The department quickly outgrew its space in the plant, so with a capital of $ 400, 000 Waterbury Clock's sister company Waterbury Watch Company was incorporated by Benedict & Burnham in 1880 to manufacture and sell inexpensive watches and other timepieces.

Due to poor sales techniques, where jobbers and salesmen gave away much of the Waterbury Watch products as loss-leaders with little regard to the company's future, thereby cheapening the products ' perceived value, Waterbury Watch quickly fell into bankruptcy.

In a last attempt to salvage the company, Waterbury Watch began to produce higher-end watch models which only created more demand on a workforce unable to keep up with the complexity of the new watches using several hundred parts.

The sale of such watches began in 1892 by the watchmakers Ingersoll Watch Company, Waterbury Clock Company, and New Haven.

* Victor Zembruski started his Polish Eagles show on Waterbury radio station WATR in 1934.

The Waterbury, Connecticut post office was the master of the practice, and turned out new cancels for every holiday and special occasion.

He eventually earned a midseason promotion to Class-AA Waterbury and struck out 101 batters in innings pitched.

* WBS ( NYSE ), a bank based out of Waterbury, Connecticut

The team was originally known as the Waterbury Spirit, based out of Waterbury, Connecticut.

Their " Waterbury Running Chicken " cancel, perhaps a turkey since it appeared close to Thanksgiving of 1869, was in use for only a few days and is now the most prized of all 19th century cancels, with covers fetching very high prices.

Former Waterbury State's Attorney, another dissenter like Robert Berdon ( and his occasional ally ), successfully integrated the Sheriffs into the Judicial Branch as Judicial Marshals and State Marshals, appointed a new lawyer grievance review panel, reduced a civil and criminal backlog, and worked to give the Appellate Court its own courthouse.

GMTA and its sister bus company in Burlington, the Chittenden Country Transit Authority, operate a series of LINK commuter buses with stops in Montpelier, Burlington and Waterbury.

* Waterbury Council of Girl Scouts ( 1929 / 1936-1952 ) changed its name in 1952 to Waterbury Area Council of Girl Scouts ( 1952 – 1956 ) and again in 1956 to Blue Trails Council of Girl Scouts ( 1956 – 1964 ).

Waterbury, which had long relied on the reservoir to supply water to its citizens, had come to view the river as a revenue stream, and was removing extra water to sell to neighboring municipalities.

With the opening of Interstate 84 through Southbury by 1963, the town gained easy access to New York and Hartford, also improving its access to Danbury and Waterbury.

The town spans both sides of the Naugatuck River just south of Waterbury, and includes the communities of Union City on the east side of the river, which has its own post office, Straitsville on the southeast ( along Route 63, and Millville on the west ( along Rubber Avenue ).

Waterbury hit its stride as an industrial power in the early 19th century when it began to manufacture brass.

Metro – North runs service between New York City and its northern suburbs in New York and Connecticut, including, in New York State, Port Jervis, Spring Valley, Poughkeepsie, and Wassaic ; in Connecticut, New Canaan, Danbury, Waterbury, and New Haven.

A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street are a short walk from the state capitol.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation has painted its diesel commuter rail locomotives used on the non-electrified Danbury and Waterbury Metro North branches, as well as its Shore Line East operation, in the " McGinnis Scheme ", composed of white, black, and orange-red stripes with the iconic NH logo.

Unable to deliver on Ingersoll's guarantee of quality in Europe due to the Great Depression, Waterbury Clock sold the London-based Ingersoll, Ltd. to its Board of Directors in 1930, making it a wholly British-owned enterprise.

Following the Great Depression and a period of hardship for the company, Waterbury Clock Company regained its identity in the consumer market.

This definition, while consistent with national definitions of metropolitan areas, includes the city of Waterbury and its southern and eastern suburbs, which are not usually included in local definitions of Greater New Haven.

* 1940: Waterbury Republican & American ( Connecticut ), " for its campaign exposing municipal graft.

The first stage musical version of The Seven Little Foys, written by Chip Deffaa, had its world premiere at the Seven Angels Theater in Waterbury, CT, in 2007.

Brinkley's butler is named Seppings and its chauffeur Waterbury, but its most famous domestic employee is, without doubt, the supremely gifted French chef Anatole.

These stones were pierced and worn as amulets, suggesting that the tiger had a certain power of protection for its wearer ( Waterbury 1952, p. 76 ).

This particular bird was “ a heavenly deity ; its wings were the sky, the sun and moon were its eyes ” ( Waterbury 1952, p. 26 ).

The region contains its own section in the Waterbury Republican-American, which covers local events and news.

In the late 17th to early 18th centuries, several more towns were established and added to Hartford County: Waterbury in 1686 ( transferred to New Haven County in 1728 ), Windham in 1694 ( transferred to Windham County in 1726 ), Hebron in 1708 ( transferred to Tolland County in 1785 ), Coventry in 1712 ( transferred to Windham County in 1726 ), and Litchfield in 1722 ( transferred to Litchfield County in 1751 ).

