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FRANK STURGIS BRADLEY.
Frank Sturgis Bradley, secretary and general manager of the West Haven Manufactur- ing Company, one of the important industrial concerns of the borough, was born in Weth- ersfield, Connecticut, January 4, 1862. His parents, Fernando and Elizabeth (Goodrich) Bradley, were born respectively in Naugatuck and in Wethersfield. In 1862 the father en- listed for service in the Civil war as a member of the Sixteenth Connecticut Volunteer In- fantry and was assigned to the commissary department. He was taken prisoner and for a considerable period was confined in Andersonville prison. He turned his attention largely to farming, which occupation he followed for the greater part of his life, however, for a con- siderable period after the war he worked in a factory in Collinsville. His wife survives and resides with our subject.
Frank S. Bradley received a common school education, attending the schools of Wethers- field, Hartford and Unionville, Connecticut. When thirteen years he entered the shop of the Standard Rule & Level Company of Unionville and from that time to the present has been connected with manufacturing interests. Ile has always taken a keen interest in mechanical problems and as a boy and youth made it a point to acquire as much varied experience in shops as possible. With this end in view he worked first for one concern and then for another including the Hartford Machine Screw Company, Colt's Patent Firearms Manufactur- ing Company of Hartford, in which he was a tool maker, and Pratt & Whitney, in whose em- ploy his work was that of fitting spindles. In 1881 he was with the Wetmore Machine Com- pany of New Haven, manufacturers of the Bosworth Waxed Thread sewing machines. After leaving their employ he was for seven years expert machinist with the Henry G. Thompson Company, manufacturers of pamphlet-wiring machines. During his connection with that con- cern he was sent by them to various places where an expert in that line was needed. From 1889 until 1896 he was with R. H. Brown & Company of New Haven, but in the latter year came to West Haven and organized what is now the West Haven Manufacturing Company. He had perfected and patented a number of new devices to be used in the manufacture of
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saws and established a business of his own in order to put these machines to actual use. For some time he worked unaided and seemed to make little progress but persevered and at the end of six years was able to demonstrate the practicability of his inventions. In partnership with C. E. Graham he etsablished the West Haven Manufacturing Company, which in 1902 was incorporated under the same name. Mr. Bradley is secretary and general manager of the company and is in charge of the mechanical end of the business. He has invented and patented wire-stitching machinery and saw-making machinery and the frames used in hack- saws. The company manufactures a diversified line of tools and hardware specialties, em- ploys from one hundred to two hundred men and has found a market for its products over the entire country. Mr. Bradley is also a director of the Orange Bank & Trust Company.
In 1889 occurred the marriage of Frank S. Bradley and Miss Clara Gardner, of New Haven, a daughter of John P. and Georgie Gardner, the father a well known music teacher. To Mr. and Mrs. Bradley have been born two children, Clara May and Florence Estelle.
Mr. Bradley is a stanch republican and has served as member of the board of burgesses of West Haven. He attends the Congregational church, although not a member thereof, and is generous in his contributions to its support. His wife is a leader in religious activities and prominent in civic clubs. He belongs to the Masons, the Winchester Lodge of the New England Order of Protection, of which he is a charter member and past warden and which he named, and is also identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen, which he joined when employed. Along more strictly social lines be is connected with the Phoenix Club and also a member of the Union League of New Haven. He is always to be found with those who are working earnestly for the advancement of the community welfare and it is but natural that he should be an active member of the New Haven and West Haven chambers of commerce and be is also identified with the United States Chamber of Commerce. As a boy he determined that he would not remain an ordinary mechanic and as the years have passed he has accomplished all that he hoped and more, for now he is the guiding spirit of an im- portant manufacturing concern and through his inventions has contributed to the world's progress along mechanical lines.
HENRY M. SHARTENBERG.
