It was a favorite little joke of the late Cornelius S. Bushnell that he had "over fifty feet of boys, or nine sons, and a sister for each." The answer, of course, was one sister— Charlotte. The only son now residing in Connecticut, Winthrop Grant, the subject of this sketch, was born in New Haven. March 20, 1864. He fitted for college at Hillhouse high school, class of 1884, and graduated from Yale in the class of 1888. In college he was a member of his class crew and football team, and he won the Cleveland cup in a hotly con-tested single scull race. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. Without pretending to be even an ordinarily good singer, utilizing the reputation of his brothers Ericsson and Judson, both fine singers, he managed to hold the position of solo bass in the quartet of St. Paul's church, New Haven, for four years, and in his senior year was a member of the Yale Glee Club; thus he almost literally sang and worked his way through college. Intend-ing to make journalism his life work, he won a place in sophomore year as editor of the Yale Daily News, and as business manager of that journal in senior year earned a con-siderable sum of money and valuable experience, which led to his engagement just after graduation as night editor of the New Haven Journal and Courier, whose "chair of journalism for half a century had been filled at the rate of fifteen dollars per week," so he was told on taking the job, by Editor Pratt, "and any application for an increase in compensation above that salary would be considered the same as a resignation." With this cheerless prospect for advancement, he remained in that position nine months, long enough, however, to convince himself that routine newspaper work had little promise for him. He thereupon secured a position in the sales department of the Edison Company of New York city, as Connecticut representative, and after close study qualified himself as commercial engineer for the practical applications of electricity for lighting, power transmission and traction. He equipped a majority of the public service corporations in Connecticut with suitable electrical apparatus, and continued with the Edison Company and its successor, the General Electric Company, seventeen years, until January 1, 1906, when he resigned to care for and develop public utilities which he owned or controlled. Among them was the New Milford Power Company, a ten thousand horse power hydro-electric plant nearly completed, in 1904, on the Housatonic river, with transmission lines to Waterbury and New Britain, Connecticut, and a thirty year contract to sell its entire output, wholesale, in those cities, on terms which would within two years show a net profit per annum of at least fifty thousand dollars, after deducting all charges. But there were certain unsolved problems about this enter-prise and nobody seemed to care to tackle them or to appreciate the value of this property until some months after Mr. Bushnell had purchased seventy-five per cent, of its capital stock, subject to an outstanding mortgage indebtedness of one million dollars, and a con-siderable floating indebtedness. By wise constructive and financial methods he developed this property and within a year sold it to the Connecticut Railway & Lighting Company for use as its main source of electricity for lighting and power in central Connecticut. With Mr. Samuel C. Morehouse, of New Haven, as partner and attorney, he developed and sold an electric lighting property in Camaguey, the largest inland city of Cuba. Associated with the late A. M. Young and others, he built street railway and lighting properties in southern New England and the middle west, but disposed of all his street railway interests several years ago, retaining his interest in certain electric lighting and power properties, of which the largest is the Connecticut Power Company, of which company he is the vice president. This company has developed and is operating a twelve thousand horse power hydro-electric plant at Falls Village, Connecticut, and transmits its power to various public utilities located at Torrington, Thomaston, Bristol, New Britain, Hartford and Middletown. In the latter city the same company owns and operates the entire lighting and power property, as also that at New London, Connecticut, and elsewhere in northwestern Connecticut, under the control and management of Stone & Webster, whom Mr. Bushnell selected as partners in this particular enterprise in 1912.

Mr. Bushnell is a member of the Union League Club and the Railroad Club of New York city; the Quinnipiac, Graduates', Lawn and Country Clubs of New Haven; the Hart-ford Club; the Waterbury Country Club; and the Pine Orchard Club, of Pine Orchard, where he resides in the summer. In politics Mr. Bushnell is an independent republican. He is a member of the Center church, New Haven. In June, 1911, he married Harriet Elizabeth, daughter of the late Captain Levi T. Scofield, a prominent architect of Cleveland, Ohio, and he has two daughters, Elizabeth, born April 22, 1912, and Ann Cornelia, born January 6, 1918.

During 1917 Mr. Bushnell was state chairman of the executive committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, which undertook to raise in Connecticut one million dollars of the thirty-five million dollars national budget for war work. In this campaign Connecticut was the first state to raise its quota, lifting it finally to one million four hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Bushnell was also chairman of the executive committee in the June campaign, same year, New Haven American Red Cross, which accepted a budget of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and raised four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for war work. He is a director of the Young Men's Christian Association of New Haven, and member of the executive committee, New Haven Chapter, American Red Cross. With due appreciation of out-of-door life he is an ardent lover of golf, and in 1916 and 1917 was captain of the New Haven Country Club golf team. He has won some personal trophies, the best being the club championship in March, 1917, of the Ormond Beach Country Club, Ormond, Florida. In winning this open competition among one hundred entries without handicap, Mr. Bushnell modestly admitted that he had more "nerve" than "science." Some say this victory marked the zenith of his prowess as a golfer. If true, he never will admit it.