A modern history of New Haven and eastern New Haven County, Vol. II, Part 26

Author: Hill, Everett Gleason, 1867- [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 986

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Walter J. Walsh was the twelfth in order of birth. After leaving the high school of New Haven he became a law student in the Yale University and was graduated with the class of 1897. He then formed a partnership with Mr. Fitzgerald and has since been an active factor in professional circles here. In a profession where advancement depends en- tirely upon individual merit and ability he has steadily worked upward, close study pre- paring him for the presentation of his cases in the courts and winning for him various forensic victories.

In November, 1904. MIr. Walsh was married to Miss Sarah White of Waterbury, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony White, and they have five children: Mary Elizabeth, who was born in 1906; Walter White. in 1907; Helen A., in 1908; Lillian V., in 1910; and Rita A., in 1915. With the exception of the last named all are now in school.

Mr. and Mrs. Walsh are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and Mr. Walsh has membership with the Elks, the Royal Arcanum and the Woodmen of the World, while in the Knights of Columbus he has taken the fourth degree. He belongs to the County, State and American Bar Associations, and he holds high rank as one of the most able and leading attorneys and safe counsellors. The firm of Fitzgerald & Walsh is one of the strongest in the state, and their clientage has long been of an extensive and very important character.

JOHN SCOVILLE.

Any man might be proud of the business record of John Scoville, who is the president and treasurer of Bradley & Scoville, Incorporated, stationers, printers and blank book manufacturers. Without financial assistance at the outset of his career he has worked his way steadily upward, undeterred by the obstacles and difficulties that checker the path of every individual. He felt that success was to be won if a person had the determination to persevere in a course which he had marked out.

A native of Massachusetts, he was born at Ashley Falls on the 21st of August, 1876. His father, William F. Scoville, was also a native of Massachusetts and a representative of one of the old families of that state, of English lineage, founded in America by two brothers who at an early day crossed the Atlantic and served with the colonies in their struggle for independence. Since that time representatives of the name have been residents of New England and have ever been loyal in citizenship and progressive in business. The grandparents of John Scoville were Dr. John and Eleanor R. (Fletcher) Scoville, the former a prominent physician of Ashley Falls. Their son, William F. Scoville, became a successful agriculturist of Ashley Falls, where he resided to the time of his death. which occurred in 1889, when he was but thirty-seven years of age. He married Mary E. Hadsell, who was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, daughter of Nelson and Mary E. (Shores) Hadsell. also of Sheffield and representatives of old Massachusetts families of English origin. Mrs. Scoville is still living and makes her home at East Northfield, Massachusetts. Mr. and

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Mrs. Scoville became parents of five children, of whom three are yet living: Mary E., John, and Carrie J.

John Scoville was educated in the schools of Ashley Falls and of Westfield, Massa- chusetts, completing the grammar school course with the class of 1889. He then started out to earn his own living and was first employed in the shop of J. D. Cadle & Company at Westfield, there learning the printer's trade. In 1894 he became associated with the firm of Curtis & Bradley, with whom he continued as a journeyman until 1909. At that time the present business was incorporated, with Arthur S. Bradley as the president and treas- urer, Mr. Scoville as the vice president and assistant treasurer, and Donald D. Macdonald as the secretary. There was no change in the personnel of the officers until October, 1914, when upon the death of Mr. Bradley, Mr. Scoville became the president and treasurer, while Mr. Macdonald is now assistant treasurer and secretary. The office and salesrooms are located at Nos. 67 to 73 Orange street, while the factory is situated at Nos. 140 to 144 Derby avenue, which building they erected a few years ago. The factory is equipped with the latest and most modern machinery for carrying on a business of that character, and something of the volume of their trade is indicated in the fact that they employ an average of thirty-five people.

On the 14th of June, 1899, Mr. Scoville was united in marriage to Miss Mary Macdonald, a native of East Haven and a daughter of Donald and Jessie (Moffitt) Macdonald. both of whom were of Scotch birth and have now passed away. To this marriage were born two children: Dorothy M., who was born January 1, 1902; and John M., who passed away at the age of two years.

