a Delegate from Connecticut; born in Stratford, Conn., January 7, 1736; pursued preparatory studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1760; studied law, and was admitted to the Fairfield County bar; prosecuting attorney of Litchfield County in 1772; moved in 1774 to Litchfield, which thereafter remained his home; member of the Connecticut Council of Safety for two years; served in the Revolutionary War with the rank of colonel; member of the State house of representatives 1776-1781, serving as speaker in 1779 and 1780; Member of the Continental Congress in 1778; signer of the Articles of Confederation in 1778; member of the executive council in 1789; appointed chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1793 and served in this position until his death in Litchfield, Conn., November 26, 1797; interment in East Cemetery.

[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.]

a Representative from Connecticut; born in Haddam, Conn., June 1, 1806; attended the local academy at Plainfield, Conn., and Westfield Academy, Massachusetts; devoted most of his life to agricultural pursuits; acquired a controlling interest in a stone quarry and became owner of a line of schooners operating between New York and Philadelphia; was, also, for a number of years, president of the Bank of East Haddam; member of the State house of representatives in 1839, 1842, 1844, and again in 1851; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1858; resumed agricultural pursuits and quarrying; died in Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., May 5, 1869; interment in a mausoleum on his estate near Haddam.

[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.]

manager of two of Connecticut's foremost manufacturing industries, bank president and leading citizen of Wauregan, Windham County, Connecticut, was born in that town, May 18th, 1864. He is a descendant of Francis and Mary Williams Atwood, of Providence, Rhode Island, the latter a great-granddaughter of Boger Williams. Francis Atwood's son, John Atwood, had a son John who was a sergeant in the Revolutionary War. Sergeant John Atwood married Roby Kimball and lived in Scituate, Rhode Island, where their son Kimball Atwood was born. Kimball Atwood's son John moved to Williamsville, Connecticut, and became part owner of The Williamsville Manufacturing Company, which present representatives of the family own and manage. James S. Atwood, son of John and father of James Arthur Atwood, was a successful manufacturer of Wauregan, a loyal member of the Congregational Church and a most upright, useful, and high-minded citizen. James S. Atwood built the Wauregan Mills at Wauregan and the Ponemah Mills at Taftville, Connecticut, and had charge of both companies until his death. He was also president of The Williamsville Manufacturing Company. He was representative and presidential elector, and through example and generosity did much for his town, especially in beautifying it and building up its industries. Mr. Atwood's mother was Julia A. M. Haskell, a lineal descendant of William Haskell who came from Salem, England, to Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1642, and was prominent in the military, religious, and political affairs of his day. He is also descended on his father's side from Gov. Caleb Carr, Colonial Governor of Rhode Island, and on his mother's side from Isaac Allerton of the Mayflower. James Arthur Atwood attended the public schools of Wauregan and Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he graduated at the head of his class. He then entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, where he took the course in mechanical engineering and graduated with the degree of Ph.B. in 1885. On leaving college he and his twin brother, John Walter, immediately became identified with the family manufacturing interests in Wauregan, established by their father in 1853 and already grown to large proportions and embracing an extensive business.
In 1889 Mr. Atwood was appointed agent of the Wauregan Company and he still holds the position. In 1897 he was appointed agent of the Quinebaug Company of Danielson, Connecticut, and he continues to hold the personal supervision of both these concerns and devotes his time to their management. The two corporations employ over thirteen hundred hands and comprise one of the largest and most nourishing cotton goods industries in New England. Mr. Atwood is also interested in the Samoset Company of Valley Falls, Rhode Island, of which he is a director, and he is a former president of The Williamsville Manufacturing Company of Williamsville, Connecticut . He was a director of the Ponemah Mills of Taftville and of the Sterling Dyeing and Finishing Company of Sterling, Connecticut, until he sold out his interest in those corporations. He is president of the Windham County National Bank of Danielson, Connecticut, and a trustee of the Brooklyn Savings Bank of Brooklyn, Connecticut.
With the exception of the college fraternity of Delta Psi, Mr. Atwood has no fraternal ties, having devoted all his time to business and home interests. His family consists of a wife and two children. Mrs. Atwood is Helen Louise, daughter of Philip and Helen Wolcott Mathewson, whom he married December 11th, 1888. The children are J. Arthur Atwood, Jr., born May 5th, 1890, and Dorothy, born March 27th, 1893.

