A modern history of New Haven and eastern New Haven County, Vol. II, Part 53

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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GEORGE C. MOORE.


George C. Moore, vice president of the Rowland Machine Company and possessing marked ability as a draftsman, was born in Derby, Connecticut, in 1849 and when quite young went to Bridgeport. where. as also in Milford and Wallingford, he remained awhile, later returning to Derby. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific Academy of Yale in- 1873 with the Ph. B. degree. He was employed in various places until 1880, when he came to New Haven and about the same time entered upon business relations with the Rowland Machine Company, with which he has since been identified. Ability won him promotion from time to time and in 1906 he was made vice president, which position he still fills, doing excellent work as an executive officer in formulating the plans of the company and carrying them forward to successful completion.


Mr. Moore was married in Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1874, to Arabella Tuttle, and their only child, Nettie, is Mrs. James Bouck, of Brooklyn, and has three children, George, Virginia and Helen.


In religious faith Mr. Moore is a Baptist. and he is also a loyal adherent of King Herod Lodge, No. 12, A. F. & A. M., and Housatonic Lodge. No. 6, I. O. O. F. He likewise holds membership in the Yale Alumni Association and is recognized in the city in which he has made his home for thirty-seven years as a representative and progressive business man whose life record has been an exemplification of many sterling qualities.


SANFORD B. PERKINS.


Sanford B. Perkins was formerly at the head of the Berkeley Tutoring School, which has come to be recognized as one of the leading institutions of this character for young men in the state, preparing them for more advanced work along scientific lines and thus meeting the requirements of a solid foundation for later study. Mr. Perkins was well qualified in every way to assist his pupils and give them that basic knowledge which is so necessary for college training along scientific lines.


Mr. Perkins was born in Torrington. Connecticut, July 26, 1889, and is a son of Alfred H. and Minnie L. (Johnson) Perkins, who are also natives of Torrington and are descended from New England families represented in this section of the country through many genera- tions. Alfred H. Perkins has engaged in mercantile pursuits at Torrington, where he is still living and is yet numbered among the active business men of that place. Both he and his wife represent families that sent soldiers to the Revolutionary war, and her father was Major Sanford, of the Civil war. Mrs. Perkins is also living at Torrington, where she was educated and married.


Sanford B. Perkins, an only child, was graduated from the Torrington high school with the class of 1907 and then entered the engineering department of the Sheffield Scientific School, completing his course at Yale with the class of 1910. After his graduation he became an instructor in the Sheffield Scientific School and aside from his duties there he became an assistant instructor in the Berkeley Preparatory School, continuing in both capacities for three years. He likewise took post-graduate work at Sheffield and in 1915 he


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purchased from the former owners their interest in the Berkeley school, which he conducted for two years. His work gave uniform satisfaction to those who availed themselves of the opportunity to prepare for college here. Being a college bred man and a former teacher at Yale, he thoroughly understood the requirements and qualified pupils to take up the more advanced work.


On the 24th of October, 1914, Mr. Perkins was united in marriage to Miss Ellen H. Sherman of Hartford, a descendant of General Sherman of Revolutionary war fame, and a daughter of Clifton Sherman, a well known newspaper man of Hartford. They now have one child, Helen Hoyt Perkins, born December 17, 1915.


Mr. Perkins is a member of the Alpha Chi Rho and belongs to the Congregational church llis interests are broad, reading and study keeping him in close touch with the trend of thought and purpose.


HENRY WETMORE BEECHER.


Henry Wetmore Beecher, engaged in the undertaking business in New Haven, was born in New Mitford, Connecticut, July 22, 1857, and is the eldest of the four children of Stephen (. and Ellen E. (Wetmore) Beecher, representatives of families that have lived in this state for many generations. The ancestral line is traced back to John Beecher, who lived in the county of Kent, England, and there passed away in 1637, when in middle life. His widow, Mrs. Hannah Beecher, came with her family to this country, arriving in Boston, April 26, 1637. She was born about 1600 and died about 1658. Stephen G. Beecher, father of our subject, was born at New Milford, December 9, 1832, living on the old Beecher homestead at the foot of Mount Tom. He was married August 14, 1856, to Miss Ellen E. Wetmore, of Winchester, Connecticut, a daughter of Abel Samuel Wetmore. Her death occurred in New Milford, July 2, 1894. Her four children were: Henry W .; Mary Ann, who was born January 14, 1859, and died March 4. 1871; Abel Stephen, born July 26, 1861; and Bertha Lucy, born August 24, 1865.


Henry W. Beecher was educated in the public schools and in the Housatonie Institute at New Milford, and after his textbooks were put aside entered the employ of the William L. Gilbert Clock Company of Winsted, Connecticut, with which concern he remained for several years. He was afterward engaged in the grocery trade in Winsted, Connecticut, and in 1894 came to New Haven, where he established himself as an undertaker and funeral director, joining his brother-in-law, James M. Bennett, under the firm name of Beecher & Bennett, located at No. 280 Elm street. Here he has continued in business to the present time and is accorded a liberal patronage.


On the 3d of November, 1880, Mr. Beecher was married to Miss Elizabeth Abigail Loomis, a daughter of George Ward Loomis, of Winsted, Connecticut. She was born in Torrington, October 25, 1835, and passed away in Winsted, May 10, 1894. Mr. Beecher was again married May 27, 1896, when Addie Theresa Gilman became his wife. She was born December 17, 1862, at West Hartland, Connecticut, a daughter of Samuel and Harriet Theresa (New- ton) Gilman. The children of the first marriage were two in number. The son. George Loomis, born June 13, 1884, at Winsted, died July 20. 1908. He was a graduate of Yale University of the class of 1906 and after spending a year in survey work for the Mexican International Railroad and serving as assistant civil engineer for the city of Zacatecas, Mexico, he returned to Yale for post-graduate work, receiving the degree of Civil Engineer in June, 1908. He was an enthusiastic member of the Phi Delta Chapter of the national college fraternity, the Alpha Chi Rho. His future seemed bright with promise because of his pronounced ability but to all this death put an untimely end, his passing being deeply deplored by all who knew him, for he possessed not only marked professional skill and ability but also characteristics which rendered him very popular. The daughter, Helen Wetmore, born November 24, 1886, in Winsted, was graduated from the Hillhouse high school and also from the State Normal School of New Haven. She married May 29, 1913, Kenneth W. Leighton and they have one son, William Beecher Leighton, born November 25, 1914.


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United Workmen of New Haven. He holds membership in the Dwight Place Congregational church, of which he has been a leacon for several years, and he is also a member of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce and the Business Men's Association. He is a director of the Broadway Bank & Trust Company, and in this way actively connected with the financial life of New Haven. He cooperates heartily in every movement which elieits his interest and support, and his labors are always productive of results.


MORRIS BAUMANN.


Numbered among the important manufacturing interests and productive industries of New Haven is that conducted under the name of the Baumann Rubber Company, of which Morris Baumann is the treasurer and manager. Long experience in this field has well qualified him for the duties and responsibilities now devolving upon him. From the age of twenty-two years he has been connected with this line of activity, and through the steps of an orderly progression has continuously advanced to his present position.


Mr. Baumann was born in Schmieheim, Germany, December 10, 1857. His father, Isaac Baumann, lived and died in Germany, where he was a successful cattle dealer. He passed away in 1872 at the age of sixty-nine years, while his wife survived until 1888, her death occurring when she had reached the age of seventy-two years. She bore the maiden name of Guta Baum, and by her marriage she had a family of seven children, of whom Morris is the youngest.


After attending the public schools of his native land to the age of fifteen years Morris Baumann started out to earn his own living as an apprentice to the hardware business, which he followed in the employ of others for seven years. He then turned his attention to the manufacture of rubber goods in the city of Frankfort-on-Main and continued in that line for seven years, during which he gained a comprehensive knowledge of the business in its various departments, manifesting the thoroughness which has made for the notable efheieney of the German race.


At length Mr. Baumann determined to try his fortune in America, and on the 4th of December, 1885, arrived in New York. In the following January he removed to Naugatuck, Connecticut, where he entered the employ of the Goodyear India Rubber Glove Company as foreman in the manufacturing plant. He spent fourteen months in that position, after which he came to New llaven and established his present business, forming a partnership with Ernest Schwenk. Their interests were conducted under the firm name of M. Baumann & Company until February 16, 1891. when Mr. Schwenk sold out, being succeeded by Julius Lederer. At that time their interests were incorporated under the name of the Baumann Rubber Company. While the business was started on a small seale, the partners having no employes but doing all the work themselves, their patronage has steadily increased until their volume of business necessitates today the employment of from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five people. The main factory covers a floor space of thirty by one hundred and fifty feet, and is three stories and basement, and a new building, still larger than the parent establishment, is located at Nos. 370 to 376 Davenport avenue. Mr. Baumann remains as treasurer and manager of the business with Samuel Lautenbach as president. They maintain a New York office at No. 404 Fourth avenue. In the New Haven plant they manufacture plain, fancy and velvet finish fairy parlor balls, also a full line of specialties in pure gum bathing eaps, barber bibs, pure gum ice bags, catheters, stomach pumps and toy novelties. In addition to his interest in the rubber company Mr. Bauman is a director of the Reeves Manufacturing Company of Milford, in the Howe-Baumann Balloon Company of Newark, New Jersey, and the Story-Bell Land Company of New Haven.


On the 19th of June, 1890, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Baumann and Miss Clara Lederer, a native of that state and a daughter of Samuel and Marie Lederer, representatives of okl New Jersey families, but both now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Baumann have become the parents of two sons and a daughter; Irvin S., Gertrude F. and Robert L. The eldest wedded Regina Weil.


Mr. Baumann is a member of the Mishkan Israel Temple; of the Free Sons of Israel; of the Harugari, of which he is treasurer; and of the Connecticut Roek Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,


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of which he is also treasurer. He belongs also to the Chamber of Commerce and gives his political support to the republican party. He is a wide-awake, alert and enterprising business man, laboring not only for his own interest but also for the support of those measures which are most effective factors in good government.


ARCHIBALD F. STEBBING.


Archibakl F. Stebbing is the founder and promoter of the Stebbing Commercial and Secretarial School, in which connection he has developed an institution of farreaching effect and importance, being based upon the highest standards which are the result of wide personal experience in the business field. He was born on the 2nd of May, 1877, in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is a son of John William and Sarah (Diver) Stebbing. The father was born in Letton, Norfolk, England, and was a son of Filby Stebbing, a yeoman of that place. The paternal ancestry is traced back directly to Henry de Ferrier, who was one of the right hand men of William the Conqueror. For many generations after the conquest of England in 1066 by the Norman duke the family held important titles in England. The earls of Derby were the most prominent. Considerable estate in the county of Essex became the property of one of the members of the family in approximately the eleventh or twelfth century and a manor was established in that county at Stebbing. About 1200 a junior member of the Essex family settled in Yorkshire and for the sake of identification with the Essex family was known as John de Stebbing. The family being of Viking origin before the Norman period, and living for several centuries in that section of the east coast of England which had been the object of innumerable invasions by the Norsemen and was largely settled by them, intermarriage restored the Viking physical characteristics of the Stebbing family to a great extent.


In the Diver line there are interesting traditions concerning the family. It is possible that the name was derived from Ivor-d'Ivor. It appears that prior to the reign of Queen Elizabeth the family as a clan lived in Spain, having journeyed thither from Persia at the suggestion of Moses, the Israelite, who was requested while on the journey to the Promised Land to give advice concerning one of the children who had been bitten by a snake. Moses, it is said, directed them to the isles of the north. What route was taken does not seem to be recorded, nor how long it took them to journey to the Spanish peninsula; but their arrival and settlement there seems to have been an accomplished fact. Further progress was halted, evidently, until the sailing of the great Spanish Armada in the year 1588. This gave an opportunity to some of the family and they joined the would-be conquering forces, landing on the objective shores with less enthusiasm than they had anticipated. The Diver family were of good education and readily assimilated with the British. Nearly all of the Divers are professionals and have generally been identified with medical or military life. The parents of Mrs. "Stebbing were Thomas and Jane (Harle) Diver, of London, England. It was in the year 1872 that Mr. and Mrs. Jolm Stebbing came to the United States and for a time were residents of St. Paul, Minnesota, but in 1878 they returned to London together with their infant son, Archibald. In the year 1894 the family again came to the new world, bringing with them not only their son but a young daughter, Miss F. Edna Stebbing, whose birth had occurred in London.


It was largely in the world's metropolis that Archibald F. Stebbing spent the days of his boyhood and youth and he there pursued a course of study in the Woodford Collegiate and Commercial School. He received his initial training in the business world in London, where for two years he was connected with banking. He accompanied his parents on their emigration to the United States in 1894 and in New Haven secured a clerical position in the City Bank, but it seemed to offer little outlook for the future, although he remained there for four years and faithfully performed every task that devolved upon him. He afterward turned his attention to railroad work and was connected with the New York, New Haven & Hartford and with the Grand Trunk and the New York Central Lines at Chicago. While with the Grand Trunk he was at Montreal, Canada. He was connected with all departments of clerical work in both the freight and passenger divisions and for a time was with the rate compiling department. In 1910 he returned


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to New Haven and established the Stebbing Commercial College, for in the meantime he had recognized the value of a standard institution of this character and, moreover, he was ambitions to condnet business on his own account. He opened the school in a small way and in fact for a time limited his teaching to evening work at his home. This soon became impracticable, so in the fall of 1910 he secured a small office in the center of the city and after a few years removed to larger and more commodious quarters in the Chamber of Commerce building. The school is now conducted uuder the name of the Stebbing Commercial and Secretarial School and in it instruction is given in shorthand. typewriting, bookkeeping and general office work. Both day and evening sessions are maintained and individual instruction is given as well as class instruction, thus insuring the pupil the best possible development, with a recognition of his powers and of his difficulties. Mr. Stebbing maintains the highest standard in the school and his pupils have made excellent records as they have gone out into the business world, thus showing the thoroughness and efficiency of his system. Mr. Stebbing acts as director of the school with his sister, Miss F. Edna Stebbing, as the secretary. He is thoroughly in earnest in what he undertakes and he accomplishes his purposes by persistent and intelligently thought-out methods.


Fraternally Mr. Stebbing is a Mason and he also belongs to the Relief Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has membership in the Masonic Club and in the Chamber of Commerce. He is well known as a faithful member of the Episcopal church, being a lay reader of Christ church in New Haven. His license was originally issued by Bishop Williams of Connecticut in 1896. His entire life measures up to high standards. He is a man of excellent purpose, actuated at all times by lofty ideals, and throughout his entire career he has utilized every opportunity that has enabled him to press steadily forward to the goal of his ambition.


HARRY H. BROWN.


It would be hard to find a more capable and popular young business man to handle the Cadillae motor cars than Harry H. Brown, whose business and social relations are bringing him a constantly broadening acquaintance. while his sterling characteristies are strengthening his friendships. He comes from old Connectient families. his ancestors in both the paternal and maternal lines having reached this state during the colonial epoch in its history. Members of both families participated actively in the Revolutionary war and aided in winning independence for the nation. Harry H. Brown was born at Southbury, Connecticut, August 12, 1874. and is a son of Charles and Julia (Pulford) Brown. The father was a well known farmer of Connecticut and passed away December 2, 1916, at the age of seventy-six years, while his wife survives at the age of seventy-seven.


