Person:Samuel Dunham (5)

He was a partner in the firm of Austin Dunham & Sons, wool merchants, and later the head of the wool processing business known as Dunham Mills or the Dunham Hosiery Company, located at Naugatuck, CT. The company produced great quantities of long woolen underwear for the U.S. Army in World War I. In 1879 he became a Director of the Aetna Life Insurance Company and the Hartford National Bank. In 1900 he became a Director of the Hartford Electric Company, and President in 1912.

References

• Collens, Clarence Lyman. Collins Memorial (Hartford, CT 1959)
• Dunham, Ethel Collins, Samuel G. and Alice Collins Dunham, their descendants and antecedents (Washington, DC 1955)
• Dunham, Isaac Watson, Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth 1589-1669, and his descendants (Hartford, CT 1907)
• Messier, Betty Brook and Janet Sutherland Aronson, The Roots of Coventry, Connecticut (Coventry, CT 1987)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Collens, Clarence Lyman. Collins Memorial. (Hartford, CT: (self published), 1959)
   p. 173.
2. ↑ Cedar Hill Cemetery.