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Judge Miller was married at Milford. Connecticut, on June 22, 1915, to Helen Faustina Capers, born at Bridgeport on October 12, 1889, the daughter of Richard Thornton Capers and of Mary (Hurd) Capers. Her father was born in South Carolina and was an accountant by profession. Her mother was born in Stratford, Connecticut, and both of her parents are now deceased. Mrs. Miller is a graduate of Bridgeport High School.
Judge and Mrs. Miller have three children: I. Marjory, born
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on June 10, 1916, graduated from Bridgeport High School, attended Northfield Seminary, and then obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at Syracuse University. She is married to Albert Blood of Fairfield, Connecticut, and they have two children. 2. Barbara, born on January II, 1919, graduated from Bassick High School and then attended Drew Seminary. She is married to Robert L. Hutchinson of West Orange, New Jersey, and they have four children. 3. Paul, Jr., born on Feb- ruary 4, 1923, graduated from Bridgeport High School and then obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree at Lafayette College in 1945. He served in the Army during World War II and was stationed in Newfoundland. He is now business manager of a Bell Telephone Com- pany system in New Jersey. He is married to Katherine Taylor and they have four children.
IDRIS ALDERSON
Active in the undertaking business for sixty years in Waterbury, Mr. Alderson is a leader in the field and heads the firm of Alderson Funeral Homes. He is a member of the National Funeral Directors Association and of National Selected Morticians.
He was born in Wales on January 31, 1882, the son of Richard Alderson and of Jane (Breeze) Alderson. Mr. Alderson came to the United States around 1890 and attended public school in Seymour, Connecticut. He entered the funeral home business in 1899 with the W. L. Ward Company of Seymour, dealing in furniture and under- taking. He joined the firm of Filley and Crane Company of Water- bury in 1912, who were successors to the J. M. Burral Company, pioneer funeral directors in Waterbury. Mr. Alderson purchased the funeral business from Filley and Crane, upon their retirement in 1923. Larger quarters were purchased in 1925, and the company was in- corporated in 1930 as the Alderson Funeral Homes.
Mr. Alderson has long been active in fraternal organizations and is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Nosahogan Lodge of the Odd Fellows and the Elks. A Thirty-third degree Mason in the Scottish Rite, he is a member of Euclid Lodge No. 135, Seymour Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and Waterbury Council. In 1910 and I9II he was Master of Morningstar Lodge in Seymour, he is a past commander of Clark Commandery of the Knights Templar and past grand commander for the State of Connecticut. He was three times illustrious master of Doric Lodge of Perfection. He was Most Wise Master of Corinthian Chapter of Rose Croix, and Past Potentate of
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Sphinx Temple in Hartford. His social connections inciude member- ship in the Waterbury Club and the Waterbury Country Club, and his hobby is lodge work and church work. Mr. Alderson attends reli- gious services at the First Methodist Church in Waterbury and is president of the board of trustees.
He was married in Brooklyn, New York, on April 4, 1900, to Laura Westerman, the daughter of William Westerman and of Ina (Andrus) Westerman of Ansonia, Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Al- derson have three children: I. Ina, now Mrs. Paul Klutting. 2. Idris R. (see following biography). 3. H. Fremont, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer of the Alderson Funeral Homes and the manager of the Alderson-Prentis, Incorporated in New London and Niantic, Connecticut.
IDRIS R. ALDERSON
Secretary of Alderson Funeral Homes and interested in civic and community affairs, Mr. Alderson has been active as a funeral director for more than thirty years in association with his father. He was born in Seymour, Connecticut, on April 9, 1909, the son of Idris Alderson and of Laura (Westerman) Alderson. He attended the Waterbury public schools, graduated from Crosby High School in 1926, and then graduated from the Cincinnati College of Embalming in 1930.
He joined his father in 1926 in the operation of Alderson Funeral Homes, and he became secretary when the firm was incorporated in 1930. The firm is a member of National Selected Morticians and of the National Funeral Directors Association.
