and builder. On both his father's and mother's side he is a descendant of the French Huguenots. His paternal great-grand- father was an exile to England during the reign of Louis XIV, and afterwards became an officer in the English Navy. On his retirement he was given a tract of land embracing fifteen hundred acres in the state of Rhode Island, where the old town of Wickford now stands, and on which he located. His son Daniel, the grandfather, and Christopher (the father of Civilion) were born on the ancestral acres, and the latter married Sarah A. Marigold, of South Carolinian lineage, also a descendant of French Huguenots. The son Civilion came to Bridgeport from New York city in 1858, where he has since resided. He is a graduate of the Balti- more College of Dental Surgeons, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession, on the corner of Main and Banks streets, for about thirty- three years. The appreciation of his professional brethren has been expressed by his election as President of the Connecticut Valley Dental Associa- tion, and also as President of the Connecticut State Dental Society. In 1893 he was appointed by Governor Morris one of the five State Dental Commissioners and upon the organization of the Commission was elected President of its members, which office he still holds. Governor Coffin also reappointed him in 1895. He has been identi- fied with the Republican party since its organiza- tion, but never held political office until the year 18S4, when he was elected to represent his ward as Councilman. The following year he was elected Alderman, and at the April election in 1886 was elected Mayor of the City, overcoming an opposi- tion party majority of about one thousand, and was re-elected in the spring of 1887 by an increased majority, receiving an unusual political support from both parties. During both terms of his office every effort was made for the improvement of the city. In his message of 1886 he made mention of the necessity of taking urgent means to procure a new Post Office building, and the Common Council passed a resolution for him to take such steps as were necessary to have a bill passed granting the erection of said building. Whereupon in company with several prominent citizens he visited Washing- ton, and in consequence of these efforts a bill passed the House making an appropriation for the new MEN OK I'ROGRESS. 29 Government Building, which now stands at tlie of New Jersey and his grandfather of Long Island, corner of Uroad and Common streets. During his He was educated at the ]niblic schools of Brooklyn administration there were many improvements made, and began business in New York city in 1876. such as the removal of railroad tracks from Water From 1S76 to i88o he was in the wholesale paper street, the removal of the old Miller l?uilding, and business, and from 1S80 to 1887 he was connected with the Erie Railroad Company. In 1S87 he came to Hartford and in connection with Seymour A. Prayer, started a coal business. His partner died in 1890, and he has conducted the business alone since tliat date. He is a Mason, a member of the Republican Club and of the First Comi)any CIVILION FONES. erection of the Lower Bridge, also the locating ami placing of numerous gates and crossings. One of the marked benefits, was the improvement of the streets and roads about the city. The Park Cottage was also built during his last term of office, and many other improvements made of minor impor- tance. Both terms were most harmonious in every respect, as there was not a hitch in either party dur- ing his administration. He is a member of several clubs in the city and state and was President of the Seaside Club in the year 1892. He has taken several degrees in Odd-Fellowship, and is a thirty- second degree Scottish Mason. He was married October 21, 1863, to Phoebe E. Wright of New York city. They have had three children : George who died in childhood, Grace and Alfred C. Fones. FOSTER, William Henry, Coal Merchant, Hartford, was born in Brooklyn, New York, Febru- ary 14, 1858, son of Joseph Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Hartt) Foster. His father was a native W. H. FOSTER. Governor's Foot (iuards. He was married Decem- ber 22, 1890, to Georgiana Vail, of Hartford. They have one child : Henry Wilkinson Foster. PULFORD, Charles Henry, Physician, Sey- mour, was born in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, December 18, 1859, son of Frederick ^V. Piilford, M. D., and Sarah A. (Leonard) Pulford. His father was born in Leeds, luigland, August 21, 1826, and died in Seymour June 3, 1893. His mother was born in Dunkirk, New York, June 16, 1828, and died in Seymour April 19, 1892. Dr. Pulford was educated in the public schools of Seymour and the Collegiate Institute at Hacketts- 30 .\[E\ OF PROGRESS. town, New Jersey. He received his medical educa- tion at the HonuL'opalhic College of New York city, and at the Hahnemann College, of Chicago, where he was graduated in iSSS. He has jiracticed medicine since graduation in Seymour, first with CHARLES H. PULFORD. his father and since his father's death in 1893, alone. In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Morning Star Lodge, No. 47, Free and Accepted Masons. He was married to Har- riet E. Humphrey December 2, 1890. They have no children. GAGER, Edwin Baker, Lawyer, of Derby, and Instructor in the Yale Law School, was born in Scotland, Connecticut, August 30, 1852, son of Lewis and Harriet (Jennings) Gager. His ances- tors were of early Colonial English descent and among the first settlers of New London and Nor- wich. His early education was obtained at the public schools of Scotland and at the Natchaug High School, Willimantic, Connecticut. He was graduated from the Yale University in the class of 1877, and subsequently took a one year's post- graduate course in history. He was admitted to the Bar in October 18S1. Before entering college he taught school for two years. After graduation for four years and until his admission to the Bar, he was Principal of the Ansonia (Connecticut) High and public schools. He began the practice of law at Derby in 1881, and on January i, 1882, became a member of the law firm of Wooster, Torrance & Gager, and so remained until April i, 1885, when on accoimt of the appointment of Mr. Torrance as Judge of the Superior Court, the new firm of W'ooster, Williams &: Gager was formed. Under tills latter name the firm has continued in success- ful practice until the present time. Mr. Gager Ijecame a member of the State Bar Examining Committee on its organization in 1890, and still continues on the board. Since 1S92 he has been Instructor in Mortgages in the post-graduate course in the Yale Law School, and since 1894 has been Instructor in Equity to the Senior class at the Law School. In politics he is a Republican. From 18S9 to iSg5 he served as Judge of the Town Court of Derby. He was married October 15, EDWIN B. GAGER. 1895, to Nellie A. Cotter, of Ansonia. They have four children : Edwin B., Jr., William W., Charles C. and Harriet H. Gager. GOSS, CH.UTNCEV Porter, Treasurer and Manager of the ScovlU Manufacturing Company, of WaterbuV, Connecticut, was born, August 5, 1838, at Roches' MEN OF PROGRESS. .11 ter, New York, son of Ephraim and Margaret (Por- ter) Goss. The father, a lawyer of unusual ability, practicing in all the courts of the state, was a man of the highest probity, always expecting and receiv- ing the greatest respect from his fellowmen, who showed their appreciation by electing him to many positions of trust and honor, from the State Senator down. The mother was noted for her gentleness and domestic qualities. With such parents and descent from many prominent old Dutch and Eng- lish families of New York state and New England, some of whom were early identified with Water- bury, it is not strange that C. P. Goss is possessed C. p. GOSS. of a fine presence, an unquestionable standard of honor, a thorough knowledge of human nature, a constant thoughtfulness of others' welfare, a consid- erate generosity, and other qualities and abilities which have made him one of the most successful and favorably known business men of New England. His paternal great-grandfather, Ephraim Goss, who enlisted in the Revolution at Great Barrington, Massa- chusetts, was with Washington at Valley Forge, and was killed on the battlefield. Mr. Goss was two years old when his parents removed to the neigh- boring town of Pittsford, New York, where he attended the district school, and later entered a general store. While yet a boy he became a buyer of various kinds of produce, .ind by perfect fairness of dealing he soon won the confidence of the farm- ers, but at the same time taught them that it was imjjossible to deceive or overreach him. He went to Waterbury in 1862, and entered the Scovill Man- ufacturing Company as assistant bookkeeper, was elected Secretary in 1864, and Treasurer in 1868, which office he still holds. Besides being Treas- urer and Manager of the Scovill Manufacturing Company, he is Treasurer of the Matthews & Wil- lard Manufacturing Company, and a Director in the Stanley Works, the Simpson, Hall, Miller Comi:)any and the Simpson Nickel Silver Company. He is an active member of the First Congregational Church, and has served repeatedly on the committee, has been a Mason since 1859, and is a member of the Clark Commandery. He has never sought or held a political office. Mr. Goss married February 23, 1864, Caroline Amelia Ketcham, of ancient and prominent American ancestry, and the following children were born to them : Edward Otis, Marga- ret Porter (deceased), Caroline Ryan, John Henry, Mary Elizabeth, Chauncey Porter and George Au- gustus Goss. GRANNISS, Weston Grey, Merchant, Litch- field, was born in Jjitchfield, February 16, 1855, son of Asa Lyman and Sally (Potter) Granniss. On the paternal side he traces his ancestry back to 1585, to the Rev. Samuel Stone, a native of Here- ford, F^ngland. His great-grandfather William Granniss, who was born in F^ast Haven and became a settler in Litchfield in 1681, purchased the farm five miles west of the village where Mr. Granniss's brother, Fremont M. Granniss, now lives. His grandfather, Thomas Granniss, succeeded to the possession of this farm, and died a prosperous farm- er, at the age of eighty-nine. His wife was Ruth Stone, who was born in Litchfield in April 1789. The father of the subject of this sketch, Asa Lyman Granniss, was born on the old homestead January 1, 1814, and there spent his whole life, dying at the age of eighty, January 13, 1894. His wife to whom he was married March 13, 1849, was Sally, daughter of Miner and Polly Potter. Miner Potter who died in 1850, was a carpenter by trade, and erected many of the old residences in Litchfield. He was the son of Benjamin Potter, a Revolutionary soldier. The Potters trace their ancestry back to John Potter ist, who was born in England in 1607. Weston G. Granniss passed his boyhood on the MEN OF I'ROGRESS. larni. His education was confined to the country district school, and a winter term at the Gunnery St hool at Wasliington, Connecticut His first busi- ness experience was with liaker & Hrinsniade, who kept a general store at Washington After two years of hard work with this firm, as a man of all rtork, he became their head clerk in which capacity he remained for three years. He then became travelling salesman for Bennett, Sloan & Company, wholesale grocers, of New Haven. He remained with the latter firm for two and a half years ; then returning to Litchfield he bought out the interest of C. M. danung, in the firm of Ganung & Elmore. WESTO.N G. GRANNISS. 'I'he present firm of Granniss & Klniore dates from February i, 1S82. The firm started with little cap- ital, but with a determination to win by honest dealing and painstaking effort, they have won a liberal patronage and a well merited success. They carry on the largest mercantile business ever done in Litchfield. They carry a large line of dry- goods, carpets, wall papers, etc., and their grocery stock comprises some of the choicest of domestic and imported delicacies. Mr. Granniss is a Direc- tor in the First National Bank of Litchfield. His politics are Republican. He takes an active inter- est in Masonry, and is Past Master of St. Paul's IxDdge Free and Accepted Masons, of Litchfield, has been District Deputy for Litchfield County, and holds office in the Council and Chapter. He was one of the early members of the Connecticut Com- mercial Travellers' Association in which he still retains membership. His wife to whom he was married February 20, 1S79, was Louise Glover, only daughter of Julius and Jeannette (Bolles) Glover of New Preston, Connecticut. Her father served in the Civil War, and her grandfather was F^lisha Glover, a prosperous farmer of Warren, Connecticut. GRIGGS, Wilfred Elizur, Architect, Water- bury, was born in Waterbury, May 2, 1866, son of Henry t:harles and Mary Bassett (Foote) (iriggs. He traces his ancestry back to a long line of illustrious progenitors. He is of the eighth gener- ation from Thomas Griggs of Roxbury, Massachu- setts, and from Edward Chapman of Simsbury who was killed in the King Philip's War, and from Samuel Porter of Hadley, from Deputy Governor Stephen Goodyear of New Haven, and from Nathaniel Foote. He is of the sixth generation from Governor Roger Wolcott, and in the ninth generation from George Steele and Thomas Munson (Pequot soldiers), and from Major Aaron Cooke, from William Westwood the first civil officer of Connecticut, and from Rev. Nicholas Street, first teacher of the church at New Haven, and its second pastor. The following ancestors were Revo- lutionary patriots : Deacon Ichabod Griggs, Deacon Joshua Griggs, Deacon Elijah Chapman, Amasa Drake, Dr. Alexander Wolcott, Dr. Simon Wolcott, Dr. Jared F'oote and Jonathan Beecher. The subject of this sketch received his early education at the Waterbury English and Classical School, and was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale LTniversity with the degree of Ph. B. in 1887, and from the School of Mines of Columbia College, New York, in 1889, taking, in the latter school, the course in Architecture. After graduation he spent two years in New York as draughtsman in several offices, and in January 1891, opened an office as Architect in Waterbury. In March of the same year he associated himself with Robert W. Hill with the purpose of succeeding him in business. His professional practice has included most of the various forms of architectural work, and has extended to many of the towns within a radius of twenty-five miles of Waterbury. He was the Architect of the Odd Fellows Hall Building, the New England Engineering Company's Building, the Young Men's Christian .Association Building, the Waterbury Clock MKN OF PROGRESS. 33 Company's Office, the Leavenworth Street Fire Engine House, in Waterbury ; the Terry Ulock in Ansonia, Hopson Block, Naugatuck, Fire Engine House in Seymour, and the Hurlbut National Hank Building in Winsted. He has planned school buildings for the Fiske University, Nashville, Ten- nessee, and in the p\ihlir school districts of WILFRED E. GRIGGS. Thomaston, Naugatuck, Watertown and Waterbury. He has furnished plans for the construction of buildings for Electric Lighting Stations at Rock- ville, Bristol, Waterbury, Stamford and Bramford, Connecticut, and Passaic and Dover, New Jersey. He has planned factories for many firms in Water- bury and neighboring towns including the follow- ing : Rogers & Hamilton Co., the Waterbury Brass Co., American Ring Co , American Mills Co., Steele i^; Johnson Manufacturing Co , Waterbury Machine Co., E. J. Manville Machine Co., Ber- becker & Rowland Manufacturing Co., all of Water- bury ; the Stanley Works and the North & Judd Manufacturing Co. of New Britain, the Union Hardware Co., of Torrington, W. R. Brixey, of Sey- mour, and the Bridgeport Brass Co., of Bridgeport, Connecticut. His work also includes many private residences in Waterbury and in other towns. He has been a member of the fioard of Sciiool Visitors for Waterbury since 1895. He is a mem- ber of the Waterbury Club. At Yale he became a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity, and at Columbia he was a member and the first President of the Columbia Architectural Society. He was married .April 21, 1892, at Paris, France, to Flora Victoria Hartley. They have one child, Catharine Griggs. HANNAN, RtvKRKNi) Frfderick Watson, Pas- tor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Meriden, was born at Cochecton, Sullivan county. New York, May 4, 1866, son of Martin and Cather- ine (Noonan) Hannan. His parents came to this country from Ireland at an early age, and his fatlicr dying when the subject of this sketch was but three years old, his mother was left in destitute circum- stances with a family of four small children to sup- l)ort. At an early age the son was sent to work upon a farm, attending school in the winter only. Finally, by hard labor and severe economy, he suc- ceeded in passing through scliool and college, F. WATSON HANNAN. namely, the district school at Rock Hill, and the Academy at Monticello, New York, and the Colle- giate Institute at Hackettstown, New Jersey. He graduated from Wesleyan L^niversity with the degree of B. A. in 1890. and from the Drew Theological School, Madison, New Jersey, in 1893. While at college at Middletown he supplied the Methodist 34 MEN OF PROGRESS. Episcopal Church at Welhersfield, and while at the 'Iheological School he supplied the Methodist Epis- copal Church at East Norwich, Long Island. From there he went to the church at Bayport, Long Island, remaining there until a year after his gradu- ation from the seminary. In the spring of 1894 he became the assistant of Dr. John Rhey Thompson, then pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Meriden. In this position he served with such acceptance that in April 1895, upon the removal of Dr. Thompson by expiration of time, he became full pastor of the church. He was a member of the Psi I'psilon fraternity at college, and is a member of the Royal Arcanum. He was married March 25, 1895, to Miss Anna L. Danes of Blue Point, Long Island. They have two children : Watson Monroe and Herbert Rhey Hannan. 1 87 1 he sold this paper to the publishers of the Churchman in Hartford, and became attached to that paper and the publishing house with which it was connected. In January 1873 he founded the Insurance Journal in Hartford. In January 1880 he became the editor of the Weekly Underwriter, having purchased one half the stock of the com pany ijrinting and publishing the paper. In 1874 he published the Insurance Year Book. The " Stat- utory Requirements," an abstract of insurance laws, first published in the Year Book, has since become a standard book and is published annually. " Fire and Marine Insurance Statistics" was published in HAYDEN, Henry Rogers, Insurance Journalist, Hartford, was born in Seneca Falls, New York, November 23, 1836, son of Henry Rogers and Lucretia (Gregory) Hayden. His mother was born in Frome, England, and on his father's side he is descended from John Hayden of Braintree, Massa- chusetts (1634). After leaving the common schools at sixteen he entered a printing office to learn the trade. Subseijuently he travelled considerably as a journeyman printer, newspaper correspondent and local editor. His first essay as publisher and editor was in the campaign of i860, when he published a weekly paper called the Mirror at La Crosse, Wis- consin, and which, in the following winter, was changed to a daily. In the winter of 1862 he became publisher and local editor of the Sparta Herald, and a year later was persuaded to begin the publication of the Monroe County Democrat at Sparta, Wisconsin. In the spring of 1865 Mr. Hay- den was offered the position of City Editor of the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel and removed to that city. A year later he was associated with Joseph R. Ham- ilton as General Agent of the Equitable Life Assur- ance Society. But the old habit was too strong to be easily broken, and even before his resignation as agent of the Equitable, he had begun the publica tion of a monthly in the interest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. He gave up the life insurance business in the spring of 1868, and soon after purchased the American Churchman, which was conducted under the editorship of the present Bishop of Mississippi. In the summer of H. R. HAYDEN. 1880, 1881 and 1882. Mr. Hayden is now the edi- tor and publisher of the "Annual Cyclopaedia of Insurance." He was a representative in the Gen- eral Assembly of Connecticut in 1876-77, and was again nominated in 1881 but declined, and was the nominee of the Democratic party for State Senator in 1884. He has been a Trustee and President of the Raymond Library, East Hartford, since its foun- dation, is a member of the Connecticut Horticul- tural Society and an occasional competitor at its exhibitions, a member of the Connecticut Dairy- men's .\ssociation, and is also a member of the Con- necticut Historical Society, the Larchmont Yacht Club, New York, the New York .\thletic and Lotos MRN Ol' I'KOGRESS. 35 clubs, aiul the Church ("hih oi fonnccticut. 1 It- was married May i, 1862, to Maria S. Warren. Their children have been : Celia Murray, Jessie Warren, Henry Rogers, ^[aria l.ouise, Warren, Sara, Joseph A., Edgar Gregorv, May i*'ranccs and lltrtlia Brighani Havden. III'RR, Reverend Joseph Daniei., Baptist Cler- gyman and Lecturer, Norwich, was born in Shar]3s- burg, Pennsylvania. February 23, 1837, son of Daniel and Ann {Sni\<.'ly) ilerr. lie is a descen- J. D, HERR. dant of Hans Herr who in 1684 came to this country from Suabia, Germany, all of Suabia being at one time in possession of the family. Hans Herr settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, receiving a grant of land from William Penn. Owing to his large possessions and noble character he was known as King Herr. He was a Memnonite as have been most of his descendants. Rev. Joseph D. Herr was educated at Madison College, but did not complete his course, as the college was closed on account of the War, and for the fact that the majority of the students had enlisted. During the War he was intimately connected with the .Sanitary Commission. He also raised a company of emer- gency men, who however did not see service as ('io\crni)r Curtin wired that he had enough men. Mr. Ilerr has been pastor of churches in Pitts- burgh, where he was ordained, and at Cincinnati, New York city, Milwaukee and Norwich. He received his degree of 1). D. from Otterbein Uni- versity in 1876. He was one of the trustees of Adrian College, Michigan, and helped to raise the endowment for that institution, and has been influ- ential in having many churches erected. He is an accomplished speaker and a well known lecturer before Teachers' Institutes in Pennsylvania and other states. He has been C'hairman of ICxecutive Committee of Wisconsin Board of ^L^nagement, and also on Executive Board of Connecticut Bap- tist Interests, as well as of New York. He is a thirty-second degree Mason. In politics he is a Republican, casting his first \ote for Lincoln, in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, being guarded by two policemen. He was married July 21, 1859, to Mary K. Wood. His second wife is .Anna M. Given, to whom he was married October 27, 1863. I lis children are : Benjamin Laisdell, Mary Lillian and Josejih I). Herr, Jr. HILLS, Charles Sidney, Drygoods Merchant, Hartford, was born in Hartford, September i, 1853, son of Sidney and Sarah M. Hills. His grand- father on his mother's side was Martin Rogers, who married Betsey Scoville. His grandfather on his father's side was Joel Hills, who was born in 1778 and married Milly Keeney. His great-grandfather was Ebenezer Hills, born in 1750, and the husband of Ruth Deming Hills. He was educated in the district schools and at a business college in Brook- lyn, New York. On May 31, 1869, at the age of fifteen, he entered the employ of the drygoods firm of Joseph Langdon & Company, of Hartford, and on July I, 1881, he became a partner in the firm. Joseph Langdon retired in August 1885, and the business was continued by the remaining partners, Charles W. Cook and Charles S. Hills, under the firm name of Cook & Hills. In July 1896, Mr. Hills bought the interest of Mr. Cook in the busi- ness, and continued under the firm name of C. S. Hills & Company, associating with him Mr. E. V. Vedder, of New York. In 1891 Cook & Hills ac(]uired the business of E. L. Bliss. The com- bined stores now occupy a building with a frontage of seventy feet on Main street and one hundred and twenty-five feet on Pratt street. I'Vom Sep- 36 MEN OF PROGRESS. , , , , , ,1,^ Hnrrford as their Superintendent. He remained with the tcubcr .875 to .880 he belonged _to the Ha tfo d as ^^^^.^^^^^ .^^ ^^^^^^^_ City Guard. Company F, First Regiment Connecti cut National Guards, and he is a member of the Veteran City Guard. He also belongs to the Country Club of Farmington. He was married Company as long as they continued in business. In 1870 in connection with J. B. Leavenworth he started a coal and lumber business at Ro.xbury Station. Mr. ]xa\enworth retired from the firm on account of poor health and the business is now carried on under the firm name of A. L. Hodge & Son. The firm also deals in hardware. In politics he is a Democrat. He has been Constable, Grand Juror, Justice of the Peace, Member of the Board of Relief, Registrar of Vital Statistics, Postmaster at Ro.xbury Station for six years, and Selectman for thirteen years. He was a member of the Legisla- ture in 1853, 1864 and 1865 and 1875. In 1853 he served on the Committee on Agriculture, in 1865 on the Committee of Railroads and Mileage, and in 1875 was Chairman of the Committee on Claims. He was a Director on the Shepang Railroad until the bondholders foreclosed and took possession. C. S. HILLS. September 22, 1880, to Mattie E. Harrison. They have one child : .Xnnie M. Hills, born November 14, 1881. HODGE, Albert Laf.avetie, Merchant, Rox- bury, Connecticut, was born in Roxbury, October 15, 1822, son of Chauncey Hodge of Ro.xbury and Ruth .Vnn (Bunnell) Hodge, of Oxford. His great- grandfather was Daniel Hodge who was killed near Stamford during the Revolutionary War. His grand- father Phito Hodge was at the Battle of Bunker Hill and served throughout the war. His war record shows three enlistments and his widow re- ceived a pension. Albert L. Hodge received his education at the district school and at the Academy at Roxbury for four winters. For fifteen years he worked on the farm in the summer and taught school in the winter. On May 16, 1845, he was chosen Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment Infantry, which position he held until the law was changed. In July 1866 he began to work for the American Silver Steel Company as their Agent and afterwards ALBERT L. HODGE. He has been an executor or administrator on thirty estates. He is past master of the Rising Sun Lodge number twenty-seven. He was married October 25, 1846, to Jane E. Wells of New Milford. Two children have been born to them : Elizabeth J. who married L. J. Pons, M. D., and Charles W. Hodge who now has charge of the business of A. L. Hodge & Son. MEN OF PROCRRSS. 37 HOLMES, George M., Merchant and Banker, Norwalk, was born in Wilton, Connecticut, son of Cliarles and Lucretia (Morehouse) Hohiies. His father was an honorable and well-to-do farmer. He was educated in the common schools and at the tional Churcli. Mr. Holmes was married October 25, 1852, to Huldah A. Smith. They have had two children : Mary \., now wife of James Cousins, jr , of New York city ; and Charles O. Holmes, who died in January 1886, at the age of twenty. Mr. Holmes is in the enjoyment of good health and the ability to be actively engaged in the splendid busi- ness of Holmes, Keeler & Selleck Company, Whole- sale Grocers. GEO, M. HOLMES. High School of Wilton, followed by a term under the tutorship of Storrs Hall, a brother of the Rev. Doctor Hall of Norwalk, Connecticut. He taught school in Norwalk for three years, and then took up merchandising, in which he has been actively en- gaged for forty-six years. During his business career he has never had a lawsuit. He has had no taste for politics, believing that politics and mer- chandising make a miserable combination. His success in his business dealings is well attested by the responsible positions with which he has been entrusted. He is President of the Norwalk Savings Society, the Central National Bank of Norwalk, and the Holmes, Keeler & Selleck Company. He is a Director in the Norwalk Pottery Company, the Lounsburg & Bissell Company, and in the Norwalk Club Company. He has also been a Director in the Danbury & Norwalk Railroad Company, and the Norwalk Gaslight Company. He is a Trustee for the estate of Joseph W. Hubbell, of Norwalk. He is a member of the New York Produce Exchange, of the Norwalk Club nnd of the First Congrega- HUBB.ARD, Reverend Andrew Coomus, D. D., Pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Danbury, was born at what is now known as Lindale, Cler- mont county, Ohio, January 23, 1839, son of Rufus Hubbard, a native of Maine, and Martha R. (Coombs) Hubbard. 'I'iie Coombs family were early pioneers in Ohio, they came from Maine and settled in Clermont county when it was an almost unbroken forest, and when Cincinnati was a mere village. Mr. Hubbard was educated in the public A. C. HUBBARD. schools of Cincinnati, and graduated from the Woodward High School. He attended Denison University, (IranviUe, Ohio, and received from that institution the degrees of B. A., A. M., and the honorary degree of I). I). He was ordained pastor of the Baptist Church, Woodstock, Illinois, Decem- ber 19, 1861, and the following year became Pastor 38 MEN OF PROGRESS. of the North Baptist Church in Springfield, Illinois. He took a prominent part in union and anti-slavery meetings, and during the war was active in hospital and enlistment work. He was one of the officiat- ing clergyman at the funeral of .Abraham Lincoln at Springfield. In 1S65 he became Pastor of the First Baptist Church at Cincinnati, Ohio. On November 13, 1S68, he assumed the pastorate of the Second Baptist Church of Danbury, where he still remains. During his pastorate there have been large additions to the membership of the church, and its activities and benevolence have been greatly increased. In 1893 the society dedi- cated one of the finest church edifices in Connecti- cut, at a cost of one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Mr. Hubbard has been a member of the Board of School Visitors of Danbury for more than twenty-five years, and for the most of the time has been Secretary of the Hoard. He is an Odd Fellow and has been, for many years, prominent as a Free Mason, both in the local and state organizations. In politics he has always been a Republican. He has been a lecturer on various phases of science and art, and has written numerous articles for peri- odicals anil newspapers, being an eloquent speaker and a forceful writer. He was married January i, 1861, to Abbie Maria MuUiken. They have had three children : Martha C, wife of Joseph A. Skin- ner of Holyoke, Massachusetts, born February 16, 1862 ; Harry G., born April 22, 1864; and Francis W. Hubbard, born December i, 1866. HUBBARD, G.ASTON Tryon, President of the Rogers & Hubbard Company, Middletown, was born in Wadesboro, North Carolina, September 8, 1828, son of Asa and Sarah Ann (Tryon) Hubbard, both of whom were born in Middletown, Connecti- cut. He is a grandson of Asa Hubbard ist, of Middletown, and traces his ancestry through George Hubbard 5th and Mary Stocking Hubbard, his wife, to George Hubbard 4th of Middletown, to George Hubbard 3d and Mehitabel Miller Hubbard, his wife, to George Hubbard who was captain of the Militia in Captain Comfort Sage's regiment in the Revolutionary War, and is a Son of the Revolution. Up to 1840 he attended a school in Middletown kept by Joseph Lathrop, after which he attended the Chase Academy until January 1, 1846. He prepared for college but chose the mercantile busi- ness instead of a college course. He was brought up on a farm. In February 1846 he went South to act as clerk for his uncle, George S. Hubbard, who carried on a large mercantile business at Wadesboro, North Carolina. His uncle was strict, yet kind, and the training which he there received laid the foundation for the business success which he afterwards attained. Returning to .Middletown, January i, 185 i, he has continued in business there ever since. He is President of the Rogers & Hub- bard Company of Middletown, and an active mem- ber and officer of the Board of Trade ; has been a member of the Board of Education, member of the Board of Aldermen and City Council, and has GASTON T. HUBBARD. been identified with all the great undertakings of the city. He was an active member of the board of directors, on the building of the railroad from Berlin to New Britain, also of the Connecticut Val- ley Railroad from Hartford to Saybrook. He states that he has never voted against a road, street, bridge, school-house, home for the unfortunate, or public improvement. He strongly sympathizes with the temperance cause, and believes that the acceptance of its principles would settle labor difficulties and bring happiness to the homes of the people. Dur- ing the Rebellion he did what he could to maintain the Union, although always retaining his feeling of kinship and love for the people of the South. He MEN OF I'KOC.RESS. 39 is a Knight Templar, a member of tlie Cyrean Com- mandery, and was tlie first President of the Mason Social Club. He was married May 4, 1852, to Maria E. Hubbard, daughter of Hon. .Alfred Hub bard of Middletown. They were of the same name but not related. There have been born to them six children: Clara, .Ada H., William Gaston, F. Perry, G. Tracy and Wilbur Lansing Hubbard. Of this number, three arc still li\ing to bless their home. HYDE, Georce Henry, Lawyer, New ^'ork city, was born at Woodstock, Windham rounty. GEO. H. HYDE. Connecticut, August 7, 1854, son of William L and Sarah M. (Potter) Hyde. He is the descendant on the maternal side from an old New England family of Potters who settled at Plymouth, Rhode Island, in early Colonial times. He is also con- nected with the Sprague and Williams families of Rhode Island. On the paternal side he traces his descent from four generations of New England ancestors. His early education was received at the public schools, at Danielson High School, and at Woodstock .Academy. Later, he attended the Con- necticut Literary Institution, after wliich he spent some time on a farm. He taught in public schools in Plainfield at eighteen, and later at the graded ]iublic schools in Central Village where he was Principal, and at Wauregan, Connecticut, thus earning means for an education. Lie was also clerk in the office of John J. Penrose of Central Village for two years, and at the end of that time began the study of law in the law school of the Lbiiversity of the City of New York, where, in May 1883, he obtained the degree of LL. li. He was admitted to the Windham County i5ar September 19, 1883, to the Supreme Court of New York, March 1886, and to the United States Circuit Court, and Court of Appeals, in 1889. Mr. Hyde is at present estab- lished in a large and profitable practice in New York city, mostly in the l'"quity and Surrogate Courts, and numbers a wealthy clientele. In 1880 and 1 88 1, he was Registrar of the township of Plainfield, Connecticut; in 1896 he was Commis- sioner from Presbytery of New York to General Assembly of Presbyterian churches in the Ignited States, held at Saratoga. At present he holds the office of Clerk of Session, and Superintendent of Sunday School of the Scotch Presbyterian Church of New York, and is a member of the New York City Presbytery ; he is also a member of the Presbyterian LTnion, the New England Society, and of the .Alumni Association of the Law Department of the LIniversity of the City of New York. In politics he is a Republican, but independent in municipal matters. He was married October 13, 1888, to Emma D. Lewis, and has two children: George G. and Richard L. Hyde. JOHNSON, Marcls Morton, B. P. I.., M. D., Hartford, was born in Malone, New York, April 2, 1S44, son of Marvin T. and Polly (Chapman) John- son. He traces his ancestry back for seven genera- tions in this country. His father's ancestors were early settlers in \V^ethersfield, C'onnecticut, and from there a branch of the family moved to Rut- land, Vermont, where many descendants still live. His grandfather, Leonard Johnson, moved from Rutland to Malone, New York, and was one of the first half dozen settlers of that town. His maternal ancestors were early settlers of Norwich, Connecti- cut. Joshua Chajiman, Sr., was born in 1755, and enlisted in the Revolutionary War in April 1775, in Captain Chapin's Company at West S]iringfield, Massachusetts. His son Joshua Cha])man, Jr., went to Malone, New \'ork, when a young man. Dr. Johnson was prepared for college at Franklin 40 MEN OF PROGRESS. Academy at Malone, and was graduated from Brown University in 1870. He took his medical degree at the I'niversily of tlie City of New York. He was house surgeon for one year in the Hartfoni Hospital, and for two years he pursued his medical M. M. JOHNSON. studies at Ix)ndon, Vienna and Berlin. His medi- cal studies lasted from 1875 to 1880. For the five years previous he was instructor in mathematics and the sciences in the Connecticut Literary Institution, at Suffield. From 1880 until the present time he has practiced medicine and surgery at Hartford. He has been .Surgeon of the First Company Gover- nor's Foot Guards from 1880 until the present time, and for twenty years beginning in 1876, he was President of the Alumni Association of the Connecticut Literary Institution, and is a trustee of the Institute as well. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and of the city, county and state medical societies. He is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a Knight Tem- plar and a member of the Washington Commander)'. He was married February 14, 1884, to Helen Lyman Jackson. They have two children : Helen Gaylord and Ethel Chapman Johnson. JOSLYN, Charles Mason, Attorney-at-Law, Hartford, was born in Tolland, Connecticut, March 20, 1849, son of Edmund and Ro.\ana (Cobb) Joslyn. On his father's side he is of Huguenot descent, and on his mother's side, Welsh. The family have been prominent in Tolland since their settlement there about 1760. He was educated at the Tolland High School and at Monson Academy. From the latter institution he was graduated as Valedictorian of his class in 1870, and with the highest rank as speaker and writer. He was fitted for Yale College, but instead of pursuing his course there, entered the law office of Waldo Hubbard & Hyde, Hartford. He was admitted to the Bar in May 1873, and for the two years following was asso- ciated witii the State Attorney, Hon. William Ham- mersley (now Judge of the Supreme Court), and with Hon. George G. Sumner. On April i, 1875, he formed a partnership with E. H. Hyde, Jr., for the practice of law under the firm name of Hyde CHAS. M. JOSLYN. & Joslyn. In 1894, George H. Oilman, son of the late Judge Oilman of Hartford, was admitted to the firm, and the firm style has since been Hyde, Joslyn & Oilman. The firm is one of the most successful and respected in the state, and represents many nnportant estates and corporations. Mr. Joslyn was trustee of the estate of George M. Bartholo- MEN OF PROGRESS. 41 mew, in uiiich one million six hundreii thousand dollars was involved, was Receiver of the Stallord National Hank, whose creditors were paid in full with interest in one year from his appointment, executor of estate of Charles M. I'ond, comisel for the state for the two years followinj; the dead- lock in the Legislature, and comisel in the move- ment which residted in the abolition of the I'last Hartford bridge and subsequent litigation. His best known addresses outside of his professional arguments are the address on Nathan Hale at Coventry in 1878, the Memorial Oration at Hartford in 18S4 and the oration at the dedication of the statue to Governor Hubbard in 1890. He was Representative in the General Assembly from Tol- land in 1874, Representative from Hartford in 1S85, and the Democratic candidate for Speaker. He was .\ide-de-Camp on the staff of Governor Hub- bard in 1877-78, and Judge-Advocate General on staff of Governor Morris in 1S93-94. He was Chair- man of the Hartford High School Committee from 1883 to 1893, President of the Hartford Library Association, and President of the Hubbard Escort, one of the most important political clubs in the state, for ten years from its organization in 1880. He has always been active in the counsels of the Democratic party and in demand as a speaker and as presiding officer at its conventions. He was married December 18, 1879, to Minnie L. Brown, of Providence, Rhode Island. They have one child : Emily Joslyn, born July 18, 1888. JUDSON, Stiles, Jr., Attorney-at-Law, Strat- ford, was born fn Stratford, Connecticut, February 13, 1862, son of Stiles and Caroline E. (Peck) Judson. He is a lineal descendant of William Judson who came from England and settled in Stratford in 1638 one year before the plantation was established. His ancestors for successive gen- erations were born and lived in Stratford, and in nearly an unbroken line ha\e rei^resented the town in the (ieneral Assembly of Connecticut. He was educated in the public and private schools of Strat- ford, and studied law in the Law Department of Vale University where he was graduated in 1885, at the head of his class. He was admitted to the Bar, June 24, of the same year. After graduation he was Law Clerk in the office of Townsend & Watrous, New Haven, until the fall of 1886, when he began the practice of law in Bridgeport, asso- ciated with Mr. W. K. Seeley. In 1890 he formed a partnership with Charles S. Canfield of I^.ridge- |iort under the firm name of Canfield \' Judson. The firm has conducted a successful law business ill I'lridgcjiort and has been connected with some of the most imjiortanl suits that have arisen in I'air- field county. Mr. Judson was identified with the State Militia for thirteen years, passing through the various grades to ('ajitain of Company K, Fourth Regiment, Connecticut National Guards, resigning in 1S91. He has always been active in politics and has been Chairman of the Republican Town Com- mittee of Stratford for ten years jjast. He was member of the General Assembly in 1S91 and again STILES JUDSON, JR. in 1895, acting on both occasions as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and in 1895 was also Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments. He was the Republican nominee for Secretary of State in the campaign of 1892, and has been a prominent stump speaker for the Republicans for several Presidential campaigns. He is a member of the Lotus Club of New York, the Seaside and Country clubs of Bridgeport, the Housatonic and Social clubs of Stratford, and is also a member of St. John's Lodge A. F. & \. M. He was married December 5, 1889, to Minnie L. Miles, of Milford, and has always resided in the town of Stratford. 42 MEN OF PROGRFSS. KELLOGG, Edward Wilberforce, M. D., Hart- ford, was born in Avon, Connecticut, November 29, 1840, son of Heia C. and Mary (liarllett) Kellogg. His grandfathers were Reverend Bela Kellogg, the first ])astor of the Congregational Church at East E. W. KELLOGO. Avon, and Reverend John Bartlett, pastor of the Congregational churches at Bloomfield and West Avon. Through the latter he is descended from twelve of the Mayflower Pilgrims, including John and Priscilla Alden, Elder William and Mary Brewster, and John and Elizabeth Rowland. His education was received in the public schools of Philadelphia, and at the High School at Collins- ville, Connecticut. He studied medicine for two years with the late Dr. Isaac G. Porter of New Lon don, and then took courses of lectures at the Belle- vue Hospital Medical College and at the New York Homeopathic Medical College, receiving his de- gree from the latter institution in 1867. He set- tled in Danbury the year of his graduation, but removed the same year to .Southington, where he remained till May 187 1. He then settled at Hart- ford where he has since resided. He served for three years during the Civil War as Hospital Stew- ard in the Regular Army, often performmg the duties of Assistant Surgeon. His commission bearing the signature of General U. S. Grant is a highly valued souvenir of that experience. He has also served respectively as Treasurer, Vice-Presi- dent and President of the Connecticut Homoeo- pathic Medical Society. He is a Republican and a member of the society of the Sons of the Revolu- tion, the Army and Navy Club, and the Connecti- cut Historical Society. He was married March 7, 7867, to Miss Hilah A. Dart of New London. Their children are : Edward Russell Kellogg, M. D., Arthur Bartlett Kellogg, M. D., and Robert Belden Kellogg. KENT, Thomas Blake, President of the Holmes, Booth & Haydens Company, brass manufacturers, Waterbury, Connecticut, was born in Calvert county, Maryland, June 24, 1847, son of Jonathan Yates and I'^lizabeth (Blake) Kent. The Kent family were among the earliest settlers of Maryland, and identified with the history of the state both before THOS. B- KENT. and after the Revolutionary War. His paternal grandfather was Daniel Kent, for many years a State Senator, and a brother of the late Joseph Kent, Governor and United States Senator from Mary- land. His maternal grandfather was Dr. Joseph Blake of Calvert county, Maryland, a prominent physician of his time. Mr. Kent received his early MEN OF PROGRESS. 43 education uiulor private instruction, then look a preparatory course at Iiorrt)nieo College, I'ikesviUe, Baltimore county, Maryland, finally entering George- town College, Georgetown, I). C. He first entered mercantile life with Kdward Mitchell & Sons, wholesale grocers, of Baltimore. He later removed to Chicago, where he established a branch house of Abram P'rench & Company, of Boston, and after- wards the firm of Bowen & Kent, wholesale dealers in crockery, lamps and glassware, Chicago, Illinois. He became associated with the Bristol Brass & Clock Company, of Forestville, Connecticut, in 1877, and with the Holmes, Booth & Haydens Company of Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1887. In 1893 he became President and Treasurer of this company, in which responsible position he still con- tinues. He is also Trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank, and Director in the Tradesmen's National, and the Market & Fulton National Banks, all of New York city. He is a member of the Water- bury Club, of \Vaterbury, Connecticut, and of the Union League, Manhattan and Lawyers' clubs of New York city. He was married A])ril 23, 1884, to Cora H. Rutter, daughter of the late Thomas Rutter of New York city. They have two chil- dren : .Aline Mrginia and Georgie Marie Kent. KN.-\PP, Herbert Merton, Banker, Bridgeport, was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, December 12, 1854, son of Rufus and Caroline (Trubee) Knapp. His ancestors lived in Fairfield for many generations. On the paternal side they were sea-faring men and farmers ; on the maternal side they were merchants, farmers and mechanics. The paternal grandfather's and grandmother's names were Rufus and Esther Knapp, the maternal Samuel C. and Elizabeth Tru- bee. He comes of a family of remarkable longevity. When the subject of the present sketch was seven- teen years old, his four grandparents were living and all of them over eighty- five years of age. In the Trubee history an honorable line of ancestry is traced back for many generations. The present banker received his education at the Fairfield Academy. At fourteen he entered the preparatory school at Winchester Centre, Connecticut, where he remained two years. He left the school to enter the employ of the Pequonnock National Bank of Bridgeport. He remained in that institution for nineteen years, holding all the positions from boy to teller, and act- ing as paying and receiving teller combined for ten years. During most of this lime he was associated with outside business. .At the age of nineteen, in connection with others, he organized the Pettis Loan and Savings Bank of Sedalia, Missouri, which is now the Missouri Trust Comjiany, one of the most successful institutions of its kind in the West. In 1883, with others, he organized the Georgia Loan and Trust Company, then of Americus, now of Macon, Georgia, and has held the position of Vice-President of this institution ever since. In 1893, with I'lbene/.er Burr, he formed the private banking house of Burr & Knapp, now one of the jirominent financial institutions of Bridgeport. He H. M. KNAPP. has tra\elled extensively, crossing the Atlantic twelve times, visiting nearly every large city in the United States and Europe, and has been as far East as Egypt and Palestine. In politics he is a Repub- lican, but never an office seeker. He is a member of the Corinthian Lodge and Hamilton Command- ery of Bridgeport. He had the rare experience of attending lodge in the (,)uarries of Solomon at Jeru- salem, which city he visited in 1895. He is a member of the Sea-Side and Sea-Side Outing clubs, Brooklawn Club Corporation, and the Bridgeport Yacht Club. He was married February 5, 1895, to E. Louise Faxon, of Philadelphia. 44 MEN OF I'ROC.RESS. LANE, John Shkrman, Stone Contractor, Meri- den, was born in Kent, Connecticut, November 27, 1839, son of Daniel P. and Polly B. (Sherman) I^ne. His father, a veteran of the War of 1812, filled several town offices and was a member of the State Legislature. He was educated at the district school, working on the farm during the summer, and attending school in the winter. At the age of eighteen, he left home for Bridgeport where he began work on track repairs on the New York, ■1 ■■ ^^g . i^jH^I ^^^^^^^H v^^ ^^/^PP ■1 ^^^ w i^ ^-^flHI^H JOHN S. LANE. New Haven & Hartford Railroad. In three months he was promoted to be foreman on the Housatonic line. He assisted in laying the double tracks between New Haven and New York, and also in laying the tracks into the old station at Fourth avenue and Twenty-seventh street, New York, since abandoned. In 1859 he went West with Col. R. K. Mason, then Mayor of Chicago and General Mana- ger of the Logansport, Peoria & Burlington Rail- road. There he remained until the battle of Bull Run, when he returned to Connecticut and enlisted with the Eighth Connecticut Volunteers, September 21, 1861. He was gradually promoted until he was finally offered a captain's commission. Having suf- fered from chills and fever for a year, and after taking part in fourteen hard engagements, he resigned October 18, 1864. He was appointed Supervisor of the Housatonic Railroad, January i, 1865, in which position he remained until 1880, when he accepted a like position on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, his super- vision covering the road from New Haven to Springfield, with its branches. Here he remained until 1890, during which time he stone-ballasted sixty-two miles of the main track. This work called his attention to the stone business, and resigning his position, he became the pioneer stone contractor east of Pennsylvania in the furnishing of stone and concrete work for streets and railroads. In 1892 he received the contract for supplying all the ballast for the four-track improvements of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. This contract necessitated the supplying of a daily average of one hundred carloads of stone. Begin- ning with one crusher in 1890, Mr. Lane, with his eldest son, now operates fourteen large crushers in five quarries, besides two large steam rollers for road building. The firm has built over forty miles of macadamized' roads in Connecticut and M,assa- chusetts, and is now erecting a plant to build a large dam at New Milford. In 1894 Mr. Lane moved from Hartford to Meriden where he now resides. He has always been a Republican, and is a member of the Common Council, and of the Home Club, of Meriden. He is also a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Royal Arcanum, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Loyal Legion, the American Mechanics, and of the Army and Navy Club of New London. He was married Janu- ary 27, 1863, to Emma S. Plumb. Their children have been: Arthur S., Bertha G. (Mrs. VV. R. Smith), E. LeRoy, Harry C. and Ednah C. Lane. LEWIS, Edward Cuffin, Manufacturer, Water- bury, was born in Welsh Pool, North Wales, Sep- tember 23, 1826, son of John and Mary Lewis. He came with his parents to this country in 1831, they settling in Bridgeport. He received a common school education, but was under the necessity, early in life, of working in cotton and woollen mills, an employment which he followed for eight years. At the end of that time he entered, as an apprentice- the Bridgeport Iron Works, a concern which he afterwards owned and managed. He acquired a thorough, practical knowledge of the foundry busi- ness, and in 1847 entered the employ of Colburn & Bassett, prominent iron founders of Birmingham MEN OF PROGRESS. 45 He left this establishment in 1S49 to become fore- man of the Farrcl Foundry and Machine Company of Ansonia. Mr. Lewis here exhibited so much executive ability, and so thorough a knowledge of the business that he was selected as foreman of tlu' E. C. LEWIS. branch concern in W'alerbury. In a short time he became the Manager of the Waterbury establishment and eventually its President and owner. He has been closely identified with the industrial interests of Waterbury, and in his business enterprises has been uniformly successful. He was one of the pro- jectors of the Manufacturers National Bank and has been a Director since its organization. He is also a Director in the Dime Savings Bank. He is interested in twenty-seven different manufacturing concerns, and is a large owner of real estate. He is President of the Oakville Company and of the Capewell Horse Nail Company of Hartford, and a Director in the following concerns : Benedict & Burnham, Plume & Atwood, Hendey Machine Com- pany, Torrington, Connecticut, and Holmes, Booth & Haydens. Mr. Lewis is a genial and liberal busi- ness man, and is in hearty sympathy with all efforts for the public good. He has twice served as mem- ber of the Common Council, has been a Police Commissioner, and in 1884 was a member of the Legislature. In 1886 he was the Republican nom- inee ioT Congress in the Second District, and, although defeated, received a most flattering vote in a tlistrict strongly Democratic. He is an (Xiil Fellow and a generous supporter of Trinity Church. He was married October 29, 1850,10 Harriet M. l'hi|)peny of Hartford. Their children have been : Ida (Mrs. William I',. Fullon), Mary (Mrs. William j. Schlcgel), I'ldward IL, Truman S. Lewis and three others now deceased. LOOMIS, Seymour Crane, Counsellor-at-Law, New Haven, was born in Suffield, Connecticut, November 12, 1861, son of (ieorge Wells and Mary ICllen (Norton) Loomis. On his father's side he is descended from Joseph Loomis, one of the original settlers of Windsor, and whose place, still in the Loomis family, is shortly to be used as the site of the Loomis Institute. On his mother's SEYMOUR C. LOOMIS. side he is descended from Daniel W. Norton, late of Suffield. He was educated in the district schools of Suffield and at the Connecticut Literary Institute of that town, from which school he graduated, in 1878, as valedictorian of his class. He received the degree of B. A. from Yale College in 1882, and two years later the degree of LL. B. lU/// laudc, from 46 MEN OF i'ROORESS. the Yale I-iw School, and was admitted to the Bar June 24, 1884, having previimsly studied with John W. Ailing, of New Haven, with whom he continued until 1887. In that year he entered the law firm of Stoddard, Thompson & I.ooniis, continuing until 1 89 1, when the firm became Stoddard & Loomis. In 1893, Mr. Loomis opened an office individually. He has been engaged in active practice, largely in corporation and estate law, and was of counsel for defendant in the Coffee Case. Mr. Loomis has held the offices of Assistant City Clerk of New Haven two terms, 1885 and 1886, acting City Clerk 1885, and Executive Secretary of the State of Con- necticut 1S93 and 1894. In politics he is a Sound Money Democrat. Mr. Loomis was married April 20, 1892, to Catharine Canfield Northrop, of New Milford, Connecticut. lune I, 1864, and on the Staff of Colonel Ronald S. Mackenzie, in which service he was wounded at Cedar Creek, Virginia, October 19, 1864. When able to rejoin his regiment, yet before his wound was healed, he was mustered February 16, 1865, as Second Lieutenant and placed in command of Com- pany B, which position he held till the close of the War. Company B was the " Color Company " and his command included regimental colors and color guard, and in the battles of that campaign which covered the capture of Petersburg and Richmond, Five Forks, Sailor Creek, and the surrender at Appomattox, the company did gallant service, cap- LUCAS, Frederick Allw, Farmer, Goshen, was born in Goshen, Connecticut, September 9, 1 84 1, son of Daniel Norton and Marilla L. (Price) Lucas. His mother was one of the twelve daughters of Benjamin Price of Goshen, and her ancestry goes back to a British soldier of the Revolution, captured and confined at Litchfield, Connecticut, who, when paroled, married and settled in Goshen. On the paternal side the line is traced back to James Lucas, a landholder and a Trial Justice in 1620, near Manchester, England. From this ances- tor the line descends as follows : Thomas James, who died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1650; Thomas Augustus, a ship captain who died at sea in 1665 ; Thomas, who died at Middletown, Con- necticut, in 1737 ; Thomas, Jr , who died in Mid- dletown in 1749 ; Thomas, Jr., who settled at Goshen in :75s; Allen, who died at Goshen in 1820; Thomas Allen, the grandfather of the subject of our sketch, who died in Goshen in 1837, and Daniel Norton, above named, who died in Goshen in 1880. Frederick AUyn Lucas was educated in the public schools and at Goshen Academy. He worked on his father's farm in the summer and for four winters ])revious to enlistment taught a district school. On August 8, 1862, a few weeks before coming of age, he enlisted as private in Company C of the Nine- teenth Connecticut Infantry, afterwards the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery. He was made Cor- poral September 11, 1862, promoted to Sergeant February i, 1864, and Sergeant-Major April 6, 1864. He served on the Staff of Colonel Elisha S. Kellogg, until his death at Cold Harbor, Virginia, FREDERICK A. LUCAS. turing three flags from the enemy. Although twice wounded he never missed a battle of his regiment, and by virtue of his office held a prominent position in every engagement. In March 1865 Colonel, then General Mackenzie, commanding a division of cavalry under General Sheridan, urged him to join his staflf as an Aide-de-Camp with rank of cap- tain, but this honor he declined. We quote from Vaill's History of the Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery: "Sergeant-Major (afterwards Second Lieutenant) Frederick A. Lucas received a wound in the left thigh at Cedar Creek which disabled him for several months. He returned to the regi- ment just in time to receive another wound, a slight MKN OK I'KOGRF.SS. 47 one, in the affair at Hatcher's Run. He was pro- moted for gallantry at Winchester and Fisher's Hill and Colonel Mackenzie told the writer just after those battles that he never saw a braver man than Sergeant-Major Lucas." He was mustered out August i8, 1865. \Vith this gallant record he re- turned home after the war and engaged as clerk in the mercantile firm of Hart Brothers & Company at West Goshen, Connecticut. This firm did a large wholesale and retail business in butter, cheese and general merchandise, in one year boxing and selling forty thousand boxes of cheese made in Litchfield county, most of them going to the West Indies. Mr. Lucas remained with the firm four years, during the last year of which he was the "cheese man" of the concern. In September i86g he became partner in the firm of tliddings & Lucas, Wholesale Grocers, at Bridgeport, Connecti- cut, but withdrew March i, 1S70, to purchase the old stand of Hart Brothers & Company, forming the firm of Lucas, Hurlbut & Allyn, and continuing the business as before. On March 5, 1877, Wilbert M. .-Mlyn withdrew and the firm became Lucas cS: Hurlbut. On April i, 1879, Fretlerick E. Hurl- but sold his interest to Eugene E. .iMlyn of Closhen, and the firm style became Lucas i.\: .\llyn. On November i, 1883, being in poor health, Mr. Lucas disposed of his interest to his partner and retired from mercantile life. His time is now occupied in the interests of his large farms of one thousand acres at Goshen, and in the care of one hundred and fifty head of stock. He devotes much time to the assistance of others and for many years has served continuously as guardian, trustee and executor. He has won success by hard work, diligence and faithfulness and his townsmen ha\'e frequently honored him with office. He was Representative in the Legislature from Goshen in 1869, and again in 1886, his first term serving on the Commit- tee on Roads and Bridges, and in his second as Chairman of the Committee on Finance. He was Senator from the Eighteenth District in 1887 and 1888, and there also served as Chairman of the Finance Committee. His politics have always been Republican. He is a member of St. Paul's Lodge No. 1 1, Darius Chapter and Buell's Council Free and Accepted Masons of Litchfield, Connecticut, of the Steele Post No. 34, Grand Army of the Republic of Torrington, of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, The Army and Navy Club of Con- necticut, and of Goshen Grange. He was married August 7, 1S67, to jane, eldest daughter of Hon. John M. Wadhams, of Goshen. Two children have been born to them : Frederick Wadhams, born November 11, 1868, and John Marsh, born Decem- ber 14, 1870. His son, John Marsh Lucas, mar- ried Lizzie Garner, daughter of John D. Barton, of Goshen, Connecticut, January 21, 1894; their children are Marilla Myrtle, born January 20, 1895, and Ella Barton, born April 22, 1896. McM.'\HON, J.AMKS Hkxkv, .Xttorncy-at-Law and Ex-Judge of Probate, New Milford, was born in JAMES H. McMAHON. New Milford, Connecticut, June 24, 1839, son of John and Sophia (Wells) McMahon. He received an academic education but did not enter college. He studied law at the Albany Law School and was admitted to the Bar in November, 1863. In his early manhood he taught school for four years. He commenced tlie practice of Law in May 1864 and has continued in active practice ever since. He was counsel in the State and United States Courts, and the United States Patent Office in the Bostwick vs. Isbel case involving the Isbel patents ; in the case of the First National Bank of New Milford vs. the Town of New Milford ; in the 48 MKN OV PROGRESS. James S. Taylor Hal Patent cases ; in the Hongeson murder case; the Knowles homicide cases; the noted sewer cases in the city of Danbury (Morgan vs. Danbury), and many others. For many years he was counsel for tlie town of New Milford, and later for the First National Bank of New Milford. He was elected Judge of IVobate for the district of New Milford in August 1864, and held the office contin- uously until January 1897. He was a member of the General Assembly in 1873 and 1875. In poli- tics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Valley Club, of the Good Shepherd Lodge of Odd Fellows, and the St. Peter's Lodge and Housatonic Chapter of Masons. MERSICK,Ch..\ri.f,s Smith, Hardware and Metal Merchant, New Haven, was born in New York city December 13, 1840, son of John Charles and Sarah (Daggett) Mersick. His father was born in Boston .August 20, 1S04, and his grandfather was a native of Fiume, .Austro-Hungary, who came to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in the year 1800, settling in Boston a year later. His mother was a granddaughter of Naphtali Daggett, President of Yale College from 1766 to 1777, and daughter of Richard Smith of Smithtown, Long Island, whose father, grandfather and great-grandfather each bore the name of Richard Smith. Of the ancestors of Charles Smith Mersick two were governors of American colonies, and many others were jirominent in both civic and military life, from one of whom General U. S. Grant traced his ancestry. His early education was obtained in public and private schools at New Haven. From 1857 ""'■' 'he present time, with the exception of the year 1865, when he was in business in New York, he has been engaged in the hardware and metal business on State street. New Haven. He first entered the employ of English, Atwater & Co., on January i, 1858. In i866 he formed a partner- ship with Nelson A. Hotchkiss under the firm name of Hotchkiss & Mersick. On the death of John English he purchased the business and succeeded the firm of John English & Co. which had previ- ously succeeded the firm of English, Atwater & Co. In 1878 he purchased the interest of Nelson A. Hotchkiss and formed a partnership with Lewis H. English under the firm name of C. S. Mersick & Co. This business has been continued until the present time with more than a moderate degree of success. The firm is well known as extensive dealers in hard- ware and metals, and stands at the head of this busi- ness in Connecticut. In 1881 he was elected a Director in the Merchants National Bank of New Haven, and in 1S89, on the resignation of Ex- Gov- ernor Hobart B. Bigelow, was made President, which office he still holds. As banker and as trustee and receiver of several insolvent estates he has dis- played an ability and versatility which have given him an enviable reputation as a clear-headed, pains- taking and reliable man of business. He is Treasurer of the Masonic Mutual Iknefit Association, a trustee C. S- MERSICK. of the New Haven Savings Bank, and a Director in many manufacturing companies. He was Vice- President of the Chamber of Commerce for two years, and has for several years been active on its Committee of New Enterprises, serving as its Chair- man. He was a Director in the New Haven Free Public Library at the time of its organization and helped to establish it on a firm foundation and secure the property where the Library is now located. In 1872 he was a member of the Common Council and in 1894-96 was Treasurer of the City of New Haven, and by the terms of the new City Charter he will continue to hold this office until June 1899. He was one of the original members of the Republican League Club and was active in the early days of the club as a member of its executive MKN Ol'- I'ROC.KKSS. 49 (•ommittee. lie is a iiiomhcr of tlie First Congrega- tional Church of New Haven and one of its Society Committee. He was married by Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. 1)., the church's famous pastor, on Octo- ber lo, 1865, to l-^llen Louisa Knglish, daughter of George D. iMiglish and a niece of l"..\-Ciovernor James E. Knglish. They have one child : Mary English Mersick. This brief sketch of one identified so closely by ties of kindred and associations with the largest city in Connecticut would not be complete without adding a few words to emphasize his loyalty to the state by saying that he has always been ardently attached to, and deeply interested in every- thing appertaining to its welfare. delivered by Mr. Morrow on that occasion has been |)ut in book form and is a valual)le contribution to the ecclesiastical history of the state. Mr. Mor- row's work in Norwich, as elsewhere, has been abundantly blessed, one hundred and fifty jiersons having been added to the niembershi|) of the church during the last three years. He is an enthusiastic member of the Christian Endeavor Society, and a member of the New J.ondon County Association of Congregational Ministers. His papers before this society give evidence of his scholarship and philosophic bent of mind. He was MORROW, Rl'.VKRENl) CoRNEI.It'S WoR'IKNDVKE, Congregational Minister, Norwich, was born in Brooklyn, New \'ork, February 8, 1855, son of Cor- nelius Wortendyke Lafayette and Jane I-'.liza (Chase) Morrow. On his father's side the family is traced back to Johannes Van Hlarcom of Paraiiuis, New Jersey, a settler there in 1600, and on his mother's side to Aquila Chase of Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1640. This branch of the family is remarkable for ministers. His father, Cornelius W. L. Mor- row, also studied for the ministry, but devoted him- self to manufacturing, being a man of broad culture, a lecturer and a newspaper contributor. The sub- ject of this sketch was graduated from Columbia University in 1876, having prepared at Adelphi Academy and Lockwood Academy, Brooklyn, where he was Valedictorian of his class. From Columbia he entered Union Theological Seminary, New York, where he was graduated with honor in 1879. During his college and seminary course, he devoted much time to addresses, and writing for the press, having published several short stories. After leav- ing the seminary he preached for a while as a Licentiate, supplying the pulpit of the Congrega- tional Church at Kensington, Connecticut. He was installed as Pastor of the Congregational Church at Bethlehem, Connecticut, where he, re- mained four and a half years, then accepting a call to Danbury, in the same state, where he remained six years. His work in each of these fields was very successful. In 1893 he accepted a call to suc- ceed Dr. Leonard W. Bacon at the Second Con- gregational Church, Norwich, his present charge. In December 1895 the church celebrated the cen- tennial of its present location and the address C. W. MORROW. a member of the Danbury High School Committee, twice delivering the graduating address. He is at present one of the trustees of the Otis (Norwich) Ijibrary, and a member of the School Board. He was married January 14, 1880, to Rosalie Caroline Lippman. Their children have been : William Alexander (deceased), Julia Matilda and Marie Janet Morrow. NICKERSON, Leonard J., Attorney-at-Law, Cornwall, was born in Cornwall, Connecticut, Octo- ber 23, 1857, son of Orson and Julia M. (Dibble) Nickerson. On his father's side he is a descendant of William Nickerson who emigrated to Cape Cod 50 .MKN OF PROGRESS. from England in 1637. His mother is a grand- daughter of Israel Dibble who fought in the Ameri- can Army through the entire Revolutionary War and was several times wounded. She is descended in a direct line from Governor William Bradford of throns^h Captain Samuel Parsons, Ithamar Parsons, Aaron Parsons to Curtiss Parsons, his grandfather. He was educated at the Durham public schools. From 1850 to 1853 he was engaged in merchan- dizing, from 1854 to 1866 he was employed in the Waterbury National Bank, and from 1866 to 1870 he was a manufacturer. He has been Secretary and Treasurer of the Dime Savings Bank since 1870 and a private banker since 1871. Mr. Parsons was Aide-de-camp on Governor R. D. Hubbard's Staff from 1877 to 1878, was Mayor of Waterbury from 1880 to 1882, and Judge of Probate, Waterbury District, from 1874 to 1875. He is a member of the New York Reform Club, of the Waterbury Club, and of the Country Club of Farmington. In politics he is a Democrat. He %(k :'"**>• L. J. NICKERSON. the Massachusetts Colony. His early education was obtained in the common schools, and at the Alger Institute at Cornwall. For a time he taught school and then studied law with Hon. Arthur D. Warner. He was admitted to the Bar of the state April 22, 1879, and to the United States Bar in April 1882. During the last ten years he has been connected with nearly every important case in Litchfield county. He has held various town ofifices and was a member of the Legislature of 1883. In 189S he represented Litchfield county before the Legislature in the repeal of the act, placing the maintenance of the Hartford Bridge upon the state. His politics are Republican. He is a Mason and a member of the order of the East- ern Star. He was married September 16, 1896, to Alice P. New. PARSONS, Guernsey Smith, Banker, Water- bury, was born at Durham, December 4, 1834, son of Clement M. and Phcjebe (Smith) Parsons. He traces his ancestry back to Cornet Joseph Parsons G. S, PARSONS. was married October 14, 1858, to Eliza J. Brown, and has one daughter, Mrs. Sarah K. Parsons Merriman. PARSONS, Herbert Calvin, Proprietor of Par- sons Theatre, Hartford, was born in East Windsor, Connecticut, November 4, 1854. son of Calvin G., and Elizabeth (Chapman) Parsons. He was edu- cated in the common schools of East Windsor, and spent his early manhood in farming in that town. He began his business career as proprietor of the MEN OF I'ROC'.RKSS. 51 Hotel at Broad Brook, in the town of ICast Windsor, and later as proprietor and resident manager of the Hotel Parsons which he continued until i8g6. He still owns the hotel. He entered the theatrical business in the fall of 1S92 as pro]irietor of the Park H. C. PARSONS. City Theatre. On April i, 1896, he opened, in Hartford, the New Parsons Theatre. The theatre is beautifully decorated and elegantly furnished and is throughout a thoroughly modern playhouse, the equal of those in the larger cities. During the year De Wolf Hopper, W. H. Crane, Fanny Davenport, John Drew, Ada Rehan and the Damrosch Opera Company have had engagements there, and the public has shown its appreciation by a very liberal patronage. Mr. Parsons is a Knight Templar, a member of Washington Commandery of Hartford, and of Pyramid Shrine of Bridgeport. In politics he has always been a Republican. His wife's maiden name was Carrie G. Simpson. They have one daughter, Maud M. Parsons, born in 1880. PEARSON, A. Walton, Editor of The Bulletin, Norwich, Connecticut, was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, F"ebruary 12, 1842, son of Ariel Pearson, Jr., and Emily (Colby) Pearson. On the paternal side he is descended from John Pearson, an Englishman, who in 1643 established at Rowley, Massachusetts, the first fulling mill in America. On the maternal side the Colbys trace their descent to an ancestor who lived in the little town of Colberg on the Danish coast several centuries ago. His education was obtained in the schools of Newburyport. His journalistic career was pre- shadowed when at the age of eight he became a carrier for the Newburyport Herald. Several years later he entered the office as an apprentice and so served for two years. He was one of the last indentured or long time apprentices. In 1859 he came to Connecticut with John (^uincy Adams Stone, one of the owners of the Herald, and with him finished his apprenticeship on the Windham County Transcript at Danielson. He was taught the entire business and in the absence of the editor used to take editorial charge of the paper. In May 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Forty-eighth Massachusetts Volunteers, and was in the Depart- A. WALTON PEARSON. ment of the Gulf under General Banks when Port Hudson was captured. He was honorably dis- charged in September 1863. In 1864, he returned to Danielson and completed his apprenticeship in the office of the Windham County Transcript. For a few months he worked in a Boston bookoffice, after which he became foreman of the Middlesex D- MEN OF PROGRESS. County, Massachusetts, Journal, published at Wo- burn. After a year and a half at Woburn, he went to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he was employed as job printer and pressman for two years. He left there to accept a more lucrative position in the Newburyport Post Office, under George J. L. Colby, one of the best known editors of Eastern Massachusetts. In 1869 he was associated with .Messrs. Stone & Colby in the purchase of the Wiilimantic Journal under the firm title of Stone, Pearson & Co. In 1870, Mr. Stone retired from the firm and the business was continued until May 1872, when it was sold out to Barber & Company. In April 1873, he accepted the city editorship of the Norwich Evening Advertiser. On the discon- tinuation of the Advertiser in 1875, he was by vote of the directors of the Advertiser Company, made editor of the Norwich .Aurora, a weekly Democratic paper which he edited until November 1878. In March 1879 he accepted the city editorship of the Norwich Morning Bulletin which he held until 1S93, when he look the full editorial management, which position he still holds. He has been a correspondent of the New York Herald and the New York Tribune, and has written Natural History articles for the Philadelphia Press. He was an .Associate Editor of The Observer, a magazine devoted to microscopy and natural history. He is keenly interested in Lepidoptera, and has a choice collection of exotic butterflies and moths. In his official position it was said of him : " He brought to his position ripe journalistic experience, a keen humor, bright and versatile talents, and a well- balanced, discriminating judgment. Personally, he is a frank, honest and conscientious gentleman, and a genial friend. To whatever position Mr. Pearson may be called he carries with him the earnest and hearty wishes for his welfare, pros- perity and hajipiness, of his former associates." In politics he was a Democrat previous to the Greeley campaign, since which time he has been a Republican. He is a member of St. Mark's Lodge of Masons, of Newburyport. He was married Octo- ber 26, 1865, to Frances Elizabeth Winsor, of Brooklyn, Connecticut. They have one child : Walton Hardin Pearson, born November 28, 1869. PENFIELD, LoREN Dwighi, Town Clerk, New Britain, was born in New Britain, June 15, 1840, son of Harvey and Lucy E. (Sanford) Penfield.' His grandfather was Phinehas Penfield, and his great-grandfather, Phinehas Penfield, Sr., a soldier of the Revolutionary War, whose wives were respec- tively, Ruth Hart, daughter of Linas Hart, and Lucy Osgood, daughter of Jeremiah H. Osgood. Back of this the line is traced to Nathaniel Pen- field, Jr., who married Lydia Barnes, to Nathaniel Penfield, Sr., and Hannah his wife. His maternal grandmother was Lydia, daughter of John Beckley, who was also in the Revolutionary War. His edu- cation was obtained in the district schools which he left when twelve years old to work in a factory. He attended school for one winter term only after i**" ^ ■fS^ LOREN D. PENFIELD. that time. On December 11, 186 1, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, and served until his discharge, January 5, 1865. He served under General B. F. Butler and General N. P. Banks. He was at the surrender of New Orleans, and was engaged in all battles and skir- mishes of the regiment, including the siege of Port Hudson. He volunteered in the "Forlorn Hope " called by General Banks to storm the works. After the surrender of Port Hudson he was detailed, July 15, 1863, as clerk at Head Quarters, Department of the Gulf. In July 1864, and until his discharge, he was under General Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, taking part in the battles of Winchester, MRN OK PROGRESS. 53 Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek. After his dis- charge he was employed for nearly a year as clerk in the U. S. Provost Marshal General's Office at Hartford. He then took up the trade of house painting, taking contracts for some of the finest residences in New 15ritain and otlicr cities. In January 1894, he commenced his first term as Town Clerk of New Britain, of which office he is still the incumbent. He is also Clerk of tlie Pro- bate Court of the District of Berlin, his ap|)ointment dating from January icSg5. He served six years with Company D, First Regiment Connecticut National Guards, and was commissioned Lieutenant by Governor Jewell. He is a member of tlie Patri- otic Order, Sons of America, the Pilgrim Fathers, Order of the United .American Mechanics, Connec- ticut Society Sons of the American Revolution, and Harmony Lodge of Masons. He was elected Com- mander of Stanley Post Grand Army of the Repub- lic in January 1897; he is Treasurer of Knights of Ancient Essenic Order, reporter of Elihu Burritt Lodge Knights of Honor, and also Local Treasurer of the Baltimore Building and Loan Association. He was married June 20, 1866, to Carrie W. McNary, daughter of William G. McNary. Their children have been : Nellie Ruth, born October 20, 1867, now wife of Warren W. Marshall, and Arthur Eugene Penfield, deceased. PHELP.S, Charles, Attorney-at-Law and Secre- tary of the State of Connecticut, Rockville, was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, August 10, 1852, son of the late Rev. Benjamin C. Phelps and Sarah Parker (Humphrey) Phelps. His descent is traced to George Phelps who came to this country from England in 1630 and settled at Windsor. His great-grandfather, Benjamin Phelps, was a member of the Constitutional Convention that adopted the original Constitution of Connecticut. His father was the Rev. B. C. Phelps, a retired Methodist clergyman lately living in Vernon, Con- necticut. He prepared for college at East Green- wich Academy and was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1875. He studied law in the office of B. H. Bill of Rockville, and was admitted to the Bar in 1877. For a year he practiced in Tolland, but then returned to Rockville where he has built up a large practice and made himself recognized as one of the leading lawyers of the state. Among the many important cases which Mr. Phelps has con- ducted to a successful issue for his clients are, the Utah Copper Belt Mining Claim suits, the suit of J. J. Regan against the New York & New England Railroad Company in which he won the largest verdict granted by a Tolland Court in twenty years, the celebrated Gleason case and the Windermen Litigation in which he represented Jordan, Marsh \: Company. When the office of Tolland County Coroner was established in 1883 Mr. Phelps was appointed to the position, which he has held ever since. He has always been a Republican. He represented Vernon in the General Assembly in 1885 and made a record of wlii< h the town had CHARLES PHELP3. good reason to be proud, serving as member of the Judiciary Committee and Chairman of the Contested Election Committee. In 1892 he was elected to the Connecticut Senate from the twenty- third district, and became one of the Republican leaders as Chairman of the Insurance Commit- tee. The Senate was at that time evenly divided between the two parties and it so happened that Senators Phelps and Holcomb were the only Republican lawyers. Opposed to them were a large number of Democratic lawyers. When Rock- ville became a municipality Mr. Phelps was chosen City Attorney and under Mayor Fitch he was ap- pointed City Prosecuting .Attorney, which office lie 54 MKN OF PROGRESS. has held ever since. He represents the county on the State Hoard of I':xaminers of applicants for admission to the 15ar. He was elected Secretary of the State of Connecticut in November 1896, which oflice he still holds, having been nominated in the Convention by acclamation. He is a man who has made many friends in private and public relations, and is one of the most popular men in Eastern Connecticut. He is an Odd Kellow, and a member of the Encampment. He is also a member of the Opera Club, New York, and in college was a Psi I'lisilon man. He was married October 19, 1881, to Leila Loomis Bill, a daughter of B. H. Bill, of Rockville, and a niece of Judge Dwight Loomis. Mrs. Phelps died September 30, 18S8. for the Congregational polity and for a settled pas- torate, and because of the innuence of Presbyterian blood inherited from his mother's family. The Church of the Redeemer is one of the most promi- nent churches of the state and is distinguished for its members' intelligence and liberality. It con- ducts the Oak Street Mission, necessitating the employment of an assistant pastor and a lady mis- sionary. It conducts a reading room, clubs for boys and young men, sewing school, mothers' meeting, Band of Hope, Penny Savings Bank, singing classes, kitchen garden and the usual Sun- day school and gospel services. Dr. Phillips is PHILLIPS, W.vi-soN Lyman, D. D., Pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, New Haven, was born in West Troy, New York, January 28, 1850, son of Rev. Jonas and Maria E. (Nims) Phillips. His father was a native of Fishkill-on-Hudson where many of the name still reside. On his mother's side he is descended from Godfrey Nims one of the early settlers of Deerfield, whose house was burned, some of his children killed, and others, with his wife, carried to Canada, at the time of the Deerfield massacre. His father, who died in 1883, was in early life a teacher, and afterwards a Metho- dist clergyman, a member of the Troy Conference. His early education was obtained at private schools, at the Poultney, Vermont, Academy, and the Fort Edward, New York, Institute. He was graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, in 1872. He then took a partial course at the Theological School of Boston University and in the spring of 1873 joined the Providence Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His first pastor- ates were in Massachusetts, where he preached suc- cessively in the churches at West Duxbury, South Yarmouth, the First Church, Fall River, and the County Street Church, New Bedford. In 1880 he was called to the pastorate of the Summerfield Church, Brooklyn, New York, and later to the St. John's Church in that city. In 1888 he became pastor of the First Church in Wilkesbarre, Pennsyl- vania, one of the largest and strongest churches in that part of the state. In 1890 he accepted a call to the Church of the Redeemer (Congregationalist), New Haven, where he still remains. He made the change of denominations, because of his fondness W. L. PHILLIPS. well known as a lecturer and after dinner speaker, and is deeply interested in all movements towards good citizenship. He received the degree of M. A. from Wesleyan University in course, and the de- gree of D. D. in 1889 from Wesleyan University and Dickinson College. In college he was a mem- ber of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa. He is a Mason and a member of the Graduates Club, New Haven, and the Congrega- tional Club, serving one year as President. He is a corporate member of the American Board and the Connecticut Bible Society. He is a Director of the Connecticut Missionary Society and of the organized Charities Association, New Haven, and MK\ Ol' I'R()(;RKSS. 55 Presiiient of the New Haven City Missionary Asso- ciation. He was mairieil June 22, 1S73, to I'^lla Vernon Stetson of East Pembroke, Massachusetts, whose ancestors were of Revohitionary origin, and who is a member of the Daugliters of the American Revolution. Their children are : .Arthur N'ernon, Frank l.yman and Ruth Pahner Phillips. PIERCE, Nohle Emf.rsox, Attorney-at-law and ex-State Senator, Bristol, was born in T5ristol, Con- necticut, July 31, 1854, son of Julius E. and Muldali (Botsford) Pierce. He is a descendant of Deacon NOBLE E. PIERCE. John Pierce who settled in Wethersfield, Connecti- cut, in 1 73 1, and after a few years removed to Woodbury, Connecticut. Abraham Pierce, his great- grandfather, removed to liristol in 1797 and pur- chased the homestead where his father still lives and where Senator Pierce was raised. His early education was obtained at the common schools of Bristol and at the Connecticut Literary Insti- tute at Suffield. He was graduated from the Connecticut State Normal Scliool in 1873, and from the Albany Law School in May 1876. He was admitted to the Bar at Albany, New York, May 18, 1876. During 1873-74-75 he taught the Lower Middle School at Ansonia and read law with Judge V. Munger of Ansonia during the same period. He began the practice of law at Angelica, New York, where he remained from 1876 to June 1878. In that month he came to Connecticut and was admitted to the Bar at Hartford. He has been connected with the School Board of Bristol since 1887, and is Chair- man of District C'omniittee Number One. He was Treasurer of Hartford county in 1893-95. He was a member of the Connecticut Senate from the Fourth District from 1891 to 1894. This included the memorable dead-lock of 1891-92. In both sessions he was the Democratic leader. As Justice of the Peace of Hartford county he administered the oath of office to Covernor Morris and his associates, and during the two years that followed he was the recog- nized mouthpiece of the Democratic side of the Senate. In the session of 1893 he was Chairman of the Committee on Cities and Buroughs, which com- mittee, after six weeks of public hearings, reported the General Street Railway Law of 1893. The work of sifting the various suggestions offered and the drafting of the bill was left almost entirely to Sena- tor Pierce. The Committee considered one hun- tlred and fifty-three applications for street railway charters, and during the session the charter of almost every city in the state was either completely revised or materially amended. As Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Pierce gave careful attention to each of these applications, and in many cases rewrote and revised them. He is well known as a campaign orator He stumped New York state in the Tilden campaign of 1876, and with the excep- tion of the last campaign he has stumped Connecti- cut in every subsequent presidential campaign. He is a Knight Templar, a member of Franklin Lodge Number Fifty-Six, Free and Accepted Masons of Bristol, the Pequabuck Chapter Number Thirty- Two, Royal Arch Masons, the Clark Commandery Number Seven, Knight Templars of Waterbury, and the Ethan Lodge Number Nine, Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Country Club of Farmington. He was married July 16, 1879, to Hattie Kendall of Angelica, New York, who died October 26, 1895. 