THE BROWN GENEALOGY, Boston, The Everett Press Company 1907, by CyrusHenry Brown, page 79.
He graduated from the schools of New London, and from Yale Collegein the class of 1892; engaged with his father in the manufacture of silk,and other important industries. Since 1904 has been on the Board ofAlderman, keeping posted on municipal matters, and gaining a clearinsight into how the city business has been done -- and, to his mind, howit had been overdone and undone.
At the municipal election Oct. 1, 1906, he was chosen against strongDemocratic oppoistion, the Republican mayor of New London.