Harry Nathan Law

Born: Harry Nathan Law

April 10, 1882

Albany, NY

Died: 1952

Bristol, CT

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Spouse: Bessie Gwillim Law (m. June 25, 1912)

Child: Reed Gwillim Law

Parents: George Law and Sarah Ann McCall Law

Siblings: Jessie Law, Rose Law, Sarah Law, six others

Education

Completed high school and spent some time at a vocational school.

Career

• American Silver Co.: office manager
• Peck, Stowe & Wilcox
• C.J. Root
• Bristol Brass (subsidiary of American Silver): chief stenographer, cost accountant, corporate secretary

Accomplishments

• According to Bessie, "he was one of the leaders for" establishing the Forestville Boys' Club.
• Bristol city councilman, 2 years
• Knights of Pythias: secretary (?-1912)
• Freemasons: secretary; 32nd degree

Reminiscences

Reed Gwillim Law Jr. says: Gramp (Harry) was like a father to me up until his death. I haven't been able to establish a clear timeline of when I lived with him. My father was demobilized from the Air Corps around July 1945. He went into a Ph.D. program at Yale soon afterward. My mother was my primary caregiver, and by mutual inclination, I think she let me spend a lot of time with Grammy (Bessie) and Gramp. I know for sure that I lived with them full time through first grade, Sept. 1951 to June 1952, probably starting sooner. Gramp sometimes took me to his office to show me around and let me use his equipment. One time I used his mechanical adding machine to add all the whole numbers from 1 to 100, and found it interesting that the total was 5050, which I always remembered and learned to understand better.

He liked to spend time sitting with me in the evenings, and we would sit on the helf-screened-in front porch summer evenings, wait for the Good Humor ice cream truck, and buy ice cream bars.

Much of what I knew about his life I learned years later when Grammy talked about their life together. She said that when they had company in, they never had any alcoholic drinks in the house. He had bad memories of his father's alcohol abuse and didn't want anything related to that in his life.

Health

Died of Paget's disease.