of Wauregan, Windham County, Connecticut, one of the most successful manufacturers in New England, is of a family of manufacturers, descendants of Francis Atwood of Providence, R. I., and of Mary Williams, his wife, who was great-granddaughter of Roger Williams. Francis Atwood's son, John Atwood, had a son, John Atwood, who was sergeant in the Revolutionary War and who settled in Scituate, R. I. Sergeant John Atwood married Roby Kimball and they resided the whole of their lives in Scituate, as did also their son, Kimball Atwood.
John Atwood, son of Kimball Atwood, came to Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut, where he was employed in the old Williamsville mill, built in 1827 and owned by Caleb Williams. In 1849 he became part owner and so continued till his death. His sons, James S. and William A., inherited their father's interest in the mill and owned a half interest in the corporation at their death. His grandsons, Henry C. and William E. (of Williamsville) and J. Arthur and John Walter (both of Wauregan) became sole owners of the Williamsville Manufacturing Company in 1890, but in 1903, J. Arthur and John Walter Atwood (both of Wauregan) sold their half interest to their cousins, Henry C. and William E., who then became sole owners of the corporation.
James S. Atwood, son of John and father of J. Arthur and John Walter, who are twins, began his career as a manufacturer in Wauregan in 1853, and met with great success, developing the business along lines purely experimental at the outset. The goods from Wauregan Mills and from the Poneinah Mills at Taftville (which he built and had charge of until his death), were sent to all parts of the world. The village of Wauregan, under the watchful care of Mr. Atwood, became one of the most beautiful in New England. He was a man whom everybody loved. He served in the Legislatures of 1862 and 1868, and was an elector on the Republican ticket in 1884.
His wife, Julia A. M. Haskell, was the daughter of Willard Haskell, direct descendant of William Haskell, who, coming from Salem, England, located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1642, was deacon of the church, captain in the militia, selectman and representative in the General Assembly six times.
General John Walter Atwood, on his father's side, is also descended from Gov. Caleb Carr, Colonial Governor of Rhode Island, and on his mother's side, from Isaac Allerton of the Mayflower.
John Walter Atwood was born in Wauregan, on May 18, 1864. After attending the public schools he went to Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, and thence to the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale. On leaving college, he at once associated himself with the manufacturing interests of the family. In 1888 he was appointed superintendent of the Wauregan Mills, which position he still occupies, displaying the same skill, judgment, and enterprise that characterized his father and his grandfather. Also he has taken like pride in the village of Wauregan and in every way the good works of his ancestors are carried forward. Though always deeply interested in public affairs and prominent in the councils of the Republican party, he repeatedly declined office until 1899, when he accepted election as representative in the General Assembly and served on the committee on Appropriations. He was again elected as representative to the General Assembly in 1903 and State Senator in 1905. He was appointed Commissary General on the staff of the late Governor George E. Lounsbury and later succeeded Human 0. Averill as Paymaster General, a position to which he was reappointed by George P. McLean, who succeeded Mr. Lounsbury as Governor.
On June 1, 1887, he married Ethel Alexander, daughter of Luther D. and Amelia (Young) Alexander. They have two children, Helen Estelle and Beatrice. Their home is in Wauregan.
Since the above was written, General Atwood has been appointed Paymaster General on the staff of Governor Woodruff.

a Representative from Connecticut; born in Pittsburgh, Pa., April 24, 1867; attended the public schools and the preparatory department of Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh); was graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1889 and from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1894; attended the Universities of Berlin, Strassburg, and Paris 1894-1896; instructor in philosophy at Harvard University in 1896 and 1897 and at the University of California in 1897 and 1898; associate professor at Bryn Mawr College 1898-1900; associate professor and professor at the University of California 1900-1905; professor of philosophy at Yale University 1905-1933; president of the American Philosophical Association in 1910; during the First World War served as inspector and historian, with rank of major and deputy commissioner, under the Italian Commission of the American Red Cross in Italy;
served in the State senate 1920-1924; served as chairman of the commission to revise and codify the educational laws of the State of Connecticut 1921-1923; also engaged as an author and editor; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-third Congress (March 4, 1933-January 3, 1935); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934 to the Seventy-fourth Congress; died in New Haven, Conn., September 19, 1957; interment in Grove Street Cemetery.

[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.]

a Representative from Connecticut; born in Mansfield, Conn., April 5, 1772; attended the common schools; was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1797; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced practice in Windham, Conn.; probate judge of Windham County 1818-1824; elected as an Adams to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1829); affiliated with the Whig Party after its formation; resumed the practice of law; died in Windham, Windham County, Conn., March 27, 1850; interment in Windham Cemetery.

[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.]

ROGER SHERMAN BALDWIN (1793—1863)
Senate Years of Service: 1847-1851
Party: Whig

(son of Simeon Baldwin, grandson of Roger Sherman, cousin of William Maxwell Evarts, George Frisbee Hoar and Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar), a Senator from Connecticut; born in New Haven, Conn., January 4, 1793; attended the common schools and the Hopkins Grammar School; graduated from Yale College in 1811; studied law in his father’s office and in 1812 entered the Litchfield Law School; admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in New Haven, Conn.; member, State senate 1837-1838; member, State house of representatives 1840-1841; Governor of Connecticut 1844-1846; appointed and subsequently elected as a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jabez W. Huntington and served from November 11, 1847, to March 3, 1851; member of the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; died in New Haven, Conn., February 19, 1863; interment
in the Grove Street Cemetery.

[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.]

(son-in-law of Roger Sherman, father of Roger Sherman Baldwin), a Representative from Connecticut; born in Norwich, Conn., December 14, 1761; completed preparatory studies; was graduated from Yale College in 1781; was preceptor of the academy at Albany in 1782; tutor at Yale College from October 1783 until his resignation in September 1786; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1786 and commenced practice in New Haven, Conn., the same year; elected city clerk in 1789 and served until June 1800; in 1790 was appointed clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the District of Connecticut and served until November 1803, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress; elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1805); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1804; again appointed to his former clerkship, but was removed by Judge Edwards in 1806; associate judge of the superior court
and of the supreme court of errors 1806-1817; president of the board of commissioners that located the Farmington Canal 1822-1830, when he resigned; mayor of New Haven in 1826; died in New Haven, Conn., May 26, 1851; interment in the Grove Street Cemetery.

[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present.- contributed by A. Newell]

a Representative from Connecticut; born in New York City, February 12, 1896; attended the public schools, Anglo-Saxon School, Paris, France, Heathcote School, Harrison, N.Y., and the Art Students League, New York City; engaged as a designer in 1916; during the First World War served in the Depot Battalion, Seventh New York Infantry, in 1917, and overseas with the Camouflage Section, Fortieth United States Engineers, 1918-1919; after the war located in Old Lyme, Conn., and engaged in architectural pursuits; member of the board of education 1926-1938, and also served as selectman of Old Lyme, Conn.; served in the State house of representatives 1927-1937; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth Congress (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1941); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1940 to the Seventy-seventh Congress; resumed his former pursuits at Old Lyme, Conn.; died in Old Lyme, Conn., June 16, 1943; interment in Duck River
Cemetery.

[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.]

(uncle of Edwin Barbour Morgan and Christopher Morgan), a Representative from Connecticut; born in Groton, New London County, Conn., April 28, 1781; attended the common schools; engaged in mercantile pursuits; major of the Eighth Connecticut Regiment in the War of 1812; detailed to defend the coast towns during the blockade by the British Fleet; member of the State house of representatives in 1818; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth, an Adams to the Nineteenth and Twentieth, and an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-third Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; resumed mercantile pursuits; member of all Whig State conventions from 1836; died in Groton, Conn., January 3, 1844; interment in Starr Cemetery.

[Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present; contributed by A. Newell.]

president of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company, and director and trustee of some of the most substantial institutions in Hartford, was born in Colchester, New London County, Connecticut, March 27th, 1856, the son of Asa Brainerd and Susan Elizabeth Brainerd. His father was a farmer and, as there were seven other children to be provided for, the boy Lyman was unable to secure a thorough education. He attended the public schools in the country and studied one term at Wesleyan Academy, Wilbraham, Massachusetts. After leaving school Mr. Brainerd taught a district school in Moodus for a short time, but, although he was successful as a teacher, he did not wish to make teaching his life work and he embraced the first business opportunity that offered.
In March, 1876, Mr. Brainerd began his business career in Middletown, Connecticut, as fire-insurance solicitor for Mr. Anson F. Fowler, who represented the Agricultural Insurance Company of Watertown, New York, and from whom Mr. Brainerd learned the details of the fire insurance business. Two years later, in 1878, he left Mr. Fowler to become a canvasser for the State Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, but at the end of a year he left this company to accept a higher position with the Jersey City Fire Insurance Company, with which he was identified for seven years during which time he was promoted to the rank of general agent and adjuster. In 1886 Mr. Brainerd entered the employ of the Equitable Mortgage Company of New York City as negotiator of bonds. The following year he was made secretary of the company and in 1890 he became manager of its bond department. Mr. J. M. Allen was then president of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company and a friendship between Mr. Allen and Mr. Brainerd grew out of Mr. Brainerd's business visits to Hartford. Through Mr. Allen Mr. Brainerd was offered the position of assistant-treasurer of the Hartford Steam Boiler Company and he entered upon the duties of that office in 1894. In 1899 he was made treasurer and in 1903 he became a director of the company. Mr. Allen died in 1903 and Mr. Brainerd was considered the most capable and worthy man to fill his place and on July 12th, 1904, he was elected president of the company. Mr. Brainerd is also a director in the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, in the Security Company, and in the latter he is a member of the finance committee, he is a trustee and member of the loaning committee of the Society for Savings, and trustee and chairman of the executive committee of the Hartford Theological Seminary. He is a member of the First Church of Christ ( Center Congregational Church), of the Hartford Club and the Hartford Golf Club. He has always been a Republican in political allegiance.
On the 28th of October, 1903, Mr. Brainerd was married to Miss Lucy Morgan Brainerd, by whom he has had one child, Mary Leverett. Their home is at 144 Washington Street, Hartford.

senator from the Thirtieth District and president of the Brooks National Bank of Torring- ton, is a native of Goshen, Litchfield County, Connecticut . He was born at the ancestral home in the southern part of that town on November 8th, 1838. His ancestry he traces back to Thomas Brooks of England who came to this country in the seventeenth century.
Mr. Brooks' parents were Watts H. Brooks and Mary Wadhams Brooke. His father was an industrious farmer who kept well abreast of the times and who represented Goshen in the Legislature. The son grew up on the farm, taking his part in the daily routine and obtaining a good education in the district schools and at Goshen Academy. Later he went to Brown University in Providence. He did not graduate, but subsequently he received the degree of A.M. from that institution.
At the age of twenty-two, he entered into the mercantile business in Goshen, where he continued with success until 1871. During this period of ten years he was the town clerk. In 1872 he removed to Torrington and with his brother, under the firm name of Brooks Brothers, he established a banking house which was to play an important part in the wonderful industrial development of that section and of the Naugatuck Valley. It is amply descriptive of the banking house to say that through twenty-seven years no other bank of exchange was necessary in that community, despite its wonderful growth as a manufacturing town. And no national bank was organized there until 1899, when the Brooks National Bank was incorporated with Mr. Brooks as president. Of the Torrington Savings Bank he has been treasurer since its incorporation in 1873, the year after he removed to Torrington.
The benefit of his financial ability, amounting to true genius, has been enjoyed by Torrington ever since he went there to live, he having held the office of treasurer of the town ever since his first election in 1872 and of the borough ever since its incorporation in 1887. The books in each of these offices of treasurer are remarkable for their clearness and accuracy.
From the beginning he has been keenly interested in all that pertains to the general welfare. Instrumental, among other things, in establishing and perfecting the water system, he has served as president of the Torrington Water Company since 1878. From 1885 to 1889, he was judge of the probate court for the district of Torrington. His first term as a member of the General Assembly was in 1884 when he was House chairman of the committee on finance. In 1893 he was again sent to represent his town in the House and was the unanimous choice of the Republican caucus for speaker, a position to which he was elected by a large majority in the House. Present at every session, prompt, clear, and impartial in his rulings, he made an enviable record as presiding officer, as was attested by both Democrats and Republicans. In 1884 he was appointed by Governor Waller a member of the state tax commission whose work resulted in great improvement of the statutes relating to taxation. In 1906 he was once more called upon to do duty in the Legislature, this time as member of the Senate from the Thirtieth District.
In 1886 he was appointed one of the receivers for the Charter Oak Life Insurance Company of Hartford, a position to test his abilities to the utmost.
Senator Brooks' religious affiliations are with the Congregational Church. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, of the Society of Colonial Wars, and of the Torrington Club. His recreation has been largely in the form of foreign travel.

