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fertilizer factories, centrally located in the heaviest consuming arca in southern New England. These plants are at North Haven, Port- land and East Windsor, Connecticut, and South Deerfield, Massachu- setts. Warehouses for the handling of agricultural and industrial specialties are maintained at other points. In August, 1958, The Hubbard-Hall Chemical Company purchased majority interest in the firm of Chem-Salts, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, manufacturers of metal- lic chlorides and copper cyanide. It continues to operate from its office and plant in Atlanta.
Mr. Kellogg's associates in the management of The Hubbard- Hall Chemical Company are Edward R. Jones, executive vice presi- dent and treasurer; James R. Rossman, senior vice president; Fred- erick S. Foster and John Sanford, vice presidents; and E. S. Davis. Jr., secretary and assistant treasurer.
In addition to heading this organization, Mr. Kellogg is a director of the Citizens and Manufacturers National Bank and the Water- bury Savings Bank. He served on the Park Board of the City of Waterbury for about fifteen years. In politics he is a Republican. He is past president, and for several years served as a director, of the Community Chest, now the United Fund. He is a member and past director of the Country Club of Waterbury, and a member of the Waterbury Club and the Charter Club of Princeton.
At the time of World War II, Mr. Kellogg was absent serving in the United States Navy. With a commission of lieutenant, senior grade, in the Naval Reserve Corps, he was in the Pacific for twenty- two months. A communicant of St. John's Episcopal Church, he has served the congregation as vestryman.
In his native city of Waterbury, on April II, 1928, Frederic R. Kellogg married Lucy Templeton, also of that city. She is a daughter of the late Governor Charles A. Templeton and his wife, the former Martha Castle. Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg have four children: I. Cynthia, who is the wife of Warren C. Skipp. They have two children : Andrew and David Skipp. 2. Charles Templeton. 3. Judith, who married Phillip C. Rowley. 4. Peter Middlebrook.
FREDERICK POWERS MCINTYRE, M.D.
For the past decade, Dr. Frederick Powers McIntyre has prac- ticed at Stamford, specializing in internal medicine. His offices are at 65 South Street. He was a battalion surgeon in Europe during World War II, and he is now active in medical societies.
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A native of Brandon, Vermont, Dr. McIntrye is a son of Archi- bald Henry and Bridget (Powers) McIntyre. His father, born at Lester Junction, Vermont, in August, 1890, has been a manager of A. and P. food stores most of his career. Retiring two years ago, he lives at Brandon with Mrs. McIntyre, who was born in 1888.
Dr. McIntyre attended schools there and graduated from Brandon High School in 1933. In 1938 he took his degree of Bachelor of Science at the University of Vermont, and went on to the university's Medi- cal School, taking his degree of Doctor of Medicine there in 1942. Dur- ing the next year he interned at Stamford Hospital.
In 1943 he entered the service of the United States Army and was commissioned in the Medical Corps. His service overseas as bat- talion surgeon was with the Fifth Division, which was in combat in Europe, where he attained the rank of captain. Dr. McIntyre served until 1947, and when he returned to private practice, took a residency at Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City, remaining there until 1948. In that year he opened his office in Stamford for the practice of internal medicine.
In 1950, he was called back to active duty in the military forces as a member of the 43rd Division of the National Guard Infantry Divisions, such outfits being brought into federal service at the time of the Korean War. He served until 1952 with the rank of major, and received a commission as lieutenant colonel on his discharge. He is no longer active in the Reserves.
Dr. McIntyre is a member of the Stamford Medical Society, the Fairfield County Medical Society, the Connecticut Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He does not hold membership in clubs or organizations of a fraternal nature. In religious faith he is a Roman Catholic.
At Temple, Texas, on September 25, 1943, Dr. Frederick Powers McIntyre married Katherine Curtis Hart. Born in New York City on February 18, 1918, she is the daughter of Reeves Welch and Valarie Beatrice (Underwood) Hart. Her father, born in Stamford in 1892, is a chemist, working for the Keratene Corporation at Win- sted. Mrs. Hart was born in 1898, in New York City. Mrs. McIntyre attended Stamford High School and St. Mary's-on-the-Hudson Aca- demy, where she graduated in 1940. She is active in the Junior League. The couple are the parents of three children: I. Linda Reeves, who was born on August 6, 1948, in Stamford. She is attending Hollow Tree School in Darien. 2. Katherine Curtis, born June 10, 1951, at Fort Lee, Petersburg, Virginia. She recently entered Hollow Tree
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School. 3. Frederick Powers, Jr., born at Stamford on August 28, 1957.
