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trustees and served as deacon for many
years. He is a charter member of New
Canaan Grange, No. 38, of which he is
past master, and is a charter member and
past master of Pomona Grange, of Fair-
field county, being a member of the sev-
enth degree.
Mr. St. John married, November 3,
1886, Sarah Estella Selleck, born October
31, 1866, daughter of John Edwin and
Mary E. (Crawford) Selleck, of New Can-
aan. They are the parents of the following
children: i. Vincent Selleck, born
June 17, 1892; during the World War he
served in the artillery in France, acting as
driver for a colonel ; he married Mildred
Heath and they are the parents of three
children : Ruth, Edwin Heath, and Richard
Vincent. 2. Lawrence Darius, born
August 21, 1896; he was a graduate of
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
when this country entered the World
War, he was a student in college and at
once enlisted in a college corp, but remained
in college until after his gradua-
tion ; he was then stationed in the Officers'
Training Camp in Virginia, in the vicin-
ity of the city of Washington, and there
remained until the armistice was signed,
when they were disbanded, and he returned
to his home in New Canaan, Con-
necticut ;
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he is now engaged in the experi-
mental rooms of the Norwalk Tire and
Rubber Company.
McCREADY, Robert Halsey, D. D. S.,
Served in World ^Var.
Dr. McCready's active professional career
began in the military ser\'ice, and
then, after reciving his degree in dentistry
in June, 1920, he succeeded Dr. Cunningham
in practice in New Canaan, Connec-
ticut, his present home. Dr. McCready is
a grandson of James McCready, who
spent his entire life in his Ireland home,
Belfast, and a son of Robert Workman
McCready.
Robert Workman McCready was born
in Belfast, Ireland, in i860, and was there
educated. As a youth of twelve years he
began to make his own way in the world
and when nineteen years of age came to
the United States. After a short period
spent in New York City he located at
Little Falls, New York, and there fol-
lowed the carpenter's trade, which he had
learned in the shipyards of Harlem &
Wolfe, at Belfast. He remained in Little
Falls for a few years, then made his home
in Sloatsburg, New York, where he has
since resided. His business activities followed
the line of contracting, and for
thirty years he has conducted independent
operations, principally residential work,
being widely known in the district as a
contractor and builder. Mr. McCready
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church, as is his wife, and he has been a
zealous worker in the denomination, hav-
ing served as president of the official
board. He holds the thirty-second degree
in the Masonic order, and is a member
of Newburgh Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons ; Hudson River Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Newburgh, New
and Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic
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York ;
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of
New York City. He is also a member of
the Benevolent and Protective Order of
Elks. Mr. McCready served as president
of the school board for two years, and is
president of the Builders' Union at the
present time (1921').
Robert Workman McCready married
Mary Finch, daughter of John H. and
Catherine (Bowen) Finch, her father a
veteran of the Civil War, having served
in Company C, One Hundred and Twenty-
Fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer