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Mr. Garde married Olive Smith, daugh- ter of George H. Smith, of New Haven. They have one daughter, Marjorie. The family attend Trinity Church (Episcopal) of Hartford, in which city they now re- side.
HUNGERFORD, Henry Edward, Physician.
One of the names most closely asso- ciated with the State of Connecticut and all that is best in its progress and de- velopment is that of Henry Edward Hun- gerford, the rising young physician of Waterbury, Connecticut. This associa- tion is two-fold and exists, first, because of his personal activities in the interest of that vital problem, the health of the community, and, second, because he is the scion of one of the oldest families in the State, where for many generations its members have made their home. The Hungerford family is an extremely ancient one, and Dr. Hungerford traces his descent from no less illustrious a per- son than Sir Thomas Hungerford, who, in the year 1377, became the first regular speaker of the House of Commons. The members of the family have continued to sustain the high reputation of their early ancestors, a more recent member being the James Smithson who founded and gave his name to the Smithsonian Insti- tute of Washington, D. C., one of the most important scientific foundations in the world.
Dr. Hungerford's great-grandfather, Evits Hungerford, born in 1777, was a charter member of Franklin Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Bristol.
Dr. Hungerford's grandfather was Le-
ander Grandison Hungerford, of Bristol, Connecticut, where the family resided for many years, and where he was born July 12, 1811, and died December 2, 1853, when only forty-two years of age. He was a successful farmer and engaged also in the trucking business. He and his wife, who was a Miss Jeannette Jones, of Bristol, were the parents of four children: I. Sarah, born December 3, 1837, and is now a resident of Bristol. 2. William Ellis, born in 1839, and died in 1841. 3. Charles Edward, of whom further. 4. Henry Wells, born May 20, 1847, died October 3, 1913, at Bristol. Charles Edward Hun- gerford, the father of Dr. Hungerford, was born August 4, 1845, at Bristol, and there died February 25, 1910. He lived in his native city all his life, and was for many years the foreman of the Ingraham Clock Works there. He married lda Ada- liza Stone, born in Bristol, April 14, 1849, and Dr. Hungerford is their only child. Mrs. Hungerford, Sr., is a daughter of Horace and Emiline (Bristol) Stone, of Bristol.
Dr. Henry Edward Hungerford was born at Bristol, Connecticut, November 30, 1872. He passed the years of his childhood and early youth in the city of his birth. He attended during this period the excellent local public schools, and there prepared himself for the college course which his father and he both de- sired he should take. At the age of twenty years, accordingly, he entered Carlton College, and after graduating from that institution he went to Yale University, where he took the course at the famous Medical School, graduating with the class of 1898, taking his degree of Doctor of Medicine, and at once came to Waterbury, Connecticut, where he set- tled and where he has been in practice ever since. His offices are conveniently and centrally located at No. 298 North
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Main street, and his practice, which is a general one, is large and rapidly growing. Dr. Hungerford is now one of the most prominent members of his profession in the city and its environs, and is looked up to with respect by his fellow physicians and by the community at large as one who combines the highest ethics of his profession with a profound knowledge thereof. His interest in and knowledge of the problems of health and hygiene have made him a recognized authority and a factor in the city control of these matters. He was appointed by Mayor Thomas a member of the Board of Health, and served four years during his administration, and was continued in the same office by Mayor Reeves for two years longer. During the time of his holding this office, Dr. Hungerford per- formed an invaluable service for the com- munity in the efficient manner in which he dealt with the problems that were pre- sented to him.
Large as are the tasks that confront Dr. Hungerford in the performance of his professional duties, they do not prevent him from keeping up his interest in the other affairs of his fellows or, to some extent, taking part in other activities. Perhaps less than in any other calling, can the physician count on any time as really his own, since he is always at the beck and call of whoever needs him ; yet in spite of this he manages to take some part in social activities, especially those connected with fraternal circles, and is a member of the Masonic order and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In his religious belief he is a Methodist, at- tending the Methodist Episcopal Church of Waterbury, and he takes an active and prominent part in its affairs.
