. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. municants of St. Peters church. Mr, Welch erected aresidence at Hridgeport and left his family in comfortable financial circumstances. In hispolitical views he was a republican and, though not an office seeker, was a public-spiritedman. lie fdiiiid interest and recreation in bowling and billiards and he belonged to theElks Club and also to the Algonquin Club, the Bridge]iort Club and the Miamogue Yacht two years prior to his demise he was in ill health and on the :J9tli of March, ]91fi, passedaway to the deep regret of his many friends and busines
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. municants of St. Peters church. Mr, Welch erected aresidence at Hridgeport and left his family in comfortable financial circumstances. In hispolitical views he was a republican and, though not an office seeker, was a public-spiritedman. lie fdiiiid interest and recreation in bowling and billiards and he belonged to theElks Club and also to the Algonquin Club, the Bridge]iort Club and the Miamogue Yacht two years prior to his demise he was in ill health and on the :J9tli of March, ]91fi, passedaway to the deep regret of his many friends and business aciiuaintances who had come toknow and esteem him higlilv. WILLIAM E. HOWES. William K. Howes is the secretary am! treasurer of the Wheeler & Howes Company ofBridgeport and is thus actively connected with a business which has featured in the commercialcircles of Bridgeport for more than a half century. He was horn .^pril 14, 1881, and is ason of William T. Howes, one of the fnuiiders of the [iresent cdnipany. \\illi:im T. Howes. AM W ii JlHlDCKIOin AND \I(I.\ITY 527 ■vas born at Saj; Harbor, Lout; Islaiul, in Isil and was a son ol \\ illiani II. Howes, a sea-faring man of Long Island. The family removed to Blaek Koek, Lonneetieut, in the earlv30s and in 18G() William T. Howes joined .1. .M. Wliceler in tlie eoal business, organizing tliefirm of Wheeler & Howes, whieli was everitnally ineor|H>rated under the name of the Wheeler& Howes Company. For some time Mr, Howes served as |)resident thereof, continuing in theoltiee until his demise, which occurred in Bridgeport in 1914. He was a valued member ofthe Seaside Club and a most active and inten^ted worker in the Young Mens ChristianAssociation, eontrihuting generously to its support aiul doing all in his power to promoteits growth. He was also one of the foumiers and l)ecame one of the directors of the BoysClub. In early manliooil ho weihhd Ida V. Hinckley, who away about 191):!. In theirfamily were three chil
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