History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928. Volume III, Part 127

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

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On the 14th of September, 1916, Dr. Deming was united in marriage to Miss Sadie Scales Robinson, of Gainesville, Georgia, and they are the parents of two children: Martha Elizabeth, born March 24, 1921; and Ella Frances, born in May, 1927. Mrs. Deming was chosen the first president of the Housewives League. She is also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Hartford Golf Club. She takes keen interest in public affairs and in all those civic activities which touch the general welfare, and she is also widely and prominently known in social circles. The Doctor finds recreation through his connection with the Hartford Golf Club and the University Club. He is also identified with Masonry. During his high school days he joined the Alpha Delta Sigma fraternity, became a member of the Phi Kappa Epsilon (Book and Bond) of Yale and the Pi Mu fraternity of Johns Hopkins University, and while both at Yale and at Hopkins was actively inter- ested in college athletic events. He is in the prime of life-alert, energetic and pos- sessing a most laudable ambition in the field of his profession. His progress has been continuous, arising from thorough study and broad experience, and he is rendering valuable service to his fellowmen.

JOHN P. KENNEDY

With every phase of paper manufacturing John P. Kennedy is thoroughly familiar owing to his long connection and active experience with every branch of the trade. Since 1924 he has occupied the responsible position of mill manager for the American Writing Paper Company at Windsor Locks and has wisely directed the operation of this plant. He is a native of Holyoke, Massachusetts, born in 1896, and there he pursued a public school education, completing his course by study in the high school. When he reached the point of entering the broad field of business he sought a position with the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, with which he remained in a clerical capacity for a year. He was afterward with the Liberty Construction Com- pany of Holyoke as accountant and clerk for two and one-half years and later he spent a year and a half with the American Tissue Paper Company in sales work and in connection with the purchasing department. His identification with the American Writing Paper Company dates from 1918 and since that time he has worked in all departments of the mills and for one year was secretary to the president of the company, George A. Galliver, of Holyoke. Later he was transferred to the manu- facturing department and worked in various responsible positions in the mills and in connection with handling the output. Gradually his skill and efficiency were in- creased and each change marked a forward step in his career, showing that he had mastered certain phases of the business and was capable of taking on new responsi- bilities and larger duties. In 1923 he came to Windsor Locks as assistant to the superintendent of this branch but later returned to Holyoke as assistant to the production manager. In 1924 he again came to Windsor Locks, having been appointed mill manager, in which capacity he has now served for four years. For an extended period he has been active in mill work, so that he is thoroughly familiar with every phase of the business, and he is now measuring up to the highest standards of service in this connection. This mill was built in 1854 and has continuously been used for paper manufacturing. It passed through three stages of development in the hands of the Seymour Paper Company, later became the property of the Windsor Paper Company and afterward was taken over as a branch of the American Writing Paper Company in Connecticut with two other plants. The company was organized in 1899 at Springfield, Massachusetts, and a removal was made to Holyoke about 1915. The establishment at Windsor Locks is equipped with Fourdrinier paper machines and a cylinder machine has been installed for the production of heavy paper and boards. The plant is thoroughly modern in all of its equipment and manufactures jute and rope specialties. They also manufacture board specialties, including match board, bottle caps, etc., and theirs is the only plant manufacturing this particular line of paper. The Holyoke sales department sells through jobbers and direct to con- sumers, and the Windsor Locks plant utilizes approximately fifteen thousand tons of raw material per year and employs on an average of about one hundred and fifty people. Mr. Kennedy has entire charge of the plant, placing the orders, directing the operation and shipping the product, and his position is one of large responsibility and importance.

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Mr. Kennedy belongs to St. Mary's Catholic church and to the Knights of Colum- bus, while fraternally he is connected with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Holyoke, Massachusetts. He is justly accounted one of the progressive and enterprising business men of this section of the state, having made steady progress since he started out empty-handed. That he has constantly advanced in efficiency is shown in the fact that he is today at the head of one of the important productive industries of Hartford county.

JOSEPH HENRY POTTS, M. D.

