History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928. Volume III, Part 117

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1390

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He is president of The Capewell Horse Nail Company; director of the Hartford National Bank and Trust Company; director of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspec- tion and Insurance Company; director and member of the executive committee of the Hartford Hospital; director of the Connecticut Fair Association, trustee of the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut and of the Good Will Club; vice president of the Connecticut Humane Society and of the Connecticut Civic Association; president of the Connecticut Historical Society, of the Connecticut Department of Public Welfare and of the Friends of Hartford, Inc. He has been president of the Municipal Art Society, The Connecticut Congregational Club, the Connecticut Humane Society, the Hartford Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Connecticut Consumers' League and the Get-Together Club. For thirteen years he was a member of the board of park commissioners of Hartford, and twice its president.

He is a member of the Acorn Club; an honorary member of the Beaumont

DR. GEORGE C. F. WILLIAMS

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Medical Club; a member of the Graduates Club of New Haven; the Republican, Hartford and Twentieth Century Clubs, having at one time been president of the last named; the Hartford Club; the Country Club of Hartford; the Union League Club and the Players' Club of New York. Also he has membership in the American Economic Association; the American Political Science Association; The American Academy of Political Science in New York; the National Committee for Mental Hygiene; The Bibliophile Society of Boston; the National Civil Service Reform League, in which he is a member of the Council; the American Historical Association; the Society of Mayflower Descendants, being Governor of the Connecticut Society; the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Society of Sons of the American Revolution, having been at several times president of the Connecticut Society.

On the 12th of February, 1896, Doctor Williams was married to Jessie Scott Dike, of Brooklyn, New York, and they are the parents of a son, Staunton Wil- liams, a lawyer residing in New York.

GEORGE W. BURNEY

George W. Burney, connected in an official capacity with the Williams Brothers Manufacturing Company, of Glastonbury, was born here in 1879, a son of Samuel and Eliza (Wrisley) Burney, the latter also a descendant of the Hooker family. The father of Samuel Burney was a native of England and because of his expert knowledge of the textile industry was brought to this country. While living in Nantucket, Rhode Island, he set in motion the first machinery used in the manufacture of cotton goods in the United States. Later he located in Webster, Massachusetts. His son, Samuel Burney, was born in that section of the Bay state and became a resident of Glastonbury. For many years he devoted his attention to the embossing of precious metals, becoming an expert engraver, and after his retirement purchased a farm on which he spent the remainder of his life. He died in 1910 and his wife passed away in 1919. Eight chil- dren were born to them and four are now living-a son and three daughters.

George W. Burney, the youngest child, attended the public schools of Glastonbury and also took a course in the Huntsinger Business College. After his graduation he became a bookkeeper for the Glastonbury Knitting Company and filled the position for twelve years. In 1910 he entered the Hartford Rubber Works, which he left four years later owing to injuries received in an accident, and for one and a half years was a traveling salesman for the owners of Collier's Weekly. He began his inde- pendent career as a public accountant in 1916 and in 1917 his services were sought by the Connecticut State Council of Defense. Mr. Burney was made chief accountant in the treasury department at Hartford and acted in that capacity during the World war. On August 1, 1919, he returned to Glastonbury and was placed in charge of the accounting department of the Williams Brothers Manufacturing Company, with which he has since beeen connected. He is now chief accountant and assistant treasurer of the corporation.

In 1914 Mr. Burney married Miss Edith Case, of West Granby, Connecticut, and they now have three sons: Robert M., who was born in 1915; Donald Case, born in 1916; and George W., Jr., born in 1917. The parents attend the Congregational church and Mr. Burney has been active in public affairs, doing all in his power to promote the welfare and progress of his community. In 1922 he was elected secretary of the Glastonbury Fair Association and filled the office for four years. He belongs to the Goodwill Grange and is a member of the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce. His Masonic affiliations are with Daskam Lodge, Wolcott Chapter and Gideon Wells Council and both he and his wife are connected with the Eastern Star.

MAURICE HARTMAN

From a small beginning the business of the firm of A. & S. Hartman, tobacco growers and dealers, has been built up and not a little of the success of this concern is attributable to the efforts and sound judgment of Maurice Hartman, who is prom- inently known to the tobacco trade, being now treasurer of the Hartman Tobacco Com-

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pany. He was born in New York city, December 1, 1879, and is a son of Samuel and Jennie (Leventhal) Hartman. The father, who was one of the founders of the business still carried on under the name of A. & S. Hartman, was a native of Austria. He came to America in 1872 and was associated with his brother Adolph in founding the business, which was established in Manchester in 1882 but was afterward removed to Hartford. Both of the founders have since passed away, but the enterprise which they established has become one of the strong tobacco interests of this section of the country.

Maurice Hartman pursued his education in the grade and high schools of Man- chester and in Brown University, which he attended for a time. In 1900 he became associated with his father and uncle in the conduct of the business located at 231 State street. The founders had begun operations in a small way by packing and selling tobacco, but their business grew steadily and in 1901 they began raising shade-grown tobacco. The firm today is one of the oldest concerns in the shade-grown industry in Connecticut and operates one of the largest plantations in the state. In 1900 their offices and warehouses were removed to Hartford and it was in 1910 that Maurice Hartman was admitted to a partnership. The company now owns extensive planta- tions in Manchester and South Windsor, comprising about five hundred acres of land, and they have a number of warehouses, including several in Massachusetts, but the principal one is in Hartford. Their output is sold in the American markets and their business has assumed large proportions. Upon the consolidation of the Hartman Tobacco Company in March, 1928, Maurice Hartman was made treasurer. This com- pany operates a number of tobacco warehouses and plantations and is a very large factor in this industry. Mr. Hartman is the vice president of the Connecticut Leaf Tobacco Association and is treasurer of the National Cigar Leaf Tobacco Association.

On the 27th of October, 1908, Mr. Hartman was united in marriage to Beatrice Sherrick Klein, of Hartford. They have one daughter, Fanchon, who is the wife of Melvin W. Title, of Hartford. The family home is at 727 Prospect avenue and Mr. and Mrs. Hartman are identified with Congregation Beth Israel, of which he is vice president and a trustee. He also belongs to the Tumble Brook Country Club and is a man of social nature who has won many friends in Hartford and throughout this section of the state. He has also made steady advancement in his business career. Although he entered upon a business already established, since becoming active in its control he has instituted improved methods in keeping with the spirit and tendency of the times and has advanced steadily from one point of success to a still higher point, being today accounted one of the well known representatives of tobacco growing and dealing in Hartford.

EDWARD INGRAHAM

The history of Bristol's development is closely linked with that of The E. Ingraham Company, a pioneer institution whose growth has paralleled that of the city. For one hundred and three years the business has been conducted by members of the family, and Edward Ingraham is now president of this well known corporation. A native of Bristol, he was born December 20, 1887, and is a son of William S. and Grace (Seymour) Ingraham, a record of whom appears on another page of this volume.

In the public schools of this city Edward Ingraham obtained his early education and afterward completed a two years' course at Phillips-Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. He was next a student at Yale University, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1910. Entering the Ingraham office as office boy, he handled the billing and pay roll and later spent four years as a traveling salesman for the concern. His responsibilities were gradually increased and eventually he was made assistant treasurer and purchasing agent. On September 29, 1927, he was elected president of the company and under his administration its successful progress is assured. He is also a director of the American Trust Company, the North Side Bank & Trust Company and the Bristol Brass Corporation.

The officers of The E. Ingraham Company are Dudley S. Ingraham, vice presi- dent; E. Morton Ingraham, secretary; and William S. Ingraham, treasurer and general manager. The business was started in 1824 by Elias Ingraham, a skilled cabinetmaker, who first made clock cases under contract for Lawson and Chauncey

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Ives. In 1843 he was joined by his brother, Andrew Ingraham and Elisha C. Brewster, who comprised the firm of Brewster & Ingrahams, which existed until 1848. The next owners, E. & A. Ingraham, conducted the business until 1855, when a fire destroyed their plant, and in 1859 Elias Ingraham admitted his son Edward to a partnership. They were incorporated in 1881 as E. Ingraham & Company, later changing to The E. Ingraham Company. Of the sixty independent clock producers in Bristol in 1857 this firm is the only direct survivor. Its founder was a man of broad vision, far in advance of his times, and originated the design of the Sharp Gothic clocks. His son, Edward Ingraham, the father of William S. Ingraham, was also endowed with creative genius and was the first to produce the black enameled wood case, for many years the standard finish for fine mantel clocks.

The entire plant is equipped with the most modern machinery obtainable and a large force of skilled American workmen is employed. Owing to the efficiency of operation the output is distributed at a minimum cost, and the growth and success of the industry are attributable to a policy of standardized quantity production, with consequent economies in manufacture combined with an exceedingly low overhead. Rich with the wisdom of years, the firm remains young in spirit and is constantly pressing onward to better ways and higher standards.

At Rutland, Vermont, Edward Ingraham was married September 18, 1918, to Miss Alice Pattie Pease, and they are the parents of four children: Alice, who was born November 12, 1919; William (II), whose natal day was November 2, 1921; Grace Seymour, who was born December 27, 1924; and Ellen Jane, born February 14, 1927.

In October, 1918, Mr. Ingraham was drafted for service in the World war, joining the coast artillery at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, and was attached to the Forty-fourth Division. He had previously been rejected several times on volunteering for service because of defective vision. He held the rank of corporal at his discharge after the armistice. Previous to his enlistment in the regular army he held the rank of first lieutenant in Company L of the Connecticut National Guard. His religious views are in harmony with the doctrines of the Congregational church, in which he is a deacon. Along fraternal lines he is connected with the Masonic order and is also a Rotarian. As president of the Boys Club of Bristol, Mr. Ingraham exerts a strong and beneficial influence in the community, and his life presents a forceful example of what constitutes good citizenship.

ERNEST HYDE CADY

Ernest Hyde Cady, a well known representative of insurance interests in Hartford, has been continuously identified with the Travelers Insurance Company during the past quarter of a century and in 1926 was elected assistant secretary of its com- pensation and liability department. Born in Norwich, Connecticut, June 19, 1873, he is a son of Ernest and Ellen (Hyde) Cady, natives of Stafford, this state. Both his father and grandfather, Ephraim Henry Hyde, served as lieutenant-governors of the state of Connecticut. The former occupies a prominent position in Hartford's indus- trial circles as president of the Pratt & Cady Company.

Ernest H. Cady completed a high school course by graduation with the class of 1892 and subsequently matriculated in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, from which he was graduated in 1895. Thereafter he became connected with Pratt & Cady, but four years later left that company to organize the Hartford Foundry Com- pany, of which he served in the dual official capacity of secretary and treasurer for about four years. On the expiration of that period he sold his interest in the latter concern and in December, 1903, entered the service of the Travelers Insurance Com- pany as a pay roll auditor. In the insurance publication "Protection" the following article appeared in the issue of March 24, 1926: "Ernest H. Cady was elected assistant secretary of the compensation and liability department of the Travelers Insurance Company at a recent meeting of the directors. He has been superintendent of the pay roll audit division of the company for many years. In his new official position he will have enlarged duties in connection with compensation and liability under- writing. * *

It was in 1903 that he came with the Travelers to assist in the * establishment of a pay roll audit division. The growth of employers' liability insur-

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ance had made it necessary for the company to establish a special division for the auditing of the pay rolls on which employers' liability premiums were based and the handling of premium adjustments. Mr. Cady's entire career with the company has been with the payroll audit division, which has grown to the point where its number of employes is in the neighborhood of two hundred and seventy-five, of which number one hundred and fifty are expert auditors located in offices from coast to coast."

On the 7th of November, 1900, Mr. Cady was united in marriage to Ruth Holmes Gay, of Farmington. They are the parents of five children, as follows: Beatrice, the wife of John W. Clark, of Stamford, Connecticut; Ernest H., Jr .; Richard G., Charles W., and Francis C. The family resides at Farmington.

Mr. Cady made an excellent record as police commissioner of the city of Hartford, which office he held for five years. He has membership in the University Club, the Wampanoag Country Club, the Graduates Club of New Haven, the Country Club of Farmington and the Yale Engineering Association, and has won many friends in the varied relations of life.

GEORGE H. WADDELL

The standing of a community largely depends upon the character of those who represent it in official capacities, and the town of Manchester is fortunate in having as its treasurer and clerk a man of the type of George H. Waddell, who has forcibly demonstrated his qualifications for these branches of public service. A native of Manchester, he was born November 20, 1894, and is a son of Thomas and Minnie (Joyce) Waddell. His early instruction was obtained in the Ninth District school and he next became a member of the class of 1914 of the South Manchester high school, which he left before his graduation to take a course in the Connecticut Bus- iness College, a local institution. Mr. Waddell's first position was with Aetna Life Insurance Company of Hartford, with which he spent about one and a half years, and he next joined the clerical force of the Columbia Motor Car Company. In 1913 he accepted a position in the offices of the highway department of the state of Con- necticut and at that time laid the foundations for the public service which he was afterward to give to his own town. It was in October, 1916, that he was appointed clerk of the board of selectmen of the town of Manchester and later when the new office of assistant treasurer was created in 1917, Mr. Waddell became the first incum- bent. In 1919 he was elected treasurer of the town, succeeding Sanford M. Benton, who had served for many years, and from this time on his connections with the board of selectmen and the town of Manchester have become so important that today he is practically town manager, although Manchester is not yet controlled by a commission form of government. However, Mr. Waddell is so highly proficient in his duties as clerk of the board that his knowledge of its functions and his advice on matters pertaining thereto have been of inestimable value to each successive board of selectmen.

In 1917, soon after the United States was drawn into the vortex of the World war, congress passed the selective service act and Mr. Waddell was made chief registrar for the local board, proving highly efficient in that connection. He was also a member of the Home Service section of the American Red Cross Society, serving on the executive committee of the local war bureau. His capacity for work was such that his aid was sought in every local drive during that period and subsequently he acted as treasurer of a number of campaign committees, thoroughly justifying the trust reposed in him. During the coal crisis of 1922 he was named local fuel administrator, representing the state police department of Connecticut, and through his untiring efforts Manchester was spared much of the suffering that other towns in New England were forced to undergo. In addition to his official activities he is a director of the Home Bank & Trust Company.

On September 28, 1920, Mr. Waddell was united in marriage to Miss Maybella Darlin, a daughter of G. Ellery and Minnie (Avery) Darlin. G. Ellery Darlin, who removed from East Hartford to Manchester, is now deceased. On the maternal side Mrs. Waddell is a direct descendant of the Avery clan that settled in Groton, Con- necticut, in the decade of the '30s of the seventeenth century and won fame in connection with colonial activities and the Revolutionary war.

Mr. Waddell takes a prominent part in the activities of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been secretary, and of the Kiwanis Club of Manchester.

(Photograph by The Johnstone Studio)

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He is affiliated with the Manchester Country Club and with Hose Company No. 2 of the South Manchester fire department. Along fraternal lines he is connected with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, being a charter member of Rockville Lodge No. 1359. His Masonic relations are with Manchester Lodge, No. 73, F. & A. M .; Pythagoras Chapter, No. 17, R. A. M., of Hartford; Rockville Council, R. & S. M .; Washington Commandery, No. 1, K. T .; Charter Oak Lodge of Perfection; Hartford Council of the Princes of Jerusalem; Cyrus Goodell Chapter of the Rose Croix; Con- necticut Consistory at Norwich; Syria Grotto, M. O. V. P. E. R., at Hartford; and Sphinx Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Hartford. In the last named he is serving as chairman of the committee in charge of the Shriners Home for Crippled Children. Mr. Waddell is a young man of exceptional worth and his life, much as it holds of accomplishment, is still rich in promise.

