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Spearo Clothing Company . . 1912
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Royal Ink and Bronze Manufacturing Company. 1912
Standard Gauge Manufacturing Company . . 1915
Swenson Grocery Company . 1917
W. B. S. Automobile Company 1912
Waterbury Enamel Company. 1916
Waterbury Investment & Development Company . 1916
Young Concrete & Construction Company 1914
Incorporations of 1909 Legislated Out of Existence
Arthur E. Benson, Inc .. . 19II
R. R. Harder & Company, Inc. 1915
Waterbury and Mapleton Realty Company. 1915
Waterbury Trotting Association, Incorporated. 1912
Incorporations of 1910 Legislated Out of Existence
Milwaukee Bottling Company 1914
Brass City Manufacturing Company . 1915
August L. Gauthier, Inc. . 1913
Holder Manufacturing Company. 1915
Milwaukee Beer Company. .
1913
Star Garage Auto Company, Inc.
1914
Standard Safety Pin Company
1914
Securities Sales Company .
.1915
W. S. Carberry Company. 1913
Waterbury Awning Company
1914
Incorporations of 191I Legislated Out of Existence
Callegaris Building & Improvement Corporation. 1917
Connecticut Bed Spring Company 1913
Brennan & Kane Company . . 1915
Boulevard Company .1917
Ideal Specialty Company, Inc. . 1912
Mckinney Land & Improvement Company . . 1914
Pollak Art Company . 1917
Waterbury Metal Products Company . . 1915
Incorporations of 1912 Legislated Out of Existence
French Pharmacy. Inc.
1917
American Amusement Company, Inc. . 1914
Brooklyn Liquor Company . 1915
Coffey's Lunch Corporation . 1915
G. G. Riggs Company. 1916
Guarantee Plumbing Company .
1915
Ideal Building Company
1914
Hub Hotel Company . 1915
Waterbury Market Company. . 1914
Waterbury Hair Spring Company, Inc.
1917
Waterville Sales Company
. 1914
Leavitt Department Store, Inc.
. 1917
Peterson & Nichols, Inc.
1915
Modern Cloak & Suit Company
19,15
South Dakota Land Corporation. 1916
Naugatuck Valley Coal Company
. 1915
Incorporations of 1913 Legislated Out of Existence
American Implement Company. 1916
Bergman Company
1916
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East Side Garage, Incorporated. 1916
F. A. Wenzel Company . 1915
George J. Gailey Company 1915
H. G. Miller Company . . . 1915
Royal Ladies Tailoring Company, Inc .. 1917
Waterbury Wall Paper Company 1916
Incorporations of 1914 Legislated Out of Existence
American Dial Company. . 1917
Connecticut Lunch Corporation. 1917
Fashion Shop, Inc. 1917
Depot Cafe Company 1917
Lux Clock Company . 1916
Pakville Wagon Works, Inc. (Watertown) 1916
P. F. Shea & Company, Inc
1917
People's Coal Company. 1917
Waterbury Amusement Company . 1917
Incorporations of 1915 Legislated Out of Existence
Standard Realty & Development Company . . 1917
Globe Clothing Company of Waterbury, Inc. 1917
DISSOLVED CORPORATIONS
The following is a list of Waterbury corporations incorporated prior to 1894 and dissolved after that period.
DISSOLVED IN 1899
Incorporated
1893-Globe Publishing Company.
. DISSOLVED IN 1904
Incorporated 1889-Seeley & Upham Company.
DISSOLVED IN 1905
Incorporated 1883-Chadwick Butter Company. 1883-Chapman & Armstrong Mfg. Co. 1876-People's Coal & Ice Company. 1888-Woodworth & White Company. 1891-Waterbury Smelting & Refining Company. 1888-Waterbury Re-cut File Co. 1884-Waterbury One Price Clothing Company. 1892-Waterbury Metal Bending Co. 1893-Waterbury Spoke & Handle Co. 1891-Waterbury Supply Company. 1887-Waterbury Malleable Iron Co. 1873 -- Waterbury Manufacturing Co. 1869-Terry Clock Company. Vol. I-22
Incorporated
1879-Waterbury Needle Company. 1866-Waterbury Brick Company. 1891-Waterbury Drug Company. 1886-Waterbury Electric Company. 1801-Waterbury Grocery Company. 1883-New England Box Company. 1887-Pearl Lake Manufacturing Co. 1893- Reed Re-Cut File Company. 1873-Matthews & Stanley Mfg. Co. 1853-Brown & Brothers. 1803-L. F. Haase Company.
