Wilford Ellis Pierpont Sr. (1863 - 1949)

Born 30 Apr 1863 in North Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Died 8 Mar 1949 at age 85 in Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

In 1883 he married Sarah E. Slater of Wolcott and had four children: Evelyn, a graduate of the high school of New York and Waterbury; Mabel, who is a graduate of the Naugatuck high school and is now the wife of R. Burton Jones of Waterbury; Wilford, who attended high school and was with the Marlin Arms Corporation of New Haven until he enlisted for service in the present international war with the New Haven cavalry; and Grace, a high school pupil.

He engaged in the retail jewelry business in Waterbury at 106 South Main Street. Throughout his entire business career, he has been connected with some phase or other of the watch making and jewelry trade. He made his initial step as an employee in a watch factory, mastering the trade under the direction of Charles Taylor. He afterward went to Waltham, Massachusetts, where for three years he was employed by the Waltham Watch Company, and about 1887 he returned to Waterbury, where he opened a retail jewelry store on South Main Street. After conducting business there for a few years he went west to Detroit, Michigan, where he engaged in teaching music but in 1905 returned to Waterbury, where he again opened a retail jewelry store, being located throughout the intervening period at No. 106 South Main street. He is also a registered optometrist.

He was formerly a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was connected with the Royal Areanum. He belonged to St. Paul's Episcopal church.

Burial

Old Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #170103192
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Pierponts of North Haven, Conn., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1921) Vol. 75, Page 96: Does not include him as the son of these parents.
• Pape, William Jamieson. History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut (S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Naugatuck River Valley, Connecticut, 1918) Vol. 3, Page 256