. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. er, Charlotte, is the wife ofLouis E. Griffith, of Ridgewood. New Jersey. She is a member of the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution, for the family is descended from ancestors who fought for Americanindependence. William Alfred Holmes Hatfield was a lad of but ten years when his parents removedto Port Jefferson, where he attended the public schools until he reached the age of thirteenyears. Owing to his fathers death he then had to go to work. His first employment wasin a general store and his salary was but two dollars per week. When a youth of nineteenh
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. er, Charlotte, is the wife ofLouis E. Griffith, of Ridgewood. New Jersey. She is a member of the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution, for the family is descended from ancestors who fought for Americanindependence. William Alfred Holmes Hatfield was a lad of but ten years when his parents removedto Port Jefferson, where he attended the public schools until he reached the age of thirteenyears. Owing to his fathers death he then had to go to work. His first employment wasin a general store and his salary was but two dollars per week. When a youth of nineteenhe went to New York city and for a few months was in the employ of Tiflany, the wellknown jeweler and manufacturer. It was his first thought to learn the silversmiths tradeInit he found seven years would be required, so after a few months he gave up his positionand returned to Port JelTerson. A year later, or in , he removed to Bridgeport andentered the employ of the D. !M. Read Comjiany. one of the oldest, largest and best known. WILLIAM A. IL ILXTFIKLIi JiKlDOEPORT AM) VICINITY 713 retail dry goods liouscs of Bridguixnt. lie was witli that i-umpaiiy fur almost twenty year^ as a clerk behind the counter the business capacity which he displayed soonbrought him advancement to the position of buyer and he was placed at the head of one ofthe dejiartments, continuing to serve as a department heail until ]y05 when he resigned inorder to accept a position with the Travelers Insurance Luijipany of Hartford with wliiclihe luis since been associated. He began as a sujiervising special agent for Fairfield countyand d\iring the tirst three months worked on a stipulated salary. At the end of that timehe resigned his salaried position but still retained liis connection with the Travelers. Heembarked in business for himself at that time, establishing oftices in the Meigs building,ami the insurance business of W. A. H. Hatfield is today one of the best known in Bridge-jiort.
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