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GEORGE FRANKLIN CADY BIOGRAPHY AS RECORDED IN: COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF TOLLAND AND WINDHAM COUNTIES CONNECTICUT. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS AND OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLED FAMILIES. PUBLISHER: J.H.BEERS & CO., CHICAGO; 1903 P. 283 GEORGE FRANKLIN CADY was born
March 5, 1820, in West Stafford, Conn., where he received his education
in what was known as Crow Hill District. After leaving school, which
he did at the age of sixteen years, he remained at home two years
before he went to learn his trade in Springfield, of Lorin and Abner
Trask. There he did no remain long, as he became what he called homesick, and
went back to the parental home to remain two years, when he began
working for his brother, Alanson Cady, at Southbridge, Mass., where
he spent some four years. At the end of that time he began work for
William A. Wheeler who ran a carwheel factory in Worcester, for several
years in connection with Nathan Washburn. For a brief time Mr. Cady
was employed at Hartford by Woodruff & Beach, and then moved
on west to Schenectady, N.Y., Mr. Cady gave up the foundry work in 1871 and came back to Stafford, where he has since been engaged in farming. He is a stanch Democrat, and has served as selectman one term, but with that one exception has uniformly declined to accept nominations or hold official position. Mr. Cady was married March 28, 1844, to Margaret Hyde, who was born Oct. 8, 1824, in Stafford Street, (**see footnote) a daughter of Eber and Philena (Converse) Hyde. She died Feb. 22, 1898. To this singularly happy union were born: (1) Anna Adell, born Dec. 27, 1846, who married Theodore Franklin Mead, a machinist of Norwich, Conn., Dec. 27, 1869, and has had three children: Grace Elizabeth; Estella A., who died at the age of two years and five months; and Frank Howard, now engaged with A.C. Eaton, the local druggist; (2) George Albert, born May 29, 1847. **footnote: the reproducer of this bio wonders if this should be Stafford Springs, but the publisher has printed it as Stafford Street. Reproduced by: Linda D. Pingel great-great granddaughter of Cyrus White of Rockville, Ct. |
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