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treasurer and general manager, which position he held continuously for | treasurer and general manager, which position he held continuously for | ||
approximately forty years. | approximately forty years. | ||
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+ | He was also a director and vice president of the Bristol National Bank, American | ||
+ | Trust Company and the North Side Bank & Trust Company. He was also director of | ||
+ | the Bristol Brass Corporation and the American Silver Company. For many years he | ||
+ | was a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners and Burgess of Bristol. He was | ||
+ | also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Bristol Free Public Library, and | ||
+ | during this period the new Library was built. He was a member of the Society of | ||
+ | Colonial Wars, of the Chippanee Country Club,--of which he was the first | ||
+ | president, the Farmington Club and of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity. | ||
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+ | **EDWARD< | ||
+ | and at Yale College (B.A., 1910). Wishing to volunteer for service in the World | ||
+ | War, he was rejected because of defective vision by several military | ||
+ | organizations, | ||
+ | Company, 44th Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps, Fort Monroe; transferred to 152d | ||
+ | Depot Brigade, Camp Upton; Corporal, discharged 17 Dec. 1918. | ||
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+ | He entered the family business in Bristol, Conn., and in 1927 became president | ||
+ | of The E. Ingraham Company, manufacturers of clocks, a concern founded by his | ||
+ | great-grandfather Elias Ingraham. He has been active in town and church affairs. | ||
+ | He is a trustee of the Bristol Savings Bank, of which his grandfather Seymour | ||
+ | was one of the founders, and a director of the Bristol National Bank; director | ||
+ | of The Bristol Brass Corporation, | ||
+ | and International Silver Company. Since 1915 he has been president, excepting | ||
+ | one year, of the Bristol Boys' Club Association. Former elected member of Board | ||
+ | of Relief; member of Board of Finance; member of State Planning Board; chairman | ||
+ | of Board of Directors of Bristol Free Public Library. He is also a director of | ||
+ | Boys' Clubs of America, Inc. He is a Congregationalism and formerly a deacon. | ||
+ | Beta Theta Pi; Rotary; Mason. | ||
+ | |||
+ | He is a student of the history of clock-making in Connecticut, | ||
+ | and representative collection in that field. He is an ardent collector of | ||
+ | etchings and engravings, furniture and American antiques; and is an enthusiastic | ||
+ | angler, and a director of the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club of Quebec. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **DUDLEY SEYMOUR< | ||
+ | the author of the present volume, was educated at Andover Academy and Cornell | ||
+ | University (LL.B., 1913), his father' | ||
+ | the World War, he volunteered, | ||
+ | Medical Department, where he became Sergeant 1st Class, but later secured a | ||
+ | transfer to an Infantry and then to a Machine Gun Division, and at the | ||
+ | termination of the War was al a Machine Gun Officers' | ||
+ | Georgia. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Immediately upon leaving college he entered the family business in Bristol, and | ||
+ | in 1923 became Vice President and later succeeded his father as Treasurer. He | ||
+ | has been active in public affairs, having been a director and member of the | ||
+ | Executive Committee of the Bristol Hospital since it was founded, Chairman of | ||
+ | the House Committee of the Visiting Nurse and family Welfare Association for | ||
+ | fifteen years, Chairman of a Community Chest Drive, member of the Board of Fire | ||
+ | Commissioners (where he acted as Chairman of a Committee that put into effect | ||
+ | the first Civil Service basis of selection and advancement in any hire | ||
+ | Department in the State), member of the Board of Education, member of the | ||
+ | Manufacturers Division of the State Tercentenary Commission, member of Governor | ||
+ | Cross' | ||
+ | Division thereof, and a member of the National Advisory Committee of the 1939 | ||
+ | New York World' | ||
+ | Bank, of which his grandfather--Henry Albert Seymour--was one of the founders | ||
+ | and its first President. He is also a director of the Bristol Bank & Trust Co. | ||
+ | and The Bristol Brass Corporation. He is a member of the Congregational Church, | ||
+ | where for a number of years he served as Superintendent of the Church School, | ||
+ | and in politics is classed as a Republican. He is a member of Delta Chi | ||
+ | Fraternity, a member of the American Legion, Past President of the Bristol | ||
+ | Rotary Club, and a member of the Farmington and Chippanee Country Clubs. He is | ||
+ | an enthusiastic collector of paintings and would be classed as a realist in his | ||
+ | tastes, which lean to works of the Barbizon Period and of the corresponding | ||
+ | period in American Art. | ||
**[[George_Dudley|GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR]]** (1859--1945). | **[[George_Dudley|GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR]]** (1859--1945). |
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