. History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut . ociations. GEORGE H. BURNAP. George H. Burnap, vice president of the Waterbury Sand & Gravel Company, was bornin Fitchburg, Massachusetts, October 21, 1889, a son of George Franklin and Harriet B.(Howard) Burnap. The mother is living in Waterbury but the father has passed the boyhood of their son George the family home was established at Gardner, Massa-chusetts, where he acquired a public school education. Later a removal was made to Pitts-field, Massachusetts, and in 1912 they came to Waterbury, where George H. Burnap
. History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut . ociations. GEORGE H. BURNAP. George H. Burnap, vice president of the Waterbury Sand & Gravel Company, was bornin Fitchburg, Massachusetts, October 21, 1889, a son of George Franklin and Harriet B.(Howard) Burnap. The mother is living in Waterbury but the father has passed the boyhood of their son George the family home was established at Gardner, Massa-chusetts, where he acquired a public school education. Later a removal was made to Pitts-field, Massachusetts, and in 1912 they came to Waterbury, where George H. Burnap becameassociated with Ernest C. Whitney, H. B. Burnap and Richard S. Burnap in the organizationof the Waterbury Sand & Gravel Company, of which he was elected and has since served asthe vice president. In the intervening years the company has developed a laige trade, havingsecured the contract for furnishing sand and gravel for the new city hall, for the office of theAmerican Brass Company and most of the substantial buildings erected in Waterbury in. DR. DANIEL J. MALOXEY WATERBURY AND THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY 511 recent years. The business was established upon a safe, reliable basis and the enterprisingmethods of the officers have led to continually growing success. Mr. Burnap is a member of the Congregational church and in polities is a progressiverepublican. His attention and interests, however, center in his business affairs, althoughhe is not unmindful of the duties and obligations of citizenship and his influence is alwayson the side of progress and improvement. GEORGE H. BENHAM. George H. Benham. a well known figure in the metal industry of Waterbury, connectedwith the general office of the American Brass Company, was born in Woodbury, Connecticut,November 27, 1850, a son of Lockwood P. and Mary E. Benham. He obtained a public andhigh school education in Middlebury and upon starting out in life on account securedemployment with a carriage wheel factory, working alon
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