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In Hamden, on December 11, 1933, Louis Angelo Sidoli married Edna Panzani. A native of that city, she was born on September 28, 1907, and is a daughter of Ernest and Carmella (Morselli) Panzani. Both of her parents were born in Italy, in 1885. They are now living in New Haven. Her father was a textile worker for many years. Mrs. Sidoli received her education in local schools. She is now active in societies of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and Sacred Heart Academy.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidoli make their home at 2638 Dixwell Avenue, Hamden. They are the parents of two children, both of whom were born in New Haven: I. Louise, who was born on July 27, 1936. She graduated from Hamden High School in 1954, attended St. Joseph's College and took her degree of Bachelor of Arts there in 1958. She is now a teacher in the Hamden public schools. 2. Jean, born July 7, 1940. In 1958 she graduated from Sacred Heart Academy, where she was the outstanding senior in her class. She is now a student at Marymount College in New York.
CORNELIUS B. PRIOR
A Hartford lawyer who has been a partner in the firm of Gilman and Marks for about three decades, Cornelius B. Prior has also ren- dered valuable service to the people of his area as town counsel, and as prosecutor and municipal judge in the Town of Plainville.
He is a native of Plainville, and was born on July 3, 1901, son of Peter and Catherine (Skinner) Prior. Both parents are deceased. Peter Prior was with the Sessions Clock Company at Forestville until his death. Judge Prior completed his public school studies at New Britain High School, then entered Holy Cross College, where he took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1923. For his professional training he entered Yale Law School, and there he graduated in 1926, receiv- ing his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to practice in the State of Connecticut the same year.
Judge Prior came directly with the firm of Gilman and Marks as soon as he had graduated from law school. He became a partner in 1928. Throughout his years of practice with this firm, which has its offices at 49 Pearl Street, Hartford, he has specialized in real estate law. He is a member of the board of directors of the Plainville Trust Company, and his public service has been centered in that town.
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As a lawyer, he is a member of the American Bar Association, the Connecticut State Bar Association and the Hartford County Bar Association. His nonprofessional memberships include the Plainville Lions Club and the lodges of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and Knights of Columbus at Hartford. He is a Roman Catholic, a member of St. Thomas the Apostle parish in West Hartford.
At St. Joseph's Cathedral in Hartford, on June 24, 1931, Cor- nelius B. Prior took as his wife Miss Katherine M. Daly of that city, daughter of Michael and Mary (Long) Daly. The couple are the pa- rents of two children: I. Cornelius B., Jr., who was born in Plain- ville on February 26, 1934. He graduated from William Hall High School in West Hartford and Holy Cross College in Worcester, and he is now a lieutenant (j.g.) in the United States Navy. 2. Katherine M., born at Plainville on August 1, 1936. She is a graduate of Oxford School at West Hartford, and is also a graduate of the Class of 1958 at Georgetown University School of Nursing.
LOUIS B. STONER
Identified with The Jacobs Manufacturing Company in various capacities over the past two decades, Louis B. Stoner has advanced to the position of its president. Besides heading this prominent West Hartford industrial organization, he is a director of other companies, and takes an active interest in local groups.
Mr. Stoner is a native of Hartford, and was born on March 21, 1913, son of Louis E. and Clara (Jacobs) Stoner. After attending Kingswood School in West Hartford, Louis B. Stoner enrolled at Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. There he graduated in 1935 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He took courses in business administration at Columbia University during 1935-1936.
On April 1, 1936, he began his connection with The Jacobs Man- ufacturing Company, at whose Elmwood, West Hartford, plant the widely known Jacobs Drill Chucks are produced. He was named treasurer of the corporation on December 13, 1937, and the duties of general manager were added to the treasurership on February 7, 1944. Mr. Stoner was elected president and treasurer in February 1947. When the corporation became a wholly owned subsidiary of Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company in 1953 he resigned from the office of treasurer but has remained president and a director of the corporation.
Mr. Stoner also serves as a director of Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, The Hartford Investment Company, The Hartford Com-
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pany, The Jacobs Manufacturing Company, Ltd. of Sheffield, Eng- land, and Frank Guylee and Son, Ltd. also of Sheffield. His member- ships include The Yale Club of New York, The Hartford Club, and The Hartford Golf Club. His favorite sport is golf.
At Greenwich, Connecticut, on November 5, 1956, Louis B. Ston- er married his second wife, Mrs. Jean T. Beane. She is the daughter of Carl and Mary (Pansing) Tedger of Orlando, Florida. She is an alumna of Florida State College at Tallahassee. By his first marriage Mr. Stoner is the father of four daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Stoner make their home on Stoner Drive in West Hartford.
WILBUR CARL STAUBLE
Wilbur Carl Stauble's career in industry has brought him re- sponsible posts in several Connecticut manufacturing firms. He was recently named president of Veeder-Root Incorporated, of Hartford.
A native of New Haven, he was born on June 22, 1899, and is a son of Arnold J. and Sophie (Shenkel) Stauble. The public schools of his home city provided Wilbur C. Stauble with his entire education, and he attended New Haven High School.
In 1929, Mr. Stauble was one of founders of The Holo-Krome Screw Corporation of Hartford, and he continued with this organiza- tion for more than two decades in executive capacities, becoming pres- ident of the corporation in 1952. That position he still holds. In 1958, he was given additional executive duties with his election to the office of president of Veeder-Root Incorporated, of Hartford. This is the parent company of Holo-Krome Screw Corporation.
Mr. Stauble serves on the board of directors of Veeder-Root In- corporated, and he is also a director of Russell Manufacturing Com- pany of Middletown, and of Hartford Gas Company.
A director of the Hartford County Manufacturers Association, he formerly served as its president, and he is interested in welfare and civic work, being a director of the Hartford Chapter of the Amer- ican Red Cross and of the Young Men's Christian Association of Hartford. His memberships include the Hartford Club, Hartford Golf Club of West Hartford, Wampanoag Country Club also of West Hartford, the Metropolitan Club of New York and the New York Athletic Club. A member of the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons and of the higher bodies of the order, he belongs to the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. In politics, Mr. Stauble is a registered Republican.
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At Bridgeport, on July 1, 1922, Wilbur Carl Stauble married Alice Thelin. Born in Bridgeport on March 16, 1899, she is the daugh- ter of John Adolph and Eugenia E. (Landberg) Thelin.
GEORGE H. GILMAN, JR.
Partner in the Hartford law firm of Gilman and Marks, George H. Gilman, Jr., has practiced law in the Capitol city for the past quarter of a century. He has taken a constructive part in civic affairs there.
A native of Hartford, he was born on September 20, 1906, son of George H. and Mabel E. (Goodrich) Gilman, both natives of Hart- ford. His father, a Yale graduate of 1890, and a well-known attorney, practiced in Hartford, and was the senior partner of the firm of Gil- man and Marks, until his death in 1928. Mrs. Gilman survives him, and makes her home in Hartford.
Completing his preparatory studies at Taft School, George H. Gilman, Jr., graduated there in 1925. He then entered Yale College, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1929. He attended Yale Law School for his professional training, and graduated there in 1932 with his Bachelor of Laws degree. In 1933 he was admitted to practice in the state of Connecticut.
He became associated with the firm of Gilman and Marks, and was admitted to partnership in 1935. Its offices are at 49 Pearl Street in Hartford. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
He served on the Board of Park Commissioners of the city of Hartford, and is currently a director of the Hartford Dispensary. Another of his interests is the Connecticut Humane Society, of which he is a director. He is a member of the Hartford Golf Club and The Hartford Club.
DAVID ATKINSON SOLLY, JR.
For the past two decades, David Atkinson Solly, Jr., has been identified with the AEtna Insurance Company of Hartford in mana- gement posts, and now holds the office of treasurer, also serving on its board of directors. He is an official of other companies as well, and takes a full part in welfare, civic, and organizational programs.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, he was born on January 6, 1903, son of David A., Sr., D.D., and Mary (Kreamer) Solly. His father, a Baptist minister, died January 15, 1940, being at the time of his
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retirement, three years previously, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Passaic, New Jersey. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Solly was a graduate of Bucknell University and Southern Baptist Semi- nary in Louisville, Kentucky. He had begun his career in the ministry at Harrisonburg, Virginia, and later served Baptist churches at Roa- noke and Richmond, Virginia, Wayne and Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and at Glens Falls, New York.
