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George S. Bronson, son of Abel W. Bronson, born in Southbury, Conn., in 1825, came to Ansonia in 1867, and settled in West Ansonia in 1868, on the site of the old stone house built by Harlow Smith. He fol- lowed the livery business on the east side one year, and in 1869 com- menced keeping a livery and boarding stable in West Ansonia. He drove the omnibus between Ansonia and Birmingham for three years before the street car line was built. He abandoned the livery busi- ness in 1888, but still keeps a boarding stable. He enlisted in the civil war April 26th, 1862, from Denver, Colorado, in Company D, 2d Colorado Cavalry, and served three and one-half years. He is a mem- ber of the G. A. R. of Ansonia.
Horatio M. Brown was born in Maine in 1842. He removed to Woodbridge, Conn., March 1st, 1860, and engaged in the manufactur- ing of matches for William A. Clark. He enlisted in the war of the rebellion in August, 1862, in Company A, 10th Connecticut Volunteers, and served three years. He was wounded in the battle of Kingston, N. C., December 14th, 1862, receiving a gun shot in his left shoulder. After lying in the Newbern Hospital two months, he returned to his regiment at Morris Island, S. C. He was in the battle of Fort Wag- ner, and shortly after was detailed in the quartermaster's department, 10th Army Corps. He was mustered out June 5th, 1865, at City Point, Va. On his return he worked in John Whitlock's shop, in Birming- ham, two years, then was with Osborne & Cheesman, in Ansonia, one year, and in 1869 entered the shop of the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company, as machinist, remaining there three and one-half years. Since that time he has been foreman in the light machine shop of this company. He is a member of the G. A. R. of Ansonia.
Edson L. Bryant was born in Sheffield, Mass., in 1842. He has been connected with Wallace & Sons since 1864, as superintendent of the burner and lamp department since 1872. He enlisted in the 23d Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in 1862, and served one year. He was in Banks' division.
Andrew B. Clemens was born in Stratford, Conn., in 1824. He learned the art of mechanical drawing in Birmingham about 1846, and followed that occupation in Birmingham and Waterbury. He came to Ansonia in 1866. He engaged with the Farrel Foundry Com- pany in 1852, and was with them five years, then was with the Bir- mingham Iron Foundry eight years. In 1866 he again engaged with the Farrel Company, and has since been general superintendent of the business. He drew the first lathe for turning chilled rolls in their foundry in 1866. He did all the designing and drawing for the com- pany for many years. All of their machinery now in use was designed by him. Mr. Clemens married, in 1845, Catharine Gerrard, of Port Jefferson, Long Island. They have two sons and two daughters.
Everett R. Corey, born in Taunton, Mass., in 1848, went to New Haven when he was 10 years old, and was educated in the New Haven
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High School. He commenced to learned the trade of machinist in 1867, attending evening school meantime. In 1870 he began work in the Birmingham Iron Foundry, and remained there 173 years as fore- man and draughtsman. In 1887 he engaged with the Ansonia Brass & Copper Company as assistant master mechanic. He has charge of the brass mill department. He married, in 1871, Ellen A. Cooper, of New Haven. They have one son and one daughter. Mr. Corey is a Mason and an Odd Fellow.
Thomas Crane was born in Elizabeth, N. J., September 4th, 1832. He served five years there at the trade of rope and twine spinner. July 3d, 1852, he came to Ansonia, and was employed by the Ansonia Rubber Clothing Company three years, then for a number of years was with the Ansonia Brass & Copper Company. He afterward en- gaged in the grocery business 18 years, then followed the wholesale and retail bakery business from 1879 to 1889. December 14th of the latter year he opened a new market, corner of North Main and Fourth streets, which he has successfully continued to the present time. He married Marion W. Brown, of New York city, in 1853. They have three children: William E., Emma J. and Carrie B. Mr. Crane has been burgess and school committee of Ansonia a number of years, and is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men of Ansonia.
Morris Drew was born in Huntington, Conn., came to the town of Derby in 1848, and to Ansonia in 1856. He was in the mercantile trade in Ansonia ten years, and was afterward with the Farrel Foun- dry Company. He is the present postmaster of Ansonia, having been appointed to that position February 14th, 1890.
FRANKLIN FARREL was born in Waterbury, Conn., February 17th, 1828; his father. Almon Farrel, was a thoroughly business man, whose reputation in the school of wisdom in engineering was widely known throughout the surrounding country. His wife, Ruth Emma Warner Farrel, was a true mother, was earnestly religious, ordering her house- hold according to the Scriptures, of which she was a faithful reader. Their home was open to the clergy; in a graceful manner she could correct the divine who failed to give correctly the quotation from the book she held in modest veneration.