Dr. Joseph Henry Potts, who is in charge of ophthalmic and aural service in the New Britain General Hospital, has been an active and successful representative of the medical profession in New Britain for the past twenty-two years. He was born at Barnet, Vermont, February 24, 1880, his parents being William and Euphemia (Wal- lace) Potts, natives of Barnet, Vermont, and of Alba, Scotland, respectively. The grandmother of Dr. Potts in the paternal line had two grandfathers who served in the Revolutionary war, one enlisting from Acton, Massachusetts, and the other from Haverhill, that state. William Potts, father of Dr. J. H. Potts, devoted his attention to agricultural pursuits throughout his active business career. He passed away in 1889 and is still survived by his wife. Their family numbered a son and two daughters, namely: Joseph Henry, of this review; Euphemia, the wife of Alec Cordner, of Barre, Vermont; and Lottie, the wife of Professor Ora M. Leland, who is dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Minnesota.

Joseph H. Potts acquired a common school education at Billerica, Massachusetts, and received his professional training in Dartmouth Medical College of Hanover, New Hampshire, where he specialized in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Subse- quently he pursued postgraduate work in the Boston City Hospital and in the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital of London, England. Following his return to the United States, in 1906, he took up the work of his chosen profession in New Britain, Connecti- cut, where he has practiced continuously since and where he has won an enviable reputation for his skill in the field of ophthalmology, otology, rhinology and laryng- ology. As above stated, he is doing splendid work as physician in charge of ophthalmic and aural service in the New Britain General Hospital.

In 1904 Dr. Potts was united in marriage to Ethel Swanton, a native of Mill- bridge, Maine, and a daughter of Bartlett and Carrie (Fickett) Swanton, who are residents of New Britain. Dr. and Mrs. Potts are the parents of eight children, as follows: Ethel, the wife of Theodore Prescott, of New Britain; Marjorie; Joseph; Dorothy; Eleanor; Katherine; Helen and Elizabeth.

At the polls Dr. Potts exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party, believing that its principles are most conducive to good government. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the South Congregational Society of New Britain, while fraternally he is affiliated with Harmony Lodge of Masons. He also belongs to the Lions Club and to the New England Grange and he has long been numbered among the representative and respected citizens as well as prominent physicians of Hartford county.

WALLACE RAYMOND CRUMB

Liberally educated, Wallace Raymond Crumb has amply justified the promise of his student days and although young in years he is an influential figure in business circles of Bristol. A native of Forestville, Connecticut, he was born June 5, 1896, and is a son of Wallace Bruce and Edith A. Crumb. In the public schools of Bristol he pursued his studies and in 1915 completed a course in the Phillips-Exeter Academy at Andover, Massachusetts. He afterwards took a course at Annapolis, Maryland, becoming a lieutenant of the junior grade, and during the World war was with the submarine patrol of the Atlantic fleet, serving on a United States submarine. In 1919 he received his honorable discharge from the navy and was graduated in the same year from Dartmouth College. Returning home, he became associated with

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the firm of W. B. Crumb, Inc., of which he is now vice president and treasurer, and through earnest, systematic effort has contributed his share toward the develop- ment of the business, which is one of extent and importance.

On June 4, 1921, Mr. Crumb was married in Bristol to Miss Frances Funk, by whom he has two daughters: Marylin P., who was born March 8, 1923; and Frances Edith, born March 20, 1925. Mr. Crumb is an adherent of the republican party and a member of the city council of Bristol, championing every measure which in his judgment will prove of benefit to the municipality. Along fraternal lines he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Franklyn Lodge of Masons. Stable in purpose and keen in perception, Mr. Crumb is well equipped for the stren- uous conditions of modern commercial life and his personal qualities are such as inspire esteem and friendship.

