Walter Walman, manager of the New England Cabinet & Metal Company, was born in New Haven, July 21, 1883, and is a son of Louis and Dora (Rosenberg) Walman, who were natives of Warsaw, Poland, and in early life came to the United States, settling in New Haven, where the father engaged in the manufacture of shoes. He died in 1907, when about fifty years of age, but his widow still survives. They were the parents of two sons and four daughters, Nellie, Walter, Gussie, Bertha, Ida and Harry.

  In his boyhood days Walter Walman attended the New Haven schools until he started out in the business world as an apprentice with the Bradley Manufacturing Company, with which he continued from 1898 until 1906. On the expiration of that period he bought out the business, which was a cabinet making concern, but in the fall of that year, owing to the setting in of the widespread financial depression, he was forced to suspend business. Undaunted he made a fresh start in a small room and from that humble beginning his business has steadily grown and developed until his plant today covers a considerable area and it seems imminent that he must soon secure larger and more commodious quarters to care for his steadily growing trade. The shop is supplied with modern woodworking machinery and twelve experienced cabinet makers are constantly employed to turn out the vast volume of work. Not only does New Haven accord to the company a liberal patronage, but business comes to them from all over New England. Their manufacturing output includes refrigerators, showcases, ice boxes, etc., and their products display the finest workmanship.

  On the 4th of June, 1905, Mr. Walman was united in marriage to Miss Molly Goldstein, of New Haven, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Goldstein, and they have become the parents of two children: Ruth, who was born June 24, 1906; and Bertha, born November 30, 1911.

  Mr. Walman is a member of Yale Lodge, I. O. B. A., and in politics maintains an independent course. His life has been one of industry, and obstacles and difficulties in his path have seemed but to serve as an impetus for renewed effort on his part. He has steadily progressed and as the years have passed he has built up a business which brings to him a comfortable competence.