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In politics Mr. Whiting is independent. He is one of the charter members of the New Haven Cre- mation Society, which has about one hundred mem- bers. Possessing business sagacity of a high order, he is a typical citizen of the city of New Haven, in- terested in its splendid progress, and contributing not a little during his residence of more than a half century within its limits. Mr. Whiting has de- signed and arranged the plans of the houses he has built and, with the aid of his faithful wife, he has ornamented and furnished the handsome house on Dixwell avenue, so that probably no house in the city of equal value is its superior. Mr. and Mrs. Whit- ing began married life poor, and from their united and well directed efforts, coupled with much hard work, their well deserved success has come to them in their declining years.
TREAT (Line of A. B. Treat). From the earliest settlement of Connecticut, at Hartford. Windsor and Wethersfield, the Treats have been residents of the Commonwealth and prominent in its annals. For generations the town of Orange has been the home of many of the name, and of a number in the line of Isaac, Isaac Platt and Arthur B. Treat-father, son and grandson- the lat- ter of whom for years has been a prominent and one of the leading mason builders and contractors in New Haven, and of him and his lineage it is the purpose of this article to treat.
Born April 6, 1853, in Orange, son of Isaac Platt and Mary J. ( Barnes) Treat, Arthur Barnes Treat is descended in the ninth generation from Richard Treat, who was born in 1584. in Pitminister, Somersetshire, England, was married there April 27. 1615. to Alice Gaylord, baptized in 1594, and with wife and nine children left England about 1638 for the American colonies. Mr. Treat was
among the early settlers in Wethersfield, Conn., where he is on record as among the freemen of 1669.
From this emigrant settler Arthur B. Treat's lineage is through Gov. Robert Treat, Capt. Joseph, Joseph (2), Deacon Joseph (3), Isaac, Isaac (2), and Isaac Platt Treat.
(II) Gov. Robert Treat, son of Richard the set- tler, born in 1624-5, in Pitminister, married (first) Jane Tapp. She died in 1703. Mr. Treat located in the town of Milford where Nov. 20, 1639, at the first meeting of the planters, he was one of the nine appointed to survey and lay out the lands of the town. From the very beginning Mr. Treat took a prominent part in the public affairs of the town, and through a long period of years was a conspicu- ous character in the colony of Connecticut. Mr. Treat was town clerk in 1640. His public career can be thus summed up; first a deputy from Milford to the General Court six years ; five more years from Newark to the Assembly of New Jersey ; magistrate in New Haven General Court and assistant in that of Connecticut for eight years; and twenty years in the halls of legislation ; seventeen years as deputy governor ; and thirteen years as governor. He and his wife were early received into the church in Mil- ford. Gov. Treat died July 12, 1710.
(III) Capt. Joseph Treat, son of Gov. Robert, born Sept. 17. 1662, in Milford, continued to live there. He married (first) Frances, daughter of Richard and Mary ( Pantry) Bryan. Mr. Treat rose successively from sergeant to captain, and ren- dered good service to his country in the Indian troubles. He was deputy from Milford in 1707 and 1708 to the General Court; and a justice of the peace for New Haven county, 1702-19. Capt. Treat was one of the original proprietors of the town of New Hartford. He died Aug. 9, 1721, and his wife. Frances, who was born Feb. 13, 1668, died Sept. 21, 1703.
(IV) Capt. Joseph Treat (2), son of Capt. Jos- eph, born March 21, 1693. in Milford, married first, June 9, 1720, Hannah Buckingham, who died May 25, 1733. Capt. Treat, like his father before him, served successively as ensign, lieutenant and captain in the train band of Milford. He was deputy to the General Court for five years between 1748 and 1756, and served as selectman in 1771 and 1772. His death occurred May 17, 1772.
(V) Deacon Joseph Treat (3), son of Capt. Joseph Treat (2), born Nov. 28, 1727. in Milford, married Mary Merwin, and resided in North Mil- ford, now the town of Orange. Deacon Treat died July 27, 1791, and Mrs. Treat, July 23, 1803.
