GEORGE G. BROMLEY, a well-known
farmer and influential citizen of Lisbon, Conn., was born about a half-mile
distant from his present residence on October 8, 1844, son of Sanford and
Rebecca (Rose) Bromley. His grandfather Bromley was a farmer, and came
to Lisbon about 1826. He and his wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Y. Errington,
had eleven children, all of whom are now deceased.
Sanford Bromley, above named, was born in
1812, probably at Stonington, and died in Lisbon in July, 1870. He was
a stone-cutter, and worked at stone and brick masonry. A Democrat in politics,
he was active in all public affairs, was a man of prominence and influence,
and commanded universal respect. He served as Town Clerk for seventeen
years, as Selectman, as School Visitor, and as Representative to the legislature
for two terms. He was married in 1834 to Rebecca, daughter of Captain Russell
Rose, of Lisbon. She was born in 1812, and died in 1890, about twenty years
after her husband. Sanford and Rebecca (Rose) Bromley had four children.
A daughter named Nancy died at the age of seventy-nine years, and a son,
Frederick, when an infant. George and Eliza Frances are the living, the
latter being the wife of Frank Fitch, of Norwich Falls.
Mr. George C. Bromley was educated in the
common schools, a select school, and a business college in Hartford. In
1870 he went to Arizona as clerk in the quartermaster's department, and
was there for nine years. On his way home, he stayed in Los Angeles nearly
a year. Me studied the conditions of climate and vegetation there, and
believed it to be, what has since been so strikingly demonstrated, a section
of country containing marvellous agricultural resources, and capable of
almost unlimited development in agricultural lines.
In 1870 Mr. Bromley was united in marriage
with his first wife, Jessie Ross. In December, 1887, he was married to
his present wife, Elvira B., daughter of H. and Mary E. (Boyne) Rogers,
of this town. Mr. and Mrs. Bromley have a family of three children, namely:
Mabel, aged seven; Ida, aged five; and George Lester, aged three. Mr. Bromley
is a Democrat in politics, and is actively interested in the public affairs
of the town. He has been a member of the Board of Relief, and has served
the town as Constable for years, also as Town Clerk, being now on his fourth
term in the last-named position. He has been prominently connected with
the educational work of the town, and as a member of the School Board has
given evidence of his practical and broad ideas in regard to the management
of the local schools. Mr. Bromley's farm consists of seventy acres. Besides
carrying on general farming, he has always done, and still continues to
do, considerable
carpentering.
Biographical Review Volume
XXVI
Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens
of New London County Connecticut
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1898
pgs 393 - 394
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