Mr. Alderson has been active in fraternal affairs and is a mem- ber of the Odd Fellows and of the Elks. He has also been active in Masonry, is Past Master of Euclid Lodge No. 135 and is a member of Allerton Chapter and of the Waterbury Council. A member of Clark Commandery of the Knights Templar and a past commander, he is a member of the Bridgeport Consistory and of Sphinx Temple in Hartford. He also holds membership in Centennial Lodge No. 100 in Naugatuck and in Evergreen Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. His business affiliations include membership in the Young Men's Christian Association, the Sales Executives Club and the Naugatuck Rotary Club; he enjoys social connections as a member of the Water- bury Club and the Waterbury Country Club, and golf and bowling are his favorite sports. He attends religious services at the Naugatuck Congregational Church.
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Mr. Alderson was married in Waterbury on April 27, 1931, to Lelia Scott, the daughter of Walter G. Scott and of Darilda ( Bous- quet ) Scott of Waterbury. Mr. and Mrs. Alderson have two children. I. Lelia-Jane, now Mrs. George A. Schuster, is the mother of one child, George Arthur. 2. Richard I., who is now serving in the United States Navy.
ARTHUR JOSEPHI TREZONA WASLEY
Arthur Joseph Trejona Wasley founded and has led a distinctive Connecticut industry, Wasley Products, Inc., of Plainville, producers of diversified products including an unusual and attractive line of lighting fixtures and products for the United States Government. He has had over thirty-five years' experience in the management of this firm. He is also president of Continental Engineering Corpora- tion, a research and development company.
Born at Ishpeming, Michigan, on July 11, 1885, Mr. Wasley is a son of Francis Blight and Grace (Trezona) Wasley. The indus- trialist spent his childhood days in Michigan, moving to Bristol, Con- necticut, with his parents when six years of age. He attended public schools here and attended Bristol High School. For two years he was a student at Morse Business College in Hartford. For one year he held a position as a stenographer with the Central New England Railroad Company in Hartford. He then took a position with the Bristol and Plainville Tramway Company and later spent three years with Pratt and Whitney Company, working in its lathe department where he gained his mechanical experience. Mr. Wasley joined the New Departure Company, when they started the manufacture of Haupt automobiles and Rockwell taxicabs. This taxi company was the forerunner of the Yellow Taxi Cab Company of New York City.
In 1926, with one employee, he entered business for himself. His venture into lighting-fixtures manufacturing grew out of a deep in- terest in the beauty of colonial home furnishings and reproductions. He started to manufacture authentic reproductions of colonial and early American lanterns and sconces. Initially, because of limited capital, it was possible to manufacture only two or three units at a time. Mr. Wasley would alternate the role of salesman with that of manager, selling his products, and learning much from the reactions of customers. He plowed most of his profits back into the business, and within a short time production had begun to flow more quickly. The sales territory was broadened, and more products were added to
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the line. The firm was also building a reputation which led to a con- siderable custom trade: many customers came to the plant to have choice originals reproduced.
By the end of 1928, all organization groundwork had been com- pleted and growth was much more rapid. There were several factors contributing to the acceleration of progress. New impetus was given when Arthur Justin Wasley, son of the founder, joined the firm. Under the capable guidance of his father, he had received a thorough and practical schooling in all phases of the business-production, design, marketing and finance. Today, the company employs one hun- dred and twenty-five workers, and its factory has a floor space of over forty-five thousand square feet. The colorful Wasley catalog carries illustrations of more than one hundred items, all authentically reproduced by craftsmen. The company enjoys national distribution of its products, with representatives throughout the United States. Strict adherence to a sound basic policy throughout the years has made the Wasley name synonymous with authentic reproduction of fine colonial and early American lighting fixtures, crafted in metal. There is today an ever-increasing appreciation of such reproductions in finer homes, because they suggest good taste and never become outmoded.
Mr. Wasley has been president of the Continental Engineering Corporation since 1951. A Republican, he is currently serving on Bris- tol's board of finance. He is a member of the Lions Club, the Hart- ford Choral Club, New Britain Choral Club, and Bristol Fish and Game Club. His hobby is music and he directs choral groups and is widely known in this field. Mr. Wasley was appointed civilian ob- server of the Navy by the Secretary of the Navy. During a period of five years he travelled all over the world several times in this capacity.
He and Mrs. Wasley attend the Methodist Church. She has taken a constructive interest in the business from the time of its founding, and he credits her with playing a large part in its success.