'i'hey had two children: Ken- dall, born May 26, 1888, and (iertrude Pierce, born December 24, 1893. PIRRITTE, Fred Winchell, M. D., New Haven, was born at Brooklyn, Province of Ontario, Canada, July 20, 1868, son of William Pirritte, D. I)., and Alzina L. (Winchell) Pirritte. On his father's side 56 MEN OF I'ROC.RKSS. he is descended from a Huguenot family driven from Paris by the Edict of Nantes, his paternal grand- father having been a Hritish officer stationed at Kingston, Canada. His mother was of Massachu- setts birth. He was educated by his parents until FRED W. PIRRITTE. his thirteenth year, when he entered the High School at Toronto. He afterwards took a partial course in the Academic Department of Toronto University, and in 1893 graduated with the degree of M. D. from the same University. He was Interne in the Toronto General Hospital in 1892-93, and has also been connected for several months each with the Burnside Lying-in Hospital, Toronto, and the Backus Hospital, Norwich, Connecticut. He has had special training in gynecology and obstet- rics under Dr. Adam Wright and Dr. James F. W. Ross, of Toronto. Since April 1896 he has been attending Physician at the New Haven City Dispen- sary. He gives special attention to obstetrics and diseases of women, maintaining a private hospital in connection with his office at 215 Orange street. He is a member of the Republican League Club. Porter. The Porter family came from Farmington, Connecticut, and his mother was a descendant of tlie Humphreys of Goshen. His education was obtained at the common schools and at Gos- hen Academy. He began his training for active life with a three-years clerkship in the store of E. G. Brigham at Goshen. This was followed by another three years as clerk for Hart Brothers iv: Company. In 187 1 he commenced business as a merchant in Goshen in partership with Ralph F. Cook under the firm name of Cook & Porter. This was continued until 1883 when he bought out his partner. In the following year he himself sold out to C. M. Allen of Litchfield, and in October bought a one-third interest in a general store at West Goshen, Connecticut, doing business under the firm name of Porter & Allyn Brothers. This connection continued for one year when he sold out to Eugene E. Allyn. In January 18S7 he bought the store in Goshen Centre where he still continues. PORTER, Charlfs J., Merchant, Goshen, was born in Goshen, Connecticut, January 27, 1839. His parents were John P. and Laura C. (Prentice) CHAS. J, PORTER. He has an honorable war record, enlisting as a private May 23, i86i,in Company I, First Connect- icut Heavy Artillery. He served for three years and was successively promoted Corporal and Quar- ter-master Sergeant, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics he is a Repub- lican. He represented the town in the Legislature MEN OF rRDCRF.SS. 57 in iS66 and 1S93 and was Sheriff of Litchfield County from 1881 to 1884. He has been Select- man one year and is the present Town Treasurer, having served for ten years. He was married in 187010 Kllen C. Bennett. The following children have been born to them : John l\, Carrie 1*. (wife of Andrew W. Harton of Watcrtown, Connecticut), Kate L. (wife of Lemuel 1'. Humphrey of Norfolk, Connecticut), Anna K. (wife of Austin X. Allyn, of Goshen), Charles \V., Samuel W. and (lordon li. Porter. RE.\DE, Hezeki.ah Lord, Author and President of the Jewett City Savings Bank, Jewett City, was born in Lisbon, Connecticut, October i, 1827, the only child of Silas and Sarah (Meech) Reade. He traces his ancestry back to intercolonial times, his ancestors coming from England to Ipswich, Massachusetts. They subsequently removed to Norwich, Connecticut, and bought a tract of land a mile long, and one half a mile wide, of Owanico, the half-brother of Lhicas, the famous chief of the Mohegan Lidians. The family still reside upon this purchase, and the deed bearing the date of 16S6 is still in the possession of the family. The subject of this sketch is in the seventh generation from John Read who came to this country from England in 1630, and the name of John Read is five times repeated in the direct line of descent from the first-named ancestor. On the maternal side a tradition traces the line back to a Colonel Walbridge of the Scottish Army, who, for his heroic deeds and a price for his head, was obliged to flee to this country. He is said to have landed at New- port, Rhode Island, and to have married a daughter of King Philip, Chief of the Narragansetts. Young Reade was educated in the common schools of Lis- bon, and later in the select schools of Jewett City, and at Plainfield Academy. During his early man- hood he worked on the old farm, spending his evenings in study by the aid of an open fire and a tallow candle. For sixteen winters he taught school, five of these, acting as principal of the graded school at Jewett City. In 1864 he added to his farm work and other occupations, that of manufacturing paper. He bought out a paper mill, and under his good management the business was highly prosperous and at last grew into the Reade Paper Company, which owned and operated three mills. Five years later, being called to take charge of the Agricultural Department of the Hearth & Home, a leadnig New \'()rk illustrated journal, edited by Donald G. Mitchell, he sold out his inter- est in the paper mills, and has since devoted much of his time to literary work. Vet, he is a man of many sides; never content with one form of activ- ity. In 1873 he conceived the idea of founding a Savings Bank in Jewttt City, and upon its organiza- tion was chosen President, and has since served continuously in that capacity. Mr. Reade is an able writer. Among the books that are the ])rodu(-l of his pen are : " Money and how to Make it and Use it"; "Boys' and Girls' Temperance Book"; " Reade's Business Reader" ; "Story of a Heathen H. L. READE. and his Transformation"; "The Way Out"; and others which have been widely read. He first became mterested in temperance and Sunday School work in 1849, and in Evangelistic work in 1S75. He was the originator of the system of com- pulsory temperance teaching in public schools, and introduced a bill into the Connecticut Legislature to that end in i88r, the first ever submitted to a legislative boily for consideration and adoption. He traveled extensively in furtherance of this sys- tem, speaking before legislative committees and publishing leaflets on the subject which have been widely ([uoted. The work was afterwards taken up by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. He 58 MEN OF PROGRESS. commenced writing for tlie newspapers at the age of twenty-two, and has been a constant contributor to the rehgious and secular press, and has hail edi- torial connection with Connecticut journalism, for nearly a ipiarter of a century. He has been all this time active in church and evangelistic work, and it may be said that every good cause lias his sym- pathy, and, so far as he can give it, his help. He is a Director of " The Missionary Society of Con- necticut," and has often represented a wide con- stituency in the meetings of the Congregational churches of his state and the country. He served as assistant United States Assessor during and after the war, was Deputy Sheriff in 1848-50, and is now Treasurer and member of the Board of Educa- tion of his town. His politics are Republican. In 1867 he was married to Faith Bingham Partridge. They have no children, but have educated, in the schools of this country, Mary Klla Butler (Reade), and given a University education, both in America and Germany, to Riechiro Saikii, a Christian Japan- ese. The former was for many years a missionary in Japan, and the latter is a prominent officer in the Japanese Navy, a writer of books, member of the faculty of the Japanese University, at Kioto, and a most influential Christian leader in the Empire. ROBERTS, Hen'rv, President of the Hartford Woven Wire Mattress Company, Hartford, was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 22, 1853 son of George and Elvira (Evans) Roberts. The Roberts family is one of Welsh origin and is traced back to William Roberts who came to this country in 1654. Another ancestor was George Roberts, an officer in the Revolutionary War, through whom was descended Ozias Roberts, the grandfather of the present manufacturer. His mother's parents were Jason Evans and (Iratia (Taylor) Evans, the latter daughter of Thomas Taylor, 2d, and grand- daughter of John Taylor, the latter son of Captain Thomas Taylor, to whom a monument was erected at Deerfield (Cross Roads), Massachusetts, for bravery in the French and Indian Wars. Young Roberts was educated in the public and High Schools of Hartford and South Windsor, Connecti- cut, and was graduated from Yale College in the class of 1877. He attended the Columbia Law School in 1878 and the Yale Law School in 1879, and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in the same year. His law studies were, however, pursued without any intention of practicing, and in 1880 he entered the office of the Hartford Woven Wire Mattress Com- pany. In 1884, he became Secretary of the Company and in 1886 its President, which office he continues to hold. The company has done a large and successful business much of which is directly the result of Mr. Roberts' able management He is also a Director in the Hartford Trust Company, State Savings Bank, Hartford Electric Light Com- pany, Farmington River Power Company, and Trustee of the Co-operative Savings Society of Hartford. He is also Trustee of Slater Industrial School, Winston, North Carolina, and of the Young HENRY ROBERTS. Men's Christian Association Training School, of Springfield, Massachusetts. He belongs to the Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars, and Sons of Revolution, and the Hartford Colonial, Country and Republican clubs. He was married October 5, 1 88 1, to Caroline E Smith of Bridgeport. There have been born to them three children : John Taylor, Francis Thacher (deceased), and Edward Constant Roberts. ROOD, David Alonzo, proprietor of the LTnited States Hotel, Hartford, was born in Sheffield, Mas- sachusetts, September 28, 181 7, son of David and MKN OF I'ROC.RI'ISS. 59 Salome (Partridcje) Rood, of Canaan, Connecticut. He was educated in the common schools of Siief- field, where he remained and worked upon llie farm until he was twenty-one years old. His first business venture was in 1S45, as proprietor of a hotel in New Hartford. Two years later he took charge of the Connecticut Hotel, Hartford, and this he sold in 1849. In 185 1 he bought the Eagle House, Hartford, which in 1855 he enlarged and changed to the Trumbull House. He thus continued until 1865, when he took a lease of the United States Hotel which was an adjoining build- ing. In 1867 he bought out the Trumhull House D. A. ROOD. and two years later connected them together, since which time the name Trumbull has been dropped and the whole known as the Ignited States Hotel. Few hotels in New England are more widely and favorably known. With one or two breaks of greater or less length, Mr. Rood has retained the management, and he is now the oldest active hotel proprietor in the state, both in age and years of service. He has been a hotel proprietor since 1845, ^"d proprietor of the United States Hotel for forty-two years. He was also proprietor of Fen- wick Hall, Saybrook, for five years, and of the Manhassett Hotel, Shelter Island, New York, for one year. He leased the ground tloor of the Trumbull House jiroperty, bought in 1867, to the l*'irst National liank, who in 1S97 tore down the old building, and erected a large banking house on the site. He was connected with the First Regiment of the Connecticut National Guard, and served as its Lieutenant-Colonel for three years. He is an incorporator and Director of the Dime Savings i5ank. He was a police commissioner for ten years and has been Treasurer of the First School District for fourteen years. He is a member of the Repub- lican Club. Mr. Rood has been twice married. His first wife was Maria Woodford of Avon, Con- necticut, who died June 23, 1S83. Three children were born to them : Frank D., born December 1 7, 1S51 ; Arthur W., born July g, 1853; and Emma L., born September 27, 1864. He was married a second time, September 10, 1884, to Abbie F., daughter of Sanford Carroll of Dedham, Massa- chusetts. ROOT, Joseph Edvv.4rd, B. S., M. D., Alienist and Author, Hartford, was born in Greenwich, Mas- sachusetts, March 4, 1854, son of Thomas Pitkin and Seraph Marsh (Haynes) Root. His father is a prominent citizen of Barre, Massachusetts, and has represented his town and district in the State Sen- ate and House. Dr. Root is a grandson of John Root, of Greenwich, Massachusetts, and a great- grandson of Josejih Root of Somers, Connecticut, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War for four years and took part in the Battle of Bunker Hill, and in Arnold's Expedition to Quebec as a member of the Fifth Company of the Twentieth Connecticut Regiment. F"roni this Revolutionary ancestor the line runs back to Timothy Root, one of the founders of the town of Somers, and who built the Root House on the mountain at Somers, which served as a house of worship until the first meeting-house was erected. F>om the last named the line runs back to Thomas Root of Westfield, Massachusetts, and from him to John Root, who was one of the followers of Hooker in 1633 and in 1640 became the first settler of the town of Farmington, Connecticut. The subject of this sketch attended school from i860 to 1868 in District School Num- ber 8, Barre, Massachusetts, and the four succeed- ing years at the Barre High School. He received the degree of B. S. from the Massachusetts State College at Amherst in 1876 and in the same year a like degree from Boston University. He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 6o MEN OF PROCtRF.SS. New York, where he was graduated in 1883. At Amherst he was one of the Farnsworth Prize speak- ers in his Freslimau and Sophomore years, and a Commencement speaker at graduation. His early life was spent on the Hillside farm at Barre, Mas- sachusetts. During his college course he taught school two winters at Barre Plains, and after gradu- ating he entered Dr. Brown's Institute at Barre, remaining till the spring of 1S79 when he was en- gaged at the Walnut Hill Asylum, Hartford. On receiving his medical diploma he was made .Assis- tant Physician at the Ketreat for the Insane, Hart- ford, where he remained until he began the general JOS. E. ROOT, practice of medicine at Hartford, August 20, 1884. In 1885 he helped to re-organize the Hartford Dis- pensary of which he has been Secretary and Treas- urer since its re-organization. He has also been Chief of the Department of General Medicine and Nervous Diseases at the Dispensary. He has been appointed on many commissions of lunacy by Gov- ernors Harrison and Morris, was a delegate for the Connecticut Medical Society to the meetings of the American Medical .Association from 1889 to 1894 and as such attended the meetings held respectively at Newport, Rhode Island, Washington, D. C, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and San Francisco, Cali- fornia. In April 1891 he was elected Secretary of the Hartford Medical Association, which office he held until .\\m\ 1894. During his term of office much of the responsibility pertaining to the Centen- nial Celebration of the Association devolved upon him, and he also delivered the historical address. In 1896 he was appointed Surgeon on Major War- ren's Staff of the First Company Governor's Horse Guards, which rank he now holds. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Board of Physicians and Surgeons to the Masonic Home at Wallingford, Connecticut ; in 1896 was made its President and in 1897 was chosen Chairman of the Building Commit- tee for the new Masonic Hospital. Dr. Root was appointed medical examiner for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1894, The Mutual Reserve of New York in 1890, and the " Home Circle " in 1895, which positions he now holds. He is a member of the Franklin and Hartford Rifle clubs and Vice-President of the latter. He is a member of the New York Alumni Association of the Massa- chusetts Agricultural College and was elected Presi- dent in 1896. He is a member of the Hartford (City), State and County Medical Societies and the American Medical Association. He belongs to the Pearl Street Congregational Church and to the Hartford Scientific Society. He is both a York and a Scottish rite Mason and a member of the fol- lowing bodies : St. John's Lodge No. 4, Pythagoras Chapter No, 17, Wolcott Council No. i, Washington Commandery No. i. Charter Oak Lodge of Perfec- tion, Princes of Jerusalem, Rose Croix, Connecticut Consistory Thirty-Second Degree, Norwich, and Sphinx Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Masonic Club and the Sons of the American Revolution, and on December 6, 1890, was made a fellow of the Society of Arts, Literature and Science of London with the title of F. S. C. His work as an alienist and author has given him a wide and well deserved prominence. He is the author of the following works : " Early Discovery of America by the Norseman " ; " Hunting Trip in the Rocky Mountains " (lecture) ; and these medical treatises: "Epilepsy"; "Essay on Electricity in Nervous Diseases " ; " .Arteritis of the Brain " ; " Hy- giene of School Life " ; " Electricity in Diseases of Women " ; and " Centennial History of Hartford County Medical Association." In politics he is a Republican and deeply interested in good govern- ment but has declined to run for office of any kind. He was married March 4, 1885, to Ella Goodman Moseley of Hartford. Mi:\ oi' I'KOGRF.SS. 6i ROOT, Cn.\Ri.i.:s Georcf, Lawyer, Waterlniry, ;,o, iSSo; Josephine, born October 18, 1S92 ; Connecticut, was born in Naiigaluck, ronnccticut, Reuben Howard, born August 4, 1887; and Helen August 13, 1855. His parents were i\euben H. and Root, born March 30, 1896. Laura (Penfield) Root. Llis paternal ancestors came from i'lngland in i6',7 and settled at l'"armington, — • SAGE, Wii.i.iA.M Hknrv, M. D., New Haven, was born in Sandisfield, ^L^ssachusetts, March 15, iSic,. His parents were Josiah H. and Eliza- beth (Cone) Sage. His early education was ob- tained in the common schools and at Westfield Academy. He studied medicine at the Vale Med- ical School, where he was graduated in 1849. In that year he began the practice of medicine at I'nionville, in the town of Farmington, where he remained lor twenty five years. In 1857 he adopted the principles of medicine as taught by Hahnemann. He removed to New Haven in 1874, and has con- tinued the practice of his profession in that city CHAS. G. KOOT. Connecticut. After attending schools in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Waterbury, Connecticut, he was Assistant Librarian in the Bronson Library at Wa- terbury. In 1877 he ^^^s graduated from the Yale Law School and was admitted to the Bar in New Haven the same year. In i8gi he was member of the Legislature from Waterbury and served as member of the Judiciary Committee. In 1 893 he was Senator from the Eifth District, and was Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Bridges, and a member of the Special State Prison Committee. In politics he is a Dei^iocrat, and in 1896 went as a gold Democrat delegate to the Indianajjolis Convention. Since 1893 he has been Judge of the Police Court of Waterbury and Deputy Judge of the District Court of Waterbury. He is a member of the Reform Club of New York, also of the American Academy of Political and Social Science of Philadelphia. He married Carrie M. Chapin of Bristol, Connecticut, February 2, 1880, and to them have been born the following children : Mabel F. C, born November WM. H. SAGE. since that time. He is a senior member of the Amer- ican Institute of Homiuopathy and a Director of, and a("onsulting Physician to Grace Hospital. He was married in 1851, to I'^lizabeth \'. Pinney, of Farmington, Connt'c ticul. 'I'liey have had two sons: i-'rederick 11. (deceased) anil Henry P. Sage, M. D., New Haven, Connecticut. MEN Ol' I'ROCJRKSS. SAN FORI"), Davio Coi.f.v, F.ngineer of the Shell Fish Commission of Connecticut, and Oyster Ex- pert, New Haven, Connecticut, was born in Red- ding, Connecticut, August 21, 1849, son of George A. and Caroline S. ( Hanks) Sanford. He was edu- at Bridgeport, South Norwalk, Danbury and else- where, and has frequently been called to different states when his advice as an expert on oyster culti- vation was required. He is a member of the Republican League, the Young Men's Republican Club, the New Haven Chamber of Commerce, the Pequot Club, and in 1885 was elected a member of the American Society of Engineers. His politics are Republican, but he has never sought a political office. He was married October 11, 1874, to Mary A. Mitchell. They have no children. SKINNER, Clarence Edward, M. D., New Haven, was born in New Haven, June 8, 1868, son of William Joseph and Cecelia Eliza (Hoggan) Skin- ner. On his father's side his ancestors were Eng- lish, on his mother's Scotch. His early education was received in the public schools at Westville, DAVID C. SANFORD. cated in the district schools, and at Redding Ridge Academy. He acted as Assistant Engineer on the New Haven City Sewerage from January 23, 1S71, to October 1879. During the succeeding year he was occupied in making surveys and specifications for the Wallingford Water Works, and ran all the grades and lines on the construction, and the maps for the sewerage system. From January 1881 to September 1888, he was Field Engineer for the Connecticut Shell Fish Commission, and for the succeeding four years acted as their (General Engi- neer. At the present time he is City Engineer of Ansonia, Engineer of the Shell Fisli Commission, and Secretary of the Connecticut Oyster Growers' Association, and Clerk of its Committee on Legis- lation. He is an expert on the oyster, its habits and enemies, and has deceived repeated invitations to visit Germany to determine the cause of the extinction of the oyster in Cierman waters. As Engineer of the Shell Fish Commission, he had charge of determining the bounds of the oyster beds in the Sound. He has lectured on the oyster CLARENCE E. SKINNER. Connecticut, and at the Commercial and Collegi- ate Institute at New Haven. He studied medicine at the Yale Medical School, and was graduated with the class of 1891. At his graduation from the Medical School the prize for the best graduation thesis was equally divided between himself and a classmate, Reuben Lockhart, his subject being " The MICN (»!•■ PKOCRKSS. 63 Microscopical Differentiation of the Hair of Man from that of Lower Animals." He began the prac- tice of medicine at New Haven July i, 1891, where he still continues. After graduation he was Resident Physician at the Springside Home, and is a contrib- utor to medical journals. He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies, the Yale Medi- cal Society, and the New liaven Colony Historical Society. In politics he is an Independent. He was married December 31, 1896, to Edith Hart Hotchkiss of New Haven. SMITH, Edward Weir, M. D., Meriden, was born in Meriden, October 17, 1854, son of David he took a prominent jiart in athletics, playing on both the University Foot Ball and Base Ball teams. After leaving New Haven he spent one season in teaching school at Yalesville, and then began a two years' course of study at the McGill Medical School, Montreal, Canada, taking his degree in 1882. He immediately settled in Meriden, where he has con- tinued in the practice of his profession until the present time. He is a member of the Home Club, Meriden, and of the Meriden, the County, and the State medical societies. He was married October 14, 1885, to Helen Bethia Rice. They have two children : Marion R., born June 26, 1887, and David P. Smith, born May 6, 1889. EDWARD W. SMITH. Smith and Fidelia Augusta (Parker) Smith. His parents were of old New England Revolutionary stock, three of his grandfathers, namely, Lieutenant Jacob Smith, Jesse Hall and Daniel Parker, having served in the Revolutionary War. The Smith fam- ily came from Litchfield county and the Parkers from New Haven, dating back to about 1640. He was educated in the district schools of Meriden and at the Hopkins Crammar School, New Haven, from which school he entered Yale, graduating from the Academic Department in 1878. The next year he spent at the Yale Medical School. While in college SMITH, Herbert Eugene, Dean of the Yale Medical School, New Haven, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, October 21, 1857, son of Henry H. and Mary B. (Morgan) Smith. His father's family HERBERT E. SMITH. were farmers in New Haven county. His mother was a Morgan, the honorable record of whose ances- tors are recorded in the Morgan Genealogy. Dr. Smith received his early education at the South District School and at the High School at Hartford where he was graduated in 1876. He next entered the Shefifield Scientific School of \'ale I'niversity 64 MEN OF PROC.RESS where he took the degree of Ph. B. in 1879. His medical edu.alion was obtained with one year at the Vale Meilical School, and a subsequent two years at the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania where he gained his degree of M. 1>. in 1.S82. In the same year he was made lecturer on Chemistry at the Yale Medical School. Three years later he was promoted to his present jwsilions of Professor of Chemistry in the Yale Medical School, and Dean of the Medical Faculty of Yale University. Dr. Smith's advancement has been rapid and well deserved, and the Medical Department under his charge has largely increased in numbers and usefulness. Dr. Smith is the Chemist of the State Board of Health, Chemist of the New Haven Hospital and one of the Connec- ticut State Chemists. He is a member of the American Physiological Society, the American Chemical Society, and of the City and State Medi- cal Societies. He also belongs to the Graduates Club of New Haven. In politics he is a Republi- can. He was married in Philadelphia June 30, 1885, to Emily Scull Dinnin. They have three children : Emily, Mary and Elizabeth Smith. at the public school or village academy. He might have lived and died a farmer but for a sunstroke while working in the field, the effects of which com- pelled him to give up farming. For three years he filled a clerkship in the stores of his native town and in Westbrook. This was the stepping stone to his subsequent advancement. He next entered the employ of L. L. Bishop of New Haven, as travel- ling salesman, and soon acquired a reputation as an energetic and capable salesman that extended beyond the limits of his own state. In 1853, Moulton, Plympton, Williams & Company, one of the leading wholesale drygoods firms of New York, SPI':NCER, Daniel Chapman, of Old Saybrook, and formerly with H. B. Claflin & Company of New York, was born in Saybrook, December 3, 1823, son of David and Rachel (Bushneli) Spencer. His mother was the daughter of Asa Bushneli of Westbrook, a descendant of one of the first settlers under the Fenwick patent. The Spencer family trace their descent back to Robert de Spenser, who was steward or " dispenser of the King's bounty " under William the Conqueror. The American ancestor was Jared Spencer, who came to this country about 1634 and settled first at what is now Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in 1662 removed to Haddam, Connecticut, from which place Thomas, his son, removed to Pochaug, now Westbrook, in 1685. The descendants of Thomas were mostly farmers, but David, the father of Daniel C., was a farmer, mason and blacksmith. He was born in Westbrook, but removed early in life to that part of the town of Saybrook, known as Oyster River. There Daniel C Spencer, the eighth of eleven children was born. He attended the public schools until his ninth year when he went to work on his father's farm, where he continued until he was twenty-two years old, attending school in the winter D. C. SPENCER. heard of him, and, after a brief personal interview, offered him the entire charge of their fancy goods department. He was fearful they had overesti- mated his ability and was reluctant to accept the position, but so anxious were they to secure his ser- vices that they at once gave him a check to pur- chase the unexpired time of his contract from his employer. He remained with the new firm for two years, until their failure, and so pleased were they with his mangement of their affairs that Mr. Moul- ton, one of the firm, prepared the vi'ay for his entrance into the house of Claflin, Mellen & Com- pany, then the second largest drygoods house in the United States. They were then located in the MEN OK PROGRESS. 65 Trinity IJuilding, 111 liroadway, and were contem- plating the opening of a notion department. Mr. Spencer offered to take charge of it for one year without compensation. Mr. Clallin declined the offer, and insisted on paying him a salary with the promise of further compensation at the end of the year should the venture prove successful. 'I'he department was limited to a small space in the basement; but Mr. Spencer at once devoted his whole energies to the business, and at the end of the year his purchases and sales had nearly equalled those of other departments long established. The balance sheet was so satisfactory to Mr. Claflin that he ga\e Mr. Spencer a check for one thousand dollars in addition to his salary. The engagement was renewed on the basis of a percentage of the profits, and so rapidly did the business increase that the firm was compelled to change their quarters for the purpose of increasing their facilities. They purchased a site on the corner of Church and Worth streets, extending through to West Broadway and covering nearly an acre of ground, on which they erected a six-story building. The notion depart- ment under Mr. Spencer's management, covered a large portion of the third and fifth floors. To handle the immense quantities of goods recjuired the aid of forty clerks, and the control of the busi- ness required great powers of combination and organization together with a strong will and a decision of character. During Mr. Spencer's con- nection with the business, the house rose from the second largest to the largest drygoods house in the United States, the sales exceeding those of its dis- tinguished rival by several millions of dollars. The strain, however, proved too great for his powers of endurance, and in the fall of 1867 he broke down completely and was compelled to give up business. Though urged by Mr. Claflin to continue his con- nection with the house, taking as much time as he chose for recuperation and rest, he felt that this would be impossible so long as the care and respon- sibility rested upon him. He, therefore, severed his connection with the firm on January i, 1868, and determined to spend the remainder of his days, which he then thought were few, in retirement and rest. Soon after it became known he was to retire, a most touching scene awaited him which is thus described in the New York Tribune : " Mr. 1). C. Spencer, for many years past, the genial and able manager of the fancy goods department of H. B. Claflin & Company, having been obliged, on account of ill health, to retire from business, his kill,' employees, headed by his efficient successor, Mr. James H. Day, presented Mr. Spencer with a superb silver service of the richest, yet most chaste, workmanship, contained in a truly elegant black walnut case. Each jjiece of the service bears the following inscription : ' Presented to D. C. Spencer, by his late emjiloyecs, on his retiring from business, January i, 1S68.' Accompanying the service was a very handsome card, thirty- six by forty inches, incased in a heavy gilt frame, on which is a photograph of the house of Claflin & Company, and one of each of the donors." The gift was also accompanied by the expression of their highest esteem for their employer and their heartfelt regret at the parting. To these costly testimonials of the regard of his late em- ployees, Mr. Spencer replied in a characteristic but appropriate letter. The event is still a most treasured memory and served as a most fitting ending to his mercantile career. He had previ- ously purchased a number of acres contiguous to the old homestead in Saybrook, known as the Chalker farm. Here he retired to spend his days, 'i'he old place was enlarged and improved, the meadows were turned into cranberry patches on which he spent thousands of dollars, and amid these surroundings he soon regained his health and energies. He purchased one hundred acres of land at Guard House Point and in connection with John F. and R. M. Bushnell, purchased two hun- dred and fifty acres of what was known as the Lynde farm, originally a part of the Fenwick estate. This property was sold to the New Say- brook Company in which he became a Director. The property was divided and sold for building lots for summer residences. In this work, and in the erection of the hotel known as Fenwick Hall, he took an active part. He was one of the pioneers of the Valley Railroad, was instrumental in securing the present location as the terminus of the road, and was for many years a Director. He has been twice chosen to represent the town in the Legisla- ture, in 1885, when he was Chairman of the Library Committee, and in 1886 when he served on the Railroad Committee, and he was also a Director in the Deep River National Bank for many years, besides serving at various times as Town Auditor of Accounts and United States Grand Juror. Mr. Spencer is a life member of the Connecticut Humane Society and of the Acton Library. While in New ^'ork he was a member of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, and held the offices of Treasurer, 66 MEN OF PROGRESS. Vestryman and Warilcn. On loiuing again to Say- brook he joined the (".race Episcopal Church, and was largely instrumental in the erection of its beautiful stone building, and was one of the most liberal contributors to its building fund. For the last thirty years he has held the several offices of Clerk, Treasurer and Vestryman, and at the present time is Senior Warden. He was married October 12, 1S51, to Emily Maria Stokes, of Westbrook, daughter of William Stokes, a volunteer of the War of 1812, and one of the brave men who shouldered the musket, and intercepted the retreating British troo])s after the burning of Essex, in 1814. The following children have been born to them : William David, M. D., born in 1852; Ella Maria, born in 1S56, wifeof B. W. Leonard; Daniel Stokes, born in i860; Grace Emily, born in 1861, wife of John Clayton Wood ; George Jarvis, born in 1866, died in 1892 ; Edmund Chapman, born in 1869, married Florence J. Burr; Frederick Clarence, born in 1870, and Henry Russell Spencer, born in 1875, died in 1876. Mrs. Spencer died October 5, 1895. of home guards organized in anticipation of an invasion by General Sibley from Texas. On May 15, 1862, he enlisted in the Second Colorado Cavalry, together with many other members of the home guard. When the regiment was mustered into service January 10, 1S63, he was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant. The regiment was in service in 1862 in W^estern Kansas and Colorado, in 1863 in Northwestern Arkansas and the Arkan- sas frontier, and in 1864 in the guerrilla warfare along the Kansas and Missouri border. He was wounded October 21, 1864, in the battle of Little Blue, Missouri, and while recovering was absent SPENCER, Frederick Albert, Real Estate Dealer, was born in Waterbur\', Connecticut, November 7, 1833, son of Willard and Marcia (Burton) Spencer. His ancestors on both sides came to this country about 1633. The Spencers came originally from County Bedford, England. Frederick Albert Spencer is seventh in descent from Gerard Spencer, who on coming to this country settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, mov- ing from there to Lynn, Massachusetts, and from there to Haddam, Connecticut. Young Spencer was educated at the public schools, and at the Waterbury Academy, and the Williston Seminary, at Easthampton, Massachusetts. He pursued his studies with reference to the profession of Civil Engi- neer and after leaving school was engaged with the Waterbury Brass Company, and then with Holmes, Booth & Haydens, as shipping clerk and time- keeper. With the exception of from 1858 to the close of the War, he has always lived in Waterbury. For a part of this time he was engaged in civil engineering and mining in Kansas and Colorado. His military service began in April 1856, when he joined the Waterbury Company of those days. Com- pany H of the Second Regiment, of which he was Sergeant when he left Waterbury in 1858. In Colorado in 1861-62, he was captain of a company F. A. SPENCER. from his command the only time during his service. About January i, 1865, the regiment went out on to the plains and was in service among the Indians until mustered out September 23, 1865. His military record is that of a gallant soldier. In March 1876, he was appointed by Colonel Stephen R. Smith, paymaster of the Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, and in March 1877, was elected Captain of Company A of that Regi- ment. In May 1882, he was promoted to the rank of Major and inspector of rifle-practice on the staff of Brigadier-General S. R. Smith, which office he resigned in 1885. After the w-ar he returned to Waterbury and renewed his connection with the Ml'.N Ol 'R OCR ESS. 67 VVaterbury lirass Company with wliom he continued for six years. He then gave up other occupations in order to assist his father, then old and infirm, in the charge of his affairs. He became a Director and Vice- President of the I3ime Savings Bank soon after its origination and has been a member of its appraisal and loan committee for fifteen years. He has been a member of the Common Council, was twice Assessor of Waterbury, was a member of the first Board of Police Commissioners, one of the Engineers of the Fire Department, member of the Board of Health, member of the Finance Com- mittee of the Centre School district, and clerk of the Probate Court. By appointment of Governor Morris he served as member of the Board of State Prison Directors, acting as Chairman of the Com- mittee on Building and Repairs. During this service which lasted from July i, 1893, to July i, 1895, the important change was made by which General S. E. Chamberlain was succeeded as Warden by Colonel J. L Woodbridge. He was appointed Director of the Connecticut Reformatory by Governor Coffin, July 9, 1895. Mr. Spencer is a prominent member of the Masonic order. He was initiated in Harmony Fodge in 1855, ^^i'^ ^'^^' sequently became a Charter Member of Continental Lodge of which he is Trustee. He was exalted in Eureka Chapter April 23, 1856, was received into \\'aterbury Council June 18, 1856, and made Knight Templar in Clark Commandery Knight Templars January 23, 1866, he being the first one knighted in the Commandery. In 1870 he served as Emi- nent Commander of this Commandery, and again in 1892, 1893 and 1895. On January 29, 1874, he became a member of Charter Oak Lodge of Per- fection, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Hart- ford, Connecticut, and in 1883 of Hartford Council, Princes of Jerusalem and Cyrus Goodell Chapter of Rose Croix. He is also a member of Lafayette Consistory, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and of Mecca Temple of the Mystic Shrine of New York. On March 21, 1S82, he received the appointment of warder of the Grand Commandery of Knight Tem- plars of Connecticut, and was regularly advanced until the annual Conclave of 1S89, when he was elected Grand Commander. In 1894 he was elected Grand Inspector of the Grand Commandery of Connecticut for the term of five years. He is now a Thirty-third Degree Mason. He is also a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Improved Order of Red Men, the Waterbury Club, the Masonic Club, the Connecticut Society of Sons of the American Re\ulutii>n, and of the Loyal Legion and United Service and Reform clubs of New York. SPERRN, Makk Leavenworth, Secretary of the Scovill Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, Con- necticut, was born at Waterbury, October 23, 1842, son of Corydon Stillman and Catherine (Leaven- worth) Sperry, of old New luigland stock, the one tracing his ancestry to Richard Sjjcrry and the other to Thomas Leavenworth, both members of the New Haven Colony, and both dying in the same M. L. SPERRY. year, 168; The subject of this sketch, Mark Leavenworth Sperry, received a common school education and when only fifteen began his business career, starting in the office of the Waterbury Knit- ting Company in 1857. He remained there five years. In 1862 he became connected with the Scovill Manufacturing Company, and has remained in the same business to the present time. In 1869 he became Secretary of the Company, in 1877 he accepted a place on the Board of Directors, both of which positions he still holds. From 1881 to 1894 he held the office of Secretary in the VVaterbury Club, and in 1895 '^^ became President of the same Club, which office he still holds. He was married 6S MEN OF PROGRESS. on March 14, 1S7S, to Julia Sherman Porter, and to them have been born the following children : Ethel Leavenworth, Leavenworth Porter, Ruth Sherman, Roger Sherman, Evelyn Stillnian, and Mark Leaven- worth Sperr)', Jr. STANNARD, RouKin Rissf.i.l, Secretary and Treasurer of Hlake & Johnson (incorporated), R. R. STANNARD. Waterbury, Connecticut, was born at Clinton, Con- necticut, April 25, 1847. His parents were Russell and Julia (Roberts) Stannard. The Stannards came from Staffordshire, England, about 1640, and settled in Newburyport, Massachusetts, afterwards joinng the Saybrook Colony. The subject of this sketch received his education in the Academy at Clinton, the Hudson River Institute at Claverick, and the business college at New Haven. In 1866 he entered the employ of T. P. Merwin & Co., Dry- goods Dealers, of New Haven, as bookkeeper and cashier, which position he held for three years. In 1869 he went to Waterbury to take the position of bookkeeper with Blake & Johnson, Builders of Ma- chinery, Piano and Organ Hardware, etc., which position he held until 1880. He was elected Secre- tary of the Company in 1873, and in 1878 became a Director. After holding the position for a few weeks of temporary Treasurer, he was elected Treasurer on January 2, 1895, and still holds that office. Mr. Stannard is a member of the Water- bury Club. In politics he is a Republican. He was married May 14, 1874, to Martha Elizabeth Bryan, daughter of Edward Bryan of New Haven. They have a daughter : Grace Bryan Stannard, born May 8, 1876. SULLIVAN, Daniel P., Physician, Hartford, was born in Connecticut, March 26, 1867, son of Daniel J. and Bridget Sullivan. His family came from Ireland in 1840, and was one of the first of the Irish Catholic families to settle in Hartford. He received his early education at the Hartford High School and finished classics with high honors at the Niagara University, Suspension Bridge, New York, from which University he was graduated in medicine with highest honor in 1891. In April of the same year he began the practice of medicine in DANIEL F. SULLIVAN. Hartford. He was elected Town Physician in 1892, and served two terms, was also elected (Major) Surgeon by the Connecticut Hibernian Rifles in 1894, and serves at the present time. He is a mem- ber of the Board of Government of the Catholic Club which he was most active in organizing. He was appointed one of a committee of three to organ- M1'',N OV l'K( ICRKSS. 69 ize the new St. Francis Hospital, incorporated in February 1897, and was elected Secretary of the Board of Incorporators. He was married on No- vember 9, 1895, to Elizabeth Ryan of Lonsdale, Rhode Island. S'l'RANCi, CiiN'rox W'uii'.iir, Dentist, Bridgeport, was born in Jefferson \'alley, Westchester county, New York, November 7, 1844, son of Nelson and Julia (Wright) Strang. Tiie family were of French Huguenot extraction, the name originally being De Lestrange. The first ancestor came to America about 1656 and settled at New Rochelle, New York, C. W. STRANG. later moving to I'eekskill. Since the marriage of Dr. Strang's parents in 1835 there have been but two deaths in the immediate families, the last one occurring when Dr. Strang was eight years old. Young Strang studied at Amenia Seminary, New York, and at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Mas- sachusetts, taking a thorough course in mathematics and civil engineering. He tlien turned liis atten- tion to dentistry and entered the Pennsylvania Col- lege of Dental Surgery in Philadelphia, where lie was graduated in 1867. He began his professional career in Bridgeport, where he still continues to reside, and where he has built up an extensive prac- tice. Dr. Strang has led a quiet life, but lias kej)! u|) with the times in his profession. He has the confidence and esteem of his fellow townsmen and professional brethren, as well as of the members of the Methodist I'^piscojial Church, of which he is an official. He is an Ex- President of the Connecticut Dental Association. In politics he is a Republican with strong temperance principles. He was mar- ried in Westfield, Massachusetts, October 21, 1868, to I'^lla Jane Lewis, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Eliza Lewis, 'i'he Lewis family ancestors came from Ipswich, iMigland, and settled at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1634. Mrs. Strang is also a descendant of Thomas Mayhew, England's Mission- ary in America, to whom the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard were granted. Three chil- dren have been the issue of this marriage : Lewis Clinton, Marion Ella and Robert Hallock Wright Strang. TALCOTT, John Butler, President of the Amer- ican Hosiery Company, New Britain, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, September 14, 1824, son of Seth and Charlotte S. (Butler) Talcott. He is lin- eally descended from John Talcott, a settler of Hartford in 1636 and from Rev. John Hooker. His father who came from West Hartford lived at the time of his son's birth in that part of Enfield which is now Thompsonville, and carried on the cloth-dressing business, using the water power there which was afterwards sold to Orrin Thomp- son for the carpet business. He returned to West Hartford when the son was four years old, the son attending the iiublic schools of West Hartford initil his fourteenth year. Young Talcott next attended the Hartford Grammar School where he prepared for Yale College from which he was graduated in 1846. He was teacher in the Hartford Grammar .School in 1842 and 1846, and before entering col- lege and during his senior year and after graduating in 1846, taught Latin in the Hartford Female Sem- inary. He was tutor in the Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1847-48, and from 1849 to 1851 was tutor at Vale. Meanwhile he had been studying law and was admitted to the Bar in Hartford in August 1848. He had previously studied law in the office of Francis Fellows of Hartford, at the same time acting as clerk of the Court of Probate. In 1S51 he came to New Britain and became a member of the firm of S. J. North & Company, manufacturers of hooks and eyes and knit un- derwear. At this time he was manager of the 70 MEN OF PROGRESS. untlerwear department. In 1853 he was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the New liritain Knitting Company, at that time the second largest establish- ment in New Britain. He continued in that posi- tion imtii 1 868 when he organized the American JOHN B. TALCOTT. Hosiery Company, assmiiing the position of Treas- urer and Manager of the Company and later its President which position he continues to hold. He is also Director in the P. cS; F. Corbin Company of New Britain, the Connecticut General Life Insur- ance Company of Hartford, and the Savings Bank of New Britain. He is President of the Mechanics National Bank of New Britain and of the New Britain Institute. He served as Councilman of the City in 1876, Alderman in 1877-78-79, and Mayor in 1880-81. He was the first President of the New Britain Club, serving from 1883 to 1888, and is at present Deacon of the South Congrega- tional Church. His politics are Republican. Mr. Talcott was married September 13, 184S, to Jane Croswell Goodwin (deceased). Four children were born to them : Ella Jeannie, John Croswell, Samuel Hooker and George Sherman Talcott, of whom the latter alone survives. He again mar- ried March 1880, Fannie Hall Hazen, by whom he has two children: Florence Hazen and Helen Hooker Talcott. THOMSON, Hiram Benson, Physician and Sur- geon, New London, was born at Barrie, Ontario, Canada, January i, 1864. On the paternal side his ancestors have been Canadians for several genera- tions. His great-grandfather, Archibald Thomson, came from Inverness, Scotland, and was one of the pioneer settlers of the city of Toronto which was then called Muddy Vorke. His father is Archibald C. 'J'homson, deceased, the grandson of the last named ; and his mother, S. Maria Strohn, is a descendant of the early Dutch settlers that occu- |)ied Manhattan Island, and many of her relatives now live in the towns along the Hudson River. The subject of this sketch obtained his education in the public schools and Collegiate Institute of his native town. At about sixteen years of age he left school and was employed in a stationery store for a year. He then entered a wholesale drygoods house in Toronto, but remained there only a short time. After this he continued his education at the HIRAM B. THOMSON. Barrie Grammar School (now the Collegiate Insti- tute), where also were educated Dr. William Osier of Johns Hopkins University, and Dalton McCarthy, the eminent Queen's Counsel. In 1882 and 1883 he attended Pickering College at Pickering, On- tario, but was not graduated. He matriculated at Trinity University, Toronto, where he graduated in MEN (^l' PROGRESS. 71 18SS with the clei;ree of Doctor of Medicine, and Master of Surgery, receiving also a I'"ellowshiii diploma from Trinity Meilical College. In die same year he took the degrees of M. 1). and C. M. froin Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, and became a Licentiate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of Ontario. He began his profes- sional career also in this same year at Marquette, Michigan, where he remained until 1889, when he removed to Carbondale, Pennsylvania, where he was the Assistant Surgeon of the Susquehanna Branch of the Erie Railroad. In the spring of 1890 he removed to New London, his present resi- dence, where he has a large practice. He has been First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon of the Third Regiment, Connecticut National Guards, since July 12, 1892 ; Post-Surgeon for the county of New Lon- don for the last four years. Secretary of the Board of United States Examining Surgeons for New Lon- don county, and City Physician since 1895. He is a member of Brainerd Lodge of Masons, and the Thames and New London Athletic clubs, and belongs to the Court Nathan Hale, P'oresters of America ; Beulah Lodge, N. E. O. P. ; Isis Senate, Knights Ancient Essenic Order ; and to the City, County and State medical societies. In pnlitics he is a Republican. THRESHER, Seneca Howard, Lawyer, of Nor- wich, was born in Central Falls, Rhode Island, April 12, 1855, son of Seneca Sanford and Susan Maria (Edgarton) Thresher. His maternal an- cestors came from Rhode Island, his paternal came from Rehciboth in the Plymouth Colony, where they fought against the Indians. Two of his great-grandfathers, Aaron Thresher and Thomas Handy, his father's mother's father, fought in the Revolution Voung Thresher was educated in the public and private schools of Norwich and Phila- delphia. He was preiiared for college but did not enter. He spent the senior year in the Columbia Law .School under Professor Dwight, passing the examinations without taking diploma. He was admitted to the Bar in May 1876. His training for his profession was obtained in the law office of his father and he has been in practice since 1876 at Norwich. He has been employed in several noted criminal cases, was counsel in the case of M. P. Gray vs. Connecticut in the United States Supreme Court, involving the question of the sale of liquors by pharmacists, and counsel in the same case for the Maine Pharmacists Association. In politics he is a Democrat, though voting for McKinlcy at the last election. He held the office of Clerk of the C^ity ('ourt of Norwich in 1S76, and is now .\ssis- tant Judge Advocate Creneral in uniform rank Knights of Pythias of Connecticut. In addition to his membership in the Knights of Pythias, he also belongs to the Improved Order of Red Men, For- esters of America, New England Order of Protec- tion, and the Improved Order of Heptasophs. He was married July 29, 1880, to .Annie, daughter of Nathaniel Hayward, founder of the Hayward Rub- ber Company, of Colchester. Eive children have SENECA H. THRESHER. been born to them : Louise Hayward, Harold Hay- ward, Marguerite Amelie Hayward, Frank Robin- son and Gladys Laura Thresher. TINKER, George Frederick, Meat and Pro- vision Merchant and Ex-Mayor of New London, was born in Marlow, New Hampshire, February 13, 1834, son of Nathan Tinker and Mary Ann ('Stone) Tinker. His grandfather, Elijah Tinker, was born in Lyme, Connecticut, and removed when a young man, to Marlow, New Hampshire, where Nathan Tinker, the father, was born. The family removed 72 MEN OK PROGRESS. to New London in 1855, and have there resided ever since. Nathan Tinker died July 4, 1894. George Frederick Tinker was educated ni the common schools and at the Academy. After leav- ing school he worked on the farm until eighteen years old, when he became a teacher in the com- mon schools. After three years of teaching he removed to New London in 1855, and has since been engaged in the meat and provision business. He is also the proprietor of a broom factory which he started in 1880. In the year 1S73 he became identified with the City Government as a Council- man, and continued as either .Alderman or Coun- GEO. F TINKER. cilman for fifteen years. He was elected Mayor of New London in 1888 and served three years. In 1879-80 he was a member of the Lower House of the Legislature. During the entire eighteen years of his service as a public officer he was never absent from a meeting in either position, whether for committee service or regular sessions. This remarkable record emphasizes the methodical busi- ness habits and conscientious attention to duty which have insured for him respect and honors from his fellow citizens and a deserved success in his business career. He is one of the corporators of the New London Society for Savings, Vice-Presi- dent of the Union Bank, and President of the Butchers' Association. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Memorial Hospital, and erected, at his own expense, one of the wards of the hospital. His liberal gifts for other chari- table purposes are well known. For twenty-eight years he was the manager and proprietor of the Citizens Course of Lectures, the proceeds of which were annually expended for bread for the poor. Since the discontinuance of the lectures he has set aside from his own property a perpetual fund, the interest of which is to be annually expended for a like purpose. He also gave liberally to the trustees of the Bulkeley High School for the enlargement of the school buildings. He is President of the Board of Trustees of the Bradley Street Mission, Presi- dent of the Board of Trustees of the Young Men's Christian Association, and for thirteen years has been Superintendent of the First Congregational Sunday School. He was married to Rebecca Augusta Coombs in 1856. They have two chil- dren : Florence Louise and Charles Perley Tinker. TUCKER, J.'^MES RiEDELL, Principal of Bacon Academy, Colchester, Connecticut, was born in Durham, Connecticut, December 14, 1855, son of Henry and Rosillah (Riedell) Tucker, and a de- scendant of James Tucker who came from England in 1604. He was educated in the public schools of Durham and at Durham Academy and was gradu- ated from Yale in 1878. He was also the first graduate of Chautuaqua University in 1891 making specialties of history and political science. He began teaching in South Salem, New York, in 1878, where he remained one year, and in the following year was Principal of a school in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. From 1880 to 1885 he was principal of the Academy at Barre, Massachusetts. During this period the Academy increased in numbers and standard and students were fitted for Harvard, Amherst, Wellesley and various scientific schools. During the years 1885 and 1887 he was principal of a graded school at Southington, Connecticut. Since 1888 he has been principal of Bacon Academy where his best work has been accomplished. A marked change in the school has been brought about by the establishment of regular courses of study and commencement exercises, and a decided increase of interest on the part of the people and graduates is shown during commencement week. Students are constantly fitted for Yale and other colleges, and those fitted under his instruction Mr-:N OF I'ROGRRSS. 73 ha\e usually taken a liigh rank in College. This old institution because of recent improvements brought about by Mr. Tucker and the progressive spirit of the recently organized Alumni Association has taken on a new lite, and lias caught the spirit J. R. TUCKER. of the age with bright prospects for the future. Mr. Tucker was President of the Eastern Connecti- cut Teachers Association in 1893 and 1894. In l)olitics he is a Republican. He was married Nov- ember 27, 1883, to Martha J. Lawrence, daughter of Judge Cyrus Lawrence, of South Salem, New York. UPSON, Ch.arlf.s Morris, Merchant of Water- bury, Connecticut, was born June 15, 1850, son of Thomas Clark and Harriet (Morris) Upson. He is a direct descendant of Stejihen LTpson, one of the original settlers and proprietors of Waterbury and one of the signers of the Plantation agreement in 1674. After completing his eilucation in public and private schools he became Assistant to his father who was a builder and contractor, but his health failed and for two years he tried farm life. In 1870 he formed a partnership with F. \V. Cid- ilings of New Britain, under the firm name of Giddings & Upson, dealers in clothing, hats and furnishings. He sold oiit this business in 1877 and returning to Waterbury, formed a jiartnership in the same line of business with J. V. Singleton, under the firm name of Upson & Singleton. In 1SS7 the firm purchased a store in New York city and in the following year the firm's business was incorporated as the Upson, Singleton Company. Mr. Upson is Secretary and Treasurer and General Manager of the company. He is also Local Treas- urer in Waterbury of the National Mutual Building and Loan Association of New York. He was one of the organizers of the Waterbury lioard of Trade and its second President. He was Treasurer of the Idlewild Club (since disbanded), and is a member of the Waterbury Club, the County Club of Farm- ington and the Knickerbocker Athletic Club of CHAS. M. UPSON. New York. He was married September 15, 1880, to Jennie Alice Baldwin. They have one child, a daughter, Una Upson, born December 12, 1883. WANDER, Wii.i,i.\.M, Piano Dealer, Hartford, was born in Mainz-on-the-Rhine, (Germany, .April 15, 1825, son of August and Catherine (Reid) Wander. After leaving the public schools he learned the cabinet making trade at Mainz where MEN OF PROGRESS. he continued for four years. In 1S46 he sailed on the American Post ship Iowa (Capt. Lewis), for New N'ork, where he arrived in December 1846. There he found work witli John Buttikoffer, piano maker, with whom he continued until 1S51 when he removed to Hartford. In that year he commenced business as a piano maker, tuner and repairer. WM. WANDER. Twenty years later he took in his son, Emil C , as a member of the firm, and in 1893 his son Eugene was also admitted to the firm, under the style of Wm. Wander & Sons. Their warerooms at 239 to 243 Asylum street, Hartford, comprise six floors and are among the largest and finest in New England. The firm is the agent for Steinway & Sons, A. B. Chase, J. & C. Fischer, Franklin and Sterling pianos, and is the oldest Steinway representative in the world. Mr. Wander sang tenor in Christ Church Choir from the time of his coming to Hart- ford in 1851 until 1877, twenty-iwo years of which time he served under Henry Wilson, the organist. In 1877 he was called to sing at Park Church, where he continued until 1884. Mr. Wander was one of the founders of the New York Leiderkranz in 1847, and in 1852, one year after coming to Hartford, he formed the Hartford Leiderkranz in connection with I^uis Gundlach, Herman Maercklein and Mr. Koch, who with Mr. Wander were also known as the Hartford Quartette Club. He was married April 3, 1848, to Matilda Niemann of Sa.vony. Eight children have been the fruit of this union ; of these there are four living : John, Richard C, Emil C. and Eugene A. Wander. WARREN, Herbert Cleveland, Banker, New Haven, was born in Derby, Connecticut, February S, 1843, son of Henry Warren and Mary A. (Clark) Warren. His mother was a descendant of George Clark, one of the settlers of the town of Milford in 1639, and of Governor Treat, the Governor of the Colony. His schooling was confined to such instruc- tion as the public schools of Derby could afford. He acted as clerk in a store and banking house until 1868, when at the age of twenty-five his present banking business was established. Mr. Warren does a general banking and investment brokerage busi- ness, and the house is widely and favorably known throughout New England. He has successfully H. C. WARREN. handled many issues of Trolley Railroad and other investment bonds and has the confidence of a large clientele. He has been a member of the New Haven City Government, is Treasurer of the Cham- ber of Commerce, and a Director in the Merchants' National Bank, New Haven Electric Company, and MEN OF PRDCRKSS. 75 other corporations, and is a member of tlie (Juini- piac Club and the Re]mbHcan League. He was married ()ctol)er 9, 1867, to Helen I,. I'erkins, now deceased. Two children were bnrn U> lliem : Louise and Harold V. Warren. WARREN, Tracy Bronson, Hotel Proprietor, Bridgeport, was born in W'atertown, Connecticut, December 20, iiS47, son of David Hard and I,ouisa (Bronson) W^arren. The Warrens trace their ances- try back to William De Warrenne. I'".arl of Nor- T. B. WARREN. mandy, who died in 1088, and Gundred, daughter of William the Conqueror — also to William De Warren, second Earl of Warren and Surrey. In this country the first Warren was Richard Warren who came over in the Mayflower and settled at Plymouth. 'I'he subject of this sketch received his education at the Collegiate and Commercial Insti- tute at New Haven. He was in the drygoods business from 1876 to 1882 and from 1890 until the present time has been a hotel proprietor. He was a Lieutenant in the New Haven Grays from 1872 to 1874, and was Adjutant of the Fourth Regiment Connecticut National Guards in 1884, and in 1885- 86 was Aide-de camp on the staff of Governor H. B. Harrison. He was C^ommissary of the Old Guard of the city of New York in 1893-97, and Alderman of Bridgejiort in 1883-84, and City Treasurer in 1885. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Hamilton Commandery Knights Templars, Corin- thian Lodge of Masons, (^)ueriheag Tribe of Red Men, Nebo Senate Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order, and Pyramid Temple, Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Seaside Club, the Seaside Outing ('lub, the Algonipiin Club, the IJridgeport Yacht Club, the Brooklawn ( 'ountry Club, and the Hoboken Turtle Club. He is also a member of the Connect- icut Society of the Sons of the Revolution, the Bridgeport Scientfic Society, the Church Club of Connecticut, and the Bridgeport Board of Trade. From this notable array of societies and clubs the conclusion is warranted that Mine Host Warren is a man of social and clubable parts, and if there exists any other societies or clubs in Bridgeport of which he is not a member it is doulnless a matter of inad- vertence on his part. He was married October 22, 1S74, to Clara A. Mills, of Boston, Massachusetts. They have four children ; John Mills, Louise Bron- son, Bronson Mills and Harvey Tracy Warren. WARREN, Wii.i.AKi) Ci.iNTox, lulitor of the Commercial Record and the Connecticut Industrial Journal, New Haven, and President of the Record Publishing Company, was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, January g, 1866, son of James Daskam and Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Warren. His father was a native of Darien, Connecticut, son of Sands Warren and Margaret Daskam, and a descendant of Richard Waring who came to this country from England in 1664 in the ship Endeavor. His mother was born in Stratford, Connecticut, the daughter of John Smith and Abby Vose ; the latter was a descendant of Thomas Sharpe who came to Stratford from England in 1700, and in 1706 was one of thirty-six petitioners to whom the township of Nevkftovvn was granted, on condition that they settle there within four years and remain four years, which they did. The subject of this sketch was educated at the New Canaan School and by a pri- vate tutor with whom he prepared for Yale. He was obliged, however, to give up his course at Yale, and in 1884 he came to New Haven and entered a business college. After this he was engaged for a short time in the real estate business. The ])resent Commercial Record was then a small adjunct of the real estate business. The paper was gradually 76 MEN OF PROGRESS. extended and enlarged until it now circulates in every important town in the state, and is the recog- nized authority on matter pertaining to real estate, building, contracting and kindwd interests in Con- necticut. In January 1897 he established the WILLARD C. WARREN. Connecticut Industrial Journal. The Journal gives a monthly review of the progress and prosperity of the industrial commercial and municipal interests of the state. He has also published various other publications relating to business interests and his is the only publishing house in the state confining itself to the state and commercial interests. In politics he is a Republican but has never been actively interested. He is a Vestryman in Christ Church. He was married October 14, 1891, to Lillian Faulkner of Stamford. They have one son, Keith I'aulkner Warren. WILLIAMS, Aaron White Cook, Treasurer and General Manager of the Capewell Horse Nail Com- pany, Hartford, was born in Manchester, Connecti- cut, August 29, 1833, the second son of William Chauncey Williams, M. D., and his wife, Julia White Cook. Through his father he is descended from Robert Williams, who emigrated to Roxbury, Massa- chusetts, in 1637, and on his mother's side from Major Aaron Cook who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630. His education was obtained at the public schools of his native town, and he took up business pursuits while still a boy. His early experience in business was varied and included training in retail and wholesale mercantile houses, in office work of large manufactories and, later, in the management of manufacturing enterprises. 'I'his wide practical experience thoroughly equipped him for his busi- ness career, which has been eminently successful. In i86g he went to Europe in the interest of manu- facturing enterprises which he controlled. He estab- lished factories in Manchester, London and Paris, and in the last two cities mercantile houses which still bear his name. Here he was engaged in the manu- facture and sale of lawn mowers and other American inventions. His remarkable natural aptitude for A. W. C. WILLIAMS. business and his wide experience insured the bril- liant success of these ventures, and in a few years he amassed an ample fortune, closed out his foreign interests and returned to America to enjoy in leisure the competence which had been won by his indefatigable energy and pre-eminent ability. In 1887, however, in consequence ot the precarious condition of the Capewell Horse Nail Company of Hartford, Connecticut, in which he had a large MEN OF PROGRESS. 77 interest, he was called to the management ol that concern. Since that time he has been its Treasurer and General Manager, and, under his able and experienced management, the company lias grown from a small concern struggling for a bare existence to be the largest establishment of the kind that has ever existed in this country, employing over sixty travelling salesmen and having branch houses in twelve of the largest cities of the United States. He is a member of several clubs, social and political, a director in various business corporations, and is widely known not only as a successful business man, but also as a generous and public spirited citizen. He was married October 15, 1857, to Elizabeth Hannah Starr, daughter of Benjamin M. Starr, of Brookfield, Connecticut. They have had one child, Arthur Starr Williams, who dietl in infancy. WOODRUFF, George Morris, Lawyer and Rail- road Commissioner of Litchfield, Connecticut, was born in Litchfield March 3, 1836, son of George C. and Henrietta (Seymour) Woodruff. His mother was a sister of Chief Justice Seymour of Con- necticut. His father was a prominent lawyer of Litchfield county, a graduate of Yale 1825. His grandfather Morris Woodruff, son of James, was a representative man of Litchfield county and largely interested in military affairs. He was commissioned Captain by Governor Jonathan Trumbull in 1809, Major by Governor Roger Wolcott in 181 2, and Colonel by Go\ernor John Cotton Smith in 1816, was Brigadier-General in 1818 and Major-General in 1824. For many years he was a representative in the General Assembly, and although not a lawyer, was Associate Judge of the County Court. The subject of this sketch was prepared for college at Phillips .'\cademy, Andover, Massachusetts, and was graduated from Vale in 1857. He studied law at the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Litchfield Coimty Bar in 1859. In the following year he was elected Treasurer of the town of Litch- field, and has ever since held that office. In 1868 he was elected Judge of Probate for the District of Litchfield, and with one year's exception, has also held this office ever since. These two offices of local trust held continuously for thirty years and over, well illustrate the respect and confidence which he enjoys from his fellow citizens. In the larger sphere as a state officer he has proved him- self equally capable and faithful. In 1874 he was appointed Railroad Commissioner of the State by Governor Ingersoll. In the following year he be- came Chairman of the Board, and retained that position until July i, 1897. His services on this r.oard have been of especial value. I le represented Litchfield at Hartford in 1863 and 1865, serving as member of the Judiciary Committee, and again in 1872 when he served on the Committee of Claims. In 1863 he was commissioner for Connecticut to the Universal Exposition at Hamburg. From 1865 to 1877 he was a member of the State Board of Educa- tion. He is a member of the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, and for thirty years was its GEO. M. WOODKUFF. Sunday School Superintendent. He was married lune 13, i860, to Elizabeth F., daughter of James Bowne and Eliza Ferris (Cock) Parsons, of Flush- ing, Long Island. The following children have been born to them: George C, editor of the Litchfield Enquirer, James P. who is practising law with his father, and Eliza P., wife of Alexander McNeil, of New York. George C. and James P. Woodruff, are graduates of .\mherst and James P. of the Yale Law School. WOO.STKK, FkKiii'RKK Lkwis, Projirietor of the Winsted Machine Works and Iron Foundry, Win- sted, was born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Decern- 78 MEN OF I'ROGRESS. ber 7, 1851, son of Henjamin Alden and Esther Wooster. He is descenileil in the ninth generation from John and Priscilia Alden, througii his paternal grandmother, Almida Alden Wooster, daughter of Henjamin Alden, and from Edward Wooster who came from England about 1636. His father's parents were Joseph and Almida Wooster, and his mother was a daughter of Jesse Wooster, son of Walter Wooster of Milford, who served under Put- nam and Washington in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment from March 1777 to February 1780. Young Wooster received his education in the com- mon schools of Naugatuck and at Siiringfiekl, F. L. WOOSTER. Massachusetts. At thirteen he was a newsboy in Springfield, and at fifteen was thrown entirely on his own resources. At the age of nineteen he entered the employ of the Farrell Foundry & Machine Company of Ansonia, Connecticut. He removed to Winsted November 15, 1873, a"d went to work for the Winsted Foundry and Machine Company, with whom he remained for sixteen years. For eleven months of this time, from July I, 1879, to June I, 18S0, he was in partnership with J. B. Riggs under the firm name of Wooster & Riggs, in the machine business, but at the end of that time the business was bought by the old com- pany to whom he returned. On December 15, 1891, he formed another partnership, this time with G. C. Wilcox, under the firm style of Wooster & Wilcox. On April i, 1895, the partnership was dissolved, and the business has since been con- tinued alone by Mr. Wooster, under the name of the Winsted Machine Works and Iron Foundry. They make a specialty of derricks and winches, and also manufacture hangers, pulleys, castings and shafting. Mr. Wooster works with accuracy and exactness, and his success has come from persis- tent, honest and conscientious endeavor. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1876, and has always taken an active part in church work and the various obligations arising therefrom. He joined the Sons of Temperance in 1868, the Good Templars in 1869, the Rechabites in 1892, and has been a delegate to nearly every state convention of the Prohibition party since 1884, casting his first vote with that party in 1873. He was the Prohibi- tion candidate for Congress in 1896, Presidential elector in 1884, and delegate to the Prohibition National Conventions at Indianapohs in 1888, and at I'ittsburg in 1896. He has been a Worthy Chief Templar of Monitor Lodge No. 36, Independent Order of Good Templars, Worthy Patriarch of Win- chester Division Sons of Temperance, and is also a member of St. Andrew's Lodge No. 64, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Winchester Council No. 755 Royal Arcanum, Highland Lodge No. 13 New F^ngland Order of Protection, Winsted Lodge No. 7 Ancient Order of United Workmen, Lodge No. i Connecticut Workman's Benefit Association, and the Grand Division Sons of Temperance. He takes an active interest in the Young Men's Christian Association, and is Secretary of the Official Board and Recording Steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married December 7, 1S77, to Ellen Elizabeth Harvey. Three children have been born to them : Harvey Alden, Esther Lovina, and Julia Ethel Wooster. ALLEN, Nathan Henrv, Organist and Com- poser, Hartford, was born in Marion, Massachu- setts, April 14, 1848, son of Henry Manley and Matilda (Clark) Allen. His father was a Com- mander of packet-ships plying between New York and Liverpool. On his mother's side he is de- scended from Henry Butler Bridgman, an Irish gentleman whose estate was located near Limerick, and also from Thomas Clark, who gave the name to Clark's Island in Plymouth harbor. After attending MEN OF PROGRESS. 79 the common schools he attended Pliillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and then a further two- years at Providence, Rhode Island, chielly in mus- ical studv. In 1S67 lie went tn lierlin, (lerniany, and there devoted three years to the study of his N. H. ALLEN. chosen profession. He returned to America in 1870, and settling at New Bedford, Massachusetts, was at once appointed Organist of the Unitarian Church of that city, at the same time being active as a teacher of music. In 1878 he accepted the position of Organist of the Park Church, Hartford, where he remained two years. He subsequently had charge for three years of the music at the undenominational services in Cheney Hall, South Manchester, teaching meanwhile in Hartford. In 1883 he was chosen as Organist of the Center Church, Hartford, which position he still holds. The success of his concerts and organ recitals has been marked. Among his pupils have been, R. P. Paine, S. Clark Lord, W. C. Hammond, A. L. Towne and W. A. Gaylord. He w^as for two years Vice-President of the National Music Teachers' Association, and in 1890 founded the Connecticut State Music Teachers' Association. In 1891 he started the Musurzia Club, and is also one of the original members of the New Vork Manuscri])! Society and of the American Guild of Organists. He is also a member of the New York Clef Club. He was married in 1876 to Elizabeth Mitchell Macy. They have had two children; Henrietta (deceased) and Henry Manley Allen. His pub- lished compositions number more than a hundred. Of these a cantata, "St. Dorothy," is the most noted. HACON, John Watson, Civil Engineer, Danbury, Connecticut, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, June 9, 1827, son of Leverett Ward and Sarah (Watson) Bacon. His early education was ob- tained in tl'.e public schools and in a private academy where he was fitted for college. He graduated at Trinity College in 1846, valedictorian of his class. He became soon after Principal of an academy in Essex, Connecticut, but soon resigned to commence the study of law with Hon. Isaac Toucey, of Hartford, with whom he remained until JOHN W. BACON. 1848, when he decided to adopt the profession of Civil Engineering. In this capacity he made the first surveys of the present New England Railroad between Hartford and Willimantic, and had charge among other important work of the building of the Connecticut River bridge and Union Depot at Hartford. He then spent two years on the surveys 8o MEN OF PROGRESS. and construclion of the nanbury & Norwalk Rail- roiul, and on its completion returned to Hartford, and assumed the position of Superintendent of the present New England Railroad, then completed between Waterbury, Connecticut, and I'rovidence, Rhode Island, where he remained for five years. He then toanklin Rifle Club, and one of the Trustees of the Dime Savings Bank. During the administration of Mayor Sumner in 1878 he was appointed a mem- ber of the Hartford Board of Fire Commissioners, and rendered valuable service to the city in that capacity. He was ai)pointed by Mayor Dwight in 1890 a member of the Board of Street Commission- ers, and to (|uote from papers, it is said " that the wisdom of the appcjintment was universally con- 92 MKN OF PROGRESS. cetled." By Mayor Myde in 1S9.5 he was appointed a member of the Board of Police Commissioners. In [xilitics he is an Independent Democrat, and an ardent supporter of sound money. In religious matters he is a member of the Park Ecclesiastical Society. A newspaper clipping reads : " There is not a railroad manager in New England who pos- sesses more fully than Superintendent Davidson the confidence of the public, and for the best reasons. He has had abundant and varied experience in all departments of practical railroading, managing with consummate judgment and skill the most difficult situations ; a man of absolute fidelity, and courage C. S. DAVIDSON. which amounts to heroism." It was during the war that he was appointed Assistant Superintendent, and placed in charge of the transportation of troops. So important was this service, that he was looked upon with special favor by the state officials and United States officials in this department. He was engineer of the train that transported the six Massachusetts troops through Connecticut on their way to Wash- ington, and only a few hours prior to the attack on the regiment at Baltimore. Thousands of volunteers were transported through Connecticut under his charge during the war and not a life was lost or a soldier injured in transportation. 'I'he record is a proud one, and he looks back to it with satisfaction. It was at that time a hazardous situation, on account of the enemies of the Government in Connecticut who would not hesitate to wreck a train carrying troops to the front, and the utmost secrecy prevailed as to the movement of troop trains. He was mar- ried in December 1857 to Catherine Anne Barthol- omew (sister of the late Edward S. Bartholomew, sculptor) by the Reverend Nathaniel J. Burton. Three children were the fruits of the marriage, but one of whom is living : William B. Davidson, Teller in the United States Bank at Hartford. DAVENPORT, Reverend John Gavlord, D. D., Pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Waterbury, was born in Wilton, Connecticut, Nov- ember 24, 1840, the only son of Charles Augustus and Sarah Maria (Gaylord) Davenport. The Dav- enports trace their ancestry back to the Norman invaders of England. The first whose name is known was Ormus de Daunporte who was born in Chester, England, in 1086. Sixteen generations after him was the Reverend John Davenport, the patriarch of New Haven. From him the line runs as follows : Rev. John Davenport, John Davenport, of New Haven, Rev. John Davenport, of Stamford, John Davenport, of North Stamford, Deodate Dav- enport, Sr., Deodate Davenport, Jr., and Samuel Davenport, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch. His mother's grandfather, the Rev. Wil- liam Gaylord, was pastor of the church in Wilton from 1733 'o 1766. The present pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Waterbury, re- ceived his early education at the district school of Wilton, and at Wilton Academy under Professor Edward Olmstead, Yale 1844. He was graduated from Williams College in 1863, giving as his com mencement appointment the salutatory oration. He studied for one year, 1864-65, in Union Theologi- cal Seminary, and while a tutor at Williams College, 1865-67. continued his theological studies under the Rev. Dr. Mark Hopkins. He had already taught for a year, 1863-64, in a classical academy at Jewett, New York. On July i, 1868, he was ordained and installed Pastor of the Park Street Congregational Church of Bridgeport. Here he remained for thirteen years during which time the young church developed in numbers and efficiency, taking its place among the foremost churches of the city. He was dismissed July 20, 1881, and November 9, 1 88 1, was installed in the church at Waterbury of which he is still Pastor. Under the pastoral care of Mi:\ OI' I'ROC.RESS. 93 Dr. Davenport the Secoml Cliurch has enjoyed college class in 1878, he was in 1883 re-elected great ]irosperitv, amoni; the evidences of which are its erection of a beautiful sanctuary of brown stone, costing with lurnishini^s and parsonage one hundred and sixtv thousand dollars, and the ra]>id increase S. «5^ "for twenty-five years." In this capacity he in 1S83 iniblished a somewhat voluminous report of the class, entitled, " After Twenty Years." Mr. Davenport has always been interested in moral reform mi)\ements, and in 1874 was Grand W'orthy Patriarch of the Sons of Temperance of Connecti- cut. In politics he is a Republican, but has exer- cised the liberty of bolting on occasion. He was married November 29, 1866, to Miss Alice, daugh- ter of Cicorge B. \Vestcott, of Wilton. Three chil- dren have been born to them : Clarence Gaylord, connected prominently with the (leneral Electric Co., in New N'ork, Lilian Louisa and Mary Lindley Davenport. J. G. DAVENPORT. of its membership until it has become the large^t church in Connecticut with o\ er a thousand com- municants. Its Pastor has three times been sent as a delegate to the National Council of Congrega- tional Churches, and in 1897 was elected Modera- tor of the General Association of the Congrega- tional Ministers of Connecticut. He is also a corporate member of the American lioard of Com- missioners for Foreign Missions; is a member of the Society of Founders and Patriots, and since 1896 has been its Chaplain for Connecticut. Wil- liams College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1893 Mr. Daven])ort was a member of the Board of Education of Bridgeport in 1879, 3"'^ from 1878 to 1881 was one of the Alumni Visitors of Williams College, giving the report of that body at the commencement in 1S81. He was Class Day poet at his graduation and since VAX, \\'ii,i.i.\M Henry, Corporation Counsel of New Haven, was born in Hartford, November 27, 1859, son of William Brewster and Elizabeth Smith (Morgan) Ely. He is a descendant of Nathan L'.ly, WM. H. ELY. one of the first settlers of Hartford, and to whom with others, was allotted a piece of land in the orig- inal distribution. He is also descended from Elder then has written many poems, not a few of which William ISrcwster, through his father's grandmother have been published. \'arii)us prose articles of Drusilla Brewster. On the maternal side he is his, sermons, sketches, etc., have found a place descended 'rom the Morgans of Stonington who in the public press. Elected the Secretary of his figured in the war of the Revolution, and Thomas 94 MEN OF PROGRESS. Seymour who was King's Attorney before the Revo- hition anil from the €he\ enards, a Huguenot family. He attended the Hartford High School where he graduated in 1S73, and then entering .Vniherst Col- lege, graduated with the class of 1877 ; following this he studied law in the office of Briscoe & Maltbie of Hartford, and was admitted to the Bar in that city, May 27, 1879. He commenced the practice of law in Winsted, Connecticut, in September of the same year, and there remained until June 28, 18S4, when he moved to New Haven. Here he has continued in the practice of his profession in connection with William C. Case. In politics he is a Republican. In January 1895 he was elected to his present office as Corporation Counsel of New Haven, and in Jan- uary 1897 was re-elected for a period of two years. He is a member of the Quinnipiac Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Republican League and the Young Men's Republican Club of New Haven. He was married October 18, i88r, to Mary Gertrude Little, of Sheffield, Massachusetts. Their son, William Brewster Ely, was born October 19, 18S2. FOSTER, John Pierrepunt Codrington, M. 1),, New Haven, was born in New Haven, March 2, 1847, son of Eleazer Kingsbury and Mary (Codring- ton) Foster. On his father's side he is descended from James Pierpont, Thomas Hooker and a long line of Colonial celebrities. His family still occupy the land on which they settled in 1685. 'I'he present house was built by his great-grandfather John Pierpont, and there has never been a deed for the property. His father, a graduate of Vale, 1834, was conspicuous in political and social life, was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1865, and for a quarter of a century attorney for the state in New Haven. His grandfather was a prom- inent lawyer, a graduate of Vale 1802. The first ancestor of the name was Samuel Foster, who came from England in 1630 and was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts. His eighth great- grandfather was Thomas Willette, of Plymouth, who commanded the Plymouth Colony, and who, after defeating the Dutch, was the first Mayor of New York city. His mother was a member of the ancient Codrington family of England, and only came to this country shortly before her marriage. The subject of this sketch prepared for college at Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute, New Haven, and was graduated from Yale in 1869, and from the Yale Medical School in 1875. He began the practice of medicine in New Haven in the fall of 1876. He has a large general practice, and for many years has had the bulk of the university prac- tice. On December 3, 1890, he was the first in America to administer the famous Tuberculin of Professor Koch. In connection with Professor R. II. Crittenden of the Yale Biological Laboratory he conducted for se\eral months a series of experi- ments upon tuberculous ])atients, the results of which were subsecpiently published. He has been Sur- geon in the United States Marine Hospital service since 1880, and in T897 was appointed Instructor JOHN p. C. FOSTER, in .\natomy at the Yale .-^rt School. He is a mem- ber of the American and the State Medical Associa- tion and of the Society of American Anatomists. He was married July i, 1875, to Josephine Bicknell. Their children have been : Margaret Codrington, John Pierrepont Codrington, Jr., Josephine Bick- nell, Allen Evarts, and William Edward Foster. GREENE, WiNTHROP Benton, Pastor of the F^irst Congregational Church of Pomfret, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 19, 1869, son of Edward Winthrop and Mary Eliza (Benton) Greene, now residents of Newtonville, Massachu- MEN OK PROGRESS. 95 setts. His paternal grandfathci, Wintliiciii ()slco(>iI Greene (1807-64), of I'omfret, was a tlirect de- scendant of Thomas Greene who came from Eng- land in i6_;s and settled in Maiden, Massachusetts. His maternal grandfather, Austin W. llenton, was WINTHROP BENTON GREENE. for many years a resident of Brookline, Massacliu- setts, and is now living at Newton Centre, Massa- chusetts. Winthrop B. Greene received his early education in the public schools and High School of Newton, Massachusetts, then entering Williams College, he was graduated in the class of 1892. He pursued his theological studies at Union Theo- logical Seminary, New York city, where he was graduated in the class of 1895. On November 12, 1895, he was ordained to the ministry at Pomfret, and has been Pastor of the First Congregational Church, of Pomfret, since that date. He is one of the rising young ministers of the state and his future will be followed with confidence. He was one of the Commencement Speakers at College, and in the Seminary won a prize scholarship and was President of his class throughout the course. In College he belonged to the Delta Upsilon Fra- ternity. He is now a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. He was married December 11, 1895, to Edith Winship Brinckerhoff, of Brooklyn, New York. II \\\ ll'^Y, SiDNKv llnwiN, of Bridgeport, Sheriff of Fairlield county, was born in Brookfield, Con- necticut, November 29, 1844, son of the late Charles and .\nna (Merwin) llauK'v. His ances- try is traced in a direct line to Joseph Hawley, born in Parwick, County of Derby, I'.ngland, in 1603, who settled in Boston in 1629 and moved to Strat- ford, Connecticut, about the middle of the seven- teenth century, lienjamin Hawley of the fourth generation moved to Newtown, Connecticut, giving his name to the northern portion of the town since known as Hawleyville. The lineal descendants for the next three generations, William, Daniel and Charles, the latter the father of the subject of this sketch, were born in Newtown, Daniel Hawley and his family removing to Brookfield in the early jjart of the ])resent century. Through his grandmother on the father's side, Joanna Seeley, he traces his ancestry through an honored line back to Colonial times. His three older l)rotlicrs made homes for S. E. HAWLEY. themselves in Hartford, New Haven and New York, and Sidney E. the youngest, having received his education in the public and jirivate schools of Brookfield, assumed the charge of the farm and the care of his ])arents during his early manhood. For twenty-five years he was a hard working farmer and from 1878 to 1888 was also engaged in the packing 96 MEN OF PROGRESS. of leaf tohaiio. He has always been interested in politics and was an active worker for the Republi- can party even before he attained his majority. He was elected Representative from the town of HrookfieKl, naturally Democratic, in i8S6, and re- elected in tS88. In 1889 he was appointed by C'lovernor Bulkeley member of the State Board of .