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Mr. Allen held his first public office in Hartford as a member of the Police Board, on which he served from 1920 to 1924. In the late 1930s he was chairman of the Mayor's Charter Revision Com- mission, and a member of the Connecticut River Bridge Commission. He was elected to the Connecticut State Senate for the term extending from 1927 to 1929. In 1947. he served as mayor of Hartford. With this excellent record of public service to his credit, Mr. Allen was elected lieutenant governor of the State of Connecticut, and served from 1951 to 1955.
Mr. Allen is active in the Connecticut Chamber of Commerce, and in his home city he serves on the board of directors of the Hart- ford Public Library, and as a trustee of the Wadsworth Atheneum. He is a director of the Hartford Chapter of the American Red Cross, and former president, and over the years has been prominent in support of the Community Chest. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Mayflower Society, the Founders of Hartford, and the lodges of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Free and Accepted Masons. In Masonry he is affiliated with St. John's
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Lodge No. 4, Hartford, and all the higher bodies of both the York and Scottish Rites, including the Commandery of the Knights Templar and the Consistory, Thirty-second degree. He is a member of Sphinx Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and the Jesters. He is also a member of The Hartford Club, Hartford Golf Club, the University Club of Hartford, the Lambs Club and Yale Club. both of New York and an artist member of the Salma- gundi Club of New York. A Congregationalist, he is a member of Center Church, Hartford.
Twice married, Edward Normand Allen chose as his first wife Miss Ruby Tuttle, and they were married on December 13. 1916. They became the parents of three children: I. Jane. 2. Caroline. 3. Frances. Mr. Allen married, second, Mildred Pomeranz, and they have two children: Normand F. II. and Mary. In January, 1955, she became Connecticut's Secretary of State. Her biographical sketch accompanies. The couple make their home at 1200 Prospect Avenue in Hartford.
MILDRED (POMERANZ) ALLEN
Mildred (Pomeranz) Allen, (Mrs. Edward N. Allen) is Con- necticut's sixty-first Secretary of State, and one of six women hold- ing similar posts in the United States. Born Mildred Pomeranz, she is a native of Hartford, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Pomeranz. She completed her formal education in the city's public schools and is a graduate of Hartford High School. She continued her studies in music under Joseph and Rosina Lhevine in New York and Europe, becoming a concert pianist and teacher. On November 7, 1935, she became the wife of Edward N. Allen, department store executive and former lieutenant governor, whose biographical sketch is to be found in this work.
A Republican in her politics, Mrs. Allen was elected Secretary of State of Connecticut for a term beginning January 5, 1955. She has been active in many civic and educational organizations. Among them are the Connecticut Child Welfare Association; the Greater Hartford Girl Scouts; Woman's Republican Club of Hartford; the Hartford County Woman's Republican Association; Mitchell House of Hartford; the Mark Twain Association; the Symphony Society of Greater Hartford; the Connecticut Opera Association; the In- strumental Music Foundation ; and the Metropolitan Opera Guild. She is honorary chairman of the Children's Cystic Fibrosis Association
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of Connecticut, and the Connecticut Chapter of National Multiple Sclerosis Society. She is a former president of the Musical Club of Hartford and a former director of the North End Community Center and the Hartford Chapter, American Red Cross.
Mrs. Allen's other affiliations include the League of Women Vo- ters, the Young Women's Christian Association, B'nai B'rith, the Hartford Rehabilitation Association and the Wadsworth Atheneum Auxiliary.
JOHN B. CARVALHO
With experience in the insurance field dating from the beginning of his career, John B. Carvalho has advanced from agent to the pres- idency of two of Hartford's firms, the Metropolitan Fire Assurance Company and Transatlantic Securities Company.
He is a native of Huntington, Massachusetts, and was born on April 30, 1904, son of Bertram N. and Jesselyn E. (Pierce) Carvalho. His father, prior to his death in 1946, was president of the North- eastern Insurance Company of Hartford. Mrs. Carvalho died in 1938. On completing his preparatory studies at the Pawling School, Pawl- ing, New York, and graduating there in 1922, John B. Carvalho entered Yale University as a member of the class of 1926. He began his career in insurance as a special agent with the National Fire In- surance Company of Hartford.
