Adolph Perlroth is extensively engaged in the real estate business in New Haven, specializing in the development of property. A native of Austria, he was but thirteen years of age when he crossed the Atlantic to the new world and is thoroughly American in spirit, interests and activities.

     He was born July 1, 1882, a son of Jacob and Gustie Perlroth and attended public and preparatory schools in his native country. In 1895 he came to the United States, after which he spent three years in New York city, where he was employed in various ways, accepting any work that would yield him an honest living. In 1898 he removed to Middletown, Connecticut, and for four years was employed in a factory there, becoming in 1902 a resident of Seymour, Connecticut, where he spent four years in similar work. In 1906 he took up his abode in Wallingford, where he secured employment with the W. A. Ives Company, first in the factory, while later he became special and direct representative of the company and as such traveled over the country from coast to coast, his work being largely of a confidential character. With this concern he remained until 1910, when he came to New Haven and at once embarked in the real estate business. At first he maintained no business office, but after two years he installed himself in the Exchange building and today has extensive and well appointed quarters there. He is one of the prominent real estate dealers of the city and has given his attention largely to the development of properties. He has promoted between five and six hundred homes in New Haven and vicinity and has done much toward the development of unimproved tracts, transforming unsightly vacancies into beautiful residence districts. In a tract of land which he recently developed, a street which was named Perlroth in his honor has been accepted by the city. He is the treasurer of the Intra Realty Company, holders of extensive real estate in Bridgeport, in addition to his important interests of this character in New Haven.

     On the 8th of November, 1906, Mr. Perlroth was united in marriage to Miss Lena Alderman, of Ansonia, Connecticut, and they have two children: William, born October 20, 1910; and Ruth, born in 1914. Mr. Perlroth is the owner of the Connecticut House, famous as the building erected by the state at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This building was dismantled after the fair was over and was rebuilt on land owned by Mr. Perlroth. It is a beautiful tract with over five hundred feet of water front on Long Island Sound, and is said to be the finest building site between Boston and New York. Mr. Perlroth also owns an elegant residence on George street and he has extensive real estate holdings not only in New Haven but also throughout the county.

     Mr. Perlroth has ever regarded business as but one phase of his life and not as his sole interest. He is serving on the board of directors of the Hebrew Charities and also on the board of directors of the Hebrew Aged Charities. He belongs to the chamber of commerce and cooperates heartily in all of its well devised plans and projects for the upbuilding of the city, the extension of its trade relations and the advancement of its civic interests. In 1917 he donated two hundred and fifty lots in New Haven to the chamber of commerce for cultivation. He is a member of the war relief fund board and he is keenly interested in all that pertains to American interests and the maintenance of the high ideals of the republic.

     It has frequently been said that the foreign born citizen has a keener appreciation for American opportunities and American institutions than the native son, who has always been accustomed to the conditions surrounding him and who, therefore, oftimes does not value his advantages highly enough. Mr. Perlroth, coming to America when a youth of thirteen, has made splendid use of his time and talents, not failing to employ any advantage offered, including night school instruction, to perfect himself in English and to better qualify himself for life’s practical duties and responsibilities. He has at all times been actuated by laudable ambition and his life work has been characterized by a persistency of purpose that has carried him over obstacles and difficulties and brought him to the goal of success, so that he now ranks among New Haven’s most prominent business men.