Dr. Hungerford was married, March 27, 1899, at New Haven, Connecticut, to Shir- ley Dare Serviss, a native of Grass Lake,
Michigan, born October 3, 1870, a daugh- ter of Mortimer Ambrose and Sarah (Dutcher) Serviss, of Grass Lake, where they died, respectively, December 23, 1897, and August 9, 1891. They were both natives of New York State and went to the west in their youth, where Mr. Serviss became a famous horse trainer. They were the parents of four children, all of whom are now living: Evangeline, Shirley Dare, Harry and Helen. Born to Dr. and Mrs. Hungerford are two chil- dren : Evits Charles, July 7, 1901, now in the final year in grammar school, and Rollo Leander, September 24, 1903.
Henry Edward Hungerford has brought to the shaping of his career a very happy and unusual combination of characteris- tics, which has won for him his success as a physician and his still greater suc- cess as a man. Underlying the rest of his personality and serving as the surest and most imperishable foundation for it, is that strong, practical morality that has so distinguished the hardy race of which he is a descendant. His philanthropy is great and springs from the sincere kind- ness of his heart, which embraces all men in its regard, and from the culture and enlightenment of his mind, which gives intelligence and definite direction to his natural altruism. Closely correlated to this is his sturdy democracy of outlook, a democracy not incompatible with a healthy pride in the long line of worthy forebears. In spite of his strong social instincts, he is a man of intense domestic feelings, who takes his greatest pleasure in the intimate relations of the home and family, and makes himself beloved by those who are thus closely associated with him. He has many friends and among them, as in the community at large, he exerts a powerful influence which is al- ways wielded on the side of right and justice.
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REILEY, Edward Bernard, Lawyer, Public Official.
We are very prone to turn our eyes upon the past when it is our purpose to find examples of worth and ability in any departments of life, especially in those departments embraced under the general term of the learned professions, it being the prevailing impression that deep study and profound scholarship was then to be found, while to-day it is mainly conspicu- ous in its absence. Yet it may not be amiss to look upon our own times as well, or even into the future, of which the pres- ent is a prophesy, there to discern figures whom we have every reason to believe are making, or will make, records that shall serve as examples to those who come after us. The profession of the law is peculiarly rich in tradition, based upon the notable achievements of its great exponents in the past, yet if we consider some of the younger men who follow it we need not fear but that they, too, will leave their impression on this tradition in the course of careers as yet scarcely begun. Among such men may well be counted Edward Bernard Reiley. of Waterbury, Connecticut, a man still young in years, although in achievement he has already made himself the equal of many a notable figure who has lived his full three-score years and ten.
Edward Bernard Reiley was born De- cember 3. 1878, at Waterbury, which has continued his home until to-day. He is of Irish parentage, his grandparents com- ing to this country, as did so many of their countrymen, in search of greater freedom and opportunity. These pater- nal grandparents of Mr. Reiley were Ed- ward Bernard and Margaret (Dilland) Reiley, who settled first in Watertown and later in Waterbury, where they both eventually met their death, he when but
fifty years of age, she in her eighty-fifth year. They had eight children in all, of whom the second was the father of Mr. Reiley, the other four, who are still liv- ing, being Margaret, who is now the wife of Michael Sullivan, a retired policeman of Waterbury; Julia; Hannah, now the wife of Captain Bernard Cahey, of the Waterbury Police Department; and Anna, all residing in Waterbury.
As in the case of Mr. Reiley's grand- father and of himself, the name of his father is also Edward Bernard Reiley. Mr. Reiley, Sr., came to the United States when he was only thirteen years of age, and has been closely identified with the affairs of Waterbury from a very early age. He was active in politics, and served as superintendent of streets in the city for some eight years. About twelve years ago he engaged in the contracting busi- ness, which he has carried on with a high degree of success up to the present. He was married in Waterbury to Mary Bres- nahan, of Boston and Waterbury, and by her has had ten children, seven of whom are still living, and all of whom make their home in Waterbury. They are: John J., unmarried, and engaged in the clothing business in Waterbury ; Julia C., a teacher in the public schools there ; Ed- ward Bernard, Jr., the subject of this brief appreciation ; Mary, the principal of the Maloney Public School; Anna, a teacher in the public schools ; Joseph A., a civil engineer by profession : and Chris- topher, now a student in the Holy Cross College, class of 1919. Edward Bernard Reiley, Sr., has been exceedingly promi- nent in the affairs of Waterbury and has held many offices at various times, among which should be mentioned that of alder- man. police commissioner and road com- missioner. He is very well known and liked in Waterbury.