•\griculture and in the same year was appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for four years, under Collector John A. Hutchinson, with hcadijuarters at Briilgeport. In November 1894, he was elected Sheriff of Fairfield county, succeed- ing a Democratic official. He has proved an excel- lent officer and has received praise irrespective of party. He has reduced expenses, improved the sanitary condition of the jail buildings and made many improvements. His motto has been " to fight for the right regardless of consequences." Mr. Hawley is active in social life and a member and Trustee of the Brookfield Congregational Church, also a member of Brookfield Grange No. 141, St. Peter's Lodge of Masons of New Milford, and Pequonnock Lodge of Odd Fellows No. 4, Nebo Senate No. 58, K. A. E. O. Konckapotanan Tribe Order of Red Men, and of the Seaside, Algonquin and Country clubs of Bridgeport. He was married June 7, 187 i, to Sarah Ann Roe. HOAG, Clhus Si'URZHeim, Homoeopathic Physi- cian, Bridgeport, was born in Gaysville, Vermont, January 31, 1855, son of Albert Alvah and Charlotte (Cunningham) Hoag. His father was a Scotch Quaker coming from the North of England. The family settled in Weare, New Hampshire, where the father of Dr. Hoag was born. They after- wards moved to "Quaker City" or Unity, a part of the town of Charlestown, New Hampshire. His mother's father was among the early settlers of Windsor county, Vermont, coming thither from Windham, Connecticut. Dr. Hoag was educated in the public schools of Vermont and at Goddard Seminary at Barre, Vermont. During a part of 1873 and 1874 he taught school in his native state. He studied medicine with Dr. C. H. Chamberlain of Barre, and in 1877 was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. In the spring of the same year he began the practice of medicine at Bradford, Vermont, in connection with Dr. J. H. Jones. In the fall, following, he was admitted to the Metropolitan Hospital, New York city, as House Physician and .Surgeon. In January 1879 he located at Waterbury, Vermont. After a two-years practice there his health broke down and he went South. Returning North he located at Bridgeport, Connecticut, in February 1882, and became the associate of Dr. L. H. Norton. After the death of the latter in 1885, Dr. Hoag located on Lafayette street, Bridgeport, taking in his brother Dr. A. A. Hoag as associate. LTnder the name of Drs. C. S. & A. A. Hoag they have continued in suc- cessful practice until the present time. Dr. Hoag has served as President of the Connecticut Homceo- pathic Medical Society and for several years was Registrar of the American Institute of Homoeopathy. \ C. S. HOAG. He also belongs to the Fairfield County Honuco- pathic Medical Society, to the Seaside Club and the Bridgeport Board of Trade. He is a thirty-second degree Mason and belongs to all the local Masonic bodies. In politics he is a Republican. He was married at Waterbury, Vermont, January 22, 1879, to Dora E. Abbott. They have no children. HODGE, George Washington, Paper Manu- facturer and Ex-Treasurer of the State of Con- necticut, Rainbow, was born in Seymour, July 5, 1845, son of George L. and Hannah M. fPelton) Hodge. His grandfather W^illiam Hodge, a Baptist MEN OK PROGRESS. 97 Minister, came to this countiy in 1S23 from Scot- 1895-96. He is a Mason, a member of the Royal land with liis family of eight children and lived Arcanum and of the Republican Club of Hartford, in Long Islanil and Connecticut. His mother's He is a regular attendant of the Baptist church, parents were settlers of Western Massachusetts, Mr. Hodge was married August 31, 1865, to Miss moving from there to Central New York. They Jennie A Clark. Their only child, deceased, July 28, 186S, was Clarence H. Hodge. GEORGE W. HODGE. were connected with the Peltons, of the early settle- ment of Saybrook and East Windsor. He was edu- cated at the common schools, the Connecticut Literary Institute at Sufifield and the Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York. .After leav- ing school at eighteen, he learned the business of paper making in the mills of his father at Rainbow, Connecticut. He became a member of the firm in 1866, the firm name being Hodge, Son & Company, and thus continued until 1874 when he retired, and in 1876 became a member of the firm of House & Company in the same business. He bought out the business of one partner in 1880 and of the other in 1890, and has since owned and run the business under the old name of House & Company. Since May 1895 he has been Treasurer of the Connecticut Building and Loan Association of Hartford. He has always been a Republican. He was Selectman of the town of Windsor 1876-81, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives 1881-2, member of State Senate from the Third District in 1889, and Treasurer of the state of Connecticut in ll\l)i;, Ki'iiK.AiM lliNKV, Jr., .Mlorncy at Law, Hartford, was born in Stafford, Connecticut, October 5, 1S48. He is the son of I':phraim Henry and Hannah Converse (Young) Hyde. His father is an E.\- Lieutenant Ciovernorof Connecticut and well known throughout the State as a breeder of blooded cattle and for his devotion to agricultural interests. The son received his early education in the common schools of Stafford, and at the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Mass., and the Monson Academy, at Monson, Mass. He entered Yale College with the E H, HYDE, JR. class of 1871 but left at the end of his Freshman year to commence the study of law in the office of Waldo, Hubbard & Hyde at Hartford. He was admitted to the Bar in 1871 and until 1875 was associated with Samuel L. Jones, Esq. In April 1875 he formed a partnership with Charles M. loslyn under the firm name of Hyde et Joslyn and 98 MEN OF PROGRESS. so continued until 1S94 when George H. Gilnian was ailmittetl to the firm and the style was Hyde, Joslyn & Gilman, till September i, 1897, when Frank I.. Hungerford, of New Britain, was admitted to the finn since which date the firm name has been Hungerford, Hyde, Joslyn & Gilman. The firm is counsel for many important corporations and is well known throughout the State. In 1873 he was Assistant Clerk of the Connecticut House of Repre- sentatives, in 1874 Clerk, and in 1875 Clerk of the Senate. He was Prosecuting .Attorney of the city of Hartford from October i, 1875, to April i, 1877, and again from Ajiril i, 1879, to April i, 1880. He was api)ointed a member of the Commission on Uniform State Legislation by Governor Morris. He still holds this office and his services in this connection have been of special value. He is President of the Hartford Hoard of Charity Com- missioners. In 1896 he was candidate for Congress in the First Congressional District on the Gold Democratic ticket. He is Past-Master of St. John's Lodge of Masons of Hartford, a member of the Hartford Club and of the Manhattan Club of New York city. He was married June 2, 188 1, to Clara Pearce Tuttle. JACQUES, Eugene Leslie, Proprietor of Jacques Opera House, Waterbury, was born in Plymouth, Connecticut, April 30, 1855, son of John J. Jacques, M. D., and Susan M. (Marsh) Jacques. On the maternal side he is descended from Roger Williams. His father's ancestors were French Huguenots. His great-great-grandfather was a criminal lawyer of Rhode Island and served thirteen successive terms in the Rhode Island State Legislature. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of Waterbury and at the Ellington Academy at Ellington, Connecticut, where he remained three years. At the age of eighteen he left school and went into partnership with his father in the drug busmess. There he remained sixteen years until the death of his father when he sold out the busi- ness to J. W. Cone who still continues it. At this time he started in the theatrical business in the old City Hall. After four years the former manner of conducting the business was changed. Instead of the company hiring the hall in which to play, they shared their profits with the local manager and in this manner Mr. Jacques made considerable money. He remained about ten years in the City Hal! and then in 18S6 built the Jacques Opera House. This Opera House has since been remodeled and is now one of the finest in the state. He also built the .Auditorium in 1892 and remodeled it 1897. This building is used for large gatherings and amusement enterprises. As a local manager he is known to the profession and the public under the name of " Jean Jacques " Mr. Jacques also owns and man- ages the Diamond ISottling Works of Waterbury. lie makes his own syrups and manufactures the well known brand of Naugatuck Ginger Ale. He is a member of the Waterbury Club. He is also a thirty-second degree Mason, and a Member of the EUGENE L JACQUES Mystic Shrine, Uniform Rank Odd Fellows, Inde- pendent Order of Red Men and Knights of Pythias. He was married in 1891 to Annie Louise Ames of Boston. Their children have been : Marie Mercedes Jacques, born July 1894, and one son who died in infancy. JACKSON. Edward, Architect, South Manches- ter, was born in County Armagh, Ireland, May 12, i860, son of Thomas and Mary (Cordner) Jackson. His great-grandfather was Joseph Jackson who lived at Church Hill and held the position of sur- veyor and land steward under Colonel Vernor until MEN (M' PROGRESS. 99 his death. His grandfather, John Jackson, married Mary Port, of County Derry, Ireland, and moved from Church Hill to Ballinary, to the homestead where the subject of this sketch was born. His early education was obtained in the elementary public schools. He then attended the Belfast Royal Academy of Engineering and .•\rt where he was graduated July 6, 1877. He was a pupil for two years of Henry Shillington, city engineer for the corporations of Lurgan and Fortadown, with whom he had a thorough training in engineering and office work. In March 1880 he emigrated to .Australia and secured a position as assistant sur- II is work was confined to Belfast and surrounding towns and comprises a fine example of a Masonic 'I'emple and a Public School. His work shows much originality and with the knowledge derived from his extensive travels he is able to adapt his style to a wide variety of subjects. He sailed for .America in October 1895, and crossing the Rocky Mountains, visited all of the large cities. Mr. Jack- son has taken first prizes in architectural competi- tions and is associate member of the Institute of .Architects and Civil Engineers of Ireland. He is unmarried. veyor under the Queensland Government. After three years he left Brisbane and sailed to \"ictoria where he secured a position with .Allen iv: Tuxon, architects of Melbourne. In 1886 he sailed to .Aucklan' District as Senator. In 1S56 he was a mem- ber of the House from Waterbury, and was offered the nomination as speaker, but declined in favor of an older colleague. Mr. Kellogg was a delegate to the Republican National Convention of i860, and was a member of the committee which drew up the platfornj on which Abraham Lincoln was first elected President. He was also a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1868 and 1S76. He sened as Colonel of the Second Regi- ment of the Connecticut National Guard from 1863 to 1866, and as Brigadier-General from 1866 to S. W. KELLOGG. 1870. He took a leading part immediately after the War in organizing the National Guard to take the place of the Stale Militia, and prepared and procured the passage of the bill which secured this result. The term National Guard and the system first introduced by him in Connecticut have since been adopted by a large number of states of the Union. He resigned his office as Brigadier-Gen- eral on account of the absorbing nature of his Con- gressional duties. His resignation was reluctantly accepted by the state authorities, who thoroughly appreciated the value of his labors in connection with the state troops. He was first elected to Con- gress in 1869 and was re-elected in 1871 and 1873. The fact that on each occasion it was necessary to overcome a natural Democratic majority of fully twenty-live hundred votes in the district attests his great personal popularity and the high appreciation in which his services were held by the public at large. During the three terms at Washington he was conceded to be one of the best representatives the district had ever had. He took an important part in the tariff legislation of 1870 and 1872, and performed effective work on a number of important committees, notably those on the Judiciary, Patents, War Claims, Pacific Railroads, Naval Expenditures and Civil Service Reform. He was Chairman of the Committee on Naval Expenditures in the Forty- second Congress, and of that on Civil Service Re- form in the Forty- third. His successful efforts in behalf of improving the harbors of Connecticut which had long been neglected by Congress, won him the gratitude of the people of the state irre- spective of party. He was one of the first to see the necessity of reorganizing the War and the Treasury Departments at Washington after the War, and the Treasury Department is still carried on by enactments as prepared by him. Shortly before his third election to Congress the Waterbury Ameri- can thus referred to him : " It is not otten that a Congressman at the end of four years of service receives so many testimonials, frank and business- like in their tone, from his constituents without reference to locality or party. The truth is that Mr. Kellogg perceives more clearly than most Con- gressmen what are the real duties of a representa- tive and honestly endeavors to fulfil them. He has kept himself free from Congressional corruption, and at the same time he has done a large amount of valuable work for the district and state which he represents." He declined the nomination for Gov- ernor in 1878, while President of the convention that made the nomination ; and when for the first time in five years the Republicans had elected a majority of the Legislature he publicly withdrew his name as a candidate for United States Senator. Since his retirement he has devoted himself to the practice of his profession, but has never lost inter- est in public affairs and has frequently written arti- cles for the press upon political and other subjects. In 1 88 1, two days after President Garfield was shot, he prepared an article on the presidential succes- sion, that was given wide publicity in the papers of the country, and attracted great attention. At that time there was but a single life, that of Vice-Presi- dent Arthur, between organized government and MEN OF I>ROGRESS. lOl anari liy. Tlie House of Re]iresentalives had not organized, and there was no Speaker lor tlie next in succession. In the article referred to, Mr. Kellogg proposed and advocated the exact system of presi- dential succession, that was afterwards adopted by Congress after long debates on the subject. Mr. Kellogg is and has been one of the agents of the Bronson Library since its organization in iS6S, and while in Congress succeeded in making it one of the si.\ depositories in the .State for the valuable pul)lications of the United States Covernment. He was married September lo, 185 i, to Lucia Hos- mer .\ndrews, a granddaughter of Stephen Titus Hosmer, formerly Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, and a great-granddaughter of 'I'itus Hosmer, member of the Continental Congress and Judge of the L^nited States Maritime Court, and of Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons, of the War of the Revolution. Seven children are the fruit of this marriage : Sarah Andrews, Lucy Wright, Frank Woodruff, a Lieutenant in the Navy, John Prescott, associated with his father in the practice of law, under the name of Kellogg &: Kellogg, Elizabeth Hosmer, Stephen Wright, Jr., who died in 1868, and Charles Poole Kellogg, now Secretary of the Con- necticut State Board of Charities. METCALF, William Henrv, Dentist, New Haven, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, October 4, 1846, son of John Trumbull and Mary Mitchell (Myrick) Metcalf . He is a direct descend- ant of Michael Metcalf who emigrated to this country from Tatterford, England, in 1637 ^^'^ settled in Dedham, Massachusetts ; also of James Metcalf, and James Metcalf, Jr., both of whom were in the Colonial War and the War of the Revolution. He inherits longevity from a long line of English ancestors on both sides extending back to Kings Egbert and Pepin. He was prepared for Yale Col- lege in the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, but did not take the course. For a while he attended a business college in New Haven, then learned to be a tea taster for a New York Tea House, for whom he traveled in the West for several years. He studied for the dental profession in Philadelphia and was graduated from the Philadel- phia Dental College in 1884, and he has been in the successful practice of dentistry, at New Haven, smce that date. In addition to his regular professional duties he has taken out several patents for useful articles. He has written occasionally ,for New York jiaj^ers, and is the author of a novel entitled "A Summer in Oldport Harbor," published by Lippin- cott in 1887. In ])olitics he has always been a Rc|niblican. He is a member of the Connecticut State, Connecticut Yalley and American Protective Dental Associations ; and is also a member of the " United Society " of the Congregational Church, of New Haven. He was married April 25, 1888, at .Albany, New York, to Grace Rutherford Boyd. Three children have been born to them : lohn WM. H. METCALF. Trumbull, born March 21, 1889; Anna Rutherford, born March 18, 1890; and Arthur Boyd Metcalf, born May 3, 1892. MARKLEY, Philip Joseph, Attorney-at-Law, New Britain, was born in New Ijritain, F"ebruary2i, 1855. He comes of Irish ancestry, and is the son of Thomas and Ann (Brady) Markley. His early education was obtained at the public schools and the High School of New Britain. He next attended the Holy Cross College at Worcester, iNLassachusetts, where he was graduated in 1877 with the degree of A. B , and received the degree of A. iM. from the same college in 1884. He studied law at the Columbia Law School, New York city, and in the 102 MEN OF PROGRESS. office of Mitchell & Hungerford, of New Britain. In December iSSo, he was admitted to the Bar, and has practiced law at New Britain since that date. He was a member of the Common Council of New Britain in i88.?, of the Board of Aldermen PHILIP I. MARKLEY. in 1884 and 1885, and was City Attorney from 1886 to 1890, and again in 1892. From 1885 to 1890 he served as Chairman of the Board of Sewer Commis- sioners, as Town Auditor from 1885 to 1897, and as Chairman of the Board of Education from 1893 to 1897. Since 1886 he has been an officer and Attor- ney for the Knights of Columbus. In 1891 he was New Britain's Representative in the General Assem- bly. He was married in New York city, September 9, 1885, to Williamanna E. Dunne. They have three children: Eileen A. C, Beatrice M. and Rosalie Markley. MOSS, Ernest Bartholomew, City Engineer, Meriden, was born in Cheshire, Connecticut, Octo- ber 8, 1867, son of Julius and Emerett A. (Barthol- omew) Moss, and a descendant of John Moss who came to New Haven from England in 1638 with Hopkins, Eaton and Davenport, the founders of New Haven, and also was made a member of the General Court of New Haven in 1639 and lived there thirty years. From this ancestor the links in the ancestral chain are : John, Benjamin, Titus, Joel and Joel Moss, the latter the grandfather of the pres- ent City Engineer. His mother's father was William Bartholomew, and from him the line runs back through Timothy, Samuel and Andrew, to William Bartholomew who was born in Ipswich, Massachu- setts, about 1640 and coming to Branford, Connecti- cut, in 1678 became a man of prominence in church and state. lamest Bartholomew Moss was graduated from the Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Connecti- cut, in 1885 and completed under private instruction the special engineering course of the Sheffield Scien- tific School of Yale in March 1887. In the following month he secured a position on the engineering corps of the Meriden & Waterbury Railroad and there remained until the completion of the road in 1889. In March of that year he accepted a position as resident engineer with the Confluence and Oakland Railroad Company, during the construction of a E. B. MOSS road from Confluence, Somerset county, Pennsyl- vania, into Garrett county, Maryland. In the fall of the same year he resigned his position from the Confluence and Oakland Railroad Company to ac- cept a position as Assistant Engineer in the Con- struction Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in which position he remained until the fall of MI'.N (IK I'ROC.RRSS. 103 1893. While with the Pennsyhania Comjiany he had charge of the prehminary surveys, location and construction of some of the heaviest work then being constructed by the Company. During the winter of 1S93 and 1894 he was employed by the Meriden Electric Railroad as constructing engineer. From the spring of 1894 to February 1S95 he had the charge of the construction of eighteen miles of additional track for the Hartford Street Railroad. In February 1895 he was elected to his present position of City Engineer of Meriden. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Moss is a member of the Meriden Home Club and the .Vlfred II. Hall Council, Royal Arcanum. He is unmarried. his charge as well as of his medical associates, by his skill and success as a physician and surgeon, and endeared himself to all by his uniform kindness, his genial and social qualities as a gentleman, and by his unfailing fund of wit and humor that never re- quired a victim." After the close of the war he practiced medicine at Clifton Springs and Cornwall- on-the- Hudson until 1871, when he removed to Hartford where he continues in active practice. He has been a most successful physician and sur- geon and is widely known throughout New England. He is the writer of important medical articles pub- lished in the periodicals botli in this country and PELTIER, PiKRKK Desnovkrs, M. 1), Hartford, was born in Fort Gratiot, Michigan, November 15, 1835, son of Charles and Emily (Parmely) Peltier. He traces his ancestry back to Michel Pelletier, Sieur de la Prade, Seigneur de Gentilly, and to Francois Pelletier who was one of the founders of Detroit. His grandfather Charles Peltier was Adju- tant in the War of 1812, and afterwards Post Trader at Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was murdered by the Indians. His son Charles Peltier was Post Trader at Fort Gratiot and afterwards Comptroller and Justice of the Peace in Detroit, holding office through several administrations. Dr. Peltier's mother married for her second husband Simri Collins, and under the name of Emily Parmely Collins is widely known as a woman suffragist and writer on economics. She is the daughter of James Parmely, a Revolutionary soldier. Dr. Peltier's early educa- tion was obtained at Macedon Academy, New York. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1S56 and from the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo in i860. After some hospita) practice, he was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon of the One Hundred Twenty-sixth New York Volun- teers, August II, 1S62. He was Post Surgeon at Martinsburg, West Virginia, during the summer of 1864, and retired from the army in October of the same year. While stationed at Martinsburg he was able to save General Averill's command from capture by giving him warning of a proposed rebel raid. For this service he received the written per- sonal acknowledgment of General Averill. In a history of the war his services while with the regi- ment are thus mentioned : "Surgeon Peltier won the full confidence of the officers and men under PIERRE D. PELTIER. abroad. He is Medical Director of the National Life Association of Hartford and has been President of the Board of Pension Examiners for the last six years, has been a member of the Robert O. Tyler Post, Grand Army of the Republic, since its organization, and at the reunion of the One Hundred Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers at Gettysburg, Dr. Peltier delivered the commemo- rative address. He is a member of the Army of the Potomac, the Army and Navy Club, and the Masonic and other fraternal organizations. He is a member of the American Association of Orificial Surgery, of the American Institute of Homoeopathy and of the State Homoeopathic Association of which I04 MEN OF PROGRESS. he has been Presklenl. He was married August i6, 1859, to Maria Reed. She is a great-granddaughter of George Reed, a Revolutionary soldier, and is a descendant of Joseph Mygatt, one of the f^rst settlers and one of the founders of the Center Church of Hartford. They have three children : Florence Perry, Frank Hastings Peltier, M. P., and Frederic n.Mun.is Peltier. PHILLIPS, .Ai.hf.rt Wiu.iam, M. D., Derby, Sur- geon-General on Governor Cook's Staff, was born in Marcellus. New Vork, July 26, 1S38, son of English close of the war he located in Derby, Connecticut. He is a member and Past-Commander of the Kel- logg Post No. 26, Department of Connecticut, a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of the Army and Navy Club, of the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. In politics he is a Republican. He is Surgeon-Gen- eral on Governor Cook's staff. Mr. Phillips is President of the Homceopathic Medical Society of Connecticut and a member of the American Insti- tute of Homceopathy ; and is also a member of the Derby and Sheldon Board of Trade. He was mar- ried at Syracuse, New York, October 16, 1862, to Nancy P. Owen. They have had three children : Harry Bowdish ; Ellen Pauline, now wife of Frank E. Bradley, Attorney, of Chicago; and Albert Wil- liam Phillips, who died at six years of age. ALBERT W. PHILLIPS. parents, George and Betsy (Clegg) Phillips. His early education was obtained in the public schools. In early life he began the study of medicine, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Homoeo- pathic Medical College of Chicago, in 186 1. He responded to Lincoln's first call for troops and enlisted as private in Company A, Twelfth New York Infantry. He was made Hospital Steward of the regiment and served as such in the Army of the Potomac until after the Peninsula Campaign, when he was promoted to Assistant Surgeon of the One Hundred and Forty-ninth Regiment, New York Volunteers, and so served in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of the Cumberland. At the PIERCE, Edward Napoleon, Manufacturer, Plainville, was born at Bristol, Connecticut, April 16, 1815, son of Noble Abraham and Lydia (Gridley) Pierce. Upon his father's side he is descended from Deacon John Pierce who removed from Wethersfield to South Britain, in the town of Wood- bury, Connecticut, in 1731. Abraham, the grand- father of the subject of the present sketch, removed from Woodbury, Connecticut, to Bristol, Connecti- cut, in 1797 and purchased the homestead where Mr. Pierce was born and which is still in the family. Upon his mother's side he is descended from Thomas Gridley, one of the original settlers of the town of Farmington, Connecticut, thus representing good New England stock on both sides of the family. At the age of twenty years he went South and engaged in merchandising in Montgomery, Alabama ; he returned to Connecticut in 1846 and opened a lumber and coal business at Plainville, Connecticut. Later he removed to New Haven where he resided for seven years engaging in the same business but continuing at the same time his business at Plain- ville. In 1862 he returned to Plainville making his permanent home there since. He was one of the original stockholders of the Plainville Manufacturing Company, and has been a Director of the company since 1850. In 1850 he was elected Secretary and Treasurer and has been such and Manager of the corporation since that time ; he was one of the original incorporators of the Bristol Savings Bank and has been a Director therein since its incorpora- tion ; he is a Director of the Bristol & Plainville MEN OF PROGRESS. 105 Tramway Company and one of its incorporators ; he was one of tiie original stockholders and for many years a Director in the Bristol Manufacturing Company. Shortly after the close of the Civil War, through the accidents of business, Mr. Pierce became the owner of a large plantation at Mt. Meigs near Montgomery in the State of Alabama, and as a result became deeply interested in the edu- cational work for the colored people. He was one of the original corporators and Trustee of the Colored Institute atMt. Meigs and the organization of that institute was largely due to his efforts and that of liis family who took a \ery deep interest in E. N PIERCE. the work. Mr. Pierce is quiet and domestic in his habits, broad and liberal in his business dealings, attaining success by good judgment and practical common sense. Firm in his political convictions, always a Democrat, but always declining to accept office — the only political office ever held by him is that of Postmaster at Pierce Hill, Alabama. Mr. Pierce has always been popular with his fellow townsmen because of his kindly nature, and partic- ularly has received during nearly half a century that he has been connected with the Plainville Manu- facturing Company, the cordial esteem and good- will of its large force of employees. He was mar- ried in 1837, to Henrietta Lydia Thompson, who died in 1847. They had two daughters, one still living : Mrs. R. C. Usher, of Plainville. His second marriage was in 185010 Pamelia Frances Thompson, who died in 1895. By his second wife he had seven children : Frank Noble Pierce (deceased), Mrs. Henrietta Frances Pierce Rogers; Minnie Louise Pierce, Mrs. Bertha Pierce Peck, Harriet I'^dna Pierce, Helen May Pierce, and Edward N. Pierce, Jr. (deceased). PKI'.N'l'ISS, Rkm.kfm) (Ikokgk Foster, Pastor of the l*'irst Congregational Church of Winsted, was born at Windham. Vermont, September 20, 1858, the son of Cod-fearing parents, Asahel Omer and Hannah Silsby (Johnson) Prentiss. On the pater- nal side he traces his ancestry back to Henry Pren- tice who came to Cambridge, Massachusetts, from England, before 1640. From him the line de- scended through Solomon, Solomon, Jr., and Stephen Prentice, all of Cambridge, to Reuben Prentice, born at Crafton, Massachusetts, in 1751, and a Revolutionary soldier. Reuben Prentiss, grand- father of the present pastor, was the son of the last- named Revolutionary patriot and was born in 1790. His son, Asahel Omer Prentiss, was born in West- minster West, Vermont, in 1830. On the mater- tial side Mr. Prentiss's family is kin to the famous Dr. Samuel Johnson, his mother being the daughter of Cyrus and Hepzibah Hunt (Page) Johnson. Mr. Prentiss's early education was received in the district schools of Vermont. He prepared himself for college, first at Oberlin, Ohio, and finally at Monson Academy, Monson, Massachusetts, from which institution he was graduated with the honor of the valedictory in 1880. He next entered Am- herst College where he entered heartily into under- graduate life ; was a member of the Glee Club, one of the editors of the Amherst Student, and a mem- ber of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. (Graduating with honor in 1884 he immediately entered the Vale Divinity School from which he was graduated in 1887. Before graduation he had received a call to the West End Congregational Church of Bridge- port, organized in February 1887 and to which, while still a mission, he had ministered most accept- ably. He was ordained and installed June 14, 1887. The church edifice was built during his [lastorate, and its membership has grown from twenty in 1887 to two hundred and twelve in 1896. Less than two years after his ordination he received a unanimous call to the pastorate of the old First io6 MEN OF PROGRESS. Congregational Church of New Milford, which such eminent divines as Doctor Noah Porter, Ex-Presi- ilent of Yale, Doctor Murdock and Doctor Bonar had filled. Mr. Prentiss, however, decided it his duty to decline the call, deeming the work of build- ing up the West End Church of paramount impor- t.-ince. There he remained until December i, 1893, when he resigned to accept the call to his present pastorale over the First Congregational Church of Winsted, where he was installed February 21, 1894. While in Bridgeport, Mr Prentiss was President, in 1893, of the Bridgeport Christian Endeavor I'nion. He is now Vice-President for Litchfield GEORGE FOSTER PRENTISS, county of the Connecticut Music Teachers' Asso- ciation ; while in Winsted he has been Secretary of the Board of l^iucation since 1894, and a Director of the Gilbert School Choral Society, organized in 1896. In politics he is a Republican. He has been a successful lecturer on " The Wit and Wis- dom of the Genial Autocrat" and "The Child's Poet laureate." Nature has endowed him with the gift of music which he devotes to the service of his master, and not a little of the proficiency of the church choir is due to the pains-taking training and leadership of the pastor. The gift of poetry is his also; he has produced most excellent anniversary and memorial poems, and his verses written for periodicals have been warmly commended. His preaching is remarkable for its earnestness ; while it is far removed from sensationalism it is always forceful and often eloquent. He stated in his examination preliminary to his ordination ; " I can- not recall the time when I did not feel that I was a Christian." To this earnestness of conviction he adds a wonderful voice and a clearness and con- ciseness in the ])resentation of Gospel truth. He is a pastor in the true sense of the word. He makes more calls than the average pastor, goes in and out familiarly among the people with a kind and sympathetic word for everyone. A member of his church recently said : "The secret of his influ- ence is, we love him." He thus seems the model clergyman and under the blessing of God a brilliant future awaits him. Soon after his installation in June 1887, he was married to Sarah A. Gilbert, a teacher of Latin and Greek in the High School of Derby, of which town she is a native. She has proved herself an earnest sympathizer and efficient coadjutor in her husband's work. rice;, Frederick Benjamin, Real Estate Opera- tor, Waterbury, was born September 30, 1843, ^^ Hudson, Ohio, to which place his parents had re- moved from Waterbury, and is son of Archibald and Susan (Bronson) Rice, both of whom are descend- ants of the original settlers of Connecticut. The family returned to Connecticut having spent but a few years in Ohio, and Mr. Rice's early education was received in the public schools of Waterbury. Later he entered the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie. After leaving the college he became clerk in the flour and feed store of L. D. Smith & Company, in which his father possessed an interest. He afterwards occupied a position with the Apothe- caries Hall Company. In 1862 he enlisted among the nine months' men in the War for the Union. He served for thirteen months, passing most of his time in Louisiana under General Banks. On his return from the war he first filled the position of Secretary for the Apothecaries Hall Company. He then entered the Lumber Yard of the Waterbury Lumber & Coal Company, where he remained as clerk for several years. After a brief interval spent at Bangor, Maine, he returned to the Company and there occupied the position of Secretary. His father and himself having acquired a controlling interest in the business, they sold out to a New Britain Syndicate represented by F. G. Piatt and MEN OF PROGRESS. 107 F. H. Humphrey. Wliile still connected with the Company, Mr. Rice began his present business of building houses and selling them on the instalment plan. He has liuiltover four hundred houses, stores and business blocks, ranging in \alue from ;!Soo to FREDERICK B. RICE. 5ioo,ooo. His plan enables persons of moderate means to become owners of comfortable homes. He has been President of the Board of Aldermen, has served three terms in the Common Council, and five terms as Assessor, in which position his expert knowledge of real estate has lent great weight and value. Mr. Rice is now President of the Apothe- caries Hall Company and Vice-President of the Connecticut Indemnity Insurance Company. He has also served on the Water Supply Committee, the Committee on Sewage, and on the Finance Committee of the Center District. He was married May 25, 1S66, to Helen McCullough Mintie, daughter of Alexander and Helen (Kenyon) Mintie. They have had two children; Helen Susan, who died in infancy, and Archibald Ernest Rice, born June 26, iany, Director and Vice-President of the Varyan Company of New Vork, President of the Empire State Paper Company of Mechanicsville, New Vork and New Vork city, and Director of the Mountain Lumber Company, T,imited, of Platts- burgh, New Vork. In addition to these important business positions, he has for ten years acted as a trustee of the Hartford Theological Seminary and member of its Executive Committee. He has held several advisory positions in the town of Windsor but would not assume an official position. Politi- cally he is a Republican. He represented the town of Windsor in the Legislatures of 1875 and 1876, and was an alternate to the Republican National Convention of 1888 and a delegate to the Conven- tion of 1892. He was married August 27, 1854, to Grace Yule of Scotland. Five children have been born to them : Thomas E., Elizabeth C, John G., .Agnes M., and Grace L. Duncan. He was married lor the second time, February 28, 1868, to Janet Gillies. FUESSENICH, Frederick Ferdinand, Secretary and Treasurer of the Hendey Machine Company, Torrington, was born in Duren, Germany, May 7, 1S48, son of Leonard and Elizabeth (Kolkord) Fuessenich. His father, a native of Prussia, served in the German Army, and on his discharge came with his family to the United States when his son was but four years old. He remained in New York city for one year, then moved to Goshen, Connecti- cut, in 1856, and from there settled at Wolcottville, now Torrington, in 1857, where the family has since resided. Young Fuessenich received a common school education, and at the age of twelve went to work on the farm. He then worked for three years in a factory which was followed by a fourteen years' service in a drug store. He next connected him- self with the Hendey Machine Company of Tor- rington and has ever since remained with them as their capable Secretary and Treasurer. He is a good example of the worthy German- American citi- zens that America is ever glad to welcome to its shores, and who, by native industry and intelli- gence, have risen to positions of trust and impor- tance. Mr. Fuessenich is a Director of the Torrington and Winchester Electric Street Railway, and was a member of the original committee from the town formed to promote the enterprise. He has been Secretary and Treasurer of the Torring- ton Electric Light Company since its organization. Politically he is a Democrat, in the last election voting the Gold Democratic ticket. He has twice been honored by his townsmen by election as Town Clerk of Torrington. He has been Treasurer of Seneca Lodge No. 55 Free and Accepted Masons for fifteen years, and for sixteen years vestryman of Trinity Parish, and is also Vice-President of the FREDERICK F. FUESSENICH. Torrington Club. Mr. Fuessenich was married October 4, 1876, to Elizabeth C. Blake, of Essex, Connecticut. Six children are the fruit of this union: Mabel Blake, Leonard Cleveland, Hervey Blake, Frederick William, Henry Hendey and Eliza beth Celia Fuessenich. FULLER, Edward Eugene, Secretary of the Tolland County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and Ex-State Senator from Tolland, was born in that town. May 13, 1853, son of Lucius Seymour and Mary Eliza (Bliss) Fuller. He comes of MEN Ol' I'KOC.RRSS. Scotch and English ancestry, two of his ancestors, Deacon Abijah Fuller and John Abbott, his paternal and maternal great-grandfathers respectively, having served in the Revolutionary War. The first named was a sergeant and the trusted friend of General Putnam ; to him was gi\en the lienor of having in charge the fortifying of Bunker Hill on the niglit preceding the battle. The {'"tiller family has long been prominent in Tolland affairs. Lucius S. Fuller, the father of the subject of this sketch, occu- pied many positions of trust in the town and county, was a member of the Legislature in 1854) of the Senate in 1863-64, delegate to the I-lepublican National Convention that nominated Grant, and for twenty years Trustee of the State Hospital for the Insane at Middletown. John B. Fuller, his eldest son, was a member of the Legislature from Tolland in 1878. Lucius H. Fuller, another brother, repre- sented Putnam in the Legislature of 1881 and 1882, and was Senator from that district in 1889. This is a rare example of a father and three sons all entrusted with public office and in each case with marked credit to themselves, and their constitu- ents. Edward E. Fuller, the present Senator, is a staunch Republican as were also his father and brothers. His early boyhood was spent upon a farm and his education was obtained in the public school and academy with an additional training at a business college in Philadelphia, where he was graduated in 187 i. He first entered the insurance business on December 19, 187 i, in the office of the .F^tna Insurance Company, of Hartford. There he remained until January i, 1882, when ill health compelled his resignation. A year later he had regained his health and in June 1883, on the death of his brother, John B. Fuller, he was made his suc- cessor as Secretary of the Tolland County Mutual Fire Lisurance Company. This office he continues to fill with great efficiency. The company is one of the oldest and most conservative of the local insurance comjianies, and a large part of its success is due to Mr. Fuller's wise counsel and capable management. He is also a Director in several financial institutions. He was elected Senator from the Twenty-fourth District in 1894 and served as Chairman of the Committee on Insurance and of the Committee on Manual and Roll. His only previous public offices had been Town Auditor and member of the local School Board and Acting School Visitor. He is a firm believer in the prin- ciples of fraternal organizations, and is a Thirty- second Degree Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He has filled the following chairs: Wor- shipful ALister, Fayette Lodge No. 69 Free and Accepted Masons, Most Excellent High Priest, .\doniram Chapter No. 18 Free and A(:cei)ted Masons, Thrice Illustrious Master, Adoniram Coun- cil No. 14 Free and Accepted Masons, Noble Grand, Rising Star Lodge No. 49 Indejiendent Order of Odd Fellows, Master Workman, Rockville Lodge No. 18 Ancient Order United Workmen, Senior Warden, St. John's Commandery No. 1 1 Knights Templar of Willimantic, and Grand Stand- ard Bearer of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Connecticut. He is also a member EDWARD E. FULLER. of Rockville Council, No. 1437, Royal Arcanum. He is a veteran of the Connecticut National Guard, having been a charter member of Coni])any K, First Regiment. Mr. Fuller is unmarried. GODFREY, Charles Cartliix;k, Physician and Surgeon, Bridgeport, was born at Saybrook, Feb- ruary 3, 1855, ^on of Rev. Jonathan and Maria (Cartlidge) Godfrey. He received his early edu- cation at both public and private schools and later at the Stamford Military Academy, then at the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, the College of 122 MEN OF PROGRESS. Physicians and Surgeons at New York, and the Dartmouth Medical College, from which he grad- uated November 13, 1883, and has been in active practice since 18S4 as Physician and Surgeon. He was Major and Surgeon of the Fourth Regiment, CHAS. C. GODFREY. Connecticut National Guards, from 1890 to 1S93, and since 1884 has been on the staff of the Bridge- l)ort Hospital. He is at present Vice-President of the Bridgeport Board of Education, and since 1894 has been President of the Bridgeport Scientific Society, and since 1895 President of the Bridgeport Branch of the Co-operative Savings Society of Con- necticut, and President of the Tkidgeport Republi- can Club since 1896. He is a Member of the Board of Education, and has been Gynecologist to the Bridgeport Hospital since 1896. He belongs to the Seaside, Algomiuin and United Service clubs, the Bridgeport Medical Society, American Medical Association, Association of the Military Surgeons of the United States and the Fairfield County Histor- ical Society. He is a Republican and was a mem- ber of the Board of Aldermen from 1892 to 1893. He is also a Police Commissioner at the present day. He was married .-Vprii 30, 1885, to Carrie St. Eeon Sumner, and has one daughter, Carrie Lucile Godfrey. GH.DERSLEEVE, Ferdinand, Merchant and Bank President, of Gildersleeve, Connecticut, was born in Gildersleeve, August 20, 1840, son of Sylves- ter and Emily (Shepard) Gildersleeve. He is a member of a large family that has given its name to the village of Gildersleeve in the town of Portland, and to whom the town owes in a very large measure its progress and business activity. The original ancestor was Richard Gildersleeve who came from Western Massachusetts and settled in Wethersfield about 1635. Through his mother he is related to the Shepards of Chatham and Portland, and the Lelands and Warrens of Massachusetts, prominent Revolutionary families. Young Gildersleeve's edu- cation was received at the district school in his native village and at a boarding school. At the age of fifteen he began his business career as a clerk in his father's store in which business he was admitted to partnership soon after gaining his majority. This F. GILDERSLEEVE. famous firm of S. Gildersleeve & Sons was founded in 1 82 1 and still continues to be one of the most substantial and well known firms in the state. In addition to a large general merchandise trade, they are wholesale dealers in lumber, timber and ice. They are perhaps best known as ship builders, and were leaders at a time when the industry was of MKN OF I'ROf.KKSS. I 2- very great importance on the Connecticut river. The ship yard is still continued and from it a large number of gallant ships have gone forth as carriers of the world's commerce. In 1879 Ferdinand Gildersleeve succeeded his father as President of the First National Bank of Portland, of which he had been for many years Director and Vice-Presi- dent. He held the ofifice for two years, and later his brother Henry was elected to the position, but on the hitter's death in 1894 he was again elected President, which office he continues to fill. He is also President of the Freestone Savings Bank of Portland, President of the Middle.sex (Quarry Com- pany, one of the largest freestone quarries in the state. Vestryman of Trinity Episcopal Church, Director of the Middlesex Mutual Insurance Com- pany of Middletown, member of the Portland Board of Education and Postmaster of Gildersleeve. He was President of the Middletown Ferry Company until its purchase by the Bridge Company and is connected with many other corporations. In all these many sided activities he has won success and honor, and the confidence and respect of his asso- ciates. In the town and village made famous by the enterprise of his honored father and brother and himself, he holds a high place. With the excep- tion of occasional trips through the states and a trip to Europe in 1864, he remains at his home on the old homestead, where he is surrounded by, and fully enjoys, his happy household. He was married October 29, 1879, to Adelaide Edna Smith, youngest daughter of William R. and Mary A. Smith of Port- land. She died September 28, 1S80, leaving an infant son, William Gildersleeve. Mr. Gildersleeve was again married on September 12, 1883, to Harriet Elizabeth Northam, of Hartford, eldest daughter of Ralph and Sarah A. Northam. 'Ihree children have been born to them : Sarah, Richard and Emily Gildersleeve. GAYLOR, Charles, President of the Citizens' Savings Bank, Stamford, was born in that city, March 21, 1816, son of Charles S., who was of German descent, and Bethiah (Knapp) Gaylor. On both sides he is descended from a sturdy, long-lived ancestry, his grandfather Hezekiah Kna]ip dying at the age of ninety-two, and his grandmother Mary Peck attaining the age of eighty-nine. They were both natives of Stamford but originally of English descent. Charles Gaylor received only such edu- cation as was afforded in the common schools of his native town. Following the example of so many successful business men he spent the first sixteen years of his life upon a farm. He then took up the carpentry trade and for ten years was a carpenter and builder. Removing to New York city he engaged in the lumber business, which he carried on with marked success for the succeeding twenty years. He then retired from active mercantile pur- suits and again settled at Stamford. His fellow citizens have shown their appreciation of his integ- rity and sound business judgment in making him President of the Stamford Citizens' Savings Bank. He is also a Director in the I'"irst National Hank CHARLES GAYLOR. and the Gas and Electric Light Company of Stam- ford. During his residence in New York, Mr. Gaylor joined the State Militia, then commanded by William H. Seward, and on October 25, 1842, was made Lieutenant. He has been a member of St. John's Episcopal Church since 1835. His political afifiliations are with the Republicans. Mr. Gaylor was married March 10, 1S42, to Caroline F. Budd, of New Jersey. Four children have been born to them : Charles Henry, Thomas E. and Caroline, all deceased, and Leonard Budd Gaylor, the Vice-President and Manager of the Black Manufacturing Comiiany, makers of the Tribune Bicycle, Erie, Pennsylvania. i-M MKN OF I'ROGRRSS. HALL, John Mannint., Vice-President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com- pany, and Kx-Judge of the Superior Court, New Haven, was born in U'illiniantic, October i6, 1841, son of Horace and Elizabeth J. (Manning) Hall. His greatgranilfather was Judge George Hall who came fron) lingland at an early age and settled at Quidnick, Rhode Island, where he became Judge of the General Court. His son, Di.xon Hall, was a prominent citizen of Sterling, Connecticut, holding many town and county offices. Horace Hall, the father of the present Judge Hall, was Superinten- dent of the Windham Cotton Manufacturing C.oni- JOHN M. HALL. pany for many years, representative of his town in the Legislature, a Justice of the Peace, and Select- man for thirteen years. Judge Hall's mother was the daughter of John Manning, of Albany, New York, and was a descendant in direct line from John Alden and " Priscilla." Young Hall received his early education in the public schools of Willimantic and at the Pine Grove Seminary at South Windham. After two years of mercantile life with his father in Willimantic he decided to complete his education and study law. He entered Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts, taking the three-years course in two, and graduating among the first scholars in his class in 1862. He then entered Yale where he was graduated in 1866, and two years later was graduated from the Columbia Law School. He was admitted to the Bar in New York city in November 1868, and to the Connecticut Bar the following April. At Yale he won the Townsend prize, one of the most coveted literary rewards of the college, was one of the De Forest speakers, President of the Linonia Society, and a member of the Skull and Bones Society. He began the prac- tice of law in Willimantic in April 1869, and con- tinued to practice there until elected Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut, July i, 1889. In his twenty years of practice Judge Hall had built up a large and lucrative clientele, and had become recognized as the leader of the W'indham County Bar. On his appointment as Judge he was given a banquet that was attended by the entire bar of the county. As a Judge he was universally esteemed both by his associates on the bench and the mem- bers of the bar. In Willimantic Judge Hall has held nearly every office in the gift of his townsmen. He was acting School Visitor for many years, and Chairman of the first High School Committee. He was a member of the committee for the drafting of a Charter for the borough and afterwards for the city. He represented Willimantic in the General Assembly in 1870, 1871, 1872, 1881 and 1882, being Speaker of the House in the latter year. In the sessions of 1870 and 187 1 he was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and member of the com- mittee appointed to investigate the election frauds. In 1872 he was Chairman of the Railroad Com- mittee and in 1881 he was again a member of the Judiciary Committee, and Chairman of the Com- mittee on Senatorial Districts. In the session of 1882 he filled the position of Speaker with great ability, and gained the respect of both parties by his courtesy and fairness. In 1889 he was elected Senator from the Seventeenth District. He again served as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and was elected President /;v tern, of the Senate. Near the close of this session he was appointed to the Bench. He was elected to his present position as first Vice-President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company in October 1893. Though without railroad training, his fitness has been amply demonstrated. His keen and active mind has been of constant value in the manage- ment of this great corporation, and the directorate has been greatly strengthened by the legal acumen, mature judgment and wide experience which Judge Hall brings to his work. As Vice-President of the MI'lN Ol' I'ROC.kKSS. •25 railroad liis heathiuarters are in New Haven, lie is a member of the Gradnates Clnb of New Haven, and the Yale and Transportation chibs of New York. He has been a member of the State Bar Association since its organization and has served on its executive committee. In politics he is a Republican. He was married September 27, 1870, to Julia, daughter of Silas F. Loonier, of Williman- tic. Three children have been born to them : John L , a lawyer located in Boston, who, like his father, took the highest literary honors at Yale, Florence M. and Helen 11. Hall. .Arch Masons, F^xcelsior Lodge No. 200 New Eng- land Order of Protection, of which he is Treasurer, and of Ridgeley Lodge No. 51 Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a charter member and Treasurer. He belongs to the Young Men's Christian Association, has been a member of the School Board of Torrington, and is at present auditor for both the town and borough. Mr. Hague takes special pride in his membership in Mutual F'ire Company No. i, of which he is I'-oreman. This is one of the finest companies in New Hngland. They are good fire fighters, gentlemanly in appearance, and have unilormlv received applause whenever they apjieared HAGUE, James Wilson, Postmaster of Torring- ton, was born in that town November 19, 1855. He cojnes of sturdy Scotch ancestry, his father, James Hague, being a native of Glasgow, and his mother, whose maiden name was Barbara Jenkins, having been born in Paisley, Scotland. When the War broke out the family moved to Birmingham, {Connecticut, and afterwards to Beacon ]'"alls. \'()ung Hague was sent to the common schools at both these places, but in 1881 he returned to his native town and found a jiosition in the drug store of Charles McNeil. After several years of service in the drug business he accepted employment in the casting department of the Coe Brass Company of Torrington. Mr. Hague has always been an enthu- siastic Republican, casting his first vote for Ruther- ford B. Hayes. When the Young Men's Republican Club was formed in 18S8 he was the unanimous choice for President. 'I'he club did valiant work for the Republican ticket in the presidential cam- paign of that year, and Mr. Hague's appointment on March 21, 1889, as Postmaster of Torrington, was a fitting and deserved reward for faithful ]iarty services. He proved himself a most capable official, many marked improvements were introduced, and the efficiency of the office was rated A No. i, by the Department officials. It was therefore most natural that on President McKinley's election, Mr. Hague should again be appointed Postmaster. He received his second commission May i, 1897. His return to office has been signalized by the introduction of the free delivery system, the moving of the Post Office from Main to Water street, and the furnishing and appointment of the same in a manner second to no town of the size in the state. Postmaster Hague is a firm believer in fraternal organizations, and is a member of Seneca Lodge No. 55 Free and Accepted Masons, Cyrus Chapter No. 45 Royal JA.MES W, HAGUE. either at home or abroad. Mr. Hague was married May 26, 1885, to Mary J. lialdwin, of Litchfield, Connecticut. HANCHETT, Thaiiikr Swiit, M. 1)., Torring- ton, was born in Canaan, Connecticut, November 1838, son of I'.phraim and Nancy (Swift) Hanchett. He is a descendant of the Hanchett who first opened the Salisbury iron mines and to whom the lands were originally granted by the crown. Through his grandmother, who was a Thacher, he trat-es his family records back to the days of the Crusades. .Xn honored representative of the name. 126 MEN OF PROGRESS. frora whom Dr. Hanchett is linc.-illy descended, was Col, John Thacher who commanded the troops of the Massachusetts Colony at the capture of Quebec. .Another ancestor was Dr. James Thacher vvho served the First Continental Infantry in the Massachusetts Regiment, and hiter during the last year of the Revolution was chief medical officer on the staff of General Washington, his memoirs being the most authentic record of the surgeons of the War of the Revolution. Dr. Hanchett also traces his descent to lulward and Josiah Winslow, both Governors of the Plymouth Colony, the former of whom married Mrs. Susannah White, the occasion is: T. S. HANCHETT. being the first marriage among the settlers of New England. Thacher S. Hanchett, the subject of this sketch, passed his early boyhood in Worcester county, Massachusetts, and attended the Academy at Douglas, Massachusetts. He began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Darling of that town, after which he entered the Harvard Medical School. After one year's study in the Medical School he entered the service of the Union as surgeon's mate on the gunboat Wamsutta. A previous appoint- ment on a mortar boat on the Mississippi had been declined by him. At the end of the year's service he returned to the Harvard Medical School for the balance of the year. He then entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, as special student under the famous surgeon Professor Hamil- ton, Surgeon-General of the Army of the Cumber- land during the war. He received the degree of M. D. in 1864, and after serving for one year as assistant to Dr. William Welch, of Norfolk, Con- necticut, came to Torrington where he has since resided. Dr. Hanchett is now the veteran physi- cian of Torrington, to whose citizens his kindly face and long gray beard have long been a familiar object of love and esteem. During his thirty-three years of active practice he has seen the town grow from a population of but twenty-five hundred and but two practicing physicians, to a wide awake, enterprising borough and a quadrupled population. He is still active in mind and body. He has a valuable medical library and through constant addi- tion to it he keeps in touch with the latest knowl- edge and methods of his profession. Dr. Hanchett has had a large amount of obstetric and surgical work but has a general practice and includes many residents of neighboring towns among his patients. His services are in frequent demand as examining physician for insurance companies and societies, and he is Chairman of the Board of Examining Surgeons of the Bureau of Pensions for his district. He was the first Health Officer under the old law and has been Medical Examiner under the coroner law since that office was created. He is the non- resident consulting physician at the Waterbury Hospital and a member of the County and State Medical societies. The Hanchett Block, the sub- stantial brick structure on Main street, Torrington, was built by Dr. Hanchett, and is one of the note- worthy buildings of the town. Dr. Hanchett is a Republican in politics, and a Congregationalist in religious faith. He was married June 13, 1868, to Emma E., daughter of Captain John C. Hayes, of Stonington, Connecticut. Of this marriage there were three children : Annie Thacher, Thacher Hayes and Harry Bigelow Hanchett. HALL, John Henry, President of the Brainerd, Shaler & Hall Quarry Company, of Portland, and Vice-President and Manager of Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, was born in Portland, Connecticut, March 24, 1849. He is the son of Alfred and Maria Lydia (Whiting) Hall, and is ninth in descent from John Hall who was born in England in 1584, and settled at Rox- MEN OF PROGRESS. 12' bury, Massachusetts, in 1627, moved to Hartforii in 1637 and to Middletown in 16.(9. 'l"he successive links in the chain are as follows : Samuel, son of John, born in England in 1626; Samuel born in Middletown, February 3, 1664; John born in Middletown, . August 17, 1699; John born in Middle- town, June I, 1723 ; Joel born in Middletown, April 5) 'TSSJ Samuel born in Chatham, now Portland, November 20, 1777, and .Mfred, the father of the subject of this sketch, who was born in Portland, November 15, uSog. John Henry Hall was edu- cated at the pidjlic school at I'ortland, and subse- quently at Chase's Academy, Middletown, and the JNO. H. HALL. Episcopal Academy at Cheshire, Connecticut. He began his business career in 1865, when at the age of si.xteen he entered the employ of Sturges, Ben- nett & Company, New York city, at that time the largest importing coffee and tea house in the United States. In 1870 he became one of the cor- porators of the Heath & Smith Manufacturing Company, of Portland, which i)roved a failure. In 1877 he purchased a majority interest in the Pick- ering Governor under the style of T. R. Pickering & Company, which business in 1S88 was incorpo- rated as the Pickering (Governor Company. Mr. Hall is President and Treasurer of the company. In 1883 he interested himself and became Presi- dent in the Shaler & Hall Quarry Company, of which he was a large stockholder and of which both his fatiier and grandfather had been President. In 1896 the company combined with the Brainerd (^)uarry Company, and under the style of the Brain- erd, Slialer & Hall Quarry Company, the business has since been carried on, Mr. Hall retaining the Presidency although a resident of Hartford. He moved to Hartford in 1888 and took the position of (Jeneral Manager of Colt's Patent I'^irc Arms Manu facturing Company. In 1889 he was elected \icc- President and Treasurer of the company, which office he still holds. Mr. Hall has thus been iden- tified, as the active manager and responsible head of two widely famous and conspicuously successful business enterprises, the Quarry Company and the Colt's Works, each of which stands jirominently at the head of their respective industries, and he is also President of the (ratling Cun Company, of Hart- ford. He is a Director in the Hartford National Bank, tlie Phienix Insurance Company, the Phcenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Fidelity Com- jiany, of Hartford, and the Neptune Meter Com- pany, of New York. From 1890 to 1896 he was Water Commissioner of Hartford, and Senator from the First District in 1895-96. He refused the Sena- torial nomination from the Twenty-second District in 1883, and the nomination as Representative in 1885. He is a good Democrat, but worked hard for sound money in 1896. Mr. Hall is a member of the Episcopal Church and Senior Warden of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Hartford. He is also a member of the Hartford and Colonial clubs of Hartford, of the Manhattan, Democratic and Engineers' clubs of New York, and of the New York Yacht Club. He was married February 9, 1S70, to Sarah G. Loines, of New York. Like her husband she traces her ancestry back through nine genera- tions resident in tliis country. The fruit of this marriage has been four children ; Clarence Loines, Grace Loines, and two who died in infancy, Alfred William and Mattie Palmer Hall. KENDALL, George F., Merchant, Suffield, was born in that town September 2, 1849, son of Simon B. and Adaline K. (Kent) Kendall. On both sides of the house, through the Kendall and Fitch families on his father's side, and the Kents on his mother's side, he traces his descent back to honored Revolu- tionary ancestors. The Sybil Kent Chapter of the 12 8 MEN OF PROC.RESS. naughlers of the Revolution of Suffield is named from Mr. Kendall's great-grandmother. His edu- cation was obtained at the public schools, the Con- necticut Literary Institute of Suffield, and the Wesleyan .Academy. After completing his studies he began teaching in his native town at the age of seventeen and thus continued for fifteen years. In 1882 he became connected with W. \V. Cooper in the lumber, coal, feed and undertaking business where he still remains as manager and confidential clerk. He also acts as Secretary and Treasurer of the Suffield Creamery Company, and holds the same positions with the Village Water t:ompany of GEO. F. KENDALL. Suffield. Mr. Kendall's integrity, intelligence and industry have gained him the respect of his fellow citizens who have frequently honored him with offices of trust. He represented the town in the Legislature of iiSSy, serving on the General Appro- priation Committee and was re-elected in 1889 when he served as Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Bridges. In 1897 he was elected to the Senate, where he was chosen to the important position of Chairman of the Railroad Committee. He has been a member of the local School Board for nine years and its Secretary for seven years. His politics are staunch Republican, and for ten years he has been a member of the Republican Town Committee. He is a Chairman of the Committee of the First Congregational Church of Suffield, and has been Vice-President of the Suffield Public Library. In short, Mr. Kendall is a public spirited citizen whose support is ever ready for every worthy enterprise. He has long been an enthusiastic believer in the principles of Masonry. He joined Apollo Lodge No. 59 in 1877, and has filled every office in the gift of the Lodge. The same may be said of his connection with the Washington Chapter No. 30 Royal Arch Masons of which he is now Scribe, and of the Suffield Council Royal and Select Masters. He also belongs to Washington Commandery No. i Knights Templar and to the Mystic Shrine, of Bridgeport. On the formation of the New Sphynx Teiniile at Hartford he became a charter member and he is also a member of Lyman Council, order United American Mechanics, which he joined in 1894. Mr. Kendall was married October 16, 1870, to Julia Anna Cowing, of Suffield. Their son, W. Frank Kendall, died February 19, 1877. LOEWE, Dietrich Edward, Hat Manufacturer, Danbury, was born in Greste, Lippe Detmold, Ger- many, lune 21, 1852, son of Adolph and Charlotte Wilhelmina (Schalk) Loewe. His education was received in the common schools of tlermany and at the School of Technique and Trade at Bielefield, Ger- many. He came to this country in 1870 at the age of eighteen, and first began work at railroad building, then tried farming, and later was clerk in a wholesale grocery store. He came to Danbury on Thanks- giving Day in 187 i, and has since remained in that city. He is a good example of the German-American citizen, who beginning in a humble capacity has by industry and intelligence raised himself to the posi- tion of head of an important industry. He has the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens and business associates. Mr. Loewe's first work in Danbury was at making hats, later being employed in the finishing department of the business. During dull seasons he was employed at painting in carriage shops. His first promotion came when in 1876 he was made foreman of the finishing department of Meeker Brothers' factory. This position he held until the spring of 1879, when with Edwin Targett and Herman Beardsley he began the manufacture of hats under the firm name of D. E. Loewe & Company. At the end of the year his partners retired, and their places were taken by Mr. Loewe's two brothers-in-law, Mathias Heinzelmann and MEN oi ■ROGRESS. I 29 Charles Muetschele. The old firm name con- tinued. Politically Mr. Loewe has usually been a Democrat, although a believer in protection and votingfor McKinley at the last election. ]n 1S80 he served as Assistant Chief of the Danbury Fire Department. He was Town Assessor in 1884-85, Representative in the Legislature in 1887, member of the City Council 18S9-90, and Alderman in 1891-92. He is President of the Trustee; of the German Lutheran Church, and since 1872 has been Secretary of the Germania lienevolent Society. He was married June 21, 1877, to Christina Hein- zelmann. Six children have been born to tlicni : D. E. LOEWE. Charlotte Christina, Mathias Christian, Ernst lul- ward, Dietrich Carl Frank, Melanie Caroline and August Percival Loewe. McNEIL, Archibald, Wholesale Coal Merchant, Bridgeport, was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, July 2, 1843, youngest son of Abraham .Archibald and Mary Ann (Hulls) McNeil. Archibald McNeil, the great-grandfather of the present merchant, was a Revolutionary soldier, who served faithfully through the struggle for independence. His son, William McNeil, was born in what is now Naugatuck, gradu- ated from \'a\e in 1777, and ]iartici])ated in the troubles with the French which followed the Revo- lution. He was on board the ])rivateer. Marquis de I.afayette, sailing out of New Haven, which was captured by the French. Mr. McNeil was taken to France and confined in a dungeon, for which indig- nity the family became interested in the French Spoliation Claims. His son, Abraham .Archibald McNeil, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Derby, Connecticut, in 1802. For many years he w-as a supercargo, sailing out of New Haven and engaged in the West India trade. He removed to Bridgeport about 182 1, and for a while was engaged with Samuel Hodges, his wife's uncle, in the shoe manufacturing business. He founded the system of lighthouses, and for many years until his death, in 1873, was the lighthouse keeper at llridgeport. His son .Adolphus now fills the posi- tion. He married ^L^ry Ann Hults, daughter of William Hults, who was lost at sea with all the crew of the brig William wlien his daughter, Mary Ann, was but tW'O years old. 'I'welve children were born to .'\braham A. and Mary Ann (Hults) McNeil: Charles Hubbell, born December 14, 1828; John, born October 9, 1830; Samuel William, born March 16, 1832 ; Eliza Maria, born January 9, i834;Josiah Hoyt, born February 9, 1835 ; Augustus and Adol- phus (twins), born August 31, 1837; Mary Hoyt, born October 20, 1839 ; Mary Hoyt, born December 12, 1840; Archibald, our subjectj-born July 2, 1843; Maria, born December 25, 1845 ; and Sarah, born August 28, 1848. The noble mother of this large family was born at Bridgeport, and died in the same city in 1S93. Archibald McNeil received his early education at Selleck's School at Bridgeport, and at other private schools of the city. In 1856 he was sent to the celebrated Thomas School of New Haven, and in i860 was graduated from the Hop- kins Grammar School, the well known preparatory school for Yale. On the completion of his studies, he began his business career as clerk in the ship chandlery store of his eldest brother, Charles H. McNeil, which was situated opposite the old depot and steamboat landing. Three years later the two brothers formed a partnership as wholesale fruit and produce dealers, under the firm name of McNeil P.rothers. This business was continued until 1876, when Mr. McNeil removed to New York and with his brother engaged in the wholesale butter and cheese business at 84 Broad street, under the firm style of Archibald McNeil & Company. In 1879 the character of the business was changed to an exclusive export and import trade with Ciilia. The MKN OF PROGRESS. firm's exports consisted chiefly of bituminous coal, flour, potatoes antl other produce. In iS88 Mr. McNeil returned to Bridgeport, and established his present wholesale bituminous coal office. He does an extensive and profitable business, is the represent- ARCHIBALD McNEIL. ative of six large coal producing companies, and numbers among his customers railroads, factories and retail dealers. In politics Mr. McNeil is a Democrat. Although never an office seeker he has occasionally been prevailed upon to accept the nomination of his party. In 1872 and 1873 he represented the old Second Ward in the Bridgeport Council. In 1896 he was nominated to the State Legislature, and although running four hundred votes ahead of his ticket, was defeated with the rest of his Demo- cratic associates. In 1897 he was earnestly solicited to accept the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Bridgeport, but he declined the honor. In the social life of the city no less than among his busi- ness and political associates, Mr. McNeil enjoys a wide popularity. He was one of the charter mem- bers of the old Eclectic Club and for two years its President. He was also a charter member and President for two years of the Algonquin Club. He belongs to the Seaside Club, and from 1874 to 1877 was the able Commodore of the first Bridgeport Yacht Club. He is at present one of the Govern- ors of the New Bridgeport Yacht Club, which has lately located its club house at Black Rock Harbor. Mr. McNeil is a good seaman, and takes a deep interest in nautical affairs, which is a natural inher- itance from his sea-farmg ancestors on both sides of his family. Mr. McNeil and his family are attend- ants of the Episcopal Church. He was married in 1 88 1 to Jean McKenzie Clan Ranald, daughter of George J. Clan Ranald of New York city. Three children have been born to them : Archibald, born in New York city, June i, 1883 ; Kenneth Wylie, born in Bridgeport, September 14, 1885 ; and Roderick Clan Ranald McNeil, born in Bridgeport, March 20, 1888. O'CONNOR, Matthew Charles, Physician, New Haven, was born in New York city, September 14, 1852, son of Matthew and Catherine (Gowen) O'Connor. He attended the public schools of New MATTHEW C. O'CONNOR. York and was graduated from the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1869. He received his medical education at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York where he was graduated in 1873 after a four-years course. During a part of the latter and the previous year he was Resident Physician and Surgeon at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York. After MI'-.N Ol' I'ROC.RRSS. 131 a thorough hospital service he located in East Broad- way, New York, for the practice of iiis profession. He removed to New Haven, in 1877, and was appointed Attending I'hysician to St. Francis Orphan Asylum which position he still retains. In 1878 he became a member of the New Haven Med- ical Society, and was later elected Fellow of the Connecticut Medical Society. He became one of the Incorporators of the Knights of Columbus in 1882, and for four years held the position of Supreme Council Physician. In i8cS6 he was elected Presi- dent of the Knights of St, Patrick, a social organi- zation. He was appointed a Health Commissioner of the city of New Haven in 18S8, which position he held for seven years. In 1896 he was elected Vice-President of the New Haven Medical Asso- ciation. trip to California and again in 1852, each time crossing the Isthmus and returning tlirough Central America. While in California he spent most of his time in the mines, but finally sold his claims and came to Sacramento. While there he invented a soap and started a factory both there ami in San Francisco, which proved highly successful. Receiv- ing a liberal offer for the business and the state right, he sold out and returned to New York in December 1854. After a year's experimenting in the art of soap making he discovered a quick and economical process. A factory was started and the rights to manufacture sold for Canada, Cuba, P.\CKFR, Daniel FR.'iNKi.iN, of Mystic, Con- necticut, Inventor and Founder of the Packer Man- ufacturing Company, New York, was born inGroton, Connecticut, April 6, 1825, son of Charles and Abigail (Lathaiu) Packer, and is a descendant of John Packer, the first of the name in America, who came from England and settled in New London, Connecticut, in 165 1. The following year he pur- chased the soutliern and eastern slope of the Pequot Hills, where he settled in 1655. A ])ortion of this land is still owned by a Packer. Young Packer's early education was obtained in the country district school of the ]3eriod. Left an orphan at the age of ten he bound himself out to work on a farm. But fourteen to sixteen hours labor per day proved loo hard a burden for the energetic boy. On leaving the farm he was sent by his brothers for a three- years course in Buckley's .'\cadeniy at Weston, Connecticut, .^fter leaving school he assisted his brothers for a while in the market business in New York city, but on April 16, 1842, he commenced a sea-faring life on board the ship Emerald, Captain Howe, with whom he crossed the Atlantic four times. On January 14, 1843, he sailed for Key West, Florida, where he spent three years, engaged in the wrecking business. He became a master wrecker, owned his own vessel, the Plume, and shared in twelve wrecks. At the age of twenty-one, having in five years worked his way up from a boy in the forecastle to the position as Master of his own vessel, he abandoned the sea, sold his vessel and returned North. He at first engaged in the market commission business in New York city. In 1851 when the gold fever was at its height, he made a i^m^^ ■ '''*^^F- ^# D. F. PACKER. Europe and most of the United States. For his Silver Pearl Soap he started a factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which proved a great success but has since been sold. In 1867 he originated the first Pine Tar Soap ever made. The formula was jiur- chased by other parties and the soa]) has ever since been manufactured as Constantine's Tar Soap. The years 1868-69 were again occupied in experi- ment, as a result of which he brought out D. F. Packer's All Healing Pine Tar Soap. This soap, which is now manufactured by the Packer Manu- facturing Company of New York, has been on the market for nearly thirty years and has a record scarcely equalled by any other similar jiroduct. MEN OF PROGRESS. It is widely known in this and foreign countries, and has proved a most profitable article. It is made from pine tar, vegetable oils and glycerine, and possesses exceptional antiseptic and healing quanti- ties. It is efficacious for the care of the hair and scalp, and for skin diseases, as well as for the toilet and complexion. Mr. Packer's active brain has also evolved many other useful inventions, among which may be numbered an invention for the manu- facture of coal bricks from coal-dust, which he pat- ented December 15, 1874, in the United States, also in Canada and England, and an improved patent shoe lacing. In politics Mr. Packer was an old line Whig and has been a member of the Repub- lican party ever since its organization. He has never, however, sought political preferment, and is not a member of any society or club. He was mar- ried June 7, 1847, to Margaret Rebecca Norcross, of New York, who died July 11, 1855. They had one daughter, Arline M. Packer. He was again married February 27, 1861, to Carrie A. Randall, of Reading, Connecticut. One son was the fruit of this second marriage, Samuel Edward Packer, born .August 28, 1862, and who 'died May 4, 1867. In 1863, Mr. Packer built his " Grand View Cottage " on the heights of the beautiful Mystic River in the centre of the village, and being a strong advocate of labor, also built a factory and gives many girls and men employment in the soap business. responsibilities of his position. Politically, Mr. Prickett is a Republican. He has the respect and good will of his fellow citizens who in 1879 honored him by election as their Representative in the State Legislature. He has also held office as member of the Board of Education and as Justice of the Peace. PRICKETT, Edward, Manager of the Hazard Powder Mills, Hazardville, Connecticut, was born in England February, 21, 1832, son of William and Catherine (Wildish) Prickett. His father, a skilled workman and manufacturer, came from Europe in 1836 and took charge of the Hazard Mills. The son followed in the father's footsteps and under his able superintendence the name of Hazard has achieved a world-wide reputation. His education was confined to the common schools. ■ The busy life of the mills had an attraction for him as a child and at an early age he become an employee. He passed through the various departments of the manufacture and in 1854 was assigned to a position in the office of the company. Here he remained until 1859 when he succeeded to the management of the mills where he still continues. His long and intelligent service has been crowned with abundant success. He has a thorough knowledge of the chemistry of explosives and is well fitted for the EDWARD PRICKETT. He was married May 22, 1856, to Barbara Law. Five children have blessed their union : Georgiana C, Helena Jane, Clifford D., Edward L. and Effie Maude Prickett. RUSSELL, Samuel, Mayor of Middletown, was born in Middletown, October 8, 1847, son of George Osborne and Amelia C. (Mather) Russell. He is a descendant of William Russell, who came to Connecticut with Lord Say and Seal in 161 2. His grandfather founded the wealthy and famous house of Russell & Company, in Canton, China, in 1824, in connection with Philip Amidon, Augustine Heard, William H. Low, John C. Green, A. A. Low and others. On the maternal side he traces his ancestry to Cotton, Increase and Samuel Mather of Massachusetts. His education was completed at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. For two years he was in the office of James Renwick, architect, of New York. For twelve years he was MEN OF I'ROCRHSS. '33 Vice-President of the Russell Manufacturing Com- pany, but retired in 1882, altliough still remaining a Director. He is a Director of the Honiliay Tram- way Coni])any of India, and of the Middletown Savings Bank, Trustee of the Connecticut Hospital SAMUEL RUSSELL. for the Insane, the Connectic\it Industrial School, the Russell Library of Middletown and St. Luke's Home. He is a member of the Union Club of New York, the Lenox Club of Lenox, Massachu- setts, and the Carrituck Shooting Club of North Carolina. He has been twice married. His first wife was Lucy McDonough Hubbard, of Middle- town, to whom he was married in 1878. There have been born to him four children : Samuel Rus- sell, Jr., Thomas McDonough, Lucy Hubbard and Helen Pickering Russell. the French and the English. ,'\nd Sir John Moore was buried secretly in order that the French should not find his body. This burial has been commem- orated by a ]ioem written by Reverend Charles Wolfe, lie was educated in London, England, and in Johnstown, New York. He received Regent's certificate from the University of the State of New York February 1882, and was graduated from the New \'ork Homceopathic Medical College and Hos- pital .April 14, 1887. From May i, 1887, till May of the following year he was on the staff of the Ward's Island Hospital, and commenced his prac- tice in Putnam in September 1888. He was ap- pointed Surgeon of the Keck Zouaves, Johnstown, in 1888. He was President of the Alumni of Johns- town High School from £885 to 1S86, and was Health Officer at Putnam from 1893 to 1894, and held the office of Town Physician from 1895 to 1898. He belongs to the Arcanum Club, (^uina- bang Lodge of Masons, the Putnam Chapter of 1^ v< ^ ^^^ ~ m i RUSSELL, John Jarvis, Physician and Surgeon, Putnam, Connecticut, is the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Ann (Jarvis) Russell, and was born at Lon- don, England, February 6, 1866. His grandparents on the paternal side were Samuel and ALiry (Harber) Russell, and on the maternal, John and Elizabeth (Amory) Jarvis. His great-grandfather .Samuel Russell was one of the few who buried Sir John Moore after the Battle of Coiunna, Spain, l)etween J. J. RUSSELL. Putnam, the Montgomery Council of Danielson, the Columbian Commandery of Norwich, the Israel Putnam Lodge of Odd Fellows, and the Wolf Den Iincam])ment. In ]iolitics he is a Republican. On October iS, 1893, he was married to Amanda I'ierson, and has one daughter, Elizabeth Pierson Russell, born May 29, 1895. '34 MKN OF PROGRESS. RANKIN, Charlk-s Goodrich, M. D., Glaston- bury, Connecticut, was born in Portland, Connecti- cut, October 2, 1859, son of Rev. Samuel Gardner Wilson and Dolly (Goodrich) Rankin. His grand- father, Rev. John Rankin, of Ripley, Ohio, was for October 1893, and was the town Treasurer in 1896-97, and is a Director and Treasurer of the Glastonbury Public Library, which owes its exist- ence in a great measure to his personal efforts. He is a member of the American Medical Associa- tion, of the Connecticut Medical Society, and of the Hartford City and County medical societies. His political affiliations are with the Republicans. Dr. Rankin was married January i, 1887, to Lucre- tia Barret Pinkham, of Chicago. They have one son, William Goodrich Rankin. CHAS. G. RANKIN. seventy years a prominent Presbyterian clergyman. His mother was the great-great-granddaughter of Rev. Timothy Stevens, D. D., first pastor of the Congregational Church of Glastonbury. He is also a lineal descendant of Rev. Samuel Doak, first Pres- ident of Washington College, East Tennessee. Young Rankin first attended the common schools and academy at Glastonbury ; next went to Wil- liams College where he was graduated in the class of 1882, receiving the degree of M. A. three years later. He began the study of medicine with his uncle Dr. A. C. Rankin, and was graduated from the Chicago Medical College (Northwestern Uni- versity), in March 1886. For one year he served as assistant physician at the Armour Medical Mis- sion, in Chicago. He practiced medicine for two years at Reynolds, Nebraska, then spent three years at South bury, Connecticut, and since 1890 has been in active practice at Glastonbury, Connecticut. He has a successful general practice and has gained the confidence and esteem of his fellow townsmen. He has served as health officer of Glastonbury since REED, William Benjamin, Oyster Planter and Shipper, and Ex-Mayor of South Norwalk, was born in that city, February 27, 1833, son of Benjamin Pearce and Eliza (Weed) Reed. On both sides he is descended from Revolutionary stock. His father, a native of New York city, moved to South Norwalk when the son was seven years old; his mother was WILLIAM B. REED. a native of New Canaan, Connecticut. William Benjamin Reed received only a common school education and at the age of eighteen started as an oysterman, which has proved to be his life work. He has been a most successful oyster planter and shipper and has done a large business between New York and Liverpool. Mr. Reed belongs to mi;n ()I ROC.RF.SS. 135 the Masons, is a member of the Baptist Ciuirch, and a member of the Norwalk Yacht Chib. In pohtics he acts with the Democrats. He was a member of the City Council in 187S-79, and served as Mayor in 1881-82. At present he is one of the Street Commissioners of the city. He was married Febru- ary g, 1859, to Catherine E. Post, of Staten Island, New York. Five children have been born to them : Irene M., -Ansley B., Benjamin P., Catherine P. and William H. Reed. SPENCER, Richard Prait, President of the Deep River National liank, was born at Deep River, Connecticut, February 12, 1820, second son of George and Julia (Pratt) Spencer. The name Spencer is derived from the latin noun dispensator, or steward, the original holder of the name in Eng- land being Robert Dispensator (or Robert le Dis- penseur, according to the French nomenclature), who was attached to the household of William the Conqueror. The present banker traces his descent back to Michael Spencer, whose marriage January ^S) i5SS> is recorded in the parish of Edworth in Bedfordshire, England. His son Gerard became the father of four sons, William, Thomas, Michael and Gerard, all of whom emigrated to America in 1633-34. The youngest son, Gerard, the ancestor of the subject of the sketch, became a landowner at Newtown, Massachusetts, in 1634, thence removing to Lynn, in the same state, was there granted in 1638 a franchise for a ferry, also serving as grand juror and as Ensign of the militia company. He removed to Hartford in 1660, and in 1662, accord- ing to the history of Dr. Field, became one of the twenty-eight original proprietors of the town of Haddam, Connecticut. He was one of the com- mittee to settle the boundary dispute between the towns of Haddam and Saybrook, and represented the town of Haddam in the General Court, at Hart- ford, in 1675, 1678, 1679, 1680 and 1683. From this ancestor the line runs to Thomas Spencer, his son, who moved from Haddam to Saybrook, and was voted an inhabitant of that town December 8, 1687. He married Ehzabeth, youngest daughter of James and Ann (Withington) Bates. Their young- est son, Caleb, was born January 19, 1695. The latter's eldest son was Joseph Spencer, born April 18, 1720, and married in 1743 to l.ydia, daughter of Paybody and Rutli (Nettleton) Grenell. 