. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. o him from his ancestors. His father. Henry Wales, was born in Beverly,Massachusetts, and mairied I aroline M. Harding, a native of Brunswick, New .Jersey. Inthe 30s they removed to and Mr. Wales engaged in the wlndesale cofiee andspice business on .State streit. He was not only an active factor in commercial circlesbut was also a bank director and piominent in the |iublic life of the .■onimunity, servingmany terms in the Bridgeport loinmon council. Thcodiiie I. Wales atteniled tin- private school of K. F. Strong, from which he graduateil. He
. History of Bridgeport and vicinity. o him from his ancestors. His father. Henry Wales, was born in Beverly,Massachusetts, and mairied I aroline M. Harding, a native of Brunswick, New .Jersey. Inthe 30s they removed to and Mr. Wales engaged in the wlndesale cofiee andspice business on .State streit. He was not only an active factor in commercial circlesbut was also a bank director and piominent in the |iublic life of the .■onimunity, servingmany terms in the Bridgeport loinmon council. Thcodiiie I. Wales atteniled tin- private school of K. F. Strong, from which he graduateil. He and liis brother. 11. .\. Wah->, establi>lied the Wales Wheel Company, buyingout the (Mils Wheel tompany. and conducted that business for a number ot years, afterwliich lie turned liis attention to thi grain and cereal business along wliolesale lines. TheSim])lex menu printer was invented by Mr. Wales prior to the year 1907 and was pat-iMited by him in that year. altiinii;;li many improvements and changes in construction have. THEODORE V. \\-ALES HRIDGElOirr AND 769 developed siiire. Tlie sm-t-ess of tlii Imsiness is liicausi tlio devicf a|i|M-;iU to liotcls,restaurants, stoaiiisliips. club. as a iiinncy-savci- ami a ccinvciiicruc. The pinccss iif|iriiitiliir with this device is so siiiipli tliat orclitiaiy iiii-\|icriciucil help arc able to prci-diice creditable results in tlieir spare tiin< \vitlio\it e.\tra expense to tlie the savin-; ellecteil in printing bills soon olVsets the first expense of the ineiuiprinter. Aside from the nsnal results of a successful business, there is to .Mr. Wales arealization of having created soincthini; worth wliili. when tliese nieiui printers arc beingshipped to all parts of the world. ■lAMKS :MATTHKW .MiioNKV. James JIatthew Mocmcy. prisichiit of .lane-, .\looney i Sons Company, landscapecontractors, has in this coiuicction ihvchipcd a business of exten^ixe proportions, for hisefforts emlxidy t
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