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DANBURY , a See also:city and one of the See also:county-seats of See also:Fair-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field county, See also:Connecticut, U.S.A., in Danbury township, in the
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See also:south-See also:west See also:part of the See also:state, on the Still See also:river, a tributary of the Housatonic. Pop. (1890) 16,552; (1900) 16,537 (3702 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910).20,234. In 1900 the See also:population of the township, including that of the city, was 19474, and in 1910, 23,502. Danbury is served by three divisions of the New See also:York, New Haven & See also:Hartford railway; by the Danbury & Harlem electric railway, which connects at Goldens See also:Bridge, New York, with the Harlem See also:division of the New York Central; and by an electric See also:line to See also:Bethel, Connecticut. See also:Lake Kenosia, about 21 M. from the centre of the city, is a See also:pleasure resort. A state normal school was opened in Danbury in 1904, and there is a See also:home for destitute and homeless See also:children under private (unsectarian) See also:control. The city has See also:good See also:water-See also:power, and the See also:municipality owns the water See also:works. The See also:principal See also:industry is the manufacture of See also:felt hats, begun in 1780, and in 1905 engaging about See also:thirty factories, with a product for the See also:year valued at $5,79$,107 (71.9% of the value of all the factory products of the city, and 15.8% of the value of all the felt hats produced in the See also:United States). The city ranked first among the cities of the See also:country in this industry in 190o and second in 1905, and in 1905 no other city showed so high a degree of specialization in it. See also:Silver-plated See also:ware (mostly manufactured by See also:Rogers Bros.) is another important product. At Danbury is held annually the well-known agricultural Danbury Fair. The township was settled in 1684 by emigrants from See also:Norwalk, and received its See also:present name in 1687. When the See also:War of See also:Independence opened, See also:Enoch See also:Crosby, believed to be the See also:original of See also:Harvey See also:Birch, the See also:hero of J. F. See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper's The See also:Spy, was a See also:resident of Danbury. A See also:depot of military supplies was established in the See also:village of Danbury in 1776; in See also:April 1777 See also:Governor See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Tryon, of New York, raided the See also:place, destroying the military stores and considerable private See also:property. During his See also:retreat he was attacked (April 26th) at Ridgefield (about 9 M. south by See also:east of Danbury) by the Americans under See also:General See also:David See also:Wooster (1710-1777), who was fatally wounded in the conflict (being succeeded by General See also:Benedict See also:Arnold), and to whose memory a See also:monument was erected in Danbury in 18J4. Danbury was chartered as a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough in 1832 and as a city in 1880. In 1870 the Danbury See also:News was established by the consolidation of the Jeffersonian and the Times, by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Montgomery See also:Bailey (1841-1894), from 1865 to 1870 proprietor of the Times. He wrote for the News humorous sketches, which made him and the See also:paper famous, Bailey being known as the " Danbury News See also:Man "; among his books are See also:Life in See also:Dan-See also:bury (1873), The Danbury News Man's See also:Almanac (1873), They All Do It (1877), See also:England from a Back Window (1878), Mr See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip's Goneness (1879), The Danbury See also:Boom (1880), and See also:History of Danbury (1896).
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