'i'lieir eldest son was also named Josejih, and was born August 12, 1744. His first wife, who died June 25, '777> "''IS Eliz was born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, April 10, 1838, son of Edwin Stratton and Nancy (Buck) Treat. Both of his parents were natives of Glaston- bury. He is a lineal descendant in the ninth gen- eration of Richard Treat, the founder of the family in this country, who came from Taunton, England, in 1635, and settled at Watertown, Massachusetts. His son, Robert Treat, was for forty years Deputv- Governor and Governor of the Colony of Connecti- cut, and was buried at Milford, Connecticut, where his tombstone bears the record : " He exchanged this life for a better, July 10, 1710." E. B. Treat through Richard Treat is a descendant of Lieuten- ant Thomas Treat, a soldier in the numerous Indian wars, and a besieger at the Battle of Louisburg in Queen Anne's War. By intermarriage he claims descent from Reverend Charles Chauncey, second President of Harvard College ; from Reverend Ger- shom Bulkley, who was Ensign in King Philip's War; also from the Gardiners of Gardiner's Island, and other families whose names are prominent in the colonial history of Connecticut. Richard Treat removed from Watertown, Massachusetts, to Weth- ersfield, Connecticut, in 1637. The town was sub- sequently divided and the portion east of the Con- necticut River was named Glastonbury from Glas- tonbury, England. His daughter, Mary, married Robert Payne of Boston, and their son, Robert Treat Payne, was the famous Revolutionary patriot and signer of the Declaration of Independence. The subject of this sketch received his early educa- tion in the public schools and High School of his native town, supplementing this with an attendance for a portion of two years at Wilbraham Academy, Massachu-setts. Returning to Glastonbury he taught in the i)ublic schools for three winters, the first term on a salary of si.xteen dollars per month and " board around." During the intervals of his aca- demic studies and teaching he was engaged partly in farm work and partly as representative of publish- ing and bookselling firms. In this latter capacity he represented L. Stebbins, of Hartford, and G. & F. Bill, of Springfield, Massachusetts. In April 1862 he removed to Chicago, and with his brother formed the firm of I'^. B. cv R. C. Treat, represent- ing the American Publishing Company of Hartford, as their general managers for the Northwest. 'I'hree E. B. TREAT. years later he removed to New York city and formed a co-partnership with Charles Scribner and A. C. Armstrong, under the firm name of E. B. Treat & Company. The firm handled the subscrip- tion book department of Charles Scribner & Com- pany, and the partnership was continued until August I, 187 1, when it expired by limitation. During this period many famous and phenomenally successful books were issued. Among the number may be noted: J. T. Headley's "Histories and Biographies of the Civil War " ; " The Lost Cause, " a Southern history of the War, by E. A. Pollard ; "Our Home Physician," by Dr. G. M. Beard and others ; and two agricultural works by Colonel I40 MEN OF PROGRESS. George E. Waring. On the expiration of the part- nership K. B. Treat succeeded to the business of the firm. He has gradually made the publishing of medical works a specialty in which line the firm has achieved great success and is widely and favorably known in the trade. On May i, 1897, the firm of E. B. Treat & Company was again organized, Mr. Treat's two elder sons, William H. and Edwin C. Treat, graduates of Wesleyan, being admitted to partnership. Among the firm's prominent publica- tions are the following : " Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases," by Dr. George Henry Fox, of New York, in two volumes ; the work was published in French and German at Paris and Leipsic, respec- tively, and is regarded as of high scientific value ; " Treat's Medical Classics," in thirty-six volumes ; this series includes many popular treatises on sur- gery and medicine, among them the " International Medical Annual," a dictionary of medical progress now in its fifteenth year, and " Hamilton's System of Legal Medicine," in two volumes, a recently issued manual, generally regarded as an authority both in the legal and medical profession. In 1883, Mr. Treat began the publication of the magazine, The Pulpit Treasury. The name has since been changed to the Treasury of Religious and Current Thought, and the magazine enlarged and embel- lished with engravings specially illustrating Applied or Practical Christianity. The magazine occupies a special field and acts as well as a medium of adver- tising the theological and religious works which have been added to the general catalogue of the firm. The jiublications of the firm have a distinct scientific or moral purpose, and the public is to be congratulated on the existence of this business house whose success is not dependent upon the ephemeral literature and passing fads of the day. Mr. Treat is an earnest member of the Methodist Church. He was one of the founders of the Wash- ington Heights Methodist Episcopal Church of New York city, is a Trustee and President of its Board of Stewards, and for twenty-one years has been Superintendent of its Sunday School. In pol- itics he is a Democrat, though never an active par- tisan. In 1892 he was one of the founders of the Washington Heights Democratic Club, and in 1894 became one of the charter members of the Good Government Club. He has long been a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a life member of the New York Historical Society, the New England .Society, and a member of the Sons of the Revolution. He takes an active interest in all benevolent movements, and is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Washington Heights branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, Trustee of the Washington Heights Free Library, member of the Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, member of the New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society, and Treasurer of the Washington Heights Tax Payers' Association. He was married in 1863, to Rhoda Ann, daughter of James Goslee, of Glas- tonbury. Their five surviving children are : Wil- liam H., Edwin C, Payson J-, Flora D. and Mary S. Treat. WILLIAMS, Fredertc M., .'Vttorney-at Law, New Milford, was born in Washington, Connecticut, FREDERIC M. WILLIAMS. November 27, 1862, son of Stanley and Esther C. (Meeker) Williams. His great-grandfather was Jabez Williams, who served as a soldier throughout the entire Revolutionary \^'ar. Young Williams attended Llpson Seminary at New Preston, Con- necticut, and then took a course at the Yale Law School where he received a degree of LL.B. in 1887. In June of the same year he was admitted to the Bar at New Haven. He had previously spent a year in the office of Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, of New Haven. In September 1887 he opened an Mi:N ol' I'ROCRKSS. 1. 1 1 office at Litchfield, but in January of the following year removed to New iMilford where he has since remained in the active practice of his profession. He is a member of St. Peter's Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, and while at Yale was President of the Kent Debating Club. In politics he has always been actively identifietl with the Republican party. He was married at Gaylordsville, Connecti- cut, October 28, 189 1, to Isabella A. Gaylord. WHEELER, Arthur Caniield, Manufacturer, and Mayor of Norwalk, was born in that city, August 26, 1856, son of Charles II. and Anna Eliza ARTHUR C. WHEELER. (Canfield) Wheeler. His record is the history of a capable, hardworking man of affairs, whose indus- try and intelligence have won for him business success, and the respect of his fellow citizens. His education was confined to the public schools of his native city. .-M an early age he entered the employ of John P. Peatty & lirothers, Norwalk, as office boy. He remained with this firm eighteen years, having been steadily promoted until he filled the position of confidential clerk. On September 15, 1888, on the dissolution of the old firm he started in business for himself, and has ever since success- fully conducted the business. He maniifactures a fine grade of men's, boys', and children's straw hats. Mr. Wheeler is deeply interested in many outside matters, yet attends strictly to his private business, ami can be found at his office in the factory early and late. In ])olitics he is a Republican. He served as Councilman of Norwalk in 1888, 1894 and 1895, and was Mayor of the city in 1896 and 1897. He was a member of the District Committee of the Over River School from 1889 to 1895, is a Director in the Fairfield County Savings Bank, and Secretary of the Benjamin Isaac Masonic and Benevolent Association. Mayor Wheeler is an earnest believer in the principles of the Masonic order, is Past Master of St. John's Lodge No. 6, Eminent Com- mander of Clinton Commandery, Knights 'I'emplar, and (irand Junior Deacon of the Cirand Lodge of Masons of Connecticut. He is also an Odd Fellow, having served as Past Grand of Our Brothers Lodge of Odd Fellows, Past Chief Patriarch of Kaboosa Encampment, and Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment of Connecticut. He also belongs to the Pyramid Temple, Mystic Shrine, and the Nor- walk Club. He is not, however, the typical club man, but enjoys most the delights of his own home circle. He was married June 23, 1880, to Susie Cousins. Two children have been born to them : Ernest Cousins and Harold Arthur Wlieeler. WOODBURY, Eri Davidson, Principal of the Cheshire Academy, Cheshire, Connecticut, was born in Francestown, New Hampshire, May 30, 1837, the son of Henry and Hannah (Davidson) Wood- bury. He is a descendant of John and William Woodbury who came from England in 1628 and settled at Beverly, Massachusetts. John, the pio- neer, is referred to in the Colonial records as " Brother Woodbry " and " Father Woodbry " and was a man of estimable qualities, who died full of honors in 1641. Humphrey, his son, left on his death forty years later a large family of children. One son fell with the " Flower of Essex " at Bloody Brook in 1675, another died in 1690 oil his return from Philip's crusade against (Quebec ; while another, Peter Woodbury, was the Deacon Peter and Ser- geant Peter of the town and parish records. From this time onward in the words of the historian of the family, " few enterprises of great pith and moment were set on foot in the Colony except a \Voodbury was of a party." Two Beverly Wood- burys piloted the little fleet to the capture of St. John's and Port Royal in the expedition of 1654, 142 MEN OF PROCJRF.SS. and a full century later a Beverly Woodbury stood by the side of Wolfe as he fell in the victory on the Plains of Abraiiam and wore the sword which is still an heirloom with his descendants. The man who lost a thumb while at the wheel of the Frigate Constitution during the first action of the War of 1812 in which she captured and destroyed H. B. M. Frigate Guerriere was a Beverly Woodbury. This list of Woodbury heroes might be lengthened by a notable number of soldiers in the Civil War, among which the subject of this sketch has his honored place. Hon. Levi Woodbury of New Hampshire, President Jackson's Secretary of the Navy, and E. D. WOODBURY. General Roger W. Woodbury, several years Presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce, Denver, also belong to the family. Eri Davidson Woodbury, the present Principal of the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut at Cheshire, received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Manchester, New Hampshire, and was prepared for college at New Hampton in the same state. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1863. Before graduation he had taught school for the winters in the public schools of New Hampshire and Massa- chusetts and for a short time in Vermont. Although the young man had thus early chosen as his life work the quiet life of a teacher, nevertheless soon after graduation, impelled by the same patriotic feelings that had animated his Revolutionary ances- tors, he rushed to his country's defence and enlisted as a private in Company E, First Vermont Cavalry. He participated in every action of the Cavalry Corps under Sheridan from tliat time until the close of the war. In the Battle of the Wilderness his horse was shot under him. He was promoted from private to Fifth Sergeant July i, 1864, and made Acting First Sergeant, and in August his division, the Third Cavalry, was sent with Sheridan into the Shenandoah Valley. In all the engagements of that campaign the First Vermont was conspicuous. On October 19, 1864, in the Battle of Cedar Creek, to which Sheridan made his famous twenty-mile ride, Ser- geant Woodbury was in command of his company and General George A. Custer commander of the division. In the fight Woodbury captured the battle flag of the Twelfth North Carolina Infantry and two days later with others who had taken flags was sent to Washington with General Custer to turn over to the War Department the captured colors. For this exploit he received twenty days furlough, a bronze medal from Congress, and from Governor Smith, of Vermont, a commission as Second Lieu- tenant. He was at once transferred to the command of Company ]',, and soon afterwards, while still in command, was placed in the Adjutant's office as Acting Adjutant. Though urged to accept an adjutant's commission he preferred to remain with his company. In March 1865 he was promoted First Lieutenant and shortly afterwards Captain by brevet " for gallant and meritorious service in the field." Two horses were shot under him while on a charge with his regiment in the Battle of F'ive Forks. He was there made a prisoner but succeeded in making his escape before his captors took him from the field. In the battle of Appomattox Station, Virginia, one day before Lee's surrender, in a charge led by the gallant Custer, Captain Woodbury was struck by a fragment from a shell which knocked him from his horse, passed through his left arm near the shoulder, across the breast, cutting open jacket and shirt without scratching the skin, then took off half of the right hand. Cap- tain Woodbury was mustered out with his regiment June 21, 1865. At the close of the war, bearing with him a hero's scars of battle, he again took up the teacher's occupation, and went to Cheshire as a classical teacher. Five years later he became Head Master. In 1874 he removed to Denver, Colorado, but two years later returned to the Academy as MKN OF I'ROC.RKSS. 143 \'ice-Principal. In 1S92 he went to Florida to give personal attention to fruit-growing in which he had been engaged for ten years. Hut alter a year and a half's absence he was induced by the trustees to return and resume his place as Vice-Principal, and in June i.S96iie was elected I'rincipal. So that with two short breaks he lias occupied various positions in the same institution for thirty-three years. The academy, known as the l^piscopal Academy of Con- necticut, is one of the most famous in New Kngland. It was founded by IJishop Seabury in 1794 and has educated many of Connecticut's distinguished sons. Mr. Woodbury's long service has left a distinct impress for good tijion the school. He has long been its classical teacher, is a master of discipline, yet with the ])ower to inspire the affectionate regard of his pupils. In politics Mr. Woodbury is an ardent Republican. In college he was a member tlie Delta Kappa Kpsilon fraternity and of the Phi lieta Kappa. He was married July 8, 1873, to Ann Augusta Jarvis, of Cheshire, who died April 12, 1877, leaving two children : Roger Atwater, born in Denver, Colorado, January 10, 1875, and Sanford Jarvis Woodbury, l)orn in the same city, August 30, 1S76. WOODWARD, Henry, Druggist and Past Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery of Con- necticut Knights Templar, Middletown, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, June 26, 1838, youngest son of Dr. Charles and Ellen M. (Pratt) Wood- ward. He is a descendant of Dr. Henry Woodward, one of the first settlers of Northampton, Massachu- setts. On his mother's side he traces his ancestry back to Captain John Pratt, of the Revolutionary Army under General Wayne. His father, Dr. Charles Woodward, enjoyed for many years an extensive practice in Middletown. The son was educated in the public schools of his native city and in the Chase Academy. He entered Wesleyan University with the class of 1S59, but before the completion of his first year he left college and began preparation for business, the curriculum not providing for such studies as he desired to pursue. In 1861 he entered the drug business, which he has successfully con- tinued until the present time. He has been for many years a Director of the Middletown National Bank and the Middletown Savings Bank. Since 1870 he has been Trustee of the Hospital for Insane of which Board he is one of the most active mem- bers. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Reform Club of New York, and is an enthusiastic yachtsman. But it is as a Knight Templar that Mr. Woodward is best known, and few members of tlie order are held in higher esteem, lie joined the Free Masons July 15, 1859, soon after reaching the lawful age, and became a member of St. John's Lodge No. 2 of Middletown. On November 29 of the same year he was exalted in Washington Chai)ler No. 6, Royal .Arch Masons, and March 12, i860, he became a member of Columbia Council No. 7, Royal and Select Masters. He was Knighted in Washington Commandery No. I, Knights Templar of Hartford, December 18, HENRY WOODWARD. 1867, and later became a charter member of Cyrene Commandery No. 8, when it was instituted at Middletown. In Scottish Kite Masonry he has been equally proficient. He joined, February 9, 1870, Charter Oak Lodge of Perfection, and March 19, 1 89 1, Hartford Council, Princes of Jerusalem, March 31, 1891, Cyrus Goodell Chapter Rose Croix, and April 9, 1891, Connecticut Sovereign Consistory, of Norwich. On September 18, 1894, he was made Sovereign Grand Inspector General of the Thirty-third and last degree of the Scottish Rite. In addition to these he was admitted to the Royal Order of Scotland at tlie same place September 17, 1894 He has been Worshipful Master of St. John's 144 MEN OF PROGRESS. Lodge, Thrice Illustrious Master of Columbia Coun- cil, Eminent Commander of Cyrene Commandery (five terms) and Grand Commander of Connecti- cut. He has also been President of the Con- necticut Association of Past Grand Commanders. At the Triennial of the Grand Encampment of the United States held at Denver in 1892, he was a member of the Ritual Committee from this Grand Jurisdiction. These varied offices emphasize the confidence with which his fellow members hold him, and the conscientious zeal with which he has carried out the teachings of Templar Masonry. Outside the circle of those with whom he is con- nected by family ties — he is not married — there is no dearer object on earth than his Commandery, the length and breadth of which attachment has been repeatedly manifested by his faithful and regular attendance upon its conclaves and his unwearied zeal in its welfare. During the times of adversity which have come upon Cyrene Command- ery he has been its mainstay, and whatever of success has come to it is due, in great measure, to his efforts and enthusiastic encouragement. He has been adverse to occupying political office, although he has served as Alderman in the City Government. In the early days of the attempts of the Legislature to regulate the fisheries of the state he was for several terms Fish Commissioner. By his absolute fearlessness and unswerving determina- tion to do his duty he accomplished much in bringing the turbulent fishermen into subjection to the laws made for their protection. GOODS ELL, Zalmon, President of the Bridge- port Board of Trade, is a member of an old English family, which for many years has been prominent in affairs both civic and military. Back as far as the thirteenth century can the ancestry of the Goodsell family be traced, and the most remote ancestor was a public man, while all down the long line are to be found the names of those who were in the forefront, in battle and in the deliberations of peaceful councils. Mr. Goodsell himself has been for many years active in the industrial and social life of Bridgeport. In the thirteenth century John Curtis, Gentleman, was a resident of Matestack, County of Warwick, England, and from him is the descent of the Goodsell family of this city traced. Pilgrim John Curtis, his descendant, was one of the eadiest of the Puritans to leave the mother country for the New World, and he sailed from London on Septem- ber 16, 1632, in the ship Lyon, arriving later in New England. From him was descended Epaphras Goodsell, who was one of the soldiers of the nation in the War of the Revolution, and took an active part in the struggle which secured for the colonists their independence. Epaphras Goodsell was born in 1742, and was descended on his mother's side from Governor Thomas Wells, one of the leading men of the Hartford colony. He enlisted in May 1776 in Captain Dimon's company of Fairfield, being promoted later to Sergeant. In this company were also his three brothers. Sergeant Goodsell re-enlisted January i, 1777, with Captain John ZALMON GOODSELL. Mills' Company in the Second Regiment, Connecti- cut line, commanded by Colonel Charles Webb. This regiment was present at the Battle of Mon- mouth, where Sergeant Goodsell earned for himself the commendation of his officers. The regiment wintered at Valley Forge with Washington's troops, and bore uncomplainingly the sufferings and hard- ships of that terrible winter, celebrated so fittingly by all historians. Epaphras was the son of the Rever- end John Goodsell, who graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1724. The Reverend John Goodsell was the youngest son of Thomas Goodsell, first of the name in this country, who paid the largest tax in the com- munity of Branford, where he made his home. MEN OV PROGRESS. H5 John was horn in East Haven, a parish of New Haven, December 21, 1706. His mother, Sarah Hemingway, was an elder sister of Jacob Heming- way, who grachiated from \'ale in i 704, the earliest student of the college, and was the earliest minister of East Haven. John Goodsell studied theology and was ordained May iS, 1726, pastor of the church in the northwest ])arish of Fairfield, Con- necticut, later known as Greenfield. He continued here for thirty years and died December 26, 1763. He married July 20, 1725, Afary, daughter of Cap- tain James Lewis of Stratford, Connecticut. 'J'hey had many children. Reverend John Goodsell organized the Greenfield Hill parish, and during the past year memorial windows have been donated to the parish by one of his descendants. Zalmon Good- sell, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a son of Epaphras Goodsell, and his son was Epaphras B. Goodsell. The latter was for eight years (1853- 61) Postmaster of Bridgeport and served as Mayor in 1871-72-73. Epaphras Goodsell removed to Bridgeport soon after the birth of Zalmon, which took place at South Kent, March 19, 1845. His wife was a member of the Butts family of pioneers and a descendant of the old Elliott family, who were among the earliest settlers of this country. To her careful training is to be ascribed much of the suc- cess which has since attended Zalmon's efforts in life. He was named after his grandfather, being his favorite grandchild, and spent many years of his boyhood at the old home in Brookfield. Zal- mon's first schooling was here, where he attended the little red district school. Afterward he returned to Bridgeport and went to the High School, Mr. Strong then being principal, and later finished his education at the school of the Rev. Mr. Noble at Brookfield. His father's desire was that he should study for the ministry, but Zalmon had a desire for business life, and when his studies were completed, he returned to Bridgeport and entered the grocery store of Andrew Nash as a clerk. Next he took charge of the news-stand at the railroad station, and while there he served with papers such men as the Hon. Nathaniel Wheeler and Hon. William D. Bishop, both of whom befriended him in his early business career. Through Mr. Wheeler he became an assistant to Frederick Hurd at the factory of the Wheeler & Wilson Company, but he saw a business opening with the late Wheeler Beers and entered into business with him, at the end of a year pur- chasing the business through the assistance of Wil- liam D. Bishop. In later years the firm became the Bradbury, Goodsell & Wilmot Company. In 1S75 Mr. Goodsell withdrew and engaged in busi- ness independently. He first located ujjon Fair- field avenue, from there removing to Main street and later to his present spacious quarters on Water street. In addition to his regular business of steam- heating and plumbing, he has built up a large fire- insurance and real-estate business, and has always been active in city matters. He has also been interested in a number of manufacturing concerns which have located in J5ridgei)ort, and has always made his way in the world by his own industry. Politically, Mr. CJoodsell has always been an ardent Democrat, and was appointed by Mayor R. E. DeForest, a member of the Board of Public Works, where he served for four years and then resigned. In 1892 he was unanimously nominated for Mayor by his party, but with all others u]ion the ticket, suffered defeat. In 1894 he was unanimously nom- inated for Senator, but was defeated in common with all his colleagues. It was in the same year that he was prominently mentioned throughout the whole state as a possible candidate for Governor. His name was most favorably received and greeted with praise by the press everywhere. In 1896, in company with many other good Democrats, he felt constrained to abandon the party which had pledged itself to the free coinage of silver, and became a member of the National Democratic party, being one of the delegates from Connecticut to the Indianapolis convention. If Mr. Goodsell possesses any hobby, it is the Bridgeport Board of Trade, with which he has been connected ever since it was organized, twenty-three years ago. From that time up to the present he has been one of its most earnest workers, serving upon all the important com- mittees, being a constant member of the Executive Committee. In 1893 he was chosen President, and at the end of his term refused a re-election, but in January 1896 he was again chosen to that office. During his administration the life of the Board has been marked by unusual activity, and he has done much to make it a thoroughly progressive and up- to-date body. He is also a member of the State Board of Trade, being Chairman of the Legislative Committees on Good Roads and Taxation of Elec- tric Railways. He has several times appeared before the committees of the Legislature to advo- cate matters in which the Board was interested, more particularly the improvement of public high- ways, and has also represented the Board at the Pan-Anglican Conference and at the recent open- 146 MEN OF PROGRESS. ing of the riiilaclelphia Museums. He was reap- pointed Chairman ot the same committees of the State Board in 1897, besides being placed upon the committee to represent tlie State Board of Trade at Washington in the interest of improvements to the harbor of New Haven. It was in connection with the Board of Trade annual banquet that Mr. Goodsell won his first laurels as a toastmaster, and since then he has added greatly to his reputation in this line. He has presided most acceptably at ban- cpiets of the Sons of the American Revolution, the Royal Arcanum, the United Workmen and many other organizations. At presentations and flag-rais- ings his services have ever been in demand, and he has many times been called upon to participate in the awarding of school prizes, or to give cogent words of advice to the students in the High School. At the Newtown celebration of July 4, 1895, he was one of the leading participants, delivering a stirring address at the after dinner ceremonies. As a repre- sentative of the Board of Trade he has attended conventions both state and national, spoken at Fall River, Hartford and New Haven, and addressed the members of the Meriden Board of Trade by invitation upon the subject : " Boards of Trade ; their uses and how to conduct them." He was one of the invited guests at the New Haven Chamber of Commerce banquet, November 17, 1897. In the progress of Bridgeport Mr. Goodsell has ever been deeply interested, and he did herculean work in carrying to success the Centennial and Columbus celebrations, the latter of which netted a fund of about $2,500 for the Board of Trade. To him the Builders' Exchange owes a lasting debt of gratitude for its present prosperous condition. When he was elected its President the Exchange contained but ten members, and during his term of office he increased the roll to over eighty, including every branch of the builders' trade in the city. He rep- resented the Exchange as delegate at the National Convention of the Association of Master Builders at Baltimore. Mr. Goodsell has long been actively connected with a large number of fraternal socie- ties. In the Masonic Order he is a member of Cor- inthian Lodge and at present Captain-General of Hamilton Commandery Knights Templar. He is also a Thirty-second Degree Mason, a member of the Masonic Veterans' Association and of Pyramid Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Among the other lodges of which he is a member are Pequon- nock Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; Queriheag tribe, I. O. R. M. ; Nebo Senate, K. A. E. O. ; Farren Lodge, A. O. U. W. ; Seaside Council, R. A.; Bridge- port Conclave, Improved Order of Heptasophs ; Court Marina, Foresters of America; and Pioneer Camp, Woodmen of the World, being chosen to perform the sacred duty of delivering the ora- tion at the unveiling of a monument to a de- ceased brother. He is also a charter member of the Seaside Club, a member of the Algonquin, Outing and Country clubs, the Bridgeport and Park City yacht clubs, as well as a member of Camp Riga. As President of the Bridgeport Athletic Club, he served faithfully and well. His year as President of the Master Plumbers' Association was one of the most prosperous in its existence, and he was among the organizers of the State Plumbers' Association, calling the first meeting in Bridgeport. He was also a delegate to the meetings of the national association at Boston and Milwaukee, and was placed upon the legislative committee of both the national and the state associations. In addition he served upon the committee on essays and while there wrote a strong essay upon the immigration question. In the Sons of the American Revolution he is also an ardent worker. He joined the state association a number of years ago, and in 1893 was a delegate to the national convention at Chicago. In 1894 he was elected to the state board of man- agers, of which he has ever since been a member. He aided in the organizing of the General Gold Selleck Silliraan branch of Bridgeport, and served as toast- master at the state banquet in Bridgeport, securing the presence there of General Horace Porter and many other distinguished guests. In May 1897, he was honored by an election to the Presidency of the General Gold Selleck Silliman branch. Many times have his services been called into play and never has he failed to respond. Before the Dan- bury lodge he dehvered an address upon the origin of Masonry, under the auspices of the Grand Master, and before the local Y. M. C. A. he gave a highly interesting talk on " Every Day Topics," which was extensively quoted. He is an ardent admirer of the Boys' Club, and presented to the fund for a home §2,400 of the Bridgeport Traction Company's stock. For years he was a Director of the Fairfield County Agricultural Society and was considered one of its staunchest workers. The labor men of the city selected Mr. Goodsell to pre- side at one of their mass meetings, and on numerous occasions he has acted as chairman of large politi- cal gatherings. On the occasion of the distribution of Christmas largesse to the poor at the opera house MEN OF I'ROCRESS. 147 through the enterprise of the newspapers anolitical affiliations are with the Republicans, and he has twice served as Selectman of the town. He is a member of the Board of Trade, and was a member of the charter for the Borough. For tliree years he served as a member of the Board of Burgesses. He WILLIAM LINSTEAD. was married in 1866 to Sarah Freeman, now de- ceased. Seven children were born to them. LINSTEAD, Wllliam, Builder, Bristol, was born in England in 1840. He is one of the best exam- ples of our foreign born citizens, who through intel- MILLER, VVaison John, President of the Derby Silver Comjiany, Sheiton, was born in Middle- town, Connecticut, November 23, 1849, son of \Vatrous Ives and Ruth Lucretia (Prout) Miller. He is descended from notable stock on both ])ater- nal and maternal sides : Thomas Miller, an ancestor, having come from I'"ngland about 1630 and estab- lished himself at Middletown in 1660, where he '54 MEN OK PROGRESS. erected and operated siuccssfuUy its first mill, and C.overnor lienjamin Miller, another forbear, having the title of Governor of the Colony of Connecticut in the Colonial times, and thereby securing to his prominent descendant the right to enroll himself among the members of the Sons of the Colonial Wars. From the maternal branch of his family he is lineally descended from Timothy Prout, who came from England to Boston about 1640 and after residing there for thirty years or more, removed to Middletown, Connecticut, where he took an active part in encouraging many of its most important enterprises, not the least of which was his interest WATSON J. MILLER. in the building of the first sailing vessel ever launched upon the Connecticut river at Middle- town. The subject of this sketch received his edu- cation at the Middletown High School and later was a student in the Chase Institute, a school, by the way, of uni(iue character which ranked among the first of its day in excellence and importance, and from which many of the most prominent men of this and other states were graduated. From the Chase Institute Colonel Miller repaired to the New Haven Business College where he received the foundation of that thorough mercantile training that has subsequently characterized his successful commercial career. In March 1868 he first entered into the manufacture of silver-plated ware in his native town, and six years later in 1874 he removed to New York and for about five years or so resided in that city, continuing there with the Webster Manufacturing Company in the same business of silver-plated ware manufacture which he had for- merly carried on in Middletown. In the meantime the Derby Silver Company of Shelton, Connecticut, desiring a secretary, treasurer and general manager, and realizing Colonel Miller's value as an organizer and able director, promptly opened negotiations with him with a view to securing his services. A mutually satisfactory conclusion was reached, and in 1879 Colonel Miller removed to Shelton, where, ten years later, he became President as well as Manager of the company, whose capital is now three hundred thousand dollars, and the growth of whose business is largely due to his rare personal abilities, untiring energy and capable management. The excellence of the goods made by the Derby Silver Company, and Colonel Miller's long connec- tion and successful association with the concern- place him easily in the first rank of silverware man- ufacturers in the country. Mr. Miller has repeat- edly declined political honors to the regret of his townsmen who, on several occasions, have urged him to accept the nomination for Representative from the town of Huntington in which Shelton is located. Upon the election of Governor Coffin the subject of this sketch was appointed a member of his staff, and since becoming Colonel has acted in the capacity of Aide-de-Camp to his Excellency, the Governor, who is at the same time his most hearty friend. Besides ha\ing held the prominent position aforesaid. Colonel Miller is one of the founders and President of the South P^nd Land Company, President of the Shelton Savings Bank, the Riverside Cemetery Association, the Shelton Build- ing and Loan Association, and is a Director in the Home and Trust Company, the Derby and Shelton Board of Trade ; and has succeeded the late Edward N. Shelton as a Director of the Birming- ham National Bank. He is also a prominent and Thirty-second degree Mason ; a member of the Mystic Shrine, and also a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston. Colonel Miller's residence in Shelton is one of the handsomest in the state ; and from his charming home he dis- penses most hospitable entertainment to his host of appreciative and eminent friends. In 1874 Mr. Miller was married to Susie J. Waite, daughter of Alonzo Waite, of Chicopee, Massachusetts. MEN (I I' I'KOGRKSS. '55 PRATT, Lewei.lyn, D.D., Clergyman, Norwich, was born in Saybrook, Connecticut, August 8, 1832, son of Selden Mather and Rebecca (Nott) I'ratt. His ancestry is distinguished. Lieutenant \\"iUiam Pratt of Hooker's Colony, Sergeant John Nott of Wethersfield, an early settler, Alice South worth, wife of ("lovernor Bradford, and the Reverend Thomas Buikingiiam, arc among his forbears in the paternal and maternal lines. I .cwellyn Pratt's edu- cation was aci|uired at Hill's .Academy in Essex, Durham .Academy in Durham, anil at Williams Col- lege, from which institution he was graduated in the class of 1S52. He then studied theology in I'hila- LEWELLYN PRATT. delphia under the direction of Albert ]5ariies and Dr. Jonathan Edwards, and was ordained by the Philadelphia Presbytery in May 1864. Itefore this, on his graduation from college, he had taught the deaf in Philadeljihia and Washington. Still con- tinuing in this work in 1865 he became Professor of Natural Science in Gallaudet College, Washington, and held the position four years, leaving it in 1869 to become Professor of Latin in Knox College and remaining there two years. He then began his ministerial work as Pastor of the Congregational Church at North Adams, Massachusetts, his pas- torate lasting five years. Ne.xt, collegiate work claimed him again, and for the five years from 1S76 to 1S81 he was Professor of Rhetoric at Williams, going thence to become the Professor of Practical Theology in the Hartford Theological Seminary. He stayed eight years in Hartford, and then, in 1888, accepted the pastorate of the Broadway Church (Congregational) in Norwich, Connecticut, one of the leading churches of the state, a pulpit he still occupies and adorns. Williams College made him a Doctor of Divinity in 1877. Dr. Pratt has given of his aid and counsel in many directions out- side of his particular church labors. He was a Trustee of the Northwestern Theological Seminary, 1866-69, of Williams College 1884-89, and continues to perform that service for the Hartford Seminary, and the Norwich Free Academy, and since 1891 has been the President of the last-named school. From 1889 to 1895 he was also a 'I'rustee of the .Atlanta University. Dr. Pratt has won the univer- sal respect and love of his people wherever he has settled, and is today one of the ablest and most beloved clergymen of his denomination in the state Of fine presence and great courtliness of manner, he is very popular with young and old, and his church is in a flourishing condition. As a speaker he is strong in thought, broad-minded, conservative in a good sense and winning in his address. He ranks by common consent as an ornament of his sacred calling. Dr. Pratt was married October 17, 1855, to Sarah Putnam Gulliver, of Boston, Massa- chusetts. They have had two children : Waldo Selden and Theodore Putnam Pratt. PL^LSIFER, Naihan TROWBRionK, Manufacturer, Manchester, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, October 27, 1851, son of Charles S. and ICliza W. (Trowbridge) Pulsifer. His great-grandfather Nathaniel Pulsifer served in the Revolution as a member of the Coast Guard at Gloucester, Massachu- setts. His grandfather Nathaniel Pulsifer served in the War of 1812. On the maternal side his grand- father was Nathaniel Trowbridge, his great-grand- father was Samuel Trowbridge, a Lieutenant of Militia in the Revolution, and his great-great-grandfather was James Trowbridge wlio settled at Dorchester, in 1635. He w-as educated in the public schools of Newton and at the age of eighteen entered the em- ploy of Barnes, Merriam Company of Boston. He served the usual tliree years in learning the business and remained with the firm until 1875. 'l"he year 1876 was spent in travel in the West, and on the Pacific Coast. During 1S77 and 1878 he was en- ;6 MEN OF PROGRESS. gaged in the varnish business with Valentine & Company, New York. In 1878 he came to Man- chester to engage in the manufacture of paper, in which business he still continues as President, Treasurer, and principal owner of the Oakland Canada. He was married October 13, 1880, to Almira Houghton Valentine, of New York. They have two children : Lawson Valentine and Harold Pulsifer. NATHAN T. PULSIFER. Paper Company, manufacturers of fine writing paper. In addition to the paper business, for ten years beginning 1883 he was Treasurer and General Manager of the Mather Electric Company of Man- chester. On the death of his father-in-law in 1891 he was elected President of the Lawson Valentine Company of New Y'ork and Vice-President of the Rural New Yorker Company which position he still holds. For the past five years his time has been divided between New York city and Manchester. Since 1883 he has been connected with the Outlook Publishing Company, most of the time as Treasurer. He has been a Director in the Mercantile National Bank of Hartford since 1890. He was the first President of the Manchester Board of Trade, first President of the Manchester Building and Loan Society, member of the Road and Bridge Commis- sion of the town from 1887 to 1897, and President of the Orford Golf Club of Manchester. He be- longs to the New York Athletic Club, the Suburban Riding and Driving Club of New York, the Pomfret Field Club, and the Touvilli Fish and Game Club of ROWELL, Charles Emery, M. D., of Stamford, was born in ^Vest Concord, Vermont, May 2, 1849, son of Frederick and Rosaline (Banfill) Rowell. He is a descendant of Revolutionary stock, his great-grandfather, Samuel Rowell, serving during the Revolutionary War. He was educated in the common schools, learned the printers' trade in Coos Republican office, Lancaster, New Hampshire, and the machinists' trade at the Spencer Rifle factory, olil Chickering Building, Boston, Massachusetts. In the fall of 1869, he joined the original Greely Colony, and went to Colorado, and in 1870 joined the Chicago Colony that located at Longmont on Thompson Creek. In 187 1 returning to the East, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. C. E. ROWELL Charles Snell of Whitefield, New Hampshire, and continued his studies with Dr. George Norton of New York city. In 1873 he was graduated from the New York Homceopathic College and in 1874 from the New York Ophthalmic Hospital. He com- menced the practice of medicine at Lancaster, New Hampshire, in March 1874, removing to Stamford, MEN OF PROGRESS. '57 Connecticut, in February i8So, where he has since successfully practiced. Dr. Rowell has creditably filled several important positions. lie was Mcalth Officer and Higliway Surveyor at Lancaster, New Hampshire, in 1S7.S-79 ; Pension Surgeon for North- ern New Hampshire from 1876 to 1880; Post- Surgeon for Fairfield county from 1887 to 1S97; Coroner's Medical {•".xaniiner for Stamford since 1SS6; Councilman I'"irst Ward, city of Stamford, 1894 and 1 89 7 ; Registrar of N'oters from 1885 to i8g6, and Chairman of Republican Town, Borough, City and Ward committees for many years. He is a prominent member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, American Mech.inics and New England Order of Protection. He lias been a Director of the Stam- ford Board of Trade since its formation and is a Director of the Celebrated Schleicher Piano Manu- facturing Company, of Stamford. Dr. Rowell is a staunch Republican and was an active member of the House in 1897-98, taking a prominent part in many of the most important debates. He married December 25, 1872, Miss Arietta Polles, of Dalton, New Hampshire. They have three children : Dr. James Frederick, George Press and Dr. Edward Everett Rowell. STEARNS, Henry Putnam, M. D., Superin- tendent of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane, was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, Aph\ 18, 1828, son of Asa Stearns and Polly (Putnam) Stearns, the former a direct descendant of Charles Sterne who in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1647 was made a freeman ; he was a nephew of Isaac Sterne who accompanied John Winthrop to America in 1630. On the maternal side Polly Putnam was a direct descendant of Nathaniel Putnam, who with his father John emigrated to this country about 1634 and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. Dr. Stearns was educated at the common schools and at the Monson (Massachusetts) Academy; he then went to Vale and was a member of the class of 1853. Then came a varied and thorough training for the profession of medicine which he was to tiignify and honor. He studied a year at Harvard and another at Yale, received his M. D. degree in 1855 '"""' spent still another year in study abroad, principally at the University at lulinburgh. From 1857 to 1859 Dr. Stearns engaged in general practice in Marlboro, Massachusetts. In the latter part of 1859 he removed to Hartford and continued to prosecute his profession there until April of 1S61, when the strong summons came to take the jiost of Surgeon of the First Connecticut Regiment, his commission ilating .April 18 of liiat historic year. After three months' service he was commissioned Surgeon of the United States Volunteers anil ordered to report to Major-General Fremont, then commanding the Western Department. He remained in the West and South during tlie \Var and was mustered out of service in the autumn of 1S65 with the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1861-62 Dr. .Stearns was on the staff of General (Jranl and was after- wards assigned by that C/eneral as Medical Director of the right wing of the army when it was reorgan- H. p. STEARNS. ized to move up the Tennessee River ; he was on the staff of Major-General McClernand and in this campaign was jiresent at such important engage- ments as Fort Donaldson and Pittsburgh Landing. During 1862 Dr. Stearns was at St. Louis as Medi- cal Inspector of Hospitals, on the staff of Colonel R. C. Wood, Assistant Surgeon-General, ITnited States Army ; and later was Medical Director of the United States General Hospitals of the Northern Division of the .\rniy of the Mississippi, holding the same position in Nashville, Tennessee, when the seat of the \\'ar was moved South and I-list. By these varied important and valuable professional •58 MEN OF PROGRESS. sen-ices in the war-times he gained an exceptional experience for his subsequent labors. For eight years after the close of the war he engaged in general practice in Hartford, being also Surgeon and Medical Adviser of the Traveler's Insurance Company of that city. In 1874 he was appointed Superintendent and Physician of the Hartford Retreat for the Insane, an institution of high rank and deserved reputation, a position he has ably filled for over twenty years and now holds. Dr. Stearns in addition to his prominence as the head of the Retreat, is recognized far and wide as a distinguished specialist upon mental diseases and is the author of several volumes, among them : " Med- ical Examination for Life Insurance," " Insanity ; Its Causes and Prevention," and " Lectures on Mental Diseases." He is also the author of numer- ous monographs and reports embracing the results of his researches in morbid psychology and with regard to the condition of hospitals. For over twenty years he has been a lecturer on Insanity at the Yale Medical School. Nor has Dr. Stearns' vigorous mind confined itself alone to medicine. His executive and business ability is demonstrated by the fact that he is a Director in the Traveler's Insurance Company, in the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, in the Connecticut Humane Society, the Billings and Spencer Company, a Trustee of the Hartford Trust Company and mem- ber of the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Institute for the Blind. Of positions more related to his own profession he is a member of the American Medical .Association, the American Medico-Psychological Association, of which he has been President, the New England Psychological Society, the Connecticut Medical Society, honor- ary member of the British Medico-Psychological Association, the Boston Medico-Psychological Society, and still others. He is, too, a member of such patriotic organizations as the Loyal Le- gion, Society of Colonial Wars, and Sons of the American Revolution. He is a Republican in politics. Dr. Stearns has thus touched the life of his community widely and is one of Hartford's sterling and distinguished men who have brought honor to the city as bringing it to themselves, and whose name is known far beyond its limits. He married on August 29, 1857, Annie Elizabeth Storrer, daughter of Captain James Storrer, of Glasgow, Scotland. They have had three chil- dren : Henry Stuart, Ellen Brodie, and Charles Storrer Stearns. SKINNER, William Converse, of the firm of Dwight, Skinner & Company, wool merchants, was born in Malone, New York, January 26, 1855, son of Calvin and Jane Porter (Blodgett) Skinner. Mr. Skinner's ancestry is of good English stock, he being eighth in descent from John Alden and a direct descendant of the Calvin Skinner of Wood- stock, Connecticut, who served honorably in the War of Independence. His early education was received in the common and High schools of his native town ; he then entered Trinity College, Hart- ford, in 1872, and was graduated from that Institu- tion in the class of 1S76. Mr. Skinner first thought WILLIAM C. SKINNER. of the law as a profession, and with this in mind attended a law school in Albany, New York, for one year ; but then, deciding upon a business career, he came to Hartford and in 1882 became a member of the firm of wool merchants mentioned above. Mr. Skinner held the post of Colonel on Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley's staff during the entire four years of that Governor's administration. He is a member of both the Hartford and Colonial clubs of his city of residence, and of the society of the Sons of the American Revolution and of Colonial Wars. In politics he has always been a Republican and has taken an active interest in the welfare of his party, but has always declined office. He is a Director MEN OF PROGRESS. •59 of the Connecticut Mutual I.ife Insurance Company, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, the Pino nix National Hank, the Fidelity Company, the Society for Savings, the Smyth Manufacturing Company, and is President of the Anclior Pajicr Company. On October 20, 1880, Mr. Skinner married Florence Clarissa Roberts, daughter of the late Ebenezer Roberts, of Hartford, one of the city's wealthiest and most respected merchants and citizens. They have had three children : Marjorie R., born August 6, 1881 ; Roberts Keney, born October i, 1886; and William Converse Skinner, Jr., horn December 27, 18S8. dom. He is noticeable for an uncompromising honesty, bluntly spoken, which is tempered by great kindliness of nature. A son of Connecticut has rarely a position of wider and more beneficent influ- ence in both public and private life. He is recog- nized in tiie state and beyond it as one of the rejiresenlative men of New England, whose high place has been well won. His (jtialities, native and develoi)ed, fit him admirably for the judicial bench, and in his present office his services are being appreciated in a larger field, as they were for years in the narrower of his own state. In his family, which is socially a leading one, he is peculiarly SHIPMAN, N.ATH.4NIEL, Judge of the Circuit Court, Hartford, was born in Southbury, Connecti- cut, .August 22, 1828, son of Thomas L. and Mary T. (Deming) Shipman. His ancestry is English on both sides. On his father's side his descendants came to Saybrook, Connecticut, in the colony of Lords Say and Seal. A leading ancestor was Thomas ]-efifingwell, prominent as an Indian war fighter in Colonial times. In his mother's line, he derives from the Champions of Colchester, in the same state, who were active in the Revolutionary War. After the usual school training, he entered Yale College, and was graduated from that institu- tion in 1848. He then studied law, and in Octo- ber 1850 was admitted to the Bar of Hartford county, and began the practice of his profession in Hartford, being continuously active in that city as a lawyer for twenty-three years. He was a member of the firm of Welch & Shipman until Mr. Welch's death in 1870. On May i, 1873, he began service as District Judge of Connecticut, and held this important position until March 17, 1892, when he began to perform the duties of a Circuit Judge, an office he now holds. His professional career has thus been increasingly useful and honorable, making his name known far beyond the boundaries of his residential city and native state. Judge Shipman in 1857 was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Hartford, and from 1858 to 1862 was Executive Secretary of Governor Bucking- ham. He has long been actively and deeply inter- ested in the religious life of his community, and is a prominent and much valued member of the Con- gregational Church. As private citizen, lawyer and judge, he is universally respected and esteemed in Hartford, and wherever he goes, his name is a synonym for uprightness, fair-mindedness and wis- NATHANIEL SHIPMAN. blessed and haiipy. His wife is of another distin- guished Hartford family, and his sons are taking the rank in the legal and ministerial professions which might be expected of them. In 1859, Judge Shipman married Mary C. Robinson. They have had five children : Frank R., Arthur L., Mary D., now Mrs. Stephen 15. L. Penrose, of Walla Walla, Washington, I'homas L., who died in childhood, and Henry R. Shipman. STANLEY, Frederic North, Secretary of the Stanley Rule and Level Company, New Britain, was born in that city March 17, 1844, son of Henry i6o MEN OF PROGRESS. and Catharine Amelia (Andrews) Stanley. On both the paternal and maternal side he is a direct descendant of Captain John Stanley, son of John Stanley the original emigrant to this country. Mr. Stanley's grandparents were Amon and Abi (North) Stanley, and the successive links in the ancestral chain are as follows : Amon was son of Lot and Rhoda (W'adsworth) Stanley; Lot was the son of Thomas and Mary (Francis) Stanley; Thomas was son of Thomas and Esther (Cowles) Stanley; Thomas was son of Thomas and Anna (Peck) Stanley; Thomas was son of Captain John and Sarah (Scott) Stanley; and Captain John was son FRED N. STANLEY. of John Stanley the original emigrant. His mother's parents were Gad and Chloe (Andrews) Stanley, and on this side of the house the links are as fol- lows : Gad was son of Colonel Gad and Mary ( Judd) Stanley; Colonel Gad was son of Thomas and Esther (Cowles) Stanley; and the grandson of Captain Stanley the lineal ancestor on the paternal side as well. With the blood of all the Stanleys thus flowing in his veins, it was natural that the present manufacturer should remain in his native city where the name is honored and respected and to whose prosperity the family has contributed so largely. Young Stanley was educated in the public schools of New liritain, at Dr. Gold's school at West Cornwall and at the Academy at Monson, Massachusetts. The outbreak of the Civil War found him still in school, but in November 1861, when but seventeen years old, he enlisted in the Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteers for the term of three years. His gallant service was rewarded by promotion, first, to Second Lieutenant in 1863, and one year later as Adjutant in the same regiment. Returning from the war he at once began work for the Stanley Rule and Level Company at New Britain and in New York city. In 1865 he became Assis- tant Secretary, and in 1879 was made Secretary, which office he continues to fill with great efficiency. Besides the exacting duties of this position Mr. Stanley is a Director in the Mechanics National Bank of New Britain, the New Britain Gas Light Company, the LTnion Manufacturing Company, the New Britain Club, the Russwin Corporation, the Stanley Works and the Stanley Rule and Level Company. He is a member of the Loyal Legion (N. Y. Commandery), Grand Army of the Republic, Army and Navy Club of Connecticut and the New Britain Club. His political affiliations are with the Republicans. He was married April 15, 1866, to Mary A. Welch who died leaving one child, Alix W. Stanley. His second wife is Alice S. Moore, to whom he was married November 2, 1876. SMITH, Alonzo Evander, Builder, Cheshire, was born in that town June 8, 1835, son of Orson B. and Lydia A. (Judd) Smith. His paternal grandparents were Lemuel, a soldier of the War of i8i2,and Loraine (Ailing) Smith. His maternal grandfather was Thomas Judd, a valiant soldier of the War of 1812, who was severely wounded in the Battle of Lundy's Lane. The latter was a son of Stephen Judd, a Revolutionary soldier. Mr. Smith's grandmother was Betsy Clark of Wallingford, whose father Daniel Clark was a Revolutionary soldier. Young Smith was educated in the little red school house of his native town and at the Episcopal Acad- emy of Connecticut. As a boy he had a reputation for being " quick at figures " and his skill in solving puzzles and arithmetical problems is still remem- bered. At seventeen years of age he began to learn the carpenter's trade and at twenty-two he com- menced business as a builder in Cheshire. From 1872 to 1879 he was in business as a manufacturer at Middletown and Yalesville. Since 18S8 he has been engaged as a builder in Cheshire and occupies the shop which he built for himself in 1859, ^nd MEN OF I'ROGRESS. i6i where he has gained a distinct success in his chosen occupation. He was reared a Democrat but revolted from President I'ierce's action on liie slave question and cast his first vote for " l'"renicint and Jessie " and has ever since sujiported ami voted the Republican ticket. He acted as .Assessor for the town in 1870-71 and in the following year was chosen Rc|iresentative in the Legislature. He was Selectman in 1 88 1 and in 1885-87. He was elected Judge of Probate in 1883 and has filled tliat office ever since with rare ability and discretion. The district included the towns of Chcshireund Prospect, and the iiicl that at the last election his oi)ponent ALONZO E. SMITH. received only si.x votes in Prospect, testifies to the appreciation with which he is regarded by his fellow- citizens. Like his ancestors before him Judge Smith responded to the call of his country in the time of war, and on September 8, 1862, enlisted as a private in Company A, Twentieth Connecticut Vol- unteers, and three days later left for the front. He had previously served in the Second Regiment of the State Militia in 1857-58 when the late Major General Terry was Major and Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. His record during the war was a most honorable one. He marched every mile with his regiment and partici])atcd in every battle in which it was engaged. After thirty-four months of uninterrupted service he was discharged at the close of the war with the rank of Sergeant. He was a charter member of the Grand Army of the Repub- lic, i'ost \o. 5, has been its Commander for one term, and, with the exception of his term as Comman- der, has been continuously the Aiijulant of the Post. Since 1884 he has been the Secretary of the Twen- tieth Connecticut \"olunteer Association. He joined the Free Masons in 1885 and has served as Senior \\'ardcn. He is not a member of any churcli but his sympathies are l)road enough to recognize the good in them all. He was married February 22, 1859, to Cynthia A., daughter of Zenas Tolles, of Plymouth. He was married to his second wife, Mary Simons, of Cheshire, ;\pril 21, 1861. Four children were born to him : Whitney A., who was married January 13, 1892, to Annie A. Uristol, and has a daughter Doris Loraine Smith ; Raymond W., Nettie C , and Jennie L. Smith, who was married October 17, 1888, to William J. Simons, of Stamford, Connecticut. SCOFIELD, Edwin Lewis, Attorney-at-Law, Stamford, was born in that city, June 18, 1852, son of F>astus Ellsworth and Jane Ann (Brown) Scofield. He is a lineal descendant of Richard Scofield, one of the first settlers of the town who came to Stam- ford in 1640. Edwin L. Scofield was educated at the private schools of Stamford, and commenced the study of law at the Columbia Law School where he was graduated in 1873. He was admitted to the Fairfield County Bar in September 1873, and on January i, 1874, formed a co-partnership with Hon. James H. Olmstead, then State Attorney for Fair- field county. This partnership was continued until January i, 1880, since which date he has practiced alone. Mr. Scofield has a clear and logical mind and has been entrusted with much important litiga- tion. His politics have always been Republican. It was natural that the citizens of his native city, recognizing his ability, should have frequently honored him with office. He was Prosecuting Agent for Fairfield county from 1875 to 1880, Cor- poration Counsel of the Borough of Stamford from 1879 to 1882, .Attorney for the town of Stamford for a like period, member of the House of Representa- tives in 1 88 1, serving as Chairman of the Com- mittee on New Counties and County Seats, and member of the Senate in 1882-83, serving in both sessions as Chairman of the important Judiciary Committee. During 1895-96 he was Mayor of the city of Stamford and is at present State Commissioner l62 iMEN OF PROGRESS. of Building and Loan Associations. This record tells its own story of successive promotions for faithful and capable public service. Mr. Scofield is a member of the Suburban Club of Stamford, and of the Wee Burn C.olf Club of Noroton. Uc was E. L. SCOFIELD. married October 15, 1879, to .Annie W. Candee. They have one child : Edwin L. Scofield, Jr., born August 22, 1887. SCH AVOIR, Frederic, Physician and Surgeon, Stamford, was born in Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, December 11, 1859, son of Lambert and .\nna Schavoir. He received a thorough educational training in the schools of Germany and Belgium, first attending the Latin School at Aix-la-Chapelle, the University preparatory college, then the special school for classics at Brussels and the Royal Uni- versity of Brussels. During 1882-84 he was Surgeon on the White Cross Line of steamships sailing from Antwerp. Coming to this country he took a course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Balti- more, where he was graduated in 1887. In the meanwhile he served as Assistant in the Maryland Woman's Hospital, of Baltimore. Dr. Schavoir settled in Stamford in 1887 and has there built up a most successful practice. He makes a specialty of women's diseases, and is proprietor and Medical Director of the well-known Stamford Sanitarium for women. Dr. Schavoir has had a wide and note- worthy practice in his specialty, having served since 1894 as Assistant Gynecologist at the West Side German Dispensary, New York, and is now holding the position of Gynecologist at the Stamford Hos- pital. In 1896 he became a non-resident fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and in the same year a member of the American Electro-ther- apeutic Association. During 1895-96 he was Health Officer of the city of Stamford. The typhoid epi- demic which occurred during his tenure of office was very fully reported by him, and his report is regarded as the best on record covering this form of epidemic. Dr. Schavoir belongs to the most pro- gressive school of surgeons, and has successfully performed many difficult operations. He is highly regarded both as physician and surgeon, and as a contributor to medical publications. At the last meeting of the American Electro-Therapeutic Asso- ciation, a national organization of scientists, he was F. SCHAVOIR. elected first Vice-President. He is an active mem- ber of the Socie'te Franc^aise d'filectrotherapie, the New York Society for Medical Progress, Connecti- cut State Medical Society, Fairfield County Medical Society, and is Vice-President of the Stamford Med- ical Society. Dr. Schavoir is very partial to out- door exercise and belongs to a number of athletic MEN OF I'ROC.KF.SS. 16- organizations among which are the Knickerbocker Athletic Ckib, New York, Stamford Yacht Club, Stamford (lolf Club, Stamford Wheel Club, etc. In 1889 he became affiliated with Union Lodge No. 5 Free and Accepted Masons. On December 24, 1889, he was married to Eleanor James, of Decatur, Illinois, a very acconi])lished lady who comes of old Scott county, Kentucky, stock. SYKES, George, Manufacturer, Rockville, was born in Honley, New Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Eng- land, April 4, 1840, son of John and Harriott (Durrans) Sykes. Huddersfield was then, and has continued to be to the present time, a principal centre, in England, of the woolen manufacture, especially in fancy coatings and trouserings of the best quality. Mr. Sykes' grandfathers, paternal and maternal, were skilled workmen, each of them in the department of the woolen manufacture, the former in the weaving, and the latter in the finish- ing department. His father, John Sykes, in his youth and early manhood, was trained to the woolen manufacture in all its branches, and worked at it near Huddersfield until his son George was about eleven years of age, when he came to this country and obtained employment at Millville, Massachusetts, in the woolen mills of E. S. Hall & Company, a firm which then, and for many years afterwards, enjoyed the highest reputation as manu- facturers of fancy cassimeres. For many years be- fore coming to this country, George Sykes had en- joyed the advantage of attendance at a national school ; and coming with his parents to this country he became a pu])il in the district school in Millville, and for some time longer pursued his studies, secur- ing a good F^ngli^h education. When about fourteen years of age, he entered the mill of E. S. Hall & Company as a boy in the carding room. With a natural a]5titude for mechanical work and a diligent attention to his duties, he passed from one branch of the industry to another, becoming a weaver, then loom-fixer, and afterwards second hand in the weave room. In 1863, Mr. Sykes removed to Cav- endish, Vermont, having been engaged to take charge of the weaving in the woolen mill of that town, then belonging to Fred l''ullerton & Com- pany. In less than a year he was appointed Super- intendent of the mill, which ])osition he held for about three years. In 1866, he was invited to take the charge, as Manufacturing Manager, of the Hockanum Mill, and accepting the appointment, he immediately removed to Rockville, Connecticut, where he has since resided. Under his manage- ment, the goods of this mill became well known in the market, and today the name of the Hockanum Conii)any stands prominent among the manufactur- ing establishments, which have secured for Rock- ville its high reputation as an important centre of the fine woolen industries of New England. In 1S74, the Saxony Mill, at Rockville, was bought and filled with looms, and became part of the Hockanum Company. In 1879, George Maxwell and Mr. Sykes bought the New F^ngland Company's Mill, reorganized it, and made it into a joint stock GEO. SYKES. company. In 1886, the Springville Manufacturing Comjjany's stock was bought by Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Sykes, and is now being operated under the old charter, the old mill being removed and a new modern mill erected on its site, being considered one of the best equipped and successful woolen mills of its kind in the country. Mr. Sykes is Pres- ident of the three mentioned corporations — Hock- anum Company, New England Company and Springville Manufacturing Company. All of these mills manufacture fancy cassimeres and worsted goods for men's wear. The Hockanum Company has a capital of three hundred thousand dollars, ten sets of cards and one hundred and sixty-two broad ■ 64 MEN OF PROGRESS. looms. This company was organized in 1833, with two sets of woolen machinery for tlie manufacture of satinets, which was its product until 1858, when the manufacture of all-wool fancy cassimeres was commenced. Since then, the aim of the company has been to make high grade cassimeres, in both material and style. For this purpose, the finest native and imported wools have been selected. In 1873, the company sent a number of pieces of its goods to the Vienna Exposition to compete with foreign makes, and were awarded a medal for the superiority of its manufacture. At the Philadelphia Exposition, in 1876, an award was given to the company's exhibit ior "a superb display of fancy cassimeres and worsted suitings, excellent in all respects." At the World's Columbian Exposition, in 1893, the products of the mills were greatly admired by foreign experts, and others, and were given an award on fancy cassimeres " for beautiful, fine and even spinning, excellent designs and beauty of finish " ; and on worsteds " for beautiful new designs, splendid colorings and excellent finish." Mr. Henry Latzko, the Imperial Commis- sioner of .Austria to this exposition, a successful worsted manufacturer at Brunn, and one of the judges on textile exhibits, pronounced the goods of the company equal in every respect to the best made in Europe. The New England Company has a capital of two hundred and forty thousand dollars, nine sets of cards, and one hundred and nine broad looms. It was organized in 1837 for the manufac- ture of satinets, but, in 1842, the product of the mill was changed over to fancy cassimeres, for which Cronipton looms were put in. In 1879, the manufacture of worsted goods was commenced. The fabrics made by the mill rank among the best in the country. The Springville Manufacturing Company is a recent organization, having a capital of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, five sets of cards, and one hundred and fourteen broad looms. The present mill was built in 1886. This company furnished the cloth for the suit of clothes worn by President Harrison on the occasion of his inauguration in March 1889. Mr. Sykes is a Direc- tor in the Rockville National Bank, Rockville Sav- ings Bank, Rockville Aqueduct Water Power Com- pany, and the Rockville Railway. In politics he is a Republican. He was a presidential elector in 1892, and a delegate to the Republican Convention in St. Louis in 1896, but has never accepted public office. He was married in 1864, to Sarah A. Frit- ton, of Cavendish, Vermont. They have four chil- dren : Lizzie M., wife of Charles E. Bond, of Brook- line, Massachusetls ; Eva L., wife of Everett J. Lake, of Hartford ; Elsie E. and George E. Sykes. TINKER, William Richard, Physician and Surgeon, South Manchester, Connecticut, was born in Tolland, Massachusetts, August 8, 1853, son of William and Emily Catherine (Slocum) Tinker. On both the paternal and maternal sides his ances- tors were of good old New England stock. He is the seventh descendant from Thomas Tinker who came over in the Mayflower. John Tinker, W. R. TINKER. his son, was the Governor-General of the New London Colony. Dr. Tinker's mother belongs to one of the well-known New England families of Slocums, her mother being a direct descendant from Colonel Timothy Robinson, a Revolutionary soldier of distinction. The prospective physician first attended the South Berkshire Institute at New Marlboro, Massachusetts, and the Wesleyan Acad- emy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He then took the course in the Medical Department of the University of the city of New York where he was graduated in 1880. Immediately after graduation he came to South Manchester, Connecticut, where he has remained in the active and successful prac- MKX OF PROGRESS. 165 tice of his profession. Dr. Tinker has the confi- dence and esteem of his fellow citizens who in 1897 elected him to represent them in the Legisla- ture. His ])olitical affiliations are with the Repub- licans. He is a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, the Red Men and the .-\ncient Order of United Workmen, besides belonging to the county and state medical societies. He was mar- ried September 12, 1888, to Eugenie A. Sault, of South Manchester. Two children have been born to them: William Richard, Jr , and Mary Emily Tinker. TAYLOR, Thomas Porter, Manufacturer and Mayor of Bridgeport, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1S57, son of Alfred and Agnes (Grier) Taylor. His father was a Presby- terian clergyman. Through his mother he is de- scended from General Andrew Porter, a gallant officer of the Revolution. He was educated in the Hastings Academy of Philadelphia and the Brook- lyn Polytechnic Institute, and was graduated from Packard's Business College, New York city, in 1S75. With this good equipment for a business life he began work the same year as a clerk in New York city. After two years in this position he came to Bridgeport in 1877 and became a bookkeeper in one of the local corset factories. His position drew his attention to the making of corsets and other similar goods, and he soon began to take out patents for these articles and for improved machin- ery for their manufacture. Altogether he has taken out nearly one hundred patents, the most famous of which is, perhaps, the Taylor Folding Bustle, invented in 1887. In the same year he started in business for himself, making dress steels, hose- supporters, bustles and many other articles of woman's wear. At the factory on Harrall avenue four hundred people are given employment and the business is recognized as the leading one in its line. Mr. Taylor is a large advertiser. He attends closely to the details of the manufacture, but at the same time keeps closely in touch with his custom- ers through frequent business trips through the South and West. He is a thorough business man and possesses that rare combination of executive ability and inventive skill. Mr. Taylor's political affiliations are with the Republicans. For many years he has been a member of the Executive Com- mittee of the Republican Club. He is a man of genial and frank personality and through his per- sonal popularity and acknowledged ability and integrity has always proved a strong candidate at the polls. He was elected Mayor of Bridgeport in .April 1897 by a Republican majority of eleven hun- dred and ninety-seven, in a city which usually goes Democratic by fully that majority. His election was a tribute to his personal worth and a deserved endorsement of his past record, having served in 1882-83, and again in 1892-93, as a member of the Common Council. He is a forceful and easy speaker. In 1893 as a member of the Railroad ("ommittee he led the minority and was successful in defeating the plan of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad to dejiress their tracks west THOS. p. TAYLOR. of Park avenue. He has been a strong opponent of the American Protective .Association in politics and in the famous revolt of the Independent Re- publicans against the American Protective Asso- ciation in 1895, was chairman of the Independents. He is a good fighter yet gains the respect of his opponent by his fair and straightforward methods. Mr. Taylor is President of the Algonquin Club, a member of the Seaside and County clubs, the Board of Trade, St. John's Lodge of Masons, Hamilton Commandery of Knights Templar, Lafay- ette Consistory, Thirty- second degree, Poquonnock Lodge of Odd Fellows, and the Sons of the Revo- lution. Mr. Taylor is a large property owner and 1 66 MEN OF PROGRESS. tax payer and his liaiulsonie residence is located on Park place. He was married in January 1878, to Alma Augusta Hammond, of Marathon, New York. They have one son : Harry H. Taylor. WHITNEY, A.Mos, Manufacturer, of the firm of Pratt & Whitney, Hartford, was born in Biddeford, Maine, October 8, 1832, son of Aaron and Rebecca (Perkins) Whitney. The Whitney family traces back to John Whitney, who came from England and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1635. One ances- tor, Jonathan, served in I^ing Philip's War in 1676, AMOS WHITNEY. and a later Whitney, Jonathan, son of Jonathan, was an officer in the Revolutionary War in the Commissary Department, a man of marked mechan- ical ability. Ever since, the Whitneys have been skilled mechanics, so that the present distinguished representative, Amos, conies by his tastes and abil- ity naturally. He was educated at the common schools of Saccarappa, Maine, and Exeter, New Hampshire, but began the training for what was to be his life work early, at the age of fourteen years entering the employ of the Essex Machine Com- pany in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and thoroughly mastering the machinists' trade. Mr. Whitney came to Hartford in 1850 and worked for ten years for the Plucnix Iron Company, getting much valu- able experience. Before he left this company, he, in connection with F. A. Pratt, formed a firm for the manufacture of machinists' tools and from this, in a modest way, they started what is now the great business of Pratt & Whitney, manufacturers of machinists' tools and special machinery, one of the notable industries of Hartford today, and having a reputation both at home and abroad. Mr. Whitney is the Superintendent of this complex and impor- tant organization To his business he has devoted all his time, energy and talent and has felt little inclination for outside activity. He enjoys home life and has declined participation in political affairs though a consistent Republican and always inter- ested in the welfare of his party. He is one of the solid representative self-made men of Hartford, a credit to himself and to the community which is the seat of his great business life. A firm like Pratt & Whitney does an incalculable amount towards the natural prosperity of a town, and Hartford owes much to Mr. Whitney for his long and conspicuously successful work in building up such an industry. On September 8, 1856, Mr. Whitney married Laura Johnson. Their three children are : Nellie Hor- tense, who died on June 8, 1865, Nettie Louise, aged thirty-two, and Clarence Edgar Whitney, aged twenty seven. YOUNG, Alden March, President of the New England Engineering Company, of Waterbury, Con- necticut, was born in Hadley, New York, September 6, 1853, son of William S. and Esther (Kilbourne) Young. His paternal ancestors were of Scotch descent, and his mother's family, the Kilbournes, were among the earliest settlers in New England, his grandparents making their home in New Hart- ford. Connecticut, where his mother was born. Alden March Young received his education in the common schools, and on leaving school he immedi- ately began active life by entering the employ of the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, with which company he remained several years, holding many responsible positions in Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo and New York city, and before he reached his twenty-fifth year he was acting as Manager for the company at Buffalo, New York. In 1878, Mr. Young came to Waterbury, Connecticut, and organ- ized the telephone company of that city. Mr. Young's unusual executive ability, combined with his knowledge of modern science, has been recog- nized and called into service by the city and state Mi:X OK I'KOC.RESS. 167 of his adoption a?id he holds many responsible ]iosi- early boyhood on the farm, and from the age of tions ; lie is President of tiie Central Railway and twehe until he was sixteen worked iii)on the farm, Electric Company of New Britain, Secretary of the during the summer, spring and fall, attending the Waterbury Traction Company, President of the New \ illage school for three months during the winter. England ICngineering Company of Waterbury, and At the age of sixteen lie found employment at the trade of carriage-body making in the old Nichols carriage sho|) at Nichols ]'"arms. He soon became a skilled workman, and deciding to go West, went to Soutli Bend, Indiana, where he found work in the carriage shops of that city. His health, how- ever, broke down and he was compelled to return East. For a time he became a teacher of drawing at New Britain and Harwinton, Connecticut. In 1858 he entered the needle department of the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, in wiiich business he has continued for a period of forty years. His only leave of absence during this period was taken at the call of his country. He enlisted for a three months' service in the First Regiment Connecticut \'olnnteers, at the beginning A. M. YOUf.'G. an officer in eight other electric and gas companies in the state of Connecticut, and five large com- panies in the states of New York and New Jersey. In politics Mr. Young is a Republican, but has never accepted political office. He was married May 7, 1874, to Ellen Antoinette Shepardson. They have four children : Olive N., I'lla -S., I.ucy C. and Elizabeth K. Young. BEERS, Philo M., Manufacturer, Bridgeport, was born in Cornwall, Connecticut, July 23, 1835, son of Alpheus and Tabitha C. (Lewis) Beers. He comes of good old New t^ngland stock on both the maternal and paternal side. His father was a tailor, a conscientious and accomplished workman, from whom he inherits not only an ability for thorough work but an executive capacity for large undertakings. His mother was a sister of Henry C. Lewis, many times Mayor of New Haven, whose citizens have honored his memory by a monument erected on East Rock. Young Beers spent his p. M, BEERS. of the war and, with his comrades, was the first to leave the state at the first call for troojis. Mr. Beers has devoted his time and ingenuity to the manufacture and improvement of the sewing ma- chine needle. From the time that Elias Howe hit upon the idea of putting the eye of the needle at the point, until the present period of ingenious i68 MEN OF PROGRESS. machinery and automatic devices, Mr. Beers has followed this specialized business with unvarying intelligence, fidelity and success. Tlie firm of P. M. lieers & Son is located in a building directly opposite the main shop of the Wheeler & Wilson Company and now furnishes the entire needle prod- uct of that company. Mr. Beers has always been a staunch Republican in politics, and was a mem- ber of the city council of Bridgeport for two terms. For five years he belonged to Company K, Con- necticut National Cuards, when the company was located at Stratford. He is an ( )reciation of his ability by electing him Secretary of the Hartford Medical Society, and at the [iresent time Dr. Segur ranks among the foremost physicians of the city. During his residence of a dozen years in Hartford, he has won the rcsiiccl of the community as man and physician. lie has been active in Christian work, and prominent in the local \'oung Men's Christian .Association affairs, and in his profession has shown himself to l)e a man of ability, culture and character. In politics Dr. Segur is a Republi- can ; he was a member of the Hartford Republican Club, and in 1896 was elected amember of the City Council. Besides his membership in the Hartford Medical Society, Dr. Segur is a member of the Con- necticut Medical Society, the NewNork Physicians' Mutual .Aid Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Connecticut Congregational Club, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecti- cut Society of the Sons of the .American Revo- lution, and the Twentieth Century Club, of Hartford. Dr. Segur was married in Hartford, May 4, 1S86, to Mary Amelia Hubbard, daughter of Edward .A. and Charlotte Hunt Hubbard. They have four children : Raymond, Charlotte, Marjorie and C.erald Segur. SEARS, CusHiMAN .Ai.i.EN, Physician, of Portland, was born in Chatham, Connecticut, Sejitember 26, 1840, son of Deacon Stephen Griffith and I'.mily (Veazy) Sears. Dr. Sears' grandfather was \\'illard Sears, who married Betsey Clark. His great-grand- father, Elkanah Sears, was one of the Revolutionary patriots. He was the wealthiest man of his time ( I 734-1816) in Chatham, and sent supplies for the army in his own vessel. On the maternal side Dr. Sears' grandfather was Captain Eleazur Veazey, a man of prominence in the church and town, and who married F^lizabeth \Yest. The subject of this sketch received his early education at the district school of his native town. When sixteen years of age he entered Dr. Chase's school at Middle- town, Connecticut, after which he attendeil the High School at East Ham])ton, Connecticut. l'"roni there he went to Wilbraham, Massachusetts. On leaving the latter school he looked towards the study of medicine, and accordingly began study with Dr. Sabin Stocking, of Glastonbury. In 1S60 he atten. Whitney, and in October of that year went to Cali- fornia. His appointment was more especially for the agricultural and botanical survey of the stale, but circumstances soon placed the chief part of the general geological field work in his care. For four years he had charge of the chief field work, the general geological and topographical work as well as the botanical. The careful mapping of the rougher and higher mountain regions in the United States was begun by that party, as well as the measurement of the higher mountains with any degree of accuracy. WM. H. BREWER. His climbing and measuring of Mt. Shasta, in Sep- tember 1862, was the first careful measurement of any peak more than fourteen thousand feet high in the United States. In this work he traversed the coast ranges most of the distance from San Ber- nardino to the Oregon line, and crossed the great Sierra Nevada in more than a dozen places. In these explorations the highest mountains in the Ignited States were explored, ma]ii)ed and named, in 1864. A hardy constitution, much more than ordinary strength and ])ower of endurance, com- bined with an ardent love of nature, especially fitted him for success in this ardtious and often hazardous work. Mount P.rewer in the Sierra Nevada range 178 MEN OF PROC.RESS. is named fur Professor Brewer. This mountain, tiiirteen liioiisand eight hundred and eighty-six feet high, has rarely been ascended. It was twice climbetl by iiim and measured for topograjDhical and geological purposes. In 1S63 he was elected Professor of Natural Sciences in the College of Cali- fornia (later merged into the University of Califor- nia, when the latter was established), and delivered lectures in the winter to the first class graduating from that institution. In 1864 he was elected Pro- fessor of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. He resigned his positions in California and returned East at the end of that year and assumed duties at Yale. In 1869 he had charge of the field work of the Harvard expedition in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, which trian- gulated and mapped about three thousand or more square miles, climbing and measuring a consider- able number of high peaks. In fact, this was the first measurement of any of the higher Rocky Mountains with any greater degree of accuracy than could be done by the casual barometric observations of passing travellers. His early education, intended for promoting agricultural science, was never lost sight of. After returning to Yale, aside from work in the College, he lectured on agriculture in all parts of the state, under the auspices of the State Board of Agriculture and took an active part in the movement for establishing the State Agricultural Experiment Station, in Connecticut, which was the first of the Agricultural Experiment Stations to be started in this country, and on its establishment in 1877 was appointed on its Board of Control, and he has been its Secretary and Treasurer, and a member of the Executive Committee from that time. He also took an active part in having the Storrs School established by the state, as an agricultural school, intermediate in grade between the common schools and the agricultural colleges. He has thus been identified with agricultural education in this country for nearly half a century. He was one of the members of the Board of Health of the city of New Haven from its organization in 1872 until 1889, and was its acting President from 1876 until the same date. He has also been a member of the State Board of Health from its establishment in 1877 until the present time, and has been its Presi- dent since 1892. He was one of the judges at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, was special agent of the Census in 1880, and prepared the monograph on the Production of Cereals in the United States. He has served on several com- missions appointed by the National Academy of Science, in reference to applications from several departments of the general government, of which the most important and noteworthy was the recent " Forestry Commission," which was asked to examine into the conditions of, and recommend a rational policy for, the conduct and administration of the forest lands belonging to the United States. He took an active part in having a topographical survey made of the state of Connecticut, brought the matter before the Governor and the State Leg- islature, and after action by them was Chairman of the State Commission that saw this work so success- fully carried through and the maps published. In none of the commissions or boards on which he has served has there been any remuneration ; the work has been done as a citizen laboring for the public welfare. He was elected member of the National Academy of Science in 1880, and has been a mem- ber of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1865, and its President since 1887. He became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1850, and pub- lished his earliest scientific papers in its transactions of that year, and, under its present form of organi- zation, is now one of the " fellows." He has been a member of the American Public Health Associ- ation since 1874, and is a member of numerous minor scientific associations, societies and clubs, among others the American and the National Geo- graphical societies, the Appalachian and the Sierra clubs, and the Mazamas. He is also President of the Arctic Club. He married first at Ovid, New York, August 15, 1858, Angelina Jameson, daughter of Reverend Thomas and Elizabeth (Lord) Jameson, of Maine. She died June 5, i860. They had one son, Edward Jameson Brewer, born at Washington, Pennsylvania, April 26, i860; died July 12, 1S60. He married for the second time at Exeter, New- Hampshire, September i, 1868, Georgiana Robin- son, daughter of Jeremiah L. Robinson, Esq., and Irene (Fellows) Robinson of Exeter, New Hamp- shire. She died January 3, 1889. They had four children : Nora, Henry, Arthur and Carl Brewer, all of whom survive. He has published about one hundred and forty papers, pamphlets or books; edited and prepared with other scientists, " The Botany of California," two volumes ; this, and " The Production of Cereals in the United States," are the most considerable works. The various other papers, published lectures and addresses, relate chiefly to agriculture, geology and sanitary science. The MF\ OF I'ROCRKSS. '79 name of Professor Brewer is one of the towers of strength of Yale. His lecture courses have long been among the most popular in the University. Through his writings and lectures, and his many- sided activities, his name is known and lionorcd in all parts of the United States and luirope. CHASE, Charles Marshall, of the firm of Cliase & Norton, West Winsted, was horn in Millbury, Massachusetts, January 29, 1S63, son of David 15. and Sarah C. (Newton) Chase. In spite of the fact that liis early education rerei\ed at tlie coni- CHARLES M. CHASE. mon school of his native place was followed by no further course of academic study, Mr. Chase has by his own personal energy and determination devel- oped himself steadily until he now holds a position of no mean imiiortance in the town of his ado]ition. West Winsted. At the early age of fifteen he first entered into active business life in the humble capacity of workman in a tin and plumbing shop, but he labored with such faithful and untiring zeal that in 1886 he gained control of the establishment where, eight years previously, he had entered as a mere subordinate. His management of the con- cern proved so successful that in 1895 he was encouraged to venture ujion an enterprise of his own, bearing the firm name of Chase & Norton, which business is now in a prosperous and flour- ishing condition, giving ample promise of rapid and substantial growth. Mr. Chase's sterling (|ual- ities have not been unajjpreciatcd by his fellow- townsmen, anti they have testified publicly to that effect by making him Warden of the Borough of Winsted, which office he has held since May i, 1S94, serving at present his fourth term in that capacity. He is a member and Past Grand of Clifton Lodge No. 30, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Past Sachem of Waramaug Tribe No. 13, Independent Order of Red Men, also a member of Bidwell Encamjiment No. 12, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Clifton Club. In jjolitics Mr. Chase's sympathies are staunchly Republican. He is unmarried. COWFJ.L, Gkorck Huhkrt, Judge, Waterbury, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, March 25, 1S40, son of Nelson and Jeannette (Bronson) CowoU. Through his parents he is descended from patri(5tic stock, from lirave men and true, who fought for their liberty and that of their country in the troublous times of the Revolution. James Cowell, one of the forefathers of the present Judge, was a soldier in the ReNolution, and John Baldwin, another ancestor on his father's side, was killed by the British in the invasion of Ne\v Haven, July 5, 1779, while bravely struggling to repel their attack. On the maternal side the line is no less distin- guished, Samuel Hotchkiss, who settled in New Haven, Connecticut, as early as i6.