A modern history of New Haven and eastern New Haven County, Vol. II, Part 84

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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The rapid growth of the business would have been impossible had not each department of the factory been conducted along the most modern lines and in accordance with the principles of industrial efficiency. Henry Kirk White, one of the founders of the company and the man chiefly responsible for its early development and upbuilding, was succeeded in the manage- ment by James Henry White, who is still at the head of the concern. Two other sons, Ed- ward H. and IToward White, were also prominently connected with the management of the business until called by death, and it was the former who invented the player pianos. The third generation of the family is ably represented in the direction of the company's affairs by F. C. White.

The same qualities have characterized father, son and grandson; a ready recognition of opportunity, keen discrimination between the essential and the non-essential, resourceful- ness in meeting new conditions, determination, and, above all, unswerving integrity. They recognized that all enduring business success must be based upon integrity of manufacture and a liberal merchandising policy.

GUSTAF EMANUELSON.

Gustaf Emanuelson figures in the business circles of New llaven as a wholesale baker and as vice president of the American Bank & Trust Company. He is a native of Sweden, born September 8, 1865, and is a son of Peter and Christina (Magnuson) Emanuelson. The father was a successful farmer and prominent citizen of Gislaved, Sweden. He paid several visits to America and became a citizen of this country but he and his wife now reside in their native land at Gislaved. They are parents of four children, two sons and two daughters: Peter, who became a citizen of the United States but passed away in Sweden; Emma, the wife of A. Martinson, of Sweden: Gustaf; and Ida, the wife of Charles Johnson. of Collinsville, Connecticut.

Gustaf Emanuelson was educated in the schools of his native city, where he remained to the age of nineteen years, living upon the home farm with his father. He then started out in the world on his own account and crossed the Atlantic to America, arriving in New York city on the 4th of April, 1885. The following day he came to New Haven and soon secured work as a farm hand at Woodbridge. He continued to engage in agricultural pursuits, however, for only four months, after which he learned the trade of making rubber boots and followed that pursuit in New Haven for five years. He then established a baking business, starting with a cash capital of twenty-six dollars in the fall of 1891. From that humble beginning he has developed what is today the third largest enterprise of the kind in New Haven, conducting a wholesale business at No. 292 Blatchley street, where he owns the property that he occupies. ITis plant has an output of seventy-five hundred loaves of bread daily. He carries on a strictly wholesale business, selling only to the local trade. The plant is supplied with the latest and most modern equipment and the most cleanly and sanitary conditions prevail. During the Bakers' Exposition in Boston on the 21st of May, 1909, he was awarded the medal, for a perfect loaf, winning over six hundred

GUSTAF EMANUELSON

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competitors, including many of the leading bakers of the country. He employs on an average seventeen people and the conditions of the bakery are entirely satisfactory as regards the relations of employer and employe, for he is at all times just and is ready to recognize merit by promotion. He is also the vice president and a director of the American Bank & Trust Company and has made for himself a most creditable position in the commercial and financial eireles of New Haven.

On the 16th of May, 1890, in New Haven, Mr. Emanuelson was married to Miss Matilda Hanson, a native of Sweden and a daughter of Mons and Elania (Swenson) Hanson. Her father is still living in Sweden but her mother passed away June 16, 1895, at the age of fifty-eight years. To Mr. and Mrs. Emanuelson have been born three children. Elias Le Roy, who was born September 8, 1891, is now in the employ of his father. He is a graduate of the Hopkins grammar school and of the Yale Conservatory of Music. Herbert, born October 3. 1897, and Ebba Mildred, born January 19, 1902, are still at home.

The parents are members of the Swedish Lutheran church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful interest, Mr. Emanuelson now serving as chairman of the board of trustees. In politics he is a republican but is not ambitious to hold office. He landed in New York with a cash capital of five dollars but with an unlimited amount of hope and determination. He attributes not a little of his success to the assistance and encourage- ment of his wife, who has indeed been a helpmate to him. His own labors have enabled him to overcome many difficulties and obstaeles, and unfaltering perseverance and capable management have brought him to the creditable position which he now fills as a leading business man of his adopted eity.

MISS MARTHA RUSSELL.

