Henry S. Lord died at his home, No. 64 Gilette Street, Hartford, Tuesday. Mr. Lord was 58 years old and had been in impaired health for about four years. He hda failed rapidly the past few weeks.
Mr. Lord was born in Lyme in February, 1839, and was brought up in that town. In 1859, while a clerk in a grocery store in Lyme, he attracted the attention of a Hartford business man, who secured him a position of assistant clerk in the Allyn House. He remained there as assistant clerk and subsequently as clerk for about seven years, covering the period of the Civil War with the exception of a short time spent in New Orleans during the war, where he was attached to the army secret service corps under General B. F. Butler. For two years, from 1868 to 1870, Mr. Lord was clerk at the United States Hotel in Hartford and subsequently traveled for tne William Rogers Manufacturing Company until about 1878, when he became connected in a similar capacity with the Sanitary Plumbing Company of Hartford. Of late years he was not engaged in any active business but devoted his time and energies, until his death, the development of manufactures of his own invention.
In 1869, Mr.
Lord, after returning to Lyme to reside, was elected to the
general assembly as one of the republican members from the
town. He was active in promoting the Hartford &
Connecticut Valley Railroad Company and was one of its
earliest advocates, being prominent in urging the passage of
the necessary legislation. When the Fenwick Hall Hotel was
projected he was selected to superintend its construction,
the laying out of the grounds, etc., and the hotel was
practically erected under his supervision.
Mr. Lord leaves a wife, who was Miss Elizabeth Ely of Lyme, a son, Archie E. Lord, bookkeeper for the Manufacturer's National Bank of Waterbury and a daughter, Miss Isabel E. Lord, librarian of Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia. One son, Henry Hamilton Lord, died in 1883, when 7 years old and is buried in Lyme. Mr. Lord also leaves two brothers and three sisters, all living at Ivoryton, Essex. They are William Lord, Frank W. Lord, Mrs. W. H. Stannard, Mrs. C. P. Jones and Mrs. M. A. Comstock.
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