In the early 1960s, the company moved to Waterbury, Connecticut for a few years, then closed their plants in New York and Connecticut to move to Charlotte, North Carolina for cheaper labor and facilities.

He received his early education at Waterbury Public Schools and graduated from high school in 1895.

Definite proof that the modern type of paper clip was well known in 1899 at the latest, is the patent granted to William Middlebrook of Waterbury, Connecticut on April 27 of that year for a " Machine for making wire paper clips.

* Macaroni Kid-An events calendar for families in Bridgewater, Roxbury, Bethlehem, Woodbury, Southbury, Oxford, Watertown, Oakville, Middlebury, Waterbury, and western Naugatuck.

Cheshire shares borders with Southington on the north and northeast, Meriden on the northeast, Wallingford on the east, Hamden on the south, Bethany for a short distance on the southwest, Prospect on the west, Waterbury on the northwest, and Wolcott on the northwest.

As the industrial revolution progressed, many of these businesses left for Waterbury.

His students included Rabbis: Yonasan David ( his son-in-law ) and Aharon Schechter, his successors as Rosh Yeshivas of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin ; Hirsch Diskind, son-in-law of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky and long-time Dean of Bais Yaakov School for Girls in Baltimore, Aharon Lichtenstein, son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion in Israel ; Pinchas Stolper of the Orthodox Union and founder of NCSY who followed Hutner's guidelines in setting up this youth outreach movement ; Avrohom Davis, founder of the Metzudah religious books series ; Shlomo Freifeld who set up one of the first full-time yeshivas for baal teshuva students in the world ; Joshua Fishman, leader and executive Vice President of Torah Umesorah the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools ; Avrohom Kleinkaufman, a lecturer in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and translator of the Genesis and Exodus volumes of the Metzuda Bible Commentary of Rabbi Solomon and the Kol Sasson Sephardic Siddurim and Machzorim ; Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe of Boro Park ; Meir Bilitzky, senior rabbi of Young Israel of New Hyde Park ; Noah Weinberg founder and head of Aish Hatorah and his brother Yaakov Weinberg of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore ; Yosef Katzenstein of Copenhagen, author of Kol Chayil and Lema ' an Achai ; Feivel Cohen of Brooklyn, author of " Badei HaShulchan " and world renowned posek, Dovid Cohen, rabbi of Congregation Gvul Yaabetz and an author of a number of books on Jewish theology, and Ahron Kaufman Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva Gedola of Waterbury, son in law to Feivel Cohen.

The principal highways through the town are Connecticut Route 63 ( connecting to New Haven ), Route 68 ( leading to Durham ), and the Route 8 expressway ( for Waterbury, Derby, Torrington, and Bridgeport ).

Throughout the first half of the 20th century Waterbury had large industrial interests and was the leading center in the United States for the manufacture of brassware ( including castings and finishings ), as reflected in the nickname the " Brass City " and the city's motto Quid Aere Perennius?

Waterbury brass was used for many other things in the United States such as minting disks for nickels, but the brass also went into South American coins.

Waterbury was also rated as one of the " Worst Places for Businesses and Careers in America " by Forbes Magazine in April 2008.

* Major freight yards were at South Boston, Taunton, Fall River, New Bedford, Providence, Worcester, Springfield, Hartford, Waterbury, New Haven ( the major Cedar Hill hump classification yard ), Maybrook ( another hump yard and interchange point for western connections ), New York Harlem River and New York Bay Ridge ( where interchange was made with the Pennsylvania and other railroads in New Jersey, via barge ( car float )).

In January 2008 Waterbury Mayor Michael Jarjura announced that he would hire Rowland as an economic development advisor for the city.

* Michael Jarjura was re-elected Mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut in 2005 as a write-in candidate after losing the Democratic party primary to Karen Mulcahy, who used to serve as Waterbury's tax collector before Jarjura fired her in 2004 " for what he claimed was her rude and abusive conduct toward citizens ".

" This is a real thrill for a poor kid from Waterbury, Connecticut ," Piersall said.

The Waterbury Clock Company was one of the largest producers for both domestic sales and export, primarily to Europe.

During the turn of the century, Waterbury Clock Company produced millions of pocket watches for the newly created partnership of Robert and his brother Charles, Robert H. Ingersoll & Bro., under their own brand name.

The Waterbury Clock Company met this need by modifying the small Ingersoll ladies ' Midget pocket watch to become military-issue wristwatches – lugs were added for a canvas strap, the crown was repositioned to 3 o ' clock, hands and numbers were made luminescent for nighttime readability – thus making one of the first wrist watches.

for $ 1, 500, 000 which had gone bankrupt the previous year due to the post-war recession, thereby inheriting all of Ingersoll's and Waterbury Watch's assets and facilities.