Horace Cornwell WILCOX

Birth:
26 Jan 1824
Westfield, Middlesex, Connecticut
Death:
29 Aug 1890
Cottage City, Marthas Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts
Marriage:
19 Aug 1849
Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut
Notes:
                   SOURCES:  
    1. This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, AZ
    2. Budget Ring Binder - Descendants of John Wilcox 1st of Connecticut (page 35,36)
    3. Walter Eli Wilcox Temple Records - Maria's Book #D (page 70,71) 
    4. Daughter's of American Revolution Lineage Book - Vol.#II (page 137)
    5. Book #RD974.6/ENC - Enclopedia of Connecticut Biography (page 71)
    6. FHL Book #929.273/W643C - John Wilcox, by Raeola Ford Cooke (pages 24,34)
    7. Book "Your Ancestors" (page 379) - found at Mesa, AZ FHC

NOTES:
    1. Horace Cornwell Wilcox, Traveling Salesman for James Frary ( a manugactrurer of Britannia Ware) In 1852 they formed Meriden Britannia Company.  He was 1st Secretary of Meriden Britannia Company, in 1866, became the President.  The company soon ceased the manufacture of Britannia Ware and began making plated silverware and became the leading concern of its king in the world.  The world became its market Factories were built to supply the demand - (large ones).  Factories in Meriden, Connecticut and Hamilton, Canada - He remained President until his death.  He also was part of the following
       a. Wilcox and White Organ Company -- founder and President
       b. Meriden silver Plate Company -- director and founder
       c. manning Bowman and Company -- director and founder
       d. Aeolian Organ and music Company -- director and founder
       e. Meriden Street Railroad Company -- director and founder
       f. Rogers Borthers of Waterbury -- director and founder
       g. R. Wallace and Sons Company of Wallingford -- director and founder
       h. William Rogers Manufacturing Company of Hartford -- director and founder
       i. Meriden Fire Insurance Company -- director and founder
       j. Home National Bank -- director and founder
       k. Republican Publishing Company -- director and founder
       l. Walnut Grove Cemetery Association -- director and founder
       m. A Trustee of City Saving Bank -- director and founder
    2. He organized Mariden Waterbury and Connecticut River Railroad Company (investing a vast sum of his private fortune in it - although at the time, there was little hope of return for it.
    3. He was an Alderman in the City of Meriden, CT Fifth Mayor of the City (1875 - 1876)
    4. State Senator (1877)
    5. He was a member of the First Congregational Church, member of its committee in charge of erection of the present idifice until 1884 served upon several committees in church.
    6. He brought properity to City of Meriden, CT also to individual workers.  He left an Honored Name.
Charlotte Augusta SMITH
Birth:
17 Apr 1829
East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
Death:
6 May 1864
Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Children
Marriage
1
George Horace WILCOX
Birth:
22 Aug 1856
Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut
Death:
Nettie Barker CURTIS 
Marr:
23 Jan 1884
New Britain, Hartford, Connect 
Notes:
                   SOURCES:  1. This Family Group compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls, of Gilbert, Arizona.
           2. Budget Ring Binder - Descendants of John Wilcox First of CT
               (pages 36,52)
           3. Daughter's of American Revolution Lineage Book Vol.#17(page
               22)
           4. Walter Eli wilcox Temple Records - Maria's Book D (page 71).
           5. Book #RD974.6ENC - Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography
               (pages 70-73)
NOTES:  1. `President of International Silver Company' - Father and Son
             (Horace C. and George H. Wilcox) - have fastened upon the city of
             Meriden, Connecitcut the name "Silver City". "The father founded,
             organized and developed this great business through the Meduim of
             different companies,"  "The son gathered these confliting silver producing
             Companies into one.  He was first - as a Vice President of the International
             silver Company and has welded into one great corporatin former business
              rivals with beneficient results to all."
          2. `George Horace Wilcox' - graduate of Yale "Class of 75" (Bachelor ofPhilosophy)
              Has been President of Meriden Britaqnnia Company - 1893.  He is  the
              direcrtor and Meriden National Bank, Wilcox and White Company, Meriden
              Trust and Safe Deposit Company, Trustree of the City Savings Bank.
              President of Curtiss Memorial Library --Member of First Congregational
              Church in Masonic Order (is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine)
         3. Sons - All involved with their father in the Silver Business
             [1] Harold Curtis - graduated from Yale 1912
             [2] Roy Cornwell - graduated from Yale 1916
            [3] Horace - graduated from Yale 1916
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Horace Cornwell Wilcox - Charlotte Augusta Smith

Horace Cornwell Wilcox was born at Westfield, Middlesex, Connecticut 26 Jan 1824. His parents were Elisha Bacon Wilcox and Hepzibah Cornwell.

He married Charlotte Augusta Smith 19 Aug 1849 at Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut . Charlotte Augusta Smith was born at East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut 17 Apr 1829 .

They were the parents of 1 child:
George Horace Wilcox born 22 Aug 1856.

Horace Cornwell Wilcox died 29 Aug 1890 at Cottage City, Marthas Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts .

Charlotte Augusta Smith died 6 May 1864 at Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut .