. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. Peter White shipyards at Stratford,Connecticut, and has since carried on the business under the name of the Bedell has a well equipped plant and has been accorded a very liberal patronage. It is said thathe has built enough ships to reach from Stratford to New York if they were placed end toend. In the past thirty years he has built ninety vessels of various kinds pro|)ellcd bysteam, gas and sail. Among the, largest of these is the Comanche, a quarantine boat ofNew York city, and the Governor and the Seba, which are large oyster boats, and they
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. Peter White shipyards at Stratford,Connecticut, and has since carried on the business under the name of the Bedell has a well equipped plant and has been accorded a very liberal patronage. It is said thathe has built enough ships to reach from Stratford to New York if they were placed end toend. In the past thirty years he has built ninety vessels of various kinds pro|)ellcd bysteam, gas and sail. Among the, largest of these is the Comanche, a quarantine boat ofNew York city, and the Governor and the Seba, which are large oyster boats, and theyachts Rose A. and Sarah \ieeland. He built three boats, the Rhoda Crane, the Sea(Jull and the Guess, which are now used in tlie coastwise trade on the Sound. Captain Bedellhas paid out in wages about two liundred and fifty tliousand dollars at Stratford in thepast thirty years, and his industry has been one of the important enterprises of the town. Jlr. Bedell has been married three times. In 186J he wedded Jennie W. Smith, who. W iLLIAil K. BEUELL BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITY 29:5 bucamo tlu niddicr of two cliililren; l^ydia T.; and Franklin, wlio dicil in cliildhodd, the dcatli of his lirst wile Mr. Hididl was married in 1874 to Mary CannilV,by whom lie liad tlie following cliihlren: .lennie Louisa, now Mrs. Georgo Hoxloy; WilliamC. of .Stratford; Addie, who died when nine years old; Levinia, now Mrs. Irvin Culver, ofStratford; 8nsan, who died when about twenty-one years old; George, of Bridgeport; Arthur,who died in 1.)1(), at the age of twenty-seven years, leaving a son, Herbert Arthur, bornApril 4, 1914; and Floyd j\i., associated with his father in business. The wife and motherpassed away and on the :36th of September, 18U9, at- Hempstead, Long Island, Mr. Bedellmarried Jlrs. Josephine (Baldwin) Thompson, who still survives. She was born on Seven-teenth street, New York city, June 30, 1854, a daughter of Edward and Sarah (Arnold)Baldwin, wlio removed to tlie vi
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