Franklin, their only son, received his early education at West Point, leaving his studies at last to assist his father. In December, 1844. Almon Farrel came to Ansonia as the adviser of Anson G. Phelps, respecting contemplated water power. Franklin at that time interested himself, as well, in locating streets, canals and business sites, finally making a permanent home in the little village which has grown to such large proportions under his and other helpful hands.
In 1848 the concern now known as the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company was organized for the construction of whatever machines were generally used in the Naugatuck valley. Many very necessary ar- ticles, such as sugar mills, chilled rolls, etc., are shipped to different
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parts of the globe. Castings weighing 21 tons have been made in the new foundry, which is 300 feet long and 130 feet wide. The special branch of manufacture is chilled rolls, which have given the company fame in all manufacturing countries.
In the early days of the brass and copper industry in New England the rolls were imported from the other side of the Atlantic, Franklin Farrel drawing plans of those desired, which were made and returned to him from England. The expense of importation was great and burdensome to the struggling industries of this country, and soon the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company undertook the manufacture of chilled rolls, of whatever size. The attempt proved a success beyond expectation, and now for many years the tide of importation has changed to a very tidal wave of exportation. The largest rolls of those days were small in comparison with those used at the present time.
Mr. Farrel, while holding for many years the position of president of the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company, has left that business largely to capable men, he himself having inaugurated other money- making investments, giving his own attention to them until they are well established and prosperous, then submitting them to other hands for management, looking meanwhile for something new. Mr. Farrel is principal owner in the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company, the Liverpool Silver & Copper Company, Liverpool, England; Parrot Sil- ver & Copper Company, of Butte, Mont .; the Sugar Estate, Yingo, Porviner, Macoris, St. Domingo; the Larger Estate, Santa Teressa, Campechuela Manyanillo, Cuba; the Bridgeport Copper Works, and others.
While Mr. Farrel is the impersonation of business ability, knowl- edge and success, he has agreeable social qualities, is a genial com- panion for the holiday and enjoys his foreign journeys to Europe and the West. The gentleness of his features is but the reflection of his heart, which is true and ever generous in the extreme. His home in Ansonia is one of wealth, refinement and pleasure. Mr. Farrel has been twice married: first to Miss Julia Lockwood Smith, of Derby, who died leaving two children; later to Miss Lillian Clark, New Haven, daughter of a prominent lawyer of that city.
Mr. Farrel's son, Alton Farrel, his father's partner and second self in business, passed away on April 17th, 1885, leaving a large circle of sorrowing friends. The remaining children are: May Wells Farrel, Florence Adele Farrel, Alise Marion Farrel and Franklin Farrel, Jr.
In politics Mr. Farrel was a strict republican. He is a churchman, being a member of the Episcopal church of Ansonia, is a liberal con- tributor to its treasury, and is greatly esteemed in the community which he has helped to build and where he now resides.
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Eugene R. Fisher was born in Essex county, N. Y., in 1855. He was employed by the Helpmate Sewing Machine Company of Platts- burgh, N. Y., as case hardener for three years. He married Dollie E. Pardy, of that place, in 1875. They have three children: Ida M., Pearl and Bertie E. Mr. Fisher came to Ansonia in 1885, and was employed by Wallace & Sons in their lamp department, becoming foreman of that department in 1886. There are 15 men employed in this depart- ment.
William Gaffney, born in Waterbury, Conn., in 1856, came to Ansonia with his parents about 1859. He learned the plumber's trade with T. P. Terry, of Ansonia, remaining with him about five years. He commenced work with the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company in 1880, as plumber, and was made foreman of their plumbing depart- ment in 1887. He is a member of the T. A. B. Association, and has filled all the offices in this society. He was delegate to the convention at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1889. He is secretary of K. of C., No. 23; presi- dent of the C. B. L., No. 265, of Ansonia, and state secretary of the C. T. A. U. of Connecticut. He married, in 1882, Mary A. Keefe, of Derby. They have two daughters and one son.
William D. Galpin was born in Litchfield, Conn., March 21st, 1838. He came to Ansonia in 1854, and entered the store of his uncle, Ros- well L. Johnson, one of the first merchants in Ansonia. After the death of Mr. Johnson, in 1861, his son, Nathan, succeeded him. Mr. Galpin remained with him four years, when the business was sold to Hobart Sperry. Mr. Galpin staid with him two years, and in 1867 en- gaged in the trade of men's furnishing goods with William H. Plum- mer. The business was sold to William H. Fellows in 1886, and Mr. Galpin retired from business. He was married, October 28th, 1868, to Ellen F. Little, of Sheffield, Mass. They have two children: Robert Irving and Annie Holmes. Robert is in the employ of the Holmes & Edwards Silver Company, Bridgeport, Conn.
JOHN B. GARDNER was born in Anspach, Bavaria, Germany, Sep- tember 7th, 1828, and died January 25th, 1891. With his parents he came to America when he was about 14 years of age, and resided in Brooklyn, N. Y. But after a few years he found his way to the mnanu- factory of the Jerome Clock Company, of New Haven, Conn. Here his future business life began to outline itself, and it became more and more a fixed certainty that his business pursuit should be somewhere in the time-measuring industry of the world.
It was in 1857 that he came to Ansonia, purchased property in the northi part of the town, and began the manufacture of clock dials of all kinds, clock trimmings, scale dials, etc. And in 1869 he bought the land where now the factory stands, and in that and the succeeding year put up the main building. Additions have been made since as they were needed, until now the factory is one of the largest in the town of Ansonia.
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During all the early years of manufacture in this plant Mr. Gard- ner attended closely to business, putting the finest dials on the market both in form and finish, and hence the volume of his business rapidly increased to its present proportions.
In the year 1880 he took his eldest son, Sturges G., into partnership with himself, under the firm name of J. B. Gardner & Son. He now threw much of the detail supervision upon the younger shoulders, but by no means relinquished his own supreme control and general man- agement of the running of the factory. Even if he was absent much of the time at his farm, he yet held the lines of manufacture well in hand.
His farming was more in the nature of pleasant recreation than of downright industry. He was fond of nature and of fine animals. He took pleasure in raising the largest and most handsome exhibits of pears or fruits at agricultural shows. He herded the finest Jersey stock, and so well fed and groomed were his cattle that, standing on the lawn, they won the admiration of the passer-by. It was not farm- ing for profit, as one can readily see, but it was farming thoroughly done, even if expensive, and the thoroughness was a quality of the farmer.
This same liking for the domestic animals and their cquipage appeared also in the equerry of Mr. Gardner. He kept his stable sup- plied with nice horses, and carriages to suit them. Indeed, the resi- dence of Mr. Gardner and its surroundings on Clifton avenue show the same taste and elegance. Every part is only part of the complete whole.
But Mr. Gardner was not absorbed wholly in his private concerns and pleasures. He had both the ability and the spirit for public affairs. This is evidenced at once in the fact that for three terms of two years each he had by popular choice served the towns of Derby and Anso- nia as associate judge of the town court, and when he died he was serving the fourth term. As a public officer of the law he had the fullest confidence of the community. Justice and humanity, amount- ing to philanthropy, were singularly united in him, and for this reason he was held in loving esteem. He has been known from his high sense of the responsibility of guardian of the public welfare to impose the proper fine upon the unfortunate prisoner, and then an hour after, when he had stepped down from the judge's bench into the ranks of private citizens, pay the fine, give the unfortunate culprit freedom and even find a " job " for him in his own factory. The people came to feel they had a philanthropist's heart in the judge when he was on the bench. Justice in the judge was tempered by mercy in the private citizen, and people honored him, both for his uprightness and his kindness. His charities were given, here and there, quietly, and without design on his part. All these qualities brought him the good name so much more valuable than his riches.
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But his domestic virtues were even greater than his public. He was very fond of his home and his family. On October 11th, 1854, he married Miss Mary J. Gregory, of New Preston, Conn. She was a lady of many virtues and graces. They made her conspicuous for many years in society and church, and she made the home delightful. Never was home happier than theirs. There was nothing wholesome or good desired by the growing family which was not furnished them. It was Mr. Gardner's delight to fulfil all their wishes, and when busi- ness hours were over he could be found, almost without exception, at home with his family about him. He was very fond of song, having inherited the passion of his native land for it. For many years he had been the chorister of Christ church, of which himself and wife were parishioners.
He was not a stranger to bereavement. Two sons have died- Horace L., August 10th, 1862, at the age of seven years, and John B., July 3d, 1882, at the age of fourteen. After the second of these be- reavements, Mrs. Gardner gradually withdrew from her public activi- ties into the heart of her family, and on August 27th, 1890, after a short sickness, passed away, the husband seeming to be bereft of his greatest comfort. The surviving sons and daughters are: Sturges G., Louis F., Annie L., Mary Christine and Charlotte Gertrude.
In Mr. Gardner's death the borough and town of Ansonia lost a successful, foremost manufacturer, and the public a citizen of high character and reputation.
