New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV
Author: William Richard Cutter
This is Volume IV of a four-volume set. It has records of achievements of people from England, who have set up commonwealths in New England. About 6000 names included in this record.
Bibliographic Information: Cutter, William Richard. New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Volume IV. 1913. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996.
Edward Watson, son of Edward Rockwell Beardsley. was born in Winsted, June 4, 1868, and attended the public schools there. He went with the family to Hartford in 1881 and there attended the public schools, taking a two years' course in the Hartford public high school. In December, 1885, he entered the employ of the D. H. Buell Jewelry Company, resigning that position, July, 1886, to become a clerk in the office of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, where he continued until March, 1891, when he was appointed local agent of that company for Hartford, also representing various other fire insurance companies. He conducted a general fire insurance business in his own name until March 1, 1899, and then entered a partnership with General L. A. Dickinson and C. I. Beardsley, under the firm name of Dickinson, Beardsley & Beardsley in the same line of business. Since General Dickinson's death, January 27, 1901, the firm name has been Beardsley & Beardsley. They are the local agents of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, the Home Insurance Company of New York, and the Alliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia. Mr. Beardsley has been successful in business and is well known throughout the country as an able, progressive and enterprising underwriter. He was president of the Connecticut Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents in 1902 and 1903 and is at present (1909) the president of the National Associatior of Local Fire Insurance Agents. He was vice-president of the Hartford Board of Fire Underwriters in 1899, and re-elected for a second term in 1900. He is an active and prominent Republican. He was fire commissioner of the city of Hartford 1902-05, and has been for several years clerk of the west middle school district of Hartford. He is a member of the Republican Club of Hartford. He is a member of the Asylum Avenue Congregational Church of Hartford. He belongs also to the Hartford Golf Club; the Connecticut Society, Sons of the American Revolution; the B. H. Webb Council, Royal Arcanum, and St. John's Lodge of Free Masons.