(i, being the great-grandfather of Captain Gideon Hotchkiss, a soldier of the French and Revolutionary wars and the first of the family to loc'ate in Waterbury. judge Cowell received his early education at the High School of his native town, and later in the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraliam, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University, a member of the class of 1868. During his senior year he attended the Yale Faw School, not alone accom- jilishing the regular and difficult curriculum of the Academic senior year but doing junior I, aw School work as well. Subsequently he entered the Colum- bia Law School, graduated with honors and the degree of LL. B. in the class of 1869, and was admitted to the Bar of both New York and Con- necticut in the same year, his admission to the former being granted in May and to the latter in September. Judge Cowell began his practice of I So MEN OF PROGRESS. law in Waterbury, Connecticut, and filled the office of Judge of the City Court from 1877 to 1883. Four years later he was made Deputy Judge of the Waterbury District Court, his term of office extend- ing over six years. From 1895 to 1897 he was Judge of the City Court and was chosen Judge of the Waterbury District Court in 1897 for four years from April first of that year. He has held various offices, civil and political, and his name is associ- ated with many of the most important organizations in the state. He was Assistant Clerk of the Con- necticut House of Representatives in 1871, Clerk of the same the following year and Clerk of Senate GEO. H. COWELL. Representative to the Supreme Lodge in 1892 and 1S93. He belongs to the Speedwell Lodge, Knights of Pythias. In addition he was one of the charter members of Mattatuck Council, Royal Arcanum, and has been a member of the Supreme Council. He was a charter member of Patucko Assembly of Good Fellows and is now a member of the Supreme Assembly of that order. He has been active in Heptasophs, Improved Order of Red Men, Home Circle, Patrons of Husbandry and, last but not least, his name is enrolled among the members of the Sons of the Revolution. While officiating as Grand Master of the Odd Fellows Order, Judge Cowell was active in establishing the Home of the associa- tion at Groton, Connecticut, and donated the first five hundred dollars subscribed for its purchase. The list of offices held by Judge Cowell would be incomplete were no mention made of his being Representative to the General Assembly of Con- necticut in 1895, and of his re-election in 1897. As a member, both sessions, of the Judiciary Com- mittee, he was part of the time its chairman on the part of the House, and took an active part in the proceedings. Judge Cowell has filled most ably numerous local offices. For four years he was a member of the Board of Aldermen and Chairman of the Law Committee ; a member of the Board of Education, both town and city, and clerk of the Board of Health ; Town Clerk and Registrar of votes. He was Chairman of the Republican Town Committee for six years, and a member of the Republican State Committee for four years. He is a Director in the West Side and Watertown Savings banks and in other corporations. On November II, 1878, he was united to Miss Alice Sewell Bar- ton, daughter of Joseph Barton, Esq., the marriage being solemnized at Washington, D. C. They have one living daughter, Jeannette Elizabeth Cowell. in 1873. Following this he was appointed Chief Clerk of the Post Office Department at Washington in 1875-76, and was First Lieutenant of Company A, Second Regiment of Connecticut National Guards from 187 1 to 1875. The patronage of a man of his qualities would naturally be eagerly sought by the social societies of his community, and Judge Cowell is identified with numerous associations of high standing throughout the state. He is a member of Clark Commandery, Knights Templar, and Nosa- hogan Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has held all the Connecticut Grand Lodge Offices, becoming Grand Master in 1892. He was DeLAMATER, Richard Storm, Photographer, was born in Hudson, New York, October 23, 1833, son of James E. and Catherine (Storm) DeLama- ter. His general education was received at a boarding-school in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and at Hudson Academy, New York, of which institu- tion he is a graduate. At the age of fourteen, Mr. DeLamater began his business life as an apprentice in the coach-making trade and followed that occu- pation until 1856, when he became interested in photography, and decided to make that his profes- .MI'lN Ol I'KOC.RKSS. I. Si sion. His first venture was in New Haven, but in 1 86 1 he removed to Hartford, where he has Hveii ever since, occupying one studio a quarter of a cen- tury. Mr. DeLamatcr is one of the jjioneers of photography in America, and for many years has R. a. DeLAMATER. been regarded as tlie foremost photographer of Hartford ; he has kept pace with the latest develop- ments and improvements in his art, and his name is a synonym for skilful and artistic work. His long residence in the city and steady good results have made his studio one of the business landmarks of the place, and there are few of Hartford's promi- nent citizens who have not, at one time or another, patronized UeLamater. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and is a member of the Republican Club of Hartford, and from 1890 to 1893 held the office of First Lieutenant in the Veteran Corps of the Putnam Phalanx. Mr. DeLamater was married August 28, 1854, to Sarah Jane Woolsey. They have one child, Richard Woolsey DeLamater, who is associated with his father in the business. FRENCH, Howard Truman, ^L I)., Deep River, was born in Hartland, Connecticut, .\ugust 24, 1866, son of Orton 15. and Jane ((Jsborn) French. After an early education received in the common schools, he was sent to the Wesleyan Acad- emy of Wibraham, Massachusetts, and subsequently entered the Medical Department of Columbia University, New York, and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the class of 189 1. Shortly after graduation. Dr. French began his professional career in Deep River, Connecticut, where he has since practiced and resided, and where he has attained much prominence in his pro- fession. Since August 14, 1894, he has held the position of Medical Examiner for the town of Say- brook ; he is also a member of the Middlesex County Medical Society, and the State Medical Society. Dr. French was married October 13, H. T. FRENCH. 1891, to Carrie P. Hunt, of Somers, Connecticut. They have one child : Marion E. French, born August 15, 1895. CROSVENOR, Charles W., Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, was born in Pomfret, May II, 1839, eldest son of joim W. and I'hebe G. (Spaulding) Crosvenor. Tlie Crosvenor family in Pumfrel antedates the Revolution. It has always held a foremost place in that town of distinguished l82 MEN OF PROGRESS. name. Many of the descendants have held place and power in the councils of the state and nation. Charles W. Grosvenor acquired his early education in District and State Normal Schools. During the late rebellion he faithfully served as of a thorough gentleman, and a capable man of affairs. Mr. Grosvenor was married on March 7, 1866, to Elizabeth Mathewson, daughter of George B. Mathewson, of Pomfret, Connecticut. They have three daughters ; Mary M., Julia E. and Louise P. Grosvenor. HULL, George Sylvanus, Physician, Bristol, was born in Burlington, Connecticut, March 27, 1847, son of Sylvanus and Florilla M. Hull. His father's ances- tors were English and his mother's French. His early education was obtained in the common schools of his native town and at the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield. He began the study of medi- cine at the Yale Medical School where he spent one year. He next attended one course of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, which was followed by a course at the New York Homoeopathic Medical College where he was CHA3 W GROSVENOR. Sergeant of Company D, Eighteenth Connecticut Yolunteers. He is a prominent Republican, and twice creditably represented his native town in the State Legislature and once in the Senate. He and his brother Benjamin have been largely the means of making Pomfret one of the leading summer resorts of New England. Mr. Grosvenor has always taken a deep interest in the welfare of our soldiers and farmers, and his earnest efforts in their behalf have been, as they should be, highly appreciated. He is the efficient and popular President of the Windham County Agricultural Society and President of the Woodstock Agricultural Society. He has also been honored by the Eighteenth Connecticut Volunteers' Association, and is now serving his fourth term as President of that body, which indi- cates that his valuable services are recognized by " the brave Eighteenth." He was elected to his present position as State Treasurer in November 1896. He is well equipped by education and business experience for the important place he has been selected to fill, which he graces with the fitness GEORGE S. HULL. graduated in 1872. Thus well grounded in the principles of both the allopathic and homoeopathic schools, he commenced practice at Bristol in March 1872, where he has built up a very successful prac- tice. He has been medical examiner for Bristol since the establishment of the office. He was elected surgeon of the First Regiment Connecticut lMi;.N Ol' K( XlKKSS. 183 National (luards in 1S87 which office he retained until 1S90 when he was appointed to the same position in the Second Regiment. A few weeks afterwards he received the appointment of Assist- ant Surgeon-General on Brigadier-Ccneral E. F. Durand's Staff. Dr. Hull is a member of the Alumni Medical .Association of the New York HomcKO- pathic Medical College, and is also a member of the Connecticut Homceopathic Medical Society. He is an enthusiastic believer in the principles of fraternal organizations and belongs to the Masons, Knights of Pjthias and Odd Fellows. He was a charter member and the first Past-Chancellor of Ethan Lodge Knights of Pythias of Bristol, and was the organizer of Hull Division, No. 5, of the Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias in Bristol. In 18S8 he was appointed Grand Master at Arms at the Grand Lodge Session of that year ; in 1889 was elected Grand Prelate; in 1890 Grand Yice-Chancellor and in 1891 Grand Chancellor. In 1894 he was elected a Supreme Representative to the Supreme Lodge. He joined the Franklin Lodge of Masons of Bristol in 1872 and the follow- ing year the Deijuabuck Chapter. He then joined in order the Doric Council of New Britain, the Washington Commandery, the Knights Templar of Hartford, and Pyramid Temple of the Mystic Shrine of Bridgeport. In 1S89 he became a Thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason of the Sovereign Con- sistory at Norwich. Dr. Hull has been a member of the Baptist Church of Bristol for thirty years, and has been one of the Trustees for the past ten years. In politics he is a Republican. He has been twice married. His first wife (deceased) was Sarah Alice Curtiss of Forestville, Connecticut. His present wife is Hattie A. Fenn of Bristol. They have one child, George W. Hull. chosen corporation counsel for the city of South Norwalk, which position he continues to hold. The fact tliat he has retained this office through both Republican and Democratic administrations testifies to his popularity and etiiciency. He is also prosecuting attorney for the Criminal Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield county, to which office he was chosen February 1, 1896. He has been a member of the School Board and .-Xcting School \'isitor for the town of Norwalk for nine years. He is also a member of the District Committee of the South Norwalk Union School district, and Vice- President of the Hoard of Directors of the South JOHN H. LIGHT. LIGHT, John Henry, Attorney-at-Law, South Norwalk, was born in Carmel, Putnam county. New York, March 27, 1855, the son of Belden and Annie (Keenan) Light. His father, a typical Yan- kee, traced his ancestry back to a jicriod before the Revolutionary War. His mother was born in the north of Ireland of sturdy Scotch-Irish ])arentage. Young Light received his early education in the common schools, finishing at Chamberlain Insti- tute, Randoljih, New York, where he was graduated in 1880. He then took up the study of law, and was admitted to the Bar of Fairfield coimty in Sep- tember 1883. In May of the following year he was Norwalk Public Library. He is one of the mana- gers and directors of the South Norwalk Savings Bank, is President of the South Norwalk Improve- ment Society, and member of the Congregational Church of South Norwalk. He belongs to the Knob Outing Club and Norwalk Yacht ('lub, and is a member of Butler's Lodge of Odd Fellows, and Old Wall Lodge of Masons. He is also a Knight Tcnii)lar and member of the Mystic Shrine. In politics he is a Republican and has taken an active part in every campaign, making many speeches throughout the state. Possessed of a nuiscular ath- letic build, a pleasing ])ersonalily, and the'keen, persuasive ability of the trained lawyer, his speeches 1 84 MKN OK I'ROGRKSS. •ire always forceful and his talents uniformly recog- nized. He was married August 3, 18S1, to Ida M. Lockwood. They have one son : Freeman Light. PHELPS, William Lyon, Assistant Professor of English Literature at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, was born in New Haven, January 2, 1865. He is the son of the Reverend S. Dr)'den I'helps, D. D., and S. Emilia (Linsley) Phelps; is a great-grandson of Colonel William Lyon of Revolu- tionary fame, and is descended in direct line from Theophilus Eaton, the first C.ovcrnor of the New WM. LYON PHELPS. Haven Colony. He prepared for college at the Hartford High School, and was graduated from Yale in the class of 1887. He received the degree of M. A. from Harvard in 1S91, and the degree of Ph. D. from Yale in the same year. He was In- structor in English at the Westminster School, Dobbs Ferry, New York, in 1888-89, and was Mor- gan Fellow at Harvard in 1890-91. In 1891-92 he was Instructor in English at Harvard, and in the autumn of 1892 returned to New Haven to occupy a similar position as Instructor in English Litera- ture at Yale. He so continued until 1896, when he was elected to his present position of Assistant Pro- fessor of English Literature. Professor Phelps oc- cupies an uniipie position among the instructors at Yale. The graduating class of 1896 in the Academ- ical Department not only voted him their most popular instructor, but presented him with a silver loving cup ; and he has thus frequently received tes- timonials of the warm affection with which he is universally regarded by the undergraduates of the university. He brings to his work a thorough prep- aration, the enthusiasm of youth, and an earnest- ness of purpose which wins and inspires. His course on English fiction attracted attention within and without the university, and he is in active de- mand as a lecturer on literary topics, having given courses in New York and Philadelphia. He has published the following books : " The Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement," Boston, 1893; " Selections from the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Gray," Boston, 1894; Irving's "Tales of a Travel- ler," New York, 1894; Irving's "Sketch Book," New York, 1895; Chapman's "Plays" (Mermaid Series), London, 1895; Shakespeare's "As You Like It," New York, 1896; and many articles in magazines and periodicals. His book on the Romantic Movement was reviewed with high praise in London, Paris and Leipzig, as an original study and contribution to literary history. In politics Professor Phelps is a Republican, was a delegate to the jMichigan State Convention of 1896, and stumped Michigan for McKinley during the sum- mer of the last campaign. While at Harvard dur- ing 1891-92 he was President of the Harvard Graduate Club. He was married at Huron City, Michigan, December 21, 1892, to Annabel Hub- bard. RORABACK, Willard Andrew, Attorney-at- Law, Torrington, was born in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, March 12, i860, son of James. and Martha E. (Bartholomew) Roraback. He was educated in the common schools and at the High Schools of Shefifield, Massachusetts, and Canaan, Connecticut. He studied law in the office of Judge A. T. Roraback of Canaan, under whose instruction he remained from 1877 to 1884. In June 1883 he was admitted to the Bar, and in April of the follow- ing year began the practice of law at Torrington, where he still remains. He is recognized as one of tlie leading young lawyers of the county. In 1887 he was elected Town Clerk of Torrington, and held the same office, with the exception of one year, from 1889 to 1897. He also holds the office of Borough Clerk of Torrington, to which office he was mi;n oi' i'Kocrkss. 1S5 elected in 1891. He was Representative in tlic Legislature of 1S95, and served as Clerk of the Finance Committee. On October 6, 1897, he was appointed Judge of the Borough Court of 'I'or- rington by Governor Cook. He takes an active interest in politics and has been Chairman of the Republican Town Committee since 1885. Mr. Roraback is a Mason, being a member of the Chap- ter and Council ; he is also a Knight Templar and an t)(ld ['"ellow. He was married December 28, W. A. RORABACK. 1S92, to Emma E. Pierson, of Hartford, Connect- icut. They have one child : James Willard Roraback. RHOADES, Charles Lyman, Baptist Clergy- man, Stamford, was born in Elbridge, Onondaga county. New York, May 1,5, 1849, son of John Dickinson and Seviah (lirown) Rhoades. On both sides of the house he traces his descent back to staunch old Colonial stock. The Rhoades genealogy is very complete and is traced back to Henry Rhoades, a settler of Marblehead, Mas- sachusetts, prior to 1C39, whose eight children were : Eleazur, Samuel, Josejih, Joshua, Josiah, Jonathan, Eliza and Henry Rhoades, Jr. Samuel, the second son, was born in 1642, and married Abagail Coabs in 1681. Their ten children were : Jonathan, Sanuiel, Abigail, Kleazur, Sarah, Obadiah, Sarah, Jane, Josejih and Benjamin Rhoades. Joseph, tlie ninlli cliild of Samuel, was born August 25, I 701, and lived at Marblehead. He was a man of character and sterling worth. His will filed at Salem bequeaths an estate of the value of seven hundred pounds sterling, a considerable fortune for those early times. He married Mary Fuller, and their children, all born at Marblehead, were named : Mary, Joseph, Sarah, Lydia, Abagail, Samuel and Joseph. Joseph, their youngest son, was born March 1, 1741, and married Emma Chap- man December 18, 1766. He died at Chesterfield, iNLissachusetts, June 12, 1830, having served as Ensign during the Revolutionary War. His wife, a woman of great beauty and unusual mental attain- ments, was still living when the youngest of her twelve children, all then living, had attained the age of fifty years. These twelve children's names were : Joseph, Emma, Samuel, John, Benjamin, Hannah, Stephen, Polly, Jacob, Thomas, Betsy and Chap- man. John, the fourth child, was born December 26, 1773, at Marblehead, and died at Elbridge, New York, February 25, 1854. He married May 8, 1797, Clarissa Dickinson, who died in childbirth May 13, 1799. He was again married January 27, i8or, to Hannah Cook, a cousin of his first wife. He was a farmer, removing in 1810 from Marble- head to Skaneateles, New York, and from the latter place moving to Elbridge. His ten children were : John Dickinson, the father of the subject of this sketch ; Francis, Clarissa, Eliza, Maria, Clarissa, Hannah Smith, Mary Ann, Orpha and Francis Cook Rhoades. Charles Lyman Rhoades, the present clergyman, received his early education in the typical red schoolhouse of his native town. He then attended the Monroe Collegiate Institute, but a further collegiate training was abandoned owing to the need of his services at home. Though dis- appointed in his college course, with that indom- itable spirit that conquers success, he decided to study law at home during his evenings after the hard day's work on the farm. This he continued to do for two years, and in November 1871 was able to leave home for Toledo, Ohio. The follow- ing May he was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio, and on December 16, 1872, he was admitted to the Circuit Court of the United States. While still practicing the legal ])rofession he was always active in church, mission and Sunday- school work. Feeling more and more inclined to religious work, he finally, in November 1879, iS6 MKN OF PROC.RllSS. acceiUeil the General Secretaryship of the Young Men'sChristian Association of Haverliill, Massachu- setts. Me continued his work at Haverhill and at Man- chester, New Hampshire, for three years, when in September 1882 he entered the Newton Theological Seminary. One month later he was called to the liaptist Church of Lexington, Massachusetts, where, in January 18S3, he was ordained. The care of the church developed so fast that he was compelled to cut his seminary course down to a year's work. His subsequent pastorates have been at West .'\cton, Som- erville and Boston, Massachusetts, and his present successful pastorate at Stamford. Mr. Khoades is an ^^^ born January 13, 1876, married January 17, 1895, to Henry George Quimby ; Charles Lyman, born February 13, 1878, died in 1888; Mary Elizabeth, born October 18, 1881 ; and Alva Spencer Rhoades, born August 2, 1885. Since the foregoing was in type, Mr. Rhoades has accepted the position of Dis- trict Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, with office in New York city, and has removed to Mount Vernon, New York. This posi- tion is one of the most important in the country and in the denomination, representing the Union for Southern New York and Northern New Jersey, including all the Baptist churches of Greater New York in the District. The American Baptist Mis- sionary Union has one of the finest records for active and successful work of any foreign mission- ary society in the world, and to represent it among three hundred churches, including those of the metropolis of the United States, is indeed a high calling. Rev. Mr. Rhoades has made foreign mis- sions a special study during his ministry, which is undoubtedly the reason why he has been called to this work. C. L. RHOADES. omnivorous reader, and with his retentive memory, wide e.\perience of men and ability to speak forci- bly, entirely without notes, is peculiarly fitted for his position and profession. Joining the Baptist church when a farmer's boy at Elbridge, and following the faith consistently through all his varied life, he brings to his work both the precept and example of an earnest Christian life. He is not a member of any club or society, believing that his power for good would be stronger if he remained indepen- dent. He was married at Toledo, Ohio, February '5. 1875, to Mary Elizabeth Fitch, a lineal descend- ant of Thomas Fitch, Governor of Connecticut. Four children have been born to them : Julia Fitch, WOLFF, Arthur Jacob, M. D., Physician and Bacteriologist, Hartford, was born in London, Eng- land, June 7, 1855, son of Arthur S. Wolff, M. D., and Sarah (Ansell) Wolff. His maternal ancestors lived in London and Ipswich, England, and the line is traced back to the thirteenth century. His grand- father was a constructing engineer under Napoleon I in the French Army. His father served through the Crimean War in the French service, and was Surgeon of the Fifty- fifth Regiment, New York Vol- unteers, a French Regiment in the Civil War. At present he is a Texas State Quarantine Officer. The subject of this sketch was educated at the Plattsburgh (New York) High School. At the age of fifteen he began the study of medicine with his father with whom he thus continued for seven years. He obtained a license to practice in New York but in the same year he moved with his father to Texas and was entered as a student in the Texas Medical College and Hospital where he was graduated in 1876. For one year he practiced medicine at Galveston, at the end of which time he became Assistant Surgeon at the United States Army Post, stationed at Fort Brown. From 1877 to 1881 he had varied service along the Rio Grande in the army under General George Sykes for whom he was the attendant physician at the time of his death. During this period he made good use of his oppor- MKN t)F I'R()i;KI';sS. iSy tunities to study the Soutlicrn climate and its peculiar diseases. Coming North in iSSi he took a special course of medicine at liellevue College where he obtained a second degree of ^[. D. in 1883. In that year he moved to Hartford where he has since been located, lie has made a specialty of women's diseases and of microscopic w-ork and has been called in as an expert in many noted murder trials in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Texas. He was called in the Souder Murder Case, and in the Trebbe, liushenhargen, Daly, Rogers, Buchanan and ISestero cases. He is at present Bacteriologist for the Hartford lioard of ARTHUR J. WOLFF. Health. He is a member of the City, County and State medical societies, the Royal Microscopical Society of London, and the Kings County Medical Society of New York. In politics he is an Inde- pendent. He was married February 17, 1886, to Hattie Krotoshiner, of Hartford. They have had one daughter, Beatrice, who died in infancy. BLISS, Francis Edward, of Hartford, Publisher, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, September 23, 1843, son of Elisha Bliss, Jr., and I.ois .Ann (Thayer) Bliss. He is of good English descent, his ancestry including well-known New I'.iigland stock, deriving on the paternal side from 'J'homas Bliss, of Belstone, Devonshire county, in the six- teenth century, whose son Thomas was one of the first settlers in Hartford, Connecticut ; and on the maternal side, from Richard Thayer, who emigrated from England in 1636, and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. Mr. Bliss was educated at jjrivate schools in and about New York ; later in Springfield, Massachusetts, and finally at the Collegiate Prepara- tory School of .Mexander Hyde, in Lee, Massachu- setts. His delicate health prevented further study. I'ntil the age of thirteen he resided in Brooklyn and Jersey City; he then divided his time, as health permitted, between study and \arious outdoor pur- suits, s])ending some winters in the early logging camps of Michigan. On the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion he enlisted but was not accepted because of youth and physical condition; he became, however, quite familiar with army life through several extended visits to the Union lines, and witnessed many stirring scenes. Thus his experiences of rough outdoor life, acting upon a receptive mind and his ipiick observation, stored up valuable information for life use. .At twenty-one he entered the Ninth National Bank of New York and began his business education, where his ability and close attention to duties resulted in rapid promo- tion. He was connected w-ith this institution in 1864 and 1865 ; then for a short time he was em- [iloyed in the Tenth National Bank of the same city, and finally coming to Hartford in 1866, became connected with the American Publishing Company, being made its Treasurer in 1868, Secretary and Treasurer in 1872, and President and Treasurer in 1 887, which positions he continues to hold. Under his management the company has prospered, doing a large and growing business and bringing out the works of many noted writers, foremost among them, Mark Twain, whose early books published by Mr. IJliss's firm had an enormous sale. Other well- known publications of the house are J. T. Headley's " History of the Rebellion," of which a quarter of a million copies were sold, and the works of Albert D. Richardson, Bret Harte, Miss Holley (Josiah Allen's wife) and Colonel Thomas W. Kno.x. The Amer- ican Publishing Company has sold books by the hundreds of thousands and this satisfactory result has largely come, not only from Mr. Bliss's thorough practical knowledge of the many stages of his pro- fession, from the various details of manufacture and shipping of goods, but the putting of a book on the iSS MEN OF PROGRESS. market and conducting its sale tlirough the agency of canvassers ; often as many as five tliousand being employed at one time. The business is purely by the subscription plan. Mr. Bliss has also paid close attention to the literary side of his business and been thrown much into contact with writers. For twenty years he has applied himself closely to his work, scarcely taking time for an occasional vaca- tion, and he has reason to be proud of the result. Recently the firm has again become the publishers of Mark Twain, bringing out his book, " Follow- ing the Equator." Mr. Bliss was for some time a member of the Lotus Club of New York, and is F. E. BLISS. now a member of several clubs and societies of New York and Hartford. In 1879 he was honorably dis- charged from the Governor's Foot Guard. He is a Republican in politics, but has never sought or held office. His tastes lead him to prefer a quiet home life. He is a type of the New Englander who, by persistent energy and natural ability, has attained a marked and deserved success. On September 28 1870, he was married, on the summit of Mt. Holy- oke, Massachusetts, to Frances T. French. They have had two children, both living : Elisha F"rench, aged twenty-seven, and Francis Edward Bliss, aged twenty-three. CUTLER, Ralph William, President of the Hartford Trust Company, Hartford, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, February 21, 1853, son of Eben and Caroline Elizabeth (Holman) Cutler. He is a descendant of James Cutler who came from England, in 1634, was one of the original settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, and was "assigned" twenty-eight acres of land in the " First Great Divide." In 1642 he was also " assigned " eighty- two acres additional, but in 165 1 he sold his share and removed to Lexington, Massachusetts, where the cellar of his house is still to be seen upon the farm which he purchased at that time, and which has remained in the Cutler family until very recently. His son, James Cutler, served in King Philip's War, lived and died in Lexington, but Thomas Cutler, his son, removed to Western (now Warren), Massachusetts, where he purchased a farm of about three hundred acres in 1750, which farm remains in the family to the present day. He was the father of Deacon Thomas Cutler, who was a man of note in the annals of Warren, and his son was Ebenezer Cutler, who served in the War of the Revolution, received his commission as Lieutenant, inherited the homestead at Warren, and died there in 18 14. He bequeathed the farm to James Cutler, who was also a prominent man in town affairs. Ralph W. Cutler's father, Eben Cutler, removed to Boston in 1832, went into the jewelry business, and was one of Boston's old-time merchants. From this same stock comes the Reverend Manasseh Cutler, who cut so important a figure in the settlement of the Northwest, including the Western Reserve. The subject of this sketch numbers among his ances- tors Governor George Wyllys, Governor William Pynchon, Major William Whiting, Captain Daniel Clark, and many others prominent in shaping the early affairs of this country. Mr. Cutler's mother, Caroline Elizabeth Holman, was a descendant of Ensign John Holman, who was one of the first settlers of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and an origi- nal Grantee of land in 1630. He came in Mav- erick and Wareham's Company in the ship Mary and John, probably from Dorchester, Dorsetshire, England. His residence was " by the Rock," mean- ing what is now known as Dorchester Heights, over- looking Boston harbor. He was chosen Selectman in 1636, 1637 and 1642. In 1636 he was appointed Ensign of the First Military Company of Dorchester, Massachusetts, under Captain Israel Stoughton and Lieutenant Nathaniel Duncan, at the beginning of the Pequot War. He was also one of the first MF.N OF TROCRI'-SS. 189 members of tlie Ancient and Honorable Artillery C'omjiany of I5oston, and his name is No. 19 on the Koll. His son, Samuel llolnian, was a surgeon in military service in 167 1 and a;;ain in 1676. The subject of this sketch came to Hartford from I5oston in 1S80, at the age of twenty-seven years, having been elected as Treasurer of the Hartford Trust Company, upon the promotion of Mr. R W. Farmer to the Presidency of the company. Mr. Farmer resigned his office in 1882 to enter a ]irivate bank- ing firm. The stock of the Trust Company was about this time below par, ciglity-five dollars per share. It has steadily advanced until today it is in RALPH W. CUTLER, request at one hundred and fifty dollars. The assets of the company are absolutely clean, and unencum- bered by suspended paper or uncollected interest. Following the limited administrations of Presidents Hon. William Faxon and Mr. Henry Kellogg, both of whom died in office, Mr. Cutler was in 1SS7 elected President — the youngest bank president in the state. Mr. Cutler's early education acquired in Boston, Massachusetts, eminently fitted him for his chosen profession. He graduated from the Boston English High School at sixteen years of age, and had, previous to entering upon his banking career, a few years' experience in mercantile life, which gave him a wide knowledge of business men, bankers. and of commercial credits. His clear judgment and close scrutiny of the latter has contributed largely to his success as a banker. President Cutler derives much of his strength from the fact that he has a minute accpiaintance with every detail, clerkly and otherwise, which can arise in the practical con- duct of the institution which he heads. His urbane and courteous intercourse secures to him the con- fidence and friendly esteem of his associates and customers. Mr. Cutler was a member of the Court of Common Council of Hartford in 1883- 84 ; appointed Fire Commissioner April 1896, a three-years term ; is Treasurer of the Connecticut Humane Society since its organization in 1880; Gentleman of the Council, Society of Colonial Wars, since its organization in 1893 ; member of the Sons of the American Ivevolution in 1890; Colonial Order of the Acorn ; New England Historic, Gen- ealogical Society of Boston, Massachusetts; also Colonial and Republican clubs of Hartford. Mr. Cutler married in 1880 Grace Dennis, the eldest daughter of Rodney Dennis, who was one of the founders and for thirty-three years Secretary of the Traveler's Insurance Company. By this union he has three children: Charlotte Elizabeth, l\al|ih Dennis and Ruth Holman Cutler. CLOWES, (Ikokof. HK\vM-.i-r, of Waterbury, late President of the Hoard of 'J'rade, and managing member of the firm of Randolph & Clowes, was born at Clinton, Oneida county, New York, June 17, 1842, during his father's Presidency of the Clin- ton Liberal Institute, and is the son of Rev. Timothy and Mary (Hewlett) Clowes. In the latter part of the seventeenth century the name of Clowes first appears in America. Here, its starting point was in that old, historic and thriving town of Hempstead, Long Island. Indeed, the burying ground of St. George's church in Hempstead is, in its epitaphs, a sufficient history of the family since its first advent to this country. It is a surprising fact, in looking over its records from the beginning, to find so many of the name in succeeding genera- tions who have pursued professional and scholarly lives, — doctors, lawyers, clergymen, almost exclu- sively, — many of them quite distinguished in their life work. Perhaps, however, no one of the name acquired so high a position in the world of letters and scholarship as the Rev. Timothy Clowes, LL.D., the father of our present subject. This man, most eminent in Iiis iirofcssion, was born March iS, I go MEN OF PROC.KKSS. 1 787 ; was graduated as Master of Arts at Columbia C:ollege in 1808; was a clergyman in 1809 of the Cbtablished church, with a parish at Jamaica, Long Island, and later one in Jersey City; was rector of St. Peter's Church, in Albany, from 1810 to 181 7, — at the end of which time he returned to Hemp- stead, and for three years taught with marked suc- cess one of the leading classical institutes of the country. Recognizing his vast and varied erudi- tion, he was honored in 1821, with the degree of Doctor of Laws by Allegheny College, and the same year was appointed the Principal of Erasmus Hall, Klatbush, Long Island. In 1823, Dr. Clowes re- GEORGE H. CLOWES. ceived a call to the presidency of Washington College, Maryland, which he accepted. Over this institution of learning he presided for six years. During a part of this period he was also rector of the Episcopal Church in Chestertown, Maryland, and of St. Paul's, Kent county, Maryland. In 1829, Washington College was destroyed by fire, and Dr. Clowes again opened his classical school in Hempstead, Long Island. This seminary in the succeeding nine years became widely celebrated as an institution of learning. The Clinton Liberal Institute. Oneida county. New York, called him in 1838 to its presidency, — a position which he creditably occupied for four years. Dr. Clowes died at Hempstead, Long Island, June 19, 1847. If the subject of this notice derives some of his best qualities to insure success in life from his dis- tinguished father, he is no less indebted for many of his characteristics to his mother. Her maiden name was Mary Hewlett, and her mother's name was Mary Sands. She came from a long and noted ancestry. Her lineage is distinctly traced step by step, to the middle of the eleventh century in England, and her family was exclusively of Saxon origin. The name was originally Sandys in the olden times, but has since been spelled Sandes, Sandis, and Sands. Dr. Benjamin Sandys was Archbishop of York in the time of Cromwell, who confiscated his vast estates just as he treated every- thing of value with which he came in contact. There is at present an association of the Sands family heirs, of which Mr. Clowes is a member, — seeking for a restoration to them through the Brit- ish Parliament of these estates, aggregating $100,- 000,000. In America the Sands family first ap- pears in the person of Sir Edwin Sandys, who in 16 17 became Governor and Treasurer of the Vir- ginia Colony. Subsequently, in 1640, representa- tives of the parent stock in England settled in Boston, Massachusetts. The genealogy of the Sands family from this point to the present — covering nearly three centuries — is both interest- ing and instructive, but our narrow limits forbid its introduction here. Suffice it to say, that it com- prised members of all of the three recognized pro- fessions, men prominent in business circles in New York and elsewhere, ofificers, soldiers and patriots of our wars of the Revolution and 1812, bankers, mem- bers of Congress, judges, naval ofificers and scholars. Mr. Clowes' father died when he was but five years of age. Upon his widowed mother devolved the care, education and training of two children, both of tender years. Until he was eleven years of age, Mr. Clowes attended the Hempstead Seminary and Jamaica Academy. For the four following years he was a student of the Thetford Academy, Thetford, Vermont. At the age of fifteen, his brother, then a banker in DePere, Wisconsin, gave him a position in his banking house, which he retained until he entered St. Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis- consin. Since his college days, until 1875, he made his home with his mother in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Clowes has also an honorable record, as a young and patriotic citizen, in our late Civil War. Under the competent instruction of Colonel Tomp- kins, who had been commissioned to educate offi- MF.N ol' I'KOC.RESS. 191 cers for military positions, lie passed a succcsslul exauiinalion before the lioaril of Initetl States H\amining Officers, and was at once appointed Adjutant of the McC'lellan Infantry. Ilavini; aided in recruiting six iiundred men for a new regiment, an order of consolidation witli another and smaller body of recruits was issued by the ^Var Department, and, owing in all probability to political favoritism, the entire regimental lieUl and staff of the latter body was placed in command of the full regiment. It was a flagrant piece of injustice, but it did not in the least diminish the patriotic ardor of Mr. Clowes. On a second call for troojis, he at once re-enlisted with the Forty-seventh Regiment, New York Na- tional Guards. Soon he was appointed Sergeant- Major of the Regiment, which position he held when mustered out. He had, likewise, during the War of the Rebellion, experience in the Navy of the United States. For a year and a half he served on the United States gunboat Flambeau, doing duty off the coast of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Later he was transferred to the I'nited States storeship. Home, and was faithful to duty aboard this ship until she was ordered home in the summer of 1864. His elder brother, Joseph Clowes, now retired, was also in the service of the Navy of the Union, as Admiral's Sec- retary, and the loss of a legal the fall of Fort l'"isher, sufficiently attests his love of country and his sacri- fice for her in her hour of sore distress. This is all the more marked as he volunteered his services for shore duty against the admiral's advice not to go ashore with the marines. The first experience of Mr. Clowes in a mercantile life began as book-keejier and afterwards as salesman, for the flourishing manufacturing house of Garden & Company, New York. This was late in 1864. At the end of two years he received a flattering offer from the Middle- field Fire & Building Stone Company, 1269 Broad- way, New York. While thus engaged he was appointed paymaster's clerk on the United States gunboat Juniata, ordered to the European station, and sailed in July 1869. He was abroad till 1872. Returning to the United States, he at once engaged as loan and discount clerk for the New York Loan Indemnity Company. In this position he won the respect and admiration of all who dealt with him, and, through their confidence in him personally, he influenced to this company, during the two years of his connection with it, dei)osits of his friends of upwards of a quarter of a million of dollars. It was with this banking house that the old firm of lirown iV Brothers of Waterbury, Connecticut, with a repu- tation world-wide for upwards of forty years, then kept their New York accounts. Late in 1874, when the New \'ork Loan Indemnity Company were arranging to discontinue business, Mr. Thilo Brown (the then President of llrown & Brothers) asked its President in the course of a business conversation, if he could recommend one of the employees of the bank to him, a man who would have the requisite 1 haracter, stamina and ability, if engaged, to grow up and become identified wih his large business establishment in \\ atcrlmry. Calling ujj'Mr. Clowes, the President at once remarked to Mr. Brown : " Of all those employed in this bank, I speak in every re- spect most highly of this man." That recommenda- tion was sufficient. An engagement of Mr. Clowes at once followed, and, as a result, on January i, 1875, Mr. Clowes came to Waterbury, and entered upon his duties as head book-keeper of Brown & Brothers. During the entire period of his connection with ]?rown & Brothers, covering about eleven years, it should, however, be stated that Mr. Clowes had no part in the direction, policy or management of the concern. Owing to financial difficulties and embar- rassments and other causes, in January 18S6 it was deemed advisable for the once powerful and solid company of Brown cS: Brothers to make an assign- ment. The trustees of the company, however, recognizing the ability and integrity of Mr. Clowes, retained him for his aid to tiicm in winding up its involved and intricate affairs. His keen mercantile sagacity told him at once that the purchase of the seamless and brazed tube and boiler business from the trustees might be made the nucleus of a great industry. This, however, was then but a small portion of the original plant of ]5rown & Brothers. To secure its control required an outlay of 537,500. The purchase price of the kettle business of the late company was fixed at ^5000 additional. At once, Mr. Clowes ajjplied to a friend of a year's stand- ing, Mr. Edward F. Randolph, a man of wealth and with large business interests in New York, for the capital necessary to make this purchase. After a conference, Mr. Randolph agreed to furnish con- ditionally the requisite sum. The imposed condition was in substance that the entire responsibility of the direction and management of the plant when bought should devolve upon Mr. Clowes. It was an immense undertaking for one man to assume, espe- cially when a new company, under new conditions and surroundings, must be built up on the wreck of the old. The entire piirchase price of $42,500 192 MEN OF PROGRESS. was, however, at once furnished. Mr. Clowes as- sumed all personal responsibility of management, and in April 18S6, the sale was effected by a transfer from the trustees of the portion indicated, of the former Hrown & Brothers plant, to Randolph & Clowes. The partnership capital of the new firm was at that time fixed at $75,000 (though subsequently many times increased) and the partnership of Randolph & Clowes was launched upon its business career. .At that time (.April 1886) they employed fifty men and one clerk. Their office quarters consisted of a small room about fourteen feet square. By com- parison at the present writing (January 1897) they now employ eight under superintendents and over five hundred hands. The main office, a substantial brick structure of pleasing architectural design, where all books, records, and accounts are kept, gives employment to twenty clerks. The firm also at present has its own offices in New York, Phila- delphia, and Cincinnati, together with a large distrib- uting depot in Boston and Chicago. After their first purchase as before described, in 1886, for three years Mr. Clowes put forth all his energies towards building up the little business so acquired. From small beginnings, the volume of business transacted rapidly increased. In three years only §105,000 in cash had been paid in, yet, at the end of that time, this thriving partnership, in its seamless and brazed tube, boiler and kettle departments, was transacting a business exceeding $600,000 per annum, — a surprising showing upon the original investment. At this juncture, the energy, executive ability and business skill of Mr. Cowles stood him well in hand. Consuming, as the firm did, large quantities of sheet brass and copper, his business sagacity sug- gested the propriety of his firm engaging likewise in its manufacture. Their increased business, also, had outgrown the quarters which it then occupied. Consequently, in March 1889, the present partners purchased of the trustees at a cost of ^75,000 the old rolling mill of Brown & Brothers (the largest single rolling mill in the country at that time), together with the remainder of the property. It was a business venture at which many old and experienced manufacturers shook their heads, pre- dicting only impending ruin and disaster to the young and thriving firm. But Mr. Clowes was not to be satisfied until he could reach a point where he could see his firm second to none either in its capacity for volume of business, credit in its finance, or ability in its management. Whether or not he has succeeded, the figures alone will show. Starting with about two hundred customers on its books, this concern now has nearly five thousand. Up to the present time over $600,000 has been spent in improving the property, as originally pur- chased. The cost, therefore, of this plant, starting with such modest proportions but eight years ago, — is to the partners over ^750,000. The better- ments to the property — taking into consideration the constantly increasing success of the enterprise — give it a value more than double their entire cost. In the management and developiment of this enormous industry Mr. Clowes has had no aid from any source, except the generous financial assistance of his partner, who, however, has given no time whatever to its conduct, policy or supervision. It must also be remembered that, during these few years of the growth and maturity of this firm, it has been compelled in the open market to face and combat the competition of old and established cor- porations, with limitless credit and recognized experience born of many years. Its success is, therefore, an added cause for congratulation to Mr. Clowes, as its manager. Perhaps one of the main causes for this rapid and enormous growth may, under the circumstances, be found in the rigid sys- tem of economy upon which Mr. Clowes has in- sisted in every detail. Expenses of selling and marketing goods, as well as the general expenses of the management, — all outside of tlie actual cost of production, — have been reduced by him to a mini- mum. The cost to the company of this item has never exceeded four per cent of their sales. The difference between this figure and the selling ex- penses of other companies in the same line, run- ning from seven to twelve per cent on their output, goes far toward explaining why Randolph & Clowes can make so good a financial exhibit. Mr. Clowes is still the active, energetic, persevering man- ager and partner of this great and prosperous firm. Their extensive and magnificent works oc- cupy a central portion of the city of Waterbury. The site is an admirable one, and covers no less than six acres of ground. On one side they front on the tracks of the New York & New England Railroad ; on another the rails of the New York, New Haven & Hartford road pass their doors, while from the Naugutuck River, which southward flows near by, they have the use of an unlimited and never failing water supply. No site could be better selected for a great manufacturing plant, and these transportation facilities have aided in making the mills and factories of Randolph & Clowes a manu- MKN OK TROCRKSS. 193 facturing establishment ]>erhaps unsurpassed. Tlie plant coiilil not he duplicated today for less than Ji, 250,000. The rolliiiL; mills in which the sheet copper and brass are rolled are on the plans of all rolling mills, though even here a number of valuable improvements have been utilized ; in fact, every- thing that has been devised during the last decade in rolling mill ecjuipment has been put in operation. The tube mills are especially interesting. The seamless tube business is one of many and various technical ditticulties, requiring the most costly and ponderous, as well as the most delicate, machineiy. Only skilled workmen, of many years' exi)erience, are employed in this particular branch of the busi- ness. The manufacture of tubing up to four or five inches in diameter recjuires more than ordinary skill and outlay as to capital, and the ditticulties are more than jiroportionally increased with every added inch in diameter greater than four inches. From this fact only two or three seamless tube manufacturers make tubes up to eight inches, the majority of firms confining themselves to tubing up to four or five inches. The largest tubes made in Europe are only twelve or fourteen inches. Mr. Clowes was not slow to grasp the economic fact that there was little profit to be gleaned in a field where every average worker might swing a more or less successful sickle ; so he has for the past eight or nine years been steadily bending all his energies in the way of developing his plant and machinery to turning out tubes of the greatest dimensions, until now the firm turns out tubes thirty-eight inches in diameter, sis feet long; twenty-four inches in diameter, twelve feet long ; twelve inches in diame- ter, twenty feet long. Copper is a difficult metal to handle. Mr. Clowes recognized the obstacles attending the casting of large masses of copper ; he measured them accurately, and he made up his mind long ago that the only way to get an absolutely perfect tube, or a seamless tube at all of large diameter, was to first roll a sheet either of copper or brass, circle it, and then from the circle draw the tube. Hence this firm has today more methods of drawing tubes than any other concern in the world, all peculiarly adapted to the special sizes or qualities desired, and many of the methods or devices fully protected by patents. Progressive and up-to-date plumbers all over the world know the merits of the patented seamless drawn cojiper house boiler manufactured by Randolph 1853, son of William A. and Matilda G. Doherty. His father wishing his son to reap the benefits of a thorough education, entered him as a student in the district school at Carlton and later in Prof. Mcintosh's private academy at St. John's, New Brunswick, from which institution he repaired to the High School of Waterbury, Connecticut. When only thirty-three years of age Mr. Doherty served as one of the Selectmen of his adopted town, the term of his office extending over three years, 1886 to 1889, being the first Republican elected as Chairman of the Board on a straight ticket in thirty years. Public spirited and ever evincing an active interest in the civil as well as national government, Mr. Doherty has held many political as well as military positions of influence and importance. In 1872 he enlisted in Company A of the Second Regiment of the Connecticut National Guard, and for able and honorable service was made Corporal in 1874; Sergeant in 1877; Second Lieutenant in 1880; First Lieutenant in 1882; Captain in 1883; Major of the Regiment in 1885 and Colonel in 18S9. Only his resignation from the regiment in fuly 189S brought a check to this steady and grati- fying advancement, but having been appointed Postmaster of Waterbury on February 14, 1890, by JOHN B. DOHERTY. President Harrison, and elected Secretary of the Connecticut Indemnity Life Insurance Company of Waterbury in January 1894, Mr. Doherty probably found the duties of these offices sufficiently exacting without further increasing his responsibilities by assuming additional obligations. During his term as Postmaster, Mr. Doherty was elected Secretary of the Connecticut Indemnity Association and on the expiration of his term in 1894 he entered upon active duties in the office of the association, being also elected Treasurer in August 1897. Mr. Doherty declined the nomination for County Sheriff of New Haven County in 1S91, refused to accept the nomination for Mayor of Waterbury in 1889, MKN OF I'ROCRKSS. 197 and for Congress from the Second District in 1892, preferring to give his attention to private business. On February 28, 1S77, Mr. Doherty married Jennie M. Barton, daughter of i'hilo 15. liartonof Winsted, Connecticut. Mrs. Doherty died on November 29, 1882, and on September 16, 1890, Mr. Doherty was united to Kathcrinc Sedgwick Huel, daughter of Mrs. Theodore Sedgwick liuel. 'I'licy have one child : (,"orneHa Brown, born .\ugust 15, 1896. EATON, Hknry Ja.mks, Chief of Fire Depart- ment, Hartford, was born in that city October 10, 1831, son of .-\hnander and Mary Ann (Williams) HENRY J. EATON. Eaton. He attended the grammar school in Hart- ford and in 1S48 went to the .Academy in West Hartford. Beginning that year he served an ajipren- ticeship of four years in gold-beating with the. firm of Ashmead & Hurlburt and continued to work for this house until 1S64 when the firm was dissolved. Mr. Eaton then remained in the employment of Mr. Ashmead at the same business. In 186S however he found his true occupation and entered upon a career which has made him one of the representative figures of Hartford for nearly thirty years. He was made chief of the F'ire Dei)artment and has held the position ever since, bringing to the onerous ])ost devotion to duty, great executive ability and a courage which is recognized as unusual. Hartford peojjle have come to look upon " Bell " l^aton as a land-mark and the right man in the right place. He has seen his department grow from the days of volunteer aid to the high efficiency and scientific methods of the present. Chief Eaton has been a presiding genius in this march of improve- ment and great credit is due him for the result. His memory is rich in thrilling historic scenes inci- dental to his profession, but he is a man of modest nature, laconic in speech, and not given to self- eulogy. His record speaks for itself. In 1896, the citizens and fire insurance companies of Hartford contributed a handsome purse to send him to Ix)n- don to the International Tournament of Fire Chiefs, where his practical suggestions attracted much atten- tion. ( )u his return he was given an inmiense recep- tion by the department and the citizens generally. Chief Eaton is a Mason and has been for twenty- six years a member of St. John's Lodge, and was from 185310 1858 a member of the Hartford Light Guard, with the post of Second Sergeant. In politics Mr. Eaton is a Democrat. He has been twice married ; in 1S56 to Lurana H. Haynes, of Providence, Rhode Island, by whom he had several children, only one li\ing, now the widow of Thomas R. Laughton, who was smothered in a Hartford fire on Jainiary 9, 1887 ; and on September 6, 1S84, he was again married to Mrs. Robert J. Ramsden, of O.xford, luigland, whose maiden name was Caroline E. Aldridge. Bv her he has had a daughter, .Mice H. F'.aton, aged twelve years. G.ATLINC, Rkhard Jordan, Inventor of the Catling Gun, Hartford, was born September 12, 1S18, in Hartford county. North Carolina, son of Jordan and Mary (Barnes) Catling. His father, an industrious farmer of easy circumstances, was of English descent, and his maternal great-grand- mother was a Frenchwoman. He received a com- mon school education and spent his early boyhood ni)on the farm. The young man was active both in mind and body, and while still a boy in his teens was working in connection with his father on an in- vention for sowing cotton seed and also on a machine for thinning cotton plants. At the age of sixteen lie was engageti in copying records in the County Clerk's office. He then taught school for one year, after which he was clerk in a store, and subseciuently for four years sold goods on his own account. During this period he was busy with the igS MEN OF PROGRESS. invention of the screw |.roi)elier now uscJ on steam vessels. In 1S39 he journeyed to Washington with his model in order to apply for a patent, but on his irrivai found that another inventor had already fore- stalled his discovery. Though sadly disappointed he turned his attention undaunted to other inven- tions and soon afterwards patented a machine for sowing rice which l)e subsequently adapted to sow- ing wheat in drills. In 1844 he moved to St. Louis, where he was employed as a clerk for several months in a drygoods store. At the same time he began the manufacture of wheat drills, which he s..ld to the farmers of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. R. J. GATLING. While on a business trip from Cincinnati to Wheel- ing by steamer he was taken with small-pox. The boat was frozen in the ice and for thirteen days he was without medical attendance. On being allowed to leave the boat he was confined for several months in a small-pox hospital at Pittsburgh, where he endured great suffering. In consequence of this trying ordeal, and in order to be able to care for himself should occasion arise, he decided to study medicine. In the winter of 1848-49 he attended the Indiana Medical College at Laporte, Indiana, and during the following winter took a course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, where he completed his medical studies. Dr. Gat- ling was then free to devote his time to his inven- tions, and during the next few years his wheat drills had an extensive sale through the Northwest and received highest commendation at many state fairs and exhibitions. He also invented a steam plough and conceived the idea of the use of compressed air for the construction of tunnels and the working of drills in mining operations. He lived for some time in Indianaiiolis, where he acted as agent of the Phrenix Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, at the same time dealing in real estate and laying out an addition to the city. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Dr. Catling while then living in Indian- apolis invented the machine gun now universally known as the Catling Gun. The first public test of one of these guns took place in Indianapolis in the spring of 1862. The test was entirely successful and at once made the inventor famous. Several improvements were introduced and in the fall of the same year he had six of his guns made by the firm of Miles Greenwood & Company of Cincinnati. Just before the guns were ready for delivery the fac- tory was burned, together with the guns and all the patterns and plans. Still undaunted Dr. Gatling set about replacing his loss and had thirteen of his guns made at the Cincinnati Type Foundry Works. Some of these guns were afterwards used on the James River by the Union forces under General Butler. Twelve more of his guns were made in 1S65 by the Cooper Fire .Arms Manufacturing Com- pany of Philadelphia, which were afterward tested in various ways by the government officials. The arm was finally adopted by the Government, and in August 1866 an order was given for the manufac- ture of one hundred of the guns, fifty of one incii and fifty of one half an inch calibre. The guns were made at Colt's Armory in Hartford, and were delivered to the United States authorities in 1867. In that year Dr. Gatling visited Europe and brought his invention to the attention of the several govern- ments, being absent for one year and a half. He made a second trip to Europe in 1870 and on his return settled at Hartford, where he has since resided. Dr. Gatling has devoted over thirty years of his life to the task of perfecting this remarkable invention and has lived to see it adopted not only by the United States but by Russia, England, Egypt, Turkey and other governments. In the history of modern warfare the name of Gatling will remain imperishable. Dr. Gatling has also made several other important inventions, among which may be enumerated a torpedo and gun-boat, a pneumatic ^^EN OF ri^ocRKss. 199 gun for the discharge of high explosives and an im- jiroved method for the casting of steel guns. He has received numerous honors from foreign govern- ments and scientific bodies at home and abroad, but through it all has remained tlie same modest agreeable American gentleman, lie takes a sin- cere interest in ail national affairs, is a good citizen and neighbor, and a generous contributor to every worthy object. He is a member of the Hartford club and for the past nine years has been President of the "Harrison Veterans of 1840," made up of men who voted for ("leneral William Henry Harri- son for President. He belongs to man\- other soci- eties and clubs and for six years was President of "Tiie American Association of Inventors and Man- ufacturers." Dr. Oatling was married in 1854 to Jemima T., daughter of Dr. John H. Sanders, of Indianapolis. Five children have been born to them, of whom three are still living, all residents of New York city : Richard Henry, Robert Boone Catling, and Ida, wife of Hugh O. Pentecost. HICKS, Ratli.ikfe, President of the Canfield Rubber Works, Bridgeport, was born in 'Tolland, Connecticut, October 3, 1843, son of t'harles Richard and Maria Amelia (Stearns) Hicks. The Hicks genealogy goes back to I''.llis Hicks, wlio was knighted by the Black Prince at Poictiers for bravery in capturing a set of colors. The first of the line in this country was Thomas Hicks wlm took the oath of fidelity at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1644. From him the line descends to Daniel, Daniel Jr., Benjamin, David, to Ratcliffe, tlie grand- father of the subject of this sketch. Ratcliffe Hicks, the grandfather, was one of New England's bravest and most successful sea-captains. His voyages took him to every part of the globe, and his journal, which is still perserved in the family, is an interest- ing record of the voyages of the early part of the century. Charles R. Hicks, father of the present Ratcliffe, was a leading merchant in Providence, Rhode Island, and later in New York city. He retired from business in 1842, and removed to Tol- land, Connecticut, where lie died in June 1878. He represented the town in the Legislature, but as a rule shrank from public office, jireferring the quiet enjoyment of his home, his friends and his books. He was an omniverous reader and an especial authority on the history of America and F.ngland. Young Hicks, after a preliminary course of study at home, entered Monson Academy, going from there to Williston Seminary. He next entered Brown University where he was graduated with high honors in 1S64. While in college he won many triumphs as a debater and was one of the commencement speakers. He was also one of the founders of the Chai>ter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity at Brown. After gratiuation he taught school in Tolland, at the same time devoting his spare time to the study of law in the office of Judge I.oren P. Waldo. He was admitted to the Bar in 1866 and in the same year associated iiimself with United States Senator Piatt, of Meriden, in the practice of law. .After three years he began ])ractice alone and so continued for RATCLIFFE HICKS. the succeeding ten years, the last tlirce years in Hartford. He rapidly acquired a wide reputation as a lawyer of distinguished ability and was entrusted with much important litigation, including the famous S])rague suit in Rhode Island His name appears as attorney for litigants in every volume of the Con- necticut Reports from 1866 to 1879. He served as a member of the Legislature in 1866, and had the distinction of being the youngest member of the House. From 1869 to 1874 Mr. Hicks was City Attorney of Meriden, and from 1873 to 1876 was Attorney for New Haven county, in both of which ortices he gained reputation as a courageous and elificient official. There are but few examples in JOO MEN OF PRfXlRKSS. this country of men who have won distinguished success in more than one occupation. Yet Mr. Hicks, though still in the prime of life, has a record as a business man, not less brilliant than his earlier career as a lawyer. In 1882 he became connected with the Canfield Rubber Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, then a small enterprise struggling along with a capital of ten thousand dol- lars. Mr. Hicks was elected President and under his guiding hand the company has had a success which is justly regarded as one of the most remark- able achievements in the manufacturing history of New England. It has made a fortune for Mr. Hicks and has today a capital stock of ^250,000 with a surplus of as much more. Mr. Hicks was elected a member of the Legislature of 1893 and as Chairman of the House Committee on Woman's Suffrage supported the bill conferring upon women the right to vote on all school matters. This law was the first of the kind ever passed in a New Eng- land state, and Mr. Hicks' able championship of the measure won for him the highest commendation. His speeches during this session stamped him as an orator of marked ability. His speech on the bill for the abolishing of the death penalty and his speech in favor of the bill for a constitutional amendment increasing the representation of cities are strong examples of his power. The following quotation from the latter speech taken from a pub- lished volume of his public addresses is worthy of a reproduction here : " I have one appeal to make to the members of the House. To most of them it does not make a penny's difference who carries this state, politically, two years hence. The sun will shine, the grass will grow and business go on the same, whichever political party triumphs. This country is lost and saved regularly every four years. Let us do right ; let us make a record that we can live by and die by, that merits the approval of our own consciences, and of the intelligent future histo- rian who will some day write up the record of this General Assembly. No party has permanently triumphed politically in this country. The party that is down today is up tomorrow. The political cauldron of American politics is like the ebb and flow of the ocean, but there is one thing that is always safe to do, and then, whether success or defeat awaits you, you have the consciousness of having done the right thing, and in the end history will vindicate our action." The speech thus closed : " I shall vote for this bill, not because I think it will benefit the Democratic party, for I do not think either political party will reap any permanent politi- cal advantages from a constitutional convention, but I shall vote for this bill because it is right. This question arises above all party politics. The state is greater than any political party. Our children and our children's children have an abiding interest in our action today. I prefer to stand where the old Roman stood and to do right though the Heavens fall." Mr. Hicks was again a member of the Legis- lature in 1895 and took an important part in the transaction of that session. He introduced the bill which provided for a State Chemist and the exam- ination of all articles of food. He introduced the resolution in regard to the famous East Hartford Bridge matter, which resulted in a saving to the state of many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Hicks' prominence and well-earned reputation made him the natural candidate of the Democratic party for higher honors. He was frequently men- tioned as a probable candidate for Lieutenant- Governor in 1894, and again as a candidate for Governor in 1896. But Mr. Hicks is not an ofifice seeker and in an open letter to the Hartford Times declined the proffered honor. In addition to his legislative addresses, Mr. Hicks has made many able speeches on public occasions. He takes a keen interest in the development of oratory in the schools and colleges, and has established prizes to that end in the Meriden High School, the Storrs Agricultural College and at Brown University. The Congregational Church in Tolland is also largely indebted to Mr. Hicks' liberality. Besides his large industrial interest Mr. Hicks is a property owner in Bridgeport, Meriden, New Orleans and New York. His business has made him an extensive traveller. He has visited South America and has a record of over forty voyages across the ocean. He is a mem- ber of many clubs and organizations, the most im- portant being the Lotus and Colonial clubs of New York city. He was married in 1879 *^o Mrs. Lizzie (Canfield) Parker. They have one child, Elizabeth Hicks, born February 19, 1884. LANGDON, Charles Huntington, Merchant, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, October 21, 1819, son of Reuben and Patience (Gilbert) Langdon. His father was of Farmington, Con- necticut, and his mother a native of Hebron of the same state. Charles H. Langdon received his early education for the most part in the common schools of Connecticut, which institutions however are of MF.N OF PROGRESS. 20I such a high order of excellence as to rank second to none in the I'nion. At the age of twenty-three Mr. Langdon entered upon his commercial career in Hartford, making drygoods his specialty and carrying on a successful business for the following ten years in the state capital. From that city, in 1851, he repaired to Boston, Massachusetts, and associated himself with the commission house of J. C. Howe & Company, where he remained until his removal to New York in 1855. In that city and that year he organized the firm of Langdon Brothers (an importing house, for tiie sale of foreign dry- goods) with his brother Reuben Langdon as part- ner. Three years later he connected himself with the firm of W. S. and C. H. Thomson in New York, which firm name became ere long Thomson, Langdon & Company, Mr. Thomson retiring from the New York business. We take the liberty of (|uoting in this connection a paragraph from a New York paper which seems to emphasize an interesting and significant fact in Mr. l.angdon's commercial career, a fact that reflects credit not alone upon his business integrity but upon his personal character as well: "The partnership [that formed with the firm of \Y. S. and C. H. Thomson in 1858] has continued ever since. There have been but two changes in the style of the firm within that period. The most intimate personal relations have always existed between Mr. Thomson and Mr. Langdon. In fact, such strong ties of mutual regard and friendship are seldom formed eitlier in business or social life. Mr. Charles H. Langdon deservedly enjoys the very highest reputation for mercantile honor and ability and ranks among our leading con- servative merchants." On January i. 1879, Mr. Langdon purchased Mr. Thomson's interest in the company, but retained the firm name which was only changed several years later to that of Langdon, Batcheller & Company, and so continued until January i, 1893, when Mr. Langdon retired from business altogether. An active business life extend- ing over a term of fifty-one years is in itself a record to be regarded with satisfaction, but Mr. Langdon's career has not been marked by energy alone. When he withdrew from his connection with the mercantile world he carried with him the respect and regard of all his business associates and can look back upon his public life with just pride, in the knowledge that industry and a strict adher- ence to rigid principles of honor have placed him in the position he enjoys of financial independence, a position that so mafty men nowadays seek to achieve by means less creditable and more devious. Mr. Langdon was for several years a member of the First Company of (Governor's Foot Guards of Hart- ford, and was elected Second Lieutenant October 2, 1845, commission for the same being issued by Ciovernor Isaac Toucey, June 13, 1846. He is no patronizer of clubs or secret societies of any sort, eviiiently being a lover of home and appreciating its advantages over such organizations. In politics he is, and always has been, a Republican. Mr. Langdon has been twice married ; first, on Decem- ber 17, 1845, to Augusta Ives, of Hamden, Con- necticut, by whom lie had three daughters : Gertrude, C. H, LANGDON. Florence VVoodnil'f and Augusta Louisa Langdon. He was a second time married on June 17, 1858, to Mary B. Taylor, of Providence, Rhode Island, who has borne him two children : Grace Huntington and Charles H. Langdon, Jr. MORSK, Kdwaui) Hamilton, Principal and Pro- prietor of the Hartford Business College, Hartford, was born in New London, Connecticut, November 17, 1868, son of Captain Stephen Remington and Lizzie Almeda (West) Morse. His ancestors for many generations have followed the sea, and his father is a well known Atlantic sea-captain. Young 202 MEN OF PROGRESS. Morse attenileil the public schools anil High School at Wiliimantic, Connecticut, and afterwards Moody's Seminary at Northfield, Massachusetts, and the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts. 1 le thus gained a thorough grounding in English, the classics and the sciences, but early showed a strong penchant for mathematics, in which branch he took many iionors. In every school which he attended he was recognized as the business man of his class, and both in his classes and fraternities, as well as in the glee club and school journal, he was appointed business manager. The aptitude and executive ability with which he discharged these boyhood E. H. MORSE. duties foreshadowed the occupation and success of Ills niaturer years. Though still a young man. Pro- fessor Morse has risen to the head of one of the leading business colleges of New England, and has attracted students from all over the United States. He first conceived the idea of a commercial train- ing in uSgT, when he entered what was then known as Hannum's IJusiness College at Hartford, finishing in March of the same year. He decided to fit him- self by practical experience for his life work, and accordingly entered the employ of Brown, Thomson & Company, of Hartford, as bookkeeper. After a short service and with the view of gaining a wider experience, he changed to the office of a clothing firm in the same city. After this he became an expert accountant, and was employed in tracing errors, and in starting new and improved systems of bookkeeping. In September 1892 he returned to Hannum's Business College to fill the position as instructor in the practice department made vacant by the resignation of Professor Stedman. This position he filled for two years. In 1893 he ob- tained a one half interest in the college, and in 1894 became sole proprietor, changing the name to its present style, the Hartford Business College. Professor Morse's whole life is in his school, and the high regard with which practical business men have come to look upon the training there received, is well attested by the fact that in spite of the ever present competition for salaried positions, he is frequently unable to supply the demands made upon him by business men for graduates from his college, who are wanted for positions of trust. The college includes not only the usual departments of bookkeeping, penmanship and typewriting, but also departments of insurance, transportation, importing and wholesaling, commission exchange and banking. The equipments in each case are identical with those in actual business, and the training is most thorough. Tlie reality of the business thus trans- acted can best be illustrated from the following quotation from the Journal published at the college. " When Mr. Morse purchased the Hartford College he discarded the system then used, and formulated what has been termed Morse's Office Practice. This practice, unlike the imaginative schemes of many so-called business colleges, is nothing more than actual business experience. If a student is instructed to order flour from a St. Louis concern, he sits down and writes a business letter to the firm in the business college at St. Louis. His letter is exam- ined and corrected, copied into a letter book, and dropped in the outgoing mails. This letter actually goes to St. Louis, and the order is actually filled with representative merchandise by a student in the St. Louis Business College. The student in the Hartford College receives an invoice, letter and bill of lading in return. He presents the bill of lading at our transportation office and gets the iden- tical goods which have been way-billed through from St. Louis. A check is drawn by our student in payment of the transportation, a bank draft, certificate of deposit, note or some other negotiable paper is mailed in payment of the goods, or an account is opened when a letter of credit is furnished. The foregoing is only one of the hundreds of trans- MEN Ol ROGRESS. 203 actions through whicli our students pass, and the St. I-ouis College is only one of a chain of some forty different colleges with which our students carry on a daily correspondence." In politics Professor Morse has generally voted the Republican ticket. He was married December 25, 1S93, to Reina J. Keith, of Meriden, Connecticut. They have two children : Wesley Edward, born June 22, 1896, and Leonard Keith Morse, born September 22, 1897. O'NEILL, John, Attorney-at-I,aw, Waterbury, was born in Goshen, Connecticut, November 5, 1841, son of John O'Neill and Emily (Hayden) O'Neill. His father came to this country from Ireland in 1833, and his mother was a native of Litchfiekl, Connecticut. A recent record by the Re\-. Mr. Hughes, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, traces her genealogy back to the Puritans and thence to one of the followers of William the Con- queror at the time of the invasion. In iS4Sihe family removed to Waterbury, where, with the ex- ception of a short time spent in Wolcott and in West Haven, Mr. O'Neill has ever since resided. He was educated at the common schools and at the Waterbury High School where he finished in 1S58. In April 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company D, First Regiment, Connecticut Volun- teers. He took part in the battle of Pull Run and was honorably discharged at New Haven, luly3i, 1861. He then returned to Waterbury and soon entered the law office of Hon. John W. \Vel)ster, meanwhile reading law to a fellow student whose eyesiglit was impaired. He was admitted to the Bar at New Haven, March 10, 1866, and began practice at Pithole City, Pennsylvania, but after three months returned to Waterbury and enteretl the office where he had first studied law. At the end of a year he was admitied to partnershii) under the firm name of Webster &: O'Neill. On the estab- lishing of the court in Waterbury, July i, 1S66, Mr. O'Neill was appointed City Prosecuting Attorney, which position he held for eleven years. In March 1893 he was reappointed to the office. In 1875 he was apjjointed Prosecuting Agent for New Haven county, which office he held for seven years. He has been a Justice of the Peace ever since his election in 1862, and has been several times ap- pointed a Notary Public. He was elected to the Legislature as Representative from Waterbury in November i88g. His services as legislator during that session were of great and lasting value. The Waterbury Evening Democrat thus tlescribes them: " He was the author and chief promoter of all the important ta.x measures jjassed by that General .Assembly. The state taxes before that lime im- posed upon the towns resulted in great inequality of the assessment lists of the several towns; and this evil was extensive and growing. Soon after he was elected lie entered upon the task of doing away with the evil and prepared a number of bills im])osing taxes, intending to raise sufficient revenue from all these sources to pay all the state indebtedness and current exjienses. He framed the law imposing taxes on collateral inheritances, imposing taxes on i^~ JOHN ONEILL. investments which had hitherto escaped taxation, and recast the laws imposing taxes on telegraph and express companies ; those already in force were similar to laws in other jurisdictions which had been declared void by the Supreme Court of the United States because they interfered with inter-state com- merce, which Congress alone had the ])ower to regulate. The revenue from the tax on collateral inheritances amounts annually to about one hundred thousand dollars. The results from these two laws alone accomplished the purjiose he desired. He served on the important Judiciary Committee and was its clerk, and was also Chairman of the Committee on Unfinished Business. In the committees and in 2i^ MEN OF PROGRKSS. the House he was recognized as a leader." Mr. O'Neill has always been popular with other mem- bers of his profession, who frequently consult him on questions of taw. He is a great student and pos- sessed of a remarkable memory. When consulted on a legal point he is frequently able to refer to the volume and page and name the case that will eluci- date the point. He is entitled to much credit for laying the foundations of the law libraries in the Court Huilding and in the Bronson Library ; it was largely throu;;h his efforts that additions have been made to these from time to time. He was elected a member of the Hoard of Agents of the Bronson Library in 18S2, and in 1892 was unanimously elected President. Mr. O'Neill was married October 15, 1S67, to Mary E., sister of Rev. J. S. Fitzpatrick, of St. Patrick's Church, New Haven. Five children have been born to them, three boys and two girls ; one daughter, Susan Cecelia, graduated from the law school of the University, of New York in 1897; Joseph, the oldest son, is a graduate of the George- town University, 1895, and was a student of law in the University of Pennsylvania. He was admitted to the liar in New Haven county in 1897. The same year he married Miss Rubie Lamburt, daughter of State Insurance Commissioner Lamburt of Pennsylvania. of Art, holding that position from 1880 to 1882. By that time he became convinced that music was to be his life work and accepted the place of instruc- tor in music at the Hartford Theological Seminary; in 1884, he was made Associate Professor of Music and Hymnody and in 1889 full Professor, which chair he now occupies. In 1891, he became Instructor in Elocution at Trinity College, Hartford, and still holds that appointment. In 1895, he further widened his professional usefulness by becoming Lecturer on the history and science of music at Smith College, and the next year at Mt. Holyoke College, retaining both lectureships to- PRATT, Waldo Selden, Professor and Musician, of Hartford, son of Dr. Lewellyn Pratt and Sarah Putnam ((Julliver) Pratt, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1857. He comes of fine New England stock, among his paternal ances- try being Lieutenant William Pratt, one of the early settlers of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hartford and Saybrook, Connecticut, and Alice Southworth, sec- ond wife of Governor Bradford of Plymouth, and he is connected with such other well-knovvn Connecticut families as the Notts and Buckinghams. On his mother's side he traces to the original Putnam of Salem, Massachusetts, whence came Israel Putnam. After preliminary training at Knox College, Gales- burg, Illinois, also at North Adams, Massachusetts, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Mr. Pratt went to Williams College, receiving a B. A. there in 1878, and M. A in 1881. He then became a graduate student in Greek at Johns Hopkins University, and in 1879-80 was a Fellow in .^Esthet- ics and the History of Art. He then went to New York city and became Assistant Director in the Modern Department of the Metropolitan Museum WALDO S. PRATT, day. Beginning in 1882, he was for nine years the organist of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, in which church, from 1S91 to 1897, h^ served as a deacon. For nine years also (1882-gi) he was Conductor of the Hosmer Hall Choral LTnion, the leading local choral society, and for four years (1884-88) Conductor of the St. Cecelia Club. He was Registrar of the Hart- ford Theological Seminary (1888-95), and Vice- President of the Hartford Archreological Society (1893-95). Professor Pratt has thus been active in the musical life of the city and has done much as organist, conductor and teacher for its culture in that art. As a student he has given special atten- MKN OF I'ROORF.SS. 205 tion to hymnodyand sacred music, ast three years he has been a member of the City Council, a member of several societies including the drand .Army of the Republic, and politically he acts with the Rejiublican i)arty. Mr. Church married Elizabeth A. Fosket, a native of Ware, Massachu- setts. They have had five children, of whom the only one now living is Ix)uis H. Church. M.INT, Cir.