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Title: The town and city of Waterbury, Connecticut
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Anderson, Joseph, 1836-1916, ed Prichard, Sarah J. (Sarah Johnson), 1830-1909 Ward, Anna Lydia, b. 1850?
Subjects: Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Waterbury (Conn.) -- Genealogy
Publisher: New Haven, The Price and Lee company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r receiving a limited common school education heworked for four years as a carpenter and joiner, after which heremoved to Georgia, and for fifteen years was a merchant, mostlyin Augusta. In 1830 he removed to New York city and commencedthe business of an importing and jobbing dry goods merchant. Hesuffered severely from the memorable fire of 1835, but eventuallymade good his losses. Abandoning, after a time, the dry goodstrade, he devoted himself to the commission business until failinghealth compelled him to retire. He never married. By his will he left to the city of Waterbury$200,000 to found a library, also $25,000 to the New York hospital.Mr. Bronson had no business connections with Waterbury, and had IOI4 HISTORY OF WATERBURT. seldom been here since his boyhood; so that his gift to the cityseems to have been made at the prompting of early associations.*It was as unexpected as it was welcome. He was an intimate friendof Matthew Vassar of Poughkeepsie, and had a plan of founding a
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