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FREDERIC L. WAY
Since the completion of his World war service Frederic L. Way has been actively engaged in the insurance business in Hartford as the head of The Fred L. Way Agency of the Travelers Insurance Company, with offices at No. 15 Lewis street. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, October 24, 1896, and is a son of John L. and Gertrude (Hammer) Way, both of whom are natives of Hartford county. The father, after many years' service as vice president of the Travelers Insurance Company, resigned in 1924 and is now living retired.
Frederic L. Way was brought to this city by his parents when a small boy and attended the Hartford grammar school, after which he entered Yale as a member of the class of 1919. With America's advent into the World war, however, his text- books were put aside and he joined the One Hundred and First Machine Gun Battal- ion of the Twenty-sixth Division, with which he went overseas, remaining with this battalion on active duty in France for about two years. He saw service at the front in the Chemin des Dames section and was an instructor in the machine gun school at Langres, France, for some time. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and was mustered out at Camp Devens in Massachusetts in 1919.
With his return home Mr. Way became actively associated with the Travelers In- surance Company as a special agent in Kansas City, Missouri, where he remained for two years, and subsequently he spent a similar period as special agent at Syracuse, New York. He then returned to Hartford and has since conducted an agency for the Travelers in this city, his business having now reached extensive and gratifying proportions. His progressive spirit and reliable methods have constituted the basis on which he has built his success.
On the 19th of February, 1921, Mr. Way was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Sloan, of Hartford, and they are the parents of two children: Ruth, born July 26, 1923; and John L. (II), born September 3, 1925. They reside at No. 126 Whiting Lane in West Hartford.
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Mr. Way is well known through membership connections as well as by reason of his business activity. He belongs to the Hartford Golf Club, to St. John's Lodge, A. F. & A. M., to the Military Order of Foreign Wars and the American Legion, and his social qualities make for popularity in these organizations.
OSCAR G. KNAPP
With his business career yet largely before him, one does not hesitate to prophesy a successful future for Oscar G. Knapp, judged by what he has already accomplished and the qualities which he has displayed in business management thus far. A native son of Connecticut, he was born at Southington on the 18th of September, 1889, and now makes his home at Plantsville. He is secretary and treasurer of the Clark Brothers Bolt Company, Incorporated, of Milldale, Connecticut. While spending his youthful days in the home of his parents, Jacob and Magdalena (Wagner) Knapp, he attended the public schools, which constituted his preliminary training to his business life. It was on the 3d of August, 1903, when a youth of but fourteen years, that he entered the employ of the Clark Brothers Bolt Company at Milldale in a clerical capacity. From the outset he realized that industry, perseverance and diligence are essential features of business advancement and his cultivation of those qualities sub- sequently led to his appointment as assistant secretary of the company, while in 1925 he was advanced to the position of secretary and treasurer. He has also become a director of the company and has further broadened the scope of his business activities by association with other important interests having to do with the welfare and material development of Hartford county. He is now on the directorate of the Southington Bank & Trust Company and has been a director and the treasurer of the Southington Building & Loan Association since its organization in 1912. What he undertakes he accomplishes and in his vocabulary there is no such word as fail for obstacles and difficulties in his path seem to serve as an impetus for renewed effort on his part.
At Southington, on the 4th of June, 1913, Mr. Knapp was married to Miss Clara Louise Ramsay, and they have one child, Jean Louise, born March 1, 1924. Fraternally Mr. Knapp is a Mason, identified with the various branches of the order, which is based upon a recognition of the brotherhood of mankind. He is a popular member of the Southington Club, the Exchange Club, the Meriden Home Club, and the South- ington Country Club, of which he was the first president. His interest in community welfare has found tangible manifestation in his service as burgess of the borough of Southington through a period of eight years and he is now auditor of the borough. He discharges his public duties with the same spirit of earnestness and fidelity that has characterized his business career and he is widely recognized as a young man of worth, enjoying the high esteem, confidence and good will of all by reason of what he has accomplished and the sterling traits of character which he has displayed in all the relations of life.
WILLIAM HORACE ROSENFELD, D. D. S.