late manufacturer, banker and public man, general manager, secretary and treasurer of the Hartford Manufacturing Company, president of the Plimpton Manufacturing Company, president of the City Bank of Hartford, treasurer of the Manchester Light and Power Company of Manchester, ex-representative and state senator, and a man of great prominence in business and political affairs in Manchester and Hartford, was born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, February 13th, 1839. On the paternal side Mr. Chapman is in the seventh generation of descent from Robert Chapman, born in England in 1616, who came to Boston in 1635, and settled in Saybrook in 1636. This original ancestor of the family in America was deputy to the General Court from Saybrook forty-three times and held other town offices of importance. Robert Chapman, second of the name, was a prominent member of legislature, an extensive landowner and a town surveyor. Mr. Chapman's father was Nathaniel Chapman, a tanner and farmer, a man who was very active and energetic and who was characterized by absolute straightforwardness and reliability and by the strength of his convictions and opinions. His second wife, Mr. Chapman's mother, was Hannah Percival Chapman, a woman of fine education, strong character and vigorous mind, whose influence for good was the strongest ever exerted upon her son.
A farmer's son and naturally active and strong, Maro Chapman was busy both in and out of school and began at the age of seventeen to be entirely self-supporting. His education was confined to that afforded by the common school of East Haddam and two years at a private school in the same village. Farm duties took most of his time outside of school and the home life was too busy for extensive reading, but he made it a point then as throughout his later life to keep in touch with all movements in business and politics. At seventeen he went to work as clerk in the country store in his native village and a year later he did similar work in Manchester, Connecticut.
At nineteen he sold books by subscription throughout Pennsylvania. The next change in his career was brought about by the outbreak of the Civil War and its stirring challenge to young men of patriotic spirit like young Mr. Chapman. He enlisted as a private in Company C, 12th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and served with great faithfulness for a year and six months.
At the close of his term of military service, Mr. Chapman entered upon the career of business and public activity which he has continued uninterruptedly ever since. From 1869 to 1874 he was engaged in the manufacture of commercial envelopes as a member of the Plimpton Manufacturing Company of Hartford, which secured the contract for the manufacture of stamped envelopes for the United States government in 1874 and became the United States Stamped Envelope Works, with Mr. Chapman as general manager. The concern is now owned by the Hartford Manufacturing Company, of which Mr. Chapman was general manager, secretary and treasurer. The company employs three hundred and fifty persons and its daily output is five and one-half million envelopes. It has supplied all of the stamped envelopes used by the government and by the post- office department at Washington for over thirty-two years. It was through the tact, the perseverance and the executive ability of Mr. Chapman that his company was able to secure the contract and was capable of fulfilling it so successfully. The struggle for the contract was a long and difficult one and in presenting his claim Mr. Chapman faced tremendous opposition heavily involved in political differences, but his shrewdness, justice and honest appeal to the best interests of the government, backed by the high grade of work done by his company, won the day and achieved the merited victory.
Mr. Chapman also was most influential in starting and developing other industries and financial organizations in Hartford and Manchester. He was one of the founders of the Hartford Manila Company and its president from 1878 to 1890. He originated the Hartford, Manchester and Rockville Tramway Company, was its president and general manager for ten years and held nearly two- thirds of the stock until it was sold to the Shaw syndicate of Boston in 1905. He was president of the Plimpton Manufacturing Company, president of the City Bank of Hartford, and treasurer of the Manchester Light and Power Company of Manchester, Connecticut.
In public life Mr. Chapman had many honors and responsibilities, particularly those in the gift of the Republican party, with which he maintained a lifelong, active connection. He represented Manchester in the State Legislature in 1882, during which session he was chairman of the committee on cities and boroughs. He was state senator from the second district in 1884 and 1885 and was then chairman of the committee on railroads. At the Republican State Convention in 1900 he was unanimously chosen presidential elector for Hartford and Tolland Counties. For ten years he was chairman of the Road and Bridge Commission of Manchester and he is now chairman of the " Committee of Fifteen" appointed by the town of Manchester in 1905 to secure a better and broader system of town government. He was a member of the Republican Town Committee of Manchester for over thirty years and its chairman for twelve years.
Fraternally Mr. Chapman was a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, of the Drake Post of Manchester and was commander of that post continuously for nine years. He was a Congregationalist in creed and a liberal supporter of his church. His busy life allowed but little time for recreation, though he always took much pleasure in driving a good horse.
Mr. Chapman was twice married, in 1861 to Lucy Wood- bridge, who died in 1869, leaving one daughter, and again in 1871 to Helen Robbins of Manchester, who is the mother of two daughters. Their home is in South Manchester, Connecticut.
The eminent success won by Maro Chapman in business and political life added force to his sound advice to young men starting in life. He bade them to "be absolutely truthful and direct in everything. Strive to make yourself so useful that you become a necessity to whatever undertaking you engage in, or to your employer. Never watch the clock. Be personally interested in all you attempt to do."
Maro S. Chapman died at Yonkers, New York, March 21st, 1907. The following editorial, taken from the Hartford Times of that date, shows the esteem in which he was held.
" The death of Maro S. Chapman is a loss to the community in which for many years he has been an esteemed and useful citizen. He was a man of decisive manner, who preferred to accomplish things peaceably and without display, but he had courage and persistence
for any emergency. If it came to a fight in politics or in business he took it as part of his day's work, and always gave a good account of himself. In this he was like the trained soldier who fights because it is his business when certain contingencies arise, but is likely to be rather more peaceful than some of those about him unless fighting is the necessity of the situation. This temperament is as useful in business as in soldiering, and Mr. Chapman was a first-rate man of business. He made his plans carefully, he could look ahead and estimate the future, and he was not a rainbow chaser. Fortune interferes in the affairs of all men, but those who trust least to fortune and guard as far as possible against contingencies become in proportion to their capacity and opportunity the masters instead of the slaves of chance. His business life is too well known to require special mention here, although it is proper to mention as an illustration his part in the making of the Manchester Street Railway Company. He made that company what it became, and both in general scheme and in the details of its operation he showed conclusively his ability to plan soundly and execute effectively."