(VI) Isaac Treat, son of Deacon Joseph (3). born in North Milford ( Orange). April 7. 1756. married Feb. 9. 1785, Mehitabel Platt, born March 5. 1762. Mr. Treat was a farmer on Grassy Hill. He died Oct. 9, 1822, and Mrs. Treat died Sept. 15, 1836.
(VII) Isaac Treat (2). son of Isaac, born April 8, 1795, in Orange, married Oct. 20, 1820, Martha
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M. Platt, and resided in Orange where he was a farmer and a wealthy and influential citizen. He died Oct. 16, 1861, and Mrs. Treat died Nov. 4, 1876, aged seventy-four years.
(VIII) Isaac Platt Treat, son of Isaac (2), born Nov. 8, 1826, in Orange. married (first) Jan. 27, 1850, Mary Jane Barnes, who died Jan. 31, 1857. He married (second) June 15, 1858, Sarah Booth, who died in 1881, and (third) in 1885, he wedded Lydia M. Osborn. She died in May, 1900. Mr. Treat was formerly a farmer of Orange. He held various town offices, among them member of the board of school visitors, selectman, assessor and grand juror. His children. all born in Orange, were : Emma J., born May 23, 1851, married Nov. 28, 1872, Henry C. Beers, and is a resident of New Haven ; Arthur Barnes is referred to more fully farther on ; Howard Platt, born Jan. 20, 1857. married Dec. 22, 1880, Alfreda Isabel Rogers. Flora B., a daughter by the second marriage, married W. M. Andrew.
ARTHUR BARNES TREAT, son of Isaac Platt Treat, received his school training in the neighbor- hood district school and the high school, then for a period in 1869 attended Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio, taking the preparatory course in that institu- tion. Returning to Connecticut in 1870 he learned the mason building trade, serving an apprenticeship of three years with the firm of Smith & Sperry, and for six years following was in the employ of that firm, during that period working on a number of the Yale College buildings and others of importance in the city of New Haven. It is of note to state that young Treat early began to be self-reliant, and at fourteen undertook and successfully completed a contract he made with the Derby Railroad to supply it with stone. At twenty-five, in 1877, Mr. Treat began a business career on his own account. which has been most honorable and successful, following the line in which he had served an apprenticeship. He was first associated for a short time with Hill- ard B. Fenn, who died a few months thereafter. He then for years conducted the business alone, later becoming a member of the firm of Smith, Sperry & Treat, with the senior member of which he had previously been identified. Still later the firm became as it has since remained, Sperry & Treat, whose office is at Room 308 Washington Building. No. 39 Church street. The individual members of the firm-Hen. N. D. Sperry and Arthur B. Treat -need no introduction to the people of New Haven, nor of the State of Connecticut. as both are well and favorably known throughout the State, in nearly every section of which their building operations have been carried. Then Mr. Sperry's long and honorable public career. which is known to even every schoolboy, makes the firm doubly well known.
For a quarter of a century Mr. Treat has been prominently identified with the building interests of New Haven especially. and has figured conspicu- ously in the erection of scores of the modern dwell-
ings, business and public buildings that have gone up in the city. He has also done much work in var- ious other localities and in other cities of the State. He built the Crockett Varnish Works at Bridgeport, and the Bridgeport IIospital, the mason work of which alone was, approximately, $40,000. He built Christ's Church edifice in Westport; the graded school building in Stratford ; and a handsome resi- dence on the Sterling estate; and the Fairfield county court house in Bridgeport. For a time, through the middle eighties, he had a branch es- tablishment and a partner in Bridgeport, and int that city erected many structures not named in the foregoing. Among the many buildings erected by him in New Haven, as a partner in Smith, Sperry & Treat, are: The Burrett Manville block on East Chapel street, and the carriage works of that gen- tleman ; the A. B. Dodge block; the F. S. Bradley dwelling on West Chapel street: the large brick dwelling of Robert Brown on the Yale Observa- tory lot ; the George C. Pettis dwelling on High street ; the brick block of Maj. T. Atwater Barnes on Bradley street; the block owned by Mrs. Mary A. Treat on St. John street ; the Henry Kelsey block on State street: the Gregory street school building: the Humphrey street church edifice. Sperry & Treat built twenty-six of the new uni- versity buildings, including all the dormitories ex- cept one. They are now constructing the follow- ing: Fayerweather Dormitory; Administration building ; Clinical building for the medical depart- ment ; addition to the Kent laboratory ; new memor- ial building for the scientific department of Yale: rebuilding and remodeling the old "commons" into a laboratory. These six buildings alone will cost $450.000 : and all this is under Mr. Treat's manage- ment. They are working under ten different archi- tects, and are employing about one hundred and twenty-five men, besides six or seven sets of sub- contractors, who employ about three hundred men. Besides these buildings for the university, they are constructing other public buildings in the city and a few private houses. Owing to the many monu- ments to their handiwork in the university grounds they are often called the "College Builders." As Mr. Sperry's duties as congressman necessitate his being in Washington, D. C., a great deal of the time he knows but little of the business, and the burden of the management naturally falls upon Mr. Treat's able shoulders.