Mr. Scoville exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party and he is now serving as a member of the East Haven school board, but the honors and emoluments of political office have had little attraction for him, as he has always preferred to concentrate his time and energies upon his business. He belongs to Adelphi Lodge, No. 63, A. F. & A. M., and has also taken the degrees of chapter, council, commandery and of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Quinnipiac Club and to the Young Men's Republican Club His life has ever been actuated by worthy motives and honorable principles. He is a member of the East Haven Congregational church, in the work of which he takes an active and helpful part, serving as one of its deacons and as superin- tendent of its Sunday school. Starting out in life a poor boy, he has allowed neither obstacles nor difficulties to har his path if they could be overcome by persistent, earnest and honorable effort.

FREDERICK TRUMAN BRADLEY.

Frederick Truman Bradley, the treasurer of the English & Mersick Company of New Haven, was born in this city November 28, 1860. The family name has long figured prominently on the pages of New England's history. William Bradley, a native of England, came to America in company with Governor Eaton and others and was active with those who aided in planting the seeds of civilization in the soil of the new world. He was married February 18, 1645, to Alice Pritchard and his death occurred in 1691. His son, Joseph Bradley, was born in 1646 and on the 25th of October, 1667, wedded Silence Brockett. His death occurred in 1704.

Samuel Bradley, a son of Joseph Bradley, was born in 1681 and departed this life in 1757. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Abigail Atwater, was born January 16, 1684, and died January 23, 1742. Their son, Samuel Bradley (II), was born March 21, 1707, and, on the 16th of December, 1732, married Eunice Munson. They were residents of New Haven and of Wallingford. Their son, Titus Bradley, was born in 1746 and his life record spanned the intervening years to the 9th of February, 1811. In 1769 he married Lydia Yale Todd and they made their home in North Haven.

Titus Bradley, Jr., a son of Titus and Lydia Bradley, was born in New Haven in 1776, the year which virtually gave independence to the nation, and died in 1822. In 1805 he married Miss Mary Munson, who passed away in 1861. She was a daughter of Stephen and Mary (Goodyear) Munson and traced her ancestry back through Jabez and Eunice

Frederick Y, Bradley

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(Atwater) Munson and Stephen and Lydia (Bassett) Munson to Samuel and Martha (Brad- ley) Munson, so that in two lines the ancestry can be traced back to the same original source.

Seymour Bradley, son of Titus Bradley, Jr., and the grandfather of Frederick T. Brad- ley, was born August 14, 1806, and died April 25, 1890. On the 30th of September, 1829, he married Delia Barnes, who was born June 6, 1809, and passed away January 4, 1880. Her parents were Frederick and Eunetia (Blakeslee) Barnes, her line reaching back through Joshua and Mercy (Tuttle) Barnes. The former was a son of Captain Joshua and Deborah (Wooding) Barnes and Captain Barnes was a son of Thomas and Mary (Leek) Barnes, the former a son of Thomas and Abigail (Frost) Barnes, so that there is again connection of the Bradley family with one of the oldest families of New England. Seymour Bradley was a merchant on Chapel street in New Haven for many years, establishing business there when a young man.

Robert Barnes Bradley, the son of Seymour Bradley, was born March 10, 1832, in North Haven, Connecticut, and passed away in New Haven, January 22, 1890. He pursued his education in the latter city, attending the Lovell Lancastrian School and afterward the aelect school conducted by Mr. Thomas. He became his father's assistant in the atore and there remained until 1858, when he turned bis attention to the agricultural implement busi- ness, opening a store on State and Court streets. He there remained in active business for many yeara, being numbered among the leading merchants of the city, and at hia death in 1890 he was succeeded by the firm of Bradley & Dann. He not only occupied an enviable position in commercial circles but was a prominent factor in the moral progress of the community as a leading member of Center church, in which he served as treasurer and on many important committees. He was married December 30, 1858, to Cornelia Minor and in the maternal line the ancestry of Frederick T. Bradley is equally interesting with that of the Bradley family. The line is traced back to Captain John and Elizabeth (Booth) Minor. Captain Minor was born in 1634 and his wife on the 12th of September, 1637. He passed away September 17, 1719, and her death occurred October 24, 1732. They were married October 19, 1658. In the succeeding generations the ancestry is traced down through Ephraim and Rebecca (Curtiss) Minor, Josiah and Mary (Barnum-Shove) Minor, Israel and Anna (Lake) Minor and Seth and Susannah (Frisbie) Minor, while the parents of Mrs. Bradley were Truman and Eunice (Peet) Minor. Her father was a member of the firm of Minor, Horton & Company, plow manufacturers of Peekskill, New York. His wife traced her lineage from John Peet, who came from England in 1635 on the sailing vessel Hopewell and settled at Stratford, Connecticut. The line comes down through Benjamin and Phehe (Butler) Peet, Benjamin and Priscilla (Fairchild) Peet, Richard and Saralı (Curtiss) Peet, Jehiel and Joanna (Walker) Peet, Jehiel and Lois (Manville) Peet to Mrs. Eunice (Peet) Minor, who was the mother of Mrs. Robert Barnes Bradley. The last named by her marriage became the mother of two daughters, Delia Barnes and Cornelia Minor, and two sons, Fred- erick T. Bradley and Robert Seymour, a physician of New Haven, who died January 29, 1890. The elder daughter married Charles W. Whittlesey.