Edward Bernard Reiley, Jr., passed his
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childhood and youth in his native city, and there attended the local schools for the preliminary portion of his education. He was extremely ambitious, and soon won the favorable regard of his teachers for his industry and aptness. Upon grad- uating from the high school, he went to Holy Cross College and there completed his general education and took up the study of law, to which he had determined to devote his life. He graduated from the Law School in 1902, and being admitted to the bar in the same year he at once be- gan practice in Waterbury. He opened his office in the Odd Fellows' Building, and was successful from the start. He won for himself a splendid reputation for upright dealing and ability in his practice, with the public generally and with his fel- low members of the bar. In 1906 and 1907 he served with distinction on the Board of Education, and later his fellow- citizens honored him by electing him dis- trict attorney, an office that he is at pres- ent (1917) holding to the great satis- faction of the entire community without regard to their political affiliations. He served as assistant corporation counsel in Waterbury from 1909 to 1914, and the ex- perience that he gained there and in his private practice he is now practicing to good effect in his new capacity. Politi- cally he is a Democrat, and a staunch supporter of the principles and policies of that party, working always for their ad- vancement and for that of the community generally. Mr. Reiley is a conspicuous figure in the life of Waterbury, taking part in almost every important movement therein, especially those connected with the welfare of the people. He is a well known member of the Knights of Colum- bus and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a Catholic, as have been his ancestors before him, and he and his family are all members of St. Mar- garet's Church of Waterbury.
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On January 8, 1908, Mr. Reiley was united in marriage with Bessie A. Mul- ville, a native of Naugatuck, Connecticut, born March 16, 1888, a daughter of John M. and Margaret (Moriarty) Mulville, both of whom are natives of Ireland. Mr. Mulville conducted a successful hotel in Naugatuck for many years. To Mr. and Mrs. Reiley has been born one son, Ed- ward Bernard Reiley, third, October 10, 1909.
Mr. Reiley is regarded as one of the most promising of the younger members of the Waterbury bar, and his services and achievements up to the present are such that it may confidently be predicted that the future holds for him most bril- liant successes and the gratitude of his fellows.
SCOVILLE, William Harris, Architect, Builder.
William Harris Scoville, architect and builder, was born in Elmwood, a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut, June 10, 1862. Shortly afterwards his parents moved to Hartford, where he received his education in the Wadsworth street school. He learned the carpenter's trade with his father and became a skilled worker. At the age of nineteen, being ambitious, he began contracting and progressed rapidly as an architect and builder, employing the services of draftsmen. Now for over a quarter of a century Mr. Scoville has made a special study of the development of real estate and general building, one of his special ideas being to sell houses on the rent payment basis.
He has for many years been active in public affairs, both political and educa- tional. He was the last councilman from the fourth ward prior to the newly cre- ated seventh and the first after that. Later, he served two terms as alderman and for several years was a selectman.
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He was a member of the seventh ward committee, and at present is a member of the first ward committee. For five years he has been a member of the high school committee and chairman of the same at the present time, was chairman of the commission to erect the Broad Street High School and is a member of the commission to erect an addition to that building and add two outlying schools to the city system, one at the north and the other at the south end.
Mr. Scoville has been for many years a member of the Masonic order, holding all the degrees of the York and Scottish Rites up to and including the thirty- second. His memberships include St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons; Pythagoras Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; Wolcott Council, Royal and Se- lect Masters; Washington Commandery, Knights Templar ; Sphinx Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and all bodies of Connecticut Consistory. He was for- merly a member of the Putnam Phalanx, belongs to the Royal Arcanum, the Con- necticut Historical Society, Hartford, City and Automobile clubs. In political faith he is a Republican.
