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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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ct that the company has provided for its employes bythe erection of nine one-family frame houses on the part of its ten-acre shop site mostdistant from the present machine shop. These houses border a forty-foot street and areof five dissimilar types, so that the group does not have the appearance of factory liouses.Tliey contain five and six rooms, on lots fifty by one hundred and twenty feet, and areequipped with city water, bathrooms, warm-air heating furnaces, electric light and arrange-ments for sewage disposal by means of septic tanks. The coin;>any has also built for rentalto foremen, on lots sixty by one hundred and forty feet, within fifteen minutes walk ofthe shop, two twin houses with modern improvements. In a word, )\Ir. Hoadleys studyof sociological conditions and of all the problems bearing upon economic life at the presentday has led him to regard employes not as machines but as human individuals and hedoes everything in his power to promote their welfare and comfort.
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HORACE G. HOADLEY WATERBURY AND THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY 465 On the 22d of September, 1887, Mr. Hoadley Avas married to Miss Helen L. Anderson,of Cleveland. He was a candidate for congress on the progressive ticket in 1912 and isnow giving his allegiance to the republican party. He belongs to the First Congregationalchurch, in which he is serving as deacon. While he has made for himself a most creditableplace in business circles, the attainment of wealth has never been the end and aim of hisexistence. He has always sought to further public progress and improvement by a closeand discriminating study of the political, sociological and economic questions of the ageand along these lines he keeps abreast with the best thinking men. LEWIS J. HART. Lewis J. Hart, superintendent of The Patent Button Company, has throughout the en-tire period of his connection with business interests been identified with the corporationwhich he now represents in that capacity and as secretary. This is one of the i

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