Dr. Solly was preaching at Glens Falls at the time his son was attending public school, and David A. Solly, Jr., graduated from high school there. He then entered Dartmouth College at Hanover, New Hampshire, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Sci- ence in 1924. The following year he joined the staff of the Fitch Pub- lishing Company of New York, and remained with that organization until 1932. He then entered the New York stock brokerage firm of Estabrook and Company, working in its statistical department for five years.
In 1937, he came to Hartford to accept a position in the treasurer's office of the AEtna Insurance Company; and he served as assistant treasurer of the organization until 1953, when he was promoted to treasurer, and appointed to the board of directors. His office is at the company's headquarters at 55 Elm Street. Mr. Solly is also a direc- tor of The World Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Standard Insurance Company of New York, The Century Indemnity Company, and the State Savings Bank of Hartford.
Among the welfare organizations in which he takes a vital interest is the Connecticut Institute for the Blind, which he serves as a director. He is also a director of the Governmental Research Institute. His fraternity is Phi Kappa Psi, and in his own city he belongs to the Hartford Golf Club and the Dartmouth Club of Hartford. He and his family attend the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, which Mr. Solly is now serving as treasurer.
At Gainesville, Georgia, on April 30, 1934, David Atkinson Solly, Jr., married Rosalyn Asbury of that city, daughter of Rufus W. and Ida Rosalyn ( West) Asbury. Mrs. Solly graduated from Brenan Col- lege at Gainesville in 1930. The couple are the parents of one daughter, Sandra Asbury Solly, who was born January 13, 1937, at Montclair, New Jersey. A graduate of Oxford School for Girls at Hartford, she attended Mount Holyoke College at South Hadley, Massachusetts, where she graduated with the Class of 1958. She was married on August 30, 1958, at Hartford, to Leonard Meservey Utz, son of Albert Utz of Port Washington, Long Island, New York. He is a
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graduate of Amherst College, Class of 1958, and is now attending Harvard School of Business Administration.
The family's residence is at 85 Mohawk Drive, West Hartford.
MARVIN KIRBY PETERSON
President of New Haven College since 1954, and part-time lec- turer in the Department of Economics at Yale University, Mr. Peter- son has been associated with New Haven College since 1946 and has been a leader in the educational field since that time. Born in Mill- ville, New Jersey, on September 26, 1909, he is the son of William Reeves and of Edna (Kirby) Peterson. He graduated from Millville High School in 1927, obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science in Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1931, and received the degree of Master in Education at Rutgers University in 1937. During World War II, Mr. Peterson served in the Army Air Corps from 1941 to 1945. A staff officer with various duties for the Ninety-sixth Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, he served in the European Theater of Operations.
Active in the banking field in 1931 and 1932, Mr. Peterson was a teacher and head of the commercial department in the high school of Ocean City, New Jersey from 1933 to 1941, and after a period of military service became chairman of the business department of New Haven College in 1946. Director of instruction in 1947, he served as dean from 1950 to 1953, and he has been president of New Haven College since 1954.
He is active in the community and is a member of the Rotary Club and of the New Haven Young Men's Christian Association. At the present time Mr. Peterson is active professionally as president of the New England Junior College Council, president of the Y.M.C. A. school and college, and chairman of the Standing Committee on Accreditation of the Connecticut Council on Higher Education. A member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, he enjoys social connections as a member of the Yale Club of New Haven, the Faculty Club of Yale, the Graduates Club of New Haven, and the Branford Yacht Club. He attends religious worship at Saint John's Episcopal Church of North Haven.
Mr. Peterson was married in New Haven on July 22, 1946, to Maureen Margaret Murray, the daughter of James Patrick Murray and of Hilda (Rook) Murray. They have two children: I. Elizabeth Anne, born on February 9, 1948. 2. David Murray, born on Febru- ary 5, 1951.
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EDWARD MCCRADY GAILLARD
New Haven banker Edward McCrady Gaillard has been the president of the Union and New Haven Trust Company since 1943. He has held office in state and national bankers' associations and other professional groups, and has served on the board of directors of other business firms: the United Illuminating Company of New Haven and the Wallace Silversmiths in Wallingford. In the latter company he has been a member of the executive committee and chair- man of the finance committee.