Mr. Treat and Prof. H. L. Wells, of Yale, are manufacturers and dealers in antihydrine. a prep- aration they originated. This is a material made of a high grade of asphalt. carefully prepared in com- bination with several chemicals, which give it the peculiar property of forming (without heating) a continuous glossy and impervious coating upon porcus surfaces. It does away with wood furrings, renders walls damp proof. and prevents staining of plastering on walls and on fire-proof work, and pre-
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vents staining of limestone, brick facings, etc. They have agents all through the United States and are doing an extensive business.
Arthur B. Treat owes his success to his own in- ciomitable will and untiring energy. He began life without a dollar and has, by good management and careful business methods, won a substantial fortune. Politically he is a Republican and belongs to the Young Men's Republican Club. Fraternally he is a 32d degree Mason, being a member of Wooster Blue Lodge, No. 79, F. & A. M. ; New Haven Com- mandery; Pyramid Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Bridgeport, Conn. : also the Consistory at that place, and the Knights Templars Club, of New Haven. He also belongs to the 2d Company, Governor's Foot Guards, having served first as a private for five years, then for two years as corporal, and for one year chief of engineers with rank of captain on the major's staff. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, his right to membership bc- ing through maternal lines. Merritt Barnes, grand- father of our subject, was a captain in the war of 1812 and lived to the age of ninety-four: his wife lived to be ninety, and their wedded life lasted over seventy-one years. Jonathan Barnes, father of Mer- ritt, was in the Revolutionary war and fought at Monmouth and Valley Forge.
Mr. Treat is one of the trustees of the Howard Avenue Congregational Church, where he was tenor soloist eight years, and he is now chairman of the music committee. In the same church he is also chairman of the committee on church property, and he is one of the most prominent supporters of that church. He belongs to the "Gounod" singing so- ciety, in which he had been on the board of govern- ment seven years, and he is the third oldest mem- ber of that board.
Mr. Treat is owner of a large farm of two hundred acres in the town of Orange, which farm has been in the family ever since Gov. Treat bought it from the Indians, except for a period of about ten years, when Mr. Treat, the present owner, bought it back, and he is the ninth to own it. He is at present building an excellent new home on Whitney avenue. Mr. Treat married Leona Weeks, and they had children as follows: Fannie, who is at home; Arthur B., Jr., who died in infancy; George Arthur, born Oct. 19, 1883; and Florence B. For his second wife Mr. Treat married Mrs. Catherine (Chapman) Stanley, widow of Herbert S. Stanley, and they have one child, Robert Sperry, born Oct. 15, 1898.
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GEORGE M. GRISWOLD, one of the leading business men and prominent citizens of New Haven. was born April 10, 1848, in South Glastonbury, Conn., son of Anson and Samantha ( Tryon) Gris- wold. The Griswold family is one of the oldest in Connecticut, and on the maternal side our subject is a descendant of the Tryon family, one of the very oldest in Glastonbury.
Ansen Griswold, father of George M., is sup- posed to have been born at Griswoldville, where there is a record of his having been "bound out" to a farmer. Later he was apprenticed to the trade of blacksmith for a short time, and then to that of car- penter, working at the latter for some years in Glas- tonbury. His latter days, however, were spent upon a farm in South Glastonbury, where he died aged sixty-one. His wife was a daughter of Jesse Tryon, who was a farmer, builder of vessels, shad fisher and also owned and operated a sawmill, accumulating comfortable means. Jesse Tryon married Wealthy Shaler, a native of Middle Haddam, Conn., who lived to be eighty, and they had a family of five chil- dren, two of whom grew to maturity, Samantha (Mrs. Anson Griswold) and Edmund. Three chil- dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. Anson Griswold: Hudson, who is in California; Jesse. on the farm ; and George M., our subject. Mrs. Griswold died in 1899, aged ninety-one, a member of the Episco- pal Church. Politically he was a Democrat.
George M. Griswold spent his boyhood days in South Glastonbury, and in September, 1861, entered the general store at East Berlin. In the spring of 1862 he returned home, spent the summer on the farm, and during the winter of 1862-63 attended the Naubuc Academy, which was his last schooling. In the spring of 1863 he went to Meriden with less than five dollars and worked for a short time with N. C. Stiles at the trade of machinist, and from 1863 to 1871 was in the employ of Charles Parker. He was then for a short time employed by the Meri- den Britannia Co. Later he was engaged as a tool maker by the Whitney Arms Co. and the Pratt & Whitney Co., of Hartford. There were many fine workers in metals in those days, and Mr. Griswold formed many very pleasant acquaintances, which friendships have been retained to this day.
In 1875, having been frugal and saved his money, Mr. Griswold was enabled to locate in New Haven as a machinist. Although his capital was small, but $800, by his industry and the excellence of his work, he built up a fine trade, and in 1898 built his pres- ent building on Union and Fair streets. Previous to his removal to this location he was in the Atwater building for twenty-three years. He manufactures dies and tools for fine metal working, and the prod- uct of his factory is sent to all parts of the civilized world, even to Africa, China, Japan and the South American states. He makes all kinds of special nia- chinery from designs or suggestions of inventors. The concern also designs a great deal of machinery. The plant is a large one, covering an area of 48x85 feet. and the structure is four stories high. All the most improved machinery is used, and employ- ment is given to thirty men. Mr. Griswold's thor- ough acquaintance with all the intricate details of the business enables him personally to superintend the work of manufacture and to give to the product of his establisliment an excellence that gains for the goods a ready and high-priced market. Our
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subject is a self-made man in the fullest sense of the term. From boyhood he has had practical knowledge of hard work. He started in life with no resources but his natural ability, and he has suc- ceeded well, not only in accumulating worldly goods, but in securing a position as a citizen in the best ranks.
Mr. Griswold was married in 1888 to Miss Edna E. Cooke, born in Brooksvale, daughter of Lorin E. Cook, a farmer and keg and furniture manufacturer, who is still living; his wife, who died in 1899, was a lady of high intelligence and she was deeply mourned. Mrs. Griswold was one of a family of five children. She and her husband have one daugh- ter, Lura Ednas. They are prominent members of St. Paul's Church, of New Haven, and are influ- ential in church and social circles. Mr. Griswold is a member of the Missionary and Benevolent So- ciety of St. Paul, in which he is also an official. The family reside in a very pleasant home in West- ville, built in 1895.
In politics Mr. Griswold is a Democrat, but has never sought for political distinction, being so oc- cupied with his own affairs that, aside from cast- ing his vote for the candidates of his party, he has left the management of civic affairs to others. He has taken an active part in the Masonic fraternity, being a member of Trumbull Lodge. A. F. & A. M., in which he has held offices ; he is also a member of Pyramid Lodge, A. O. U. W., and of the Golden Cross, being treasurer of. the latter.