(u<(U-. Washington, Principal CoUins- ville High School and President of the CoUinsville Sa\ ings Bank, was l)orn at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, March 2, 1844, his jiarents moving to Maine in 1850. Mr. Flint traces his descent back to a certain ditto de Leon who flourished in 1055, whose family and name were well known in France long before the Conquest. There are many gallant names along the line, Roger de Courcelli, who accom])anied William the Conqueror to England and received for his services lands and the Ix)rdship of Churchill, from whom the family of Churchill is descended. John Churcliill, the eighteenth genera- tion from Ciitto de l.eon, was one of the grantees of the Plymouth (!!olony ; his descendant, Ephraim Churchill, fought in the Revolution and received as a pension fne hundred and sixty acres of land in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and one-half an acre in the city of I'oston where the post-office now stands. It was the daughter of Ephraim, Mary Churchill, who married David Flint the grandfather of the subject of the present sketch. The Flints are of old Eng- lish stock and settled in ("oucord in i6j8, going to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, about 1771. Captain William Flint (our subject's father) was killed while leading his troops into action in the "Crater" before Petersbvirg in 1864. Mr. Flint was just en- tering Nichols Latin School, Lewiston, Maine, at the time. He was graduated from Bates College, Lewis- ton, Maine, in 187 I, .Salutatorian of his class. Im- mediately after graduation be became Principal of Francestown Academy, Francestown, New Hamp- shire, where he remained two years, when he ac- cepted the principalship of the Lebanon Academy at West Lebanon, Maine. He was obliged to resign this position on account of illness, but was able to acceiH another in the Bath High School in 1874 which he held for a short period, until he was elected principal of the CoUinsville High School April 1874, which position he still holds. In this school he has fitted for college students of both sexes ; Williams, .Amherst, Brown, Bates, Yale, Wes- leyan. Union, University of New York, Cornell, Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, and Mt. Holyoke all being 2l6 MEN OF PROGRESS. represented. He holds many responsible positions. In the Congregational Church he is a deacon and also Superintendent of the Sunday School. He is Chairman of the Collinsville Ecclesiastical Society's Committee and President of the Law and Order League. In 1892 he was elected President of the Collinsville Savings Bank which position he still holds. He was initiated into the full rights of Masonry, Free and Accepted Masons, in Village Lodge No. 29, Collinsville, in 1882. In politics he has been a Republican since Grant's first Presi- dential Campaign in 1868. Mr. Flint was married January 30, 1873, to Mary Elizabeth Monteith of GEORGE W. FLINT. Barnet, Vermont. To them have been born the following children : William Ruthven, born April 12, 1875; Harry Monteith, born July 28, 1880; and Georgiana Elizabeth Flint, born September 8, 1882. FORD, General George Hare, one of New Haven's most notable merchants and business men, a man influential in many departments of the cor- porate life of the city, a gentleman tracing his ancestry by direct descent to men who were among the founders of Massachusetts Bay and New Haven colonies, a member and Director of many incorporated institutions and President of the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven, and a num- ber of influential public and private institutions, is the subject of this sketch, a man highly respected for his personal character, marked business ability and for an unwearying public spirit, that has left its beneficial impress already upon the beautiful city which during his business life has been his home. General Ford was born in Milford, Connecticut, in 1848, of pure New England stock on both branches of his ancestral tree, a descendant of Thomas Ford, Sr., who came to New England's shores in the Mary and John in 1632, a member of the Massachu- setts Bay Colony and settled first in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and later being one of the original settlers of Windsor in 1633, he soon being elevated to a high official position in the colony, occupying the post of Deputy under its first governor, John Haynes. His son, Thomas Ford, Jr., was one of the original founders of the town of Milford, settling there in 1639, and General Ford's family line is brought down direct from Thomas Ford, Sr., through (i) Thomas Ford, Jr., (2) John Ford, (3) John Ford, (4) Thomas Ford, (5) Harvey Ford, (6) Merritt, General Ford's father, who died in 1888. On his mother's side. General Ford is a direct descendant of Thomas Tibbals who came to New England on the True Love in 1635. Thomas Tib- bals won honor and renown for his invaluable ser- vices rendered the brave Captain John Mason in the celebrated war of the struggling Colonists with the Pequots, being honored therefor with a special grant of land from the colony, located in what is now the town of Milford. He with Peter Prudden and forty-two other heads of families under their direction located on this land which was situate on the banks of the Wepowaug river in Milford, where a tablet is erected to his memory by the town. Gen- eral Ford, directly after graduating from the Milford High School, began his business career with New Haven's then leading jeweler, the late Everard Benjamin, one of the most noted old-time mer- chants of New Haven, and noted for the purity and excellence of his personal character. General Ford rose rapidly, early displaying the business capacity, foresight, tact and enterprise which have ever dis- tinguished his business career and won for him a high place in the annals of our prominent and lead- ing New Haven merchants and men of affairs. At the early age of twenty-one, such w-as his usefulness and aptitude for business and his success, that he was associated by Mr. Benjamin in partnership in this old established mercantile house, which was MEN OF PROGRESS. 217 founded in 183 1. In 1873, upon the death of Mr. Benjamin, General Ford became sole jjroprielor of the business, which under his guiding hand and rare administrative ability has greatly surpassed its former dimensions and attained a fame which has far exceeded the confines of Connecticut, the house being known as one of the most successful in the country as manufacturers of gold and silver and importers of artistic wares. In recent years he became the owner of the F'ord building in which his business is located and which he had notably enlarged and improved, and upon the com- pletion of this work the business was merged into a joint stock partnership and still further enlarged, new departments being added nntil it is now a suitable art as well as a model jewelry emporium of large size and importance, the upper floors of the building being occupied for manufacturing purposes with show rooms and offices on the lower floors. During the past ten years General Ford has travelled extensively in the Old World, and in his various pleasure trips abroad, added extensively to his private collection of antiquities and curios and has become one of Connecticut's largest importers from foreign markets. He has also one of the finest collections of rare old Colonial books in Connecticut. General Ford's wife, a lady most estimable and a most devoted wife and friend, is prominent in New Haven's social life and chari- table work, and is a daughter of the late Hon. John Calhoun Lewis of Terryville, who was Speaker of Connecticut's House of Representatives in 1849, and who was a brother of the late Hon. Henry G. Lewis, who for many years most ably and notably served New Haven as its Mayor. General Ford was honored with an election to membership in the New Haven Grays in 1865 ; was in 1871 appointed Commissary-General of the state on the staff of the late and much lamented Ex-Governor Bigelow, and fills with eminent success the following positions : President of the George H. Ford Company; President of the Grilley Company, manufacturers of screws, saddlery and casket hardware ; a Director of the Merchants National Bank ; President of New Haven's Chamber of Commerce, the oldest cham- ber of commerce but one in the United States ; a trustee of the New Haven Orphan Asylum ; a trus- tee of the New Haven Yacht Club ; member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution ; hereditary member of the Society of Colonial Wars ; President of the Quinnipiack Club, New Haven's leading social club ; and President of the Connecticut Jewelers and Opticians Association by successive electors. Recently he was chosen for the second time President of the Chamber of Commerce, of New Haven, his administration of the affairs of the chamber being notably successful and the progres- siveness and public spiritedness of that body being, under his leadership and aided by his colleagues, phenomenally brilliant and the accessions to its membership among the greatest in its history. Through General I'ord's energetic work and that of his respective colleagues important legislative action has been procured for the benefit of the Chamber of Commerce and for the protection of the public GEORGE H, FORD. against fraud by the enaction of the law requiring the proper stamping of gold and silver ware to attest its genuineness and real standard of value. General Ford has devoted largely and generously his time for the benefit of the public, and for the furtherance and support of charitable institutions. His friends are legion, and upon the walls of his sanctum sanctorum at his beautiful store, are to be seen photos of nearly all of New Haven's most famous men of today, and various others of men from other cities, all of whom are among his ]ier- sonal friends. General Ford is singularly happy and fortunate in his physical endowments and vigor, in his great capacity for business and executive 2l8 MEN OF PROGRESS. talent, who is surrounding himself with warm (riends among the young men of note and also among the seniors in age and counsel. He is a warm and devoted friend, an honest opponent, strong and firm in his convictions, yet ever open to the challenge of friendly criticism or debate, honest and sincere in defence of his cherished opinions, a staunch Republican in politics, yet deferential to the honest differing views of others. He has made a record as a merchant and ii\iblic-spirited man that does him and his city honor, and that reflects renewed credit upon his honored ancestry, and last but not least among his distinguished qualities are his sterling qualities of head and heart, that win for him the standard friendship and the warmest regard of his fellow citizens. years. Young Gold prepared for college at the Goshen Academy and was graduated from Yale in 1S38. He followed up his college course with studies in natural history and medicine and for a while taught school at Goshen and at VVaterbury. He finally chose farming as a business and settled upon the old homestead at West Cornwall, widely known as the Cream Hill Farm. The property has never changed hands except by inheritance, and was originally cleared from the forest by Mr. Gold's ancestor, James Douglas. Mr. Gold was among the promoters of the Connecticut Agricultural Soci- ety in 1850 and has been always connected with it GOLD, Theodore Sedgwick, West Cornwall, Connecticut, Farmer and Secretary of the Con- necticut Board of Agriculture and the Storrs Agri- cultural College, was born at Madison, New York, March 2, 181 8, son of Dr. Samuel Wadsworth and Phebe (Cleveland) Gold. He comes of good old Colonial stock, and traces his descent from well- known New England families, such as Wadsworth, Sedgwick, Cleveland, Talcott and Douglas. Major Nathan Gold, of Fairfield, and Lieutenant-Colonel John Talcott, of Hartford, were of the nineteen named in the Charter of Connecticut from Charles n. Major Nathan Gold was a prominent public man and an assistant or member of the Council from 1657 to 1694, the date of his death. His son Nathan Gold succeeded him as Assistant from 1694 to 1723, the latter serving also as Lieutenant- Governor from 1708 to 1723. Nathan Gold, Jr , married Hannah, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel John Talcott. Their son was the Reverend Heze- kiah Gold, of Stratford, Harvard 17 19, whose son was the Reverend Hezekiah Gold, Yale 1751, and pastor of the Congregational Church in Cornwall from 1755 to 1787. The latter's first wife was Sarah Sedgwick of Cornwall, the mother of four sons, the youngest, Hezekiah, a farmer in Cornwall, his only son, Dr. Samuel W. Gold, the father of the subject of this sketch, graduated from Williams in 18 14. He returned from Madison, New York, the year after his son's birth and practiced his profession at Goshen and Cornwall. On retiring from practice, in connection with his son he established on the ancestral farm the Cream Hill Agricultural School, which was successfully carried on for twenty-four T. S. GOLD. in some official capacity. The society held its first fair in 1854, and early employed Professor S. W. Johnson to analyze commercial fertilizers, which work was continued until the establishment of the Agricultural Experiment Station. The Connecticut Board of Agriculture was established in 1866 and Mr. Gold has been its efficient Secretary from the beginning. The Agricultural Experiment Station began work in 1875 at Wesleyan University under charge of Professor W. O. Atwater, but in 1877 was established at New Haven, Professor Johnson, Director. From its commencement Mr. Gold has been a member of the Board of Control of the Sta- tion. From 1856 to 1861 he was one of the editors MEN OK TROCRESS. 219 of The Homestead, an agricultural iiaper published at Hartford by Colonel Mason C. U'eld. From 1864 to 1874 he was Secretary of the Connecticut Soldiers Oqilian Home located at Mansfield. In 1S7S Mr. Gold published the History of Cornwall, much of tlie material having been collected by his father. He was one of the original trustees of the Storrs Agricultural -School at Mansfield which was established by the Legislature of 18S1 and was made a college in 1893, and has been its Secretary since 1883. He is also one of the trustees of the Storrs Experiment Station. After the revival of the Connecticut Crange in 1885, Mr. (iold was for four years its Treasurer. He is also Vice-President of the Connecticut Historical Society and a mem- ber of many scientific and patriotic associations. Mr. Gold's ])olitical affiliations are with tiie Repub- licans but he has never sought office. His time and abilities ha\e been generously given to the furtherance of the much neglected science of agri- culture. The farmers of Connecticut owe him much for his intelligent efforts in their belialf, and he is widely recognized as a standard authority on agricultural subjects, and a frequent contributor to agricultural ])a]iers. He has made a special study of fruit culture and on Iiis Cream Hill Farm takes pride in pointing out an apple-tree still in bearing, that was planted by his great-great-grandmother, Sarah (Douglas) Wadsworth, one hundred and fifty years ago. Mr. Gold has been twice married. His first wife was Caroline E. Lockwood, to whom he was married September 13, 1843, and who died April 25, 1857. Five children, all daughters, were the issue of this marriage : Eleanor Douglas, wife of Charles H. Hubbard, Vale 1867, of Hartford City, Indiana; Mary F^lizabeth, born February 2, 1847, died July 11, 1857; Emily Sedgwick, born January 31, 1849, died April 2, 1858; Rebecca Cleveland, born July 29, 1851, wife of Samuel M. Cornell of Guilford ; and Caroline Simons, born October 3, 1855, wife of William F. Gibson of San Francisco, California. Mr. Gold's second wife was Mrs. Emma (Tracy) Baldwin who descended from Lieu- tenant-Colonel John Talcott, to whom he was mar- ried April 4, 1859. Four children have been born to them : Alice Tracy, born January 14, i860, mar- ried in 1887 to Franz LHrich von Puttkamer, of Washington, D. C, deceased December 13, 1890; Martha Wadsworth, born July 20, 1861, wife of Colin Daniel Morgan, of Montreal, Canada ; Charles Lockwood, born April 14, 1863, Yale S. S. S., 1883, and still on the farm ; and James Douglas Gold, born November 5, 1S66, Vale S. S. S., 1S8S, and New N'ork Medical College iS9i,nowa ]ihysician at liridgciiort, Connecticut. (5(X)DR1('1 1, AurmR I/ifis, Treasurer of the Hartford Courant Company, was born in Hartford, May 16, 1849. H'^ parents were James and Jean- nette (Skinner) Goodrich. He is the sixth gener- ation removed from William Goodrich who was born in tiie County Suffolk, England, and was one of the early settlers of Wethersficld, Connecticut. The family name has always been prominent in the A L. GOODRICH. State. William Goodrich's wife was Sarah Martin of the neighboring town of Hartford, whom he mar- ried in 1648. The date of his death was 1676. Arthur Louis Goodrich, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the Hartford High School, where the training is equal to that of many colleges. On leaving the High School, though only fourteen years of age, he entered at once into active business life. His first position was with the large wholesale drug firm of Lee, Sisson & Company, of Hartford, where he remained eight years and gave early indi- cation of the qualities of frankness, whole-hearted- ness and shrewd discernment that were to stand him in such good stead in the future and to make 2 20 MKN OF PROGRESS. him so many friends. On March 13, 1871, he entered the business department of the Hartford Courant, where he has remained ever since, becom- ing one of the owners, a Director, and the Treasurer since January i, 1S92. His sound judgment, his care for details and his progressiveness, together with his kindly manner, have contributed largely to the remarkable success of the paper since he has been connected with it. The one thing outside of business in which he has taken a special interest is militar)' affairs. Calculated by physique and tem- perament to make a good soldier, he served for twenty-one years in the Connecticut National Guard, being now on the retired list with the rank of Brigadier-General. His first enlistment was on .■\pril 6, 1S66, in Battery D, known as the Hartford City Guard. This battery may be called the found- ation rock of the present splendid First Regiment of the Connecticut Guard, an infantry regiment which, however, long clung to the artillery style of uniform of old Battery D of glorious record. The battery became Company F of the Regiment and has always maintained its high position. General Goodrich served through the various non-commis- sioned grades and held commissions in the First Regiment as Adjutant, Major and Lieutenant-Colo- nel, from which last-named position he was ap- pointed Quartermaster-General with rank of Briga- dier-General on the staff of Henry B. Harrison, Governor of Connecticut from 18S5 to 1887. While General Goodrich has never sought political office, he has always been interested in the success of the Republican party. He married Emma Caro- line Root of Westfield, Massachusetts, September II. '87«- H.AMMOND, Allen Park, Treasurer of the New England Company, Rockville, was born in Vernon, Connecticut, June 24, 1835, son of Allen and Orra (Park) Hammond. The family dates its origin from England in the year 1066, its Norman progenitor having been a follower of William the Conqueror, and its American ancestor, who arrived in New England in 1636, settled in Hingham, Massachusetts. At a later date some of the family moved from Hingham to Bolton, Connecticut, being among the original proprietors of that town, and Elijah Hammond, the grandfather, located in Ver- non. Allen Park Hammond attended the public schools of Rockville, a private school in Ellington, and completed his studies at a polytechnic school. His business training was begun in the New England Mills, in which he worked four years for the purpose of acquiring a practical knowledge of the business ; and he then entered the office, where he became familiar with the financial department under the direction of his father, who was 'Preasurer of the concern from 1837 to 1864. When the present company was organized (1879), he was elected 'Preasurer, a position for which he was superabun- dantly qualified both by ability and experience, and he has since been retained at the head of the finan- cial department. He is President of the Rockville National 15ank, the Water and Aqueduct Company, and the Rockville Building and Loan Association; a A. PARK HAMMOND. Director of the Rockville Railroad and the Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Hammond was elected to the City Council for three years m 1894, was a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1S95-96, Representative to the Legislature in 1869, and in politics is a Republican. He is connected with the Masonic Order, being a Knight Templar, a mem- ber of Washington Commandery No. i, and is also a member of the Army and Navy Club of Connecti- cut and Burpee Post Grand Army of the Republic. He served during the rebellion as Captain of Com- pany D. Fourteenth Regiment Connecticut Volun- teers. The first of his two marriages was contracted December 7, 1S59, with Lois Cone Bissell. They .Mi:\ 1)1 im<(jc;ress. 321 had three children : Allen, George liissell and John where he remained from 1857 to 18S1, for ten or Park Hammond, deceased. On August 27, 1873, twelve years as clerk and afterwards as Treasurer or he married for his seconii wife, Augusta Sophia Agent of the Company. He accepted his present Bissell. JAMES, Heri'.krt I.i.kwti.i.yn, Manufacturer, Rockville, was horn in \\'illington, Connecticut, H. L. JAMES. January 13, 1842, son of I^lisha Benjamin and Mary Ann (Thomas) James. His father was born in Union, Connecticut, in 1814 and his mother at Willington in the same year. His great-great- grandfather, Benjamin James, came from England in 1665 and settled on Prudence Island in Narra- gansett Bay, Rhode Island. Benjamin James, his son, settled in Ashford, Connecticut ; Pjenjamin James, third of the name and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, lived in Union, Connecticut, was born in 177 1, and died in 1848. On the maternal side his great-great-grandfather was Ben- jamin Thomas who came from Wales in Creat Britain, in 16S0. His great-grandfather was also Benjamin and his grandfather Rowland G. Thomas. Herbert L. James received his education at the Bacon Academy at Colchester, Connecticut, and in the High Schools of Middletown and Rockville, Connecticut. His business career began with his employment in the Florence Mills at I^ockville, position as Treasurer of the Rock Manufacturing Company, .April i, 1881. He is a Director in the First National Bank and the Savings Bank of Rock- ville, a Director in the Rockville Water & .Aqueduct Company, and {'resident of the Rockville Railroad Company. In jiolitics he has been a Republican since he first became a voter. He was married October 10, 1865, to Ann Francis Leavitt, who (lied February 10, 1890. 'I'hey had three children : Howard Kellogg James, born July 20, 1867, and two daughters who died in infancy. He was again married, March 24, 1896, to I'llla Reed Cruttenden (nee Reed). I'AIGI',, .Ai.i.AV Wai.i.ack, I.awyer, and E.\- Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representa- tives, Bridgeport, was born in Sherman, Connecticut, ALLAN W. PAIGE. February 28, 1854. He comes of good old New England stock, and is the son of John O. and Cor- nelia (Joyce) Paige. He first attended the common schools of his native town, and was next a student at the Russell Collegiate and Commercial Institute at New Haven, after which he attended the Hopkins Grammar School in the same city. He graduated MEN OF I'ROGRESS. from the Vale Law School in 1881. He settled at Bridgeport, and his subseiiuent career has been that of a successful lawyer, with well deserved political honors that have followed as the logical sequence of his abilities and the esteem of his fellow citizens. Politically he is a staunch Republican, and has been for many years a member of the Republican State Central Committee. Mr. Paige was chosen Assistant Clerk of the Connecticut House of Repre- sentatives in 1SS3, and was regularly advanced to the [losition of Clerk of the House in 1884, and Clerk of the Senate in 1885. He was elected Rep- resentative from his native town, Sherman, in 1882, and from the town of Huntington in 1890. During the latter session, the famous dead-lock session, he served with great distinction as Speaker of the House. He is a member of the Union League Club of New York, and of nearly all the local socie- ties and clubs of Bridgejiort. Mr. Paige was mar- ried November 15, 1 886, to Elizabeth D. Downs, of Huntington. They have two children, Marian D. and .Mine E. Paige. PICKETT, James .Andrew, Ex-Mayor of New Britain, was born in New Milford, Connecticut, March 9, 1829, son of Albert and Mary R. (Roberts) Pickett. He received his early education in the public schools of his native town and in private schools in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The subject of this sketch came to New Britain in 185 1, and accepted a position as bookkeeper in the office of A. North & Son, manufacturers of saddlery hard- ware. In 1855, ^Ir- Pickett, jointly with L. F. Judd, bought a half interest in the establishment now known as the North & Judd Manufacturing Company, and for twenty years held the position of Treasurer of the company. In 1876, he was elected President of the large and well-known cutlery and hardware manufacturing company. Landers, Frary & Clark, which responsible office he held until his resignation in i88g. For many years, Mr. Pickett was Vice-President and Director of the Shelby Iron Works in Alabama, Vice-President and Director of the New Britain National Bank, and also President of the Union Manufacturing Company, another important hardware firm. Today Mr. Pickett is a Director in the Mechanics' National Bank, the Russell and Erwin Manufacturing Company, the New Britain Savings Bank, the American Hosiery Company, and the Stanley Rule and Level Company. The holding of these various important financial posts is an indication of Mr. Pickett's standing as an able and successful man of business and shaper of mercantile and manufacturing interests. But they by no means stand for the full statement of his activity. He has also been one of his city's most influential citizens in all matters of reform and imi)rovement, and has occupied leading positions. When the sewerage system was adopted in New Britain, he was appointed one of the Sewer Com- missioners, and held the office for eight years. He has been both Town Assessor and City .Auditor, and in 1883-84-S5 was successively elected Mayor. JAMES A. PICKETT. He represented the town in the State Legislature in 1884, and was Chairman of the Committee on Insurance on the part of the House. He is a prominent member of the Centre Church in New Britain, and has been conspicuous for his unosten- tatious charity there and through general social channels. In the civic and other offices held by Mr. Pickett, he has won high regard in his own community as a representative citizen. Personally he is modest and most lovable in character. Few New Britain men have a more honored place than he, whether in public estimation or private social life. Mr. Pickett has been twice married ; in 1857, MKN OK I'ROGRKSS. 22 ' to Caroline ¥.. Stanley, by whom he had one daughter, Anna, now Mrs. Rockwell, of Enfield, Connecticut; and in November 13, 1878, to Emma C. Lawrence. IIICKS, C.MTAiN luA EiiwARD, of Ncw Britain, Treasurer and Manager of the Central New Eng- land Brick lv\change, also Past Junior National Commander-in-Chief of the (Irand Army of the Republic, and Past Department Coumiander, De- partment of Connecticut, was born at Rehoboth, Bristol county, Massachusetts, September 22, 1840. IRA E. HICKS. He is the son of Ira Warren and Mary (Martin) Hicks. The family trace their line back to Ellis Hicks, knighted by the l]lack Prince for bravery at the battle of Poictiers. The first ancestor in this country was Thomas Hicks, of Scituate, Massachii- setts, who came from London to Plymouth, Massa- chusetts, in 1621 in the ship Fortune. Ephraim Hicks went to Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in 1712. His son James died in 1780, the latter's son James in 1840, and Ira W. Hicks, the father of the subject of this sketch, in 1841. Young Hicks was sent to the public schools of his native town, and was grad- uated from Bristol Academy. After graduation he was in the Taunton, Massachusetts, Post-office for lour years, then moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut, and there engaged in manufacturing. At the com- mencement of the War, he left a prosperous busi- ness and on September 9, 1861, enlisted in Com- pany I, Seventh Regiment Connecticut X'olunteers, Colonel Terry, afterwards General Terry, in com- mand. He was api)ointed Second Lieutenant and was mustered into the service four days after enlist- ment. He was promoted First Lieutenant March I, 1863, and continued with his regiment until near the close of the \\'ar, participating in all its battles and sieges, twenty-two in number. He was wounded at the battle of James Island, South Caro- lina, June 16, 1862. At the battle of Morris Island, he was acting Adjutant when four comjjanies of his regiment led the assault on Fort Wagner, July 11, 1863. Of the two hundred and eight men and eleven officers who went into the engagement, only seventy-three men and four officers escaped. Lieu- tenant Hicks one of the four. After this battle General Strong appointed him Provost-Marshal of the Island, commanding the balance of the detach- ment. In 1864 the regiment was ordered to Fort- ress Monroe to take part in the attack upon Rich- mond. Lieutenant Hicks was ordered to report to General Berney, commanding the Tenth Army Corps, and he remained upon his staff until General Berney's death. The latter, in recognition of the services rendered by Lieutenant Hicks at the Battle of Deep Bottom, recommended him for promotion in the regular army. But his health whicii had be- come impaired by his wounds prevented his accept- ance. After receiving promotion as Captain of Infantry he was mustered out December 4, 1864. Captain Hicks is one of the charter members of Stanley Post, Grand .Army of the Republic, and has held the office of Commander of the Post for four terms. He was also Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of the Department of Con- necticut, and Junior Commander-in-Chief of the Grand :\rmy of the Republic of the United States. He was a])pointed Postmaster of New Britain by President Harrison in 1889, and has also served as Alderman, Councilman and Assessor of the city. He has been Superintendent of the New Britain .Malleable Inm \\'orks, and at the present time is the capable Treasurer and Manager of the Central New iMigland Brick Exchange. For twenty-five years he has been a vestryman of St. Mark's Church. Captain Hicks is a Free Mason and a member of the Ni'w Tirilain Club. In politics he is a staunch 224 MEN OF PROGRKSS. Republican His wife's maiden name is Margaret Klizabeth Adams, to wiiom he was married Septem- ber 14, 1S60. Two daughters have been born to them : Margaret and Lydia Hicks. RAIIEL, Andrew, President of the l^ridgeport Traction Company, Bridgeport, was born in Newark, New Jersey, March 2, 1862. He comes of sturdy German parentage and is the son of John and Cath- erine (Brueckner) Radel. His father was at first a grocer, but subsequently made a brilliant record as an operator in street railways. He was a man of ANDREW RADEL. great force of character, remarkable foresight and well rounded abilities. Young Radel received a common school education, finishing with a two-years course at St. Benedict's College. When he was sbcteen years old his father purchased from Eugene Kelly & Company, the Newark and South Orange Horse Railway. The road was then for the third time in the hands of a receiver and the wise-acres shook their heads at this purchase by the German grocer of this "streak of rust," as it was derisively called. The road consisted of four miles of track, four regular cars and an equipment of sixty-eight poor horses, from which, without making a cash payment, the elder Radel agreed to pay $35,000 within ten years, giving real estate as security for the same. The shrewd business foresight of this purchase was soon demonstrated, and though sur- rounded by powerful rivals the Newark and South Orange Company soon secured the right to build a four-mile extension into the centre of the city's trafific, before its competitors had realized what had been done. Andrew Radel had entire charge of this road, and so successful was his management that in seven years the purchase price had been paid, many improvements made and the road placed on a handsome dividend paying basis. In 1892 the road was sold for one million and a half dollars to a syndicate of which Mr. Radel was the leading member. In the autumn of the same year the road was equipped with electricity. Mr. Radel supervised the construction and thus gained for himself an enviable reputation as a thorough and competent railway contractor. He still retains his position as Superintendent of the company. He is also a Director and Vice-President of the New Brunswick, New Jersey Traction Company. This company was organized by Mr. Radel, his father, brother, and Judge Krueger of the New Jersey Supreme Court being associated with him. Mr. Radel first came to Bridgeport in order to super- vise the changing of the Bridgeport Horse Railway into an electric system. So impressed was he by the opportunities offered by the city that he has made Bridgeport his permanent residence and has become one of the city's most prominent and respected citizens. As President of the Bridgeport Traction Company he occupies a most important position, and the development of this enterprise into one of the most progressive and prominent electric systems of this country is largely one of his execu- tive force and distinguished abilities. The Bridge- port Traction Company originated in a consolida- tion of the Bridgeport Horse Railway Company and the East End Railway Company. This important consolidation was accomplished through Mr. Radel's efforts and he was also organizer and President of the Shelton Street Railway Company. Mr. Radel is not a politician. In 1889 he was, however, elected a Democratic Alderman of Newark, in one of the strongest Republican wards. His business required him to decline a renomination. He is a member of the Jefferson Club and Joel Parker Association of Newark, the Transportation Club of New York, and in Bridgeport of the Algonquin, Seaside, Seaside Outing, Camp Woodbine and Bridgeport Yacht clubs. Mr. Radel was married December 29, MKN OK I'ROC.RKSS. 225 1892, to Miss Rena J. Berg. They have two chil- dren : Andrew Radel, Jr., and Margaret Catiierinc Radel. RICHARDS, Fr.wcis Hf.nrv, Mechanical Engi- neer, Hartford, was born in New Hartford, Litch- field county, October 20, 1850, son of Henry and Maria S. (Whiting) Richards. He is a direct de- scendant of Thomas Richards who came from Eng- land and settled in Hartford prior to 1637. On the maternal side he is seventh in descent from William Whiting, a merchant whose name is men- tioned in the histories of this country as early as 1632, and who was chosen treasurer of the Con- necticut Colony in 1641, retaining the office for life, his son Joseph being elected to succeed him at his death. Joseph's son John served in the same capac ity when his father, after thirty-nine years of duty, died, and John himself held the same ])ost but seven years less than his predecessor. Such a notable ancestral record is well worthy of preserva- tion and is interesting, not alone as an evidence of the esteem in which the family was held in earlier years, but as a significant testimony to the superior inherited endowment of the subject of this sketch. To quote from an article in Cassier's Magazine of May 1896: "Descended from a race of .'Xmerican farmer-mechanics, he exemplifies in a marked de- gree that self-reliant spirit of the early American pio- neers, who never hesitated to attempt what needed to be done. . . . Mr. Ricliards' inventive genius was, in a large part, inherited from his ancestors who taught and practiced the theory that a farmer should always be able to make his own tools. At the early age of fifteen he liegan building machinery of his own invention, and has been actively engaged in the development of mechanical industries since that time." Mr. Richards spent his earlier years, in part, in the home of his grandfather. Marquis Richards, on the ancestral estate established by his great-great-grandfather, Aaron Richards, during the war of the Revolution. His school life began at New Haven whither his father, Henry Richards, re- moved with the family in 1855, and where Francis attended the then celebrated " Eaton " graded school. The eight years following 1857 were spent on his father's farm near Rakersville in New Hart- ford, where the boy gave his attention to agricul- ture during the summer, and to his books during the winter seasons. He first attended the village school, later the Academy and supplemented these ordinary advantages by energetic study with a pri- vate tutor, in .April 1S65, the family removed to New jiritain where for a few months he attended the High .School, but the following year, being offered the choice of a course in a technical col- lege or an immediate introduction to the more practical methods of the machinist's trade, he uniiesitatingly declared for the latter and therewith began his mechanical and inventive career in the factories of the Stanley Rule and Level Company, under the supervision of his father, an ingenious mechanic and inventor in charge of the machinery department of the extensive establishment. Here, by ]iersistent work and systematic study e.xtend- FRANCIS H. RICHARDS. ing over a period of eight years, he acquired both a practical and a theoretical knowledge of the trades of machine building, wood working, forg- ing and all their allied branches. During this time, also, he made frequent extended tours throughout the county for the purjiose of critically observing machinery and manufacture, and, begin- ning the study of patent law, was soon able to satis- factorily and successfully bring out and operate numerous inventions of his own in the shape of labor-saving machines. Since 18S2 Mr. Richards' business associations have been in Hartford, prin- cipally with the Pratt & ^Vhitney Company with which he was identified from 1S83 to 1886. He 226 MEN OF PROGRESS. only retired from this connection to establish an office of his own in the same city. The indexes of the United States I'atent Office show that, up to the present writing, over five hundred patents of his own inventions have been issued to him, thus rank- ing him second in the list of American Patentees (he is foremost in the list of his own state). In addition to these he has invented a great many valuable machines and devices for which he has never applied for a patent. Among his inventions may be mentioned an envelope machine, which prints, folds, gums, counts and bands, automati- cally, eighty thousand letter envelopes per day, greatly exceeding any other machine in its capacity, .^mong his more noteworthy recent inventions is a new automatic weighing machine, which is rapidly coming into general use for a wide range of pur- poses. This machine is of the single bucket class, very sensitive in action and rapid in operation. An important feature is the system of interlocking safety stops, modelled upon the well-known block signal system, by which the operation of the valve and bucket mechanisms is made positive and re- liable under all conditions, thereby attaining an object not previously reached in this class of weigh- ing machinery. This machine is used for weighing and registering all kinds of granular materials. Mr. Richards also, in 1873, invented and patented the fundamental features of the air-cushion door-springs that have since come into such general use. He has been among the foremost in developing manu- facturing enterprises based upon patents, and, dur- ing his connection with manufacturing, has worked in all capacities, from apprentice to supervising engineer and proprietor. In his business career he ranks among the ablest, and is recognized as one of the most reliable mechanical engineers of the day. He has been unusually successful in his business which consists in developing and patenting mechanical improvements and inventions, and he is consulting engineer and adviser for several manu- facturers of the United States. In 1889, in com- pany with his wife, he visited Paris, France, as a member oT a touring party of American engineers, including scientific men representing all the leading industries of America. Mr. Richards is essentially a man of progress, interested in all that pertains to the development of his profession and to the im- provement of its resources. It has been demon- strated that he is possessed of unusual power of intellect, having not alone the fine ingenuity of the inventor, but the instinct of business of enterprise as well. These two in combination place him among the most successful and conspicuous men of note in the East and he is easily one of our fore- most authorities in his particular line. Mr. Richards conducts in Hartford and New York extensive engi- neering and patent offices, employing a large corps of assistants. As a solicitor of patents and expert in patent cases he has made it his aim, and has suc- ceeded in his determination, to attain the highest position. He has been a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since its organiza- tion in 1 88 1. He is also a member of the Civil Engineers' Club of Cleveland, Ohio, the Engineers' Club of New York city and the American Associa- tion of Inventors and Manufacturers. In January 1897, he succeeded Dr. Richard J. Catling, of Gat- ling Gun fame, as President of the American Asso- ciation of Inventors and Manufacturers. Mr. Richards was married in October 18S7 to Mrs. Clara V. Dole (ne'e Blasdale), of Springfield, Massachusetts STANTON, Lewis Eliot, Lawyer, Hartford, was born in Clinton, Middlesex county, Connecticut, son of John and Caroline (Eliot) Stanton. His father was a prosperous country merchant of that place. His grandfather came from Rhode Island, but he was a descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the founders of Hartford whose name appears on the monument in the Centre Church burying-ground, though he is interred in Stonington. His mother was also of Clinton, and on the maternal side he is descended from Rev. John Eliot who came to Rox- bury, Massachusetts, in 1663, and later preached in Natick of the same state. Mr. Stanton acquired his early education at the village school of his birth- place, in the schools of Norwich, and later prepared for college at the Bacon Academy, in Colchester. He entered Y'ale in 1851 and at once applied him- self with diligence to his studies, proving an apt and conscientious student and taking various prizes for ability in debate, and was subsequently graduated with honor in a distinguished class. But his course of study did not end with the four years at the uni- versity. After leaving college he returned to his books with determination, having decided to make the law his profession. But while preparing for the bar he accepted the position of teacher at the Shaw Academy in East Cleveland, Ohio, where he re- mained for nearly a year. In July 1856 his health became impaired and he was forced to relinquish his school, which he did with much regret. But MF.N save enough to allow him to attend the Connecticut State Nor- mal School at New Britain where he was graduated in i860. He taught school for two years, and in August 1862 enlisted as a private in Company .V of the Twenty-fifth Connecticut Volunteers. He was soon advanced to the grade of Sergeant-Major, and at the battle of Irish Hend, Louisiana, April 14, 1863, was i)romoted Lieutenant of Company I for "gallantry on the field," in which action the regiment performed the difficult feat of forming a regimental line under fire. Lieutenant Simondswas mustered out with his regiment August 26, 1863, and on the next day was entered as a student in the Vale Law School, where he was graduated in 1865. He began the practice of law at Hartford, January 8, 1865, and has there built up a most lucrative and successful practice. He has confined himself to patent and trade-mark law and in that branch is widely recognized as one of the most eminent author- ities in this country. His practice is drawn from all parts of the United States and he is counsel for many of the most important cases on the docket of the United States Supreme Court, as well as the Circuit Courts of the United States in the Northern, Southern and Eastern states. Besides a large niun- ber of magazine articles and memorial addresses he is the author of the following books which are regarded as standards by the legal profession : " Law of Design Patents," 1874 ; " Digest of Patent Office Decisions," 1880 ; " Summary of Patent Law," 18S3 ; and " Digest of Patent Cases," 1888. Mr. Simonds has also contributed several noteworthy addresses and essays on the subject of agriculttire and political economy, in which he displays the same compre- hensive grasp of his subject which characterizes his writings on patent law. He has been a Trustee of Storrs Agricultural College since 1885, and of kite years its presiding officer. Mr. Simonds was a member of the Connecticut Legislature of 1883, when he served as chairman of the Committee on Railroads. He at once took rank as a leader in the House and was the originator of the short-hand railroad statute, the Ijill for the elimination of rail- road grade crossings and a bill for the purification of the caucus. On his re-election to the Legislature in 1885 he was the unanimous choice of the Rejiubli- can party for the jjosition of Speaker, which office he filled with the utmost ini])artiality and to the satisfaction of members of both i)arties. Mr. Simonds has continued to take an interest in Con- necticut legislation ; the oleomargarine and pure vinegar laws were enacted into laws precisely in the sha])e in which they came from his pen, and he was also the author of the first corrupt practices act introduced into the Legislature. His election in 1888 as a member of Congress from the First W. E. SIMONDS. District was the logical se(iucnce of his career as a state legislator. He was elected over the Democratic sitting member, and marked his con- gressional service by procuring the passage of the copyright law which had been unsuccessfully agi- tated in various congresses ever since the days of Henry Clay. F"or this service the government of b' ranee made him in 1891 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Simonds during this session also did valiant work for the Connecticut farmers in pro- tecting their interests in the tobacco schedule of the McKinley tarriff. He was unanimously re-nomi- nated for a second term in 1S90 but was defeated in the overwhelming Democratic land-slide of that 230 MEN OF PROGRESS. year. He was appointed Commissioner of Patents by President Harrison in 1891, and served until after the expiration of President Harrison's term in 1893. Soon after his nomination he ordered the issue of the famous Berliner patent which had been peniling for fourteen years. Since his retirement from the patent office commissionership he has continued in the active practice of patent law. From 18S4 to 1894 he was lecturer on fraternal law at the Yale Law School, from which university he received the honorary degree of M. A. in 1890. During his residence at Washington he was also a lecturer on the same subject in the Columbia Uni- versity of Washington. He was married October 17, 1877, to Sarah J. Mills, daughter of Honorable Addison C. Mills, of Canton, Connecticut. He has had three children, only one at present surviving, Caspar Simonds. SMITH, James Dickinson, of Stamford and New York, was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Nov- ember 24, 1832, son of Reverend John and Esther Mary (Woodruff) Smith. He is of the seventh generation in direct descent from Lieutenant Sam- uel Smith who with his wife Elizabeth arrived at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1634, and in 1635 moved to the Connecticut River, where he founded Wethersfield, Connecticut, removing in 1659 to Massachusetts and founding the town of Hadley. The subject of this sketch received an academic education, and gained his early experience in prac- tical business as clerk in a country store at Ridge- field, Connecticut. From 1847 to 1862 he was engaged in the drygoods business in New York. In 1863 he became a stockbroker and has ever since been actively engaged in that business, which at present he carries on under the firm name of James D. Smith & Company. Mr. Smith has a national and international reputation as a yachts- man, and is best known all over the world as Com- modore James D. Smith. He has been for the last twelve years Chairman of the America Cup Committee of the New York Yacht Club, during which time the sloops Mayflower, Volunteer, Vigi- lant and Defender have held the cup in Amer- ica against English challenges. Mr. Smith was Treasurer of the State of Connecticut in 1882, served as Representative to the Connecticut Legis- lature in 1 88 1, and in 1894-97 inclusive was Presi- dent of the City Council of Stamford. He was President of the New York Stock Exchange in 1885-86, and is President of the Woodlawn Ceme- tery Association of New York at the present time. Me was also for six years President of the New York Club, was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club in 1882-83, is a member of the Union League, New York and Players' clubs of New York, the Stamford Yacht Club and Suburban Club of Stamford, and the Sons of the American Revolu- tion. Whether as broker, yachtsman or social figure, Commodore Smith is one of the well-known Americans whose name means much and whose achievement indicates character and ability. He is a Republican in politics. He was married in JAMES D. SMITH. 1857, 'o Elizabeth Henderson, of New York city. They have two sons and two daughters : Mary, Archibald Henderson, Helen Woodruff and Dick- inson Woodruff Smith. TWEEDY, Samuel, of Tweedy, Scott & Whit- tlesey, Attorneys, Danbury, was born in Danbury, April 21, 1846, son of Edgar S. and Elizabeth S. (Belden) Tweedy. He acquired his early education in the public schools and private school in Danbury, and prepared for college at Professor Olmstead's School in Wilton, Connecticut. Graduating from Yale College in 1868, he studied law and was MEN Ol'' I'ROC.RKSS. 231 admitted to the Bar at IViiigeport, April 22, 1S71, since whicli time lie has been engagetl in the active practice of liis profession, lie was in partnership under the firm name of Brewster & Tweedy, until Jtdy 1878, then as anieniber of the firm of lirewster, Tweedy & Scott until September t892, and since then as senior in the firm of Tweedy, Scott & Whittlesey, a firm of high standing. The family name of Tweedy is one commanding universal respect in Oanbury and beyond it, and Samuel Tweedy is a worthy representatixe. In politics he is a Rei)ublican. He was married July 16, 1S79, to SAMUEL TWEEDY. Carrie M. Krom, daughter of Ira and .Ada M. Mil- ler of EUenville, Ulster county, New York. They have one child : Maude D. Tweedy. ALLEN, Jeremi.ah Mervin, of Hartford, Presi- dent of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company, was born at Enfield, Connecti- cut, May 18, 1833. His parents were Jeremiah V. and Emily (Pease) Allen, the former of whom was descended in direct line from Samuel Allen, who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1632. The family stock is sturdily Puritan, General l'"than Allen of historic memory being one of its distin- guished members, as were both Samuel and John .Mien of Colonial fame. In a biographical sketch of Mr. J. M. Allen this paragraph appears: "A taste for science and mechanics seems for a long jieriod to have been transmitted from father to son. One was an astronomer at a time when the appear- ance of ' .Mien's New England .Almanac ' was wel- t:omed as a notable event of the year. Another was one of the earliest in this country to engage in the manufacture of telescopes and microscopes. Others were contractors and builders." Mr. Allen was educated at the .Academy in Weslfield, Massa chusetts, and tlie profession toward which his incli- nation then [lointcd was that of civil engineer. He was a conscientious and intelligent student, and on completing his course at the aforementioned institu- tion turned at once to teaching, meanwhile con- tinuing his own reading and study and making the most of every opportunity for self-improvement and cultivation. In 1865 he was made general agent and adjuster of the Merchants' Insurance Company of Hartford, and subsequently he accepted a similar position in the Security Fire Insurance Company of New \'ork, attending to his duties with a fidelity that attracted attention in insurance circles. In October 1867 Mr. .Allen succeeded Mr. E. C. Roberts, the temporary president, to the Presi- dency of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company, an organization that was in anything but a flourishing condition at the time. To convince steam users of the utility of the system, he made frequent and arduous journeys, often trav- elling by night in order to have more time for work during the day. Says an article concerning the subject : " A change, complete and universal and having its sources in this early missionary work, has taken place since then. Regular inspections are now regarded as hardly less indispensable than fuel and water. Mr. Allen's methods are rigidly scientific. He has prepared many formulre that e.xpress with mathematical precision the rules of construction and criticism constantly observed. Love of their chief, born of fatherly courtesy and kindness, explains in good part the loyalty of employees to the company. Outside of his pro- fession Mr. .Allen has been of great service to the public by his skill in applying scientific principles to practical affairs. He is often called upon to discover hidden causes of trouble, and to find a remedy. He has written much and delivered many addresses on scientific subjects." He holds many positions of trust, being a Director in the 2y. MEN OF PROGRESS. Security Company, the Connecticut River Banking Company, the Orient Insurance Company and the Society (or Savings. He is Associate Executor and Trustee of the estates left by John S. Welles and Newton Case, amounting together to more than one million five hundred tliousand dollars, as well as of the Hartford Theological Seminary. Touching his association with the latter institution we quote from a sketch in a report for 1S93 of the Secretary of the Board of Trade, Mr. P. H. Woodward, one of the city's representative men : " When the institution first moved to the city, it occupied rented quarters on Prospect street. It now owns modern and J. M. ALLEN. spacious buildings in a choice location. Its finances have improved correspondingly. January 18, 1893, the Case Memorial Library was dedicated, Mr. Allen delivering the historical address. . . . The building as a whole and in detail originated in the brain of J. M. Allen, whose scientific knowledge and varied skill in handling force and matter have found embodiment in many diverse and widely scattered forms." When the Hartford Board of Trade was organized in 1888, he was elected President, which office he has ever since honorably held. He is a non-resident lecturer of Sibley College, Cornell University, and a member of several scientific, literary and historical societies, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of Mechanical Engineers, the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Philadelphia), the American Asso- ciation (Washington, District of Columbia), the Connecticut Historical Society, and numerous other organizations of importance and standing. It will be seen that Mr. Allen is a man of rare force of character and intellect, whose gifts are varied and genuine. He is essentially progressive, interested in everything that makes for improvement and ready to lend his hand to whatever may serve as an opportunity for the furtherance of the public wel- fare. Being so heavily loaded with responsibilities it is not to be wondered at that he has preferred to accept but few municipal offices, and has only been prevailed upon so far because he felt it possible by taking the reins himself to be better able to carry on certain matters of public welfare in which he was deeply concerned. Mr. Allen was married on April 10, 1856, to Miss Harriet Griswold, daugh- ter of Hermon C. Griswold, Esq., of Ellington, Connecticut. They have two children : Elizabeth Turner (wife of C. E. Roberts, Manager of the Northeastern Department of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company), and William Hermon Allen, Assistant Manager, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts. ADAMS, Henry, Manufacturer, Rockville, was born in Van Deusenville, Massachusetts, May 20, I S3 7, son of Washington and Laura (Seely) Adams. He is a lineal descendant of William Adams of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who came from England to this country in the early part of 1600, and whose great-great-grandson, John, served his coun- try as a soldier in the Revolution and his town (Northbridge, Massachusetts) as Selectman in the year 1781. An interesting little fact connected with the maternal branch of Mr. Henry Adams' family is to the effect that it was his mother's fore- father, Abraham Seely of North Haven, Connecti- cut, who made the first brick ever manufactured in the state. Another of her forebears was Martin Hart of Farmington, Connecticut, a soldier of the Revolution. Mr. Adams' training for active life was a severe one. His father was the proprietor of a cotton-goods mill in Adams, Massachusetts, and into this he introduced his son, following the latter's removal from school. The boy rose every morning at dawn in order to begin his work at five o'clock, MEN OF rROGUESS. !33 and he was never free to leave the mill until eight tion. Their children were Harry I.angdon and at night when his hours were considered over. Hut despite (I had almost said because of) these rigid regulations the young man acquired a thorough knowledge of the industry which has stood him in good stead since. After seven years' apprenticeship HENRY ADAMS. in his father's mill, Henry removed to Pittsfield where he learned the m.ichinist's trade, going from there to Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, to take a responsible position with the Indian Orchard Com- pany, a cotton- goods manufacturing concern, with which he remained for five years. The enterprise upon which he next ventured was the building of two mills in Housatonic, Massachusetts, and in order to aid in the erection of these he repaired to that place, leaving it in the fall of 1869 for Rock- ville, Connecticut, where he established the Adams Manufacturing Company. It was not long before he bought out the above organization, running the business under his own directorship and name, and incorporating it, in April 1891, as the Rockville Warp Mills Company. In politics Mr. .\dams is a Republican. He was married on January 18, i86y, to Esther Davison Langdon, daughter of Albertus Badger Langdon, and a descendant of lieutenant Paul Langdon, a soldier of the French and Indian War and of Captain Paul a soldier of the Revolu- Frank Mark Adams. Mrs. .Adams died on Decem- ber 20, 1S95. He was married a second time June 22, 1S97, to l';dith S. (-owan, of Brooklyn, N. Y. DRASTOW, Lkwis ORSMONn, Professor of Prac- tical Theology at the Yale Divinity School, was born in Brewer, Penobscot county, Maine, March 23, 1834, son of Deodat and Eliza (lilake) Brastow. His paternal ancestors were English, while those of his mother were both luiglish and French, she hav- ing been a descendant of the DuPee family, mem- bers of which served in the .American Revolution. The i)aternal grandparents and great-granusiness Manager of the Young Men's Total .Abstinence Society in 1892. On June 30, 1897, Mr. Danaher married Kllen Jane Ryan, of Meriden. ELLSWORTH, Lf.muki, SrounirroN, Manufac- turer, Simsbury, was born in East Windsor, January 9, 1840, son of Abner Moseley and Lucy Wetmore (Stoughton) ICllsworth. His first ancestors in this country, both paternal and maternal, early removed from Massachusetts, Josias Ellsworth having settled in Windsor about i6.)6 and Thomas Stoughton about 1640. Lemuel Stoughton Ellsworth was edu- cated at the common schools of his native state, and the earlier years of his life were spent upon a farm. Hut such a life as this was not to the mind of the enterprising young man and he soon left the F^ast and agriculture for the more stirring experiences of business life in California. In the year 1867 he became associated with the firm of Toy, Heckford & Company, manufacturers, and represented them in the West. Four years later he again turned his face eastward, and entered into tratle in Hartford with his brother, maintaining the association for si.xleen years ; then in 1887, he connected himself with ICnsign, liickford & Company, in Simsbury, of which he is still a partner. Mr. Ellsworth is highly esteemed by his fellow townsmen for his sound judgment and ability in commercial affairs, as well as for his admirable personal qualities and keen L. S. ELLSWORTH. interest in whatever ])romiscs to benefit the com- munity. He is a member of the Connecticut Historical Society and is regarded as an acquisition by the several other organizations with which his name is associated. His ])olitical views are those of a Republican and he is an active and interested mem- ber of that party. He was married October i 7, 1866, to Miss Anna Jane Toy of Simsbury, Connecticut. '■so MEN OF PROGRESS. They have liaii five children, two of whom are ileceased : I.iuy Stoiighton, George Toy, Annie Stoughton, Henry Kilwarils and John Stoughton Ellsworth. EGGLESTON, .Arthur P., State's Attorney, Hartford county, was born in Enfield, Connecticut, October jj, 1844, son of Jere D. and I.ouisa (Carew) Isggleston. He is a direct descendant of Begat Eggleston, who came from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1630, and removed to Windsor Connecticut, in 1635. Mr. Eggleston prepared for college at Monson Academy, Monson, Massachu- ARTHUR F. EGGLESTON. setts. At the age of seventeen, he entered the Union Army, enlisting in the forty-sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. In 1864 he entered Williams College, and was graduated in the class of 1868. Mr. Eggleston early developed a fondness for the legal profession. Anyone knowing him today would say of him, " He is a lawyer by nature." After studying in the office of Strong & Buck, in Hartford, he was admitted to the bar in 1872, endowed with a good physique, indomitable energy, an active brain and sterling common sense. Today he is a member of the firm which succeeded that one, now known as Buck & Eggleston, and his abilities have contributed largely to the success which has attended it from its inception. The senior member of the firm is Ex-Congressman John R. Buck. Mr. Eggleston won the familiar title of "Judge," by which he is everywhere known, by his six years of service as Judge of the Police Court of Hartford. He received his appointment as State's .Attorney of Hartford county in 1888, and has held the office continuously to the present time. Few State's Attorneys in the history of the state have attained such a record as he has for being a terror to criminals. His keen eyes see to the very bottom of intricate cases ; all mere verbiage is swept away and the jury finds itself in the possession of the hard, cold, unalterable facts. Mr. Eggleston loses no time in coming to his ]3oint ; he studies up every detail carefully before he enters the court room, and is frequently able to anticipate his adversary, how- ever clever. If there are even the smallest loopholes in the defense, Mr. Eggleston is sure to find them, and once an opening made, he pushes on rapidly and relentlessly till justice is satisfied. While Mr. Eggleston is a busy man, he does not fail to take an interest in all that is going on around him, and particularly in politics, where he is to be found always on the Republican side. He was Treasurer of Hartford county for ten years and Police Com- missioner of Hartford for three years. On March i, 1870, he married Mary Isabel Abbe, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut They have no children. ENSIGN, Ralph Hart, of the firm of Ensign, Bickford & Company, manufacturers of safety-fuse, Simsbury, Connecticut, was born in that town, Nov- ember 3, 1834, son of Moses and Martha Tuller (Whiting) Ensign. He is descended on both sides from original proprietors of Hartford. The paternal ancestors were James, David, Thomas, Moses, Isaac and Moses Ensign, and the maternal line, which started from William Whiting, was con- tinued through Joseph, Colonel John, Allyn and Elijah Whiting. Moses Ensign, the father, was a prosperous farmer of Simsbury. Ralph H. Ensign attended the schools of his native town, the Suffield Literary Institute, and the Academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He resided at home assisting his father upon the farm until twenty-one years of age, and for the next few years was engaged in various occupations, mostly mercantile. In 1863 he entered the employ of Toy, Bickford & Company, the safety- fuse manufacturers of Simsbury, was admitted to partnership in 187c, and when the firm of Ensign, MEN OF I'ROORFSS. 251 Bickford & Company was organized in 18S6, he being killed on the Welsh marshes during a night succeeded to tiie general management of the con- attack. Other ancestors on the paternal side are cern. He is a Director of the Hartford National such men as Judge liarle, Judge Vrecland, Abraham Bank, and the Hartford County Mutual Kire Insur- I'into, a Revolutionary hero; Dr. Johannes do la ance Company, and a Trustee of the Dime Savings Montagne, a Huguenot, and for nineteen years a member of the Councils of (Jovernors Kieft and Stuvesant ; John Montagne, William Morris, one of the organizers and one of the first vestry of Trinity Church; Jesse de Forrest and Corneles Swits, all names identified with the early history of New Vork and the New Netherlands. On the maternal side Mr. I'^arle is ecjually fortunate in the matter of ances- try, his mother, ICli/.abcth Finney, being the (laughter of Judge Benjamin I'inney of ICIlington, Connecti- cut, a veteran of the War of 1812, and a descendant of Humphrey Pinney of Broadway, Somersetshire county, England, who was one of the first settlers of Connecticut and who came from England in the ship Mary and John in 1630. The names given are hut a few of an illustrious many, but space will not RALPH H. ENSIGN. Bank of that city. Politically he generally acts with the Democratic party, by which he was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1876, and at the present time he is allied with the Gold Wing of the party. Mr. Ensign is a member of the Masonic Order and the Hartford Club. On July 22, 1863, he married Susan Toy, of Simsbury, daughter of Joseph Toy. They have three children living: Joseph R., Susan A. and Julia W. Ensign. EARLE, Wii.i.iAM Hi;nrv, Hotel Proprietor, of New Vork city, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 16, 1837. He is the son of William Pitt Earle and Elizabeth Pinney, and possesses hon- orable record of ancestry on both paternal and maternal sides. His fatlier was a lineal tlescendant of Edward Earle, the youngest member of that family who took such a prominent part in the par- liamentary struggles in England, his brother, Sir Walter Earle, l)eing the originator of the Habeas Corpus /\ct, and another brother. Sir Michael liarle. WM. H. EARLE. ])ermit of further specification. 'I"he forefather of the subject of our sketch, Edwartl I^arle, came from England to the Barbadoes Islands, where he stopi)ed a short time with relatives before sailing for Balti- more, Maryland, marrying there Hannah Baylis. In 1676 he removed to New Jersey and purchased the Island of Secaucus in Bergen county and thus 2!;2 MEN OF I'ROORRSS. became the parent of the Earle family in New Jersey. Mr. WiUiani Henry Earle received a good business education. Early in life he entered the employ of Earle & Company, wholesale grocers, in Front street. New York city, only leaving to take a position as clerk in his father's hotel in Park Row. In 1861 he entered into a partnership with his father, opening Earle's Hotel in Canal street, a hostelry noted for many years as a popular resort for men of affairs, commercial and political. In 1S72, having amassed a handsome competence, he sold his interest in the hotel and bought a country residence in Norwalk, Connecticut, retiring from active business thereupon. In 1886 he made some excellent investments in real estate in and about Colorado Springs, Colorado, which have since yielded him large returns, Mr. Earle having fore- stalled the silver panic in his sale of the property. In 1890, wishing to start his sons, Arthur G. and Howard de Forest Earle, in business, he leased the Park .Vvenue Hotel, New York, from the estate of A. T. Stewart. The hotel was built by the late Mr Stewart at a cost of three million dollars, but having been run by managers for the estate it proved unsuc- cessful and Mr. Earle, after a general renovation and many alterations involving an expenditure of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and by giving his experience and personal attention to all the details of the enterprise, has brought it to the high standard of excellence it has attained. It has proved a profitable investment, though, unfortu- nately, neither of his sons lived to enjoy its success ; Arthur G. Earle dying in 1894 and his brother, Howard de Forest Earle, but two years later. Mr. Earle is rather retiring in disposition, a lover of home and his family circle and has never taken an active part in politics though often urged to accept responsible public trusts. He married Miss Alice A. Peers, daughter of the late Colonel Thomas F. Peers, and they have had four sons, none of whom are now living and has built up a flourishing business in that industry. He was a member of the Common Coun- cil in 1888-89, of the Board of Education in 1893- 94 and 1895, and was first Selectman and town agent in 1894-95 and 1896, in all of which he rendered valuable and efficient service. He is a member of Pacific Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Amherst, Massachusetts, Keystone Chap- ter Royal Arch Masons, St. Elmo Commandery, Knights Templar, The Royal Arcanum, Chosen Friends, and the Home Club, all of Meriden, and the Republican League Club of New Haven. On GEO. L. ELLSBREE. November 21, 1876, Mr. Ellsbree was married in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Lizzie M. Russell, and has one son : Edward C. Ellsbree. ELLSBREE, George Lyman, Druggist and Man- ufacturer, Meriden, was born in Palmer, Hampden county, Massachusetts, November i, 185 1, son of George H. and Emeline (Pierce) Ellsbree. After acquiring a practical education in the common schools he learned the drug business, and in March 1877, he purchased the apothecary establishment in Meriden, formerly conducted by N. B. Welton, at 6 Palace Block. In 1888 he engaged in the manu- facture of lacquers and varnishes with W. R. Mackay, GOODWIN, R.4I.PH Schuyler, M. D., Thomaston, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, July 24, 1839, son of Charles and Jane Ann (Guilford) Goodwin. His boyhood and youth were spent in New York state, he having resided ten years in Binghamton and four years in Albany, from which city he removed to Brooklyn. He was fitted for college at the liinghamton Academy, but abandoned the college course, to take up the study of medicine. ^[F\ OF PROGRESS. 253 From i86i to 1S63, he taught elocution and Fnijlish at the State Normal School, Albany, and from 186,^ to 1865, he was a teacher in the Brooklyn CollcLiiate and Polytechnic Institute. He pursued a full course of medical instruction at the College of Physicians R. S. GOODWIN. and Surgeons, New York city, and for the past thirty years has practiced his profession in Thomas- ton with gratifying success. He has held various local and stale offices, including Town Health Officer and Acting School Visitor. He has been, during the last twelve years, a member of the Con- necticut State Board of Health, and was elected President of the Connecticut Medical Society at its annual meeting in May 1897. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, and of the American Public Health Association, in which he now holds a [irominent office. In politics. Dr. Goodwin acts with the Rci)ublican party ; and is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being a Past Grand of the local lodge. In religion he is a Congregationalist. On Feb. 28, 1867, he married Miss Jeanie Edith Irvine, a native of New York city. They have two children ; Dr. Ralph S. Goodwin, Jr., now practicing in New Haven, and Grace Goodwin, a graduate of Vassar College of the class of 1895. GROSS, Chari-KS Ekwarh, Lawyer, was born in Hartford August 18, 1847, son of Mason and Cor- nelia (Barnard) Gross. Among his ancestors are some of the leading men in the history of the Com- monwealths of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Prominent among them are IClder William Brewster, of the Mayflower, Governors John Webster and Thomas Welles of Connecticut, Gov. Thomas Prince, of Plymouth Colony, Captain Joseph Wadsworth who hid the Charter in the Charter Oak, Richard Treat, one of the ])alentees named in the Charter of 1662, and Captain John Barnard who served in the French and Indian Wars, was a ca])tain through almost the entire Revolutionar)' War and was ])resenl with \\ashington at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. Mr. Gross was graduated at the Hart- ford Public High School and at Yale College in the class of 1869. He was admitted to the Bar, Sep- tember 22, 1872. He studied law first with the CHARLES E. GROSS. Hon. Charles J. Hoadley, Slate Librarian, and sub- seipienlly in ihc office of Walilo, Ihibbartl iv Hyde where he remained after being admitted to the Bar. Gifted with the qualities which go to make a good lawyer he was made a member of the distinguished firm January i, 1877. ^" ''''^ death of the senior member. Judge Loren P. Waldo, in 1881, the firm 254 MEN OF I'ROCIRKSS. style was changed to Hubbard, Hyde & Gross, the senior member being (.'lovernor Richard D. Hubbard. On March i, 1S84, after the death of Governor Hublwird, the firm name became Hyde, Gross & Hyde, William Waldo Hyde having been admitted. 'I'he senior member then was the Hon. Alvan P- Hyde on whose death the name of the firm was changed in February 1S94 to Gross, Hyde & Ship- man. Mr. Gross is a man of wide business expe- rience as is attested by the number of leading corporations with which he is officially connected. He is a Director in The .Etna Insurance Company ; The Phcenix Mutual Life Insurance Company; The Society for Savings; The Smyth Manufacturing Company ; the Western Automatic Machine Screw Company ; the Wadsworth .\theneum ; the Hartford & Connecticut Western Railroad Company ; and in 1893 he was a Director of the New York & New England Railroad Company. He is a member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati ; the Con- necticut Society of the Colonial W'ars and of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is President of the Hartford Yale .-\lumni Association and was the first President of the City Club. .Another jiosition he holds which is of great responsibility is the Presidency of the Board of Park Commissioners. For six years he was a member of the Board of School Visitors. On Octo- ber 5, 1875, he married Ellen Clarissa, daughter of the late Calvin Spencer of Hartford. Their children are : Charles Welles, a student in Yale University, William Spencer (deceased) and Helen Clarissa Gross. HILL, Norman Nkwion, Bell Manufacturer, East Hampton, was born in that village, October 4, 1863, son of Claudius L. and Olive S. (Pease) Hill. He received a common school education and at the age of seventeen began work in a cotton mill at fifty cents a day. Thus he remained until the spring of 1882 when he accepted employment in the finish- ing department of a bell factory. He worked at the bench until the summer of 1884 when he was given a position as travelling salesman for the firm. This position he retained until December 1888, when he resigned and in the following month with a capital of eight hundred dollars saved from his daily wages of the past years, started in the manu- facture of bells on his own account. The business was first conducted in a small room barely twenty feet square, but within six weeks the business was moved to a two-story building about twenty by thirty feet, which was destroyed by fire with all its contents on July 15, 1890. Within two months Mr. Hill was again established in a new factory, and from this time on the business has increased with l)henomenal rapidity. Within eight years, starting on an insignificant scale, an enterprise has been developed which is today the largest exclusive bell plant in the world. Mr. Hill is the sole proprietor. The plant occupies three large brick buildings and has today a capacity for over fifty thousand bells per day. The catalogues of the N. N. Hill Brass (,'ompany show a wide variety of sleigh bells, call bells, toy bells and bicycle bells. The little village N. N. HILL. of East Hampton has long been known as the home of the bell industry. A greater number of bells are here manufactured than in all the remainder of America combined, and the N. N. Hill Brass Com- pany is the largest single establishment. The un- precedented demand for bicycle bells in the last few years has added a new impetus to the industry and orders for the goods have continually come in faster than the manufacturer could supply. Mr. Hill is still a young man but has won the respect and admiration of his fellow townsmen for his abilities and unprecedented business success. His native town has shared in his prosperity and has accorded him the recognition which his career so well de- Mi:\ Ol" I'RdCKKSS. 255 sers'es. Mr. Hill is a Republican in jiolitics but his business duties have prevented him from accept- ing office. He was married .August 14, 1S90, to .•\nnette liarton, a daughter of one of tiie well- known bell manufacturers of h'.asl Hampton. 'I'hey have two children : Wyman N. and I'.velyn R. Hill. HliN('.i:i\F( »K|i, Im;ank I.iwi^, Ia Judge and .Attorney of the Hailford firm of llungerford, ll\(le. Jcslyn & Ciilman, was born in Torrington, Connecti- cut, in 1S4?, son of John and Charlotte (.Austin) Hungerford. Mr. llungerford traces his descent F. L. HUNGERFURD, from Thomas Hungerford, of England, who settled in Hartford about 1639. He was educated, first, at the Torrington common schools, supplemented by private study which prepared him for college. In i860 he entered tlie University of Vermont, but after two years of study in that institution, he went into the office of that distinguished lawyer and statesman. Senator (leorge F. Fdmunds, at IJurling- ton, \'ermont, to begin his legal work. .Admitted to the Bar in Burlington, in 1S65, he soon returned to Connecticut and began his law practice in Tor- rington the next year, remaining there four years ; then removing to New Britain where for nearly thirty years, 1869 to 1897, he was engaged in a suc- cessful professional career. During all this time Charles K. Mitchell was his law i)artner and in 1.S93 the firm became Mitchell, Hungerford iS: Bariletl. I'pon the dissolution of the partnership, Mr. llun- gerford came to Hartford in 1897 to form the firm of Hungerford, Hyde, Joslyn & (;ilman, for the general practice of the law, bringing to this new ( (innertion a wide reputation and the ripe e.vperi- cnce of many years. In addition to his active duties as a lawyer, Mr. llungerford has served in the past as Judge of Probate at Toiringlon and at New Britain, and for the latter city acted for several years as botli Ciiv Attorney and Corporation Coun- sel. Hut of late years the demands of a large busi- ness have kept him closely confined to law practice. He is a Republican in politics but has never sought or held office. Mr. Hungerford is one of Connecti- cut's able lawyers, who has been active in many leading cases ; the estimation in which he is held by his ])rofessional brethren is evinced in the i)lacing of his name at the head of the well-known Hartford firm above mentioned. The University of Vermont has conferred upon him the degree of M. .A. When Senator F.dmunds was electeil to the United States Senate, his ojjinion of Mr. Hungerford was so high that he wished to place his own e.xtensive practice in the young lawyer's hands, an offer only declined because Mr. Hungerford wished to return to his native s'ate. He married Sarah A. Churchill, of New Britain, in 1869, and they have one son : Wil- liam C. Hungerford, also a lawyer and a member of his father's firm. 1 1( )l.l,ISTi;i\, Dwiii F'redkric, Lawyer, of Bridgeport, was born in Washington, Connecticut, March 31, 1826. His father, Gideon Hollister, was a well-to-do farmer of sterling integrity and of much influence in the community in which he lived. When his son was sixteen years of age Mr. Hollister removed with his family to \Voodbury, Connecticut, where in accordance with his father's wish, the boy remained with him for several years. But while thus at home on the farm he had (to quote from a biograjjliical article) " the fortune, good or bad, to cut his foot so severely as to interfere with active duties for many months, and he finally obtained the consent of his father to jirepare for college. He then determined to enter Vale in the class of 185 1, though there were then but eleven months before the commencement of the term. He made the best use of his time and at the commence- -56 MEN OF PROGRESS. ment of the term i)rcseiitcil himself for examination without having completed, however, quite two-thirds of the preparatory course." In spite of this he gained admission to the class, having by pluck and intelligence passed his examinations satisfactorily, and proved to the faculty tiiat lie was a man of ability and discrimination. In his Junior year he was elected from his class to represent and advocate ihe claims of the Litonian Literary and Debating Society in its then annual contest with the " Brothers in Unity," and in his Senior year he was elected first President from his class of the same Literary Society, an honor which was then esteemed second D. F. HOLLISTER to none in college life. Prior to entering the uni- versity he had studied law for a time, and immedi- ately after graduation he entered the law ofifice of his brother, the late Gideon H. HoUister of Litch- field, author of the " History of Connecticut" and graduate of Yale class of 1840. In the December following his graduation (1851), he was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield county, and opened an office for the practice of his profession in Salisbury, Con- necticut, where he had removed. Three years later he repaired to Bridgeport, where he settled perma- nently and where he still maintains a successful and lucrative practice. Soon after moving to Bridgeport he purchased several tracts of land in and about the city, and devoted his leisure time to opening up and developing the property that has since proved one of the most attractive sections of the town. In 1866 he received the degree of M. A. from his Alma Mater. He has always been identified with the public institutions and improvements of his adopted city, and has been a member of its government. In 1858 he was elected Judge of Probate for the District of Bridgeport and was re-elected in 1859. On August IS, 1862, he was appointed by President Lincoln Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fourth District of Connecticut, and after the con- solidation of the Second and Fourth Districts in October 1873, he was appointed Collector of the Consolidated District by President Grant, which ofifice he held continuously until September i, 1883, when upon the consolidation of all the districts in the state, with ofifice at Hartford, he retired from the public service, having worked in its interest for over twenty- one years and having served under Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. Mr. Hollister was an ardent supporter of the Government during the War of the Rebellion, and although not a subject for military duty by rea- son of the injury already referred to, and from which he never fully recovered, he procured and sent to the front two good substitutes to represent him on the field, while at home he assisted in various ways in rendering those important services which were so essential to the success of the cause. At the close of his official life he formed a copart- nership with William H. Kelsey of Bridgeport (who served in his office as Deputy Collector for several years), under the name of Hollister & Kelsey, and the firm is still engaged in an extensive practice in the various branches of law business. Mr. Hollister is prominently associated with many of the most prominent organizations in the state. He is a mem- ber of the St John's Lodge Free and Accepted Masons, a member of the Board of Trade and of the Seaside Club. It is through his iniluence and energy that many charters of public interest have been granted to the city, such as that to the Boys' Club, The Young Men's Christian Association, the Citizens' Water Company, now consolidated with the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company, the Bridgeport & West Stratford Horse Railroad Company, of which he was President for several years, but which is now consolidated with the Bridgeport Traction Company, the Stratford Land and Improvement Company, and the City Savings Bank, of which he is now the President. Upon attaining his -uajority Mr. MI;N of I'KOCRKSS. 257 Hollister cast his first vote witii the iild \Vhij,' party, and upon the formation of the Repul)iic:an party, under the ])rcsidential leadership of the famous Path- finder, Jolm C Fremont, he espoused the interests of that party and lias ever since been an earnest advocate and supporter of its principles and policy. On moving to liridgeport, he united witli the First Presbyterian Churcli of that city, and has been ever since an active member of tlie same and alive to all its interests and its welfare. He has been an Kider of the church for over thirty- five years and is now its Senior Elder and Treasurer, and one of the Society's Committee. He has also been connected with the Sunday Scliool and a teacher of an adult Bible class for over thirty-five years. Mr. Hollister was married in September 1852, to Miss Mary E. Jackson, of Brooklyn, New York, a graduate of Packer Collegiate Institute. She is deceased. HUNT1N(;T0N, Jamks, Senior member of the law firm of Huntington & Warner, of Woodbury, Litchfield county, and Judge of Probate, was born in Coventry (South Parish), Tolland county, June 4, 1833, son of Edward Guy and Eliza (Clarke) Huntington. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Huntington, who was a son of the Reverend Joseph Huntington, D. D., was born in Coventry, Septem- ber 13, 1767, and was graduated from Dartmouth College. Soon after his admission to the Tolland county Bar he went South, settling in Washington county, Georgia, where he practiced law until April 1794, when he removed to Charleston, South Caro- lina, and died in August of that year. In 17S8, he married Mirza Dow of Coventry, a sister of Lorenzo Dow, a noted itinerant Methodist minister, travel- ler, and writer of that day, and she died in South Coventry, January 30, 1856, aged eighty-four years. Edward Guy Huntington, the father, was born in Washington county, Georgia, October 22, 1792, and died in Coventry, September 15, 1857. His wife was a native of Coventry and a daughter of John Clark, born in Lebanon, this state, and after serving as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, he purchased a farm at the head of the pontl in Coventry, where he resided until his death, which occurred January 5, 1847, at the advanced age of ninety-five years. He married Lucy Hammond, of Hampton, Con- necticut, and she died October 24, 1848, aged eighty-eight years. James Huntington attended the common schools, the Wilbraham (Massachu- setts) and the Charlottesville Academies, and was graduated from the state and National Law School of Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1857. His legal preparation was finished in the oflice of Waldo & Hyde, in Tolland, where he was admitted to the Bar, on Ai)ril 6, 1S59, and he immediately located in Woodbury, where he has since been in active practice. He has been associated with .Arthur D. Warner since 1883, was Juiige of Probate continu- ously from 1861 to 1895 and re-elected in 1896, was State's .Attorney for Litchfield county for twenty- two years from 1874 to 1896, and has been Chair- man of the Litchfield County Bar, and President of Bar Library Association since 1891. Politically Mr. JAMES HUNTINGTON. Huntington is a Democrat. He filled the office of Representative to the Legislature during the years 1894-95, and was elected Senator for two years from the Sixteenth District in 1876. He has served as Worshipful Master of KingSolomon's Lodge Freeand Accepted Masons, of Woodbury, and also as Secre- tary and Treasurer. On January 6, 1863, h^ mar- ried for his finst wife Rebecca Huntly Hurd of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, daughter of Edward and Annistine (Hunlly) Hurd. She died February 28, 1865, aged twenty-eight years, leaving an infant daughter, Rebecca .Annistine Huntington. On June II, 1868, he wedded for his second wife Helen Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Norman and luinice -^58 MEN OF PROGRESS. (Thompson) Parker, and to this union were born two liaughters; Eunice Eliza, born July 19, 1873, and Lucy Hammond Huntington, born June 21, 1875, who died September 21 of the same year. HOI.DEN, John, Lawyer, New York city, is of sterling Connecticut stock, his ancestors on both JOHN HOLDEN. sides having lived in the neighborhood of Norwich, Connecticut, for many generations. He is a son of Isaac and Esther (Stead) Holden, and is ninth in descent from Elder William Brewster. After gradu- ating from the Bridgeport High School, he entered Yale College where he won a number of literary prizes, and graduated in the class of 1884. Subse- quently he took a course at Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the Bar of New York in 1888. For two years after leaving college he was with the Wheeler & Wilson Mantifacturing Company, and following this period was engaged in newspaper work on the New York Tribune, New York Herald and San Francisco Examiner. From the date of his admission to the Bar he has practiced law with success in New York city, since about 1892 in partnership with F. Sturges Allen, a classmate and roommate at Yale. Mr. Holden has also been President of the Liberty Cycle Company for the last two years. He is a member of the New York Bar Association, the Yale Club of New York, the New Rochelle Yacht Club and many minor clubs and organizations. In politics he is an Indepen- dent Democrat. He was married November 22, 1892, to Florence Heywood. They have two chil- dren : Heywood and Arthur Ballou Holden. HARRIM.