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W. SHIRLEY FULTON.
W. Shirley Fulton, vice president and treasurer of the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company, is through his present activities contributing to the further business develop- ment which has made Waterbury one of the important industrial and commercial centers of this section of the country. He was born in this city November 23, 1880, a son of William E. Fulton, mentioned elsewhere in this work. He was cducated in private schools and is a Yale graduate of 1903. His early business connection was with the Waterbury Machine Company, with which he remained until 1911, acting as treasurer from 1906. He became associated with the Farrel Foundry & Machine Company in a clerical capacity while still connected with the other company and was made assistant treasurer in 1909. In 1914 he was advanced to the position of treasurer and in January, 1917, was elected both vice president and treasurer. Important interests are thus under his control and he is active in the further development and conduct of one of the substantial manufacturing interests of the city. The business with which he is associated is one of the oldest of the industrial enterprises of the city. It was begun in 1851 under the name of the Water- bury Iron Foundry Company and was organized in its present form July 1, 1880. From its inception the business has grown and developed and in July, 1887, William E. Fulton, father of W. Shirley Fulton, became actively connected therewith. The plant now covers about three acres and is devoted to the manufacture of all kinds of presses and special metal working machinery, while their output is sent to all parts of the country.
In 1906 Mr. Fulton was married to Miss Rose Hinckley Hayden, of Waterbury, a daughter of Edward S. and Elizabeth Gilder (Kellogg) Hayden, and they now have two children, William Hayden and Elizabeth. Mr. Fulton exercises his right of franchise in support of the principles and candidates of the republican party but has never sought nor desired the honors and emoluments of public office. He is well known in club circles, being a member of the Graduates Club of New Haven, of the Yale Club of New York and also a member of the Waterbury and the Waterbury Country Clubs in his home city.
RAYMOND J. QUINN, M. D.
Dr. Raymond J. Quinu, physician and surgeon with office at No. 69 Washington street in Waterbury, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, January 30, 1891, and is therefore numbered among the younger representatives of the medical profession in his adopted city hut has already attained a position that many a practitioner of twice his years might well envy. He is a son of John H. and Elizabeth (Rigney) Quinn, the former a native of Fall River and the latter of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. They are still residents of the former place. The grandparents were natives of Ireland.
Dr. Quinn completed the public school course at Fall River by graduation from the
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high school in the class of 1909 and in the fall of the same year, having determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, Maryland, where he spent four years as a student and was graduated with the M. D. degree in June, 1913. He won first honors in a class of one hundred and re- ceived a handsome gold medal.
Immediately after his graduation Dr. Quinn came to Waterbury and for ten months was interne in St. Mary's Hospital. He afterward spent a year as an assistant surgeon with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company and in 1915 he again located in Waterbury for the general practice of medicine and surgery. From the beginning his success has grown and he now has a large and gratifying practice. He is serving on the staff of St. Mary's Hospital in charge of children's diseases and since June, 1916, he has been city bacteriolo- gist for Waterbury. He is also on the staff of the Baby Welfare Station of Waterbury and in his practice specializes in children's diseases. He belongs to the Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut State and American Medical Associations and he is medical examiner at Waterbury for the Metropolitan Insurance Company. Dr. Quinn in religious belief is a Catholic, being a communicant of St. Francis Xavier church, and he also has membership with the Knights of Columbus.
FREDERIC CLARK STRONG.
Frederic Clark Strong, president of the Strong Manufacturing Company of Winsted, was born on a farm four miles south of this city, in the town of Torrington, Litehfield county, May 12, 1867. He is the eldest son of the late David Strong, one of the founders of the Strong Manufacturing Company.
While very young his parents removed to Winsted, where he attended the public schools. He received his college preparation in the Hartford high school, graduating in the class of 1887. In the Sheffield Scientific School at New Haven he spent two and one half years, leaving to enter the factory of the Strong Manufacturing Company in 1890. Since that time Mr. Strong has been closely identified with the business, serving in various capacities and as vice president for several years. In January, 1915, he was elected to the presidency to succeed his father, who died in 1914.
