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 1857 - 1933 (75 years)
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| Name |
William Morgan Lasbury |
| Born |
15 Nov 1857 |
East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| FindaGrave ID |
10706998 |
| Occupation |
13 Mar 1896 |
Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA |
| Broad Brook Company Fire Department |
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| Residence |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
Address:
1236 Enfield Street, Hartford, Thompsonville, Connecticut, USA |
| Died |
13 Oct 1933 |
Thompsonville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
- DEATH NOTICE
LASBURY-In Enfield Oct 13, 1933 William Morgan Lasbury at age 75, Funeral at the house 1236 Enfield St. at 2:30 p.m.. Burial at Melrose, East Windsor
OBITUARY
Hartford Courant, October 15, 1933
WILLIAM M. LASBURY, TEXTILE LEADER, DIES
Thompsonville, Oct. 14
William Morgan Lasbury, 75, for ,many years an executive of the American Woolen Company, died at his home in Enfield Street Friday after a short illness, He had been retired since 1918. Born in Broad Brook Mr Lasbury began his career in the textile field at the Bolding Brothers silk mills, Rockville. Later he worked in Broad Brook mills and in 1906 went to the American Woolen Company. He resigned in 1913 but returned to the company two years later to become the head of its worsted division
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| Buried |
16 Oct 1933 |
East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
Address:
Melrose Cemetery, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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| Person ID |
I347 |
Lasbury Family |
| Last Modified |
18 Aug 2023 |
| Father |
George Lasbury
b. 25 Sep 1819, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England, UK
d. 2 Jan 1907, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA (Age 87 years) |
| Mother |
Sarah Morgan
b. Abt 1816, Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, UK
d. 17 Sep 1866, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age ~ 50 years) |
| Married |
5 Apr 1855 |
East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| Family ID |
F94 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Wife |
Nellie Pamelia Davenport
b. 12 Apr 1858, Manchester, Bennington, Vermont, USA
d. 23 Sep 1926, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA (Age 68 years) |
| Married |
27 Sep 1880 |
Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA |
| Children |
| | 1. Alma Louise Lasbury
b. 31 Dec 1883, Rockville, Tolland, Connecticut, USA
d. 1953, Volusia, Volusia County, Florida, USA (Age 69 years) |
| | 2. Howard Alonzo Lasbury
b. 24 Dec 1885, Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA
d. 19 Dec 1929, Volusia, Volusia County, Florida, USA (Age 43 years) |
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| Last Modified |
18 Aug 2023 |
| Family ID |
F134 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 15 Nov 1857 - East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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 | Married - 27 Sep 1880 - Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA |
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| Occupation - Broad Brook Company Fire Department - 13 Mar 1896 - Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, USA |
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 | Residence - Address:
1236 Enfield Street, Hartford, Thompsonville, Connecticut, USA - - Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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 | Died - 13 Oct 1933 - Thompsonville, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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| Buried - Address:
Melrose Cemetery, East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA - 16 Oct 1933 - East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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 | Creation of the Broad Brook Fire Department
Broad Brook Fire Department History
On the evening of March 13, 1896, a meeting of the Broad Brook Company Woolen Mill was called to order by William Lasbury, Assistant Superintendent of the plant.The purpose of the meeting was to organize a fire department. A constitution was drafted and officers elected. Officially becoming the Broad Brook Company Fire Department. |
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| Notes |
- WILLIAM MORGAN LASBURY, manufacturer
During the recent World War there were many American business men, who though practically retired from active business duties, came again to the front at their Country's time of need, and who were important factors in many phases of the work necessary to carry on that great struggle to a successful close.
One of these men was William Morgan Lasbury, of Broad Brook, and Enfield, Connecticut. He possessed capabilities of great value, which he used untiringly, thereby receiving well-deserved merit.
The name of Lasbury is derived from Lasborough, a parish in County of Gloucester, England, a section long famed for its citizens. George Lasbury the father of our subject was a son of Benjamin Lasbury and Sarah Easbury. The latter lived and died in England, and after his death, his widow, Sarah, came to America, where she resided with her son, George, until her death, which occurred in the early seventies.