\N, Patrick Henry, M. 1)., a promi- nent physician of Norwich, was born in Calais, Washington county, ^Laine, March 17, i860, son of Patrick and Bridget (Ryan) Harriman. His parents were natives of Ireland and both emigrated to the United States when young. He acquired his early education in the public schools of Winchendon, Massachusetts, was graduated from Holy Cross College, Worcester, with the class of 1881, taking the highest honors and receiving the bachelor's degree. He pursued his first course in medicine at p. H. HARRIMAN. the Dartmouth Medical School, was graduated from the University of New York in March 1SS4, and in the following June was honored by his .'\lma Mater with the degree of A. M. After a few months as Assistant Physician at Sanford Hall, Flushing, Long Island, he located in Norwich, where he has sue ceeded in building up a large and lucrative practice MRN OF PROGRESS. 259 and is highly (omnK'inleii for liis ability as a general practitioner. Dr. Ilarriman is visiting physician to the William \V. liackus Hospital, and lecturer at the Training School lor Nurses. He is a member Gift for .Mourners" ; "The Kingdom of Christ on Earth," lectures before the Andover Theological Seminary; "The Philosophical I5asis of Theism"; " I'he Self Revelation of God " ; " God the Creator of the State, County, and City Medical associations, and Lord of All." He was married Ajiril 30, 1839, the Order of Elks, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, to Deborah Kobbins Dickinson, of .Amherst, Massa- the Foresters of .America and several other benevo- lent societies. In politics he is an active supporter of the Democratic party and as candidate for Alderman in 1896 he ran ahead of his ticket by several hundred votes, lacking but seven ballots of being elected. On September 30, 1890, he married 15ertha A. Congdon, youngest daughter of the well- known contractor, Gilbert C. Congdon. Mrs. Har- rinuui died July 3, 1895. HARRIS, S.'iMUKi., I). D., LL. D., Professor in the Yale Theological School, New Haven, was born in East Machias, Maine, June 14, 1S14. He is the youngest of nine children of Josiah Harris and Lucy (Talbot) Harris. His father was a native of Boston, and on his mother's side he is descended from Peter Talbot, one of the first settlers of East Machias. He was fitted for college at Washington Academy in his native town, and was graduated from Howdoin College with the degree of B. A. in 1833. For two years after graduation he was Prin- cipal successively of Limerick .Academy, in Limer- ick, Maine, and of Washington Academy, in East Machias, Maine. He then entered the Theological School, Andover, Massachusetts, where he com- pleted the course in 1838. He was then again Principal of Washington .Academy three years. In December 1841, he was ordained Pastor of the Congregational Church, in Conway, Massachusetts, where he continued until 185 i when he was called to the pastorate of the South Congregational Church, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In 1855 he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology in the Theological School at Bangor, Maine, where he also served jointly with Professor George Shepard, I). I)., as Pastor of the Central Church of Bangor. l'"rom 1867 to 187 1 he was President of Bowdoin College, also filling the chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy. In 1871 he was appointed I'rofessor of Systematic Theology in the \'ale Divinity School. He retired from active work in instruction in 1896, and is now Professor Emeritus. He is the author of the follow- ing books : " Zaccheus, the Scriptural Plan of Systematic Benevolence " (a prize essay) ; " Christ's Prayer for the Glorification of his Redeemed, a SAMUEL HARRIS. chusetts. .After her death he was married, October II, 1877,10 Mary Sherman Fitch, of New Haven, Connecticut. HOUSE, James .Ai.i'oki), Inventor, President of the House Corset Machinery Company, Bridgeport, was born in New York city .A|)ril 6, 1838, son of Ezekiel Newton and Susanna (^ King) House. He inherited his faculty for invention. His paternal grandfather was James N. House, one of whose sons. Royal I*",. House, made the House name famous by inventing the first printing telegraph. That was in 1845 and the instrument was named after him. His name is also known in the history of other inventions, notably the telephone. James .Alford House studied in schools in Little Meadows, Pennsylvania, and Oswego, New York. Soon he took up the study of architecture and then of me- chanical engineering, in both of which he became proficient. The Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing 26o MKN OF I'ROC.RKSS. Company, of liridgeport, being on the lookout for bright men, he readily found a position there where he remained for ten years. The great concern was then devoting its attention to making sewing machines which were improved from year to year, married in i860, was Mary Francis Dimond. He has one daughter, Gertrude, who is the wife of Dr. James Douglass Gold, of Bridgeport. r ^^;^^^^| i '^.^^^1 m ^;^^^H '> ^Sh w - ( y ' 187s, to Eliza Preston Kenyon of Brooklyn. Three children have been born to them: HoUister, Janette, and Walter Seth Logan, Jr. MacLAREN, William Stevenson, ^L D., Litch- field, was born in Princeton, New Jersey, January i, 1866, son of Chaplain Donald, United States Navy, and Elizabeth Stockton (Green) MacLaren. His paternal ancestry were originally members of a clan of Scotch Highlanders whose principal seat was upon the shores of Loch Voil. His great-grand- father, Finlay MacLaren (born 1750. died in 18 10 at Manlius, New York), of Balquidder, married Margaret Cam|)bell, of Calandcr, Scotland. 'I'hey had ten children : Mary, died in infancy ; Margaret, Ixirn September i, 1787, married Oliver Rijjlcy Strong, died .April 15, 1827, at Onondaga, New York ; John, died in infancy ; Janet, died in infancy ; Christine, born May 6, 1792, married Hon. James R. Lawrence, of .Syracuse, New York; Donald Campbell, D. I)., born October 3, 1794, died May 7, 1882; Mary; Malcolm McNeil, D. I) , born 1798, of Auburn, New York ; William ; and the Reverend John Finlay MacLaren, LL. 1) , of Pittsburg, Penn- sylvania, father of the Rt. Rev. William E. Macljren, WILLIAM S. MucLAREN. Bishop of Chicago. Donald Campbell MacLaren, the grandfather, was born in New York city, October 3, 1794 (died May 7, 1882), was graduated from Union College in 1813, and was a student of astrology under Reverend John Mason in New York city. He married Jane Stevenson, born in 1803, daughter of William and Mary (McNeil) Stevenson, and had a family of ten children, namely : Finlay, born 1S31 died 1862; Malcolm M., born 183S, died 1861 ; Reverend William S., born 1824, died 1874; James^ born 1841, died 1861; Margaret, born 1826, died 1863; John; General Robert W , born 1S28, died 1886; Mary, born 1S36, married Edward Richard- son; Jeanie, married Reverend K. Kirby : and »66 mp:n of progress. Donaia MacUren, born 1834. The father was born March 7, 1S34, anil became a Chaplain in the I'niteil States Navy in 1863, retiring from active duty March 7, 1896. He married Elizabeth Stock- ton Green, born January 14, 1838, daughter of Jacob, M. D., and Ann Eliza (McCuUoch) Green, and a descendant in the seventh generation of Thomas Green, born in England in 1606, and died in Maiden, Massachusetts, December 19, 1667. Lieutenant Henry Green, the next in line, was born in 1 638, and died September 19, 1717- He married Esther Hasse, and his son, Jacob Green, who was born May 10, 1689, and died in Maiden, July 19 1723, married Dorothy Lynde, July 8, 17 13. Jacob Green, D. D., who was born in 1721, and died in 1790, was a graduate of Harvard University and was the founder and Pastor of a Presbyterian church in Hanover, New Jersey. While Pastor of the small country church at Hanover he increased his income in various ways. He opened a small school ; held the public office of Proctor ; and as there was no physician in the place, he read a little medicine and practiced " physick." He also bought the country mill in connection with which was a small distillery. On this account one of his waggish Philadelphia friends having occasion to write him, addressed the letter, " To J acob Green, Preacher, Teacher, Proctor, Doctor, Miller, Distiller, Hanover, New Jersey." He was one of the original members and for many years President of the Board of Trustees of Prince- ton University. On October 19, 1757, he married Elizabeth Pierson. She was a daughter of John Pierson, who was son of Reverend Abram, 2d, and Abigail (Clark) Pierson, and grandson of Reverend Abram, ist, and Anne (Cartwright) Pierson. Rev- erend Abram Pierson, 1st, was an Englishman who graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1632, and arrived at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1640. Rev- erend Abram Pierson, 2d, was born in Lynn in 1641, and died in 1 707. He with several others originated the idea of founding an institution of learning to be located not further east than Saybrook, nor further west than New Haven. He was selected to be its Rector or President, and in his letter of acceptance he said that he durst not refuse such a service for God and his generation, but submitted himself to take the charge. He was President of Yale Uni- versity from 1701 to 1707. Reverend Jacob, D. D., and Elizabeth (Pierson) Green were the parents of Reverend Ashbel Green, D. D., LL. D., who was born in 1762 and died in 1848, was graduated from Princeton in 1783 in the presence of General Washington and the members of the Continental Congress, and was Valedictorian of his class. He was the first Chaplain of one of the houses of Con- gress, holding office until the Capitol was removed to Washington, and was President of Princeton University from 181 2 to 1822. His first wife was Elizabeth Stockton, his second Christina Anderson, and his third was Mary McCulloch. To his first union were born two sons ; Jacob, M. D. ; and James Sproat Green, LL. D., who married Isabella McCullough and was the father of Hon. Robert Stockton Green, M. C, and Governor of New lersey. Jacob Green, i\L D., maternal grandfather of Dr. MacLaren, was Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, and one of the founders and Professor of the same department of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Reverend Donald and Elizabeth McLaren had a family of seven chil- dren : Donald Campbell, born in 1859 ; Anna Green, born in t86i; Elizabeth Stockton, born in 1826; William Stevenson, M. D.,the subject of this sketch ; Malcolm McNeil, born in 1S69; Alice McMurrin, born in 1872; and Isabella Williamson, born in 1874. William Stevenson MacLaren fitted for college at Professor Hastings' West Philadelphia Academy, and was graduated from Princeton with the degree of A. B. in 1886 receiving his Master's degree in 1SS9. He completed his medical studies at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1889, and after serving upon the staff of the Fourth Medical Division of Bellevue Hospital from April of that year until April 1891, located in Litchfield, w-here he has since been in practice. He is a member of the County and State Medical Society and the American Medical Association ; also of the Society of .'\lumni of Bellevue Hospital and non-resident member of the New York State Medical Association. In politics he is a Repub- lican. On June 14, 1892, he married Louisa Cobane of New York, and she died July 13, 1896, leaving two children ; Lydia Cobane, born June 2, 1894; and William Stevenson, Jr., born June 16, 1896. McCOLLUM, Fenelon, Manufacturer of Church Organs, Rockville, Connecticut, was born in Rock- ville, October 5, 1841, of Scotch descent, son of Erastus and Harriet (Bosworth) McCollum. About 1835 Erastus McCollum moved from Manchester to Rockville, and built the first house on Brooklyn street, and also erected a barn in the rear of what is now Rock Mill. It was in this barn in 1841 that MEN OK PROC.RF.SS. !67 the first church organ was set up by his sons, Sclilon, Julius and Henry, all the different parts of the organ being made by them in their father's workshop The brothers grew to be experts in organ building, and made a name for themselves as reed makers and voicers of rare ability. The services of the McCollum brothers were in great demand by vari- ous organ manufacturers among whom were the firms of Hook & Hastings of Boston, Johnson iS; Son of Westfield, Massachusetts, and the Mansfield Organ Pipe Works at Mansfield. The youngest of the McCollum Brothers, Fenelon, received his edu- caiiim at the Rciikvillo High School and later FENELON McCOLLUM. followed in his brothers' footstejis. He conceived the idea of making the manufacture of the organ pipes a separate industry, and in 187 1 started this independent business. He and his brother Henry carried on this industry in the Milliard Mill at Mer- row, supplying action work as well as pipes to builders. In 1876 the business was removed to the ell part of the Brigham Mill, at Mansfield Depot, and the firm name of the Mansfield Organ Pipe Works was adojited. The business soon demanded more room and tlie whole mill was leased, later in 1889, the whole mill property, tenement houses as well as mill, became the property of Mr. McCollum and also in 1892-93 a new four-story factory was erected to accommodate the rapidly growing busi- ness. In 1S90 Henry McCollum was ol)liged to retire from business, and died soon afterwards. In 1896 the mills were burned clown, but with his energy Mr. McCollum erected new ones, and eer, then professor at Vale. CJn the hitter's election to the Presidency of University of Chicago, Mr. Robertson went to (.'hicago, and there served President Harper in a similar capacity. From 1890 to 1S93 he was Cashier GEO. EUSTIS ROBERTSON. and Business Manager of the American Institute of Sacred Literature, and from 1893 to 1895 was Cashier and Assistant Registrar of the University of Chicago. During a part of 1892 and 1893 he was a special student in the Chicago University, and from 1890 to 1895 was the Secretary of the Ameri- can Publishing Society of Hebrew. In 1895 Mr. Robertson became interested in social questions concerning co-operative forms of business, and in that year resigned from his position of trust at Chicago, and accepted his present office as Assis- tant Secretary of the American Real Estate Com- pany at New York. The distinct success of this comjiany has justiflcd the foresight antl wisdom of his ilecision. The company lias developed the beautiful suburban property at Park Hill, overlook- ing the Hudson, and, with its system of co-operation and combination of the capital of small investors, offers a most safe and profitable form of .accumula- tive investment. Mr. Robertson is a member of Hiram Lodge No. i Free and Accepted .Masons of New Haven, Lincoln Council, National Union of Chicago, " O. O." Chapter, Sigma Chi I'Vaternily, and has been a member of the \'oung Men's Rei)ub- lican Club of New Haven, of the Sons of Connecti- cut of Chicago, of which he was Secretary, the Hlainc anil Review clubs of Chicago, antl the Park Hill Country Club, of N'onkers, New York. While in New Haven he was clerk of the First Haptist Church of New Haven, and in Chicago served in the same cajjacity at the Hyde Park Baptist Church. .Mr. Robertson was married June 22, 1887, to Agnes Eugenia Smitli, of New Haven. They have two children: George Percival, born July 12, 18S9, and Agnes Eugenia Robertson, born January 11, 1S92. REYNOLDS, Jamks Bronson, of New York city, is a son of Reverend William T. Reynolds, for thirty years Pastor of the Congregational Church at North Haven, Connecticut. His mother was Sarah Maria Painter, daughter of .Me.xis Painter of West Haven, Connecticut. The ancestors of both parents had lived in West Haven over a hundred years. He was born in Kiantone, New York, March 17, 1 86 1, and received his early education at the village school in North Haven, Connecticut, ."^fter pre- paring for college at the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, he pursued an academic course at Yale college, graduating in the class of 1884. He then took a theological course, graduating from the Yale Divinity School in the class of 1888, which study was followed by one year of further graduate study at Yale in philosophy and theology. The next four and a half years he spent abroad, visiting universities in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association and occupied himself with studies in social science and European higher edu- cation, during which time he was in every country in Eurojie except Spain and Portugal, and met leading university men and practical reformers in all the countries visited. On his return from iMirope he was offered a university position as Lec- turer in Pedagogics and Manager of University Extension. Hut after a year in California for the 270 MEN OF PROGRESS. benefit of his health, he entered the University Settlement in New York city, and in May 1894 accepted the position of Head Worker of the Uni- versity Settlement and Fellow of Sociology at Co- lumbia College. This position he still holds. The University Settlement is an educational institution which seeks to bring men and women of the edu- cated classes into contact with those less fortunately circumstanced, for mutual instruction and improve- ment, and for the good of the entire community. Mr. Reynolds was a member of the Committee of Seventy in the New York Municipal Campaign of 1S94, and was a member of the Committee of Fif- J. B. REYNOLDS. teen to draw up plans for the campaign of 1897. Subsequently he was elected Chairman of the Ex- ecutive Committee of the Citizens' Union, which carried on the independent campaign in behalf of Hon. Seth Low for Mayor of Greater New York. The only office he ever held was that of School Trustee in the Tenth Ward of New York. After holding this for a year, he united in a successful attempt to secure the passage of a law abolishing the office of Ward Trustee throughout the entire city. Mr. Reynolds is a member of the Century, Social Reform and the City clubs and the National Municipal Reform League. He is unmarried. STERLING, John Wit.i.iam, Attorney-at-Law, New York city, was born in Stratford, Connecticut, May 12, 1844, son of Captain John William and Catherine Tomlinson (Plant) Sterling. His ances- tors on the paternal side number many honorable and distinguished names, and were prominent in the history of Stratford and Bridgeport. His mother was the daughter of Lieutenant-Governor Plant. Young Sterling received his early education at the Stratford Academy, where he was graduated vale- dictorian of his class. He then entered Yale Col- lege where he was graduated with high honors, taking one of the Townsend prizes, and becoming a member of the Skull and Bones Society. After graduation he spent a year in a special course of study in English literature and history under Presi- dent Porter of Yale. He entered the Columbia Law School in 1865 and was graduated with the class of 1867, for the second time in his career having the honor of delivering the valedictory address of his class. He was at once admitted to the Bar and in October of the same year entered the office of David Dudley Field, the distinguished leader of the New York Bar, as his youngest clerk. He left this office in May i858 to take the position of managing clerk in another office, but in Decem- ber of that year returned and was taken into full partnership with the firm of Field & Shearman, of which David Dudley Field was the senior mem- ber. He immediately engaged in active practice. The firm did a business of immense volume and importance and was widely recognized as one of the leading law firms of the United States. Mr. Ster- ling sprang at once into prominence and rose in his profession with a rapidity rarely equalled in the history of the Bar. In September 1873 Mr. Field retired from the firm and left for a journey around the world Mr. Sterling and Thomas G. Shearman then formed a partnership under the name of Shearman & Sterling, which has continued until the present time. The firm has been continuously engaged in important litigation and has achieved distinguished success. In 1876 they were retained in the numerous suits which grew out of the gold panic of 1869. Perhaps the most famous of their cases was the defence of Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, of which they had entire charge. Messrs. William M. Evarts, Benjamin F. Tracy and other famous men were also associated with them as counsel but every detail of the case was under the personal supervision of Messrs. Shearman and Ster- ling. The proceedings which began in 1874 and were MKN OF PROGRESS. 271 finished in December 1876, resulted in the defeat of Mr. Bcecher's adversaries, antl their payment of costs. In the last few years Mr. Sterling's time has been largely emi^loyed as counsel for trust estates and large corporations. He has been retained in the formation, foreclosure or reorganization of many important railroads and corporations, including the International & (".real .Xorthcrn Railroad fonipany of Texas in 1879, the New \'ork & Texas Land Company in 1880, the Soutii Carolina Railroad Com[)any in 18S1, the Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central Railroad Company, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company in 1 88 1, the Chicago, St. Louis iV JOHN W. STERLING. Pittsburg Railroad Company in 1882, the Creat Northern Railroad Company in iSgoand llie Duluth &Winnipeg Railroad Company in i8g6. He has also been retained as counsel for many British corpo- rations and investors including the City of Glasgow Bank, the Arizona Copper Company and some of the great cattle companies. In the management of the affairs of these extensive interests Mr. Sterling has shown not only legal acumen and research but a genius for organization and a business ability of rare quality. These (jualities have made his services invaluable to a long list of individual clients and he has frequently been called upon to act as trustee for important interests. Mr. Sterling is known as a lover of books, and besides a very complete law library has an extensive collection of rare and valu- alilc volumes. He has always taken a loyal interest in his .Alma Mater and a few years since devised and superintended the erection of O.sborn Hall, the gift of one of his clients to Yale. He has a taste for building and improvement and is now busy in the projecting and carrying out of extensive ])lans for the foundation of benevolent institutions, although uniformly avoiding jniblicity in his work. In 1893 the degree of 1. 1.. 1>. was conferred upon him by Vale, but he has always avoided political office or public prominence of any kind outside of his profession. He is a member of the following clubs and societies : Metropolitan, Union League, L'nion, University, I.awyers, Down Town .Associa- tion, New York Yale Club, Riding, Tuxedo, New England Society, .American Fine Arts Society, .Ali)ha Delta Phi Society and Phi Beta Kappa Society. Mr. Sterling has never marrieil. SPAULDING, J.-w Ei.i.KRV, General Manager of the New England Pin Company, Winsted, was born ill Northampton, New York, .August 15, 1846, son of Lockwood and Mary .Ann (Spaulding) Spaulding. He actpiired a common school education, and in 1866 became a clerk in a hardware store in Win- sted, later associating himself in business with J J. Whiting, and S. F. Dickerman, a jiartnership which lasted two years Going to Grand Rapids, Michi- gan, he was for the succeeding two years connected with The Old National Bank in that city and upon his return to Winsted he purchased an interest with |. G. Wetmore in the New I'ngland Pin Company, first acting as general office man, later as Secretary, and since the death of Mr. Wetmore he has had the entire iiiaiiagement of the concern, which is one of the ])rinripal business enterprises in Winsted. He is President of the Morgan Silverplate Company, stockholder and director in several other business enterprises, is agent of the estate of his late associ- ate, J. G. Wetmore, and is regarded as one of the most able and successful business men in Litchfield county. He was a member of the committee which had charge of the water im])rovenients, and is a Trustee of the Memorial Park and Soldiers' Monu- ment associations. For many years he has been Burgess and Warden of the Borough of Winsted, Treasurer of the Town of Winchester for the past seven years, and was a member of the Legislature 2-]: Ml'\ Ol' I'ROGKKSS. in 1S95, serving upon ihe Committee on Incorpora- tions and as Clerk of the Litchfield County Repre- sentatives. In politics he is an acti\e supporter of the Republican party- He is juominently identi- fied with the Fire Department and one of the \'ice- Presidents of the State Association ; and also belongs to the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Improved Order of Red Men. Mr. Spaulding has married twice : his first wife, wliom he married May 9, 1872, was Eliza R. Wetmore, who died Feb- ruary II, 1890, leaving two children: Louisa W. and John W. Spaulding, who died March 27, 1895. On June 30, 1892, he was again married to (jrace ^ 1^ J. E. SPAULDING. W. Hopkins. Louisa W. Spaulding was married in June 1895, to James W. Husted, of Peekskill, New York, son of the late J. W. Husted, the Bald Eagle of Westchester county. SKIFF, Paul Cheeseborough, M. D., Homceo- pathic Physician, New Haven, came from Kent in Litchfield county where in the old Skiff homestead, occupied for generations by his ancestors, he was born October 4, 1828. This venerable house, now owned by Dr. Skiff, replaced in 1766 the log struc- ture erected by his great-grandfather, Nathan Skiff, who journeyed from Tolland into what was then the wilds of Connecticut, and located there in 1761, purchasing a large tract of land, a part of which is still known as Skiff Mountain. Dr. Skiff comes from Puritan stock, his parents being Luther and Hannah (Comstock) Skiff. On his father's side he is tlescended from James Skiff, first of the name in America, whose name appears among the records of Plymouth in 1636, and who was one of the founders of Sandwich and a Deputy from that town to the General Court. From this original ancestor the line descends to Nathan Skiff, who married Hepsibah Codman, to Stephen Skiff, whose wife was Elizabeth Hatch and who settled in Tolland in 1720, to Nathan Skiff, whose wife was Thankful Eaton, and wlio first settled in Kent, to Nathan Skiff, Jr., the grandfather of Dr. Skiff. Through his grand- mother, Abigail Fuller, Dr. Skiff is lineally de- scended from Edward Fuller, one of the Mayflower pilgi ims, and through his mother, Hannah Com- stock, he traces his descent from Christopher Com- stock of Fairfield 166 1, and from Richard Piatt of Milford, and a long line of Platts among which may be mentioned the founder of Plattsburgh, Young Skiff 's boyhood was spent upon the old homestead at Kent. He attended the Academy at Kent, but at the age of fifteen having been offered an oppor- tunity for a liberal education he took a four-years course at the Giand River Institute, Western Re- serve, Ohio. On his return to Kent he began the study of medicine, but was obliged for several years to combine it with teaching and with managing the farm. He was graduated from the Yale Medical School in 1856, and afterwards took a course in the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, where he was under the instruction of the distinguished Professors Mutter, Pancoast, Meigs, and Dunglison, in a post-graduate course. Although educated in the principles of the Allopathic School his attention was early called to homoeopathy and after a thorough and conscientious study of both schools of medicine he was led to embrace the tenets of the latter school. To this conclusion he was largely influ- enced by Dr. Herring of Philadelphia and his cousin Dr. Charles Skiff, one of the earliest homceopathic physicians of New Haven. Dr. Skiff began the practice of medicine in New Haven in 1859, where he has since continued in active and most success- ful practice. The qualities which have contributed to his success in his chosen profession have thus been summarized : " He combines skill in the heal- ing art with prompt judgment, admirable foresight, inexhaustible good temper and an independent atti- Mi;X OK I'ROtlRKSS. 273 tude toward all theories of ])ra(tice. Few people the First Church of Christ in New Haven, and its possess in such an eminent ilegree that personal deacon from 16S9 to 1730. She is also related to magnetism which immediately attracts and retains Reverend Jedediah Mills, to the Treats, Atwaters, the confidence of the invalid, that gentleness and ISradleys, and many other ])rominent families, promptness of relief which lingers so gratefidly in They have one daughter, I'anliiic Skiff, born in May 1S80. 'rilli;Ai.S, Dan'iki, STRiwr;, Cabalt, for many years an extensive oak\nii manufacturer, was born in Old Haddam, Connecticut, May 10, 1817, son of Thad- deus and I.ydia S. (Haily) Tibbals. He is a descendant of Eber Tibbals of Ciuilford, Connecti- cut. The parents reared a family of ten sons and four daughters who received religious training and ail but one of whom united with the Congregational Churcii. 1 )aniel S. Tibbals acquired a district school education, and at the age of eleven years obtained his first knowledge of the oakum business. He began the manufacture of that article previous to the advent of railroads and steamboats when the PAUL C. SKIFF. the memory of the patient, anil, more than all else, thnt cliarity which the doctor, above all men, is called upon so frequently to e.xercise towards his fellows in the humbler walks of life. Thousands of patients, young and old, rich and [)oor, bear testi- mony that Dr. Skiff possesses all these ([ualities and many others which are important factors in the success of the physician." Dr. Skiff has been a contributor to various medical journals and has taken an active interest in the Humane Society and many other worthy institutions. He was one of the founders of the State Homceopathic Society and was an incorporator and is now director and con- sulting physician of Crace Hos|Mlal, one of the most successful hosjiitals in New F.ngland. Dr. Skiff was married in June iSy.j to I'jiima Mcdregor ICIy of lirooklyn, New York. Mrs. Skiff's great-grand- father was Reverend David Ely, D. D., of Lyme, Connecticut, a descendant of Richard Ely, first of the name in .'\merica. Her maternal grandfather was Reverend Thomas I'underson, a descendant of Deacon John I'underson, one of the seven pillars of D. S. TIBBALS. product was shipped to New York in sailing vessels, and his active life has been devoted to that industry, he being at one time Superintendent of a Boston factory and also carrying on a factory at H.ith, Maine, for a number of years, or until it was destroyed by fire. He has served with marked ability in various town offices, was elected Sheriff 274 MEN OF PROGRESS. in 1875 ; joining the State Militia in 1842, he rose to the rank of Captain. Mr. Tibbals joined the Congregational Church in 1841, and has since been an active and inlluential worker for the cause of religion and the moral welfare of the community. In 1 84 1 he married for his first wife Sally M. Clark, daughter of Oliver Clark, and his second wife, whom he married in 1878, is a daughter of Daniel Seider of the state of Maine. PATl^ISON, Alexander Thomas, Merchant, of Simsbury, was born in Simsbury, March 26, 1S61, A. T. PATTISON. son of Joseph and Delia (Sceery) Pattison. On the paternal side he is of Scotch descent, his great- great-grandfather having migrated from Scotland and settled in County Antrim, North of Ireland, whence his grandfather and father came to this country in 1855. He was educated in the common schools and at Simsbury Academy, and at the age of nineteen, in 1880, began active life as a clerk in mercantile business. Since 18S6 he has conducted a general merchandise business, under the firm name of Wilcox & Company, in his native town. Mr. Pattison was a Representative to the General Assembly of Connecticut in 1897. Politically he is a Republican. He was married October 7, 1885, to I':ila R. Wilcox, of Simsbury. They have two daughters : Lucy W. and Julia E. Pattison. TRUBEE, David, Wholesale Grocer, Bridgeport, was born in Fairfield, September 25, 1825, son of Samuel and Elisabeth (Curtiss) Trubee. His ances- tors, with one exception, came from England in the early Colonial days. The coat of arms of his mater- nal ancestor was confirmed to John Curtis of London, Gentleman, May 9, 1632. His paternal ancestor came from Holland and settled in Fairfield, Con- necticut, about 1700. Mr. Trubee's mother, as she sat at the spinning wheel, taught her children the Westminster Catechism with such fidelity that they could repeat both questions and answers. The district schools and the village academy prepared Mr. Trubee for a life of usefulness and the career of a successful business man. At the age of fifteen he became a clerk in the wholesale grocery store of Daniel Sterling, Bridgeport, where he continued for several years. Then he accepted a position as clerk in the wholesale grocery house of Mortford & Trubee, the junior member of the firm being Mr. Trubee's eldest brother, Samuel. The firm, by strict attention to business, built up a large trade, seeking to increase which, they engaged Mr. Trubee to become their commercial traveller. He was one of the first two men in Bridgeport to engage in this line of work, and so successful was he in increasing the patronage of his employers that other concerns followed the example. Within three years from the time Mr. Trubee took the position of clerk, he was chosen junior member of the firm, and when Samuel Trubee retired two years later, the firm name was continued. The firm was dissolved in 18S1, and Mr. Trubee became senior member of the firm of David Trubee & Company. In 1862, Mr. Trubee was elected a Director of the Pequonnock National Bank, of which he has been President since 1882. He was one of the fifteen founders of the Seaside Club, but is not now among the frequenters of that notable institution, since his chief delight after business hours is in the quiet of his beautiful home, Idlesea, at Seaside Park. He is a Royal Order Mason, and a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, being a descendant of Joseph Curtiss of Stratford, who served on one or more of the various committees of Stratford, appointed for patriotic work. The business of Mortford & Trubee out- growing the brick building they occupied on Water mi:n' or rRor.RESs. 275 street, they built their present handsome sione structure on the same street where Davitl 'I'rubee v'v: Company, Mr. Trubee still the senior member, conduct one of the largest wholesale stores in the state. On December 15, 1846, Mr. Trubee married DAVID TRUBEE, Susan, daughter of Captain Elisha, and Susan (Gifford) Doane, of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She is descended from [>ord l)e Clifford, who fought in the Crusades with Richard Coeur dc l.con. TICRRV, CiixRi.Ks Ai'i'LKTON, an expert Patent Lawyer of New Vork, was born in Soulli Weymouth, Massachusetts, March 2, 1858, son of Reverend James Pease and Catharine (Matson) 'Perry. On the paternal side he is a lineal descendant of (jo\er- nor William Pradford, and through his maternal grandmother, Phoebe (Ely) Matson, of the Ely family of Connecticut, his mother liaving been a cousin of (lovernor Buckingham of this state, and of the late Chief Justice Waite. Reverend James Pease Terry, the father, was a native of Knfield, Connecticut, and a graduate of Amherst College, class of 1834. Charles .Appleton 'Perry attended the public schools of South Weymouth until ten years old when he went to reside in 1-yme, Con- necticut, his mother's old home. He continued his studies at the Lyme High School, fitted for his collegiate course at the Norwich Free Academy and was graduated from Amherst in the class of 1879. Three other members of the present gen- eration are graduates of the same institution namely, Professor N. M. Terry, '67, now in charge of the department of Physics at the I'nited States Naval .\cademy. .Annapolis ; James L. Terry, M. 1). '68, now of Philadelphia ; and Reverend L N. Terry, I). D , '71, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Utica, New Vork. Frank A. Terry, another brother, was graduated from the Yale Scientific School in 1876, and is a chemist in Philadelphia. In 1880 Charles A. Terry began the study of law in New \'ork city, entering the office of Franklin L. Pope, the noted electrical exjjert and patent solicitor, entering at the same time the Columbia I^iw School from which he was graduated with the degree of 1,L. P, in 1883, and was admitted to the New Vork liar the same year. He was fortunate enough to be CHARLES A. TERRY. admitted to partnership with Mr. P()])e, an associa- tion which offered unusual advantages to a young l)ractitioner in that special line, and that he made the best use of such excellent opportunities has been plainly demonstrated by the rajiid jirogress he has ac(]uired. The firm did considerable business for the Westinghouse Electric Company of Pitts- -76 MEN OF PROGRESS. burg in iS86-S7,and in 1888 Mr. Terry moved to tiiat city to assume cliarge of their patent business. He was later retained as their solicitor and in 1891 became secretary and attorney of the reorganized Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, a position he still holds. In 1S94 he returned to New York and aside from his above mentioned duties he is doing a large business as a solicitor of electrical patents and as an expert attorney in liti- gations growing out of the same, including the suits under the Tesla electric motor patents, the electric trolley and the alternating-current meter patents. In connection with the famous suit under the Edison " feeder main " patent, he was delegated to attend the commission sent to Glasgow for the purpose of examining Lord Kelvin, then Sir William Thomson, as an authority upon electrical subjects. While in college Mr. Terry was prominently identified with athletic sports, being President of the Amherst foot- ball team, and member of the principal societies. He is a member of the University, Harlem and Lawyers' clubs; of the Bar Association of New York, and of the American Institute of Electrical Engi- neers. He was formerly a member of the Duquesne Club, of Pittsburg. In politics he is a Republican. On June 22, 1886, he married Marie E. Cady, of New Haven. They have two children : Catharine Louise and Matson Cady Terry. TA\'LOR, Henry Augusius, Railroad Construct- or of Milford, was born in the city of New York on April 8, 1839. His father was Henry Johns Taylor, a member of the Scotch-Irish military family of that name, of County Tyrone, Ireland, which, as early as 17 13, was represented in America by the forefathers of various men who have since been con- spicuously connected with our history in Colonial times and the Revolutionary War. He is, more- over, descended on his mother's (Laura Thomas) side from the Fairbanks family of Connecticut, members of which immigrated here in 1633, over fifty participating in the wars of King Philip, the Lexington Alarm and the Revolution. The mater- nal line also connects him with Anneke Jans Bogardus and Nicholas DeVeaux, who was First Captain of the Watch in New York city, and built the palisades on the present line of Wall street; and others of equal note in the records of old New Amsterdam. His father, Henry Johns Taylor, above mentioned, removed to Jersey City when a young man and there he became quite prominent in the political affairs of the state of New Jersey, being Mayor of Jersey City several times and a member of the Legislature. In 1867 Henry A. Taylor went to the Northwest where he engaged in the construction of many of the railroad lines of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Nine years later he also became engaged in the construction of various railroad lines in Ohio, Kentucky and New York, and at present holds considerable proprietary interests in the railroad lines of these sections. Though warmly interested in all public affairs, Mr. Taylor has not taken an active part in politics, nor is he identified with the various social organizations HENRY A. TAYLOR. that win the patronage of men less seriously en- gaged. The enterprises that appeal to Mr. Taylor are those that in their very nature demand far- reaching vision and a sense of the public's need, with an ardent desire to satisfy it. The Mary Taylor Memorial Church, which he and his children erected in Milford and presented to the Methodist Episcopal congregation of that place, is one of the channels through which his large generosity has reached his townsmen. Another is the far-famed Taylor Library, founded by him in the same place ; one of the most successful libraries of its size in the state, containing over ten thousand volumes and having a circulating membership of over twelve MKX OF PROGRESS. 377 hundred, ^[r. Taylor has been twice married : first to Mary Anna, daughter of Christopher Meyer of New Brunswick, New Jersey, by whom he has four children, and later upon the death of his first wife, to Elizabeth Prudence Conrey of New York city, by whom he has had four children. Mr. Tay- lor's residence, Lauralton Hall at Milford, is one of the most elegant country homes in the state. TILEY, CuRirs Bates, Dentist, New Haven, was born in East H.iddam, Connecticut, March 18, 1864, son of .Stillman Jared and Ophelia (Hates) CURTIS B. TILEY. Tiley. Both his father and mother were of English descent, their ancestors being among the first Colo- nial settlers. One of his great-grandfathers served under Washington in the Revolutionary War. Charles Tiley, his paternal great-grandfather, was born in Essex, Connecticut, in 1750, and moved West. His son Charles 'J'iley was a master ship- builder, born in Essex in 1787 and died in 1841. His son Stillman Jared Tiley, and father of Curtis Bates Tiley, born in 1830, is one of the prominent citizens of Essex at the present time. Curtis B. Tiley was educated in the common school and at Hill's Academy of Essex, after which he studied three years with a private tutor, with a view to a professional career. He (hen entered the Philadel- phia Dental College where he was graduated in 18S6. After graduation he located at Torrington, Connecticut. After four years of successful practice he decideil to enter a wider field and moved lb New Haven, A|)ril 1, 1890. Here he has become a specialist in his profession, and enjoys a select patronage from this and other cities. In politics he is a Republican and a member of the Republican league. He was married August 20, 1885, to Isa- bella Eliza C.oslee. They have no children. 1 Rl MBL 1,1,, Jamcs Hammond, Savant, .Author and Librarian, of Hartford, was born in Stoninglon, Connecticut, on December 20, 1821. His father was Gurdon Trinnbull, Es(i., who early removed to Hartford and who died there in 1875. The family is one of the oldest and best in the country and tlie name carries with it notable associations as well as those bearing more particularly on scholarly achievements. Especially in New England has the stock flourished and its members have been identi- fied with the events that have helped to make the country great in the fields of liberty and letters. Dr. Trumbull entered Yale in 1838 and though he did not graduate, his name was in 1850 entered in the class of 1842, a testimonial to the regard in which he is held. Among his classmates were the late Professor Hadley, one of Yale's most eminent sons, and Chief Justice Peters of Maine, one of the most brilliant of her graduates. Dr. Trumbull settled in Hartford in 1847 and was Assistant Sec- retary of the state from 1847 to 1852 and from 1858 to 1 86 1, and Secretary of the state from 1861 to 1865 ^"'i State Librarian in 1854. Between 1850 and 1859 he brought out the three first volumes of the Connecticut Colony records, a work of great value, since taken up and carried along by Dr. Hoadley. It is a matter of great regret that he never wrote a history of Connecticut, a task he was unicjuely qualified to undertake. In 1863 he was elected Librarian of the Watkinson Library of Ref- erences ; and one of the greatest works of his life has been the selection of the books that now make that a famous and exceedingly valuable library, worth many times its cost and no less a monument to Dr. Trumbull, who knew what and where to pur- chase, than to David Watkinson who furnished the wherewithal. " The Watkinson is known among the world's libraries," says the Hartford Courant in an article which appeared on August 5, 1S97, and 278 MEN OF PROGRESS. i t goes on to state that " he was friend and adviser of George Krinley, whose Rrinley Library was one of the world's great book collections, and he was Mr. Brinley's e.tecutor, disposing of the books. The catalogue which he prepared was in itself a marvel of bibliographical information." The degree of I.L. n. was conferred upon him by Yale in 187 1. Sixteen years later Harvard followed Yale's example and Columbia conferred upon him an L. H. D. He was not a man content to suffer restrictions in the field of investigation. His information was appar- ently boundless as well as authentic and he had an indefatigable patience that served him well in his J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL. exhaustive researches. Naturally he was recog- nized as an authority and consulted as such. A multitude of letters reached him yearly on a mul- titude of subjects from strangers who, all other sources of information failing, turned to him as to a living encyclopedia. He never failed those who were earnest in their desires for enlightenment and help. '1 he branch of work which perhaps of all his indefatigable and varied labors in scholar- ship did most to carry his fame abroad, was that in the languages of the North American Indians. Yale University elected him lecturer on this subject and it was commonly said that he was the only liv- ing man who could read the version of the Bible translated for the Indians by John Eliot, the famous missionary to those tribes. For this Bible he pre- pared a dictionary and vocabulary, besides writing a number of works upon the Indian language. In the valuable library which he left is a copy of the Eliot Bible, the value of which is at least six hundred dollars. When Dr. Trumbull's books are sold, hav- ing been carefully catalogued for that purpose, the sale is likely to attract book-men from afar and near, for in many respects the collection is a rare and precious one. The Trumbull library is reputed to be the best Algonkin library in the country and probably in the world. To enumerate this great man's connections with learned societies all over the world, and the deserved scholastic honors that came to him with the years, is out of the scope of this sketch. In the American Antiquarian Society he was a conspicuous officer, a founder of the American Philological Association and for a year its President (1874-75). Other prominent societies with which he was connected are the National Academy of Science, the American Oriental Society and the American Ethnological Society. For half a century, J. Hammond Trumbull was a familiar and striking figure in Hartford. He was essentially a savant, preferring the quiet retirement of his home and his books to aught else, especially since of late years feeble health kept him from going to his desk at the Watkinson, although he nominally retained his post as Librarian there until the last. He was unquestionably one of the great men of the city and state, and his name will add to the lustre of the Commonwealth as it is studied in the light of his- tory. He was Hartford's scholar, par excellence. His personality was quaint yet vigorous, his speech piquant ; here was a man who, although of prodi- gious philological and other attainments, was as far removed as possible from a Dr. Dryasdust. On the contrary, J. Hammond Trumbull kept in touch with current events and current literature ; he always enjoyed a street talk or a house talk on the latest novel as much as on some recondite point concern- ing which he was appealed to. His memory was wonderful, almost appalling in its extent and accu- racy. He would nail a false statement or pillory an antagonist who was ill-equipped with a sly, humor- ous relish of the situation that was delicious. This and other winning traits made him companionable and will make him doubly missed. After being con- fined to the house for some time he died on .•\ugust 5, 1897. Dr. Trumbull married in 1855 Sarah A. Robinson of the well-known Hartford family of that MKN OV I'ROC.KKSS. »7g name. 'I'hey have had one daii_i,'hler, Miss Annie K. 'I'runibull, who with the jien name of Annie Kliot has won literary success by her fictional ami dramatic work. Among Dr. Tnimbull's main inih- lications may he mentionod : " A letter from the Rev. Thomas Hooker," edited with notes (1859); "Defense of Stonington " (1S64): " Roger Wil- liams' Indian Key," edited with notes (1866); " Lechford's I'lain Dealing," edited with notes (1867); "The Origin of McKingal" (1868); '• Composition of Indian ("icographical Names " (1870); "Best Method of studying the Indian Languages" (^1871); "Some Helps for the In- dians," edited (1875) ; " Historical Notes on the Constitutions of Connecticiit " (1873) ; " 'Ihe True lilue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven, etc." (1877); "Indian Names of Places in Connecti- cut" (1881) ; and "Colonial Records of Connecti- cut" and "The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut" (1886); the last two of which he edited. WALDO, George Curtis, Editor of the Bridge- port Standard, was born in Lynn, Mas.sachusetts, March 20, 1837, son of the Reverend J. C. Waldo, of New London, Connecticut, and Elmina (Ballou) Waldo. Deacon Cornelius Waldo, who emigrated from England in 1654 and settled in Massachusetts, was the first of the name to come to this country, and from him all the American branches of the family have sprung. Back of Cornelius Waldo the ancestry traces to Thomas Waldo, brother of Peter Waldo, founder of the Waldenses in 11 70. On his mother's side, Mr Waldo is from the old Huguenot family, Ballou, his mother being Elmina, daughter of the late Reverend Hosea Ballou of Boston, and cousin of Eliza Ballou, mother of James A. Garfield. Mr. Waldo was graduated at Tufts College, Massa- chusetls, in i860, studied law in the office of Hon. A. C. Lippitt in New London, Connecticut, and from that office enlisted with Ex-Governor T. M. Waller, in the first Company that went from New London with the three months' troops, in 1861. At the expiration of his time he returned home, and by reason of impaired health, gave up the study of law to enter active business. In 1867 he became City Editor and local reporter of the Bridgeport Standard, liridgeport, Connecticut, and after two years Associate Editor. On the death of the Editor, John D. Candee, in 1888, he was advanced to the position of Editor-in-chief, which ])osition he still holds. Eor nearly twenty years lie has been a mem- ber of the Vestry of Christ ICpiscopal Church, and for five years was its junior warden. With the late Reverend Dr. H. N. Powers he was one of the founders of the Bridgejiort St;ientific Society, serving as Secretary for five years. He is Vice-President of the I'^airfield County Historical .Society, was first President of the old I'^clectic Club, was \'ice-l'resi- dent of the Seaside Club for three years, and President for two years, and is a member of the (Irand Army of the Republic, of the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut, of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Chapter of Massachusetts, and of a number of GEO. CURTIS WALDO. fraternal organizations. He served fi\e years on the Board of Education, two years as Chairman of the Committee on schools, and w%as one of the Commit- tee for the town and the School Board which built the High school building on Congress street. He has been for nine years one of the directors of the Bridgeport Public Library and for six years a Director of the Young Men's Christian Association. He has been a member of the Shell Fish Commis- sion of the state for eight years, and for four years its Chairman. A Republican in politics, he has been an officer of the Republican Club of Bridge- port for several years. In 1887 he was appointed Commissary- General on Governor Lounsbury's Staff, 2 So MEN OF PROGRESS. but business reasons forced him to decline. In 1874 he married in New Orleans, Annie, daughter of Major Freiierick Frye, formerly of Bridgeport, and their chiUlren are Selden Connor, Rosalie Hillnian (now Mrs. Roland Hawley Mallory), Maturin Hallou and Ceorge Curtis Waldo, Jr. Mrs. Waldo is great- great-granddaughter of Colonel James Frye of An- dovor, Massachusetts, who commanded a regiment of Colonial troops at Bunker Hill. WOODRUFF, George Catlin, Editor and Pro- prietor of the Litchfield Fm|uirer, TJtchfield, was GEO. C. WOODRUFF, born in that town, June 23, 1861, eldest son of George M. and Elizabeth (Parsons) Woodruff. He fitted for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and in the fall of 1881 entered Yale College, where he remained for two years, and graduated from Amherst in 1885. Three years later he received from Amherst College the degree of Master of Arts. In September 1885 he entered Union Theological Seminary, New York city, from which institution he graduated in 1888. In |une of that year he became Superintendent for Colorado of the Congregational Sunday School and Publica- tion Society, with headquarters at Colorado Springs. In January 1890 he took charge of the Congregational Church at Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, where he remained until he came East in the late spring of 1891. In December following Mr. Woodruff assumed charge of the i-'aith Chapel (South Wash- ington) Mission of the New York Avenue Piesby- terian Church of Washington, District of Columbia, where he continued until he resigned from the Presbytery and the Ministry in June 1894. In October 1894 he purchased the Litchfield Enquirer, a weekly paper established in 1S25, the oldest paper in Litchfield county and one of the oldest in Con- necticut. He has proved an able and efficient journalist, making his paper widely known and respected. In politics Mr. Woodruff is a Democrat, though his paper is independent. He was an active Gold Democrat in the campaign of 1896, and was a member of the Connecticut Delegation to the Indianapolis Convention. Mr. Woodruff is a Royal Arch Mason, a member of the Psi Upsilon college fraternity, and of the Psi Upsilon Club of New York city, and has been President of the Connecticut State Editorial Association. He was married in November 1889 to Miss Lucy Este Crawford, of Paltimore, Maryland. WADSWORTH, Adrian Ruwe, an expert Civil Engineer, and a prominent agriculturist of Farni- ington, was born in that town, November 26, 1855, son of Winthrop M. and Lucy (Ward) Wadsworth. His American ancestor was William \\'adsworth, who was a resident of Farmington at an early date in the Colonial period, and the line of descent is traced directly from him through : John, William ist, William 2d, Ashael, and Thomas Hart, to Win- throp M. Wadsworth, all of whom were natives of Farmington. Adrian R. Wadsworth pursued his rudimentary studies at the Middle District School, next attended the Edward L. Hart Private School, was a pupil at the Hartford High School for one year, and was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, with the class of 18S0. In April 1881 he was appointed City Engineer of Shamokin, Pennsylvania, but resigned that position in the following September to accept an engage- ment with the Clarke Bridge Company of Balti- more, and subsequently operated in Virginia and West Virginia, constructing trestles and bridges on the New River Division of the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad, to the Pocahontas coal mines. Aside from his professional work Mr. Wadsworth is quite extensively interested in general MEN OF PROGRESS. 281 farming in his native town, and is a close student of scientific agriculture. He has been Secretary and Treasurer of the Farmington Creamery Company since 1S91, succeeding Mr. Edward Morton; was Secretary of the Village Improvement Society in 1 89 1, was elected President of the State Dairy- men's Association in January 1897, and acted as President of the Farmers Association's general as- sembly during the same year, also serving as Chair- man of the Committee on Forfeited Rights and as a member of the Committee on Contingent Ex- penses. He was also Secretary and Treasurer of the Connerticnt Association of Civil l''ngineiTs and A. R. WADSWORTH. Surveyors for the years 1894-95, and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Country Club of F"armington. In 1888-89 lie served as First Select- man, has been Chairman of the Town Committee since 1S93, and was appointed Commissioner by the Superior Court in 1892 to adjust the New Britain water damages from the West Side Canal, and also acts as a Justice of the Peace. Mr. Wads- worth is one of the most active and influential sup- porters of the Republican party in Farmington, having been chosen a Delegate to six Gubernatorial and two Presidential Conventions, and has identi- fied himself with the improvement of public build- ings, the macadamizing of roads, and all other movements of general interest to the community. He is a member of the Masonic Order and the Knights of Pythias. On April 16, 1890, he married Miss Charlotte I). Steele of Hartford. They have two children: Helen, born Ajiril lo, 1891, and .Adrian R. Wadswurth, Jr , born February 25, 1895. ANDREWS, Chari.es Sperrv, Merchant ami Kx- Mayor, Danbury, was born in Elmira, .New \'ork, March 20, 1856, son of Charles E. anil Susan A. ( Tallmadge) Andrews. He is a representative of one of the oldest Connecticut families which, dur- ing tlie Colonial period, allied itself by marriage with other families of prominence, and the present generation is the posterity of men more or less dis- tinguished in the early history of this state. Mr. .Vndrews is a lineal descendant of John Andrews who emigrated from Esse.x, England, ])revious to 1658, in which year he was made a Freeman at Hartford, and in 1672 he was one of the eighty-four proprietors of the town of Tunxis, now Farmington. Abraham Andrews, son of John, was also a land owner in Farmington. He was one of the peti- tioners for the establishment of Mattatuck Planta- tion, now Waterbury, whither he removed in 1678, and his dwelling stood upon the corner of the pres- ent Main and Bank streets. He married Sarah Porter, and his fifth child, Robert Andrews, who was born in 1693, spent the greater part of his life in Danbury and was a Sergeant in the Colonial Militia. In 1720 he married Anna Olmstead of Danbury. John Andrews, the next in line, who was the fourth child of Robert, and resided in Bethel, Connecticut, married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Sperry of Danbury. Eden Andrews, third child of John and Mary Andrews, and great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1751. He represented Bethel in the General Assembly for the years 1818- 20-21, and he died in 1839. In 1784 he married Deborah, daughter of Thomas and Mercy (Knapp) Benedict. Cyrus Sperry Andrews, the grandfather, wlio went to the .Assembly from Bethel in 1849, married Betsy Brown in 1818. Charles E. .Andrews, the father, was born in Bethel, in 1824. When a young man he located in Dan- bury but in 1849 went to lialtimore, where he car- ried on business for a time and, upon his return, in 1 85 7, he became associated with George W. Ives in the hardware and stove business. That partnership continued until 1862 when he engaged in business alone, occupying a small building which stood upon 2S2 MEN OF PROGRESS. the site of his son's present store. In 1874 his increasing trade made necessary the building of an addition, and he continued in business until liis death, which occurred in 1878. In 184S he married Susan A. Tallmadge ; they had three children, of whom Charles S. is the youngest. 'I'lirough his great- grandmother, Deborah Benedict, Mr. .Andrews is a descendant of Thomas Benedict, who wrived in America from Nottingham, England, in 1638, was a member of the First English legislative body con- vened in New York, was identified with the settle- ment of Huntington and Jamaica, Long Island, Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Norwalk and Danbury, CHAS. S. ANDREWS. Connecticut. He was prominent in both civic and military affairs, a member of the Assembly from 1670 to 1675, and one of the organizers of the First Presbyterian Church in America. Mr. An- drews' great-great-grandfather on his mother's side, Samuel Stewart, of Wilton, Connecticut, served in Captain Dickinson's company during the Revolu- tionary War. His great-great-grandmother, Mary Sperry, was a daughter of Benjamin Sperry, who was taken prisoner when eighty years old by the British and compelled to travel on foot to New Vork. He is also a descendant on the maternal side of Sergeant Hiram llinnian, who arrived in 1650 and settled in Stratford, of Francis Styles, who settled in the same town in 1639, °^ Peter Malory, who signed the New Haven Plantation Covenant in 1644, of Reverend Zachariah Walker, Presbyterian minister at Jamaica, Long Island, from 1663 to 1668, and founded the town of Woodbury, Connecticut, in 1678. Reverend Zacha- riah Walker was a son of Robert Walker who came from Manchester, England, and was one of the founders of the Old South Church, Boston. Other persons of note with whom the ancestors were con- nected by marriage were : Thomas Hurlbut, who served in the garrison at Saybrook in 1636; Eliz- abeth Hawley, a sister of Joseph Hawley, who came from Derbyshire in 1629 or 1630; Thomas Miner, who arrived in New England in 1630 and with Win- throp's company settled Pequot in 1646; Richard Booth, who located in Stratford in 1640; and of Robert Rose, who came from Ipswich, England, in 1634. Charles Sperry Andrews succeeded his father in business when twenty-two years old, and by his energetic management he, in less than a decade, made it one of the leading mercantile enterprises in this section of the state. In order to keep pace with the constantly increasing trade he erected in 1889 his present four-story building, which is one of the most substantial business blocks in the city, and he continued to conduct the business alone until 1896, when the Danbury Hardware Company was organized with Mr. Andrews as its President. In that year he opened his present department store, which occupies two floors and a basement of his building, and is heavily stocked with goods of a superior quality representing seven different branches of trade. He is still the official head of the hardware company, is interested in other enter- prises both of a public and private nature, and for a number of years has been a director of the Danbury National Bank. As Mayor of the city in 1893-95 his executive ability enabled him to administer the affairs of the municipality in a business-like as well as an economical manner, which received the hearty commendation of all liberal-minded citi- zens irrespective of party, and many of his recom- mendations were carried out by his successor in office. He served upon the staff of Governor Morris with the rank of Colonel, but is not an aspirant for public notoriety, preferring to devote his time to his extensive business interests. On February 28, 1883, Colonel Andrews married Fanny Cowan. They have one son: Charles Sperry An- drews, Jr. MEN OF PROGRKSS. ^^3 BECKW'I 111, CJiAKi.Ks KiNNr.R, solo proprietor of the business corniuctcil under the style of the Beckwith Card Company, Stafford Si)rings, was born in Rainbow, Connecticut, June 8, 185S, son of Charles Walter and Sarah Sophia (Koote) Beckwith. On the paternal side he is a rejiresentative of a family whose origin is traced directly to a daughter of \\'illiam the Con(iueror, and his mother's great- aunt was closely related to Henry Ward Beecher and Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Nathaniel Foote on the maternal side came from l^ngland in 16^53, and was one of the first settlers of Connecticut in 1635. His wife (name Wilcox) was a direct de- C F. BECKWlTH^ scendant of Cotton Mather. Nathaniel l'"oote was granted a large tract of land near Colchester, Con- necticut, by Charles II, King of F.ngland, for hiding and caring for him in the hollow of an oak tree when his life was in danger at one time. In 1869 Charles Walter Beckwith moved from Windsor Locks to Stafford Springs, and established himself in the card manufacturing business. Charles Fenncr Beck- with acquired a good common school education and at the age of nineteen he began his business career with E. A. Buck & Company, hardware dealers in Stafford Springs, and two years later he accepted a position with Rawitser & Brother, woolen manu- facturers, as paymaster and buyer for their several large mills. After seven years of faithful service he purchased the card manufactory established by his father, having as a partner Mr. G. B. M. Knowlton of Ashford, and the present firm name of the Beck- with Card Com])any originated at that time. He was later associated with Judge J. F. Chamberlain, and still later with .\ddison Arnold, but since .August 1S96 Mr. Ilcckwith has been sole proprietor of the enterprise. The factory is equipped wiili forty- seven machines for making all kinds of card cloth- ing and hand cards, there being several extra new quick machines capable of running four hundred teeth per minute, and both steam and water power are at command. Patent card cloth foundation is imported direct from England, the leather depart- ment being in charge of the founder of the business, Mr. C. W. Heckwith, a practical tanner. In addition to all kinds of card clothing the factory turns out a full line of cotton, wool, horse, cattle, Jim Crow (negro combs) and liand-stripping cards, in iron, steel, brass, plated and coppered wire, which are sold direct, except for exjiort, as the proprietor is not allied to any combination or trust, and the concern which is the only one of its kind in the state enjoys the distinction of sujiplying the largest dealers and consumers in the country. Its goods are also exported to Canada, Mexico, South America, Australia and Africa. Mr. Beckwith is a member of the Masonic Order, the Ancient Order of L'nited Workmen and the Business Men's Club. He is deeply interested in the improvement of the town and the moral and religious welfare of the com- munity, and is a member of the Congregational Society. In politics he is a Republican but has never sought for or held i)ublic office. In 1886 he married Miss Edith Snow, youngest daughter of Mrs. Wesley J. Dimock. They have two children : Malcolm S., aged nine years; and Louise Foote Beckwith, aged foiir years. BROWN, Delos D.anikls, Hotel Proprietor, of East Hampton, was born in Orleans, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, in 1838. His parents were Reverend Thomas G. and Caroline Maria (Daniels) Brown. His education was actured at White House Landing, Virginia, Cap- Uiin Brown was detailed with his company to conduct him to Fortress Monroe and deliver him up as a prisoner of war. His regiment belonged to 1 Ji :J^ .^i\ kW^^I^^^H S^. ^Il ^^^^H^ D. D. I3ROWN. Bumside's famous Ninth Army Corps and was com- manded by Colonel Arthur H. Dutton of the regular army and later by Colonel Thomas F. Burpee of Rockville, Connecticut, both of whom were killed in the service The father of Captain Brown enlisted in the War of 1812 but saw no active service. His grandfather served in the War of the Revolution and all the male members of his family upon the pater- nal side were in the army or navy during the war of the rebellion. His older brother was paymaster and his younger brother paymaster's assistant in the navy, and his brother-in-law. Lieutenant F. W. H. Buell, was with him in the Twenty-first Regiment and died in the cause. Captain Brown's father, when sixty-three years of age, but still anxious to take part in the conflict, was appointed Chaplain of the Twenty-first Regiment, and by gallant conduct un- der fire at the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, where he was wounded in the arm, became known as the Fighting Chaplain. Captain Brown was a member of the House of Representatives in 1882, was County Commissioner of Middlesex County for five years and Chairman of the Town Committee of Chatham. He is a member of the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut, of the Mansfield Post, No 53, Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Order of American Mechanics, in addition to being a prominent mem- ber of the Masonic Fraternity and Road Commis- sioner of Chatham for the last six years. At the present time Captain Brown is the proprietor of the beautiful and commodious hotel known as the Lake View House. Its situation, upon the banks of the charming Lake Pocotopaug at East Hampton is ideal and no one who has ever spent a season at this delightful spot can forget its rare beauty nor the generous hospitality of the captain himself. Captain Brown is a man of strong individuality and unusual power. ■ His conversation is always interest- ing and his reminiscences many. He is held in the highest esteem by the community in which he lives and by the numerous strangers who have found delightful entertainment under his roof. He was married September 2, 1862, to Anna E. Veazey, daughter of Warren Veazey, of East Hampton, Connecticut. BROWNE, John Dean, President of the Con- necticut Fire Insurance Company, son of Gurdon Perkins and Esther (Dean) Browne, was born at Plainfield, Windham county, in 1836. The Plain- field homestead has been for four generations in the family, an elder brother of Mr. Browne now resid- ing in it. His ancestry is of that sturdy sort that did the stern work cut out for it in Puritan days and the red days of the Revolution. His grand- father, along with two brothers, served in the army of 1776, the former being a fife-major. Mr. Browne's father was a much respected farmer and for thirty years a school teacher widely known for his conscientiousness and ability. He was an old- style Democrat, always interested in good govern- ment, local and national. Both parents lived to a ripe old age. Their son was reared on a farm and like so many country lads who have made a mark in life did the homely duties incidental to farming and attended the district school, of which later he MEN OF PROGRESS. J85 became a teacher. Hut he aspired to other and broader work, and getting a taste for the West by a trip in 1855 to Minnesota, which then seemed like a far journey, he returned there a couple of years afterwards and took up his residence in Minne- apolis, connecting himself with the Minneapolis Mill Company. He thus took part in developing the great water iiower which has since brougiit power and wealth to the western city. .Xnother two years found him in Little Falls, to the north of St. Paul, then but an insignificant village. He became Secretary and agent of the Little Falls Manufacturing Coni])anv, which was doing the same J. D. BROWNE. thing — developing the water power of the Missis- sippi for purposes of industry. Mr. Prowne had a hand in organizing the Republican party in the state and during President Lincoln's administration was closely in touch with the powers at ^Vashington, being alternate delegate to the National Convention which nominated the martyr-chief. During his eight years of western residence he was widely known as an enthusiastic, energetic and able Repub- lican. In i860 he was elected to take the first electoral vote of Minnesota to the National Capi- tol, and spent some montlis in Washington ; he had an appointment to the Interior Department under Joseph Wilson, Commissioner of the General Land Ofl^ce. Mr. Hrowne returned East in 1865 to enter upon the Insurance work in which he has been so conspicuously successful. He made a connection with the Hartford Fire Insurance Company in 1867 as general agent an« represented Torrington in the town branch of the Connecticut Legislature and in the Senate in 1893. Mr. Brooker is a member of the Union League, Transportation and Fulton clubs of New York ; also of the Chamber of Com- merce of New York ; American Geographical Society and the New England Society of New York. The Coe Brass Manufacturing Company has large mills at Torrington and .Xnsonia, Connecticut. Mr. Brooker is married and resides at Ansonia. BURR, William Hubert, Professor of Civil Engi- neering, Columbia University, New York city, was born at Watertown, Connecticut, July 14, 1851, son of George William and Marion Foot (Scovill) Burr. Mr. Burr traces his ancestry back to old English stock. The first member of the family in direct line was Jehue Burr, who came to this country in 1640, and settled at what is now Springfield, Massachusetts. Shortly afterwards he removed to Hartford, Connecticut, and thence to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he settled in 1644. Since that time Fairfield has been the seat of the family, the father of the subject of this sketch having been born in that part of Fairfield known as Stratfield Parish. William Hubert Burr is of the ninth genera- tion of the family name. His ancestors in Fairfield were prominent in Colonial affairs and played important parts in the development of the colony in which Fairfield was located. Nathaniel Burr of the second generation in the direct line of descent to William H. Burr was one of the large and wealthy land owners of his time, while Colonel John Burr, Colonel Andrew Burr, and Major John Burr of the second, third and fourth generations respectively were active men in public affairs of their time. Colonel Andrew Burr was a member of the ex])edi- tion against Loui.sburg, and bore his part in the siege of that place. Among the prominent names of the same Fairfield Burr stock were Reverend Aaron Burr, first President of the College of New Jersey, Colonel Aaron Burr, Vice-President of the United States, General Gershom Burr and General Thaddeus Burr. The patriotism of the Burrs at the time of the Revolution entailed severe losses upon members of the family when the British made the incursion into Fairfield under General Tryon in 1777, burning houses and destroying property be- longing to them. William Hubert Burr received his early education partly in the .Academy at Water- town, Connecticut, supplemented by private instruc- tion. -Vfter having received this preparation he entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, the oldest school of civil engineer- ing in this country, and graduated in the class of 1872 with the degree of Civil Engineer. This con- stituted his training for active life, and he has since practiced the profession of civil engineering chiefly W. H BURR. in the fields of bridge work and large public works. From 1872 to 1875 he was engaged in subordinate positions in the building of wrought iron bridges in New York city, and on the city water works of Newark, New Jersey. In the autumn of 1875 he returned to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a member of the faculty, and was appointed Professor of Rational and Technical Mechanics in 1876. He held this position for eight years, at the same time engaging to a considerable extent in civil engineering practice. During this period he published three books : " The Stresses in Bridge and Roof Trusses," " The Elasticity and Resistance of the Materials of Engineering," and "The Theory of the Masonry Arch," besides a considerable num- MKN (>F PROGRESS. 291 ber of contributions to engineering periodicals and other similai publications. All of the preccdinj;; books have passed through a number of editions, and are regarded as standard engineering works. In 1884 he left the field of instruction to devote his whole time to active practice, first as assistant to the chief engineer, and subsequently as the General Manager of the Phrenix Bridge Company of Phcenixville and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While in connection with this business a number of the largest bridges then built, among which were the Chesapeake and Ohio Bridge across the Ohio River at Cincinnati ; the Red Rock Canteliver, across the Colorado River near " The Needles," California ; and the Pecos Viaduct in Texas, were designed and executed under his direction and supervision. In 1891 he removed to New York city and became the Vice-President of Sooysmith & Company, prominent contracting engineers in pneumatic and other deep foundation work From 1892 to 1893 he was also Professor of Engi- neering at Harvard University, but in the latter year was called back to New York city to take the Chair of Civil Engineering in Columbia University, which position he still holds. In addition to his professorship work he has served in a professional capacity in connection with a number of large interests. In 1894 he was a member of the sub- committee of the Committee of Seventy on the improvement of the water front of New York city and, at about the same time, a member of a com- mittee of experts who were charged by the Rapid Transit Commission of New York city with the duty of considering the broad question of Rapid Transit as it then presented itself to the city of New York, and in particular to consider and report upon the plans and estimates as then proposed for the project of rapid transit. In the summer of 1894 he was appointed by President Cleveland a member of a Board of Engineers to investigate and report on the feasibility of crossing the North River at New York city with a suspension bridge of a single span of three thousand two hundred feet. From 1893 to 1895 he was Consulting Engineer to the Department of Public Works of New York city for the design and construction of the Harlem Ship Canal Bridge. From November 1895 to January 1898 he was a member of the Board of Consulting Engineers to the Department of Docks of the same city. In February 1896 he was appointed C^onsulting ICn- gineer to the Department of Public Parks of New York city in charge of the construction of the Harlem River Driveway, a work costing about three million dollars, and was also made Consulting En- gineer by the same Department for a numlier of bridges and other works. In the autumn of 1896 he was appointed on a Board by President Cleve- land under the provisions of the River and Harbor Statute of the Fifty-fourth Congress to determine the location of a dee]) water harbor for commerce and of refuge on the coast of Southern California. He is a member of the American Society of Civil F'.ngineers, of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain, and of a number of other scientific and professional organizations. In 1892 his paper on "The River Spans of the Cincinnati and Coving- ton Bridge " received the Rowland ])rize of the American Society of Civil F.ngineers. In 1896 he contributed a paper on the " Harlem Ship Canal Bridge " to the Institution of Civil Engineers, and has made many other contributions to the priodical literature of his profession. From 1893 to 1896 he was also a Director of the .-Xmerican Society of C"ivil Engineers. He is a member of the University Club, and of the Century .Association of New York city. The close occupation of Mr. Burr with his professional duties has left little time for active par- ticipation in political affairs other than such lively interest as every good citizen should take in the best politics of his country's life. He is not a strong partisan, but his political tone is that of an independent Democrat. He was married in 1876. to Caroline Kent Seelye, who died in 1894. He has three children : Marion Elizabeth, William Fair- field and George Lindsley Burr, the latter being the youngest. BURR, John Mii.o, Postmaster of Burrville, Con- necticut, from i86[ till 1897, was born in that town March 8, 1833, in the house which has always been his residence and was erected by his father in 1827 ; and died November 26, 1897. He was the son of Milo and Mary (Skinner) Burr. Milo Burr was also born in Burrville to which town his honored ancestors had given the name. He became a large owner of timber lands and with three old-fashioned water saw-mills furnished lumber for the surrounding towns. The son, John Milo Burr, aided his father in the marketing and delivery of the lumber, and a frequent experience of his boyhood was the starting for Farmington with a loaded team at midnight. The tending of brick kilns was also a part of his early duties. With this sturdy exercise to develop his growing muscular frame, the young man was 2g2 MEN OF PROGRESS. sent to school in the brick schoolhouse on Torring- (ord street in the section known as Greenwoods. .Aftenvard for two seasons he walked to Winsted and returned each day to attend the High School of Henry E. Rockwell. It was his father's theory that JOHN M. BURR. this eight-mile daily constitutional exercise was good for development of the mind as well as the body ; and it was this same rugged heroic training of boy- hood that has produced many of New England's strongest and most distinguished characters. Up to the time of his father's death in 187 1 the father and son were associated in the lumber and brick business. John Milo Burr was Postmaster of Burr- ville for thirty-six years, and for a quarter of a cen- tury served as a Justice of the Peace. In 1871 he represented Torrington in the Legislature and he also served as Selectman, Assessor and Member of the Board of Relief. He had long been prominent in public affairs in the boroughs of Winsted and Torrington in both of which jjlaces he was a large real estate owner. No place in Litchfield county is better known than Mr. Burr's modern appearing residence with its well kept barns and out-buildings, surrounded by fertile acres in this beautiful valley of the Winchester mountains. Mr. Burr was in thorough sympathy with the progressive spirit of the time. He was generous as well as public spirited and on the building of the Torrington & Win- chester Electric Railway in the summer of 1897 not only gave them a mile right of way through his lands but also donated land for the company's power and car houses. Mr. Burr was well known through- out the state as a member of the Masonic Fraternity. He was a regular attendant of the Triennial Con- claves of the Knights Templar, and a member of Seneca Lodge No. 55, of Torrington, and Lafayette Consistory of Bridgeport, and Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine of Bridgeport. He was married in 1855 to Lavinia A. Hurlbut, of Winchester. Their only child, John H. Burr, was born .September 17, i860, and continues the business of his father. CAMP, Samuel Talcott, President of the Far- mers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Middletown, was born in Middletown, July i, 1831, son of Ichabod and Sarah (Johnson) Camp. He is de- II S. T. CAMP. scended from Nicholas Camp, who with his wife came over from London, England, in 1632. He attended the public schools of Middletown, and received his early training for active life as a clerk in the grocery business. In his twentieth year, in January 1852, he went to California, where he re- mained for about three and a half years, returning Mi:\ OK I'KOCRKSS. ?93 East to MicUlletown in May 1856, travelled through- out the I'nited States, and in 1S5S, went into the grocery business in company witli Heiijaniin F'". Chaffee. This partnership existed for over ten years, at the end of which time he bought out the interest of Mr. Chaffee, and lias since coniimied in business for himself. Mr. Camp is President of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Mid- tiletown, and for tlie past seventeen years has been a Director in the Middlesex County Hank, of which he is Vice-President at the iiresent time. He has also been a trustee of Wesleyan I'niversity for about twenty years. In politics he has been usually iden- tified with the Republican party. He was married November 12, 1862, to Martha E. .Smith, of Port- land, Maine. 'I'hev ha\e no children li\ ins. CARTER, Colin Smith, Dentist, New York city, was born in Middletown, Connecticut, .April 13, 1S57. His ancestry is mainly English and Welcli, a single line extending into France. His earliest American ancestor was Elder \\"i!liam Brewster, of the May- flower, from whom he is ninth in lineal descent. He is also descended from 'lliomas Gardner, over- seer of the first colony of emigrants that landed at Cape Ann (now Gloucester), Massachusetts, in 1624. Others of his ancestors were of the distinguished companies that came to the Colony with Governor ^\'inthrop in 1630, and to New Haven with Governor Eaton in 1637. Of his English ancestors he is ninth in descent from Thomas Morton who was graduated from Cambridge, England, who became Bishop of Chester in 1615, Lichfield 16 18, and Durham 1632, and whose daughter Ann married, first, David Yale, and afterwards Governor Eaton of the New Haven Colony. A daughter of David and Ann (Morton) Vale married Governor Edward Hop- kins of the Connecticut Colony. Their son Thomas married Mary, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Turner, the parents of Elihu Vale after whom the Vale Uni- versity was named, and were also the great-grand- parents of Ann Yale, who on May 8, 1733, married William Carter, the great-great-great-grandfather of Doctor Carter. Doctor Carter is also seventh in descent from Thomas Roberts, the last colonial Governor of New Hampshire, and eighth in descent from Governor Thomas Prince of the Plymouth Colony. One of his ancestors owned Breed's Hill, on which was fought the Battle of Bunker Hill; others were the courageous protectors of the Regi- mental Codes, while more than a score served in the Peijuot and King Philip's wars, and in the general courts of the colonies of Plymouth, .Massa- chusetts, New Haven, Connecticut and New Hamp- shire. Three of them were among the thirteen members of the Convention which met in 1639 to frame for the Colony of ('onnecticul a written con- stitution, the first ever adopted by any people and the leading features of which have since been incorporated both in the Federal and most of the State Constitutions. He is a great-grandson of Sergeant William Taylor who enlisted in the " Lex- ington .Marm " from Simsbury, Connecticut, when only seventeen years of age, was at Bunker Hill, COLIN S. CARTER. Monmouth and Stony Point, served until the close of the war, and was awarded a pension. He is also fourth and fifth in descent respectively from Private Joseph Gaylord and Captain Nathaniel Bunnell, likewise Connecticut soldiers of the Revolution. His grandfather Carter held the offices of Assessor, Collector and Postmaster, and his father, Walter S. Carter, is a well known New York lawyer, noted as an art collector and for his interest in hereditary patriotic societies. His paternal grandfather was the late John Cotton Smith, of New Hartford, Con- necticut, a leading manufacturer. Doctor Carter was educated at the public schools, at the Wilbraham Academy, and at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. 294 MEN OF PROGRESS. He entered the Dental Department of the University of Pennsylvania in iSSi.and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery two years later. Upon graduation he was appointed Assistant Demon- strator of Operative Dentistry, which position he filled until the following year, when he commenced practice in New York in which he has achieved distinguished success. In 1892 Doctor Carter married Miss Rose Esterbrook, daughter of the late Richard and .Antoinette (Rose) Esterbrook of Bridgehampton, Long Island. The latter was the daughter of Judge Rose who was of a good old Long Island family, a graduate of Vale, and who is the author of a valuable and learned commentary on constitutional law. Dr. Carter is a member of the Union League, Republican and American Yacht clubs, the New England Society, Sons of the Revolu- tion, Sons of the .American Revolution, Society of Mayflower Descendants, Founders and Patriots of .America, America's Founders and Defenders, and other patriotic, political and social organiza- tions. In religion he is a Methodist, being a member of St. Paul's Church, New York city. CARTER, W.ALTF.R Steuben, Attorney-at-l.avv, New York city, was born in Barkhamsted, Litch- field county, Connecticut, February 24, 1833, son of Evits and Emma (Taylor) Carter. His ancestry is mainly English and Welch, a single line extend- ing into France. His earliest American ancestor was Elder William Brewster of the Mayflower from whom he is eighth in lineal descent. He is also descended from Thomas Gardner, overseer of the first colony of emigrants that landed at Cape Ann, Massachusetts Colony, in 1624. Others of his ancestors were of the distinguished companies that came to that colony with Governor Winthrop in 1630 and to New Haven with Governor Eaton in 1637. Of his English ancestors he is eighth in descent from Thomas Morton, a graduate of Cam bridge, who was successively Bishop of Chester 1615, Lichfield 1618, and Durham 1632, and whose daughter Ann married David Yale, and for her second husband Governor Eaton, of the New Haven colony. A daughter of David and Ann (Morton) Yale, married Governor Edward Hopkins of the Connecticut Colony, and a son, Thomas, married Mary, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Turner. They were the parents of Elihu Yale after whom Yale University was named, and the great- grandparents of Ann Yale, who in 1733 married William Carter, the great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Mr. Carter is also sixth in descent from Thomas Roberts, the last Colonial Governor of New Hampshire, and seventh in de- scent from Governor Thomas Prince, of the Ply- mouth Colony. One of his ancestors owned Breed's Hill, on which the battle of Bunker Hill was fought. Others were courageous protectors of the Regicides, while more than a score served in the Pequot and King Philip's Wars, and in the General Courts of the New England Colonies. Three of them were among the thirteen members of the convention which met in 1639 to frame a written constitution > 1 ■ iO'. ^ ■ w^f '"^^^ * ^^k ^/g^^ .^^:2^||PPL^ J^m' ' ^5^^|* ^^^^^^^^^^ -^: f WALTER S. CARTER. for the Colony of Connecticut, the first ever adopted by any people, and the leading features of which have since been incorporated in the Federal and in most of our state constitutions. He is a grandson of Sergeant William Taylor, who enlisted in the Lexington Alarm, from Simsbury, Connecti- cut, when only seventeen years of age, was at Bun- ker Hill, Monmouth and Stony Point, served through the war and was awarded a pension. He is also third and fourth in descent respectively from Private Joseph Gaylord and Captain Nathan- iel Bunnell, likewise Connecticut soldiers of the Revolution. Mr. Carter's education was obtained in the common schools with the exception of a MEN OF PROORKSS. 