Mr. Gaillard was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, on June 12, 1896, the son of Samuel Gourdin and Esther Lynch (McCrady) Gaillard. His father was an engineer by profes- sion. Edward M. Gaillard graduated from Chestnut Hill Academy in 1915 and obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Yale Univer- sity in 1919. During World War I, he was on active duty from 1917 to 1919. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery in 1917, he served with the 312th Field Artillery of the Seventy-ninth Division at Camp Mead, and went overseas to France in 1918. In September of that year he won his promotion to first lieutenant.
From 1920 to 1923, he was in New York City with Bankers Trust Company, where he laid the foundation of his banking ex- perience. He came to New Haven in 1923 to assume duties as as- sistant to the president of the Union and New Haven Trust Com- pany, of which he was made a vice president in 1928. Elected to its board of directors in 1940, he was promoted to executive vice presi- dent in 1942, and he has held the office of president since 1943.
He is a trustee of the Connecticut Savings Bank and was a mem- ber of the stockholders' advisory committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 1950 to 1953, serving as its chairman in the latter year. During 1948-1949, he was president of the New Haven Clearing House and is now serving again in that capacity. During World War II he was a member of the Connecticut Bankers Associ- ation War Committee, and he is currently serving on the association's legislative committee. He was president of the state group in 1936- 1937. He was a member of the executive council of the American Bankers Association from 1937 to 1940. From 1938 to 1948, he served on the bank management committee of the New England Council; and he was a member of the State of Connecticut Advisory Council on Banking from 1945 to 1949.
Mr. Gaillard served in past years as a director of the New Haven Taxpayers Research Council, and he is a past director, vice president,
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and member of the executive committee of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce. He was for several years a member of the finance board of the Town of Guilford. Among his business interests, he has served for many years as a director of Gaylord Farms Association, and was its president from 1947 through 1949.
Retaining a vital interest in his alma mater, Yale University, Edward M. Gaillard has been a member of the Yale Development Committee since 1956. Since 1925 he has served continuously as treasurer of the Class of 1919, and is also a member of the class re- union committee. He was treasurer of the Yale Baseball Associa- tion in 1955, 1956 and 1957. He is a member of the Yale Club of New Haven and the Yale Club of New York, and of Zeta Psi fra- ternity and Skull and Bones senior society, which he joined as a Yale undergraduate. For several years in the late 1940s and early 1950S, Mr. Gaillard was a trustee of Pomfret School. He has been a member of the Armed Forces Advisory Committee since 1948.
Following World War I, he was a member of Squadron A of New York City, and he is still affiliated with the Association of Ex- Members of Squadron A. He is a member of the Sachem's Head Yacht Club, a member of the governing board of Sachem's Head Association, and the New Haven Lawn Club, of which he was for- merly president and a member of the board. He also holds member- ship in the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, the Connecticut His- torical Society, and the Historical Society of South Carolina. An Episcopalian, Mr. Gaillard served as a member of the vestry at St. Thomas' Church at New Haven for many years. He now attends services at Christ Church in Guilford.
At Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1922, Ed- ward McCrady Gaillard married Virginia Ticknor, daughter of Ben- jamin Durant and Constance (Parker) Ticknor. Mr. and Mrs. Gail- lard became the parents of three children: I. Edward McCrady, Jr., born on October 20, 1923. Graduating from Yale University, he en- tered the United States Marine Corps with a lieutenant's commission at the time of World War II, and lost his life in action in the battle for Okinawa, on May 25, 1945. 2. Benjamin Ticknor, born on June 3, 1926. 3. Virginia, who was born on December 27, 1930. She is now the wife of Mr. Peter Thompson Chew.
CHARLES OPPE
A founder of the G and O Manufacturing Company of New Haven more than forty years ago, Charles Oppe has been active in its
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management since that time. He holds the office of treasurer, but is also chief executive officer of the organization. He serves on several local boards of directors, and has also held public office.
Born in New York City on August 24, 1885, he is a son of Frederick and Louise (Teichmuller) Oppe. His father, a wallpaper manufacturer most of his life, developed a number of practices and processes still followed in the printing of wallpaper. His death oc- curred in 1918. Mrs. Oppe survived him until 1930.
Attending the public schools of New York City, Charles Oppe graduated from high school there, and in 1907 received his degree of Bachelor of Science from the Cooper Union, an old educational in- stitution in the metropolis.