Mr. Strong is also a director of the Winsted Hosiery Company and of the Winsted Gas Company. He is a trustee of the Gilbert School and of the William L. Gilbert Home and belongs to the Winsted Club, the Litchfield Automobile Club and the Litchfield County University Club. His political affiliations are with the republican party and for two terms he served as warden of the town. Mr. Strong is a member and a deacon of the First Con- gregational church. IIe is interested in all that makes for the welfare and uplift of the church and community.
On the 16th of November, 1893, Mr. Strong was married in Ottawa, Kansas, to Miss Abbie Maud Fales of that place, a graduate of Wellesley College, class of 1888. They are the parents of two children: Marjory Lois, a graduate of the Gilbert School and now a senior in Mount Holyoke College; and David Fales, a student in Phillips Exeter Academy.
JOHN A. COE, JR.
Various corporate interests benefit by the stimulus of the efforts of John A. Coe, Jr., who is officially connected with a number of the leading commercial and industrial con- cerns of Waterbury. He is perhaps best known as vice president of the American Brass Company and he has made valuable contribution to the development of brass manufacturing interests in New England. Familiar with every branch of the trade, his growing expe- rience and increasing knowledge have qualified him to successfully solve intricate problems in relation to the business and to speak with authority upon the subject of brass manu- facture. Connecticut claims him as a native son. He was born at Beacon Falls in 1868, a son of John A. and Cornelia A. (Wakelee) Coe, the former a leather manufacturer.
After acquiring a public school education in Beacon Falls and in West Haven, Con- necticut, John A. Coe, Jr., entered the employ of the brass manufacturing establishment of the Osborne & Cheesman Company at Ansonia, Connecticut. Two years later, recog- nizing the value of definite training, he went to New York and learned the machinist's trade. He then returned to Shelton, Connecticut, where he entered the employ of the
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Birmingham Brass Company, successor to the metal business of the Osborne & Cheesman Company. He was associated therewith from 1892 until 1903, when the Birmingham Brass Company sold out to the American Brass Company and the business was removed to Waterbury. In the meantime Mr. Coe had worked his way steadily upward and had be- come secretary and treasurer of the Birmingham Brass Company. After the merger he became sales manager of the American Brass Company and in 1913 was elected to his present position-that of a vice president of the corporation. While this interest chiefly claims his time and attention, he has become financially and actively interested in various other concerns and is the president of the Waterbury Brass Goods Corporation, a director of the Citizens National Bank, a director of the American Metal Hose Company of Water- bury, a director of the Waterbury Savings Bank, director of the Turner & Seymour Manu- facturing Company of Torrington, Connecticut, and a director of several other industries.
In 1892 Mr. Coe was united in marriage to Miss Jessie M. Boice, of Cairo, New York, and their children are: Helen Boice, who is a graduate of Wellesley College; and John Allen, who is now a student in Williams College. Mr. Coe belongs to the Royal Arcanum, to the Loyal Association and to various clubs, including the Union League Club of New York, the Hardware Club of New York, the Waterbury Club, the Waterbury Country Club, the Buffalo Club and the Torrington Club. His political allegiance is given to the republican party. He belongs to the First Methodist Episcopal church, is president of its board of trustees and has been a Sunday school superintendent for over twenty years. He possesses the "New England conscience," which has been a recognized factor in promoting the moral standards of the entire country. In a word, his principles measure up to the highest qualities of manhood and citizenship. In his business carcer he has been actuated by most commendable purposes and has never been known to take advantage of the necessities of his fellowmen in any commercial transaction. Such men constitute the real strength of the country-men who possess initiative and enterprise, men who are capable of directing extensive interests and who at all times recognize the duties and obligations of the individ- ual to his fellowmen and to the country at large.
SAMUEL JOHN MARSH.