Joseph F. Gilpin was born in England in 1837. He was a machin- ist in Liverpool, came to America in 1862, worked in New York city until 1865, then came to Ansonia. He worked for Franklin Farrel from January, 1865, until 1866, when he engaged with the Ansonia Brass & Copper Company, and has been with them since. As general superintendent and master mechanic, he has charge of all machinery buildings, water gates and water power of this company. He is fire marshal of Ansonia, and member of both the Masonic and Odd Fel- lows' orders.
Edward O. Goodrich was born in South Glastonbury, Conn., in 1855. In 1876 he began work for the Meriden Malleable Iron Com- pany. He came to Ansonia in 1881, and engaged as time-keeper with the Ansonia Brass & Copper Company. He steadily worked his way up until in January, 1889, he became superintendent. He has charge of the department of lamps and fixtures. Mr. Goodrich is a member of the Improved Order of Red Men of Ansonia, and past sachem of the Order. He is also a member of George Washington Lodge, No. 82, F. & A. M., and Mt. Vernon Chapter, No. 35, R. A. M.
Charles H. Hayes, born in Saugerties, N. Y., in 1833, learned the machinist business when young, and has followed that trade, and that of electrician. He enlisted in the war of the rebellion, 1st Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in 1861, and served three months, partici-
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pating in the first battle of Bull Run. After his discharge he was em- ployed in Colt's Armory, in Hartford, until 1863, when he reënlisted in the 1st Connecticut Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He then came to Ansonia, and has been connected with Wallace & Sons since. He has charge of the electrical department. He married Margaret E., widow of William Bristol, and youngest daughter of the late Thomas Wallace. She has two daughters: Mary C. and Carrie A. Bristol. Charles H. Hayes is a member of the George Washington Lodge, No. 82, F. & A. M., of Mt. Vernon Chapter, R. A. M., New Haven Commandery, K. T., Union Lodge, K. of H., and of the G. A. R.
Joshua Hibbert, born in Ludworth, Derbyshire, England, in 1855, came with his parents to America in 1863, and settled in Trenton, N. J., where he learned the trade of machinist and tool maker. He came to Ansonia in 1879, and entered the employ of the Ansonia Brass & Copper Company. He was made foreman in the brass mill of the rod department in 1888. He married, in 1881, Annie L. Singleton, of An- sonia, and has had three children. Mr. Hibbert is a member of George Washington Lodge, No. 82, F. & A. M., of the Improved Order of Red Men, and of the United Friends.
Doctor Melville C. Hitchcock was born in Trumbull, Conn., in 1855, was educated in the common schools of Bridgeport, and Strong's Com- mercial and Military Institute. He graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1877, and located in Ansonia in the spring of 1878. He is a member of the Connecticut Valley Dental So- ciety. He married, in 1884, Grace B. Espe, of Ansonia, and has two children: Melville E. and Carl. Doctor Hitchcock is a Knight Tem- plar, and an active member of several secret orders.
CHARLES C. JACKSON was born in Derby, Conn., January 30th, 1823. Mr. Jackson was the son of a farmer-mechanic, Colonel David Jack- son, of Derby, who served in the war of 1812, and earned his military title; and grandson of Jonathan Jackson, of Derby, one of the first set- tlers of the town. His mother was Lydia R., daughter of Levi Pack- ard, of Wilmington, Vt. Mr. Packard was a revolutionary soldier, and was wounded in the battle of Bennington. He afterward was made a pensioner of the government for valiant service rendered. So that Mr. Jackson has an ancestry which bequeathed to him an inheritance of loyalty to the flag of his country.
But his parents were not granted to him for a long period. While yet a boy he must make his way in the world, and carve out his own fortune. He undertook it bravely by, learning the trade of tack mak- ing in the shop of E. N. Shelton, of Derby, and there remained until 1858. He then went to Ansonia and began an independent business career. But only about a year passed by, when he was desired by the great manufacturing company of Wallace & Sons to superintend a de- partment of their works. He accepted the position, and continued in it from 1859 to 1880.
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At the latter date his health failed, and his friends became alarmed lest he might not recover it. He retired from business to win it back again, if he might, by diversions of various kinds, by travel, and by residence during the winter months in the South. Several of his win- ters since have been spent in St. Augustine, Florida, where he owns an estate, and to which himself and family now go as the cold weather draws on.
But his life as thus outlined, from a business point of view, has been filled in with a variety of social and political activities. It might be supposed that his military ancestry would give him a liking for military associations, and so it did. He took a loyal pride in his coun- try and its defenders, and for a number of years, in his earlier man- hood, was major of the 2d Connecticut Regiment.