D. C. Y. MOORE, M. D.

For three decades Dr. D. C. Y. Moore has actively and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery at South Manchester, his course being marked by that steady progress which results from wide reading and study as well as practical experience. A native of Massachusetts, he was born at New Boston, July 24, 1869, and spent his boyhood and youth largely in Robertsville, Connecticut, having been but two years of age when his parents removed to that place. At the usual age he became a public school pupil there and later attended high school at Winsted and Torrington, while subsequently he matriculated in the University of New York and there completed his more specifically literary course. He mentally reviewed the business situation, and attracted to the practice of medicine, he began studying when eighteen years of age in the office and under the direction of Dr. Walter Holmes, then a practicing physician of Riverton, Connecticut, who directed his reading for three years. During two years of that period Dr. Moore also provided for his own support by serving as principal of an academy at New Greenwoods. Dr. Holmes was a practitioner of the allopathic school, but Dr. Moore through his reading and investigation became interested in the teachings of Hahnemann, of whom he has since been a follower. Therefore when he matriculated for further medical study he entered the New York Homeopathic Medical College, in which he completed his four years' course by graduation with the class of 1895. For eighteen months thereafter he acted as assistant in the Flower and Brown streets hospitals of New York, gaining valuable experience such as hospital practice always affords. In May, 1897, he returned to Connecticut and in September of the same year opened an office in South Manchester, where he has since remained. The passing years have chronicled his further growth and progress, and success in large measure has crowned his labors. His professional brethren also attest his broad knowledge and scholarly attainments as a member of the medical fraternity and at all times he has kept abreast of modern thought and progress, utilizing the advanced methods which modern science has brought to light.

On the 30th of May, 1895, Dr. Moore married Miss Ida M. Quilter, of Hartford. They attend the Congregational church and the Doctor also has membership in Phoenix Lodge, A. F. & A. M., of New Hartford, and King David Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Manchester. His interests are broad, covering the scope of all those activities which have to do with the general progress and upbuilding of the community, yet the major part of his attention is given to his professional cares, which are onerous, making heavy demand upon his time and energies. He is a member of the State Homeo- pathic Medical Society and thus is conversant with modern professional thought, while his growipg practice indicates the confidence reposed in him by the public.

EDWARD EGGERT

Edward Eggert, a tobacco scientist, with offices at 208 State street in Hartford, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 20, 1861, his parents being William and Louise (Orthmann) Eggert, who were natives of Westphalia, Germany. Both the father and mother crossed the Atlantic in early life, coming to America in 1851, and in 1853 they

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were united in marriage. Mr. Eggert was a cigar maker by trade, having obtained his certificate of proficiency through Christian Winningham in 1851, thus winning an honor that was bestowed upon very few. Following his arrival in the new world he established a cigar factory in Cincinnati in 1853 and there continued in business until 1865. During the Civil war period he was at the head of the firm of Eggert & Brentano, the latter being the well known music publisher, and the firm employed more than four hundred cigar makers, conducting an extensive business. The re- strictions on the revenue of tobacco during the war period, however, caused Mr. Eggert to abandon cigar making and in 1867 he removed to New York city, where he engaged in the wholesale cigar leaf tobacco business. This brought him to Connecti- cut to get his supplies of leaf tobacco and he continued his trade in the metropolis under the firm style of William Eggert & Company until his death in 1920, his son Edward being associated with him as the silent partner in the firm.

With the removal of the family from Cincinnati to the east, Edward Eggert be- came a pupil in the schools of New Jersey. He attended the old Suffield school in 1872 and 1873 and finished his course in the Freehold Institute at Freehold, New Jersey, from which he was graduated in 1876. It was in that year that he became actively associated with his father in the conduct of the business in New York and the connec- tion was continued until the death of the senior partner, or for a period of forty-four years. Edward Eggert was but a youth of fifteen when he took up the work and since that time he has continuously been a representative of the tobacco trade of the east. In 1900 he came to Hartford to supervise the growing of tobacco, having pur- chased an extensive plantation in Hartford county in 1892. He and his father were the pioneers among tobacco raisers on the so-called plain lands and he has continued to grow tobacco in this district continuously since, or for a period of thirty-six years. He has made so thorough and comprehensive a study of tobacco production that he is today widely known as a tobacco scientist and supervises the fertilization of the tobacco fields. Few men have gained such an intimate knowledge of tobacco growing and the habits and needs of the plants in the matter of soil content. His labors have been a most vital and important element in advancing the interests of good tobacco growing and his opinions upon the subject are widely accepted among those who are devoting their attention to the production end of the business. He has written largely upon tobacco raising and his articles are most interesting and beneficial to the trade.