Prominent among the most resourceful and progressive merchants of New Haven stands Henry M. Shartenberg, who is now president of the Sbartenberg & Robinson Company, controlling important commercial interests not only in New Haven but elsewhere in the state. It is true that he entered upon a business already established, but in assuming management of the large department store of New Haven his capabilities were put to the test and he measured fully up to the demands made.
Born in Phenix, Rhode Island, October 26, 1877, Mr. Shartenberg is a son of Jacob and Ernestina (Abrahams) Shartenberg, both of whom were natives of Germany. The former was born in Cassel, November 4, 1853, and was but two years of age at the time of his father's demise, while his mother's death left him an orphan at the age of six years. He was then placed in an orphan asylum in his native country and when a youth of fourteen years he was apprenticed to a watchmaker for a three years' term. He had no liking nor aptitude for that trade and at the end of two years he ran away from his employer and managed to get passage on an American bound vessel, landing at Castle Garden, New York. a poor immigrant boy without money or friends at the age of sixteen years. He faced the necessity of gaining immediate employment and accepted any work that would yield him an honest living. He was employed at various occupations for a time but finally obtained a position in a fur factory, where he remained until he saw an advertisement for a young man to learn the dry goods business in Providence. He believed this to be his opportunity and, answering the advertisement, he became an employe of Leopold Dimond and thus was begun not only a long and most pleasant commercial connection but a friendship that endured for many years and was further promoted by the fact that the two gentlemen married sisters.
Mr. Shartenberg thoroughly mastered the principles of purchasing under the direction of Mr. Dimond and subsequently resolved to enter business on his own account.
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With a capital of one hundred and fifty-eight dollars he opened a little dry goods store in Phenix, Rhode Island, and four years later, or in 1881, established a small store in Pawtucket, thus taking the step which led to the goal of substantial suecess. In 1887 the firm of Shartenberg & Robinson was formed and more commodious quarters were secured. They extended the scope of their activities in 1906 by incorporating and establish- ing a large department store in New Haven, which under the guidance of Henry M. Sbarten- berg has become one of the finest and most extensive in New England. Jacob Shartenberg was an active factor in furthering commercial interests that redounded to the benefit of his colleagues and contemporaries as well as of himself. He was for many years a member of the executive committee of the Dry Goods Alliance and he was the originator and first president of the Pawtucket Retail Merchants Association, tbe forerunner of the Chamber of Commerce. He belonged to the Pawtucket Business Men's Association and served on its executive committee, and for several years prior to his death he was a member of the park commission of that city. He was vice president of Temple Bethel of Providence, Rhode Island, and a director of the Providence Jewish Orphanage. He belonged to District Grand Lodge, No. 7. of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith and to Haggai Lodge, No. 132, I. O. B. B., and the Free Sons of Israel. He was a most generous contributor to charitable and benevolent work and his sudden death, which occurred when he was in the sixty- second year of his age, was the occasion of deep and widespread regret wherever he was known.
Of him Colonel Harry Cutler of Providence said: "The sudden demise of Mr. Sharten- berg is a shock, not only to the Jewish community, but to both the communities in the cities of Pawtucket, Providence, and New Haven, and to the many friends who have learned to know and love him. Coming here as an immigrant boy, earving his own career, he attained a position of American citizenship of which any man could justly be proud. Modest, unostentatious, of sterling character, his word always bis bond, a man of keen sympathy and great good nature, he impressed his personality through those qualifications on everyone with whom he came in contact. As husband and father he was an example to others. His civic pride in the city of Pawtucket was such as to inspire a keen delight in his duties as park commissioner. His early childhood as an orphan made him a close friend of the orphans. His innate love for his religion caused him to devote much of his labors to his congregation and the welfare of the Jewish community. As a great respecter of education, he not only encouraged his own children, one of whom is a graduate of Yale College and the other of Harvard College, but also caused him to become a benefactor of institutions of learning both of Providence and elsewhere, and his keen appreciation of Brown University and the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, was manifested on many occasions. His activities were many and important, and the community will feel the shock and loss by his demise keenly."