Harry H. Brown is their only chikl. In his youthful days he attended the schools of Southbury, Connecticut, and afterward became a student of Parker Academy at Woodbury, Connectieut. He then entered the mercantile field at Southbury and while engaged in busi- ness there also served as postmaster of the town for twelve years. Still higher political honors awaited him, however, for in 1905 he was chosen to represent his distriet in the state legislature and aided in framing the laws covering the commonwealth. In 1907 he removed from Southbury to New Haven, where he turned his attention to the metal man- facturing business, continuing in that line for a year. In 1908 he joined E. B. Underwood in the conduet of an automobile business at No. 7 Dixwell avenue. Their start in business was humble but their trade interests gradually developed and in 1910 The Brown & Under- wood Auto Company was incorporated with a capital stock of twelve thousand dollars.


In 1911 Mr. Thomas bought into the company and became actively interested in the manage- ment. In March, 1916, Mr. Underwood sold his entire interest in the business and Mr. Brown was then chosen president with Mr. Thomas as secretary and treasurer, and the name was changed to The Brown & Thomas Auto Company. This company sells the Cadillac motor cars exclusively and has established a business of very extensive proportions, annually disposing of many cars of that make. They own their building, which has been remodeled and improved from time to time until they now have a thoroughly attractive showroom,


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and they carry a full line of accessories for the Cadillac ears. Their enterprise is resulting in gratifying financial returns.


On the 1st of August, 1910, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Nellie I. Wilson, who was born in Rockyhill, Connectient. Her father is deceased but the mother resides at Southbury. Connecticut. Mr. Brown is a life member of the Sons of the American Revolution and he belongs to King Solomon Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of Woodbury, Connectient. In politics he is a republican and his military experience covers service with the Governor's Foot Guard. He belongs to the Automobile Club, to the Union League Club and to the Chamber of Commerce and is in hearty sympathy with the interests and purposes of the last named organization, which is seeking to upbuild the city, to promote its trade relations and to advance its civic standards in every partienlar. He is alert to every changing condition and he has that re- sourcefulness which enables him to readily meet any emergency that may arise. In his business and private relations he has always expressed habitual regard for the rights of others and the exercise of what is best in human activities.


W. W. MeCARROLL.


Few men in printing and lithographing circles are as well known throughout the country as W. W. MeCarroll of New Haven, who is president of the Sheldon Electrotyping & Lithographing Company. lle has perfected and placed on the market several valuable inventions and has others now in process of construction. Hle promises to produce a straightening machine for which the whole trade world is looking, as it will prove of the greatest benefit. His study. his experiments and his efforts, resulting in practical achieve- ment. have indeed pushed forward the wheels of progress along the lines in which he is engaged.


Mr. MeCarroll was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, May 6, 1865, a son of William and Clara (Kilpatrick) MeCarroll, who were also natives of the Buckeye state. On both sides the family comes of Revolutionary stock. The MeCarrolls sent their representatives to the American army in the war for independence and the Walker family of Pennsylvania was also prominent in the Revolutionary war. The father became a well known architect. contractor and builder. At the time of the Civil war he raised a company and was made captain and a most ereditable record stands to his credit earned through valorous and loyal service. lle was severely wounded in action, after which he was honorably discharged. and later be removed with his family to Chicago, where he remained until his death. His wife passed away in that city in 1905.


Their only child, W. W. MeCarroll, pursued his education in schools of Ohio, Missouri and Tennessee and eventually took up the study of law but never followed the profession. Going to Cincinnati, Ohio. he there took up electrotyping and engraving, in which line he found a congenial field of labor. He there followed the business until he had become master of it, after which he removed to Chicago and for sixteen years was in the electrotyping business in that city. He was afterward employed at several points in the United States and became widely known for his skill and his artistie workmanship, his reputation cansing his services to be sought by many of the leading printing establishments throughout the country and enabling him to command the highest salaries paid in that line. In January, 1916. he arrived in New Haven and bought out the Sheldon Electrotyping & Lithographing Company. In partnership with Orlando S. Ganch he has since conducted a successful and growing business in that field. The business was incorporated and capitalized for fifty thousand dollars, with Mr. MeCarroll as the president and Mr. Gauch as secretary and treasurer. The business had its inception in 1857, being founded by Mr. Sheldon. and through all the intervening years it has developed and prospered until it has become one of the leading enterprises of the kind in New England. It is now known as The Sheldon Company.




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