In early manhood Mr. Eggert was united in marriage to Miss Ray Cincimier, a native of Syracuse, whose parents were born in Holland. They reside in Hart- ford and Mr. Eggert has found little time for fraternal societies or clubs but is fond of hunting and fishing and when leisure permits finds his recreation when with dog, gun and rod he makes his way into the wilds.

FRANK BUTLER GAY

Frank Butler Gay, whose interests and activities have touched life at many points and whose career has been one of steady progress and achievement, was born at Granby, now East Granby, Connecticut, November 15, 1856, a son of Alfred and Jane (Thrall) Gay. He traces his ancestry back through various lines of the early settlers of New England and of the "Three Towns" on the Connecticut river. This has brought him into relationship with the Starr, Gore, Vassall, Adams, Ellis, Petti- bone, Disborough, Booth, Mitchelson, Thrall, Bliss, Chapin, Houghton, Skinner, King, Taylor, Burt, Spencer, Graves, Bidwell, Phelps, Granger, Eno, Eggleston, Pease, Gifford, Calkins and Owen families and among his ancestors were several soldiers of the "first American war"-that fought against the Pequots in 1637.

In his youthful days Frank B. Gay attended the town schools, including a select school in which he was a Latin student for about three years, and after coming to Hartford in 1873 he received private tutoring in history, philosophy and German. His liberal scholastic training was supplemented by the practical knowledge which he gained in a newspaper office, where he set type and wrote copy, including everything from deaths and advertisements to editorials. Throughout his life he has continued to write more or less frequently for newspapers and periodicals and in 1885 and also at a subsequent date he acted as night proof reader on the Hartford Courant.

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His name has long figured prominently in connection with the library interests of Connecticut. From 1877 until 1883 he was employed by the Hartford Library Asso- ciation, which controlled what has since become the Public Library. In the latter year he was made editor's assistant on the New Britain Herald and in October, 1883 he was offered a position in the Watkinson Library of Hartford as assistant to the late J. Hammond Trumbull, LL. D. There he practically did all of the librarian's work until 1890, when he was appointed librarian and has since filled this position, his marked proficiency being widely acknowledged. From 1884 until 1893 he served as secretary and librarian of the Connecticut Historical Society and for several years thereafter continued in the office of secretary. He was the general curator and execu- tive head of the Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, a position which he held until 1927, when he resigned and was made director emeritus for the Atheneum, of which he is also a trustee. During his service as director the general arrangement of the J. Pierpont Morgan art collection and other similar exhibitions came under his immediate supervision. Mr. Gay has been continuously a member of the American Library Association since 1889 and has served on some of its committees. He was the founder and has been called the father of the Connecticut Library Association and for two years served as its president. Always an omnivorous reader, he has been particularly interested in bibliography. All those subjects which are factors in cul- tural progress are of interest to him and he has ever been a lover of music and of works of art, particularly pictures.

In 1893 Mr. Gay was carried to Miss Jennie Marsh, a daughter of Major Seth E. Marsh, a well known civil engineer and citizen of Hartford. They are now parents of two children: Constance Marsh, a Vassar graduate who won the Bachelor of Science degree at Columbia University; and Eleanor Marsh, now the wife of William Henry Wiley, of Hartford.

It is natural that one of Mr. Gay's broad interests should become identified with the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, of which he is a charter member and was the first to prove up his claims to membership. He was also proposed as the first secretary of the organization but the demand of outside interests forced him to decline. However, he has held various offices in the organiza- tion, serving as registrar for several terms and for many years as historian. He is likewise historian of the Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth branch of the Sons of the American Revolution and he has been a member of various local historical societies throughout the country, also of the American Historical Association, the American Folk-lore Society, the Drama League, the American Bibliographical Society, the Ameri- can Association of Museums and others. He has membership in the Society of Colonial Wars in Connecticut, of which he was secretary and has also been registrar and gen- ealogist for many years. He is a member of the Acorn Club of Connecticut, was secretary and has otherwise been officially associated with the Hosmer Hall Choral Union and holds membership in the Guild of Boston Artists. For many years he has been a member of the Twentieth Century Club of Hartford and he likewise belongs to the Get-Together Club and other local bodies of Hartford and to the City Club. In religious faith he is an Episcopalian and has served as vestryman of St. John's church of Hartford. He has ever found great delight and interest in travel, has several times crossed the American continent, has visited the northern coast of South America and journeyed through the Panama canal, while in 1912 he spent some months in European travel. His opinions always carry weight in those gatherings where men of liberal intelligence are met in the discussion of interesting and important problems and he has carried his investigations far and wide into those realms which have to do with literary progress and the cultural development of the race.