Mr. Jackson disclaims prominence in politics, and yet his political associates are wont to declare an activity on his part, and a judgment in management which were efficient elements in the political life of his town. And they have left pleasantly their marks in the positions of trust to which he has been chosen from time to time, as town asses- sor and justice of the peace for a number of years.
But his greater pride has been taken in the social order of Odd Fellowship, and to that order he gives a crowning praise for having imparted to him its own high principles, by which he has sought to be governed all his life. He gained admission to the order while yet in his young manhood, became embued with enthusiasm for the train- ing it furnished in all the virtues and qualities of noble living, and passed on up through the various grades of ascent to the highest hon- ors. He filled the chairs of Grand Master and Grand Patriarch of the order in the state of Connecticut. He was also chosen to be the repre- sentative of the Grand Encampment for two years, and of the Grand Lodge for two years more, to the Sovereign Grand Lodge.
But these social honors have not eclipsed what Mr. Jackson has re- garded as more important still, his religious faith and Christian living, and his church affiliations. Both himself and family are prominent members of the Episcopal church of Ansonia, and Mr. Jackson has been vestryman, treasurer or warden nearly all the period of his resi- dence in the parish. So he has led his family to all that is highest and best in life. He bears among all his acquaintances an unsullied good name, and is widely esteemed for kindly nature, for probity of character, and cooperation in good public measures.
In 1847 he married Agnes, daughter of Thomas Wallace, the founder of the corporation of Wallace & Sons, of Ansonia. Two sons and five daughters have been born to them: Frederick M., of Wilming- ton, Del .; Wallace B .; Mrs. E. V. Clemens, of New York; Hattie A .; Mrs. E. L. Smith, of Monroe, Conn .; Sarah Elizabeth, and Josie Wallace.
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Joseph Jackson was born in England in 1840, and learned the machinist trade. He was afterward apprenticed to learn the trade of moulder, and finished the trade in Brooklyn, N. Y., coming to this country in 1858. In 1868 he came to Ansonia and entered the employ of the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company, becoming foreman of the foundry in 1880. He was married in 1864 to Susanna Auld, of Prince Edward's Island. They have five children.
William P. Judson was born in Ansonia in 1853. He was freight agent for the New Haven & Derby Railroad Company from 1877 until the road was purchased by the Housatonic Railroad Company, and continues in the same capacity for the latter company. July 28th, 1891, he purchased a coal business, which he now conducts. He mar- ried Katharine J. Hart, of New Haven, September 23d, 1890. He is a member of several secret organizations.
John T. Kent, born in Meriden, Conn., in 1851, is a son of Timothy and Ellen Kent, both natives of Ireland. He was educated in Ches- hire, and learned the trade of carpenter there. He came to Ansonia in 1871, engaged at his trade with John Dixbury, afterward with D. T. Johnson, and later with Lines, Mott & Platt. In 1880 he began work for the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company, and became their boss carpenter in 1882. He planned and built the wood work of the new foundry building and the new roll room, and set up the machinery in it.
Austin P. Kirkham, born in Middlefield, Ohio, December 25th, 1837, came with his father, Isaac J., to Connecticut in 1844. The lat- ter was born in Guilford, and died in 1872. With his four sons he en- listed in the war of the rebellion. The father, with two sons, Austin P. and Guilford M., enlisted April 19th, 1861, and served three months, taking part in the first battle of Bull Run. They were in Company D, 2d Connecticut Infantry, and were mustered out August 7th, 1861. Austin P. immediately reënlisted in the navy as master's mate. He was in the engagements of Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City, Newbern, Plymouth and others. He resigned from the navy in the fall of 1863, and enlisted in the 2d Connecticut Heavy Artillery, served with that regiment in the peninsular campaign under Grant; was wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor June 1st, 1864; after an absence of 44 days rejoined his regiment; was engaged in the defense of Washington when Early made his raid; was wounded again at Cedar Creek, Va., October 19th, 1864, and taken prisoner; was released in March, 1865, and rejoined his regiment in time to participate in the closing scenes of the war at Appomatox; and was mustered out of the service Septent- ber 11th, 1865. He enlisted as a private and was mustered out as a captain. Isaac J., the father, reënlisted with his two sons, Guilford and Leveritt, in Company A, 10th Connecticut Volunteers. Isaac J. and Guilford enlisted as musicians. Leveritt, the youngest son, took part in the capture of Roanoke, Elizabeth City, and at Newbern, N. C., March
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