New Britain herald., 1930-12-22
OLDEST RESIDENT
 IF CITY IS DEAD
tCon4aua5 From First pagc)

ilv :u.uIu= lis wife and -.@ clI- 5raa B,..,z Ms Tsra.au. whose death o..nr.aI @a years a-o r1e -0uqls -.3 -ae lc..oH.1- eallircH, au of whom sra Gaua. Robert A-- n-s. Jar.-. LUlElr who "aa ALrs. Ha1r. Ig.-aaat.. John and G-orss-
 S-v.a Esau. ...str.a sarE..., as follows. Harold T. Is...aar5 Q. A. bury u#sE. Y. J.. Hrs. Frank DaEll- son ot York. Ta.; Mrs. CIauda Eakar Of Cn.ea@o. Mrs 1L.as s,.yrv4l- c. Ia15a4po.l-. Il@. Aruo.I Cone Of S-ra.t043. ...E Andrew T-rL-.N o. Stratos5. l.. 1lIs. Er-- Parker O. Ont rio. cala5a-
 T-.g. arc ssrsa gr.4.- gre48l..,- 6rau. including Mrs. George Wooa- vile Of rt.ca-o. Edward Donald .u1 Ran I.le-a4-l Of A-ulrs. rar. <. J. June E4a.r O. 'a.la-7 John
 md Tos..ary Isr.s-9. Of Yols. Pl. oue -raar-Gr.at t--ra a5oll.l also zurasts, James WcoayiI4 Of CAl- C4g0.
 11r. T4aball has resided v.th lis .l.sG4 o--r-iu-LaH. A1-. l-a"@a,"- TuuauI ~ans -1-t. Her husband, Jam.~ Tn-aluI. died a -st-
 Funeral Service, Wednesday
 Burial will be On "Wednesday afternoon. Ear. Taeo-org A5uswor.a Gsaare u.l condur. bg..- -alT5..- ar -aa E0ua Officers ot Ha-aa." lodge. 4. F d. A. -f, o- which 1,r. Tar.uuI WAS Il member H.I ,or- due. Nasoac lgaa4.-,al services a- .l. zrava.
 AIraoae1 he resided ln u-s co1u- fry for more ~aar- rnau h. avegaE. r.rsou nva-. 1Ir. Tara9al Was a u4- tive Ot Scotland and MS d young man when ha arrived lu Aafr5-a.
 II. was togu In Ia.slsE Scotland, Juno --. -s84. Andrew JacE-or Haa president o.ea. Eur.l ~ta.== @t that -aus and # ~a, d tn.i -=f century H..0r- tE. founding hr Ios"r. Iuluz.r ot the Eaw York World. Lr hath su,a8.n5 uv eight Eears taa discovery Q. tl@ Aut4r'ia continent.
 4t -sa ama or lis birth slp"'Is Was t.u nric.traI ia some s~-uo-s or tha British empire and sraaHa t"r- bma driven vessels had uol ..n hoard Of nor aare they destined 70 sail the -.ss to. many years IaieE I'm first regular transatlantic steamer crossed the ocean siE lears later.
 Indians were still s-alniug whites Ia America and the famous Black Hawk war in Wisconsin. Is-flug t"o- months. broke oH, when rl- young Seo,elm9u was just one month old
 When ho .vas three yrara old The first steamship to cross the Pac.tc took 163 days from London 10 Nau- eouver The massacre Of the Alamo garrison la Texas. now almost for gotten by modern historians. occur red when young TUrAbull was Jess than four years old,
 Eight Weeks. Two Days on Ocean
 H. grew up to learn the carpen- ter trade in his native Scotland. In 'rs5a. then IS years Of age. he en- harked on q sailing vessel and for eight weeks and t~o dara witastood the storms Of the fHrUUent Atlantic little dreaming that ships made Of iron and steel and driven by oil burning engines instead of sails would cross that same stretch in q few days.
 He arrived in New York and came to New Britain. A village of 2.J0O ! persons, approximately 5o5 scatter ed houses, it showed little promise then Of becoming the important in- dustrial city Of the present time. Here and there stood 6 Blacksmith shop or d small building, hardly i'm portant enough to be dLgnitied by the name factory. Only seven years before he arrived in America had the first telegraph line been installed, connecting New York and Washing ton. Elihu Burritt was in Europe ill