Dr. William Horace Rosenfeld, who has been engaged in the practice of dentistry in Hartford since 1912 and is also known in business circles as a director of the Merchants Bank, was born in New York city December 24, 1890, and is a son of Marks and Libbie (Sapiro) Rosenfeld, who were natives of Poland but came to America about a half century ago, settling in New York city. Fifteen years later they established their home in Hartford, where both passed away.
Following the removal of the family to Connecticut, Dr. Rosenfeld attended the Hartford schools until graduated from the Brown school, after which he continued his studies in the Hartford public high school. Wishing to follow a professional career, he took up the study of dentistry, completing a course in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, a department of the University of Maryland, with the class of 1911. He then practiced in New York city for about a year but on the expiration of that period again took up his abode in Hartford, where he has since followed his
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profession, being accorded a good practice in recognition of the skill and ability which he has developed in this field. He also became one of the organizers of the Merchants Bank and has been a director from the beginning, while at the present writing he is the first vice president of the institution and is now acting in the capacity of president in the absence of Mr. Pilgard. In 1925 he took a course in finance and banking at Columbia University, New York. He is a director of several corporations.
Dr. Rosenfeld maintains his office at No. 1039 Main street and makes his home at No. 1572 Main street. He belongs to the Royal Arcanum, the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith and the Probus Club of New York. He also has membership in the Alpha Omega fraternity, of which he was at one time presi- dent. That he keeps in close touch with the trend of modern professional thought, research and progress is indicated in his membership connections with the Harris Hayden Odontological Society, the Connecticut State Dental Society and the American Dental Association.
DANIEL L. CARPENTER
Daniel L. Carpenter, assistant advertising manager of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut May 3, 1895. On the 27th of April, 1917, Mr. Carpenter was united in marriage to Miss Irene Swift, of Sharon Springs, New York, and they are the parents of a son, Hugh Swift.
Mr. Carpenter is actively interested in community affairs and in 1925 was elected alderman from the fourth ward of Hartford, filling the position for one term and serving on several important committees during that period. Fraternally he is con- nected with St. John's Lodge, A. F. & A. M.
JOHN ANTHONY DANAHER
John Anthony Danaher, attorney at law in Hartford and possessed of those qualities which not only make for progress in his chosen calling but for popularity among his constantly extending circle of friends, was born in Meriden, Connecticut, January 9, 1899, his parents being Cornelius J. and Ellen (Ryan) Danaher, who are also natives of Meriden, where representatives of the Danaher family have been found since about 1847. They came from County Clare, Ireland, and the grand- father, John Danaher, served as a sergeant in the Seventh Connecticut Regiment during the Civil war. The father, Cornelius J. Danaher, is an attorney of Meriden, where he has filled the office of corporation counsel.
In the acquirement of his education John A. Danaher completed a course in the Meriden high school and was later graduated from Yale College, winning the Bache- lor of Arts degree in 1920. He then pursued a law course at Yale and passed the required examination which won him admission to the bar on the 14th of January, 1922. He was appointed to the position of vice consul under Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, resigning that position to enter into active connection with the law firm of White & Case, at 14 Wall street, with which firm he served his legal clerkship in New York city. When the United States entered the World war he be- came an officer candidate and was assigned to the Fourth Replacement Regiment at Camp Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina, where he remained from the 1st of July to the 10th of September, 1918. He was then transferred to New Haven with the Yale Artillery Batteries and was commissioned a second lieutenant of the field artillery on the 14th of December, 1918. He then resigned his commission in March, 1919, and resumed his studies in Yale College.
In April, 1922, Mr. Danaher took up his abode in Hartford, where he has since engaged in the practice of his profession. On the 14th of July of that year he was appointed special assistant United States attorney and so continued until October 11, 1923, when he was appointed assistant United States attorney and is still filling that office. Mr. Danaher is also a representative of our national game inasmuch as he is a stockholder and secretary of the Hartford Baseball Club, Inc., which was pur-
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chased from James H. Clarkin, the new owners being: Robert J. Farrell, president; Alex W. Creedon, vice president; James C. E. Dillon, treasurer; Thomas J. Spellacy, assistant treasurer; John A. Danaher, secretary; and James De Monte, assistant sec- retary.