manufacturer and financier of Water- bury, New Haven County, Connecticut, was born in that city, October 1st, 1855, a descendant of early Puritan settlers who came from England to Massachusetts in earliest Colonial days. He is the son of Augustus Sabin Chase and Martha Starkweather Chase. His father was a banker and manufacturer of Waterbury, and a man of prominence and usefulness. He was the first town treasurer, served as representative in the State Legislature, and was a member of several of the city boards, and a promoter of many of Waterbury's foremost institutions. Characterized by the best " New England traits" integrity, thrift, and self-reliance, he was a man of just and cool judgments, warm sympathies, and a great lover of nature and literature. Mr. Chase's mother is an admirable woman whose influence in her family has been strong and good in every respect.
Brought up by well-to-do parents and blessed with good health, Henry S. Chase had no obstacles to overcome to get an education. He was fond of all boyish sports, but he was also fond of good books, and read Latin, Greek, and English literature with zest and appreciation. He also pursued more general courses of reading and gave more time to this than does the average person. He attended the Waterbury public schools, The Gunnery at Washington, Connecticut, Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, and then entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1877 with the degree of B.A., and soon entered upon the career of his choice, that of manufacturer.
The first work which Mr. Chase undertook was that of a minor position in the office and works of a brass mill. He is now president of the Chase Roiling Mill Company, the Waterbury Manufacturing Company, director of the Waterbury National Bank, and various other manufacturing and financial corporations, and a trustee of many institutions. He is a director of the Waterbury Hospital, the Waterbury Industrial School, and treasurer of the Waterbury Sinking Fund. Mr. Chase is a man of very wide interests. The growth
of manufacturing industries under his care has been phenomenal. The personal elements that have contributed to his success are good health, even temper, fair-mindedness, attractive personality, tact, and intuitive knowledge of men and affairs. He is manager of the Waterbury American, a leading independent newspaper of New England.
As a club man Mr. Chase has many ties and interests, being a member of the Manhattan Club, the University Club, and the City Club of New York, of several fishing clubs in Canada, and of various other social and local clubs. In politics he is an Independent, having been a Republican until 1884, when he " mugwumped." The family arc attendants of St. John's Episcopal Church. In the matter of recreation Mr. Chase has taken delight in horseback riding, driving, and fishing, and, of late, automobiling; and, when indoors, whist or other games of cards and reading. On the fourth of April, 1899, Mr. Chase married Alice Morton, by whom he has had five children: Mildred, Edith, Anne, Katherine, and Rodney, all of whom are now living. Mr. Chase believes that the strongest influence upon his life and the greatest incentive to success has been exerted by the personality and example of his honored father. His own counsel for others is " the pursuit of legitimate objects in legitimate ways; hard, patient work, square and truthful dealings, and concentration of mind and purpose."

