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The common schools of Woodbury afforded James G. Curtiss his early educational opportun- ities, and at the age of seventeen he went to Water- bury, where he was employed for three years by Megg & Trott as a clerk in a bakery. He then spent a year in lowa, after which he went to Chi- cago, and then returned to the homestead, where he was engaged in farming for two and a half years. For two years he was employed as a clerk in H. M. Heine's grocery and meat market in Chicago, and on his return to Connecticut he spent two years on a farm in Woodbury. In 1891 he settled in Ansonia, purchasing a trucking business with a stable on Water street. Later he bought his present stable, No. 26 Water street, and in 1897 he leased a stable at No. 267 Main street, and later bought his extensive business, requiring offices at both. He has a fine line of livery teams, fourteen horses being kept at the Water street stable for that purpose, and there are usually twelve boarders there. At the Main street stable he keeps about forty-five horses for trucking, and in this line he does the largest business in the city, being reg- ularly employed by the principal firms, including the S. O. & C. Co., the Union Fabric Co., the An- sonia Lumber Co .. the Ansonia O. & C. Co., the Ansonia Novelty Co., the A. B. C. Co., the Coe Brass Co., and the Farrell Foundry Co. He also runs a line of express and freiglit teams to the dif- ferent depots, and has the contract for watering the streets, for which he keeps two carts especially con-
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structed. At one time he was a member of the Board of Trade, and as a business man he is held in high esteem. In politics he is a Republican, and he is identified with the A. O. U. W., the Eagle Hose Company of Ansonia, and King Hiram Lodge, No. 12. He attends Emmanuel Episcopal Church, of which his wife is a member, and bothi are interested in the work of the society.
In 1890 Mr. Curtiss married Miss Alma M. Bassett, daughter of William HI. Bassett, a well known agriculturist of Bethlehem, and they have one son, James G. (3).
LOUIS A. MANSFIELD. Since 1855 the business of which Louis A. Mansfield is the capable and efficient owner and manager, has been one of the most prosperous among the business circles of New Haven. The original firm name was Gower & Mansfield, the owners being George D. Gower and Austin Mansfield, later becoming Austin Mans- field & Son, and still later, Louis A. Mansfield, all these years representing a policy of strict honesty and unimpeachable integrity.
Louis A. Mansfield was born in New Haven, March 11, 1863, a son of Austin and a grandson of Jesse Merrick Mansfield. The latter was a farmer in Hamden, Conn., where he married a member of the Eaton family, and settled down on a farm in that locality, where they reared three children : Austin ; Ellen, who married George D. Gower, of New Haven; and Susan, who, after the death of her sister, married Mr. Gower.
Austin Mansfield was born in Hamden, Conn .. April 7, 1833. grew up on the farm and attended the district schools. In 1855 he removed to New Haven and started a lumber business, in association with George D. Gower, which continued until 1885. when Mr. Gower died and the business continued until 1890, when Mr. Mansfield associated his son Louis with him, and the firm style became Austin Mansfield & Son. In 1899, upon the death of his father, Louis Mansfield assumed sole charge under the name of Louis A. Mansfield, dealer in lumber and coal, located at No. 505 Grand avenue.
On May 12, 1858, Austin Mansfield was mar- ried to Emily A. Ford, who was born in Hamden. Conn., a daughter of Merritt Ford, a farmer of Hamden, and died Aug. 13. 1879. The only child of this union was Louis A. Politically, Mr. Mans- field was a Democrat, and both he and wife were consistent and devoted members of the Episcopal Church. In 1885, Mr. Austin Mansfield married Charlotte E. Judson, of New Haven, who survives him.
Louis A. Mansfield spent his early boyhood in New Haven, and had exceptional educational ad- vantages, attending private schools, and later pass- ing through the Hopkins' Grammar school. He entered Yale College, and graduated with the class of 1885. immediately becoming associated with his father in business. Since taking charge. Mr. Mans-
field has carried out the former policy of the house, and enjoys all of the old patronage and a constant- ly increasing one.
On August 14, 1890, Mr. Mansfield was mar- ried to Miss Mary F. Hurd, of New Haven, a . daughter of Frances ( Wheeler ) Hurd, of South- ford, Conn., a member of an old and honored fam- ily of that locality. In politics, Mr. Mansfield is in sympathy with the Democratic party, and is fra- ternally connected with the D. K. E. College so- ciety ; the Graduate Club, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and the Builders' Ex- change. Since 1892, he has been secretary of the Lumber Dealers' Association of the State, in all lines being one of the most progressive among the younger business men of the city. His church connection is with the Episcopal Church, where both he and wife are highly esteemed.