In the acquirement of his education Frederick T. Bradley attended the Hopkins grammar school from which he was graduated with honor. He then entered the Yale Scien- tific School and completed his course in June, 1883. Thus well qualified for life's practical and responsible duties, he became his father's associate in business, the connection continuing until the latter's death in 1890. In that year he succeeded to the business in association with George E. Dann but after three years retired and on the 1st of January, 1894, became a member of the firm of English & Mersick. On the 28th of June, 1895, their business waa incorporated under the style of the English & Mersick Company, with Edwin F. Mersick aa the president and treasurer, Mr. Bradley as the secretary and John B. Kennedy as the vice president. Upon the death of Mr. Mersick, Mr. Kennedy succeeded to the presidency, while Mr. Bradley became treasurer and Carl W. Johnson, secretary. This association haa since been maintained and under their guidance the business has shown substantial growth.

Mr. Bradley has been married twice. On the 15th of June, 1887, he wedded Sarah Emily Mersick, a daughter of Edwin F. Mersick, of New Haven. She was horn August 27, 1863, and died September 15, 1906, in Luzerne, Switzerland. On the 26th of June, 1908, Mr. Bradley was again married, hia second union being with Mary Elizabeth Mersick, a daughter of Charles S. Mersick. She was born May 6, 1866. By the first marriage there were two Vol. Il-10

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children. Seymour Mersick, born April 25, 1888, was educated in the public schools of New Haven and in the Holbrook school at Ossining, New York, while later he became a student in the Yale Scientifie School, from which he was graduated in 1909 with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. He then entered Columbia University, where he won his Civil Engineer degree in 1912. He is now engineer for the English & Mersick Company and holds the office of secretary. He was married June 19, 1913, to Ruth Plumb Bostwick, a daughter of Leonard and Helen F. (Plumb) Bostwick, and they have two children, Margaret Bostwick, and Seymour Mersick, Jr., born October 5, 1916, in New Haven. Mildred Bradley, born May 1, 1890, was educated in the public schools of New Haven and in Vassar College, where she won the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1911. On the 17th of May, 1916, she became the wife of William Edwin Prindle, a son of Lucius H. and Frances (Harrison) Prindle. There is also one child of this marriage, William Edwin Prindle, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Bradley are members of the Center church and he is well known in club circles, belonging to the Graduates Club, the Quinnipiac Club, the New Haven Country Club, the Pine Orchard Club and the Yale and University Clubs of New York city. His political en- dorsement is given to the republican party and he has ever kept well informed on the ques- tions and issues of the day but has never been active in political work, preferring to con- centrate his efforts and attention upon his business interests. Aside from being treasurer of the English & Mersick Company and thus actively engaged in the manufacture of automobile and carriage hardware, he is a director of the Yale National Bank and the New Haven Morris Plan Bank and thus figures prominently in local financial circles. The intelligent direction of his activities has brought him prominently to the front in business connections whereby he has furthered public prosperity as well as individual success.

FREDERICK G. CRABB.