Samuel John Marsh, attorney and clerk of the superior court of Waterbury, which position he has been filling since 1900, was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Chipman) Marsh. On the father's side he is a direct descendant of ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary war, his great-grandfather, Ebenezer Marsh, aiding in the struggle for independence, after which he lived to enjoy the fruits of liberty until he reached an advanced age. On the paternal side the ancestry is also traced back to one John Marsh, of Hartford, Connecticut, who came from England prior to the Revolutionary war.
Samuel J. Marsh spent his boyhood in Litchfield, where he attended the graded and high schools until his graduation. He afterward spent two or three years upon his father's farm and in 1885 came to Waterbury, where he secured a clerkship. He was thus employed in a mercantile house until 1889. His ultimate purpose, however, being to take up the study of law, he entered in 1893 the Yale Law School, winning his LL. B. degree upon graduation with the class of 1895, while in 1896 the Master of Law degree was conferred upon him. He had begun his law reading in 1889 under the direction of the late Judge Charles W. Gillette of Waterbury, and following his graduation from Yale he entered the law office of his former preceptor, the two being legal associates until November 1, 1900, when Mr. Marsh became clerk of the superior court of Waterbury, having been appointed to the office by Hon. George W. Wheeler, then judge of the superior court and now a judge of the state supreme court. By reappointment Mr. Marsh has been continued in the office for seventeen years-a most notable record characterized by marked efficiency and fidelity to duty and has held and now holds many estates in trust for cestui que trust and acts as trustee, executive administrator and other fiduciaries.
On the 5th of August, 1905, Mr. Marsh was married to Miss Louise A. Hubbard, of Waterbury. He is an Odd Fellow, a Knight Templar Mason, and is a member of the Waterbury Club and the Country Club. Along strictly professional lines he is a member of the Connecticut State and the American Bar Associations. His political allegiance has always been given to the republican party and he served for one term as a member of the house of representatives, sitting in the general assembly in 1905, during which time he was a member of the judiciary committee and was the author of the bill which was passed in that year to increase the salaries of the superior and supreme court judges and which now appears on Vol. III-19
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the statutes of the state. Mr. Marsh has always been aetuated by a public-spirited devotion to the general good, placing the public welfare before partisanship and the interests of the majority before personal aggrandizement.
WILLIAM H. BASSETT.
William H. Bassett, technical superintendent and metallurgist with the American Brass Company, has had broad experience in his line based upon thorough college training. He was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, March 7, 1868, a son of William A. and Almira D. (Mayhew) Bassett. The father was engaged in the wholesale and commission fish business.
The son was accorded liberal educational opportunities, supplementing his public school course by study in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Boston, from which he was graduated with the class of 1891. In so doing he followed his natural trend and he has since further developed his talents along that line, his success being based upon compre- hensive study and close application. He entered upon life's practical duties as an employe of the Pope's Island Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of white metal and jewelers' supplies, his position being that of chemist and metallurgist. For some time he held the position of superintendent with that company, with which he continued in active connection until 1900. He then entered the employ of the New Jersey Zinc Company and when he resigned two years later he accepted the position of chemist with the Coe Brass Manufacturing Company of Torrington. Later he received appointment to the position of chemist and metallurgist with the American Brass Company and is now occupying that place of prominence and responsibility. His duties have further been broadened in his appointment to the position of technical superintendent. The value and worth of his serviee, is acknowledged by all. He has become an expert in his line, his opinion being largely accepted as authority upon many important questions relative to the profession.
In 1892 Mr. Bassett was united in marriage to Miss Sarah H. Whiting, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, and they have become the parents of a daughter and a son: Alice W., who attended the Quincy Mansion School and is now at home; and William H., Jr., who is a student in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The family reside in Cheshire and they are members of the Congregational church there.