DANIEL HOWARD

Daniel Howard, superintendent of the public schools of Windsor, is a successful educator with a background of thirty-five years of practical experience, and he has also achieved prominence as a historian and author. He inherited the rich mental and moral force of a long line of worthy ancestors and has added thereto the interest of his own individuality. A native of Foster, Rhode Island, he was born December 15, 1864, and is a scion of one of the old and honored families of that state. Isaac Howard, the American progenitor of the family, was an Englishman and became one of the colonial settlers of Rhode Island. His son, Daniel Howard, served under General Washington in the Revolutionary war and was a man of prominence in his community, filling the offices of town clerk, member of the general assembly and judge of the Rhode Island court of common pleas. He was the father of Daniel Howard, who also figured conspicuously in public affairs, becoming town clerk, a member of the Rhode Island legislature and judge of the court of common pleas. His son, Horace Howard, was one of the framers of the Rhode Island constitution of 1842 and the grandfather of Daniel Howard, whose father was Pardon Tillinghast Howard. The last named was born in Foster Center, Rhode Island, August 2, 1839, and followed the occupation of farming, later becoming a teacher and land surveyor. His wife, Ann Louisa (Stone) Howard, was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, March 2, 1846, and was also of English lineage.

The public schools of Foster afforded Daniel Howard his early educational advantages and he next attended an academy in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. His higher studies were pursued in Brown University, in which he won the A. B. degree in 1893, and in 1898 the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him. He left Foster in 1889 and spent four years in Providence, Rhode Island. Before entering college he was a district school teacher and has engaged in educational work continuously since 1893. For a year he was principal of the high school at Wallingford, Connecticut, and then accepted a similar position in Windsor Locks, this state, assuming his duties in 1894. The record which he made in that connection won him the appointment of superintendent of the joint supervision district composed of Suffield and Windsor Locks, of which he had charge until 1916, and has since had supervision of the Windsor schools, which have made notable progress during the intervening period of twelve years. He thoroughly understands the needs of the pupils and also has the requisite tact, enthusiasm and executive force. Studious by nature, he keeps in close touch with the modern ideas in regard to the education of children and has been active in school organization work for the promotion of "individual opportunity." History and civics are subjects in which Mr. Howard is deeply interested and thor- oughly informed. He has a decided gift for writing and is the author of the follow- ing volumes: "Isaac Howard and his Descendants"; "American History, Government and Institutions"; "Connecticut History Stories"; and "The United States, its His- tory, Government and Institutions," written in collaboration with S. J. Brown.

Mr. Howard was married November 6, 1887, in Foster, Rhode Island, to Miss Sarah Wilbur Randall, who was born June 12, 1863, in that town. She is of English ancestry and one of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her parents, Job and Alzada Elvira (Howard) Randall, were also natives of Foster. The father was born October 2, 1823, and the mother November 15, 1836. Mr. Howard votes with

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the republican party and was town clerk of Foster during 1888-89, discharging the duties of that office with characteristic thoroughness and efficiency. He is a member of the University Club of Hartford, Connecticut, the Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Gamma Mu national honorary scholarship fraternities, and many local, state and national educational organizations. While a resident of Windsor Locks he became a member of Euclid Lodge, No. 109, F. & A. M., and is also identified with the Sons of the American Revolution, Mr. and Mrs. Howard are members of the Eastern Star of Windsor Locks and of the First Church of Christ, Congregationalist, and closely observe the teachings of the church. Impelled by high ideals, Mr. Howard has utilized practical methods in their attainment, and his life has been a serviceable factor in the cause of human progress.

AUGUSTINE LONERGAN

Among those who have been active in shaping the history of Connecticut is Augustine Lonergan, lawyer and lawmaker, who has left the impress of his individu- ality and ability upon congressional activities and whose public service has ever been characterized by the utmost devotion to duty. Mr. Lonergan was born in Thompson, Connecticut, May 20, 1874, his parents being Michael and Mary (Quinn) Lonergan. The father, a native of Tipperary, Ireland, was just nineteen years of age when, having completed his education, he came to the new world and after learn- ing the trade of wool spinning in Webster, Massachusetts, he won various promotions until he became foreman of the spinning department of a woolen mill at that place. He afterward resided successively in Putnam, Thompson and Rockville and passed away in 1894, while his widow survived until 1899. She was the daughter of Thomas Quinn, a sea captain, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who operated a line of boats between Boston and Nova Scotian ports.

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History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928. Volume III, Part 117

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859 Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Number of Pages: 1390

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 1390