John P. Dalgliesh is the president of the contracting firm of Sperry & Treat and in this connection is at the head of a profitable and extensive business. For a long period before being called to the presidency he was superintendent for the company and has thus been prominently and actively identified with building operations for an extended period. Mr. Dalgliesh is a native of Scotland, his birth having occurred in Selkirkshire, May 26, 1855. He attended the public schools in his native county and received additional training in Edinburgh, being graduated there upon the completion of a college course. He remained in the land of hills and heather throughout the period of his boyhood and youth and in fact was married ere he came to the new world. It was on the 25th of June, 1880, in Selkirk, that he was joined in wedlock to Miss Margaret G. Cunningham, who was also born in Selkirkshire. They now reside at 110 Avon street in New Haven and are widely and favorably known in this city, having a circle of friends that is almost coextensive with the circle of their acquaintance. It was in 1800 that Mr. Dalgliesh was called to the office of superintendent of the Sperry & Treat Company, in which position he remained for twenty-four years, when he was elected to the presidency and has since been the head of this large concern, their general offices being at No. 39 Church street. They are extensively engaged in contracting and building and their work is of an important character. Mr. Dalgliesh is familiar with every phase of the building trade and has practical and intimate knowledge of the work, so that he is able to direct wisely and well the labors of those who serve him. The company employs a large force and their business is a very substantial and growing one. They enjoy an enviable reputation because of their fidelity to the terms of a contract and their efforts are characterized by the most progressive methods, thus bringing substantial and gratifying results.
     Mr. and Mrs. Dalgliesh are members of the Presbyterian church and he belongs also to the Caledonian Society, to the Racebrook Country Club and to the Union League Club of New Haven. He has attained very high rank in Masonry and is a prominent representative of the craft. He was made a Mason in Hiram Lodge, No. 1. F. & A. M.; took the capitular degrees in Franklin Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M.; and the cryptic degrees in Harmony Council, No. 8, E. & S. M. He was initiated into chivalric Masonry as a member of the New Haven Commandery, No. 2, K. T., and he took the degrees of the Scottish Rite bodies in New Haven as a member of Lafayette Sovereign Consistory of Bridgeport. He was received into the nobility of Pyramid Temple, A. A. 0. N. M. S., in the class of 1911. his membership card bearing the number 2344. He is a member of the Knights Templar Club of New Haven and he is interested in all that pertains to Masonry and its advancement, being in hearty sympathy with the purposes of the craft, which is based on a recognition of man's obligations to his fellows. Mr. Dalgliesh has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the new world, for he here found the opportunities which he sought and in their utilization has made steady progress. He enjoys an enviable reputation as a reliable and progressive business man, as a loyal citizen, as a faithful friend and as a most exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity.