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of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut ; Ephraim S., a resident of Buffalo, New York; James A., a resident of Bridge- port, Connecticut; and William H., a resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Simeon Pease spent the early years of his life in his native town, Trumans- burg, New York, and there attended the public schools until he had attained the age of fifteen years, after which he went West and located at Warrensburg, Mis- souri, where he pursued a course of study in the South Missouri State Nor- mal College, graduating therefrom. in 1881. Upon his return to New York State, he taught in the schools of Seneca and Tompkins counties for a short period of time. After a residence of about five years in this locality, he removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, where he devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits. his efforts being rewarded with a large de- gree of success. He was, even at that time. recognized as a leading figure in the rural community of which he was a member, and was elected to offices of trust and responsibility which he has filled capably and efficiently. The first position which he was called upon to fill was as member of the School Board of Fairfield. in which capacity he is serv- ing at the present time (1916). He was one of the first selectmen of Fairfield, holding the office for five years, and for six years was a member of the Board. His next public office was as county commissioner of Fairfield county, the duties of which he performed for twelve years to the satisfaction of all concerned. In 1909 he was elected to the General Assembly of Connecticut. his service be- ing noted for promptness and thorough- ness, and he was appointed a member of the committee on humane institutions. In 1914 he was elected sheriff of Fair- field county, taking the oath of office on
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June 1, 1915, and at the present time is capably performing the duties connected therewith. Aside from his business and politics, Mr. Pease figured prominently in the interests of Fairfield and Bridge- port, taking a leading part in several departments of the community's life. He is a member of the local lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; of Greenfield Hill Grange, No. 133, Patrons of Husbandry ; of Fairfield Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men; of the Algonquin Club, of Bridgeport, and of the Bridgeport Club. He is an at- tendant of the Congregational church at Greenfield Hill.
Mr. Pease married, June 4, 1884, Carrie A. Banks, a native of Greenfield Hill, Connecticut, a daughter of Hezekiah and Abbie (Williams) Banks. Mr. Banks, who was born at Easton, Fairfield county, Connecticut, was a farmer in the Greenfield Hill region, and died there at the age of eighty-eight years. Mr. and Mrs. Pease are the parents of two chil- dren: Olive A., born September 29, 1887, now employed as a stenographer by her father; and Francis A., born April 12, 1890. Both reside with their parents.
LINSKEY, John Joseph, Real Estate Operator.
Although not long resident in his pres- ent home in Waterbury, Mr. Linskey is a native son of Connecticut and well known in the State, in fact all over New England, as a promoter and developer, specializing in land and building im- provement. He has developed tracts in many parts of New England, and in both Waterbury and Bridgeport "Fair- lawn Manor" is evidence of his efficient handling of properties.
Mr. Linskey is a son of Martin Linskey.
born in County Galway, Ireland, where his youth was passed. When a young man he came to the United States, found his way to Guilford, Connecticut, where he became an iron molder and yet resides, aged sev- enty-three years. He married Ellen Han- non, also born in Galway, who died at Guilford, aged fifty-five years, the mother of seven sons and seven daughters, all living save a son William, who died in infancy. Children: John Joseph, of fur- ther mention; Mary, twin with John J., married Charles Noemeyer, of New Haven, Connecticut; Kate, married Mat- thew Lahey, of New Haven: Dennis, married Nora Keefe, residing in Nauga- tuck, Connecticut; Theresa, married Benjamin Parker, of New Haven; Mar- tin (2), residing in Naugatuck, Connec- ticut, married Elizabeth Clyne ; Thomas, married Margaret Skinner, resides in New Haven; Nicholas, married Daisy Larkin, resides in Guilford, Connecti- cut ; Daniel, also of Guilford, married Annie Maline; Elizabeth, married John Flannigan, of Brooklyn, New York; Jennie, married Daniel O'Neill, of Guil- ford; Lillian, married Joseph Brennan, of New Haven; and Ellen, married Wil- liam Brown, of Brooklyn, New York.