Frederick G. Crabb is a partner in the firm of Insul & Crabb. jewelers, engravers and designers at New Haven, who have one of the leading and attractive stores in their line in the city. Mr. Crabb has spent practically his entire life in New Haven, although a native of Brooklyn, New York, where he was born November 18, 1866. His parents were John C. and Caroline (Garden) Crabb, both of whom were natives of England but in childhood came to America and were reared, educated and married in Brooklyn. In early manhood the father began learning the organ builder's trade and became noted as an expert in the construction of church organs. In 1870 he removed to New Haven, where he embarked in business on his own aceount in the construction of church organs and was so engaged at the time of his death in 1880. His widow survived for many years and passed away in New Haven in 1911. In their family were eight children, five sons and three daughters.

Frederick G. Crabb, who was the seventh in the family, spent his youthful days as a pupil in the public schools of New Haven and then started in the business work as an errand boy, gradually working his way upward to better positions. Progressive steps at lengthi led him to enter upon an .apprenticeship to the engraver's and designer's trades with a well known jewelry house and after completing his term of indenture he worked at his trade until 1911. when in connection with John C. Insul he purchased the present jewelry business conducted under the name of Insul & Crabb. Since taking charge these part- ners have won most creditable success and now rank with the leading jewelry firms of the city. Theirs is a progressive house in its business methods, carrying a most attractive line of jewelry of domestic and foreign manufacture. Their close application and able man- agement has developed their business to large proportions, requiring constantly the service of from eight to ten experienced men to handle their sales and repairs.

In April. 1900. Mr. Crabb wedded Miss Grace Nichols, of New Haven. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barr Nichols. and they have four children: Dorothy, who was born in May, 1902, and is now attending high school; Fred Gardner, who was born in 1905; Richard Carnell, in 1909; and Jeannette. in 1915.

Mr. Crabb's military experience covers service of sixteen years as member of Company F (the New Haven Grays) of which he became captain. He was placed on the retired list in November, 1912. In politics he is a democrat and belongs to the Young Men's Democratic

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Club. In Masonry he has become a Knight Templar and has also taken the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the Consistory. He belongs to Trinity Episcopal church and in these associations are found the rules which govern his conduct and shape his relations with his fellowmen. He is recognized as a progressive and popular merchant and as a substantial and public-spirited citizen, and that his entire career has been an honorable and upright one is indicated in the fact that many of his stanchest friends are those who have known him from his boyhood to the present time.

EDMUND ZACHER.

Edmund Zacher, senior partner of the firm of Zacher, Ely & Zacher, attorneys at law, and occupying an enviable position at the bar by reason of his accuracy in applying his comprehensive knowledge of the principles of jurisprudence to the points in litigation, has throughout his years of practice held to the highest professional standards and ethics. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, December 12. 1853. His father, Louis Zacher, a native of Prussia, came to America in 1849. making his way direct to Hartford. where he engaged in the tailoring business, which he had learned in his native country. In polities he became a strong democrat and was active in public and civic matters. In fact, he was a man of much influence among the German population of Hartford, and assisted in establishing the German-English school. He died in 1886 at the age of sixty-two years, while his wife survived until 1903 and reached the age of seventy years. She bore the maiden name of Mary B. Kreuzer, and was born in Bavaria. She, too, crossed the Atlantic in 1849 in company with her widowed mother and a brother, and the family home was established at once in Hartford, where she met and married Louis Zacher. They became the parents of two children, the older being Louis II. Zacher. now a lithographer of Hartford.

The younger, Edmund Zacher, acquired his education partly in the German-English school which his father assisted in founding and also attended the Center school, now the Brown school. of Hartford, and the Hartford high school, from which he was graduated with the class of 1870. He then entered Yale and won the Bachelor of Arts degree in June, 1874. He entered the Yale Law School in 1876. and the LL. B. degree was conferred upon him at his graduation in 1878. In 1877 he was appointed a tutor in Yale College, in which work he continued until 1882. He was principal of the Branford high school for two years, from 1874 until 1826, and then entered the law office of Dexter K. Wright and Lynde Harrison of New Haven, being associated with that firm until its dissolution, when he entered into a partnership with Judge Harrison under the firm style of Harrison & Zacher. That connection was maintained until 1906, when Judge Harrison passed away, and in 1907 Mr. Zacher entered into partnership with William H. Ely and his son. under the firm style of Ely, Zacher & Ely. With the death of William H. Ely in 1909, the firm became Zacher & Ely and in 1913 the name was changed to Zacher. Ely & Zacher, by the admission of Louis B. Zacher, the son of the senior partner, who was graduated from Yale with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1910 and from the Yale Law School in 1913, at which time the LL. B. degree was conferred upon him. In addition to his law practice, which is extensive and important, Mr. Zacher is a director of the Duluth & Superior Traction Company, a Connecticut corpora- tion.

