Identifier: historyofwaterbu03pape (find matches)
Title: History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pape, William Jamieson, 1873-
Subjects: Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Waterbury (Conn.) -- Biography Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- History Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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or of a large insurance agency, the oldest establishedin Winsted, was born in Tolland, Massachusetts, February 28, 1864, a son of Bennett E.and Jane F. (Starks) Moore. He is descended from Revolutionary stock along eightdifferent lines and is a direct descendant of Joseph Wadsworth, of Charter Oak fame, and ofGovernor Talcott. At the age of thirteen he left school in order to assist on the farmand thus help support the family. In 1883 he left the ancestral home and went to Winsted.Connecticut, where he has since remained. For a few years he clerked in various storesand in 1891 embarked in a mercantile business on his own account, opening a mensfurnishing goods store, which he conducted for about five years. In the meantime, whilestill engaged in mercantile lines, he began writing life and accident insurance. In 1897he turned his attention to the insurance business. In 1898 he purchased the insiuancoagencj of Charles K. Hunt, which was carried on under the name of Darwin S. Moore until
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