President of the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, was born in Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut, April 24th, 1846. He is the son of Jonathan Lyman Dunham and Abigail Hunt Eldredge. On his mother's side Mr. Dunham's ancestry is traceable to two names that will always thrill the sons and daughters of New England; William Brewster, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company that founded the parent colony of New England at Plymouth in 1620, and Stephen Hopkins, his fellow passenger on the Mayflower. The part of these men in colonial history is too well known to need repetition here. William Brewster, who was born in 1563, married Mary Eldridge, from whom Abigail Hunt Eldridge was directly descended. The name of Eldredge, or Eldred, is of Saxon origin, being the name of several early Saxon kings. John Eldred of Great Saxham, Suffolk (1552-1632), was a great traveler, and one of the founders of Virginia in 1607. He was a member of His Majesty's Council for the Virginia Company of London, from which the Pilgrim Fathers obtained their patent, though contrary winds carried them to Massachusetts instead of Virginia. It is reasonably supposed that the Mayflower Eldredges were related to this John Eldred in some way.
Mr. Dunham's father was a farmer in occupation, a man who was absolutely square in his relations with his fellow men. Mr. Dunham's health as a boy was good, and as he lived in the country, and was raised on a farm, his youth was one of vigorous industry. He had many difficulties to overcome in acquiring an education, which consisted of a few terms in the common schools, two country academies, and Mount Union College. His taste in reading was of a nature to supplement well this rather meager schooling, for he delighted in history, biography, and the best fiction, and was a devoted admirer of Dickens and Shakespeare, the only poet whom he read extensively. He made such good use of his few educational advantages that he began his work in life as a teacher in a district school in Ohio in 1863, at the age of seventeen, choosing this course for himself, and having parental approval and encouragement. While in Ohio Mr. Dunham joined a little literary society organized by the Rev. Edward Lamb, to whose influence he owes his first strong impulse to win life's prizes. After teaching two years Mr. Dunham became editor of the New Britain Record, spending the moments spared from journalistic duties in studying law in the office of the Hon. Charles E. Mitchell. He was also clerk of police court in New Britain.
In 1871 Mr. Dunham was admitted to the Hartford County Bar. and in 1873 he began the practice of law in Hartford in the office of Hon. Henry C. Robinson, and he continued his legal practice for ten years. During that time, on October 18th, 1877, he married Man- Mercy Austin and one child, now living, was born to them. During a part of this same decade Mr. Dunham was engaged in mining litigations in the West for Eastern clients. From 1883 to 1885 he was secretary of the P. & F. Corbin Hardware Company of New Britain, Connecticut. Then, at the request of the late President James G. Batterson, he became General Counsel for the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford and acted in this capacity for two years. In 1897 he was made vice-president of the company, and in 1901, upon Mr. Batterson's death, he was elected to the office of president, which he still holds. Mr. Dunham is also a director in several banks, insurance companies, and other corporations, including the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, the American Hardware Corporation, and the International Banking Corporation, and is treasurer of the Colorado Valley Land Company. Though his legal education was self-conducted, Mr. Dunham's success as a lawyer won him the position of city attorney of Hartford for three years. He has served on the Board of Water Commissioners and in many other official capacities.
Socially, Mr. Dunham is a member of the Union League Club of New York, of the New England Society of Mayflower Descendants, of the Sons of the American Revolution, of the Twentieth Century Club of Hartford, of which literary society he has been president, of the Hartford Club, of which he is now vice-president, and of other local clubs and societies. Politically, Mr. Dunham has been a life-long Republican, though he has not been bound by party lines in local politics. His religious affiliation is with the Congregational Church. He is a traveler of considerable experience, and according to his own modest estimation he is " something of a fisherman."
Though handicapped by a limited education, and by many difficulties and disappointments, Mr. Dunham, through the perseverance and industry which he deems the best remedies for failure, has acquired great legal and business ability, and a broad culture, and he has attained to such success in life as his responsible position indicates and his steady purpose has deserved. Mr. Dunham modestly declines to give advice to those coming after him, but they may find it embodied in his life, the key-note of which has been perseverance and self- development.

director of the observatory at Yale University, is a native of New Orleans, La., where he was born on April 29th, 1855. He was the son. of Lewis and Jane Magoon Fitch Elkin of that city. His father, prominent in mercantile life in the Gulf metropolis, was especially interested in educational matters and held the important position of superintendent of the public schools in New Orleans.
Altogether, the youth was surrounded by an atmosphere that inspired him to mental effort. Though his physical condition in early childhood was not of the best, his power of application was strong, and, under wise direction and with every advantage, his love for learning was indulged to the utmost. After attending private schools at home, he went abroad and studied in foreign lands, first in Switzerland. In 1876 he was graduated from the Royal Polytechnic School at Stuttgart, Germany, with the degree of civil engineer.
Thence going to Strasburg he pursued his studies still further under eminent instructors and in 1880 received from Strasburg University the degree of Ph.D. Having followed his taste for scientific study, and especially for astronomy, and having received this degree, he wished to apply his knowledge and acquire practical experience in the best way possible. Accordingly he seized the opportunity to go to the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, as a volunteer observer to begin with, and then, in 1881, as a regular astronomer. There he was associated with Sir David Gill and devoted much attention to the investigation of the parallaxes of the southern stars.
Thus his education had been well rounded out, when in 1884 he was summoned to New Haven to take the position of astronomer at the University, where he now occupies the office of director of the observatory, to which he was appointed in 1896. Yale gave him the degree of M.A. in 1893.
Since his graduation at the University of Strasburg, his pen has been busy with astronomical subjects and details of his original researches, for astronomical journals, and several valuable works have been published by him. His investigations of the stellar parallax and of star clusters and his photography of meteors have added materially to the scientific literature of the day, receiving recognition in marked degree abroad as well as in this country. He has been chosen a foreign associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London, and he holds membership in the National Academy of Sciences.
Professor Elkin married Miss Catherine Adams in 1896; their home at No. 477 Prospect Street, New Haven, is not far from the observatory of which he is the director.