Mr. Scoville is a descendant of Ezekiel and Mindwell (Barber) Scoville, of Har- winton, Connecticut. Ezekiel Scoville was a son of Stephen Scoville, who was a descendant of Arthur Scoville, one of the first proprietors of Middletown, Con- necticut. Mindwell Barber was a de- scendant of Thomas Barber, the first of the name in New England.
Mr. Scoville's standing in the business world is high and he has impressed him- self upon his community as a man of forceful character and public spirit. In his business relations, he is straightfor- ward, and the success that has come to him is well deserved.
LALLY, Thomas John,
Practitioner of Medicine.
Legion is the name of those who either have come to this country themselves or are the children of those who have, and representing the great races of Europe have raised themselves to positions of prominence and power in our industrial, commercial, professional and financial world. Such men it is our pleasant duty to admire and pay tribute to as typical of the energies of the great epoch to which we belong. Ireland, in proportion to the numbers it has sent here, has added most largely to the ranks of our professional men, there being, without doubt, some- thing in the essential character of these remarkably able people that fits them for scholarship and professional life. A splendid example of this was to be found in the career of the late Dr. Thomas John Lally, of Waterbury, Connecticut, who for about sixteen years prior to his death was winning a wide reputation as a phy- sician of the highest talents and aims, also firmly establishing himself in the re- spect and affection of the community. Dr. Lally was a native of this country, but both his parents were of Irish birth, and he exhibited strongly the marked vir- tues and talents of his race.
The family of Dr. Lally came from the picturesque region about Lochrea, where his grandfather, William Lally, was born, lived and died. He was a farmer, and he and his wife, who prior to her marriage was a Miss Dolan, were the parents of five children: Patrick, William, John, Bridget, Thomas, all of whom are de- ceased. Patrick came to this country, became a very wealthy contractor, and died in Williamstown, Massachusetts. John and Bridget followed him to the United States : Bridget made her home in the town of Washington, Massachusetts,
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and became the wife of Thomas Fleming. John Lally, father of Dr. Lally, was born at Lochrea, in 1834, and when fourteen years of age emigrated to the United States. He located in Washington, Mas- sachusetts, secured employment on the Boston & Albany railroad, and remained in that town for about six years. His work with the railroad necessitated his removal to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in which city he spent the remainder of his days, his death occurring there in 1895, aged sixty-one years. He married Mar- garet Mahon, a native of Lochrea, Ire- land, they having been schoolmates, and they were the parents of four children, as follows: Mary, died in infancy ; William, died in 1914; Margaret, died in young girlhood ; Thomas John, of whom further.
Dr. Thomas John Lally was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, March 4, 1874. His early life was spent in his native town and his education was acquired in its schools, graduating from the Pittsfield High School in 1893. He then went to Worcester, Massachusetts, to attend Holy Cross College, where he followed the aca- demic course and proved himself an un- usual student. He then decided to take up the study of medicine, and received his professional training at the Albany Medi- cal College, from which institution he was graduated in 1899. He took a special course at the Mothers' and Babies' Hos- pital in New York City, graduating there- from in 1900. He then removed to Waterbury, Connecticut, and in the fol- lowing year, 1901, established an office for the general practice of his profession in that city, and continued by dint of faithful and prompt application to his duties to build up a substantial patronage. He was a brilliant student of medicine, with a keen and penetrating insight into its mysteries, and was retained as physi- cian by a number of the prominent fami-
ies of Waterbury. He was also employed as physician at several of the large fac- tories. His first office was at No. 517 North Main street. Later he moved far- ther down the street, and in 1913 pur- chased a handsome dwelling opposite Sparks street. Although not a member of the staffs of St. Mary's Hospital or the Waterbury Hospital, he assisted greatly in the work of these institutions, having been a man with a prodigious capacity for work. He was generous hearted and philanthropic, giving of his time and serv- ice in an unostentatious manner, his right hand not knowing what his left hand did, and he aided to the extent of his ability every movement undertaken with the ad- vantage of the community in view. In the various societies connected with his own profession he was extremely active, and was a member of the County, State and National Medical associations. He was a staunch Catholic and attended the services of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, in Waterbury. He was a Democrat in politics, but took no active part in public affairs.