WILLIAM A. FABER, a progressive and en- terprising citizen of Waterbury, who is successfully engaged in dairy farming on Bucks Hill, was born at that place April 27, 1858, son of George Faber, One of the most highly respected citizens of Bucks Hill.
Our subject attended the district schools near his boyhood home, and also the Waterbury high school. After his education was completed he worked at general farming on his father's place four years, and then learned the trade of a caster with the Scovill Manufacturing Co., by whom he was employed three years. He then bought a milk route and engaged in the dairy business three years, after which he sold out and worked for the Bene- dict & Burnham Manufacturing Co., as caster, for the same length of time. He next turned his at- tention to farming, near his father's place on Bucks Hill, where he purchased a tract of 105 acres, and in connection with its operation he carries on his father's farm of seventy-five acres. He keeps thir- ty cows, and is one of the largest dairy and vege- table farmers in the town of Waterbury. He is very industrious, enterprising and energetic, and is meeting with well-deserved success in his labors.
Mr. Faber married Miss Harriet Scott, also a native of Waterbury, and a daughter of Merritt E. Scott, and they have four children: Lucy, Sarah, Mabel and George. Politically Mr. Faber is a sup- porter of the Democratic party and its principles, but has never been an office seeker. However, he has served since 1880 as secretary. treasurer or member of the committee of the Bucks Hill school district. He is a prominent member of St. John's Episcopal Church of Waterbury, in which he is serving as vestryman, and is a trustee of the Bucks Hill Union Chapel, and also Sunday-school super- intendent. He is a charter member of Mad River Grange, of which he has been master and member of the executive committee, and is now the trustee of the Grange hall and property. He is quite pop- ular with the members of that organization, and
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takes a deep interest in its affairs. Ile is secretary and sexton of the Bucks Hill Cemetery Association. Wherever known Mr. Faber is held in high regard. and his friends are many.
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GEORGE B. MUNGER, a member of the firm of Munger & Son, and one of the leading business men and prominent manufacturers of Madison, was born May 18, 1854. in East River, New Haven county, and is a descendant of one of the oldest families of New England.
Nicholas Munger was the first of the name in Guilford. Emigrating to America with William Chittenden, he left his home at the age of sixteen years. Locating in Guilford, he spent the re- mainder of his life there, and died in 1668. He was buried in Guilford. On June 2. 1639, he mar- ried Sarah Hall, who, after his death. married. Dinis Crampton. To her first marriage were born two children, John and Samuel, of whom the last named married Sarah Hand, and died March 5. 1717.
John Munger, son of Nicholas, was born in Guilford April 26, 1640, and died there Nov. 3. 1732. On June 3, 1684, he married Mary Everts, who was born May 1, 1664, and died in June. 1734. Their children were: (1) Mary, born June 16, 1685, died young : (2) John, born Aug. 19. 1687. married Oet. 5. 1725, Deborah French ; (3) Mary, born Aug .. 19. 1689. married Joshua Leete, and died March 18. 1722: (4) Abigail, born Feb. 26. 1691. married Jonathan Dudley, and died Oct. 23. 1766; (5) Ebenezer was born July 4. 1693; (6) Caleb was born May 16, 1695; (7) Jonathan. born April 14. 1697, married Sarah Graves: (8) Josiah. born July 20, 169-, married Elizabeth Hubbard, and died Feb. 21, 1750; (9) Rachel was born in 1706.
Ebenezer Munger married, in Guilford, Annie Scranton, who was born Dec. 22. 1693, and died April 20, 1725. On July 7, 1726, Mr. Munger married, for his second wife, Susanna Hubbard, who married for her second husband Josiah Cramp- ton, and died March 25. 1788. Ebenezer Munger died June 29. 1729. His children were: (I) Ebenezer, born Sept. 2, 1718, married Ann Lee, who died June 20. 1793. (2) Caleb, born Sept. 24, 1722, married Sarah Stanard, and died Feb. 15. 1797. (3) Reuben and (4) Simeon, twins. were born March 28, 1725 : the latter died May II. 1725. Reuben married Elizabeth Dudley. (5) Simeon (2) was born in April, 1727.
