New Britain herald., 1915-04-17

ther Jarvis, the former of whom was one of the original settlers of Hunt ington, L. I. He was born in De-
 posit, Delaware county, N. Y, April 16, 1856. At that time, his father was operating a line of stages between New York City. and Oswego, N. 4., having the contract for delivering the
 United States mails between Oswego
 and New York city in forty eight
 hours.
 When MT. Jarvis was two years old,
 his parents moved to Binghampton, N,
 4., and he received his early educatlon
 in the public schools of that place.
 Entering the Sheffield Scientific
 school of Yale university, he was grad
 uatcd with his class in the year 1877, having taken a. course in civil engin- eering. In April 1878, he was offered a position with the Berlin Iron Bridge company of East Berlin, Conn.,, the company at that time being known as
 the Corrugated Metal company. They had then about twenty employees and
 did business of about s2O,000 year.
 For two or three years, MT. Jarvis did the entire work of making all the drawing, estimates and a portion of the contracts, and also kept the books. A good part of the history of the Der
 lin Iron Bridge company is the history of Charles M. Jarvis, as, for a long period, he gave his entire time and attention to the development of this
 enterprise and made it one of the most
 successful of the many successful Connecticut corporations.
 Later he became identified with
 r. and r. Corbin company of New Britain and subsequently, became president of the American Hardware corporation, from which position he
 resigned a few years ago. He is now l the active manager of the White Add ing Machine company in New Haven.
 Kcnsinston Congregational Church. Services will be held Sunday morn ing at the kcnsington Congregational i church at the usual hour 1O:45, the 1 Rev. Carlton HaZen preaching. The i Sunday school class will meet at noon. l The Young Peoples Christian En-
 deavor society will convene at 6 o'clock. The topic will be 'One Day
 in Seven for the Highest Things and l Raymond Watkins will act as leader. ] Berlin Briefs. l Rev. and Mrs. Samuel A. Fiske and
 children took an automobile trip to Madison today.
 ! Rollin Crandall was rendered a
 surprise party last evening by num- 1 Der of his Berlin friends Miss May Hall of Meriden, former l organist at the Berlin Congregational 1 church, visited Berlin friends yester- ! day.
 1 Superintendent Hart of the Berlin l Construction company is convalescing 1 from an attack of the grippe. 1 Willard Hart has purchased an
 automobile.
 J. H. Connley has already begun to 1 mako brick at his brickyards. He | is the first one to have started here l this season.
 l John Soloman has entered the em- | ploye of the Donneley Brick com pany.
 The choir Of the kensington Metho- 1 dist church met for rehearsal at ] the home of Mrs. l.. c. Sheldon last 1 evening. After the rehearsal refresh ments were served and a social time | enjoyed.
 Miss Daisy Sherman of Albany, New York, is the guest of MT. and Mrs. George Griffith of Earmington road. Miss Nernadel Rogers of Burlng- ton, Vt. is the guest of Dr. and Mrs. l Roger M. Griswold of Kensington. | Miss Ida M. Wilcox returned yes- terday from Port Chester, N. Y. Miss Lista Licooln left yesterday for the Continental Congress of the
 D. A. R. at Washington, D. c.