physical chemist, instructor in physical science in the Stamford High School and vice-president of the Getman and Judd Lumber Company of Stamford, Connecticut, was born in Oswego, Oswego County, New York, February 9th, 1877. His first ancestor in this country was Frederick Getman (Kettemann) who came from Germany and settled in the Mohawk Valley in New York State. Dr. Getman's father, Charles Henry Getman, was a lumber merchant of Stamford and one of the most progressive, influential and worthy citizens of that town. He was president of the Stamford board of trade, a bank director and at one time a member of the legislature and he was greatly esteemed for his business capability and energy, his honesty, strength of character and refinement. His wife, Dr. Getman's mother, was Alice Peake Getman and her noble, womanly character and ideals exerted a powerful influence for good upon her son's intellect and character.
A marked interest in and aptitude for physical science characterized Frederick Getman in early youth and promised a scientific profession for his future work in life. He was brought up in the small city of Stamford and his early education was acquired at King's School in that place. He spent much time reading books on physics and chemistry outside of school hours and as soon as he was old enough entered the Bensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, where he prepared himself for college. He then entered the department of chemistry in the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was graduated in 1896.
The opening of the first school term after his graduation from the University of Virginia found Mr. Getman in the position of instructor in chemistry and physics in the Stamford High School, where he remained from 1897 to 1901. From 1901 to 1903 he studied at the Johns Hopkins University, where he was fellow in chemistry in 1902-3 and where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1903.
He spent the college year of 1903-4 as Carnegie Research Assistant in physical chemistry and in 1904 was called to the College of the City of New York as lecturer in physical chemistry. In 1905 Dr. Getman returned to Stamford as instructor in physical science in the High School
Dr. Getman is the author of " Elements of Blowpipe Analysis," published in 1899; of "Laboratory Exercises" and "Exercises in Physical Chemistry," published in 1904, and of numerous and valuable scientific articles on freezing points of solutions and kindred subjects. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the American Chemical Society, of the American Physical Society and of the Washington Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of the London Chemical Society. In undergraduate days his high standing won him membership in the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. In politics he unites with the Republican party and in religion with the Presbyterian Church. Golf and bicycling are his most pleasurable and helpful forms of recreation. Dr. Getman was married November 26th, 1906, to Miss Ellen M. Holbrook of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and makes his home at 811 Atlantic Street, Stamford. Home influences have been the strongest upon his life and his professional success and he places " contact with men in active life " and " private study " as next in importance. Though a young man Dr. Getman has attained a high place in scholarship and in scientific research and is one of the foremost chemists of Connecticut.

Farmer. Sec. 8 ; Coral P. O.; born in Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Conn.. September 28. 1802; came to McHenry Co. in April, 1857; owns 18 acres of land; value of property, $2,000. Married Susan Stoddard, of Middletown, Vt.. August 11, 1839. She was born March 10, 1800; have no children. Mrs. Granniss came from Bridgeport to McHenry Co.

Farmer and Stock Raiser ; Sec. 18; Coral P. O.; born in Suffield, Hartford Co.. Conn., April 25, 1815; came to McHenry Co. in June, 1839 ; owns 160 acres of land; property valued at $10,000 ; was School Commissioner four years, County Commissioner three years and Sheriff two years; at present Township Assessor of Coral. Married Hannah Granger, of Suffield, Hartford Co., Conn., October 20, 1838; she was born August 9, 1817; had nine children, eight living.

Farmer and Dairy, Sec. 22; Union P.O.; Born in Yorkshire, England, December 2, 1803 ; came to this country in June, 1819, and to Cook Co. in May, 1834, to McHenry Co. April 15, 1842 ; owns 110 acres

WILLIAM JOSEPH LONG
LONG, REV. WILLIAM JOSEPH, Ph.D., pastor of the First Church (Congregational) of Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, who is well known for his eloquence as a preacher, his liberality as a theologian, and for his high standing as a naturalist and author, was born in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, April 3d, 1867. He is of Irish parentage and is the son of Dennis and Catherine (Burke) Long. On his mother's side he traces his ancestry to the family of Edmund Burke. The American branch of the family was founded in 1848.
After pursuing the courses prescribed at the North Attleboro High School and the Bridgewater State Normal School, William J. Long entered Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1892. He spent the following three years in studying for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and after his graduation from that institution he went abroad to study at the Heidelberg University, where he received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. in 1897. He also carried on further study at the Universities of Paris and Rome, and spent the year of 1897 and '98 doing research work in philosophy, history, and theology at those two Universities. At that time and at later periods he traveled extensively in Europe.
Upon his return to the United States in 1898 Dr. Long gained immediate prominence as a preacher and liberal theologian through his notable defense of ministerial liberty made before the council at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in that year. In 1899 he was ordained to the Congregational ministry at Stamford and he has been pastor of the First Church of Stamford until recently, when overwork and a threatened loss of eyesight compelled him most reluctantly to resign. At present, though preaching occasionally in many cities, he is released temporarily from the active work of the ministry.
As a naturalist and writer William Joseph Long is well known to the world of science and to the general public. He has made naturalistic study the chief recreation of his vacation periods, which are spent in exploring, in camping and salmon fishing, and which have led him all over the northern part of North America in fruitful explorations. Besides many excellent articles in magazines he is the author of the following longer works: —" The Making of Zimri Bunker," 1898; "Ways of Wood Folk," 1899; "Wilderness Ways," 1900; "Beasts of the Field," and "Fowls of the Air," 1901; "Following the Deer," 1903; "School of the Woods," 1902; "A Little Brother to the Bear," 1903; "Northern Trails," 1905; "Brier Patch Philosophy," 1906; and "English Life and Literature," 1907; the last named book being a scholarly history of Literature in England from the first landing of the Anglo-Saxons until the present day. His animal books show an intense love of nature and her folk, careful and patient study of their ways, and are as attractive in style as they are interesting and instructive in their nature.
In 1900 the author married Frances Marsh Bancroft, daughter of Professor Cecil F. P. Bancroft, LL.D., of Andover, Massachusetts. Three children, Lois, Frances, and Bancroft Long, have been born to them. Dr. Long makes his present home in Stamford, where, in addition to his literary work, public lectures, and preaching, a part of his time is always given to charitable work in his own city.