From 1928 to 1930, he was associated with the New York Fire Insurance Rating Organization which he left, to join the American Reserve Insurance Company, also in New York, in an executive capa- city. He left the American Reserve Insurance Company in 1934 to become manager of the New York office of the Rossia Insurance Com- pany and Metropolitan Fire Assurance Company. In 1936 he was transferred to the Pacific Coast Department of both of these com- panies as assistant manager, serving there till he was transferred to the home office of these companies in Hartford in 1938. In that year he became vice president and a director of Metropolitan Fire Assurance Company and was elected to the presidency of the company in 1946. Since 1946, Mr. Carvalho has been president and director of the Transatlantic Securities Company of Hartford, and he is a director of the Standard Holding Corporation of New York City.
His memberships include the University Club of Hartford, Hart- ford Golf Club, the Yale Club of New York, the Drug and Chemical Club of New York, and also India House of that city.
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Mr. Carvalho served in the New York State unit of the National Guard from 1931 to 1936, and during the World War II years 1942- 1946 he held the rank of lieutenant in Troop A, Connecticut State Guard. At present a member of the First Company of Governor's Foot Guard, he was formerly commander of that unit. His favorite outdoor sport is golf.
At Essex, on August 20, 1932, John B. Carvalho married Augusta A. Miner, daughter of Thomas W. and Antonie Miner. Mrs. Carvalho is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Art. The couple make their home in West Hartford, and they are the parents of the following children: I. Susan M., who was born on January 5, 1936. She is a graduate of Oxford School for Girls at West Hartford, and Connecticut College for Women, class of 1958. 2. Tonia P., born on September 24, 1940. She graduated from the Oxford School for Girls in 1958 and is attending State University of Iowa, Iowa City. 3. Wendy C., born on June 14, 1943; attending Oxford School for Girls. 4. Leslie, born on January 20, 1945; also at Oxford School for Girls.
HENRY PALMER BAKEWELL
Practicing law in Hartford since he was admitted to the bar in 1932, Henry Palmer Bakewell is a member of the law firm of Alcorn, Bakewell and Smith. Mr. Bakewell is vitally interested in the promo- tion of the city's cultural facilities, and is active in the work of the Episcopal Church.
A native of New Haven, he was born on June 1, 1907, son of Charles Montague and Madeline (Palmer) Bakewell. He received his advanced academic education at Yale College, where he took his degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1929. For his professional studies, he went to Harvard and there, in 1932, he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the same year he was admitted to the Con- necticut bar.
Since the beginning of his professional career, Mr. Bakewell has been with the law firm now known as Alcorn, Bakewell and Smith. His partners are H. Meade Alcorn, Jr., and R. Graeme Smith. Engag- ing in a general practice, the partnership has its office at 750 Main Street.
Mr. Bakewell is a member of the Hartford County Bar Associa- tion, the American Bar Association and the State Bar Association of Connecticut. He also belongs to the American Society of Interna- tional Law. His fraternity is Beta Theta Pi. In his own city, he has been active in promoting musical facilities. He serves on the board
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of trustees of Hartford College, on the board of directors of the Hart- ford School of Music, and has been president of the Symphony Soci- ety of Greater Hartford.
His nonprofessional memberships include the American Legion, the Hartford Club and the University Club. Active in the Episcopal Church, he is chancellor of Christ Church Cathedral, and a member of the Executive Council of the Diocese of Connecticut. He was lay deputy to the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1949 and again in 1952 and 1958.
Mr. Bakewell is a veteran of active service in the United States Naval Reserve in World War II. He advanced in rank from lieutenant, junior grade, to commander, and retired in 1952.
On November 16, 1934, Henry Palmer Bakewell married Hester Livingstone Adams, and they are the parents of the following chil- dren: I. Henry Palmer, born on May 25, 1937. 2. Charles Adams, born on April 12, 1940. 3. Hester Livingstone, who was born on No- vember 23, 1945. 4. Sarah Ferris, born on May 5, 1947. The family lives on Foxcroft Road in West Hartford.
HARRY E. SLOAN, JR.
Member of a family which has been contributing to the develop- ment of Connecticut for over three centuries, Harry E. Sloan, Jr., is now president of the Cushman Chuck Company of Hartford. He has been in the machinery manufacturing business since the beginning of his career. He has also taken a constructive interest in civic and social welfare programs in his city.
