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which are under cultivation, and his trees
number 7,000. In 1914 Mr. Drew organized
the Drew Orchards of Sutton, Mas-
sachusetts, of which corporation he is
president and treasurer. They are now
developing orchards of 12,000 peach trees
and 10,000 apple trees.
In politics Mr. Drew is a Republican,
and is vice-president of the Greenwich
Republican Town Committee, as well as
serving as a member of the Board of Es-
timate and Taxation ; he also serves as a
director of the Greenwich Trust Com-
pany. His fraternal associations are with
the following: Phi Sigma Kappa; the
Connecticut Pomological Society, of
which he is county vice-president ; the
Massachusetts Fruit Growers' Associa-
tion ;
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the New York Fruit and Horticul-
tural Society. Mr. Drew has delivered
many addresses before horticultural so-
cieties in New Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts,
New York and Connecticut, and
several of these addresses have been pub-
lished, thereby enabling many to gain
knowledge from them.
Mr. Drew married Rachel Brooks,
daughter of William P. Brooks, Ph. D.,
a professor of the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College at Amherst, who recently
retired as director of the Massachusetts
Experiment Station, and was at one time
acting president of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, and one of the
founders of the Imperial Agricultural Col-
lege of Japan. For his work in that connection
he was decorated with the Order
of the Rising Son by the Emperor. Mr.
and Mrs. Drew are the parents of three
sons : William Brooks, Benjamin Warren,
George Albert, Jr. With his family
Mr. Drew attends and aids in the support
of the Congregational church, of Green-
wich.
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JARVIS, Stephen Starr,
Man of Enterprise.
Noted as the business men of South
Norwalk have ever been for enterprise
and sagacity, never have they had a more
aggressive representative than they possess
in the well known citizen whose
name stands at the head of this article.
Mr. Jarvis has always manifested a quiet
but influential loyalty to the best interests
of the city, which two centuries ago, became
the home of his ancestors.
The Jarvis family is an ancient one of
French origin, and was seated in Bretagne
more than five hundred years ago, the
first name recorded being that of Jean
Gervais, who lived about 1400. Richard
Gervasius, of Normandy, who lived about
1 180, was probably a member of this
family. The change in the pronunciation
of the name has resulted in its being
spelled in a variety of ways, the initial
letter being sometimes G and sometimes
J. "On both sides of the sea" members
of the race have been renowned in arms,
while others have won distinction in the
learned professions and also in the arts.
From a very early period there were
Jarvises in the American colonies, a member
of the family having lived in Virginia
in 1623. Somewhat later a branch was
transplanted to Massachusetts, and about
the middle of the seventeenth century
several of the name of Jarvis were resi-
dent on Long Island. In the Revolution-
ary struggle between the colonies and the
Mother country the Jarvises adhered to
the crown, members of the family serving
in the British army and navy.
(I) William Jarvis, founder of the Connecticut
branch of the family, lived on
Long Island. He married Esther .
His death occurred about 1740.
(II) Captain Samuel Jarvis, son of
William and Esther Jarvis, was born Oc-