Mr. Bassett gives his politieal allegiance to the republican party, while fraternally he is well known as a member of Temple Lodge, No. 16, A. F. & A. M., of Cheshire, and of St. Elmo Commandery, K. T., of Meriden. His membership extends largely to scientific societies, his name being on the roll of the American Society for Testing Materials, in which he is serving on the executive committee. He is also on the advisory committee on metals for the bureau of standards at Washington, D. C., has membership with the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute of Metals, the British Institute of Metals, the American Chemical Society, and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the Chemists Club of New York, of the Manufacturers Club of Ansonia, of the Torrington Club and of the Waterbury Club. While his thought and study have largely been directed along scientific lines, his is a well rounded nature, the interests and activities of citizenship and of social life making a responsive appeal to him.
HORTON PEASE.
Horton Pease, a volunteer in the Union army at the age of eighteen years and ever a loyal and public-spirited citizen, true to the interests of city, commonwealth and country, resides in Thomaston, where he is engaged in the drug business. Through generations the representatives of the Pease family have been of substantial worth in promoting the interests and welfare of Connecticut. Robert Pease, born in Enfield, Connecticut, February 2, 1684, became connected with the history of the state almost a century before the colonies sought to break off the ties that bound them to the mother country. He was married in February, 1711, to Hannah Sexton, who departed this life November 8, 1711. His second wife was Mrs. Rachel Pease and following her demise he wedded Elizabeth Emery. His death occurred November 7, 1766. His family numbered ten children, ineluding Captain Emery Pease, who was born in 1727 and who made his home for many years in Somers. He was among the first to respond to the Lexington alarm at the beginning of the Revolu-
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tionary war and with seventy volunteers marched to Boston. During the entire conflict with England he was a captain of militia, rendering valiant service to the cause of freedom, which he lived to enjoy for twenty years after the Declaration of Independence was signed. He passed away in 1796. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary Horton and to them were born ten children.
David Pease, son of Captain Emery Pease, was born in Somers in August, 1755, and married Jerusha Bellows, by whom he had three children.
David H. Pease, son of David Pease, was born in April, 1783, and married Martha Coats, after which he removed to Johnstown, New York.
Sylvanus Pease, the only child of David H. Pcase, was born August 17, 1806, in Somers, Connecticut, and there acquired his early education, which was supplemented by further study in the schools of the Empire state. After his textbooks were put aside he learned the machinist's trade and became a clock maker at Burlington, Connecticut. Subsequently he was connected with the Gilbert Clock shop at Winsted, Connecticut, and with the Union Chair Company at Robertsville, Connecticut. He died at the home of his son in Winsted, Connecticut, when eighty-two years of age and was laid to rest in Burrville cemetery. His religious faith was that of the Universalist church, while his political belief was that of the democratic party. He was married in July, 1832, to Emeline Roberts, a daughter of Henry Roberts, of Torrington, Connecticut, who was an early settler. In the family of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvanus Pease there were six children. Henry R., born February 10, 1833, became a lawyer by profession. In response to the country's call for troops to preserve the Union he enlisted as a member of Company F, Twenty-fifth Connecticut Regiment, for active service at the front. He became a sergeant, was afterward promoted to the rank of captain and later was made assistant provost marshal. He next became judge advocate general on the governor's staff. After the war he was a member of the Freedmen's Bureau and was general superintendent of education for refugees and freedmen in Louisiana, in which connection he served with the rank of Captain. He was also state superintendent of public education in Mississippi during the period of reconstruction and he served at one time as post- master of Vicksburg and also was elected to represent Mississippi in the United States senate. At a later period he removed to South Dakota, establishing his home in Watertown, and from his district he was elected to the state senate. He was thus connected with much important public service having to do with the welfare of the individual, the commonwealth and the nation. Luman Pease, the second of the family, was born September 26, 1835. He, too, joined the army, enlisting in the Twenty-eighth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, with which he served throughout the period of the war. Dr. Byron Willis Pease was the next of the family. Franklin, born July 2, 1842, manifested the same patriotic spirit as the others, enlisting in the Eleventh Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, which was assigned to duty with the Army of the Potomac, and in that command he participated in a number of hotly contested engagements. Horton Pease was the fifth member of the family. Robert Peasc, the youngest, a resident of Springfield, Massachusetts, during the greater part of his life, was likewise one of the defend- ers of the Union during the Civil war. The record is indeed a notable one of patriotic service, each one of the six sons of the family going to the defense of the stars and stripes and doing important public service on the field of battle.