John Joseph Linskey, eldest son of Martin and Ellen (Hannon) Linskey, was born at Guilford, Connecticut, April 24, 1862, and there resided until he was eighteen years of age. He was educated in the public schools and at Guilford Academy, being an apt pupil and a good student. At the age of eighteen he be- gan work as a wage earner, going to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where for two years he was an employe of the Bridge- port Malleable Iron Company. He had then attained his majority and being able to command sufficient capital he went to Naugatuck, Connecticut, and opened a grocery store. He was ener-
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getic and capable, public-spirited and progressive, and his store soon gained popular favor and support. He pros- pered and in course of time opened a second store in Naugatuck of which his brother was manager. For seventeen years he continued in successful busi- ness as a grocer, and during four years of President Cleveland's second term served as postmaster of the Union City office. About 1905 he retired to engage in the real estate business at Naugatuck, a line of activity in which he has been very successful, being sole owner of the same. From a local business he became interested in the development of land areas in other parts of New England, many important land developments of suburban properties having been carried to a successful issue under his manage- ment. On March 20, 1916, he moved his office to Waterbury, where he is well known through his development of the "Fairlawn Manor" tract. Mr. Linskey is essentially a business man and has not taken active part in public affairs. He won success as a merchant and is an authority on land promotion and subur- ban values, sound in his judgment, up- right and honorable in his methods. He is a Democrat in politics, a communicant of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at Naugatuck, and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
Mr. Linskey married at Naugatuck, October 23, 1888, Louise Theresa Clancy, born there in 1868, daughter of Thomas Clancy, born in Ireland, died in Naugatuck, Connecticut, at the age of sixty years. Mr. and Mrs. Linskey are the parents of a family of nine, as fol- lows: Ellen A., a graduate of Monroe Business College in Waterbury, now her father's assistant as stenographer and clerk : Thomas F., married Agnes Wal-
lace and has two daughters, Constance and Rose Marie; Louise, a graduate of Naugatuck High School, and Marie R., both residing at home; Madeline R., a student at Naugatuck High School; John Joseph (2), attending Salem School ; Wil- liam L., attending Salem School; Mar- garet, died in infancy ; Francis, attending Oak Street School, Naugatuck.
GREENBERG, William Bradford,
Dentist.
Prominent among the rising dentists of Waterbury, Connecticut, is Dr. Wil- liam Bradford Greenberg, who in spite of his youth has already won an enviable reputation for himself among his col- leagues and the people of the city. He was born September 19, 1885. at Water- bury, a son of Samuel and Bertha (Born) Greenberg, and has passed his entire life up to the present in his native city.
He attended the local schools of Waterbury for the preliminary portion of his education and prepared for college at the Peekskill Military Academy at Peekskill, New York. He then matricu- lated at the University of Pennsylvania, after graduating from the former insti- tution in the year 1903. and entering the department of dentistry he studied that subject during the required period. At the university, as formerly, he proved himself an unusually industrious and in- telligent student, winning the favorable regard of his masters and instructors by the excellence of his work. Graduating with the class of 1906. Dr. Greenberg took the degree of Doctor of Dental Sur- gery and at once entered the General Hospital of the city of Philadelphia as interne. Here he remained for a period of two years, winning the requisite prac- tical experience, and then returned to his native city, Waterbury, where he at
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once began to practice his profession. He opened offices at the Lilly Building in that city-Nos. 301 to 303, which have remained his headquarters up to the present time. Dr. Greenberg's specialty has been oral surgery, in which he has met with a high degree of success. His work shows unusual skill and thorough- ness and gives promise of a brilliant future in store for him. In spite of the demands made upon his time by his pro- fessional duties, Dr. Greenberg is a prominent figure in the fraternal circles of Waterbury and is a member of the Masonic order and of the Knights of Pythias, being affiliated with the local lodges of both these organizations.
Dr. Greenberg is a man in whom the public and private virtues are admirably balanced. He is regarded in the profes- sional world and in all the public rela- tions as one whose principles are above reproach and whose strict ideals of honor and justice are applied to every detail of his professional conduct. Nor is it only in his associations with his patients that these characteristics are displayed, but with all whom he comes in contact in every other department of life. His courtesy and unfailing concern for the welfare of all makes him a highly popu- lar figure in every circle and has estab- lished the esteem in which he is held upon the firmest kind of basis. In his private life these virtues have their analogues. A quiet and retiring char- acter makes him a great lover of home and domestic ties and his never failing geniality endears him to the members of his family and to the friends of whom he possesses so many.
