Edgar Hiel Bristol (1871 - 1944)

Born 7 Mar 1871 in Naugatuck, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Died 24 Jul 1944 at age 73 in Falmouth Heights, Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

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M Benjamin Hiel Bristol 1896- Married 28 June 1933 to Lida Brannon F Gertrude Rexford Bristol 1897-1963 Married 16 June 1921 to Parcival Bradford Crocker 1895- F Marion Rexford Bristol 1899- Married 2 June 1923 to Robert Hemphill Lawson 1900-1945 F Eleanor Rexford Bristol 1900- F Justine Rexford Bristol 1906- Married 5 May 1934, Amherst, MA, to Kingsley A. Perry 1907-1962

Graduated from Naugatuck High School. From 1887-1890, E.H. worked as a Machinist at Cross and Spears; from 1890-1893 as a Toolmaker, then Production Manager at The Bristol Company (where his father Benjamin was President at the time); from 1893-1907 as Vice President and Director of the Bristol Company; from 1907 was President of The Foxboro Company, President of The Service Company (Foxboro), Vice President of the Bristol Company (Waterbury, CN); Director of the Foxboro National Bank; Director of the First National Bank of Mansfield; Founder and Chairman, of Partners in Living; Founder of People's Fair Tax League, Founder of Highland's Health Center in Falmouth, MA; Director of the United Cape Cod Cranberry Company; Trustee of Bradford Junior College, and Author of "Taxation and Sound Money". He was a member of the Congregational Church.

In 1908, EH and his brother Benett founded the Industrial Instrument Company which in 1914 was re-branded as the Foxboro Company.

EH had forty patents to his name and

He is buried in Rock Hill Cemetery, Foxboro, MA.

Sources

• https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3005&context=theses
• New York Times, Tuesday, 25 July 1944, Page 19 "Edgar Hiel Bristol, Industrial Inventor"