1891-Lang Brothers Company. 1801-Henderson & Baird Company. 1888-Hillside School Corporation. 1893-H. W. Keeler Company.
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Incorporated
1878-Toltec Mining Company.
1889 -- Jericho Granite Company.
1868-A. Burritt Hardware Company. 1852-Steele & Johnson Mfg. Co. 1877-Union Brick Company. 1892-Waterbury Casting Company. 1891-Waterbury Amusement Co.
1881-Old Globe Copper Company. 1885-Waterbury Baseball Company.
1889-Waterbury Automatic Advertis- ing Company.
1852 -- Pickett, Turrell & Company.
1876-Platt Mill Company.
1891-Plymouth Granite Company. 1891-Naugatuck Granite Company.
1882-Matthews & Willard Company. 1891-Metal Perforating Company. 1882-Waterbury Horse Nail Company. 1888-Waterbury Herald Publishing Company.
1844 -- Waterbury Foundry Company. 1887-Waterbury Toboggan Company.
1854-Union Sash & Blind Company.
1864-Union Spectacle Works.
1865-United States Button Company. 1889-Union Electric Company.
1885-Sleeman Gas Saving Company.
1888-Republican Printing Company.
Incorporated
1867-Hayden & Griggs Mfg. Co.
1885-New England Wochenblatt Co.
1887-Guadaloupe Cattle Company. 1881-Cleveland Cigar Mfg. Co.
1891-City Drug Company.
1887-City Drug Store Company.
1893-City Grocery Company. 1862-Waterville Knife Co. (Water- ville).
1847-Waterville Manufacturing Co. 1890-B. Ball Milk Company.
1866-Barnard, Son & Company.
1878-Belmont Silver Mining Co.
1858-Benedict, Merriman & Company.
1888-C. E. Conover Company. 1879-Citizens Gas Light Company.
1867-Blake, Lamb & Company.
1886-Globe Curtain Pole Company. 1882-Garrigus Manufacturing Co. 1882-Gaylord, Cross & Speirs Co. 1878-Abbott & Root Brass Company.
1853-American Hosiery Company.
1878-Connecticut Arizona Mining Co.
1883-Deming Machine Company.
1890-Bradley & Hylan Carriage Co. 1883-Gem Rink Company.
1883-White Machine Company. 1853-Cotton Gin Mfg. Co.
DISSOLVED IN 1909
Incorporated 1892-Cross & Speirs Machine Co.
DISSOLVED IN IOII
Incorporated 1888-Upson Rogers Company.
Incorporated 1857-American Suspender Company.
1884-Big Rapids Door & Blind Mfg. 1850-Detroit & Lake Superior Copper Company.
Company.
DISSOLVED IN 1912
Incorporated 1893-Jackson Print Shop, Inc.
DISSOLVED IN 1913
Incorporated 1890-Waterville Cutlery Company.
DISSOLVED IN 1916
Incorporated
Incorporated 1889-Scovill & Adams Company. 1880-New England Watch Company.
CHAPTER XXIX
WATERTOWN AND ITS INDUSTRIES
POPULATION-CENTENARY CELEBRATION-CIIURCHES-SCHOOLS-LIBRARY -- INDUS- TRIAL DEVELOPMENT-SOLDIERS' MONUMENT-FIRE DEPARTMENT-VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY-D. A. R .- TOWN OFFICIALS --- CENSUS.
Watertown has made no great strides in population during the past quarter of a century, but its industries have developed in some instances to large pro- portions and its beautiful homes, its long lines of terraced lawns, its finely kept streets, its trees, its public buildings have made it one of the beauty spots of New England.
On July 10, 1916, it was honored in the competition for the best clean-up record with a silver cup, which has this inscription: "Presented to Watertown, Conn., July 10th, 1916, by New England Clean-Up and Paint-Up Campaign Committee for conducting the most efficient clean-up and paint-up campaign of any town in New England, having a population of 5,000 or less."
The town now takes a pride in its high school and six other schools, including St. John's Parochial School. In addition to these, it is the home of the famous Horace D. Taft School, an institution for the education of boys, which has just been housed in a magnificent new building. It has six churches, a finely con- ducted library, a well-managed volunteer fire department and is in every respect today a modern and up-to-date New England community.
On June 17, 1880, Watertown celebrated its centenary. It was incorporated in 1780 as an independent town and named Watertown, the society of North- bury being included until 1795. The centenary celebration was a memorable affair. The following is the narrative of the celebration as prepared by the Daughters of the Revolution :
"The parade was large and imposing. The Putnam Phalanx in their pic- turesque continental uniforms attracted general attention and elicited rounds of applause all along the line. Captains Bannon and Spencer's commands marched finely. The fire companies never appeared to better advantage, and the Cen- tennial Cadets, a company of boys, in dark blue uniforms and red sashes, under command of Capt. B. Havens Heminway and Lieut. Charles Heminway were a striking feature of the procession. The antique part of the parade was a decidedly novel one, everything pertaining to it savored of 'ye olden time.' The figures '1780' were attached to nearly everything and the exhibition of antiques in the Town Hall, now the engine house, was very creditable. Roderick Atwood was the patriarch father. The cavalcade was preceded by a man seated astride a horse and surrounded by five barrels, two on each side and one across the pommel of the saddle, this representing the ride through Watertown in 1799 of Noble Atwood, who, to decide a wager, accomplished this feat. There were old vehicles of every description filled with ladies and gentlemen in continental costumes. Nearly everything in this procession was one hundred years old. There was the centennial wagon loaned by Elisha Leavenworth and the old gig in which Doctor Elton long made his rounds to visit his patients on these hills and in the
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towns roundabout. The carriage containing Governor Andrews, William E. Curtiss, L. W. Cutler, president of the day, and F. J. Kingsbury, was drawn by four horses driven by Lyman Norton. The staff and other visiting guests were in carriages. While the procession was in motion the salute of twenty-one guns was fired in honor of Governor Andrews. Col. Wm. D. Hotchkiss was chief marshal, and his aides were Rev. Charles Croft, Alanson Warner, Merritt Hemin- way, James Wooster, John Gorra, Wm. Munson, Frank Peck, David Woodward and Henry Atwood. The procession was reviewed in front of the Warren House by Governor Andrews. Hon. Wm. E. Curtiss of New York, whose country home is at Watertown, delivered the historical address."
IIISTORY OF ITS CHURCHES
In the southwest corner of the old cemetery stood the first church of the township, a Congregational Church, for the first ecclesiastical society was organ- ized soon after the incorporation of the Society of Westbury in 1738. There were about three hundred inhabitants in the town when the Rev. John Trumbull was invited to take charge of the parish and in 1741 they began to worship in the new church structure.
In 1772, during Mr. Trumbull's pastorate, the second Congregational Church building was erected near the site of the present postoffice. It is worthy of record that during the first fifty years of American missionary history, Dr. Henry De Forest, a member of the Congregational Church of Watertown, went to Syria as a missionary.
In 1834 work was begun upon a new church and this was dedicated on Jan- uary 29, 1840, the third Congregational Church to be erected in the town. Rev. Uriel L. Gridley, who succeeded Mr. Trumbull in the pastorate, in 1787, remained for thirty-five years as its pastor. At present Rev. Clarence E. Wells is pastor, and the clerk of the church is Charles W. Bidwell.
The Union Congregational Church at Oakville was organized in 1899. Its clerk at present is Roscoe W. French, and its treasurer is Bennett F. Ball.
