Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . ther, DavidFarnum Eead, in that corporation. Mercantile and manufacturing interests have always occupiedMr. Eead. He is the treasurer of The D. M. Eead Company, havingbeen elected at the founding of that corporation, February 27th,1884, and secretary of The Eead Carpet Company, to which office hewas elected January 18th, 1904. On August 14th, 1894, he was elected a director of the FirstNational Bank of Bridgeport, and on June 25th, 1903, he became atrustee of the Bridgeport
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . ther, DavidFarnum Eead, in that corporation. Mercantile and manufacturing interests have always occupiedMr. Eead. He is the treasurer of The D. M. Eead Company, havingbeen elected at the founding of that corporation, February 27th,1884, and secretary of The Eead Carpet Company, to which office hewas elected January 18th, 1904. On August 14th, 1894, he was elected a director of the FirstNational Bank of Bridgeport, and on June 25th, 1903, he became atrustee of the Bridgeport Savings Bank, both of which offices hestill holds. He has been a member of the board of directors ofSt. Vincents Hospital since the founding of that institution in served on the board of apportionment and taxation of the cityof Bridgeport from the year of his appointment, 1889, until hisresignation in June, 1907. He has never been active in politics, orstrongly partisan in his political views, but has always affiliated withthe Democratic party. Mr. Eead has been a Knight Templar of Hamilton Commandery 270 ^. CHARLES BARNUM READ, 273 Ko. 5 of Bridgeport since December 16th, 1886, a thirty-secouddegree Mason of Lafayette Consistory since June, 1887, a memberof Sea-Side Council Royal Arcanum since November 19th, 1893, andof Arcanum Lodge, I. 0. 0. F., since March 25th, 1896. He is a member of the Sea-Side, the Algonquin, the BrooklawnCountry, and the Bridgeport Yacht Clubs, and of the ISTew YorkYacht Club. He was president of the Brooklawn Country Club in1900, and of the Sea-Side Club in 1902, has been treasurer of theAlgonquin Club, and Corinthian Lodge, P. and A. M. On February 12th, 1890, he married Eleanor Landon Atkinson,and to them has been bom one child, a daughter, Muriel AtkinsonRead. He is a lover of horses, an automobilist, and greatly enjoysdifferent forms of sport, but perhaps finds his greatest relaxation ingolf and squash. He is a member of the vestry of St
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