DOUGLASS O. BURNHAM
After varied business experience, Douglass O. Burnham became head of the Connecticut Fuel Gas Corporation in Watertown. He has since acquired the Connecticut Manufacturing Company, which pro- duces machine screws and screw machine products.
Born in New York City on September 30, 1907, he is a son of Gordon W. and Isabel (Oswald) Burnham. He is a descendant of Gordon W. Burnham who was founder of the firm of Benedict and Burnham in Waterbury. It was a predecessor of the American Brass Company. Douglass O. Burnham's father, was for many years vice president of the American Brass Company, and is now deceased. His wife, the former Isabel Oswald, survives him.
Douglass O. Burnham began his education at the Fay School, in Southboro, Massachusetts, where he was a student until 1921. He then transferred to the Pomfret School, and graduated there in 1927. In November of that year, he began his business career with the Central Trust Company in New York City. That bank was the prede- cessor of the Hanover Bank. He remained on its staff until 1930, then spent a year with the brokerage firm of G. M. P. Murphy.
In 1931, Mr. Burnham came to Waterbury and joined the Scovill Manufacturing Company. He worked in its plant as production su- pervisor, and was later named sales supervisor, continuing in that capacity until May, 1949. At that time, he bought controlling interest in the Connecticut Fuel Gas Corporation, of Watertown. He has been president of the company since, and is also president of the Connecti- cut Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, of which he purchased controlling interest in August, 1952. Both of these industrial organi- zations employ thirty people, and are making a considerable contribu- tion to the city's industrial and economic advancement. Mr. Burnham serves on the boards of directors of both companies.
He is a member of the Waterbury Club, attends Christ Church, and is a Republican in politics. Fond of the out-of-doors, he particu- larly enjoys hunting and fishing.
Mr. Burnham is the father of the following children: I. Douglas L. 2. Peter B. 3. Gilliat S. 4. William W. 5. Virginia L. 6. Daniel B.
HILDING N. OLSON
At the beginning of his career, Hilding N. Olson joined the staff
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of the Naugatuck Savings Bank, and for the past decade and a half he has been its president and a member of its board of directors. He is interested in projects for the betterment of his city, and is an of- ficial of the Howard Whittemore Memorial Library.
Born at Naugatuck on January 1, 1907, he is a son of Victor and Justine (Johnson) Olson. His father, who was born in Sweden in 1873, is deceased. Mrs. Olson survives her husband. Attending the public schools of his native city, Hilding N. Olson graduated from Naugatuck High School in 1924. That same year he began his con- nection with the Naugatuck Savings Bank. He gained experience in the operation of its various departments over the next two decades, and in 1943 was promoted to the presidency. He has been a member of its board of directors since 1932.
Mr. Olson is a director of the Howard Whittemore Memorial Library and a past director of the Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Country Club of Waterbury, Shepherd Lodge No. 78 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Centennial Lodge No. 100, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. A communicant of the Salem Lutheran Church, he formerly served as a member of its board. He is a Republican in politics, and his favorite sport is golf.
At Pleasant Valley, New York, on August 2, 1930, Hilding N Olson married Dorothy Higgins of Thomaston, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Corbet and Lillian (Gray) Higgins, both of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Olson have two sons: I. Robert Gray, who was born on January 15, 1932. He married Mildred Atwater of Branford, Connecticut, and they have two children: Greg Douglas Olson, and Gary Robert Olson. 2. Douglas Hilding, who was born on July 30, 1936. He married Patricia Buggie of East Hartford.
PAUL A. LUX
Representing the third generation of his family in the manage. ment of the Lux Clock Manufacturing Company of Waterbury, Paul A. Lux was recently promoted to the office of executive vice president. He was born in Waterbury, on January 9, 1925, and is a son of Frederick Lux (q. v.) and a grandson of Paul Lux (q. v.), founder of the firm.
He attended the local public schools, and in 1942 graduated from Waterbury High School. He then entered Dartmouth College, but his studies there were interrupted by wartime service in the United States Army Air Corps. Spending three and a half years in the Corps,
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he was a pilot, and held the rank of second lieutenant. Resuming his studies, Mr. Lux graduated from Dartmouth College with his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1948.
