Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . lesale Grocery Association, and theFairfield National Bank, Mr. Keeler is also president of the NorwalkSteamboat Company, vice-president of the South Norwalk TrustCompany, and director in several other corporations. 268 EDWIN OLMSTEAD KEELEE Mr. Keeler, who is a devoted Republican, has been as active and asprominent in politics as he has in business. He was the first mayorof the city of jSTorwalk, serving from 1894 to 1895. He representedthe town of Norwalk in the State Leg
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . lesale Grocery Association, and theFairfield National Bank, Mr. Keeler is also president of the NorwalkSteamboat Company, vice-president of the South Norwalk TrustCompany, and director in several other corporations. 268 EDWIN OLMSTEAD KEELEE Mr. Keeler, who is a devoted Republican, has been as active and asprominent in politics as he has in business. He was the first mayorof the city of jSTorwalk, serving from 1894 to 1895. He representedthe town of Norwalk in the State Legislature during 1893 and 1895,and was senator from the thirteenth district in 1897 and 1899 andlieutenant governor from 1901 to 1903. Business and politics have by no means been the only interests inMr. Keelers life. He is an active worker in the CongregationalChurch and has been chairman of the committee of the First Con-gregational Church of Norwalk for twenty-five years. He is both aMason and an Odd Fellow and in the latter order he has held thechair of Noble Grand. Mr. Keeler is also a member of the CHARLES SANGER MELLEN M ELLEN. CHARLES SANGEE, president of the New York,New Haven and Hartford Eailroad, was born in Lowell,Massachusetts, August 16th, 1851, the son of George Hannah M. (Sanger) Mellen. His father was a country mer-chant. His ancestors emigrated from England in 1630 and settled inWatertown, Massachusetts. President Mellen passed the early years of his life in the city ofConcord, New Hampshire, where he attended the grammar and highschools, and was graduated from the latter in 1869. After leav-ing the high school, he was forced to earn a living for himself andthose dependent upon him, and at the age of eighteen he enteredrailway service as a clerk in the cashiers office of the Northern NewHampshire Railroad, at Concord. Thus by mere chance, or fromcircumstances over which he had no control, he entered a field ofwork in which he was destined t
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