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 treasurer and general manager, which position he held continuously for
 approximately forty years.
+He was also a director and vice president of the Bristol National Bank, American
+Trust Company and the North Side Bank & Trust Company. He was also director of
+the Bristol Brass Corporation and the American Silver Company. For many years he
+was a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners and Burgess of Bristol. He was
+also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Bristol Free Public Library, and
+during this period the new Library was built. He was a member of the Society of
+Colonial Wars, of the Chippanee Country Club,--of which he was the first
+president, the Farmington Club and of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity.
+**EDWARD<sup>10</sup> INGRAHAM** (1887--1972) was educated at Andover Academy
+and at Yale College (B.A., 1910). Wishing to volunteer for service in the World
+War, he was rejected because of defective vision by several military
+organizations, but was inducted 23 Oct. 1918 and assigned to Headquarters
+Company, 44th Brigade, Coast Artillery Corps, Fort Monroe; transferred to 152d
+Depot Brigade, Camp Upton; Corporal, discharged 17 Dec. 1918.
+He entered the family business in Bristol, Conn., and in 1927 became president
+of The E. Ingraham Company, manufacturers of clocks, a concern founded by his
+great-grandfather Elias Ingraham. He has been active in town and church affairs.
+He is a trustee of the Bristol Savings Bank, of which his grandfather Seymour
+was one of the founders, and a director of the Bristol National Bank; director
+of The Bristol Brass Corporation, Veeder-Root, Inc., Associated Spring Company,
+and International Silver Company. Since 1915 he has been president, excepting
+one year, of the Bristol Boys' Club Association. Former elected member of Board
+of Relief; member of Board of Finance; member of State Planning Board; chairman
+of Board of Directors of Bristol Free Public Library. He is also a director of
+Boys' Clubs of America, Inc. He is a Congregationalism and formerly a deacon.
+Beta Theta Pi; Rotary; Mason.
+He is a student of the history of clock-making in Connecticut, and has a fine
+and representative collection in that field. He is an ardent collector of
+etchings and engravings, furniture and American antiques; and is an enthusiastic
+angler, and a director of the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club of Quebec.
+**DUDLEY SEYMOUR<sup>10</sup> INGRAHAM** (1890--1982), namesake of his uncle,
+the author of the present volume, was educated at Andover Academy and Cornell
+University (LL.B., 1913), his father's Alma Mater. Shortly after America entered
+the World War, he volunteered, was accepted, placed against his will in the
+Medical Department, where he became Sergeant 1st Class, but later secured a
+transfer to an Infantry and then to a Machine Gun Division, and at the
+termination of the War was al a Machine Gun Officers' Training Camp at Augusta,
+Georgia.
+Immediately upon leaving college he entered the family business in Bristol, and
+in 1923 became Vice President and later succeeded his father as Treasurer. He
+has been active in public affairs, having been a director and member of the
+Executive Committee of the Bristol Hospital since it was founded, Chairman of
+the House Committee of the Visiting Nurse and family Welfare Association for
+fifteen years, Chairman of a Community Chest Drive, member of the Board of Fire
+Commissioners (where he acted as Chairman of a Committee that put into effect
+the first Civil Service basis of selection and advancement in any hire
+Department in the State), member of the Board of Education, member of the
+Manufacturers Division of the State Tercentenary Commission, member of Governor
+Cross's State Highway Safety Commission and Chairman of the Manufacturers
+Division thereof, and a member of the National Advisory Committee of the 1939
+New York World's Fair. He is also First Vice-President of the Bristol Savings
+Bank, of which his grandfather--Henry Albert Seymour--was one of the founders
+and its first President. He is also a director of the Bristol Bank & Trust Co.
+and The Bristol Brass Corporation. He is a member of the Congregational Church,
+where for a number of years he served as Superintendent of the Church School,
+and in politics is classed as a Republican. He is a member of Delta Chi
+Fraternity, a member of the American Legion, Past President of the Bristol
+Rotary Club, and a member of the Farmington and Chippanee Country Clubs. He is
+an enthusiastic collector of paintings and would be classed as a realist in his
+tastes, which lean to works of the Barbizon Period and of the corresponding
+period in American Art.
 **[[George_Dudley|GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR]]** (1859--1945).  //See separate entry.//