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Institute of Electrical Engineers of New
York. His clubs are the Union League,
Bankers' University, and the New England
Society of New York, the Brook-
lawn, University and Algonquin of
Bridgeport, the Country Club of Fairfield,
Connecticut, and the Metabetchouan
Club of Canada.
Mr. Bryant married, April 6, 1887, Ida
Gerald of New London, Connecticut, and
they have two children : Waldo Gerald,
born July 30, 1891, and Doris, born March
26, 1902 ; graduated from the Westover
School, Westover, Connecticut.
Waldo Gerald Bryant, son of Waldo
C. and Ida (Gerald) Bryant, was born in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, July 30, 1891.
He was educated in public and private
schools in Bridgeport, the Hotchkiss
School and Sheffield Scientific School,
Yale University, class of 1914. In that
year the Bead Chain Manufacturing Company
was organized and incorporated and
he became president and treasurer, posi-
tions he still retains. May i, 1917, he
enlisted at Newport, Rhode Island, in the
United States Naval Reserve Forces as
quartermaster, third class, for service in
the World War. September 15, 191 7, he
was transferred to the submarine base at
New London, Connecticut, and was de-
tailed for duty with the board of anti-submarine
devices. In January, 1918, he was
commissioned an ensign, and continued
his duties with the same board in experi-
mental work and in the development of
anti-submarine devices until January i,
1919, when he was ordered on inactive
duty until May i, 1921, when he was hon-
orably discharged. Mr. Bryant is a director
of the Bridgeport Trust Company.
His clubs are the Brooklawn Country
and the University of Bridgeport, the
Pequoit Yacht Club of Southport, Yale
Club of New York City, and the Meta-
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betchouan Club of Canada. Mr. Bryant
married, October 7, 1919, Ruth McCaskey,
daughter of Frederick E. and Marietta
(Beach) McCaskey, of Toledo, Ohio. Mr.
and Mrs. Bryant are the parents of two
children : Ruth Ann and Waldo Dexter
Bryant.
BISHOP. Henry Alfred,
Rail'iray Official.
Having as his American progenitor
Rev. John Bishop, Puritan minister of
Boston, Massachusetts, who afterward became
the minister at Stamford, Connecti-
cut, Henry Alfred Bishop, of the fifth
generation of descent, has become one of
the best-known railroad men of the East.
He is a son of the celebrated William D.
Bishop, who as president of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Company gave to that system one of the
very best administrations known to railroad
annals in the United States, and
brought that property up to a high grade
of efficiency and a place of prosperity
which since never has been surpassed and
seldom equalled in all its history. The
deplorable state of the New Haven system
of these latter days does not have its root
in the regimes at the head of which were
those genii of railroading who were of the
House of Bishop.
Henry Alfred Bishop has proved his
worth as the son of a great father, and in
addition has demonstrated his own ability
in managing important transportation
systems. He has had much to do with
the coordination of the railroad lines of
the New England States, inclusive of valued
service to the New Haven Railroad in
its palmy days and of executive and managerial
offices on railroads of the Middle
Atlantic States. His contributions to the
political life of the State of Connecticut