Miss Martha Russell, who belonged to the galaxy of brilliant writers who were well known during the middle of the nineteenth century in New England, was born at North Bran- ford, January 17. 1817. and had passed the eighty-second milestone on life's journey when on the 19th of April, 1899, she was called to the home beyond. During the last few years of her life she had resided in the home of her nephew. A. L. Russell. of Westfield. New Jersey. She was a direct descendant of Rev. John Russell, of Hadley. Massachusetts, and a daughter of Augustus and Lydia (Rose) Russell. The father was a son of Jonathan and Lydia Barker Russell. When forty-six years of age Jonathan Russell enlisted for active service in the Revolutionary war, joining Mr. Eell's military company in 1777. He did not believe in the divine right of kings and at his request when a portrait was painted of little Lydia Rose she held in her hand the farewell to Charles 1. king of England, written in 1635, when John Russell left London :

"Mr. Right. I bid you good night. It is time for me to wander. I bought your geese at a penny apiece And left it with the gander."

The portrait of little Lydia is at the home of a lineal descendant. Mrs. Lucy M. Dow. It was Jonathan Russell's son. Augustus Russell, who married Lydia Rose, a daughter of Justus and Lydia (Russell) Rose. This marriage was celebrated April 6. 1800, and they be. came the parents of eight children: Chauncey, who was born April 20. 1802. and married Lois Buel; Susan, who was born October 31, 1804, and became the wife of Daniel Hubbard. of Guilford, Connecticut; Lois, who was born May 8, 1808; Abigail, born January 20. 1811: Seth. born January 25, 1814: Martha, whose name introduces this record: Alfred, who was born July 22. 1>19; and Bertha, who died in early childhood.

The youngest son of the family. Alfred Russell, was married March 6, 1843. to Caroline Harrison, a daughter of Dr. Inerease Harrison. He served for more than three years in the Civil war, becoming first sergeant of Company H, Thirteenth Regiment of Connectient Vohin- teers. He was severely wounded at the battle of Irish Bend. April 14, 1863. and was left for dead on the battlefieldl, but was later found by Colonel Homer B. Sprague and tenderly

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vared for. Eventually he recovered and rejoined his regiment, his term expiring January 6, 1865. He died at North Branford, October 7, 1895, having long survived his wife, who passed away August 15, 1867. Their children were: Lucy Martin, who was born March 22, 1845; John Augustus, who was born November 10, 1848, and who married Carrie Meade; Effie, who was born in 1851 and died in early life; Florence Rose, who was born August 27, 1854, and became the wife of S. W. F. Andrews, of East Haven, Connecticut; Bertha Harrison, who was born September 4, 1857, and married C. F. Holabird; Alfred Lovell, who was born August 4. 1861, and married Annie McCormick. of Westfield, New Jersey; and Arthur Whiting, who was born in 1867 and died March 7, 1876.

It was at the home of Alfred Lovell Russell, of this family. that Miss Martha Russell spent her last days. She acquired her education through study at home. in the village school and in the academy at North Branford and early developed literary tastes and talents. She began writing for the press as early as 1840, her artieles appearing in the National Era of Washington, D. C., the Knickerbocker Magazine, the Columbian Magazine and many other magazines and journals of that day. She published three books, one of which was entitled, "Leaves from the Tree Igdrasyl." Her second work was called "Righted at Last," or "Zerlina. the Autobiography of a New England Girl." Her third volume was "Sibyl," or "Ont of the Shadow into the Sun." Between 1862 and 1865 Miss Russell was war correspondent for the Worcester Spy. a leading paper of that day, published at Worcester, Massachusetts. for which she wrote under the name of "Zeb" from Washington, D. C., where she was employed by the government in translating French papers and doing other writing. In 1863 she composed a poom for the New England celebration on the 20th of December. 1863, held in memory of the landing of the Pilgrims. This poem was widely copied and elicited warm praise from John Greenleaf Whittier and other well known men of letters. Miss Russell was a member of the Congregational church and a woman of wide interests and deep sympathies whose writings were ever a factor in the uplift work to benefit humanity. Her influence was strongly felt in that regard and she won a place among the well known literary people of the nineteenth century.

GEORGE BADGER MUNGER.

