The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-20
HARRIET LOUISE
 BURROUGHS I TORREY
Death of the Founder of Mary Silliman Chapter, D. A. R.. Life Devoted to Civic Virtues and Charities.

After an illness of nearly a month.
 Harriet Louise Burroughs Torrey, past
 Mother Regent of the Daughters of
 the American Revolution and organ
 izer Of Mary SiIlimanf chapter Of this
 city, died last evening at the Br1dge7
 port hospital Mrs T6rrey was one of the most widely known women in the city. Her prominence in public life was attained by her earnest and de- voted work in patriotic and civic bet terment societies and charitable and public institutions. In her many ac- tivities Mrs. Torrey met and made a legion of friends who will receive the
 news Of her death with sincere grief. On July 29 while descending a flight Of stairs at her home, 1174 Fairfield avenue Mrs Torrey uipped and fell. breaking her left hip bone The Etn- jury did not heal rapidly and as a re- suit she was taken to the Bridgeport hospital for treatment; Yesterday 1t was seen that her death was but a matter of a few hours and her rela-s
 tives were hastily summoned. Her l son, the noted portrait painter ana other relatives were at the bedside when the end came last night.
 Mrs Torrey was born in Bridge port the homestead being at Main | and Bank streets. She was the daugh-l l ter of George Burroughs and Gather inc S. Bancroft. For g years her far tfer was the cashier of the Bridge 1 bort National bank. She attended the 1 Miss Edwards seminary in New Ha- l ven and the Misses Wards school of l this city. She married Joseph Torrey, a mem Der of a family of inventors who spent l the greater part of his life in this city, Mr Torrey. whose death occurred l few years ago, was, like his wife, l prominent in the social life of Bridge port He was a, member Of the Sea- | afI1
 and was president of the Bridgeport Business Men s association for some 1 time.
 I Mrs. Torrey was a distinguished de- 1 scenda nt of a distinguished ancestry. 1 Tn 1858. Capt. stephen Burroughs, a I famous neavigator and one of her an 1 cestors,. commanded a vessel in the l expedition sent by the Muscovy com pany from England to attempt pas sage to China by the Nova IenbIes
 route All the ships of the expedaIlon pate l except that commanded by Capt. Bur> { roughs were wrecked and with their l crews were lost off the coast of Lap l land Capt Burroughs after an ex- ceeding1y stormy voyage took hls shlp l in safety into the White Sea and his achievement marked the beginning of commercial relations between Russia and England. In 1856. Capt. Bur roughs also discovered the Strait of Overparatia,i Nova zeDble-
 1 Another distinguished ancestor was Capt. stephen Burroughs, a famous astronomer, born in North Brldgepoft. October 4, 1729. who gas the instigator l of inc movement Neiich changed the old money system of shilEngs and hence to the present decimal system. l Mrs. Torrey was the organist of the Mary SiIlinaan chapter, D. A. R., of this city which is at present one of | the four largest in membership in the country, and was it's first regent. Since then she has been honored by being ] chosen its Mother Regent.
 Her various activities made her prominent in club life and she was a member Of the Bridgeport Art League and of the Associated Charities. She
 was president of the Wednesday Af- ternoon Musical club for the first ten years of it's organization. She was also vice-president of the Co1onna Art society a member of the board of ] managers of the Burroughs home and belonged to the Bridgeport Charitable l association, the Andrew Ward society and the children's ward of the hos pital.
 She was a prominent and active
 member of Stt Johns Episcopal church. Besides her sen, George Torrey, the l eminent. New York portrait painter,
 Mrs Torrey leaves to mourn her loss
 her nephew, Burroughs Frederick Per ry, to whom she has stood in the l mothers place since his Infancy. and her brother, James Richard Bur roughs.
 Mrs. Burroughs was the mother of
 four sons, two of whom died in child hood and the other 20 years ago The wife and child whom he left both died within a year after his demise and the Mrs TQrrey from which she never full
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