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eration is the citizen whose name stands
at the head of this article. Mr. Miller is
known in business circles as the assist-
ant superintendent and secretary of the
Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing Company,
and is active in the club life and
fraternal affairs of his community.
D. Henry Miller was born April 5, 1884,
in Georgetown, a son of Samuel J. and
Esther A. (Cannon) Miller (q. v.). His
early education was received in local pub-
lic schools, and he was prepared for col-
lege in King's School, Stamford, and in
1904 graduated from the Sheffield Scien-
tific School with the degree of Bachelor
of Philosophy. His specialty was electrical
engineering. After graduating, Mr.
Miller began his business life by associating
himself with the Gilbert & Bennett
Manufacturing Company, of which
his grandfather was then vice-president
and treasurer, and with which his father
had long been officially connected. It
soon appeared that he had inherited no
small measure of their ability, and he is
now assistant superintendent and secretary
of the company.
The fraternal affiliations of Mr. Miller
include membership in Ark Lodge, No.
39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons
Butler Chapter, Royal Arch Masons
Clinton Commandery, Knights Templar,
of Norwalk ; and Pyramid Temple, Mystic
shrine, of Bridgeport, also the Sigma
Psi fraternity of the Sheffield Scientific
School. His clubs are the Yale, of New
York, the Norwalk, South Norwalk, and
the Westport Country. He and his wife
are members of St. Matthew's Protestant
Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Miller
served for about ten years as treasurer
and in which he is now junior warden.
Mr. Miller married, September 23, 191 1,
Mary Frances Raymond, whose ancestral
record is appended to this biography, and
they are the parents of four children
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Samuel J. (2), born November 5, 1913;
Esther Denman, born August 26, 1915;
Mary Louise, born June 23, 1917; and
Raymond Cannon, born October 23, 1919.
For many years the Gilbert & Bennett
Manufacturing Company has been repre-
sented by members of the Miller family,
and D. Henry Miller, as a representative
of the third generation, worthily holds his
place in the line.
(The Raymond Line).
The name of Raymond is an ancient
one of French origin, and is derived from
the Christian name Raimundus, signify-
ing light of the world. A branch of the
family was transplanted to England at or
soon after the Norman Conquest.
(I) Richard Raymond, one of the
founders of the race in America, was a
mariner, and in 1634 was made a freeman
of Salem, Massachusetts. The town
granted him land in 1636, and in 1662 he
removed to Norwalk, Connecticut, where
he purchased a house and land. He was
at one time engaged in the coastwise
trade with the Dutch and English on Man-
hattan Island. In 1664 he went to Saybrook,
Connecticut. Prior to 1636 he and
his wife Judith were members of the First
Church in Salem. Richard Raymond
died in Saybrook in 1692, aged about
ninety years.
(II) John Raymond, son of Richard
and Judith Raymond, was of Norwalk,
Connecticut. His taxable property was
valued at two hundred pounds. He mar-
ried, in 1664, Mary Betts, daughter of
Thomas Betts, of Norwalk.
(III) Samuel Raymond, son of John
and Mary (Betts) Raymond, was of Nor-
walk, Connecticut. He married, in 1696,
Judith Palmer, daughter of Ephriam Pal-
mer, of Greenwich, Connecticut.
(IV) Samuel (2) Raymond, son of
Samuel (i) and Judith (Palmer) Ray-