George Lasbury, above mentioned, was born in England, October 25, 1819, and died in 1906 at Broad Brook, Connecticut. At an early age he left home and school to help his parents, as he was the oldest of a large family of children. He was employed in the woolen mills of Bradford, England, his native town, and by his industry worked up until he became overseer of fulling. He learned the trade of finishing. He married (first) in 1840, in England, Fannie Sylcox, and came to this country alone the following year.
Speaking the same language, feeling the brotherhood in our Common ancestry, he became an American in the best sense of the word. His wife and son arrived in America a year and a half later, and they located at Webster, Massachusetts. Mr. Lasbury worked first in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, then later removed from there to Broad Brook, Connecticut, where he resided for about fifty years.
By industry and economy he saved enough from his modest income to buy a farm in the southern part of Broad Brook. Enjoying the respect and confidence of the people of all the vicinity, he spent his last years on this place, and his memory is still honored by all who knew him.
By his first wife, who died in 1852, there were the following children: Edward G., married ____ , Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Morgan, of New York; Emma, married Oscar Willey, of Broad Brook; Addie T., wife of Gilbert Nabel.
Mr. Lasbury married (second) in 1854, Sarah Morgan and their children were Mattie M., resides in Redding, Massachusetts; William Morgan, the subject of our sketch; and George B. of Omaha, Nebraska. Mrs. Sarah (Morgan) Lasbury died in September, 1865.
George Lasbury married (third) Mrs. Esther Allen., and their children are: Charles, who lives in Cleveland, Ohio; Ralph C. of further mention; James N.; and Harry L.
The family have long been members of the Congregational church of Broad Brook. William Morgan Lasbury was born November 15, 1857, in Broad Brook, and attended the schools of that town, and the Eastman Business College of Poughkeepsie, New York. Subsequently he entered a country store as a clerk and after gaining sufficient experience, he purchased a store in Hartford, which he conducted for two years. He was then in the employ of the Belding Brothers Company, silk manufacturers, for three years as a bookkeeper. Returning to his native town, he secured a position with the Broad Brook Woolen Company and this marked the beginning of a career in the manufacturing business that has been one of marked success. He rose through various grades as his abilities increased and became paymaster, then assistant superintendent, and eventually superintendent.
From Broad Brook, Mr. Lasbury went to the American Woolen Company of Boston, and there he was in charge of the Fitchburg Worsted and the Beoli Mills of that company, both located in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He was later transferred to the Assacet Mills at Maynard, Massachusetts. At the latter place there were twenty- eight hundred employees, being the largest mill in the world.
In 1914 Mr. Lasbury retired from the cares of business, and purchased a farm on Enfield Street, in the town of Enfield, having decided to take a complete rest. His health had suffered severely through the ardous cares of his work and for a year led a quiet, peaceful life on his farm. In 1915 he was urged to return to the American Woolen Company, and assumed charge of the Worsted Division of the eighteen mills, of thirty five thousand employees.
Then came the outbreak of the war and the great work of preparation began. One of the most important items was the clothing of the soldiers, and second to that was the having in charge of the selecting of this material, a man of high integrity, broad experience, and with a natural love of country and honor. Such a man is Mr. Lasbury, who during the war held this responsibility, being a member of the Fabric War Committee, and performed the duties involved in a manner that has brought him material success and a position of honor.
Mr. Lasbury is now retired, living on his beautiful farm.
He married, September 27, 1880, Nellie P. Davenport, daughter of Henry A. and Pamelia (Landon) Davenport. Their children are: Alma Louise, born December 30, 1883 and Howard A., December 24,1885.
The latter married Ann While, and resides in Brookline, Massachusetts; he is in the employ of the America Woolen Company of Boston.
Mr. Lasbury is a Republican, and fraternally is a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 11, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. With his family he attends the Congregational church of Enfield.
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- [S24] Encyclopaedia of Biography, Photocopied extract (Reliability: 3).
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