New Britain herald., 1925-12-14
NOTED INVENTOR
 DIES IN BRISTOL
Edward D. Rockwell Prominent
 in Manufacturing Circles
Special to the IEerald.>

Rockwell. one of the organizers of
 tho New Departure Bell Co. now
 the New Departure Manufacturing company. Bristols largest industrial
 plant and an important unit Of the General Motors Corp. died sudden
 ly at the Bristol hospital on Saturday night at 5:l5 with heart trouble fol- owing an attack of pneumonia. Ho
 mad been i'll only few days.
 Mir. Rockwell, who was an in ycntor Of note, was born In Wood
 hull. a small place near Rome, New
 York. on March 13, 1854, the son Of Leandcr and Tidclia Rockwell, His father was farmer in that community and when Mir. Rockwell vas only boy of ten, his father moved with his family to Illinois where his father opened 6 general store. It was in that place that MT. Rockwell received his early educa- ton
 When n young man he moved to Chicago, where for number of years he was identified with the mail order house which later became the Marshall Field store, He later went 10 Jacksonville, Florida. where he engaged in the business of concrete recommendations for several years.
 At the time of the yellow fever outbreak in that state, he came to Bristol and started the New De- narture Bell business in 1898, with his brother. the late Albert F. Rock we'll who died last February. lt was he who brought his brother to Bris- tol at the founding of the New De parturc buslnoss. A. r. Rockwell vas selling bells in Binghampton, N, r.. at the time that l.. D. Rockwell sent for him,
 Mr. Rockwell is the last of the
 roup Of ten men who were rcSponsi- llr for th" organization Of the New pc1artura business and it was large iv through his ciforts that the early luginess of the New Departure Bell company was financed. Mr. Rock V,ll remained with the New De- parturp company for seven years .aCnr tho organization of the con- pauv, during which time he was general manager and at one time vas president.
 After leaving the New Departure Bell company, he went to New Brit ain where he was in charge of tn" hcII department of the r. X I. Corbn company for six years.
 lie then returned to Bristol and was one of the organizers Of Liberty Bell company in East Bristol and VIE connected with that concern up to the time that it was taken over by the New Departure company Tn 1910. He then returned to the Nc" nnparture company and remained yith that concern up to the tune or 'is death. with the exception ot two ,..ars in which he was in the hard ,.Hre business on ,Iain street. Dur in~ the past few years he was con- rortrd with the experimental de- rurtmrnt of the New Departure com- t.,nv and was rcsponsihl" for making ,.,uv labor saving devices which lat,riully aided in the production uork of that concern.
 Mr. Eockwrl Was Of an inventive nias and large number of bell .py,DtiOns. as well as inventions in ntilrr l!n"a, Wera the result Of itis ;.hiIitv Hc is credited with being the one who put the clock movement into tn, mcyclc and door bell, which materially developed the clock in- dustry
 i!a was marrtcl on June 2f. 7S>4. lo M.ss Grace r.. ban" of J&cEson- , uIr. l'la.. in tEat pIar".
 Ur. Eo,&rou was au "ntnHsia$t . O. outdoor sports and "as de ply in- fer, sj,d in rol1. "~1irE, tennis, "i"' Ii, ~as one of tl' or"aniz'rS oi th" rtI ;}t .a;ol Golf club, ""i"A vas well ..un.l in ike r""!y part Of this c'n- tars >tth i'- co."so m E@st Bristol Ii, tls .I a it' 'mhrr of ih" EIIp- ;.n,r t'o.rtay .Iui pf this "iiE and . Of thr Hf2L,laI Golf club of Try ! .u.. r., h.loue.d 'o the Bristol . , pab al.I 10 rlo En1oc club, II" vas . Is,a}or ot th' ,hHt'lo Meadow ,J.a Of ,.r Br'tant and aotiT" in it's
 .. ut ru }.r.t,.
 'ir. Eo..scU rHs an artiF" m"m- .r Of tNr H,Htcl r'2mhcr Of Com . ..prc. Ii. na< director of that organization and served on several l , is imporr,u, committees,
 Nr. Eora~eI ra}os his wifi" and u. sister, Mrs. Dewitt Page. of this ,H,. < .au died s".rral y"arS ago .I hi. 'Hot.rr. 'h. la'" Albert r. EnaNR,u 5a,d l3.t r. hrnarE.
 rH, funeral III n, held a' his home ou Wooalrl str""t on Tn"s- G afternoon at -."" The Rev. pr. William r. West p"sfor of the l'ros- fa..t N"nodiet thur' h. wjll otIiciai"' Eurial AfU tr'.r llnn" m the West . ..ntt.rv and n!ll hc private