BAUBY, Charles William, Lawyer.
The American history of the Bauby family begins in 1871 with the coming of
Peter Bauby from Genoa, Italy. As he casts a retrospective view over the years which have since intervened, glances at his well stocked and profitable store, thinks of his manly sons, college gradu- ates and honored professional men, he blesses the day his face turned toward America, the "land of opportunity." The contrast between the old home and the new grows sharper as he reads of the death dealing destruction, the desolat- ing doom that has befallen his native land, his friends and relatives who are blindly following the lead of monarchs they did not choose to rule over them. While the heart of this naturalized American bleeds for the sorrows of his native land, there comes with the grief a feeling of joy and satisfaction that he has no part in it, that he owes allegiance to a blessed principle of freedom and to a flag that waves for justice, peace and liberty to live, work and prosper. The Bauby's are an old Italian family of Genoa, where Charles William Bauby lived and died, leaving a son, Peter Bauby, who is the founder of the family in the United States. It was in Genoa, a city of perhaps a quarter of a million souls situated on a fine Mediterranean harbor semicircular, less than a mile in diameter, that Peter Bauby spent the years until twenty-one. He grew up amid the beauties of the city, so strik- ingly grand when viewed from the sea, worshipped in its particularly fine churches, notably the Cathedral of St. Lorenzo, and drank in the beauties of its two most famous palazzos: The Palazzo Ducale, formerly occupied by the doges, and the Palazzo Doria, presented in 1522 by the great Genoese citizen, Andrea Doria. But its beauties paled before the lure of the New World, and on reaching man's estate he sailed for the land of his dreams, a land where a man is the archi- tect of his own fortunes. Waterbury,
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Connecticut, was the chosen location, and since 1874 he has been in the cigar and newspaper business in that city. Six children have been born to him and his wife Rose, also a Genoese, and with the exception of the youngest who is a high school student, his sons all occupy honorable positions, two of them prac- ticing lawyers. While America fur- nished the opportunity, Peter Bauby furnished the man, and to his industry, thrift and perseverance, aided by that of his wife, all that has come to him and his family has been made possible.
Peter Bauby, son of Charles Bauby, was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1850, and in his native city obtained his education and prepared for the battle of life. In 1871 he came to the United States and shortly afterward located in Waterbury, Connecticut, where since 1874 he has been proprietor of a cigar and news stand. He has a good business, is well known and highly respected. He mar- ried in New York City shortly after his arrival, Rose Musanty, also born in Genoa. They are the parents of seven children, one of whom, Sylvester, died at the age of sixteen years. The living are : Frederick C., an attorney of Waterbury ; Charles William, of further mention ; Joseph P., now holding the office of con- stable in Waterbury; Marie, residing with her parents; John W., a clerk in Waterbury; Leo, a high school student.
Charles William, Bauby, son of Peter and Rose (Musanty) Bauby, was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, April 15, 1875. He attended Waterbury public schools, passing through all grades from primary to completed high school courses, finish- ing with graduation from high school, class of 1894. He then entered Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachu- setts, whence he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of 1897.
Having decided upon the profession of law, he matriculated at Yale Law School, receiving his degree of Bachelor of Laws, class of 1899. He was at once admitted to the Connecticut bar and be- gan practice in his home town, locating offices at No. 95 Bank street, where he conducts a very successful general law business, in all State and Federal courts of the district. He is highly esteemed by his brethren of the bar, and is re- garded as one of the strong men of that bar. He is an able advocate for the cause he espouses, his thorough classical and legal education with the experience of sixteen years practice having de- veloped a lawyer of resource and strength. He is a member of the various bar associations and very popu- lar. For seven years Mr. Bauby was a member of Company G, Connecticut Na- tional Guard, is a member of the Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Foresters, and the Alpha Sporting Club of Waterbury, tak- ing a warm interest in all. In politics he is a Republican, and in religious faith a Catholic, a communicant of St. Mar- garet's Church.