She is the former Miss Lola Mae Camp, daughter of Wallace Osborn and Alice L. (Casey) Camp. Her father was born at Ply- mouth, Connecticut, on March 2, 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Wasley are the parents of one son, Arthur Justin, who was born at Bristol on October 4, 1915. He is active in the operations of the company, and is the subject of a separate biographical sketch in this volume.
ARTHUR JUSTIN WASLEY
Vice president of Wasley Products, Incorporated, of Plainville, since 1948, and associated with the company from 1938 to 1940 and
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since 1945, Mr. Wasley is a member of the Plainville Rotary Club and is a director of the Baldwin Bridge Yacht Basin, Saybrook.
He was born in Bristol, on October 4, 1915, the son of Arthur Joseph Trezona Wasley and of Lola Mae (Camp) Wasley. His father was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, on July 1I, 1885, and his mother was born in Southington, Connecticut. Mr. Wasley graduated from Bristol High School in 1934 and then served four years of ap- prenticeship as a tool and die maker at the Veeder Root Company in Bristol. He worked from 1938 to 1940 with Wasley Products, and from 1940 to 1942 was a die maker at the Marlin Rockwell Company. During World War II, he was employed in defense work from 1942 to 1945 in the engineering department of the Associated Spring Com- pany of Bristol. Mr. Wasley returned to Wasley Products in 1945, then making parachute hardware. He was employed in the various departments and then took charge of sales and manufacturing. He became vice president in 1948.
A Thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, Mr. Wasley plays trumpet in the Shrine band, and he is a member of the Elks and is a Republican in politics. His favorite sports are sailing and racing and he is a member of the Essex Yacht Club, the Baldwin Yacht Club, the Off-Sounding's Yacht Club, the Corinthian Yacht Club and the North American Yacht Racing Association. He attends religious services as a member of the Methodist Church.
Mr. Wasley was married in 1938 in Manchester, to Aldea Pinette, who was born on October 12, 1916. Mr. Wasley's uncle officiated at the ceremony.
Mr. and Mrs. Wasley have three children, all of whom were born in Bristol: I. Alan Arthur, born on November 26, 1944. 2. Jo Ann, born on March 13, 1947. 3. Arthur Justin, born on May 30, 1951.
FRANK JOSEPH DILORETO
Completing his professional training following combat military service in World War II, Frank Joseph DiLoreto has practiced at New Britain since his admission to the bar. He has already acquitted himself well in posts of public responsibility, having served on the bench of the city police court.
He is a native of New Britain, and was born on March 20, 1922, son of Nicolo and Maria DiLoreto. His father was employed at the Stanley Works. Receiving his early education in local public schools Frank J. DiLoreto graduated from New Britain High School. Early
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in life he planned on a career in engineering, and studied at North Georgia College, where he received an engineering certificate. He then entered wartime service in the United States Army. As a private first class, he accompanied his outfit to the European Theater, and participated in the Battle of the Bulge, in which he was wounded.
After the war he prepared for a legal career by studies at Wash- ington and Lee University College of Law. There he graduated in 1948 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and was admitted to the bar of the state of Connecticut. As the locale of his practice he chose his home city, and has practiced there independently since 1952. His offices are at 81 Main Street. He is one of the most respected of the younger professional leaders of the city. Mr. DiLoreto was named Man of the Year in 1955 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. DiLoreto holds membership in the following bar groups: Phi Alpha Delta; American Bar Association and Hartford County Bar Association, and in his home city he is a member of the Civilian Club and the lodges of the Loyal Order of Moose, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Columbus. He is a Roman Catholic, a communicant of St. Ann's Church. As a veteran of World War II he belongs to the American Legion.
At East Haven, on October II, 1947, Frank Joseph DiLoreto married Virginia Helen Newman, daughter of Frank and Clarice Newman. Mr. and Mrs. DiLoreto have two children: I. Mark, who was born on March 18, 1951. 2. Michele, born on July 7, 1954.
HERMAN A. PAPENFOTII
Herman A. Papenfoth, president of the Plainville Trust Com- pany, acquired most of his business experience in the electrical manu- facturing field. He joined the bank's executive roster in 1954, and was made president shortly afterwards. He has held a number of public offices in his home community, and has also been active in accountants' organizations.