Reared in Rhode Island, Henry M. Shartenberg attended the schools of Pawtucket and later entered the academic department of Harvard University, from which he was graduated in 1900. A year later he completed a course in the law department and his knowledge of the principles of law has been of immense benefit to him in the conduct of his business interests. Following his graduation he traveled extensively in Europe as representative of the Attleboro Manufacturing Company of New York and upon his return to the new world became his father's associate in business at Pawtucket, receiving thorough training along mercantile lines. In 1906 a branch house was established in New Haven, of which Henry M. Shartenberg was given the management and since that time he has been at its head, carefully directing its growth and development until it is now one of the finest and largest department stores of New England. Since his father's death he has become the president of the Shartenberg & Robinson Company and thus controls commercial activities of mammoth proportions.
On the 17th of January, 1906, Mr. Shartenberg was married to Miss Hedwig Weise Lederer, of Providence, Rhode Island, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Lederer. They now have three children: Frances, who was born in Pawtucket in 1906; Ruth, born in New Haven in 1910; and Henry M., born in New Haven in 1914.
Mr. Shartenberg is a Mason, belonging to lodge, chapter and council, and he also belongs to the Racebrook Country Club, the Union League and other social organizations. He has many substantial qualities which rank him high as a business man and citizen,
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and anyone meeting him face to face would know at once that he is an individual embodying all the elements of what in this country we term a square man-one in whom to have confidence-a dependable man in any relation and any emergency.
BURNSIDE WINSLOW.
Burnside Winslow, an investment broker of New Haven, was born in Baltimore, Mary- land, August 8, 1881. His father, J. H. Winslow, a native of Portland, Maine, was descended from an old New England family of English lineage founded in America by Edward Winslow and his brother during the early part of the seventeenth century. I. H. Winslow is engaged in the advertising business in Philadelphia. He married Helen Knight. a native of Portland, Maine, and a representative of an old New England family.
Burnside Winslow, their only child, supplemented his preparatory course, pursued at Andover, Massachusetts, by study at Yale, where he won the Bachelor of Arts degree with the class of 1904. Liberal education thus qualified him for life's practical and responsible duties. After completing his studies he was connected with the Utica Gas & Electric Company in the engineering department and was associated therewith for two years, after which he resigned his position and in 1909 came to New Haven, where he entered the brokerage business. in which he has since been continuously and successfully engaged. He has thorough acquaintance with commercial paper and other lines of investment, and his knowledge and ability have made his service thoroughly satisfactory to his clients.
On the 15th of January, 1908, Mr. Winslow was married to Miss Helen T. Carrington, a native of New Haven and a daughter of John B. and Annie (Lawton) Carrington. They now have one child, Anne Carrington, born May 4, 1909.
Mr. and Mrs. Winslow hold membership in Center church, and in the social circles of the city they have won an enviable position. Mr. Winslow has voted with the republican party since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He is widely known as a mem- her of the Graduates, Quinnipiac, New Haven Lawn and Country Clubs of New Haven and of the Yale Club of New York, and his personal qualities make for popularity in all these organizations.
NICOLA MARIANI, M. D.
Dr. Nicola Mariani, actively engaged in the practice of medicine in New Haven, was horn in Limatola, in the province of Benevento, Italy, August 4, 1868, a son of Joseph and Marie (Giacomina) Mariani, who were likewise natives of that sunny land. The father was a man of means and gave his entire attention in a business way to the management of his estate. He was also active in public affairs, supporting many progressive measures for the benefit of his city and province. Both he and his wife have passed away. In their family were two sons, the younger being John W. Mariani, who was graduated from the University of Naples with the degree of LL. B. and later entered Yale University, graduat- ing with the LL. B. degree in the class of 1900. For seven years he was engaged in the prac- tice of law at Fairmont, West Virginia, and was also Italian consul there. Ile is now engaged in the practice of law in Naples, Italy.
Dr. Nicola Mariani pursued both his classical and professional studies in his native land, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation from a national college with the class of 1887 and his professional degree upon completing a course in the medical department of the Royal University of Naples with the class of 1893. He then spent three years as an interne in the General Hospital of Naples, gaining that broad and valuable experience which is never as quickly secured in any other way as through hospital practice. He then came to America, arriving in March, 1896, after which he immediately located in New Haven, where he opened an office and has since continuously engaged in general practice. He pursued a two years' post graduate course in Yale and is recognized as one of the most capable members of the profession, having comprehensive knowledge of the science, while
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broad experience has demonstrated his ability to accurately apply its principles to specific needs.
In New Haven, in 1897. Dr. Mariani was married to Miss Margherita Spinello, a native of Italy and a daughter of John and Madeline (Pessolano) Spinello, the former now deceased, while the mother makes her home with Dr. and Mrs. Mariani.
In his political views Dr. Mariani is a stalwart republican and is acting as Italian consul at the present time. He is much interested in civic matters, cooperating in ail those projects and activities which promise benefit to the city. He is serving at the present time as president of the board of health of New Haven. He had military training in his native country as a member of the Italian army, serving as a lieutenant in an infantry regiment and afterward with a sanitary corps. Along strictly professional lines he has connection with the New Haven Medical Association, the New Haven County Medical Association, the Connecticut State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. A gentleman of broad and liberal culture, having the benefit of the most efficient professional training of his native and of his adopted land, he is today occupying a prominent position not only among the physicians and surgeons of New Haven, but New England as well.
RICHARD WILLIAMS.
Richard Williams, starting out to earn his living at the age of sixteen years, is now well known as a prominent architect of New Haven, where many fine structures stand as monuments to his enterprise and his skill. He was born in Anglesey, Wales, October 14, 1860, a son of John Williams, who was also a native of that little rock-ribbed country, where he spent his entire life, conducting a successful business as a contractor. He reached the venerable age of ninety-one years, while his wife passed away in 1894, when but sixty years of age. She bore the maiden name of Margaret Griffiths and was also a native of Wales.
Richard Williams,. the youngest of their six children, was educated in the schools of his native city and in an art school at Birkenhead, England, from which he was in due time graduated. Dependent upon his own resources from the age of sixteen years, he served a three years' apprenticeship at the carpenter's and joiner's trade, which he afterward followed as a journeyman for about three years. He came to America in October, 1888, and for a few months remained in New York, where he was employed hy an architect, after which he removed to Bridgeport and became connected with Longstaff & Hurd, architects, with which firm he continued for five years. On the expiration of that period he took up his abode in New Haven and entered the employ of William H. Allen, who after eight years sold to him his business, which was carried on under the name of Richard .Williams, but six years later the two entered into partnership under the firm style of Allen & Williams. That connection was maintained until 1914, when in the month of March the relationship was discontinued and Mr. Williams has since been alone in practice. In his professional capacity either as partner or as an individual he made the design for the Union League Club. the New Haven county home, the New Haven county courthouse, the Tudor Garden apartments, the Plymouth church, the Christian Science church, the North Haven Congregational church, the St. Louis French Roman Catholic church, St. Anthony's Roman Catholic church, St. Mary' rectory, St. Peter's school, the library at Meriden, the Young Men's Christian Association building at Ansonia and the Country Club at Waterbury. Among the more recent structures he has designed are the Milford grammar school, also the First Baptist church in West Haven. He has also erected many of the most beautiful homes of New Haven and adjoining counties. Beauty, convenience and utility all feature in his buildings and his ideas when put into tangible form have constituted some of the most attractive architectural features of this section of the state.
