The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-15
THE LATE DEACON STOW
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES YESTERDAY
 ATTHE FIRST BAPTIST URCH.

MT. StOw's Long and Useful Life-Was for
 About Sixty-seven Years R DeaoOn--some
 Interesting "Reminiscences of His Career
 Now Haven Wheel Making in Days Gone
 By.
 The funeral services of Deacon Henry Stow were held yesterday afternoon. There were services at his late resi- dence on Wooster street at 1:30, with prayers by the Rev. J. II. Mason. after which the remains were removed to the vestibule of the First Baptist church, where they lay in state until 2;S0. The services at the church began at 2:30 the rowing friends of the deceased. The services were opened with prayer by Rev. MT. Mason, after which MT. Mason gave short sketch of the deacon's life, during which he paid very high trib- ute to the deceased, his Christian char acter and his great benefit to the church during his long connection with it. He was baptized in 1928 and was elected deacon in 1929, having been deacon for over sixty-siX years.
 Following the pastors remarks, which were very affecting and impressive, q quartet sang Lead Kindly Light" Af- terward the people present took last look at the face of the sleeper. The in terment was in the old cemetery. State Insurance Commissioner Betts was master of ceremonies. The bearers were Charles B. Hanson, D. $. Cooper Weston Ferris, William A. Briggs, Charles E. Allen and Edwin A. Howell all of whom are deacons of the church, The deceased had not only a very long life, but a very useful one. He also re- tained his mental faculties fully until the last and his bodily activity to a good degree. Except for slight deaf ness one would hardly have imagined him to be so near the century mark in age. He was native of Milford, Conn.,, born in 1904 He entered the wheel making business in 1886 and from that time until near the last he had worked at that business. When a stripling of sixteen he became apprenticed to a car penter and he learned that trade, which proved a good preliminary to wheel making. Not liking the carpenter S trade as much as he had anticipated, he moved to Saybrook and there took up what proved to be his lifelong busi- ness-that of wheel-making. Up to this time wheels had been made by hand, which was a very tedious process. Grad ually MT Stow invented and introduced various devices to facilitate the work and make the wheels better and with less trouble. He invented machines for wheel-making which attracted great at tention, and a great many people came to see them. Later he removed to New Haven, fire having destroyed his shops in Saybrook. This was in 1S44. New Haven was a good deal smaller then than now He built a shop in York street, near where President w. F. Day of the New Haven National bank now resides, and his business increased ma terially, as the carriage manufacturing business in New Haven was then springing up and beginning to flourish, thus creating a lively demand for MT Slows wheels. The total number of wheels used in New Haven early in the 40's was only about one thousand sets year. When the carriage business developed one thousand sets didn't go very far towards supplying the demand. MT. Slows shop on York street was de- stroyed by fire and then he built shop at the corner of York and Grove streets, to which he removed and where he con- tinued in business for twenty-two years. After this a cloud of lawsuits arose over lpatents which MT. Stow, it was alleged l was infringing. This hindered the bus ! mess a little, but MT. Stow succeeded 1 in getting clear of most of the suits without serious damage. After this MT Stow ran steam sawmill for six years at the end of which time he was bought company. He still kept up wheel-mak. ing, however, doing business in a small
 shop in Wooster street, near his home MT. Stow was the father of the late H | Webster Stow, who was one of New | Havens most estimable men and who
 was for many years a leading officer o1 | the New Haven Steam Sawmill com
 pany, and later founded and conducted a flourshing steam sawmill and lumber business on Chapel street, near Railroad
 avenue across the street from the olt
 steam sawnill, the business being tha
 now conducted by the H. W. Stow Lum
 Der company. Webster Stow was z leading man for many years of Calvary
 Baptist church and was superintendent of the big Sunday school of that churcl
 for years. "A grandfather of the lat
 Henry Stow, who was buried yesterday
 served under Benedict Arnold on tn,
 ever memorable expedition to Quebec
 and he served seven years in the Revo
 lutionary war.