The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . sitionhe has earned in a marked degree the confidence andregard of the entire business community. He wasmarried in 1843 to Augusta Caroline Trowbridge,daughter of Capt. Roswell Tro


The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . sitionhe has earned in a marked degree the confidence andregard of the entire business community. He wasmarried in 1843 to Augusta Caroline Trowbridge,daughter of Capt. Roswell Trowbridge of NewHaven, Conn. Six children have been born to them,of whom five are living. He has throughout his lifebeen an active and responsible member and trusteein Christian churches of the Congregational denom-ination, and active in both church and Sunday-schoolwork. He was first associated with the Northchurch. New Haven, Conn., and afterward with theCentre church in the same city, and since 1857 withthe South Congregational church, Brooklyn, N. Y.,of whose board of trustees he has for many yearsbeen president, trusted and loved by his is a in the South Brooklyn savings insti-tution, a!hd is a member of the chamber of York city. His political affiliation has alwaysbeen with the whig and republican party ever since1840, when he cast his first vole for Wm. OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 151


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