Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . gatt is a member and past master of St. Peters Lodge,F. and A. M. In creed he is a Congregationalist and for the pastten years he has served with great zeal and efficiency on the commit-tee of the First Ecclesiastical Society of New Milford. He is an ad-herent of the Eepublican party in politics, but has voted independently 111 112 HENKY SEYMOUR MYGATT. at times. His family consists of a wife and three sons, Frederick E.,Andrew B., and Roland F. Mygatt. Mrs. Mygatt, whom he
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . gatt is a member and past master of St. Peters Lodge,F. and A. M. In creed he is a Congregationalist and for the pastten years he has served with great zeal and efficiency on the commit-tee of the First Ecclesiastical Society of New Milford. He is an ad-herent of the Eepublican party in politics, but has voted independently 111 112 HENKY SEYMOUR MYGATT. at times. His family consists of a wife and three sons, Frederick E.,Andrew B., and Roland F. Mygatt. Mrs. Mygatt, whom he marriedin Stonington 1869, was Nancy Eels Faxon. According to Mr. Mygatts judgment the best general publicservice that can be rendered at present is to work for purity of theballot, and the essentials of success in life are high ideals, integrity,industry and perseverance. He who would succeed must avoid mis-takes both in action and decision. These are the words of a manwho has concentrated his efforts along a single line of work withmost successful results and who has set an example of worthy andclean ^^Tih^y^ ($ ^^i^^^^-^^^A^^.,:^ HENRY ELBEKT FAIRCHILD FAIECHILD, HENEY ELBEET, builder and contractor, vice-president of the H. Wales Lines Company of Meriden, wasborn in Woodbridge, New Haven County, Connecticut, Sep-tember 25th, 1838. His parents were Lyman Fairchild and LucyBaldwin Fairchild, his father being a farmer whose strongest trait washis love of order. Mr, Fairchild is descended from a very old familyin whose veins run Scottish and English blood. In Scotland, fromwhence the family originally passed to England, the name was spelledFairbairn. In England the name of Fairchild is of ancient origin,and on the family crest there are three crescents and three birds(Martlets), indicating three pilgrimages to the Holy Land some timeduring the Crusades (1096-1400). The first American ancestor wasThomas Fairchild, who came from England and settled in Stratford,Con
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