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They are the parents of two sons : Frank
Walcott, Jr., born September i, 1904, and
John Cornelius, born July 28, 1908.
Mr. Bogardus is one of those genial,
whole-souled men for whom everyone in-
stinctively feels the warmest friendship,
a friendship that is confirmed and made
permanent by the sterling qualities of
loyalty and sincerity which he consis-
tently displays. He is a man of public
spirit, and is always to be found in the
forefront of all movements for public improvement
which make for the true progress
and betterment of the community.
He has served the city as a member of
the Board of Appropriation and Apportionment,
in which capacity his knowledge
of practical affairs has been of the
greatest service. On September 15, 1900,
the Connecticut Lumber Dealers' Association
was incorporated, of which organ-
ization he was at one time president.
BOGARDUS, J. Howard,
Financier, Pnblic-Spirited Citixen.
J. Howard Bogardus, banker, was born
in Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, April 8, 1874,
son of John S. and Kate (Schutt) Bogardus
(q. v.). The genealogy of the Bogardus
family appears in the preceding
sketch.
The early education of J. Howard Bogardus
was obtained under his mother's
tuition, and after attending the Stamford
High School he completed a course in
Merrill's Business College. His active
business life began as a clerk in the Stam-
ford Savings Bank. Ambitious to suc-
ceed, and conscientious in the performance
of his duty, he made the most
of every opportunity to broaden and
strengthen his knowledge of banking, not
only by close attention to the transactions
that came daily within his vision, but by
much reading and study. When the posi-
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tion of secretary and treasurer of the bank
became vacant, Mr. Bogardus was found
well equipped to meet the responsibilities
of the position, to which he was elected in
July, 191 1, and which he has ever since
filled. He is a member of the board of
directors of the bank, a member of the
Savings Bank Association of Connecticut,
and his ambitions are so well esteemed by
his business associates that for several
years he has served as a member of the
association's executive committee, and for
one year as its chairman. Mr. Bogardus
is a member of the Henry J. Evans Pro-
tective Committee of the Chicago & East-
ern Illinois Railroad.
Mr. Bogardus is a member of the Suburban
Club, and was for years a member
of the Young Men's Christian Associa-
tion, of Stamford. For some years in its
earl}^ days he was a member of the Stamford
Yacht Club and one of its nominat-
ing committee. In more recent years he
has found his greatest pleasure and relax-
ation within the family circle. It is seldom
that bankers take an active part in
politics, and Mr. Bogardus is not an ex-
ception to this rule, although he neglects
no opportunity to fulfill every repsonsibility
that devolves upon the patriotic and
public-spirited citizen. During the World
War he served as a member of the Lib-
erty Loan Committee on every "drive" in
Stamford. He was treasurer for two
years of the Stamford Children's Home,
and during that time was a member of its
board of trustees. Mr. Bogardus is a mem-
ber of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, of
which he has been a vestryman for many
years, was treasurer of the church, and at
the present time treasurer of the Sunday
school. Mrs. Bogardus is a member of
St. John's Episcopal Church.
Mr. Bogardus married, February 15,
1908, Kate Noble, daughter of James and