On the 3d of February, 1921, Mr. Danaher was married to Miss Dorothy King, of Meriden, Connecticut, and they have three children: John A., Jr., born November 10, 1921; Robert C., born December 22, 1922; and Jeanne, September 1, 1926.
The family resides at No. 63 Tremont street, while Mr. Danaher has his office at 50 State street in Hartford. He is very fond of all outdoor sports, including fish- ing, hunting and golf, and to these he turns for recreation. He is a member of the University Club, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and of Corbey Court of the Yale Law School. He likewise has member- ship connection with the Sons of Veterans. He is alert to the interests and opportu- nities of the day and his own activities have been wisely directed and have been prompted by a laudable ambition that is carrying him steadily forward.
WILLIAM JOSEPH TRACY
As a merchant and financier, William Joseph Tracy has stimulated Bristol's development, displaying that spirit of enterprise which makes for public progress as well as individual prosperity, and in community affairs he is equally prominent. A son of James and Catherine (Baggett) Tracy, he was born November 16, 1869, and is a native of the city. His education was acquired in its public schools, and his start in life was obtained by working in the plant of the Ingraham Clock Com- pany. For eight years he was in the employ of that corporation and then opened a retail meat market, of which he was the proprietor for twenty-seven years. His patronage constantly increased, and he was regarded as one of the leading meat dealers of Bristol. In 1920 he organized the Tracy-Driscoll Company, investment brokers, and is president of the company, which transacts a large business. An astute financier, Mr. Tracy has also become a forceful figure in the operations of the American Trust Company, of which he is vice president and a director, and his name likewise appears on the directorate of the Bristol National Bank, all of which have benefited by his experience and sound judgment.
Mr. Tracy was married June 12, 1895, in Bristol to Miss Ellen B. Lacey, a daugh- ter of John and Catherine Lacey. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Tracy numbers five children: William E., Francis, Joseph, Paul B. and Helen B.
In politics Mr. Tracy is a democrat and his public spirit has been expressed by tangible efforts for the general good. When Bristol was organized as a borough he was its first burgess and since Bristol has enjoyed the status of a city he has been one of its park commissioners. He has served as a director of the Chamber of Commerce for several years and loses no opportunity to exploit the resources, advan- tages and attractions of this locality. In religious faith he is a Roman Catholic and for some time has been a member of the board of trustees of St. Joseph's church, working untiringly in its behalf. Along fraternal lines he is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Formerly he was active in sports. For some years he owned the Hartford Base Ball Club and it is generally acknowledged that he did more for this sport than anyone else during his connection with it. After selling his interest in the club he was elected president of Eastern League and served front 1902 to 1906. Mr. Tracy leads a well balanced life and the years have strengthened his position in public esteem, for worthy motives and high principles have actuated him at all points in his career.
WILLIAM J. HARRIS
Although his residence in Plainville covers but a few years, William J. Harris is a business man of broad experience and has already become a forceful figure in local industrial circles. A native of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, he was born December 10, 1874, and is a son of William J. and Phoebe B. (Baldwin) Harris. He completed a
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course in the high school at Montclair, New Jersey, and also studied under private tutors. For eight years he was in the employ of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and then ventured in business for himself. In 1912 he located in New York city and soon became well known as a manufacturer's export agent. During the World war he was in charge of a section of the supply division of the Emergency Fleet and afterward resumed his activities in connection with the export trade. In 1925 he established his home in Plainville and has since been connected with the Peck-Harris Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of small stampings, flat springs and wire forms. D. C. Peck is president of the corporation and Mr. Harris discharges the duties of secretary and treasurer.
In 1903 Mr. Harris was united in marriage to Miss Theona C. Peck, a daughter of Donald C. and Frances (Marshall) Peck. The family is one of prominence in Plainville and a sketch of Mr. Peck is published elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Harris is a business man of high standing and has thoroughly allied his interests with those of Plainville, which regards him as a valuable addition to its citizenship.
CHARLES DONALD RAREY
Charles Donald Rarey, comptroller of the Travelers Insurance, Travelers In- demnity and Travelers Fire Insurance Companies at Hartford, was born in Columbus, Ohio, May 8, 1888, a son of Dr. Franklin Stage Rarey and Frances M. (Scofield) Rarey, who are also natives of Ohio. Both represent old pioneer families of the Buckeye state who removed westward from New England and both trace their descent from early colonial ancestors. Dr. Rarey is a physician still actively practicing in Columbus, Ohio.