The Munger family has been represented in the town of Madison since 1630. the ancestral line being traced back to Nicholas Munger, who came to America when about sixteen years of age. Ile located in Guilford. where he spent his remaining days, dying in 1668. On the 2d of June. 1639, he married Sarah Hall and they had two children, the elder being John Munger, whe was born in Guilford. April 26, 1660, and there passed away November 3, 1732. Je wedded Mary Evarts on the 8th of June, 1684. She was born May 1, 1664, and passed away in June, 1734. Their family numbered nine children, including Ebenezer, who was the fifth in order of birth. His natal day was July 4, 1693. and in Guilford he married Anne Seranton, who was born December 27. 1693. and died April 20, 1725. On the 6th of July, 1726, Ebenezer Munger wedded Susanna Hubbard and his death occurred JJune 29. 1729. He had a family of five children. the youngest being Simeon Munger, who resided in Madison, and on the 3d of July, 1751. married Sarah Seranton, who was born January 23. 1733, and died December 15, 1815, having for only a few months survived her husband, whose death occurred on the 16th of March of the same year. The second of their five children was Josiah Munger, who was born October 16. 1754, in East Guilford and followed farming as a life work in that locality. He served as a private in the Revolutionary war and departed this life on Angust 14, 1838. His first wife was Anne Lee and his second wife. Hannah Coe, who died January 14, 1837.

The line of descent comes on down through George Munger, who was born February 17, 1781. He was an artist and also engaged in school-teaching. He passed away in New Haven, Jime 2. 1825. His wife bore the maiden name of Parnel Kelsey and was born June 21. 1781, while her death oeeurred October 25, 1860. They were married December 23. 1802, and their first child was George Nicholas Munger, who was born in Madison. September 23, 1803, and spent the greater part of his life in New Haven, where his death occurred August 2. 1882. His life was largely devoted to the manufacture of mathematical instruments for college use.

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He was married January 2, 1825, to Amy Merwin and his second wife was Mary Merwin. Of his six children George Munger, father of George B. Munger. was the second. lle was born in New Haven, November 27, 1827, and on his twenty-first birthday entered into partnership with Samuel C. Chittenden as a member of the firm of Chittenden & Munger for the manu facture of sash, doors and blinds at East River, Connecticut, and continued active in that field of labor for ten years. He then formed a partnership with J. E. P. Dean under the firm style of Dean & Munger. They engaged in the manufacture of slates, globes and school equipment in New Haven and this business was continued until 1865, when the firm dissolved and Mr. Munger became a partner of J. W. Schermerhorn under the firm style of .I. M. Scher. merhorn & Company, with offices in New York city. They established a factory in Guil- ford, Connecticut, for the manufacture of school furniture. This business was very shecess ful for many years, but Mr. Schermerhorn became involved in some outside financial trans- actions which caused him heavy losses and which eventually embarrassed the firm. so that they retired from business in 1876. Mr. Munger, in March, 1877. built a factory in Kast River, Connecticut, for the manufacture of a general line of school supplies, including school desks, furniture, ete., and afterward admitted his son, George B .. to a partnership under the firm style of Munger & Son. They developed a large factory and secured an extensive busi- ness, in which the father continued actively until his death, which occurred April 7. 1903. At the time of his death he was the oldest man in his line of manufacture in the United States. He was the originator of the dovetail method of putting iron and wood together that is now universally used in the manufacture of school furniture. He was also the inventor and patentee of the veneer strawberry basket now in common use. He was also one of the original incorporators of the Guilford Savings Bank and a very prominent and influential business man of the city. Keenly interested in the cause of education, he served for many years on the school board of the town of Madison and at various times was its chairman and its secretary. He was a very liberal man, contributing to all worthy causes and doing many charitable acts, constantly extending a helping hand to the poor and needy. Ilis benevolence, however, was of the most unostentatious character, for he strictly followed the Biblical mandate not to let the left hand know what the right hand docth. De was a constant attendant of the Congregational church and was one of its liberal supporters. He married Cornelia Lois Jacobs, of New Haven, on the 28th of November. 1850, and she passed away at East River, February 27, 1905. They were the parents of two children: Emma L., who is the widow of William T. Foote, of Guilford, and who was born at East River. April 5, 1852; and George Badger. of this review, who was born in East River. May 18. 1854.

