. History of New Haven County, Connecticut . ^. HISTORY OF NEW HAVEN COUNTY. 737 little from the story of the lives of most of our successful businessmen. He was taught to work in his boyhood and to depend upon hisown efforts for a living. After serving as a clerk in a dry goods store,he began business for himself, becoming interested in the sale of rub-ber goods. He had no capital but his own energy and a natural capac-ity for affairs where prudence, pluck and perseverance, if judiciouslyexercised, are bound to ensure success. After having charge of thecompanys store in New York, he assumed t
. History of New Haven County, Connecticut . ^. HISTORY OF NEW HAVEN COUNTY. 737 little from the story of the lives of most of our successful businessmen. He was taught to work in his boyhood and to depend upon hisown efforts for a living. After serving as a clerk in a dry goods store,he began business for himself, becoming interested in the sale of rub-ber goods. He had no capital but his own energy and a natural capac-ity for affairs where prudence, pluck and perseverance, if judiciouslyexercised, are bound to ensure success. After having charge of thecompanys store in New York, he assumed the management of its• business in 1856, and his subsequent career, as expressed in the elo-quent language of his friend, Judge S. W. Kellogg, was as follows: The capital was then small, and somewhat impaired; its articlesof production were very limited. While the Goodyear patent existed,the companys manufacture was confined pretty much to the articlesindicated by its original name, for which only they had a license. Forseveral years followin
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