JAMES HENRY BEARD
SHELTON
J. H. Beard was born in that portion of the town of Huntington known as the Long Hill District, January 16, 1839. He received a common school and academic education, being chiefly engaged during his minority upon his father’s farm. Since becoming of age most of his time has been spent in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits in his native town, where he has always resided. He has dealt quite largely in real estate, has been engaged in the manufacture of fancy wood brackets, and during 1868 he erected and occupied as a grocery the first store in the village of Shelton. He has been honored by his native town with most of the positions of public trust within their power to bestow, having served them as constable, selectman, member of the board of relief, registrar of electors, town agent, justice of the peace, and town auditor, covering a period of about a quarter of a century. He represented the town in the general assembly in 1883, and is now a burgess of the Borough of Shelton. His religious connections are with the Congregational church of Birmingham, and his political affiliations are with the democratic party. He was married, October 6, 1868, to Miss Emily Elizabeth Hurd of Monroe, who died January 28, 1888, leaving one child, a daughter, Helen Willard Beard. He was married to his present wife, Miss Margaret Elizabeth Blue, of the city of Defiance, Ohio, September 9, 1889.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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