295 single term in a private school at Winsted. In 1850 he commenced the study of law with Judge Elisha Johnson, of Plymouth, continuing the follow- ing year with Judge Jared H. Foster at New Hart- ford, and completed his studies (having meantime taught school during the winters) with Judge Waldo P. Vinal of Middletown, in 1855. He was immedi- ately admitted to the bar, and began a successful practice in Middletown. He removed to Milwau- kee, Wisconsin, in 1858, where for a short time he was legal assistant in the office of Finches, l.ynde & Miller, and later in that of Ex-Chief Justice Hubbell. In 1S60 he entered into partnership with William G. Whipple, now of Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1S63 the firm of Carter, Pitkin & Davis was formed (Ex-Governor Pitkin of Colorado and De\\'itt Davis), which continued until Mr. Carter removed to Chicago in 1869. He there entered into part- nership with Frederick W. Becker and Samuel E. Dale, under the firm name of Carter, Becker & Dale. This connection was severed after the great fire of 1871 when Mr. Carter removed to New York, as legal representative of the Chicago creditors of the suspended fire insurance companies of that and other eastern cities. Judge Leslie W. Russell, now of the Supreme Court, became his partner, but returned to St. Lawrence County in 1S73, and since then Mr. Carter has had as partners, Sherburne B. Eaton, Eugene H. Lewis, Ex-Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain, William B. Hornblower, James Byrne, Lloyd W. Bowers, Paul D. Cravath, John W. Hous- ton, George M. Pinney, Jr., and Frederic R. Kellogg. His present firm. Carter, Hughes & Dwight, has for members, Charles E. Hughes, Edward F. Dwight, .■\rthur C. Rounds, Marshall B. Clarke and George W. Schurman. In politics Mr. Carter is a Repub- lican. He has never sought office, and when he was nominated for the Legislature in .Middletown he declined. The only official position he has ever held was that of LInited States Commissioner and .Mastcr- in-Chancery of the United States Court in Wisconsin, which he held but a short time. He, howe\er, has frequently served on committees and as delegate to political conventions and in 1869 was manager of the Senatorial campaign in Wisconsin which sent Matthew H. Carpenter to the United States Senate. Mr. Carter shows his interest actively in educational matters, was on the Board of Fxlucation in .Middle- town, while in Milwaukee was a trustee of Lawrence University, and at present is one of the trustees of Syracuse University. Being an extensive traveller in foreign lands Mr. Carter has had the opportunity to indulge his taste for art treasures, and he is the possessor of one of the finest franu-d collections of etchings and engravings in the world. In Milwaukee in 1892 he delivered a lecture on the Ma.sterpieccs of Re|)roduclive Etching and ICngraving, which ])robably gives the most minute and careful descrip- tion of the processes of etching, line, mezzotint and stipple engraving yet |)ublished. Mr. Carter belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church and is the Vice- President of the Board of Trustees of the New York Avenue Church of Brooklyn, to which church he lately presented one of the largest and finest organs ever constructed. He also holds the ])osition of trustee in the church of which his granilfather was one of the founders in his native town. He has served as Sunday School sujierintendent, class leader and steward, and in charitable work has lent generous aid. He is one of the few surviving mem- bers of the Christian Commission, having held the position of Chairman to the Wisconsin branch of that great charitable organization, of whose work at the battle of Nashville he published in the Northwestern Christian Advocate an account which was afterwards republished in the official history of the Commission. In clubs and societies Mr. Carter has a wide mem- bershi]). He belongs to the Republican and LInion League clubs in Brooklyn where he resides, and has been upon the art committee and one of the gov- ernors of the latter club. He was one of the in- corporators and is a life member of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and since 1892, when he succeeded Dudley Buck, has been Presi- dent of its department of music. He is a trustee of the Llomceopathic Hospital Association, a mem- ber of the New ICngland Society, and the I-ong Isl- and Historical Society. In New York he belongs to the Lawyers', Grolier, and Clef clubs, is a member of the Manuscript Society, and was the first lay- Honorary Associate of the American Guild of Organists. He is also a member of the .American Historical .Association, the .American Geographical Society, the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, the New York Historical Society, the New York Zoological Society, the Sons of the Revoluiion, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Order of the Founders and Patriots of .America, and .America's Founders and Defenders, of which last he was the founder. He is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar .Association (being upon the 296 MEN OF PROGRESS. committee on Uniform State Laws of the latter) and an Iionorarv nieniher of tiie legal fraternity of I'hi Delta Phi. Mr. Carter has been three times married. By his first wife, .■Antoinette Smith of New Hartford, Connecticut, who died in 1865, he had four children: Dr. Colin S. Carter, a well-known dental surgeon of New York ; Emma, who married Reverend E. H. Dickinson, pastor of the North Presbyterian Church of Buffalo ; Antoinette, wife of ^rr. Hughes of the firm of Carter, Hughes & Dwight ; and one son who died in 1887, George S. Carter, educated at Columbia College and the Harvard Law School. His second wife, Mary Boyd Jones, of Frederick, Maryland, died in 1S69 without issue. In 1870 he married Harriet Cook of Chicago, by whom he has two children : one of whom, Walter F., was graduated from Vale in 1895, and was the famous pitcher of the baseball nine ; his younger son, Leslie T. Carter, will not enter college, and is studying law in his father's office. Mr. Cooley's talents were of particular value for the common weal ; though he was not publicly ])rominent he played a very important part in the establishment and management of many of the great railroad and banking institutions centering in ('hicago. In 1865, having gained a handsome competence, he removed to Hartford where his abilities as a financier, as a man of keen business acumen, have ever since been recognized. He was elected President of the National Exchange Bank which position he filled with great credit till he resigned in 1886. He is now Vice-President of that bank and President of Landers, Frary & Clark COOLEY, Francis Buell, Senator, 1883, 1884 and 1885, and President of Landers, Frary & Clark, of New Britain, was born in Granville, Massachu- setts, June 21, 1822, son of Noah and Sophronia (Parsons) Cooley. Among his ancestors were Cap- tain George Cooley, Colonel Timothy Robinson and Colonel David Parsons, prominent men in early New England history. Mr. Cooley was graduated from Granville Academy, Westfield Academy and at Albany .Academy. He began business life as a clerk and manager of the country store in his native town where he remained till 1848. At the age of twenty- five he went to Chicago and established the whole- sale drygoods house of Cooley, Farwell & Com- pany, now the J. V. Farwell Company, which, it might be said, was the beginning of the enormous drygoods trade of Chicago today. From this firm came the firm of Field & Leiter, now Marshall Field & Company and others which have done much toward making the city a great commercial center. The success of the original concern was due in a large measure not only to the enterprise, energy and hard work of the former country store manager but to his careful foresight and his power to appreciate and turn to use the mercantile opportunities in the fast-growing lake-side city. But not to mercantile affairs alone did he confine his attentions. It was a time when the future of the Western metropolis was being shaped, when the foundations were being laid for the present greatness. And here was where FRANCIS B. COOLEY. one of the largest manufacturing concerns in New Britain. He has been Trustee of the old Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad now the New York & New England Railroad, and of the Phcenix Insurance Company, and is now a Director of the Phcenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, of the -L^tna Insurance Company, of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, of the Hartford County Mutual Fire Insurance Company and of the Broad Brook Company. In politics Mr. Cooley is a Republican. His appreciative fellow- townsmen laying claim on some of his abilities, he was elected Senator from the First or Hartford District in 1883-84 and 1884-85. He married mi;n ok proc.rkss. 297 Clarissa A. Smith, November 5, 1S62. They have four children : Francis Rexfortl, Sarali rorier, Charles Parsons and Clara May Cooley. CAPEWELL, George Joseph, founder and \'i(e- President of the Capewell Horse Nail Company, Hartford, was born in Hirmingham, England, June 26, 1843, son of Mark Anthony and Jane Eliza- beth (Titcombe) Capewell. His ancestors were all English. He came to this country in 1845 and located in Woodbury, Connecticut. Thence he removed to Waterbury, and thence to Cheshire, Connecticut, in 1S62. His early education was obtained in the district school and academy in Woodbury. .After leaving the academy he served an apprenticeship as a machinist and since 1862 has been constantly in the manufacturing business. Over twenty years ago, in 1876, he began e.xperiments in the manufacture of horse nails by machinery. To produce by an automatic machine a nail of the very best form, finish and consistency ; of great tensile strength combined with a high degree of ductility yet sufficiently stiff to drive into the hardest hoof was the mark he set. His first experimental machine, though crude and slow, encouraged him to further efforts. It was not how- ever until the autumn of 1880, after four years of unremitting labor, but with great faith in the final outcome, that, nothing daunted by the consignment to the scrap heap of several machines, he was able to complete in his factory at Cheshire, Connecticut, and e.\hibit in the works of J. L. Howard & Com- pany, Hartford, to capitalists and business men, a machine to automatically turn out about fifty finished nails a minute. The Capewell Horse Nail Company was organized January 17, 1881, and shortly there- after began manufacturing in the building where the machine was first exhibited. The company removed n the winter of 1883-84 to larger premises in the National Screw Company's building, 133 Sheldon street, Hartford, where it remained until it was necessary to erect its present extensive ])lant at Governor and Charter Oak streets. On June 26, 1893, the fiftieth anniversary of Mr. Capewell's birth, with ceremonies appropriate to the occasion, the engine was started by George J. Capewell, Jr. Since then, although many of its competitors have been shut down for long periods, the Capewell Horse Nail Company has scarcely been able to keep up with its orders. Today, tlieir nails have more than a national reputation as " the best in the world," and the Capewell Horse Nail Company, limited, with a caiiital of one hundred and ten thousand pounds, has a large and nourishing plant at Millwall Docks, London, England. The Hartford Com()any has increased its capital from two hundred thousand dollars to four hundred thousand, and Mr. Capewell has so improved his machine that instead of a former capacity of fifty a minute, it now produces considerably over one hundred nails a minute, and the company at present has an output of horse nails greater than that of all the other companies in the United States combined. Mr. Cajje^vell's inventive ability has not been confined to horse shoe nail G. J. CAPEWELL. machinery, for which he has been granted between thirty and forty patents in this country and Europe, but he has taken out over one hundred patents in other lines, some of which have been the foundation of other large and prosperous industries whose products are known the world over. .Among his more prominent inventions are the Capewell Giant Nail Puller and the Capewell Self-fastening Cone Button. At present he is devoting considerable time and thought to the problem of ra])id transit by means of improved elevated and surface roads. He is also interested in other large enterprises, is Vice- President and Superintendent of the Capewell Horse Nail Coni]iany, Hartford, and President of jgS MEN OF PROGRESS. the American Specialty Manufacturing Company, Hartford, a young but growing concern engaged in the manufacture of specialties, many of them of Mr. Capewell's invention. He is a Free Mason and a member of the Hardware Club of New York city and of the Republican Club of Hartford. On March 20, 1864, he married Garafelia Hull. They have three children : Ida G., Mary A. and George J. Capewell, Jr. COOKE, LoRRiN Ai-wsON, Governor, was l)orn in the heart of the beautiful Berkshire Hills, in the lovely village of New Marlboro, Massachusetts, son of Levi and Amelia (Todd) Cooke. Through his father, he can trace his descent from one who came to New England from the old England with the first party in the Mayflower. Hezekiah Cooke, the earliest known of the name to settle in this country, made his home in New Marlboro at a date which it is impossible to verify. He had a son, Solomon, who was a faithful soldier in the Revolutionary War. Thus the subject of this sketch, Lorrin Alanson, tracing his descent directly through his father, Levi, and his grandfather, Lewis, to the latter's father, Solomon, can claim right of membership in such patriotic societies as the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution, to which he has been admitted, whose aim it is to foster in the descendant of sturdy forefathers, not alone a spirit of reverence and filial regard, but one of loyalty and patriotism as well. .After a thorough course of training in the common schools of his native State, Mr. Cooke re- moved to Norfolk, Connecticut, where he entered the Academy and where he subsequently taught school for a period previous to settling upon a farm. He himself says little of his life during this season, but it must have been marked by steady progress and increasing capacity to meet responsibility, thereby winning the confidence and respect of his fellow-townsmen, for, in 1856, he was chosen Rep- resentative from Colebrook, being identified with the Republican party. In 1869 he became mana- ger of the Eagle Scythe Company of Riverton, filling that position with marked ability and retain- ing it until the company discontinued business in 1889. He was repeatedly approached with public requests to accept town offices, and many of these he did accept, discharging their duties with honor to himself and satisfaction to his constituents. In the meantime, he had been chosen Senator from the Eighteenth District, was re-elected to the Sen- ate, and for three years occupied the position of Chairman of the Committee on Education. Dur- ing the session of the Senate of 1884 he was once more distinguished by a public recognition of his abilities and personal qualifications, being made Chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills, a position involving no small amount of labor and a thorough mental equipment of a high order. In 18S4 he was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor, and was elected by a handsome majority. So ably did he discharge the duties of the office, particu- larly those of President of the Senate, that his renomination at some future date was practically a LORRIN A. COOKE. foregone conclusion, and in 1S95 he was again elected Lieutenant-Governor for two years. Thus he served two terms, and became the logical, as well as the universally popular candidate for Gov- ernor to succeed Governor O. Vincent Cofifin, in 1896. His election followed, with the handsomest majority in the history of the Republican party of the state nearly forty-four thousand. He has brought to his administration those faculties of business shrewdness, careful study and sound judg- ment which had already assured him one of the highest places in the world of finance ; and fearless in what he believed to be for the welfare of the State, conservative without being narrow, upright iMKN OF I'ROGRKSS. 299 and liigh-minded to the last degree, he has kept the iiii])ortant pledges of his jiarty at the time of his nomination and lias won, not only the applause, but the lasting esteem of the citizens of the State, re- gardless of party lines. When he took the chair of the Chief Executive there was imperative need of a man of his nature and training. The State boasting of its wealth, secure in its traditions of \'ankee thrift, and relying upon the stability of its indus- tries, was becoming a spendthrift. The rage for improvements, if not the opportunity tor personal plunder, was on the increase. A new atnios])here of honesty in exjienditure, and of i/i/:i//ro quo soon made itself a]iparent in public affairs. The (Gov- ernor's message jiointed out defects, jirickcd silly bubbles, and was not sparing in criticism of de))art- ments and commissions. Strong men rallied under his leadership, so that by tlie close of the I.egisla- lative session, it was ])ossible to announce that the prospect in all departments was once more gratify- ing and hojie had been realized. Governor Cooke has not conspicuously connected himself with clubs, secret societies or any social or politico-social organizations though he is enrolled among the Sons of the American Revolution. His position in the community is an en\ iable one, commanding as it dees the universal respect and sincere appreciation of his fellow citizens. He married in 185.8, Matilda K. Webster, of Sandisfield, Massachusetts, who died in 1868, without issue. Two years later he married Josephine E. Ward of Riverton. Two sons were born to them, both of whom are deceased. They have one daughter, Edna Cooke, now completing her education at I.asell Seminary, .Auburndale, Massa- chusetts. CARTER, Oliver Stanley, Merchant, New- York city, was born in New Hartford, Connecticut, July 25, 1825, son of Hermas and Hannah (Booth) Carter. Oliver Carter received his early education in the common schools of his native place and until he was ten years of age attended these both winter and summer. For five years thereafter he was per- mitted to attend the winter terms but when he was fifteen he was obliged to abandon his books altogether and turn his attention to making his way in the world. He obtained a situation in a store in Hartford which, however, he left before long for what he considered a more promising opportunity in New York. 'I'his latter position yielded him an income of one hundred and fifty dollars a year, out of which princely sum he was expected to pay his board. Like ihc jihicky young fellow he was he discharged his duties faithfully, familiarized himself with all the details of the business — that of whole- sale grocery — and succeeded in making himself indispensable to the concern. In 1854 he was admitted as a partner under the firm name of Whit- lock. Kellogg & Carter. Mr. Whithx k dying in 1 S58 the firm was changed to Kellogg, Carter \- Hawlcy, but it reuiained so for less than two years, owing to the death of Mr. Kellogg, which occurred in 1859. On January 1, i860, the firm underwent another change to Carter & Hawley, and on ,\pril i, 1884, Mr. Carter retired from the business altogether, OLIVER S. CARTER. leaving Mr. Hawley and his son-in-law, George H. Macy, to continue under the firm name of Car- ter & Hawley. Two years later he resumed his association with the firm, and it is still maintained under the name of Carter, Macy & Company. In 1856 Mr. Carter was elected Director in the North American Fire Insurance Company, and in 1862 Director in the Home Insurance Company, later holding the same office in the World Life Insurance Comi)any of New York, and in 1868 in the World Life Insurance Company of Chicago. In 1874 he was elected Director in the National Hank of the Re- public, in 1888 taking Mr. Henry Cannon's place as Vice-President of the same on the latter's retirement .">oo MEN OF PROGRESS. to take the Presidency of the Chase National Bank ..( New York city. On the first of March 1892 Mr. Carter was elected President of the National IJank of the Republic to take the place of John Jay Knox who died in February of that year, and con- tinues to hold this office and others, while maintain- ing his association with the firm of Carter, Macy & Company, imjwrters and jobbers of teas. He is a member of the Union League and Down Town clubs, and resided in Brooklyn, New York, from 1854 until 1862, when he removed to Orange, New Jersey, where he still resides. iMr. Carter was mar- ried in 1854 to Miss Elizabeth Hyde Coley, daughter of John H. Coley, of New Haven, by whom he had six children, five daughters and a son, which latter died in infancy. Mrs. Carter dying in 18S0, Mr, Carter contracted a second marriage in 18S7 with Miss Isis Yiterbide Potter, of Trenton, New Jersey. DEMING, Hlnrv Champion, Lawyer, Literary man and Statesman, and one of Connecticut's truly illustrious sons, was born in Colchester of that state on May 23, 1815. He was the son of David and Abigail (Champion) Deming. His family both on the Champion and Deming sides comes of the best Puritan stock with a notable record in the annals of New England. On the Champion side he is con- nected with the well-known Shipman and Robinson families of Hartford. He rose to have a reputation which was confined neither to the state nor to his section of the land. His preparation for life was begun at the school of the noted pedagogue John Hall, at Ellington. There he fitted for Yale and on entering that college took a leading position in his class, that of 1836. At this time he felt called to the legal profession, and went to the Harvard Law School for a three-years course, getting his degree in 1839. ^'^ going to New York city to practice, his literary tastes led him rather towards letters than law. He began to publish with Park Benjamin, the well-known newspaper man. The New World, a high class weekly, and he also busied himself with and brought out a translation of Sue's famous novel, " The Mysteries of Paris." But in 1847 he went to Hartford, feeling the attraction of his native state, and opened a law office Although he did not give his whole heart to the work, his great abilities, especially his power as an orator, won him success. Soon, however, he entered poli- tics. In 1849-50 he was a member of the House of Representatives; the next year came his elec- tion to the Senate. From 1854 to 1858 he was Hart- ford's honored Mayor — one of the most acceptable the city ever had — and again from i860 to 1862. During 1859-60 he was once more in the House. Soon after the breaking out of our Civil War Mr. Deming was appointed Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, which went with Butler to New Orleans. When that city surren- dered to General Buder, Colonel Deming was made a provisional Mayor and filled the post greatly to his credit until he resigned in January 1863, and returned to his home. Almost at once he was elected to Congress, representing the First District HENRY C. DEMING. for four years. Later Colonel Deming returned to his early love by writing the life of General Grant which was very widely sold. When Grant was inaugurated in ^869 he did not forget the fact and Colonel Deming received the appointment of Col- lector of Internal Revenues, a post he held until his death by apoplexy at Hartford on October 9, 1872. This meagre outline of the life of the Hon. Henry C. Deming conveys but a small impression of his force and prominence and leaves to be guessed by those who do not know him the striking personality of the man and his distinguished gifts as a public speaker. During his residence in Hart- ford he was one of the marked figures of the place. MKN OF I'KOGRESS. ;oi Of a handsome, commandini; presence, lie added to this inheritance of nature many social graces and the varied culture of a man of the world. As an orator his fame still lingers in the minds of the older generation. Such efforts as his adtlress on Israel Putnam ; that at the unveiling of the monu- ment to (General Wooster in 1854; his speech at Cooper Institute, New York, in 1864, in favor of Lincoln's re-election and his eulogy on the same great leader in Hartford the next year will be long remembered, llis personal magnetism as an im- passioned speaker was noteworthy, while this was backed by a virile intellect and great skill in the presentation of his subject. In Congress some of his speeches had an electrifying effect as the special correspondents at Washington testified. When he spoke on reconstruc:tion there in 1866, it was declared to be the finest effort heard in the house for twenty years. The New York Times on one occasion spoke of his " extraordinary abilities as an orator." His style and inlluence were hailed as a renewal of the old-time eUxiuence. The Wasliing- ton Republic once declared, referring to a sjicech in Congress, that those who listened to it thought for "mastership in delivery, model of style and pure English, they had never heard its superior.'" In Hartford and throughout New England Colonel Deming was in great demand as a lecturer when the old Lyceum courses were in vogue ; and he never failed to make a strong impression. It was he who in the days when the Rev. N. J. Burton was a young preacher newly come to Hartford, pointed out his ability and was a regular attendant at his church ; the friendship between the two was warm and close. Henry C. Deming married first, Sarah Clerc, who died in Hartford on June 26, 1869; and second in June 1871, Mrs. Annie (Wilson) Jillson, widow of Sherman L. Jillson of East Hartford, Connecticut, who survives him. He had four children by his first marriage : Henry Champion Deming, Jr., Vice-President of the Mer- cantile Trust Company of New York city ; Charles Clerc Deming, a lawyer of New York city; Mary Shipman Deming, who died November 11, 1861; and Laurent Clerc Deming, who is Secretary of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fc Railroad in New York city. Nelson Fitch and .Mcnda fClark) Daniels. His father was the son of Archibald I.amonl and Livinn (Heebe) Daniels. .Archibald Lamont was the son of Lemuel and .Martha (Lamont) Daniels of Hills- boro, Columbia county, New \'ork. Lemuel was the son of .Asa and Elizabeth (Fuller) Daniels. Asa was the son of Lemuel and Hannah (Fuller) Daniels, who settled in the eastern part of Middle Haddam parish, from Colchester, Connecticut. Lemuel was the son of Jonathan who was the son of John and .Agnes (Heebe) Daniels, and John was the son of Jolm and Mary (Chappell) Daniels, who lived in New London in 1663. .Alenda Clark, DANILliS, Chaki.es Nei..son, Judge of Probate for the District of Windham, was born in Barre, Orleans county, New York, ,July 2, 1S49, son of CHAS. N. DANIELS. mother of the subject of this sketch, was the daugh- ter of Chester and Mary (Williams) Clark, of Colum- bia, Connecticut. Chester was the son of Gideon and Jemima (Newcontb) Clark. Cfideon was the son of Jonathan Clark. Jemima Newcomb was the daughter of Peter and Hannah (English) New- comb. Peter was the son of Hezekiah and Jerusha (P.radford) Newcomb. Jerusha Bradford was the daughter of Thomas and Annie (Smith) Bradford, of Norwich, Connecticut. Thomas was the son of Major William and .Alice (Richards) Bradford, and Major William was the son of William Bradford who came in the Mayflower in 1620, and was Governor 3o: MEN OK PROGRESS. of Plymouth Colony. Charles Nelson Daniels when eight years old lost his father by death. Soon after, his mother moved back to Connecticut with her children. His early education was acquired first in the common schools, afterwards in attendance for two terms at a select school known as the WilH- mantic Institute, kept by D. P. Corbin, and a year and a half in the preparatory department of Shurt- leff College at Upper Alton, Illinois. After leaving school, at about the age of sixteen, he was employed on a farm for the most of the time until attaining his majority. Soon after coming of age he entered the service of the Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad as a switchman, and continued in its employ in various capacities until after its absorp- tion by the Boston, Hartford & Erie Railroad. In May 1879 he abandoned railroading and became book-keeper for I-incoln & Smitli, lumber dealers, Willimantic. In May 1882 he engaged with George K. Nason, who purchased the lumber and coal business of Hyde Kingsley. In this connection he continued until March 1890, when he was ap- pointed Postmaster at Willimantic, by President Harrison, and served until after President Cleve- land's re-election, being relieved of the office by Joel W. Webb in May 1894. He then entered the employ of Lincoln & Boss, lumber dealers, with whom he remained until January i, 1897, when he assumed the duties of Judge of Probate for the dis- trict of Windham, to which office he was elected the November preceding. Judge Daniels has served in numerous public capacities, including Clerk and Treasurer of the Borough of Willimantic, 1880-89; Treasurer of the Water- Fund in 1885 and during the construction of the works ; Burgess of the Borough of Willimantic, November 1889 to Novem- ber 1890; Chief Engineer Willimantic Fire Depart- ment, September 1885 to March 1890, when he resigned; Postmaster from March 1890 to June 1894; and was elected to his present office as Judge of Probate for a term of two years, 1897-99. He also performed military service for five years, 1877-82, as Quartermaster-Sergeant on the staff of Colonel William H. Tubbs, commanding the Third Regiment Connecticut National Guards. He is prominently identified with the Masonic fraternity, being a Past Master of Eastern Star Lodge, member of Trinity Chapter, Olive Branch Council, St. John's Commandery, and a Charter Member of Sphinx Temple, Mystic Shrine of Hartford. He is also a Charter Member of Obwebetuck Lodge of Odd Fellows, Willimantic Coinicil Royal Arcanum, and Willimantic Lodge of LTnited Workmen. In politics ludge Daniels has always been a Republican, and has been actively identified with party work since 1876. He served as Chairman of the Republican Town Committee 1884-90 and 1894-98, and was a member of the Republican State Central Committee for the Seventeenth District 1896-98. He was married December 28, 1877, to Susie E. Howard Little. They have two children : Nelson Archie, born .\pril 7, 1879, and Grace Lillian Daniels, born September 21, 1881. DENNIS, Rodney, President of the Connecticut Humane Society, and one of the founders and Secretary during its entire existence from 1864 to 1896, of the Traveler's Insurance Company, was born in Topsfield, Massachusetts, January 14, 1826, son of Reverend Rodney Gove and Mary (Parker) Dennis. His lineage, traced on both sides to the early settlers of New England, is notable in that it demonstrates in each generation the family instinct of genuine righteousness, together with "a persis- tent union of combative with strongly religious tendencies." The first immigrant ancestor, Thomas, was a soldier in King Philip's War ; his grandson, a graduate of Harvard, was army Chaplain and Sur- geon for a dozen years, 1737-49, in the middle French wars, then a Pastor and Teacher in New Hampshire and Massachusetts ; while his grandson, in turn, was the Reverend Rodney Gove Dennis, a graduate of Bowdoin and Andover, and a clergyman in Topsfield, and later in Somers, Connecticut ; a man of high principle and sterling character, and the father of the subject of this sketch. Rodney Dennis had one term at the High School, but being one of a family of ten children, his opportunities for protracted study were small, and he had early to turn his hand, figuratively, to the plough, that he might not only prove self-supporting, but lend his aid to the younger brothers and sisters. To two of the former he was largely the means of giving a liberal education, and at no time was he less than heartily generous to all. He came to Hartford at the age of sixteen, and having served an apprentice- ship in the grocery trade, established the house of Dennis & Ives, at the age of twenty-one. The firm had been but a few years in operation when his partner fell sick and retired from business, while he himself was disabled for months by a serious acci- dent. The association was, therefore, discontinued. MEN OF PROGRESS. 303 Mr. Dennis assuming its entire obligations. From these he obtained a full discharge ; but subsequently paid them all, long alter tiiey were outlawed. From Hartford he went to Augusta, Georgia, where he entered the employ of the great firm of Hand, Wil- liams & Wilcox. He remained but two years in this connection, and llun came nortii to Albany, New- York, where he remained two years longer, returning to Hartford, in 1S55, to take a position in the Phoenix ]5ank in that city ; a position which he held until 1S64. Ipon the establishment of the Tra\ eler's Insurance Company, he was elected as its first Secretary. " .\t first he attended to .ill tlie i,^ij;.LV Di:::.:;is. details of the business without assistance of any kind, toiling till late into the night and keeping up the habit with little relaxation for many years," says one who knew him. " 'I'liere was a constant strug- gle between physical endurance and consecration to work. Other employees caught his spirit and fol- lowed his example. Thus largely was success won. A man of public spirit and great heart, Mr. Dennis has opened his purse with notable freedom to aid a great variety of enterprises that held out a ])romise of promoting the welfare of the city, and to chari- ties, organized and private, has given unstintingly of money, time and effort." As one of Hartford's most respected citizens, it was natural that Mr. Dennis's name sliould have been sought to lend distinction to the new and struggling venture, the Travelers' Insurance Company. As its Secretary, he ])ut his whole heart into that enterjirise. He devoted his time and mind to its development, straining every faculty to insure its success. We take the liberty of (pioting from a biograjjhical sketch the following : " .And here the reward of early discipline, self-sacrifice and the resources developed by business training, with no one to rely on but himself, became manifest. He was the last man in the world to ha\c any small pride of place, and his unashamed labor and economy of manage- ment were prime factors in the company's perma- nence. . . . Through the company's first months of com|)arative neglect and jniblic incredulity, its short burst of unshared prosperity, its succeeding years of fierce competition and slow mastery and sole sur- vival, its later ones of una])proached eminence, and its still later ones, when, though it remains greatest and grows greater, the field is once more thick with rivals, he remained its watchful guardian and labo- rious servant, his first care and thought its success and its good reinite ; anxious that it should prosper as the just reward of doing eany, the Overman Wheel Company, the Farmington Power Company, the Hartford Electric Light Company, the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company and the Hartfonl Gas Light Company. In 1842 he founded in connection with " l-'ather " Hawley, the Morgan Street Mission School, Connecticut's first organiza- tion established for the purjiose of caring for and visiting the poorest classes in the cities, and the rescue, protection and instruction of its children. While in Augusta, (leorgia, he founded a similar institution there, and after his return to Hartford he 304 MKN OF I'ROORKSS. was for twelve years Superintendent and teacher of the Morgan Street Mission School. He was one of the corporators and has been President of the Con- necticut Humane Society since its organization in iSSo, President of the Hartford Charitable Society, is Vice-President of the American Humane Society, the American Anti-Vivisection Society, and of the Hartford Voung Men's Christian Association ; Chair- man of the Board of Managers of the famous Hart- ford Retreat for the Insane ; a Trustee of the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls ; a Trustee of the Society for Savings, Hartford, and a member of its Ix)aning Committee ; Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Connecticut Bible Society, and also of the American Missionary Association. Trus- tee and Chairman of the Prudential Committee of the Hartford Theological Seminary. The example of such a life is not only worthy of imitation by his associates but is also an incentive to increased effort in prosecuting the work committed to their care. Mr. Dennis is a man of such large, loyal and vigor- ous nature that it is impossible not to gain in moral strength and vigor in his proximity. He was married in 1854 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Miss Clarissa Strong. They had five children, two sons and three daughters. One son died in infancy ; the other, Rodney Strong Dennis, is an expert accountant in New York, in the firm of Teele & Dennis ; also Com- missioner of Accounts under Mayor Strong; one daughter is the wife of Ralph \V. Cutler, President of the Hartford Trust Company, the second, the wife of Thomas Little, Esq., of Philadelphia; the youngest, Bertha, is unmarried and resides with her father. Mrs. Dennis is deceased. DOUGLAS, John Mansfield, President of the W. & B. Douglas corporation, Middletown, also of the Middletown Street Railway Company, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, February 6, 1839, son of Benjamin and Mary A. (Parker) Douglas. His father was born in Northford, Connecticut, and came from the family of Douglas whose American progenitor was a townsman of Boston, Massachu- setts, in 1640, having come over about that year from Scotland. His great-grandfather, Colonel William Douglass, was in command of the Con- necticut forces at the Battle of Long Island, in the Revolutionary War. He received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Middletown, and gradu- ated from Chase Academy, Middletown, in the class of 1856. From that time he has been in active business with the W. & B. Douglas Company of that place. He is now President of the corpora- tion, which is one of the oldest and most extensive manufacturers of pump and hydraulic machinery in the world. Mr. Douglas is also President of the Middletown Street Railway Company, and a Trus- tee of the Middlesex Banking Company and the Farmers' and Mechanics' Saving Bank. He repre- sented Middletown in the House of Representatives of Connecticut in 1864 and 1865, and served as a member of the State Senate in 1871 and again in J NO. M. DOUGLAS. 1895. While in the Senate in 187 1 he was Chair- man of the Railroad Committee, and during his service in the House in 1864 was a member of the Judiciary Committee. He was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention that nominated R. B. Hayes for President, also to the Chicago Convention that nominated Garfield, and to the St. Louis Convention that nominated McKinley in 1896. Mr. Douglas' only son, John M. Douglas, Jr., was educated at Yale, graduated from the Yale Law School in the class of 1893, and was admitted to the Connecticut Bar when twenty-one years of age. MF-X (W rROr.RESS. 30s ALT. EX, Frfukric Sturges, Lawyer, of Xcw N'ork, was born in Norwalk, Fairfield county, Con- necticut, October i, 1S67, son of Alfred 15. and Caroline (Sturges) Allen. When two years of age he was crippled by paralysis of the lower extrem- ities ; but with this exception his physical and F. STURGES ALLEN. mental health was robust. He began his schooling at rather a late age, and after graduation from the Bridgeport High School entered Vale University, from which he graduated in 1884, taking a Berkeley ])rize in his Freshman year, and the second Win- throp in his Junior year. He partly earned his way through college, and was [lartly aided by a loan from John Brooks, of Bridgeport, a man whom many have occasion to remember for his good deeds. On leaving college he went West, to Min- nesota, expecting to teach. Being disappointed in his anticipations, he returned Last, to Xew Haven, in October, 1884. After teaching a few days in Park Institute, Rye, Xew N'ork, he returned to Xew Haven to work under Dr. Xoah Porter, and directly under Mr. Loomis J. Campbell, on Web- ster's International Dictionary, then in process of preparation. In this work he began as a copyist, but when the dictionary was completed, in 1890, he was revising editor next to Mr. Walter .Allen, manag- ing editor, Mr. Campbell having ceased his active work, owing to ill health. In the fall of 1.S90 Mr. .Mien entered the Vale I aw School, graduating in 1S92. In May, 1892, he went to Xew \ork to take up the practice of law, and was there al 'R(X>RF.S.S. 307 navy. Ihc singing of ihis ditVuiilt bass part by so young a man altractod much attention, and resulted in Mr. liushneil receiving several flattering offers to go on the operatic stage. His first engagement in New York was inider the direc- tion of William R. Chapman, in the Church o( the Coven.mt, where he sang for four years. For the ])ast ten years he has been solo basso at the West Presbyterian Church (Dr. Paxton's) in New ^"ork, under the direction of P. A. Schneckcr. Mr. Bushnell's repertoire comprises all of the standard oratorios and cantatas, numbering over one hundred works, also numerous arias, Cerman lieder, and .American and English songs, .'\niong his prominent appearances may be mentioned his singing at the dedication of Carnegie's Music Hall, under the direction of Walter Damrosch ; at the World's Fair in Chicago, under the direction of Theodore 'I'homas : Tinel's " St. I''rancis " with the New York Oratorio Society, and the same work with the Boston Cecilia Clul), under the direction of 1!. J. Lang; the singing of Hach's Passion Music with the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, mider the direction of Carl Zerrahn, and the reniliiion of the same work with the Oratorio Society of New York, under Mr. Damrosch : the first production of Krug's "King Rother," at the Buffalo Festival, under John Lund ; the first performance of Professor Parker's " Hora Novissima," under the direction of the com- poser, given by the Church Choral Society of New York ; the M'orcester, Taunton, New Bedford, and ?!inghamton Festivals, under the direction of ('arl Zerrahn ; the Springfield Festival, under the direc- tion of George W. Chadwick ; the Albanv Festival, under the direction of Arthur iMees ; the Handel Festival in New York, under the direction of Waller Damrosch : also in Montreal, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash- ington, Providence : in .Minnea|)olis, at the dedica- tion of the great convention hall holding twemy-fi\e thousand people, and in other large cities. He also sang at the initial performance of Walter Damrosch's "Scarlet Letter," given in New York : at the per- formance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by the New York Symphony Society ; at the first concert given by the People's Choral Union of New \'ork, under the direction of Frank Damrosch : and at the performance of the "Messiah" by the last-named society, under the same conductor. May 3, i.Sgy. Among the press reports of the latter perlbrmance the " 'I'ribune " said ; " Mr. Bushnell has reached an artistic stature sufficient to carry the burdens that were imposed upon him ; " the "Times " pro- nounced him " ileserviiig of especial mention for the noble ((uality of his tone and the breadth and dignity of his style ; " the " Courier " affirmed that he is the " model oratorio bass of .Xnierica ; " and ERICSSON F. BUSHNELL. the " World " referred to him as having " negatived the necessity of importing oratorio bassi which some (dioral directors have believed existed." Mr. I?ush- nell has visited Europe, singing in London and the cathedral towns of England, having the advantage of reading his oratorios with the best English authorities on their traditional rendering. He has filled more oratorio engagements in the last seven years than any other .American basso, and in many large cities he has been reiingaged for seven suc- cessive years, than which no better proof could be given of an artist's real worth. To Professor F. E. P.ristol, of New \ork, Mr. lUishnell accords the credit of training his voice, as he studied with him for many years, and has implicit confitlence in his ability as a teacher. Mr. Bushnell's voice is de- scribed as a basso cantantc : not a i)ure baritone or a basso profimdo, but ranging between the two. I le is over six feet in height, of fine physique and stage presence, possesses the true artistic tempera- ment, sings with great ease and fen-or, and alto- gether is conceded to be foremost among .\meri- 308 MEN OF PROGRESS. can bassos in concert and oratorio singing or on the operatic stage at the present time. Hoth his f.ither and mother were musical, the latter an excel- lent pianist and singer. His uncle, William Bush- nell, and his fatherwere both possessors of excellent voices. Mr. Bushnell was married November lo, 1897, to Miss Bertha Tudor Thompson, of New York city, a most accomplished musician and lin- guist. CH.\SE, George Lewis, President of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Hartford, was born in Miiibury, Worcester county, Massachusetts, January J3, 182S, son of Paul Gushing Chase, a descendant in direct line (sixth generation) of Aquila Chase, who came from Cornwall, England, and settled in GEO. L. CHASE. Hampton, Massachusetts, in 1640. Mr. Chase received a thorough training in the regular English course of studies at Miiibury Academy, and applied himself so well that, at the completion of his term as student in the institution, he was well equipped to take his place in the business world. He was but nineteen years of age when he became Local Agent in his native town for the Farmers' Mutual Fire In- surance Company of Georgetown, Massachusetts. Subsequently he was elected a member of its Board of Directors. Within a short time his agency in- cluded four companies doing business on the mutual plan. In 1848 Mr. Chase became travelling agent for the Peoples' Insurance Company of Worcester, with which he remained until 1853, when he associated himself with the Central Ohio Railroad Company as Assistant Superintendent, and afterwards became General Superintendent, the latter office being assigned to him in recognition of his marked ability, energy, and tact. He reentered the insurance field, however, in i860, accepting the Western Agency of the New England Fire Insurance Company. He was subsequently given the appointment of Assistant Western Agent, and so well did he discharge the duties of his position that when the Directors were seeking a President their choice fell upon Mr. Chase, and he was called from his Western post to fill the more important office in the East. Although a New Englander born, he had acquired a liking for West- ern ways, and hence it was with some hesitation he accepted the place, in 1867. His previous connec- tion had made him familiar with the affairs of the company, and he is reported to have brought to the new position a close acquaintance with the men and methods of a great and growing region, so that much of the company's growth in the last quarter of a century is due to this knowledge, and to his consci- entious attention to details which often escape the notice of even a careful manager. In 1876 Mr. Chase was elected President of the National Board of LTnderwriters, and is at present the Board Chair- man of the Committee of Legislation and Taxation, said to be by far the most important chairmanship in the organization. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and one of the Vice-Presidents of the .Society for Savings, a Trustee of the Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Company, and a Director in the American National Bank. He is also a promi- nent member of the Hartford Board of Trade. In a recent biographical sketch of Mr. Chase appears this interesting incident: "In June, 1892, an enter- tainment was given by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company to their employees, and it was a most en- joyable occasion. The secretaries, together with the general and special agents, during the course of the evening presented him with a silver loving-cup as a testimonial commemorative of his twenty-fifth anni- versary as President of the company. It was manu- factured from a unique design, and on one side was the following inscription: '1867 — to George L. Chase, President Hartford Fire Insurance Company, on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of his Co-workers MEN OF PROGRRSS. 309 and Associates, the Secretaries, General and Special Agents of the Home Office Department, June 15, 1S93.' " Mr. Chase is a memberof the Asylum Hill Chtin h of Ilartfonl, his pastor being the Reverend Joseph Tuitchell, witlcly known as man and preacher. Mr. Chase has so warm an interest in tiie Congrega- tional hoily, and is such an earnest worker in its behalf, that he has five times been elected Tresident of the Connecticut Congregational Club. He was married on January S, iSji, to Miss Calista M., daughter of Judson Taft. They have three children, a son and two daughters. 'l"he former, Charles E. Chase, is Assistant Secretary of the Company of which his father is President ; he married Miss Helen S. Bourse, and they have one daughter. President Chase's younger daughter died in 1866. The older daughter was married to Charles H. Longley in 1874 ; she died in 1893. Judge James Phelps, of Kssex, who was a colleague of Judge Carpenter in the Senate, has also served in the N.itional Congress. The incident that these four interpreters of the law were associate lawmakers in the Senate of 1858 is one of great value in esti- CARPKNT1;R, Klisha, Judge of the .Superior and Supreme Courts of Hartford, was born in that part of the old town of .Xshford now known by the name of F.astford, on January 14, 1824. Having received a common and academic education, he proceeded to supplement these by a thorough course of legal study, and was admitted to the bar in the year 1S46. His ability and his absolute probity soon won for him not alone the regard and respect of his associates, but his rapid advancement in his profession, and he was but thirty-two years of age when he was distinguished by an aj)pointmcnt to the State Senate, where he served for two sessions, num- bering among his colleagues and personal friends such men as Hon. Dwight Loomis, of Rockvilie, now Judge of the Supreme Court, the late dovernor James E. English, of West Haven, and Kali)h Taintor, of Colchester. In 1857 he was created Judge of Probate and State Attorney, and the year following he was returned from tiie old Fourteenth District. We take the liberty of ipioting a paragraph from an article contained in the " Biography of Connecticut '' (1891) : "It is one of the most interesting facts in connection with the history of the Connecticut Sen- ate that the roll of 1858 has furnished four members of the Superior and Supreme Courts. Three of the members, F^x-Judge Dwight W. Pardee, of Hartford, the late Judge Sidney B. Beardsley, of Bridgeport, and the subject of this sketch, have eminence and honor in the highest court in this State, while the fourth has served for years as one of the ablest jurists on the Supreme Court bench in Connecticut. ELISHA CARPENTER. mating the genius and spirit of the Connecticut judicial system. Tenure of office in the higher court judgeships is practically within the constitu- tional limit." On July 4, 1861, Judge Carpenter was a]5pointed Judge of the Superior Court, and he represented the town of Killingly in the House of Representatives during the same year, serving as Chairman of the Military Committee. It may be mentioned in this connection that during the initial week of their session the Legislature passed a bill confirming the act of the State's Governor, Bucking- ham, in sending State troops into the Government service without waiting to have the measure ap- l)roved by law, and also in guaranteeing their future l)rovision, again without legal authority. Such an act was, it is obvious, highly necessary in those days of immediate pressure, when if a thing were done " 'twere well it were done quickly," but had the leg- islatures been merely legal-minded instead of loyal, the bill could never have passed. .After his appoint- ment to the Superior Court Bench, Judge Carjienter removed to Wethersfield, where he remained for ;io MEN OF PROGRESS. several years, but he eventually repaired to Hart- ford, which city he made his permanent home. For over thirty years Judge Carpenter was a prominent representative of his profession, and his position in the city of his adoption was one of dignity and dis- tinction. He was not alone recognized throughout the State as a jurist of exceptional attainment, but was regarded by the public as one who identified himself with whatever was best in the cause of civil or national government. It was Judge Carpenter who was called upon to prepare the most important opinion of the Court relative to labor issues. The noted boycott opinion, which defined the rights of workingmen so clearly that there has been no con- test since, was the work of his hand. 'I'he opinion touching the forfeiture of wages in the event of a violation of contract which the Supreme Court enun- ciated some years ago was also prepared by him. This opinion presented with the utmost lucidity the fundamental principles of law relative to the right of labor. Again it was Judge Carpenter's perception of the spirit and object of the secret-ballot law that led to a strict construction of the text by the Su- preme Court in 1890, the idea of secrecy in the statute being looked upon as the fundamental one. .Anything outside of the most rigid conformity to one course immediately destroyed the secrecy of the vote. "It was in such cases and issues," says the " Biography of Connecticut," "that Judge Carpen- ter has rendered the public such inestimable serv- ice." During the war Judge Carpenter was an ardent supporter of the Union, and lent himself generously to its support. Although unable person- ally to go to the front, he caused his place to be filled by an able substitute, and gave his strength of heart and mind, as well as the fulness of his purse, to the country's need. The influence of a man like Judge Carpenter on his community is not to be esti- mated. His career was marked by wisdom in coun- sel, prudence in action, and soundness in judgment. He was an honest man in the fullest sense of the word, and his integrity of character none ever dreamed of challenging. For thirty years he dis- charged the duties incumbent upon him with con- scientious faithfulness. In politics Judge Carpenter was a Republican. He was a member of the .\sylum Hill Congregational Church, and devoted to its wel- fare and the interests with which it was identified. " Although afflicted in the latter years of his life with bodily infirmities beyond the lot of most men," says the Hon. John R. Buck, one of his associates, " he preserved a serene mind and a cheerful temper. His former colleagues on the bench, his brethren of the bar, and all those who knew him, will remember him with [pleasure." Upon his death, which occurred on .March 22, 1897, the Hartford County Bar Asso- ciation met and unanimously adopted resolutions testifying to the loss it had sustained in the decease of its honored and respected member, one of the country's most eminent judges. Judge Carpenter was twice married : his first wife being Miss Harriet G. Brown, of Brooklyn, Conn., who died on July 3, 1874, leaving him three daughters and one son, the latter departing this life on Sept. 11, 1879, and his second wife being Miss Sophia Tyler Cowen, niece of the late General Robert O. Tyler, and daughter of the late Mrs. Sidney J. Cowen, whose memory is still cherished by all with whom she came in con- tact. Two children were the fruit of this union ; thev anil their mother sur\'ive Judge Carpenter. DUN H.AM, .^I'STix Cornelius, Manufacturer, of Hartford, son of .Austin and M. S. (Root) Dunham, was born at Coventry, Connecticut, June 10, 1833. The Dunham fiimily has long been a prominent and respected one in the Capitol City, Mr. A. C. Dunham's father, .\ustin, having been an oldtime merchant of wealth and high standing. The son was carefully educated and went to Vale, his year of graduation being 1854. Thereafter he taught school for a year at Elmira, New York, then return- ing to Hartford to engage in manufecture and trade, his business connections being many and important. He was for several years a member of his father's firm of Austin Dunham & Company until its disso- lution, also of E. N. Kellog & Company, and is now the senior partner of the firm of .Austin Dunham Sons, a large and successful concern engaged in the man\jfacture of worsted yarns and all-wool hosiery. Outside of this business Mr. Dunham has many connections. He is President of the Rock Manu- facturing Company, the Dunham Hosiery Company, the Hartford Electric Light Company, once Presi- dent and Director of the Willimantic Linen Com- pany, and a Director of the -Etna Fire Lisurance Company, the Travellers' Life Insurance Company, the National Exchange Bank, and the Cedar Hill Cemetery ; and is also a Trustee of the \Vatkinson Juvenile Asylum and Farm School, the Watkinson Library, the Hartford Grammar School, and still other corporations. It will be seen from this enumeration that Mr. Dunham touches the mer- cantile and philanthropic life of his community at mi:n o;-" tri ic,ki';ss. ill many points. It may be added that in social rela- tions lie is equally active and conspicuous. llis tastes are scholarly, and in spile of arduous business cares and the many practical demands made upon his lime and attention he has found ojiportunity tor a (lo/Lii or more European tours, for travel, study, ami ( ultiiro, and has read widely and with A C. DUNHAM. keen interest, so that he is a man of unusual intel- lectual and resthetic development, ami is a valued member of the cultured and scholarly circles of a city which has been noted time out of mind for such gatherings. Mr. Dunham's general presence as well as the attainments referred to seem to make him z. persona grata in society. He is one of the marked examples of Hartford's representative busi- ness men who are also in the best sense men of the world and of society. He and his sisters are lead- ing attendants of the South Congregational Church, Dr. Parker's. 'I'he prominent clergymen of Hartford and this denomination have for many years fotnid the Dunhams' spacious and hospitable home a pleasant centre for social enjoyment. Mr. Dunham married, on September i6, itSsS, Lucy J., daughter of James Root, E^sq., of Hartford, a well-known and most respected citizen. She died in September, 1864. They had two children. George, the elder, died in 1873, ''S*-''^' thirteen; the younger, Laura Italdwin, on March 22, 1S90, became the wife of Danford Newton Harney, of Farminnton, Connecti- cut, a popular and prominent Vale man, whose beautiful colonial house is one of the features of that charming village. I)UNH.\R, KuwAKii liLii.iK, l-.x .Slate Senator and Manufacturer, of liristul, was born in Hristol, Novem- ber I, 1842, son of l!dw\rd L. ano\\ him. He conducted it successfully until it was abandoned, owing to the change in the prevail- ing mode of women's dress, and after being in New- York for five years he returned home, where he has since been occupied in the manufacture of clock- springs and other small springs, under the firm name of Dunbar Brothers. This business was estab- lished by his father with half a dozen hands, the most primitive processes being used and the produc- tion being correspondingly limited. By the introduc- tion of improved machinery the house turned out from five to eight thousand clock-springs a day, but the revolution in clock-makers' methods has affected this branch of the business, and the firm now devotes itself to the manufacture of small springs for various purposes, of which they turn out millions a year. Mr. Dunbar's political sympathies are strongly Democratic, and for years he has been a prominent worker for his party's interests and candidates. From the first establishment of the High S*:hool he has been chairman of its committee, and takes pride in pointing to this as one of the best in the State. He has held many im|)ortant i)ublic trusts, and has invariably discharged them to the satisfaction of his 3I-' MFN Ol' PROGRESS. fellow-cilizcns. Mr. Dunbar passed four legislative terms at the Capital of the State, with honor to him- self anil to the constituents who stood for him. Having been a workingman himself, he possesses a warm symi)athy for the working classes, and while at the Capital he looked well to their interests. He was one of the most earnest advocates of the weekly payment law, and on this and the child labor law he nude strong speeches in the Senate. In 1 890 he was mentioned with others as a possible candidate for Congressional honors, but he peremptorily declined to allow his name to be used in that connection, his business interests requiring his undivided attention. Mr. Dunbar is a member of the Congregational Church, and has served as chairman of the Society's committee. He served for four years as President of the Bristol Young Men's Christian .'\ssociation, ments introduced, and it is now one of the most dignified and charming residences in the State. EDWARD B. DUNBAR. doing what he could to promote the welfare of the young men of the place. He was married on De- cember 23, 1875, to Alice, daughter of Watson Gid- dings, a carriage-maker of Bristol. The couple have had three children, of whom one daughter and one son are living. Mr. Dunbar and his family live in the house built more than half a century ago by Chauncey Jerome, the famous clock-maker. Nine years since it was remodelled and modern improve- FRISBIE, Edward Clarence, Wholesale Druggist, Hartford, was born in Hartford, March i, 1852, son of Isaac Eggleston and Sarah (McLeod) Fris- bie. The Frisbie family is of English descent, and settled in Branford, Connecticut, in 1692. The sub- ject of this sketch obtained his education in the com- mon schools of Hartford. At the age of seventeen he began as an apprentice in the retail drug business of E. S. Sykes & Company, Hartford, and continued with the firm four years, serving his full time. In 1873 he entered the employ of Alfred Daggett, of New Haven, as chief clerk, but after a few months' service he returned to Hartford and accepted a posi- tion with Talcott & Company. Although the latter firm offered him a salary several hundred dollars less than he received from the New Haven firm, yet Mr. Frisbie accepted it, as he thought he saw an opportunity for advancement, and in this he showed his good business judgment, for in 1881 he was ad- mitted to the firm, which was then changed to Tal- cott, Frisbie & Company. The following quotation from the Norwalk "Gazette " of Oct. 27, 1890, will serve to illustrate the public estimate of the value of his services to his firm and to the trade : " The greatest triumph of any citizen of Connecticut in the great tariff struggle was that of E. C. Frisbie, of Hartford. The drug firm of Talcott, Frisbie & Company are the general agents of the Liebig Ex- tract. It is the first article of the kind which ever appeared on the American market, but since the trade has become large and profitable numerous imitations of American manufacture have been put on the market. Despite this, physicians prescribe it more generally than the American product. Ef- forts were made to have the duty raised to the point of exclusion, but Mr. Frisbie was able to defeat this, despite the most desperate efforts of an enormous and costly lobby against which he was obliged to contend." Mr. Frisbie also took a prominent part in the legislation of 1893. He was allowed ten minutes before the Ways and Means Committee, and used just six of the ten minutes allowed. His argument was clear, concise, and effective, and no speaker during all that long day of weary talk held more closely the committee's attention. To Mr. Frisbie belonged the credit of being the first to break the record in the way of reform of this "over-talking" vice. He was also MK\ OV PRnoRESS. J 1 .1 complimented as being the most successful in his pany ; has twice been Vice-President of the National argument on free alcohol, and one of the ])romi- nent members of this committee stated : " He Wholesale Druggists' Association, and has served as chairman of several of its important committees. He is also a trustee on several large estates. He is a member of the Hartford Club and of the Republi- can Club of that city. Me was married August 15, 1S75, to Annie .\. Wiley. They have three chil- dren: I'lorence Sarah, born Dec. _^, 1876; I^dward Wiley, born Jan. 10, i.SSi ; and Alice Mcl.eod Frisbie, born I'eb. 17, 1SS4. ("lOoDKICll, C'liAUi-rj; C, Manager of the Hart- ford and New York Trmsportation Comiiany, Hart- ford, was born July 30, 1S45, in Wethersfield, Connecticut, son of Joshua and Mary A. (Wells) Goodrich. He was educated at the South Crammar .School in Hartford, and at the Williston .\cademy in llisihampton, Massachusetts. Mr. (Joodrich is an example of a mm who early chooses some branch of business, and by sticking to it and exhibiting diligence and ability therein rises to i>rominence and success. For thirty years he has been engaged in marine commerce, and for the twenty years since its E. C. FRISBIE. struck me as a man thoroughly familiar with his subject, and his honest fiice and argument carried conviction." In the recent tariff debate he was paid the rather unusual compliment of being re- quested by some members of the Finance Com- mittee to go to Washington for consultation in ref- erence to a chemical schedule, as they were im- pressed with the accurate knowledge displayed by him in his evidence before the Free .'\lcohol Com- mittee in New York. In May, 1891, he personally purchased Dr. Solon O. Richardson's Sherry Wine Bitter business. This remedy made for the inven- tor (Dr. Richardson) a fortune of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Frisbie is a Republican in politics, and served for four years as a member of the Hartford Common Council, and for two years a member of the Board of Aldermen. While his name has several times been mentioned for ofifice, it can be said of him that the office has always sought the man, not the man the office. He is now a member of one of the prominent State boards, receiving his api^oinlment from Governor Coffin ; is also a Director in the Charter Oak Na- tional Bank and the Perkins Electric Switch Com- C C GOODRICH. organization has been Manager of the Hartford and New York Transportation Company, which under 314 MKX OF PROGRESS. his oversight has developed into an important and siiccessftil industry, transporting by water between New York and all jwints on the Connecticut river intermediate between New York and Hartford. Mr. Goodrich has given his whole time, strength, and interest to this business, and the story of his life is the story of the company he has helped to create. He has not turned his attention to out- side matters. His politics are Republican, but he has never sought office. He is one of the representative successful business men of the city, and is satisfied to be regarded in that light. Mr. Goodrich was married to Beulah Murray, of Guilford, Connecticut. They have one child ; Ray- mond M. Goodrich. HO\\'l"., Harmon Gedrck, M.D., Physician and Surgeon, of Hartford, was born in Jericho, Vermont, September 3, i8;o, son of Lucien B. and Clarissa J. (Galusha) Howe. His paternal ancestors were early settlers in \"ermont, and he is descended from the Bliss family, who went to that State from Litch- field, Connecticut, in 1 760. Among his mother's H. G. HOWE. ancestors were Captain Thomas Chittenden, of Chester, Connecticut, the first Governor of the Green Mountain State, and Governor Martin Chittenden. The Galushas were also people of note among the pioneers of Vermont. Harmon G. Howe acquired his early education at the Essex Classical Institute, Essex, Vermont. His professional training, which was begun at the Medical Department of the Univer- sity of Vermont in 1873, was completed at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1S75. He had previously spent some time at the Hartford Hospital, was Assistant Superintendent of Sanford Hall, Flushing, Long Island, for over a year, under Dr. J. B. Barstow, and was Assistant at the Retreat for Insane, Hartford, under Dr. H. P. Stearns, for about the same length of time. In May, 1876, he settled permanently in Hartford, where he has since been in continuous practice, which is now one of the largest in the city. Dr. Howe has been a Visiting Surgeon of the Hartford Hospital for seventeen years, and for the past nine years has been a member of the Executive Committee of that insti- tution. He was Surgeon of the First Regiment Connecticut National Guards for nine years, having served for two years previously as Assistant Surgeon on the staff" of Colonel Lucius Barbour. He is a mem- ber of the State, County, and City medical societies, and finds time amidst the exacting requirements of a busy professional life to enjoy memberships in the Republican Club and the Scientific Club of Hartford, also the Country Club of Farmington. Although he is a staunch Republican in politics, he has no taste or time for public office and has never held any, his energies being fully devoted to his profession. He is a great reader and an enthusiastic student of art, and at his home on High street has a valuable and unique art collection, while his library, mainly com- posed of medical works, is one of the best in this city. Dr. Howe is also a devoted angler. He is an enthusiastic member of the St. Bernard Fishing Club of Canada, of which there are four other mem- bers in this city, and part of each year's vacation is spent in trout-fishing at the club's headquarters in Quebec. The balance of his vacation is usually spent in the Adirondacks on a hunting expedition. Dr. Howe was married in .April, 1876, to Harriet M. Stevens, daughter of L. M. Stevens, of Jericho, Vt. Mrs. Howe is well known in connection with the work carried on by the Fourth Church, in which she is very much interested and where she is an influen- tial member. Dr. and Mrs. Howe have two children, Fanny Bliss and Horace Stevens Howe, the latter a student at the Hartford High School. Another daughter, Lucia, died in infancy. MEN OF I'ROORF.SS. 315 HUNTF.R, ImiN I.AiiiRor, Counsellor-at-Liw, W'illimantic, was born in Gardiner, Kennebec county, Maine, March 13, 1834, son of Jolin I'al- tcn and Mary Averill (Stone) Hunter. He is a descendant on both sides of RevoUitionary patriots : his great-grandfather. Colonel James Hunter, was a JOHN L. HUNTER, native of Topsham, Maine, having served in the strug- gle with distinction. The great-great-grandfather, Adam Hunter, according to an inscription upon a headstone in the old Topsham, Maine, cemetery, was the first white child born in that town. Mr. Hunter's father was also a native of Topsham, Maine. Mr. Hunter's mother was a daughter of Colonel John and Sarah (Butler) Stone, of Cardiner, Maine, granddaughter of John and Jane (Lord) Stone, and great-granddaughter of Tobias and Jane (Smith) Lord, the former of whom was born in 1724 and died in 1819. Tobias Lord and his cousin, Benjamin Meeds Lord, jnirchased land upon the Saco river, where they erected a garrison and occupied it. In 1776 Tobias Lord com- manded a comi)any stationed at Falmouth, now Pordand, Maine. Five of his sons served in the American Army at different times during the Revo- lutionary War, and one of them, Nathaniel, accom- panied Arnold on the expedition to Canada, was wounded, taken prisoner, and died in captivity. John Lathro]) Hunter was graduated from lk)wdoin Col- lege in the class of 1855. He studied law three years with the late Honorable Charles Danforlh, after- ward an .Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Court, was admitted to the bar of .Maine in 1859. He practised law at Cardiner, .NKiinc, a few years, and since 1S71 has practised his profession in Willimantic, Connecticut. Since then he has been town and borough attorney, member of various school boards and committees, member of the Democratic State Central Conunittee for twelve years, and delegate to national Democratic conven- tions. Mr. Hunter was elected to the General Assembly in 1879 and appointed on the Judiciary Committee ; was largely instrumental in changing the legal practice of the State from the old common- law ])ractice to that of the i)resent system, simpli- fying procedure in civil cases, and uniting legal and equitable remedies in the same action. He was, by the judges of the Supreme and Su|)erior Courts^ in February, 1894, appointed State's Attorney for Windiiam county. He is retained as counsel by the principal corporations in his own city and vicinity. In 1897 he was appointed Corjjoration Counsel of the new city of Willimantic, which was formerlv the borouirli of Willimantic. MORGAN, John Pikri'oni', head of the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Company, New V'ork, and the greatest financier in the United States, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, April 17, 1837. The Morgan fomily trace their descent back to Miles Morgan, a native of ^Vales, who removed to Massa- chusetts in 1636. The grandfcither of the present financier was Joseph Morgan, a farmer and early settler of Springfield, Massachusetts. His mother was Juliet, daughter of Reverend John Pierpont, of Boston, a woman of unusual strength of character. His fiuher was the distinguished banker, Junius Spencer .Morgan. The latter, after a successfiil business e.\i)erience both in the dry goods and banking business, in Hartford, Boston, and New \ork, finally became the jiartner of George Peabody, the famous banker and philanthropist of London. In 1S64 he succeeded Mr. Peabody in business as I. S. Morgan & Company, which firm has become one of the leading banking houses of Europe. His son, John Pierpont Morgan, inherited from his parents both purity of character and exceptional abilities, and from early boyhood showed great promise. .After graduating from the English High ;i6 MEN OF PROGRESS. School in Boston, he took a complete course at the University of C.oltingen. Returning to America at the age of twenty, he entered the bunking house of Duncan Sherman & Company in New York city, in order to obtain a thorough knowledge of the bank- ing business. In 1864 he formed a partnership under the firm name of Dabney, Morgan & Com- pany. They confined their attention to legitimate investment securities, and soon became known for conservatism and ability. In 1 86 1 he was appointed .American agent and attorney of George Peabody & Company, of London, a relation which he retained J. PIERPONT MORGAN. with J. S. Morgan & Company. The firm and its Ix)ndon connection rendered substantial assistance to the Government in the Civil War. In 187 i Mr. Morgan associated himself with Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, under the firm name of Drexel, Morgan & Company. Mr. Drexel died in 1893, and on Janu- ary I, 1895, the firm style was changed to its present form of J. P. Morgan & Company. He is at present also senior partner in the firms of J. S. Morgan & Company, London ; Morgan, Harjes & Company, Paris ; and Drexel & Company, Philadelphia. The New York firm, located in their building on the corner of Wall and Broad streets, opposite the Stock Ex- change and the United States Treasury, has long been regarded as one of the powerful influences for good on the street. It has stood resolutely against all forms of chicanery and stock-jobbing, and in times of panic and financial distrust has proved a tower of strength. For over twenty-five years J. Pierpont Morgan has been the actual head of the firm. The name of Morgan has long been a talisman of success. The fact of his connection with an en- terprise has invariably caused an appreciation of values. Through his powerful clientele in this country and in Europe, and the prestige of an un- broken series of successful operations, he has been able to accomplish what probably no other living .'\merican could have done. One achievement has followed another with startling rapidity. It is pos- sible within the limits of this article to mention only the more important undertakings with which he has been identified. In 1869 he obtained con- trol of the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad, which had fallen into the hands of Fisk and Gould. In 1876-7 and '78 the firm was prominently identified with the floating of the Ignited States Government Bonds. In 1879 he purchased twenty-five million dollars of the stock of the New Y'ork Central at one hundred and twenty, and disposed of the same at a substantial advance. This brilliant coiip cemented the already confidential relations existing between the Vanderbilt interests and himself. In 1885 he gained control of the rival West Shore Railroad, and subsequently made it a part of the New York Cen- tral System. For his services in this connection he was presented by the directors of the road with a gold and silver dinner service of three hundred pieces, valued at fifty thousand dollars. Again in 1895 he obtained control of the New York City and Northern, which was also made a part of the New York Central System. In 1888 he reorganized the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, and soon after placed the Big Four System on a solid basis. In 1 89 1 he took up the decrepit Richmond Terminal, which through consolidation and intelligent develop- ment has grown into the splendid structure of the Southern Railway. In 1S95 he reorganized the Erie System, and in the same year accomplished a similar work for the Reading System. His serv- ices to the coal roads have been of inestimable value, and the outcome of his negotiations with the Lehigh Valley System is now awaited with confi- dence. He is also an important factor in the reor- ganization of the Baltimore & Ohio, now going on. In 1896 he obtained control of the New England Railroad, and then leased it to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, with Ml A Kl- I'ROGRESS. 317 which he has long been identified. In iSg; he undertook the reorganization of the Northern Pacific, which with aid of derman capital and a satisfactory understanding with its rival, the Great Northern, has been placed on a substantial basis. In these reorganizations he has usually employed the method of the "voting trust," through which method he has had absolute control of the stock, and has been left unhamjiered to outline the policy of the company. In this work he has had the active assistance of powerful allied interests, yet the strong iron will and quick brain of J. Pierpont Morgan have always been the compelling force in the achievement. His interests are represented in the directorate of the following railroad systems : New York Central ; New York, New Haven & Hart- ford ; Southern Railway ; " The Big Four ; " Erie; Chesapeake & Ohio ; Baltimore & Ohio ; Northern Pacific ; Reading & Lehigh Valley. With this strong controlling interest, represented in lines extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from New York to the Gulf, the realization of a single giant system extending across the continent seems an attainable possibility. Mr. Morgan is also largely interested in the General Electric Company, in the various ferry companies, in the West End Street Railway Company of Boston, was at one time a Director in the Manhattan Elevated, and has substantial interests in many other important corporations. The impor- tant part which he played in the purchase of the Government Bond issue in 1895 is well remembered by the public. Like every man who accomplishes anything he has met with criticism. Yet petty poli- ticians and outwitted opponents have invariably acknowledged his unquestioned honor and unswerv- ing integrity. Li the summer following the bond sale he made his annual trip to Europe, and, through his personal exertions in the |3lacing of the .Amer- ican securities on the Continent, was an important factor in the returning tide of prosperity. Mr. Morgan inherited a large estate from his father, but his fortune had been safely established long before that time by his own exertions, and each succeeding year has recorded the widened scope and increased value of his interests. He stands to-day the tnistee and autocrat of more wealth than has ever before been entrusted to a single American. Other men are richer, but no other combines in a like degree the possession and ability to command wealth with that clearness of vision, boldness of purpose, and force of will which are the elements of greatness. When business is laid aside Mr. Morgan finds dis- traction in the pleasures of yachting. He is Com- modore of the New York Yacht Club, owner of the steam yacht " Corsair," and a generous upholder of the sjiort. He served on the committee of three in the " Defender- Valkyrie " dispute. At Gragslon, his beautiful country place at Highland Falls on the Hudson, he takes delight in his dogs, his horses, and his flowers. His kennel of prize collies is well known. He enters heartily into the social side of the city, is a jiatron of art and the grand ojjcra, and a member of the following clubs : Metropolitan, Union, Knickerbocker, Union League, Century, I/iwyers, Tuxedo, Racquet, Riding, and Players, and the Seawanhaka and New York Yacht Clubs. He is the President and was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Club. For many years he has been a faithful attendant and Warden of St. George's Episcopal Church. He has been a generous contrib- utor to the church's funds, and presented it with a memorial building in memory of his wife's parents. He was a deputy at the Episcopal Convention in 1896 at Milwaukee, when the revision of the ritual was under discussion. His princely gift of one million dollars to the Society of the Lying-in Hos- pital of the City of New York, of a half-million to the New York Trade Schools, his gift of the steamer " Stonington " during the cholera scare, his donations to the American Museum of Natural History, Metro- politan Museum of Art, the Bronx Botanical Garden, the Hartford Public Library, and many other chari- ties, illustrate the many-sided sympathies of his nature. Mr. Morgan married Frances Louise Tracy, daughter of Charles Tracy, the well-known lawyer of New York city. They have three daughters and one son. PR.VIT, Francis AsHia'RV, Manufiicturer and Me- chanical Engineer, of Hartford, was born in Peru, New York, February 15, 1827, son of Nathaniel ^L and Euphemia (Nutting) Pratt. He received his early education at the public school at Lowell, >Liss., and served his time as a machinist with Aldrich & Hay, of Lowell. In 1852, when a young man of twenty-five, he came to Hartford to take a position in the pistol foctory of Colonel Colt, having been urged to the step by Mr. Samuel H. Bachelor, one of the subordinate chiefs of the establishment. Two years later, securing the services of his life long associate, Mr. Amos Whitney, as assistant, he became the Superintendent of the Phoenix Iron Works, and remained in that office until after the outbreak of 3>S MK\ i)V PROC.KI'.SS. our Civil War, when both the young men severed their connection with that firm, having determined to start a business of their own. Accordingly, in the summer of i860, they hired a room on Potter street, securing as patrons some of the best- F. A. PRATT. known firms in the State (the W'illimantic Linen Company among others), and were fairly launched in their new and promising enterprise when, in Feb- ruary of the next year, tiiey were burned out by a fire which caught on a neighboring building. But in spite of the losses they had sustained, they were again established in comfortable ijuarters within a month, and vigorously carrying on the temporarily suspended business in Wood's Building, in the rear of the "Times" office. In an incredibly short time they were forced to enlarge their area to keep pace with the growth of their business, and, adding one room after another, soon found themselves occu- pying all the available space in the building, with the immediate prospect of outgrowing even these ample quarters. In 1862 Messrs. Pratt &: Whitney took into partnership Monroe Stannard, of New Britain, each member of the firm contributing twelve hundred dollars, and the association has remained unbroken ever since. Three years later, the necessities of the business demanding more space, the firm erected the first building on the present site, a structure described as " having four stories and containing forty thousand square feet of flooring. It was ready for occupancy the following March. From time to time additions have been made to the original stmcture until now the plant occupies about five and a half acres, and is equipped throughout with the most approved appliances for protection against fire, for the comfort of its hands, and for the convenient and economical dispatch of work. The property lies on both sides of Park river, with the tracks of the Consolidated and of the New Fngland Railways on the northern border, about one-fourth of a mile from the passenger sta- tion. Side tracks admit heavy freights direcdy to the doors." Starting with the manufacture of machine tools, gun tools, and tools for the makers of sewing machines, the business has been gradu- ally enlarged in scope until now a catalogue of its yearly output would cover many hundreds of printed Images. The invention of the typewriter and the bicycle have naturally enlarged the demand for tools, and since the general adoption of these machines by the public, the company of which Mr. I'ratt is the head has largely supplied the manufact- urers with their required appliances. Nothing is allowed to leave the premises in the shape of a piece of mechanism that is not in every way supe- rior, and the imprint of the establishment is said to be sufficient guarantee of simplicity, strength, pre- cision and elegance, durability and complete adap- tation of means and ends. We take the liberty of i|uoting a passage from a magazine article: "On taking an inventory shortly after removal from Wood's Building to the new factory, the firm found that net assets of thirty-six hundred dollars in 1862 had grown during the interval of four years to the handsome sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, a striking evidence of good management amid general prosperity. . . . During the next three years they made and put in the business a clean profit of one hundred thousand dollars. In July, 1869, under a charier from the State, the Pratt & W'hitney Company was incorporated, with a capital of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, increased, mostly from earnings, to four hundred thousand dollars in 1873, and to five hundred thousand dollars in 1875. Soon after the close of the Franco-German war, in 1870, an agent of the company visited Prussia and discovered that both imperial and private gun facto- ries were equipped with inferior tools and machin- ery, and that the national armories were bare. He brought the merits of the Pratt & Whitney Company MKN OK I'KdC.RKSS. ;i9 to the attention of a Berlin engineer, who became deeply interesteil, and who, a few n.onths later, called Mr. Pratt thither. The latter started at once, and after an absence of six weeks, two of which were spent in Berlin, returned to Hartford with orders from the German C.overnment for gun machinery to the value of three hundred and fifty thousand dol- lars. Within the next three years Mr. I'ratt made three trips to Berlin, taking orders and delivering to the Government goods worth over a million and a quarter dollars. While the panic of 187,^ pros- trated the industries of the United States, the com- pany was kept busy on European orders till 1875." It would be impossible in our limited space to enumerate even a small fraction of the number of benefits this company's establishment has contrib- uted to the mechanical arts and the commercial life of the city wherein it is founded. A machine for exact and uniform measurements is one of its most valuable productions, and was the result of many years' constant experiment and the most lavish expenditure of thought and money. On May 21, iSiSS, the company received its first order for the llotchkiss revolving cannon, and for three and six pounder rapid-fire guns from the llotchkiss Ordnance Company, contractors with the Navy Department. Since that date the company has made over four hundred Hotchkiss guns, mostly to form the secondary batteries of our new war-vessels. The manufacture of these guns has been discon- tinued, having sold the plant to the American Com- pany, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. During the de- pression which followed the panic of 1893, the most vigorous efforts were made by this company to keep its men employed, and to avert the catastrophe that would .surely have befallen the city if so manv of its inhabitants had been suddenly thrown out of work and left without financial resource. Stock v.-as allowed to accumulate and hours were shortened to forty a week in order to give every employee as large a slice of the loaf as the times would ])ermit. The force dropped from nine hundred and sixty to seven hundred hands, but with the general recovery in 1895 soon rose about one hundred above the highest mark ever attained before. The success of this colossal enterprise is mainly due to the unflag- ging energy and the business genius of its moving spirits — President Francis A. Pratt and Vice- President and Superintendent Amos Whitney ; both are men of much force of character and purpose. They have won their way to their present enviable positions through sheer native pluck and their own ability. The city of their adop- tion owes them a debt of gratitude for the liencfit it rca|)s from the industry's many sources of revenue, and for the reputation it hns won as a manufacturing centre, through this and other similar mammoth enterprises. In politics they are both Republicans. Mr. I'ratt was married in 1851 to Miss Harriet K. Cole, of Lowell, Massachusetts. They have two children : Mrs. Carrie V. Sp iMlin' .md Frani is ('. Pratt. SKI I. ION, Di.wni Ci.imon, I'resideni of the Phcenix Insuran