The Christ Episcopal Church was organized in 1765, and had its first church on land southeast of the old cemetery. It was not until April 17, 1787, however, that it was able to settle a clergyman in the community at an annual salary, and its first selection was Rev. Chauncey Pringle who was satisfied with an annual stipend of thirty pounds, to be paid in cattle or produce. The Academy, after- wards Christ Church Parish House, was built in 1838 during the final rectorship of Dr. Frederick Holcomb. In February, 1896, a new organ was placed at the chancel end of the church and many improvements were made. At present the rector is Rev. Francis Banks Whitcome, and the secretary is S. McLean Buckingham.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Watertown was established in 1800, but it was not until 1838 that a meeting house was erected, at Strait's Turnpike. In 1853 the Methodist Congregation had outgrown the little meeting-house, and on the invitation of Gen. Merrit Heminway accepted the use of the ball-room at his hotel for Sunday services. On December 13, 1854, however, the Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated.
In 1897 the membership of the church had increased to such an extent that it became necessary to build a still larger edifice. The money was raised, largely through the generosity and influence of Augustus N. Woolson, who purchased the old church for $1,000 and removed it and later not alone subscribed to the building fund for the church, but gave liberally toward its equipment. The
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present pastor of the church is Rev. Henry D. Trinkes, and Robert J. Moore is the secretary, a position he has held for nearly two decades.
In 1841 the first Roman Catholic, Michael Dunn, came to reside in Water- town. Three years later he was joined by Anna Gaffney and Patrick Dougherty. In 1853, there were a dozen Catholics in the town, comprising the families of Patrick Dougherty, Michael Dunn, James Goodsell, John Kane, Robert Torrence and John McGowan. The first priest who visited Watertown was the Rev. Mi- chael O'Neil of Waterbury. He celebrated Holy Mass at the house of John McGowan. In 1877 the site of the present church was purchased, and the erec- tion of the edifice began at once. The corner-stone was laid in 1877. On March 24, 1878, Bishop Galberry dedicated it in honor of St. John the Evangelist. The church cost $7,000. Patrick Dunnigan and John Kane were the first trustees. In 1884, the Watertown Parish was divided from Thomaston, with Terryville as a mission. Rev. Joseph Fones was the first resident priest. He remained two years. In 1886 he was succeeded by Rev. James W. Lancaster. Father Lancaster died in 1899. He was succeeded by Rev. James H. O'Donnell. Father O'Donnell renovated the church and rectory, laid concrete walks, introduced a new heating apparatus and electric lights and liquidated the entire debt of the parish. He also purchased a cemetery lot at a cost of $700 toward which the town donated $300. This cemetery was blessed in 1896 by Bishop Tierney and named Mount St. James' Cemetery.
Father John Loftus succeeded Father O'Donnell in 1902 and is still, in 1917, in charge of the parish.
Through the efforts of Father Loftus, St. John's Parochial School was erected in 1907. This is on Main Street, near Woodruff Avenue, and is under the direc- tion of the Sisters of Notre Dame, Sister Bernardine, superior.
St. Mary Magdalene Church on Buckingham Street, Oakville, was organized August 15, 1902. It is now in charge of Rev. John A. Condan.
ITS SCHOOLS
Until 1883 Watertown was able to accommodate its own pupils in one school- house, to which additions had been made from time to time. In that year, how- ever, it was voted by the district to build a new schoolhouse "upon the present school site," and to buy a small piece of land in the rear adjoining the same. They were empowered to "move or sell the old schoolhouse, erect a school building, grade and finish the same, provided the sum total did not exceed the sum of $8,500 which was provided." The building was erected and contained four rooms. Additions were made from time to time until there were eight rooms. Early in the morning of December 21, 1906, the school building and all its con- tents were burned.
On February 4, 1907, the district voted to appropriate $50,000 to erect a new school building which should contain twelve rooms. This was confirmed March 25, 1907.
