The Newtown bee., 1896-04-10
DENNIS CONNER GATELY.
FORMERLY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE NEW YORK BELTING AND PACKING co.

The news of his death came as great surprise to his friends in Newtown. He had been ill but 8 short time, and his de- ceas' which occurred on Friday evening, the 3d inst, at his home in Boston Post Road, Rye Neck, N. r., was entirely un, expected. He was supposed to be re- covering from an attack Of rheumatism of the stomach, when he contracted sudden cold which developed into chills aud fever, with fatal results, The funer- al services were conducted by Rev MT Holmes of Rye at the home of the family, on Sunday afternoon, and the burial took place at the NeWtown cemetery on Mon day afternoon.
 h this cage it was the head of the fam fly which was taken first. His devoted wife and six children are left to mourn him. There are three sons: Curtis P. ., Charles l. and Harry G., the daughters are Mrs William ;. Johnson, Mrs Maturin Ballou and Mrs John Clark. Two sons, Curtis and Harry, three s0ns-in-law, four nephcWs and one grandson, with Rev Mir Holmes, accompanied the remains, and were met at Newtown station by numer. 0us old time neighbors and friends who attended the burial. The pail bearers were the Hon 5. r. Glover, J. H. War ner Dr Judson, W. E. Ackley, Edward Taylor, and J. NJ, BIackman.
 Mr Gately was married when he was SC years old, to Miss Olive, daughter of Will liam Perkins of ROxbury, Mass, and was 79 years of age. Mrs Gately's parents came to NewtOwn and resided in the Glen, and died there, as did Mir Gately's mother, also. Mir Gately came from Boston, where he had been employed by the Boston Belt Co.,, and took the super. intendence of the New York Betting and Packing Go. at Sandy Hook, in the sum
 aer of 1856. Not long after that the old wooden mill building was destroyed by fire and the new superintendent had charge of the erection of the present brick factory, while the business waE temporarily transferred to New Yorl City.
 Mir Gately was an energetic, compre hensiVe man of business. He was enter prising, inventive and prudent, and sue cessful in every good sense. He made [ complete revolution in the methods anC system of operating the factories and O. course in so dong met with more or lesi hindrance and opposition from those who thought they knew it all. He was naturally an inventor, and was always studying to discover some better way 1T which to do still better work. The re suit was the bringing out of severa patents on machinery and processes o1 working rubber, the advantage and bene fit of which he gave without reserve tC the company. He was very valuable man to his employers, and leader who always commanded the admiration and respect of the community. He was a social and amiabIe gentleman, and had 8 real enthusiasm for the betterment and 1 progress of the world. In his religious faith he WAS professed Universalist. but he was liberal and helpful and interest ed in other churches; and, with his whole family given to good works among all l the people. MT Gately never took any active part in politics. He was repub- lican in principle and was once nominat- ed by his Newtown friends as representa- tive to the Legislature of Connecticut. but declined the honor. In the fall of 1883, after 28 years of continuous ser- vice as the superintendent of the New York Betting & Packing Co, having done more than any other man to develop and perfect the business here, he retired from active business life, and removed to the place of his late beautiful home. The Gatelys will long be remembered in this town as delightful family to know and to meet.