After acquiring his preliminary education in the public schools of East River, Con- nectieut, George B. Munger continued his studies in Lee's Academy at Madison and in a preparatory school at New Haven and in 1876 became a partner of his father in the mann- facture of school furniture at East River, at which time the firm style of Munger & Son was assimned. The association was maintained until the father's death and George B. Munger then continned the business alone from 1903 until 1908, when he sold out to George M. Weld, who is, still operating the plant. Since 1908 Mr. Munger has given his attention to hi- real estate investments and the management of his individual interests. In addition to owning a farm and town properties he has to some extent engaged in operating in real estate along the shore front. where he has developed property but has sold it to the summer colony. Ile is highly regarded in Madison as a man of keen judgment and marked sagacity. and his counsel and advice are frequently sought by his associates and he has on a number of occasions been called upon to administer estates, for it is recognized that he is a man of the strict.t integrity and business reliability.

On the 23d of November, 1876, Mr. Munger was united in marriage to Miss Cynthia Anne Bushnell, at Madison, who was born in Madison and is a representative of one of its oldest families. her parents being William C. and Cynthia (Griswokb Bushnell, who were likewise natives of Madison. To Mr. and Mrs. Munger have been born three children: George Arthur, who died in infancy; Alice Cornelia. the wife of James A. Pardee, a resident farmer of East River; and Caroline Washburn, the wife of Edward B. Barker. a real estate dealer of Hartford, by whom she has one child. Cynthia Anne.

While Mr. Munger has maintained an independent attitude in politics he rather leans toward the republican party and he does not hesitate to express his honest convictions upon any vital question. He has served as a member of the town school board and in 1589 repre

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sented his district in the state legislature. He has taken an active and helpful interest in all that pertains to community welfare and has made an excellent record for helpful service. He has figured in financial circles as the vice president of the old Guilford National Bank and is now a trustee of the Guilford Savings Bank. He attends the Congregational church and fraternally has membership in Madison Lodge, No. 87, F. & A. M., of which he is a past master, exemplifying in his life the beneficent teachings and purposes of the craft. He occupies the old home which his father purchased more than a half century ago in East River, the house, which was built in 1790, being one of the old landmarks of this section of the state. Honored and respected by all, there is no man who occupies a more enviable position in public regard than George B. Munger, not alone by reason of the substantial success which he has achieved, but also owing to the straightforward policy which he has ever followed and by reason likewise of the individuality of a personal character which impresses itself upon the community.

GABRIEL J. JACKOWITZ, M. D.

Dr. Gabriel J. Jackowitz, actively engaged in the practice of medicine in New Haven as a representative of the homeopathie school, was born February 10, 1883, and in the acquirement of his education attended the high school of Providence, Rhode Island, and later entered Brown University of that city, in which institution he won the Bachelor of Philosophy degree. He determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and with that end in view became a student in the School of Medicine of the Boston University, from which be was graduated with the class of 1907. His initial professional training was received as house physician and surgeon in Grace Hospital in 1907 and 1908, and he was assistant surgeon of Grace Hospital through the succeeding two years and has been attending surgeon since 1910. He has also built up an extensive private practice of an important character and his ability is widely recognized by the profession as well as by the general public.

Dr. Jackowitz is identified with several professional organizations. He is a member of the New Haven Medical Society, the New Haven County Medical Society, the Connecticut State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He also belongs to the Con- necticut Homeopathic Medical Society and the American Institute of Homeopathy and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In his practice he has always specialized in surgery and he has thorough knowledge of anatomy and the component parts of the human body, recognizing as well the onslaughts made upon it by disease, while his coolness of nerve, his steadiness of hand and his thorough understanding of all scientific principles underlying his work have gained him great skill in his chosen line.

Dr. Jackowitz belongs to the chamber of commerce and to the civic federation of New Haven and is interested in all that has to do with the welfare and progress of his adopted city. He is prominently known in Masonic circles, having attained the thirty-second de- gree of the Scottish rite in Lafayette Consistory, and with all other local bodies of Masonry he is identified, while in his life he exemplifies the beneficent spirit which underlies the craft.