Dec. 17, 1762, married Timothy Graves, and died Nov. 19, 1837.
Josiah Munger was born Oct. 16, 1754, in East Guilford, and made his home in his native com- munity, where he was engaged in farming. He was a private in the Revolutionary war, and died in August, 1838. His first wife was Anne Lee. Hannah Coe, his second wife, died Jan. 14, 1837. His children were: (1) George was born Feb. 17, 1781 : (2) Sarah, born Feb. 10, 1784, died Jan. 30, 1816: (3) Anna, born March 4, 1792, married Deacon Josiah Prudden, and died in January. 1820: (4) Mabel, born Sept. 21. 1802, married George Cram; (5) Josiah, born Nov. 3. 1804. married Maria Fowler. and died Dec. 18. 1863.
George Munger, great-grandfather of George. B., was an artist, and also taught school. He died in Madison June 2, 1822. On Dec. 23, 1802, he married Parnel Kelsey, who was born Jan. 21, 1781. and died Oct. 25. 1860. She married for her sec- ond husband Minor Bradley. Mr. and Mrs. George Munger were the parents of the following children : ( I) George Nicholas, born Sept. 23, 1803. is men- ticned below ; (2) Clarissa, born May 20, 1806, mar- ried Rev. Milton Badger, and died Dec. 14, 1889: (3) Caroline, born May 15, 1808, married Horace Washburn : (4) Amanda Ann, born Nov. 9. 1813. married Samuel C. Chittenden : (5) Susan, born March 22, 1821, died July 19, 1826.
George N. Munger, grandfather of George B .. was born in Madison, grew to manhood under the parental roof. and spent the greater part of his life- in New Haven, where his old age was passed. For a number of years he was engaged in making mathematical instruments, principally for college use. He died Ang. 1, 1882, in East River, while on a visit to that place. He was an old-time Whig. and a man of force and character. His first wife. was Amy Merwin, whom he married June 2, 1825. and his second wife was Mary Merwin. His chil- dren were: (1) Caroline Amanda, born April 5. 1826, married Alfred N. Wilcox: (2) George, born Nov. 27, 1827, is mentioned below : (3) Susan A .. born May 15, 1829, died Aug. 6, 1854; (4) Emily, born April 10, 1831, died Sept. 2, 1879; (5) Edwin Miles, born March 5, 1833, died March 10, 1898; (6) Elizabeth was born Oct. 8. 1836.
George Munger, father of George B., was born in New Haven, where he attended the public school and also the select school kept by John A. Lovell. After reaching manhood he went to East River and Simeon. Munger lived in Bergen, N. Y., where he died March 16, 1815. On July 3, 1751, he mar- ried Saralı Scranton, who was born Jan. 26. 1733. and died Dec. 15. 1815. Their children were as follows : ( 1 ) Simeon, born Dec. 7. 1752. died Oct. 18, 1833: he married Lois Lyon. (2) Josiah was born Oct. 16, 1754. (3) Mary, born Nov. 3. 1756, married AAndrew L. Stone, and died in June. 1840. (4) Willis, born Feb. 9. 1701. married Esther took up the sash and blind business, in partner- ship with his uncle, Samuel C. Chittenden. In 1859 Mr. Munger removed to New Haven, where he was engaged in the manufacture of slates, globes and school apparatus. In 1866 he located in East River and built a plant for the manufacture of school apparatus, in which important industry his time has since been fully occupied. He has his son George B. as a partner, and they constitute the firm of Mun- 1 Hand, and died June 31, 1815. (5) Mabel, born | ger & Son. Politically Mr. Munger is a Repub-
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lican. For years he has been deeply interested in the cause of education, and is a member of the hoard of education. Fraternally he belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He attends the Congregational Church. He is one of the best known and most highly respected men of Madison. On Nov. 28, 1850, Mr. Munger was married to Cornelia Ives Jacobs, daughter of William Jacobs, of North Haven, and they have had two children : Emma L., born April 5, 1852, married William. T. Foote, who is engaged in business with his father : George Badger was born May 18. 1854. Mrs. George Munger is a lady of refinement, and has many warm friends.
George B. Munger was a student in the Madison schools, in Lee's Academy and in a select school in New Haven. Growing up in business with his father, he has taken naturally to it, and is a sub- stantial man in the school supply industry. A genial marmer and a winning way have made him many friends, and contributed materially to his success. Mr. Munger belongs to the Madison Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he has been past master. In politics he is a Republican. He has served on the board of education, and represented the town of Madison in the State Legislature in ISS9. where he served on the committee on Constitutional Amendment.
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Mr. Munger married Anna Bushnell, who was born in Madison, daughter of William C. and Cynthia ( Griswold) Bushnell, both of whom were natives of Madison. Mrs. Munger is a niece of the well-known C. S. Bushnell, of "Monitor" fame .. Mr. and Mrs. Munger have had the following chil- dren: George A. is deceased : Alice Cornelia grad- uated from the high school of Madison and is now attending Anderson's Gymnasium and School of Music, at New Haven; Caroline Washburn is a student in the local high school.
FREDERICK A. SMITH, the well-known and popular superintendent of the United States Re- claiming Rubber plant at Naugatuck, is a native of this county, born in Southbury, April 21, 1863. a son of James Smith, and a grandson of Horace W. Smith.
Horace W. Smith was a native of Middlebury, Conn., and there engaged in farming. He was twice married. His first wife, Nancy Tyler, bore him the following children: James, William L .. Monroe, Marcia and Nancy. After the death of the mother of these children, Mr. Smith married Emeline Thompson, and three children blessed this union : Eli T., Thomas and Emeline Hall.
James Smith, father of our subject, was born in Middlebury, grew to manhood in his native town, and was educated at Yale. In early life he en- gaged in merchandising in Middlebury, and later' followed farming in Exeter. N. Y .. and also in Mid- dlebury and Southbury. Com. He died in 1805. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary
Curtis, was born in Exeter. N. Y., and was a daughter of Amos Curtis. By this union were born nine children, namely: Floyd B., now a con- tractor of Waterbury, Conn .; Mary E .. Sarah D. and Julia M., all unmarried : William H., foreman with the Wales Goodyear Rubber Co .; George, who died at the age of one year; Robert, who died at the age of three years; Edward C., a contractor and builder of Waterbury; and Frederick A., of this review.
Frederick A. Smith was reared in Middlebury until ten years of age, and then came to Nauga- tuck, where he attended school. On the completion of his education he worked one year for the Good- year India Rubber Glove Co., and was then with the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Co. until 1895, when he accepted the position of foreman with the United States Reclaiming Rubber Co., and has since been promoted to superintendent of the plant. He thoroughly understands the business in all its details, and is therefore well qualified to fill that important position.
In 1892. Mr. Smith was united in marriage with Mrs. Sadie ( Bristol) Phelps, a native of Nauga- tuck and a daughter of B. H. Bristol, and to them has been born one child. Lucy. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are both active and prominent members of the Congregational Church, where his father served as deacon for many years. He is a stanch sup- porter of the Republican party. A public-spirited and enterprising citizen, he never withholds his sup- port from any object which he believes calculated to advance the moral or material welfare of his town and county.
JOHN L. RICE, a representative agriculturist of Beacon Falls, owns and operates a fine farm of 190 acres, pleasantly located only a mile and a quarter from the village of Beacon Falls. He makes a specialty of dairy and fruit farming, and his well-directed labors have been crowned with success.
In the town where he still continues to reside Mr. Rice was born Oct. 20. 1866, and comes of good old Revolutionary stock, his great-great- grandfather having served as a captain in the Con- tinental army. His grandfather. Reuben Rice, was a native of Barkhamsted. Litchfield Co .. Conn., and after his marriage located on a farm in Colebrook, same county. There his only child, Anson B. Rice, father of our subject. was born and reared. By occupation he was a farmer, and he also dealt in wood and lumber. He was married in Colebrook to Miss Hannah Dayton, also a native of Litchifield county, and the daughter of a farmer. Both were active and consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. and in politics the father was a Republican. In their family were nine children, namely: Emma. Anson, Annie. Mary, Richard, Mbert. Ifarrist. Ida and John L.
During his boyhood and youth our subject at-
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tended the public schools of Beacon Falls, and when his school days were over entered the employ of the Home Woolen Co., at that place. After the failure of the firm he remained with its successors in the same building for some time, and also worked in the rubber shop at Naugatuck at intervals for three years. On Jan. 1, 1893, he purchased his present farm, and has since devoted his energies to agri- cultural pursuits, meeting with marked success in the undertaking. He is extensively engaged in general farming, dairying and fruit raising, and has the finest herd of Jersey cattle in the town.