At the present time there are six schools in the jurisdiction of the Water- town School Committee, of which Fletcher W. Judson is chairman, Charles W. Bidwell is secretary, L. K. Chance, superintendent. The schools are as follows : High School with four grades and laboratory; Baldwin School, eight rooms. An addition of four rooms to the South School, Oakville, was completed in 1917 at a cost of $30,000. This is now a twelve room school, with an attendance of 436.
The other schools are the Falls Avenue, Guernseytown, Polk, Linfield, Winna- maug, and Nova Scotia. Total number enumerated in 1917 was 1,274.
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Horace D. Taft, A. M., brother of former President Taft, was born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, December 28, 1861. He is a son of Alphonso and Louisa (Torrey) Taft. Mr. Taft entered Yale in 1879 and was graduated in the class of 1883. He then went abroad with his father, who was at that time minister to Austria, and on his return he studied law in Cincinnati and was admitted to the bar in 1885. Two years later he was appointed tutor of Latin at Yale. In 1890 he established a school at Pelham Manor and three years later he removed his school to Water- town and purchased the Warren House, in which to conduct the school. He is now in the large new school recently built and opened. The institution is designed to fit boys for college and scientific schools and the course of study covers five years. Mr. Taft has been very successful in his work, the school making a steady growth under his care.
WATERTOWN LIBRARY
The Library Association was formed in 1865, through the energy and in- fluence of Reverend Doctor Lewis, rector of Christ Church, who called a meeting of those interested in founding a public library. They had little hopes of success, but subscriptions were solicited and when an amount was raised sufficient to buy 500 books and a few magazines, the library was opened in an upper room of the old academy. Miss Nancy Bronson was appointed librarian. It remained in the academy for about one year, when it was removed to an upper room of the store now owned by Francis N. Barton. Ten years later Dr. John DeForest donated $5 000 as a perpetual fund, the interest of which should be used for the purchasing of books. In 1879 the Legislature passed an act incorporating "the Watertown Library Association," making sure its possessions. Four years later Benjamin DeForest, brother of Doctor John, gave $15,000 for a library building which was completed and ready for occupation the following year. Dr. John DeForest then made a second donation of $5,000 and at his death two years later he left a legacy of $10,000 more, making in all $20,000 which the library received from him. A number of other legacies have been received.
From Hon. Leman W. Cutler, who was president of the Library Association for many years, $3,000 ; Caleb T. Hickcox, $800; and Henry Platt, $500. The building is of gray Quincy granite, and is a very attractive piece of architecture. The interior is finished in ash. Portraits of Dr. John and Benjamin DeForest, and their parents, also Leman W. Cutler and Caleb Hickcox adorn the walls; attractive donations have been made by the Sexta Feira Literary Club of the "Winged Victory of Samothrace" and a bronze tablet in memory of John Trum- bull, poet, who was a native of Watertown. Buell Heminway, president of the association, presented a cast of the "Flying Mercury," and a handsome table and chairs. Samuel Curtis, a painting of buffaloes, by J. D. Howland. Benjamin DeForest Curtis has given many historical works of great value.
Miss Nancy Bronson was the efficient librarian for thirty-eight years and six months, untiring in her efforts for its growth and prosperity. In 1885 Miss Jennie Smith was appointed assistant librarian, as the work had become more than one could perform. In 1903, Miss Bronson resigned, and Miss Smith was made head librarian.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
The history of the industrial development of Watertown began with its pioneers, and was promoted as the settlement grew, and its needs were made manifest.
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The M. Heminway & Sons' Silk Company is one of the largest and best known industries in Watertown. Gen. Merrit Heminway was the son of John and Hannah Thompson Heminway, of East Haven. He was born March 21, 1800, and came to Watertown at twenty-one years of age. He was clerk for James Bishop, who carried on the mercantile business in the basement of the Bishop Hotel, which stood on the site of the Homer Heminway residence. In 1822, a company was formed under the firm name of Bishop & Heminway, and continued until 1842, when Mr. Heminway assumed control of the business. Later Mr. Heminway fitted up a building, which is part of the present factory and had been occupied by Nathaniel Wheeler, who was engaged at that time as a wagon maker, and there began the manufacture of sewing silk in skeins. A few years later he formed a joint-stock company, having his four sons and a daughter as partners, under the firm name of M. Heminway & Sons' Silk Company. Mr. Heminway was the first in this country to spool silk. The first were made to hold twelve yards each. After making a small quantity, he took it to New York for the inspection and approval of the leading New York merchants of that time. They were discouraging in their opinions, believing it would stretch the silk, which would be detrimental, but Mr. Heminway was not a man to be easily dis- couraged. He continued to spool the silk. The sales increased and from a small force of twelve or fifteen employees, they now number about three hundred in all departments.
In 1917 the M. Heminway & Sons Silk Company was purchased by Ham- mond Knowlton & Company of Putnam, Conn., and after January 2d the com- pany will be known as the H. K. H. Company. Its capital is $2,500,000.
After the death of General Heminway, his son Buell organized a silk com- pany in which his son, B. Havens Heminway and Henry Bartlett were his partners under the firm name of The Heminway & Bartlett Silk Co.
It started business in September, 1888, and its first officers were: Buell Heminway, president and treasurer ; H. H. Bartlett, vice president ; B. H. Hem- inway, secretary. Mr. Bartlett succeeded to the presidency on the death of Mr. Heminway, March 6, 1915, and Howard Chichester, of New York, became vice president, while B. H. Heminway remains as secretary and treasurer, with B. P. Hudson as assistant secretary and B. H. Heminway, Jr., as superintendent. The first factory was 40 by 60 feet. They employed fifteen people, of whom none were paid over $I per day, the average wage being $5 per week. They now . employ 250 and about 65 per cent women, and the girls earn from nine to eighteen dollars per week. Many employes have been with the company twenty-five years. A large proportion are skilled operatives and the company now also employs much automatic machinery that has been developed in Watertown. The present factory is 400 by 60 feet long, three stories in height, of mill construc- tion and supplied with sprinkler system. The cquipment includes individual motors and all the latest improved devices needed in the manufacture of silk goods of this character. From the beginning the company manufactured spool, embroidery and crochet silks and in 1912 added silk hosiery.
In January, 1850, the Watertown Mfg. Company was formed, with a capital stock of $30,000, to manufacture mouse-traps, umbrella sticks, machinery, and other goods. A. G. Davis was elected president, A. B. Everett, secretary and treasurer. A factory valued at from five to six thousand dollars was built on the site of the Jonathan Scott sawmill, then owned and used as a sawmill by Jeremiah Peck, and the bell of the old factory was hung in the tower.
In 1861 Everett & Davis again purchased it and four years later Augustus N. Woolson succeeded Mr. Everett and the firm name was changed to Davis &
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Woolson. Mr. Davis built many of the original machines used in the factory. Mr. Davis died January 18, 1873, and Mr. Woolson assumed control of the busi- ness and continued it for over thirty years. Augustus N. Woolson was a man of wonderful energy and ability and soon built up a prosperous business, necessi- tating additions to the factory from time to time. Mr. Woolson continued to manufacture the mouse-traps, but gave more attention to umbrella and parasol trimmings. Henry S. Frost was superintendent during Mr. Woolson's owner- ship, and aided the business by his popularity with the employes, as well as in reconstructing and building new machines for special purposes. Augustus N. Woolson died July 20, 1903. He left the business to his son, James B. Woolson, under whose name it still continues. It now manufactures umbrella and parasol furniture, brass novelties, runners, notches, caps, case rings, cane and parasol ferrules.
THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT
Caleb Hickcox left in his will $3,000 towards a soldiers' monument, to be available at the death of Mrs. Hickcox. In 1902, the Soldiers' Monument Asso- ciation was organized and a soliciting committee appointed. Of the money received, $3.500 was contributed by citizens and friends, and a monument to commemorate the memory of the men who gave their lives in their country's cause has been erected on the slope opposite the Methodist Church.
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