Since that time he has been with the Lux Clock Manufacturing Company, in positions of increasing responsibility. He began in dis- trict sales work, was later occupied with industrial sales and general sales, and in 1958, the year of his father's death, was made executive vice president of the company. At the same time he was appointed to its board of directors.
Mr. Lux is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and of the C. and G. Senior Society. His local memberships include the Waterbury Country Club, and King Solomon Lodge No. 7 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He also belongs to the Consistory of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and to Sphinx Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He and his family attend the Congregational Church.
At Russellville, Alabama, on February 1, 1946, Paul A. Lax married Sue Dowdell of that city, daughter of Harold Sargent and Lucille (Lyle) Dowdell. The couple are the parents of three children : I. Constance, born on February 3, 1947. 2. Paul Stephen, born January 18, 1950. 3. Mark Dowdell, born September 28, 1955.
HERMAN F. LUX
The Lux Clock Manufacturing Company at Waterbury has bren managed by two generations of Luxes. Throughout forty years of its existence, Herman F. Lux has been one of those whose business abil- ities have been vital in bringing the firm its present degree of prosperity. He holds the positions of vice president and treasurer.
A native of Waterbury, he was born on July 1, 1896, son of Paul (q. v.) and Caroline (Feld) Lux. Attending the public schools of Waterbury, Herman F. Lux graduated from Crosby High School in 1914. He became active in the firm with his father and his brother in 1917, his first position being that of assistant secretary. In 1934 he was promoted to secretary, and at the same time was named to the board of directors. In 1947, at the death of his father, he assumed his present duties as vice president and treasurer. A review of the company's record in the December 1956 issue of Connecticut Industry magazine describes his role as "skillfully and successfully negotiating the many financial problems of a growing company with quietness, restraint and an old-country common sense approach." This article
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continues : "Although primarily interested in the financial growth of the company, he has always expressed a lively interest and helpfulness in all phases of the company's development ... Herman has kept it in a healthy, growing financial condition to provide for continued expansion."
In addition to this major business interest, Mr. Lux serves on the board of directors of the Waterbury Savings Bank. A commu- nicant of the First Lutheran Church, he serves on its finance com- mittee. As a veteran of over eight months' service in the Army Air Corps in World War I, he is a member of Corporal Coyle Post of the American Legion. His other memberships include the Waterbury Club, Country Club of Waterbury, Lodge No. 265 of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and Liberty Lodge No. 123, Free and Accepted Masons. In Masonry, he belongs to the Lafayette Consistory of the Scottish Rite, in Bridgeport, and to Sphinx Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Hartford. He is fond of sports, particularly bowling, golf and fishing.
In Waterbury, on September 14, 1922, Herman F. Lux married Margaretha Borchardt of that city, daughter of William H. and Agnes (Kunkel) Borchardt. The couple are the parents of one son, Joseph William, who was born on May 8, 1929. In 1951, he graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and one year later received his Master of Science degree and is now a project engineer with the Lux Clock Manufacturing Company. Joseph W. Lux married Gertrude Buerkle of Cranston, Rhode Island, and they are the parents of one son, Joseph William, Jr.
FREDERICK LUX
Frederick Lux, of Connecticut's famed family of clockmakers, was a founder, with his father and brother, of the Lux Clock Manu- facturing Company, and served as its president for eleven years. Born in Waterbury on November 16, 1893, he was the son of Paul and Caroline (Feld) Lux. This was six years after his father had arrived in this country. Frederick received his education in local schools, grad- uated from Crosby High School, and shortly afterwards, in 1912, joined his father and his brother Herman in founding the Lux Clock Manufacturing Company. Its first "plant" was a barn in back of their home on East Farm Street. There Frederick gained valuable experi- ence, working with his father who was a master of his industry. Possessing an inventive mind, he himself contributed to the develop-
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ment of the company's products. He invented a gear-hobbing machine, used for cutting gears. This machine was later assigned to the Bar- ber-Coleman Company in Rockford, Illinois, and is now used in a variety of industries. Frederick Lux continued to focus his attention on the engineering phase of the work, and added many new products to the firm's clock line.
During World War I, he was absent serving in the army, being a regimental sergeant with the 301st Engineers. At the time of World War II, he was a member of the Technical Industrial Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He toured Europe, gaining technical information for the United States Government. His valuable services earned him a national award in 1951. He had also won a citation from the Ordnance Department in 1944, commending him for "distinguished service in defense of the country through his war production accomplishments." In 1946 the War Department cited him for his patriotic service as assistant chairman of the Bomb Fuse Industry Integration Committee. In 1954, Governor Frank G. Clement of Tennessee commended him for his "patriotism, valor, and fidelity," and named him a colonel aide de camp on the governor's staff.
For many years, Mr. Lux served as vice president of the clock-man- ufacturing firm, and he succeeded his father as president in 1947. Concerning his overall record of service to the company, a publication of the Connecticut Light and Power Company carried this comment in 1938:
Mr. Fred Lux, vice-president and superintendent, with his technical train- ing, merchandising ingenuity, his vigor and endless enthusiasm, has supplemented his father's unusual clock-making abilities to weld the Lux Clock Company into a sound and successful enterprise.
In the editorial columns of a local newspaper, at the time of his death, this further appraisal of his abilities appeared :
. . He was a man of an inventive mind, whose curiosity was easily aroused by any difficult problem whether it concerned his business, his city or his nation. He delighted in finding answers to problems, whether seeming insignificant or not. Anything which was puzzling or not easily understood aroused his particular genius for finding a solution . . . . These assets, added to his father's unusual ability as a clockmaker and his integrity as a businessman, were in large part. responsible for the steady growth of the once-small concern.
Mr. Lux was active in the Clock and Watch Manufacturers Association, and had served as its president. He was a member and former director of the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut. He was a member and at one time president of the 301st Engineers Association. He had taken a full part in many community and civic
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activities of his home city. In 1950 he headed the United Hospital Building Fund campaign, to raise three million dollars for the expan- sion of local hospital facilities. He was a leader in Federated Funds. predecessor of the United Fund. He served on the board of trustees of the Waterbury Hospital, and among his business interests was membership on the board of directors of the Citizens and Manufac- turers National Bank.
His memberships included the Waterbury Club and Waterbury Country Club, and the lodges of Free and Accepted Masons and Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was a communicant of the Second Congregational Church.
On October II, 1921, Frederick Lux married Gertrude Crandall, daughter of Abner and Elizabeth Crandall. To their marriage the following children were born: 1. Ruth, born on August 22, 1922. She is the wife of Dr. John Mosch of Middlebury. 2. Paul A., who is an executive of the company, and the subject of a separate biograpit- ical sketch in this work. 3. Frederick, Jr., who was born on June 23, 1929.
Mr. Lux was named chairman of the board of his company at its annual directors' meeting in March, 1958; and a few days later, on March 27, 1958, he died at Waterbury Hospital. Commenting on the significance of his career for his industry and for the community, a local journalist wrote:
Frederick Lux, chairman of the board of the Lux Clock Mfg. Co., was truly a home-grown manufacturer. He attained national prominence through his achievements in his field of endeavor. He was primarily possessed of genius in the mechanical field ... Fred Lux had more than mechanical ability. He was a good organizer, and he acquired a thorough knowledge of finance . .. Through his ability in many fields, and constant application of his great energy, he con- tributed much to the welfare of the community.
PAUL LUX
As founder, president and treasurer of the Lux Clock Manu- facturing Company of Waterbury, Paul Lux brought to his com- munity an organization which has contributed much to its prosperity and economic stability. He was born at Thorn in East Prussia on March 23, 1869, son of Frederick and Elizabeth Lux. His father was postmaster at Thorn. He himself was educated in German schools and at the age of fourteen was apprenticed in the clock manufacturing industry, spending three years in securing his fundamental training. At the end of that time he went to Glasgow, Scotland, where he
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worked for eight months, after which he spent a short period at Le Havre, France, in 1887. In the same year he came to the United States, seeking the larger opportunities of a newer country. He landed in New York and on his arrival secured employment with the Ansonia Clock Company at Brooklyn, New York. He remained there until 1892, when he moved to Waterbury.
In that city, Mr. Lux first joined the Waterbury Clock Com- pany, working in its experimental department until 1914. Meantime, however, in 1912, he had laid the groundwork of his own manufac- turing enterprise. His two sons, Frederick and Herman, joined hin in this venture, and they began operations in a barn in back of their home on East Farm Street. As business grew, a new location became necessary, and they moved to a building on Harrison Avenue. They later moved to the old Sperry Street School; and in 1926, constructed their modern plant on Johnson Street, where eight hundred people are now employed. Today, the firm has another plant in Lebanon, Tennessee. Paul Lux, the founder, continued to serve as president and treasurer of the organization until his death in 1947. Commenting on his talents as an industrial leader, a history of the state published two decades ago had this to say :
. . Mr. Lux's long experience in the field and his mechanical gifts had brought him an expert knowledge of clock manufacture, which he now employed to the advantage of his own company. Its steady development reflected not only the high standards of quality which he established in the manufacture of his products, but the strength of his leadership and soundness of his judgment as directing head of the company . .. He is well known as an executive and admired throughout the industry for his practical and inventive turn of mind as well as his business acumen.
Mr. Lux was a member of Waterbury Lodge No. 265, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and was active in various community movements. He was a communicant of the First Lutheran Church of Waterbury, Connecticut.
On September 5, 1889. in New York City, Paul Lux married Caroline Feld. They became the parents of two sons: I. Frederick, who is now deceased. 2. Herman. Both sons became executives of the company, and both are the subjects of brief biographies in this work.
Mr. Lux's death occurred on January 27, 1947.
JOHN HANFORD WOODWARD
The long-established firm of J. M. Layton and Company is a well-known insurance organization in Norwalk. John H. Woodward
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has been active in its management since a short time after his return from wartime service with the Army Air Corps.
A native of Norwalk, he was born on July 16, 1917, son of George L. and Marjorie (Bishop) Woodward. His father, born in the same city in 1872, was a banker, who became president of the National Bank of Norwalk and also of the South Norwalk Savings Bank. He also served as president of the Connecticut Bankers Association; as president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks; and as vice president of the Connecticut Chamber of Commerce. He was very active in state and civic affairs, and served in the Connecticut National Guard. His death occurred in December, 1954. Mrs. Wood- ward, the former Marjorie Bishop, survives him. A native of New York City, she was born in 1872. She was formerly active on behalf of the American Red Cross and other organizations.
John H. Woodward completed his preparatory studies at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1936. He attended Harvard University for two and a half years. He entered the service of the United States Army Air Corps in 1944 and served through 1945, receiving training as an aviation cadet and remaining stateside.
In 1946 he joined the firm of J. M. Layton and Company, and with his brother William, bought out this long-established firm in 1953. Throughout most of its history, the organization has functioned as both an insurance and a real estate agency, but it now handles only insurance. John H. Woodward has been its president since the brothers assumed management.
In addition to his major business connection, Mr. Woodward serves on the boards of directors of the South Norwalk Trust Com- pany and the South Norwalk Savings Bank, the latter of which his father once served as president. He is a member of the board of trus- tees and treasurer of the Norwalk Hospital Association. He is a mem- ber of the Redevelopment Agency and former chairman for the town of Norwalk. In politics he is a Republican.
Professionally, Mr. Woodward is identified with the Norwalk Insurance Agents Association, the Connecticut Insurance Agents Association, and the National Association of Insurance Agents. As a veteran of Air Corps service in World War II, he belongs to the local post of the American Legion. His fraternity is Pi Eta, which he joined at Harvard. He and his family attend the Congregational Church.
Mrs. Woodward is the former Miss Virginia Ramsay. She be- Conn. IV-16
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came the wife of John H. Woodward in a ceremony at Boston, Massa- chusetts, on September 9, 1939. Born in that city on April 5, 1919, she is a daughter of John W. and Florence (Seaver) Ramsay. Her father came to this country from Scotland, where he was born in 1878. He arrived in the United States as a young boy, and became a dealer in building materials. His death occurred in the early 1940S. Mrs. Ramsay survives him and lives in Florida. She was born in 1885 in the state of Maine. Mrs. Woodward received her education in the schools of Newton, Massachusetts, and at Erskine Finishing School in Boston. The couple have three children: 1. John Hanford, Jr., who was born on December 31, 1940, at Newton, Massachusetts. He is attending Lenox School in Lenox, Massachusetts. 2. David R., born at Newton on February 12, 1942; a student at South Kent School in Connecticut. 3. Sarah B., born May 4, 1946 at Norwalk; attending Marvin School. The family resides on Old Saugatuck Road, East Norwalk.
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