Dr. Lally married, August 14, 1901, at New Haven, Connecticut, Mary Eliza- beth Rousseau, a native of Springfield, Massachusetts, born March 12, 1874, a daughter of Eugene and Sarah Jane (Howarth) Rousseau. Eugene Rousseau was a native of Three Rivers, Canada, and died at New Haven, Connecticut, Oc- tober 3, 1910, at the age of fifty-nine years. His wife is a native of Whitely Dane, Lancashire, England, and at the present time (1917) is a resident of New Haven. Mr. and Mrs. Rousseau were the parents of five children, two of whom are deceased, those living being: Cora, now Mrs. William Stevens, of Hartford, Con- necticut ; Frank, a resident of New Haven, Connecticut ; and Mrs. Lally, widow of Dr. Lally. Dr. and Mrs. Lally were the
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parents of three children : John Rousseau, born November 24, 1902; Thomas Eu- gene, born November 3, 1903; and Fran- cis Edward, born December 6, 1914.
Dr. Lally died at his late home, No. 347 North Main street, Waterbury, after a long illness, April 19, 1917, and this sad event was learned of with great sorrow throughout his adopted city. The funeral services were conducted in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, where a solemn high mass of requiem was cele- brated by the following priests : The Rev. Father Doherty, celebrant ; Father Lally, of St. Thomas' Church, deacon; Father Judge, of Middlebury, sub-deacon, and Father Dowd, master of ceremonies. The interment was in the new St. Joseph's Cemetery.
Great as was the success of the life career of Dr. Lally, and great as it ap- pears from even a mere formal recital of what he accomplished, his true influence as a factor in the life of the community cannot be adequately appreciated without a picture of the personality of the man, the drawing of which is a task of magni- tude. He was a man of varied interests and tastes, the two strongest of which were those for his chosen profession and for the life he led at home in the midst of his family. His wife and children ever being held by him in deep and reverent affection. He was strong and faithful in his friendships, one of the most genial of companions, democratic in his instincts and friendly with all men. He shrank naturally from injuring anyone's feelings, or even from dealing too ruthlessly with their prejudices, which his powers of mind and speech might often tempt him to do, yet he never hesitated to express his own opinion, even when it was un- popular, or to back it up with logical and convincing argument.
ROBINS, Charles H.,
City Official of Hartford.
Connecticut was one of the first colo- nies to be settled in the New World, and from those pioneers who laid the foun- dations of the great State have descended long lines of honorable stock, the class from which the great men of the State have come. From this stock have been drawn in largest numbers the public offi- cers who have built the little colony to its present greatness, through the peril- ous and soul-trying days of its infancy, guiding its progress with the true hand of those gifted in the art of governing. Connecticut has always held an honored place in the Union, the stern and rugged honesty of its sons commanding respect in all fields of endeavor. The history of the State is inseparable from that of its great men, who have distinguished them- selves in all walks of life.
Noted among the families who have done much for their native State. is the Robins family, of whom Charles H. Rob- ins, city controller of Hartford. Con- necticut, is a member. The house is one of the oldest in America. Just when the first of the line to immigrate settled here is not known. The records show Nicho- las Robbins to have been a resident of Duxbury, Massachusetts, as early as 1638. He was one of the proprietors of Bridgewater, but never lived there. Nich- olas Robbins died in Duxbury in 1650.
His son, John Robbins, settled in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where in 1667 his son Jeduthan Robbins was born. Jeduthan Robbins was later a resident of Plympton, where he died in 1726.
His son. Lemuel Robbins, was born in 1726. He married Esther Dunham, and was for some time a resident of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Later he removed to Sutton, Massachusetts, and afterward to
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Townsend, now Poultney, Vermont, where he was killed in 1786 by the fall- ing of a tree.
His son, Ephraim Robins, was the first of the family to spell the name with one "b," and this spelling has been followed by all of his descendants. He was born on March 7, 1752. He married, on May 2, 1771, Abigail Caulkins, and died in Hartford, June 30, 1829. They were the parents of eleven children.
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