PHILIP SCHWARTZ

Philip Schwartz, a well known resident of Suffield, now living retired save for the supervision which he gives to his invested interests, was born in Chicago, Illinois, April 28, 1893, a son of Charles and Emily (Wadsworth) Schwartz, the former a stock broker of Chicago. Both parents are now deceased. The Schwartz family is descended from Revolutionary stock and through the Wadsworth and Loomis lines is closely connected with the pioneer history of this state.

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Charles Wadsworth Schwartz was born September 16, 1891, in the residence now occupied by Philip Schwartz in Suffield. He pursued his education at Westmin- ster and in Yale and Harvard universities, taking up the study of medicine at Har- vard after the completion of his course at Yale in 1914. He afterward began prac- ticing medicine in New York city and is distinguished as an X-ray specialist.

Philip Schwartz pursued his education in the Westminster school and completed an academic course at Yale in the class of 1916. He is of the fourth generation on the maternal side residing in the old homestead which was built in 1790 and there operates a farm of forty acres and is interested in raising cows of the Guernsey breed, fine chickens and setter dogs. He still retains interests in Chicago and his intelligently directed business affairs have made him one of the men of affluence in Connecticut. He belongs to the Hartford Club, to the Hartford Golf Club, to the Yale Club of New York city and to the Midwick Club of Pasadena, California.

On the 24th of November, 1917, Philip Schwartz married Miss Helen Smith, who was born in Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1895, daughter of Henry Spencer and Ella (Reese) Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz have two sons: Philip Wadsworth, born August 25, 1919; and Charles Henry, born February 18, 1924. Mr. Schwartz belongs to the Town and Country Club of Hartford, to the Hartford Golf Club and also to the Junior League of Hartford.

INDEX

Abbe, A. P.

635

Batterson, W. E.

Abbott, G. E.

1082

Battey, W. R. 1300

Adams, Arthur

111

Beach, C. B. 1171

Adams, K. S.

124

Beach, C. F. 794

Ahern, E. F.

1093

Beach, G. B. 1006

Ahern, J. E.

1094

Beach, G. S.

722

Albrecht, A. S.

286

Beach, J. W.

212

Alcorn, H. M.

1342

Beckwith-Ewell, S. L.

477

Allen, I. A., Jr.

211

Bel, F. E.

526

Allen, L.

1333

Belden, Clark

918

Allen, W. H.

894

Belden, C. R.

1175

Alling, B. W.

227

Belden, F. S.

1189

Alvord, H. C.

910

Beloin, F. E.

753

Ames, C. L.

1040

Bennett, E. B.

Amidon, F. E.

1022

Berry, J. F.

129

Anderson, F. H.

1048

Besse, J. L.

1300

Anderson, R. K.

998

Betts, A. R.

640

Andretta, A. S

986

Bidwell, D. D.

902

Andrew, J. E.

599

Bill, A. 273

Andrews, J. P.

Billings, C. E. 404

Andrews, J. R.

1222

Billings, F. C. 434

1336

Armstead, G. B. 1021

Biron, E. M. 1304

Arnold, E. P. 572

Bissell, C. C. 676

Arnold, N. E.

726

Bissell, C. H.

534

Arzylowicz, S. F.

821

Bissell, C. S.

677

Blackall, J. C.

697

Blakeslee, F. G. 545

342

Bojnowski, Lucyan

822

Bond, H. S.

730

Brackett, A. S.

588

Balf, Edward

200

Bradley, M. S.

1124

Brady, J. M.

790

Brainard, M. B.

607

Barnes, A. S. 718

Brandon, J. K.

1278

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History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928. Volume III, Part 127

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