Almost every line of manufacture and industrial activity has contributed to the upbuilding of Connecticut as a great commercial center. Prominent among the interests of New Haven is that conducted under the name of The Hemming Brothers Company, of which Carl H. Hemming is the president and treasurer. This company manufactures automatic cutlery and grinding and polishing machinery at Nos. 205-209 River street and theirs is the only establishment of the kind in the United States.
     Carl H. Hemming, the president, was born December 12, 1882, in Buenos Aires, in the Argentine Republic, a son of the late Benjamin C. Hemming, a native of Germany, who emigrated to South America, where he resided until 1885 and then came to New Haven, Connecticut. He was a mechanic and gun maker by trade and was one of the founders and members of the firm of Hemming Brothers, which was incorporated after some years. There were three brothers who originally established the business, which was organized in 1904. The father was connected with this as a partner up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1909, when he had reached the age of seventy years. It was in 1910 that the business was incor-porated under its present name.
     Carl H. Hemming was but three years of age when brought by his parents to the United States and during all the intervening years he has been a resident of New Haven. His education was acquired in the public schools and after his textbooks were put aside he joined his father in the business with which he is now connected. In addition to his thorough mechanical skill he has displayed marked ability in administration, combined with executive force. The other officers of the company are: Frank P. Hemming, vice president and assist-ant treasurer; and Gustave F. Hemming, who is the secretary, and all are directors of the company. They have an area of thirty thousand square feet and their plant covers eleven thousand square feet. The firm employs on an average of thirty skilled workmen and their sales extend to all parts of the United States. Theirs is the only manufacturing concern of the kind in the country making this kind of machinery, and possibly in the world. They have representatives in Sheffield, England, and in Solingen, Germany, which are the two largest cutlery centers of the world, necessitating the Hemming interests being there represented. All of the machinery manufactured by the company is covered by patents, having been the invention of the members of the family, all of the brothers working upon the per-fection of these devices.
     On the 11th of June, 1912, Carl H. Hemming was united in marriage to Miss Helen Wartman, of New Haven, a daughter of Robert and Anna (Lang) Wartman, who were representatives of an old New Haven family of German lineage. Mr. and Mrs. Hemming have two sons: Carleton Robert, who was born in New Haven, April 24, 1915; and Howard Gustave, born April 10, 1917.
     The religious faith of the family is that of the Lutheran church. In politics Mr. Hemming is a republican. The company of which he is the head has membership in the Manufacturers' Association and the members who constitute the firm are very active and prominent in the business circles of the city. Efficiency and thoroughness characterize the work that is being carried on in their establishment. They have held to the highest standards in manufacture and thus their products have received the highest endorsement wherever they have been sent.