Thomas E. Elliott, engraver and printer, has built up a business that in its ramifying trade connections covers the state of Connecticut, his success being based upon a thorough knowledge of engraving and expert work in that field. A native of Ireland, Mr. Elliott was born in County Fermanagh, November 25, 1873, and is a son of James M. Elliott, a native of the green isle of Erin, whence he came to the United States in 1890, making his way direct to Waterbury, where he became actively connected with journalism. He had previously followed that profession in Ireland and has continued in the same line in America. He married Annie Gamble, now deceased, and they were the parents of eight children, all of whom are yet living.

  Thomas E. Elliott, the seventh in order of birth, was educated in the public schools of Ireland and was a youth of seventeen years when he came with his parents to the new world, at which time he started out to seek employment and began earning his living in the employ of the Scovill Manufacturing Company. It was his object to master the art of engraving and he continued there for three years, completing an apprenticeship. He then removed to New Haven, where he immediately began business on his own account, opening his establishment in the Exchange building. His quarters were at first very small and he had no employes, doing all the work himself. From that humble beginning he has developed one of the leading engraving institutions in New Haven, employing on an average fifteen people, while today his patronage comes from all parts of the state and even from adjoining states. The business is conducted under the name of Thomas E. Elliott, Engraver and Printer, and consists of the manufacture of steel and copper engravings. Mr. Elliott thoroughly understands every phase of the business and detail of the work and has ever kept his establishment up to the highest standard in its output.

  In 1905 Mr. Elliott was married in New Haven to Miss Almira C. Bennett, a native of this city and a member of an old New Haven family. Their children are three in number, Ella M., Andrew H. and Thomas E. Mr. Elliott has been a member of the Governor’s Foot Guard for the past five years. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, his fraternal connection is with the Masons and his religious connection with the Methodist church. In these associations are seen the rules which govern his conduct and shape his relations with his fellowmen. His ideals are high and he utilizes every effort to make them a practical force in his own life and in the life of the community.