Born at Stamford on December II, 1895, he is a son of Paul A. and Theresa H. (Veit) Papenfoth. His father had come to this country from Berlin, Germany, where he was born on December I, 1867. Miss Veit, whom he married, was born at Boonton, New Jer- sey, on June 26, 1868. Herman A. Papenfoth attended Stamford schools and New Britain High School, where he graduated in 1914. He then began his career in the cost department of the Stanley Works at New Britain, although he later continued his studies at Pace and Pace School of Accounting in New York, where he was a student
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for three years. He was a cost clerk at the Stanley Works until 1917, when he left to join the cost and general accounting department of The Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Company. In December of the same year, however, he left for military service. Until May, 1919, he was in the Army Ambulance Service, and spent one year in Italy.
Resuming his connection with The Trumbull Electric Manufac- turing Company after the war, he continued in its cost and accounting operations until 1926. Thereafter until 1933, he was on special assign- ments at its general office and branch plants. He was promoted to chief accountant in 1933. He held office as its secretary and treasurer from 1945 to 1951, when The Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Company was acquired and became integrated into The General Electric Company. Mr. Papenfoth continued as manager of finance for its Trumbull Electric Department, at Plainville. In effect, he con- tinued with the same organization with which he had been identified since World War I-now a division of General Electric Company. He remained until 1954, when he was offered a position as executive vice president of the Plainville Trust Company. Serving in that ca- pacity through 1955, he advanced to the presidency of the bank in 1956. He also serves on its board of directors.
On September 13, 1958, when the bank observed its fiftieth anni- versary, it also opened a new branch office; and in the course of Mr. Papenfoth's administration, a program of renovation and moderniza- tion has been completed at the main office. John H. Trumbull was a founder of the bank, and has served on its board of directors con- tinuously for fifty years.
Mr. Papenfoth is a member of the Controllers Institute of Amer- ica and the National Association of Cost Accountants. In 1937 he served as president of the Hartford Chapter of Cost Accountants, and in 1941 was president of the Hartford Control of the Controllers Institute. In 1951 he was elected national president of the National Association of Cost Accountants, now The National Association of Accountants.
A Republican, he served the Town of Plainville as a member of its board of finance from 1941 until his resignation in February, 1958, and was chairman of the board from 1942. He was a member of the town's first sewer commission, serving from 1949 until 1952. He was appointed chairman of the Municipal Development and Indus- trial Commission in 1956. In 1952, Mr. Papenfoth was named to the presidency of the Plainville Community Chest, becoming head of that organization when it was first formed.
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Affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, the banker is a member of Frederick Lodge No. 14, and the higher bodies of the order including the Connecticut Consistory of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. He holds the Thirty-second degree and is a member of Sphinx Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Farmington Country Club. He attends Plainville Congregational Church.
In New York City, Herman A. Papenfoth married Viola L. Lounsbury, daughter of Luther and Lillian (Lane) Lounsbury. He is the father of a daughter, Doris, who was born in New Britain Hospital on March 20, 1926. There is also a stepson, Garth H. Jen- sen, born September 26, 1918.
PHILIP HEWES
In January, 1959, Philip Hewes of Avon, was appointed Deputy State Treasurer of Connecticut. For nearly two decades previously he had been with the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company. In the course of his career, he has held public office as executive secre- tary to the governor, selectman, and member of the state House of Representatives.
Born at Hartford on November 27, 1902, Mr. Hewes is a son of Myer Lewin and Virginia Sumber (Smith) Hawes. From 1908 to 1916, he attended public elementary schools in Hartford, and there- after was a student at Hartford Public High School until his gradu- ation in 1921. He then matriculated at Yale University, where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1925.
In that year, Mr. Hewes began his career as clerk in the office of a fire insurance company. From 1927 to 1935 was an in- surance editor. He was appointed in 1935 to the responsible state post of executive secretary to the governor of the state. Mr. Hewes served capably in that office until 1939, and returning to private business activities, joined the staff of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company as a salesman out of its Hartford branch office. In 1941 he was made state administrator of war savings, serving in that ca- pacity on the staff of the United States Treasury Department.
He left for wartime service in the United States Navy in 1942, and served with a carrier air group in the Pacific, holding a com- mission as lieutenant. He was separated from the naval service in October, 1945, holding at that time the rank of lieutenant commander.