Of this family, Dr. Byron Willis Pease was born in Burlington, Connecticut, September 29, 1838, and when nine years of age went to live with an uncle, Nelson Roberts, at Torring- ford, Connecticut. He pursued his education in the public schools of Winsted and the high school at Ellington, Connecticut, and when only seventeen years of age took up the profession of teaching at Colebrook River, Connecticut. He was afterward a teacher at Riverton and at Pleasant Valley, Connecticut, and at Morristown, New Jersey. With the outbreak of hostilities between the north and the south his patriotic nature was aroused and he joined the army as a private of Company F of the Twenty-fifth Connecticut Regi- ment. He was made chief clerk of the quartermaster's department of General Augur's division and later was hospital steward. When the country no longer needed his military aid he began studying medicine under the direction of Dr. H. B. Steele of West Winsted, Connecticut, and afterward became a student in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York. In 1864 he was commissioned assistant surgeon to General N. P. Banks and was put in charge of a hos- pital at Brownsville, Texas, while later he was engaged in similar duty at Brazos, Texas. In 1866 he returned to Connecticut and became connected with commercial interests in the conduct of a drug store. He was afterward graduated from Bellevue College and located for practice in Thomaston, Connecticut, where he followed his profession for many years, becoming one of the able and eminent physicians of that locality. He was assistant postmaster there and in 1897 and 1898 represented his district in the state legislature. His political allegiance was always given to the republican party, which was the defense of the Union during the dark days
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of the Civil war and which has always been the party of reform and progress. Fraternally he was connected with the Masons and served as master of his lodge. He also took the Royal Arch degrees and was high priest of the chapter. He was a standard bearer of Clark Commandery, K. T., of Waterbury and attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He held membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias and was an honorary member of the Grand Army of the Republic until his death.
Horton Pease, whose name introduces this review and who is a son of Sylvanus Horton Pease, was born May 24, 1844, and was but eighteen years of age when in response to the country's call for troops he enlisted for active service at the front. He was still attending school at that time, but textbooks and other interests were put aside and in August, 1862, he became a volunteer in a regiment assigned to the command of General Banks in the west. He participated in the capture of Port Hudson while. serving as a drummer boy of Company F of the Twenty-fifth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, being the sixth of the sons of Sylvanus H. Pease to enter the army. Returning to the north, he was mustered out in 1863. In 1864 he returned to the south as a teacher to assist his brother in New Orleans and was thus actively connected with reconstruction work at that period. In 1866 he engaged in the drug business and is still one of the enterprising merchants and successful druggists of the city, popular and prominent with a host of friends.
In 1868 Horton Pease was united in marriage to Miss Julia Whiting, who passed away in January, 1906, leaving two children, Howard Whiting and Susie. Mr. Pease is a mem- ber of the First Congregational church, in the work of which he has long taken an active and helpful interest, serving for many years as Sunday school teacher. His political endorse- ment has always been given to the republican party and for twenty years he has filled the position of registrar of voters. He has also acted in various other public capacities, in which he has discharged his duties with marked fidelity and ability, serving as justice of the peace, as deputy sheriff and as postmaster of Thomaston for four years. He is a charter member of C. L. Russell Post, G. A. R., and thus maintains close connection with his old army comrades with whom he followed the nation's starry banner on southern battlefields. The family record of patriotic loyalty is one of which they have every reason to be proud, nor has this spirit of fidelity been manifest only in days of war but all through the years of peace which have led to the material prosperity and upbuilding of the country and to the development of its high standards of education and its civic ideals.
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