JOHN EMERY MORRIS
MORRIS, JOHN EMERY, of Hartford, was born in Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, November 30th, 1843. His father was Henry Morris, a sea captain who was lost at sea when his son was an infant. On his father's side Mr. Morris is a descendant of Edward Morris, who came from England and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1633; and on his mother's side he traces his ancestry back to Pierre Bontecou, a Huguenot refugee who left La Rochelle, France, and came to New York in 1688.
Mr. Morris was brought up in Springfield, where he attended the public schools, and carried newspapers, until at the age of seventeen he became clerk in the Charter Oak Bank in Hartford. This position he obtained through the influence of his uncle, who was cashier in the bank. Four years later he became clerk in the Travelers Insurance Company. Cashier and assistant secretary were the steps by which in 1898 he reached his present position of secretary and member of the board of governors. In 1899 he became also director of the Charter Oak Bank, a position which he still holds. For over twenty years he has been clerk of the Second Ecclesiastical Society of Hartford. He is a member of the Connecticut Historical Society, the Huguenot Society of America, Sons of the American Revolution and the Order of Founders and Patriots of America. He has written several genealogical works.
Mr. Morris was married in 1867 to Mary P. Felt . They have had three children, all of whom are living. He attends the Congregational church. His favorite amusements are fishing, tramping, and taking photographs. In the political world he has always been associated with the Republican party.
The successful life of Mr. Morris shows how by faithful application, and without any exceptional advantages of education, the paper boy and bank clerk may become a bank director and a man of prominence and influence in the community.

lawyer and state's attorney, Tolland County, Connecticut, was born in East Hartford, Connecticut, August 10th, 1852. His earliest ancestors in America were William and George Phelps who emigrated from Tewksbury, England, to New England in 1630. George Phelps first settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and came to Windsor, Connecticut, in 1635, moving again to Westfield, Massachusetts, where he died in 1687. Mr. Phelps is in the eighth generation of descent from this George Phelps, the line of his descent being through Jacob, Benjamin, Benjamin (2), Benjamin (3), Levi and the Rev. Benjamin C. Phelps, the last being Mr. Phelps' father, a Methodist clergyman who was also chaplain and librarian of the Connecticut State's Prison. Mr. Phelps' father was above everything else a hard worker, and besides these offices and his pastorate he went as missionary to the whalemen in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Mr. Phelps' mother was Sarah Parker Humphrey and her influence was in all respects the strongest ever exerted upon him.
It was with much difficulty that Mr. Phelps acquired an education, for he was reared in a small village and worked at intervals upon the farm. During one year of his school life he went to sea. He was very fond of reading and took especial pleasure in history and biography with Irving and Macaulay always near at hand. After attending the schools in Wethersfield he prepared for college and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1875. He then read law for two years with B. H. Bill of Rockville, who was State's Attorney, and was admitted to the Tolland County Bar in 1877.
Mr. Phelps has continued steadily in the practice of law since his admission to the Bar, and his career as a lawyer has been marked by many important and successful suits in both State and United States Courts. He represented Tolland County on the State Board of Examiners of applicants for admission to the Bar for many years. He was county coroner from the time of the creation of that office in 1883 until his appointment as State's Attorney, and he was City Attorney and prosecuting attorney for a number of years. He was the first Attorney-General of Connecticut, holding that office from 1899 to 1902. For two years, from 1897-99, he was Secretary of State. In 1885 he was a member of the House of Representatives from the town of Vernon, and in 1903 he was State Senator from the twenty-third Senatorial District. In 1902 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
The law and politics are by no means the extent of Mr. Phelps' active interests. He is a member of the college fraternity Psi Upsilon, of the Odd Fellows, both of the Rising Star Lodge No. 49 at Rockville and of the Midian Encampment at Hartford, and he is a member of the Congregational Church. He finds his most congenial exercise in the saddle and on the links. In addition to the other duties that make up Mr. Phelps' busy life he is a director in the Rockville National Bank. On March 28th, 1900, Mr. Phelps was married to Elsie Edith Sykes, a daughter of the late George Sykes. They have had no children.
The profession of law was Mr. Phelps' personal preference and he has persisted in it faithfully and with great success. To home influences, first of all, he owes his impulse to succeed and his steadfastness in following that impulse.