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Title: History of Bridgeport and vicinity
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Waldo, George Curtis, Jr., ed
Subjects: Bridgeport (Conn.) -- History Bridgeport (Conn.) -- Biography Stratford (Conn.) Fairfield (Conn.)
Publisher: New York, Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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- age of thirty-eight years. His wife, who was born in Fairfield in 1827, wasa member of one of the old families of that town and passed away in 1882. Mr. (loiililen attended school in Fairfield and also in New Canaan, Connecticut, andwhen a boy went to work in a dry goods store in that town, thus entering the mercantilebusiness at an early age. He served a rugged apprenticeship and obtained a practical knowl-edge of buying and selling which has served him well and aided in his advancement. In1876 he secured a position in a dry goods store in Hartford, Connecticut, where he remaineduntil 1S80, when lie went to Boston, where he was similarly employed. He was next con-nected with the dry goods trade in Stamford as an employe of The C. 0. Miller Companyand remained in that connection until 1892, when he formed a partnership under the nameof Hendrie Ot (iuuMeii and engaged in iiicrcliandising on his own account at Stamford until
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CJ.ijla.l. G. GOULDEX BRIDGEPORT AND VICINITV 193 i8i)5. Hu tluii caiiif tu Uri(lj;eport and ciitfifd the silk dL(j;utiucMt <if Tl;e D. M. KtadCompany. His value was recognized, so that in a short time afterwards he was placed incharge of the linen, Hannel and cotton goods departments, being made manager and buyer.His signal elhciency as head of those departments led to his being placed in charge of thehouse furnishings, china and glassware departments also, and in 1U13, when the formerpresident of The D. SI. Read Company died, Jlr. Cioulden was advanced to the position ofsecretary of tlie company and later in the same year became vice president and generalmanager, wliieh otliees he is luiw tilling. He is the active head of the entire business andtherefore one of the foremost men in mercantile circles in liridgeport, for the store con-ducted by The D. II. Read Company is one of the largest department stores in Fairfieldcounty or western Connecticut. The business was established in

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