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mainly of the Democratic persuasion, but
his independence of thought and action
led him on occasions to go outside his
party, as he did when he cast his vote for
McKinley in the Presidential campaign
of 1896.
Mr. Harral's diversified interests in-
cluded the presidency of the Security
Building Company; directorship in the
Morris Plan Bank, Bridgeport; directorship
in the Mountain Grove Cemetery
Association ; membership in the finance
board of the Young Women's Christian
Association, Bridgeport ; and directorship
in the Bridgeport Christian Union.
Mr. Harral married (first) Julia, daugh-
ter of Hiram and Polly (Penoyer) Crissy,
of New Canaan, Connecticut, June 12, 1867,
She was born July 24, 1844, and died June
30, 1872. They were the parents of one
son, Crissy DeForest Harral, born December
13, 1868. Mr. Harral married
(second) Ellen B., third child of Nathaniel
and Huldah R. (Bradley) Wheeler. She
was born June 19, 1848. To them was
born one daughter, Mary Louise Wheeler,
born July 11, 1879; married (first) Pierpont
Rowland; married (second), August
22, 1910, at Bridgeport, Harry L. Stratton,
of Bronxville, New York; married
(third), 1921, A. Shaler Williams, of
Ithaca, New York.
Always one of the richest legacies bequeathed
by a Christian business man and
citizen of the high type as was Mr. Harral
is a memory hallowed with the good
deeds that do follow them. Love of his
country intensively cultivated, affection
for his native city of Bridgeport, a community
of interests with his fellowmen of
his community, a close student of the
affairs of municipality of which he was
extremely zealous for its progress not
only materially but also spiritually and
morally, Mr. Harral lived on a lofty plane
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of all-round endeavor which had singled
him out as a man among men. The city
as a place of great industrial activity and
as a place of residence is the better for
Mr. Harral having sojourned there for so
long a period of his life that was full of
labors and replete with service unsullied
and unselfish in every avenue into which
his multifarious activities called him. Dif-
ficult as is the task that is presented to a
community stricken with so great a loss,
its aim should be to produce from among
its citizenry a worthy successor of this
exemplar of an upright, outstanding mem-
ber of society.
WARNER, Clinton Henry,
Merchant.
The ancient town of Woodbury, Connecticut,
"mother of towns," numbered
among its pioneers several of this name,
and their descendants are found in many
of the adjoining towns. One of the offshoots
of Woodbury is Roxbury, which
existed a long time as a precinct of Woodbury,
and whose earliest independent
records have been lost, blocking the dis-
covery of numerous ancestral lines.
The origin of the name Warner is very
remote. In the southwestern part of Eng-
land, near the Welsh boundary, dwelt a
race of people engaged in agriculture. To
protect themselves from the surrounding
savage tribes, they appointed their most
athletic and discreet men to go out and
warn the people of the approach of the
enemy, hence the title "Warner." The
name occurs in Domesday Book and in
the account of the Manor of Warners,
which derived its name from Edmund
Warner, who held the estate in 1630. The
arms of Warner are :
Or, a bend engrailed
between six roses gules, with motto, "Non
nobis tantum nati" interpreted "We are