A native of Hartford, Mr. Sloan was born on May 28, 1915, son of Harry E., Sr., and Anna (Egan) Sloan. After attending Kingswood School in West Hartford and completing his preparatory studies there, the younger Harry E. Sloan entered Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School, and graduated there in 1936, with the de- gree of Bachelor of Science. For a year following his graduation, he was with the Hartford Special Machinery Company as an appren- tice machinist. In 1937 he joined the Cushman Chuck Company, and worked in various capacities, familiarizing himself with all aspects of operations, over the next two years. In 1939 he was promoted to vice president and secretary, and he was elected president of the cor- poration in 1952.
Mr. Sloan is an incorporator of the Hartford Hospital, and a member of the Hartford Hospital Association. Vitally interested in activities on behalf of youth, he is vice president and trustee of the
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Boys' Club of Hartford, and serves on the advisory board of the Hartford Association for Retarded Children.
He is a member of the Hartford Chamber of Commerce, the Hartford Golf Club, the Hartford Gun Club, and the Yale Club of Hartford. He was president of The Hartford Club from 1957 to 1959. He is also a member of the Kingdom Game Club, and his fra- ternity is Theta Xi. He is a communicant of St. John's Episcopal Church in West Hartford. Fond of the out-of-doors, his favorite sports are hunting, fishing, and golf.
Mr. Harry E. Sloan, Jr., married Jean Spencer, daughter of Henry M. and Jessie (Gorham) Spencer of West Hartford. Mrs. Sloan attended National Park Seminary in Washington, D. C. The couple are the parents of three children: I. Nancy, who was born in Hartford, on November 20, 1940. 2. Harry, 3rd, born in that city on June 6, 1955. 3. Spencer Adrian, born February 6, 1957.
CHARLES T. KINGSTON, JR.
Since the beginning of his career, Charles T. Kingston, Jr., has been in the insurance business, and for some years past he has headed his own agency in Hartford-Charles T. Kington and Associates. The firm sells life, accident, and group insurance policies, and repre- sents Union Mutual Life Insurance Company.
He is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and was born on June 5, 1912, son of Charles T., Sr., and Estella (Hatt) Kingston. His father, who died in February, 1953, was identified with a drop forge plant in Detroit. Mrs. Kingston died in 1943. Completing his preparatory studies at Howe Military Academy in Indiana, the younger Charles T. Kingston came to Hartford to attend Trinity College. There he took his degree of Bachelor of Science in 1934. He began his career in insurance in that year with the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company at Bloomfield, and remained with that firm until he estab- lished his own agency in 1952. From April, 1942, to February, 1946, Mr. Kingston was absent, serving in the United States Army. He attained the rank of lieutenant colonel in Military Intelligence, and served in the Pacific Theater. In his connection with Connecticut General, he worked in its Chicago, New York and Philadelphia offices.
Active in civic affairs at Hartford, Mr. Kingston is past vice chairman of the Greater Hartford Community Chest and became general chairman in October, 1958, following more than a decade of
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valuable service to the Red Feather program. He was president of the Greater Hartford Community Council, advisory group to the Chest and its agencies, from 1950 to 1952. In 1949 he served as chairman of Greater Hartford's first Heart Fund campaign. He was president of the Hartford Hospital Association from 1952 to 1956. He is cur- rently a trustee of the Goodwill Boys' Club.
With an excellent record in insurance sales to his credit, Mr. Kingston is a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table, which draws its membership from the upper one per cent of insurance agents who sell at least one million dollars' worth of insurance in a year. He was speaker at the Round Table's convention at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, in 1957.
Mr. Kingston is now president of the Trinity Alumni Associa- tion, having been elected in June, 1958. He is a member of the Univer- sity Club of Hartford, Hartford Golf Club, Pinehurst Country Club in North Carolina, and the Mid-Ocean Club of Bermuda. He is a communicant of St. John's Episcopal Church.
In Trinity College Chapel, Hartford, on September 12, 1936, Charles T. Kingston married Helen Sloan, daughter of Harry E. and Anna (Egan) Sloan of Hartford. Mrs. Kingston attended Bennett Junior College at Millbrook, New York. The couple are the parents of two children : I. Carolynn, born at Evanston, Illinois, on January 20, 1939. She is a graduate of Conard High School in West Hartford and is now modelling in New York City. 2. Pamela, born August 14, 1940, also at Evanston. She attented Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, and is now a student at Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
JULIUS G. DAY, JR.
Practicing law in Hartford since his admittance to the state bar, Julius G. Day, Jr., is a member of the firm of Day, Berry and Howard. He has important corporate connections as well, and takes a full part in his city's social life.
Born at Shelton, on July 23, 1906, he is a son of Julius G. Day, Sr., who, in his ninety-second year at the time of writing, is still ac- tive, and makes his home at New Haven. He has spent most of his life in the manufacturing and investment business, and has served on the boards of directors of several companies in the New Haven area.
Completing his preparatory studies at Taft School, Julius G. Day, Jr., entered Yale University, where he took his degree of Bache-
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lor of Arts in 1927. He received his professional training at Yale Law School, where in 1930 he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. Admitted to the bar of the state of Connecticut, he began prac- tice with the firm of Day, Berry and Reynolds. He has been with that firm, now Day, Berry and Howard since, although from 1942 to 1945 he was on leave of absence, doing volunteer work as assistant counsel and acting general counsel for The American National Red Cross in Washington, D. C.
Mr. Day is also a director, secretary, and general counsel of the Farrel-Birmingham Company, Inc., of Ansonia, and a director of H. P. and E. Day Company of New Haven. At this writing he is secretary of his Yale Class of 1927.
As a lawyer, he belongs to the Hartford County Bar Association, the Connecticut State Bar Association, and the American Bar Associa- tion. His other memberships include the Yale Club of New York, Yale and University clubs of Hartford, Hartford Golf Club, and the Chevy Chase Club of Maryland. He attends St. John's Episcopal Church of West Hartford. Mr. Day's hobbies are gardening and woodworking, and his favorite outdoor sport is golf.
At Richmond, Virginia, on December 9, 1937, Julius G. Day, Jr., married Alice Hotchkiss of Richmond, daughter of Henry S. and Lillian (Atkins) Hotchkiss, who reside in that city. Mrs. Day is a member of the Junior League. The couple are the parents of two children: I. Cynthia Hotchkiss, born in Hartford on August II, 1947. 2. John Gilbert, who was born in that city on June 21, 1950.
CHARLES E. RAUCH
Vice president of the Connecticut Saving Bank of New Haven since July, 1952, Mr. Rauch is active in the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks. He has been engaged in the investment bank field since 1930, and is widely known in banking circles.
Born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, on January 26, 1907, he is the son of Charles Elwood Rauch and of Elizabeth (Thompson) Rauch. His father was a merchant and humanitarian, who died in Lebanon in 1906. Mr. Rauch graduated from Lebanon High School in 1924 and from Mercersburg Academy in 1926, and he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Dartmouth College in 1930. During World War II, he received a direct commission as first lieutenant in the Army Air Forces on May II, 1942, and he was stationed at Keesler Field, Mississippi from May, 1942 to September, 1944, as supply officer and then adjutant, and he was commanding officer from Janu-
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ary, 1943 to September, 1944 of a basic training group of the Air Technical Training Command. He served in the Procurement Divi- sion of the Air Technical Service Command at Wright Field, Ohio, from December, 1944 to February, 1946, being appointed Chief of the Company Pricing Section at Wright Field and coordinator for Company Pricing at all Air Force installations in the United States in July, 1945. He also served as alternate on the Contract Review Committee of the Procurement Division and as an alternate on the Federal Rubber Allocation Board. He attended Officers Training School at Miami, Florida, from November, 1942 to January, 1943; the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, from June to August, 1944; and the War Adjustment Course at the Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, from October to November, 1944. He received his honorable discharge with the rank of major on February 11, 1946.
Entering the firm of Wood, Struthers and Company of New York, members of the New York Stock Exchange, upon his graduation from college in 1930, Mr. Rauch did statistical and analytical work, and in 1934 became junior salesman in the New England territory. In 1936, he took over all bank, insurance and endowment fund accounts for the firm in Boston, Hartford and New Haven, and in October, 1936. opened a branch office in Hartford to service these accounts. On February 1, 1941, he was elected an assistant treasurer of the New Haven Savings Bank, of New Haven, his office handling all purchases and sales of securities. In 1947, Mr. Rauch joined the New York office of Drexel and Company as their New England institutional repre- sentative.
A member of the Association of Ex-Members of Squadron A of New York and of the Sons of the American Revolution, Mr. Rauch is a member of the Huguenot Society and of Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. His social connections include membership in the Union Club of New York, the Hartford Club of Hartford, Connecticut, and the Graduates Club Association of New Haven. A Republican in politics, he attends religious services at Saint James Episcopal Church in Farmington, where he has served as a vestryman, junior warden and a member of the Finance Committee.
Mr. Rauch was married in New York City on December 28, 1940 to Mildred Nicoll, the daughter of Courtland Nicoll and of Ione (Mitchell) Nicoll. Mr. and Mrs. Rauch have two children: I. Katrina, born on March 15, 1943. 2. Charles E., Jr., born on June 14, 1949.
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ROBERT JESSE HODGE
West Haven industrialist Robert Jesse Hodge has a record of service going back farther than almost any of his colleagues in manufacturing. He went to work in factories at the age of thirteen, and now, although eighty years old, remains active as president of the American Buckle Company, Inc. He has held other executive posts as well; has been active in engineers' and industrialists' groups; and has served three terms in the Connecticut State Legislature.
Born on October 14, 1879, in East Hampton, he is a son of David and Eliza T. (Beebe) Hodge. His father, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, came to this country in 1852 and first settled in New York. He perfected a furnace for recovering wasted metal, built these fur- naces in New York, then moved to East Hampton, continuing their manufacture there. For a time he was called to Cincinnati, Ohio, to engage in the same work, but later returned to East Hampton, where he died in 1895. Miss Beebe, whom he married, was born at East Hampton.
Robert J. Hodge's formal education in the public schools ter- minated at the seventh grade, when he left to go to work. He later took courses at Middletown Business College. At the age of thirteen he took a position with the Gong Bell Manufacturing Company in East Hampton, and by the time he was sixteen, he was supervisor over four men at the factory. When he was twenty-one, he left the company and went to work for a year at the H. B. Brown Machine Shop in East Hampton.
In the course of the next fifteen years, Mr. Hodge was employed by various companies in Middletown, Meriden, and Hartford, start- ing with the Douglas Pump Shop at Middletown. After working for the Whitlock Pipe Company in Hartford, he joined the M. S. Little Manufacturing Company in the same city. There he rendered such valuable service that when he left in 1916, the company kept him on half-salary for another year.
In 1916, Mr. Hodge joined the American Buckle Company at West Haven, and his talents, in the years since that time, have placed the company in an enviable position in its industry. It owns between thirty and forty patents on buckles and fasteners which he has de- veloped. He has been president of the company for the past decade. His son, Hubert C. Hodge, has been secretary of the company for the past twenty years.
Mr. Hodge is also vice president and a director of the McLagon Foundry, and is president of Eastern Sales Company. Last year he
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resigned as vice president of Eastern Machine Tool Company, but he remains on its board of directors. He is also a director of the Trades- men's Bank of New Haven.
A Republican, Mr. Hodge was first elected to the Connecticut State Legislature for the 1925-1926 term. He has since served dur- ing the 1941-1942 and the 1945-1946 sessions. He also served sixteen years on the Board of Finance of West Haven. As a civic worker, he takes the most pride in his achievement in establishing and continuing the Eli Whitney Technical School at Hamden. In 1925, during his first term in the state legislature, he fought with vigor and deter- mination to secure passage of a bill locating a technical school in the New Haven area. His successful efforts brought the Eli Whitney Technical School into existence. Its continued growth and progress has been due, in large measure, to the untiring work of "Uncle Bob" Hodge, as he is known among its student body and faculty. In the school library hangs a large portrait of him, together with one of Eli Whitney.
Mr. Hodge is a member of the board of trustees of Connecticut Junior Republic, at Litchfield. He is a member of his city's Chamber of Commerce, a member of the New Haven County Manufacturers Association, and a member and past vice president of the Kiwanis Club. He also belongs to the Quinnipiac Club, and for fifty years he has been a member of the Free and Accepted Masons. He is also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, and of all Scottish Rite bodies. Holding the Thirty-second degree, he formerly held member- ship in Pyramid Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mys- tic Shrine, in Bridgeport. While he has had no military experience, and is not a member of the American Legion, he served as chairman of the Citizens' Committee of the Legion for the building of their hall in West Haven, and worked tirelessly for seven years to see this project through. Mr. Hodge is an associate member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a Protestant in religious faith.
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