Encyclopedia of Connecticut biography, genealogical-memorial; representative citizens; . 7 he became associated withthe Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection &Insurance Company, in an engineeringcapacity. He has been connected withother departments of the company, andin 1916 was elected secretary, his presentoffice. He is a man of strong businessability, and has thoroughly demonstratedhis worth as an official of this, one of themost important companies of its kind inthe United States. He is an associatemember of the American Institute ofElectrical Engineers, and during the warwith Germany, served t
Encyclopedia of Connecticut biography, genealogical-memorial; representative citizens; . 7 he became associated withthe Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection &Insurance Company, in an engineeringcapacity. He has been connected withother departments of the company, andin 1916 was elected secretary, his presentoffice. He is a man of strong businessability, and has thoroughly demonstratedhis worth as an official of this, one of themost important companies of its kind inthe United States. He is an associatemember of the American Institute ofElectrical Engineers, and during the warwith Germany, served the United StatesFuel Administration for the State of Con-necticut, as Administrative Engineer. Public-spirited and progressive, has served the institutions of hiscity freely, but beyond exercising therights of citizenship, he takes no part inpolitics. He is secretary of the AmericanSchool at Hartford for the Deaf; secre-tary of Wadsworth Atheneum : secretaryof Watkinson Library; trustee of theHartford Retreat; director of the Hart-ford Aetna National Bank; member of 164. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY Company B, First Regiment, ConnecticutState Guard; member of the HartfordClub; Hartford Golf Club, AutomobileClub of Hartford, and the Yale Club ofNew York City. In politics he is a Re-publican, and in religious faith an Episco-palian, serving Trinity parish of Hart-ford as vestryman. Mr. Corson married Marion Fay Lyles,daughter of James Henry Lyles of Brook-lyn, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Corson arethe parents of two daughters: DorothyLyles, who married John M. Ellis, ofNew York City, and has a daughter,Elizabeth Corson Ellis; Mildred Cone,who married John Richard Cook, form-erly of Centerville, Maryland, now ofHartford. ROGERS, William H., Clergyman, Litterateur. There are many avenues of effort opento the man of forceful mind and broadculture. The world seeks out such men,places them in positions of honor andpours emoluments into their hands. Forsuch a man, in these days, ther
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