Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans (1906) (14783540162)

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Title: Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: Osborn, Norris Galpin, b. 1858, ed

Subjects: Connecticut -- Biography

Publisher: Hartford, Conn., W.R. Goodspeed

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ingtonPark Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was for many yearsa trustee. He was honored not only as a successful capitalist and captainof industry, but for his earnest work for civic betterment and rightconditions in the labor world. His power as a manager of men and their work was no lesscommanding than his own skill and industry as a zealous workmanhimself. Because of this fact The Farist Steel Co. exemplifies, asfew industries do, the value of harmony between labor and capital,and the consequent success and prosperity of both. Mr, Farist died November 12th, 1904. He is survived by hissecond wife, Martha Wood Farist, whom he married in 1867, and threechildren; a son, J. Windsor Farist, now president of The Farist SteelCompany, and a daughter. Lulu E., being children of this marriage.A daughter, now Mrs. Arthur E. Penfield, is a child of Mr. Faristsfirst marriage to Eliza Estelle, which took place in 1855. Threeother children of the first union and one of the second have died.

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^ -H^ cb^^^-f^^^yfh JAMES H. SMITH SMITH, JAMES H., late builder, carpenter and historian ofthe town of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, lived along and useful life in that town, a life that spanned the timefrom July 11th, 1819, to February 5th, 1907. He was the son ofHorace Smith, a carpenter, and Sally Marsh Smith. His earliestancestors in this country, Thomas and Elizabeth Patterson Smith,came from England in the middle of the seventeenth century andsettled in East Haven, Connecticut, in 1662. Mr. Smith was in theseventh generation of descent from this early settler. Mr. Smithsgrandfather, Eli Smith, was a Eevolutionary officer, who had anunusually interesting and gallant record. He was second lieutenantof the Litchfield Company, but as his captain was a Tory and hisfirst lieutenant a coward and turn-coat. Ensign Smith was actuallyin command. He did very brave work at the burning of Danbury, andwas frequently chosen as the bearer of vitally important messagesover dangero

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