The Newtown bee., 1894-09-14

Northrop was very prominent man, going to the Legislature in 1S47. In CO., operation with others he purchased quite large circulating library for the bene- fit of the matters and other residents of the place. In 1885 Harvey Briscoe built shop opposite the Charles Benedict place and commenced hating, doing a very extensive business. He failed in 1S4S. In 1852 he moved to Brooklyn and was foreman for manufacturer named Pierce. He afterward removed to Hawleyvile and started hat shop there, remaining there until his death WHILE LIVING HERE HE
 built the house now owned by Mrs Crandall.
 Alanson Gilbert was the only man | doing business of any kind here when Elam Benedict came here. Mir Gilbert was wheelwright and made spinning wheels principally. Later he made hat | blocks and then wagons. In 1S4O he moved to Ohio.
 George Warehouse came to Hattertown in lS40, occupying the present residence of Ralph Benedict. His first business venture was to embark in the manufac- ture of combs. Success refusing to smile upon h i'm he, in short time, | ceased comb making and began manu- featuring matches, but in this, too, For | tune refused to receive him as a favorite and along toward 1850 he turned his en- 1850 he put in small engine to facilitate his production. He did business at this time in the rear of the store now owned | by Henry Morgan. After the lapse of | again, when he gave up business here and went to New Jersey, the prospects | for the successful pursuit of the busi- ness being brighter there, at that time than in Connecticut.
 Hating stopped for good about 1855 About 90 men were employed in all the shops when work was good.
 Rufus Parmelee carried on wagon manufacturing in the shop now owned and operated by George w. Turney, em ploying quite a large number of hands For time he did large business anC was regarded as a successful and pros porous man, but owing to unfavorable | circumstances, losses, etc., he failed il l942. His brothers, Hiram anC Harmon, were carpenters, Hiram | being d boss carpenter. He built several churches and many nice house; in Bethel and other parts of the country HE FELL FROM A CHURCH
 1 he was building in Brookfield and in jured himself so severely that he nevel did much more building, but went into the undertaking business, which he fol l lowed for many years. J. B. Parmele,
 is now, and has been for a number O.
 years, the only undertaken in the place | On the site now occupied by the schoo
 house a typical country store used tt stand. It was presided over by genia and popular "Uncle" Daniel Summers | Here might always be found the thou sand and one knick-knacks that consti | tute the stock of a store of it's class
 Whiskey was also freely dispensed and il those. days was as staple an article as an, commodity for which there is constan demand. This store was the headquar ters of the men after working hours ant
 the singing of the popular songs of tn, day, accompanied or interspersed b,
 better or worse music on the omnipres ent violin, banjo or ews-harp, awok
 the echoes of the place nearly every night
 Jigs and shake-downs were rattled o1
 by willing and nimble feet, and anyon living inside of mile from the spo
 could easily tell when the end came, S,
 uproarious was the applause always
 Horace Gilbert also ran store in tn
 building now owned by Henry Morgan
 for five or six years, when he sold ou
 to George Morehouse, the hat manufac
 turer, in 1850. This store has since beel
 conducted by MT Shepard, now do
 ing large business in Bridgeport, E. L
 Goodsell, Sidney True and A. A. Hall
 who now runs large store in Long Hill | DANIEL N. MORGAN,
 the present treasurer of the United
 States, was we'll known here as a bo
 and a young man. His father, Ezri
 Morgan, iran store at Morgan's Four Cor
 ners, where I. B. Goodsell now lives, an,
 like most other general store keepers, h
 sold liquor there. This he was strong
 ly opposed to but as his father consider | ed 1t all right and thornuohlv lepitimat