. Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. port to Stratford, drivingthe horse railroad out of commission, andlater opened two branch lines of the presentsystem. He would never permit spotterson his car lines, preferring to trust to thehonor of the men in his employ, and in thismethod of treatment he rarely found causefor regret. He never considered his employesjust as so many parts of a huge machine, butprovided comforts for them in the shape ofwaiting, reading and lun
. Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. port to Stratford, drivingthe horse railroad out of commission, andlater opened two branch lines of the presentsystem. He would never permit spotterson his car lines, preferring to trust to thehonor of the men in his employ, and in thismethod of treatment he rarely found causefor regret. He never considered his employesjust as so many parts of a huge machine, butprovided comforts for them in the shape ofwaiting, reading and lunch rooms, where dur-ing the cold weather hot coflree and sand-wiches were furnished them. In political opin-ion he was an Independent Repul)lican, andhe was a member of the Independent Orderof Odd Fellows. His death occurred October26. 1909, and he is bm-ied in Lake AiewCemetery, Bridgeport. Mr. Lines married, atBridgeport, October i, 1885, Eleanor Pris-cilla, born in Bridgeport in 1851, now livingin Stratford, daughter of Wesley : George Otis, born June 19. 1886,at Bridgeport; Eleanor Beardsley, February26, 1894; Henry Benjamin, December 23, %^t^J Tli^ [A\A
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