EDWARD LAURENS FRISBIE, son of Laurens and Artemisia ( Welton) Frisbie, was born in Waterbury Aug. 22, 1824. He is a descendant of Edward Frisbie, who came from Wales and settled in the Hartford Colony soon after its establishment, and who, in 1644, was one of a party that purchased Totoket (now Branford), and organized a town government there. About 1750 Elijah Frisbie, a descendant of Edward, left Branford and settled in Waterbury.
Edward Laurens Frisbie was educated in the common schools of his native town. He was em- ployed chiefly in farming until 1847, when he en- tered the kettle department of the Waterbury Brass Co., continuing in this situation until the summer of 1848, when the old method of manufacturing ket- tles by stamping was superceded by a machine for spinning them. In the spring of 1849 he engaged in casting brass and German silver at the factory of Brown & Elton, and remained in the service of that firm until the organization of Brown & Brothers. He entered the employ of the new com- pany to take charge of its casting department, and
remained with it for thirty years ( until January. 1883), holding positions of responsibility and influ- ence in connection with the management of the con-
cern. In 1854 he purchased an interest in it.
Mr. Frisbie represented the town in the Legis- lature in 1854, and again in 1872. He has held the
offices of justice of the peace, selectman, and as- sessor, and has served as a member of the board of relief for the town. In the city government he has served as a councilman and as a member of various boards and committees. He is the president of the Waterbury Savings Bank, has been a trustee of the Dime Savings Bank since its formation, and is a director in the Manufacturers' National Bank. He has been from the first a director of the Waterbury Hospital. When St. John's Episcopal Church was divided, he became connected with the new enter- prise, and has since that time been a member of Trinity parish, and a vestryman, or warden, in it.
On Feb. 11, 1850, Mr. Frisbie married Hannah A., daughter of Hershel Welton, of Wolcott. She died July 10, 1857. The children by this marriage, besides two daughters who died in infancy, were Mary A., who married Ellis Phelan, and Edward Laurens. On Jan. 12, 1860, Mr. Frisbie married Josephine, daughter of Abner Deming, of Derby. She died Oct. 14, 1872, leaving one daughter, Jose- phine. On Oct. 2, 1884. he married Emily J., third daughter of George W. Welton.
DANIEL J. MAHANEY, a popular hotel keeper in Waterbury, and formerly a well known contractor and builder, was born in Ansonia, this county, March 16, 1850.
Andrew Mahaney, father of Daniel J., was born in County Cork, Ireland, in July, 1816, a son of Daniel Mahaney, a landholder. Andrew Mahaney married Honora Ryan, and their marriage was blessed with seven children, of whom three are still living, viz .: Michael is an itinerant bricklayer ; Norah married Thomas Sherlock, of Waterbury; and Daniel J. is the subject of this sketch. The father of these children died in 1889, and the mother in 1892.
Daniel J. Mahaney attended school in Ansonia until quite a lad, and in August, 1867, was appren- ticed to the Farrel Foundry Co., at Ansonia. At the termination of seven weeks, however, he ran away to New Haven-and worked on a bench as mol- der for five months. On March 29, 1869, he was apprenticed to Railley & Benham to learn bricklay- ing: he worked for this firm six months in New Haven and then went to Bridgeport and worked for them until the spring of 1871. He then began work in that city on his own account, and so continued until June 6, when he went to Cleveland, Ohio. and worked on an asylum in Newburg, then in the course of construction, from June to October. Returning to Connecticut he worked at Shelton the remaining two months of 1871. and on Jan. 1, 1872, went to New Haven, where he worked until March 16. He then made a short visit to his home in Ansonia, on March 23, 1872, going to Chicago, Ill., in which western metropolis he worked as foreman on the "Palmer House" until Dec. 25, when he returned to Waterbury. He remained there until April, 1873, at which time he went to Boston, where he worked
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until the following winter. Upon his return to Waterbury, the same year, he married Miss Mar- paret Casey, a native of Bethlehem, Conn., and a daughter of Timothy Casey. After marriage Mr. and Mrs. Mahaney went to Boston, where he fol- lowed his trade until March, 1875. For a few months he was engaged in various places, including Waterbury, Holyoke, Mass., and Hartford, Conn., and in 1876 began contracting and building in Wat- orbury, in which he continued for five years, meet- ing with flattering success. In 1876 Mr. Mahaney engaged in the retail liquor business and hotel keep- ing, and is still thus engaged.
