Nelson BAVIER
Biography



Nelson Bavier was born in Newark, New Jersey, and there received his education in the public
schools. Thereafter, he became interested in the manufacture of hardware, and has followed this general line up to the present time. For several years he was superintendent of the New Haven Clock Company at their New Haven plant. He is now located at Chatham. Connecticut, where he is a manufacturer of various kinds of hardware His wife was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and is a daughter of Captain Lucius Curtiss, a soldier of the Civil War. Mrs. Bavier's mother, Mary (Cleveland) Curtiss, was a sister of ex-President Grover Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Bavier are the parents of four children, three sons and one daughter: Nelson, Jr., now city engineer of Hartford, Connecticut, who married Olive Reeves ; Isabelle, who became the wife of Herbert S Bush, and is a resident of New Haven; George H., now of Boston, who is assistant to the president of the Boston & Maine railroad, and an important figure in New England railway circles, and married Maude White; and Earl Stanley...

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