Charles Donald Rarey, having attended the public schools of his native city until he had graduated from high school, then entered Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio, and in January, 1910, when a young man of twenty-two years, became associated with the Travelers as cashier in the branch office at Columbus. There he remained until June, 1911, when he was made a traveling auditor for the company and visited branch offices and agencies throughout the United States and Canada. In January, 1915, he was elected auditor of the Travelers and held that position until March, 1927, when he was elected comptroller. Throughout his entire business life he has been with the Travelers.
On the 1st of September, 1917, Mr. Rarey was united in marriage to Miss Helen Huntington Staples, of Westport, Connecticut. There are three children: Mary Frances, Helen Huntington and Ralph Stage.
Mr. Rarey served in the navy during the World war. He belongs to Psi Upsilon, a college fraternity, and is a member of the Hartford Club and the Hartford Golf Club. He is also identified with the Sons of the American Revolution.
RALPH A. RICHARDSON, M. D.
The medical fraternity of Bristol finds a worthy representative in Dr. Ralph A. Richardson, who established practice here in 1916 and for twelve years has devoted his attention to professional activities, his labors being attended with gratifying results. A native of Maine, he was born at Amherst on the 18th of January, 1890, and is a son of James Edward and Nettie (Sumner) Richardson. He pursued his primary education in the local public schools and afterward had the benefit of in- struction in the Hebron Academy. Later he attended the University of Vermont, in which he pursued his professional course, winning the M. D. degree at his graduation in 1914. He gained valuable practical experience as an interne in the Fannie Allen Hospital at Burlington, Vermont, and in 1915 he opened an office at Randolph, Ver- mont, where he remained until coming to Bristol in 1916. In August, 1917, he joined the United States army for World war service and was thus engaged until May, 1919, being connected with the officers training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; and afterward transferred to the base hospital at Camp Jackson. In September, 1918, he went to France, where he was attached to Base Hospital No. 58 at Rimau-
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court Haute Marne. In April, 1919, he returned to the United States and was mus- tered out at Camp Devens in May.
In October, 1917, at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Dr. Richardson was united in mar- riage to Miss Estelle Platt and they are now the parents of three children: Martha, Ralph and Lynn.
Dr. Richardson has membership in Phoenix Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and has also taken the degrees of the chapter and council in Masonry. He likewise has member- ship with the Elks and with the Odd Fellows and is loyal to the teachings and pur- poses of these organizations. He always fully meets the duties and obligations of life in matters of citizenship and is most conscientious in the performance of his profes- sional duties, while his ability is widely recognized and has brought him prominently to the front.
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OWEN MORGAN
Owen Morgan, assistant secretary of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, came to Hartford from Texas. He was born in Dallas, January 14, 1883. His parents were Richard and Lilly (Owen) Morgan. His father was a native of Savannah, Georgia, and his mother a native of Lebanon, Tennessee. The father was an attorney at law and served during the latter years of his life as a judge of the state court of Texas. He died in 1907, and his wife died in 1898.
Owen Morgan received his early education in the schools of Dallas. He later attended St. Paul's School, Garden City, Long Island, from which he was graduated in 1902. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1906 from Trinity College, Hartford. After three years in business in New York he became identified with the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in the actuarial department.
On June 28, 1913, Mr. Morgan was married to Emily Tenney Silsby of Newbury, Vermont. They have two boys, Richard Morgan IV, born January 19, 1915; and William Silsby Morgan, born January 19, 1916.
Mr. Morgan is a member of the University Club of Hartford, the Hartford Golf Club and the Twentieth Century Club. He was appointed by Mayor Stevens in May, 1926, to the board of police commissioners. He is also a trustee of Trinity College, a director of the Connecticut Institute for the Blind and a director of the American School for the Deaf and a vestryman of Trinity church.