Mr. Bauby married, in Waterbury, April 23, 1911, Mary Eleanor Mahon, born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, daugh- ter of and Bridget (Rafferty) Mahon, her father deceased, her mother a resident of Waterbury. Two children have been born to Charles W. and Mary E. Bauby: Peter Charles, July, 1912, and Eleanor, August, 1914.
PALLOTTI, Francis A.,
Attorney-at-Law.
That America is still the land of oppor- tunity for the man with ability to see and the will to do is clearly proven in the case of many men of foreign birth who
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come to our shores, and especially so in the case of Nicola Pallotti, father of Francis A. Pallotti, who at the time of his death was known as the wealthiest citizen of Hartford of Italian birth. His success was due to no favor of friend or fortune, but to his own persistent and intelligently directed industry coupled with exceptional sagacity in financial matters.
Nicola Pallotti was born in Corleto, Perticara, Italy, April 28, 1839, son of Francesco and Anna (Antonio) Pallotti. The family had been resident in that part of Italy for many generations. He spent his boyhood and early manhood in his native land, and in 1866, at the age of twenty-seven, came to the United States and located in the city of Hart- ford, Connecticut. He was without prestige, a stranger in a strange land, speaking a strange tongue, but he over- came all these obstacles and the pre- judice that a foreigner must overcome in any land and won the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens and a posi- tion of affluence. At first he did such work as his hand found to do, practicing all the while thrift and frugality, attri- butes that are the basis of all success. As soon as he had accumulated sufficient capital with which to work, he made an investment in real estate and from that time on all his surplus went into realty holdings, from which he realized a hand- some profit, thereby securing for his later days a competence sufficient for his needs and comforts. Mr. Pallotti was a man of splendid address, strong person- ality, very forceful and determined in his disposition, but courteous, genial and kindly withal. He was domestic in his tastes, his leisure time being spent in his home and in the intercourse of his family, from which he derived great pleasure. He married Marie Antonia,
daughter of Giaubattista Demma, and of their children three attained years of maturity, as follows: Felicia, who be- came the wife of Antonio Andretta, a sketch of whom appears elsewhere in this work; Brighetta, who became the wife of Nicola de Pietro, of Hartford ; and Francis A., of this review. For some time prior to his decease, Nicola Pallotti had been subject to spells of dizziness and on November 1, 1914, he fell from the rear veranda of his home and died within a few minutes, thus end- ing a life of usefulness and activity.
Francis A. Pallotti was born in Hart- ford, Connecticut, August 21, 1886. His preparatory education was obtained in Brown School in Hartford, from which he was graduated, and in the Hartford High School, which he attended for three years, and in Holy Cross Prepara- tory School at Worcester. With this thorough preparation as a ground work, he matriculated in Holy Cross College, from which he was graduated in the class of 1908 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Having chosen the law as his vocation, he became a student in the Yale Law School, from which he was graduated in the class of 1911 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, and was admitted to the Hartford county bar the same year. During the six years that he has been engaged in active prac- tice he has gained an extensive patron- age and has attained a place of promi- nence among his professional brethren, this being conclusive proof that he is faithful in the discharge of his duties, gives to the cases committed to his care close study and deep thought and is always mindful of the interests of his clients. During the year 1916 he acted as associate judge in the Police Court of Hartford, and was appointed in Febru- ary, 1917, associate judge of the same; is
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vice-president of the Board of Street Com- missioners of the city of Hartford, and has been a worker in the ranks of the Republi- can party since attaining his majority, be- lieving that the principles advocated by them are for the best form of government. He is a member of Ki Tau Kappa frater- nity of Yale Law School ; was president of his class in the same institution ; member of Green Cross Council, No. 11, Knights of Columbus, of which he is advocate ; Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Young Italian American Associ- ation; Court Garibaldi, Foresters of America, and the City Club.
Mr. Pallotti married, April 12, 1915, Mary Agnes Verdi, born in New Haven, Connecticut, daughter of Domenico Verdi, and a sister of William F. Verdi, the well known surgeon of New Haven.
RICKETSON, Everett Burnside, Sr., Manufacturer, Retired.
The Ricketsons of earlier Massachu- setts days were seafaring men, masters of vessels and men to whom the dangers of the sea were familiar from boyhood until life ended. Captain Gilbert Ricket- son was born in Fall River or Fair Haven, Massachusetts, during the last half of the eighteenth century, married, March 31, 1814, Rebekah Anthony and had children: Rebekah, John, Charles Thompson, of further mention; Rachel, Sarah and Elizabeth.
Captain Charles Thompson Ricketson, third child and second son of Captain Gilbert Ricketson, followed in the foot- steps of his father all the active years of his life, and died at the age of eighty. He was born at Fall River. Massachu- setts, and early became a sailor, first as seaman under his father, then was ad- vanced in rank, later becoming master and for forty years was a captain of mer-
chant vessels, carrying the flag of his country into practically every important seaport of the globe. He married Sarah W. Elwell, daughter of Joshua and Sarah (Hawthorne) Elwell, her father born in Fairfield, Maine. They were the parents of eight children: Ellen M., Charles B., Sarah, deceased; Frederick, Theodore, Everett Burnside, of further mention ; Rachel and Ralph H. Mrs. Charles T. Ricketson, the mother, died at the ad- vanced age of eighty-six.
Everett Burnside Ricketson, son of Captain Charles Thompson and Sarah W. (Elwell) Ricketson, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, May 12, 1862, and there was educated in the public schools. He did not inherit the love for the sea common to his race, the glory of Fall River as a sailing port having been sur- rendered with changed conditions and the incentive to become a mariner no longer existing when he came upon the scene of action. After leaving school he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed in Fall River until 1887. In that year he located in Worcester, Mas- sachusetts, and there continued em- ployed as a builder until 1902, a period of fifteen years of successful effort. In 1902 he located in Hartford, Connecticut, there organizing the Hartford Builders Finish Company, beginning in a small way with half a dozen employees. The business prospered under his executive management until now between seventy- five and one hundred hands are employed. the product of the company's factory go- ing to all parts of the State. In 1915 Mr. Ricketson resigned the presidency of the company he founded and was succeeded by his son, Everett B. (2) Ricketson, the father now being treasurer of the com- pany. He is a member of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce. Lincoln Lodge, Knights of Pythias; Hartford Lodge,
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the City Club.
Mr. Ricketson married Julia Doyle, daughter of Jeremiah Doyle, of Worces- ter, Massachusetts. They are the par- ents of three sons: Everett Burnside, Jr., Gerald and William.
MCCARTHY, Daniel Joseph, Real Estate Operator.
This is a success worshipping age. It is of the men of deeds and accomplish- ment that we are the proudest to boast, whose praises we sing the loudest, the men who have been successful in leav- ing an impression upon their fellows and the community. We demand success, as it were, of our favorites, and, as if in response, we have a progress in all the departments of material achievement such as has never before been witnessed. Perhaps the most characteristic of all the achievements of the age and country is that in the line of industrial, commercial and financial development, in the great world of business, in short, and accord- ingly it is the leaders of activity in this direction that we chiefly admire and reward. And our rewards, as our ideals, are of an extremely substantial nature, for the taste of this epoch is in solid material things. And, indeed, we are following a wise instinct in the matter ; material things, our physical livelihood, is of necessity the chief concern of a people set down suddenly, as it were, in the midst of a wilderness and compelled, in a somewhat broad Americanism, to "hustle for a living." A wise instinct, the following of which is but one, al- though the chief one, of the examples of our power of adapting ourselves and our conduct to the environment, which we are assured by a great philosopher is one of the chief factors in highly organized life. So it is that instead of bemoaning,
as some do, what has been somewhat in- adequately called "the modern spirit," it befits us rather to exhalt those who most conspicuously exhibit it, to do, as a mat- ter of fact, just what the democracy with its sure instinct for what is right is do- ing. It is, therefore, appropriate that the records of the men successful in every community should be set down as an in- dication to others of that in which their success consisted, and as a mark of grati- tude on the part of the remainder of the community for the example they have set. There are few regions so prolific of these records as the flourishing cities and towns of New England. The city of Waterbury, Connecticut, for instance, has been the home of many such success- ful men, prominent among whom stands Daniel Joseph Mccarthy, the successful business man, the public-spirited citizen, whose name heads this brief appreci- ation.
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