To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Mahaney have been born fourteen children, of whom ten still sur- vive, as follows : Nora, Ellen, Mollie, William, Catherine, Daniel, Jr., Jolin, Agnes, Alice and Mar- garet. Mr. Mahaney has always worked hard for the Democratic party wherever he has lived, and has wielded considerable influence in its councils, being himself quite popular in its ranks. He is at present representing his party as alderman from the Fourth ward, is also a member of the board of publie works, and has served on the board of fire commissioners. Fraternally he is a member of the B. P. O. E. and the Foresters of America. He is one of those genial, whole-souled, public-spirited men who make friends everywhere, and he is "as honest as the day is long."
WILBUR FISK ROGERS, a member of C. Rogers & Bros., and secretary of that company, was born in the old town of Saybrook, Conn., July 18. 1841. While still young he came with his parents to Meriden, becoming a pupil in the local schools, and at the age of twelve years began for himself, securing work with the Charles Parker Co. at fifty cents a day. He attended school during the winter season. This relation continued for a number of years, and young Rogers became an adept at the business of silver plating. His second employment was with the Meriden Britannia Co., where he was given a place in the plating department. At New- ark, N. J., he became manager of the plating depart- ment of A. J. Towner, who was engaged at job plating. There Mr. Rogers spent a year and then returned to Connecticut to work at his trade for Rogers & Bros., at Waterbury, beginning on the es- tablishment of the concern. In New York he was afterward employed by his brother, Gilbert Rogers, who was associated at that time with A. H. & G. Rogers Silver Plating Co. This business was sus- pended on account of the opening of the Civil war.
into the State service April 22. On May 2, 1861, he was mustered into the United States service as a member of Company F, 4th N. Y. V. I., Col. Tay- lor and Capt. Camp commanding. This regiment was known as the Ist Scott Life Guard, as the com- mand was formed out of the old organization of vet- erans of the Mexican war residing in New York. This splendid regiment gave true and loval service, made a fine record for itself, and never failed to re- spond bravely to the call of duty. It was in the battle of Big Bethel, among the first of the war, and from that time on Mr. Rogers performed guard duty with the regiment at Newport News, Va., Fort MeHenry, Perryville and Black River Bridge, Md .. and Suffolk, Va. In 1862 the regiment was trans- ferred to the 2d Corps, Army of the Potomac, and took part in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. At the last place the regiment volunteered to go into the fight, although its two years' term of enlistment had expired. For this. conduct the regiment received a magnificent recep- tion from the city of New York after its arrival home, and the honor of a review by Gen. Scott, who threw kisses to the wounded of the regiment from the balcony of the "Fifth Avenue Hotel" as they passed in carriages. Mr. Rogers was with his com- mand from the first to the last, took part in all its battles and became third sergeant of his company and right general guide of the regiment. On May 5. 1863. he was mustered out of the service. He re- turned to his home in Meriden, and after three months re-enlisted in Company G, 35th New Jersey Zouaves, under Col. Clark and Capt. Helmer, be- ing made sergeant and general guide of the regi- ment. This command was sent to the west, be- came a part of the army under Gen. Sherman, and was with him on his famous expedition across Mississippi from Vicksburg. Then it became a part of the 17th Corps of Gen. Sherman's army and took part in the battles of the Atlanta campaign, as follows: Resaca, New Hope Church, Dallas, Big Shanty, Kenesaw Mountain, Roswell's Mills. Nickajack Creek, Ruff's Mills, Decatur, the siege of Atlanta, Ezra Chapel, Jonesboro and the March to the Sea : thence through South Carolina to Ral- eigh, N. C. ; was at the surrender of Johnston. and from there to Petersburg, Richmond and Washing- ton, where Mr. Rogers participated in the Grand Review. He was mustered out of the service at Trenton, N. J .. July 20. 1865. receiving a discharge that reflected credit on his devotion to his country.
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