Mr. Rice was married Feb. 28, 1893, to Miss Hortense D. Bradley, a native of Kentucky, and a daughter of Saul C. Bradley, who was a member of the Union army during the Civil war. To them have been born two children, John W. and Ruth M. In his political views Mr. Rice is an ardent Re- publican, and he is now serving his third year as se- lectman. He was once the candidate of his party for representative to the State Legislature, and al- though the town is strongly Democratic was de- feated by only five votes; a fact which plainly in- dicates his personal popularity. He is a promi- nent member of the Patrons of Husbandry, and has served as treasurer of the local organization.
JAMES A. McENERNEY. Few young men in this section have displayed the enterprise and business acumen which have marked the career of the subject of this sketch. a leading druggist of An- sonia, and the story of his life will furnish a useful object lesson to an ambitious youth.
Mr. McEnerney was born Nov. 27. 1868, in Derby, this county, and like many of our success- ful citizens, has Irish blood in his veins. His father, Patrick McEnerney, was born in Ireland and came to America in early manhood, locating in Derby, where he established a grocery in 1850. He continued this business successfully until his death in 1882, and although only forty-five years of age, he was then one of the oldest merchants in the locality. As an intelligent and public-spirited citi- zen he took an active part in local affairs, serving for a number of years as selectman and for a time as first selectman. He married Ellen Maguire, a native of New York, who is still living. They had eight children. of whom seven survive: John is commissioner of the poor in Derby, where he and his brother, Edward, now conduct their father's business ; Edward was the next in order of birth : James A., is the subject proper of this sketch ; Will- iam is connected with the General Electric .Co., of Schenectady: and Anna, Mary and Frank all re- side in Derby.
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where he remained two years. He then lo- cated at No. 45 Bridge street, where he has a store 40 feet deep by 25 feet in width, and carries a full line of drugs and chemicals, patent medicines, toilet articles and perfumery.
In 1896 Mr. McEnerney married Miss Ella Stuart, who was born in Ansonia, one of the five children of James Stuart, a well known clock maker of that place, and they have two children, . Edward and Stuart. Both Mr. McEnerney and his wife are leading members of the Catholic Church in Ansonia, and are popular in social life. Fraternally he is connected with the Kinghts of St. Patrick of New Haven ; the Catholic Benevolent Legion ; the American Order of Foresters and the Independent Order of Foresters, of which he is treasurer : the Welcome Wheel Club, of Ansonia ; the Derby Driving Club, of which he was treasurer at one time ; and the Derby Lodge, B. P. O. E. He is an active member of Webster Hose Co., of. An- sonia, and was formerly a member of the Board of Trade. He has also taken a prominent part in local politics. being an ardent Democrat as was his father. For two years he served as tax collector in . Derby under appointment from Mayor Sullivan, and in 1897 he was elected councilman from his ward to serve until 1899.
DAVID H. BEATTIE, one of the prominent residents of Leete Island, New Haven county, was born Aug. 11, 1865, in Newport, R. I., a son of John and Mary ( Harrington) Beattie. His father, who for years was one of the best-known business men in this section, is mentioned fully elsewhere in this volume.
Our subject received his education in the public schools, and at the age of sixteen he commenced to learn the quarry business in his father's quarries, where for the past fourteen years he has been fore- man stone cutter and foreman quarryman, noted for his industry and good management.
In 1884, at St. Mary's Church, New Haven, David H. Beattie was married to Miss Julia De- lany, who was born at Kilkenny, Ireland, a daugh- ter. of Dr. Barry Delany, and niece of the late Bishop Delany, of Cork, Ireland. To this union have been born ten children, named as follows : Helen Regina, John Bagwell, Margaret Mary, David (deceased in infancy), Irene Elizabeth, Jo- sephine. Katharine Ursula (deceased in infancy), David Bagwell, Edwin Ignatius (deceased in in- fancy) and George Dewey. Mr. and Mrs. Beattie and family are all members of the Catholic Church. Politically he is liberal in his views; socially he is affiliated with the K. of C. of Branford.
As a boy James A. McEnerney attended the public schools of Derby, and on leaving the high EMERY L. TERRELL, a well-known mer- chant of Beacon Falls, where he is also postmaster, is a man whose sound common sense and vigorous, able management of his affairs have been import- school he took a course in the Yale Business Col- lege. In 1895 he engaged in the drug business in Derby, but during the following year he sold out and established another store on Main Street, ; ant factors in his success, and, with his undoubted
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