Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-26
CRAYON SKETCHES
In the Kansas City Journal-A FOr- mer North Haven Man Among inc Western Folks.

mer North Haven Man Among
 the Western Folks.
 The Kansas City Journal, in it's "crayon sketches" of men who have made their mark in business or other honorable directions in that place, gives half column mention garding MT. c. A. Crockett, who is 8 North Haven, Conn.,, man, having been born there and received his education in the public and private schools of that place. The Journal says of him: ''He is the widely known, wide awake, ever genial O. A. Crockett, the super intendent and general manager of the Kan sas City frear stone and pipe manufactory, and the Journal will of necessity have to sketch the frear stone, pipe and cement in terest of this city, the name of 0. A. Crockett, frear stone, cement, pipe, etc., are | so intimately blended and interwoven together that to sketch one without the other would | be like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet l left out. He is the superintendent and l general manager of one of Kansas city's most l important industries, industry that l affords constant employment for about fifty | men and involves capital of over $50, 900. | Outside of manufacturing, the company of l which c. A. Crockett is superintendent is l very extensively engaged in the wholesale l trade of sewer pipes, drain tile, cement, etc., l handling the products of the most popular ! factories in this country and Europe, includ- i ing the celebrated Portland cement, in which
 branch they do an annual business of over l $150, ,000.
 stBesides his extensive interest in tile sewer i pipe and cement, c. A. Crockett is proprie- | tor and one-third owner of the Hotel Bruns- l wick, situated at the junction of Broadway
 and Eleventh street, one of the most popular caravansaries in the western States" The paper, after sketching MT. Crockett personally eays of him Geographically: "At | the age of seventeen he enlisted in Connec- l ticut regiment, which afterward formed 8 | part of the Army of the Potomac. While in l the army he was placed on the detached ser | vice, and did duty in the provost marshaPs
 department at Newbefn, a' 2. He relolned his regiment at the close of the war, and with
 it returned to North Haven, where he was 1 mustered out.
 "S6on after the close of the war he located at Pittsbtrg, Pa, where he engaged exten- I sively as nanufaeturer and wholesale dealer in drain, sewer pipe and cement, which he
 carried on successfully until the fall of 1871 1 at which time he disposed of his interest at that place. In 1873, taking advantage of that tide in the affai1s of men which poets
 write of, he came to this city, and the results ] nyove that it was favorable tide for c. A. l Crockett, es well as fortunate tlde TOT the l sewer pipe and cement interest of the city.
 "Soon after locating here he organized the
 company of which he is now supsainteadent. Mr Crockett was elected alderman of the
 Sixth ward ip 1882, position he filled for
 two years. He wsa also president of the
 council during 1s83-s4.
 "C. A. Crockett was married at Pittsourg l to Miss Hettie McCutcheon, sister of the well I known politician, Robert Mackey.
 She died in this city some five
 years ago, leaving one son, Rob ert Mackey Crockett, now in his Eth year."