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Informationen zum Autor Harold Weigold. The compiling and editing of all of this information into one book was done for The Historical Society of Tolland, Inc., by Mr. Harold Weigold. Mr. Weigold was born in Tolland in the old homestead on Weigold Road on December 20, 1896. He attended the old Grant¿s Hill School and the Rockville High School. He graduated from the Carnegie Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, Pa., with a B. S. degree in engineering. In 1924, he married Emma Lillian Daniels of Providence, Rhode Island, and they have four daughters. He worked for the United States Rubber Co., now called Uniroyal, for 40 years. His last position was that of Factory Manager of the large Detroit Tire Plant. During the Second World War, he held executive positions in three different munitions plants and was awarded citations by both the Army and the Navy for his work. He retired in 1959 and returned to live on part of the old homestead, where he built a new home. Klappentext Tolland: An Old Post Road Town tells the whole story of its institutions, its service to our country, and its people with absorbing biographical sketches and genealogical records of many of its prominent citizens. Zusammenfassung Tolland: An Old Post Road Town tells the whole story of its institutions! its service to our country! and its people with absorbing biographical sketches and genealogical records of many of its prominent citizens.
