GARVAN, HON. PATRICK, 236 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, Conn. (A life member of the Society and a member of the Executive Council.) He was born in Ireland March 8, 1836, and came to this country in May, 1851, and since 1852 has resided in Hartford. At the age of twenty-one Mr. Garvan began his business career as a contractor and builder and continued at the same for a period of twenty-one years. Many of the public buildings and churches east of the Connecticut River were built by him during this time. He was also a partner in a paper and paper stock business carried on in Hartford under the name of E. J. Carroll & Company. From 1877 to 1906, having purchased the interest of Mr. Carroll, he conducted under his own name a paper and paper stock business exclusively. In 1906 the business was incorporated under the name of P. Garvan, Inc., and is at the present time carried on under that name. It has grown to such proportion that at the present time it occupies four warehouses on State Street in Hartford, with offices at 205 and 207 State Street, and one large storage plant at Holyoke, Mass. Recently the firm has opened offices at 261 Broadway, New York City, and its interests are cared for by Thomas F. Garvan, who has been associated with his father for eighteen years. Mr. Garvan is also identified with several mills, being President of the Eastern Straw Board Company at Versailles, Conn., Hartford Board Company of Hartford, Conn., and the Newington Paper Company of Newington, Conn. Three of his sons, Thomas F., Edward J., and John S., are associated in business with him. Mr. Garvan has always been a staunch Republican. During his residence in East Hartford he held many positions of honor and trust, having been chairman of the School Board of that town for twelve years; was President of both Village Improvement and Street Lighting Associations; trustee and Treasurer of the Raymond Library, and for several years chairman of the Republican Town Committee. In 1884 he represented the town in the House of Representatives, and was re-elected as its first representative in 1885, serving as chairman of the School Fund Committee of that year, and as a member of the Finance Committee in 1884. In 1890 he was elected State Senator from the Second Senatorial District by the largest Republican majority given any candidate in this district up to that time. For some years previous to 1894 he was a member of the Republican State Central Committee from the Second District, but resigned that office upon his removal to Hartford. He was selected by the Connecticut Convention as a delegate to the Republican Convention at Chicago which nominated President Taft. When the Park Department of this city was reorganized, the Legislature provided for the appointment of a commission to have sole charge of this important work. Mr. Garvan was named as one of the