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Title: History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Pape, William Jamieson, 1873-
Subjects: Waterbury (Conn.) -- History Waterbury (Conn.) -- Biography Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- History Naugatuck River Valley (Conn.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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president of tlie Eagle Brewing Company, is a native of Ire-land but from the age of seventeen years has lived on this side the Atlantic. He wasborn in 1871 and attended public schools of the Emerald isle, but the opportunities of thenew world attracted him and in 1888 he arrived in New York. He was there employedby a publishing firm but has been identified with the brewing business since 1891, whenhe entered the employ of the H. Clausen & Son Brewing Company of New York, withwhich he continued for three years in the metropolis. On the expiration of that periodhe was sent to open a branch in Waterbury, where he continued as manager for a decadeor until 1904, when he was offered a more lucrative position with the Eagle BrewingCompany upon its organization. He has since been identified therewith and is now thevice president of the corporation, having continuously filled that position from the begin-ning. He was also sales manager for many years and in that connection contributed in
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THOMAS FINNEGAN WATERBURY AND THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY 565 very large measure to the growth and success of the business but is now practically liv-ing retired, although he keeps in touch with what is being done. He extended his effortsinto other lines by becoming a stockholder and director of the Merchants Trust Companyand becoming president of the Cheshire Land Company. In 1905 Mr. Finnegan was married to Miss Elizabeth Keefe, of Waterbury, a daugh-ter of John and Catherine Keefe, and they now have two children, Bernard and Thomas. Mr. Finnegan maintains an independent attitude in politics. He is prominent in theBenevolent Protective Order of Elks, being a charter member of the Waterbury lodge,and for the past eighteen years lie lias been chairman of its board of trustees. He istruly a self-made man in that he owes his prosperity entirely to his own efforts, hisdiligence and unfaltering perseverance. He started out empty-handed but worked hisway upward by the worth of his ability and fid

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