In that year he came to New Haven where he took a position as inspector with a manufacturing firm, later advancing to chief en- gineer and superintendent. He left in 1915 to join Frederick Gar- giulo in establishing their own firm for the manufacture of radiators. This was incorporated as the G and O Manufacturing Company. Mr. Gargiulo sold his interest in 1921. Until that time, Mr. Oppe had served in the capacity of secretary. He has since been treasurer and chief executive officer. He has been a member of the board of di- rectors of the corporation since its founding, and is also one of the major stockholders.
The company has grown steadily and its manufacturing divisions now occupy a plant with more than one hundred and twenty thou- sand square feet of floor space. Its productive capacity is devoted chiefly to manufacturing engine cooling radiators for cars, trucks, tractors and diesel locomotives; also heat exchangers and finned ra- diation. Its Service Division manufactures replacement radiator cores for passenger cars as well as for trucks and industrial equipment of all kinds. During World War II more than twenty percent of all heavy-duty United States military vehicles were equipped with G and O radiators.
During World War I, Mr. Oppe was called to Washington to take charge of the national program for the production of airplane radiators, under the Bureau of Aircraft Production. Incidentally, the first airplane to cross the Atlantic ocean, now in a Washington museum, was equipped with G and O radiators. They were also used to cool the lighting plants taken by Admiral Byrd on his trips to the Antarctic.
In his home city he serves on the boards of directors of the New Haven Gas Company, the National Savings Bank and the Second
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National Bank. He has also served on the board of finance and the board of education, both of New Haven. He is a member of the So- ciety of Automotive Engineers, the New Haven Chamber of Com- merce, the Kiwanis Club, Quinnipiac Club, New Haven Country Club, the lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, and the Marine His- torical Association of Mystic, Connecticut. In politics he identifies himself as an independent Republican, and he attends the Congre- gational Church.
In New Haven, on September 15, 1909, Charles Oppe married Anna Julia Thoellden. Mrs. Oppe attended New Haven schools and Hillhouse High School. She was a member of the New Haven Women's Club and the Edgewood Club. For some time previous to her death, March 1, 1950, she was an invalid.
The couple were the parents of two children: I. Edith, who was born November 21, 1911, in New Haven. She attended Hillhouse High School and Simmons College in Boston. She is the wife of Harry Richardson Haynes, who is now executive vice president of the G and O Manufacturing Company. They live in Orange, and have one child, Nancy Carolyn. 2. Howard Charles, born February 3, 1914, in New Haven. He too attended Hillhouse High School, and was graduated from Cornell University with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Administrative Engineering. He is secretary and assistant treasurer of G and O Manufacturing Company.
EDWARD NORMAND ALLEN
For more than a decade and a half, Edward Normand Allen has headed Hartford's well-known department store, Sage-Allen and Com- pany, Inc. (founded in 1889). He has become still more widely known as a public official, who has served as state senator, mayor of Hartford, and lieutenant governor of his state.
He is a native of Hartford, and was born on April 18, 1891, son of Normand F. Allen, one of the founders of the present business, and Carrie (Olmsted) Allen. Both parents were descended from old New England families. Mrs. Allen succeeded her husband as president of Sage-Allen and Company ; and was in turn succeeded by her son, Ed- ward N., in 1941.
Edward N. Allen received his early education in the public schools of Hartford, attending Hartford High School for two years. He began his advanced studies at Norwich University, but transferred from there to Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1914. In
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the same year he joined Sage-Allen and Company in the capacity of clerk. He became vice president in 1920, and president in 1941.
In the early years of his connection with the organization, his career was interrupted by service in World War I. He had previously enlisted in Troop B, Cavalry. Connecticut National Guard, and in 1916 saw active service on the Mexican border as first lieutenant in the Connecticut Field Signal Corps. When the United States entered World War I, he was commissioned second lieutenant in the 25th Field Artillery, serving with that unit until after the armistice.
A well-known figure in the dry goods industry, Mr. Allen has served as director and president of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. He is a member and past president of the Connecticut Retail Merchants Association, and after serving as vice president and director of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, was its president from 1937 to 1940. More recent offices have been chairmanship of the board of directors of the American Retail Federation in Wash- ington, which he held in 1947; and membership on the board of direc- tors and the executive committee of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the New England Council. He was chairman of the Interracial Commission, State of Connecticut in 1948, chairman of the Metropolitan District of Hart- ford, and is at present a member of the board.
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