In 1906 Mr. Williams was united in marriage in Bridgeport. Connecticut, to Miss Harriett Reader, a native of Westfield, Connecticut, and a daughter of the late Thomas Reader. Mr. Williams is a member of the Union League and also of the Yacht Club and fraternally he is connected with Wooster Lodge. A. F. & A. M., and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but while keeping well in-
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formed on the questions and issues of the day, he does not seek nor desire office. Along professional lines he is connected with the Connecticut Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and also with the American Institute of Architects. What he has accomplished has resulted from his intelligently directed efforts and developed powers in the line of his profession. He possesses the substantial qualities of ambition and energy, and from the faithful performance of each day's duties he has found strength and inspiration for the efforts of the succeeding day. Thus gradually he has advanced to a position of leadership among the architects of his adopted city.
REV. JOHN THOMAS LYNCH.
Among the leading churches of Meriden is St. Joseph's Roman Catholic church, which has three thousand members, and the excellent condition of its work bears testimony to the ability of its pastor, Rev. John Thomas Lynch. He is also principal of the parochial school connected with the church and in the performance of his many duties he has manifested the highest spirit of devotion and practical executive ability. His birth occurred in Water- bury, January 24, 1856, and he is a son of John and Aun Lynch. He lost his mother when he was but five years old and was later taken care of by his god-mother, who reared him carefully.
After attending the schools of Ansonia, Connecticut, Father Lynch hecame a student in Niagara University at Niagara Falls, New York, and there completed the classical course. He passed through the halls of philosophy and theology and was ordained to the priesthood in 1886 by Bishop Ryan, of Buffalo, New York. He was assigned as assistant pastor of St. John's church at Stamford, Connecticut, and in May, 1888, was transferred to Hartford, as assistant pastor of St. Peter's church. He remained there for nine years and in 1897 was sent to Wethersfield. Connecticut, to organize the Sacred Heart parish. During the three years that he spent there he accomplished a great deal and when called to Meriden in September, 1900, left a prosperous church with all of its departments well organized. When he came to Meriden the house of worship of St. Joseph's parishi was but a small chapel and again it fell to his lot to organize and build up a new parish. His untiring labors met with gratifying success and under his pastorate the influence of the church has been steadily extended. For a number of years he also had charge of the Italian Roman Catholic church but the work of that parish was largely given into the hands of an assistant. St. Joseph's now has three thousand members. A parochial school is maintained with an attendance of about three hundred and fifty pupils and ten Sisters comprise the teaching force. Two assistants are required to aid Father Lynch in looking after the temporal and spiritual interests of the parish and they are at present Rev. James J. McGetrick and Rev. Patrick A. McCarthy. The little chapel which was the house of worship at the time Rev. Lynch took charge of the church has given place to a magnificent edifice valued at one hun- dred thousand dollars, the school building is worth forty thousand dollars and the rectory seventeen thousand dollars. Rev. Lynch belongs to Silver City Council, K. C., of which he is chaplain, and he has always felt a keen interest in the work of that order which has been such a force for good among the men of Catholic faith. While stationed at Hartford he was chaplain of the Connecticut state prison and his work in that connection was likewise productive of good. He has won for himself a warm place in the regard of his parishioners, and his ability and worth are also recognized by the community at large.
ISIDOR FREEDMAN.
When the Freedman department store, of which Isidor Freedman is the head, was opened for business its selling force consisted of but two clerks, and something of the splendid development of the trade is indicated in the fact that there are now two hundred and fifty salespeople and other employes, a result which is the visible evidence of the indefatigable energy and initiative spirit of Mr. Freedman, who received his business
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training under the direction of his father, Louis H. Freedman, who for some years was one of New Haven's most prosperous merchants. The present business, however, was started as an independent venture by Isidor Freedman and is the outgrowth of his close application and energy.
A native of New Haven, he was born February 28, 1862, of the marriage of Louis H. and Rachael (Strauss) Freedman, who were natives of Germany but in early life came to the United States and were married in New Haven in 1850. For many years the father was identified with commercial interests as a dry goods merchant, his life's labors being ended, however, in death on the 9th of April, 1909. His widow survived until March 19, 1914.
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