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esides near his father. Harry Doud is
engaged in the manufacture of motors at
Detroit, Michigan. Helen Louise died at
the age of three years, three months and
three days.
TRUMBULL, Alexander H.,
Manufacturer.
It is a noteworthy example of the
Trumbull family, now widely dispersed
throughout the United States, and numerous
members of which have become prom-
inent in the industrial world, in the field
of letters and in political and professional
activities. A branch of the Trumbull
family, migrated from Great Britain,
probably in the latter part of the sixteenth
or early in the seventeenth century, to
Ulster County, Ireland. There, Hugh H.
Trumbull, father of Alexander H. Trumbull
was born and on emigrating to Amer-
ica, settled in West Hartford, Connecti-
cut, afterward removing to Plainville,
Connecticut. He was a strong, intensively
religious and substantial citizen of the
communities where he carried on his agri-
cultural pursuits. He was the father of
seven sons, of whom is Alexander H.
Trumbull, of this review, president of the
Connecticut Electric Manufacturing Company
of Bridgeport, which ranks as one
of the most important concerns of its kind
in New England, while its head is also
recognized as an industrial leader of this
section of the country. From a small beginning
in Bantam, Connecticut, where
the concern still maintains that unit of
its establishment, the Connecticut Elec-
tric Manufacturing Company now sends
its products all over the world and has
offices at a number of strategic points in
this country. The company also operates
its own pottery plant at Trenton, New
Jersey, where it manufactures the porce-
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lain used in the production of its elec-
trical devices at Bridgeport.
Alexander H. Trumbull is a son of
Hugh H. and Mary (Harper) Trumbull.
His father was born in Ireland. After his
arrival in America he first took up his
residence in West Hartford, Connecticut,
where he bought a tract of land and oper-
ated a farm on a considerable scale for a
number of years. He was a communicant
of the West Hartford Methodist Episco-
pal Church. He and his wife were the
parents of seven sons : John H., present
Governor of Connecticut ; Henry ; Frank
Alexander H., of this review ;
James, who
died in April, 1916; Isaac B., who was
drowned when the Lusitania was sunk
while making a trip to England in May,
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1915; and George. All of the surviving
sons are engaged in manufacturing.
Alexander H. Trumbull, son of Hugh
H. and Mary (Harper) Trumbull, was
born in West Hartford, Connecticut, Oc-
tober 12, 1878. His father, having removed
with his family from West Hart-
ford to Plainville, Connecticut, sent the
son Alexander to the public schools of
that town. He attended his classes until
he arrived at the age of fifteen years, when
he left school and became associated with
his brothers in the electrical business at
Hartford. He early demonstrated a remarkable
capacity for things mechanical,
particularly with the application of elec-
tricity. His genius for organization also
began to be active at the beginning of his
career. In 1904 he launched out into
business for himself as an electrical
contractor at Torrington, Connecticut,
shortly before absorbing the business in-
terests of his brothers at Hartford. In
1906, in association with his brother, Isaac
B. Trumbull, he organized in the town of
Bantam, the Connecticut Electric Manu-
facturing Company, which was destined
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