. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. s of age, however, hereturned to Connecticut and at Bridgeport entered the JCelson drug store in which liewas employed as a clerk for a few years. Ambitious, however, to engage in business onhis own account, he enti-red into partnership in 1875 with W. H. Painter under the firmstyle of Stevens & Painter. A lew years later he lionght mit tlie interest of Mr. Painter,after which the firm of Frederick S. .Stevens & Company conducted a retail and wholesaledrug business at the corner of Main and State streets. The enterprise jiroved a profitableone and he exten
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. s of age, however, hereturned to Connecticut and at Bridgeport entered the JCelson drug store in which liewas employed as a clerk for a few years. Ambitious, however, to engage in business onhis own account, he enti-red into partnership in 1875 with W. H. Painter under the firmstyle of Stevens & Painter. A lew years later he lionght mit tlie interest of Mr. Painter,after which the firm of Frederick S. .Stevens & Company conducted a retail and wholesaledrug business at the corner of Main and State streets. The enterprise jiroved a profitableone and he extended the seope of liis interests by establishing branch stores at Green-wich and at Danbury, Connectieut. making for himself a place among the leading mer-chants of the state. He was one of the first to put large board advertising signs of the kindall over the state along the line of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad givingthe number of miles to Stevens drug store in Bridgeport, and this novel method of advertis-. FRKDERICK S. STEVEXS l!l{ll)(iKPORT AND VKIXITY 4(J3 ing biMuglit tn liiiii A lilicral iiatrmiage. His euiiisc mcasiiiiMl up tn tin- liijilust staiulanlsof business enterprise, resourcefulness and integrity. On the 22(1 of June, 1876, Mr. Stevens was uiiitid in marriage tu Miss Anna MayGaylord, u native of Terryville, Connecticut, and a daughter of Edward L. tiaylord, men-tioned elsewlierc in this work. They became the parents of eight children: Edward andSylvester T., both deceased; Louise May; Frederick W., who has passed away; NellieStarr; Miner (;., who died at the age of twenty-one years; Ferris Alcott; and Edith Mary,the wife of Lewis Young. The death of the husband and father occurred October 17, 190G, when he was butfifty-eight years of age. His life had ever been a busy and useful one, characterized byhigh purjiose and fraught with success. He was a jiublic-spirited citizen and cooperated inmany movements for the general good. In politics he was a ve
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