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Title: History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pape, William Jamieson, 1873-
Subjects: Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Waterbury (Conn.) -- Biography Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- History Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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War Veterans, and the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Harmony Lodge,No. 43. F. & A. M., which is the oldest Masonic lodge of the Naugatuck valley and ofwhich he has been secretary for several years. He has also attained the Knight Templardegree in Masonry and he is an Odd Fellow and an Elk. He has been a member of thegrievance committee of the New Haven county bar for ten years. He belongs to theFirst Congregational church and in politics he is a republican, taking a most active andhelpful interest in promoting the welfare and success of his party. For ten years hewas chairman of the republican city central committee and for the past eight years hasbeen a member of the republican state committee. From 1906 until 1914 he served asprosecuting attorney for the district court of Waterbury. oi for two terms of four yearseach, making a most excellent record in that position. He is now a member of the statecivil service commission through appointment of Governor Holcomb in 1915. He has
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ULYSSES G. CHUECH WATERBURY AND THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY 185 never been a seeker for public office and in fact has never been a candidate for an electiveoffice. His positions have all come to him bj; appointment and entirely unsolicited. He is aman of broad interests whose ideas and activities are of a most sane, lielpful character,contributing toward progress and improvement along many lines. JAMES McALPlNE. James McAlpine was a very prominent business man and citizen of Winsted and inhis death the community lost one whose worth was widely acknowledged. He was born inStirling, Scotland, May 15. 1851, a son of John and Catherine (Dunsmore) McAlpine. Thefather Avas a tailor by trade and spent his entire life in Scotland. Avhere lie passed awayin 1863. James McAlpine was reared in the land of hills and heather and there learned thetailors trade in his youthful days. In 1869 he decided to cross the Atlantic to the UnitedStates, hoping to have better business opportunities in the new world th

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