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             Husband: Julius DAY (1)
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                Wife: Lois GOODYEAR (2)
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Children
01               (M): Austin Goodyear DAY (3 4 5 6)
                Born: 24 NOV 1824 in West Springfield, Massachusetts (7 8)
                Died: 28 DEC 1889
             Spouses: Sarah Ann
02               (M): Henry Perdy DAY (9 10 11 12 13 14)
                Born: 12 MAR 1829 in West Springfield, Massachusetts (15 16 17)
                Died: 09 OCT 1914 (18)
             Spouses: Frances G. GILBERT
03               (M): Edmund DAY (19 20 21 22 23)
                Born: 12 DEC 1831 in West Springfield, Massachusetts (24 25)
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04               (F): Lois Ann DAY
                Born: MAR 1834 in West Springfield, Massachusetts (26)
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Footnotes

  1. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 113.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  2. Ibid., 113.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  3. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 245.
    The inventor of Kerite and other useful combinations of India rubber ... in 1851 his cousin, Mr. Goodyear, prevailed upon him to come to his factory at Woburn, Mass., as correspondent and bookkeeper, but spent much of his time in the study of India rubber - its physical and chemical qualities, and the processes of its manufacture ...
    In 1854 Mr. Day bought a factory in Seymour, from Bassett & Hodge ...
  4. Ibid., 181.
    W. R. Brixey's Kerite Telegraph Cable Works ... were first established by Austin G. Day ...
  5. 1870 Seymour Census.
    Rubber Manufacturer.
  6. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 113 - 118.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  7. 1870 Seymour Census.
  8. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 113.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  9. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 460.
  10. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 483.
    Henry P. and E. Day, manufacturers of rubber pen-holders, propelling pencils, surgical appliances, etc.
  11. 1870 Seymour Census.
    Rubber Manufacturer.
  12. 1880 Seymour Census.
    Mftr Rubber Goods.
  13. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 288-9.
  14. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 113 - 118.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  15. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 42.
  16. 1870 Derby Census.
  17. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 113.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  18. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 42.
  19. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 483.
    Henry P. and E. Day, manufacturers of rubber pen-holders, propelling pencils, surgical appliances, etc.
  20. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 282-3.
    Edmund Day came to Seymour in 1855 from West Springfield, Mass., and engaged with his brothers, Austin G. and Henry P. Day, in cleaning and preparing East Indian and Central American varieties of india rubber, by a patented process ...
    Mr. Day was one of the most prominent in local endeavor on the side of the Union in the early years of the War of the Rebellion ... in 1874 he was elected to represent the town in the legislature. In 1885 and 1886 he was state senator for the seventh district ...
  21. 1870 Seymour Census.
    Rubber Manufacturer.
  22. 1880 Seymour Census.
    Hard Rubber Goods Manufacturer.
  23. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 113 - 118.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  24. 1870 Seymour Census.
  25. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 113.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]
  26. Ibid., 113.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp113.html.]

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