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city's civic life the benefit of his many
years of experience in educational matters.
Governor George L. Lilley, in 1908, hon-
ored Mr. Havens with an appointment to
his official staff, the position carrying to
the appointee the rank of colonel. Upon
Governor Lilley's death Colonel Havens
was reappointed by Governor Frank B.
Weeks. His membership of the Republican
State Committee and of the
Bridgeport Republican City Committee
has covered a considerable length of serv-
ice, in which he has been of invaluable
aid to the political movements and
achievements of his party. Colonel Havens
is a director of the First National
Bank of Bridgeport and is president of
the Norwalk Company of South Norwalk,
Connecticut. He is affiliated with the
Free and Accepted Masons and the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He
is affiliated with the First Presbyterian
Church, Bridgeport. His clubs are the
Algonquin and Brooklawn Country,
Bridgeport.
Colonel Havens married, June 10, 1891,
Emma Curtis, daughter of Freeman Lewis
and Georgianna Howard Curtis, of Strat-
ford, Connecticut. Mrs. Havens is a sister
of Judge Howard J. Curtis of the Connecticut
Supreme Court. Colonel and
Mrs. Havens have children: i. Helen
Curtis, a graduate of Columbia Univer-
sity ; married Howard Lyons Stone of
Bridgeport, and has children, Donald, de-
ceased ; Howard, Jr. ; and Jean Stone. 2.
Mabel Howard, a graduate of Wellesley
College; married Garner Kippeu Birds-
eye, and has one son, John Havens Birdseye.
3. Kate Elinor, a graduate of Columbia
University ; married Dr. George
Cowles Brown, and has children, Eliza-
beth and Curtis Havens Brown. 4. Elizabeth
Moore, educated at the Emma Willard
School, Troy, New York; married
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H. Livingston Morehouse, secretary of
the Bridgeport Trust Company, and has
one son, Bradley Morehouse. 5. Emmy
Lou Havens, educated at the Emma Wil-
lard School and Vassar College.
WALDO, George Curtis,
Editor.
When a half century ago, April 1, 1867,
George C. Waldo came to Bridgeport as
local reporter and city editor of the
"Standard," he began an association with
that paper and with Connecticut journalism
which has never been broken. His
previous efforts in law and business had
not proved to his liking, his tastes and
talents from youth having been literary
and his eflForts in other directions did not
prove satisfactory. His mother, a writer
and poetess, encouraged the literary
tastes of her son and under her direction
he absorbed the best in English literature,
his reading of the poets being very extensive.
When he finally embarked upon
the sea of journalism he had found his
proper element, his search had terminated,
and as editor-in-chief he remained an active
contributor to the newspaper on which
he began his career. During this half century
he took a part in every movement
for the upbuilding of Bridgeport, either
personally or with his pen, and in church,
scientific society, historical society, and
club he advanced the particular ,object for
which each was organized. While he
made the political fortunes of others and
ardently supported the principles of the
Republican Party, he asked nothing important
for himself and kept compara-
tively free from the entanglements of po-
litical office.
He traced his ancestry through seven
generations to Cornelius Waldo, born
about 1624, in England, it is supposed,