Milton M. Machol is a leading merchant tailor of New Haven, conducting business under the name of Machol & Machol, although he is sole proprietor. He was born April 30, 1873, in New Haven, and is a son of the late Herman Machol, who was a native of Germany and was brought to America by his parents when a youth of eight years, his father being Mayer Machol, who came to the United States in 1855 and settled in Florence, Massachusetts. For some years he was a resident of Florence and of Springfield, Massachusetts, but eventually the family removed to New Haven. Herman Machol, during the Civil war, clerked in mercantile establishments and thus supported the family. He afterward learned the merchant tailoring trade and in 1866 he established himself in business, conducting his interests in connection with his brother, David Machol, on Grand avenue. He was actively and continuously engaged in the business up to the time of his dcath, which occurred in 1901, in New Haven, when he had reached the age of fifty-four years. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Sarah Kahn, is a native of New Haven and a daughter of Mayer and Jeannette (Strouse) Kahn. The mother is now living in New Haven. Mr. and Mrs. Machol became the parents of three children, of whom Milton M. is the eldest. The others are: Jennie, now the wife of Malvin Simons, a jeweler of the firm of Buxbaum & Simons of New Haven; and Linda, who is the wife of Maurice Langrock, a furrier of the firm of Langrock & Company of New Haven.
     Milton M. Machol pursued his education in the Eaton public school and in the high school to the age of seventeen years, when he entered the employ of his father, there learning the merchant tailoring business. He was associated with his father until the latter's death and has since conducted the business at No. 96 College street under the old firm style of Machol & Machol, although he is sole owner. He has one of the leading merchant tailoring establishments of the city and is accorded a large New York patronage, employing a traveling representative to develop the trade.
     On the 22d of June, 1909, Mr. Machol was married in New Haven to Miss Alice Halm, a native of New York and a daughter of Nathan and Anna B. (Rosenberg) Hahn, the former a member of a well known New York family, while the Rosenbergs were of a prominent old family of New Haven. Mr. and Mrs. Machol have become parents of a daughter, Natalie Hahn, born December 22, 1911. The family home is at No. 732 Orange street.
     In his political views Mr. Machol maintains an independent course. Fraternally he is connected with Hiram Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and also with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He holds membership in the Harmonie Club and the Racebrook Country Club and he is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, heartily interested in its purposes to extend the trade relations of the city and uphold its civic standards. He therefore cooperates in its movements for the public good and at the same time he gives close attention to his business, in which his discriminating judgment, indefatigable energy and undaunted enterprise are winning him substantial success.