PERCY ROTHWELL
Percy Rothwell, a certified public accountant holding a foremost position in his profession because of highly developed skill and efficiency, was born in Bolton, Lanca- shire, England, July 2, 1873, and is a son of Peter Richard and Alice (Chatburn) Rothwell, of that place. His father was an insurance broker. The son after acquiring a common school education attended All Souls College in his native town and in due time was graduated. He then started out in the business world as an employe of Andrew Knowles & Sons, proprietors of a colliery at Bolton. He was a youth of nineteen years when in 1892 he crossed the Atlantic to Canada and was employed by the Guardian Assurance Company of Montreal. In 1894, however, he crossed the border into the United States and here turned his attention to the fire insurance business as a representative of the Scottish Union & National Insurance Company, being appointed to a clerical position in the Hartford office. He remained with that corporation for five years, or until 1899, when he removed to Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and was employed by the Raritan Copper Works for five years, becoming chief accountant of that concern. In 1904 he became associated with Price, Water- house & Company, chartered accountants of New York city, as a member of their traveling staff, and so continued until 1906, when he returned to Hartford and established business on his own account. On the 27th of March, 1916, he received a certificate which licensed him to practice as a certified public accountant of Con- necticut. On the 31st of March, 1918, he entered into partnership with Seth Hadfield, under the firm style of Hadfield & Rothwell, and in 1922 Charles F. Coates was
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admitted to a partnership, having previously been associated with Mr. Hadfield as an employe from the time when the latter began an independent practice. In the same year Frank E. Soule likewise became a member of the firm and the business is now conducted under the style of Hadfield, Rothwell & Soule, Mr. Coates still remaining in the partnership.
On the 24th of June, 1899, Mr. Rothwell was married to Miss Emmy Aubanel, of Geneva, Switzerland, who passed away June 20, 1925, leaving one daughter, Natalie Aubanel, now the wife of Wendell A. Teague, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. In his political views Mr. Rothwell is a republican and during the World war period he did important service as general auditor for all war bureaus in Connecticut, to which position he was appointed by Governor Marcus H. Holcomb, February 12, 1917, serving until the close of hostilities under the title of auditor of the Connecticut Bureau of Military Census. Socially he is connected with the Hartford Club, Hartford and Wampanoag Country clubs and with the Brooklawn Country Club of Bridgeport, Connecticut, while along strictly professional lines he is associated with the Con- necticut Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Society of Certified Public Accounts and the American Institute of Accountants. Fraternally he is a Mason. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to try his fortune in America, for here he has found opportunities which he sought and in their utilization has made steady advancement until success has rewarded his efforts and his position in his profession is an enviable one.
HERMAN ARTHUR GOLDSTEIN
Herman Arthur Goldstein, attorney at law with offices at 75 Pearl street in Hartford, has come to New England from the middle west. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 29, 1899, his parents being Abe and Sophia (Kulberg) Goldstein, who are natives of Austria, the father coming to America about 1884, while the mother crossed the Atlantic about 1886. They made their way westward to Min- neapolis, where they were married, and there the father engaged in business as a manufacturer of furniture for a number of years but is now connected with the Hagerstown (Md.) Chair Company.
Having completed a course in the public schools of his native city, Herman A. Goldstein then continued his education in the University of Minnesota, but after the United States declared war in 1917 he entered the service as a wireless operator on the United States Ship Indianapolis, going overseas on that ship. He continued in the transport service, making four round trips between the American and European ports. He had previously attended the Dunwoody Institute of Minneapolis, Minne- sota, in the radio department or, as it was known, the United States Navy Department Dunwoody School. He received his discharge in July, 1919, and when his country no longer needed his aid he entered the Yale Law School, from which he was gradu- ated in June, 1923, with the LL. B. degree. The same year he was admitted to practice at the Minnesota bar but soon afterward came east, settling in Hartford. Here he entered the office of Judge Elsner, with whom he remained until March, 1925, when he became associated with S. Polk Waskowitz, that relation being maintained until January, 1927. At the death of Thomas McKone he took over his office, which he has since occupied, and is now devoting his attention untiringly to the practice of his profession. He recognizes that progress is a cumulative process and that where there is no advancement there has been no effort. The success which he has attained is due to his own merit and at all times he seems to fully realize the importance of the profession to which he devotes his energies, being ever careful to conform his practice to the highest professional ethics and standards. In addition to his work as an attorney he is serving as a director of the Capitol Fuel Oil Company and as a director of the Hartford Sugar Company.
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