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for the New Wetmore school, also the Riverside school of Torrington and a number of other prominent buildings. While a member of the firm of Griggs & Hunt his firm designed many of the best buildings in Waterbury, including the Hotel Elton, the Lilley building, the Waterbury courthouse, the Reid and Hughes building and many others. together with some of the leading factories of that city. Evidences of his skill and handi- work are also found in various Massachusetts cities and in Nova Scotia. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects and of its Connecticut chapter is a past president.
In his fraternal relations Mr. Hunt is an Elk. while politically he is a republican. He keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day but he does not seek nor desire public office, preferring to concentrate his cnergies upon his professional interests, and step by step he has advanced to a most creditable place in professional ranks. He attends the Congregational church and he is identified with various prominent clubs, includ- ing the Automobile, Waterbury, Elks and Waterbury Country Clubs. He was for three years a director of the Connecticut State Automobile Association.
On the 11th of October, 1899, Mr. Hunt was united in marriage to Miss Anna Bradley Warner, of Watertown, Connecticut. His professional and social activities have made him widely known and his salient characteristics are such as make for personal popularity.
WILLIAM E. KENNEDY.
William E. Kennedy, superintendent of streets and sewers at Waterbury, was born September 10, 1875, in the city where he still resides, and is the eldest son of Matthew and Nora (O'Brien) Kennedy, both of whom were natives of County Tipperary. Ireland, but became acquainted after arriving in Waterbury. The father, who was a coal merchant, died about twenty years ago, but the mother is still living.
William E. Kennedy is the eldest of the five living children of the family, the other four being: Joseph, now principal of the Waterbury high school; Mrs. Margaret Joyce, of Passaic, New Jersey; Sadie; and Henry. After acquiring a high school education in Waterbury, William E. Kennedy entered Mount St. Mary's College at Emmitsburg, Mary- land, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in June, 1897. Two years afterward his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree. In the fall of 1897 he entered the Catholic University of Washington, D. C., where he spent three years in pursuing an electrical engineering course, which he completed by graduation with the E. E. degree in June, 1900. He was employed for a year by the Edison Company of New York city and subsequently spent one year with the Waterbury Clock Company and two years with the Waterbury Battery Company. In 1902 he entered the service of the city of Waterbury as a clerk in the office of the superintendent of the water depart- ment and there continued until 1906, when he was advanced to the superintendency and occupied that position for four years. He later spent two years as traveling representative of the Gamon Meter Company of Newark, New Jersey, and since January, 1912, he has been superintendent of streets and sewers of Waterbury, having been appointed by the board of publie works and reappointed at the close of his first term of two years.
Mr. Kennedy is a member of St. Patrick's Catholic church. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and fraternally he is connected with the Elks and with the Woodmen of the World. His business experience and college training have well qualified him for the work in which he is now engaged.
FRED L. GARRIGUES.
Fred L. Garrigues, treasurer of the Standard Engineering Company, through the steps of an orderly progression in business connections reached his present position. He is an alumnus of Maine University, there having received his technical training. He was born in Waterbury, September 26, 1878, a son of Lewis and Eunice (Walton) Garrigues, who were natives of Morristown, New Jersey, and of Waterbury respectively, the latter being a representative in the ninth generation of one of the oldest American families. Lewis Garrigues was a wood worker and designer of wood-working machinery and also engaged in the manufacture of musical instruments. He passed away in the year 1907 but his widow still survives.
After completing a high school course in Waterbury, Fred L. Garrigues entered the
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University of Maine, where he pursued the study of electrical engineering and was gradu- ated with the class of 1899. He entered the employ of the telephone company, spending about eleven years in that connection, his time being divided between Waterbury and New York. He was afterward with the Standard Electric Time Company and in 1909 he organized the Standard Engineering Company, which was incorporated in 1911, with Mr. Garrigues as the president and Ernest E. Kilburn secretary and treasurer. The present officers are: George L. Riggs, president; Francis T. Reeves, secretary; and F. L. Garrigues, treasurer. Their plant is located on Center street, where they engage in the electrical construction and supply business, specializing in furnishing power and electrical equip- ment for factories. They employ about forty people. The business has steadily grown during the eight years of its existence and has long since become one of the profitable industries of the city.
In 1905 Mr. Garrigues was married to Miss Sarah W. Hayward, of Waterbury, a daughter of Edwin E. Hayward, and they now have one child, Eunice Welton. Mr. Gar- rigues exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party. He belongs to the Rotary Club, is a representative of the Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges and has membership in St. John's Episcopal church, in which he served for three years as vestryman, retiring from that position at Easter in 1917. He is interested in all those forces which work for righteousness and truth and his life has ever been guided by the most admirable principles.
FREMONT W. TOLLES.
Fremont W. Tolles, president of the Naugatuck National Bank, has been identified with this institution since its organization more than a third of a century ago and from the begin- ning has been one of its officers. He was born in Bethany, Connecticut, September 5, 1849, a son of Isaac B. and Maria W. (Buckingham) Tolles, who removed to Naugatuck in 1851. The father was a merchant here for many years. The officers of the bank at present are in addition to Mr. Tolles: H. B. Tuttle, vice president; A. H. Dayton. cashier; G. M. Rumney and B. A. Wilmot, assistant cashiers; and H. V. Parker, teller.
GEORGE WEIGOLD.
George Weigold, as proprietor of the Torrington Creamery, is at the head of the leading business of its kind in Torrington and is conducting an enterprise which is second to none of the kind in the Naugatuck valley. His trade embraces probably one-half of the patronage in his line in Torrington. This enterprise he has developed from a small beginning and his close application, progressive methods and unfaltering diligence have been the means of winning for him the substantial success which he now enjoys. He was born in Torrington, May 7, 1871, a son of Andrew and Catharine (Stumpf) Weigold, both of whom were natives of Germany. They came, however, to America when young people, first became acquainted in Connecticut and were married in this state. About 1860 they removed to Torrington, where their remaining days were passed, the father devoting his attention to the development and improvement of a farm in the town of Torrington. He passed away in 1889, while his wife died in 1907. They were the parents of five children, of whom George is the youngest. The others are: Mrs. Mary Peck, of Tor- rington, Connecticut; Mrs. Delphine Elmore, who makes her home in Ilion, New York; Louis C., a resident of New Lebanon, New York; and Andrew, of Winsted, Connecticut,
George Weigold has spent his entire life in Torrington and is indebted to its public school system for his educational opportunities. He left the high school at the age of sixteen years to enter business. He had been reared on his father's farm near Tor- rington and there remained until he reached the age of twenty-five, for following his father's death in 1889 he took charge of the farm, which he operated for his mother for a number of years. While thus engaged he turned his attention to the milk business in a small way but soon built up a good trade, so that after a short time he ceased to engage in general farming, sold his herd of Guernsey cows and concentrated his attention upon his milk routes and the demands of his customers. He purchased milk from the farmers in the vicinity of Torrington and steadily his business increased, for his patrons found him thoroughly reliable not only in the quality of milk which he carried but in the business
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methods which he pursued. He has since continued in the creamery business and his milk routes now embrace perhaps more than one-half of the city of Torrington. He handles six thousand quarts of milk per day and in the conduct of his business he employs four motor trucks and a number of horse-drawn wagons. He has developed a large wholesale trade, shipping both milk and ice cream to various cities and towns of the Naugatuck valley from Winsted to Derby. About 1902 he purchased the Torrington Creamery on Riverside avenue, which was then manufacturing a small quantity of butter per day- from four hundred to five hundred pounds. Mr. Weigold still makes about the same amount of butter but has greatly increased the business of the creamery by the develop- ment of a large ice cream trade and now makes and sells both at wholesale and retail, handling from two hundred to three hundred gallons of ice cream per day. The Tor- rington Creamery is thoroughly modern and up-to-date in every respect. It is fully equipped with the latest improved machinery for pasteurizing and clarifying the milk. There is a complete cold storage plant, with its refrigerating machinery recently installed at a cost of many thousands of dollars and all of the most modern type. Its cooling equipment and its machinery and apparatus for the making of ice cream, which is now its chief line, are also modern and complete to the smallest detail. The plant is fully sup- plied with machinery for washing, steaming, cleaning and rinsing, and the milk delivered to the customers of the Torrington Creamery is as pure as it can be made, having first been pasteurized and clarified. This kills possible germs and removes all natural impurities. Mr. Weigold has built up a most enviable reputation through the manufacture of ice cream of the highest quality and such is the excellence of the output that his patronage has steadily increased and his sales often reach three hundred gallons per day.
Mr. Weigold has been married twice. In 1889 he wedded Kitty Northrup, who died in 1890, leaving a son who was then an infant of but a week old. This was Arthur Weigold, who was born December 28, 1890, and is now in partnership with his father. In 1895 Mr. Weigold wedded Miss May Northrup, the younger sister of his first wife, and there is one daughter of this marriage, Katharine, who was born March 17, 1899, and is now a young lady of eighteen years employed in her father's office. The son, Arthur George Weigold, now twenty-seven years of age, is a splendid specimen of physical man- hood, being six feet and two inches in height and weighing two hundred and ten pounds. He was married May 14, 1912, to Miss Heppie Miles, of, Goshen, Connecticut, and they have become parents of three children: George Woodrow, born March 4, 1913; Bernice Virginia, born September 17, 1914; and Hildreth Alma, born August 13, 1916.
Not by leaps and bounds but by steady progression has Mr. Weigold reached the prominent position which he occupies in the business circles of Torrington. His efforts have been always wisely directed and with close study of business conditions he has made steady advancement. He is a member of the First Congregational church and is well known as a Master Mason and as an Elk, being most loyal to the teachings of these organi- zations, so that he enjoys in fullest measure the regard of his brethren of the fraternities.
THOMAS M. FRENEY.
Thomas M. Freney, an architect who since the fall of 1900 has practiced his profession in Waterbury, where he has won many clients, was born in this city in 1866, a son of James and Mary (Allman) Freney, who were natives of Massachusetts and of Ireland respectively. In the paternal line he also comes of Irish lineage, for his grandfather, James Freney, Sr., was a native of the Emerald isle. Having crossed the Atlantic to the new world, he settled at Deerfield, Massachusetts, in 1835 and there took up the occupa- tion of farming. His son James was a railroad man and is now deceased. His widow, however, yet resides in Waterbury.
After becoming a high school pupil in Waterbury, Thomas M. Freney started out in the business world with the firm of Gaffney & Martin, contractors, with whom he remained for ten years. Desirous of further technical training along the line in which he was directing his energies, he then entered the Drexel Institute of Architecture in Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1900. In the fall of that year he opened an office in Waterbury and in March, 1902, he was joined by Fred Jackson, who, however. is not active in the firm. Mr. Freney does architectural work of all kinds. He has been employed in his professional capacity for the Russell school and rebuilt the Mulcahy school. He also erected an eight room addition to the Maloney school and made the plans for and supervised the construction of the Sprague school of Waterville, the Bunker Hill school,
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the Mary Abbott school, the Begnal school and the new high school building of Waterbury, which was erected at a cost of six hundred thousand dollars. He was the architect of the Kilbride, Bolan and Alma apartments and of many residences and business blocks, also of the J. E. Smith Company mill and the Alhambra theatre. There has been constant demand made upon him for professional activity and his long experience and technical training have placed him in the foremost ranks of the architects of the city. Mr. Freney is an Elk and his political allegiance is given to the democratic party, but he has neither time nor inelination for public offiee, his attention being fully occupied with his professional activities.
REV. FRANCIS J. LALLY.
Rev. Francis J. Lally, pastor of St. Thomas Roman Catholic church, situated at the corner of Crown and Beacon streets in Waterbury, entered the priesthood in 1886 and has since devoted his attention to the work of his holy calling in Connecticut. He was born in Stratford, this state, June 10, 1862, a son of John and Ann (Lynch) Lally, both of whom were natives of Ireland. The parents were married in Stratford in 1861. The father was a landscape gardener and thus provided for the support of his family of nine children, eight sons and a daughter, all of whom are yet living. The mother passed away, however, on the 12th of June, 1914, while the death of the father occurred August 5, 1915.
Rev. Lally was the eldest of their family. He was graduated from the high school at Bridgeport in 1878 and in further pursuit of his education attended the St. Bonaventure College at Allegany, New York, for four years. He was there graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1882 and later spent four years in St. Bonaventure's Seminary, con- ducted by the Franciscan fathers at Allegany. There he studied philosophy and theology in preparation for the priesthood and took holy orders in 1886, being ordained at Hartford by Bishop McMahon. He served as assistant priest at St. Mary's church in East Hartford for seven years and for seven years was assistant at St. Peter's in Hartford. In 1900 he was appointed priest of St. Joseph's church in Windsor, Connecticut, where he remained for eleven years, and sinee 1911 he has been continuously pastor of St. Thomas church, doing faithful work for his parish in the promotion of its material and spiritual interests.
JOHN E. TACKABERRY.
John E. Tackaberry, assistant seeretary and treasurer of the Williams Sealing Corporation of Waterbury, has been interested in the manufacture of the bottle cap known as Kork-N-Seal from the inception of the business. He was a college chum and friend of George A. Williams, the inventor of the cap, and was the first inan to whom Mr. Williams mentioned the sealing device. He was born in New York city, July 4, 1876, a son of John A. and Jane (Halsted) Tackaberry. His paternal and maternal families, Tiemann, Halsted, Coutant and Van Dyne were all colonial settlers in New York city. His father was vice president and general manager of the John Stephenson Car Company and was the inventor of most of the features of the modern street car.
John A. Tackaberry of this review acquired a public school education in New York and afterward attended the Wilbraham Academy of Massachusetts. He was graduated from the Wesleyan University in 1899 and afterward spent two years in the employ of the Western Electric Company of New York. He then learned the business of systematizing with Hewitt & Hahn of New York and afterward was with Hewitt & McCall. In 1909 the firm became Hewitt & Tackaberry, business systematizers. Both the partners traveled extensively over the central west, installing business systems for such firms as the Curtis Publishing Company, the National Cash Register Company, the H. J. Heinz Company and many others. Mr. Taekaberry continued in that line until 1914, when he became associated with the Williams Sealing Corporation of Waterbury as assistant secretary and treasurer. He was with Mr. Williams on a boating trip on the Hudson when the latter ent his hand in trying to open a bottle of ginger ale. Mr. Williams began the study of some method to cap bottles where such an aceident would be prevented and mentioned the subject to Mr. Tackaberry. Evolving his plan, Mr. Williams interested various well known business men in the undertaking and was joined by his friend, Mr. Tackaberry. The latter has
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since been an active factor in the Williams Sealing Corporation, which is engaged in the manufacture of bottle caps and in the manufacture of automatic machines for applying these caps. The business has steadily grown until the employes of the company now number one hundred and twenty-five.
In politics Mr. Tackaberry is connected with the progressive wing of the republican party and is a strong Roosevelt man. Mr. Tackaberry is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, of the Psi Upsilon Club of New York and of the Waterbury Country Club.
FRED H. POTTER.
Rapid development and almost revolutionary changes in business methods have led to the establishment of many new lines of activity. One of these is the manufacture of rubber tires and even this business has undergone a marked change since the first solid rubber tires were placed upon horse-drawn vehicles. Today the automobile has practically supplanted the horse for commercial as well as pleasure uses and there has been built up a mammoth industry in connection with the manufacture and sale of motor car tires. It is in this field that Fred H. Potter, of Waterbury, is found as secretary of the Todd Rubber Company, which has its head office in New Haven and which established a branch in Waterbury in April, 1912. He was born in New Haven in 1885, a son of Frederick L. and Caroline S. Potter. After obtaining a public school education he learned the toolmaker's trade and was employed for a time by the Peerless Motor Car Company of Cleveland, Ohio. He was afterward with Julian F. Dennison for more than a year in experimental work on gasoline engines. At one time he was connected with the W. & E. T. Fitch Company of New Haven, manufacturers of saddlery hardware, and it was after this that he became connected with Mr. Dennison. For a period he was with the Buick agency of New Haven and in 1912 he became connected with the Todd Rubber Company, opening the Waterbury branch of the business. He has been more or less closely connected with the automobile industry for a decade or more. He is now secretary of the Todd Rubber Company, which established business in Waterbury at No. 27 Abbott avenue, but removed to No. 150 Grand street in January, 1916. The company handles automobile tires and accessories and does vulcanizing. They are the exclusive Connecticut agents for the Kelley Springfield tires. They handle a general line of rubber goods, shoes, footwear and garden hose, as well as automobile accessories of all kinds, and they have a splendidly equipped vulcanizing shop, in which they employ five people.
On the 4th of August, 1911, Mr. Potter was married to Miss Helen Johnson of New Haven, Connecticut, and they have one child, Florence. Mr. Potter has attained high rank in Masonry, having become a Knight Templar, a thirty-second degree Consistory Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. He also has membership with the Rotary Club and the United Commercial Travelers. while in politics he maintains an independent course, voting for men and measures rather than for party.
HARRY KINGSLEY HINE, M. D.
Dr. Harry Kingsley Hine is well known as one of the younger representatives of the medical profession in Waterbury, where he has practiced since 1909. He was born in Bristol, Connecticut, July 22, 1884, and is the only child of Frank Hobart and Louise (Saul) Hine. The father, a clockmaker by trade, was born at Harwinton, Connecticut, July 9, 1855, and died at Thomaston, February 10, 1911. His widow still survives and is living at New Haven. In the paternal line Dr. Hine comes of English ancestry, while on his mother's side he is of German descent. The Hine family is a most ancient one in Connecticut and was represented in the Revolutionary war. Numerous members of the family are residing at Milford.
Dr. Hine attended the public and high schools of Thomaston and also pursued his studies under a private tutor. He thus qualified for his professional course, which was pursued in the Maryland Medical College of Baltimore, where he was graduated on the 2d of June, 1908, winning the M. D. degree. He then spent one year in the Franklin Square Hospital of Baltimore, gaining broad. varied and valuable experience such as hospi- tal service brings. He was thus well qualified to enter upon the private practice of medi-
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cine and surgery when in 1909 he came to Waterbury and opened an office. He has a large practice and enjoys the high regard of his professional brethren and of the general public.
ยท In 1908 Dr. Hine was married to Miss Rhoda Mae Mance of Albany, New York. He is a Master Mason and a member of the Knights of Pythias. His political endorsement is given the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Trinity Episcopal church. He belongs to the New Haven County and Connecticut State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association and by reason of wide study, close application and conscientious performance of professional duties he has come to rank with the successful physicians of Waterbury.
WILLIAM B. WATERMAN.
William B. Waterman, secretary of the Torrington Building Company, has through the steps of an orderly progression reached his present enviable and commendable position in connection with the building operations of Torrington and of New England. He was born September 20, 1880, in the city where he still makes his home, and is the only son and now the only living child of Charles and Sarah (Barber) Waterman. The father, now deceased, was a machinist by trade and was with the Hendey Machine Company for several years prior to his death, which occurred in 1892. His widow is still a resident of Tor- rington.
William B. Waterman has lived in Torrington throughout his entire life and in its public schools received his education, putting aside his textbooks, however, at the age of sixteen years in order to enter the office of the Coe Brass Company. He there re- inained for seven years, filling various positions in the office, but at length resigned in 1904. He was then employed in other ways for a brief period, after which he entered the office of the Torrington Building Company in the capacity of bookkeeper and general helper. Later he became one of the stockholders of the company and still later was elected a director. This was followed by his election to the position of secretary, in which he is now serving. The company operates extensively throughout New England and also in New York and New Jersey in heavy construction work in stone, brick and steel. They have executed many large and important contracts and their ability has placed them in the front rank among the builders of this section of the country.
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