Samuel Smith VELSOR

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Stephen W. Velsor and Mary Smith
• Census: 1920, Living in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut
• Census: 1930, Living in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

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Name:
Samuel Smith Velsor was born in New York in 1886 to Stephen W. Velsor and Mary Smith Velsor. The family lived in Brooklyn, NY., and moved to Norwalk CT when Samuel was three years old. He attended Norwalk public schools, and graduated from Norwalk High School in 1903. He joined City National Bank as a clerk, working up to the position of head bookkeeper. In 1920 he joined the staff of Peoples Trust Company as a teller. He was appointed Secretary and Treasurer of the bank in the same year. He ran for Treasurer for the City of Norwalk in 1935, where he was narrowly defeated. In 1932 he became associated with Oscar G. Soderstrom in the real estate business. He was a President of the Norwalk Board of Fire Underwriters, and treasurer of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Norwalk.

25 Nov 1914, he married Hazel Fancher at her family's home, 7 Quintard Avenue, in Norwalk. They are the parents of Jean Elizabeth Velsor Griffith.

Family/Spouse: Hazel FANCHER. Hazel (daughter of Eugene FANCHER and Bessie Goodale MOSMAN) was born on 12 Sep 1885 in New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Connecticut ; died on 16 Sep 1955 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jean Elizabeth VELSOR was born on 23 Jan 1916 in Connecticut; died on 21 Dec 1997 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut.