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GEORGE BURKHARD, one of the rising young men of Meriden, was born in Augsburg, Ba- varia, Germany, Nov. 18, 1871, one of the family of ten children born to George and Josephine (Treuleben) Burkhard. His parents were both born in Augsburg, and there his mother died. The father is still living, and is a jeweler by trade. All the members of the family are connected with the Roman Catholic Church.
George Burkhard acquired his education in the city schools and in the Artistic Brass Works School, where he took a course in architectural and orna- mental iron work. This he completed, and at the age of fifteen years struck out into the world for
himself, going to Basle, Switzerland, where he was engaged for two years in ornamental iron work. In 1888 hie landed in the United States, at New York, and made his way to Cincinnati, where he re- mained a year, and at the age of nineteen years re- moved to Philadelphia to engage in business for himself. This business he sold out after a year and a half, and journeyed to Williamsport, Penn., to take a position with the Backus Manufacturing Co., filling the place of foreman for a year. For two years he was with Tiffany & Co. in New York, and in 1895 came to Meriden, where he worked for the Meriden Bronze Co., holding this position until the end of 1899, when he formed a partnership with George Knoth, and established the Silver City Iron Works, from which he subsequently withdrew. He is now employed by the Meriden Britannia Com- pany.
Mr. Burkhard is a young man of energy, with a business ambition which will not be content with small things. He knows his work in all its parts thoroughly, and there is predicted for him a bright future.
Mr. Burkhard is a member of the local German Saengerbund, and is very popular in social circles, He was married, in 1897, to Mary Maynard, a lady of Prussian-German extraction. They are members of the Roman Catholic Church, and are regarded as exemplary young people.
CARL VICTOR HELMSCHMIED, designer, and superintendent of the C. F. Monroe Company's factory, at Meriden, is a self-made man of whom any city might be proud. Born Oct. 30, 1863, in Steinschoenau, Bohemia, he is a son of Joseph and Wilhelmina Helmschmied.
After completing the common school course of his native place, Mr. Helmschmied was sent to the Imperial Technical School of Steinschoenau, in or- der to develop the marked artistic talents which he early exhibited. Before attaining the age of twenty years he resolved to seek a wider field for the exer- cise of his abilities than that afforded in his native land, and, fired by a laudable ambition, set out to reach the ocean, situated a long distance from his native boundaries, and he there embarked for the . United States. After landing in New York, he made his way to New Bedford, Mass., where he was employed as a designer by Smith Brothers-among the largest manufacturers of decorated opal ware- and at the end of two years went to Trenton, N. J., and worked a year for Jesse Dean, at china paint- ing. Returning to New Bedford, he spent two years in the service of the Mount Washington Glass Company, and during that time designed many of the finest patterns turned out by this ex- tensive concern.
Mr. Helmschmied became a resident of Meriden in 1886, and as an employe of C. F. Monroe found such ready recognition of his talents that when the corporation known as the C. F. Monroe Company
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was formed he became a stockholder, and was made superintendent of the plant. At the beginning of his connection with this establishment but seven people were employed, while at the present time the services of more than two hundred are required. Much of the growth of the business may be attrib- uted to the skill and energy of its superintendent and designer, who, in addition to his business quali- fications, is possessed of a genial disposition and de- cidedly agreeable manner. These desirable attrib- utes have-won him the respect and friendship of all who know him.
On May 8, 1889. in New York City, Mr. Helm- schmied married Lillian Von Ballhaussen, who was born in New York, a daughter of the late August Von Ballhaussen, a prominent New Yorker of Ger- man birth. Mrs. Helmschmied is a refined and culti- vated woman of artistic taste and ability, and is thus a helpmate to her gifted husband. The home of this popular couple, on Reservoir avenue, is beautified with numerous works of art and bric-a- brac. One daughter, Fern, has been born of this union.
Mr. Helmschmied is a member of Pilgrims' Harbor Council, No. 543, Royal Arcanum, a lead- ing society of Meriden. While not affiliated with any religious organization, he is respected as an up- right and exemplary citizen, who seeks to conform his life to the Golden Rule. In politics he is a Re- publican, being convinced that the principles and practice of his party are best calculated to promote the welfare of the people.
The career of Mr. Helmschmied offers much en- couragement to the youth who seeks the royal road to success, which is, after all, but the way of patient endeavor and sincere striving after high ideals. He left the land of his fathers and went among those whose language and customs were as strange as their features, and has carved his way by painstak- ing use of the gifts which God gave him. Seeking large ideas in a new realm, he has himself contrib- uted no little to the progress of art and manufac- tures of his adopted land.
BURWELL. For half a century-fifty years- the name of Burwell has been among those which have stood high in the business life of New Haven, in the persons of the late Robert Merritt Burwell and sons, Merritt W. Burwell, president of the Orange Oyster Co., and Robert N. Burwell, an ac- complished undertaker of New Haven.
Burwell is an old name in New England and in the Commonwealth of Connecticut, and the mem- bers of the family of whom we write trace their de- scent back to (I) Edmund Burwell, born in 1485 in Sutton, County of Suffolk, England.
(II) Edmund Burwell married Margaretta Al- ford.
(III) William Burwell, born and died at Sut- ton, England, married Lora Wilson, of Essex.
(IV) Thomas Burwell, born April 29, 1566, at
Sutton, married, Feb. 29, 1589, a lady named Poentys.
(V) John Burwell, born Oct. 5, 1602, at Sut- ton, died Aug. 16, 1649, at Milford. Conn. John appears as a free planter of Milford, Conn., in 1039, having come to the American colonies that year, and was married prior to his emigration to a lady whose Christian name was Alice. Some of their children were probably born in England, and of them: John died in 1665 ; Zacheus married, in 1663, Elizabeth Baldwin, and settled in Newark, N. J .; Capt. Samuel, born Oct. 11, 1640, married Sarah ; Deborah married and had a family ; Capt. Ephraim, born May 19, 1644, married and had a number of children, one of whom, Samuel, settled in Newtown, Conn .; Nathan, born Feb. 22, 1646, was married in 1674 to Temperance Baldwin, and settled at New- ark, N. J. ; Elizabeth died unmarried.
(VI) Capt. Samuel Burwell died May 15, 1715. Throughout life he was a man of influence and po- sition in Milford, and was an officer of the train band. His first wife was a daughter of Benjamin Farm, one of the most influential men of the Col- ony, and a descendant of Richard Baldwin, of Bucks County, England. For his second wife he married a daughter of Rev. Roger Newton, and granddaughter of the famous Rev. Thomas Hooker, of Hartford. The Burwells were large landholders in Milford, and Burwell Farms, now Woodmont, was so called by ownership of this family, being granted to Lieut. Samuel as his share of the land. On this property, in 1690, he built a house, which was taken down about 1812.
(VII) Samuel Burwell, born at Milford in 1667, died in May, 1712. He married, Aug. 11, 1695, Deborah Merwin, born on April 24, 1670, who died Oct. 10, 1706. She was a descendant of Miles Mer- win and Richard Platt, early settlers of Milford.
(VIII) Samuel Burwell, born in 1702, at Mil- ford, married, Jan. 12, 1726, Abigail Goodyear, granddaughter of Deputy Governor Goodyear.
(IX) Samuel Burwell, born Dec. 12, 1729, at Milford, died in 1816. He married Abigail Arnold, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Arnold.
(X) Samuel Burwell, born in 1761 at Milford, died in 1806. He married Comfort Law, born in 1762, a descendant of Richard Law, of Stamford, Conn., in 1687, and William Andrew, of Cambridge, Mass., in 1682, whose grandson, Rev. Samuel, was an acting president of Yale. Through Gov. Bene- dict Arnold the line of ancestry is traced to Cad- wan, king of the Britons, who died in 675.
(XI) Robert Burwell, born Jan. 3, 1791, died May 8, 1833. He married Abigail Polly Satterlee, born Nov. 17, 1790, who died Sept. 3, 1828. Their children: Robert Merritt; Abigail; Polly Lyoma; John Satterlee.
