CHARLES  KINGSBURY  BILLINGS, JR.

     Charles Kingsbury Billings, Jr., engaged in the investment brokerage business in New Haven, is widely and favorably known in financial circles of his section of the state. He was born November 21, 1885, in the city where he yet resides. His father, Charles Kingsbury Billings, SR., was a native of New York and a representative of an old family of New York city, founded in America at an early period in the colonization of the new world. Charles K. Billings, Sr., took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar but has never engaged in practice. He is a Yale graduate, class of 1882. He wedded Mary Elizabeth Alden, a native of New Haven and a daughter of Dexter Alden, who manufactured the first oleomargarine made in the United States and for many years was one of the foremost manufacturers of New Haven. She was a direct descendant in the eighth generation of John and Priscilla (Mullens) Alden of historic fame and she passed away May 17, 1904.
     Charles K. Billings, Jr., is a representative of the descendants of John Alden in the ninth generation. He was the second in a family of seven children and after beginning his education in the Hopkins grammar school he attended the Holbrook Military Academy and afterward the Sheffield Scientific School. He also received instruction from private tutors and thus a liberal intellectual training well qualified him for the duties and responsibilities of the business world. He was twenty years of age when he became connected with C. W. Blakeslee & Son, contractors, in the capacity of clerk, thus making his initial step in the business world. He remained in that connection for two years and then entered the employ of the brokerage firm of the W. T. Field Company of New Haven, with whom he remained in a clerical capacity for two years and was then admitted to the firm. His connection with the business covered six years, at the end of which time he withdrew and entered the bond and brokerage business on his own account. He organized The Kingsbury Billings Company, Inc., with offices in the Colonial building in New Haven and he has made for himself an enviable position in financial circles, being thoroughly familiar with stocks, bonds and high grade investment securities. He displays keen sagacity and unfaltering enterprise and his business affairs have been wisely and successfully conducted.
     On the 12th of October, 1910, Mr. Billings was married to Miss Katherine Louise Murlless, a native of Rockville, Connecticut, and a daughter of Herbert  Bond and Sarah (Childs) Murlless, the former a representative of an old Connecticut family and the latter of an old Massachusetts family. Mr. and Mrs. Billings have two children Kingsbury Murllees, born in New Haven, May 20, 1914; and Marion, born in New Haven, February 29, 1916.
     In politics Mr. Billings is a republican and keeps in touch with the questions of the day and the trend of modern thought but does not seek nor desire office. He is well known in social circles as a member of the New Haven Lawn and the New Haven Yacht clubs. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons and his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Center Congregational church. He is very democratic, yet a man of liberal culture and of high ideals and withal most progressive.

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