Returning to his connection with Connecticut General Life In-
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surance Company, Mr. Hewes worked in the home office agency de- partment in sales research. In 1950, he was appointed assistant man- ager of the Hartford branch office.
A Democrat in his politics, Mr. Hewes has served on the Board of Selectmen in his home community of Avon for ten years. In 1934 he was elected to a seat in the House of Representatives of the Con- necticut State Legislature. He was the first Democrat elected to of- fice in this Republican stronghold in thirty years.
Mr. Hewes is a member of the board of directors of the Avon Water Company. He is a member of the Hartford Club, the Farming- ton Country Club, and the Yale Club of New York. An Episcopalian, he formerly served on the vestry of Trinity Church in Hartford and is now a communicant and vestryman of St. James Church in Farm- ington.
On June 16, 1928, Philip Hewes married Mary Leverett Brainerd of Hartford. The couple have three children: I. Mrs. C. William Wharton, born on June 3. 1929. 2. Ellicott Hewes, born November 26, 1931. 3. Joseph, who was born on December 27, 1938. They also have three grandchildren, Charles, Philip and Everett Wharton.
RICHARD LORING BRINCKERHOFF
Since his admission to the bar, Richard Loring Brinckerhoff has practiced at Stamford and is a partner in the firm of Curtis, Brincker- hoff and Barrett. He has become prominent in the public affairs of his town, having served as secretary of the zoning board at New Canaan, associate judge of the town court since 1957, chairman of an elementary school building committee and has been active in work of the Boy Scouts of America, and is now one of the representatives in the Connecticut General Assembly. He is a veteran of Air Corps service in World War II, where as a major he served in the Air Transport Command in Africa, India and Washington.
A native of Stamford, he is the son of James E. and Marion (Rae) Brinckerhoff. His father, born in New Canaan on March 16, 1883, attended the public schools there and received his legal educa- tion at Yale Law School from which he graduated in 1904. He prac- ticed law throughout his career of more than fifty years, having served as associate judge and judge of the City Court of Stamford for over a decade. Prior to his death in 1958 he was a member of the American Bar Association and the Connecticut Bar Association, and was a Thirty-second degree Mason. He served as Grand Master of
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the lodge in the State of Connecticut in 1933. Marion Rae, whom he married in 1908, now resides in New Canaan.
Completing his preparatory studies at King School in Stamford and the Stamford High School, Richard L. Brinckerhoff entered Wil- liams College, where he received his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1940. His law training was deferred until after he had served in the Air Corps in World War II. Enlisting in 1942, he received his honorable discharge in 1946. Resuming his studies after the war, Mr. Brincker- hoff received his degree of Bachelor of Laws from Columbia Law School in 1949.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, and the Stamford Bar Association. He is also a member of Delta Phi fraternity. Mr. Brinckerhoff is an Episcopalian, and he and his family attend St. Mark's Episcopal Church in New Canaan.
Mrs. Brinckerhoff is the former Miss Catharine Ticknor, daugh- ter of Arthur A. and Katharine (Abbe) Ticknor. Her father. a graduate of Yale, 1914, and Sheffield Scientific School, 1917, was a scientist with American Cyanamid Corporation. Mrs. Brinckerhoff graduated from the Hartridge School in Plainfield, New Jersey, and from Finch College in New York City.
The couple have three children: I. Scott Combier, born October 8, 1946. He attends St. Mark's School in New Canaan. 2. Loring Cowles, born July 27, 1951, attending South School in New Canaan. 3. Holly Ticknor, born August 27, 1958.
ARTHUR SETH BARNES
From the early years of the century, the people of Bristol have benefited from the high standards of journalism and news coverage established by Arthur S. Barnes, who until his recent death was editor and publisher of The Bristol Press. He devoted more than half a century to making the paper the excellent and respected news organ which it remains today.
Mr. Barnes was a native of Bristol, and the son of Seth and Margaret Elizabeth (Phetzing) Barnes. The announcement of his birth, which occurred on March 12, 1871, appeared in the second issue of The Bristol Press. He attended North Side School and Bris- tol High School, and graduated in the high school's second class in 1887. At the time of his death, he was one of only three surviving members of this class. Entering Yale College, he graduated there in
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