(XII) Robert Merritt Burwell, of New Haven, was born March 31, 1814, in the town of Milford, a son of the above mentioned Robert, and left home when but eighteen years of age, going to New Ha-
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ven, where for two years he clerked in the drug store of L. K. Dow, whose place of business was on Chapel street. In 1835 he went to the city of New York and there remained until 1841, a portion of which period he was employed in a drug store. From New York he went to New Hartford, Conn., remaining some six years, then went to Waterbury, and after a residence there of nearly two years came to New Haven, and ever afterward made that point the field of his operations and his place of residence. Here he entered the drug house of Samuel Noyes, known as "Apothecaries' Hall," and in that house it was that he began experiments in making soap which led to the business in which he engaged in 1852, and in which his efforts, energy and great industry were crowned with deserved success. His employer aided him in starting and became inter- ested in the enterprise, but this interest Mr. Bur- well soon purchased and was on the road to pros- perity. By manufacturing a superior article of laundry soap, and possessing sufficient tact to get it before the people and trade, his business grew, became extensive and its founder prospered. In 1880 Mr. Burwell retired from active business, leav- ing it to his son Merritt W. to manage and carry to still greater success. The year that the father re- tired Merritt W. Burwell succeeded to the man- agement of the large concern.
The senior Mr. Burwell came into possession of a farm of some 270 acres just north of Allingtown, in which was "Mount Round Hill," a point some 300 feet high, overlooking the surrounding coun- try for miles and miles, and from the mansion home there is a most beautiful view. This farm Mr. Burwell called "Wellwood," its appellation being made up of the last syllable of his own surname with the first of that of his wife. His later life was principally devoted to the beautifying of the picturesque country seat.
. On June 1, 1847, Mr. Burwell was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Asa and Polly (Spencer) Woodruff, prominent people of New Hartford, Conn. Three children blessed the union of these excellent people : Elizabeth R., born Nov. 24, 1855; Merritt W., born July 16, 1859; and Robert Noyes, born Aug. 3, 1860. Mr. Burwell was one of the founders and trustees of the Howard Avenue Con- gregational Church. His death occurred Dec. 6, 1888.
(XIII) ROBERT NOYES BURWELL, born Aug. 3, 1860, at Plainville, Conn., spent his early school days in New Haven, later attending the Russell Commercial and Collegiate Institute. His student days over, he embarked on a business career, and entered the store of the Wholesale Spice Co. of C. Coburn & Co., New Haven. Later he was con- nected with the late George W. Hazel, in the manu- facturing of hot air furnaces and ranges, also as a plumbing company for eight years. Mr. Hazel was the father-in-law of Robert Noyes Burwell, and after the death of this gentleman Mr. Burwell
retired from business for seven years. For a short period Mr. Burwell was on the road for a New York house, but in 1898 he engaged in the under- taking business, establishing same and building it up himself. It is conveniently located at No. 966 Chapel street. Mr. Burwell is well fitted for his chosen business, understanding its details thor- oughly.
On April 15, 1885, Mr. Burwell was married to Ella Hazel, who was born Nov. 5, 1860, daughter of George W. Hazel, a well-known and prominent business man of New Haven, now deceased. Mrs. Burwell is a descendant of John Davenport, first pastor of the New Haven Congregational Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Noyes Burwell two chil- dren have been born: Julietta Elizabeth, Nov. 29, 1887; Stanley Burgess, July 22, 1893.
(X) Samuel Burwell married Comfort Law, and of their children, besides Robert Burwell ( from whom the late Robert Merritt and his three chil- dren already mentioned trace their ancestry), was a son,
(XI) Benedict Burwell, who was born at Bur- well Farms Feb. 26, 1785, and died April 14, 1863. On Nov. 24, 1808, he married Dolly Welch. Their children :
(XII) Caroline Welch, born Oct. 29, 1809, died July 13, 1893; Charles, born Aug. 21, 1810, died Oct. 6, 1813; Charles l'enedict, born Nov. 10, 1813, died March 25, 1896 (married Jan. 14, 1844, Har- riett A. Gay) ; Welch F., born April 6, 1816, died on Jan. 28, 1876; Fitch W., born in 1818, died in 1897 ; Calena, born April 20, 1821, died March 13, 1832: Mary E., born July 15, 1823, married Robert Blair ; Sarah Jane, born Feb. 12, 1827, married Thomas Barrett, who died in the battle of Fredericksburg. and they had a daughter, Caroline, who married P. S. Gehrish, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and has one daughter, Helen, born in Brooklyn (Mrs. Barrett married for her second husband Dr. Halsey, of Brooklyn). The father, Benedict Burwell, spent his early school days at Burwell Farms, where he engaged in farming. He was a deacon in the Old South Church in New Haven, on Columbus avenue.
Of the above family, Charles Benedict Burwell was born at Burwell Farms, and there spent his early life, but attended school at Milford and New Haven. Although he learned the trade of shoe- maker, he did not follow that calling very long. For a time he resided in West Virginia, where he mar- ried Harriet Gay, and later, returning to New Ha- ven, engaged in a fancy goods business on Chapel street, on the present site of the Hubinger building. About thirty years ago he discontinued the busi- ness and engaged in fruit raising and market gar- dening. During his later days he was treasurer of the Second Congregational Church. Mrs. Burwell was a daughter of Amos Hastings Gay, of Point Pleasant. W. Va., a captain of an Ohio river steam- boat. The children born of the marriage of Charles Benedict Burwell and his wife were:
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(XIII) Mary Gay, born May 27, 1845, died July 25, 1854; Eunice Jane, born Feb. 17, 1847, died Sept. 5, 1847; Robert Fitch is mentioned be- low; Harriet Rosalie, born Feb. 27, 1856, was a teacher in New Hampshire for a number of years ; Lillian Gay was born April 23, 18 -; Carrie Agnes was born Jan. 11, 18 -.
Robert F. Burwell, of the above family, was educated in New Haven, attending Lovell's School, learned the science of dentistry under Dr. Strong. and for thirty years has been in practice in this city.
Of the family born to Benedict and Dolly (Welch) Burwell, Fitch W. Burwell, born' Nov. 5, 1818, died Dec. 12, 1897. On April 28, 1843, he married Maria Chapman, a daughter of Robert Chapman, of Norfolk, W. Va. To them came: Charles D., born in 1844, married Martha Wilkin- son, and resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. Eleanor D., born in 1847, married (first) Charles Chapman, of Louisville, Ky., and for her second husband Ed- ward G. Merwin, a bookkeeper in the Mechanics Bank at New Haven ; Caroline May died at the age of seven years; and Frank, born in 1852, died in childhood.
Fitch W. Burwell spent his childhood in Mil- ford, and at the age of eighteen began his business career in New Haven, with Benjamin & Ford, a ,jewelry firm, and was afterward with Mr. Free- man, of Norfolk, Va. Later he engaged in the jewelry business for himself in Norfolk, Va., re- maining there until 1854, when he returned to New Haven and built a beautiful home at No. 146 Co- lumbus avenue. Having always been interested in photography, he invested some $50,000 in the Will- ard Mfg. Co., manufacturers of photographic sup- plies, and unfortunately lost the greater part of this sum. In addition, he also furnished several studios and had them managed by expert photographers. In 1893 Mr. Burwell lost his dearly beloved wife, about four years before his own demise. He was a man of prominence in New Haven, and his loss was deeply felt in the community.
Referring again to the issue of the marriage of Samuel and Comfort (Law) Burwell, the ancestry is traced through another branch, as follows: (XI) Samuel Burwell, son of Samuel and Com- fort; (XII) George Burwell, son of Samuel (2) ; (XIII) David C. Burwell, son of George; (XIV) S. Clark Burwell, son of David C. Burwell.
(XIII) David C. Burwell was born in the town of Milford, Conn., April 10, 1833, and died in New Haven, Aug. 1, 1893. His early life was spent in New Haven. During the Civil war he served in the 9th Regiment Band. After the war he engaged in the wholesale oyster business, in which he con- tinued until a short time prior to his death, and this enterprise was located at No. 73 Front street. David C. Burwell married Miss Mary Hosley, of Branford, Conn., and to them were born the fol- lowing family: George Loring, who died at the age
of eighteen; S. Clark; Mary; Marcus, who died when young; Malintha A., who died when young ; and Sarah M. Mr. Burwell was an earnest member of the Methodist Church. For many years he was an alderman and councilman from the Eleventh ward, having been elected on the Republican ticket, he being an ardent supporter of that party; for twenty-five years he was a member of the fire de- partment.
(XIV) S. CLARK BURWELL was born in New Haven April 14, 1858, and his boyhood days were spent in that city. When old enough to embark in business he traveled in the interests of the oyster trade, and about 1888 he became associated with his father in the oyster business. After the death of David C. Burwell, S. Clark managed the concern alone, and then, in 1897, formed the S. C. Burwell Co., of which he is president and treasurer; his wife (E. M. Burwell), secretary; F. R. Barnes, general manager ; and John Stewart, vice president. This corporation is one of the largest in the city, and was founded as a wholesale and commission house in fresh, salt, frozen and smoked fish, oysters, clams, lobsters, scallops, etc., all of which are shipped throughout the United States. Ever since he assumed charge of affairs Mr. Burwell has given his entire time to its development, and its present large proportions testify to his success.
S. Clark Burwell was married, in New Haven, Sept. 19, 1884, to Eva M. Wipper, of that city. To this marriage the following children have been born: George Loring, Eva Katharine, Marion Hammond, David Clark, Ellen Hosley and Flor- ence Elizabeth.
For eight years Mr. Burwell was a member of Hook and Ladder No. 3, serving as callman. So- cially he is a member of Polar Star Lodge. I, O. O. F., and also of the A. O. U. W. Fraternal Benefit League. Both he and his wife are members of the East Pearl Street M. E. Church.
Another prominent representative of the Bur- well family is Nelson Burwell, son of Thomas Bur- well, and grandson of John Burwell. John Bur- well lived the greater portion of his life in Milford, Conn., and died highly respected by all. He mar- ried a Miss Welch.
Thomas Burwell, son of John, and father of Nelson, during the early part of his life resided in Milford, and by calling was a farmer, which occu- pation he followed all his life. He lived to the re- markable age of ninety-one years and eight months, and his wife lived to be ninety-eight years and eight months old. Her maiden name was Sarah Beach, and she was a daughter of John Beach, and a na- tive of Milford, Conn. To Thomas Burwell and his wife were born: Mary, who married a Mr. Tibbals: Horace (deceased), a carpenter, who had a daughter, Mrs. Darham; Nelson; Beach (de- ceased), a carpenter ; Eliza ; Martha ; and Elias.
Nelson Burwell was born on the farm in Mil- ford, Conn., Dec. 26, 1815, and spent the first
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twenty-five years of his life in Milford. After this. he learned the trade of carpenter in New Haven, and for a number of years was one of the leading carpenters of the latter city, but for the past six years has lived retired from active life.
Nelson Burwell was married, in New Haven, Conn., to Miss Mary E. Clark, who died about seven years ago. To them were born: Ella, who married Charles D. Kinney, a native of Seymour, Conn .; and Marion A.
WILLIAM EBEN BECROFT, a well-known contractor and architect of Wallingford, was born in that town, June 20, 1857.
James Seth Becroft, the grandfather of William E., was born in Troy, N. Y., May 20, 1796, and be- came a mason and contractor. On Feb. 2, 1822, he married Clarinda Weldin, who was born Dec. 24, 1802, and who died Oct. 12, 1872. He died April 27, 1840. The Becrofts were of remote Holland ancestry.
James Henry Becroft, son of James Seth, was born in Troy, N. Y., Dec. 27, 1827. He was a theatrical machinist, and had charge of the stage in Wallack's theatre in New York about fifteen years. About 1877 he began a contracting business from Meriden, and contracted with a number of the large theaters in different parts of the country. On Nov. 22,. 1898, he died in Meriden. A Democrat in politics, he was exceptionally posted on political affairs. He was a charter member of the Dramatic Society, and was the first one to receive a benefit therefrom, having fallen in Booth's Theater in New York. During the Mexican war he served as a soldier, and was badly wounded on the hand by a saber stroke. Mr. Becroft was married, Nov. 3, 1851, to Miss Mary Jane Whittaker, of New York, who died in March, 1893, in Wallingford. Ten children were born to them, of whom seven are now living: . Emma Florence, who married John Bur- bridge, of Meriden ; William. E .; James Henry, Jr., a carpenter of Wallingford; George Samuel, a car- penter and decorator of Waterbury; Elizabeth Mary, the wife of Robert Clark, of Meriden ; Silas Weldin, a silversmith, of Wallingford; and Albert Whittaker, a paper-box maker, of Waterbury.
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William Eben Becroft had his early education in the town of his nativity, and in Meriden, to which point his parents removed when he was quite young. At the age of ten years he left school and worked with his father until he was twenty years old. For the seven ensuing years he was employed by other parties, and then forming a partnership with his father, they began contracting under the firm name of James H. Becroft & Son, at Meriden. For three years this association continued, and then our sub- ject came to Wallingford, to become foreman for Newton C. Wooding. At the present time he is foreman and architect for Charles F. Wooding, who has succeeded his father in the same business. Mr. Becroft was always deeply interested in archi-
tecture, and has devoted so much time and study to it that he has become a proficient architect. He has drawn the plans for a number of important buildings the last few years, and is manifesting much ability in this art which is practically self- acquired. In 1896 he built himself a very pleasant home on North Whittlesey avenue.
Mr. Becroft belongs to the Odd Fellows frater- nity, and is a member of Accanant Lodge, No. 71, of which lodge he is now past grand. In his politi- cal views he is a Democrat, but business cares and obligations have kept him from active political am- bition. Mr. Becroft is a member of St. Paul's Epis- copal Church, and has been assistant superintendent of its Sunday-school. Mr. Becroft was married Sept. 7, 1887, to Miss Annie Elizabeth Hobson, a daughter of William Hobson, of Meriden. To this union were born two children, Mildred Madeline, born Jan. 18, 1889, and Gladys Beulah, born Jan. 8, 1892, and died June 22, 1893.
One of Mr. Becroft's ancestors was the first settler in what is now Columbia county, and owned the entire tract thus described. All the family pos- sessions were lost during the Revolution, in which war the great-grandfather of Mr. Becroft lost his life. Another member of this family was the first banker in Hudson, New York.
MARTIN HELLMANN was a man whose many quiet deeds of benevolence and charity won for him the love and esteem of hundreds who had no special right to his consideration, and in his death, which occurred at his residence on Bank street, Waterbury, March 5, 1892, the city lost one of its most prominent German business men and citizens.
Mr. Hellmann was born Aug. 7, 1844, in Ba- varia, Germany, and at the age of twenty-one came to America, locating in Bridgeport, Conn. For a time he was in the employ of the Wheeler & Wil- son Sewing Machine Co., and then engaged in the hotel business. In about 1878, in connection with Michael Kipp, also of Bridgeport, he purchased the Naugatuck Valley Brewery of Frederick Nuhn, and under his judicious management the business was developed until the establishment became one of the largest and most successful breweries in the State. In about 1889 Mr. Hellmann bought the interests held by his partner, and thereafter con- ducted it alone. His good business attainments and great popularity brought him into favor in the city, and his services were sought for places of public trust and honor. He was elected by hand- some majorities to a number of municipal offices, among them being that of alderman, from the Third ward, in which capacity he served in 1882-83, 1884- 85, 1886-87 and 1890-91. He was councilman from the same ward in 1881. In 1889 and 1890 he held the office of tax collector, and declined to serve longer owing to the pressure of his extensive business. Mr. Hellmann took great interest in
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