On the 18th of May, 1881, Mr. Zacher was married in Meriden, Connecticut, to Julia A. M. Griswold, a native of Branford and a daughter of the late Joel and Julia (Meeker) Griswold, both representatives of old families of this state. Mrs. Zacher is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. By her marriage she has become the mother of the following named: Madolin Russ, who is a graduate of Vassar College of 1905: Natalia Barbara, who holds a certificate from the Yale Art School and is now the wife of Normand D. Brainard, a civil engineer now residing in Buffalo, New York; and Louis B., who is his father's partner.

Mr. Zacher gave his political allegiance to the democratic party until Bryan's first campaign, in 1896, since which time he has voted with the republican party. He was secretary under Governor Thomas M. Waller. and has also been judge of the town court of Branford. He is a member of the Graduates Club and the New Haven Country Club and

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is prominently known in the New Haven Bar Association, having been elected its president in 1917. He has been a lifelong resident of Connecticut and from an early age he has been dependent upon his own resources. He worked his way in part through the university and thus displayed the elemental strength of his character. He understands difficulties, having met with many in his early years, and it may truthfully be said of him that he has never lost the common touch. He is ever ready to aid others who are struggling to rise, and his words of encouragement are based upon practical experience, because his own life has been organized along lines that have called for a full dole of labor. His own career is proof of the fact that industry wins, and every day with him is marked by a full faithed attempt to know more and to grow more.

FREDERIC H. HYNES, M. D.

Dr. Frederic H. Hynes, who is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in New Ilaven, was born February 26, 1890, in Meriden, Connecticut, a son of Mathew H. and Mary (Morrison) Hynes. The father was a native of Massachusetts, a son of John Hynes. The founder of the American branch of the family was of Irish birth and came to Massachusetts in the early part of the seventeenth century. Mathew H. Hynes has devoted his life to the banking business and is still a valued and honored resident of New Haven. He wedded Miss Mary Morrison, a native of Connecticut and a daughter of John Morrison, who was born in this state and was of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Hynes became the parents of three children: Frederic H., Mabel F., and Madeline.

Dr. Hynes graduated from the high school of New Haven with the class of 1909, and then entered Tufts College Medical School at Boston, Massachusetts, where he was graduated in 1913 with the M. D. degree. After his graduation he spent two years in the St. Eliza- beth's Hospital at Boston and then returned to New Haven, where he began a general prac- tice and has since continued an active representative of the profession. While one of the younger members of his profession he has made steady progress, demonstrating his ability to cope with intricate and involved professional problems.

In politics Dr. Hynes is a republican but has never been active as an office seeker. He belongs to St. Mary's Roman Catholic church and holds membership with the Knights of Columbus. Along strictly professional lines he is connected with the New Haven, New Haven County. Connecticut State and American Medical Associations, and thus keeps in touch with the advanced thoughts and problems of the profession. He is surgeon of the fire board and clinical assistant in surgery at Yale, and, while engaged in a general practice, he is display- ing marked ability in surgery and might well specialize in that field.

REV. WILLIAM L. KIERNAN.

Rev. William L. Kiernan, one of New Haven's loved priests of the Roman Catholic church, was sent into the diocese by the bishop to establish a church on the outskirts of New Haven, in a thinly settled district, and founded on Dixwell avenue the Roman Catholic church known as St. John the Baptist. Through his eloquence, his kindly disposition and his zeal in the cause he has built up a parish for which the present church is much too small and further extension of the church property is now being planned.

Father Kiernan was born in County Cavan, Ireland, September 20, 1867, a son of John and Mary (Harten) Kiernan, who were also natives of the Emeraldl isle, where the father devoted his life to the occupation of farming. In their family were seven children, Bridget, Katherine, Francis, John, Mary. Patrick and William L.

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A modern history of New Haven and eastern New Haven County, Vol. II, Part 26

Author: Hill, Everett Gleason, 1867- [from old catalog] Publication date: 1918 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 986

Author: Hill, Everett Gleason, 1867- [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1918
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 986