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Lemuel Tibbals (2), son of Lemuel, was a farmer in Milford. He married Sally Baldwin, who was born in 1783, and died in 1864. Of their four children, George L. was our subject's father ; Sarah married Rev. C. B. Ford, a Methodist min- ister, now located in Watertown, Conn .; Harriet S. married Merritt Ford, of Milford, father of Gen. George H. Ford; and Mary (now deceased) be- came the wife of Rogers Clark, of Milford.
George L. Tibbals, son of Lemuel (2), was born Jan. 11, 1818, and died in Milford, Dec. 6, 1882. He was reared in Milford, but when a young man Located in New Britain, Conn., engaging as a con- tractor and builder. Soon after his marriage he re- turned to Milford, where he erected many of the most important buildings in the town, including the town hall, public school building and various fac- tories. He also remodeled and enlarged Plymouth church. In politics he was a Republican, and in re- ligion a Congregationalist. His wife. Mary Ann ( Hurlburt ), who died in 1882, was born in Weth- ersfield, Conn., daughter of Wealthy Hurlburt. Four children were born of this marriage, of whom Frederick L. is the youngest ; James H. is a car- penter and builder in Milford: Kate S. resides in Milford; Fannie is the wife of Prof. Henry D. Simonds, principal of the Bridgeport (Conn.) high school.
FREDERICK L. TIBBALS, one of Milford's leading citizens, a man esteemed by all his towns- men, regardless of political affiliations, is a worthy successor of honored ancestry. He fills a promi- nent place in the public eye, owing to his official position and to his long connection with the George H. Ford Co., of New Haven, importers and jewel- ers, one of the leading houses of the kind in New Frederick L. Tibbals received his early educa- England. He is one of the most popular men of his ; tion in the public schools of Milford, and in Yale
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Business College, graduating from the latter insti- tution at the age of nineteen years. Two years later he spent a short time in Waterbury as elerk in the clothing store of Upson & Singleton. In 1883 he accepted a position as bookkeeper with Gen. George H. Ford, the leading jeweler of New Haven. In 1891 these gentlemen formed a joint-stock com- pany, known as the George H. Ford Co., of which Mr. Tibbals became secretary and treasurer, hold- ing the latter office at the present time. He is also interested in various other business enterprises, and luis advice and co-operation are prized among his associates in the commercial world. He is a men- ber of the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven, and a director of the Milford Savings Bank. He was one of the incorporators of the Milford Street Railroad .Co., and it was largely through his energy and diseretion that the charter for the company was obtained in the Legislature.
Politically Mr. Tibbals gives his allegiance to the Republican party, and to his work is due much of the change in the political aspect of the town. For several years he was an active worker on the town committee, and for two years was president of the local Republican League. In 1895 he rep- resented his town in the General Assembly, and he was largely instrumental in securing the passage of the law known as the "Gold and Silver Bill," which prohibits the manufacturers and dealers in those metals from selling or having in possession for sale any article upon which the grade of purity is not stamped. The law is recognized as of great im- portance to the trade and meets a long-felt want, placing Connecticut in line with New York and other States in this respect. In 1899 Mr. Tibbals was appointed postmaster at Milford, which posi- tion he still holds and fills to the satisfaction of the people.
In 1897 Mr. Tibbals was united in marriage with Mrs. Grace A. Dillon, of Yonkers, N. Y., daughter of Gideon Coggswell and Mary Elizabeth ( Rey- nolds) Lawrence, of Fordham, that State. Mrs. Tibbals traces her descent on her mother's side through Benjamin Underhill, of Westchester coun- ty, N. Y., to the original Holland-Dutch, the first settlers of New York, about 1620. [ History of Westchester county.] Socially Mr. Tibbalsl is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars of the State of Connecticut.
gaged in the provision business in New York City. Daniel Bacon, son of Jabez, spent his entire life as a farmer in Woodbury, Conn. He married Re- becca Thompson, a native of the same place, and to them were born eight children: Lydia, who mar- ried Charles C. Thompson; Rebecca and Fannie, who died unmarried; Maria, who married Gen. Chauncey Crafts; Julia, who married John Moore; John, a cripple, who married Augusta Walker and spent his life in Woodbury; William T., grand- father of our subject; and Daniel, who married Jane Green, of Woodbury, and lived in New Haven.
William T. Bacon, grandfather of our subjeet, was also born in Woodbury and was educated at Yale, from which institution he was graduated in 1837. He attended the Divinity School, and for a few years engaged in preaching in Trumbull, Fair- field Co., Conn., but the greater part of his life was devoted to the printing business. He married Eliza- beth Ann Knight, a daughter of Dr. Jonathan Knight, of New Haven, and after his marriage lo- eated in New Haven, but later returned to Wood- bury. In 1866 he came to Derby, where he died in 1880, his wife in 1887. Of their nine children, Jonathan K. was a physician of New Milford, Conn., where he died in 1898; William Thompson
was the father of our subject; Frederick A. is a mechanie, living in the West ; Walter C. is a promi- nent real-estate dealer of Kansas City, Mo. ; Daniel H. is engaged in the printing business in Derby ; James F. died young; Rebecca T. is unmarried ; Annie F. is the wife of Hanford L. Shaw, of Mid- dletown, N. Y .; Bessie died in infancy.
William Thompson Bacon, father of our sub- ject, was born in New Haven, but was reared in Woodbury, where he engaged in mercantile busi- ness when a young man. There he married Miss Elizabeth T. Parker, of Woodbury, and to them were born three children: William P., our subject; Harriet, wife of Dr. William B. Bissell, of Lake- ville, Litchfield Co., Conn., a graduate of Yale ; and Annie. For some years the father was engaged in the newspaper business with his brother, Daniel H., in Derby, where he died June 1, 1885. In polities he was a Republican.
The first sixteen years of his life our subject passed in Woodbury, and then came to Derby, ob- taining his education in the schools of both places. On leaving school he entered the employ of A. H. & C. B. Alling, manufacturers of knit underwear and hosiery, as a traveling salesman, and in 1894 accepted his present position, that of traveling sales- man for the firm of Radcliffe Brothers .. manufac- turers of knit underwear and hosiery. Genial and pleasant in manner, and a man of good business and executive ability, he has met with excellent success as a salesman, is reputed to be well up in the hosiery trade, and is very popular with his cus- tomers.
WILLIAM P. BACON, a well-known and popular traveling salesman for the firm of Rad- cliffe Brothers, manufacturers of knit goods, has made his home in Derby for the past fifteen years. He is a native of Connecticut, born in Woodbury. March 19, 1869, and belongs to quite a prominent and distinguished family, tracing his ancestry back to Jabez Bacon, a shrewd, enterprising and success- ful business man, who became very wealthy, at one time owning 10,000 acres of land in the Adirondack Mr. Bacon was married. June 9. 1892, to Miss Mountains, N. Y. He was also extensively en- [ Clara Dalton Thrasher, of Somerville, Mass., who
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was born in Portland. Maine: of English ancestry, and is a daughter of Charles F. Thrasher, a native of the same place. Mr. Bacon is a member of the Board of Trade. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party.
FREDERICK G. GRAVES, M. D., is still a young man, but in a surprisingly brief time he has built up a practice in Waterbury that, for the qual- ity of the families he numbers among his patrons, and their confidence in his medical skill, will stand comparison with that of any physician in the State. He was born April 15. 1869, in Danbury, Conn., a son of George W. Graves, a grandson of Jedediah Graves, and a great-grandson of Ezra Graves. The latter was very active in political life, serving in the State Legislature, etc.
Jedediah Graves served as judge in the county courts for over twenty years. He was a stock- . man and farmer in Sherman, Conn., where he had a very extensive establishment. He married Sarah Northrop, and became the father of fourteen chil- dren, of whom eleven grew to maturity. Judge Henry B. Graves, of Litchfield, one of this family, became eminent as a leading lawyer and member of the Democratic party, and served in the State Legis- Iature, winning a name known all over the State.
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George W. Graves was born in Sherman, Conn., in 1825. He became an extensive dealer in tobacco, buying directly from the farmers and shipping to various trade centers. Hannah Brush, his wife, was born in 'New Fairfield, Conn., daughter of Eli Brush, a large land owner of that town. She died in 1881, at the age of fifty-one. Seven children were born of this marriage, of whom Emma died at the age of seventeen; Georgia married George Mead, and died at the age of twenty-seven : Cora married Elbert Reynolds, of Greenwich, and is now deceased ; Hubert died at the age of twenty-seven. Of the three survivors. Anna is unmarried; Alex- ander is in Danbury, Conn .; and Frederick G. is our subject.
bury, and upon opening an office for the practice of his profession met with marked and immediate sue- cess. Dr. Graves was assistant surgeon for the 2d Regiment nearly four years, and is examining sur- geon for recruits to the United States army. He is a member of the American, State, County and local medical societies. Fraternally he belongs to the Freemasons and to Nosahogan Lodge, 1. O. O. F .. In religious views he is a Congregationalist. The Doctor has never married.
DENNIS J. GORMAN, a well-known and prominent business man of Naugatuck, was born in that place March 30, 1864, a son of Thomas Gorman, of whom more extended mention is made in the sketch of John J. Gorman elsewhere.
Our subject attended the public schools of Naugatuck until fourteen years of age, and then entered the employ of the Dunham Hosiery Co., with which he remained for three years. He next worked for the Goodyear India Rubber Glove Co .. until 1881, when he became connected with the Goodyear India Rubber Shoe Co., and was in their employ eleven years. At the end of that period he embarked in the liquor business, in Scott street, and in 1899 he erected the fine three-story block at the corner of Scott and Cherry streets, which he now occupies. Here he now has one of the finest saloons in the place, while the apartments above are divided into five tenements. He is a wide-awake, energetic business man, whose success is due to his own in- dustry and good management.
Mr. Gorman was married, Sept. 16, 1886, to Miss Annie Hallisey, a native of Wales, and a daughter of Michael Hallisey, who was of Irish descent. They are members of St. Francis Catholic Church, and Mr. Gorman also belongs to the Salem Social Club ; Division No. 2, A. O. H., of Nauga- tuck : Court Goodyear, A. O. F. ; and the Foresters of America, Court No. 4. In his political affilia- tions he is a Democrat.
FREDERICK E. STANLEY is one of the skilled workmen who have given Waterbury her world-wide reputation. His personal standing is high, and he is known as a reliable man, an upright and conscientious citizen, and a master of his chos- en craft.
Frederick G. Graves passed his boyhood in Dan- bury, and there obtained his elementary and general -- English education, graduating from the City High School in 1888. He had long had a medical career in view and had begun reading medicine while still in the public school. He continued his studies for a year in the office of Dr. Scott, and in the fall of Mr. Stanley was born in Waterbury, Aug. 25, 1861, son of James Stanley, a native of Birming- ham, England, who died in Waterbury, June 29, 1875. William Stanley, the grandfather of Fred- 1 crick E., was one of the first brass rollers in this country. He was brought here by Israel Holmes in 1820, and began rolling brass with the Benedict & Burnham Mfg. Co. James Stanley, noted above, was brought here by his parents in 1833. when he was eight months old, and grew up in this country. He was endowed with unusual mechanical gifts, and as he entered manhood became a master of first one 1889 entered Yale Medical School, from which he was graduated with honor in 1892. The Doctor, in competitive examination, received appointment on the New Haven Hospital Staff, but did not accept it, preferring to go West and enter upon another work offered him by the Missouri Mining & Lum- ber Co. In this position, as surgeon of the com- pany on the ground of its operation, in Grandin, Mo., the Doctor remained for nearly three years, finding in the field an excellent opportunity for the practical experience so essential to the young prac- titioner. In the spring of 1895 he came to Water- [ trade and then another until he had several at his
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fingers' ends. For some years he worked with Al- tred J. Shipley, in Newark, N. J. (a sketch of that gentleman may be found elsewhere). He married Sarah J. Clark, who was born in Wolcott, New Haven county, in 1832, daughter of John Clark, a farmer in that town. To Mr. and Mrs. James Stan- ley were born eight children: Charlotte, who mar- ried Alexander J. Buchanan, a mechanic in Water- bury; Charles, who died in infancy; George I., a farmer in Oakville, Conn .; William J., foreman of the cutting department of the Scovill Mig. Co .; Frederick E .; Ida, who married Frank King, and lives in Colorado, where her husband is engaged as a mechanic; Joseph L., a toolmaker in Waterbury : and Jennie, who died at the age of three years and nine months. James Stanley was a Republican, and with his family attended the Baptist Church.
Frederick E. Stanley was reared to manhood in Waterbury under the parental roof, and was a pupil in the public schools until he was twelve years of age, when he went into the factory of the Scovill Manufacturing Co., receiving at first but fifty cents a day. The next six years of his life were spent in that factory, and at eighteen he apprenticed himself to the Farrel Foundry Co. for the purpose of learn- ing the machinist's trade. There he served his time, and worked six months as a journeyman, at the end of that time securing a position as a tool- maker with the Seovill Manufacturing Co. Here he has worked his way up until he now holds the foremanship of the automatic machinery depart- ment. Since he has been with this house he has had committed to his hands the execution of a num- ber of delicate and complicated orders, the most noticeable perhaps being the 24,000 Columbian bronze medals for the World's Columbian Exposi- tion held at Chicago. Mr. Stanley is an inventor of no little merit, having invented several automatic machines that found a warm welcome in the in- dustrial world, among them machines for attacli- ing buttons to clothing.
Mr. Stanley and Miss Frances J. Pickett were married Dec. 21, 1882, and they are the parents of two children: May L .. born Nov. 24, 1885; and Alfred J., born Aug. 5, 1802. May L. has de- veloped a decided genius as a violinist and is a pupil of the musical department of Yale College. Mrs. Stanley was born at North East, Pa., Oct. 26, 1862, daughter of John Pickett, and is a lineal de- scendant on her mother's side of Amos Hikcox, who served his country in the Continental army and fought in the battle of Bunker Hill in. 1775. Mr. Stanley is a Republican in political faith. He was elected alderman in 1901. He has passed through the various chairs of the Masonie fraternity by good service to the craft, now having the honor to be past master of Harmony Lodge, No. 42, F. & A. M .: past thrice illustrious of Waterbury Coun- cil, No. 21 : past patron of Naomi Chapter, No. 23. O. E. S. ; and generalissimo of Clark Commandery, No. 7, Knights Templar. For the past five years
he has been a member of Company A, of the local State militia. Ile and his family are identified with the Baptist Church.
JOHN J. SIEBERT is an alert and active man, and though still young in years has won a good position in the industrial circles of Waterbury, where he is widely known as an honorable and up- right gentleman, and a thorough master of his craft.
Mr. Siebert was born Sept. 11. 1862, in Water- bury, and is a son of Frederick Siebert, who was born in Germany, and was the only one of his fam- ily to come to this country. Frederick Siebert was a harnessmaker in Germany, and was born and reared in the kingdom of Hassen-Cassel. After his arrival in this country he followed harnessmaking and did carriage trimming as well. He married Dorathea Kleinschmidt, who was born and reared in Germany, and died in Waterbury about 1867. The husband and father died in Waterbury Nov. 16, 1898. They came to New Haven in 1856, moving to Waterbury in 1850. They were the parents of ten children, as follows: Christopher, manager of the Singer Sewing Machine Co.'s business here for many years; Henry, who died in 1894 in New Haven, where he had been in the upholstery business : Charles, who died at the age of seventeen ; Frederick, a constable in New Haven ; William M., a hotel-keeper in Brooklyn ; Lawrence, who is in the Singer Sewing Machine works at Waterbury; John J., our subject ; one unnamed; Leonard, who owns an opera house and a bakery in East Hampton, Conn .; and Louis, a plater in Waterbury. A notable event in the history of the family was the gathering, on Frederick Siebert's seventieth birthday, of his seven sons, on which oc- casion they sat down with him to a bountiful spread laid in his honor. It would have been difficult in- deed to have found a prouder father. so great was his pleasure in beholding his seven sons, all healthy and rugged, and a credit to him in every way. When all were scen walking together the common remark was, "Here comes the Siebert nine." Fred- erick Siebert was the first patient at the Waterbury Hospital.
John J. Siebert spent his boyhood days in Wa- terbury, where he attended the public schools, se- curing a good education. He entered the works of the Waterbury Button Co. when his schooling was ended, and spent the ensuing five years in learning the plating business, becoming a capable workman. For four years he was with the Gifford Manufact- uring Co., at Union City, and then entered the em- ploy of the Scovill Manufacturing Co., remaining with that establishment five years. In the month of November, 1888, Mr. Siebert secured a position with the American Ring Co., which he still retains. He is foreman of the plating and dipping depart- ment.
Mr. Siebert and Miss Anna R. Miller were mar-
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ried June 19. 1893. Mrs. Siebert was born in Waterbury, daughter of Christopher Miller, a na- tive of Germany, who resided in Waterbury many years, and died May 29. 1897. Mrs. Miller, who died Aug. 20, 1901, was a resident of Waterbury for over forty years. To Mr. and Mrs. Siebert two children have been horn, Edward L. and Martha J. Politically Mr. Siebert is a Republican. He is a past grand of Nosahogan Lodge, No. 21, I. O. O. F .; past chancellor of Speedwell Lodge, No. 10, K. of P .; was first lieutenant of E. F. Durant Co., U. R., K. of P .: is a past officer of White Oak Camp, W. of W .; belongs to Excelsior Council, No. 2. O. U. A. M. ; and was president of the Harmonia Benevolent Society for two years, filling a similar position in a benefit association among the employes of the American Ring Co. for some time. Mr. Siebert is also a member of the Union Club.
PATRICK HENRY DUNN, a master plumber of Branford, is a son of Peter and Ann ( McDer- mott) Dunn, natives of Ireland, who came to this country prior to 1860. They located in Branford, where the father, a brass molder by trade, was em- ployed by the M. I. F. Co. Later in life he was taken into the service of the Branford Lock Works, where he is still engaged. To Mr. and Mrs. Dunn were born seven children : Thomas F., James (de- ceased ), Peter S., Lizzie, Patrick Henry, John B. and Annie T.
Patrick Henry Dunn was born in Branford Jan. II, 1870, and obtained his education in the com- mon schools of the borough. At the age of fifteen he commenced to learn the plumber's trade, serving four years with W. T. Corcoran, of Branford. Thoroughly mastering this important trade, he fol- lowed it for seven years as a journeyman, gaining practical experience of every detail. Mr. Dunn em- barked in business for himself as a master plumber in 1896, and at once met with an immediate and marked success, He has continued in this line to the present time, and he has an army of patrons who do not hesitate to speak of his work and his business methods in the most complimentary terms.
Mr. Dunn was married, Oct. 21. 1896, to Mary. daughter of Owen and Mary McCaffery, of New Haven, formerly of Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn are members of St. Mary's Catholic Church of Branford, and he belongs to the Modern Woodmen, and to St. Mary's T. A. and B. Society. In busi- ness connections he is a member of the National Plumbers' Association. In politics he is a Dem- ocrat. Mr. Dunn is foreman of the Martin Burk Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1, and a member of the Volunteer Association.
GEORGE ADAM FABER, M. D., a prominent and successful physician and surgeon of Waterbury. is a native of that town, born on Bucks Hill Dec. 10, 1866, son of Adam and Christina Faber.
Our subject acquired his primary education in the district schools, and supplemented same by a course in the Waterbury English and Classical school. During boyhood he took a deep interest in railroading, his ambition being to become a railroad man, but, complying with the wishes of his parents, he took up the medical profession. He began study along that line in 1883, and at the age of cighteen years entered the Georgia College of Eclectic Med- icine and Surgery at Atlanta, where he was a stu- dent in 1885 and 1886. Later he attended the Ben- nett Medical College, of Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1888. Returning to Waterbury. he fornied a partnership with Dr. S. B. Munn, one of the oldest practitioners in the county, and was associated with him in practice for two years. In June, 1890, he opened an office of his own in Waterbury, and has since met with most excellent success in the prosecution of his profession.
On Nov. 29, 1899, in Waterbury, Dr. Faber was united in marriage with Miss Mabel Buckland Wooster, also a native of that town, and a daugh- ter of Frederick J. and Carrie M. (Buckland) Wooster, representatives of some of the oldest fam- ilies of New England. Mrs. Faber is a lady of culture and refinement. She was educated at the public and high schools of Waterbury, the D. L. Moody school at Northfield, Mass., and St. Mar- garet's Young Ladies Seminary, of Waterbury. As an elocutionist she possesses exceptional talent, and has often read in public.
Dr. Faber is quite a prominent member of the Connecticut Eclectic Medical Association, of which he is secretary, and is also a member and secretary of the examining board of the Eclectic Medical School for the State of Connecticut. He served as town physician in 1888, 1890, 1892 and 1895. The Doctor is a man of deep research and careful in- vestigation, and his. skill and ability have won him a liberal patronage. Prominence in his profession comes through merit alone, and the high position which he has attained attests his superiority. So- cially he is a Knight Templar Mason, a member of Harmony Lodge, No. 42, F. & A. M., and East- ern Star Chapter ; and also belongs to the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; the Improved Or- der of Red Men; the Ancient Order of United Workmen ; Mad River Grange ; and the New Eng- land Order of Protection, Mattatuck Lodge, of which he is treasurer and medical examiner. His wife is also a member and past warden of the last named order.
JOHN REID MURRAY, proprietor of the Boston Store, corner of Main and Bridge streets, Ansonia, is one of the substantial citizens of that place, and the following brief record shows that he possesses the qualities of character which would have won him success in any line of effort.
Mr. Murray was born Oct. 5. 1844, in Glasgow, , Scotland, son of Dr. Jolin and Agnes ( Reid ) Mur-
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ray. His grandfather, John Murray, was a native of New Brunswick, but went to Glasgow with his father, who was a soldier, and remained there, dying at a good old age. The Doctor, who was an only son, was born in Glasgow, and graduated from Glasgow College and the Royal College of Sur- geons, and for a number of years was police sur- geon in that city. Aside from extensive travel his life was spent there, but he served some time in the navy and circumnavigated the globe four times. He died at the age of fifty-five years, and his wife, who was born at Edinburgh, died aged sixty-three years.
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