ALFRED LINDE.

Alfred Linde, a merchant of Northford, was born in Bernburg, Anhalt, in the province of Saxony, Germany, April 24. 1857. a son of Albert and Amelia (Kielseler) Linde, who were also natives of the same duchy of Germany, where the father followed the occupation of farming and where both he and his wife passed away.

Altred Linde was educated in his native country and from 1876 until 1881 served as a soklier in the German army. He learned the grocery business in Germany and became familiar with all methods of modern merchandising, serving as clerk. bookkeeper and salesman. At the age of twenty-nine years, after completing his army service and his full period of re-

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serve duty, he came to the new world, settling in Brooklyn, New York. in 1888. There he found employment in a sawmill and later was connected with dye work. His wife's health. however, failed and he removed to the country, settling at Greeley, near Lackawaxen. Penn- sylvania. where he engaged in farming, living there for two years. Ifis wife failed to im- prove, however. and passed away there. Mr. Linde afterward came to Northford Center. in the town of North Branford, in 1891 and purchased a farm which he successfully operated for a considerable period. In 1909 he purchased the grocery store of Benjamin Maltby, of Northford Center, and has since conducted that business, enjoying a liberal patronage and the high esteem of the community in which he lives. On the 12th of April, 1909, he accepted the position of postmaster of Northford and has since served in that capacity. He is also conducting a farm and thus has threefold interests-the store, the farm and the postoffice. He is proving adequate to the demands made upon his time and energies, and the systematic conduet of his affairs has brought to him success, while his capable management is manifest in all that he does.

In June, 1887, in Germany. Mr. Linde was united in marriage to Miss Catherina See- dorf. who was born in Bremen, Germany, and came to America with her husband. passing away in Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania, October 11, 1890. He afterward married her sister Margaret at Northford, Connecticut, July 26. 1892. and by this marriage there is one child. Emma, who was born in Northford. June 14. 1897. and is a student in the Yale Business College of New Haven. The parents are members of the Congregational church and Mr. Linde belongs to the Carpenters' Union of Wallingford and to the Eintracht Singing Society of Wallingford. In polities he is a democrat and for years has been register of voters. When he came to Northford he had only twenty-five dollars. Ile bought a farm without making a cash payment down and with resolute energy set himself to the task of meeting the pay- ments that were to be made up on the place. A> the years passed on he prospered owing to his indefatigable energy and close attention to all of his business affairs. Ifis course has been marked by efficiency and today he is one of the prosperous business men of Northford. where he is conducting important interests.

L. CARY SLAYTON.

L. Cary Slayton. general agent at New Haven for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, was born in Lapeer, Michigan, December 31, 1872, a son of Eugene T. Slayton, who was a native of Pennsylvania and a representative of one of the early New England families, the ancestral line being traced baek to Thomas Slayton, who came to America in 1690 and located in Boston, the family home being established at East Brookfield. Thomas Slayton was but a youth at the time when he emigrated to the new world. He took up the profession of teaching and also gave much attention to agricultural pur- suits. The great-great-grandfather of L. Cary Slayton was Captain Renben Slayton, who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. During the greater part of his life Eugene T. Slayton was a successful lumberman of Michigan. occupying a prominent position in business cireles there. He was also active as a republican leader and filled various local positions of honor and trust. He died in November, 1913, while on a hunting trip in the forests of Michigan. Ile was an active sportsman and for many years was president of a hunting club. Ile had reached the age of seventy-two years when ealled to his final rest and is still survived by his widow, who bore the maiden name of Julia B. Abbott. She was born in Michigan and traces her ancestry back to Massachusetts, where George Abbott. a native of England, established his home in 1632. Daniel Abbott and his father. Jacob Abbott, served through the French and Indian war and the Revolutionary war. Through his mother's line L. Cary Slayton is also a direet descendant of William Bradford, the first colonial governor of Massachusetts. Mrs. Slayton still survives her husband and resides in the old home at Lapeer, Michigan. She is the mother of three children who are yet living, the two daughters of the family being Mrs. Harry Demorest. living in Flint, Michigan, and Mrs. D. Leon Schunemann of Lapeer.

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A modern history of New Haven and eastern New Haven County, Vol. II, Part 84

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