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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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n the fact that Mr. Roper has about five hundred men,all skilled labor, under his immediate direction. He has contributed much to the successof this department of the business through his inventions. He produced the self-containedseven die tandem wire drawing machine, now in use for drawing wire from a quarter ofan inch to No. 10 Brown & Sharpes gauge. This was built by the Farrel foundry forBenedict & Burnham in the early 90s. He also perfected the method of drawing tubingfrom five-eighths inch to smaller sizes on wire blocks and straightening after finishing thesame as a rod. This did away with the slow operation on a draw bench of drawing tubingin small sizes and was carried out at Benedict & Burnhams in the late 90s. He alsocarried out the idea in 1890 of taking copper wire from the hot rod mill and drawingdown to any size hard without annealing. This work was done at the Aluminum Brass& Bronze Company. His ideas, improvements and inventions on wire drawing and rod
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JOHN H. ROPER WATERBURY AND THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY 577 rolling and straightening macliinery have always been protected through the differentcompanies by which he has been employed. On the 10th of October, 1887, Mr. Roper was united in marriage to Miss Helen FrancesFlaherty, of Ansonia, a sister of Morgan J. Flaherty, a well known newspaper man,and a daughter of John Flaherty. She is a graduate of the Birmingham high schoolof Derby and was a capable teacher in the West Side school in Ansonia. Mr. and Mrs,Roper have a son, Charles Lloyd, born October 10, 1895, who was graduated from theWaterbury high school, has spent three years at the Cheshire Academy and then enteredYale. In 1917, however, he enlisted in the American Ordnance Department for overseas dutyin France and is now stationed at Fort Slocum. In politics Mr. Roper is an independent democrat. He is a member of the CountryVAuh. He was one of tlie first members of the American Metric Association. He belongsto the Immaculate Concept

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